Umineko: When They Cry/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Beatrice: a heartless and sadistic murderer, or the savior of the Ushiromiya family's dignity, allowing their memory to be unsullied by the crimes committed in their two days on Rokkenjima by taking them all upon herself?
  • • Might be easier to figure out if she weren't voluntarily tripping through the Face Heel Revolving Door at every turn.
    • This is what happens when a Tsundere goes too far.
  • Bernkastel: a vile, disgusting, Complete Monster who toys with humans for her own amusement, or a tragic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who had to go through thousands of years of Break the Cutie horror and now can only torment others in order to dull the pain?
  • Toya Hachijo/Featherine: It's never explicitly said that Toya is Featherine. One non-magical explanation of how the two could be different entities is that Toya's story that Ange reads is a description of a fictional Ange reading the story of Battler's sixth game to a fictional Featherine, so that Featherine is Toya's Author Avatar.
• And the Fandom Rejoiced - A Play Station 3 port by Alchemist in full HD, with beautifully rendered graphics, vivid animations, all the original BGM from the sound novels, and voice acting by the anime and drama CD seiyuu? HELL YES. In addition, Yen Press licensing the Umineko manga for a North American released caused much rejoicing. Why? They are releasing the volumes in omnibuses!
• Arc Fatigue - The pacing of the anime comes to a screeching halt at the start of the fourth arc, with three straight episodes of exposition on the characters of Maria and Ange.
• Author's Saving Throw - For the fighting game spinoff; and it's a meta one. One of the preview videos shows Virgilia continuously using a hard-to-dodge projectile. Looks like a Game Breaker, right? Then this video came along, showing every character countering it.
• Better on DVD - Bet you they'll remove the pixellating in the gorier parts on the DVD.
  • But they certainly didn't seem to do anything about the QUALITY. DEEEEEEEEEN!
• Broken Base - "So, what did you think of the anime?" ...Yeah, just do everyone a favor and don't ask.
  • Thanks to the release of a Play Station 3 port, many fans are now divided whether the original novel's sprites or the Play Station 3's are better.
  • With the release of EP8, many people on 4chan are now divided on whether the Road Cone system is a good thing or not.
  • Also some people being dissatisfied with the series open ending not answering what really happened.
• Cargo Ship: Fans have joked about this in regards to how often Battler uses a hat stand as an Improvised Weapon.
• Cliché Storm - Episode 4's legendary fight between Krauss and a goatman has the antagonists invoke Nothing Can Stop Us Now, Retirony, and the typical Villain Ball move of 'promises are made to be broken' multiple times in quick succession, finishing it off with some Gretzky Has the Ball boxing gibberish. It's Lampshaded the whole way through.
  • That entire scene was basically a ruthless parody of Nasuverse-style numerical "power levels". Though it was likely a fun jab, because Ryukishi07 and Nasu have a good relationship (as per Ciel's Expy in Higurashi).
    • You think too hard. Dragonball. Scouters. Sudden Power-ups and downs depending on emotional state. Heck, they reference the Dragonball tournament. Nasu ranks are set in stone for everyone, rather than fluctuating.
    • Probably a reference to both, since the power levels don't change at all, but multiple things factor in as combat multipliers.
• Complete Monster:
  • Bernkastel, the Witch Of Miracles and self proclaimed "cruelest Witch", ends up with quite a laundry list of horrendous acts in the later arcs of the series. It was she who set Ange up to have her life screwed over by an irreversibly fucked up Eva, finding the result to be amusing. And for all her trouble, how does Ange get rewarded? By being RIPPED APART, grounded up into meat - Bern and Lambdadelta even JOKE about it. To top it off, Bern's only regret is that she'd lost a big advantage in her "game." When Battler refuses to play along anymore, Bern invokes Decoy Protagonist and Hijacked by Ganon by pulling out an Expy of Rika Furude named Erika Furudo to serve as the new protagonist, and Erika herself is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who immediately points the finger at Natsuhi, who currently is not having a good day to put it lightly, and it only gets worse now that being implicated for the murders brings her sister-in-law Eva's wrath down on her, as the victims include her husband and Morality Chain, Hideyoshi. Bern also has Erika lead Battler to the Gold Room, which makes him the next successor, adding fuel to the fire regarding his family's stake in the murders, and successfully disprove Beatrice, with Battler unable to help since he's too busy being IMPALED. Then Lambda makes Battler the Golden Sorcerer, effectively cementing him in the role of the 'villain'. When Erika finally gets taken down, Bern, a Bad Boss to start with, treats her extra cruelly by leaving her to die a painful demise and then banishing her to oblivion, feeling she'd outlived her usefulness anyway. Bern goes on to Mind Rape Ange with the truth about the sins committed by her parents that led to the Rokkenjima massacre so that she may break Ange's spirit and pit her against her own brother in a fight to the finish in the Golden Land. Using a revived Erika as a pawn once more, Bern disptaches of Beatrice and reduces the Golden Land to ruin, and when Lambda decides to aid Battler and Ange to derail Bern's game plan, Bern flies into a rage and threatens to torture and kill Lambda (her only true friend), shrugging it off when Lambda does get killed as she moves on to fight the final showdown with Battler and Ange, even attempting to kill the entire Ushiromiya family with Red Truths when Ange gains the power to defy her. A cold-blooded and sadistic sociopath completely devoid of empathy, Bernkastel has no trouble admitting that her only real pleasure in life remains the suffering of others, which she creates with endless amusement.
  • Black Battler from Golden Fantasia is a negative Palette Swap of regular Battler Ushiromiya who lacks the good-guy depths and empathy that his real counterpart does. An Anthropomorphic Personification of the theories of Battler being the culprit for the Rokkenjima massacre, he was created by an unknown theatergoer (possibly Bernkastel) to fulfill his role as the culprit of the story. Not only does he continuously speak of killing everyone on Rokkenjima, but he also suggests to female characters that he's going to rape them before killing them, and he also "tastes" male characters he desires to kill. He has a wicked habit of killing anyone he feels like killing, strictly For the Evulz, and gleefully laughing about it as though it were his favorite game. His special ability is even called "Massacre", which allows him to drain his opponent's health with his attacks and add it to his own. And while the other characters in the game get some humorous moments in their stories and endings, this guy... doesn't. The fact that he only has one story (with Shannon, where he kills off the other characters) speaks volumes about this dude.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: In the fighting game. The AI gets to forgo the directional sequence before a special move, allowing scenarios like AI!Battler invoking the Metaworld and blowing you to hell with three Meta supers in a row, which would be impossible for a human to fit in if you factor in the movements.
• Counterpart Comparison: Once you learn Beatrice's story, it's very difficult not to notice the similarities with Shion from Ryukishi's previous work. Both would have had rights to the heirship of their families had it not been for extenuating circumstances around their birth. Both have serious identity issues stemming from those circumstances and subsequently spent their lives being made miserable by others, only to find one person they fell in love with and who looked to love her back and made her feel special before he went missing. Both vow to wait and are ultimately driven mad (though different types of mad) from the length of that wait.
• Crack Pairing - The side story "The Stakes' Valentine's Day" is filled with these. Including Asmodeus/Juuza, Beelzebub/Gohda, Leviathan/Kyrie, Belphegor/Rudolf... and even teasing Beatrice/Battler and Battler/Lucifer!
  • Not to mention the recent couples poll on the official site, which has absolutely everything.
  • There's Amakusa/Battler fanart around the Japanese fandom. Not only have they never met, it's a time paradox. On the other hand, Yaoi Fangirls in this fandom have to take what they can get. There aren't a lot of bishounen running around.
  • If Game Master Battler's TIP is to be believed, Virgilia is a crack shipper.

Virgilia: "...RudoBato, GohBato, AmaBato." Ronove: "Pukuku! You mustn't forget RonoBato."

• Crazy Awesome: Jumping from the third story of your mansion in order to go for a midnight stroll? "I wouldn't put it past grandfather."
  • Dlanor.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Octopus Luka Maria. Ain't she just adorable?
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Has a whole page, of course.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Ironically, despite her definitive Scrappy status after EP5, Erika seems to becoming something of this after EP6, especially in Japanese fandom. Ryukishi certainly did intend for her to be a sympathetic character, but saying that she was the hero of the episode is a bit...
• Ear Worm - Jessica's preposterously hyper, catchy Image Song, "Dokkyun Heart".
  • More like "pettan pettan tsurupettan"...
  • The anime's ending theme, "la divina tragedia" (AKA OOOOH DEEESIIIIIREEE!)
  • The ahaha.wav
• Easily Forgiven - Genre Savvy Beatrice actively tries to cultivate this and then lampshades it in the third arc. Tellingly: The murders in the fourth arc are committed by Kinzo, despite being dead, and the fifth arc has Beatrice perish. After this, Beatrice is never the villain!
  • Yeah, because Beatrice never was the villain. She was a Stealth Mentor.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Genji is slowly, slowly becoming one.
  • Hideyoshi is also sloooowly becoming one. In fact, the fandom's displeasure about him not having any Character Development is becoming a sort of meme.
  • Kinzo is popular in America, probably because of his association with la divina tragedia / OH DESIRE and, sometime in the fall of 2009, an explosion of pictures, HUNDREDS of them, with his "troll face" / "rape face" photoshopped onto them, with the claim that "Everything's Better With Kinzo. No Exceptions".
  • Gohda and his butterfly repelling jacket. Also partially because he's Magical Gohda Chef.
  • Dlanor and Gertrude.
  • Willard Wright. Just...Willard Wright.
  • Black Battler; despite being an illusion created by Bernkastel, he's gotten popular enough to join the roster of the fighting games.
• Evil Is Sexy: Bernkastel. Well... Not her, completely, but in situations where she displays her cruel and playful antics coupled with her twisted personality, she certainly is!
  • Judging from the fandom's reactions to him, Black Battler.
  • Beatrice, full stop. Though, the "Evil" part is subverted, the "Sexy" part is undeniably very much played straight.
• Fanon - No one actually knows what the Gold Truth that showed up in EP5 is or how it's really that different from the red, aside from a few vague statements issued by Dlanor. Despite this, it somehow became accepted that the Gold Truth tells the absolute truth while the Red Truth can be used to spin lies or truths... until a scene in EP6 pointedly contradicted this.
  • Maybe it didn't contradict it - Ryukishi stated in an interview that anyone can use the Gold Truth if they completely understand the rules of the game. He even says pieces can use it, as well.
  • Yeah, there was no contradiction. It's actually pretty clear what the gold truth is for. People are easily thrown by the gold text in EP6 because they freak out over the mention of magic, but it's actually pretty simple. Beato the Elder understood the true form of magic, thus she was able to say in gold that Beato's sleight of hand was real magic. Gold text, like Ryukishi said, is simply for people who understand the rules, and can make statements based about those rules.
• Foe Yay: Most obviously, Beatrice x Battler and Bernkastel x Lambdadelta, both of which are confirmed canon after EP5 and EP6. Erika/Battler. Complete with wedding dress. The side stories "The Stakes' Valentines Day" and "Beato's White Day" even play Beato x Battler for laughs.
• Fridge Brilliance - Enough to warrant its own page.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment - Arc 4's Cliché Storm turns around to bite George and Jessica in the ass, due to a rather brutal Brick Joke involving the danger of a Hope Spot.
• Genre Savvy - Erika and Bernkastel, to the point where they use the "fact" that they are in a mystery as the basis of most of their deductions.
• Gorn - Read the description of the first murder of the first arc, and then try saying it's not.
  • The first arc? Try the second arc, what with the "Happy Halloween Maria" thing...
• Harsher in Hindsight: An in-story version: In the second arc Beatrice tells Shannon that she won't feel that same way about George after he "looks at her with lust" and at the time it just sounds like taunting. Cue the reveal in the third arc that Kinzo trapped Beatrice in a human body and kept her as his mistress and that line takes on a whole new amount of significance and Squick when you realize Beatrice was speaking from personal experience and was not taunting Shannon, but giving her a warning about what may happen with her and George..
  • Not to mention that the truth behind it is a lot Squick-ier than it first appears.
  • Another in-story example also comes from the second arc, or rather, the ending to it. At Beatrice's banquet, she has her goats eat Battler alive after he loses against her. This ends up getting used against her in the fifth arc when she loses in proving Natsuhi's innocence, and Lambadelta and Bernkastel sentence her to the same fate because it's how she "punishes the losers in the game".
  • Second arc again. Beatrice tells Kanon that the three worst ways to hurt a girl are physically, emotionally, and by betraying their hopes. She calls the last the most difficult, the most effective, and the one most often committed by accident. And poor Beato would know more about that than anybody else.
  • Again, in-story example:

Battler (to Ange): It's not like you'll get struck by lightning if you tell me your name.

• Hell Is That Noise - The strange, hammering-on-metal the Stakes emit in their...er, stake form. It's constantly present whether it makes sense (ricocheting off walls in rapid succession) or not (flying through empty air).
  • There's also the Scare Chord in the first novel when Maria claims Beatrice gave her that umbrella.
• Hey, It's That Voice! - A lot of Higurashi voice actors were used in Umineko as well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One fan made comic (NSFW), located after EP 5 features battler creating the 6th game but instead of the typical visual novel he creates a fighting game. It even says Magic fighting game Battle of the Golden Witch coming soon...
• Ho Yay - Between Lion and Wright from EP7. Some fans have now taken to re-naming EP7 "Homolust of the Golden Witch". If you believe Lion is a guy, that is. His/her gender hasn't been officially confirmed, although the fandom seems to be 99.99% sure he/she's a guy.
  • The English fandom, you mean. Most of the Japanese fandom seems to be 99% sure that Lion is a girl. Which is ironic because most of the yaoi fandom comes from Japan...
• Iron Woobie: Battler.
  • Eva moreso. It may have worked only once but she gives Kyrie a hell of a fight after she loses her family.
    • It worked when it counted. And how...
• It Gets Better - The first novel is almost painfully monotonous with glimmers of hope when small horror elements show up...then somebody finally dies!
• Jerkass Woobie: Eva may be a dog kicking Rich Bitch, but when you get down to it, as this (spoilerrific) fancomic shows, her life kind of... sucked.
  • It's pretty hard to deny just how screwed up Rosa's life is, and, at least as far as we know at this point, how relatively little of it is her fault. Of course, it doesn't change the fact that she treats Maria miserably.
  • Beatrice may qualify as one.
  • Erika is probably one straw short of being a mentally insane, Jerkass murderer, but she earns a least a few Woobie points on account of her bring Bern's piece.
• Les Yay - Lambdadelta x Bernkastel, which is actually canon. Lambda acts like a supernatural Stalker with a Crush, they like to talk about giving each other candy bath massages, and they've even both said they love each other.
• Like You Would Really Do It: In EP5 Natsuhi is set up to be incredibly suspicious in every way. Of course she can't be the culprit!
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • The Golden/Endless Witch, Beatrice, is an Anti-Villain with standards who, as a Game Master for the first 4 Episodes (Part 1), clashes with Battler and uses magic to elegantly commit a series of bizarre murders on Rokkenjima. Initially presenting herself as the Big Bad, she's truly impressed by Battler's performance as her opponent and often looks for ways to make him surrender to her and acknowledge her existance as a Witch as best as possible, all while being a Laughably Evil Large Ham and Troll extraordinaire.
    • The true culprit behind the Rokkenjima mass murder who Beatrice conceals also qualifies: Sayo Yasuda is the illegitimate child of Kinzo Ushiromiya from his own daughter, the late Beatrice Ushiromiya. Raised as an orphan and made to work as a servant on Rokkenjima, Sayo, called "Yasu" by their friends, secretly took on the identity of the Golden Witch, Beatrice, in order to cause trouble around the estate that they could never get caught for, while publicly adopting the name "Shannon." They also befriended young Maria Ushiromiya in order to learn more "magic", and created another identity of "Kanon", posing as Shannon's younger brother. Possessing a giftedly keen and imaginative mind, Yasu was the first to solve the riddle of the Witch's Epitath, inheriting Kinzo's gold and becoming the heir to the family headship, but keeping this a secret along with the other servants. When the cruelties of their family and their own conflicting feelings for Jessica, George, and Battler became too great to bear, Yasu plotted out several detailed scenarios of how to use the Witch's Epitath and the secret location of Kinzo's gold as a cover for massacring as much of the family and servants as they could, even making two such scenarios into mystery stories that they cast adrift in message bottles, leading to the Rokkenjima Incident becoming the subject of much public fascination over the years. Plagued with guilt and pangs of conscience, Yasu made the challenge fair so as to allow room to stop the massacre from happening, only failing due to the Ushiromiyas own greed and poor choices. Despite dying by drowning themself, Yasu was still able to find closure by having all of their secrets uncovered by Willard Wright and their own alternate self, Lion Ushiromiya, while in the Meta World, their alternate personas - Beatrice, Shannon, and Kanon - all get to attain the Happy Endings with their loved ones that they never could in life.
  • Bernkastel, Witch of Miracles, the self described "cruelest witch" and evil personality of Rika Furude who's an even bigger Troll than even Beatrice, certainly counts as well. Using Ange, Erika, Battler, Willard Wright, Beato herself and most other people as pawns for her plans, manipulating other witches and crucial game pieces into derailing the plans of others for her own amusement, and planning to keep Beato in the game and torture her for all eternity? She definitely deserves high praise for those and for how skillfully she carried it all out to the point of near victory. Notably, Bern manages to be a Complete Monster at the same time, but is just so charming, devious, hilariously snarky and so enjoyable in her antics that one could almost forget it and it helps that she turns out to have a Joker-esque case of Ping-Pong Insanity that makes her completely monstrous only when she elects to "play the villain" in one of her and Lambdadelta's twisted games.
  • Lambdadelta, Witch of Certainty, is a whimsical, free-spirited and mischievous being evolved from the evil Looper personality of Satoko Houjo, and quite the master Troll in her own right. Starting the story off by officially ordaining Beatrice as the Golden/Endless Witch and backing her in her games with Battler in hopes of drawing in her greatest rival/best friend/co-conspirator/lover Bernkastel, Lambda plays the part of a childish simpleton while privately using Beato's greatest fears and desires against her to keep her in line, and she does the same with Ange when she enters the game. Taking over the gameboard in Episode 5, Lambda drives the game piece Battler and others into a cruel conspiracy against Natsuhi Ushiromiya that nearly bests Bernkastel, who uses Erika Furudo to win while still never uncovering the whole truth of what Lambda had set up. Switching sides to Battler's when he becomes the Game Master, Lambda gives subtle but effective aid to Battler and Beato in Episode 6 and gladly accepts the invite to their party in Episode 8, also deciding to save the lives of Willard Wright and Lion in between then. Initially reluctant to take an active part in the final game's resolution, Lambda's sense of honor and respect for those who are absolutely certain in their convictions lets her be won over to helping the protagonists, with her deliberately throwing a Rock-Paper-Scissors game in order to perform a Heroic Sacrifice over which Battler and Ange even hold Lambda dear as a cherished ally, and Battler even punches Bernkastel in her honor when she belittles her efforts. Beneath a scatterbrained and playful exterior, Lambdadelta is among the most competent and powerful of Witches.
  • The most shocking example would be the main instigator of the Rokkenjima murders - Kyrie Ushiromiya, Battler and Ange's mother and wife of Rudolf Ushiromiya. A young woman from the ruthless Sumedara Family, Kyrie was the family heir until she left home and became Rudolf's business partner, outwitting her spoiled younger sister Kasumi and leaving her to take the burden of headship in her place. Kyrie learned to weaponize her own jealousy of Rudolf's girlfriend and eventual wife Asumu while working her way up in the business and gaining Rudolf's attention, and Rudolf came to respect Kyrie's intelligence, dedication, and charm so much that he entered a sexual affair with her behind Asumu's back, having two children by her and none by Asumu by the time of the latter's passing. In many of the gameboard scenarios, Kyrie displays her keen intuition, deductive skills, and tactical prowess, being the one to teach Battler the method of "Chessboard Thinking" and how to "turn the chessboard around." She is also an excellent marksman, and in the real life events is the one who instigated most of the murders, planning on taking the gold and retiring with it, and when cornered by Eva and knowing she was likely about to be killed, Kyrie lied about feeling nothing for her daughter Ange to ensure that Eva would choose to raise Ange herself and hide the ugly truth about her parents from her all the way to the grave.
  • Tetsuro Okonogi made his way up in the world of business by working closely with the Ushiromiya Group and becoming the president of his own company. When Eva Ushiromiya passes away, Okonogi provides wise words and guidance to Ange as he sends his colleague Amakuza with her on her quest as a bodyguard, secretly intending on having Amakuza kill the pursuing Sumadera gang and then kill Ange herself so that Okonogi could buy out the Ushiromiya Group unopposed, but ultimately Ange abandons her search for the truth and gives Okonogi control of the company anyway, with him continuing to financially support her as a friend and ally.
  • Ikuko Hachijyo is a famed mystery novelist and frequent forget of Message Bottle stories that add to the Rokkenjima Massacre legend. In secret the human host to Featherine Augustus Aurora, Witch of Drama, Spectating, and Theatergoing, Ikuko found a gravely injured, amnesiac Battler Ushiromiya and took him in to become her ward, giving him the name "Toya Hachijyo". Ikuko/Featherine would exploit the residual memories of Battler's life that Toya would have in order to pen more stories under Toya's name. When Ange paid her a visit, Ikuko/Featherine made her a temporary Miko and had her read aloud from her newest work, "Dawn of the Golden Witch", which led to the recreation of Beatrice and the ascension of Battler and his family in the Meta World. Having possession of the recently deceased Eva Ushiromiya's diary, Ikuko/Featherine publicly announced and arranged a ceremony to reveal its contents to the world in order to spur Ange into action in the final game, and when Lambdadelta attempts to fight her off, Featherine incapactiates her with literally the stroke of a pen. Being a civil True Neutral who is capable of being fair and reasonable, Featherine allows Battler and Ange to earn a happy ending by defeating her Miko, Bernkastel, and sealing Eva's diary, leading to Ikuko revealing that the diary reading was all a con and a publicity stunt, infuriating the public so much that mass interest in the Rokkenjima incident vanishes afterwards, with Ikuko continuing to look out for what's best for Toya and Ange for the years to follow.
• Mary Sue: Erika has elements of the Black Hole Sue, Jerk Sue, Fixer Sue and Parody Sue stirred up into one instantly hated package. And that's the point.
• Memetic Badass: Rosa's actions in the end of EP2 got her many fans. And even an own game!
• Memetic Mutation - Enough to warrant its own page.
• Memetic Sex God: Endless Sorcerer LORD Battler, to the point that people want to do his cape.
• Mind Game Ship - Beato x Battler
• Moe: Beatrice shows flashes of cuteness when she isn't cheerfully orchestrating murders and walking all over Battler. This starts happening more and more frequently from Episode 3 onwards.
  • Also, White Day.
• Mondegreen: Happy Maria! has quite a lot. And the official lyrics are all in horribly-rendered GratuitousEnglish
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • For Eva-Beatrice, the repeated sadistic deaths of Maria and Rosa did it for a lot of people, especially when Beatrice of all people steps in to give them a Mercy Kill.
    • Even Evil Has Standards: Ronove actually notes in response to Beatrice trying to figure out why everyone is suddenly so repulsed by this display that "even he, a demon, can understand Battler's feelings somewhat." It is worth noting that whenever the murders were shown to be done by Beatrice, Maria was usually left until the end and could rarely be shown to have actually been hurt by her.
  • Kinzo was always close to this trope because of his treatment of his family and the subverted Pater Familicide, but the revelations about Beatrice Ushiromiya, his daughter and the fact that this was Parental Incest seems have been the end of the road for many fans.
  • Rosa lost whatever sympathy left many fans had for her in Ep4 when her parental abuse of Maria reach truly disgusting new heights and she not only threatens to break one of her daughter's cherished "friends" right before her eyes whenever she disobeys her, but she actually rips Sakutaro apart in spite of Maria's tearful pleas, even shoving it in her daughter's face that Sakutaro is "dead" now "because of her."
  • In EP6, Erika beheads five people to make sure that they're actually dead (which, it turns out, they weren't). And all in order to get revenge on Battler by trapping him in a logic error.
  • Bernkastel crossed it in the side story "The Witches' Tanabata", which is where her You Bastard moment comes from.
• Narm - Surprisingly little, but the "Uuuuu WW Waaah" yell in the original VNs might count. There is also that little scene with Maria's head rolling on Rosa's plate.
• Player Punch - Ange is built up into an incredibly sympathetic character. Prepare to shed many tears.
  • Game 5, end of the tea party, Promise. No one will blame you for demolishing a few tissue boxes over this one either.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: A lot of the fans really disliked Maria until the fourth arc, when she revealed one hell of a Freudian Excuse and got around to Calling The Old Woman Out in true When They Cry fashion.
• So Bad It's Good - How a lot of people feel about the visual novel's art.
  • It certainly helps that it's generally agreed the faces are So Cool Its Awesome though.
• Squick: Beatrice Ushiromiya, daughter of Beatrice Castiglione is his daughter. And he had a child with her.
  • So this qualifies as Parental Incest.
• Stoic Woobie: Not only does Ange lose her parents and brother, but supplementary materials reveal that a certain witch manipulated her into not only hating the only relative she had left that doesn't want to kill her, but also locking away any form of happiness
  • I guess we can take out the "Stoic" after she learned from Bernkastel how her mother (who she loved more than anyone) never truly loved her and how Eva (who she hated more than anyone) wanted to protect her from the "truth."
• Theiss Titillation Theory - Gaap is the embodiment of this trope Gone Horribly Wrong.
• They Just Didn't Care - Most of the new sprites for EP7, particularly Young Kinzo and Claire. Hooray for copy and paste!
  • Justified Trope though in Kinzo's case, since it was mentioned in the earlier novels that Battler looked just like Kinzo when he was young.
    • It's justified for Clair, as well. Bern specifically states that her appearance was created as a stand-in for Beatrice.
    • And it may be a Fridge Brilliance for the new servants. One could assume Beatrice decided to base her minions on the other servants that caused her so much annoyance.
    • Remember Ange first time she go Rokkenjima?. Remember who was the servant who was working at that time?. And remember Ange´s best friend from 1998? Fridge Brilliance everywhere in EP 7.
• Toy Ship: Sakutaro's mutually-adoring relationship with Maria hints at this.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Kanon. With good reason, mind you.
  • Lion, but this is intentional.
• Wangst: Kanon in EP2. At least until we learned what being "Furniture" actually entailed...
• What an Idiot!: In EP6 Battler gave Erika duct tape. And it's three rooms' worth. When in the previous game, the duct tape she used allowed her to use the red truth.
  • After EP7, with a certain interpretation, one could argue that most of Battler's behavior in EP6 is him betting on a miracle so that Beato regains her memories. Battler acts as an obvious comparison to Kinzo, chick!Beatrice is quite like Beatrice II, the love duel acts as a metaphor of "Yasu's" internal conflict, etc.
  • Krauss. Oh, Krauss. The true extent of his idiocy is revealed in EP5. He's quite possibly the stupidest character in Umineko. The poor idiot would have been penniless on the street some five or six years ago if Natsuhi weren't hypercompetent to the point of neurosis.
    • Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?: A too good to be true Space Resort deal from some guy claiming to be from NASA! What could go wrong? Granted, recent events may in fact be indicating that, as Rudolf mentioned, his timing was simply a bit off. As in, 30 years off.
• The Woobie: Oh god, Natsuhi. Especially after EP5.
  • To verify, she starts to lose her sanity after Kinzo dies, is forced to confront a less than pleasant aspect of her past (one that she's already repented for), Jessica is murdered, Krauss is kidnapped, forcing her to obey the mysterious man claiming to be her son. Not only does Krauss die anyway, but she is framed for all the murders, and gets beaten up by a very pissed off Eva and Battler is the only one who even tries to intervene.
    • It Got Worse. She gets accused of cheating on her husband and having a sexual relationship with Kinzo. Then Bernkastel brutally tells her in her that everything that's been basically keeping her sane until that moment... was all a delusion on her part. They basically make her life hell in that arc. And even that's an understatement.
  • EP7 reveals that Beatrice, of all people, can definitely be considered to be this.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Maria, so very much so in EP4. Not just her repeated slaughter of her own mother, but her diary suggested Maria was getting increasingly more and more destructive with her abilities.

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