History YMMV / SpringtrapAndDeliah

* TheWoobie: Deliah, despite being cheerful most of the time, can fall into this. Given that Springtrap is her OnlyFriend until Harry comes into her life, coupled with Nick's dream implying her mom was an AbusiveParent, it's not hard to see that her life isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

* {{Woobie}}: Deliah, despite being cheerful most of the time, can fall into this. Given that Springtrap is her OnlyFriend until Harry comes into her life, coupled with Nick's dream implying her mom was an AbusiveParent, it's not hard to see that her life isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** Sometimes love ''isn't'' enough to solve all your problems. And clinging to the vain hope that loving someone enough will make an abusive relationship work will ultimately just make everything worse.
** If a friend repeatedly hurts you and tries to keep you away from everyone who's trying to get close to you, they're a bad friend, not matter how nice they behave afterwards.
** Even if you change your old ways, the people you hurt or abused aren't obligated to forgive you or accept you into their lives. And you have to deal with that, move on and let them go.

* DracoInLeatherpants: Springtrap's AdaptationalNiceGuy - status was bound to make him this. Plenty of readers are quick to say he should be forgiven completely for all his past crimes and be allowed to hold onto his relationship with Deliah. But nice guy or not, Springtrap is still an unstable serial killer. Even ''he'' knows he can't always control himself and that he has anger issues.

* MisaimedFandom: The scene in which Nick refuses to forgive Springtrap for threatening him and follows it up by saying that he hates him for taking Deliah away got him on many a fan's bad side, a few even commenting how Nick was being unreasonable and that he should have accepted the apology or at least should have made an effort to get on good terms. Apparently a lot of those fans forgot that Springtrap literally threatened to ''kill'' Nick and has been doing everything in his power to estrange him from his daughter. One apology in that situation is clearly too little too late.
* RonTheDeathEater: Predictably, Nick is this to a lot of fans. It's not uncommon for readers to claim he's being a helicopter parent and that him being hostile towards Springtrap is just jealousy because a living animatronic is proving to be a better father than him. While the latter is partially true, this tends to overlook the very important fact that Nick is ''completely right'' to distrust Springtrap. Springtrap killed five children in life and he's obviously mentally unstable in the present. If anything, Nick should be ''more'' worried about him hanging around Deliah. Not to mention that, when all of his suspicions are proven correct, Springtrap threatens to murder Deliah and make Nick watch before killing ''him''.

** Even if you change your old ways, the people you hurt or abused aren't obligated to forgive you or accept you into their lives. And you have to deal with that, move on and let them go.

* HarsherInHindsight: Springtrap's motives for his murders were [[spoiler:a misguided dream of starting a family, as he believed he was keeping his victims with him forever and that he would be a better father than their actual families.]] Later installments of the games and the novels depict William Afton--his canon counterpart-- as an AbusiveParent, enough to give the novels' version of Elizabeth a [[WellDoneSonGuy a serious complex]]. [[spoiler:In other words, the sort of person this Springtrap would probably be outraged by and would use as an example.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: Predictably, Nick is this to a lot of fans. It's not uncommon for readers to claim he's being a helicopter parent and that him being hostile towards Springtrap is just jealousy because a living animatronic is proving to be a better father than him. While the latter is partially true, this tends to overlook the very important fact that Nick is ''completely right'' to distrust Springtrap. Springtrap killed five children in life and he's obviously mentally unstable in the present. If anything, Nick should be ''more'' worried about him hanging around Deliah. Not to mention that, when all of his suspicions are proven correct, Springtrap threatens to murder Deliah and make him watch, before killing him.

** Sometimes love ''isn't'' enough to solve all your problems. And clinging to the vain hope that just loving someone enough will make an abusive relationship work will ultimately just make everything worse.

** Even if you change your old ways, the people you hurt or abused aren't obligated to forgive you or accept you into their lives. And you have to deal with that, move on and let them live their lives.