YMMV / Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

• Angst? What Angst?: Billie goes from shock and anger at Varla killing Tommy and venting at her about it to quickly ogling the Vegetable and talking about how hot he is within one scene.
• Evil Is Cool: Varla has become the most iconic thing about the movie and several fans and critics proclaim her to be one of the biggest badasses ever put in film, despite the fact that she is also thoroughly and unrepentantly evil.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Varla vaults it early on when she murders Tommy with no legitimate provocation. To put it in perspective, their interactions consist of Varla goading and bullying him and Linda. When Varla starts getting violent with Linda, Tommy tries to intervene and Varla just karate chops him, starting the fight that ends with Tommy dead and Varla smiling at the result of her actions.
  • The old man crosses this with his Attempted Rape of Linda and later forcing his mentally handicapped son to try and do the same. A line implies that he has made Vegetable do the same in the past, in some sick revenge on women due to becoming crippled in an accident involving a young woman.
• Vindicated by History: Originally thought as simple sleaze and misogynistic, now embraced as female empowerment and gender politics.
  Roger Ebert: The feminist and lesbian film critic B. Ruby Rich, writing at length on "Pussycat" in a recent Village Voice, said she dismissed "Pussycat" 20 years ago as just a skin flick. Seeing it again during its revival at New York's Film Forum, she had a different reaction, viewing it now as female fantasy, its images of "empowerment" fascinating to her. Meyer, from the beginning of his career and almost without exception, has filmed only situations in which women wreak their will upon men.
• The Woobie: Linda. She sees her boyfriend murdered in a very cruel way by Varla, then gets kidnapped by her and her posse, is used as a pawn in a heist, nearly gets raped several times, and the one guy (Kirk) who might be able to help her doesn't even believe her at first.

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