YMMV / The Last Temptation

• Complete Monster: The mysterious Showman, who may or may not be a fallen angel or the Devil himself, is the master of the Theater of the Real who comes through town every five years. Seducing children with the threat of reality, the Showman bids them to sign away their future to him and join the circus, where they are twisted into monstrous shells of themselves to become "the thing that scares" forever. Upon the young Steven resisting him, the Showman reveals Steven's Love Interest Mercy was just his creation, and allows her to fade from existence, before vowing he will one day return and menace Steven again, as "the show never truly ends".