* CompleteMonster: Hard to say which one is it between Durant and Strack. An hired crime boss that moonlights as a hitman who takes too much pleasure in doing dirty work or a megalomaniac who has no remorse in hiring some bloodthirsty criminals to solve his problems? Its even also established in the first film's novelization that Durant is far more evil than Strack, who just wanted his father's company for himself and paid off Durant to do the job for him, while Durant has no motivation in the way he does things, possibly aside of OnlyInItForTheMoney.
* HoYay: Between Peyton and David in the second film.
* IronWoobie: Peyton evolves into this after becoming Darkman.
* {{Narm}}:
** "Take the [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] elephant!"
** The "fingers broken, everybody screams" scene, the "funny hat" scene, the "man sticking out of a manhole" scene... There's a lot of it. [[NarmCharm Not that there's anything wrong with that]].
*** Justified; Westlake's body is constantly pumping itself full of pretty much every chemical a human body is capable of generating, in an attempt to compensate for the total loss of his sense of touch. With all the crap running rampant in his bloodstream, it's little wonder his perceptions would be a bit...''skewed.''
** [[LargeHam Strack]] is no slouch in this department either.
*** "HIGH STEEL!"
*** "Look...look about you. It's all mine...because I built it! I BUILT IT ALL!!!"
* NarmCharm: Some people like the movie because the above-mentioned examples are so full of {{Narm}}.
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Bad controls, bad graphics, bad mechanics (the quality of the pictures you take affects how long the masks you make last, rather than how well they fool people), silly levels (a ''circus'' level), and AWinnerIsYou ending.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The first film contains several very poorly-executed green screen and matte painting effects.
** When Ricky is lifted up through the manhole, a lot of shots use what's quite obviously a barely-mobile stunt dummy.
* TearJerker: ''They took my hands!''
** When [[spoiler:Darkman says goodbye to Julie, before disappearing into the crowd.]]
* TheWoobie: Darkman.
** Julie and then some. She really can not catch a break.