YMMV / Interlopers

• Awesome Art: Interlopers is incredibly well drawn, which should come as no surprise seeing just how many popular fandom artists participated in it.
• Bizarro Episode: Interlopers is a pretty bizarre series by nature of its premise alone, but Chara vs Jim Sterling still kinda comes out of nowhere. As the title suggests, Jim Sterling (yes that Jim Sterling) suddenly appears right as Chara and Buddy are about to confront Kiwi-Frisk and demands Chara to face him for Papyrus' murder. The battle itself is kind of out there, with Jim breaking into an impromptu dance-number right in the middle and using all kinds of Confusion Fu before and after. Chara themselves admits that they have no idea who the heck Jim even is.
• Broken Base: The outcome, or rather: outcomes of the "Chara vs Buddy" video were pretty controversial among fans. On one hand, there were those that felt Buddy should have wiped the floor with Chara, seeing as she had previously taken on human adults who were much bigger and physically stronger than her (and won) and had a lot more fighting experience overall, since she'd been fighting for years in her own world, while Chara's genocide in the Underground should have taken at most a few days. On the other hand, there were people arguing that Chara had been suffering from The Worf Effect the entire video and should have had an easy time defeating Buddy, as they had just defeated pretty much every major boss in the Underground, including the resident captain of the Royal Guard, and demonstrated superhuman abilities more than once in their own game and in the video.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Core-Frisk being the actual mastermind behind Chara and Buddy's journey and being in league with Kiwi. Short of Kiwi just messing around, there was no one else it could have been, seeing as Gaster was limited to one timeline and didn't really care enough about either of the children to arrange a life-changing multiversal quest for them.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Betty getting the snot beaten out of her by Chara and Buddy in VS Béte Noire is incredibly satisfying for anyone who has even rudimentary knowledge of Glitchtale.
  • If you're not exactly a fan of our two Villain Protagonists, Buddy and Chara getting utterly creamed by Kiwi for over half an hour in The Good, the Bad and the Kiwi, Pt. 2 was probably your favorite moment in the entire series.
• Designated Hero: Buddy saving Chara from being tortured by Jim is played off as a heroic moment that shows that even though she may be a Jerkass, Buddy still has some good in her left. What sours it significantly is that Chara is an unrepentant serial killer and the only reason Jim was even after them in the first place was that they killed a person he loved. To add insult to injury, Buddy subjects Jim to a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech in which she tells him that his sadism and self-righteousness are disgusting and that if he wanted Papyrus to live, he should have stood up to Chara to defend him. She's basically blaming the death of an innocent man on the person who grieves over him, instead of on the person who actually killed him.
• Evil Is Cool: A major drawing point of the series. While it's still hotly debated in both games' fandoms whether or not one can truly describe Chara and Buddy as evil, in Interlopers, they're definitely on the Villain Protagonist side. And their battles and interactions with each other are a joy to watch. Of course, it doesn't hurt either that both of them go through pretty significant Character Development as the story goes on.
• Fanfic Fuel: The story centers around Chara and Buddy travelling the multiverse together. That concept alone is bound to tickle the creator's spirit. It helps that the majority of their journey happens off-screen and is relayed to the viewer via short flashbacks, leaving fan-artists much room to fill the gaps or even come up with a few extra confrontations.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: To absolutely no one's surprise, a not insignificant amount of viewers ships Chara/Buddy. The series lampshades this at several points.
• Misaimed Fandom: In Vs Bete Noire, Chara tells Buddy that the titular Bete Noire isn't a girl but "a trap". This little throwaway joke got a lot of flak from viewers who thought it was a poor choice of words since the word "trap" is often used as a transphobic slur. In context, that isn't at all what Chara meant. Bete Noir is a trap because she's a soul-stealing demon disguising itself as a cute child, not because of any issues concerning her gender identity.
• Narm: The entirety of Chara's Hate with its a bit too on-the-nose You Are Not Alone Aesop. Apart from Chara literally fighting their hatred, but only being able to defeat it with Buddy's help, both Chara and Buddy get very hammy speeches in which they praise the other for their loyalty and both times it almost comes off as an Anguished Declaration of Love. Special mention goes to Buddy telling Chara that they "need each other" in front of a serene, cloudy sky while Voices plays in the background. Keep in mind the catalyst for all of this was Chara and Buddy getting served by a little kid.
• Take That, Scrappy!: For Glitchtale fans who absolutely loathe Béte Noire, "Vs Béte Noire" was a dream come true. Not only does Betty get completely curb-stombed by Chara and Buddy, she is not even treated as a major threat and ends up being forced to make a run for it when Buddy tears her to pieces at the end of the fight.
• Toy Ship: Chara and Buddy have been shipped together well before Interlopers. The creators are very aware of this and simultaneously tease and parody the concept multiple times.
• Unexpected Character: Hate was the only antagonist not shown in the "The Battles To Come" video. Their inclusion in the series came as a surprise to many viewers.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Chara in Chara's Hate, for multiple reasons. Hate tries to get them to kill Buddy by telling them that she'll eventually stab them in the back because "everyone betrayed [them]". Let's remember who it was that supposedly 'betrayed' Chara: Their adoptive brother Asriel, who was so devoted to them he was willing to assist them in a murder-suicide mission and understandably snapped under the pressure of having to kill. And Frisk, who Chara murdered in cold blood and whose body they're currently possessing because Frisk realized how much harm their genocide run had done and wanted to reset. It's a little detrimental to your story's You Are Not Alone message when the character it's directed at is only alone in the first place because they had unreasonable expectations for their friends and went so far as to kill them (or get them killed) out of sheer egotism and an extreme Never My Fault mindset. What brought this sudden mental breakdown on? Buddy stopping them from killing an injured mother and her baby. It says a lot about Chara that the act of not killing innocent people triggers their Berserk Mode.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Don't let the the bright colors and the cutesy art-style fool you. Interlopers is definitely not a kid-friendly series. The prequel alone features gore and Body Horror in abundance and the comics and the actual series aren't much better.

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