Mousehunt/YMMV

Game

• Archive Panic: There are over two hundred different mice to catch, not counting limited edition or Special Event mice. Happy hunting!
• Complete Monster: Balack the Banished. Even if you're a veteran Hunter, you'll feel sorry for his undead servants.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Harpy Mice in the Lagoon. Players would've most likely brought either a Physical, Tactical or Hydro trap, while their main weakness is Shadow. Their mouse power is very high. The Harpy's description reads:

"Hunter's lore describes these mice as a curse, bringing bad luck and fruitless hunts. Hunters lament at the eerie caw of a Harpy mouse descending from the clouds, knowing that escape is impossible. Harpy mice exist to torture Mouse Hunters by constantly stealing their cheese and raiding their supplies. Their swift wings bring a dark plague of frustration to any hunter unfortunate enough to encounter them"

• • Vampire mice in the Mousoleum and the Catacombs. They give you very little gold and points compared to the other mice there. If they happen to steal your gold, they steal a lot more than the other mice.
• Fridge Horror: The Warmonger mouse sends in the new recruits on the first wave before sending in the more experienced soldiers on the next two. In short, the inexperienced mice who wanted to join (or were forced to join) his army are literally being sent to an early death!
  • Justified for the new scouts, as they are "trained" by being thrown directly into the first wave of the battle instead of spending months on the training grounds.
  • The whole concept of catching and killing thousands of sentient living beings. Some of those traps are horrifyingly cruel.
• Game Breaker:
  • Many Limited Edition traps have respectable Power and stupidly high Luck. Luck also determines whether or not you succeed in catching a mouse, and the chance for a mouse to drop items. Of note are the Partybot (Physical), Chrome Deathbot/Drillbot (Physical), Giant Speaker/2010 Blastoff/Rewer's Riposte (Tactical), and Kraken Chaos/Double Diamond Adventure (Hydro)
  • The Oasis Water Node trap, the Sphynx Wrath and especially the Sandstorm Monstrobot trump all of these. However, if you want those three traps, you will have to Earn Your Fun.
• Internet Backdraft: In the past, when the name Ronza was mentioned, the forums would go crazy. Nowadays, there's no such insanity, but it continues to be parodied.
• That One Boss:
  • The Acolyte mouse. The Dragon, Big Bad Burroughs, and Silth are starting to give it competition, though.
  • The BBB is not so bad. At least the mice in the area where its found in cannot steal anything from you. The others...
• That One Level:
  • Depending on whether the "Devs Hate U", each run in the Zugzwang's Tower can be a big failure, or success, or anywhere in between.
  • The Dreaded Horde in the Jungle of Dread are made to be especially hard. Even with the best traps for that location (such as the Cackle Lantern and the Clockapult of Time), you will fail to catch them over half the time.
• Ugly Cute: The Itty-Bitty Burroughs mouse.

Film

• Funny Aneurysm Moment: William Hickey, who plays Posthumous Character Mr. Smuntz, died before the film's release.
• Nightmare Fuel: The painting of their father is moody throughout the film, but then magically changes to a grin, when the sons finally work together for real. In intention, a beautiful event to show the father being proud of his sons even after death, but the goddamn painting changes through supernatural forces. Not intentionally scary, but if you think about it, it's chilling.
  • And as proof of YMMV, this same moment can also come across as intended, as a wonderful Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Particularly when paired with the recurring theme of "teamwork and sharing are good things", Ernie finally earning his father's pride, and the Arc Words "A world without string is chaos."
• Squick: Eating the cockroach.
  • Right before the big finale...

Lady: The raisins are a nice touch.
Ernie: (Smiling) They're good, aren't they? (Takes two steps, and stops.) Raisins?

• • • For those who don't get it, the "raisins" were the mouse's droppings.
  • Caesar voluntarily EATS one of the mouse's feces!