History YMMV / Overlord2012

** In the Holy Kingdom arc, Neia and CZ fight a demon summon who had Kelart's head pinned on its body, spoke in her voice and used her magic spells, with the horrifying sight even depicted on page artwork...then at the end of that fight, the demon suddenly breaks character to shill for Neia's runecraft bow.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: While Remedios is one of the [[TheScrappy most unpopular characters]] in the story, is seemingly made [[HateSink to be hated by the reader]] and is definitely not fun to be around, a great hero of the nation, respected by many, and the leader of the paladin order. However, after Demiurge spurred on an invasion by the demihumans on the nation's borders, everything she cared about was destroyed and she was thrust into a life of unending stress, which she started taking out on Neia. What little ability she had to make reasonable decisions decayed and she began to see that the people she had devoted her life to help didn't appreciate the sacrifices she and her subordinates made and immediately turned on the paladins in favor of an undead horror [[WhatHaveYouDoneForMeLately because he happened to have been more helpful in the last few months.]] As a result, while she's bitter and unpleasant, it's hard not to feel sorry for her once you stop to think about it.

* JerkassWoobie:
** While Remedios has many character flaws, she was still kind of fun to be around, a great hero of the nation, respected by many, and the leader of the paladin order. However, after Demiurge spurred on an invasion by the demihumans on the nation's borders, everything she cared about was destroyed and she was thrust into a life of unending stress, which she started taking out on Neia. What little ability she had to make reasonable decisions decayed and she began to see that the people she had devoted her life to help didn't appreciate the sacrifices she and her subordinates made and immediately turned on the paladins in favor of an undead horror [[WhatHaveYouDoneForMeLately because he happened to have been more helpful in the last few months.]] As a result, while she's bitter and unpleasant, it's hard not to feel sorry for her once you stop to think about it.
** Ainz himself is, despite his redeeming qualities, a hypocrite asshole who feels no empathy for anyone who is not from his kingdom, and has no problem subjecting people to all kinds of horrors for petty reasons. But given how he grew up without family, friends, or a girlfriend, and that he was an overworked and lonely man who could only find a place to belong in an MMO, it is not hard to feel a little pity for him. It's also implied his skeletal body is taking away his emotions with him being unable to stop it, and he clearly does everything he does because he wants to make everyone in Nazarick happy. How much sympathy he deserves, however, depends on the viewer.

* NightmareRetardant: In the anime, Ainz casting "Ia Shub Niggurath" and wiping out 70,000 soldiers looks silly rather than frightening due to how the CGI soldiers [[SpecialEffectFailure simply fall down like rag dolls]] when the spell hits them.

** The demon summons temporarily breaking character to shill Neia's bow in the Holy Kingdom arc. The first time it happens it was when "Evil Lord Wrath Jaldabaoth approaches Remedios and Neia supposedly trying to kill them with Calca's rotten lower body and the second time it was from a demon underling who had Kelart's head hung on its body and spoke using its voice. It's outright ridiculous to see especially from what is supposed to be a horrifically nightmarish sight. It's not helped by how Neia has no idea that the Demons are making it clear that this is a Nazarick false flag antic intended to soft-manipulate the entire country into abandoning its former system for Ainz.

** Clementine of all characters is surprisingly popular for a throw-away, not very fleshed-out ArcVillain that dies in the same volume where she first appeared, receiving many fan-content for such a short-lived character. This is mostly attributed to [[EvilIsSexy her good looks]], [[KillerBearHug memorable death scene]] and Creator/AoiYuuki's good voice acting.

** Princess Renner easily establishes herself as the vilest human being in the New World when she [[spoiler:poisons her entire orphanage of children and nuns to activate her transformation into an imp, then kills King Ramposa with the Razor Edge before letting Ainz, Albedo and Demiurge occupy his throne.]] You know that this is horrible when Demiurge and Albedo, both of them who are considered Extremely Evil with -500 Karma and the former has consistently proven through his forced breeding and mass murder farm, view her as being admirable because of how evil she is.

** Demiurge easily crosses it when he set up a parchment farm right inside Holy Kingdom territory where he kidnaps innocent people to use as livestock for magic scrolls, peeling off his victim's skins and regenerating them using healing magic, then forcing the women inside to eat each other's sons (that he didn't force them to eat their own sons is considered mercy). Said farms also have experiments that create human chimeras though inter-species rape. If that doesn't cross it too, then there's his attack against Holy Kingdom that he mostly does through proxying with a summoned Demon Lord. Demiurge indirectly conquers the demi-humans in the hills next to the Holy Kingdom this way, and using his new army, Demiurge conquered the Northern Holy Kingdom. Aside from the borderline acceptable massacre of the Holy Kingdom's armies (it's war after all and soldiers are prepared to die), the treatment suffered by the humans under the demi-humans in Demiurge's army was atrocious and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName invokes images of the Holocaust]]. Even worse is that the ones following Demiurge were the worst and most dangerous of the demi-human tribes, as the demi-human tribes that didn't want to get involved and, you know, ''commit war crimes'' were captured and treated no better than the humans. [[WhatMeasureIsAMook One could excuse the horrible stuff Demiurge and his army do to the combatants on the battlefield]], you most certainly can't towards the treatment of non-combatants.

* HoYay: Brain and Gazef relationship has been interpreted by many as having quite a homoerotic underpinning, especially with Brain originally having a mild FoeYay desire to prove himself as the stronger warrior of the two. Even after Gazef's death, Brain continues striving to honor Gazef's sacrifice, including giving his own life in a vain attempt to defend Re-Estize from Ainz's forces when battling Cocytus.

** One of Demiurge's worst atrocities, his scroll farms around the Albelion Hills where he flays people and heals them, forces parents to eat each other's children ForTheEvulz and slices meat out from people are sarcastically called by fans as the "Happy Farm". In a similar vein, his brutal proxy murder of the Holy Kingdom's Queen (where his summoned high-level demon used her body as a bludgeon against her own troops) was infamously called "the Holy Bludgeon" and "the ultimate weapon".

** One of Demiurge's worst atrocities, his scroll farms around the Albelion Hills where he flays people and heals them, forces parents to eat each other's children ForTheEvulz and slices meat out from people are sarcastically called by fans as the "Happy Farm". In a similar vein, his brutal proxy murder of the Holy Kingdom's Queen (where his summoned high-level demon used Calca's body as a bludgeon against her own troops) was infamously called "the Holy Bludgeon" and "the ultimate weapon".

** One of Demiurge's worst atrocities, his scroll farms around the Albelion Hills where he flays people and heals them, forces parents to eat each other's children ForTheEvulz and slices meat out from people are sarcastically called by fans as the "Happy Farm". In a similar vein, his brutal proxy murder of the Holy Kingdom's Queen (where his summoned high-level demon used Calca's body as a bludgeon against her own troops) was infamously called "the Holy Bludgeon" and is referred to as "the ultimate weapon".

* WoobieSpecies: Mankind in general becomes this in the New World. Humans in the New World are initially weak species that would probably go extinct after several generations until the Six Gods shown up and taught humans how to defend themselves from its predators with Tiered Magic. In the present day, their days are numbered since they are only fighting a futile struggle against the Demi-Humans who prey on them and the human kingdoms tend to fight each other and only cooperate when pressed. And that's way before [[FromBadToWorse Nazarick shows up to conquer or destroy everything they come across]]...

** The Elf King Decem Hougan crossed it before the story even began by [[spoiler:abducting and ''raping'' an elite of the Slane Theocracy, causing the once-friendly Theocracy to break all relations with his Elf Kingdom and declare war with him.]]

** Neia is not only treated ''very'' unfairly by Remedios despite everything she has done for her allies, but the first person bar her father (who was killed off by Demiurge) was Ainz, who was initially only trying to use her and orchestrated, or at least only participated in Demiurge's false flag attack intended to undermine her entire Kingdom. Despite Ainz showing genuine kindness to her later on because she reminded him of Gazef, someone he actually cared about more than most human beings, his influence towards her still gears more towards TheCorruptor, and the poor girl ends up being an unaware pawn for Demiurge to completely subjugate her own Kingdom to Nazarick's control.

* TheWoobie: Climb clearly qualifies. Born in abysmal poverty, orphaned, went to bed hungry every night, adults destroying the house he built for himself at the age of 5, [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], left under a makeshift roof of rags in a downpour to die of disease, taken in by a beautiful princess, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe out of pity]], and hated by the nobility for it, [[BlamingTheVictim bullied by the "noble" castle knights because ''he'' is the only one the princess can trust to be her bodyguard]], [[ShaggyDogStory and every time he performs a legitimate act of heroism, he fails to make a difference.]] [[HardWorkHardlyWorks That and the fact that he inherently has no talent for martial skills or magic,]] and it's a wonder he can even function at all. It gets worse when it comes to light that Renner is in love with him and that due to her own psychological baggage, her idea of "love" consists of chaining up Climb like an animal and making him her SexSlave. [[spoiler: It somehow got ''worse'' after he valiantly stood against Ainz, knowing he couldn't win anyway, and after being killed and revived, learned that Renner had become a Demon of Nazarick, at which point he's so desperate to protect her he offers to become a Demon as well.]]

* TheScrappy: Remedios of the Holy Kingdom arc is infamous for being hated by fans because of her tone-deaf stubbornness and prejudice against anyone that isn't human, combined with her sheer incompetence, borderline lethal stupidity, and an extremely awful {{Jerkass}} attitude. And unlike Clementine or Renner who are utterly vile in a LoveToHateWay, she's not even considered entertaining to begin with.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Remedios Custodio is despised by the fans for being harsh and unreasonable because of her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], yet those same fans absolutely love Ainz despite his murderous and even genocidal actions.

* TheScrappy: Remedios of the Holy Kingdom arc is infamous for being hated by fans because of her racism and bias against the undead like Ainz to the point that she rejects his help despite Ainz is literally the only person who can end his own false flag war, her sheer incompetence and borderline lethal stupidity, and an extremely awful {{Jerkass}} attitude.