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* [[Complete Monster]]: The Draka, obviously, but even amongst those monsters Yolande Ingolfsson takes it [[Up to Eleven]], and combines it with [[Psycho Lesbian]] and [[Karma Houdini]]. Let's see:
** Yolande's lover is killed in action by an Alliance soldier named Fred LeFarge. Note that there was nothing unusual about her death
** Around the same time she captures Fred's sister Marya, turns her into a serf as well as a concubine, and forces her to have her lover's cloned child by repeatedly torturing her.
*** She is called out on this on several occasions ''[[Even Evil Has Standards|by other Draka]]'', including von Shrakenberg himself (who {{spoiler|dresses Yolande down not only for triggering the Final War over her blind lust for vengeance but also for leaking information about the Stone Dogs virus to Marya, a known Alliance agent}}) and ''her own brother'':
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*** The Draka did appreciate fine art, especially Greco-Roman and Renaissance work. They systematically looted the Vatican specifically for its art collection.
* [[Villain Sue]]: Several readers have noted multiple instances of [[Plot Induced Stupidity]] acting in the favor of the Draka during their rise to power; as mentioned above, much of the point of the Draka is to have [[The Empire]] ''win'' "for a change". Still it's somewhat unlikely and Stirling shows complete favouritism.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215010450/http://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/analyses/Drakaproblems.html This site] does a fairly decent job pointing out the many problems with the whole Draka concept (and uses the phrase "act of God" eight times). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527183344/http://gateway.alternatehistory.com/timelines/Alternatedraka.html This site] presents a much more likely scenario for Draka history.
*** Although the first link is made a bit suspect when early on it makes the error of claiming no significant eruption happened in Iceland 1783-86. SM Stirling gets it right since it was actually the most devastating eruption in Icelandic history and killed a third of the population. Considering the rest of the points, having a large proportion of the population settle somewhere else isn't so unrealistic-half the current population is a bit of a stretch though.
*** One review of the ''Wraeththu'' RPG described the Draka books as "handing them an I Win button."
*** Stirling in later years has become more willing to acknowledge the holes in his earlier work (the Draka series was one of his first professional sales). In the ''Drakas!'' anthology (which he edited) there is a rather ruthless deconstruction by another author of ''Marching Through Georgia'' in general and Eric von Shrakenberg in particular. One of the best stories in the book.
** However, that's what you get with alternate-universe fiction. Those many, many universes in which the Draka much more plausibly got their asses handed to them aren't the ones we end up hearing about.
*** There have been quite a few attempts essayed, some more successful than others, to write alternates to the [[Alternate Universe]] in which the Draka get theirs. [[
*** Admittedly, the A-10 "Warthog" is almost that absurdly armored in real life.
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