History YMMV / EatThemAlive

* FoeYay: Dyke has quite a bit of this going on for his former sidekicks. He even [[spoiler:makes one, Ryan, who is quite the beefcake, strip nude before killing him]].

* FoeYay: Dyke has quite a bit of this going on for his former sidekicks. He even [[spoiler:makes one, Ryan, who is quite the beefcake, strip nude before killing him.]]

* {{Squick}}: The whole book, but especially the aforementioned boob-ripping and baby-eating... and one scene wherein a woman is literally, uh "eaten out" by a mantis.
* VillainSue: A given, considering the entire novel is told from the [[UnreliableNarrator point of view]] of the VillainProtagonist.

* VillainSue: A given, considering the entire novel is told from the [[UnreliableNarrator point of view]] of the VillainProtagonist.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dyke at first. Then he just goes too far and stops being even remotely pitiable.

* CompleteMonster: Dyke is a loathsome excuse for a human being. He lets his mantises eat the entire population of several villages, including the babies and children. Later, Dyke forces his former partners to watch their wives and kids (for whose lives they beg profusely) get gobbled up before they themselves get eaten. Just for kicks he even has the mantises eat their neighbors, who are entirely uninvolved.

** The guys he's getting revenge on [[AssholeVictim aren't much better]]. Despite having cooled down and started normal lives with families by the time Dyke comes calling, they were still a bunch of murdering thieves who cut up an old man ForTheEvulz.

* FetishFuel: Mantises eating people is this for Dyke. Odd, given he has lost the ability to become aroused.

* {{Squick}}: The whole book, but especially the aforementioned boob-ripping and baby-eating... and one scene wherein a woman is literally, uh "eaten out" by a mantis. IfYouKnowWhatIMean.

* {{Narm}}: The mantises' victims screaming things such as "Don't eat me anymore!" ''while being eaten''. Also the thief Dyke finds in his house (and later feeds to Slayer), upon being caught, begs Dyke, "Don't break my bones!"

* EthnicScrappy: The Colombian natives, especially Keko. The Mexican vaquero might count, too.

** The guys he's getting revenge one, Pete in particular, [[AssholeVictim aren't much better]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dyke sees himself this way at first. After a while, though, he quits making up excuses and then it's just all ForTheEvulz.

** The other gang members, Pete in particular, [[AssholeVictim aren't much better]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Dyke sees himself this way at first. After a while, though, it's just all about [[FetishFuel watching people getting eaten]] [[ForTheEvulz for the fun of it]].

* CompleteMonster: While his entire gang may qualify considering what they do to their robbery victims, Dyke especially is a loathsome excuse for a human being. He lets his mantises eat the entire population of a native village, including the babies and children. Later, not content to just kill his former partners, Dyke also forces them to watch their wives and kids (for whose lives they beg profusely) get gobbled up before they themselves get eaten. Just for kicks he even has the mantises eat their neighbors, who are entirely uninvolved.
* {{Narm}}: The mantises' victims screaming things such as "Don't eat me!" or "Stop eating me!" ''while being eaten''.

* VillainSue: A given, considering the entire novel is told from the [[UnreliableNarrator point of view]] of the VillainProtagonist.

* VillianSue: A given, considering the entire novel is told from the [[UnreliableNarrator point of view]] of the VillainProtagonist.

* VillanSue: A given, considering the entire novel is told from the [[UnreliableNarrator point of view]] of the VillainProtagonist.

* CompleteMonster: While his entire gang may qualify considering what they do to their robbery victims, Dyke especially is a loathsome excuse for a human being. He lets his mantises eat the entire population of a native village, including the babies and children. Later, not content to just kill his former partners, Dyke also forces them to watch their wives and kids (for whose lives they beg profusely) get gobbled up before they themselves get eaten. Just for kicks he even has the mantises eat their neighbors, who are entirely uninvolved.

* CompleteMonster: While his entire gang may qualify considering what they do to their robbery victims, Dyke especially is a loathsome excuse for a human being. He (somehow) tricks an entire native village's population into coming to Malpelo Island just to feed his mantises. Later, not satisfied with just having his former partners get eaten, he also forces them to watch their wives and children get eaten first. Yes not even innocent kids are spared Dyke's wrath. He has virtually no redeeming qualities or likable attributes at all.