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1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** Fitzgerald gets a lot of this. Some viewers found him sympathetic and his actions to be just a product of the time while others found him to be a loathsome bastard with few redeeming qualities.
3	** Likewise the Ree chieftain. While his motivation is universally considered sympathetic, some viewers thought the indiscriminate nature of his ''actions'' pushed him deep into villain territory.
4	* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Due to the reports of the film going over budget and the R rating, not to mention the running time, some felt it wouldn't be much of a financial success. However, the film managed to score not only good reviews and awards attention, but also strong box office, with a worldwide total exceeding $530 million.
5	* AwardSnub:
6	** Averted. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio '''finally''' got his Best Actor UsefulNotes/AcademyAward with this film (He infamously has been nominated several times and lost every time before). But played straight with it not winning Best Picture, especially since most critics considered it a lock (though losing to arguably the most critically acclaimed film of 2015, ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'', makes this less so). Same thing goes for the score, which wasn't even nominated due to the film using more than one composer.
7	** Creator/WillPoulter went completely ignored at the Oscars and UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe}}s, despite sharing as much screen time as Creator/TomHardy.
8	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The haunting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czv8J1W4yYU main theme]], composed by Music/RyuichiSakamoto.
9	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fitzgerald is either a charismatic villain who adds some colour to the film, or a completely unnecessary DesignatedVillain who brings it down. Or there's a third camp who feels he's a FlatCharacter, but Creator/TomHardy's performance saves him.
10	* CompleteMonster: [[FrenchJerk Toussaint]] is the leader of the French trappers. At first [[FauxAffablyEvil appearing]] to be a reasonable man doing business with the Arikara, he's revealed to be a sadistic racist who exploits them to get rich, [[BilingualBackfire belittling them in French in the belief that they can't understand him]]. Toussaint kidnaps and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]] the Arikara chieftain Elk Dog's daughter Powaqa and blames Hugh Glass's team for it, inciting the Arikara to massacre many of them in order to take out his competition. When his team encounters Hikuc, the friendly Pawnee man who helped Glass earlier, Toussaint has him lynched, [[DeadGuyOnDisplay displaying his corpse]] along with a message condemning him as a "savage".
11	* ConsolationAward: While everyone's happy that Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio finally got the Oscar, some felt that this wasn't the film he should have won it for, feeling that his performance wasn't as strong as his previous nominations.
12	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
13	** Creator/WillPoulter as Jim Bridger managed to get a fair amount of attention for his role, with some critics like Creator/MarkKermode claiming that he (quietly) stole the show from Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio and Creator/TomHardy.
14	** And then there's the bear; a nameless animal [[OneSceneWonder who only appears once]], but it's brutal fight against Glass and [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome the fantastic effects]] that brought it life have made that scene [[SignatureScene the most iconic part of the movie]].
15	* FountainOfMemes: The bear inspired many, many jokes that awards season, whether it was being presented as a real life performer, a SitcomArchNemesis to Leo, or most infamously, a rapist.
16	* HypeBacklash: Considering how it swept the awards and got Leo his long awaited Oscar, the backlash was inevitable. Criticisms are focused mainly on the plot and characters, citing that the technical elements (particularly its cinematography) are the main appeal.
17	* LoveToHate: Regardless of whether you view him sympathetically or not, Fitzgerald makes for a great villain regardless. Some have even argued that Tom Hardy's performance overshadows Leo's.
18	* MemeticMutation:
19	** [[http://drudgereport.com/now3.htm A now-infamous Drudge report article]] claiming that Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio gets "raped by a bear" ''exploded'' across the Internet, to the point that Fox actually had to [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/01/revenant-bear-rape-scene issue a statement]] assuring people that no, the film does not feature bear rape.
20	** It was memetic for a while to assume the bear would win the Oscar instead of Leo. Then Leo actually won, which became a meme in its own right.
21	* MoralEventHorizon:
22	** [[spoiler: The French trappers]] kidnapping the Ree chief's daughter, for use as their personal SexSlave and letting an innocent hunting party get slaughtered for said crime.
23	** Fitzgerald murdering Hawk and leaving Hugh Glass for dead. It must be mentioned that this was the result of him attempting to murder Glass to get through with it all and since he chose to stay back for the money, it seems likely that at least in a small part of his mind he has already decided it from before. As if that wasn't enough he not only drags the innocent Bridger along but he also kills Henry.
24	* NauseaFuel:
25	** The scene where Glass hides himself [[spoiler:inside a horse carcass]].
26	** Another scene shows Glass attempting to drink water from a stream, only for some of it to come out of a recently-sewn ''hole in his neck''. Which he then cauterizes with gunpowder.
27	** Related to the above, the scene where he ''gets'' the wound on his neck [[SignatureScene (the bear attack)]] is also unsettlingly bloody and violent.
28	* OneSceneWonder: The bear is only on-screen for about five minutes as an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom--causing the injuries that lead to Glass being left for dead. But most people remember the violent fight with Glass, and the bear is probably one of the most memorable things about the movie.
29	%%* SignatureScene: The bear attack.
30	* SpiritualAdaptation: Due to the profuse amount of [[{{Gorn}} violence]], [[CrapsackWorld bleak]] [[HumansAreBastards tone]], and similar time period, this is about the closest to getting a film version of Creator/CormacMcCarthy's ''Literature/BloodMeridian''.
31	* {{Squick}}: After losing his horse, Hugh removes all the intestines from the still warm body, undresses and ''hides inside'' as if it was just some kind of tent or shack.
32	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The bear that mauls Glass at the start of the film is obviously CGI, but it's well-animated and tactful.
33	* ValuesDissonance: In the original story, the worst Fitzgerald did was taking Glass's weapons after leaving him to die (which was considered worse than murder in the Frontier), and Glass's main motivation to find Fitzgerald was to recover his cherished gun. The filmmakers didn't think this would strike a modern audience as much, so they [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade made]] Fitzgerald into a vocal racist and murderer.
34	* TheWoobie:
35	** Glass had already lost his wife to American soldiers, then he gets mauled by a bear and helplessly watches his own son get murdered by Fitzgerald who then leaves him for dead. He spends the rest of the film going through an utterly agonizing ordeal, enduring both the harsh elements and attacks by hostile Ree, in order to get his revenge on Fitzgerald. All the while being haunted by visions of his dead wife and son.
36	** Bridger is manipulated by Fitzgerald into leaving Glass for dead. When he finds out that he was lied to, Fitzgerald convinces him to go along with the deception since if he told the truth, he would likely be charged as an accessory to murder. When Captain Henry offers them the promised reward money for staying to bury Glass, a shaken Bridger refuses his share. Later, when Glass is found by the expedition and Fitzgerald flees the fort, Henry angrily takes it out on Bridger who sobs that he had been lied and coerced into silence by Fitzgerald. Only Glass' word that he was telling the truth prevents him from likely getting hanged.
37	** The Pawnee hunter that Glass encounters and later befriends, was there because he had lost his family to a raid by the Sioux and was trying to find more of his people to the South. Despite this, he goes out of his way to help Glass stay alive and get to the fort. [[spoiler: He's later lynched by the French fur trappers in cold blood.]]
38	** Hawk. [[spoiler: He experiences a shit-ton of prejudice, goes to great lengths to keep his father alive, and dies horribly.]]
39	** The Ree girl who has been abucted by [[spoiler:the french trappers]] and raped by their leader (possibly more than once).

Context YMMV / TheRevenant