History YMMV / DemolitionMan

* CompleteMonster: Phoenix acts funny and nice at times. Too bad he's a sadistic mass murderer. Many criminals do what they do for easy money, but Phoenix does it [[ForTheEvulz for pleasure in murdering people]]. He's more or less a Hip-Hop Joker.

** The SNES/Genesis/SegaCD version is NintendoHard with a few instances of FakeDifficulty but is actually quite good once you get past that.
** The 1994 {{pinball}} game is well-received by pinball enthusiasts and it even has a home rom set with full sewering.

* OneSceneWonder: [[DenisLeary The Edgar Friendly speech]]. regarded by most as the best part of the movie.

** The most powerful man in a modern city hires the most AxCrazy/psychotic criminal around to take down their most powerful enemy, [[EvilerThanThou only for them to turn against him]], killing him and disposing of his body in a fire. The criminal then calls upon all other criminals to wreak utter havoc upon the city. [[Film/TheDarkKnight Didn't they do this a few years ago?]]

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The 3DO game is definitely an example, judging by [[TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One's]] [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/09/01/demolition-man-review/ review]].

*** And [[LogicBomb commercial jingles wouldn't]]?

* EarWorm: Apparently in the future, the only music that exists are commercial jingles.

* CharacterAlignment: Numerous different ones
** ChaoticEvil: Phoenix
** LawfulEvil: Dr. Cocteau
** ChaoticGood: Edgar Friendly. Whether John Spartan is this or NeutralGood is debatable.

** One of Phoenix's charges is tax evasion (it shows up when they bring up all his charges). Snipes was later convicted of, you guessed it, tax evasion!

** Arnold Schwarzenegger is briefly mentioned as a former President, with Huxley explaining that his popularity forced an amendment to the Constitution to allow him to run. Today, Schwarzenegger is a former governor of California, and there is a serious and fairly popular movement to amend the Constitution to allow him to run for President.

* HilariousInHindsight: "President Schwarzenegger," anyone?
** Plus, one Scott Peterson is apparently due for a parole hearing.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Admit it, you would have loved to see knitting become a ChekhovsSkill.

* AccidentalInnuendo - Huxley often mangles 20th century sayings into... something else.
-->"You really licked his ass."
-->"Let's blow this guy!"

* CharacterAlignment: Arguably, the five main characters of the film (Spartan, Huxley, Friendly, Phoenix and Cocteau) represent the four corners of the D&D alignment grid, and the absolute center.
** John Spartan is ChaoticGood, doing whatever's necessary to get the job done, and getting a reputation of being reckless and destructive as a result.
** Lenina Huxley is [[YourMileageMayVary arguably]] LawfulGood, wanting to follow standard police procedure, even if she's dying for something to actually ''happen'' from time to time. [[spoiler: Hanging around Spartan as long as she does, by the end she's probably closer to Neutral or Chaotic.]]
*** Her boss is a better example of LawfulGood, as he wants to protect people, wants to enforce the law, and is extremely annoyed at anything that disrupts the order of his city.
** Edgar Friendly is TrueNeutral; he's about freedom of choice, and is doing what he can merely to survive in a world he considers too uptight.
*** Closer to ChaoticNeutral, considering his "I wanna run naked through the streets smeared in green jello. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to!" speech.
** Phoenix is absolutely ChaoticEvil; he just wants to watch the world burn.
** And Cocteau is LawfulEvil; he wants to create the perfect society, but one that tramples all over personal freedoms. He specifically speaks adoringly of the city having "the purity of an ant colony".

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Admit it, you would have loved to see knitting become a CheckovsSkill.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Admit it, you would have loved to see knitting become a ChekovsSkill.

** John Spartan is ChaoticGood, doing whatever's necessary to get the job done, and getting a reputation of being reckless as a result.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Don't know how the video games are received, but the 1994 {{pinball}} game is well-received by pinball enthusiasts and it even has a home rom set with full sewering.
** The 3DO game is definitely an example, judging by [[TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One's]] [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/09/01/demolition-man-review/ review]].
** The SNES/Genesis/SegaCD version is NintendoHard with a few instances of FakeDifficulty but is actually quite good once you get past that.