History YMMV / DoomRepercussionsOfEvil

* {{Applicability}}: It's common courtesy to write a review of this FanFic as if it's a literary classic studied in English classes.

* FridgeBrilliance:
** The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games: some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part, they will be immobilized inside the architecture.
** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' includes "[[ApocalypticLog The Slayer's Testament]]" that says the demons collapsed a whole temple on the Doom Slayer to keep him contained. They may well have used some demons as bait to lure him into the area, and deliberately made the ceiling fall on him. The AndThenJohnWasAZombie that followed was Hell's attempt to corrupt the Slayer, which ultimately failed. It could have also metaphorically happened when the beginning of ''2016'' has him awaken from his coffin, and "you are the demons" potentially referring to how he's become TheDreaded to even them, which The Slayer's Testament proves correct.

** While it has yet to be added, ''Eternal'' will feature an "Invasion Mode", where players are allowed to be demons in another player's campaign to stop their progress. Simultaneously, the multiplayer-based "Battlemode" has one player as the Doom Slayer while the opposing team of two players can control selectable demons. Furthermore, one skin for the Doom Slayer in ''Eternal'' allows players to [[https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en/article/5qFGqm1N32Ra2Aqw0uZB5F/the-zombie-doom-slayer-lives be a zombie]].

* AssPull: "And then John was a zombie."

** The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games: some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part, he will be immobilized inside the architecture.

* SoBadItsGood: Years after the story was published, the author made it clear that it was his intent to make a purposefully-corny story full of grammatical errors. He succeeded.

* ShockingSwerve: "And then John was a zombie."

* HarsherInHindsight: John's need to kill all the demons in the fic becomes this in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' [[spoiler:during the {{Flashback}} sequences in the "Sentinel Prime" level, where Doomguy, having fought demons for an unspecified time after ''VideoGame/Doom64'', reached the world of Argent D'Nur and is in a complete, mental wreck, verballing expousing how he needs to "Kill them...must kill them all!", indicating that Doomguy really was traumatized fighting demons]].

** The fic's WhamLine [[spoiler:"No, John: you ''are'' the demons"]] takes on a whole different meaning when the ending of ''The Ancient Gods - Part One'', DownloadableContent for ''Doom Eternal'', shows [[spoiler:[[SatanicArchetype the Dark Lord]], the supreme leader of all of Hell's armies, is the AlternateUniverse EvilCounterpart of the Doom Slayer]].

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* {{Applicability}}: It's common courtesy to write a review of this fanfic as if it's a literary classic studied in English classes.

** The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original ''Doom'' games; some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part he will be immobilized inside the architecture.
** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' includes a piece of lore that says the demons collapsed a whole temple on the Doomguy to keep him contained. They may well have used some demons as bait to lure him into the area, and deliberately made the ceiling fall on him. The AndThenJohnWasAZombie that followed was Hell's attempt to corrupt the Doomguy, which ultimately failed. It could have also metaphorically happened when the beginning of the game has him awaken from his coffin, and "you are the demons" potentially referring to how he's become TheDreaded to even them.

** A soldier named John, trapped in a losing battle that is taking a toll on his sanity, ends up finding out from what he thinks is the voice of his commanding officer over the radio that he indeed is the true monster. This is hilariously similar to the infamous TwistEnding of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' a few years later.
** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'''s backstory strongly implies that the trips to hell and back have made the Doomguy at least partly demonic.
** ''Videogame/DoomEternal'' has Invasion Mode which does indeed allow you to be the demons. And the game also has a skin that lets you '''to be a zombie'''.
** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' also [[spoiler:'''''[[AscendedFanon deliberately alludes to this fanfic]]''''' in its flashbacks sequences, playing it all completely straight and ''making it work on top of that!'']]
** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal's'' DLC in ''The Ancient Gods Part 1'' makes the line [[spoiler:"No, John. You are the demons."]] ''much more'' meaningful when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark Lord, the supreme leader of all of Hell's armies, is... an evil Alternate Universe version of the Doom Slayer themselves]].
* ItWasHisSled: The last three lines of the story TwistEnding is the most quoted part of the story, and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie there's even a trope named after it]].

** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal's'' DLC in ''The Ancient Gods Part 1'' makes the line [[spoiler:"No, John. You are the demons."]] much more meaningful when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark Lord, the supreme leader of all of Hell's armies, is... an evil Alternate Universe version of the Doom Slayer themselves]].

** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal's'' DLC in ''The Ancient Gods Part 1'' makes the line [[spoiler:"No, John, you are the demons"]] much more meaningful when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Dark Lord, the supreme leader of all of Hell's armies, is... an evil Alternate Universe version of the Doom Slayer themselves]].

** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal's'' DLC in ''The Ancient Gods Part 1'' [[spoiler:makes the line "No, John, you are the demons" much more meaningful when it's revealed that the Dark Lord, the supreme leader of all of Hell's armies, is... an evil Alternate Universe version of the Doom Slayer themselves]].

* ItWasHisSled: The last three lines of the story TwistEnding is the most quoted part of the story, and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombi there's even a trope named after it]].

** The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original DOOM games; some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part he will be immobilized inside the architecture.

%%* ItWasHisSled
* MemeticMutation: According to Website/KnowYourMeme, [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doom-repercussions-of-evil this story has now reached memetic status.]]

%%* SoBadItsGood

** ''Videogame/DoomEternal'' has Invasion Mode which does indeed allow you to be the demons.

** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' includes a piece of lore that says the demons collapsed a whole temple on the Doomguy to keep him contained. They may well have used some demons as bait to lure him into the area, and deliberately made the ceiling fall on him. The AndThenJohnWasAZombie that followed was Hell's attempt to corrupt the Doomguy, which ultimately failed.

* FridgeBrilliance: The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original DOOM games; some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part he will be immobilized inside the architecture.

* HilariousInHindsight: A soldier named John, trapped in a losing battle that is taking a toll on his sanity, ends up finding out from what he thinks is the voice of his commanding officer over the radio that he indeed is the true monster. This is hilariously similar to the infamous TwistEnding of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' a few years later.

%%* SoBadItsGood

* HilariousInHindsight: A soldier named John, trapped in a losing battle that is taking a toll on his sanity, ends up finding out from what he thinks is the voice of his commanding officer over the radio that he indeed is the true monster. This is hilariously similar to the infamous TwistEnding of [[note]][[spoiler:VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine]][[/note]] a few years later.

%%* ShockingSwerve

* ItWasHisSled: See Downer Ending.

* ShockingSwerve
* SoBadItsGood

* HilariousInHindsight: A soldier named John, trapped in a losing battle that is taking a toll on his sanity, ends up finding out from what he thinks is the voice of his commanding officer over the radio that he indeed is the true monster. This is hilariously similar to the infamous TwistEnding of [[note]][[spoiler:VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine[[/note]] a few years later.

* {{Applicability}} -- It's common courtesy to write a review of this fanfic as if it's a literary classic studied in English classes.
* FridgeBrilliance -- The collapsing ceiling that traps John can actually happen in the original DOOM games; some crushing ceilings do not retract upward, and if the player survives the crushing part he will be immobilized inside the architecture.

* MemeticMutation -- Nearly all of the story, but the last 2 lines in particular.