History YMMV / MadnessProjectNexus2

** Director Phobos is not too bad of a boss fight, though he is a reasonable challenge for being the ClimaxBoss of the game. However, what really elevates him to ThatOneBoss status is when you fight him on [[HarderThanHard Madness Mode]]. His attacks are ''significantly'' more deadly and can destroy a corpus in two hits or one. His flying trash attack when you destroy one of his corpus' is a guarnteed loss in two to three corpus' if you can't dodge properly. This, combined with their tracking, make them an infuriating attack to dodge, bordering on unfair. Then, when he gets his sword, it makes fighting him melee borderline impossible, as doing so triggers him to slash at you twice. This, combined with his teleport dashing and fast attack speed, make him nightmare to fight. It also doesn't help that, should you die, you have refight Gestalt in order to get back to Phobos, making the fight even more infuriating.

* DracoInLeatherPants: A lot of Phobos fanart paints Deimos as his [[{{Fanon}} brother/lover]], with him showing lots of affection. This is despite that fact that neither are related and that when [[spoiler: the two finally ''do'' meet, they try to kill eachother.]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: A lot of Phobos fanart paints Deimos as his [[{{Fanon}} brother/lover]], with him showing lots of affection.

** Is Gestalt [[spoiler:fully controlled by Phobos or is he merely being used by the latter as a vessel without however being fully controlled?]]

** Director Phobos is not too bad of a boss fight, though he is a reasonable challenge for being the ClimaxBoss of the game. However, what really elevates him to ThatOneBoss status is when you fight him on [[HarderThanHard Madness Mode]]. His attacks are ''significantly'' more deadly and can destroy a corpus in two hits or one. His flying trash attack when you destroy one of his corpus' is a guarnteed loss in two to three corpus' if you can't dodge properly. This, combined with their tracking, make them an infuriating attack to dodge, bordering on unfair. Then, when he gets his sword, it makes fighting him melee borderline impossible, as doing so triggers him to slash at you twice. This, combined with his teleport dashing and fast attack speed, make him nightmare to fight.

** Director Phobos is not too bad of a boss fight, though he is a reasonable challenge for being the ClimaxBoss of the game. However, what really elevates him to ThatOneBoss status is when you fight him on [[HarderThanHard Madness Mode]]. His attacks are ''significantly'' more deadly and can destroy a corpus in two hits or one. His flying trash attack when you destroy one of his corpus' is a guarnteed loss in two to three corpus' if you can't dodge properly. This, combined with their tracking, make them an infuriating attack to dodge, bordering on unfair. Then, when he gets his sword, it makes fighting him melee borderling impossible, as doing so triggers him to slash at you twice. This, combined with his teleport dashing and fast attack speed, make him nightmare to fight.

** Tinkerers get access to an workshop that essentially gives you every gun in the game for a fraction of the cost, allowing you to make dissonance based weaponry as early as you can mod your first SMG. Furthermore, they gain an extra magazine with ''every'' gun, unlike the Agent who only gets an extra magazine for handguns.

** While costing Boon Tokens, the [[LaserBlade Nexus Blade]] that you can buy from Dr Crackpot after the "Fickle Friends" Contract Mission is the deadliest melee weapon you can get for a melee focused Origin that trivializes the rest of Arena mode. With a small size, high armor piercing and high durability, you can quickly send even the most armored enemies to [[Hell The Other Place]], and take a Corpus block off the [[FinalBoss Grand Steward]] in only a few thwacks.

*** A less common but no less threatening danger is when Night Toughs get killed by their bite attack. They will resurrect as Vampire Punks or Bruisers depending on who killed them. Fortunately, the Vampires have one weakness in fire. The Night Toughs drop burning torches or stakes. Destroyed torches also become stakes. If you've unlocked the Improvised Weapon skill, you can drive a stake into a Vampire.

* DeathOfTheAuthor: For years, fans assumed that the ''Project Nexus'' games were an alternate continuity to the main ''Madness Combat'' animated series. However, shortly before ''Project Nexus 2'' came out, Krinkels said that everything is canon, implying that the animation series and the games are a single continuity. Some fans preferred to ignore this information because of some contradictions between the animated series and video games such as Hank and Deimos being back in their normal forms or the lack of references to the video games in the animated series.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gestalt [[spoiler:fully controlled by Phobos or is he merely being used by the latter as a vessel without however being fully controlled?]]

* NightmareFuel:
** Seeing a lot of the character designs in full 3D in all their gritty, blood-soaked glory can be disheartening on its own, but special mention goes to the loading screen portraits of all the primary characters. Lit only by a passing red light, they're all very realistically detailed renditions of the main sextet of characters... and then you get to Hank, who is ''not'' wearing his mask, and so you get to see his mangled, jawless face in full detail framing those piercing red goggles, revealing that he's also missing his nose.
** Burger Gil's introduction, in contrast to the bright and colorful bloods you find during gameplay, is a distressingly muted butcher shop of skinned and mutilated corpses that he's been using as mincemeat to make his burgers.

** We already know that Hank isn't exactly the most heroic protagonist out there, but he definitely crosses the line when he [[spoiler:decides to destroy Project Nexus despite the fact that Jebediah could have taken care of it without ending the world and bringing it back to its original purpose. He also gleefully takes the chance to kill Sanford and Deimos when the two refuse to let him do that, revealing he was "hoping it would come to this".]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Gestalt [[spoiler:fully controlled by Phobos or is he merely being used by the latter as a vessel without however having full control?]]

** We already know that Hank isn't exactly the most heroic protagonist out there, but he definitely crosses the line when he [[spoiler:decides to destroy Project Nexus despite the fact that Jebediah could have taken care of it without ending the world and bringing it to its original purpose. He also gleefully takes the chance to kill Sanford and Deimos when the two refuse to let him do that, revealing he was "hoping it would come to this".]]

** We already know that Hank isn't exactly the most heroic protagonist out there, but he definitely crosses the line when he [[spoiler:intends to destroy Project Nexus despite the fact Jebediah could have taken care of it without ending the world and gleefully takes the chance to kill Sanford and Deimos when the two refuse to let him do that, revealing he was "hoping it would come to this".]]

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Director Phobos]] is the corrupt ruler of Nexus City and the head of Project Nexus, a scientific program aimed to do good for Nevada. Distancing himself from the Project's good intentions, Phobos tries to use it to [[GodhoodSeeker achieve godhood for himself]]. When Dr. Christoff tries to warn him that this could lead to the world being destroyed, Phobos fires him under threats of sending him to [[{{Hell}} the Other Place]]. Phobos is eventually killed by Christoff, [[spoiler:but his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent S-3LF]] returns, taking control of [[SoulJar Project Gestalt]] and trying to reach the Other Place to obtain godhood while attempting to kill the protagonists, resulting in the deaths of most of his minions. A megalomaniac with a god complex, Phobos is ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to reach godhood.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Director Phobos]] is the corrupt ruler of Nexus City and the head of Project Nexus, a scientific program aimed to do good for Nevada. Distancing himself from the Project's good intentions, Phobos tries to use it to [[GodhoodSeeker achieve godhood for himself]]. When Dr. Christoff tries to warn him that this could lead to the world being destroyed, Phobos fires him under threats of sending him to [[{{Hell}} the Other Place]]. Phobos is eventually killed by Christoff, but his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent S-3LF]] returns, taking control of [[SoulJar Project Gestalt]] and trying to reach the Other Place to obtain godhood while attempting to kill the protagonists, resulting in the deaths of most of his minions. A megalomaniac with a god complex, Phobos is ready to sacrifice anything and anyone to reach godhood.]]

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: [[spoiler: The Sheriff returns in this game, but is no longer a DirtyCoward GeneralFailure unlike in the animations, having TookALevelInBadass and has gained a much more menacing cowboy aesthetic.]]