History YMMV / TenchiMuyo

* NightmareFuel/HighOctaneNightmareFuel: While being a provocative series, it definitely shows a few scenes that are just frightening: Toys that have blades emerging from their bodies, the black monster Kain who seems to do almost anything including the ability to turn into a black dragon demon, an evil Jurai knight decaying rapidly into a skull-faced corpse [[SarcasmMode which you have can fun with being that it was shown everytime Tenchi starts]], the earth being cut in half, Hotsuma turning into a monster, the eldritch-y dream realm (not the one with shards, but a weird black and white Picasso drawing type place) of Yugi, Ryoko's bestial form and Sakuya being absorbed into Yugi against her will....Have fun with that.

* TheScrappy: Noike for American fans, Ryoko for her JerkAss nature and [[MoralEventHorizon her horrendous acts]] [[KarmaHoudini that are brushed under the table]], but the obvious ones are Yugi for her smugness and similar KarmaHoudini for the truly monstrous acts she commits, and MIHOSHI, the most unsympathetic and idiotically repulsive character in the meta-verse.

** Also Kiyone from the Universe version and Kagato who became even more intimidating villain in that series.
*** The biggest one is Sasami, with her bright personality, cute looks and lack of obsession with Tenchi has created enough fans that she gradually gets more vital to the multi-series' plot until she gets to be the main character of three shows.

** Also Kagato's Universe, a [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the universe]] [[DrunkOnPower so he can have all the power]] or [[spoiler: a BloodKnight who felt guilty over his actions that left his best friend shaken by choosing to die at his grandson's hands.]] The episode sort of leans towards the latter.

* MagnificentBastard: Kagato in the Universe series, he sets up Ayeka as a treacherous [[TheStarScream usurper]] to the throne, causing the whole group to travel all the way to Jurai just to have a fight with Katsuhiko[[spoiler: /Yosho]] by using Yosho's name as a way to get political power in order to force [[spoiler: Yosho]] into action. [[spoiler: He may have achieved this goal, by dying in a fight with Tenchi, Yosho's grandson.]]

* MagnificentBastard: Kagato.

* AlasPoorVillain: Yuzuha....maybe...., Also Kagato [[spoiler: who might've set up the entire scheme in Tenchi Universe just so he can die again to make amends for his actions]], Z and Haruna.

* JerkassWoobie: Z.

* AlasPoorVillain: Yuzuha....maybe....

* StoicWoobie: Katsuhiko/Yosho in the Universe version instead of leaving due to discrimination on his half human lineage and "women" in the OVA; he had [[spoiler: lost his first true friend, a child eating monster who was about to change her ways, till the Jurai force came and beat the hell out of her, then calling her a freak when she revealed her true form and running away. Then in his adulthood, her's forced to kill his best friend who had become power-hungry and killing everything in site, next wanders across the galaxy out of guilt and finding a place for his lover who wasn't royalty, so that they can love each other without being social class discrimination. She up and dies before they even arrive there. When he finally has a kid, she dies from having to expel an immense Jurai Power to kill a black mass of demonic evil, not before she gives birth to Tenchi. Then we get the present where that power-hungry friend has literally come back from hell to use his identity and frame one of his relations for treason, leading to a long chase until he finally meets him again and is understandably distraught about killing him again, to the point that he considers double suicide as a solution. After that mess, that first friend has returned to being a bratty trickster who's now Yandere for him, to the point that she creates a clone with her and his grandson's DNA and have that said clone rape and take him to her dimension till he comes over himself. And that lover I'm talking about, her ghost manipulates his grandson's memories and uses him as a substitute for her former lover.]] But he continues on being solemn and sometimes cheerful.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Misaki as the Counteractor.

* AmericansHateTingle: In the west, Noike is almost universally derided for her [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight stealing role in OVA 3.]] In Japan, opinion of her is a lot more balanced.

* AmericansHateTingle: In the west, Noike is almost universally derided for her [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight stealing role in OVA 3.]] In Japan, opinion of her is a bit more balanced.

* LoveItOrHateIt: TenchiUniverse, Tenchi Forever, TenchiInTokyo, the third OVA, TenchiMuyoGXP, the manga....

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[TheScrappy Western opinion on Noike is generally poor,]] but a lot more could've been built around her status as an [[ArrangedMarriage official fiance for Tenchi]] and a [[TheMole spy for Jurai.]] The other girls' reactions to this would've made for [[HilarityEnsues good entertainment and development]], and the spy angle could've introduced the [[PlotTumor political elements of the story]] in a more controlled manner. Instead, her status as a spy is [[ShowDontTell just explained away]] to Ryoko and Ayeka after they basically just accepted Noike's existance. And despite having some episode focus, she still gets so little actual character progression she barely qualifies as a SatelliteCharacter.

* CompleteMonster: Kain.

* GodModeSue: Tenchi in the OVA.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Tenchi in the first movie, "I won't let you touch my mom!"
** Sasami whipping out a staff and kicking Mishisu's butt was one of the high points of the Third OVA.

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