History YMMV / RavagesOfTime

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Guo Jia, Guo Jia, Guo Jia! Guo Jia/Jia Xu[[note]]fellow men of "''darkness''"[[/note]], Guo Jia/Xun Yu[[note]]"''dark versus light''"[[/note]] and Guo Jia/Huo Tuo[[note]]patient and doctor[[/note]] are probably among the most popular pairings in Chinese fandom. Given their interactions, [[FoeYay Guo Jia/Sima Yi]] is not without supporters.

* MagnificentBastard: Again, plenty of those.
** Cao Cao. He feigned defeat, even using himself as a bait, to train his troops and test his generals so that they could become a BadassArmy, and at the same time make them appear weak, so that Yuan Shao won't see him as an immediate threat.
** Sun Ce. [[spoiler: He dug up the grave of a loyal subordinate, and blamed it on the enemy, to incite his army to fight at their best]]
** Yuan Fang. [[spoiler: He's Yuan Shao's.]]

* MemeticMutation: Fan rage at Zhuge Liang's refusal to show his face since volume 3 and [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v45/c364/27.html continued]] [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v46/c372/24.html attempt]] to cover it.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Goodness, where to start?

* MaryTzu: Almost everyone. Especially Sima Yi, and Jia Xu who so far never lost any battle. Yuan Fang also have a lot of this during early part in Battle of Guandu.
** Not just everyone. Precisely, the Eight Geniuses or on a lesser level, competent strategists like Chen Gong or Lu Xun. True, they all have their bad days, but these guys are the only ones who can possibly out-gambit one another or defeat them in a way that isn't already accounted for in some crazy gambits. Chen Gong, in particular, is specifically admired by Xun Yu, who says he's the equal of the Eight Geniuses. In fact, it took TWO of the Eight Geniuses to out-gambit him.

* FanNickname: Xun Yu is called "[[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]" by the Chinese fandom because the two moles he has (one under each eye).

* BaseBreaker: Regarding the protagonist Sima Yi, fandom opinions are divided: they either love him for being such an awesome MagnificentBastard of a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]], or finds it absolutely annoying that he plays a pivotal role in many major arcs to the point of being a DeusExMachina.

*** Note that while Ravages of Time's notably mixed with some realistic touches of various canon historical texts, it's still is an adaption of Luo Guanzhong's Romance of Three Kingdoms, a ''romanticized'' version of canon history which loves to exaggerate the "wisemen"'s intellectual feats and put down the warlords's. The BadassDecay with Cao Cao or Cheng Yu is just this series staying true to the source material.

** Worry not, [[spoiler: Yang Xiu]] haters. In both actual history and TheRomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms, he is [[spoiler: put to death by Cao Cao when he proves to be too clever for his own good]].

** Meanwhile, the main series is truer to actual history than RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms, but it still often alludes to events in the novel and/or puts a new spin on them.

*** Sure it's some lamentable BadassDecay for him, if you don't count the fact that whoever humiliates him ends up getting pulled off their mighty horse, and Cao Cao will get the last laugh no matter what.

* EvilIsCool: Most fan probably forget of inhuman nature of several character(Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Sun Ce, Sima Yi, etc) but remember how cool they was. Being a group of Bishonen certainly help them too.

** Lu Bu probably is also in the "know but doesn't care" camp; his daughter outright says that Lu Bu likes Xiao Meng while she and advisor Chen Gong both know by the time he's trying to break the siege of Xiapi to deliver said daughter to Yuan Shu, so there's no reason to think he doesn't know as well.

** Anyone who read Romance of the Three Kingdoms is certain to be aware of the outcome of major campaigns and the fates of almost every major characters. Anyone who didn't needs only look at chapter one to find out the answer to the most important question: it will not be Cao Cao, Liu Bei or Sun Quan who wins the war of Three Kingdoms, but Sima Yi.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Guo Jia, Guo Jia, Guo Jia. Guo Jia/Jia Xu, Guo Jia/Xun Yu and Guo Jia/Huo Tuo are probably among the most popular pairings in Chinese fandom. Given their interactions, [[FoeYay Guo Jia/Sima Yi]] is not without supporters.

* FridgeBrilliance: Liaoyuan Huo loves steamed buns, which generally doesn't have a lot of nutritional value (especially if it's made with fine flour so that it is pure white in appearance), but as recently as the end of the Second World War it was considered a sign of financial stability (and even prosperity) to be able to afford eating them regularly. Having grown up in poverty even before he became an orphan, Huo has ever since subconsciously indulged in (literal) ConspiciousConsuption.

** Not just everyone. Precisely, the Eight Geniuses or on a lesser level, competent strategists like Chen Gong or Lu Xun. True, they all have their bad days, but these guys are the only ones who can possibly out-gambit one another or defeat them in a way that isn't already accounted for in some crazy gambits. Chen Gong, in particular, is specifically admired by Xun yu, who says he's the equal of the Eight Geniuses. In fact, it took TWO of the Eight Geniuses to out-gambit him.

** Not just everyone. Precisely, the Eight Geniuses or on a lesser level, competent strategists like Chen Gong or Lu Xun. True, they all have their bad days, but these guys are the only ones who can possibly outgambit one another or defeat them in a way that isn't already accounted for in some crazy gambits.