YMMV / Dead Space: Martyr

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Michael Altman believes the ghosts of the dead are the Marker communicating using the memories of the living. However, the ghosts are constantly talking about how they should leave the Marker alone and sabotaging the efforts to claim it. In this version of the book, it's entirely possible they're actually the dead trying to stop the Marker from destroying humanity.
• Complete Monster: Craig Markoff is a high-ranking military officer who is obsessed with unearthing the Marker. Breaking into Michael Altman's house to torture information out of him about the Marker, Markoff forced Altman, his girlfriend Ada, and Altman's coworkers to retrieve the Marker, which led to several of Markoff's employees killing themselves or losing their minds due to the Marker's influence on them. Forcing Altman to continue regardless of the danger the Marker posed, Markoff leaves everyone inside the facility to die when Necromorphs attacked, solely so he could record video footage of how the Necromorphs and the Marker operate. Ordering Krax to kill Ada, Markoff tells Altman that he will become the founder of the Church of Unitology, after which Markoff had Krax killed when he deemed him "expendable". Forcing Altman to fight a Necromorph-enhanced Krax using nothing but a spoon, which led to his death, Markoff continues his experiments on the Markers and the Necromorphs, single-handedly causing the events of the entire franchise.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Markoff dumping Altman to "fight" the Krax Necromorph is horrific and tragic, yet he also handles him a simple spoon to defend himself, making the scene darkly humorous.
• Moral Event Horizon: Markoff and Stevens killing Michael Altman. Specifically, they capture him, lock him up in solitary confinement until he's completely insane from Marker-related visions, give him a Breaking Speech about how everything he's done has only helped their plans, then dump him in a room with just a spoon against a Necromorph which kills him.
• The Woobie: Michael Altman is an ordinary agnostic archaelogist who loves his girlfriend and ends up getting his life ruined then ended by a corporate then government conspiracy, as well as a cult of wackjobs.