History YMMV / LethalWeapon3

** The film opens with a terrorist blowing up a city building...''as a punchline to a joke''. Then in 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing occured, and in 1995, the Oklahoma City bombing happened. Each was attacked with...'''''a vehicle full of explosives'''''.
*** The car bomb "joke" has only gotten less funny with each successive real-world terrorist attack, including the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.
*** Just a car being involved in a terrorist action at all is unpleasant, in the wake of multiple attackers using vehicles to kill people by driving into crowds at high speed.

* MoralEventHorizon: Travis crosses it when he either drowns one of his men in cement or when he kills a rookie cop, Edwards, in a shootout at the police station, [[DiedOnTheirBirthday on his birthday no less]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Travis crosses it when he either drowns one of his men in cement or when he kills a rookie cop in a shootout at the subway, [[IronicBirthday on his birthday no less]].

** The film opens with a terrorist blowing up a city building...''as a punchline to a joke''. Nine years later the World Trade Center was bombed, and the "joke" has only gotten less funny with each successive real-world incident.

** All the police brutality is played for laughs, or just taken as a normal part of police procedure. This film came out just the same year as the LA riots which were in response to the beating of Rodney King. To say that aspect of the movie has not aged well is a major understatement.

** All the police brutality is played for laughs, or just taken as a normal part of police procedure. This film came out just a year after the LA riots which were in response to the beating of Rodney King. To say that aspect of the movie has not aged well is a major understatement.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The film opens with a terrorist blowing up a city building...''as a punchline to a joke''. Nine years later the World Trade Center was bombed, and the "joke" has only gotten less funny with each successive real-world incident.
* HarsherInHindsight: All the police brutality is played for laughs, or just taken as a normal part of police procedure. This film came out just a year after the LA riots which were in response to the beating of Rodney King. To say that aspect of the movie has not aged well is a major understatement.

* MoralEventHorizon: Travis crosses it when he either drowns one of his men in cement or when he kills a rookie cop in a shootout at the subway, [[IronicBirthday on his birthday nonetheless]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: There’s a not-so-subtle TakeThat to Exxon. Murtaugh‘s daughter is wearing a shirt that prominently proclaims pro-choice. And a truck during one of the Chase scenes prominently has an anti-fur message on it.

* MoralEventHorizon: Travis crosses it when he kills a rookie cop in a shootout at the subway, [[IronicBirthday on his birthday nonetheless]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The film opens with a terrorist blowing up a city building...''as a punchline to a joke''. Nine months later the World Trade Center was bombed, and the "joke" has only gotten less funny with each successive real-world incident.

* FridgeHorror: Uhh... assuming it wasn't merely a throwaway gag that was half-GreenAesop and half-TakeThat, how did Riggs know that gas at the end was from Exxon by ''taste''?

* FridgeHorror: Uhh... assuming it wasn't merely a ThrowawayGag that was half-GreenAesop and half-TakeThat, how did Riggs know that gas at the end was from Exxon by ''taste''?