History YMMV / Overgeared

* AcceptableTargets: When the narrative focuses on foreign antagonists, the author pulls no punches. He condemns Russian skinheads and their history of genocide against Russian citizens of Asian descent. He condemns Japanese ultra-right wing zealots who constantly decry Korea's very existence, never mind give Korean nationals in Japan untold grief. He goes EagleLand type 2 on the US by pointing to some of the more boorish behavior. He even condemns Chinese tourists and their well-known propensity to treat the South Korean citizens as beneath them, when a crowd of them try to mob Greed's real-life apartment building, brow beat the local merchants and have to be shamed by Hao, one of their own and a high-ranking user.

* MoralEventHorizon: Veradin jumps over it, laughing and yelling "Woohoo" in chapter 744 when he leads a raid into the city of Reinhardt and attacking Khan, not as a part of a quest, not because he holds a grudge, and not as an act of war, but simply to enact what he thinks is a psychological experiment with Agnus, just to see what would happen when Greed and Agnus clash because Greed is retaliating to the death of someone he cares for.
* UnfortunateImplications: Greed has the disturbing tendency to use the word "slave" in relation to people who are working under him to repay a favor, loser of a bet, etc. The first and most unsettling case involves fellow Tzedarak guild member Toban who sides with three traitors to attack and attempt to kill Greed on behalf of a class quest, interfering with Greed's own class quest. Greed extorts Toban into an unspecified term of service in lieu of reporting him to the guild head Jishuka. What makes this especially disturbing to US audiences is the fact that Toban is American and black...Yeah.

* AcceptableTargets: When the narrative focuses on foreign antagonists, the author pulls no punches. He condemns Russian skinheads and their history of genocide against Russian citizens of Asian descent. He condemns Japanese ultra-right wing zealots who constantly decry Korea's very existence, never mind give Korean nationals in Japan untold grief. He goes EagleLand type 2 on the US by pointing to some of the more boorish behavior. He even condemns Chinese tourists and their well-known propensity to treat the South Korean citizens as beneath them, when a crowd of them try to mob Grid's real-life apartment building, brow beat the local merchants and have to be shamed by Hao, one of their own and a high-ranking user.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Lord Steim is a source of real contention. He acts more like a reincarnated isekai protagonist than any kind of simulated child by any kind of realistic standard. While some readers like his honest, innocent, and cheerful personality that can't tell the difference between "lovers" and "friends," many readers can't stand the fact that he's off hunting monsters before he's even 1-year-old, and is more over-powered than his father Grid, despite lacking the very, very real life and death struggles Grid goes through, at least on-screen. The fact that he's already got Rebecca's Daughters as a de-facto harem via an understanding before he's even 5 doesn't help.
* GrowingTheBeard: The early chapters are cringe and difficult to struggle through, both because Grid is really getting the short end of the stick in things, and because he's unsympathetic in his attitude and behavior. But once he's made friends with Kahn, starts turning his life around, and manages to finally get recruited by Tzendarak Guild, the story becomes highly enjoyable, especially around chapter 20 of the manhwa, or approximately chapter 100 of the novel, where Grid comes into his own and starts fighting back, completely dominating the fight between himself and the 12 members of Giant Guild who came to kidnap him and brutalized Ibellin, the guild-mate who was trying to keep him safe.
* MoralEventHorizon: Veradin jumps over it, laughing and yelling "Woohoo" in chapter 744 when he leads a raid into the city of Reinhardt and attacking Khan, not as a part of a quest, not because he holds a grudge, and not as an act of war, but simply to enact what he thinks is a psychological experiment with Agnus, just to see what would happen when Grid and Agnus clash because Grid is retaliating to the death of someone he cares for.
* UnfortunateImplications: Grid has the disturbing tendency to use the word "slave" in relation to people who are working under him to repay a favor, loser of a bet, etc. The first and most unsettling case involves fellow Tzedarak guild member Toban who sides with three traitors to attack and attempt to kill Grid on behalf of a class quest, interfering with Grid's own class quest. Grid extorts Toban into an unspecified term of service in lieu of reporting him to the guild head Jishuka. What makes this especially disturbing to US audiences is the fact that Toban is American and black...Yeah.

* GrowingTheBeard: The early chapters are cringe and difficult to struggle through, both because Grid is really getting the short end of the stick in things, and because he's unsympathetic in his attitude and behavior. But once he's made friends with Kahn, starts turning his life around, and manages to finally get recruited by Tzendarak Guild, the story becomes highly enjoyable, especially around chapter 20 of the manhwa, or approximately chapter 100 of the novel, where Grid comes into his own and starts fighting back, completely dominating the fight between himself and the 12 members of Giant Guild who came to kidnap him and brutalized Ibaniel, the guild-mate who was trying to keep him safe.