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* Elwood Blues (''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', ''Blues Brothers 2000'') has Asperger's Syndrome (which Creator/DanAykroyd himself has claimed to have in interviews). This would explain a lot about his character, including his predilection for sunglasses (allowing him to avoid direct eye contact) and his long, convoluted speeches about Russian politics and blues music in the sequel.
** Some people with AS are particularly under - or over -sensitive to specific sensory input, which might be another reason why Elwood likes to wear sunglasses (he is more sensitive than others to sunlight). Taste hypersensitivity can manifest itself as a marked preference for relatively tasteless food - which would explain the character's predilection for dry white toast.
** Elwood Blues, good man who occasionally gets in the way of the law, but is willing to try so hard to save his orphanage... or destructive psycopath who should spend the rest of his life in jail for reckless behavior, especially regarding his driving through the mall, which no doubt resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages as well as endangering the lives of everyone in the mall.

** Optimus is ''pissed''. He's already been killed and, upon his resurrection, is almost killed again. He's hooked into a giant life-support machine (Jetfire's parts) and, on top of it all, the Fallen taunts him about how he killed all the other Primes. [[BerserkButton Prime loses it]]. Cue asskicking. In the case of Demolishor's execution, the number one rule for the NEST op was to keep the hostiles within the quarantine zone- which, as Demolishor shows, failed miserably. Optimus probably realized that both the secrecy of the mission and thousands human lives were in jeopardy and acted as quickly as possible, resorting to brutality in order to protect the majority.

* The 1976 version of ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' portrays Margaret, Carrie's mother, as a psychotic woman who has made up her own version of Christianity and follows this version to the letter, even misquoting the Bible. She is abusive towards Carrie and never shows her any love, going so far as to say she never wanted Carrie RIGHT IN HER FACE. In the 2013 version of the film, Margaret is still a firm believer of her own version of her religion, but it's made abundantly clear that Carrie means the world to her, even if she can be rude to her at times. An even more important change is the infamous prom sequence. In the 1976 film, Carrie is never shown practising her telekinesis and goes into a trance-like state when shit hits the fan at prom. This makes her character helpless from start to finish, she's not doing anything yet she causes all this mayhem. The 2013 version solves this problem masterfully: Carrie can be seen practising her powers (moving flags while in class, looking up videos on [=YouTube=]) and actually has fun with it. She sees it as a gift rather than a curse. In the prom sequence, it's not just Carrie losing control. It's rather the opposite. Carrie takes control by simply having enough of everyone's shit and decides to use her powers against everyone who has wronged her. She simply has had enough and doesn't care anymore, taking matters into her own hand, standing up for herself at last. This completely turns her character around, much like the film did with her mother Margaret. Carrie isn't a helpless victim in this version, she's the hero (or maybe anti-hero, YMMV on that one). Carrie 1976 is the tale of a woman scorned, Carrie 2013 is the tale of a woman scorned and not having any of it.

* The 1976 version of ''Film/{{Carrie}}'' portrays Margaret, Carrie's mother, as a psychotic woman who has made up her own version of Christianity and follows this version to the letter, even misquoting the Bible. She is abusive towards Carrie and never shows her any love, going so far as to say she never wanted Carrie RIGHT IN HER FACE. In the 2013 version of the film, Margaret is still a firm believer of her own version of her religion, but it's made abundantly clear that Carrie means the world to her, even if she can be rude to her at times. An even more important change is the infamous prom sequence. In the 1976 film, Carrie is never shown practising her telekinesis and goes into a trance-like state when shit hits the fan at prom. This makes her character helpless from start to finish, she's not doing anything yet she causes all this mayhem. The 2013 version solves this problem masterfully: Carrie can be seen practising her powers (moving flags while in class, looking up videos on [=YouTube=]) and actually has fun with it. She sees it as a gift rather than a curse. In the prom sequence, it's not just Carrie losing control. It's rather the opposite. Carrie takes control by simply having enough of everyone's shit and decides to use her powers against everyone who has wronged her. She simply has had enough and doesn't care anymore, taking matters into her own hand, standing up for herself at last. This completely turns her character around, much like the film did with her mother Margaret. Carrie isn't a helpless victim in this version, she's the hero (or maybe anti-hero, YMMV on that one). Carrie 1976 is the tale of a woman scorned, Carrie 2013 is the tale of a woman scorned and not having any of it.

* ''Film/TheHunter'': Are the loggers big talkers who are harmless deep down or murderous thugs who are responsible for some or all of the tragedy that befalls the Armstrong family.

* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'' (the remake), specifically the first movie; A somewhat narmy family comedy or a ClicheStorm ridden extended Lifetime Channel Original Movie? For the family; A bunch of self-centered spoiled kids with overly-lenient parents or just parents that were neglectful with handling out discipline for the kids? And with that in mind, upon watching the second film, are the family of Eugene Levy's character a foil for if you have too much a handle on your kids?

* ''The Interview'' (Starring Hugo Weaving)[[note]]Not to be confused with ''Film/TheInterview'', where Creator/SethRogen and Creator/JamesFranco try to interview [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim Jung Un]].[[/note]] makes this its central theme. The main character is taken from his home and interrogated ruthlessly by two police officers. The senior officer is [[InspectorJavert dead-set on convicting our poor protagonist]] and seems malicious by the end - but there are hints that the protagonist may not be entirely innocent. People have debated this. There are opinions that support and opinions that reject the protagonist's innocence. The alternate ending of the movie practically says he's guilty; that it was cut supports open interpretation of the final cut.

* Then there is ''Film/TheManFromEarth,'' in which Jesus is [[spoiler: just a normal guy who has somehow lived since the dawn of time, studied Buddhism at one point during his long life, and later taught Buddhist morals to the people of Judea. The rest is history.]]

* Channing Tatum's character in ''Film/{{Fighting}}''. Hustler and up-and-coming pit fighter with a heart of gold or creepy homeless [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]] in a wife beater who most likely smells like a yak in heat from not showering after physical exercise?

* Given her expanded role, The Chief Elder from ''Film/TheGiver'' is subjected to this. Does she truly believe in what she preaches or is she more interested in power? Is it possible that she was [[spoiler: Rosemary's mother]] and that [[spoiler: her daughter's death]] played a role in shaping her character?

*** Kidman's character is not just a prostitute, but a visibly, obviously wealthy one who has full discrimination in selecting her clients and entered into the contract willingly as an individual, not just at the discretion of her madam. We're supposed to accept the anachronistic 1990s morality of the viewpoint character because he's the InformedHero by virtue of narrating, but in the context of the morality of the two actual people involved there wasn't any rape and the arrangement was perfectly morally acceptable. MoralDissonance in play, yes, but even accounting for modern morality the protagonists _are_ petty criminals trying to step up their game to major fraud and robbery (and they're implied to make their living as thugs and robbers to begin with) and most of their problems are less a result of the Baron's evil than complications of their being kind of bad at being con artists and robbers.

** We get the American Agent, a man with no name except for when he stole the code name of other agent he murdered. A double agent, already working for both the CIA and the Mafia, he laughs at and mocks peoples attempts to kill him, and apologizes for being too loud after shooting at someone. He pretends to execute people just to cover up his murder of other people, and plays with dead bodies just to make sure they really are dead. He often acts bored or just plain annoyed by life-threatening situations. He cannot understand emotions, nor why a woman would cry at the thought of her selling herself sexually because of desperate financial need. He holds prisoners in front of two perfectly ordinary people by claiming to just be an actor, not breaking a sweat. He dodges a poisonous dart by interposing a matroishka doll in the way, while disarming the bomb inside it, all while making it look like interpretive dance to a large televised crowd. And at any point, it's never clear whether or not he's doing or saying something just for his own amusement. In short, this is James Bond if he were even less professional and at least slightly sadistic.

* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''. Ferris Bueller: Awesome guy who you wish you could have been, or at least been friends with, when you were his age; or insufferable CanonSue and KarmaHoudini? Or both?

** [[FanDumb At least one Moral Guardian]] complained that Jesus died in it.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tClvCc8m_g Dragon]]": Humans and orcs are NotSoDifferent.

** Which one's "Dumb" and which one's "Dumber"? Is it Lloyd for having even ''less'' sense than Harry exhibits, or Harry for letting Lloyd fast-talk him so often? Or is it the thugs who think Harry and Lloyd are smarter than they actually are?