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1	!!The Movie
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3	* AccidentalAesop:
4	** Don't let your personal relationships and biased perceptions of people get in the way of doing your job. For that matter don't let your emotions effect your critical thinking.
5	** Likewise if your gut/instinct is not making you a hundred percent sure on a choice or person you are dealing with, you should trust that feeling because it is probably correct.
6	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
7	** Some suspect that Mr. Pink is obsessed with appearing professional because he actually has no idea what he's doing.
8	---> '''Pink:''' This is bad, this is bad, this is bad... ''(He looks at the injured Orange, then at White.)'' Is it bad?
9	** Is Mr. Blonde's loyalty and respect towards the Cabots sincere or, given that Joe and Eddie were clearly important figures in the criminal underworld, is it simply a case of PragmaticVillainy? Eddie claims that Blonde could've avoided prison altogether if he gave Joe's name to the authorities, but he could've just as easily refused to avoid mob retaliation or simply to troll the police.
10	** Speaking of Mr. Blonde, is his defense of the waitress in the opening scene a surprising PetTheDog moment for him, or is he just doing it to mess with Mr. Pink? Notably, he's not as vocal about his stance on tipping as most of the others.
11	** Some believe that Mr. White is actually in love with Mr. Orange and use it to justify [[spoiler: him betraying all of his close friends to protect Orange]].
12	** Did Mr. White [[spoiler:shoot Mr. Orange]] to [[MercyKill stop his suffering from his obviously fatal wounds]]? Did he do it because he felt betrayed by the revelation that [[spoiler:Orange was an undercover cop and his protecting him caused the death of several longtime friends]]? Was it [[spoiler:SuicideByCop]]? Or all three?
13	** Who is the hero of the movie? Mr. White? Mr. Orange? Both of them? Neither of them? It's entirely up to the viewer.
14	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Gruesome torture set to "Stuck In The Middle With You" is funnier than it should be.
15	* CultClassic: The movie made only $2.8 million at the box office (though this was still about double its shoestring budget), but is widely known and beloved these days, especially once Tarantino's ''Film/PulpFiction'' became a smash hit and audiences doubled back to his first film.
16	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mr. Blonde. ''1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'' aptly described Creator/MichaelMadsen's performance as "creepily mesmerising."
17	** Mr. Blue is a lesser example, despite his role as a RedHerring and WeHardlyKnewYou treatment. Being a CoolOldGuy and being played by real life criminal Eddie Bunker probably helps.
18	* EvilIsCool: Mr. Blonde is the most popular and iconic member of the crew, with the movie's {{Signature Scene}} involving him. He's also by far the evilest.
19	* {{Fanon}}: There are two popular, but mutually exclusive, theories about this movie's connection to ''Film/PulpFiction'', which fans will accept as canon.
20	** The events of ''Reservoir Dogs'' occur at the same time as the events of ''Film/PulpFiction'', and the police never seem to notice any of the violent crimes in ''Pulp Fiction'' because they're occupied with the jewelry heist and its bloody aftermath.
21	** The [[{{Macguffin}} mysterious briefcase]] in ''Pulp Fiction'' contains the diamonds from the heist in ''Reservoir Dogs''. This has at least ''some'' basis in fact, as WordOfGod has confirmed that the briefcase was supposed to contain diamonds in the first draft of the movie.
22	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film was released in America with almost no promotion, so it didn't do that well at the box office. In England, however, it was such a huge hit that Creator/QuentinTarantino would be mobbed as he walked down the street in London. (The fact that a home video release had to be put on the backburner on account of the James Bulger controversy certainly helped matters.) British filmmakers have been "influenced" by it since. Creator/MichaelMadsen joked in an interview that whenever English people recognise him, they stop and yell, "[[FunetikAksent FOCKING HELL, IT'S MISTER BLOHND!]]"
23	* HilariousInHindsight:
24	** Mr. Pink suggests that he be called Mr. Purple instead so that he doesn't sound gay. The color purple later became heavily associated with gay and lesbian symbols as well.
25	** Nice Guy Eddie tells Mr. White and Pink to help him move the cars away from the warehouse, telling them it looks like "Sam's Hot Car Lot" out there. The warehouse where much of the film was shot was later demolished and turned into a parking lot.
26	** While talking about "Like a Virgin", Mr. Brown mentions Creator/CharlesBronson in ''Film/TheGreatEscape''. Tarantino's ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' features a clip from that film, with Rick Dalton playing Virgil Hilts.
27	** Mr. Orange has an intimate knowledge of Marvel comics, casually discussing ''ComicBook/TheFantasticFour'' (while specifically comparing Joe Cabot to Ben Grimm) and having a poster of ComicBook/SilverSurfer in his home. This is quite amusing, as Tim Roth would go on to play the Abomination in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a being who coincidentally ''becomes'' orange after his transformation. The Marvel allusions further become funnier after Mr. White's radio plays "Hooked on a Feeling", a song that would become immensely popular after ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' used it decades after this film came out.
28	* HoYay:
29	** Mr. Orange and Mr. White in particular, as they get pretty damn emotionally intimate for two people who don't know each other too well (there's even a scene that features a SecurityCling).
30	** Mr. Blonde and Nice Guy Eddie, mostly in the scene where Mr. Blonde visits the Cabots after getting out of prison: they wrestle in front of a portrait of St. Sebastian (historically associated with gay men) and talk for so long about ''not'' wanting to have sex with each other that one might begin to suspect the opposite. There's also the fact that Blonde is only on the heist because of Eddie's suggestion to bring him in, even though he really shouldn't be there given his psychopathic tendencies.
31	* IronWoobie: Mr. Orange goes through a hell of a lot of pain and suffering, but he's still a badass.
32	* JerkassWoobie: Mr. White -- he's a hardened criminal who won't hesitate to kill if need be, but he still has some sense of a moral code, and does whatever it takes to protect Mr. Orange, seeing him as a good kid who got shot in the gut because of him.
33	* MagnificentBastard: Detective Holdaway is the man responsible for giving Officer Freddy Newandyke a cover story to gain acceptance into mobster Joe Cabot's heist gang. His trickery allowing Freddy to join Joe's gang as Mr. Orange, Holdaway's flair for the dramatic and masterful planning are key in the eradication of Joe's criminal outfit, even letting the gangsters operate and kill within their safehouse to lure out Joe.
34	* MemeticMutation:
35	** The "world's smallest violin" scene has become popular to use as a signifier that you have NoSympathy or that someone else is engaging in {{wangst}}.
36	** The scene where Mr. Blonde tortures a cop while dancing to “Stuck in the Middle with You” has been parodied countless times in pop culture.
37	* MoralEventHorizon:
38	** The characters talk plenty about how bad it is to leave someone alone with [[PsychoForHire Mr. Blonde]], but ''you have no idea how much they mean it.''
39	** In a DeletedScene, Mr. White is mentioned to have crossed it by killing three people in universe just because someone who had worked on a previous job with him was a cop. [[spoiler:This foreshadows the violent conclusion which results from Mr. Orange confessing he's a cop.]]
40	* SignatureScene: The torture scene with Mr. Blonde [[spoiler:slicing off Marvin Nash’s ear]], complete with Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You" playing in the background. Widely considered to be one of the most disturbing sequences ever filmed, it is usually the first thing that comes to mind whenever someone mentions this film.
41	* SongAssociation: The famous torture scene is so ingrained in pop culture that basically every use of "Stuck in the Middle with You" in media since is part of an allusion to this film.
42	* StrawmanHasAPoint: Mr. Pink had the right idea in that the gang should have found another location the minute the heist went bad. Even if the undercover cop scenario wasn't a factor, the level of carnage the gang made to escape would no doubt leave a trail to their hideout.
43	* TearJerker: The final scene between Mr. White and Mr. Orange.
44	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The film is considered Tarantino's first great work, but some people loathe it for the similarities between it and the 1987 Hong Kong film ''City on Fire'', even calling it a complete rip-off, as Tarantino never credited Lam. Tarantino at first denied he had seen the movie when called out on the similarities, [[LyingCreator but then revealed he was actually a big fan -- he even had a poster of it in his room]]. Many have lambasted Dogs for [[OlderThanTheyThink not being as original as its fans think]].
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46	!! The Video Game
47	* QuestionableCasting: Some of the replacement voice actors are... a little out there, namely Creator/ScottMenville and Creator/KharyPayton (aka [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Robin and Cyborg]]) as Mr. Orange and Mr. Blue.
48	* SoOkayItsAverage: The game near-unanimously received lukewarm reviews from critics and general audiences alike.
49	* {{Squick}}: The "Signature Moves." THANK GOD THE GRAPHICS SUCKED! Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie [[PistolWhip beat up hostages with their guns]], [[EyeScream Mr. Blue puts out a cigar in the hostage's ''eye,'']] [[{{Fingore}} Mr. White cuts off fingers with a cigar cutter]], and Mr. Blonde... two words: [[EarAche razor and ear]].

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