El-Hazard: The Magnificent World/YMMV

Adaptational Personality Adjustment: Ifurita from the OVA is a somber, almost tragic figure for much of the series, a Person of Mass Destruction forced against her will to be a devastating weapon for the bad guys until the hero frees her from the Restraining Bolt which compels her to serve whoever possesses her staff. Once free, she gains a quiet joy in life, but remains a soft-spoken, well-spoken individual of obvious intelligence and wisdom, who becomes open to exploring a romantic relationship with the hero. When El-Hazard was turned into the TV series El-Hazard: Wanderers, Ifurita was turned into a Ditzy Cloudcuckoolander and an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain loyal to the primary bad guy, mostly played for comedy.
Angst? What Angst? Fatora after being freed from the Phantom Tribe, also, nobody is too worried about family back on Earth thinking they're dead.
Anticlimax Boss: After all the build up and dramatic tension, Kalia pwns Ifurita in three simple moves and casually tosses her aside.
Base Breaker: Fatora is both loved and hated due of her jerk attitude. Some fans find it funny and other fans find it annoying.
Complete Monster: Galus. Sure, Phantom Tribe's situation isn't good, but that's not an excuse for all he did against people not responsible of the situation. He seemed to enjoy doing evil, and wanted the world to be cast into darkness and ruination because he'd like it that way.
Crazy Awesome: Katsuhiko Jinnai.
Crowning Moment of Funny One simple one, by Ura. Makoto is fiddling around with some strange Roshtarian technology while idly talking to Ura. As an armor cat, Ura is capable of shrugging off a lot of damage. Ura still has this to say about the experiments: Makoto experiment scary. What makes it so funny is the nervous-but-deadpan voice it's delivered in.
- "You saw that too? I thought I had the DT's!"
- Kalia calls Miz 'oba-san'.
Ensemble Darkhorse: Though drastically different from her OVA counterpart, TV Ifurita was apparently popular enough to be included in a radio drama taking place in OVA continuity, under the name of "Ifurina".
Evil Is Sexy: Queen Diva.
Nightmare Fuel: Kalia is really creepy.^{[dead link]}
Ho Yay: Galus and Nahato.
- Les Yay: Alielle and anyone female.
Idiot Ball: Afura Mann grabs it in the OVA when Ifurita attacks Roshtaria's palace. Ifurita takes out Miz and Shayla by using their own attacks against them. She then explains to Afura (the only one left standing at this point besides Makoto) that her power allows her to absorb and learn any attack thrown at her. Afura then immediately attacks Ifurita with her Badger's Slash attack which not only fails to hurt her, but then allows Ifurita to learn it herself, which she then uses to defeat Afura. She might have seen that coming.
Love to Hate: Jinnai.
Moe: Rune Venus in the TV series.
The Scrappy: Qawool is considered annoying by many fans.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Nahato didn't appears in the sequels despite the fact that he could make a good Big Bad.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: Jinnai and the Bugrom.
- YMMV. Some may think they are too funny to be unintentionally sympathetic.
The Woobie: Both OVA and TV Ifurita.
- Jerkass Woobie: TV Jinnai, where we go a little more in depth to what makes him tick. During his childhood, everyone prefered his neighbor Makoto and his sister Nanami and he was often alone. Also Kalia from the OVA. She is a terrible Ax Crazy bitch but a flashback to when she was a real human makes her a little more sympathetic.
What an Idiot!: In the TV Series, Nanami managed to become friends with the Bugrom and even with Queen Diva. So they will stop being evil, right? Well, that would be happening if Nanami didn't crush in front them a baby Bugrom, thinking this was just a normal insect (But don't worry, it recovered quickly.) Thus, the Bugrom locked her up and stayed evil, and that was exactly as Jinnai planned!