History Headscratchers / DemolitionMan

** It's worth noting that Spartan himself points out that he's not exactly anything to emulate or admire, and is in many ways as destructive as Phoenix. The two definitely have a bit of a NotSoDifferent thing going on; both are destructive, impulsive, violent types, except Phoenix is on the side of anarchy and chaos and Spartan is on the side of law. However, they could both easily come across as equally bad extremes -- yeah, Phoenix is killing innocent civilians and taking urban warfare to the streets, but Spartan does such things as destroy an entre mini-mall to rescue one person (which, much as the "Fuck ''you'' lady!" girl has a point, is not exactly that much more socially constructive). Essentially, just because Phoenix is bad doesn't mean that people are gonna be inclined to think much better of Spartan; I mean, he's called the "Demolition Man" for Christ's sake, that's not exactly a nickname with many positive connotations.

* Yeah, the name should speak for itself. If spicy food isn't allowed in the future, then how did Taco Bell become the only prime eating establishment? Yes, Spartan acknowledges that they aren't actually tacos, but that still begs the question of what they ''ARE'' serving? Regardless of whatever products are available, I presume they have to have ''SOME'' kind of seasonings and spices in them. If not, then what's the point of half the menu at Taco Bell then?

** Remember that the San Angeles Utopia turns out to be a dystopia controlled by an "Evil Mister Rogers". Procreation is done in a lab. The doctors don't have to have a cure for Tourette's; just an early way to identify it (or markers that may possibly raise the risk of it) and an unfortunate pregnancy failure that was unquestionably a natural miscarriage and definitely not an abortion, because abortions are illegal, you see. Here, let's run this test. Honey, we're going to give you a special shot to make everything better. Oh dear, you are having a medical event. Never fear; we will handle it properly.

* The very beginning gives [[ToddTheT1000 this troper]] a JustBugsMe moment - they automatically take Phoenix's word over Spartan's. Spartan is one of the city's most successful cops, whose accolades include nailing some of Los Angeles' worst scumbags of the age, and yet they still freeze him in cryo-stasis. Spartan did a thermal check of the building that only found Phoenix and some of his goonies, and that would probably have been confirmed by written reports, or at least the testimony of Zachary Lamb, the pilot who drops him into Phoenix's hideout. Does it never even ''occur'' to Spartan's police chief that the hostages were already dead? Sure, it turns out that that's true later on (it clearly occurred that Spartan even had realized what Phoenix had done the moment the fire captain said, "There are bodies everyhere! There must be twenty or thirty. Everywhere!"), but you'd [[GenreBlind think it would've occurred to somebody]] before you just go and freeze Spartan right up like that?

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[[Euthanasia in San Angeles?]]

** I think the interview answer was along the lines of the 'what was in the box' for CastAway. "It was a plot device / throwaway gag, quit thinking so much about it."