YMMV / Our Wonderland

• Accidental Aesop: The story actually works very well as a statement on how bad Living Emotional Crutch relationships can be. In fact, in the final timeline they're more well-adjusted when they learn to form bonds with others.
  • Due to Genzou caring only about Iggy, he couldn't form other significant connections and the only time he tried doing so resulted in the doomed Destructive Romance with Orlam.
  • Gidget started acting more stereotipically feminine in the hopes she could get Iggy's love, even though she's clearly happier as a trans man, believing that Iggy was the one who could gave her the perfect life her mother pressured her to have. Once Iggy makes clear he's asexual and he isn't interested, she snaps, realizing all her suffering was for nothing.
  • Due to the mistreatment of his friends and his father, Orlam suffers from severe emotional dependency issues, and is desperate for someone, anyone to like and care for him. It's why he was quick to latch onto Genzou and why he was so broken after Genzou broke the whole thing off.
• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Iggy taking a level in jerkass in Arc 3. Is he angry with himself and everyone upon realizing the awful way Orlam was treated, or is it a result of him wishing to stop feeling pain in the previous timeline?
  • Orlam's feelings for Iggy in Arc 3. Is he legitimately interested in him as a person? Just jumping after the first person who's shown him kindness? Or wanting to get back at Genzou by taking his love interest away?
  • Bucks claims that she forgot what her true wish was when she meets Saydie at the core of the Wishing Tree. Did she truly forget or she didn't want to tell her daughter how much she wanted her dead to her face? Her nervous smile seems to imply the later.
• Anti-Climax Boss: The river monster is initially a huge threat. By the time Arc 3 happens, it turns out to be fairly simple to take down. And in Arc 4 and 5, it's avoided completely.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Genzou seems to be intended as a sarcastic comic relief with quirky disregard for social decorum, but comes across as a Jerkass thanks to the awful way he treats Orlam. On the other hand, many fans love him for his Deadpan Snarker tendencies and his close friendship with Iggy.
  • Iggy, himself, is either a major woobie and realistically-written, relatable Tragic Hero who deserves a happy ending (and a hug), or a spineless, cowardly and whiny angst-bucket on the level of Shinji Ikari who is outshone by his more likable supporting cast.
  • Gidget is either an irredeemable rapist and the worst love interest for Iggy, or she's a Jerkass Woobie who's deeply damaged due to her family's high expectations for her. While the final version of Gidget is genuinely remorseful for what past versions of them did, whether they're truly considered forgivable or not is debatable.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Orlam getting back at Genzou for all the torment he'd put him through (especially after Genzou's callous "The Reason You Suck" Speech in Arc 1). It's just as satisfying for him In-Universe as it is for the viewers.
  • Genzou massacring Orlam and the rabbit guards in Arc 2. Not only did the guards have been a thorn on their side since Arc 1, but Orlam had previously tortured Iggy for no other reason that getting back at Genzou.
  • Iggy chews Genzou out for mocking Orlam's disappearance in Arc 3. He's acted so horrible towards Orlam throughout the series that seeing him yelled at by someone normally as soft-spoken as Iggy is very satisfying.
  • Iggy telling the river monster to leave in Arc 3, after all the trouble (and game overs) it caused in previous loops.
  • Iggy standing up to Gidget in Arc 3, after she complains how she's entitled to get his love because she started dressing and acting more feminine to appeal to him more definitely counts - especially since he finally loses his temper with Gidget after she starts assaulting him.
  • After watching Bucks get away with killing her baby, Wonderland residents and the gang in multiple timelines, watching her die in Arc 2 is absolutely satisfying. Doubly as Iggy uses the same axe she's been using to kill others.
  • For people that hate Gidget for their multiple sexual assault attempts toward Iggy, her being murdered by Bucks at the end of Arc 4 feels well deserved.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Jerry was just another rabbit soldier mook, but with the distinction that he opposed to his leader and being a Knight in Sour Armor. That action and his furry design made him extremely popular and he received tons of fanarts. He ultimately became a prominent supporting character in Arc 5 and was reincarnated as a human in the final timeline.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Iggy/Genzou seems to be the only one that fans really hung on to, despite Genzou's divisive reputation. Doesn't help that they have the most healthy relationship compared to Orlam and Gidget.
• Hollywood Homely: Orlam is often described as ugly and is frequently insulted over his "rattail ponytail" and his gaunt features, despite being drawn as any other character.
• LGBT Fanbase: Between the obviously gay Genzou, the asexual Iggy, the implied to be bisexual Orlam, and the trans Gidget, to say that this series has a no small amount of LGBT fans would be an understatement.
• Moe: Child Saydie, full stop.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Bucks crosses it when she kills her child to use it as a sacrifice and be away from her responsabilities as a mother. And later when she kills Iggy, Genzou, Orlam and Gidget in their own arcs due to paranoia.
  • Gidget's forcing herself on Iggy and trying to mutilate and/or kill him when he rejects her. And continue to do so in multiple timelines.
  • Orlam having some of the Wonderland's residents turned into meat to cover the population's food expenses and later partaking into eating them himself. Likewise when he sadistically tortures and mutilates Iggy, just to get back at Genzou in Arc 2.
  • While Genzou is a horrendous bully towards Orlam, his culpability is somewhat murky since he was essentially a child when most of it happened, but what makes him especially irredeemable is when he shows No Sympathy for Orlam after his mother commited suicide and says he should have died too.
  • The Wishing Tree absorbing Saydie's corpse and rewinding time over and over in order to make the girl grow enough to make her own wish.
• Squick: Orlam's open cannibalism is unnerving, especially with indications that he eats parts of Genzou while he's still alive.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Orlam is treated as The Friend Nobody Likes, but the fandom adores him, either for his sympathetic backstory, or for his hilarious Large Ham Psychopathic Manchild tendencies, which were immensely entertaining to watch. It helps that in his route, he's genuinely caring and considerate of Iggy's asexuality, in sharp contrast to Gidget's reaction.
• Vanilla Protagonist: While he's hardly disliked, many fans have pointed out that Iggy doesn't have much to his character beyond being a typical All-Loving Hero and Nice Guy who travels through time to help his friends. Just compare him to the Bromantic Foil Genzou and the Psychopathic Manchild Orlam.
• The Woobie: It wouldn't be a Carrot Patch game without the main cast having their own share of emotional baggages.

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