Amateur Surgeon/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: The Big Bad of the game, is a real piece of work: He was Dr. Bleed's student, but grew bored and made a poison, using it on Dr. Bleed's patients , causing their deaths and pulling the blame on Bleed. When he gets caught by Alan Probe, he decides to poison Bleed and leave him and Aureola to die. All for the lulz. He gets worse in the sequel, taking revenge on Alan by . He forces to kill Alan and, . Seriously,  isn't called a douchebag for no reason.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Despite being a Complete Monster, has received this treatment, due to being a combination of Evil Is Cool and Magnificent Bastard.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Horrace d'Obscene.
 * For the second game, Bradley.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Yeah, Aureola is quite harsh and poisoned some criminals, but . Knowing this, it's impossible not to feel a bit sorry for her.
 * Love to Hate: My God, . Fans just adore his douchebaggery.
 * Magnificent Bastard: . So. Very. Much.
 * Moral Event Horizon: definitely crosses it when it's revealed.
 * The Scrappy: Aureola is not very well liked due to her rudeness and lack of characterization. She's still pitiful, though.
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The first game and the Christmas edition were very well-received, but the sequel removed every single Scrappy Mechanic and streamlined the controls to make for an even better experience.
 * That One Boss: The 2nd Dr. Bleed surgery. All the various hard-as-hell surgeries (which are usually made hard by Guide Dang It moments,) tend to be much easier once you know the trick behind them. The 2nd Dr. Bleed surgery, on the other hand, is a four-part Marathon Level against poison, fire, buried chunks of crystal, and finally a tapeworm that takes more hits from the battery to kill than the last tapeworm (and can quickly cause Bleed to...er...bleed out if you're not multitasking between cauterizing the cuts it makes and zapping it.) And you have just enough time to do it all quickly and flawlessly.
 * Napoleon Trotterski from the second game. It starts off easy enough, but suddenly ends with the player having to spell out words on a Speak 'N Spell. And if you aren't fast enough, the Speak 'N Spell suddenly explodes, leaving flames and burn marks that'll almost certainly obscure the screen and the keys, and if you try to put out the fire/heal the burn marks directly when they're on the keyboard, the game will assume you're hitting the keyboard instead and explode a second time. Not that you'll have any time to put out the fire anyway, because the words are coming faster and faster while you're trying to spell them out while not being able to see what the hell you're supposed to be spelling because the goddamn fire is in the way.
 * The Woobie: Dr. Bleed in the original, Alan himself (crossing it with Jerkass Woobie sometimes) in the sequel..
 * Iron Woobie: No matter what happens, Alan still keeps going despite the world's bullshit.