History YMMV / GirlsOfTheWild

* MoralEventHorizon: Han Gyul crossed it the moment he gave Jae Gu's younger siblings food poisoning.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The moral that "It's not wrong to physically fight back against your bullies and sometimes that's the only way to make them stop bullying you" is a pretty decent one, but it gets hammered in ''hard''. That said, it's a moral that's rarely brought up in favour of "Just try talking things out with the bully".

* HoYay: Jae Gu earns the...admiration of a middle school-aged boy after fighting off his bullies.

* ShipSinking: Chapter 220 ends with one. Jae Gu fired the torpedo himself. We will have to see what Chapter 221 holds. Chapter 221 has Jae Gu fire another torpedo. Pretty much all the ships have sunk, or are far over the horizon at this point.

--> After Dal Dal accidentally overhears Jae Gu's (almost) confession to Queen, she comes home, crying profusely all the way. The following day, she skips school and tries to spend her day without thinking about Jae Gu, ignoring his messages. At the end of the day, as Jae Gu visits her out of concerns. Seeing that she's seemingly okay, he prepares to leave when...\\

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In chapter 256, the author goes and shows us that the reason Jae Gu didn't call Queen, and ran to try to meet her in person is that his cell-phone died unexpectedly, which is often TruthInTelevision. However, Jae Gu only noticed this after already getting to the park which still begs the question of why he never bothered to check said phone on the two hour plus drive where he was the passenger. If he was the driver, it could be excused as you shouldn't drive and talk on the phone at the same time.

* WhatAnIdiot: Lee Hye Kyung decided to roll down his window to taunt Jae Gu, while the latter was holding a hose washing his car. The result was predicable.
** Johnathan trying to intimidate Queen by threatening Jae Gu, without having Jeff nearby to protect him. He learned why that was a [[TranquilFury bad]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend idea]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the hard way]].
** If he was trying to bring about a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo scenario with Queen (by deliberately having an undercharged cell phone), he went about it all wrong.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The moral that "It's not wrong to physically fight back against your bullies and sometimes that's the only way to make them stop bullying you" is a pretty decent one, but it gets hammered in ''hard''. That said, it's a moral that's rarely brought up in favour of "Just try talking things out with the bully", so depending on your point of view, it could be SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* VictimBlaming: In the "Dal Dal got kidnapped" arc, a very vocal portion of the fanbase ''lashed out at Dal Dal'', insisting that her reaction was "provoking" her kidnappers. Sure, it's easy to speculate "what you would do" when you're safe at home, calmly typing on a keyboard, but when finding yourself tied up, not knowing where you are, and surrounded by a bunch of crazed fanboys who shove unknown "food" in your face, after shoving a rag with some powerful sedative there to kidnap you in the first place, and removing your clothes to take as souvenirs, while pointedly and repeatedly claiming there's some kind of romantic connection between you and them, and well, it's hard to say how ''anyone'' would react to that once the panic sets in.

--> After Dal Dal accidentally overhears Jae Gu's (almost) confession to Queen, she comes home, crying profusely all the way. The following day, she skips school and tries to spend her day without thinking about Jae Gu, ignoring his messages. At the end of the day, as Jae Gu visits her out of concerns. Seeing that she's seemingly okay, he prepares to leave when...

--> '''Dal Dal''' (starts crying): I'm the only one who's hurting! Why do you have to come and smile like nothing's happened? Just go away! I'll just hate you for today! I'll love you tomorrow!

--> And she puts on her cheerful face the following day like nothing happened.

** Dal Dal catches the woobie ball again in chapter 231. Say what you will about her, nobody deserves to go through that. '''NOBODY!'''

* VictimBlaming: In the "Dal Dal got kidnapped" arc, a very vocal portion of the fanbase ''lashed out at who Dal Dal'', insisting that her reaction was "provoking" her kidnappers. Sure, it's easy to speculate what "you would do" when you're safe at home, calmly typing on a keyboard, but when finding yourself tied up, not knowing where you are, and surrounded by a bunch of crazed fanboys who shove unknown "food" in your face, after shoving a rag with some powerful sedative there to kidnap you in the first place, and removing your clothes to take as souvenirs, while pointedly and repeatedly claiming there's some kind of romantic connection between you and them, and well, it's hard to say how ''anyone'' would react to that once the panic sets in.

** The author really doesn't seem to take smoking well. It's rarely brought up in the series, and the few times it has, the character is being highly unpleasant while doing so. There's Shin Yoonji, who is a BitchInSheepsClothing, there's the three unnamed middle school girls who absolutely brutalized Dal Dal, and tried to do the same to [[MuggingTheMonster Moon Young,]] who ''was not'' in a HeroicBSOD, and those three teen terrors were actually middlemen for Han Gyul, the resident EvilRedhead.

*** Now that Jae Gu has rejected the both of them, and Dal Dal seems to have left the LoveTriangle for Myung Hwan, it's now become a question as to how long it will take for him to return to Queen... Until [[BaseBreakingCharacter Dal Dal decides to "confirm" her feelings, goes to Jae Gu's home and tricks him into letting her kiss him, again.]] The fans audibly groaned.

* FanDumb: There are fans who think Dal Dal is '''overreacting''' and has no reason to be literally terrified out of her mind in the latest arc, despite having been gassed, tied to a chair, for hours, with her legs unbound, and having had items of her clothing/ personal possessions removed, and being constantly surrounded by clearly deranged individuals who constantly shove things into her face, and in subtle and not-so subtle ways threaten her with violence unless she starts "being a good girl" because these individuals haven't "really backed her into a corner" yet.
* MartyStu: The Queen's fiancee is giving this feeling to good amount of fans, due to being good looking, extremely rich, excelling at pretty [[TheAce everything]] he does. He makes Jae Gu feel petty and completely insignificant compared to him.
* MemeticMutation: Happy Fathers Day![[note]]Dal Dal's father saving her from a group of kidnappers on the exact day of Father's Day in real life caused a lot of these kind of jokes.[[/note]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Han Gyul crossed it the moment he gave Jae Gu's younger siblings food poisoning.
** Johnathan crossed it the moment he ordered Jeff to brutalize Jae Gu.

** Johnathan trying to intimidate Queen by threatening Jae Gu, without having Jeff nearby to protect him. He learned why that was a [[TranquilFury bad]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend idea]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the hard way.]]

** The series coming to an end after 260 chapters came as a shock to a lot of people with many wondering if the author just got tired of continuing this series. What happened to Jae Gu's mother? Where was the payoff for Jae Gu's siblings being geniuses in certain areas? What was the point of Queen's fiance? Why was the later half of the series almost nothing but relationship LoveTriangle drama instead of returning to the martial-arts aspect that people read the series to begin with? The series in general left a lot to be desired.

** There was a brief point in the story where Jae Gu ended up having a nosebleed due to overworking himself. The amount of WildMassGuessing that surrounded this event as to what was wrong with Jae Gu was mind-blowing, but then led to major disappointment that it didn't lead to anything major in the next couple chapters, and was then completely forgotten about.

** Despite being a major plot-point as to why Jae Gu and his siblings are living a rough live at the start of the story, whatever happened to their mother that abandoned them is never delved deeper into.

** As mentioned in ArcFatigue above, many were more interested reading the webtoon for Jae Gu's underdog story to become a better fighter rather than getting wrapped up in his LoveTriangle romance later on.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The moral that "It's not wrong to physically fight back against your bullies and sometimes that's the only way to make them stop bullying you" is a pretty decent one, but it gets hammered in ''hard''. That said, it's a moral that's rarely brought up in favour of "Just try talking things out with the bully", so depending on your point of view, it could be SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
** The author really doesn't seem to take smoking well. It's rarely brought up in the series, and the few times it has, the character is being highly unpleasant while doing so. There's Shin Yoonji, who is a BitchInSheepsClothing, there's the three unnamed middle school girls who absolutely brutalized Dal Dal, and tried to do the same to [[MuggingTheMonster Moon Young,]] who ''was not'' in a HeroicBSOD, and those three teen terrors were actually middlemen for Han Gyul, the resident EvilRedhead.

*** Chapter 255 is universally considered the breaking point in the UnresolvedSexualTension WillTheyOrWontThey overriding plot between Jae Gu and Queen, as Queen considers calling Jae Gu on her phone to find out why he's late to the amusement park, but ultimately does not, and Jae Gu completely forgets he has one on a two-hour drive from where his younger sister is hospitalized to the Amusement park to try and reach her in person before she's taken out to the airport for a several-years education outside Korea.

*** Chapter 255 is universally considered the breaking point in the UnresolvedSexualTension WillTheyOrWontThey overriding plot between Jae Gu and Queen, as Queen considers calling Jae Gu on her phone to find out why he's late to the amusement park, but ultimately does no, and Jae Gu completely forgets he has one on a two-hour drive from where his younger sister is hospitalized to the Amusement park to try and reach her in person before she's taken out to the airport for a several-years education outside Korea.

*** Now that Jae Gu has rejected the both of them, and Dal Dal seems to have left the LoveTriangle for Myung Hwan, it's now become a question as to how long it will take for him to return to Queen.

** Jae Gu's LoveTriangle arc between Queen and Dal Dal has gotten stale over time. This plotline has been around since the very beginning of the series, and has been on full-force with the recent beach-trip chapters. Most complaints are either that Jae Gu has been too indecisive to just choose Queen over Dal Dal, or that Dal Dal has clearly lost the love-war, and should just step aside before becoming too annoying and desperate as she attempts to stay relevant for Jae Gu's heart.

* BaseBreaker: Dal Dal is the biggest base breaker in the series. On one hand, some fans have fixated on her deliberately cute, bubbly personality and mostly self-inflicted heartbreak concerning Jae Gu to the exclusion of all else. Often ignoring the fact that she's not actually in love ''with Jae Gu'' but with the notion of being in love, and Jae Gu is merely the target of her obsession, and the fact that she is far more skilled, talented, and experienced than he is and reacts rather ''violently'' to any suggestion that Jae Gu ''might'' be off-limits to her, oh, and she knows where he lives. On the other hand, many fans find Dal Dal annoying, at best, as they have fixated on the fact that Dal Dal is constantly trying to force herself on Jae Gu, feels entitled to have him be her boyfriend (as seen in chapter 193), regardless of any attempts to rebuff her, and her creepy stalkerish behavior, often showing up at his house, without notice or invitation, sometimes ignoring the good things she has done, like protecting Jae Gu from Jeff, or Jae Gu's younger siblings from Han Gyul's gang, although the latter was a team action including Moon Young and Queen.

** The clincher? Dal Dal rubbing her face in it broke her completely. She is both visibly shaken and moved to tears. This is something that has never happened in the story before, regardless of the situation.