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* BrokenBase: While even the story's detractors admit that they like how the story sets the atmosphere at the beginning and that Jack's design is pretty good or at least decent, there are plenty of complaints about the story getting too gory too fast and how the mother still being able to write after being institutionalized does not happen in real life.
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* BrokenBase: While even the story's detractors admit that they like how the story sets the atmosphere at the beginning and that Jack's design is pretty good or at least decent, there are plenty of complaints about the story getting too gory too fast and how the mother still being able to write after being institutionalized does is not happen in real life.realistic.
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* BrokenBase: While even the story's detractors admit that they like how the story sets the atmosphere at the beginning and that Jack's design is pretty good or at least decent, there are plenty of complaints about the story getting too gory too fast and how the mother still being able to write after being institutionalized does not happen in real life.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Jack's torture of Isaac is so gory and over-the-top it arguably loops around to being funny.
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** Isaac Grossman has become so twisted with hatred as an adult that he becomes a SerialKiller, his first victim being a lady from the bar that [[AttemptedRape he tried to rape]] before giving up and breaking her skull open. He later subjects several others, [[WouldHurtAChild even children]], to gruesome torture and death, like bashing a boy's head to bits.
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** Isaac Grossman has become so twisted with hatred as an adult that he becomes a SerialKiller, his first victim being a lady he brought home from the bar that [[AttemptedRape he tried tries to rape]] before giving up and breaking her skull open. He later subjects several others, [[WouldHurtAChild even children]], to gruesome torture and death, like bashing a boy's head to bits.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: While there is an angle of sympathy for the titular MonsterClown in that his corruption was caused by his design to adapt to his playmate's personality, that being Isaac, and that boy later becoming a SerialKiller, Laughing Jack becomes even more ruthless than the one who influenced him, as proven when Isaac is mildly rebuffed by his own ColdBloodedTorture while the clown watches with glee. Laughing Jack would proceed to slaughter several children in horrific ways over the years, but some fans say his crimes are not his own fault at all, but instead Isaac's, as his neglect led Laughing Jack to turn into a monster.
* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that they were excessive.
** James is almost mutilated beyond recognition yet kept alive and pinned to the wall for his mother to see. She can't help but puke at the sight.
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating. What takes the cake out of it all, however, is when Laughing Jack ''[[PestController summons cockroaches out of his mouth]]'' to inflate Isaac's punctured stomach, and they crawl all over his insides, including out of his nose and mouth.
* TearJerker:
** At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son. She's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone utterly distraught at what she's done]] as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with a lonely boy named Isaac, and was to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which only Isaac could open once he returned, in the meantime.. Jack spent years waiting for him and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation lost himself in his solitude]] so much that his [[GrayscaleOfEvil colors fade away]]. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the now colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a SerialKiller, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac i's implied to [[GoOutWithASmile have went out with a smile]]. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted SerialKiller, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that they were excessive.
** James is almost mutilated beyond recognition yet kept alive and pinned to the wall for his mother to see. She can't help but puke at the sight.
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating. What takes the cake out of it all, however, is when Laughing Jack ''[[PestController summons cockroaches out of his mouth]]'' to inflate Isaac's punctured stomach, and they crawl all over his insides, including out of his nose and mouth.
* TearJerker:
** At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son. She's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone utterly distraught at what she's done]] as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with a lonely boy named Isaac, and was to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which only Isaac could open once he returned, in the meantime.. Jack spent years waiting for him and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation lost himself in his solitude]] so much that his [[GrayscaleOfEvil colors fade away]]. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the now colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a SerialKiller, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac i's implied to [[GoOutWithASmile have went out with a smile]]. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted SerialKiller, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: While there is an angle of sympathy for the titular MonsterClown in that his corruption was caused by his design to adapt to his playmate's personality, that being Isaac, and that boy later becoming a SerialKiller, Laughing Jack becomes even more ruthless than the one who influenced him, as proven when Isaac is mildly rebuffed thrown off by his own ColdBloodedTorture while the clown watches with glee. Laughing Jack would proceed to then slaughter several children in horrific ways over the years, but some fans say his crimes are not his own fault at all, but instead Isaac's, as his neglect led and vile ways turned Laughing Jack to turn into a monster.
* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that theywere are excessive.
** James isalmost mutilated to almost beyond recognition yet still kept alive and pinned to the wall for his mother to see. She can't help but puke at the sight.
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific andnauseating. nauseating, from blowing a balloon made from his intestine to fiddling an injection needle in his eye. What takes the cake out of it all, however, is when Laughing Jack ''[[PestController summons cockroaches out of his mouth]]'' mouth]] to inflate Isaac's punctured stomach, and they stomach'', which crawl all over his insides, including out of his nose and mouth.
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** Several mysterious and horrifying things happen around James' mother's home, but the climax where the entity that caused them finally reveals himself is terrifying. After finding her mutilated (yet alive) son, the titular Laughing Jack cackles from the shadows, his grotesque ragdoll-like figure towering between the mother and her child. Jack laughing at the "work" he made of James makes the mother snap, running towards the monster with a knife, but he vanishes for the blade to kill James instead, which horrifies and shatters her.
** Isaac Grossman has become so twisted with hatred as an adult that he becomes a SerialKiller, his first victim being a lady from the bar that [[AttemptedRape he tried to rape]] before giving up and breaking her skull open. He later subjects several others, [[WouldHurtAChild even children]], to gruesome torture and death, like bashing a boy's head to bits.
** Laughing Jack's torture of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating compared to that of what Isaac subjected any of his victims to. Mutilating Isaac's mouth and abdomen, as well as [[EyeScream injecting a needle into his eye (which is kept open with fish hooks), fiddling it around and removing it along with the eyeball]] is either horrifying, NauseaFuel, or both.
* TearJerker:
** The titular Laughing Jack is an entity that horrifically kills children. At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son.She's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She's utterly distraught at what she's done]] as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends witha the lonely boy named Isaac, and was made to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which only Isaac could only open once he returned, in the meantime.. after returning. Years passed and Jack spent years waiting for him and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation lost himself in his solitude]] so much that his [[GrayscaleOfEvil colors fade faded away]]. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the now colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a SerialKiller, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaaci's is implied to [[GoOutWithASmile have went out with a smile]]. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted SerialKiller, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that they
** James is
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific and
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** Several mysterious and horrifying things happen around James' mother's home, but the climax where the entity that caused them finally reveals himself is terrifying. After finding her mutilated (yet alive) son, the titular Laughing Jack cackles from the shadows, his grotesque ragdoll-like figure towering between the mother and her child. Jack laughing at the "work" he made of James makes the mother snap, running towards the monster with a knife, but he vanishes for the blade to kill James instead, which horrifies and shatters her.
** Isaac Grossman has become so twisted with hatred as an adult that he becomes a SerialKiller, his first victim being a lady from the bar that [[AttemptedRape he tried to rape]] before giving up and breaking her skull open. He later subjects several others, [[WouldHurtAChild even children]], to gruesome torture and death, like bashing a boy's head to bits.
** Laughing Jack's torture of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating compared to that of what Isaac subjected any of his victims to. Mutilating Isaac's mouth and abdomen, as well as [[EyeScream injecting a needle into his eye (which is kept open with fish hooks), fiddling it around and removing it along with the eyeball]] is either horrifying, NauseaFuel, or both.
* TearJerker:
** The titular Laughing Jack is an entity that horrifically kills children. At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac
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* DracoInLeatherPants: While there is an angle of sympathy for the titular MonsterClown in that his corruption was caused by his design to adapt to his playmate's personality, that being Isaac, and that boy later becoming a SerialKiller, Laughing Jack becomes even more ruthless than the one who influenced him, as proven when Isaac is mildly rebuffed by his own ColdBloodedTorture while the clown watches with glee. Laughing Jack would proceed to slaughter several children in horrific ways over the years, but some fans say his crimes are not his own fault at all, but instead Isaac's, as his neglect led Laughing Jack to turn into a monster.
* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that they were excessive.
** James is almost mutilated beyond recognition yet kept alive and pinned to the wall for his mother to see. She can't help but puke at the sight.
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating. What takes the cake out of it all, however, is when Laughing Jack ''[[PestController summons cockroaches out of his mouth]]'' to inflate Isaac's punctured stomach, and they crawl all over his insides, including out of his nose and mouth.
* TearJerker:
** At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son. She's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone utterly distraught at what she's done]] as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with a lonely boy named Isaac, and was to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which only Isaac could open once he returned, in the meantime.. Jack spent years waiting for him and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation lost himself in his solitude]] so much that his [[GrayscaleOfEvil colors fade away]]. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the now colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a SerialKiller, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac i's implied to [[GoOutWithASmile have went out with a smile]]. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted SerialKiller, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
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* NauseaFuel: The detailed violence in these stories can get sickening sometimes, with some readers even commenting that they were excessive.
** James is almost mutilated beyond recognition yet kept alive and pinned to the wall for his mother to see. She can't help but puke at the sight.
** While Isaac does subject several of his murder victims to ColdBloodedTorture, Laughing Jack's brutalisation of Isaac is both more horrific and nauseating. What takes the cake out of it all, however, is when Laughing Jack ''[[PestController summons cockroaches out of his mouth]]'' to inflate Isaac's punctured stomach, and they crawl all over his insides, including out of his nose and mouth.
* TearJerker:
** At the end of the story, Laughing Jack mutilates the narrator's child (who was still alive afterwards) and he tricks the mother into killing her son. She's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone utterly distraught at what she's done]] as she failed to protect her son like she promised. Additionally, with the site of the crime and no killer clown in sight, she's framed for causing it all, which results in her getting institutionalized.
** The official prequel is pretty heart wrenching as well. Laughing Jack was once a joyful cosmic entity sent by a guardian angel to be friends with a lonely boy named Isaac, and was to adapt to Isaac's personality. After accidentally killing the neighbor's cat, Isaac was sent to boarding school, but promised to reunite with Jack one day, so Jack agreed to staying in his box, which only Isaac could open once he returned, in the meantime.. Jack spent years waiting for him and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation lost himself in his solitude]] so much that his [[GrayscaleOfEvil colors fade away]]. Isaac returning just to show that he forgot Jack was real doesn't elicit anything in the now colorless clown as he had become void of self-pity. Additionally, Isaac becomes a SerialKiller, and when they reunite at the end of story, in a combination of resentment and adapting to Isaac's new love for violence, Jack tortures Isaac before killing him.
** The [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes final moments Isaac recalls as he bleeds out]] is that Christmas morning he met Laughing Jack, his first friend. Despite that said friend was now torturing him to death, Isaac i's implied to [[GoOutWithASmile have went out with a smile]]. For someone who was once a poor (although ambiguously innocent) boy turned twisted SerialKiller, it's oddly bittersweet that he dies remembering what's likely one of the few genuinely happy moments in his life.
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