History YMMV / MonsterProm

* CrossesTheLineTwice:

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINtkwJkiOw "Prank Masterz Anthem"]] is a quirky and entertaining in character rap performed by [[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} Arin Hanson]] (voice of Scott) and Creator/SarahWilliams (voice of Polly) [[spoiler:which plays as a sort of SoundtrackDissonance to images of the suffering and even deaths of the other characters thanks to Z'Gord being summoned in the credits of the Arcane Book ending. It dips into MoodWhiplash when Scott asks where all their friends are at the end of the song.]]

* NightmareFuel/MonsterProm

* NightmareFuel:
** In a cast full of criminals and murderers, ''[[CuteAndPsycho Miranda]]'', of all people, can turn into this whenever she slips into her bloodthirsty mode, between her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality innocent approval of ruthlessness]] and the sinister glint her sprite gets in its eye whenever she's concocting a scheme or approving of a cruel gesture. As opposed to the other main love interests, who each have one more-risque secret ending and one more lighthearted and/or romantic one, both of her secret endings involve her being at the center of ''mass slaughter''.
** In ''Second Term'', there are multiple incidents when [[spoiler:Hope stares into the void with ProphetEyes as the music cuts out and the imagery behind her flickers, distorts, and shifts. It is ''jarring'', and not played for laughs.]]
** 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 [[TomatoInTheMirror the player was his first victim]], and he promptly wipes the player’s memory so he can continue with his plan.]]
-->'''Calculester:''' This is nice. ''This is nice. '''[[MadnessMantra This is nice.]]'''''

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': both are light-hearted, comedic, LGBT+ friendly visual novels, featuring input from the WebVideo/GameGrumps and a bunch of their [[ProductionPosse regular collaborators]].

** Liam de Lioncourt, a 400+ year old vampire who is able to be romanced by the vaguely high-school aged player characters, being voiced by Youtuber Cryaotic became a lot more uncomfortable after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4E5B0-8q2E he admitted]] to dating and grooming underaged fans online.

* There's also an overlap with the ''VideoGame/MaxGentlemenSexyBusiness'' fandom, for similar reasons.
* Thanks to Steam's [[https://steamcommunity.com/games/743450/announcements/detail/5819189568976752687 "Long Story Short" bundle]], fans of ''VisualNovel/VA11HALLA'', ''Franchise/{{Homestuck}}'' and ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'' soon came into the fandom, with them prompting others to try their games and make crossovers out of it.

** There is an item called [[ToiletHumor the Shitter]] that can be found in mystery gifts. It is a figurine depicting a medieval peasant popping a squat and its description says that it is actually a religious item. This is not just a poop joke from the creators, this is a depiction of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer Caganer]] a traditional part of a nativity scene in Catalan Culture. This starts an event chain where Damian and Liam attempt to figure out why this has become a tradition. The ending for this event chain even has Damian beating up a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal Christmas Log]] a similarly scatological real Christmas tradition from Catalan culture.
** One event has the player suggest that Damian should make a tortured evil goat his infernal steed. Damian agrees and says he will use a Judas goat who led hundreds of his brethren to their deaths via sniper fire in the Galapagos. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat Judas goat’s]] are a real thing and they were heavily used in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Isabela extermination of goats from the Galapagos.]] He even throws in a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer and tells the reader to check it out.

** Zoe has proven quite popular, due to how sweet she is and her CreepyCute personality. It helps that she's now one of the game's major love interests.
** Juan, the Small Magical Latino Cat, was depicted in fanart regularly before he appeared in ''Monster Camp'' as the new shopkeeper who peddles drinks that can change the course of the 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'' — 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).
** A lot of fans noted how weird it was that the main cast are all in their twenties yet are still going to high school (the out-of-universe reason being so everyone was of legal age, while the InUniverse reason is the monster school system is based on the "human documentary" ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' as a joke on DawsonCasting). During one of Moss's conversations in ''Monster Roadtrip'', the PlayerCharacter will mention that the school is currently going under a rebranding and is now Spooky ''Academy'', with more of a college-based focus (except for prom, which still stays).

** In the ''Second Term'' DLC, Z'Gord the eldritch god's becoming Zoe the regular highschool student is filled with allusions to the problems of transgender people, such as her issues with being called Z'Gord by her still-loyal cultists. It helps that she's voiced by a trans woman.

* 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).

** The Halloween 2018 update includes a new event item, the arcane book. Just... everything about it but ''especially'' [[UpToEleven the]] [[MoodWhiplash ending]]. [[spoiler: To put it simply, the destruction of our entire plane of reality comes about as a result of the ''ultimate prank'', played by a druggie ghost and an idiot werewolf (Polly and Scott). They (and Z'gord) dub themselves the "Prank Masterz (with a Z!)" because there can never be another prank to top this (in multiple ways). [[SoundtrackDissonance This is told to us through an upbeat rap song... played over a montage of the game's cast fighting for their lives and/or dying in the face of Z'gord.]]]]

* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: The player characters have a very unclear relation in-game and only interact in a multiplayer game, during special events, however, ships between them aren't uncommon, with Oz/Brian having a particularly solid fanbase. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary material]] that's come out since the game's launch confirms that all of the player characters are close friends - with {{Fanon}} typically going on to further depict the four as, at worst, [[FriendlyRivalry Friendly Rivals]] with regards to pursuing their most popular classmates, and, at best, a casual [[{{Polyamory}} ménage à]] ''[[UpToEleven quatre]]''. Guess when your central quartet are a bunch of [[EveryoneIsBi Bisexual]] LovableSexManiac, they would likely gravitate towards each other, at least for consistant quickies.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Miranda's death]] can be interpreted this way, as TheNeedsOfTheMany.

* HilariousInHindsight: On Podcast/TheCoOptionalPodcast, WebVideo/JesseCox (the game's producer) came up with a concept for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2W8DxNCGhc a video game based on a road trip]] called "Passengr." With the release of ''Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip'', Passengr has basically become a reality.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The player characters and love interests are all almost guaranteed to be mentioned committing horrible crimes from kidnapping and torture to mass murder over the course of a playthrough, with all of it PlayedForLaughs. The only time death is taken seriously is when it effects a romanceable character, e.x. [[spoiler:Miranda's assassination or Polly's backstory]].

** The Halloween 2018 update includes a new event item, the arcane book. Just... everything about it but ''especially'' [[UpToEleven the]] [[MoodWhiplash ending]]. [[spoiler: To put it simply, the destruction of our entire plane of reality came as a result of the ''ultimate prank'', played by a druggie ghost and an idiot werewolf (Polly and Scott). They (and Z'gord) dub themselves the "Prank Masterz (with a Z!)" because there can never be another prank to top this (in multiple ways). [[SoundtrackDissonance This is told to us through an upbeat rap song.]]]]

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: The series (almost) exclusively treats heinous crimes like mass murder and imperialistic conquest as funny but acts of everyday rudeness as deathly serious. The only time death is taken seriously is when it happens to a romanceable character, which itself is a pretty funny display of MoralMyopia.

** Between all characters, Damien is shipped with everyone, with Brian, Oz and Vicky, respectively, being his most popular pairings, even though his pairings with Liam is also fairly popualer.

* 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 tough because since you need to save money, so you can't buy the items that could help you otherwise.