Ultima IX/YMMV


 * Ending Aversion: Many Ultima fans regard this as a pretty terrible way to end the series.
 * Particularly notable is the description on The Spoony Experiment as "a top contender for the most blundered finale to an epic storyline in the history of fiction."
 * Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans pretend it never happened, and some are working on their own version of the game using other engines.
 * Franchise Original Sin: At least a few of the more widely-disliked aspects of the game's storyline — in particular, the Avatar's status as the Titan of Ether being swept under the rug, and Lord Blackthorn being evil again for no adequately explained reason — actually originated with the Bob White plot, even before things went horribly wrong.
 * Good Bad Bugs: An absolutely hilarious bug that occurs sometimes you kill an enemy has their corpse rapidly moving back an forth across the ground.
 * A reliable place for this seems to be the guards in the above ground section of Wrong.
 * Memetic Mutation: All thanks to Spoony:
 * "What's a Paladin?"
 * "Your knowledge of the land shall be great!"
 * "The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom?"
 * "I'm not entirely sure."
 * Most Annoying Sound: The Avatar randomly whistles. The Avatar randomly coughs. Even turning the voices off doesn't make it go away.
 * Narm Charm: Some of the voice acting.
 * "Want To Party?"
 * ""Surrrrrrrrrre, let's go!"
 * "What's a [thing that he should know from the previous games]?"
 * So Bad It's Good"
 * Good Bad Bugs: Wacked-out Ultima 9 shows a whole bunch of them.
 * That One Sidequest: The lighthouse sidequest, which requires you to search all of Britannia to find four gems in order to finish a set of lighthouses commissioned by Lord British. Such a lengthy, difficult quest isn't actually all that uncommon for this series; however, the prior Ultima games gave you much better rewards than the 100 gold pieces — an amount that you can easily get right at the start of the game if you're prepared to put the time into battling the tougher enemies — that you get for completing this quest.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: If only original lead developer Bob White stayed for the storyline...
 * Villain Decay: The Guardian, previously an unknown demonic force, is revealed here to be.
 * In Ultima V, Blackthorne was simply a dupe of the Shadowlords, warped by their magic but not inherently evil himself. Subsequent games strongly suggested he was undergoing a Redemption Quest all his own. Ultima IX has him suddenly evil again, with no clear motivation.
 * In Ultima V, Blackthorne was simply a dupe of the Shadowlords, warped by their magic but not inherently evil himself. Subsequent games strongly suggested he was undergoing a Redemption Quest all his own. Ultima IX has him suddenly evil again, with no clear motivation.