Realm of the Elderlings/YMMV

The Farseer Trilogy:

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Is Patience really that weird, or is it Obfuscating Stupidity?
  • Chivalry's motives are a mystery, but its not Wild Mass Guessing to assume he set up a Thanatos Gambit in case he didn't survive the Deadly Decadent Court. Patience is a Genius Ditz who wouldn't get a second glance from Regal's assassins, but could hold down the fort when the chips were down.
• Complete Monster: Regal, in spades. Thinks nothing of murdering his own teenage nephew with his bare hands, partly to cover his tracks and partly because he just hates him; enjoys torturing people and having them tortured, including his own subordinates; kills his own father and tries to kill his own brother (several times); is incredibly self-centred with delusions of grandeur; villifies his heroic brother and sister-in-law as incompetents and traitors (respectively); sacrifices half the kingdom to Chaotic Evil pirates because he only cares about being king of the other half...yeah, he's kind of a dick. His only chance of redemption turns out to be Brainwashing for the Greater Good, and that still doesn't save him from some well-deserved Laser-Guided Karma
• The Scrappy: Starling is presented as a strong, independent, Ethical Slut, Betty and Veronica counterpart to Molly. She comes off like an arrogant Jerkass.
• Tear Jerker - First book ends on one, second book ends on one, THE ENTIRE THIRD BOOK IS ONE.
• The Woobie - Fitz's life kinda sucks. A lot.
  • Iron Woobie - He broods over it quite a bit, but doesn't let it slow him down.

The Liveship Traders:

• Moral Event Horizon - Kennit seems to divide the fanbase. According to some, he never really crosses the line, on account of being a Complete Monster. According to others, he stays on the very edge for quite some time, but then he rapes Althea and blows all his chances of redemption.
  • Word of God is that Kennit was supposed to be an "irreedemably evil villain".
• The Woobie - Poor Wintrow. And Vivacia. And plenty others, even if Wintrow and Vivacia take the cake.

The Tawny Man:

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Many
  • How about short, 15 year old Swift facing down and killing the very literal stone dragon with that last, rusty arrow.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - Most of the third book after Feathers in a Fool's Cap. Literally "Crowning" at one point.
  • Or a Mood Whiplash into Tastes Like Diabetes, depending on your perspective.
• Tear Jerker - Late in Fool's Errand and in Fool's Fate.
• Wangst - Played for laughs and for drama in the chapter "Elfbark" in Fool's Fate.

The Rain Wilds Chronicles:

• Hollywood Homely: Alise, with her red hair and freckled complexion, seems to be this.
• The Woobie: Relpda in Dragon Haven's first part.