History YMMV / GangsterSquad

* {{Narm}}: A few of Cohen's lines, most notably "Here comes Santa Claus!" [[NarmCharm Though it does help establish how]] [[AxCrazy off and unstable]] he is.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The movie is the closest thing to a modern day remake of Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/TheUntouchables'' since it focuses on a group of police officers sent to take down a real-life mob boss only with a SettingUpdate to 1940s Los Angeles, a cast comprised of well-known actors and even more ArtisticLicense taken for the sake of the story.

* NeverLiveItDown: The above incident likely doomed the movie, causing a very poor box office opening.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The movie is the closest thing to a modern day remake of Creator/BrianDePalma's ''[[Film/TheUntouchables The Untouchables (1987)]]'' since it focuses on a group of police officers sent to take down a real-life mob boss only with a SettingUpdate to 1940s Los Angeles, a cast comprised of well-known actors and even more ArtisticLicense taken for the sake of the story.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The movie is the closest thing to a modern day remake of Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' since it focuses on a group of police officers sent to take down a real-life mob boss only with a SettingUpdate to 1940s Los Angeles, a cast comprised of well-known actors and even more ArtisticLicense taken for the sake of the story.

* GeniusBonus: Mickey refers to Grace as Creator/ClaudeRains when she starts to [[Film/TheInvisibleMan suddenly be gone for long periods of time]], due to being with Wooters.

* {{Narm}}: A few of Cohen's lines, most notably "Here comes Santa Claus!"
** NarmCharm: Though it does help establish how [[AxCrazy off and unstable]] he is.

** OvershadowedByControversy: Even with the reshot scenes, the film as whole was deemed to be so violent that it was still hard to forget the parallel with Aurora.

* ClicheStorm

* CompleteMonster: [[KosherNostra Mickey Cohen]] is [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade written as this]]. He is an utterly psychotic mobster whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. He furiously executes an underling with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a power drill]] due to the man [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face.

* CompleteMonster: [KosherNostra Mickey Cohen]] is [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade written as this]]. He is an utterly psychotic mobster whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. He furiously executes an underling with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a power drill]] due to the man [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face.

* CompleteMonster: [KosherNostra Mickey Cohen]] is [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade written as this]. He is an utterly psychotic mobster whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. He furiously executes an underling with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a power drill]] due to the man [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face.

* CompleteMonster: Mickey Cohen is Mickey Cohen is [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade written as this]] where he is an utterly psychotic [[KosherNostra Jewish mobster]] whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. A building he had been using as a base to imprison women, forcibly addict them to drugs and use them for prostitution. He furiously executes an underling with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a power drill]] due to the man [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face. He even has an emissary from the Chicago Mafia executed by having him pulled apart between two trucks and has no compunction in causing massive civilian casualties in his attempts to kill the members of the Gangster Squad.

* CompleteMonster: Mickey Cohen is incredibly vicious and violent and never shows any remorse or compassion.

* GeniusBonus: Mickey refers to Grace as ClaudeRains when she starts to [[Film/TheInvisibleMan suddenly be gone for long periods of time]], due to being with Wooters.

* {{Narm}}: A few of Cohen's lines, most notably "Here comes Sandy Claws!"

** OvershadowedByControversy: Even with the reshot scenes, the film as whole was deemed to be so violent that it was still hard to forget the parallel with Aurora.

* GeniusBonus: Mickey refers to Grace as [[TheInvisibleMan Claude Rains]] when she starts to suddenly be gone for long periods of time, due to being with Wooters.
* HarsherInHindsight: The scene in the trailer where gangsters fire upon people in a movie theater while emerging from the screen became this after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. This even prompted a reshoot for the film and pushing it's release date back several months.

* NeverLiveItDown: The above incident likely doomed the movie, causing a very poor box office opening

* HarsherInHindsight: The scene in the trailer where the squad fires upon people in a movie theater while emerging from the screen became this after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. This even prompted a reshoot for the film and pushing it's release date back several months.

* HarsherInHindsight: The scene in the trailer where the squad fires upon people in a movie theater while emerging from the screen became this after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. This even prompted a reshoot for the film and pushing it's release date back several months.