And the Fandom Rejoiced: Pretty Hate Machine's rerelease pretty much caused the entire fandom to explode.
Awesome Music: If you can get past the melodrama, quite a bit. Most fans admit that lyrics can enter the state of Narm fairly frequently, but state that the music itself more than makes up for it.
Broken Base: Reactions to Trent Reznor's film score work range from outright hate (much of the film score community) to hyperbolic praise (pretty much everybody else).
Covered Up: NIN's version of "Physical" is now more famous than Adam Ant's original.
Just as Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" is now more famous than the NIN original.
Ensemble Darkhorse: Live guitarist Robin Finck has always been the most popular member of the live band, and his return for The Slip was pretty much an And the Fandom Rejoiced moment.
Epic Riff: "Wish," "March of the Pigs," "Starfuckers Inc.," "My Violent Heart," "The Warning".
Trent used to make out in public with Richard Patrick, the first live-guitarist, whenever they wanted to get rid of someone. They also had the habit of jumping on each other during live shows.
To say nothing of Trent's relationship with Chris Vrenna, who was probably the closest thing NIN ever had to another official member. He and Trent also lived together for close to a decade. And then there's this.
It's Popular, Now It Sucks: Around the Broken era, NIN were gaining more popularity and some original fans decided they were getting too "mainstream". Trent himself didn't quite understand this trope.
Moment of Awesome: Their performance at Woodstock 94 is considered to be the highlight of the entire festival and the moment that catapulted Reznor to superstardom.
"Where Is Everybody?"'s chorus deserves an award. It's essentially a List Song of words ending with -ing and Trent tries his hardest to stress every single syllable during the song's slow beat. "TRY-AH-YING AND LY-AH-YING, DEFY-HUH-YING, DENY-UH-YING..."
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: All of his albums have gone through this on some level, particularly more recent ones. Apparently, now that he's gotten clean, is married with a kid, is, in his own words, the happiest he's ever been, and his music isn't as full of Angst as it once was, Trent's lost his mojo.
Vindicated by History: Fan response to The Fragile was rather lukewarm despite strong reviews, most likely because it wasn't as heavy as The Downward Spiral and didn't have a song with a chorus as memetically popular as Closer. However, a few years later fans have started to judge it on it's own merits and it's now considered to be Reznor's Magnum Opus.
With Teeth also appears to be gaining more and more popularity nowadays. When it came out, it was considered one of his worst to date. Some fans, however, think it's a good album to introduce others to, and recently, it appears to be earning more credibility and more people are considering one of their favorites now than there were back then.
Yoko Oh No: Trent getting married and having a kid pretty much blew up some fangirls (and boys, as seen here. Fans blame his wife for him ending NIN as a touring project (indefinitely, though) despite the fact that he's expressed interest in trying something new years before even meeting Mariqueen, and create off the wall theories like "they're both on drugs!" among other things. Just go on YouTube and check out one of the songs in their band How to Destroy Angels and read the comments. It gets pretty ridiculous.