History YMMV / MonsterProm

* ClicheStorm: For all effects, the game uses the most basic cliches of high school scenario (delinquent, football player, princess, etc...) however, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad. The game has given an interesting modernization to the cliches, such as jokes with hipsters and dick pics, and the obvious new spin of the characters being monsters.

** From the sequel, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QY5UKfGJ8 "Champions of Red Wine"]] by The New Pornograhpers serves as the song for the new ending credits sequence. The fact that the sequence itself is also beautifully animated also adds to its charm.

** The Slayer had a very similar trajectory to Joy, being a hit with fans from the very start and eventually becoming a fully-fledged love interest in the sequel. (Unlike the Coven, her peers' dislike of her during ''Monster Prom'' is based less on her being bossy and abrasive, and more on her trying to kill them constantly — arguably a little more justified.)

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While no-one in the fandom was particularly mad about it, the devs themselves clearly felt bad that all the major female love interests in ''Monster Prom'' ˜— Polly, Vera, Miranda, and eventually Zoe in the [=DLC=] — had a very similar body type, just at different heights. (There's even a moment in [[spoiler:Joy's secret route]] when the Coven {{Lampshade}} this, pointing out that Joy is the only girl in the school to depart significantly from the "slender but with ample boobs" look, while there's a lot more clear variation among the guys' physiques — comparing Scott's muscular appearance to Liam's far more slim frame as an example.) ''Monster Camp'' quietly makes a point of showing women with more diverse body types, with the three main female love interests this time around being Joy (a BigBeautifulWoman), Dahlia (an AmazonianBeauty), and Aaravi (more classically petite, but with [[PetitePride slightly smaller chest proportions]] than the main girls from the original game).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While no-one in the fandom was particularly mad about it, the devs themselves clearly felt bad that all the major female love interests in ''Monster Prom'' had a very similar body type. (There's even a moment in [[spoiler:Joy's secret route]] when the Coven {{Lampshade}} this, pointing out that Joy is the only girl in the school to depart significantly from the "slender but with ample boobs" look, while there's a lot more clear variation among the guys' physiques — comparing Scott's muscular appearance to Liam's far more slim frame as an example.) ''Monster Camp'' quietly makes a point of showing women with more diverse body types, with the three main female love interests this time around being Joy (a BigBeautifulWoman), Dahlia (an AmazonianBeauty), and Aaravi (more classically petite, but with [[PetitePride slightly smaller chest proportions]] than the main girls from the original game).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While no-one in the fandom was particularly mad about it, the devs themselves clearly felt bad that all the major female love interests in ''Monster Prom'' had a very similar body type. (There's even a moment in [[spoiler:Joy's secret route]] when the Coven {{Lampshade}} this, pointing out that Joy is the only girl in the school to depart significantly from the "slender but with ample boobs" look, while there's a lot more clear variation among the guys' physiques — comparing Scott's muscular appearance to Liam's far more slim frame as an example.) ''Monster Camp'' quietly makes a point of showing women with more diverse body types, with the three main female love interests this time around being Joy (a BigBeautifulWoman), Dahlia (an AmazonianBeauty), and Aaravi (more classically petite, but with [[PetitePride slightly smaller chest proportions]] than the three main girls from the original game).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While no-one in the fandom was particularly mad about it, the devs themselves clearly felt bad that all the major female love interests in ''Monster Prom'' had a very similar body type. (There's even a moment in [[spoiler:Joy's secret route]] when the Coven {{Lampshade}} this, pointing out that Joy is the only girl in the school to depart significantly from the "slender but with ample boobs" look, while there's a lot more clear variation among the guys' physiques — comparing Scott's muscular appearance to Liam's far more slim frame as an example.) ''Monster Camp'' quietly makes a point of showing women with more varied body types, with the three main female love interests being Joy (a BigBeautifulWoman), Dahlia (an AmazonianBeauty), and Aaravi (more classically petite, but with [[PetitePride slightly smaller chest proportions]] than the three main girls from the original game).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While no-one in the fandom was particularly mad about it, the devs themselves clearly felt bad that all the major female love interests in ''Monster Prom'' had a very similar body type. (There's even a moment in [[spoiler:Joy's secret route]] when the Coven {{Lampshade}} this, pointing out that Joy is the only girl in the school to depart significantly from the "skinny with big boobs" look, while there's a lot more variation among the guys' physiques — comparing Scott to Liam, for example.) ''Monster Camp'' quietly makes a point of showing women with more varied body types, with the three main female love interests being Joy (a BigBeautifulWoman), Dahlia (an AmazonianBeauty), and Aaravi (more classically petite, but with slightly smaller chest proportions than the three main girls from the original game).

** From the sequel, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QY5UKfGJ8 "Champions of Red Wine"]] by The New Pornograhpers serves as the song for the new credits sequence. The fact that the sequence itself is also beautifully animated also adds to its charm.

** Juan, the Small Magical Latino Cat, was depicted in fanart regularly before he appeared in ''Monster Camp'' as the new shopkeeper.

** An official poll called Damien/Brian the number one ship in the fandom. A [[https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1232378477648715778 second poll]] puts Oz/Damien in the first place, followed by Zoe/Oz in second and Damien/Brian in the third place. It's also worth noting that Oz/Damien is also the pairing with the largest amount of fanfiction dedicated to them in Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn

** Among the main characters, Oz got the largest amount of ships, both with the romantic options, the SecretCharacter and even the other playable characters. Damien, Brian, Scott and Polly are his favored ships with.

** The "Darkest Timeline" event in ''Monster Camp''. Aside from the new daily lake cruises, it doesn’t seem that bad at first, though Calculester musing about the rationality of his friends is a little worrisome. Then the next event comes, and everyone is both {{flanderized}} and suddenly putting a ''lot'' more stock in the idea of a logical solution. [[spoiler:The third event finally reveals what happened: Cal killed everyone and replaced them with robots capable of making "the correct moral decisions". The player tries to stop him, but can’t bring themselves to kill him, and Cal takes the opportunity to monologue about how everyone at camp had to be replaced for the greater good and how he’s planning on doing it to everyone else. ''Then'' he reveals that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie the player was his first victim]], and he promptly wipes the player’s memory so he can continue with his plan.]]

* The "Darkest Timeline" event in ''Monster Camp''. Aside from the new daily lake cruises, it doesn’t seem that bad at first, though Calculester musing about the rationality of his friends is a little worrisome. Then the next event comes, and everyone is both {{flanderized}} and suddenly putting a ''lot'' more stock in the idea of a logical solution. [[spoiler:The third event finally reveals what happened: Cal killed everyone and replaced them with robots capable of making "the correct moral decisions". The player tries to stop him, but can’t bring themselves to kill him, and Cal takes the opportunity to monologue about how everyone at camp had to be replaced for the greater good and how he’s planning on doing it to everyone else. ''Then'' he reveals that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie the player was his first victim]], and he promptly wipes the player’s memory so he can continue with his plan.]]

** In Monster Camp, the player can join an adventuring party as a Dominatrix, and they end up defeating the boss by ''zapping his nipples with electricity.'' (Apparently, he's weak to electric damage.) Afterwards even the love interests are shocked at how sexual it was, with Dahlia proudly announcing new material for her 'spank bank.'

** Before Monster Camp even came out, fans fell in love with Moss Man's design, and even more so once the promotional gossip trailers came out, each narrated by him. Replies to the tweets posting those videos are dominated by people asking for him to be romanceable beyond any commentary on the characters he's meant to be announcing.

** In the Joy path in ''Monster Camp'', an FBI agent known as "Detective [=McBooty=] can be introduced to get her Fleetwood Mac T-shirt from Axarax. After insisting on conducting their own investigation despite Joy knowing who has the shirt, she threatens Axarax with arrest. The character has no artwork, but is hilarious enough to have gained something of a following.

** An official poll called Damien/Brian the number one ship in the fandom. A [[https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1232378477648715778 second poll]] puts Oz/Damien in the first place, followed by Zoe/Oz in second and Damien/Brian in the third place.

** An official poll called Damien/Brian the number one ship in the fandom. A [[https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1232378477648715778 second poll]] puts Oz/Damien in the first place, followed by Zoe/Oz and Damien/Brian in the third place.

** Liam de Lioncourt, a 400+ year old vampire who is able to be romanced among a cast of twenty-somethings, being voiced by Youtube Cryaotic became a lot more uncomfortable after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4E5B0-8q2E he admitted]] to dating and grooming underaged fans online.

* ClicheStorm: For all effects, the game uses the most basic cliches of high school scenario (delinquent, football player, princess, etc...) however, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad. The game has given an interesting modernization to the cliches, including alluding to aspects more typical of recent years, such as jokes with hipsters and dick pics, and the obvious new spin of the characters being monsters.

** In one outing, you can kidnap a man's daughter... so he will pay for you and other's drinks. It's even more hilarious when you call him for ransom and he makes Liam Neeson's speech from ''Film/{{Taken}}''.

** ''Second Term'' gives [[spoiler: Hope a route seeing her, at multiple occasions before explanation rolls around, staring into the void with ProphetEyes as the music cuts out and the imagery behind her starts to flicker, distort, and shift. It is ''jarring'', and, for good measure, not played for laughs.]]

* SurpriseDifficulty: Getting a prom date can be rather difficult. You need to get a positive outcome in events with your chosen love interest, which you learn through trial and error. Your stats need to be at a bare minimum just to get a date to accept, and each love interest has other stats that need to be high enough. That's not even getting into the secret endings, which require for you to act correctly in a string of events that can be started at any time. Vera has been found to be a particularly hard date to get - your stats in Charm, Smarts, and Money all need to be high to date her. It's though because since you need to save money, you can't buy the items that could help you otherwise.

** The Slayer is also rather popular among fans, with many hoping she would eventually become an option in future content. [[spoiler:Their wish came true; she's a secret romanceable option in the ''Second Term'' DLC.]]

* NeverLiveItDown: There are still a lot of jokes of Damien hating on bananas due to one event where he screams and gets mad at a banana. This gets a reference in an ''Second Term'' event in which [[ItMakesSenseInContext Calculester gets Damien and Scott attempting to explain the monster condition to him using an orange]], with one of the former's comments getting him blurting out that, if nothing else, being an orange is better than being a "stupid banana". [[/note]] orange you glad he didn't say banana [[note]]

* MagnificentBastard: Vera. She always has some scheme, which almost never fail (when they do, it's more often than not because something the player did, not her), she never gets any comeuppance (because she'll deflect the guilty or no one will believe it) and is considerably smarter than any other character, and at the end of the day, she is always getting money because at least one of her schemes is definitely working, besides the people that fell for her scams and owe her money.