History YMMV / ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos

* OldShame: A lot of things in ''Hellgate 1'' and ''Hellgate 2 P1'' to both SDM and the other players.
* EvenBetterSequel: Hellgate. ESPECIALLY Hellgate.
* FirstInstallmentWins: averted with the ''Hellgate'' saga. The first installment of was forged in the randomness of the Mental Shift but turned into epicness. SDM is trying hard to surpass it with later installments, and overall is succeeding.
* FridgeHorror: Thanks to Hellgate's meddling, Gensokyo prior to Crossroads was pretty much screwed. One timeline has Hellgate destroying it through his machinations, the other has the Black Spawn try to, and The General actually suceed to do so.
** From the Xat roleplay: becoming a full-fledged "Gift of Anathemus" requires the "incomplete" Gift to die, preferrably in intense emotional trauma. In the case of the two Arachni, getting them through the emotional trauma necessary required the Rainbow Factory to stage an assassination of Celestia by a mechanical copy of Executor (which then proceeded to kill the Arachni for real). To put this into perspective, Celestia is a UniversallyBelovedLeader, and Executor is their {{Fire Forged Friend|s}} who willingly agreed to pretend to be evil so the rest of the group could seek out the relative safety of the Factory (he's so good at pretending, that even said group suspects he may now have gone power-mad for real, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy a theory which may have a grain of truth in it]]). All this to lead up to the following: Executor's power has awoken, too. Assuming that the Clan used the same "emotional trauma plus death" combo, and keeping in mind that Executor's will is strong enough that he was fully prepared to raze cities from the surface of the planet and even to ''die'' for the sake of his friends, '''what the hell did the Nihilus Clan have to do to him to inflict sufficient emotional trauma?'''

* MoralEventHorizon: Hellgate and The General practically play jump rope or hopscotch together with this trope.

* PlayerPunch: Constantly, in every arc by SDM. He uses this so much that they cause, in his own words, a Player Black Eye.

** From the Xat roleplay: becoming a full-fledged "Gift of Anathemus" requires the "incomplete" Gift to die, preferrably in intense emotional trauma. In the case of the two Arachni, getting them through the emotional trauma necessary required the Rainbow Factory to stage an assassination of Celestia by a mechanical copy of Executor (which then proceeded to kill the Arachni for real). To put this into perspective, Celestia is a [[HundredPercentAdorationRating universally loved]], [[BigGood wise ruler]], and Executor is their [[FireForgedFriends Fire Forged Friend]] who willingly agreed to pretend to be evil so the rest of the group could seek out the relative safety of the Factory (he's so good at pretending, that even said group suspects he may now have gone power-mad for real, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy a theory which may have a grain of truth in it]]). All this to lead up to the following: Executor's power has awoken, too. Assuming that the Clan used the same "emotional trauma plus death" combo, and keeping in mind that Executor's will is strong enough that he was fully prepared to raze cities from the surface of the planet and even to ''die'' for the sake of his friends, '''what the hell did the Nihilus Clan have to do to him to inflict sufficient emotional trauma?'''

* FoeYay: Arachnos x Kizeki?

* FoeYay: ArachnosxKizeki?

* FoeYay: [[LawfulGood Arachnos]]x[[ChaoticNeutral Kizeki]]?

* {{Sequelitis}}: Averted - every Hellgate sequel is better than the previous installment.

* PlayerPunch: Constantly, in every arc by SDM. He uses this so much that they cause, in his own words, a Player Black Eye.
* TearJerker: SDM loves this trope so much it [[TearJerker/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos has its own page]].

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[Funny/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Has its own page.]]
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[RuleOfThree Also]] [[Heartwarming/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos has its own page]].
* LawfulEvil: The General, full stop. Amadeus used to be this, before he defected from The General's forces.
* LawfulGood: Amadeus after defection. Kusakabe varies between this and ChaoticGood.
* MagnificentBastard: Hellgate, natch. Especially in the Xat RP.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Has its own page.]]

* NeutralEvil: Hellgate

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Has its own page.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[Funny/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Has its own page.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[RuleOfThree Also]] [[Heartwarming/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos has its own page]].
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The members do their best to turn songs from diverse video games and other sources to their own advantage. SDM and Aurion occasionally even create or remix songs specifically for the series. For example, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--U7K0y5-o Darkness]]", a dark, depressing remix of Patchouli's theme (which also incorporates a hint of Mithos Yggdrasil's theme, which is Hellgate's leitmotif). This music plays in the Hellgate Gaiden when SDM lets the Dark Spore get the better of him and becomes cruel to her.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[Heartwarming/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Also has its own page]].

* TearJerker: guaranteed in any arc by SDM.
** Notably, the deaths of Future Flandre and of Mia.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos Has its own page.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: There's a plethora of examples, but one of the greatest is when SDM [[MegatonPunch Megaton Punches]] the Black Spawn, completely crippling its invincibility.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Averted - every Hellgate sequel is better than the previous installment.