History YMMV / TheCatLady

* HilariousInHindsight: The reveal that Doctor X is [[spoiler: a serial killer]] can be kind of funny if you've played Downfall, since it's pretty much the opposite of Doctor Z from the that game, [[spoiler: who seemed insane and obsessed with dead bodies when you meet him, but is actually a good guy and Joe was just hallucinating.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Susan gets a hilarious one-liner about [[spoiler:social media]] early on in the game. [[spoiler: By the ending, she is making the world a better place by doing exactly what she ridiculed.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Susan's hatred of flowers was pretty prominent, but one could assume it was just because she wasn't a huge fan of them. [[spoiler: However, we discover in later chapters that Susan's baby died from a rare pollen allergy, triggered by the flowers Susan's stalker had given her.]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Joe Davis sequence. Even if you've played ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}'', it doesn't make sense.

** {{Justified}} in that Michalski is [[spoiler: a nurse]], and thus has likely witnessed first hand situations like the abuse that Susan experiences in [[spoiler: the hospital.]]

* ObviousBeta: You cannot overwrite saves, and there is a hard limit of 50 saves, in a game where SaveScumming is absolutely vital if you want the best outcomes.

* TrueArtIsAngsty

* {{Wangst}}: Susan is guilty of this at the start, but it's very quickly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that she has genuine depression. [[spoiler: By the end of the game, she's starting to overcome it.]]

** Susan's immortality can be this. For as frightening as the Parasites and [[spoiler: Joe Davis]] can be, you're always aware that because Susan is immortal none of them can really DO anything to her beyond incapacitate her for a short ime.

* HolyShitQuotient: ''The game won't give you a break''.

* FunnyAneyursmMoment: Susan gets a hilarious one-liner about [[spoiler:social media]] early on in the game. [[spoiler: By the ending, she is making the world a better place by doing exactly what she ridiculed.]]

** Susan gets a hilarious one-liner about [[spoiler:social media]] early on in the game. [[spoiler:By the ending, she is making the world a better place by doing exactly what she ridiculed.]]
-->'''Susan:''' [[spoiler:Why would I want to go online to tell people I'm having a shitty day?]]

** [[WickedCultured Dr. Xavier Zelmann]], aka Doctor X, is Susan's [[PsychoPsychologist psychiatrist]]. A seemingly good-hearted man who cares for his patients, Xavier is in fact a SoftSpokenSadist who uses his job as a way to finding women for him to take down to his basement and kill; one of his victims being his own co-worker Liz, whom he impaled on a wall with a metal rod through her neck. After killing his victims, he [[MadArtist uses their bodies to recreate Renaissance art pieces]] and puts them on display in his own twisted gallery. When Susan finds Xavier after he stabbed her multiple times, he is torturing a woman tied to a chair, and dancing blindfolded so he can [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming better hear her screams]], which he associates to a song and "poetry without words". Despite only being the first Parasite, he manages to be one of the worst.

** [[ManipulativeBastard Adam]], also known by his online pseudonym The Eye of Adam, is the fifth Parasite and the one whose presence is felt throughout almost the entire game. A spiteful, [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] young man with grandiose delusions, Adam surfs around internet forums so he can find depressed people and give them ways to commit suicide. Prior to the events of the game, Adam got in contact with Mitzi's boyfriend, Jack, who suffered from depression after discovering his girlfriend's brain cancer, and convinced him into locking himself inside his car and inhale hydrogen sulfide. Having implanted a device which would release poisonous gas in his apartment, he activates it in an attempt to stop Susan and Mitzi, killing his own father in the process, [[UngratefulBastard despite everything the latter had done for him]]. Inside his flammable, gas-filled room, Adam tries to coerce Mitzi into shooting him, knowing this would end with the room exploding. Adam was not only Susan's [[EvilCounterpart polar opposite]], but he also served as an example of the evils a simple [[{{Troll}} troll]] can do if given the chance.

** [[WickedCultured Dr. Xavier Zelmann]], or simply [[MadDoctor Doctor X]], is Susan's [[PsychoPsychologist psychiatrist]]. A seemingly good-hearted man who cares for his patients, Xavier is in fact a SoftSpokenSadist who uses his job as a way to finding women for him to take down to his basement and kill; one of his victims being his own co-worker Liz, who he impaled on a wall with a metal rod through her neck. After killing his victims, he [[MadArtist uses their bodies to recreate Renaissance art pieces]] and puts them on display as if his basement was a gallery. When Susan finds Xavier after he stabbed her multiple times, he is torturing a woman tied to a chair, and dancing blindfolded so he can better hear her screams, which he associates to a song and poetry. Despite only being the first Parasite, he managed to be one of the worst.
** [[ManipulativeBastard Adam]], also known by his online pseudonym The Eye of Adam, is the fifth Parasite and the one whose presence is felt throughout almost the entire game. A spiteful, [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] young man with grandiose delusions, Adam surfs around internet forums so he can find depressed people and give them ways to commit suicide. Prior to the events of the game, Adam got in contact with Mitzi's boyfriend, Jack, who suffered from depression after discovering his girlfriend's brain cancer, and convinced him into locking himself inside his car and inhale hydrogen sulfide. Having implanted a device which would release poisonous gas in his apartment, he activates it in an attempt to stop Susan and Mitzi, killing his own father in the process, [[UngratefulBastard despite everything the latter had done for him]]. Inside his flammable, gas-filled room, Adam tries to coerce Mitzi into shooting him, knowing this would end with the room exploding. Adam was not only Susan's [[EvilCounterpart polar opposite]], but he also served as an example of the evils a simple {{troll}} can do if given the chance.

** JerkassWoobie: Susan's ex-husband, Eric. Despite his excessive jealously and general bad behavior, it's hard to not fell bad for him when he commits suicide after their infant daughter dies.

* DoomedByCanon: WordOfGod confirms that this game takes place before ''VideoGame/{{Downfall}}''. Seeing as how [[spoiler: Joe slaughters everyone in his apartment building]], that might include Susan. On the other hand, doubtless Susan is pretty GenreSavvy by now, and besides that, she knows that Joe in particular [[spoiler: is violently insane]]. So it's just as possible that she escapes.
** This situation is actually covered in the ''Downfall'' remake, where [[spoiler: Susan intervenes in the situation in the final act and tries to kill Joe.]]

** [[ManipulativeBastard Adam]], also known by his online pseudonym The Eye of Adam, is the fifth Parasite and the one whose presence is felt throughout almost the entire game. A spiteful, [[EvilCripple wheelchair-bound]] young man with grandiose delusions, Adam surfs around internet forums so he can find depressed people and give them ways to commit suicide. Prior to the events of the game, Adam got in contact with Mitzi's boyfriend, Jack, who suffered from depression after discovering his girlfriend's brain cancer, and convinced him into locking himself inside his car and inhale hydrogen sulfide. Having implanted a device which would release poisonous gas in his apartment, he activates it in an attempt to stop Susan and Mitzi, killing his own father in the process, [[UngratefulBastard despite everything the latter had done for him]]. Inside his flammable, gas-filled room, Adam tries to coerce Mitzi into shooting him, knowing this would end with the room exploding. Adam was not only Susan's [[EvilCounterpart polar opposite]], but he also served as an example of the evils a simple {{troll}} can do given the chance.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''Franchise/TheCrow'' meets LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek (hey, TropesAreNotBad).

* TheWoobie: Every single sympathetic character really, ''really'' needs a hug.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Very likely to fall into this.

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: MIIIIIISERYYYYYYYYYY!....]]
** The extended agonized screaming of the latest victim of the [[spoiler: first parasite]].

* CompleteMonster: All of the Parasites are this in general, ranging from [[spoiler: kidnapping and killing women, while positioning their corpses to act out many famous paintings (Doctor X), kidnapping and killing both humans and animals, and chopping up their corpse to be eaten (The Pest Control Couple), and entering into random people's homes to torture and killing them, while possibly acting out against their victim who had rejected their love in the past (Fourth Parasite). And the final Parasite, the Eye of Adam, is a malicious Internet troll who runs a website that 'advises' those who are mentally vulnerable to commit suicide, going as far as to offer them planned out instructions on how to do so all while egging them on the entire time. It's no wonder that The Queen of Maggots wants them all dead, and has Susan as her loyal executioner to help wipe them all out, whether she wants to or not.]]

* CompleteMonster: All of the Parasites are this in general, ranging from [[spoiler: kidnapping and killing women, while positioning their corpses to act out many famous paintings (Doctor X), kidnapping and killing both humans and animals, and chopping up their corpse to be eaten (The Pest Control Couple), and entering into random people's homes to torture and killing them, while possibly acting out against their victim who had rejected their love in the past (Fourth Parasite). And the final Parasite, the Eye of Adam, is a malicious Internet troll who runs a website that 'advises' those who are mentally vulnerable to commit suicide, going as far as to offer them planned out instructions on how to do so all while egging them on the entire time. It's no wonder that The Queen of Maggots wants them all dead, and has Susan as her loyal executioner to help wipe them all out, whether she wants to or not.]]

* EsotericHappyEnding: The good ending can be seen as this seeing if you have played Downfall since [[spoiler: absolutely nothing is done to stop Joe Davis, and he will go on to murder everyone in the hotel, all except him are jerks at worst and pretty nice people at best.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: It only makes sense that the Parasites flock around Susan: she lives in a rough part of the town, she has no friends, [[spoiler: her entire family is dead by the beginning of the game]], she is unemployed, her few neighbors would be happy to see her gone, so nobody is going to miss her and look for her. She is also very weak emotionally, making it easy to win her trust. She is a perfect target for any criminal.

* HilariousInHindsight: The reveal that Doctor X is [[spoiler: a serial killer]] can be kind of funny if you've played Downfall, since it's pretty much the opposite of Doctor Z from the that game, [[spoiler: who seemed insane and obsessed with dead bodies when you meet him, but is actually a good guy and Joe was just hallucinating]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Susan's hatred of flowers was pretty prominent, but one could assume it was just because she wasn't a huge fan of them. [[spoiler: However, we discover in later chapters that Susan's baby died from a rare pollen allergy, triggered by the flowers Susan's stalker had given her.]] Thus explaining her hatred towards them.

* ObviousBeta: You cannot overwrite saves, and there is a hard limit of 50 saves. In a game where SaveScumming is absolutely vital if you want the best outcomes.

* {{Wangst}}: Susan is very guilty of this early on in the story. Justified as she is suffering from depression, had recently been [[spoiler: brought back from the dead]], and has several serial killers or dangerous people endangering her life and others around her. [[spoiler: In the Epilogue, Susan has finally learned to take control in her life and is implied to be on the road to recovery from depression.]]

* TheWoobie: Every single sympathetic character really, ''really'' needs a hug.
* HeadScratchers: How does Susan really have any real power? She gains [[spoiler: immortality and the ability to enter shared hallucinations but only after coming back from the dead after the psychopomp.]] The thing is, that turns out to be her [[spoiler: morbid depression all along]]. I can see how she created her [[spoiler: victim complex and refused to grow from it]], but how did that give the woman any power to also give her power? We see that the information given to her by the psychopomp is accurate since it works, the [[spoiler: shared hallucinations work as well, and so does predicting the future. Susan even predicts the death of her friend]]. How does Susan do all this if [[spoiler: she created the psychopomp through her own grief?]]. She can even materialize things from the hallucinations.
** Where they even hallucinations? She has the ability to enter some dimensions. Perhaps they're dimensions and not hallucinations?
** It is possible that the Queen of Maggots [[spoiler: represents not just Susan's depression, but depression (or all mental illness) in general. She appears to Joe Davis in ''Downfall'', another game by the same developer, as well, so it's safe to assume that she is a separate entity from Susan.]]

** Where they even hallucinations? She has the ability to enter some dimensions. Perhaps they're dimensions and not hallucinations?

* HeadScratchers: How does Susan really have any real power? She gains [[spoiler: immortality and the ability to enter shared hallucinations but only after coming back from the dead after the psychopomp.]] The thing is, that turns out to be her [[spoiler: morbid depression all along]]. I can see how she created her [[spoiler: victim complex and refused to grow from it]], but how did that give the woman any power to also give her power? We see that the information given to her by the psychopomp is accurate since it works, the [[spoiler: shared hallucinations work as well, and so does predicting the future. Susan even predicts the death of her friend]]. How does Susan do all this if [[spoiler: she created the psychopomp through her own grief?]]