YMMV / The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • For people who are never named, aren't prophets, and only show up in a handful of chapters, Helaman's stripling warriors are among the best-known characters in the entire book. Their age, faith, courage, not being Nephites, and miraculous inability to die makes them common role models for Latter-Day Saint youth, while parents like the detail they became that way because of their mothers.
  • Teancum. Though not a prophet, he's leader of a Badass Army, personally assassinates two Big Bads, and is the only named Nephite casualty of the War Chapters. He's impressive enough that Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites, in its Adaptation Expansion, gives him more spotlight.
• Evil Is Cool: Amalickiah is a lying, murdering, genocidal tyrant, but the way he cleverly kills his way to the top of the Lamanite hierarchy and later puts Captain Moroni on the defensive makes him one of the most competent, entertaining, and coolest baddies in the book.
• Fair for Its Day: Max Perry Mueller argues in Race and the Making of the Mormon People that the Book of Mormon actually challenged some aspects of the 19th-century racial worldview by preaching against racial schisms and that everyone could be saved regardless of their race (2 Nephi 26:33). However, other passages haven't aged so well, like the Lamanites receiving a "skin of blackness" as a sign of their curse, and they become "white" through conversion.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Lamanites utterly fail to take the city of Noah, and the narrative describes how some of the Nephites were only wounded due to arrows striking their unarmored legs. No doubt more than one of them took an arrow in the knee.
• Iron Woobie: Moroni lives to witness the entire destruction of his people, including his father, and is left to wander alone for decades so he won't get killed, too. Despite this, he maintains his faith in Jesus Christ and the eventual triumph of good over evil.
• Memetic Badass: Thanks to the art of Arnold Friberg (used in official copies), Book of Mormon characters as a whole are often jokingly portrayed as insanely ripped. The stripling warriors take this even further, with their miraculous survival in battle attributed to being just that awesome.
• Squick: The fallen and depraved Nephites' and Lamanites' treatment of prisoners is not pleasant reading. The Lamanites kill Nephite men and force their children to eat their bodies. The Nephites are called out as being worse.
• Signature Scene:
  • Nephi saying "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded."
  • Jesus descending from the sky to visit the Americas in the final third of the book.
• Signature Series Arc: The story of Nephi, in particular the two-chapter arc where Nephi and his brothers get the brass plates from Laban, is probably the most read and well-known part of the Book of Mormon. (It helps that it's the very first story.)
• Tear Jerker: The final chapter, when Moroni is the Last of His Kind. All the time he is writing, he is completely alone, his father has been killed, and he's doing all he can do to finish his work while on the run. He knows full well that God will quit protecting him after he finishes, and he wants it to be this way, as he has nothing else to live for. The last verse is him saying goodbye to the reader and hoping to see them in the afterlife.