The Divine Comedy (band)/YMMV

The epic poem

 * Intended Audience Reaction: Beatrice is used by This Wiki as the example of a "good" Mary Sue to show that Tropes Are Not Bad. Dante is similarly a "good" Marty Stu.
 * Dante isn't a Marty Stu, he's got loads of character faults: he's cowardly, petty, violent at times and he submits himself to the penances for Pride, Lust, and Wrath in Purgatory. Beatrice's faultlessness can possibly be explained by the fact that Dante was madly in love with her when he wrote the poem.
 * He is also a Marty Stu in the sense that he lavishes a huge amount of praise on his own writing skills. In Canto IV of Inferno, Dante and Virgil meet up with the ghosts of Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. All five of these great poets from history -- the 4 they meet, and Virgil -- then accept Dante as a sixth member of their exalted group, as if to say he was their equal.
 * While there's no doubt that Dante was being a bit egotistical keep in mind that he is still studied centuries later and his work receives numerous allusions in modern fiction. He seems to be pretty on the level with them in terms of how much he influenced society.
 * Memetic Mutation: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
 * Tear Jerker: Ugolino's backstory and tragic death.
 * What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs: The final cantos of Purgatorio describe creatures that wouldn't be out of place in the biblical Book of Daniel or Revelation to John. These included 6-winged angels with eyes covering their wings, a gryphon, an analogue for the Whore of Babylon, and a giant who abused said Whore of Babylon.

The band itself

 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The Divine Comedy was initially more successful in France than in Britain.