History YMMV / TriGun

** The anime starts out as goofy, almost slice of life style misadventures as Vash roams the desert getting into trouble while Merril and Milly desperately chase after. Then it turns into a darker, grittier story as Vash's EvilTwin rears his sinister head and Vash in caught up in a dark and horrible story of SiblingRivalry that examines just how much a person can really expect to uphold the ideal of ThouShaltNotKill.

* FanWank: Not as bad as in other fandoms, but still pretty bad at times.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Almost too many to count. Legato makes fangirls pass out all over the place (even though [[DepravedHomosexual he's gay]], and was even a gigolo -- only in the manga, though, [[YaoiFangirl not that that stopped anyone]]). Knives has a fervent fandom too. Which is especially creepy given it's implied that Legato is a cannibal.

** While not strictly kids stuff, the anime is tame enough that many people think that the manga is more of the same and would be appropriate for middle schoolers. They would be very, very wrong. There's graphic on-page {{Gorn}} rather than the [[GoryDiscretionShot gory discretion shots]] used in the anime, BodyHorror that would be right at home in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', and a rather graphic on screen rape scene. Unfortunately did Creator/DarkHorse not get the memo and rates Maximum as 14+...

* AntiClimaxBoss: Legato. He could have easily killed Vash at any time he wanted but didn't because he wanted him to suffer, and then commits suicide by forcing Vash to shoot him.

** While not strictly kids stuff, the anime is tame enough that many people think that the manga is more of the same and would be appropriate for middle schoolers. They would be very, very wrong. There's graphic on page {{Gorn}} rather than the [[GoryDiscretionShot gory discretion shots]] used in the anime, BodyHorror that would be right at home in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', and a rather graphic on screen rape scene. Unfortunately did Creator/DarkHorse not get the memo and rates Maximum as 14+...

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Saying that [[spoiler: Livio or the manga version of Wolfwood]] are minors, especially if used to justify shipping drama, is a surefire way to anger hardcore fans of the manga and shippers of pairings involving those two characters. Though they are OlderThanTheyLook (especially [[spoiler: Livio]]) due to the serums, the fact that the baby [[spoiler:Wolfwood]] helped raise in ''Free Bird'' is eighteen (the original magazine version of the chapter even explicitly states eighteen years had passed) and that their childhood friend Jasmine appears to be the same age as Milly and Meryl pretty firmly establishes that they are in their twenties by the time of ''Maximum''. An official supplementary source even lists Wolfwood's age as being in his 20s.

* EvilIsSexy: Legato, Knives, and a few of the more minor Gung-Ho Guns may count. Legato in particular is a pretty extreme case considering he's probably the evilest character in the story...and also probably one of if not the best-looking (which ''really'' says a lot). Manga Knives also has more outfits than anyone else.

* MagnificentBastard:

** Anime: [[MisanthropeSupreme Legato Bluesummers]] sheds his manga counterpart's LaughingMad insanity and numerous breakdowns, instead being a suave, always calm mastermind who serves as Vash's true ArchEnemy in the series. A [[StrawNihilist nihilist]] with the belief that all of humanity meaningless and deserves to be purged to save it from misery and despair, Legato allies with Millions Knives in preparing for the destruction of humankind and the rising of Plant life. Not entirely devoid of respectable attributes even as he sends the Gung-Ho Guns after Vash with orders to target civilians in the process just to torture the pacifistic hero, Legato slaughters a group of human traffickers and frees their slaves, informing the young women to use their time wisely before Knives wipes them all out. In the end, Legato forces Vash to break his ThouShaltNotKill code, giving him the ultimatum of either shooting Legato or watching as his best friends are murdered by the villain, and dies with a smile on his face as he knows the act of taking a human life will drive Vash into utter despair.
** ''Badlands Rumble'' (2010 film): Gasback Gallon Getaway is a roguish, boisterous criminal who, despite his brutish appearance, is in truth a calculating thief who views the act of robbery and thievery as "art" forms. After his initial bank heist is foiled by treacherous minions, Gasback spends decades plotting both revenge against the men for "sullying" the art of robbery with their dishonorable betrayal, and the greatest heist he's ever concocted. Laying waste to two of the men's prospering enterprises, Gasback repeats the process on his final betrayer, revealing at the same time that each of his before robberies were all to amass materials needed to steal a Plant, which he pulls off flawlessly before escaping. Giving Vash one of the hardest fought battles of his life through sheer determination to never lose, Gasback gains respect for the hero when beaten, and is revealed to have spent those decades of planning taking care of a woman he loved and even leaving her enough money to sustain her for the rest of her life. Always charming even with his loud personality, Gasback was undoubtedly the most swashbuckling villain Vash ever faced.

* FanNickname: Leggie or Leggah for Legato; Bashu (i.e. the Japanese pronunciation) for Vash; Wolfie, Wolf, Nico, Woof, or Nick for Nicholas D. Wolfwood; sometimes Naibuzu (the Japanese pronunciation) or "Several Forks" for Knives. There's also some people that call E.G. Mine "Egg".

** One of the early print ads for the Pioneer VHS release had a blurb near the age rating saying "The heroic themes and actions of the main character, laced with comic relief, communicate a wholesome and yet entirely watchable program that appeals to kids of all ages. Pioneer is rating this program 13 UP because of the extreme villains, the intensity of some situations, and the high level of violence that may scare younger viewers who may not realize that for the most part, no one is getting hurt".... [[CerebusSyndrome Needless to say, they stopped putting that there once Legato showed up.]]

** While not strictly kids stuff, the anime is tame enough that many people think that the manga is more of the same and would be appropriate for middle schoolers. They would be very, very wrong. There's graphic on page {{Gorn}} rather than the GoryDiscretionShots used in the anime, BodyHorror that would be right at home in ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', and a rather graphic on screen rape scene. Unfortunately did Creator/DarkHorse not get the memo and rates Maximum as 14+...