History YMMV / TheOrderOfTheStick

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: One tiny word: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0826.html Implosion]]. Who could have thought that stick figures collapsing in on itself in a quite gruesome way could be so unsettling ?

** As of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0830.html Strip 830]], Redcloak solidified himself as this, by [[spoiler: revealing that he's been manipulating Xykon for as long as he's been in "service" to him]], revealed spectacularly with the following lines.
--> '''Redcloak:''' [[spoiler: See, the undead are tools. Powerful, dangerous tools. From the lowliest zombie to Xykon himself, the undead are just complex weapons that we make and aim at other people. All that differs is how direct or subtle our control of them is... for our so-called master, more creative strategies are required.]]
--> '''[[spoiler: Tsukiko]]:''' [[spoiler: You don't control Xykon, he controls you!]]
--> '''Redcloak:''' Like I said: subtle.

** Tsukiko is a cute girl, [[{{Squick}} loving dead people that she sees as her children]]... [[spoiler:But that couldn't last. When she says to Redcloak that she's going to reveal his big secret, Redcloak turns her undead creatures against her (the spell we saw him cast when entering his room ? Command Undead). He then orders said creatures to drain her (levels and HitPoints) to death, and to devour her corpse, which they do (offpanel hopefully, but it's quite unsettling) :]]

** Tsukiko is a cute girl, [[Squick loving dead people that she sees as her children]]... [[spoiler:But that couldn't last. When she says to Redcloak that she's going to reveal his big secret, Redcloak turns her undead creatures against her (the spell we saw him cast when entering his room ? Command Undead). He then orders said creatures to drain her (levels and HitPoints) to death, and to devour her corpse, which they do (offpanel hopefully, but it's quite unsettling) :]]

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0826.html Implosion]]
*** The aforementioned Implosion strip was enough for several GITP forum-goers to question the PG-13 rating of the comic.

** What Redcloak does to the Azurite Resistance.

*** The aforementioned Implosion strip was enough for several GITTP forum-goers to question the PG-13 rating of the comic.

** Nale arguably crosses this when he murders 421 innocent people (the majority of the citizens in Cliffport) simply so he can succeed in his plans.

** Nale arguably crosses this when he murders 421 innocent people simply so he can succeed in his plans.

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0800.html "I believe he just ceased his struggles against my mental commands to shoot you.]]
** [[spoiler:Did Redcloak just have the MemeticBadass O-chul killed? The MitD isn't going to be happy. .]]
* PainfulRhyme: Elan gets one in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0238.html this strip]].

** [spoiler:Did Redcloak just have the MemeticBadass O-chul killed? The MitD isn't going to be happy. .]]

*** Well, since [[spoiler: he]] has the [[PetTheDog ability to love]] [[spoiler: his son (and presumably Elan's mother, since he didn't kill her either) he]] falls ''just'' shy of the requisites to be a CompleteMonster.

** What Redcloak does to the resistance and the elf captain in particular send him zooming over this.

** Belkar. Thanks to his "fake character development", some among the FanDumb insist he's ChaoticNeutral, despite [[WordOfGod Word of the Giant]].

** V says it would be great if some of their enemies fought each other for their amusement [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0399.html in a gladiator match]]. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0783.html This does happen later on]], but in a much more [[KickTheDog cruel]] and [[TearJerker sad]] way

** The Snarl unmade a world and killed the gods in the first twenty-seven minutes of its life. If it kills you, [[DeaderThanDead that's it]] - you can't even get ressurected. It exists to kill. And it's right below the feet of everyone on the planet, three of its seals are broken with almost no way to fix them, and there is a ''very'' good chance that it will get released and destroy everything if the heroes lose - as in, it's practically guaranteed.

** Miko, the biggest BaseBreaker in the entire comic -- KnightTemplar or {{Knight in Shining Armor}}?
** Vaarsuvius -- {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} or HeroicSociopath?

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: ''In''-Universe, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0759.html the infamous ELAN scene]].