History YMMV / BraveHeart

** Note that this is actually an inversion of the HistoricalBadassUpgrade. Edward I's real life BadAss achievements would fill three or four movies as long as this one.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Stephen the Irishman
* HilariousInHindsight: Gibson of all people portraying Edward as a panto bad guy considering that in real life one of the most disgusting things about him was his mistreatment of the Jews.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: JamesHorner [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUNSZEDfwu0 delivers]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWQhezXbi7A an]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7V5XoYCaQ absolutely]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXzGZ6GXnTw amazing]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNLfNezFqNk score]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxRik0jw5L8 for]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcxfrL4UjQ4 this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkLrnI7SsVY film]].

** To be fair, he was pretty angry at this point in his life. Also [[FreudianExcuse pretty important]]...his [[MoralityPet beloved wife and queen]] Eleanor of Castile had died just as this was all starting.

** "FREEEDOM!!" gets a lot of mileage too, especially for folks having to endure some lengthy torture (bonus points if said torture is something [[MundaneMadeAwesome entirely mundane]].

* CompleteMonster: King Edward I "Longshanks" is portrayed as [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade far more evil than his real life counterpart ever was]]. Introduced as a "cruel pagan" who has annexed Scotland to England and just returned from a war with France, he authorizes mass rape in Scotland by restoring the ancient law of ''[[DroitDuSeigneur Ius Primae Noctis]]'', giving English lords in Scotland the right to claim "first night" of any peasant girl in their domain upon their marriage. He's doing this to win support from the English lords necessary to solidify his rule in Scotland and to gradually end the Scottish as a nation by outbreeding them. He sees his effeminate son Edward II simply as the continuation of his legacy, throws his son's homosexual lover out of a window for daring to speak to him as an advisor and beats his son's face in afterwards. After William Wallace stages a Scottish rebellion against him, Longshanks announces his intent to reduce the country to ashes just out of petty spite at Wallace. During an engagement with the Scots he orders his archers to [[UnfriendlyFire fire on his own troops]] while they're busy fighting the Scots, justifying it by stating that [[WeHaveReserves his men are expendable]]. After Wallace is captured by the English due to a conspiracy among the Scottish lords, Longshanks has him slowly and painfully tortured to death in a public execution while listening on from his own death bed.

* BrokenBase: In Scotland. [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Many posters for this movie can still be found all over Scotland]]. Ironically there are plenty of Scottish people who hate this film for its inaccuracies. A statue of Creator/MelGibson as Wallace was subject to vandalism for years before finally being removed.

* SympathyForTheDevil: You really can't help but feel sorry for Edward II after his father throws his (possible) lover out a window to his death.

* UnfortunateImplications: The portrayal of all the English as evil and Stephan being portrayed as good for wanting to kill the english because they are.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: In spite of its inaccuracies, posters for this movie can still be found all over Scotland.
** Ironically there are plenty of Scottish people who hate this film for its inaccuracies.

** Ironically the real Wallace committed many horrific crimes himself.

* HateDumb: {{Downplayed}}. Gibsons' reputation as TheFundamentalist preceded him, and many who saw the film accused him of homophobia because of the scene where Edward II's gay lover (or implied gay lover, at any rate) is murdered by his father Longshanks. But as Gibson himself fairly retorted, Longshanks is portrayed as a murderous psychopath in this film, so its hard to read this as much else than a ruthless KickTheDog moment unless you actually ''want'' to (for the record, while its likely that Edward II was ''not'' a homosexual, this isn't something Gibson made up- there were definitely rumours at the time and Edward II may have been at the very least effeminate, and absolutely historians who believed that he was; modern historians simply think they were exaggerations).

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: In spite of its inaccuracies, posters for this movie can still be found all over Scotland.

* SympathyForTheDevil: You really can't help but feel sorry for Edward II after his father throws his (possible) lover out a window to his death.

* {{Hatedom}}: {{Downplayed}}. Gibsons' reputation as TheFundamentalist preceded him, and many who saw the film accused him of homophobia because of the scene where Edward II's gay lover (or implied gay lover, at any rate) is murdered by his father Longshanks. But as Gibson himself fairly retorted, Longshanks is portrayed as a murderous psychopath in this film, so its hard to read this as much else than a ruthless KickTheDog moment unless you actually ''want'' to (for the record, while its likely that Edward II was ''not'' a homosexual, this isn't something Gibson made up- there were definitely rumours at the time and Edward II may have been at the very least effeminate, and absolutely historians who believed that he was; modern historians simply think they were exaggerations).

* {{Squick}}: An English soldier tells Murron how she reminds him of his own daughter back in England before ''he tries to molest her''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The scene where Prince Edward's lover gets shoved out a window. According to the filmmakers, this was unintentional.

* CompleteMonster: King Edward Longshanks is depicted as one hell of an evil bastard. In real life, he isn't remembered as that much of a tyrant, though he is known as "the Hammer of the Scots". He did expel the Jews from England in 1290 (primarily so that he could confiscate their property and repudiate his debts), however.
** His second most popular title is that of "The English Justinian". He was arguably the father of parliamentary government, though he introduced it mainly as a way to circumvent the Nobility in order to approve taxes.

The following are SubjectiveTropes relating to Braveheart.
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* {{Squick}}: An English soldier tells Murron how she reminds him of his own daughter back in England before ''he tries to molest her''.

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* {{Squick}}: An English soldier tells Murron how she reminds him of his own daughter back in England before ''he attempts to molest her''.