| 1 | * AdaptationDisplacement: The film series is far better remembered today than Jacques' novels. |
| 2 | * CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Dr. Mabuse]] himself is a ruthless [[DiabolicalMastermind master criminal]]. When the local prosecutor gets too close to him, Mabuse tries to have him killed, and cares little when his lover and right-hand woman Carozza is captured. Playing on her feelings for him, Mabuse has her kill herself and even has the prosecutor's office bombed, having the loyal subordinate who did so [[BadBoss shot]] as [[HeKnowsTooMuch not to betray]] any of the doctor's secrets. Mabuse frequently eliminates those in his path, and when he takes a shine to a countess, he locks her up and manipulates her husband into suicide, with no care for the misery he leaves in his wake as he builds up his great empire of crime. |
| 3 | * CreepyAwesome: Mabuse is a revolting crime lord and possible spirit on a mission to inflict as much suffering as possible but he's played to such hammy perfection one can't help but have fun watching him. |
| 4 | * LoveToHate: The spirits of Mabuse's victims piling on him and driving him to insanity is a wonderfully cathartic moment but it works in to the completion of his villainous tenure following the build up of his schemes and wicked manipulations. |
| 5 | * {{Narm}}: At the start of the second part of the movie, drunk Mabuse screams: |
| 6 | -->Only now shall the world learn who I am -- I! Mabuse! A giant -- a titan who jumbles up laws and gods like withered leaves! |
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