Variable Geo/YMMV
- Broken Base: Over whether or not the Visual Novel entries in the series caused it to Jump the Shark.
- Complete Monster: Miranda.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: "We Survive" By KOTOKO, the opening theme to the Variable Geo Neo OVA.
- Evil Is Sexy: Miranda
- Excuse Plot: The first two games.
- Jumping the Shark: The idea that the Genre Shift caused this is a reason for the fandom's Broken Base.
- Replacement Scrappy / Creator's Pet: Tamao barely managed to avoid both of these fatal tropes and eventually became quite popular.
- The Woobie: Satomi was the primary example, having had a generally crappy life; but then the truth about Reimi's upbringing came out and turned her into this.