The Demonata/YMMV

• Complete Monster: The Demonata are an entire race of Complete Monsters, but Lord Loss really takes the cake.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Grubbs' and Lord Loss' chess match in the first book. Can we say epic owned?
• Crowning Moment of Funny: The same chess match.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh, where to start...
  • Begins just from looking at the cover of the first book, and once you actually read it...
• Magnificent Bastard: A few. Lord Loss. The Kah Gash. Beranabus. Dear Lord, Bernabus.
• Moral Event Horizon: Lord Loss does this in his very first appearance, with slaughtering Grubbs' family in a most cruel and horrific manner, and giving their bodies to his minions as toys.
• The Woobie: Give just one moment when Kernel was actully happy (excluding the time spent with his little brother Art, who turned out to be a demon).
• Tear Jerker: Dervish's death.
  • Also Bill-E's.
  • Bec confronting Dervish about simply using her to relive every moment of Bill-E's life.
• What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: The Demonata is quite possibly the most extraordinarily hyperviolent children's series ever written. One of the tamest examples is Grubbs throwing rats guts on his sister while she showers, just a few pages before he comes across her and their parents savagely murdered corpses, in a room covered with their blood. Decapitation, dismemberment, infanticide, impalement, torture, mutilation and all manner of horrible deaths occur in every book, sometimes dozens in a single scene. To say nothing of all the bullying, kidnapping, animal cruelty and all manner of sins that the heroes get up to.