History YMMV / MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha

* EvilIsSexy: Precia.

* HesJustHiding: More then a few fans don't buy that Precia just fell to her death at the end of the season and hope that she will return one day for some well deserved payback at the hands of Nanoha and Fate.

* TheWoobie: Poor Fate, again. She just wants please her mother, but nothing she does over the course of the series is ever good enough for her and she gets horribly abused no matter what she does. Towards the end of the series, even after she finds that she was just an ArtificialHuman modeled after Precia's real daughter Alecia, and that Precia never thought of her as her daughter, she still tries to make reach out to her.

* PanderingToTheBase: Nanoha's transformation was more arguably more fanservice-based, and Fate got a transformation sequence of her own. Bardiche and Raising Heart both got new looks, as well. Conversely, there's a lot of background information that didn't make it in the movie, which ONLY fans of the series would know about.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first three episodes / first sound stage of the anime are arguably mostly standard MagicalGirl fare and while not awful aren't anything special either especially since the show is still finding it's roots and as such suffers from EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. Once [[BreakoutCharacter Fate]] is introduced and the mythology of the show starts to move more towards it's SpaceOpera [=/=] Franchise/{{Gundam}} roots the series becomes considerably more interesting and unique.

* TheWoobie: Poor Fate, again. She just wants please her mother, but nothing she does over the course of the series is ever good enough for her and she gets horribly abused no matter what she does. Towards the end of the series, even after she finds that she was just an ArtificialHuman modeled after Precia's real daughter Alecia, and that Precia never thought of her as her daughter, she still tries to make amends with her.

* PanderingToTheBase: While Fate got a transformation, Nanoha's transformation was more fanservice-based and Bardiche and Raising Heart both got new looks, but there's a lot of information that ONLY fans of the series would know that didn't make it in the movie.

* HarsherInHindsight: The ending theme is [[SweetDreamsFuel a cheerful tune]] about making "[[TitleDrop a little wish]]" so the singer can see someone close to them [[WhenSheSmiles smile]]. ''A's'' was all about "[[ArcWords a small wish]]" for the exact same thing, under far more depressing circumstances.

* JerkassWoobie: Precia in contrast to the original incarnation. She's still a cruel bitch of course, but you can feel bad for her too, especially since you often ''do'' see her expressing emotions besides her typical cold disdain and occasional insane glee, like when she finds Alicia's lifeless body. She's even implied to ''regret'' what she did at the end. Since it is an in-universe biographical movie, the inconsistency is explained with Fate insisting on a more sympathetic portrayal of her.

* TheWoobie: Fate. She just wants please her mother, but nothing she does over the course of the series is ever good enough for her and she gets horribly abused no matter what she does. Towards the end of the series, even after she finds that she was just an ArtificialHuman modeled after Precia's real daughter Alecia, and that Precia never thought of her as her daughter, she still tries to make amends with her.

* HarsherInHindsight: The ending theme is a cheerful tune about making "[[TitleDrop a little wish]]" so the singer can see someone close to them [[WhenSheSmiles smile]]. ''A's'' was all about "[[ArcWords a small wish]]" for the exact same thing, under far more depressing circumstances.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fate, surpassing Nanoha herself in popularity and serving as TheLancer in subsequent series, with numerous hints dropped of her and Nanoha being a couple.

* GrowingTheBeard: Arguably gets considerably better and more interesting after the first three episodes and first sound stage.

* TheWoobie: Fate. She just wants please her mother, but nothing she does over the course is ever good enough for her and she gets horribly abused no matter what she does. Towards the end of the series, even she finds that she was just an ArtificialHuman modeled after Precia's real daughter Alecia, and that Precia never thought of her as her daughter, she still tries to make amends with her.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Character]]: Think of the story potential if Precia had been a loving mother to Fate, despite grieving over Alicia and realizing Fate is different. Her demise would have had much more impact that way. Fate would have been forced to defeat her beloved mother in order to save millions of lives. Better still, Fate could even have been longing ''herself'' for Alicia's resurrection, so she could finally meet her "sister". Alas, the makers obviously wished for Precia to be a {{card carrying villain}}, so Fate could be presented as an innocent victim.

!!![=YMMVs=] introduced by [[NanohaOriginal The Original Series]]:

* {{Moe}}: Nanoha and Fate both fit this trope perfectly. In fact, Nanoha even won the 2005 Saimoe Tournament, and she eventually became the winning-est character in Saimoe history with a record 17 wins and only 4 losses.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fate, surpassing Nanoha herself in popularity and serving as TheLancer in subsequent series, with numerous hints dropped of her Nanoha being a couple.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fate. While she as a significant character here, her popularity led to sticking around after the series with numerous hints dropped of her Nanoha being a couple.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Character]]: Think of the story potential if Precia had been a loving mother to Fate, despite grieving over Alicia and realizing Fate is different, her demise would have had much more impact. Fate would have been forced to defeat her beloved mother in order to save millions of lives. Better still, Fate could even have been longing ''herself'' for Alicia's resurrection, so she could finally meet her "sister". Alas, the makers obviously wished for Precia to be a {{card carrying villain}}, so Fate could be presented as an innocent victim.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Character]]: Think of the story potential if Precia had ''not'' been a {{complete monster}}. If she had been a loving mother to Fate, despite grieving over Alicia and realizing Fate is different, her demise would have had much more impact. Fate would have been forced to defeat her beloved mother in order to save millions of lives. Better still, Fate could even have been longing ''herself'' for Alicia's resurrection, so she could finally meet her "sister". Alas, the makers obviously wished for Precia to be a {{card carrying villain}}, so Fate could be presented as an innocent victim.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/[[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Character]]: Think of the story potential if Precia had ''not'' been a {{complete monster}}. If she had been a loving mother to Fate, despite grieving over Alicia and realizing Fate is different, her demise would have had much more impact. Fate would have been forced to defeat her beloved mother in order to save millions of lives. Better still, Fate could even have been longing ''herself'' for Alicia's resurrection, so she could finally meet her "sister". Alas, the makers obviously wished for Precia to be a {{card carrying villain}}, so Fate could be presented as an innocent victim.

* {{Moe}}: Nanoha and Fate both fit this trope perfectly. In fact, Nanoha even won the 2005 Saimoe Tournament, and she eventually became the winning-est character in Saimoe history (with a record 17 wins and only 4 losses).

* HarsherInHindsight: The people in charge cared more about conserving time and money than making sure that the power plants they built were safe, [[IgnoredExpert to the point of ignoring concerns raised by their own engineers.]] A year after the movie was released, when the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster happened and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#Safety_history investigations showed that it could have been avoided had officials taken the safety concerns raised by its own experts more seriously]].

* TheWoobie: Linith. Her plight is even more poignant in the movie manga, as she reveals that she wanted to take Fate and Arf away from Precia, but knew that doing so would hurt her, and realized that Precia and by extension, herself as Precia’s familiar had no more than two years to live. She thus did her best to ensure that Fate became strong and had a good relationship with Precia, and told Fate that she hoped she would find a good friend.

* CompleteMonster: Precia. She was ''not'' one at the beginning of the story itself, but she ''is'' when we see her first on-screen. Heck, the woman crosses the MoralEventHorizon in her EstablishingCharacterMoment.

* EvilIsSexy: Precia
* FanPreferredCouple: '''Nanoha/Fate''', big time.

** [[http://i.imgur.com/4GWA2cb.jpg Spark Girl Precia-chan]].

* JerkassWoobie: Precia in contrast to the original incarnation. She's still a cruel bitch of course, but you can feel bad for her too, especially since you often ''do'' see her expressing emotions besides her typical cold disdain and occasional insane glee, like when she finds Alicia's lifeless body She's even implied to [[spoiler:''regret'' what she did at the end]]. Since it is an in-universe biographical movie, the inconsistency is explained with Fate insisting on a more sympathetic portrayal of her.

* {{Wangst}}: Nanoha is considerably more angsty in the movie manga, and some people believe she falls into this at times. For example, while at the end of the Jewel Seed case in the original anime, she was mostly satisfied with how things turned out but somewhat worried about Fate, she believes in the movie manga that she was unable to help anyone at all. This has lead to the FanNickname "Emoha" for this version of Nanoha.

* {{Moe}}: Nanoha and Fate both fit this trope perfectly. In fact, Nanoha even won the 2005 Saimoe Tournament.

* MoralEventHorizon: Precia whipping Fate for not bringing enough Jewel Seeds back.

* TheWoobie: Fate.