YMMV / In Nomine

• Adaptation Displacement: Chances are, if you've ever heard of the original game, it was through the Steve Jackson version.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Openly supported by the game, with advice given on doing so. The Gamemaster's Guide includes alternate portrayals for each of the Superiors, with each one having a version that's a black-hearted monster, a compassionate hero or a wacky buffoon, as well as alternate views for the entire conflict between heaven and hell. Later books, especially later superior books, only added more possible interpretations.
• Anvilicious: Mass media is the work of Hell. This is softened in later supplements; while the Demon Prince of the Media has immense power, the Archangel of Revelation has some Servitors whose Words relate to Objective Journalism, Investigative Journalism, and the like. Additionally, while television is a tool of Hell, Heaven came up with the Internet. It's also noted in Superiors 2: Pleasures of the Flesh that the Media has sometimes grown in ways that its Prince doesn't expect or control (but still takes credit for).
• Funny Moments: In Litheroy (Archangel of Revelation)'s write up, it describes Andrealphus' attempt to seduce him. Litheroy cheerfully agreed to have sex with him...and spent the entire time ignoring the actual sex and asking him questions like "so what do they make the flavoured oils out of?" And continued calling him to ask technical questions afterwards until the Prince of Lust had to change his phone number. Dominic, during Litheroy's subsequent interrogation, couldn't stop laughing.
• Growing the Beard: The game really comes into its own once it sheds the dark parody roots of the French source and becomes a more subtle nuanced take on the concept of a Cold War between Heaven and Hell, starting around the Infernal Player's Guide supplement (which was shortly after Elizabeth McCoy became Line Editor).
• Values Dissonance:
  • In both the Gamemaster's Guide and Pleasures of the Flesh, the game describes a darker version of Andrealphus, Prince of Lust, as being an advocate of rape, pedophilia, snuff films... and BDSM. As kink has become more accepted and mainstream, this comes off far more as an offensive case of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking then an indication of the worst parts of sexuality.
  • Kahlid, the patron archangel of Islam, can also come off as a rather unsympathetic representation looking back from the 2020s. This is somewhat helped by this explicitly being a stage he's working past and the presence of more sympathetic Muslim angels later on, but it can still be somewhat cringeworthy just how much the depiction leans into the "violent intolerant fundamentalist" angle.

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