History YMMV / TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly

** [[ProfessionalKiller Angel Eyes/Sentenza]] ("The Bad") is a [[PsychoForHire sociopathic mercenary]] whose only concern is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney making as much money as possible]]. In the opening scenes of the film, Angel Eyes tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies, "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through to the end." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer, whom he promptly kills, since he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself. Angel Eyes proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat the information about the location of the gold out of a hooker]]. Later, he has Tuco ("The Ugly") [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. While this is going on, Angel Eyes has his men force the [=POW=]s to sing in order to cover up the sounds of their friends being tortured.

** Is the latest blu-ray release, which presents the movie with a strong yellow tint not found in previous releases, accurate to the way the movie was supposed to look in theaters? Supposedly the Technicolor print used as a reference for the blu-ray features the yellow tint, but other surviving prints appear more red, which is how previous transfers of the movie looked.

** Tuco piecing together parts from multiple guns in the gun shop to create a custom weapon is typically seen as unlikely at best. This may surprise as TruthInTelevision, as Samuel Colt (inventor and founder of the Colt Manufacturing Company) would often piece together parts of as many as ''10'' of his revolvers in front of audiences to demonstrate that they were interchangable for easy replacement and upkeep. (Interchangable machined parts still being a relatively new concept at the time.)

** US theatrical version: [[ProfessionalKiller Angel Eyes/Sentenza]] ("The Bad") is a [[PsychoForHire sociopathic mercenary]] whose only concern is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney making as much money as possible]]. In the opening scenes of the film, Angel Eyes tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies, "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through to the end." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer, whom he promptly kills, since he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself. Angel Eyes proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat the information about the location of the gold out of a hooker]]. Later, he has Tuco ("The Ugly") [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. While this is going on, Angel Eyes has his men force the [=POW=]s to sing in order to cover up the sounds of their friends being tortured.

* SignatureScene: By far the most famous scene is the MexicanStandoff at the end between the titular characters because of its impressive direction and editing, the tension it build and the huge narrative weight. It's considered one of the best scenes of movie history.

* FoeYay: Blondie and Tuco, mostly carried through bizarre DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything innuendo. They are really into tying each other up, Tuco bursts in on Blondie tenderly polishing his gun in his hotel room (not a euphemism), and while Blondie is talking to the naked Tuco in the bathtub, he smirks, while suggestively playing with the end of a bedpost. This is almost certainly intentional, as Creator/SergioLeone made them share a bed for the whole of filming as EnforcedMethodActing. Creator/QuentinTarantino, who was heavily influenced by the film, claims to ship it a lot.

** The title itself has been a fairly common neologism in the English language.

* AwardSnub: Among many other things, [[http://popculturepalace.blogspot.com/2009/09/best-actor-of-1966-nominees-for-best.html#.WBQKJKTXFaA.facebook two]] [[http://actoroscar.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/alternate-best-actor-1966-eli-wallach.html?m=1 blog posts]] decided that Creator/EliWallach deserved the Oscar for Best Leading Actor 1966 as Tuco.

** In the comic book conclusion, by Creator/ChuckDixon, Esteve Polls, & Marc Rueda, two characters [[EvilVsEvil on opposing sides]] manage to stand out even in the harsh reality of TheWildWest:

* CompleteMonster (US theatrical version): [[ProfessionalKiller Angel Eyes/Sentenza]] ("The Bad") is a [[PsychoForHire sociopathic mercenary]] whose only concern is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney making as much money as possible]]. In the opening scenes of the film, Angel Eyes tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies, "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through to the end." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer, whom he promptly kills, since he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself. Angel Eyes proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat the information about the location of the gold out of a hooker]]. Later, he has Tuco ("The Ugly") [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. While this is going on, Angel Eyes has his men force the [=POW=]s to sing in order to cover up the sounds of their friends being tortured.

* CompleteMonster (US theatrical version): [[ProfessionalKiller Angel Eyes/Sentenza]] ("The Bad") is a [[PsychoForHire sociopathic mercenary]] whose only concern is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney making as much money as possible]]. In the opening scenes of the film, Angel Eyes tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies, "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through to the end." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer, whom he promptly kills, since he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself. Angel Eyes proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat the information about the location of the gold out of a hooker]]. Later, he has Tuco ("The Ugly") tortured and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. While this is going on, Angel Eyes has his men force the [=POW=]s to sing in order to cover up the sounds of their friends being tortured.

* CompleteMonster: [[ProfessionalKiller Angel Eyes/Sentenza]] ("The Bad") from the original cut is a [[PsychoForHire sociopathic mercenary]] whose only concern is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney making as much money as possible]]. In the opening scenes of the film, he tracks down and murders a man at another's behest. When his victim offers him money if he will spare his life, Angel Eyes replies, "Once I'm been paid, I always see my job through to the end." He kills the man and his son, takes the money, and reports to his employer...whom he promptly kills, since he wants to keep the gold he's found out about for himself (and because it was implicit that the first victim was hiring him for this). He proceeds to [[WouldHitAGirl beat the information about the location of the gold out of a hooker]]. Later, he has Tuco tortured and watches with absolutely no emotion on his face. While this is going on, he has his men force the [=POW=]s to sing in order to cover up the sounds of their friends being tortured.

* SlowPacedBeginning: The first 45 minutes are just Blondie and Tuco's shenanigans, with a minor sub-plot involving Angel Eyes searching for a guy who ultimately becomes a plot point. It's only about the 45-minute mark that Blondie and Tuco finally find out about the buried gold and begin searching for it. Strangely, this is a case where this was not only done deliberately, but it works on a level that allows the film to build atmosphere and character, and even if you get bored by the first part, the main plot just gets better, to the point where the greatest scene in the whole film is saved for the very end.