Gankutsuou/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Andrea Cavalcanti
 * Creepy Awesome: The Count of Monte Cristo.
 * Foe Yay: Possibly between the Count and Fernand.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The ending theme, especially with the given CGI effects.
 * Freud Was Right: Albert is way too interested in his mom's private life. And Haydée is in love with her father figure precisely because he's her father figure. Not to mention.
 * For Albert, that was the Count's manipulation on most part, though. The Count needed him to start doubting his parents so Albert would rely on the Count further. After Albert realizes, his interest quickly vanishes. In fact, he goes as far as blaming her for the entire ordeal.
 * For Haydee, this is more explicit in the original novel--in Gankutsuou she never says that she thinks of the Count as a father figure (however she has known him since she was about 7, so he was partly responsible for her upbringing, and one could argue that the trope still applies even if it isn't outright stated).
 * Ho Yay: The relationships between Albert and Franz and between Albert and the Count are dripping with all sorts of subtext, even if nothing untoward ever takes place . And to a smaller extent, it looks like Andrea and the Count are going to end up with some sort of dramatic ho-yay,
 * In fact, the Joji Nakata (the Count) said in an interview that he and Jun Fukuyama (Albert) played some of their scenes together as if they were love scenes.
 * Franz talks about loving someone even if you can't marry them, while looking at Albert. It's pretty much canon by the end of the series. Franz loves Albert, but it was completely one-sided.
 * Jerkass Woobie: The Count of Monte Cristo.
 * Magnificent Bastard: The Count himself. Sooner or later, everyone in the story dances to his tune...
 * The Count is this trope defined. His magnificence is matched only by his bastardliness.
 * He's Magnificent because he's such a Bastard.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Arguably,  Interestingly, this marks a significant difference with the novel,
 * Let's not forget Andrea
 * At one point he even implies that he's even going to
 * And lets not let Héloïse Villefort off the hook here. She seems perfectly normal in her first few appearances, with a warm motherly appearance and pleasant smile. She is the stepmother of Valentine and is the second wife of the crown prosecutor Villefort. She is the biological mother of her young son Edward, from her first marriage. Valentine is to inherit all of the fortune, leaving her stepmother jealous because Edward doesn’t get a single penny. So when the Count seduces her and innocently introduces her to toxicology and gives her a deadly ring which releases a deadly poison Héloïse becomes murderous and tries to poison Valentine and her husband, as well as inadvertently almost poisoning Albert and poisoned one of the servants of the Villefort household. And she does all this while maintaining her angelic motherly facade up till near the end of the series when her husband finds out what she's been doing and points out that she's nothing more than a murderous insane woman. She tries to deny his accusations before she breaks down and collapses to the ground, finally giving in to her insanity. Her husband then puts her in an insane asylum for the rest of her life. Not to mention the scene where she masturbated while thinking of the Count and the poison ring he gave her. In essence, she was also getting off to the thought of killing her stepdaughter and husband.
 * It's heavily implied that she was poisoning Valentine long before Count entered the picture; her garden is full of poisonous flowers and Valentine is quite sickly even when she's introduced. She just didn't have the guts to go all the way.
 * I got the impression she was just trying to poison Valentine slowly because the sudden death of someone in their mid teens would certainly raise some suspicions. Eugenie's mother even mentions that there are rumors that Heloise is beating Valentine, so naturally this would only strengthen those suspicions.
 * Narm: The opening song of the anime "We Were Lovers" is a beautiful moving piece. However, when the singer says the word 'love' (in the line "I just pray that you will love me and trust me") it becomes hilarious due to the way he stresses the L in love.
 * He also hits the wrong note at one point
 * Nightmare Fuel: Everything that involves . Albert's nightmares about the Count (especially  ). The execution scene (especially in the manga... ohmygod). Edmond's imprisonment. Haydée's whole past. Your mentor and substitute father stalking you and trying to kill you. Your dad  . Your future husband  . Phew, Someone's having a bad day.
 * Tear Jerker: The final episodes, big time.
 * Also, death. And just the fact that
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: For those whose minds don't explode from the show's art-style, the entire series can look like this. In-universe, several characters remark that the Count's little garden is this.
 * Wangst: Franz (especially with his ). He did suffer beautifully, though.
 * The Woobie: Albert during the latter half of the series, definitely. And arguably the Count in some specific scenes.
 * And let's not forget about Franz. Oh, how beautifully he suffers from his unrequited love...