Heavy Rain/YMMV

"Lauren:"
 * Alas Poor Villain: Arguably  gets this sendoff if Ethan kills him at the Warehouse.
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Sort of. The player characters can have varying personalities depending on your choices, but Ethan Mars takes the cake.
 * When you get into his backstory, it only further drives it home.
 * It is possible they're really looking to die.
 * Abandon Shipping:
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Madison's dream.
 * Complete Monster: This game's full of them.
 * Doctor Adrian Baker is a Mad Doctor who murders people via "surgery" while they're still alive and fully conscious.
 * The Origami Killer. Not only is he killing children, but he's doing it in a way that seems to maximize suffering.
 * And in the DLC "The Taxidermist," the titular taxidermist apparently kills young women, stuffs them taxidermy-style, dresses them up, and poses them in his bedroom.
 * Counterpart Comparison: Jayden appears to be like Carla Valenti from Fahrenheit as both of them are investigators who are addicted to their jobs that they can't get any sleep and don't have a love life.
 * Ethan has characteristics similar to Lucas Kane.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Painful Memories
 * Ethan Mars' main theme.
 * Madison Paige's main theme.
 * Norman Jayden's main theme.
 * Scott Shelby's main theme.
 * Lauren Winter's main theme.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Scott Shelby rescuing the suicidal mom and then taking care of her baby left many people rather misty.
 * Dancing Bear: ARI. See Do Not Do This Cool Thing.
 * Fan Disservice: The striptease in Sexy Girl may be this more than Fan Service because Madison is being forced to remove her clothes. However, non-consent is a fairly common fetish as well.
 * Fridge Logic: Explored here.
 * Good Bad Bugs: There's one where the nude model of Madison will be in place of a normal clothed one in certain parts of the game.
 * "Shaun?! Shawn! SHAWN!.
 * Ho Yay: Jayden and Blake. So much. Just about counts as Foe Yay, considering how much they hate each other.
 * During "Shrinks and Punches", if you stop Blake from punching Dupre, he'll get very close to Jayden's face. A little too close.
 * "I wonder what hole Blake's crawled into."
 * "I better watch my back with that Blake guy."
 * Blake to Jayden: "Was that your first time?" Of course, he was referring to if, but when taken out of context...
 * Don't forget when
 * Iron Woobie: Ethan, depending on how you play him. Also, Madison.
 * It Gets Better: Yahtzee described the game as getting good somewhere around "your second brain hemorrhage."
 * Jerkass Woobie:.
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Jayden, despite being the only protagonist without a canon love interest.
 * Magnificent Bastard: The Origami Killer
 * Memetic Mutation: Press 'X' to JASON. There's even a flash game!
 * Moral Event Horizon: You might come to understand the Origami Killer's motivation, you might buy into his Freudian Excuse, you might feel sympathy for him, but
 * Note that the above is one possible scenario. In another,
 * Note that the above is one possible scenario. In another,

"Jayden: I am sick and tired of getting the shit kicked out of me on this investigation!"
 * Lt. Blake has two moments: beating Ethan up to know if he's the Origami Killer,.
 * Player Punch: Goddammit,
 * Depending on your actions, there could be several more. Made worse by the fact they're probably all your fault!
 * Portmanteau Couple Name: Blayden for Blake and Jayden..
 * Strangled By the Red String: Potentially and.
 * Tear Jerker: Everything that involves a child dying.
 * Signature Scene: The Lizard trial.
 * Unfortunate Implications: The only two black characters of note are a a psychotic cop-murdering thug and a wise old gravedigger.
 * Madison, the only female main character, is used often and needlessly for Fan Service. Her first scene consists of her taking a shower, walking around her apartment in her underwear, then being, and subsequent scenes involve her dancing provocatively at a night club (where she takes off even more of her clothing), getting tied up and almost raped (twice), and having a sex scene with another character. Her purpose in the story is to be a journalist, but very little of that journalism comes into play and is of little consequence to the story.
 * The Woobie: Ethan.
 * Poor Norman also gets his fair share of woobie moments,
 * When Jayden investigates the scene at the nightclub, one of his thoughts just emphasizes his woobieness:
 * When Jayden investigates the scene at the nightclub, one of his thoughts just emphasizes his woobieness:


 * There's also Lauren, a mother mourning the loss of her only child.