History YMMV / WelcomeToNightVale

* ComeForTheXStayForTheY: Come for the creepy weirdness and dark humor, stay for Cecil and Carlos' [[Adorkable]] blossoming romance.

* ComeForTheXStayForTheY: Come for the creepy wierdness and dark humor, stay for Cecil and Carlos' adorkable blossoming romance.

** Carlos could count too, considering he's one of the few people he knows something's wrong with the place and puts up with ''a lot'' of things.

* TheWoobie: Considering the town's extreme, demented Orwellian authority and deathly supernatural occurrences, it's safe to say every citizen of Night Vale counts as one.

* TheWoobie: Considering the town's extreme Orwellian authority and deathly supernatural occurrences, it's safe to say every citizen of Night Vale counts as one.

* TearJerker: In "One Year Later", [[spoiler: when Cecil believes Carlos to be dead. He can't even bring himself to keep talking and sounds like he's on the brink of tears.]]

** EarWorm: Episode 2's weather, "The Bus Is Late," by Satellite High.

* {{Fanon}}: The various character designs of Cecil are notable in that some have become so prevalent, people commonly mistake them for canon. These include, but are not limited to, {{extra eyes}}, tattoos, [[HumanoidAbomination tentacles]], blond hair, and glasses. Just to set the record straight, as of Episode 27 the only clear canonical references to his appearance seem to have been the descriptions of him and Kevin in "The Sandstorm" and his description of his outfit in "First Date".

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "technical problems" with "the need for air, eye movement, and gooey stuff inside" incident in Episode 11, which seems very dramatic but is never really given an explanation.

* FriendlyFandoms: With the {{Hannibal}} fandom. Various other fandoms have become interested due to common themes, though, such as GravityFalls, {{Psychonauts}}, the SCPFoundation, and {{Supernatural}}.

** Due to Carlos sometimes being a popular name in fiction, there is the obligatory crossover, like Carlos jokingly being speculated as a grown-up version of Carlos from TheMagicSchoolBus.

-->"...They did, however, release several thousand [[SpidersAreScary spiders]] into your home. Fortunately for you--like the faceless old woman--you will be unable to see these spiders unless you look ''closely''. They are highly trained spiders, moving just outside of your periphery. But--and this is also just like the faceless old woman--from time to time, you will feel them brushing against your soft cheeks and lips, as you sleep. [[MoodDissonance So, keep your eyes open!]]"

* ArousedByTheirVoice: Cecil has a really lovely baritone.

* ParanoiaFuel: Invoked, frequently, especially in Episode 26, with The Faceless Old Woman who lives in your house, just out of vision, but whom you can occasionally see in the corner of your mirror. She recently announced a bid for Mayor of Night Vale.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "technical problems" with "the need for air, eye movement, and gooey stuff inside" incident in Episode 11, which seems very dramatic but is never explained in any way.

* MemeticMutation: The Apache Tracker being an "asshole" has become associated with {{Film}}/TheLoneRanger to some fans, in association with JohnnyDepp playing a [[RaceLift race lifted]] Tonto.

* MemeticMutation: The Apache tracker being an "asshole" has become associated with {{Film}}/TheLoneRanger to some fans, in association with JohnnyDepp playing a [[RaceLift race lifted]] Tonto.
* ParanoiaFuel: Invoked, frequently, especially in Episode 26.

* FoeYayShipping: Some fans perceive Cecil's inexplicable, obsessive hatred of Steve Carlsberg to mean that Cecil might have dated him once and they had a nasty breakup, or that Cecil just has a weird hate-crush on him.

* GoodIsNotNice - YMMV on whether or not Night Vale and its citizens are "good", but they are certainly not nice.

* [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Nice]] - YMMV on whether or not Night Vale and its citizens are "good", but they are certainly not nice.