Amateur Surgeon/YMMV


 * Base Breaker: . While no doubt the guy is a contemptuous douchebag, the fans are divided if he's a Love to Hate Magnificent Bastard or just a plain bastard who needs to die. is also a similar case.
 * Complete Monster: used to be Dr. Bleed's student, but grew bored of his teachings and showed his true colors by poisoning and killing his teacher's patients, leaving Bleed to take the fall. After revealing himself, he poisons Bleed and leaves him and Aureola to die without a single trace of remorse, only letting Alan live so he could see his loved ones die in front of him. In the sequel, he becomes a madman obsessed with revenge, ruining Alan's life by . And if that wasn't enough, . In a series full of sympathetic criminals,  proved himself to be a sadistic, revenge-obsessed individual whose crimes stand out in an otherwise lighthearted game.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Despite being a Complete Monster, has received this treatment for some, due to being a combination of Evil Is Cool and Magnificent Bastard.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Horrace d'Obscene. only gained more fans.
 * For the second game, Bradley.
 * Esoteric Happy Ending: The Happy Ending of Amateur Surgeon becomes this once known what will happen in Amateur Surgeon 2. Alleviated a bit since
 * Foe Yay: There's some subtext between Alan and . The fact that the latter is obsessed with him and they give nicknames to each other ("Pizza Boy" and "Douchebag" respectively) doesn't help in the least.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: The "pizza van" scene at the beginning of the first game. It was treated as a Running Gag throughout the game. After the reveal that, the jokes stop being funny and become hard to watch. Doubles as a Cerebus Retcon.
 * The Happy Ending in the first Amateur Surgeon game becomes this once known what will happen to Alan in the second game. The same goes with the interquel.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: While Bleed's status as a formerly great surgeon who got disgraced by a horrible tragedy was awful enough, it becomes worse once known that Alan ended up suffering the same (although he was not so much disgraced as forced to retire). Bonus points for.
 * It Gets Better: The first act for the first game was warming up and learning how to use things. Act 2 has more challenge, and combined with the plot getting more serious, it results in this.
 * As for the games as a whole, see Surprisingly Improved Sequel.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Yeah, Aureola is quite harsh and poisoned some criminals, but she only does this because . Knowing this, it's hard not to feel at least a bit sorry for her.
 * Love to Hate: Dear God, . Fans just adore his douchebaggery.
 * as well, due to being a Laughably Evil Mad Scientist.
 * Moral Event Horizon: definitely crosses it when it's revealed.
 * Even then, he still kept his leather pants on. But when in the sequel, he had crossed the point of no return.
 * In the third game, Evil Plan is awful enough, but he crossed the line by.
 * Player Punch: The 2nd Dr. Bleed's surgery, if you fail to save him. Considering he's Alan's beloved mentor, this is outright a Tear Jerker.
 * This finally demonstrates is nothing but a despicable monster.
 * The Scrappy: Aureola is not very well liked due to her rude behavior, her attacks on the sympathetic criminals, and being a Karma Houdini. She's not that much despised, though, since she has a very understandable reason for her actions, her actions are in no way portrayed as a good thing (contrary to expectations), and her Karma Houdini status was due to Alan's interference. Besides, she had gotten much less focus in the later games, and it's implied she had softened after the events of the first game.
 * Karl Puccino's level (not the character, though) is possibly the most despised one in the entire game for being the encarnation of Nintendo Hard and That One Boss.
 * 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. The third and fourth games only take this even further.
 * Strangled by the Red String: Justified with Alan and Aureola, who barely had hints of this yet they ended up as an Official Couple. It's justified because developing their relationship isn't the focus of the game (avoiding the dreaded Romantic Plot Tumor), and most of their relationship was developed off-screen between the first and second games.
 * 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, and Bradley in the sequel..
 * Iron Woobie: No matter what happens, Alan still keeps going despite the world's bullshit.