Blaz Blue Calamity Trigger/YMMV

""BROTHER!!!~/NII-SAN!!!~""
 * Base Breaker: If you like Bang, you are an idealist on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism and you like the silly side of the Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness. But some feel he just doesn't fit with the tone of the series.
 * Like Bang, it seems like half of the fanbase loves Carl, and the other half loathes him. The ones who hate him generally find him whiny, annoying, and irrelevant to the overall plot. Other people like him for his relatively unique, cool, and effective playstyle, puppetmaster aesthetic, stylish outfit and an interesting story overall. Also, the fact that some people (mainly the female parts of the fanbase) just want to take him home with them really helps his popularity.
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Most character joke endings.
 * Canon Sue: Deconstructed with Noel. Despite her general lack of talents she ends up with a better officer position than Tsubaki, and despite her overall patheticness she's undeniably the most important character in Continuum Shift because . Plus, she's pretty much the target for Mind Rape. Oh, and let's not also forget that By the end of the game
 * Arguably, she starts off as a canon Anti-Sue, but by the end of Continuum Shift she's allowed to develop into her own person.
 * Cargo Ship: There's official art of Noel in an...interesting position with a stuffed panda.
 * There is a fanfic of Jin being coupled with his own Nox Nyctores: Yukianesa (in her "Human/Spirit" form).
 * Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Enjoy your Ice Car Jins.
 * Crazy Awesome: Bang.
 * Also Taokaka.
 * Creepy Awesome: Even though Arakune is mostly made up of Nightmare Fuel, he's generally well-liked by the fandom as a character.
 * Crossover Ship: Among all the characters in the series, Jin is the one most prone to this. Yaoi is not an exception, either. There's even a fan-made 4koma comic series where... Jin is the target Unwanted Harem of various girls from different Anime/Visual Novels. See it Here. Also, see Launcher of a Thousand Ships below.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Jin gets along well with people, even Noel; he just doesn't say anything about his confusion. His jerkassness/partial insanity is a result of the Ikaruga War combined with him finding out that the brother he killed is still alive and remembering his past.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse:
 * Rachel's frog George XIII from one of her attacks, who has been confirmed for god-tier.
 * Bang was but a very minor character in the first installment for the Arcades. When Bang went for the home console release, he already had quite a following fandom in Japan, this resulted in:
 * Him being in many of fan-artworks sent for contests by Arc System Works; keep in mind that only Ragna, Noel, Rachel, Litchi and Taokaka have as much, or more, entries than Bang, for very obvious reasons of course.
 * The vocal version of Gale -Reppu-, Bang Shishigami's 1st theme song was originally written and performed by a user from Nico Nico Douga, the song was so catchy and worthy of Bang's fame that it caught the Blaz Blue's official radio show (Buraji) attention. All the impending success of the song made Daisuke Ishiwatari invite Bang himself (Tsuyoshi Koyama) to perform the vocals for his 1st theme song, this of course with the very same lyrics the original writter envisioned. Oh, and in Guilty Gear x Blaz Blue Live Music 2011, Tsuyoshi himself sings this same song with these same lyrics!
 * His Subordinates are even considered this. At least to the people on Dustloop and occasionally Game FAQs. You can definitely expect them on any character wishlists for the next game or as DLC.
 * Even more impressive that Ragna and Jin have their share of fan vocals tied to their themes, still no word on Daisuke Ishiwatari promissing to have the same lyrics whenever he invites the voice actors to perform the official vocals.
 * Taokaka as well.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment:
 * Another one...
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Tager is a lot more popular with American players than Japanese players. There are a few major factors for this.
 * First of all, he's a Skill Gate Character who takes very little effort to win with in lower levels of play.
 * Second, his character design is one of the least anime-esque of all the Blazblue characters, as he bears some resemblance to some Marvel Comics characters like The Hulk, Beast, and Hellboy as a non Marvel example.
 * Lastly, the memes associated with him aren't as prevalent in the Japanese version, if they are present at all.
 * Jerks Are Sexy: Jin.
 * Foe Yay
 * Game Breaker:
 * Carl's Calamity Trigger's semi-infinite Clap Loop caused a lot of players to dislike fighting him.
 * Nu-13: 5DD>4DD>236D
 * Ham-to-Ham Combat: Ragna vs. Jin. And you love them for it.
 * Ho Yay:
 * Combined with Foe Yay in the form of Ragna and Jin. Made even more creepy by the fact that Jin is Ragna's biological brother.


 * You got it all wrong! Ragna's into young girls...wait, that's wrong too.
 * If you don't think you're easily distracted, then go to play the secondary path of Noel's story mode. You'll get something nice for your efforts. A similar scene happens in a "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!" segment.
 * To say nothing of the amount of Noel x Rachel stuff on the Japanese official site.
 * Jerk Canon Sue: Subjective Trope as always for Rachel, but: Amazingly powerful? Check. Fights to alleviate boredom induced by being amazingly powerful? Check. Withholds information? Check. Mocks The Woobie? Check. Mocks everyone else? Check. Mocks people stuck in for not having the information she's withholding? Check.
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
 * The fandom has paired Jin up with nearly every character in the series by now. Tsubaki is both the Fan-Preferred Couple and Official Couple, but he's also often paired with Makoto, Noel, Rachel, Hazama, and of course, Ragna. Outside the series, in terms of fanfictions and fanarts, we also have Jin being coupled with Sodia, Saber, Rin Tohsaka, White Len, Saki Tzusura Weiss, Cure Beauty/Aoki Reika, Chii, Bernkastel Frederica, Suigintou, Ky Kiske, Koakuma, Cirno, and more. He's encroaching on Bang's Memetic Sex God status, really. And we're still counting.
 * Ragna seems to be prone to this, like his younger brother/Rival, Jin. He has also been paired with almost every character from the series. What even adds to this is Rachel's Funny Ending. And just like Jin, this is not limited within the series. There're fanarts and fanfictions of Ragna being paired with Rita Mordio, Kohaku, Heart Aino, Lambdadelta, Souseiseki, Sol Badguy, Flandre Scarlet, Rumia, and more. And then, there's the official April Fool's Blaz Blue X Arcana Heart - Crossover Flash Game hosted by the companies of both franchises. Where Ragna is on a date with Heart. Oooooohhh, boy...
 * People have also paired Carl with Makoto, Noel, Litchi, Rachel, Taokaka, Platinum, Linhua, and especially Ada. And most, if not all of these manage to make sense within canon. And, of course, this isn't limited to characters within the series, as he has been shipped with Rita Mordio(mainly due to both characters being voiced by Michelle Ruff), Alice Margatroid, Dorothy Albright, May, ABA, and Bridget, among others.
 * Magnificent Bitch: Rachel. Truly proves to be the most powerful of the cast and shows what a piece of cake it is to use the Tsukuyomi unit to defend Kagutsuchi from Take-mikazuchi's threat, all without ever feeling like a Mary Sue or even a Villain Sue.
 * Even in Blaz Blue Continuum Shift she continues to be as magnificent as she is in Calamity Trigger, she just leans a lot further towards being a Guile Heroine.
 * Memetic Badass:
 * Tager IS the Super Street Fighter IV announcer after all.
 * BANG!! In Spades.
 * Memetic Outfit: Carl is known by many people as a pimp, mostly having to do with his almost all-purple wardrobe, complete with a pimp hat.
 * Memetic Sex God: See Memetic Outfit for details on Carl.
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Averted. Noel's definitely the most feminine character in Blaz Blue, and nobody seems to complain much about it.
 * Scrappy Level:
 * That One Attack:
 * Devoured By Darkness becomes this as Unlimited Ragna.
 * ICECARZ.
 * Noel's Chain Revolver eats newbies for breakfast.
 * BEEZ.
 * Tier-Induced Scrappy:
 * In versus play, nobody likes Jin the Icecar Driver, v-13 the Game Breaker, and Where-the-fuck-is-he-now Arakune.
 * If anyone hates Jin, it's because he is a "scrub" character. His abrasive and crazed personality is actually rather popular.
 * Rachel is hated for being god-tier.
 * Arakune Gets about as much hate as Nu and Jin. This mostly stems from his Confusion Fu style of fighting, which is downright CONFUSING to many, coupled with the fact that he is far easier to use than he looks; most of his moves are executed simply by pushing a direction and a button.
 * Some fans hate Carl because he's very weak. These people tend to not use his drive ability properly, which requires Carl and Ada to attack in tandem. This is very visible with his Astral Finish, as the enemy can easily avoid it unless Carl does some serious work.
 * On the other side of the spectrum, some hate him because of the Clap Loop. Never mind the fact that it's extremely difficult to get the timing and inputs right, or even to set up, since most people with half a brain will want to stay the hell away from Nirvana.
 * Let us not talk about the counter hit -> juggle -> teleport Nirvana in -> claploop setup.
 * Unpopular Popular Character: Oddly enough, the minor characters from Ronin-Gai who follows Bang would avert this if it weren't, well, for their status as minor characters.
 * Villain Sue: Terumi/Hazama lately has been skirting this line. Let's see, he's good-looking with that pimping outfit, he's terribly overpowered as he Trolls people with ease, the world has been made so Crapsack to facilitate to his power (LOTS OF HAAATE!), he was once amongst the heroes, he cheerfully made potentially good people turn bad, and whenever he's canonically beaten, it's always to further his other, much more important plan (Hello, Takamagahara!), and there doesn't seem to be a plan for him to finally get his comeuppance (Tell that to I-No about how many times she gets punished for her bad deeds). He's basically an invincible Troll. Oh, and also? He's lately getting much more focus from the author, starting from the Wheel of Fortune Drama CD whereas he once again gets away with kicking a puppy named Tsubaki, and now there will be a novel Blaz Blue Phase 1, which can basically be summed up as "Terumi And The Six Heroes". Oh yeah, Aizen can really suck his thumb when compared to Terumi.
 * World of Woobie: Granted, unless you are Terumi or Relius, you're a Woobie. The list are as follows:
 * Ragna's life sucks.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds:
 * Iron Woobie: And despite all of that he never gives up, even when he's been told it's impossible for him to succeed.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Jin has shades of this thanks to his backstory.
 * Like Ragna, Noel's life sucks.
 * Taokaka gets a substantial Woobie moment at the end of her CS story mode.
 * Iron Woobie: Litchi...
 * Arakune. Especially when you realize he's sane enough to understand that there's something wrong with him, but completely unable to do anything about it.
 * Carl. The more one learns about his story, the more one wants to give the poor kid a hug.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Nu is, at heart, a sad, lonely, and somewhat deranged girl who just wants Ragna to be with her. Pity that also manifests in them becoming the Black Beast together and destroying much of the world.
 * At least, that's for starters. When her soul gets put into Lambda and you find out why she's like this, you can't help but feel for the poor girl...robot...thing.
 * If you take what she says literally and then remember the fact that she shares a life-link with Ragna then the fridge horror of whats happened to her is actually pretty shocking. Ragna has actually killed a semi completed Nu-13 twice before CT even begun, which in turn forced her to regenerate from scratch in the boundary...which is basically a place composed of 100% mind-rape. He did this without ever even thinking about her having emotions or a mind of her own since her previous forms weren't completed and she couldn't talk yet. After CT, shes left at the bottom of the now destroyed cauldron to rot and attempt to regenerate until Tager came and took her half dead body back to sector-7 so that Kokonoe could rip the soul out of her and stuff it into Lambda-11's body which was in only...slightly better shape after having been left to rot on a pile of trash for several years at the ruins of the Ibukido site.
 * If you take what she says literally and then remember the fact that she shares a life-link with Ragna then the fridge horror of whats happened to her is actually pretty shocking. Ragna has actually killed a semi completed Nu-13 twice before CT even begun, which in turn forced her to regenerate from scratch in the boundary...which is basically a place composed of 100% mind-rape. He did this without ever even thinking about her having emotions or a mind of her own since her previous forms weren't completed and she couldn't talk yet. After CT, shes left at the bottom of the now destroyed cauldron to rot and attempt to regenerate until Tager came and took her half dead body back to sector-7 so that Kokonoe could rip the soul out of her and stuff it into Lambda-11's body which was in only...slightly better shape after having been left to rot on a pile of trash for several years at the ruins of the Ibukido site.