History YMMV / Helltaker

** Modeus, the nymphomaniac who's somewhat naive views of romance come from reading erotic literature.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** In level 8, the puzzle consists of an overly long line of skeletons waiting for their meetings with Lucifer. How do you solve the puzzle? Cutting in line and pushing the first skeleton out of the way!
** As you convince the FinalBoss to join your harem, the "Success!" line is instead changed to "Glorious Success!", with starry-eyed demons dancing in the corners.
*** Better yet: it's the Party Parrot meme.
** [[spoiler: The "Glorious Success!" and dancing skeletons make a surprise return]] in the secret ending.

** Loremaster's seeming fondness for apple pies, and how Lucifer's new position as her maid means she's often getting served the dish, is likely a nod to how an apple was what corrupted Adam and Eve. Also, said apple was offered by Lucifer in snake form. Now, Lucifer's spending her days offering apples to another previously pure being [[GoneHorriblyRight whose corruption she was responsible for]].

* FanonWelding: The FriendlyFandoms between this game and ''VideoGame/{{DOOM}}'' gave rise to humorous idea of Helltaker and Doomguy/Doomslayer being relatives of some sort, with them being either father and son or brothers. Most of this crossover deals with the hilarity of how they have completely opposite views on how to deal with demons, with Doomguy usually showing up pissed that his own flesh-and-blood would "lay" with morally bankrupt demons instead of slaying them.

** Also, ''Videogame/{{DOOM}}'', mostly because of the crossover of extra manly men entering Hell to slay demons, for differing definitions of the word "slay."

* SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** In level 8, the puzzle consists of an overly long line of skeletons waiting for their meetings with Lucifer. How do you solve the puzzle? Cutting in line and pushing the first skeleton out of the way!
** As you convince the FinalBoss to join your harem, the "Success!" line is instead changed to "Glorious Success!", with starry-eyed demons dancing in the corners.
*** Better yet: it's the Party Parrot meme.
** [[spoiler: The "Glorious Success!" and dancing skeletons make a surprise return]] in the secret ending.

* FridgeBrilliance: The initials on Justice's gloves, "HPJ", stand for "High Prosecutor Justice". She held the title before passing the job on to Judgement, and the art book states that they were a gift from Lucifer, possibly to commemorate her being given the job.

*** In the Examtaker dlc, the loading screen is branded with a certain sigil [[spoiler: associated with Azazel]], [[HiddenInPlainSight providing a hint as to the Loremaster's true identity.]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** [[https://twitter.com/Womort/status/1361345406936973312?s=20 This]] fan theory about Azazel became increasingly funny in the run-up to the Examtaker DLC.

* BrokenBase: While the ''Examtaker'' DLC has mostly been well-received, there is a divide on whether [[spoiler: Azazel's fall and subsequent change in personality as a result]] are a natural progression of [[spoiler: her]] character, not helped by the implications in the dialogue that imply worse things are going on behind the scenes.

* DracoInLeatherPants: ''The entire cast'' got hit with this when the game came out. Most of the harem are shown to be willing to horribly murder the Helltaker for being a slight annoyance at worst, and are either shown or implied to be regularly causing mischief, damage and other crazy (and illegal, considering the arrival of the Police in the Normal ending) antics during their stay with him. Meanwhile, the Helltaker's quest from start to finish was entirely for his own selfish desires. Despite this, they are often portrayed as NotEvilJustMisunderstood, a bad case of {{Tsundere}} at worst in fanart, or outright heroic. This contributed to the BrokenBase regarding ''Examtaker'' above.

*** [[spoiler: Taken further in Examtaker, which sees her taking over Hell and running it like a laboratory for her research, which ties in with the Apocryphal interpretation of Azazel as someone who provided pre-deluge man with [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow forbidden sciences]] against God's will.]]

** [[spoiler:Beelzebub's "This is the best day of my life" reaction to being offered pancakes fits with some interpretations of the demon in Christian theology, which equates Beelzebub with the sin of gluttony.]]

* RecurringFanonCharacter: Ever since she was revealed to exist, Baphomet the goat-fetishist demon became a very popular OCStandIn for fan-content. But what really solidified her fandom status was when Pixiv artist Grizz [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89066196 made a series of comics that were so close to vanripper's comics in artstyle and writing]] that their version of the character became the permanent unofficial design for all fanart of her going forwards.

* NightmareFuel: While the art-style is cutesy and most actions happen through text, the various descriptions of the "bad endings" can be terrifying if thought about. So many gruesome descriptions of death and mutilation happening to Helltaker, whether it's neck-snapping, sledgehammer knee-capping, blood-bursting throat-slashing and more.

** A considerable Japanese fanbase developed rather quickly, likely due to all the [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Girls]]. Lucifer even gets [[http://whl4u.jp/wh32/gallery/images/products/56.jpg her own]] Toys/{{Nendoroid}}!

** The part after that, however, is flat out NintendoHard. With the other levels, you can at least cheat and look up the solution to the puzzle, but this level is a straight-up boss fight requiring fast reflexes and a '''''lot''''' of patience

** Level X, however, is flat out NintendoHard. With the other levels, you can at least cheat and look up the solution to the puzzle, but this level is a flat-out boss fight requiring fast reflexes and a '''''lot''''' of patience

* ThatOneLevel: Level IX has become notorious for its difficulty for players. Despite having no enemies or spikes, you must follow an exact pattern of steps so as to not run out of them and having to start all over again or, more likely, get hopelessly stuck and have to start all over again.

* PopularWithFurries: While there was already notable interest in the game due to the LittleBitBeastly Cerberus and some of the artist's previous work. The reveal in the comics that the demons are capable of shapeshifting into furry forms (such as [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/898/044/eaa.jpg Lucifer turning into a goat-girl]]) brought the fandom around full force, with Lucifer's aforementioned case getting the brunt of the fanart. The fact that Lucifer herself outright references furries is the cherry on top of this whole thing.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the few complaints people have about the game is that it can be completed in twenty minutes if you know what you're doing. It's possible to get all of the achievements and thus OneHundredPercentCompletion in under an hour.

* PopularWithFurries: While there was already notable interest in the game due to the LittleBitBeastly Cerberus, the reveal in the comics that the demons are capable of shapeshifting into furry forms (such as [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/898/044/eaa.jpg Lucifer turning into a goat-girl]]) brought the fandom around full force, with Lucifer's aforementioned case getting the brunt of the fanart.

* PopularWithFurries: While there was already notable interest in the game due to the LittleBitBeastly Cerberus, the reveal in the comics that the demons are capable of shapeshifting into furry forms (such as [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/898/044/eaa.jpg Lucifer turning into a goat-girl]]) brought the fandom around full force, with Lucifer's aforementioned case getting the brunt of the fanart.

* PopularWithFurries: While there was already notable interest in the game due to the LittleBitBeastly Cerberus, the reveal in the comics that the demons are capable of shapeshifting into furry forms (such as [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/898/044/eaa.jpg Lucifer turning into a goat-girl]]) brought the fandom around full force, with Lucifer's aforementioned case getting the brunt of the fanart.

* EvilIsSexy: The game's fundamental principle; why else would Helltaker suddenly decide that going to hell and grabbing himself a harem of murderous demon girls is a good idea?

* FridgeBrilliance: The initials on Justice's gloves, "HPJ", stand for "High Prosecutor Justice". She held the title before passing the job on to Judgement, and the artbook states that they were a gift from Lucifer, possibly to commemorate her being given the job.