History YMMV / Witchblade

[[folder: The anime]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dannette Boucher. All she ever wanted before her change was to feel important. After her change, she now just wants to be normal again at any cost. We feel sorry for her since she was lied and manpiulated to in her younger years. But that doesn't excuse her current actions by killing hundreds if not more young women to maintain her normal appearence as well as keeping herself alive at the cost of other young women. The fact that she blames everyone but herself can make her lose some sypmathy points.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** "Nah, my mom's are way bigger."
** As mentioned above, Masane gets invited to a fancy party for Wadou. Thanks to her, it takes less than half an episode for the party to turn into Reiji and Wadou trying to drink each other under the table.

* {{Squick}}: Father's entire plan is rather squicky, as is [[spoiler:his death]].
%%* UnfortunateImplications: As WebVideo/JesuOtaku points out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHXfoWYebXA his review]], Masane and Riko's relationship being hoisted as a shining example of pure love between a parent and her child falls very flat due to many factors, most specifically on Masane's end due to her immaturity and irresponsibility.

* FoeYay:

* FoeYay: Sara and Kenneth Irons, Sara and Ian Nottingham.

* DesignatedVillain: The Child Welfare Bureau is expected to be seen as horrible for wanting to separate Masane and Riko...but seeing as Masane is too immature and irresponsible to take care of ''herself'', much less a small child, and Riko's the one who [[ChildrenRaiseYou has to do literally everything for her]], they have every right to want them apart.

* TearJerker: So, so many.

** Sara and Jackie Estacado, aka The Darkness wielder; they even [[spoiler: had a child together]] at one point.
* GrowingTheBeard: Ron Marz took over with issue #80 and immediately reinvented the wheel. Sara learned how to stop shredding her clothes, the Witchblade began to manifest more often as suits of armor rather than a steel bikini, Sara picked up a regular love interest, and her relationship with the Witchblade and its previous bearers was reexamined.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: When talking about the show, few pass up the chance to talk about it's impeccable English dub.

** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Vorschlag Industries CEO Kenneth Irons]] is the cold-blooded BigBad of the entire series, tormenting [[TheProtagonist Sara Pezzini]] at every turn in his quest for the Witchblade. Throughout the first season, Irons is revealed time and again to [[TheManBehindTheMan be behind many of the show's villains]], be it a government group that drugged and experimented on people to turn them into super-soldiers or a MadDoctor who artificially inseminated several women to clone himself, until finally, Irons takes center stage, murdering all of Sara's friends and loved ones in a mad gambit to manipulate her into his servitude. When this fails, Irons acquires the Longinus Lance, using it to slaughter two of his own men who leaked his secrets after giddily displaying that he murdered their families for their "betrayal", and later attempts to cut Sara down then use the Lance to wipe out all who would stand against him. [[BackFromTheDead Returning from the grave]] as a spectral entity following his death at Sara's hands, Irons continues his machinations, influencing his son Ian Nottingham, who he has abused since childhood, into continuing his crusade against Sara, killing several bystanders in the process. In the finale, Irons's evil reaches its peak as he uses the website Cyberfaust to "download" himself into hundreds of people across America, then control them into committing vicious murders of all those nearby, claiming countless victims, adult and child alike. Kenneth Irons was the pinnacle of villainy in Sara's conflicts, with the only thing matching his eternal life being his depths of depravity.

** In a series filled with magical foes, demonic entities, and insane immortals, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Carl Dalack]], from "Nailed", stands out as the sole ordinary foe Sara faces, yet nevertheless [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters one of the most wicked]]. Dalack is a despicable SerialKiller and [[SerialRapist rapist]] of young teenage girls, who he tortures by [[{{Fingore}} ripping out their fingernails]] to satisfy his fetish for hands. Having claimed eight victims by the time he is released from police custody on a technicality, Dalack immediately begins stalking and terrorizing several young girls, mocking an entire class of them by reminiscing about some of his victims' screams, later killing one of these schoolgirls as the restart of his spree. To get revenge on Detective Danny Woo, the one who originally busted him for his crimes, Dalack kidnaps the man's young niece, molesting then preparing to torture and kill her just to hurt Danny, and, when Danny captures him once again, Dalack attempts to goad Danny into killing him to ruin both his conscience and his life.

* CompleteMonster: The {{narcissist}}ic [[ItsAllAboutMe Tatsuoki Furumizu]], AKA "Father," is the creator of the Cloneblade using Neogeness: women able to bear imitations of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Witchblade]]. Despite being raised by a loving mother, Furumizu [[FreudianExcuse loathed her]], seeing his father as "perfection" he wished to achieve. Angered by his own sterility, Furumizu has young women indoctrinated where he implants them with his genetics and the Cloneblades, all the while making them believes he cares for them. Furumizu is well aware the process leads to mental instability and inevitable death but simply doesn't care. His manipulations lead many of the Neogenes to lose their minds and do great harm before succumbing, but Furumizu simply has a second generation created, not caring when the strongest Maria kills his previous "favorite" Reina. Furumizu is solely obsessed with his own perfection and creating the perfect "mother" to give birth to his legacy.

* MagnificentBastard: The Curator is the SoleSurvivor of the destruction of old universe. Filled with grief over losing his family, Curator started working on a plan to bring his universe back by destroying the new one. Taking the form of an elderly man, he manipulates events so that he can bring all 13 ancient artifacts to him. After doing so, he sets his plan in motion by gathering a team of villains who wielded half of the artifacts and kidnapping Jackie Estacado's, the wielder of The Darkness, and Sara Pezzini's, the wielder of Witchblade, daughter Hope, who was the last "component" in his plan to recreate his universe. Capturing most of the remaining wielders and getting all of the artifacts, he playfully talks with Hope about his motives and shows his belief that his actions will bring about a better world. In the end, Curator succeeds in wiping out the universe, only being stopped from killing Hope by Jackie managing to recreate the universe and kill the Curator before his plan could even begin.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Largely due to marketing, the series is more known for it's busty characters than anything else.

* CompleteMonster:
** Madeline Desormeaux, from the "Raising The Dead" arc, is an appalling {{sadist}} with a sick fascination for [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing and dismembering]] her slaves, then putting them back together in [[BodyHorror grotesque ways]] where they suffered until death. After the escape of [[WouldHurtAChild a little boy]] whose eyes and [[MouthStitchedShut mouth]] she had stitched shut, Madeline ultimately died. However, even this would not keep her evil from infecting the land, cursing all of her former victims to wander in agony until the day her wicked soul is destroyed for good. When Danielle Baptiste shows up to put the slaves' souls to rest, Madeline gleefully attempts to torture her due to her fraternization with the "filth" of her former slaves.
** ''Medieval ComicBook/{{Spawn}}[=/=]Witchblade'' (1996, by Creator/GarthEnnis et al.): [[BigBad Lord Cardinale]] is a medieval wielder of "ComicBook/TheDarkness", and definitely the vilest. Using his power to take over a large chunk of territory, Cardinale rules like an EvilOverlord. After Matthew Royale told him about the power of Elven artifacts, Cardinale eagerly invaded the Elven homeland of Faerie, massacring thousands of Elves and destroying their homes. When the current wielder of Witchblade and Spawn were close to defeating him, he decided to power himself up by absorbing all Darkness essence from--in effect killing--all his servants, including his lover.

* GrowingTheBeard: Ron Marz took over with issue #80 and immediately reinvented the wheel. Sara learned how to stop shredding her clothes, the Witchblade began to manifest more often as suits of armor rather than a steel bikini, Sara picked up a regular love interest, and her relationship with the Witchblade and its previous bearers was reexamined. It really is a different book after that point.

** Sara and Jackie Estacado, aka TheDarkness wielder; they even [[spoiler: had a child together]] at one point.

* UnfortunateImplications: As WebVideo/JesuOtaku points out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHXfoWYebXA his review]], Masane and Riko's relationship being hoisted as a shining example of pure love between a parent and her child falls very flat due to many factors, most specifically on Masane's end due to her immaturity and irresponsibility.