YMMV / The Good, The Bad, The Weird

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Tae-goo's past is mostly an enigma. Why did he leave Korea? Did he regret the things he did, or was he just putting on an image to throw off his enemies?
• Ass Pull: Tae-goo's survival of the final shoot-out in the Korean version.
• Awesome Music: The entire damn soundtrack.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Chang-yi fits the mold of an ideal bad boy. He's dark, he's brooding, sexy and tortured. Which makes people gloss over the fact that he's a neurotic psychopath who brutally murders people.
  • Tae-goo gets this as well, for being so darn endearing.

• Foe Yay Shipping: There's lots of fanart of Do-won/Chang-yi on Tumblr and DeviantArt.
  • There's a fair amount of Chang-yi/Tae-goo art on Twitter, mostly coming from Japan. Do-won/Tae-goo fanart exists but it's extremely rare.
• Heartwarming Moments: Tae-goo helping the children escape from the opium den.
• Retroactive Recognition: Ma Dong-seok (of Train to Busan fame) plays the giant club-wielding thug. And although he was already an extremely accomplished actor in Korea by the time of this film, Song Kang-ho for those who were introduced to him through Parasite (2019).
• Tear Jerker: The international ending is just depressing. The last we see of Man-gil, he's mortally wounded and lying in Tae-goo's arms. We get the impression that he's not going to make it.

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