History Characters / MadRatDead

* NiceHat: She wears a snazzy pink and green top hat.

* NiceHat: Her straw bonnet is one of her defining features.

* SlasherSmile: Makes ones when Mad Rat states his intents to kill the doctor, and later makes a very potent one in the final battle, with it even frightening Mad Rat.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed. She does need Mad Rat to be eaten by a cat to survive, she even asks if it is so bad for her to try and live, but nevertheless demonstrates sincerely sadistic tendencies and does some needlessly cruel things for no real reason, like undoing Mad Rat saving the little girl from being hit by a truck.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Their boss forms show that their brains have [[MyBrainIsBig swollen to the point that they’ve burst out of their skulls, constantly throbbing and blocking their eyes,]] and their brains have been [[HumanPincushion pierced with pins.]] When they become vulnerable, said brains '''''[[YourHeadAsplofr explode]]''''', leaving them in a dead-eyed stupor. Their mouths have also become fanged maws to indicate their instinctive nature.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:After besting it in a boss fight, Mad Rat goes back in time to avert the fight against it, which the cat seems to understand, helping you escape from drowning. Later, when the Rad God tries to have Mad Rat eaten, it spares him.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Their boss forms show that their brains have [[MyBrainIsBig swollen to the point that they’ve burst out of their skulls, constantly throbbing and blocking their eyes,]] and their brains have been [[HumanPincushion pierced with pins.]] When they become vulnerable, said brains '''''[[BoomHeadshot explode]]''''', leaving them in a dead-eyed stupor. Their mouths have also become fanged maws to indicate their instinctive nature.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Their boss forms show that their brains have [[MyBrainIsBig swollen to the point that they’ve burst out of their skulls, constantly throbbing and blocking their eyes,]] and their brains have been [[HumanPincushion pierced with pins.]] When they become vulnerable, said brains '''''[[BoomHeadshot explode''''', leaving them in a dead-eyed stupor. Their mouths have also become fanged maws to indicate their instinctive nature.]]

Mad Rat's inmates at the lab. Unlike him, they have no desire to flee or fight back against the doctor.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Their boss forms show their pulsating brains exposed and poked with needles. Their mouths have also become fanged maws.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Tries to help Mad Rat in his quest for revenge. [[spoiler:Becomes this even more so following the reveal that [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Mad Rat's perception had been comprised from the beginning]], and keeps him from danger from then on.]]

'''(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)'''\\

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mad Rat figures out that [[spoiler:the parasite manifesting as the Rat God was inside of Heart during the transplant, and infected him aftrwards]].

!!Little Girl

!!Black Cat

* AndroclesLion: Mad Rat manages to save the black cat he fought from drowning. In turn, the cat refuses to eat him when they cross paths later [[spoiler:thanks to Rat God]].

!!Mob Rats

!!Stray Rats

!! Nightmares

* HollywoodHeartAttack: Averted; [[spoiler:his heart condition doesn't leave him prone to sudden cardiac arrest, but he does show the typical symptoms of heart failure before his dissection, primarily in how difficult it is for him to move due to the lack of oxygen in his system.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not quite at first, [[CharacterDevelopment but as the game goes along]] Mad Rat steadily becomes a highly gruff but less selfish person with great compassion.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[spoiler:As Heart controls the music, he has full control of it during the boss fight; Whenever he takes damage, he snaps his fingers and the music stops for a few seconds. He also claims to have seen Mad Rat die hundreds of times... that is, the many deaths the player rewound during gameplay.]]

* NiceGuy: A very kind and polite person who sincerely wants to help Mad Rat, [[WhatTheHellHero though won't hesitate to call him out on his nastier actions]].
* OnlySaneMan: Tries to help Mad Rat in his quest for revenge. [[spoiler:Becomes this even more so following the reveal that [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Mad Rat's perception had be comprised from the beginning]], and keeps him from danger from then on.]]
* OrganAutonomy: He's a sentient heart [[spoiler:and eventually revealed to hold the same consciousness as the animal he was originally from.]]

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: As the OnlySaneMan, Heart asks Mad Rat why he can't just uses his time powers to live forever. Mad Rat states that it would be no different [[WhoWantsToLiveForever than being stuck on the wheel]].

-->'''Rat God:''' Is that really a sin? I only want to live...

* BullyingTheDisabled: She teaches Mad Rat how to dash after mocking how Mad Rat is so slow when walking... which the game reveals is because Mad Rat has a bad heart.

* EvilAllAlong: She initially presents herself as being on Mad Rat's side, but from the beginning her true intentions were to get him killed.
* FacelessEye: Her true form when she's unable to - or unwilling to - keep up the guise of a God is a pile of disembodied eyes.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their only onscreen roles consist of [[spoiler:yelling about cheese and then dying, but they all hallucinate the Rat God giving them cheese before they die, cluing the player in on the Rat God's true motives.]]

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Averted ''hard'' in "Some Kind of Hope" [[spoiler:as Mad Rat witnesses the aftermath of the child being hit by a truck, and while we do not see the full body, the child's blood-soaked hat landing nearby her lifeless hand leaves very little to the imagination.]] [[spoiler: This trope is actually [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]: due to Mad Rat's time-manipulation, it doesn't stick, but thanks to Rat God, she nullifies said attempt. At the end of the game, this is once again averted thanks to Heart helping her.]]

* AndroclesLion: Mad Rat manages to save the black cat he fought from drowning. In turn, the cat refuses to eat him when they cross paths later [[spoiler:thanks to Rat God.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: After besting it in a boss fight, Mad Rat goes back in time to avert the fight against it, which the cat seems to understand, helping you escape from drowning. Later, when the Rad God tries to have Mad Rat eaten, it spares him.]]

* MeaningfulName: Nightmares mean "bad dreams", [[spoiler:which makes sense when they only exist in Mad Rat's head thanks to the Rat God.]]
* {{Mooks}}: They eventually turn out to serve as these to [[spoiler:The Rat God.]]

* BodyHorror: There is a giant hole in his chest, with his ribcage showing a bit.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her bright chibi anime design, particularly the TaremeEyes, really stands out from the rest of the characters who have more simplistic designs. Justified as this is an illusionary form she takes on as a parasite infecting Mad Rat's brain to get him eaten by a cat.

* MoralEventHorizon: Simply wanting to keep living isn't a bad thing. It's what the Rat God does to ''facilitate'' that that crosses the line: rewind time all the way back to before Mad Rat left the lab so that he'll be eaten by a cat as planned, undoing every life he spared/saved in the process. This pisses off Mad Rat so much that he spends the rest of the game pulling a TakingYouWithMe.

* HeroicBSOD: He has several whenever the Rat God appears, falling down and fainting. [[spoiler:He has a big but short one upon realizing that the first half of the game only happened in his head.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Tries to help Mad Rat in his quest for revenge. [[spoiler:Becomes this even more so following the reveal that Mad Rat's perception had be comprised from the beginning, and keeps him from danger from then on.]]

* TheConscience: To Mad Rat, calling him out on his less-than-upstanding actions. Ultimately, Mad Rat's self-improvement comes from Heart's words.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Loses its composure when the Heart breaks into its hallucination.

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