Les Legendaires/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: Darkhell/Elysio when he gets killed by Anathos. Despite the fact Darkhell was pretty much the most evil character of the serie before Anathos shows up, it's hard to not feel sorry for him when you hear him thinking about his beloved daughter Tenebris as his final thought. The fact Anathos defeated him only by cheating doesn't help either.
  • subverted with Abyss; after explaining the reason behind his actions, Tenebris seems like she's feeling sorry for him... Then he is revealed to be Not Quite Dead and rises again to fight the Legendairies.
• Complete Monster: several of the villains can be considered as such:
  • Darkhell is referred as this, and indeed pretty much could fit the role: he is an Evil Sorcerer and a Mad Scientist with insane world-conquest ambition, who considers people as his pawns, will kill anyone who is unwilling to join him (his conception of "alliance" being "enslaving") and gladly killing his pawns once they are no more use to him, even when they are no danger to him. In Book 4, he display Omnicidal Maniac tendencies, attempting to destroy two worlds, one being for revenge. His Character Development, however, reveal he does care for his daughter Tenebris and even allow him to commit a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Skroa has some shades of it too; while he lacked the time his rival Darkhell had to give himself a reputation, he was still shown to be willing to kill Danael after using him and the other Legendaries as pawns (granted, unlike Darkhell, he had reason to still see him as a treath). He treats his "daughter" Shun-Day's father-like love with disdain, to the point of hitting her in the face. He was even shown killing a Jaguarian kid at some point.
  • Anathos, on the other hand, takes the trope Up to Eleven. An Omnicidal Maniac with absolutely no code of honor, his Kick the Dog include crushing and savagely crippling the protagonits, mocking Jadina about her relationship with the now "deceased" Danael, ordering his Hellions to torture physically and mentally Tenebris for informations, and creating a plague attempted to exterminate people he wouldn't bother killing himself. Whereas Darkhell at least cared for his daughter and Skroa never went farer than slapping his, Anathos killed his own Dark Mistress. And by blowing her head off just after pretending to forgive her defeat, no less. Hell, this guy actually made Darkhell look sympathetic! Granted, considering he is this universe's God of Evil, that shouldn't really be surprising.
  • While he is subject to Even Evil Has Loved Ones, Abyss' conception of love is so twisted it prevents him from averting this trope: sure, he was motivated by his love for Tenebris, but that doesn't really justify manipulating almost everyone, poisonning her mother, trying to kill her friends and brainwashing her though Puppeteer Parasite...
• Chickification : arguadably with Shimy; in the first books, she was portrayed as more of an Kuudere, a Tomboy and a Deadpan Snarker who rarely express any feelings other than anger. After her Heroic BSOD in the Anathos Cycle however, she wears more girly clothes (which tends to make her the main fanservice source in the serie) and display more emotion than before, evolving toward Tsundere. This even more visible by the fact the original chick of the group, Jadina, Took a Level in Badass and became the leader, making her appear now almost mentally stronger than Shimy. Granted, this is justified because of all Shimy went through (including a possession attempt from a God of Evil, getting her eyes burnt and learning her boyfriend was cheating on her), but this is still sad. She however averts Badass Decay by remaining a very competent Action Girl.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Shun-Day is seemingly quite popular amongst the fans, though she has lastly grown some haters due to her becoming Gryf's fiancé and as such becoming an obstacle to his relationship with Shimy.
  • Elysio is probably as popular as any Legendarie.
  • Curiously, Dark-Gryf seems to have gained some popularity as well.
• Evil Is Cool and Creepy Awesome: Anathos is surprisingly popular amongst the fans despite, or rather precisely because he is the evilest character in the whole serie. Darkhell gets it as well to an extent.
  • While opinions concerning Skroa's status as a villain are mixed, everyone agrees that his design is pretty cool.
• Evil Is Sexy: Tenebris in her adult form. The opinions may vary concerning her child form;
  • Conversely, Darkhell isn't exactly beautiful as an adult, but his child form is handsome in its own right. And his Fusion Dance in the Anathos Cycle makes a hint that he might have once been a quite good-looking Bishonen.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Danael/Shimy seems suprisingly popular amongst fans. So does Shimy/Anathos, no matter how few sense it'd make.
• Fridge Logic: both Shun-Day and Shimy get embarrassed respectively when Gryf accidentally puts his hands under her top and when Jadina steals the top of her swimsuit. If you consider the fact they are both trapped in 12 years old bodies, and as such possess no breast, it seems kinda weird to see them having such a reaction...
• Fridge Brilliance: Danael's infuriated reaction against Halan when discovering he led his men to a Fate Worse Than Death against the Darkhellions makes a lot more sense when you learn his own childhood friend Saryn ended up with such as fate, most likely traumathizing him.
• Foe Yay: hinted with Elysio mentionning he finds Jadina attractive, causing her to blush. It didn't went farer however.
  • subverted in Book 14 when Jadina kisses Abyss; not only Abyss has an extremely disgusted reaction, but it turns out she did so in order to transmit him a powerful anti-magic serum through saliva, weakening him.
• Lawful Neutral: the Guardian has absolutely no concern for the concept of Good and Evil, he just goes with the rules of his "game". He makes an exception in the Anathos Cycle, where he attempts to prevent Anathos' return.
• Les Yay: the author never actually does this, but he loves playing it for laught:
  • At the beginning of Book 13, Shimy actually kissed Tenebris... only because she's drunk and trying to get her ex-boyfriend jealous. Later, having come back to her sense, Shimy is shown to feel disgusted and humiliated by what she did, while Tenebris teases her about it and asked her to warn her the next time she attempts that sort of thing...
  • Sobral himself pretended there was one between Shimy and Akitten. It turned out to be an April's Fool.
  • In Origines, Jadina forces Saryn to comes in her tent and orders her to strip down. Next page, it's revealed she just wanted to use her as a replacement for her mirror to see if her new robes were fitting.
• Like You Would Really Do It: played straight and horrifically subverted at the same time; Shimy did escaped her fate to become Anathos' reincarnation... only for Danael to have the place instead. And even more subverted when the heroes fail to save him and Jadina has to kill him. Sure, he came back, but no longer as a member of the Legendaries, and Word of God has confirmed he wouldn't be part of the group again.
• Magnificent Bastard: Anathos. He is terrifyingly Dangerously Genre Savvy, to the point he actually used the No Man of Woman Born trope to his advantage by putting a plan B based on it. This Plan B was part of a Plan he put in place years before his actual return, meaning he had been expecting someone to try interfering that long ago. When Tenebris pretends to confess the Legendaries' location in order to set a trap as part of Jadina's scheme, Anathos sees through it. Later, he deduces the Legendaries' assault on the Castlewar was a mere diversion by not underestimating them.
• Moral Event Horizon: most main villains cross it at least once, but Anathos is especially good at it. As a matter of fact, he seems to be determined to cross it as often as he can.
• Narm: Dark-Gryf's very first line isn't really easy to take seriously...

"My Name is Dark-Gryf and I'm veeeeeeeeery Evil ! Nyarf Nyarf !"

• Nightmare Fuel: Gryf's hallucination of Elysio having an especially scary Slasher Smile (coupled with Red Eyes, Take Warning) before leaving him fall from a cliff. bonus point due to it being some kind of nightmare.
  • Anathos' No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of the Legendaries in Book 10: he reincarnates in Danael, stabs Jadina, scars Gryf all over his body, pierce Shimy's eyes with a Flaming Sword and cut off Razzia's arm. And It Got Worse when he defeats and murders Darkhell and Elysio, kills the Guardian, turns the whole Island into the Castlewar and uses it to NukeTheDog by killing a whole city with one shot.
  • The victims of Anathos' plague in Book 11.
  • Similarly, Dark-Jadina's hinted Mind Rape of Tenebris. All we get to see from it is Dark-Jadina licking her lips while wondering how though Tenebris' spirit is. Later, when Jadina arrives, she is shown a broken and heavily injured Tenebris. God knows what they did to her.
  • Anathos' execution of Dark-Jadina: after failing, she goes to him begging him to forgive her. Anathos states he forgives her, and the two seems to share a moment... then Anathos cold-blooded bow her head off.
  • Kasino's death in Book 13: when first shown, it's from the Legendaries' point of view, who see Jadina impaling him on her bare hand and sucking his blood on her thumb. It's later revealed it was actually Tenebris doing it and their vision of Jadina was because of Abyss' illusion.
  • Jadina's deadbody being found in the final panel of Book 13.
  • Abyss' Villainous Breakdown is quite disturbing on many level, especially the way he suddenly turns out to be a cruel homicidal sociopath when he was so nice at the beginning. His attitude with Tenebris and his apparent death only makes it worst.
  • A spoiler from the next book shows us new villain Sheyba walking with Skroa and her Right-hand Razorcat amongst human deadbodies, with Razorcat holding a human hand in his mouth, strongly implying he is eating humans.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Saryn's fate at the end of Origins: her father is killed by Raptor, and, while she gets to avenge him, she ends up being stung by a Darkhellion and turns into a Chaos Shade who attempts to murder Danael, causing Jadina to kill her. And she didn't even get to confess her feelings to Danael...
  • Jadina being forced to slay Danael at the end of the Anathos Cycle.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Jadina; in the first book, she was a nice and naive person, almost in a Good Is Dumb way, and while she could have angry moments, remained the nicest person on the team. After the Anathos Cycle, while she sure became a much more badass character, she now tends to have overly jerkass moments, including beating up her own teammates to "test" them before the fight with the Hellions, mocking Shimy for her blindness and expressing no compassion for Razzia about Tenebris being captured (sure she let herself get caught on purpose, but still). At the end of book 14, she is revealed to have refused taking any time to take care of the Gamera Tree because she wanted to focus on Anathos, and brutally reject her mother's offer of reconciliation (something even Shimy accepted with her own mother in Book 4).
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: suprisingly averted; the changes from the Anathos Cycle were actually well-received by most fans.
• The Woobie: Elysio and Razzia, because of their respective backstory;
  • Saryn pretty much suits the place as well;
  • Jerkass Woobie: Shun-Day and to an extent Shimy, though the latter tends to be less jerkass as the story goes on.