History YMMV / TheWormProtocol

** Viva La Vida caused one as [[spoiler: Endbringers can feel the respective sins enough to act as hosts for Demon Lords despite earlier author notes even lampshading how they are essentially each a LivingWeapon, and specifically [[JustForPun Leviathan is used as one for Leviamon]] (meaning he was feeling envy at the moment more than anything else during the fight ''and'' more envy than [[CantCatchUp any of the capes watching this]] like [[ItsAllAboutMe Eidolon]] or [[ThePeterPrinciple Armsmaster]] felt) shortly after Jesmon seemingly kills himself to convert his organic material into data.]] It and the chapter to follow it also raised the concerns about the series following the footsteps of Literature/{{Worm}} too much and risking TooBleakStoppedCaring by going too GrimDark [[SerialEscalation too quickly]]. While the Knights are still lacking the "clean" victories which leave the GrimDark as a concern the first point even comes up in the story itself as [[spoiler: ''Yggdrasil'', the current Gatekeeper of the Seven Deadly Sins, is also of the opinion that the Endbringers don't have conventional feelings ''after'' bearing witness to one being used as a host and heard Leviamon's statement that it was full enough of his Sin to be a "worthy vessel" when there were still so many better (human) options for him to have used to make his escape.]]

** 10.3, which starts with Bakuda's bombs taking such a chunk out of Jesmon that he compares it to damage taken from the Dex incident and ends with [[spoiler: a [[JustForPun tainted]] approximation of Jesmon born from Noelle's powers announcing to all the capes in earshot how the Knights are planning to kill Scion before further crippling Yggdrasil's Salvation.]]

* RelationshipWritingFumble: To the point of a humorous RunningGag in the forums as a fair chunk of the perceived ShipTeasing that isn't more clearly PlayedForLaughs likely also isn't intentional, stand out cases being [[FanPreferredCouple Taylor/Shawn]] as a genderswapped SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl (which was seemingly ''supposed'' to [[spoiler: help set up why they would make a good ''partnered pair'' of a different sort]] and has been [[ShipSinking sunk]] by WordOfGod more than once) and Gallantmon/Mizu No Yurei despite [[spoiler: him knowing her best from his memories with Takato as ''Rika's mom''.]]

** And then we have 11.3, which follows [=UlForce's=] point of view in the Royal Knight's battle against Leviathan. [[spoiler:And he isn't holding back. Leviathan unleashes [[AbsurdlySharpBlade monomolecularly thick blades of water]] at the Knights, takes his speed [[UpToEleven up to match UlForce]], and is able to [[BeyondTheImpossible maneuver midair by changing direction using a single raindrop!]] [[note]] This is an instance of In-universe physical "rule" breaking ability because using a single raindrop to utterly change your momentum doesn't have anything to do with speed. It does have to do with ignoring Inertia, a fundamental law of physics and something that doesn't seem related in any way to Leviathan's hyrdrokinetic powers which had been previously established. As the world is LikeRealityUnlessOtherwiseNoted we're able to think about how this should have played out in our world. What should be happening when Leviathan tries that, and either damages himself because he's using hydrokenesis to keep the raindrop in a single location, at which point it is effectively a bullet trying to penetrate his skin. And at the speeds depicted, that would have been damaging, even to an Endbringer's skin. The other option would have been that the raindrop was either shattered and splashed over Leviathan's hide, doing all of nothing to change his momentum, as is the case if one of us tried to jump off of a raindrop. [[/note]] Oh and he [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Omnimon's hand]] before the latter could use [[WorldWreckingWave All Delete]] on him and [[GrievousHarmWithABody used [=UlForce=] as a battering ram to get past Brockton's defenses]].]]But it has to be said, the Knights are ''giving'' as good as their ''getting''.

** And then we have 11.3, which follows [=UlForce's=] point of view in the Royal Knight's battle against Leviathan. [[spoiler:And he isn't holding back. Leviathan unleashes [[AbsurdlySharpBlade monomolecularly thick blades of water]] at the Knights, takes his speed [[UpToEleven up to match UlForce]], and is able to [[BeyondTheImpossible maneuver midair by changing direction using a single raindrop!]] [[note]] This is an instance of In-universe physical "rule" breaking ability because using a single raindrop to utterly change your momentum doesn't have anything to do with speed. It does have to do with ignoring Inertia, a fundamental law of physics and something that doesn't seem related in any way to Leviathan's hyrdrokinetic powers which had been previously established. As the world is LikeRealityUnlessOtherwiseNoted we're able to think about how this should have played out in our world. What should be happening when Leviathan tries that, and either damages himself because he's using hydrokenesis to keep the raindrop in a single location, at which point it is effectively a bullet trying to penetrate his skin. And at the speeds depicted, that would have been damaging, even to an Endbringer's skin. The other option would have been that the raindrop was either shattered and splashed over Leviathan's hide, doing all of nothing to change his momentum, as is the case if one of us tried to jump off of a raindrop. [[/note]] Oh and he [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Omnimon's hand]] before the latter could use [[WorldWreckingWave All Delete]] on him and [[GrievousHarmWithABody used [=UlForce=] as a battering ram to get past Brockton's defenses]].]]But it has to be said, the Knights are ''giving'' as good as their ''getting''.