Claymore/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: Pour some wine out for Isley, Riful and Dauf. Pour it twice for Dauf. Anyone who can lose whatever vestige of humanity he had left and still have a sense of purpose deserves that much.
  • Cassandra seems to be heading down this path, presumably because the manga-ka hates his fans.
  • Possibly Hysteria. Right before her death, she seemed genuinely hurt by her perceived betrayal by the organization.
  • You won't feel bad for him at all but if nothing else, Rimuto got to explain his motives and got a quiet, dignified death. Which is frankly more than he deserves.
• Complete Monster: Former Number 1, Roxanne of Love-Hate.
• Crack Pairing: For some reason, Shippers have taken a sudden liking to pairing Galatea and Miria. Even though they've barely spoken to each other in the manga and never in the anime.
• Foe Yay: EPIC amounts of it between Cassandra and Roxanne. Also, Clare and Ophelia, though mostly from Ophelia's side
• Freud Was Right: Dauf stabs ladies in the stomach with poles his body makes that occasionally come out of his mouth. Classy.
  • In Luciela's Awakened form, her whole body is covered in mouths.
• Glurge: Through all of the hardships that Clare went through upon becoming a claymore, considered to be a failure and ridiculed because of so, she was able to press on because she always had Teresa with her... Very literally so since Clare was able to become a claymore by having the flesh from Teresa's decapitated head implanted in her.
• Les Yay: So much that it gets it's own page.
• Love to Hate: Roxanne didn't need a lot of chapter to be considered by readers worthy of a slow and painful death.
• Memetic Mutation: * Ahem* , Nobody out-crazies Ophelia!
  • SUPERB!
• Moe: Young Clare, pre-Awakening Priscilla, and the Organization's trainees. Awakened Priscilla has some Moe traits in her human form (wandering around naked, randomly Glomping Raki), but don't let them fool you.
• Moral Event Horizon: One could rationalize the Organization's actions as those of a collective Knight Templar Well-Intentioned Extremist (lost sight of the goals, may need to go down, but at least thinking they serve some use), then it's revealed they're the ones creating the Yoma.
  • Roxanne's habit of Mega Manning the signature techniques of more powerful Claymores then killing her teachers was born of a twisted internal logic that makes putting her down pretty much mandatory, but watching an Awakened Being rape and torture a far weaker Claymore to death without lifting a finger to help moved her from the "Cut her head off now please." category to the "Will someone invent the wood chipper so she can be fed to it feet first?" category in the eyes of many readers.
• Nausea Fuel: A lot of the scenes where awakened beings are suggestively impaling the claymores are very squickish, especially in the anime.
  • Ophelia's molestation of Clare. EW.
• Nightmare Fuel: Where to start?
  • Raciella's true form certainly counts.
  • Some, but not all, of the Awakened Beings.
  • The Abyssal Feeders are your most basic nightmares...come alive!
  • That #10. She can Mind Rape you while her friends do god-knows-what-else to you.
  • Roxanne. She's like Ophelia only less single-minded and much smarter.
  • Cassandra, after her Awakening. What is THAT?
• Paranoia Fuel: Are you sure that your family members are really them and not a yoma in disguise after it ate them?
• Periphery Demographic: Claymore seems to get a dosage of female fan attention for a Shonen series, and it's obviously not because of the cast of Bishonen characters.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Post-Time Skip, Raki attracts a lot less hate from fans of the series, because now he's capable of actually taking an active role in the plot.
• Spear Counterpart: Clare is considered by many to be the Distaff Counterpart of Guts, the main protagonist of the Seinen Berserk, where Claymore is pretty much a more shonen version of the former. Not only are their backstories, arsenal, goals, and personalities alike (hey! They're even using an arm that isn't theirs!), just look at how similar their arch nemeses are! Anyone care for a nigh invulnerable, winged (or wing-caped), Humanoid Abomination who made an epic fall from grace as their Big Bad?
• Spiritual Predecessor: And, as mentioned above, Berserk is considered by many fans of both series to be the forefather of Claymore (though not by Word of God).
• Stoic Woobie: Raftela. Besides being created to kill other Claymores, she's kept away from them altogether, meaning she wasn't even allowed to bond with anyone like the Ghosts or Anastasia and Nike did. And she decides to use what's left of her life for their sake anyway.
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page.
• Too Cool to Live: Teresa, Flora, possibly Irene. Miria would have counted had she not been spared by the other Claymores.
• Uncanny Valley: Rubel. He's human alright, but... well, see The Un-Smile.
  • In universe example: The Claymores themselves invoke this reaction ^{[dead link]} in some of the ordinary people. ^{[dead link]}
• Villain Sue: After many contenders, the true Villain Sue can only be, without a doubt, Priscilla.
• The Woobie: By this point, it is easier to count the characters who are not Woobies on hand. The men of the organization, bandits and most male Awakened come to mind. Everyone else needs a hug, a glass of milk and a plate of cookies.
  • Let's put in a special mention of Cassandra, a Shrinking Violet who has, by chance, discovered a technique that she loathed but which propelled her to #1 of her generation. The only person who didn't loathe or fear her, the nameless #35, was killed in a disgusting, brutal, and completely senseless manner due to a Manipulative Bitch's machinations. Then, she was summarily executed by fellow Claymores. And on top of that, she was resurrected, brainwashed, sicked on her fellow warriors, and, as of chapter 119, seems to have Awakened.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Cassandra, now that she's Awakened.