YMMV / Mad Father

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Despite the strong implication that Aya is following in her father's footsteps in the true ending, some fans choose to believe that she's simply become a kindly doctor. The 2016 Steam Remake update to the ending adds on further fuel to the fire that she might not be going in her father's direction. The 2020 remake clarifies it. Aya has become a doctor and murders people just like her father. However, she doesn't have the same lack of empathy she had as a child and she still remembers her promise with the blonde boy. Even so, this video released in 2023 has instead interpreted the above scene as Aya feeling guilt for not being able to save Jean's life, as shown by how her vision of Jean's corpse is portrayed as decrepit rather than beautiful, and as shown by how Jean is the one character in Blood Mode that Aya cannot reach closure with.
  • Aya's murdering tendencies. Did she inherit them from Alfred or are they a result of Monika's influence? Or possibly both?
• Creepy Cute:
  • Collina being a small child who just longs for her mother. At least with the old portrait.
  • Inez as well, despite being a zombie is very endearing due to her friendly and mischievous nature.
• Fan Nickname: Robin is commonly called "Dio", thanks to his resemblance to the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure villain.
• Fanon: Various fan theories have been concocted attempting to tie Mad Father to Misao, which is set in the same universe in the future. Some of these include Ogre being Onigawara, Aya or her clone being the Library Girl, and Alfred Drevis being the Mad Scientist.
  • The eyeless blonde that Aya helps almost looks like Viola. The only difference is that this blonde has blue eyes while Viola has green. (This is because both characters were based on the same free sprite.)
  • The theory of Aya's clone being the library girl in Misao has become an Ascended Fanon through Continuity Nod, that is, if the player names the library girl Maria in the latest version of Misao.
• Moral Event Horizon: Aya's father crosses it when it's revealed he killed his wife, then firmly stays beyond it when he tries to kill Aya, and later, Maria.
• Narm: Some of the scares can come off as this thanks to the limited graphics.
  • Aya's character model can often fall victim to Dull Surprise and her mother's has slightly crossed eyes in some of the shots of her.
  • During the last chase, Alfred will peek out from behind a door with a slasher smile and go "Boo!" Voiced and everything. It's supposed to be creepy and show him completely off the deep end, but it's pretty funny.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: When you learn the truth about every person in the game, including Aya given her future, it'll make you upset there's no ending where everybody dies.
• Ugly Cute: Many of the undead minor characters can count, especially the "blonde boy". He is mostly a Bishōnen, but the Body Horror tries to subvert it.
• The Woobie: Aya and many of the Doctor's victims.
  • Although Aya arguably loses this in the True Ending, seeing as how she may become her father's successor...