YMMV / To Welcome Oblivion

• Catharsis Factor:
  • Grallman punching Nyarly did result in the former's death, but seeing a Tragic Anti-Villain punching the Crawling Chaos in the face is a pretty satisfying moment, especially for all of the bullshit Nyarly has done. Besides, Grallman gets a Heroic Second Wind thanks to a pact with Cthulhu himself, so with their newfound powers, they show NO MERCY towards the sick twisted piece of shit who is responsible for the agonizing death of billions, including the death of Grallman's beloved little sister. The empowered Grallman pins down the Crawling Chaos as he screams in fear and mercy for the first and final time before the explosion from the destabilizing Gate vaporizes them to death.
  • Kaya, a sweet-hearted and silly girl with a pretty sad backstory, manages to finish off Talbot with her power screams until the sicko's brain is turned into liquid. Considering what Talbot did to her, along with the countless murders he has committed, it's satisfying to see Kaya pulling off some Laser-Guided Karma.
• Complete Monster:
  • Nyarlathotep is a wicked Outer God who has plunged trillions of lives into eternal agony within the Outer Planes, with entire civilizations driven to destroy themselves under his influence. On Earth, Nyarlathotep arranges events like The Black Death and the rise of Adolf Hitler for his own amusement, and manipulates the events of the plot by setting up the rise of both Peter Grallman and Dr. Lilith Madison into their positions, the former by killing his young sister Marissa. Arranging the opening of the Outer Gate as Noah T. Trepaly, Nyarlathotep eventually betrays both Grallman and Madison, torturing the latter into his possessed slave and unleashing the populace of the Outer Planes onto Rielington. Nyarlathotep slaughters thousands of people—such as tricking an cafeteria's worth of children into cannibalizing themselves and forcing hundreds of the Old Brotherhood's members to become either breeding fodder or food for the eldritch monsters he summons—and attempts to plunge the entire universe into the Outer Planes, and gloats to Grallman that he'll resurrect Marissa and torture and rape her for centuries in Grallman's form. With a mile-long sadistic streak underscored by a psychopathic sense of humor, Nyarlathotep commits every atrocity he does purely to satisfy his sense of amusement, intent on one day betraying even the Outer Gods to torment the rest of the multiverse himself.
  • Dr. Lilith Madison is a callous sociopath of a scientist with an utter disdain for any life other than her own. Obsessed with finding out the secret to life at any cost, Madison turns to murder to stimulate herself, such as deliberately suffocating an infant under her care. Upon finding a Deep One's carcass, she kills her own research team to use it for her own ends and allies with the Old Brotherhood and its leader Grallman to kidnap hundreds of innocents and implant them with organs from the Deep One to spread Eldritch Energy across the world, resulting in the painful deaths of those forced to bear the transplants. Causing a series of bombings that lead to over 250 deaths to cover the actions of Rhett Talbot, Madison eventually unleashes him onto Rielington to slaughter and rape as he will to take care of the Seratin sisters and Robin Lockwood. Ultimately, Madison betrays Grallman and tries to open a gate to the Outer Planes to discover the secret of existence, fully willing to let the denizens of the Outer Planes pour out on Earth and ravage humanity in the process.
  • Rhett Talbot is the sadistic Arch-Enemy of Elara and Kaya Seratin. As a teenager, Talbot molested several children while posing as a babysitter. After he was taken by the Old Brotherhood and experimented on, he used his newfound powers to murder his parents, and later conducted a series of massacres—one of which took place at a playground Kaya was playing at, where he cut off her arms and attempted to rape her. Several years later, Talbot goes after the Seratins again, where he murders several civilians and police officers in and around a restaurant. Talbot also participates in raping and killing members of the Brotherhood alongside the eldritch monsters in the breeding chamber, and when he's confronted by the Seratins again, he tries to rape Elara and kill them both, uncaring that Nyarlathotep is going to destroy the universe.
• Magnificent Bastard: Father Peter Grallman, leader of the Cthulhian cult, is the founder of the Old Brotherhood, and a charismatic and genuine personality who truly seeks to give his followers the chance to revive their unduly-deceased loved ones. Grallman's descent into evil, starting with the murder of his beloved little sister Marissa, was authored by Nyarlathotep, who assumes Grallman to be a disposable pawn. Far from 'disposed of,' Grallman allies with the heroes, secretly manages to make a deal with Cthulhu himself, and allows the Great Old One into his body to personally beat down Nyarlathotep. Grallman throws Nyarlathotep into a shrieking, indignant Villainous Breakdown, exploiting the god's tendency to gloat to exploit a fatal vulnerability while ensuring the heroes themselves managed to make it out alright, and peacefully sacrifices himself while making sure the final thing Nyarlathotep sees is his triumphant smile.
• Nightmare Fuel: Rhett Talbot is this on legs. Out of all the major antagonists, Grallman is sympathetic, Madison is largely a pawn in a greater scheme, and Nyarlathotep is hilariously hammy, Talbot is simply a psychopathic, horrific butcher with not an iota likable, redeeming, or humorous about him. Every time he's onscreen, someone's either being butchered or raped by him in the most horrific ways he can fathom, with likely his worst scene being the massacre of the playground which reeks of parental concerns.
  The game lasted three minutes. Three minutes for the man's coat to make funny shapes. Three minutes for the kids to gather around in awe. Three minutes for the man to suddenly grab them all, his coat seeming to act like a spider's legs. Three minutes for the blood to dry on the wood chips on the ground.