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* TheWoobie: ''Everyone''. [[spoiler: Sayori has crippling depression and is finally DrivenToSuicide by Monika, and the other two girls have sympathetic problems of their own even before Monika starts rewriting their personalities, with Yuri retaining awareness of her growing psychosis but being unable to stop it. Even Monika, as terrifying as she is, is being affected by the knowledge that she's merely a fictional character and neither her nor anyone around her are real, and finally ends up destroying the game for the happiness of the player.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Were Sayori's depression, Natsuki's tsundere nature and Yuri's NightmareFetishist tendencies always part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion suggests the latter.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Were Sayori's depression, Natsuki's tsundere nature and Yuri's NightmareFetishist tendencies actually part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make those traits up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion suggests the latter.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Were Sayori's depression, Natsuki's tsundere nature and Yuri's NightmareFetishist tendencies actually part of their original characters that Monika simply dialed up as time went on, or did Monika make them up wholesale? The fact that none of them seem to be present after Monika's deletion suggests the latter.]]

** [[spoiler: Monika. Is she a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a dating sim that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy self-aware {{Yandere}} who ended up corrupting and killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them?]]

* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Monika. Is she a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a dating sim that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy self-aware {{Yandere}} who ended up corrupting and killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them?]]

* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Monika. Is she a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a dating sim that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy self-aware {{Yandere}} who ended up killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them?]]

* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Monika. Is she a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a dating sim that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy {{Yandere}} who ended up killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them?]]

* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Monika. Is she a tragic figure trapped with the knowledge that she's a fictional character in a dating sim that goes out of its way to railroad the player away from spending time with her, or just a creepy {{Yandere}} who ended up killing everyone with the justification that they're not real people, even though she's just as "real" as any of them.]]

* UncannyValley: Some of the glitching after [[spoiler:Sayori's suicide]] falls deep into this category. Special mention goes to the photo-realistic eyes and mouths.

** Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'s ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.'' has a similar SurpriseCreepy twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will [[InterfaceScrew sabotage the game to get what they want]]. She also alters your save file during that part, as well as [[{{Unperson}} deleting other characters]]]]. At the end of the game, [[spoiler:she also [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou addresses the player directly]]]]. However, the circumstances are different.

** Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'s ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.'' has a similar SurpriseCreepy twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will [[InterfaceScrew sabotage the game to get what they want]]. The game also alters your save file during that part. At the end of the game, the main heroine also [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou addresses the player directly]],]]. However, the circumstances are different.

** Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'s ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.'' has a similar twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will [[InterfaceScrew sabotage the game to get what they want]]. The game also alters your save file during that part]]. However, the circumstances are different.

** Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'s ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi'' has a similar twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will [[InterfaceScrew sabotage the game to get what they want]]]]. However, the circumstances are different.

** The obscure DatingSim ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi'' has a similar twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will sabotage the game to get what they want]]. However, there the circumstances are different.

** While variants of "[character] is best girl" is nothing new, this has only increased in popularity in reference to Monika [[spoiler:due to her being such a {{Yandere}} that she sabotages the game so that not only she has a route, but the '''only''' route.]]

** ''VisualNovel/MyHaremHeavenIsYandereHell'' is another "RomanceGame gone wrong" example, only this time its due to in-universe reasons instead of the more meta reasons of this game.
* UncannyValley: Some of the glitching after [[spoiler:Sayori's suicide]] fall deep into this category. Special mention goes to the photo-realistic eyes and mouths.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The obscure DatingSim ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi'' has a similar twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will sabotage the game to get what they want]]. However, there the circumstances are different.
** MyHaremHeavenIsYandereHell is another "Dating sim gone wrong" example, only this time its due to in-universe reasons instead of the more meta reasons of this game.

* NightmareFuel: There's a reason why the game comes with its content warnings. [[NightmareFuel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub See why at your own risk.]]

* NightmareFuel: There's a reason why the game comes with its content warnings. The fear sets in with [[spoiler:Sayori's "poem" on the day of the festival and it only goes downhill from there.]]

* HeartwarmingMoments:
** One of Natsuki's poems in the [[spoiler:second playthrough]] is this. [[spoiler:It's actually a note saying that she's concerned about Yuri's SanitySlippage, and that she feels you're best to convince her to get help, as it'd only start another argument if she did it personally and Monika keeps sweeping it under the rug.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Monika's interference]] makes it moot.
** In the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler:Sayori gains awareness of the player's saving and loading to go through each girl's route, and is touched by how much they care to take these efforts. While overjoyed that everyone had their chance to be happy, she has nothing to offer in return except by keeping the club's doors open. Aware that the game has reached its end, she gives one last heartfelt goodbye before the credits roll.]]

** [=monikaS=] [[labelnote:Explanation]][=monkaS=] is a Twitch emote to convey fear and/or anxiety. It didn't take long for users to mutate the term, and it becomes doubly relevant once Monika's role in the story is understood.[[/spoiler]]

* HeartwarmingMoments: One of Natsuki's poems in the [[spoiler:second playthrough]] is this. [[spoiler:It's actually a note saying that she's concerned about Yuri's SanitySlippage, and that she feels you're best to convince her to get help, as it'd only start another argument if she did it personally and Monika keeps sweeping it under the rug.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Monika's interference]] makes it moot.

** Two words: [[spoiler:"Just Monika."]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]She has a tendency to railroad options into her favor[[/labelnote]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: The obscure DatingSim ''Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi'' has a similar twist of [[spoiler:a medium aware {{Yandere}} who has fallen in love with the player and will sabotage the game to get what they want]]. However, there the circumstances are different.