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** Helen, from ''Ambition.'' While the story more or less maintains that Yale was ''absolutely'' the one at fault for their marriage issues, the narrative still takes time to insult Helen and allege she has terrible anger issues she needs to work out. While it ''is'' true that she can get violent, the provocation behind her outbursts are universally a result of Yale cheating on her - her most violent episode comes about just as she confirms her husband is cheating on her. Several other characters will allege she's a psychotic hellcat, but when it's someone else's adultery ''causing'' the violent outbursts, it's really hard to hold Helen totally accountable.
** Bridget, the 'lusty barfly' from ''Ambition.'' Unlike Yale, she made sure to actually divorce Ted before associating with Rolf, and pretty much everything abhorrent she does in the series comes down to her being dragged into a conspiracy she wanted no part in for the sake of protecting her kids from a man she genuinely thought was a threat to them. Given just how unpleasant, unhelpful, and judgmental Ted is, it is ''not'' uncommon in the slightest for people to believe that much of what Bridget says about Ted is honestly true - not helped by the implications Ted was a drunken deadbeat. Though Bridget's unhelpful during the trial, it's because she knows that the defense counsel is trying to link the case against Bridget back to the very people holding her at proverbial gunpoint, something she even cautions the lawyer on so they don't end up getting killed - which very nearly happens to them near the end of the series.
** Helen, from ''Ambition.'' While the story more or less maintains that Yale was ''absolutely'' the one at fault for their marriage issues, the narrative still takes time to insult Helen and allege she has terrible anger issues she needs to work out. While it ''is'' true that she can get violent, the provocation behind her outbursts are universally a result of Yale cheating on her - her most violent episode comes about just as she confirms her husband is cheating on her. Several other characters will allege she's a psychotic hellcat, but when it's someone else's adultery ''causing'' the violent outbursts, it's really hard to hold Helen totally accountable.
** Bridget, the 'lusty barfly' from ''Ambition.'' Unlike Yale, she made sure to actually divorce Ted before associating with Rolf, and pretty much everything abhorrent she does in the series comes down to her being dragged into a conspiracy she wanted no part in for the sake of protecting her kids from a man she genuinely thought was a threat to them. Given just how unpleasant, unhelpful, and judgmental Ted is, it is ''not'' uncommon in the slightest for people to believe that much of what Bridget says about Ted is honestly true - not helped by the implications Ted was a drunken deadbeat. Though Bridget's unhelpful during the trial, it's because she knows that the defense counsel is trying to link the case against Bridget back to the very people holding her at proverbial gunpoint, something she even cautions the lawyer on so they don't end up getting killed - which very nearly happens to them near the end of the series.
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** Yale. The game seems to expect the audience to find him and his plight sympathetic, but... he's cheating on his wife (the daughter of his boss, who he married so he could take over the family business when he dies), cares more about losing his job or "a real beaut'" if he gets caught than about the feelings of the women involved, gets snippy at his wife when she talks to other men (despite, again, [[{{Hypocrite}} cheating on her himself]]), and when he finds out his mistress is pregnant, he ''gives her permission'' to sleep around with other men so that [[ItsAllAboutMe he'll have plausible deniability of being the father]], just to name a ''very'' few examples of his misogyny.
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** Yale. The game seems to expect the audience to find him and his plight sympathetic, but... he's cheating on his wife (the daughter of his boss, who he married so he could take over the family business when he dies), cares more about losing his job or "a real beaut'" if he gets caught than about the feelings of the women involved, gets snippy at his wife when she talks to other men (despite, again, [[{{Hypocrite}} cheating on her himself]]), and when he finds out his mistress is pregnant, he ''gives her permission'' to sleep around with other men so that [[ItsAllAboutMe he'll have plausible deniability of being the father]], just to name a ''very'' few examples of his misogyny. The end of the series ''tries'' to paint Bridget's acquittal as a bittersweet victory at best due to the fact Yale is being framed for crimes he didn't commit, but most people see it is an objective victory; while the real villains are getting away scott-free, there's still enough evidence around that will link the crimes back to Klink International eventually, (Duke's connection to Paxwic is left hanging for the rest of the court after the lawyer introduced the idea, and a separate investigation into Klink International is likely) and Yale himself had a lot of this coming to him given how sexist, unhelpful, and rude he is during the series.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: From the off-the-wall and extremely questionable decision-making and the poorly-drawn character models, to Ted's incredibly bizarre (and somehow visible) fantasies, talking mice, and pretty much everything else about the games.
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* ObviousBeta: Particularly noticeable in the ''Negotiator'' episodes, where dialogue clips frequently overlap each other, stop playing prematurely, or continue to play after the next dialogue box has already appeared. In addition, many of the player choices either link to the wrong dialogue tree altogether, or don't play out any differently to any of the other choices. ''Ambition'' is a little better in this regard, but even then there can be noticeable glitches, such as Duke sometimes being depicted with ''two heads'' in the last episode.
