Black Butler II/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: Alois.
• Broken Base: Team Phantomhive and Team Trancy. Not to mention the manga lovers and anime lovers.
  • Episode seven seems to have caused this for Ciel. Fans are divided between those who approve of his 'murder' of Alois, like him better for it, and feel it was perfectly in line with his character and those who feel he went past the Moral Event Horizon and either actively dislike him or can't decide how they feel.
• Evil Is Sexy: In addition to Sebastian, Claude also counts for some. And then there's Hannah.
• Fan Nickname: Cielois, for Ciel when he is possessed by Alois.
  • Boxchan for Ciel.
• Foe Yay: Alois to Ciel.
  • Episode 6 shows enough between Claude and Sebastian to match up with the two.
• I Knew It!: A vocal minority of fans spent much time attempting to reassure the rest of the fandom that A-1 were trolling the fanbase and that Ciel and Sebastian would return in full capacity, despite the announcement of the new master and butler. Guess what happened when episode 1 aired?
  • Some fans were guessing that Alois was cross-dressing to meet Ciel after a preview for episode five. They were right.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks: The second season, after it was revealed that Ciel and Sebastian will return. A few fans would have liked it to be independent from the original duo.
• Jerkass Woobie: Ciel can be seen as this, since he doesn't mind killing or hurting anyone who gets in the way of his plans, but at the same time, he is portrayed very sympathetically, usually because of his horrible past.
  • Alois. He has a horrible past, and as a result, the only person he depends on for happiness is Claude, who openly admits that he honestly does not care about Alois at all, and just stays by his side so that he can use him to obtain Ciel's soul, despite the fact that most of the horrible things Alois does to people is mainly just because he wants Claude to pay attention to and care for him. It gets worse for Alois in episode 7. "Hey... you look like you're seeing maggots squirming in a dung heap..." God knows what he's going to do now that Claude doesn't even pretend to care about him any more. And in episode 8, Claude says "A soul such as that...is certainly unfit to sustain me," referring to the fact that Alois actually feels love for him and Claude finds that disgusting.
  • At the end of season II, even Sebastian can count as this. That look on his face when he realized that he'd have to serve Ciel for all eternity and will never be able to eat his soul was absolutely disheartening for some fans.
• Magnificent Bastard: By the end of Season 2 Hannah qualifies as well.
  • Alois: Although he spends most of the series as The Chessmaster mostly because of his immature mannerisms, he graduates to this level when he makes a contract with Hanna detailing that she gets Sebastian and Claude to fight for the ownership for Ciel's soul. And the winner... will be screwed over when they find out that Ciel's soul can't be consumed because Ciel has become a demon.
• Memetic Mutation: Claude having an orgasm over Ciel's blood in season 2, episode 7. Also known as: Claude jizzed in his pants.
  • Sebastian's hooker boots.
  • Ciel In a Box/Boxchan.
• Moral Event Horizon: As of episode 8 of the second season, Claude has crossed it, for many people.
• No Yay: The strongly implied sex scene between Alois/Jim and his "father" the Earl Trancy.
  • Everything about the late Earl Trancy and his "doll" collection.
• Ruined FOREVER: Most fans were not pleased about the announcement of a second anime season that stars an original protagonist and butler. Then the fandom watched the first episode of season two. And there was much rejoicing. Later in the season, fans were calling this again for various reasons.
• Ship Sinking: Done in episode 7 of the second season in regards to the Ciel/Alois and Claude/Alois ships when Ciel stabs Alois in the stomach and tries to stab him in the head but is stopped by Claude (though he struggles with Claude and Sebastian in an attempt to get back to Alois's side so he can kill him) and when Claude proceeds to completely ignore Alois's pleas for help after getting a taste of Ciel's blood. And in episode 8 Alois practically confesses his love for Claude who smiles and holds his face tenderly before crushing his skull.
• Squick: Alois and Claude are (very, very arguably) heavily implied to have a sexual relationship. Alois /Jim has a rather squicktastic way of relating to the men in his life.
  • Claude kissing Ciel /Alois's foot.
  • Every. Single. Scene. Involving the Earl Trancy in season 2. "Another doll broke?"
  • Though, the Claude/Alois ship seems to be at least partially restored in episode 12.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: When the second season was announced, many fans were not happy.
  • But then... well, just see the entry for Ruined FOREVER earlier on this page.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Season 2 seemed to be set up as a big battle between the two butlers and their masters. That lasted all of two episodes before Claude decided to go solo and off Alois thereby making Claude cross the Moral Event Horizon and removing the rather ambiguous Evil Versus Evil approach it first seemed to have.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Grell. Finny. Alois for some, as well as Ciel.
• The Woobie: Hannah could be considered this, due to Alois's treatment of her. Subverted when she is revealed to be a demon, and could easily fight back if she wanted to. It's implied she actually enjoys the attention.
  • Margaret Turner, the potential Jerkass Woobie. Sure, she's nuts, but seeing her put down so much, just for her weight, makes you wonder if she had a good reason.
    • It wasn't because she was put down for her weight, it was because she was unsatisfied with her marriage. Either way, there's no real justifiable reason for brutally killing innocent newlywed women.