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1	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Probably the reason the story of Literature/SamsonAndDelilah, with its multiple episodes of sexual intrigue starring a [[MrFanservice muscleman]] and a FemmeFatale, is the most familiar part of the book.
2	* CompleteMonster: [[EvilOverlord King Abimelech]], the archetypal BastardBastard in literature, [[TyrantTakesTheHelm rose to power]] following the death of his good-hearted father Judge Gideon by [[SiblingMurder having 69 of his own brothers killed]]. As ruler, Abimelech organizes wars of conquest and enacts atrocities to keep the Israelites under his control, most notably having a thousand civilians burned alive to suppress an uprising in Shechem. When the people of Thebez revolt against his cruel rule, Abimelech attempts to raze their shelter to the ground. Vain and petty until the very end, Abimelech, upon being mortally wounded by one of the women he was trying to immolate, orders his aide to impale him with a sword in a futile effort to create the illusion that he died bravely in battle and [[IWasBeatenByAGirl not by the hands of a woman]].
3	* HilariousInHindsight: Gideon winning against a larger nation [[UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars with a small army of]] ''Film/ThreeHundred'', eh?
4	* NightmareFuel: What happens to the Levite's concubine in chapter 19. The Levite is entertaining a guest at his home when men of the city surround the house and demand that he hand the man over, "that we may know him carnally." The Levite gives them his concubine instead. [[spoiler: They gang-rape her to death and leave her body on the threshold]]. Particular a case of ValuesDissonance (either that or a case of an intentional NominalHero) as at first he offers them his daughter as well, although the only one he actually hands over is the concubine, making her one of the earliest and saddest examples in literature of a DisposableSexWorker. [[FridgeHorror Even worse]], it's stated that she ran back to her father, who tried to stall her husband from leaving with her, hinting that she may have been trying to escape DomesticAbuse. Which may also mean that if she ''did'' prostitute herself before this event ([[UnreliableNarrator and she may or may not have actually done so]]), she was likely doing it [[IDidWhatIHadToDo for survival reasons or trying to get money to travel back home]]. Or that she was simply angry at the Levite, since the Hebrew word used for prostitution, ''zanah'', can also mean "to be angry".)
5	* OneSceneWonder: Some accounts are extremely brief, with the shortest being Shamgar. He gets only '''one''' verse to his name, which adds that he killed 600 Philistines ''with an ox-goad'' (a stick used as a cattle prod).
6	* SignatureScene: If a work makes a ShoutOut to Literature/SamsonAndDelilah, it will either reference Samson killing 1,000 Philistines with a [[ImprobableWeaponUser donkey's jawbone]], or ripping apart the pillars he was bound to in the temple of Dagon, bringing down the building [[TakingYouWithMe and everyone in it]].
7	* {{Squick}}: [[AdiposeRex King Eglon]]'s death. So [[FatBastard fat]] his body swallows up the entire sword he's stabbed with, and [[NoDeadBodyPoops feces]] leak out through the wound.
8	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Samson is presented as a flawed figure who abuses his powers, gets screwed over for it, and ends up dying because there's nowhere else to go. Yet after he is betrayed by a certain FemmeFatale named Delilah, he gets captured by the Philistines and subjected to a particularly [[NightmareFuel horrific]] FateWorseThanDeath. You can't really blame him for wanting to [[{{Pun}} bring the house down]].
9	* ValuesResonance: The specific instructions by the angel to Samson's mother not to drink alcohol while she is pregnant with him raise the question of how long it took societies to realize that pregnant women drinking alcohol was a bad idea.

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