History YMMV / SurvivalOfTheFittest

* MemeticBadass: Bobby Jacks, who in-game managed to headshot a student from behind without looking at them. This led to tales of Bobby ricocheting bullets [[Franchise/MetalGear Revolver Ocelot-style]] (which led to the nickname Bocelot), killing students from several threads away, and firing his gun in v3 and killing a student in v4.

* TearJerker: Several, although given the [[KillEmAll premise]], that isn't really surprising.

* CriticalResearchFailure: An early scene with Andrew Swainson has his murder attempt stymied by leaving the safety on. He's carrying a Glock, a handgun famous for having no manual safety devices whatsoever.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A typical version features a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large]], fully fleshed-out cast. Death order is decided by random chance. As a result, you're going to end up feeling this way about at least one character.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It can be a little hard to care when you know all but one person's going to die, that person will be a shell of their former selves, and Danya [[spoiler: or his successors]] will inevitably win in the end ([[XanatosGambit even if it doesn't look like it]]).

* {{Narm}}: Due to the written medium, a poorly-placed typo or the like can utterly ruin a scene's mood. Also, the gore in some scenes is so hilariously over the top and childish (not to mention some of the one-liners...), that it's almost impossible to take seriously. On the other hand...

* FoeYay: Georgia Lee Day and Fiyori Senay are antagonistic towards each other throughout pregame and the main game itself, but they also have several intimate interactions. [[spoiler:Georgia Lee even dies in Fiyori's arms moments after Fiyori declares her hatred of her.]]

** [[SchoolgirlLesbians Sarah Xu and Reiko Ishida]], who are often called "Sareiko" when mentioned together.

** [[AxeCrazy Liam Brooks]], full stop. Same reasoning as above [[FaceHeelTurn post-breakdown.]] He's either seen as an effective WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds or an over the top villain running on a {{Gimmick}}. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's just leave it at that]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[OnlySaneMan Heather Pendergrast]], [[NiceGuy Jeremy Torres]], [[GenreSavy Lyndi Thibodeaux]] and [[PolarOppositeTwins Fred and Glenn Hughes]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Heather Pendergrast, Jeremy Torres, Lyndi Thibodeaux and Fred and Glenn Hughes.

** This trope could also easily explain why Orn "Dutchy" Ayers is so popular on the board. Dutchy is an [[FunnyForeigner Icelandic]], [[BiTheWay free-loving]] [[NerdsAreSexy comic book nerd]] who watches soccer and cries TenderTears over the plight of third-world countries among other things. Add in his in-game posts, which makes many handlers see him as TheWoobie, and his habit of wearing a PointlessBandAid over his nose, and you have a character who [[EnsembleDarkhorse most of the board adores]]. Which makes his mental scarring and subsequent death all that more painful.

* VindicatedByHistory: In comparison to the HypeBacklash described above, some characters from early versions who were quickly forgotten were praised upon being re-discovered by the handlers. Examples of this include Jeremy Torres from v1 and Huy Tran from v2.

** [[AxCrazy Isabel Ramirez]] is intended to be a throwback to V3 style {{Sadist}}s, which makes her polarizing on premise. She tends to be considered either a great homage to killers from the earlier versions while being an illustration of [[TropesAreTools how to do such tropes correctly]], or making the same mistakes that made those characters less than interesting in the first place by being over the top with her bloodthirsty characterization.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: It's notoriously difficult to follow [=SOTF=] reading a version after the fact usually requires going by character, and the site's wiki has a full list of their threads. If the topic you're reading is the last one listed as featuring that character, it's not too hard to draw a conclusion about their fate.
** Actively participating in the game also requires reading the announcements, which in character tell the students what is happening and out of character tell participants who is due to die. Since handlers ''have'' to read this part or else fail to discover that their own character might be on the chopping block, they will immediately be spoiled on the imminent deaths of the half dozen or so characters rolled
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A typical version features a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large]], fully fleshed-out cast. Death order is decided by random chance. As a result, you're going to end up feeling this way about at least one character.

* SpoileredByTheFormat: It's notoriously difficult to follow [=SOTF=] reading a version after the fact usually requires going by character, and the site's wiki has a full list of their threads. If the topic you're reading is the last one listed as featuring that character, it's not too hard to draw a conclusion about their fate.