History YMMV / GoldDigger

** Former dragon queen T'Mat. Brutally raped and tortured by Dreadwing, she's clearly a PTSD-ridden mess who's desire for revenge against Dreadwing causes her to take actions that nearly have tragic results. Her daughter is forced to dethrone her (non-violently) and take over, doing what she can to care for her mother.

** While investigating old ruins, to discover where lost superpowerful evils had disappeared to, Gina and two rivals are trapped in a LotusEaterMachine by the pacifistic entity guarding the temple, where they experience nothing but success over and over again, all their dreams coming true... with no effort whatsoever. Gina escapes, thankfully. She then encounters two of the missing warlords, one of them a [[StarCraft Kerrigan expy]], the two of them having given up on escaping the temple, having grown bored with the constant success the guardian offered them. While watching TV, the two casually talk about their horrific atrocities, mistaking Gina to be an evil warlord as well, one of them forming a television out of the souls he's devoured. They accidentally tune into Gina's memories of how she escaped the guardian's Eternal Success fantasies, and come to the conclusion that the journey is what matters for them as well, each gaining a horrific SlasherSmile. Both try to escape with Gina, who manages to ditch them. But there's still Gina's two other rivals for them to use. Two of the deadliest, most powerful warlords in history, are motivated to do things again...

* CompleteMonster: The former [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] patriarch [[SavageWolves Brendan]] makes a pact with dark powers to achieve incredible powers which he tests by murdering his own wife. Engineering a "peace" between the werewolves and werecheetahs by creating a drought that kills many of the latter, Brendan betrays the werecheetahs and commits utter genocide on them, massacring the men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. He is only prevented from killing a single baby thanks to the sacrifice of her mother and the intervention of archmage Theo Diggers. Brendan also plans to sell his own people into slavery to fulfill his own end of the deal, and mocks his own daughter for adhering to any standard of honor before she defeats and imprisons him. Escaping later, Brendan tries to murder his own children and mocks the only surviving werecheetah, Brittany "Cheetah" Diggers, for her clan and biological parents' deaths, intending to use his powers to [[TakenForGranite freeze her as living stone]] and keep as a trophy for all eternity.

* TearJerker: As many awesome moments as there are, there are also just as many heartbreaking moments.
** In its own way, the downfall of Dr. Peachbody. Once a dangerous villain, he's forced to fuse with first his pet boy Benji, thrust into the ancient past, and then fused with [[CompleteMonster Dreadwing]], who promptly takes full control of the fused body. By the time Peachbody had encountered Dreadwing, Benji's personality has seemingly died, leaving only a lonely, mad Dr. Peachbody who doesn't seem to realize that Benji is gone. The shredded remnants of Peachbody's soul are eventually forced out of his body, left adrift on the astral plane. By the time Gina encounters him again to [[DeaderThanDead finish him off]], it's more of a MercyKill...
** Ayane's entire life. She's a warm, friendly, loving individual who adores cute things and desperately wants to be a FriendToAllChildren. However her eyes are so scary and evil that even many of her closest friends can't look her in the eye without being frightened, to say nothing of how children react to them. She's managed to form friendships over the years, and there are some characters (like Brittany) who can look her in the eyes without ill effect, but she also has no memory of her family. In addition, she did have a brief moment of happiness, love, and respect when the Prince of a kingdom of evil [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa Loompa]] expies kidnapped her and made her his queen. When her general friendliness started to actually reform the Prince and his people, the Prince's [[EvilChancellor witch]] sent Ayane back and mindwiped everyone, Ayane included.
** Former dragon queen T'Mat. Brutally raped and tortured by Dreadwing, she's clearly a PTSD-ridden mess who's desire for revenge against Dreadwing causes her to take actions that nearly have tragic results. Her daughter is forced to dethrone her (non-violently) and take over, doing what she can to care for her mother.

** Someone has been designing hyper-elaborate deathtraps disguised as ancient ruins that make anything Jigsaw has ever come up with look like the old Mousetrap board game. And said designer is escalating, turning entire pocket dimensions into death traps. (One realm was essentially a giant shopping mall where high end fashion items were available at dollar store prices. Everything that shopaholic Brittany bought started turning into bombs.) It's later implied that the designer is making these traps specifically to kill the Diggers sisters...

* ArchivePanic: There's quite a lot to catch up on at this point.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point, Perry had been toying with the idea of [[spoiler:permanently killing off ''Britanny'' at the end of the "Oblivion" arc (he didn't)]]. How did he decide whether to go through with it or not? ''A coin toss''.

* ArchivePanic: There's quite a lot to catch up on at this point.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point, Perry had been toying with the idea of [[spoiler:permanently killing off ''Britanny'' at the end of the "Oblivion" arc (he didn't)]]. How did he decide whether to go through with it or not? ''A coin toss''.

** Someone has been designing hyper-elaborate deathtraps disguised as ancient ruins that make anything Jigsaw has ever come up with look like the old Mousetrap board game. And said designer is escalating, turning entire pocket dimensions into death traps. (One realm was essentially a giant shopping mall where high end fashion items were available at dollar store prices. Everything turned that shopaholic Brittany bought started turning into bombs.) It's later implied that the designer is making these traps specifically to kill the Diggers sisters...

* Heartwarming: This series has lots of action in it. But for every awesome moment, there's also a WAFFy moment as well.

** One-shot villain Snuggy. She's an amazon breeder (and as such extremely sexy), a powerful mage, an easily tricked nincompoop, and extremely silly, but she's also more dangerous than you might think. Not wanting to go through nine months of being pregnant, she discovered a spell that allows her to give birth instantly once impregnated. This spell does this by sacrificing nine months of the father's lifespan. There's a glitch in this spell, however, that sometimes results in nine centuries being taken instead, instantly reducing her lovers to bone dust. Since being exiled, she's taken up kidnapping, turning local fauna (including an [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Abyssalisk]] and a [[KillerRabbit Wabbit]], two of the most dangerous animals on Jade) into handsome, anthropomorphic young men which she then brainwashes to provide her with an endless array of children. And she has a literal army of children, all of whom have inherited her natural talent for magic. Her stupidity and lack of ambition are the only things keeping her from being a deadly threat to every handsome dude in the realm.

** One-shot villain Snuggy. She's an amazon breeder (and as such extremely sexy), a powerful mage, an easily tricked nincompoop, and extremely silly, but she's also more dangerous than you might think. Not wanting to go through nine months of being pregnant, she discovered a spell that allows her to give birth instantly once impregnated. This spell does this by sacrificing nine months of the father's lifespan. There's a glitch in this spell, however, that sometimes results in nine centuries being taken instead, instantly reducing her lovers to bone dust. Since being exiled, she's taken up kidnapping, turning local fauna (including an [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Abyssalisk]] and a [[KillerRabbit Wabbit]], two of the most dangerous animals on Jade) into pretty boys to provide her with an endless array of children. And she has a literal army of children, all of whom have inherited her natural talent for magic. Her stupidity and lack of ambition are the only things keeping her from being a deadly threat to every handsome dude in the realm.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The OVA, no doubt it's a marvel of animation especially done by only one man over several years (and hand drawn no less). But some complaints against it is pacing, the awkward pauses between dialogue (as obviously the [=VAs=] did their lines separately) and drawn out scenes can make it a bit of a chore to get through.

** For Crush, it seems to be a matter of IfItsYouItsOkay for Xane. That said, Crush ''looooves'' using it to fluster her.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The OVA, no doubt it's a marvel of animation especially done by only one man over several years (and hand drawn no less). But some complaints against it is pacing, the awkward pauses between dialogue (as obviously the [=VAs=] did their lines separately) and drawn out scenes can make it a bit of a chore to get through.

* {{Rule34}}: ...with soem of it drawn by Fred ''himself''.

* Rule34: ...with soem of it drawn by Fred ''himself''.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The OVA, no doubt it's a marvel of animation especially done by only one man over several years (and hand drawn no less). But some complaints against it is pacing, the awkward pauses between dialogue (as obviously the VAs did their lines separately) and drawn out scenes can make it a bit of a chore to get through.

* AssPull: A common occurrence in the comic. Concepts will be introduced without any warning to help the plot proceed and during fights characters will often use spells and martial arts techniques never seen before and Gina make use of brand new technology that just so happen to be effective against whatever villain she's confronting. Due to this Fred Perry will often include caption boxes to explain what is happening.
** Also villains will often be taken out in convoluted ways. For example, when fighting Madrid, Gina used a holo-force projection to make a reflective illusion of herself to fool Madrid she was in front of her while she went behind her under an invisibility cloak and disabled the beta engine she was using. [[GambitRoulette When Madrid tried to teleport to safety, Gina had already rewired it to teleport to her base on the moon, trapping Madrid there for some time.]]

* MagnificentBastard: Dreadwing, Gothwrain

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point, Perry had been toying with the idea of [[spoiler:permanently killing off ''Britanny'' at the end of the "Oblivion" arc (he didn't)]]. How did he decide whether to go through with it or not? ''A coin toss''.

* CompleteMonster: Dreadwing; Lich King; Gothwrain; The Dynasty of the Stars

* AmbiguousDisorder: Aljabra, one of Gina's grad students.