Discussion YMMV / GranblueFantasy

Honestly I think it needs a bit of cleaning up, a lot of the entries are less about the character and more about things related to said characters.

While I'm no longer an active GBF player and I don't think I can edit much on TV Tropes nowadays (and no longer frequently edit GBF trope pages), I am surprised to see a recent Discussion regarding this YMMV page, so I'll try to help in answering this.

Anyway, here's a long answer because I already trimmed some of these trope examples before (This YMMV page was very bloated back then because of Word Cruft. Most of these Base-Breaking Character examples had longer context or explanations than what we have now.)

I contributed most to the entries of Belial, Lowain Bros, Nier, Lobelia and Satyr more than a year, or years ago IIRC. GBF Reddit and Twitter are (or were) two of the platforms where you can find supporters and haters of these characters voicing out their opinions against each other on the same post depending on the topic. Though on Reddit, you'd sometimes have to sort through controversial or the downvoted comments and posts to see them in effect. I think some of the opinions are also shared on Discord.

• "Playable Belial" is the longest one I observed, you have one side that sees Belial as the perfect villain that's impossible to side with the heroes lore-wise, while others want him playable already because he's popular, even if he did questionable stuff, and regardless of lore implications. He's compared to Sandy because the latter is an example of a redeemed breakout villain who seemed to have been redeemed in a later story just because WMTSB1 was popular in the fandom.
• Nier is another hot topic - Some vocal players are put off by her Yandere trope and her act of killing several boyfriends and an entire village, while others do like a new Yandere character, or a new character with a grim backstory, and that her stories perhaps justified or explained her as a tragic character. A common argument from anti-Nier players is "you like Nier just because she's cute", especially because she's also a fan-favorite. Lobelia is also lumped together with the Nier debates because of their similarities.
• Lowain Bros is mostly tied to how they pop up a lot in events. Usually, a common complaint was "Ugh, another Lowain event." Some like a comic relief character though regardless. Their "delusions" are mostly seen as an overused plot point while others don't mind it.
• Satyr is mostly about an ambiguous line regarding her during an event that spawned the Futa joke in the fandom. On one hand, the "incomprehensible characteristics" line might mean that it's possible, while detractors say that the Futa joke is overblown and that people are thinking way too much over one line. I think you can Google some Reddit posts regarding this.

While I only noticed the "Draph Forte" debates last year, it looked like those were already discussed by GBF veterans the moment when she was released. One side tried to find justifications on her Race change, others say Forte changing to a Draph doesn't make sense.

Reactions toward Kumbhira (regarding the "Gyaru" expectations stuff) and Catura (regarding her "pandering to male otakus" trope stuff) were also controversial or have split the English fandom before, but there are YMMV tropes that already fit those better IMO.

I can't say much about the Lucifer, Sandalphon, Yuel and Societte examples because they were added and mostly edited by other tropers.

@MrJIR93, regarding "entries are less about the character and more about things related to said characters", I think they still apply though, because on the Base-Breaking Character page, it says "Sometimes they just highlight existing divisions within the fanbase", which is linked to the Broken Base trope. I interpret the "highlight existing divisions" as things related to said characters, or any divisive topic regarding the character anyway.

Definitely wait for WMTSB 3 and the anniversary stream to see what happens with him.