History VideoGame / PoppyPlaytime

** [[spoiler:The tradegy of the mascot's entire situation is made '''''very''''' apparent with Mommy Long Legs's death. She cries out in complete agony as she's slowly pulled into a grinder after getting one of her limbs caught in it while chasing you. Made even sadder when she expresses horror at the thought of being "part of him" after her death. It can definitely make you shiver thinking what in the hell awaits you in this godforsaken factory that is so deadly and horrifying it has ''Mommy'' quaking in her boots.]]

* BodyHorror: It's all but stated that Playtime Co. turned either the orphans it brought in or their own workers into living toys. The toys seen scattered all over the factory, as well as Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, Miss Delight and [=CatNap=] bleed when injured. Seeing the rather grotesque forms most of the toys take, the process was undoubtedly painful and horrifying for whoever went through it.
** While the process of turning into an insane toy is not yet entirely clear, seing [=DogDay=] torn apart and then being eaten from the inside is harrowing. Only for him to fall entirely silent and [[GlowingEyesOfDoom his eyes to give the glow]] all monstrous toys had so far as he begins to chase you down.

* BottomlessPit: Starting in Chapter 2, several of the factory's hallways have fallen into disrepair, with the floor breaking away to leave pits so deep you can't see all the way down. Naturally falling into one is an instant game over.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Press any button on a standee and you'll get treated to a voice-over line from the character it features. The first one is some sort of cute introduction, the second is fully in-line with their personality or major established character trait. Keep pressing it, however, and the implications of that personality turn dark ''very'' quickly before looping. For some specific examples:

** [=DogDay=] gets his own towards the end of chapter 3, notably after [[spoiler:you've met the real thing]]. His is the only one that isn't threatening... because he's trying to disguise your escape attempt through a game of fetch, and you didn't pick up on it in the earlier presses.

* CatsAreMean: Experiment 1188 aka [=CatNap=], the [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]] toy that menaces the Playcare in Chapter 3, was confirmed to be feline in the [=ARG=] for that chapter, making him the first instance of this in-game compared to Cat Bee and Candy Cat, who have yet to be encountered as monsters.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Possibly. Poppy may have been created with actual [=AI=], so she could have real conversations with her owner. However, given that her initial introduction is a tape where she literally says "I'm a real girl. [[DramaticPause (beat)]] Just like you.", it could be considered foreshadowing, [[spoiler:and the fact that Huggy Wuggy and Mommy Long Legs, which seem to be the same as Poppy in terms of being toys brought to life, bleed when you defeat them, implying they could be organic.]] Either way, it didn't end well.
** [[spoiler:A discarded voice line in the files has Poppy going much deeper into what happened at the factory. She is a human being who has been turned into a doll, either by [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane science, witchcraft,]] [[TakeAThirdOption or both.]] She is heavily implied to be the first success, and unfortunately one of many.]]

** It's easy to forget that Playtime Co.'s products, specifically their mascots, [[spoiler:were once regular people until being kidnapped and made into unwilling test subjects. After being experimented on, having their humanity taken away, and being abandoned in the factory for over a decade, it's no wonder most of them went insane]].
** [[spoiler:the tradegy of the mascot's entire situation is '''''very''''' apparent with Mommy Long Legs's death. She cries out in complete agony as she's slowly pulled into a grinder after getting one of her limbs caught in it while chasing you. Made even sadder when she expresses horror at the thought of being "part of him" after her death. It can definitely make you shiver thinking what in the hell awaits you in this godforsaken factory that is so deadly and horrifying it has ''Mommy'' quaking in her boots.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: As the protagonist has only just met Poppy at the end of Chapter 1 and all she says is "You opened my case", it's uncertain whether she'll be the BigBad, the BigGood, or neither. Chapter 2 does seem to be leaning towards her being the BigGood, though.

** It's easy to forget that Playtime Co.'s products, specifically their mascots, were once regular people until being kidnapped and made into unwilling test subjects. After being experimented on, having their humanity taken away, and being abandoned in the factory for over a decade, it's no wonder most of them went insane.
** [[spoiler:Very apparent with Mommy Long Legs's death. She cries out in complete agony as she's slowly pulled into a grinder after getting one of her limbs caught in it. Made even sadder when she expresses horror at the thought of being "part of him" after her death. Makes you shiver thinking what awaits you in this factory that is even more deadly and horrifying that has ''Mommy'' quaking in her boots.]]
* AndIMustScream: Poppy was trapped in the case you find her in for years, with no way of escaping or calling for help. You freeing her is the main reason she decides to help you in Chapter 2. She might have gone through this even before that, [[spoiler:as her maintenance tape has the words "LET ME GO" spelled out repeatedly in a FreezeFrameBonus as a bloody voicebox is being pulled out of her neck by tweezers.]]

* AntagonistTitle: Downplayed. The titles don't have the names of the toy you'll be facing in the title itself, but a saying related to them. By way of example, Chapter 1 is "A Tight Squeeze", where you encounter Huggy Wuggy. As far as we know, Poppy herself is not an antagonist.