> Give 'em your two spondulicks.
Being a diplomat at heart, you opt to give your opinion on the following subjective notes.
> SEPULCHRITUDE?
> Reflect in a sillier manner.
> Punch yourself in the heart to establish empathy.
> Examine surging EMOTIONS level.
- Awesome Art: Although normally quick and loose, the Playable Epilogue has gorgeous art.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Demimonde Semigoddess gets a lot of fanart for a character who only shows up once or twice.
- Fandom-Specific Plot: "Mobsterswitch", an AU where the Midnight Crew are hard-boiled detectives and Team Sleuth are shadow magic-wielding mobsters. Sometimes the Felt get in on it as a group of Dirty Cops. Popularized by the Midnight Sleuth trilogy of comics.
- Growing the Beard: For MSPA as a whole, the series substantially raised the bar, setting the stage for Homestuck to take things even further.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- "If your imagination was a face, you would punch it. In the face." This was done four years before the punchline became famous in asdfmovie 6.
- One of the bonus commands
submitted by someone named John created Professor Wasp, a character who has the ability to mess with canon events with no repercussions. Guess what happens to John Egbert near the endgame of Homestuck. - The Clowns were the least developed of the four kingdoms despite being associated with a major villain. In Homestuck, one of the main characters is Gamzee, a clown-themed troll that becomes a frequent antagonist later on.
- I Knew It!:
- See entry for Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale. "Your MASS now stands multiplied by a factor of a whopping googol. Your MASS exceeds that of the entire universe."
- One person on the wiki noted that BHMK's legs had to be sticking out somewhere in the universe, as he was wearing a corset. This was revealed to be true.
- See entry for Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale. "Your MASS now stands multiplied by a factor of a whopping googol. Your MASS exceeds that of the entire universe.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "Pose as a team, 'cause SHIT JUST GOT REAL!"
- "Punch it in the snout to establish superiority".
- The React To Update Page is pretty popular.
- Moe: Pretty much any time Death cries.
- More Popular Spin-Off: The Midnight Crew, arguably. Team Sleuth doesn't play a role in the next adventure. However, Sleuth himself does become a player in Dad Crocker's subplot in Homestuck: Beyond Canon.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- Your imaginary body cannot be sustained on the material plane!
- When Mobster Kingpin grows stronger. Things get even worse, culminating in him becoming a Black Hole and a Demon at the same time.
- Your imaginary body cannot be sustained on the material plane!
- Self-Fanservice: Practically inevitable in fanart that doesn't depict the main cast as shitty stick figures.
- Sequel Displacement: It was definitely significantly more popular than the prior two MSPA stories, and was itself displaced by the torrent of popularity Homestuck currently rides.
- That One Boss: DMK's final face has the following abilities:
- Has neither EMOTIONS nor DIABETES.
- Immune to pretty much all attacks not using Tectrixcalibur.
- Instantaneous regeneration, meaning you have to take off the entire meter in one blow.
- Gain about fifty billion more health meters.
- The final point is actually a subversion due to PS effectively saying "FUCK THIS SHIT" and destroying the health bars themselves.
- Unconventional Learning Experience: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a puzzle revolving around parts of Problem Sleuth for a "mystery hunt" event.
- The Woobie: Ace Dick becomes one during his Game of Life. Luckily, this also causes DMK to cry, weakening him to be susceptible to the gang's attacks.
