The Dark Tower/YMMV


 * Anticlimax Boss -
 * Canon Sue Aileen in the comics.
 * Creators Pet: Susannah is easily the most disliked character of the Ka-Tet, largely due to her annoying split personalities. She's also the only one other than Roland who gets an entire book dedicated to her, and the only one that
 * Ending Fatigue - an alternate name for the trope could almost be "Dark Tower Syndrome".
 * Esoteric Happy Ending:
 * Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory - Mocked in The Dark Tower.
 * Fridge Horror:.
 * Foe Yay: At the very least, The Gunslinger has a bit of suggestive subtext between Roland and The Man in Black towards the final chapter.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: The Drawing of the Three has a scene where Roland (possessing Eddie's body) takes a plane into New York and ends up causing a panic when a stewardess hears him mutter a few words of the High Speech and thinks he's a foreign terrorist come to hijack the plane. This was written over a decade before 9/11.
 * Not quite; Arabic-speaking terrorists hijacking planes is Older Than They Think and has been going on for decades (not just Arabic-speaking terrorists mind, but they have done it often enough). 9 /11 was significant because prior to that said hijackers didn't resort to kamikaze tactics and were usually just out to force the plane to land at a location of their choice.
 * Jumping the Shark - Some fans believe this happened with Wolves Of The Calla, which was written soon after King's car accident. Others cite Wizard and Glass, or even as early as The Drawing of the Three.
 * Magnificent Bastard - The Man In Black, Marten, Randall Flagg, and Walter. Why, you ask?
 * Moral Event Horizon -
 * To be fair, it doesn't stick forever, but the guilt for such an act sticks around for awhile, and the third book both subverts (in effect if not in morality) the MEH and reminds the readers  about how depraved such an act was.
 * Nightmare Fuel - The Charlie the Choo Choo book is an in-universe example; King definitely intends for his own readers to find it creepy.
 * Replacement Scrappy:
 * Seasonal Rot
 * Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Many fans felt this way about the ending.
 * Squick - Rhea examining Susan in Wizard & Glass. Ew. In fact, Rhea in general.
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel (The Dark Tower, according to Stephen King.)
 * King even went back and republished The Gunslinger with some changes to bring it more in line with the rest of the series.
 * Tear Jerker:
 * This line in particular:
 * This line in particular:
 * This line in particular:


 * Too Soon: The scene in Song of Susannah where Jake and Father Callahan travel to the year 1999 and  could definitely qualify. Also, there's a scene in the last book that mentions that the Mid-worlders actually sell tickets to witness the 9/11 attacks.
 * Villain Decay
 * Villain Decay