YMMV / The Killer Bride

• Anti-Climax Boss: Luciano is built up to be the true main villain among the dela Torre suspects, but he dies very quickly as soon as his criminal past is revealed. His greater role is posthumous, with his death serving as the catalyst for Alice's full Sanity Slippage. Post-death, he mostly chills in Alice's home as a rotting corpse.
• Applicability: Given that The Killer Bride is essentially a modern retelling of Rizal's Spanish colonial era novel El Filibusterismo, an argument could be made about the casting choices. Most of the cast are plainly mestizo (mixed native Filipino and white and/or Chinese), but there are several significant characters (e.g. Ichu, Mildred) who are conspicuously brown-skinned natives as well as kindhearted, salt-of-the-earth people who are often bullied, exploited, and ostracized. Perhaps this is meant to invoke the Philippines' Spanish colonial era racial politics and the lingering effects thereof. But who knows?
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Not many viewers expected to fall in love with Fabio as much as they did. He's played by Miko Raval, who was nowhere near as famous as even the actors of some minor characters. Yet the audience loved him so much that he wound up being Camila's endgame.
• Les Yay: Luna is fiercely protective of Mildred. In fact, the only reason Luna's circle of Rich Bitch friends tolerate Mildred is that Luna would lose her shit if they messed with her. It's explained as Luna having a soft spot for underdogs because her father neglects her, but it's easy to think that perhaps Luna has feelings for Mildred — especially in the finale, where Luna tells Mario that if she were him, she'd requite Mildred's love, and that anyone would be lucky to have Mildred as their girlfriend. Notably, too, Luna does not end up with any guy, which is pretty unusual for a redeemed female antagonist in a Filipino show. A repressed queer girl who was in love with her straight female friend?
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Emma's many off-shoulder outfits, to the point that Luna lambastes her In-Universe for her seemingly endless supply of such shirts.
  • "My love." Alice and Luciano's term of endearment for each other, which became unsettling rather than romantic when you consider that A) they're both evil and B) their love affair is revealed just as Alice has resorted to cuddling with his rotting corpse. Viewers, and even the characters' actors, wasted no time laughing at "My love."
• The Scrappy: Vito. His character was designated as Camila's great love, of course, especially because The Killer Bride was partly meant to be his actor Geoff Eigenmann's grand reunion with Maja Salvador (Camila) as an onscreen duo. (Eigenmann and Salvador first appeared together as a "love team" in the 2006 film First Day High.) However, Vito can come across as one-dimensional, boring, and useless instead. Not to mention that he's a horrendous father to Luna. This got so bad that Fabio, played by Miko Raval — who had none of Eigenmann's pre-established star power and history with Salvador as an onscreen partner — won out as Camila's endgame love interest thanks to fan demand. The ending is of Fabio and Camila walking into heaven together, after many episodes of Ship Tease.

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