History YMMV / TheDivision

* CompleteMonster: Arguably the Rikers, who are the only faction that goes out of their way to attack JTF personnel. Their hideouts will almost always display the corpses of slain JTF, often set up in macabre displays or showing evidence of torture or particularly brutal means of execution. It's most likely because most of the Rikers were already monsters BEFORE the outbreak.

** [[spoiler:Aaron Keeler]], who was [[spoiler:sent in as part of the First Wave, had his [[DespairEventHorizon faith broken]] when the JTF refused to evacuate a group of civilians he was protecting, resulting in their deaths. As a result, he decided to throw his lot in with the LMB.]]

* FandomRivalry: ZigZagged with Destiny fans, following the successful launch of the Division at a time of a content drought within Destiny has not gone unnoticed within the both fandoms.

* NightmareFuel: The entirety of Manhattan is chock full of this, from the corpses and lootings, to the paranoia of the virus spreading. And the Rikers and Cleaners are none too pleasant about the remains of whoever gets in their way.
** The intel videos especially. While the echoes are just still hologram images with sounds of what happened before, the videos either depict story - or the horrible actions of the various criminals, like trapping a police car to ruthlessly murder the officers inside, or chasing a couple through the subway and brutally beating the husband to death while [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pinning the wife down.]]

* FanficFuel: Whatever SHD forces in other parts of the US are doing to control the outbreak.

** [[https://twitter.com/SuperBlueBadger/status/707295536165081088 This tweet]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSSkz6iDPvM this video]] showing people ''lining up to talk to progress a mission'' (as there's no character pass-through) both went viral extremely quickly. So prevalent that people are starting to call the game ''[[FanNickname Tom Clancy's: Line Simulator]]''.

* MemeticMutation: [[https://twitter.com/SuperBlueBadger/status/707295536165081088 This tweet]] showing people ''lining up to talk to an NPC'' (as there's no character pass-through) went viral extremely quickly - thanks to the players in question treating the line as SeriousBusiness (refusing to let others cut, for example). So prevalent that people are starting to call the game ''[[FanNickname Tom Clancy's: Line Simulator]]''.

** WinBackTheCrowd: The game's beta did this for a lot of people once they had finally gotten their hands on it. The full release won back even more, considering it's the second biggest franchise launch in video game history.

* MemeticMutation: [[https://twitter.com/SuperBlueBadger/status/707295536165081088 This tweet]] showing people ''lining up to talk to an NPC'' (as there's no character pass-through) went viral extremely quickly - thanks to the players in question treating the line as SeriousBusiness (refusing to let others cut, for example). So prevalent that people are starting to call the game [[FanNickname ''Tom Clancy's: Line Simulator'']].

* MemeticMutation: [[https://twitter.com/SuperBlueBadger/status/707295536165081088 This tweet]] showing people ''lining up to talk to an NPC'' (as there's no character pass-through) went viral extremely quickly - thanks to the players in question treating the line as SeriousBusiness (refusing to let others cut, for example).

** What's happening in other countries following outbreaks in their territory.

* TearJerker: The E3 2014 trailer shows a family trying to make it through the breakout- the daughter dies from the illness followed by the mother and sometime afterwards the father is shown to kill himself.

* BrokenBase:
** The trailers are causing this reaction from players who were burned by ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' when it first came out. Namely, that it may be another case of TrailersAlwaysLie or that a graphical downgrade may ensue.
** U-Play, Ubisoft's controversial online service (Because it almost always crashes after a new major release comes out) that's mandatory for PC Players, may return in this game, which, judging by how it's a primarily co-op shooter, will live or die on its servers being up to par on release. Sure enough, the servers crashed within the first hour of the game's launch and servers going live.
* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Somehow the enemies (in Beta version) are capable of surviving an ''entire clip'' of rifle bullets, even if said {{Mook}} is only wearing a simple jacket.

* TaintedByThePreview: Thanks to past disappointments like ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', many people were skeptical about the features and graphic quality the early cinematic and gameplay trailers promised. Things seemed to get worse when beta gameplay footage was released, which seemed to confirm their fears about the game's quality.

** U-Play, Ubisoft's controversial online service (Because it almost always crashes after a new major release comes out) that's mandatory for PC Players, may return in this game, which, judging by how it's a primarily co-op shooter, will live or die on its servers being up to par on release.

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Somehow the enemies (in Beta version) are capable of taking an ''entire clip'' of rifle bullets and not dying, even if said {{Mook}} is merely wearing a simple jacket.

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Somehow the enemies (in Beta version) are capable of taking an ''entire magazine'' of rifle bullets and not dying, even if said {{Mook}} is merely wearing a simple jacket.

* BrokenBase: The trailers are causing this reaction from players who were burned by ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' when it first came out. Namely, that it may be another case of TrailersAlwaysLie or that a graphical downgrade may ensue.

* CompleteMonster: The Rikers gang are portrayed as this, as they go out of their way to hunt down, torture, and kill JTF personnel. Their bases and hideouts are usually littered with JTF corpses arranged in humiliating poses.

* TearJerker: The E3 2014 trailer shows a family trying to make it through the blackout- they lose their daughter to infection and the father is shown to kill himself.

* TearJerker: The E3 2014 trailer shows a family trying to make it through the blackout- they lose their daughter to infection and the father is shown to kill himself.