These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
Americans Love Iron Tager And Azrael: Not that he's not popular in Japan, but with American-exclusive memes like "REAL SOVIET DAMAGE" and "GIGANTIC TAGER", being a hulking, manly cyborg and possibly second-manliest man after Bang, and the voice of Jamieson Price (a fan favorite for Badass Baritone voices in America)... anyone can see it coming. Azrael gets much of the same treatment for being a gleefully insane Blood Knight in the vein of American fan favorite Zaraki Kenpachi.
Cliché Storm: Gloriously so! Ragna alone could be considered the expy of a gazillion shounen or seinen heroes, and the story just fires off anime cliches one after the other, yet behold how popular it is. Compared to other fighting game series; it's not a high standard to top.)
Relius Clover. Considering everyone he comes across like test subjects, utter Lack of Empathy, likes his Mind Rape, making a Guinea Pig Family out of his own family by turning his wife and daughter into automatons and leaving his son traumatic while he doesn't even give a damn... those horrid activities are like Tuesdays to him.
Due to those two's gigantic over the top depravities and the fact that they team up well enough, the fandom gave the team of the two the nickname "Team Douchebag".
Crazy Awesome: Most fans like Hazama despite the fact that he's possibly the most insane member of the cast. Also see Draco in Leather Pants.
Crossover: To be frank, there's no full-on canon crossover with BlazBlue, yet. However...
with Arcana Heart. too bad it's just an April Fools Joke. Though, there's a segment in Bururaji where Heart Aino appears, and there's a flash game where Ragna and Heart is on a date together.
And of course, let's not forget Guilty Gear. The two games are frequently crossed over in many fanworks.
There seems to be an unhealthy amount of fanworks featuring BlazBlue crossed over with Touhou, especially in the Japanese art site, Pixiv.
Well, in fact, crossing BlazBlue over ANY series is now considered normal.
Designated Hero: The majority of the game's Good Is Not Nice characters are often seen in this light. The only flat out exceptions are Ragna and to a lesser extent Hakumen (mainly thanks to Continuum Shift). Rachel and Luna do get this treatment but the most prominent cases for this are Jin and ESPECIALLY Kokonoe. (Mainly thanks to the events that occured in Continuum Shift, it was getting really hard for a sizable portion to remember that Kokonoe has not pulled a Heel Face Turn.) This trope could be caused due to the fact that when your main oppositions are extremely over-the-top Complete Monster like Terumi and Relius... anyone can claim high moral ground for opposing them no matter what reason.
Designated Villain: And the same goes to NOL. Just so you to remember, not everyone in NOL are self-serving high and mighty jackasses, most of them are more under Terumi and Relius' influence, they're mostly police forces trying to make best of the harsh situation they're in, but of course they're going to be considered The Empire. Lately, however, thanks to Graying Morality, drafting Litchi into NOL (though she's not very pleased) and the addition of Kagura Mutsuki, an actually not-so-jackass dude being actually the biggest badass of NOL's Duodecim... it may start losing the status.
Die for Our Ship: Arakune must die for Bang x Litchi, Noel must die for Jin x Tsubaki, Noel and Tsubaki must die for Ragna x Jin, everyone must die for ν-13 x Ragna, and so on...
Hazama's Crazy Awesome levels made people appreciate him so much that they forget that he's pretty much a depraved monster par excellence that is designed that way, even according to Word Of God (who says that he's devoid of redeeming qualities).
For some, there's also those who'd consider Kokonoe having one. She'd be considered an amoral bitch unworthy of being cheered even when she's being an ally thanks to her laundry list of atrocities, ignorance of things. However, because she's considered highly amusing with her snarkiness and F-Bombs and her other competition is a high-caliber bastard like Terumi (not to mention she herself is considered an attractive pink-haired Cat Girl), she often got her atrocities and dangers glossed away.
Memetic Mutation: Net scale. Thanks to a certain Japanese phonecard with official art depicting Rachel with nothing but her underwear and Ragna's coat, imitation fan art has quite a bit of mileage.
Ragna is having a hard time living down his reputation as an unrepentant mass murderer despite his shitty past and hidden golden heart.
Jin is probably going to be forever remembered as 'that brother-obsessed psycho Yandere' no matter what Character Development hit him. Even ASW endorses it in humorous segments.
Poor Litchi is becoming very much like Orihime, one unwillingFace Heel Turn due to a nasty, near unavoidable Sadistic Choice and she's forever marked as 'idiot', 'never a good person', 'utterly selfish and obsessed' regardless of the tons of genuinely good things she did in the past.
No matter what Character Development hit him, whatever true enemy he realizes, he can fight for justice, try to be a better man, but Bang's Arch-Enemy is always going to be Jin.
Ship-to-Ship Combat: Good holy lord, where do we even start? There's fans of Bang/Litchi who are very vocal and bash hammers on Arakune, and a minority of Litchi/Arakune fans who bash hammers on the other, then we have fans of Jin/Tsubaki who bash Noel for getting in their way (nevermind that Noel is a Shipper on Deck for them). As of Continuum Shift, Jin/Makoto has been getting it's good share of popularity (though, it doesn't seem to cause much tension to the shipping community). And then we have Ragna/Jin, the most popular pairing in the series who will literally bash everyone if need be... Hands down. Oh, and there's a portion of the community that believes Jin will eventually be a Celibate Hero / Chaste Hero, and therefore will have no official canonLove Interest. That's not even getting into all the popular Crossover Shipping Jin is involved with.
The Scrappy: While it's very hard to see anyone as Scrappies, you'll find it very hard to find fans of Luna (not Platinum as whole), who's considered to be incredibly loud-mouthed and obnoxious, insulting nearly everyone she came across in a worse scale that surpassed even Rachel's haughtiness. People can't stand her and she contributes on how haters express their hate to Platinum (Sena and Trinity was much more well-received).
Heart Remix's Mai Natsume is much, much worse, as far as fan reaction goes. A lot has accused her as a 'needless moeblob Mary Sue with zero personality only meant for Fanservice' and considering her story was declared canon (although only flashback), it just made the audience dreads the day she's introduced in the mainline game.
Tear Jerker: In the The Wheel of FortuneDrama CD, Tsubaki dies after pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to save Jin from Nu's stabs. With her last words thanking Jin for calling her by her "First Name" after so long, inviting him to the dinner Makoto had promised her, and ending it with saying "Jin-Niisama" gently one last time.
Thirty Sue Pileup: Mary Sue accusations are thrown around like confetti by several characters' very vocal hatedoms, some of which border on Hate Dumb. Five characters get it the worst, however.
Ragna the Bloodedge was subjected to this by his hatedom due to "having an excess of badass traits with little character to balance it out" - highest bounty in the world, walks over anyone not named Hakumen, Nu or Rachel, and so on. He's been characterized beyond that in Calamity Trigger, which makes the accusations flimsy, and further development in Continuum Shift silenced them for good. Doesn't stop people from hating him, however.
Noel Vermillion is openly declared as a Creator's Pet for Toshimichi Mori, catering to his design fetishes and having a central role in the plot. She's actually a deconstruction - all of her "Sue qualities" put her in positions she is clearly unfit to handle, and her powers remained unknown to her and exploited by others for their own benefit. Her character had little chance to develop due to constant manipulation, but closing her "Eye of the Azure" may open that possibility - and if a month with her best bud Makoto is any indication, things are looking up for her.
Speaking of, a trend in recent days involves broadsiding Makoto Nanaya with these accusations, proving even an Ensemble Darkhorse is not immune. Arguments used against her include distorting the story, downplaying or omitting her character flaws, and ceaseless undue praise for her character and ability. Many of these accusations, in reality, come from acting only on surface stimuli - further insight explains all of these phenomena at work in a believable fashion. Further, like Noel, any perceived "Sue traits" may have set Relius' crosshairs squarely on her as a byproduct.
Rachel Alucard has also been assaulted due to withholding vital information without consequence and exploiting her power as a means to alleviate her ceaseless boredom. Given an observer's role, she was forbidden from acting directly in Calamity Trigger, and in Continuum Shift she sloughed it off in order to change the world for the better. Even then, she finds it's a learning experience... one which she shows trouble in adjusting to, and she is opened up to backdraft for her aforementioned transgressions.
Yuuki Terumi has been depicted as an obnoxiously infallible villain whose charisma, combat prowess, and tactical ability are hyped through his ceaselessly smug disposition, and even in chapter two of four he can outmaneuver the lion's share of the cast without effort, incorporating even their victories into his plans, with countermeasures for just about anything they can throw at him. While Terumi has been playing Takamagahara as a fool and peeking at other timelines, many developments crudely cater to his interests - Relius may be an invincible antagonist as well, but he was never presented in such an infantile manner. As bonus points for his fandumb, he was unerringly praised for de-Suing Ragna, Noel and Rachel, and yet the Sue accusations for Makoto started flowing wholesale when she knocked him off his high horse.
Toy Ship: There are viewers whom viewed many of Rachel's interactions with Carl as a potential case of this, while Ragna X Rachel gets more ship-tease in the series Carl X Rachel is not that far off (however this was mostly in Blaz Blue Calamity Trigger but there was a little bit of this in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift though.)
Trapped By Mountain Lions: Common Fan Dumb reaction that plagued several characters whose subplot revolve around something not directly connected with the whole Ragna or Kokonoe vs Terumi scheme. Especially prevalent to some characters like Litchi, Arakune and at first Carl (until Relius is revealed) and sometimes even Bang.
Ragna's life sucks sooo bad. The destruction of his home and family made him hate the world, and it's part of the reason why he's aiming at the Library for maintaining a world that he hates, and part of the reason he's the Black Beast, and this hatred is used by Terumi to keep existing. And he acts like such a nonchalant jackass whose favorite phrase sums up to "Outta my way, or you die!" to nearly everyone. But despite so, he'll keep moving on without giving up, even if he's told that he has no chance.
Jin Kisaragi, yes, he's an asshole extraordinary. However, aside of his insecurity that Ragna kept ignoring in the past, it didn't get better when he got adopted. Already feeling dead and just doing things like any adopted kid did, the Kisaragi family mostly looked at him with scorn who thinks he only gets all the luxuries because of family name. Anything he did, he never found joy. Oh, and how many times has it been that he was suckered into being possessed by Terumi? More than once, I assume.
Oh boy, Noel Vermillion. Yes, she's born as an adult, but her mentality isn't one of an adult/teenager and she was pushed into a harsh world in order to maintain her family... including getting much of a harsh abuse from Jin for being incompetent, getting mistaken as a boy, her best friend Tsubaki turned against her due to jealousy... then she found out that she's not even human, in the worst way possible courtesy of Terumi. This results her being turned into Mu-12 and wants to destroy the world... The only thing that got better afterwards was just her last problems, up until CP, Tsubaki has been brainwashed to hunt her down further, and Jin still hates her.
Taokaka gets a substantial Woobie moment at the end of her CS story mode. Try as she might, she can't hold her own against Hazama, and it looks like she's not going to survive the fight, at which time she breaks from her usual demeanor and laments that all she wanted to do was protect the village and her friends.
Litchi Faye-Ling looks like an all-kind all-helpful all-angelic woman... but then we learn that she has one extreme Guilt Complex about letting her friend, who's shown to be not a pleasant person and considered her annoying, go awry with her research and turn into Arakune. She's been trying the damndest to save him, by inflicting the corruption to her as well, but everyone else that knows just says she's a moron for such a lost cause. Her time's running up and she's Forced Into Evil just to preserve her life... and everyone else say she's a moron and a traitor for staining her morality. Even so, she would still keep moving on while maintaining her kind persona, and keeps her problems to herself so everyone that cares about her wouldn't worry... And then Chronophantasma proceeded to destroy whatever 'Iron' she had. Not only Kokonoe was furious at her actions and is wanting to kill her, she is still forced to fight her friends in order to maintain Arakune's stable form thanks to being observed by Hazama... Then Rachel revealed her that this is Hazama we're talking about, he didn't tell Litchi that he's observing him as Arakune, not Lotte Carmine, thus he's stuck in his blob form and no amounts of efforts are going to restore him. Everything she did in NOL has become pointless, she earned the ire of many of her friends, is it any wonder that after all those, she finally broke down in tears?
Arakune/Lotte Carmine is just a scientist aiming for the top... with some inferiority complex. But then, his targets of surpassing, Kokonoe and Relius Clover, never gave a damn and instead mocked him for it, making him desperate enough to steal ideas of Litchi's work and then... well, look at what he's become. He's doomed to wander the land with decreasing sanity, insatiable hunger and appearance of legions of bugs. Then he got caught by Relius, and then had him Observed by Hazama... except that Hazama observes him as Arakune the blob of bugs, NOT the scientist he used to be...
Carl Clover, the precocious child who... witnessed his dear sister turned into an automaton by his own dad that he adored and came to completely distrust adults at that point, not to mention he's even feared by his own uncle and aunt. Everyone else refers his sister as a dangerous weapon that he should keep away from at all cost. Wow, kid needs a hug.
Nu-13 is, at heart, a sad, lonely, and somewhat deranged girl who just wants Ragna to be with her. Pity that also manifests in them becoming the Black Beast together and destroying much of the world. When her soul gets put into Lambda and you find out why she's like this, you can't help but feel for the poor girl...robot...thing. If you take what she says literally and then remember the fact that she shares a life-link with Ragna then the fridge horror of whats happened to her is actually pretty shocking. Ragna has actually killed a semi completed Nu-13 twice before CT even begun, which in turn forced her to regenerate from scratch in the boundary...which is basically a place composed of 100% mind-rape. He did this without ever even thinking about her having emotions or a mind of her own since her previous forms weren't completed and she couldn't talk yet. After CT, shes left at the bottom of the now destroyed cauldron to rot and attempt to regenerate until Tager came and took her half dead body back to sector-7 so that Kokonoe could rip the soul out of her and stuff it into Lambda-11's body which was in only...slightly better shape after having been left to rot on a pile of trash for several years at the ruins of the Ibukido site.
Tsubaki Yayoi is a noble swordswoman and diplomat... who suffered crippling isolation due to her siblings dying from incest-invoked complications and an emotional dependency on Jin Kisaragi, wound up separated from him due to Noel Vermillion being moved into the seat of ministerial secretary that she (read: Tsubaki) was better suited to, was trapped in the Zero Squadron for the remaining months, and found herself sent on a mission to terminate both Noel and Jin. Terumi proceeded to "motivate" her by telling her that Noel "stole" her spot with Jin, leaving out that Jin would have left for Kagutsuchi anyway due to his own psychosis, and that she was so desperate that she abused her family status, demoted from First Lieutenant and jumped to Zero Squadron just to bring Jin back, only to inevitably get impaled by Nu in the effort. When she fails against Noel, Terumi brainwashes her to use as his pawn against Jin and Hakumen. Then things get worse in Chronophantasma, as the pressure of conflict with numerous individuals, especially Jin, cause Izayoi to assert control over her, leaving little more than a Murakumo-esque thrall. At least, if Arcade stories are to be trusted.
Trinity Glassfield is one of the Six Heroes... and hopelessly lovestruck with Kazuma Kvar, who would later become a host for Yuuki Terumi. Terumi manipulated that love for him to have Trinity release Nine's geas on him, only to proceed to backstab them both and dump them into a cauldron. She winds up sealed within Muchorin afterwards, and shares a body with two kids, possessing only the strength to emerge for minutes at a time, and harbors a Guilt Complexover her role in Nine's death.
