History YMMV / InTheCompanyOfMen

** ItMakesSenseInContext: Right before handpicking Christine as his target, Chad has a lengthy recon-like talk with a common coworker, detailing how everyone in the firm knows Christine as the resident IceQueen, but her cold demeanor and staunch refusal to interact with anyone derives from being [[SpeechImpediment ashamed of her deafmuteness]]. Chad goes on to mock her inability to speak coherently with the aforementioned coworker without any repercussion, proving Christine is seen as the IceQueen to anyone she refused to talk with, the ButtMonkey to everyone else, leaving her with a low self-esteem to start with.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A bet between two white-collar workers involving the emotional destruction of an innocent woman as RevengeByProxy... [[UnacceptableTargets and that woman is also deaf]].

** ItMakesSenseInContext: Right before handpicking Christine as his target, Chad as a lenghty recon-like talk with a common coworker, detailing how everyone in the firm knows Christine as the resident IceQueen, but her cold demeanor and staunch refusal to interact with anyone derives from being [[SpeechImpediment ashamed of her deafmuteness]]. Chad goes on to mock her inability to speak coherently with the aforementioned coworker without any repercussion, proving Christine is seen as the IceQueen to anyone she refused to talk with, the ButtMonkey to everyone else, leaving her with a low self-esteem to start with.

** ItMakesSenseInContext: Right before handpicking Christine as his target, Chad as a lenghty recon-like talk with a common coworker, detailing how everyone in the firm knows Christine as the resident IceQueen, but her cold demeanor and staunch refusal to interact with anyone derives from being [[SpeechImpairment ashamed of her deafmuteness]]. Chad goes on to mock her inability to speak coherently with the aforementioned coworker without any repercussion, proving Christine is seen as the IceQueen to anyone she refused to talk with, the ButtMonkey to everyone else, leaving her with a low self-esteem to start with.

* JerkassWoobie: Howard. He has had a bad experience with women in the past, which causes him to agree with Chad's cruel plan. However, he eventually comes to love Christine and tries to call the plan off, only for Chad to double cross him, drive him and Christine to depression, and get him demoted at work.

* HollywoodHomely: Deaf or not, it's hard to imagine any woman as good-looking as Christine being the insecure wallflower type she's made out to be.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "SHOW ME YOUR BALLS!"

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Chad backstabbing Howard and getting him demoted, as well as him completely destroying Christine emotionally at the end of the film]].

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A bet between two executives involving the emotional destruction of an innocent woman... who's also deaf.

* HateSink: Chad, being a huge unlikable {{Jerkass}} and all.

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: {{Averted}}. Deaf character Christine is portrayed by hearing actress Stacey Edwards.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Chad backstabbing Howard and getting him demoted, as well as him completely destroying Christine emotionally at the end of the film]].
* TheScrappy: Chad, being a huge unlikable {{Jerkass}} and all.

* HollywoodHomely: Deaf or so, it's hard to imagine any woman as good-looking as Christine being the insecure wallflower type she's made out to be.

* TheScrappy: Chad, being a huge unlikeable {{Jerkass}} and all.

* MemeticMutation:
** A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z!!!..That's all you have TO DO!!!
** Cage's "O Really?" Face that spawned a new nation of memes

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Chad backstabbing Howard and getting him demoted, as well as him completely destroying Christine emotionally at the end of the film]].

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Chad backstabbing Howard and getting him demoted, as well as him completely destroying Christine emotionally at the end of the film]].

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite all the stuff Howard does over the course of the film, it's pretty hard not to feel sorry for him at the end when [[spoiler:Chad betrays him, gets him demoted at work, and drives him and Christine to depression]]. Unlike his partner, he DID have redeeming qualities, and a FreudianExcuse. Worse, Howard seemed to be about to make a HeelFaceTurn.

* CompleteMonster: Chad is perhaps one of the most needlessly cruel characters ever portrayed in fiction. See the main entry on the CompleteMonster page for details.