----
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Or FanDisservice in this case. It's been given the FanNickname of "the [[spoiler:fish-rape]] book" for this reason.
* HilariousInHindsight: In a few years or so, there would be ''another'' [[Film/TheShapeOfWater story about sex between a woman and a fish man]], though with less rape and with more InterspeciesRomance ([[spoiler:[[EpilepticTrees maybe]]]]). And yes, joking comparisons have been made.
* MemeticMutation: Tied in to HilariousInHindsight above, a number of Tumblr posts showing Brears' third rape by the Deep One (arguably the least graphic and most fanservicey) were jokingly subtitled "''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' (2017), dir. Creator/GuillermoDelToro."
* NeverLiveItDown: Again, nobody is ever going to let Creator/AlanMoore forget about "the [[spoiler:fish-rape]] book" he wrote.
* {{Squick}}: Where to begin? [[spoiler:Well, a Deep One getting a handjob and seeing its...contents spray out might be a good start.]]
* TearJerker: Agent Brears' [[PrecisionFStrike horrified]] [[CountryMatters outburst of swearing]], while pounding on the locked door and begging to be let out, after the cult leader locks her in the room with the Deep One, just before he drags her back into the pool.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One could argue that a version of Lovecraft that swings in the opposite direction from his NothingIsScarier attitude might work. Using it as little more than [[spoiler:an excuse for rape scene after rape scene]] is utterly squandering that potential.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: For many, the book [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot wasted]] whatever potential it could have had as a fresh exploration of Lovecraft's stories by devolving into a series of ultra-graphic and ultra-disgusting rape scenes with the actual CosmicHorrorStory elements seeming secondary in comparison. Said CosmicHorrorStory, however brief, is by itself incredibly bleak, because it's not about humanity's insignificance, but the incoming TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
----