History YMMV / Interlopers

* BizarroEpisode: ''Interlopers'' is a pretty bizarre series by nature of its premise alone, but ''Chara vs Jim Sterling'' still kinda comes out of nowhere. As the title suggests, Jim Sterling (yes ''[[{{WebVideo/Jimquisition}} that]]'' Jim Sterling) suddenly appears right as Chara and Buddy are about to confront Kiwi-Frisk and demands Chara to face him for Papyrus' murder. The battle itself is kind of out there, with Jim breaking into an impromptu dance-number right in the middle and using all kinds of ConfusionFu before and after. Chara themselves admits that they have no idea who the heck Jim even is.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Don't let the the bright colors and the cutesy art-style fool you. ''Interlopers'' is definitely not a kid-friendly series. The prequel alone features gore and BodyHorror in abundance and the comics and the actual series aren't much better.

* BizarroEpisode: ''Interlopers'' is a pretty bizarre series by nature of it's premise alone, but ''Chara vs Jim Sterling'' still kinda comes out of nowhere. As the title suggests, Jim Sterling (yes ''[[{{WebVideo/Jimquisition}} that]]'' Jim Sterling) suddenly appears right as Chara and Buddy are about to confront Kiwi-Frisk and demands Chara to face him for Papyrus' murder. The battle itself is kind of out there, with Jim breaking into an impromptu dance-number right in the middle and using all kinds of ConfusionFu before and after. Chara themselves admits that they have no idea who the heck Jim even is.
* BrokenBase: The outcome, or rather: outcomes of the ''"Chara vs Buddy"'' video were pretty controversial among fans. On one hand, there were those that felt Buddy should have wiped the floor with Chara, seeing as she had previously taken on human adults who were much bigger and physically stronger than her (and won) and had a lot more fighting experience overall, since she'd been fighting for years in her own world, while Chara's genocide in the Underground should have taken at most a few days. On the other hand there were people arguing that Chara had been suffering from TheWorfEffect the entire video and should have had an easy time defeating Buddy, as they had just defeated pretty much every major boss in the Underground, including the resident captain of the Royal Guard and demonstrated superhuman abilities more than once in their own game and in the video.
* CaptainObviousReveal: Core-Frisk being the actual mastermind behind Chara and Buddy's journey and being in league with Kiwi. Short of Kiwi just messing around, there was no on else it could have been, seeing as Gaster was limited to one timeline and didn't really care enough about either of the children to arrange a life-changing multiversal quest for them.

* DesignatedHero: Buddy saving Chara from being tortured by Jim is played off as a heroic moment that shows even though she may be a {{Jerkass}}, Buddy still has some good in her left. What sours it significantly is that Chara is an unrepentant serial killer and the only reason Jim was even after them in the first place was that they killed a person he loved. To add insult to injury, Buddy subjects Jim to a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in which she tells him that his sadism and self-righteousness are disgusting and that if he wanted Papyrus to live, he should have stood up to Chara to defend him. She's basically blaming the death of an innocent man on the person who grieves over him, instead of on the person who actually killed him.
* EvilIsCool: A major drawing point of the series. While it's still [[BrokenBase hotly debated]] in both games' fandoms whether or not one can truly describe Chara and Buddy as evil, in ''Interlopers'' they're definitely on the VillainProtagonist - side. And their battles and interactions with each other are a joy to watch. Of course it doesn't hurt either that both of them go through pretty significant CharacterDevelopment as the story goes on.
* FanficFuel: The story centers around Chara and Buddy travelling the multiverse together. That concept alone is bound to tickle the creator's spirit. It helps that the majority of their journey happens off-screen and is relayed to the viewer via short flashbacks. Leaving fan-artists much room to fill the gaps or even come up with a few extra confrontations.

* MisaimedFandom: In ''Vs Bete Noire'', Chara tells Buddy that the titular Bete Noir isn't a girl but "a trap". This little throwaway joke got a lot of flak from viewers who thought it was a poor choice of words since the word "trap" is often used as a transphobic slur. In context, that isn't at all what Chara meant. Bete Noir is a trap because she's a soul-stealing demon disguising itself as a cute child, not because of any issues concerning her gender identity.
* {{Narm}}: The entirety of ''Chara's Hate'' with it's a bit too on-the-nose YouAreNotAlone-aesop. Apart from Chara literally fighting their hatred, but only being able to defeat it with Buddy's help, both Chara and Buddy get very hammy speeches in which they praise the other for their loyalty and both times it almost comes off as an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Special mention goes to Buddy telling Chara that they "need each other" in front of a serene, cloudy sky while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvU6O3R5DQ8 Voices]] plays in the background. Keep in mind the catalyst for all of this was Chara and Buddy getting served by a little kid.
* TakeThatScrappy: For ''WebAnimation/{{Glitchtale}}''-fans who absolutely loathe Béte Noire, "Vs Béte Noire" was a dream come true. Not only does Betty get completely curb-stombed by Chara and Buddy, she is not even treated as a major threat and ends up being forced to make a run for it when Buddy ''tears her to pieces'' at the end of the fight.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Hate was the only antagonist not shown in the "The Battles To Come"-video. Their inclusion in the series came as a surprise to many viewers.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Chara in ''Chara's Hate'', for multiple reasons. Hate tries to get them to kill Buddy by telling them that she'll eventually stab them in the back because "everyone betrayed [them]". Let's remember who it was that supposedly 'betrayed' Chara: Their adoptive brother Asriel, who was so devoted to them he was willing to assist them in a murder-suicide mission and understandably snapped under the pressure of having to kill. And Frisk, who Chara murdered in cold blood and whose body they're currently possessing because Frisk realized how much harm their genocide run had done and wanted to reset. It's a little detrimental to your story's YouAreNotAlone - message when the character it's directed at is only alone in the first place because they had unreasonable expectations for their friends and went so far as to kill them(or get them killed) out of sheer egotism and an extreme NeverMyFault - mindset. What brought this sudden mental breakdown on? Buddy stopping them from killing an injured mother and her baby. It says ''a lot'' about Chara that the act of not killing innocent people triggers their BerserkMode.

* BizarroEpisode: ''Interlopers'' is a pretty bizarre series by nature of it's premise alone, but ''Chara vs Jim Sterling'' still kinda comes out of nowhere. As the title suggests, Jim Sterling (yes ''that'' Jim Sterling) suddenly appears right as Chara and Buddy are about to confront Kiwi-Frisk and demands Chara to face him for Papyrus' murder. The battle itself is kind of out there, with Jim breaking into an impromptu dance-number right in the middle and using all kinds of ConfusionFu before and after. Chara themselves admits that they have no idea who the heck Jim even is.

* EvilIsCool: A major drawing point of the series. While it's still [[BrokenBase hotly debated]] in both games' fandoms whether or not one can truly describe Chara and Buddy as evil, in ''Interlopers'' they're deifnitely on the VillainProtagonist - side. And their battles and interactions with each other are a joy to watch. Of course it doesn't hurt either that both of them go through pretty significant CharacterDevelopment as the story goes on.

* EvilIsCool: A major drawing point of the series. While it's still [[BrokenBase hotly debated]] in both games' fandoms whether or not one can truly describe Chara and Buddy as evil, in ''Interlopers'' they're deifnitely on the VillainProtagonist - side. And their battles and interactions with each other are a joy to watch. Of course it doesn't hurt either that both of them go through pretty significant CharacterDevelopment throughout the story.

* MisaimedFandom: In ''Vs Bete Noire'', Chara tells Buddy that the titular Bete Noir isn't a girl but "a trap". This little throwaway joke got a lot of flak from viewers who thought it was a poor choice of words since the word "trap" is often used as a transphobic slur. In context, that isn't at all what Chara meant. Bete Noir is a trap because she's a soul-stealing demon disguising itself as a girl, not because of any issues concerning her gender identity.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Don't let the the bright colors and the cutesy art-style fool you. ''Interlopers'' is definitely not a kid-friendly series. The prequel alone features gore in abundance and the comics and following episodes aren't much better.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Chara in ''Chara's Hate'', for multiple reasons. Hate tries to get them to kill Buddy by telling them that she'll eventually stab them in the back because "everyone betrayed you". Let's remember who it was that supposedly 'betrayed' Chara: Their adoptive brother Asriel, who was so devoted to them he was willing to assist them in a murder-suicide mission and understandably snapped under the pressure of having to kill. And Frisk, who Chara murdered in cold blood and whose body they're currently possessing because Frisk realized how much harm their genocide run had done and wanted to reset. It's a little detrimental to your story's YouAreNotAlone - message when the character it's directed at is only alone in the first place because they had unreasonable expectations for their friends and went so far as to kill them(or get them killed) out of sheer egotism and an extreme NeverMyFault - mindset. What brought this sudden mental breakdown on? Buddy stopping them from killing an injured mother and her baby. It says ''a lot'' about Chara that the act of not killing innocent people triggers their BerserkMode.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Chara in ''Chara's Hate'', for multiple reasons. Hate tries to get them to kill Buddy by telling them that she'll eventually stab them in the back because "everyone betrayed you". Let's remember who it was that supposedly 'betrayed' Chara: Their adoptive brother Asriel, who was so devoted to them he was willing to assist them in a murder-suicide mission and understandably snapped under the pressure of having to kill. And Frisk, who Chara murdered in cold blood and whose body they're currently possessing because they realized how much harm their genocide run had done and wanted to reset. It's a little detrimental to your story's YouAreNotAlone - message when the character it's directed at is only alone in the first place because they had unreasonable expectations for their friends and went so far as to kill them(or get them killed) out of sheer egotism and an extreme NeverMyFault - mindset. What brought this sudden mental breakdown on? Buddy stopping them from killing an injured mother and her baby. It says ''a lot'' about Chara that the act of not killing innocent people triggers their BerserkMode.

* DesignatedHero: Buddy saving Chara from being tortured Jim is played off as a heroic moment that shows even though she may be a {{Jerkass}}, Buddy still has some good in her left. What sours it significantly is that Chara is an unrepentant serial killer and the only reason Jim was even after them in the first place was that they killed a person he loved. To add insult to injury, Buddy subjects Jim to a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in which she tells him that his sadism and self-righteousness are disgusting and that if he wanted Papyrus to live, he should have stood up to Chara to defend him. She's basically blaming the death of an innocent man on the person who grieves over him, instead of on the person who actually killed him.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Chara in ''Chara's Hate'', for multiple reasons.
** Hate tries to get them to kill Buddy by telling them that she'll eventually stab them in the back because "everyone betrayed you". Let's remember who it was that supposedly 'betrayed' Chara: Their adoptive brother Asriel, who was so devoted to them he was willing to assist them in a murder-suicide mission and understandably snapped under the pressure of having to kill. And Frisk, who Chara murdered in cold blood and whose body they're currently possessing because they realized how much harm their genocide run had done and wanted to reset. It's a little detrimental to your story's YouAreNotAlone - message when the character it's directed at is only alone in the first place because they had unreasonable expectations for their friends and went so far as to kill them(or get them killed) out of sheer egotism and an extreme NeverMyFault - mindset.
** What brought this sudden mental breakdown on? Buddy stopping them from killing an injured mother and her baby. It says ''a lot'' about Chara that the act of not killing innocent people triggers their BerserkMode.

* BrokenBase: The outcome, or rather: outcomes of the ''"Chara vs Buddy"'' video were pretty controversial among fans. On one hand, there were those that felt Buddy should have wiped the floor with Chara, seeing as she had previously taken on human adults who were much bigger and physically stronger than her (and won) and had a lot more fighting experience overall, since she'd been fighting for years in her own world, while Chara's genocide in the Underground should have taken at most a few days. On the other hand there were people arguing that Chara had been suffering from TheWorfEffect the entire video and should have had an easy time defeating Buddy, as they had just defeated pretty much every major boss in the Underground, including the resident captain of the Royal Guard and demonstrated superhuman abilities more than once in their own game and in the video.

* BrokenBase: The outcome, or rather: outcomes of the ''"Chara vs Buddy"'' video were pretty controversial among fans. On one hand, there were those that felt Buddy should have wiped the floor with Chara, seeing as she had previously taken on human adults who were much bigger and physically stronger than her (and won) and had a lot more fighting experience overall, since she'd been fighting for years in her own world, while Chara's genocide in the Underground should have taken at most a few days. On the other hand there were people arguing that Chara had been suffering from TheWorfEffect the entire video and should have had an easy time defeating Buddy, as they had just defeated pretty much every major boss in the Underground, including the resident captain of the Royal Guard and demonstrated superhuman abilities more than once in their own game and in the video.
* FanDisservice: Buddy flashing her opponents to paralyze them. It's even lampshaded by Chara in-universe, who acts horrified the first time Buddy does it and flat-out censors her when she tries it again later on.
* NominalHero: Buddy saving Chara from Jim and giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech afterwards in which she tells him that his sadism and self-righteousness disgust her. It's meant to show that while Buddy might be a {{Jerkass}} there are some things that [[EvenEvilHasStandards she won't tolerate]]. But it rings pretty hollow, seeing as the person she's defending is an unrepentant mass murderer (something Jim even points out) and Jim was acting mostly out of grief from Chara killing the person he loved. Something Buddy of all people should have no trouble understanding. Yet she acts like wanting to avenge a dead loved one makes Jim just as bad as Chara, if not more and even tells him that Papyrus' death was basically ''his fault'' for not being there to protect him. And Jim buys it, hook, line and sinker.