Nightmare Inspector: Difference between revisions

* [[Crapsack World]] - If a [[Bittersweet Ending]] is the best you can hope for...

* [[Cruel Twist Ending]] - Some of the chapters could've been pleasant happy endings if not for this trope's sudden appearance.

* [[Dead All Along]] - Several clients turn out to be dead. {{spoiler|Also, the real Chitose.}}

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] - The series loves making it seem as if a customer's story will end happily, then introducing a sudden out-of-nowhere twist or reveal that puts a much more sinister twist on things.

* [[Foe Yay]] - Tsukishiro and {{spoiler|Azusa}} in the last volume. Might overlap with [[No Yay]] for some people.

* [[Gainax Ending]] - The series ends with this, with a touch of [[No Ending]] because really, the resolution isn't one. The last couple pages just make it ''[[Mind Screw|worse]].''

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]] - In one of the first chapters, this seems to be happening to a customer, who every night writes in her dream on a piece of paper "every day will be exactly the same" {{spoiler|or rather, Hiruko writes it for her, as the end of the chapter hints}}- and indeed, it is.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]] - although a human customer does get a [[Bittersweet Ending]] or even a happy ending occasionally, they far more often have bad endings. The non-human customers typically have better endings.

* [[Trapped in TV Land]] - Overlaps with [[Dream Land]] in several cases, including a woman who wishes to be with her dead husband in a sketch of his and gets her wish (with unexpected consequences, of course), a nightmare where Hiruko enters a manga, and possibly some other examples.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]] - Many of the clients are hiding something, or have memories altered due to trauma. In several cases, the client is actually dead (or not even human to begin with!) already and we don't know until the end of the chapter.

 

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