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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Many viewers, especially overseas, are unaware that ''Jin-Roh'' is adapted from a manga series due to ''Kerberos Saga'' [[NoExportForYou never receiving a proper release outside of Japan]].
2	* DirectorDisplacement: The film is often mistaken for being directed by Creator/MamoruOshii, due to being based off his ''Kerberos Saga'' manga and sharing many of his stylistic hallmarks. While Oshii was the writer of the movie, the actual director was Hiroyuki Okiura, who is significantly less known among anime fans than Oshii. Ironically, the preceding Kerberos movies that ''were'' directed by Oshii also suffer from SequelDisplacement.
3	* IAmNotShazam: Fans can often tell who has and has not seen the film (or any entry in the series) based on whether they call the men in Protect Gear "The Wolf Brigade" or "Panzer Cops".
4	* MisaimedFandom:
5	** As cool as the Kerberos Corps is, most fans of the anime tend to forget that they're making Fuse as miserable as Public Security is. In fact, the film makes a point that in the end every side in the conflict is just as bad, as Henmi explicitly calls out by the end of the film and is proven when [[spoiler: Fuse has to shoot Kei dead.]]
6	** Much of the fanbase only likes the film for its brief, ultraviolent action scenes and the badass designs of the Kerberos Corps. These are a very small part of the film, and while they're what it's remembered for, most of it is a character study of Fuse and Kei, and an understated thriller.
7	** The movie has managed to garner a following in Alt-Right circles because of the cool SS style armor design of the Protect Gear and myriad of Nazi German uniforms and weaponry seen throughout the film, despite [[GreyAndGrayMorality every side]] being flawed.
8	* SequelDisplacement: Outside of devoted fans of Mamori Oshii, many viewers are unaware that ''Jin-Roh'' was actually the third movie based on the ''Kerberos Saga'', preceded by the Oshii-directed live-action films ''The Red Spectacles'' and ''Stray Dog''. This is largely a result of Oshii's live-action works being obscure compared to his anime works, as well as ''Jin-Roh'' being in a separate medium from its predecessors.
9	* SignatureScene: The gunfight between the Kerberos members and Sect members in the sewer, due to it being a very gory CurbStompBattle and the most disturbing and awesome display of the Kerberos Unit's effectiveness.
10	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Fuse is easily the most likable character in the film, being a traumatized antihero. However, that means the most likable character and protagonist is depressed through most of the film, and even he's a member of a horrifying and brutal police force, and [[spoiler: both he and Kei turn out to be part of their own party's schemes.]] The entire rest of the film is utterly hopeless, being a conflict between two totalitarian police forces who are only differentiated by competence, with the other party being terrorists, without a single heroic or idealistic character between them.
11	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Compare the history in the world of ''Jin-Roh'' to what actually happened in most countries when the Axis were defeated.

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