History YMMV / Doom

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Tons of it. ''Doom'' specializes in this trope.
** The Icon of Sin.
** In source ports with the aforementioned "Ouch Face", it's pretty funny the first time you see the Doomguy's expression When he takes high damage. As his health drops lower and lower, though, and the "Ouch Face" is triggered, you get to see the Doomguy's facial wounds in all its glory, including ''huge bullet holes, with blood still dripping from them''.
** ''Doom 3'', particularly the early scene where all hell breaks loose. Literally. For best results play with headphones, alone and in the dark. [[GameMod Avoid the flashlight game mod,]] and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel don't skip any of the audio logs.]]

*** "You Have Huge Guts"- [[HarderThanHard Kill a Cyberdemon in single player using your fists.]]

* SoBadItsGood: [[YourMileageMayVary For some]], [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome So Cool It's Awesome]] for others.

!![[{{ComicBook/Doom}} The Comic Book]]:

!![[ComicBook/Doom The comic based on the game]]:

!![[{{Doom The Video Games]]:

{{YMMV}}s relating to the ''Doom'' video games:

{{YMMV}}s relating to the comic based on the game:

* FridgeBrilliance: The nameless protagonist of Doom 3 is probably actually called "Marine Transfer", considering that is what appears on the passenger list at the start of the game (alongside Elliott Swann and John Campbell).

** In source ports with the aformentioned "Ouch Face", it's pretty funny the first time you see the Doomguy's expression When he takes high damage. As his health drops lower and lower, though, and the "Ouch Face" is triggered, you get to see the Doomguy's facial wounds in all its glory, including ''huge bullet holes, with blood still dripping from them''.
** ''Doom 3'', paricularly the early scene where all hell breaks loose. Literally. For best results play with headphones, alone and in the dark. [[GameMod Avoid the flashlight game mod,]] and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel don't skip any of the audio logs.]]

** The WHAAAARRGARBL of an expiring Arch Ville is quite awesome too.

** Heck, the Cyberdemon from the ''original'' Doom can get like this, straddling the line between this and WakeupCallBoss. Once you get past his [[OhCrap giant roar]] and [[HellIsThatNoise KATHUNK-KATHUNK-KATHUNK]] footsteps, he's less of a boss and more of a [[DamageSpongeBoss circle-strafing target]] because, unlike the Bruisers, there's only one of him and he hangs out in a much more open arena. His rockets are definitely faster than the fireballs you've been dodging up to this point, but after a while you will find yourself filing them under {{Painfully Slow Projectile}}s all the same.

** Heck, the Cyberdemon from the ''original'' Doom can get like this, straddling the line between this and WakeUpCallBoss. Once you get past his [[OhCrap giant roar]] and [[HellIsThatNoise KATHUNK-KATHUNK-KATHUNK]] footsteps, he's less of a boss and more of a [[DamageSpongeBoss circle-strafing target]] because, unlike the Bruisers, there's only one of him and he hangs out in a much more open arena. His rockets are definitely faster than the fireballs you've been dodging up to this point, but after a while you will find yourself filing them under {{Painfully Slow Projectile}}s all the same.

* AcceptableTargets: The bad guys in the first game are demons from hell. Feel free to be an AxCrazy orgy of death now. The second game is similarly populated by demons...except for the secret levels, which are also populated by [[{{Wolfenstein3D}} Nazis]].

* ExcusePlot: Demons have invaded Phobos/Earth/Mars! Go kill them all in an over the top and gory fashion.

** ''Doom 3'', paricularly the early scene where all hell breaks loose. Literally. For best results play with headphones, alone and in the dark. [[GameMod Avoid the flashlight game mod,]] and [[NightmareFuelUnleaded don't skip any of the audio logs.]]

* MostWonderfulSound: The "Powerup Get!" gong sound in the first two games.

* ParanoiaFuel: In one of the closing scenes, by the point when you've gotten used to all the jump-scares that the game throws at you... there's a level where [[NothingIsScarier NOTHING]] comes out.

** The 3DO version comes dangerously close to being worst. In addition to cutting several levels and monsters, it also has serious frame rate issues. You can either shrink the screen down (making it virtually impossible to see anything without bunching up to the TV), or you could make the window bigger (which caused the frame rate to drop into ''single digits'' at points). The only thing saving it is [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome the awesomely remixed soundtrack.]]

* SpecialEffectFailure: The Windows port, [=Doom95=] (which incorporates ''Doom, Doom II, Ultimate Doom and Final Doom'') makes full use of Windows' facilities, including using hardware accelleration (where available) to implement the "partial invisibility" effect. Unfortunately, on some graphics cards this doesn't work properly, and Spectres (and players using the Partial Invisibility power-up) are even ''more'' conspicuous than other creatures. Lampshaded in the Doom95 manual. ''"Due to all of this new hardware tech, the previously-nearly-invisible Spectres are now in the realm of sorta-invisible. To make up for the difference, please close your eyes when you encounter them."''

* {{So Bad Its Good}}: [[YourMileageMayVary For some]], SoCoolItsAwesome for others.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Dr. Malcolm Betruger]] and the actual monsters.

* GannonBanned: The logo of the game subtitled ''Hell on Earth'' reads ''Doom II'' (in Roman numerals), and the 2005 game set on Mars is titled ''Doom 3'' (in Arabic numerals). Fans aren't ''that'' fastidious about it, but it's recommended you don't confuse the two (that is, on a ''DOOM''-centered message board, don't type them as "Doom 2" or "Doom III").

* PortingDisaster: ''Doom'' has been ported to all sorts of systems, some of which couldn't really handle a game of its size and complexity all that well. This often resulted in extremely pixellated graphics, shortened and sometimes removed levels, missing weapons, fewer types of enemies and removed frames of animation for said same. The last one led to "crab-walking" enemies that faced the player constantly, meaning it was impossible to sneak up on them and very difficult to trick them into damaging one another. The SNES and Sega 32X versions were considered the worst of these: The SNES version gets props for being made in the first place, and sported a few pros such as an awesome soundtrack, full enemy roster and spiffy red cartridge, but also had most of the above mentioned problems in addition to [[FakeDifficulty no circle-strafing]], while the 32X version -despite appearing on an allegedly more advanced system- got it even worse; losing even more levels and both the Cyberdemon ''and'' the Spider Mastermind monsters.

{{YMMV}}s relating to the ''Doom'' video games:

* AcceptableTargets: The bad guys in the first game are demons from hell. Feel free to be an AxCrazy orgy of death now. The second game is similarly populated by demons...except for the secret levels, which are also populated by [[{{Wolfenstein3D}} Nazis]].
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The finale for the GameBoyAdvance edition of ''Doom'' shows the ending picture from ''Ultimate Doom's'' fourth episode, with the marine carrying the severed head of his luckless pet bunny, but it doesn't show the cutscene from episode three that gives the picture its context, leaving new players wondering why the hell Doomguy is just holding some rabbit's head.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: Dwango5, [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/1995.php according to Doomworld]].
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Dr. Malcolm Betruger]] and the actual monsters.

** In ''Doom 3'', taken more literally with upside-down heads with legs.
* ExcusePlot: Demons have invaded Phobos/Earth/Mars! Go kill them all in an over the top and gory fashion.
* GameBreaker: The Artifact from ROE. You start the game with it and, although it doesn't do anything until after you beat the first boss, once you do it immediately becomes a GameBreaker. Then after you beat the second and third bosses ''[[ItGotWorse it gets worse.]]'' Let's face it, it's hard to be afraid of the hordes of Hell when you can [[BulletTime slow time to 1/5th of normal]], [[NighInvulnerable run through a storm of fireballs without receiving a scratch]] and [[SuperStrength splatter enemies across the landscape with your FISTS]].
** The BFG in multiplayer, due to the aforementioned ability to fire off a shot in one room, run over to another player, and then hitscan frag them without them even knowing. They could even kill you first, and ''still'' get nailed by the hitscan!

* GannonBanned: The logo of the game subtitled ''Hell on Earth'' reads ''Doom II'' (in Roman numerals), and the 2005 game set on Mars is titled ''Doom 3'' (in Arabic numerals). Fans aren't ''that'' fastidious about it, but it's recommended you don't confuse the two (that is, on a ''DOOM''-centered message board, don't type them as "Doom 2" or "Doom III").
* GoddamnedBats: The Lost Souls and Cacodemons, some enemies from the zdoom Realm 667 beastiary.
** The Forgotten Ones summoned during your boss fight with the Maledict. As soon as your Artifact's invincibility lets up, they're ready to chomp you, often doing more collective damage than the Maledict itself.
* HellIsThatNoise: Archviles. Just...archviles. * shudder*
** The "player sighted" roar of the Barons of Hell is rather pants-filling.
** Let's not forget any time you encounter a Cyberdemon. *THUNKTHUNKTHUNKTHUNK* "RAAAAAAAAAHRG!". The stuff of nightmares.
** Go, Revenant! AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
** Its missile launch (HIRO-EH) and active (HAAAOOOOW) noises can also be unsettling.
** Because most enemies' encounter noises trigger upon firing a weapon in an open area, especially in the [[NintendoHard Final Doom expansion packs]], there is a good chance that the sound of your pistol can bring about a chorus of waking Cyberdemons, Archviles, Revenants, and Spider Masterminds. [[OhCrap All. At. Once.]]
** In Doom 3, you hear the Cherubs long before you see them, all through the "Recycling 2" level. They're a bit... disconcerting.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Tons of it. ''Doom'' specializes in this trope.
** The Icon of Sin.
** In source ports with the aformentioned "Ouch Face", it's pretty funny the first time you see the Doomguy's expression When he takes high damage. As his health drops lower and lower, though, and the "Ouch Face" is triggered, you get to see the Doomguy's facial wounds in all its glory, including ''huge bullet holes, with blood still dripping from them''.
** ''Doom 3'', paricularly the early scene where all hell breaks loose. Literally. For best results play with headphones, alone and in the dark. [[GameMod Avoid the flashlight game mod,]] and [[NightmareFuelUnleaded don't skip any of the audio logs.]]
* MemeticBadass: The Doomguy.
* MostWonderfulSound: The "Powerup Get!" gong sound in the first two games.
** The death rattles of the Baron of Hell, Cyberdemon, and Spider Mastermind.
** The double-barreled shotgun. Any game.

* ParanoiaFuel: In one of the closing scenes, by the point when you've gotten used to all the jump-scares that the game throws at you... there's a level where [[NothingIsScarier NOTHING]] comes out.
* PortingDisaster: ''Doom'' has been ported to all sorts of systems, some of which couldn't really handle a game of its size and complexity all that well. This often resulted in extremely pixellated graphics, shortened and sometimes removed levels, missing weapons, fewer types of enemies and removed frames of animation for said same. The last one led to "crab-walking" enemies that faced the player constantly, meaning it was impossible to sneak up on them and very difficult to trick them into damaging one another. The SNES and Sega 32X versions were considered the worst of these: The SNES version gets props for being made in the first place, and sported a few pros such as an awesome soundtrack, full enemy roster and spiffy red cartridge, but also had most of the above mentioned problems in addition to [[FakeDifficulty no circle-strafing]], while the 32X version -despite appearing on an allegedly more advanced system- got it even worse; losing even more levels and both the Cyberdemon ''and'' the Spider Mastermind monsters.
** The 3DO version comes dangerously close to being worst. In addition to cutting several levels and monsters, it also has serious frame rate issues. You can either shrink the screen down (making it virtually impossible to see anything without bunching up to the TV), or you could make the window bigger (which caused the frame rate to drop into ''single digits'' at points). The only thing saving it is [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome the awesomely remixed soundtrack.]]
* SoBadItsGood: The comic and the movie.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The Windows port, [=Doom95=] (which incorporates ''Doom, Doom II, Ultimate Doom and Final Doom'') makes full use of Windows' facilities, including using hardware accelleration (where available) to implement the "partial invisibility" effect. Unfortunately, on some graphics cards this doesn't work properly, and Spectres (and players using the Partial Invisibility power-up) are even ''more'' conspicuous than other creatures. Lampshaded in the Doom95 manual. ''"Due to all of this new hardware tech, the previously-nearly-invisible Spectres are now in the realm of sorta-invisible. To make up for the difference, please close your eyes when you encounter them."''

* WhatAnIdiot: Let's just say the plot of ''Doom I'', and ESPECIALLY the plot of ''Doom 3'' revolves around the UAC having a death grip on the IdiotBall. Well, to be exact, in ''3'' the UAC was wise enough to realize the situation was getting ugly and tried to stop it, but blatant [[{{Greed}} idiocy]] prompted things to go wrong in the first place.
** The UAC of ''Doom 3'' aren't geniuses, but they aren't responsible for the fiasco that unfolds. [[spoiler: Betruger specifically went against orders and forged a pact with hell that blindsided them, as proven by the two representatives who actually DO come from corporate HQ, who wind up helping to save the human race by containing the problem to Mars. While they SHOULD have gotten rid of Betruger earlier and shouldn't have been dabbling in all the things they were, they took fairly sane precautions that were deliberately undermined by treason from within rather than their own stupidity.]]

{{YMMV}}s relating to the comic based on the game:

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php?page=16 The BFG 9000 being fired]] was pretty lame, seemingly fired like a chaingun (and the gun isn't even shown firing them - you just see the bullets hitting.), compared to in [[http://screwattack.com/videos/Armory-The-BFG the game]], which is a green blast that kills everything in the room.
** Ironically, that's sort of how the BFG's firing effect was supposed to look in game - fire a spread of around 40 projectiles. They were originally red and green plasma blasts instead of the bullets shown here, though.

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* GameBreaker: The Artifact from ROE. You start the game with it and, although it doesn't do anything until after you beat the first boss, once you do it immediately becomes a GameBreaker. Then after you beat the second and third bosses ''[[BeyondTheImpossible it gets worse.]]'' Let's face it, it's hard to be afraid of the hordes of Hell when you can [[BulletTime slow time to 1/5th of normal]], [[NighInvulnerable run through a storm of fireballs without receiving a scratch]] and [[SuperStrength splatter enemies across the landscape with your FISTS]].

The following are {{YMMV}}s relating to the video game ''Doom'':

* AcceptableTargets: The bad guys in the first game are demons from hell. Feel free to be an AxCrazy orgy of death now.
** The second game is similarly populated by demons... except for the secret levels, which are also populated by Nazis.

** This troper got the Xbox Version, so he was able to play Doom 3 on a 60 in. HD television with surround sound.

The following are {{YMMV}}s relating to the comic based on the game:

** AscendedMeme: Some achievement names for the XboxLiveArcade release of ''Doom II'' are comic quotes:
*** "An Important Looking Door"- find a secret area in a level in single player
*** "Rip And Tear"- complete any level in single player on "Nightmare!" difficulty
*** "The Great Communicator"- get 20 kills in any level with the chainsaw in single player
*** "A Man And A Half"- get 20 kills in any level with the Berzerker power-up in single player
*** "You Have Huge Guts"- [[HarderThanHard kill a Cyberdemon in single player using your fists]]
*** "A Really Big Gun"- find the BFG 9000 in single player

*** "You Have Huge Guts"- [[BeyondTheImpossible kill a Cyberdemon in single player using your fists]]

** Let's not forget any time you encounter a Cyberdemon. * THUNKTHUNKTHUNKTHUNK* "RAAAAAAAAAHRG!". The stuff of nightmares.

** AscendedMeme: [[http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/05/23/doom-ii-achievements-revealed/ Some achievement names]] for the XboxLiveArcade release of ''Doom II'' are comic quotes:

** The WHAAAARRGARBL of an expiring Revenant's quite awesome too.

* SoBadItsGood: the comic and the movie.