Heavy Rain/YMMV

"Lauren:"
 * Alas, Poor Villain: Arguably  gets this sendoff if Ethan kills him at the Warehouse.
 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Sort of. The player characters can have varying personalities depending on your choices, but Ethan Mars takes the cake.
 * When you get into his backstory, it only further drives it home.
 * It is possible they're really looking to die.
 * Abandon Shipping:
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Madison's dream.
 * Complete Monster: This game's full of them.
 * Doctor Adrian Baker is a Mad Doctor who murders people via "surgery" while they're still alive and fully conscious.
 * The Origami Killer. Not only is he killing children, but he's doing it in a way that seems to maximize suffering.
 * And in the DLC "The Taxidermist," the titular taxidermist apparently kills young women, stuffs them taxidermy-style, dresses them up, and poses them in his bedroom.
 * Counterpart Comparison: Jayden appears to be like Carla Valenti from Fahrenheit (2005 video game) as both of them are investigators who are addicted to their jobs that they can't get any sleep and don't have a love life.
 * Ethan has characteristics similar to Lucas Kane.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Painful Memories
 * Ethan Mars' main theme.
 * Madison Paige's main theme.
 * Norman Jayden's main theme.
 * Scott Shelby's main theme.
 * Lauren Winter's main theme.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Scott Shelby rescuing the suicidal mom and then taking care of her baby left many people rather misty.
 * Dancing Bear: ARI. See Do Not Do This Cool Thing.
 * Fan Disservice: The striptease in Sexy Girl may be this more than Fan Service because Madison is being forced to remove her clothes. However, non-consent is a fairly common fetish as well.
 * Fridge Logic: Explored here.
 * Good Bad Bugs: There's one where the nude model of Madison will be in place of a normal clothed one in certain parts of the game.
 * "Shaun?! Shawn! SHAWN!.
 * Ho Yay: Jayden and Blake. So much. Just about counts as Foe Yay, considering how much they hate each other.
 * During "Shrinks and Punches", if you stop Blake from punching Dupre, he'll get very close to Jayden's face. A little too close.
 * "I wonder what hole Blake's crawled into."
 * "I better watch my back with that Blake guy."
 * Blake to Jayden: "Was that your first time?" Of course, he was referring to if, but when taken out of context...
 * Don't forget when
 * Iron Woobie: Ethan, depending on how you play him. Also, Madison.
 * It Gets Better: Yahtzee described the game as getting good somewhere around "your second brain hemorrhage."
 * Jerkass Woobie:.
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Jayden, despite being the only protagonist without a canon love interest.
 * Magnificent Bastard: The Origami Killer
 * Memetic Mutation: Press 'X' to JASON. There's even a flash game!
 * Moral Event Horizon: You might come to understand the Origami Killer's motivation, you might buy into his Freudian Excuse, you might feel sympathy for him, but
 * Note that the above is one possible scenario. In another,
 * Note that the above is one possible scenario. In another,

"Jayden: I am sick and tired of getting the shit kicked out of me on this investigation!"
 * Lt. Blake has two moments: beating Ethan up to know if he's the Origami Killer,.
 * Player Punch: Goddammit,
 * Depending on your actions, there could be several more. Made worse by the fact they're probably all your fault!
 * Portmanteau Couple Name: Blayden for Blake and Jayden..
 * Strangled by the Red String: Potentially and.
 * Tear Jerker: Everything that involves a child dying.
 * Signature Scene: The Lizard trial.
 * Unfortunate Implications: The only two black characters of note are a a psychotic cop-murdering thug and a wise old gravedigger.
 * Madison, the only female main character, is used often and needlessly for Fan Service. Her first scene consists of her taking a shower, walking around her apartment in her underwear, then being, and subsequent scenes involve her dancing provocatively at a night club (where she takes off even more of her clothing), getting tied up and almost raped (twice), and having a sex scene with another character. Her purpose in the story is to be a journalist, but very little of that journalism comes into play and is of little consequence to the story.
 * The Woobie: Ethan.
 * Poor Norman also gets his fair share of woobie moments,
 * When Jayden investigates the scene at the nightclub, one of his thoughts just emphasizes his woobieness:
 * When Jayden investigates the scene at the nightclub, one of his thoughts just emphasizes his woobieness:


 * There's also Lauren, a mother mourning the loss of her only child.