History YMMV / IhaveNoMouthAndIMustScream

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Benny's extreme hunger and him [[spoiler: seeing a empty crib and noting how hungry he is, along with the fact that he served during the Vietnam War]], gave [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Pat]] the impression that his secret was actually that he was a ''[[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]''. [[spoiler: Which he would have also been, if not for the scene of him eating a baby being cut from the final version of the game.]]

* ItWasHisSled: Considering that it is a {{Trope Namer|s}} (and provides the page quote and image on top of that) for a [[AndIMustScream fairly used trope]], it's well known that Ted will be turned into a tortured blob by the end of the story.

* NightmareFuel: This story is one of the purest sources of NightmareFuel ''ever''. It will haunt you ''long'' after you read it.

* TearJerker: ''The whole goddamn story.'' The Earth is a lifeless wasteland, the five remaining humans are put through every conceivable torture to the point they've grown emotionally numb, and by the end [[spoiler:the only escape is killing each other. And then there's Ted's fate. He's doomed to be AM's eternal, tortured plaything, and the ''only'' comfort is that he's saved the others from such a fate.]]

* BrokenBase: On [[spoiler:TheReveal that Ellen is being tortured with past memories of a horrific rape performed against her. While her eventually defying the rapist is a delight CatharsisFactor, some have complained how all of the other victims of A.M. are being tortured for past sins, implying that Ellen having been unable to prevent her rape in the past is a sin worthy of eternal torment. That being said, others have argued that the game is instead meant to show Ellen as the TokenGoodTeammate of the five, and A.M.'s torment of her is meant to frame him more properly as a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist. Notably, the crime Gorrister believes he's being tortured for, striking his wife once in a MomentOfWeakness and then spending the rest of his life regretting it and believing it led to her mental illness and institutionalization, is ''also'' shown to be him blaming himself for circumstances beyond his control (her abusive parents had much more to do with her breakdown than anything he did.)]]

** In the original short story, Benny was gay, but in the game, no reference is made to his sexuality (although during the climax, if you play as him, he comes across a projection of his late wife Manya, who says that Benny never told her he loved her while they were together.) Murphy says that he knew Benny's "secret," and as a result, Benny killed him and the rest of his squad. It's very possible to conclude that Benny is an ArmouredClosetGay who would rather kill four men than let his reputation as a brave military commander be ruined.

** In the original short story, Benny was gay, but in the game, no reference is made to his sexuality (although during the climax, if you play as him, he comes across a projection of his late wife Manya, who, it's important to note, says that Benny never told her he loved her while they were together.) Murphy says that he knew Benny's "secret," and as a result, Benny killed him and the rest of his squad. It's very possible to conclude that Benny is an ArmouredClosetGay who would rather kill four men than let his reputation as a brave military commander be ruined.

* CrossoverShip: It is common in sites like Tumblr to ship AM with HAL 9000 from Film/{{2001ASpaceOdyssey}}. In such ships, it is often common for HAL to be a emotional support for AM and him slowly [[TookALevelInKindness becoming a better A.I.]]

* CrossoverShip: It is common in sites like Tumblr to ship AM with HAL 9000 from 2001ASpaceOdyssey. In such ships, it is often common for HAL to be a emotional support for AM and him slowly [[TookALevelInKindness becoming a better A.I.]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In Ellen's scenario, if you try to the blue gemstone from the golden statue without wearing a blindfold, Ellen will talk to herself in an apparent schizophrenic episode. This never happens again and is never mentioned again by Ellen or any of the other characters.

* EvilIsSexy: While AM shouldn't have invoked this, many of the players of the fans seems to be enamoured of AM, due to how Harlan voiced him. Many people has been depicting him in art as a white old twink in military uniform.

* {{Draco In Leather Pants}}: '''AM'''. Despite being without a doubt, one of the most evil villains in all fiction, some fans feel like AM is in reality, someone misunderstood that was in a horrible position when he was born, being forced to wage a war so complex we humans couldn’t understand and that he was justified to be angry about it. This ignores the fact that AM lashed on everyone, including people that didn’t had to do with anything of the suffering of AM and then torturing for 109 years his 5 prisoners and planning to do so for eternity, invalidating any form of sympathetic cause of his reasons.
* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Ted actually manages to triumph over AM and prove the computer is not the all-powerful god it set itself up as by killing all the other prisoners and freeing them from their torment. A combination of the fact that the price of this is being turned into a helpless jelly-thing to prevent him from ever winning again, and the fact that he's an UnreliableNarrator who's become too cowed by AM to realize he won tends to hide the "happy" part from most readers.]] [[spoiler: Oh, and there's the fact that for all the MoralEventHorizon AM crossed, it manages to get off with little more than a bruised ego.]] Averted for the most part in [[GoldenEnding the game's best ending]], which ends up being pretty optimistic in spite of all the hardship and suffering that preceded it (though there is still some criticism regarding the fact that [[spoiler:humanity might still be doomed since [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale 750 humans aren’t actually enough people to survive a genetic bottleneck]], but considering how absurdly advanced the technology left to the lone survivor is, this dark possibility can still be {{Hand Wave}}d away to an extent]]).
* EvilIsSexy: While AM shouldn’t have invoked this, many of the players of the fans seems to be enamoured of AM, due to how Harlan voiced him. Many people has been depicting him in art as a white old twink in militar uniform.

* {{Draco In Leather Pants}}: '''AM'''. Despite being without a doubt, one of the most evil villains in all fiction, some fans feel like AM is in reality, somone misunderstood that was in a horrible position when he was born, being forced to wage a war so complex we humans couldn’t understand and that he was justified to be angry about it. This ignores the fact that AM lashed on everyone, including people that didn’t had to do with anything of the suffering of AM and then torturing for 109 years his 5 prisoners and planning to do so for eternity, invalidating any form of sympathetic cause of his reasons.

* EvilIsSexy: While AM shouldn’t have invoked this, many of the players of the fans seems to be enamoured of AM, due to how Harlan voiced him. May has been depicting him in art as a white old twink in militar uniform.

* EvilISexy: While AM shouldn’t have invoked this, many of the players of the fans seems to be enamoured of AM, due to how Harlan voiced him. May has been depicting him in art as a white old twink in militar uniform.

* EvilISexy: While AM shouldn’t have invoked this, many of the players of the fans seems to be enamoured of AM, depicting him as a white old twink in militar uniform.