History YMMV / LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels

* JerkassWoobie: Gary and Doug the scouser burglars lose some sympathy for burning the feet of the people they're robbing to try and find out where their valuables are, but they're mostly presented as humorous characters living in terror of being killed for failing Hatchet Harry. Just how pitiful they are is emphasised by their final scene -- had they not blundered into the wrong situation, their problems would have been over.
* MagnificentBastard: "Big" Chris is an enforcer and hired muscle to anyone willing to pay, renowned in the criminal world for not only his excellent success rate, but his honorable nature as well. Big Chris is hired by Harry "the Hatchet" to ensure his debtees, Eddie's group, pay up as the story starts, and Big Chris proceeds to not only swipe the cash from Eddie, but also obtains two treasured shotguns Harry has been hunting, all through nothing but precise timing and opportunity. Raising his son, "Little" Chris, in his ways to hopefully one day hand the "family business" over to the boy, Big Chris does anything he can to protect his son from outsiders, notably fooling the vicious Dog into lowering his guard before brutally killing him when he threatens Little Chris. After Harry is killed, Big Chris seizes the opportunity to swipe the man's fortune, set himself and his son up for life as kingpins themselves, then shows his respects to Eddie's group for their tenacity in facing Harry by letting them keep the shotguns ... although he might have let them keep those as he knows they were stolen and could be linked to

** The execution of the two drug dealers in Dog's first scene does it for him - they've already told him everything he wants to know, and are tied up, terrified, and begging for their lives. That earns them neither sympathy nor mercy. Even Dog's own crew, who are hardly saints themselves, disapprove of this.

* MagnificentBastard: "Big" Chris is an enforcer and hired muscle to anyone willing to pay, renowned in the criminal world for not only his excellent success rate, but his honorable nature as well. Big Chris is hired by Harry "the Hatchet" to ensure his debtees, Eddie's group, pay up as the story starts, and Big Chris proceeds to not only swipe the cash from Eddie, but also obtains two treasured shotguns Harry has been hunting, all through nothing but precise timing and opportunity. Raising his son, "Little" Chris, in his ways to hopefully one day hand the "family business" over to the boy, Big Chris does anything he can to protect his son from outsiders, notably fooling the vicious Dog into lowering his guard before brutally killing him when he threatens Little Chris. After Harry is killed, Big Chris seizes the opportunity to swipe the man's fortune, set himself and his son up for life as kingpins themselves, then shows his respects to Eddie's group for their tenacity in facing Harry by letting them keep the valuable shotguns.

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: [[TrafficWarden Traffic Wardens]]. They are as unpopular in the UK as they are everywhere else, and the one in this film is a universal ButtMonkey as a result. Notably, once a TapOnTheHead fails to knock him out, the whole group of protagonists decides to pummel him instead after one of them states that he ''fucking'' hates traffic wardens.

* BetterOnDVD: The Director's Cut most notably explores the backstory between Harry and J.D.'s rivalry and why Harry wants the bar so much.

* MagnificentBastard: "Big" Chris is an enforcer and hired muscle to anyone willing to pay, renowned in the criminal world for not only his excellent success rate, but his honorable nature as well. Big Chris is hired by Harry "the Hatchet" to ensure his debtees, Eddie's group, pay up as the story starts, and Big Chris proceeds to not only swipe the cash from the Eddie, but also obtains two treasured shotguns Harry has been hunting, all through nothing but precise timing and opportunity. Raising his son, "Little" Chris, in his ways to hopefully one day hand the "family business" over to the boy, Big Chris does anything he can to protect his son from outsiders, notably fooling the vicious Dog into lowering his guard before brutally killing him when he threatens Little Chris. After Harry is killed, Big Chris seizes the opportunity to swipe the man's fortune, set himself and his son up for life as kingpins themselves, then shows his respects to Eddie's group for their tenacity in facing Harry by letting them keep the priceless rifles.

* MagnificentBastard: "Big" Chris is an enforcer and hired muscle to anyone willing to pay, renowned in the criminal world for not only his excellent success rate, but his honorable nature as well. Big Chris is hired by Harry "the Hatchet" to ensure his debtees, Eddie's group, pay up as the story starts, and Big Chris proceeds to not only swipe the cash from the Eddie, but also obtains two treasured rifles Harry has been hunting, all through nothing but precise timing and opportunity. Raising his son, "Little" Chris, in his ways to hopefully one day hand the "family business" over to the boy, Big Chris does anything he can to protect his son from outsiders, notably fooling the vicious Dog into lowering his guard before brutally killing him when he threatens Little Chris. After Harry is killed, Big Chris seizes the opportunity to swipe the man's fortune, set himself and his son up for life as kingpins themselves, then shows his respects to Eddie's group for their tenacity in facing Harry by letting them keep the priceless rifles.

* CompleteMonster: Arguably, [[TheSociopath Dog]]. In a movie full of murderous gangsters, he is shown as particularly vicious, sadistic and merciless. While Rory is capable of [[AxCrazy setting a man on fire in a bar over interrupting a football match]], he was still provoked. [[SmugSnake Harry]] will maim or kill you if you don't pay him on time, but you still have to [[LoanShark incur a huge debt to him]] or anger him in some way. Dog on the other hand will rob, torture and kill you [[ForTheEvulz just because he can]]. He's not got a sense of humour, he's never shown to have any kind of family or anyone he cares about and he also [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to kill Chris' child]]. At one point he even [[BadBoss threatens to torture and kill his own men.]] It's also heavily implied he would have brutally murdered the hippie dealers, had he not already been hanging around the crime scene for too long.