History YMMV / ExitCorners

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Sean. He ropes Ink into a death game purely because he was easily manipulatable, designs an AI as if to taunt that no real woman could ever love Ink, kills Beth, and is perfectly willing to kill Ink as well, among other things.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Ink succeeds in [[spoiler: convincing the group that there is no traitor among them]] by simply asking Aether to [[spoiler: hit him in the middle of his conversation]] in Chapter 7, revealing that the distraction was big enough to reveal that [[spoiler: Sent's 'pre-recordings' are in fact live feeds]].
** Beth succeeds in [[spoiler: saving Rae from his death trap via amputation]] in a manner of minutes by making good use of her medical knowledge and strength to [[spoiler: cut Rae's trapped arm with a ''sword'']].
** Ink, and the player as well, can also succeed in [[spoiler: guessing that Liza had once lost her sight but is now able to see as of entering Exit/Corners]], especially if no hints were used beforehand during the Chapter 22 puzzle.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Liza, who was considered a somewhat unpopular character due to her initially hostile, selfish, and unhelpful attitude. By the time her backstory [[spoiler: and disability]] is revealed in Chapter 22, as well as Liza having improve her attitude, becoming more co-operative as the story goes on, and her sympathy towards [[spoiler: Rae after the horrific events]] in Chapter 17, she is notably considered to be [[https://twitter.com/ExitCorners/status/1060689950818164737 the most popular of the cast by far]].

** The realization in Chapter 24 that [[spoiler: one of the Contestant inside a trapped room (the Black Corner) will need to be left behind to die, in order for everyone else to escape. [[PlayerPunch Unless a miracle happens, there's no other alternative but to let one person die, especially after Beth having also died two chapters ago]]]].
** And come Chapter 25, [[spoiler: Liza discovers the hidden message that was meant for her to read, where she discovers that her father has now decided to close down his company that Liza had wanted to be a part of, and that her cure for her blindness was a only temporary effect, which would be revoked once Liza had escaped from the Four Elements Hotel. Feeling that she has nothing else to live for, Liza volunteers to stay behind...only for Sean to ultimately make his decision for her instead. Ink is now forced to leave his best and only friend behind to die in the Black Corner]]. Right afterwards, [[spoiler: Ink now has enough evidence to suggest that Beth wasn't murdered by Sent, but by another ''Contestant'']].

** Ink, and the player as well, can also succeed in [[spoiler: guessing that Liza had once lost her sight but is now able to see as of entering Exit/Corners]], especially if no hints were used beforehand during Chapter 22 puzzle.

** The realization in Chapter 24 that [[spoiler: one of the Contestant inside a trapped room will need to be left behind to die, in order for everyone else to escape. [[PlayerPunch Unless a miracle happens, there's no other alternative but to let one person die, especially after Beth having also died two chapters ago]]]].

* JerkassWoobie: Rae becomes this after [[spoiler: having his arm cut off to save his life upon being trapped in his Corner, [[HeroicBSOD sending him into a state of shock and despondency]]]]. It is telling when even [[RichBitch Liza]] sympathizes with him and defends him from Sent's [[KickTheDog jeers and taunts over his predicament]].
** Liza is also revealed to be this as of Chapter 22, as [[spoiler: she is forced by Sent to keep her newfound sight a secret from the other Contestants, lest she finds herself living her life blind again, which she discovers as Sent temporarily robs her sight in Chapter 4 from inside an elevator she was in. She was also told by Sent that someone among the Contestants may wish to do her harm, hence the highly defensive and paranoid attitude Liza exhibits throughout the game]].
* NightmareFuel:
** The first chapter begins with the dawning realization of the Contestants that they need to escape from the hotel that they are trapped in, or else face being killed if they do not complete all of the puzzles in time. The chapter then ends with Ink suddenly [[spoiler: coughing up blood, complete with a shot of his hand being covered in red, and an expression of Ink's shocked face]].
** The time-limit is not the only danger the Contestants have to worry about, they are also faced with several traps placed all around the hotel. One could face being trapped in a small elevator slowly filling with water, or be trapped inside a boiler room where the room temperature is getting higher and higher by the second. [[spoiler: The traps placed in each Contestant's 'Corner' is no less terrifying, and are also appears to be designed to cause the most physical and mental trauma to their respective Contestants, to the point where they contemplate suicide to escape the pain]].
** Ink's episode where [[spoiler: a room appears to have be torn into two, slowly filling the screen with a faint radio static and loud distorted noises. While the 'tear' in the walls grows bigger and bigger, Ink suffers a panic attack and begs his Contact Sean to help him all the while]].
** The second 'Corner' poses a bigger threat than the first. [[spoiler: While the first 'Corner' involved pushing Beth into remaining inside her 'Corner' and be suffocated with laughing-gas, she was still able to escape of her own volition. Rae in his own 'Corner' has no such luck. His arm ends up trapped inside a device during a puzzle made for him, where the device then sets off a trap to deliver excruciating pain to Rae every twelve minutes forever, until he cannot take anymore and considers swallowing pills of potassium cyanide to end his suffering]].
** Liza's predicament, if one closely examines her actions in the game. [[spoiler: Having lost the ability to see at four years-old after a bad accident, Liza grew up blind. Suddenly at the age of eighteen she is kidnapped and wakes up in a run-down hotel, having suddenly gained the ability to see. Before she can even marvel in joy, she is threatened into silence by the same person who kidnapped her, threatening that she will be blind again if speaks of it to the other Contestants, who she will soon meet once Exit/Corners begins. Her kidnapper also mentions off-handedly that someone among the Contestants should not be trusted and may wish to do her harm, and the only person she can trust is her own father via her Gemini device, who struggles to find and rescue his daughter from a death-trap that threatens to kill everyone inside if they do not escape in time]].
** [[spoiler: The DeathTrap found in Chapter 24 behind the Black door, which is Liza's Corner. Everyone (sans Rae) is trapped inside the room behind the Black Door that is slowly being filled with poison gas, and the only way out is to have one person stay behind and keep their hand on a pulse-detecting machine that will open the exit if it detects a pulse. Unless there is a way to keep everyone alive, [[SomeoneHasToDie at least one Contestant has to stay behind to keep everyone else alive]]]].
** The circumstances around [[spoiler: Beth's death]] in Chapter 23 implying that [[spoiler: she may have been ''murdered'' by a fellow contestant, if she wasn't killed by Sent.]]

** Liza having seen [[spoiler: her own face for the first time in Chapter 24, since she was blinded at the age of 4, and had miraculously regained her sight in her stay at the Four Elements Hotel. She doesn't express joy upon seeing her face again, but instead shows discomfort and uncertainty towards her reflection, convinced that her reflection doesn't belong to her at all]].

* TearJerker: Ink discovering that [[spoiler: Beth has died]] at the end of Chapter 22.

** The second 'Corner' poses a bigger threat than the first. [[spoiler: While the first 'Corner' involved pushing Beth into remaining inside her 'Corner' and be suffocated with laughing-gas, she was still able to escape of her own violation. Rae in his own 'Corner' has no such luck. His arm ends up trapped inside a device during a puzzle made for him, where the device then sets off a trap to deliver excruciating pain to Rae every twelve minutes forever, until he cannot take anymore and considers swallowing pills of potassium cyanide to end his suffering]].

** Liza's predicament, if one closely examines her actions in the game. [[spoiler: Having lost the ability to see at four years-old after a bad accident, Liza grew up blind. Suddenly at the game of eighteen she is kidnapped and taken into a run-down hotel, having suddenly gained the ability to see. Before she can even marvel in joy over being seen again, she is threatened into silence by the same person who kidnapped her, threatening that she will be blind again if speaks of it to the other Contestants, who she will soon meet once Exit/Corners begins. Her kidnapper also mentions off-handedly that someone among the Contestants should not be trusted and may wish to do her harm, and the only person she could trust was her own father via her Gemini device, who struggles to find and rescue his daughter from a death-trap that threatens to kill everyone inside if they do not escape in time]].
* TearJerker:
** Ink discovering that [[spoiler: Beth has died]] at the end of Chapter 22.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Ink succeeds in [[spoiler: convincing the group that there is no traitor among them]] by simply asking Aether to [[spoiler: hit him in the middle of his conversation]] in Chapter 7, revealing that the distraction was big enough to reveal that [[spoiler: Sent's 'pre-recordings' are in fact live feeds]].

** The second 'Corner' poses a bigger threat than the first. [[spoiler: While the first 'Corner' involved pushing Beth into remaining inside her 'Corner' and be suffocated with laughing-gas, she was still able to escape of her own violation. Rae in his own 'Corner' has no such luck. His arm ends up trapped inside a device during a puzzle made for him, where the device then sets off a trap to deliver excruciating pain to Rae every twelve minutes forever, until he cannot take anymore and considers swallowing pills of potassium cyanide to end his suffering]].

** The second 'Corner' poses a bigger threat than the first. [[spoiler: While the first 'Corner' involved pushing Beth into remaining inside her 'Corner' and be suffocated with laughing-gas, she was still able to escape of her own violation. Rae in his own 'Corner' has no such luck. His arm ends up trapped inside a device during a puzzle made for him, where the device then sets off a trap to deliver excruciating pain to Rae every twelve minutes forever, until he cannot take anymore and takes a bottle of cyanide pills and swallows them]].