YMMV / Batang Quiapo

• Anvilicious: Tanggol's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on people who sexually assaulted Mokang or any woman further enforces that Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Tolits and Tala being rendered speechless when Rigor shouts at Marites for letting them stay a night gets so much worse when it's later revealed that not only had their equally abusive stepfather drove them from their house and forced them to live on the streets, but that their mother left them alone with him thinking that he was a good man.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Some journalists and netizens opined that despite a different premise, they are still treated to a litany of the very same chase and gun battle sequences as what Coco pulled off in his previous series. having been burned out by the almost-daily rain of lead (and a dash of gratuitous gore for that matter) in Ang Probinsyano.
• Jerkass Woobie: Tanggol may be a criminal who pickpockets people and gets into fights for a living, but he spent the entirety of his childhood being physically and emotionally abused by the only father figure in his life for something out of his control (him being a Child by Rape). The abuse continues well into his teenage years, and the few good things he does are constantly ignored while his brothers get most of his parents' love. In the end, Tanggol acknowledges that he’ll never be loved no matter how hard he tries to redeem himself and resigns himself to the same life of crime he’s known since birth in the hopes that it will someday get him out of poverty.
• Narm: This Mexican standoff scene featured here would be taken seriously, if Oweng the little guy, who was also holding a gun proportionate to his size, wasn't there.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The way the Montenegros dispose of Vladimir's corpse after they kill him. After Ramon shoots him twice, Severino then grabs a bolo knife and chops up Vladimir's body before feeding it to the pigs.
  • On the psychological level, there's Tanggol's abusive treatment by Rigor and Marites' vain attempts to save him from said abuse.
• Squick: The scene where Marites gives birth to Tanggol is just all around squicky, but the part where Marites cuts baby Tanggol's umbilical cord with an unsterilized butcher's knife just takes the cake.