YMMV / The Losers

• Awesome Music: The entire film. They used "Black Betty" and "Don't Stop Believin'."
• Complete Monster:
  • Comic Book: Captain William Roque is the second-in-command of the titular unit of CIA commandos. Jaded and selfish, Roque eagerly accepts a $250,000 bribe from the shadowy power-broker Max to betray his comrades and become his right-hand man in his plot to create his own nuclear rogue state to destroy the Middle East. Roque reveals his true colors when he frames the other members of the team for a drug-smuggling scheme actually perpetrated by Max, even shooting the agent he called to arrest them to ensure they will be killed in retaliation. He then methodically kills every witness to Max's scheme and hijacks weapons-grade plutonium from French transport ships, again making sure to Leave No Witnesses. Using the plutonium to manufacture over fifty nuclear bombs for Max's plot in the Ghost Town of Pripyat, Ukraine, Roque captures the Losers' pilot Pooch and attempts to dismember him with a pair of pliers before the hacker Jensen manages to turn the tables on him.
  • Film: Max is a high-ranking government operative, seeking to secure his power base and bring the world into a new order of his design. Opening the film by betraying and trying to kill the titular "Losers" team for outliving their usefulness, Max endangers then murders dozens of children due to his own trigger-happy negligence, after which he frames the Losers for the crime and marks them for death. Kidnapping and forcing a group of scientists to develop sonic weapons capable of leveling entire cities, Max dubs the weapons "Snukes" and plans to sell them on the Black Market so as to kickstart wars across the world, after which himself and his government will take control in the name of "order". Killing his own assistant just for stumbling while shading him from the sun and regularly threatening the lives of his own henchman and other soldiers, Max eventually targets a Snuke at Los Angeles, executes the hostage scientists, and, when confronted by the vengeful Losers, tosses the Snuke's remote deactivator into the ocean to give himself time to flee.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Jensen in the movie, thanks to Chris Evans' hilarious performance and the 'telekinesis' scene.
• Heartwarming Moments: The Losers getting Pooch to the birth of his son.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Knowing that the magnificent Arecibo telescope, where Max and Wade have a conversation, collapsed due to age and deterioration in December 2020.
• Hilarious in Hindsight
  • "The government did things to me.... Turned me into a living weapon."
  • The fact that three of the Losers are now in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Ho Yay:
  • Cougar and Jensen (in the film at least)
    • They have their moments in the comics as well.
  Jensen: I ain't never felt more heterosexual in my entire life an' you gotta go spoil it!
  • The movie actually gives more canon support to Roque and Clay.
    • Roque goes very jealous boyfriend-y when Clay and Aisha get close.
    • When Aisha asks Clay about the Losers' plans, post-Max, and asks if Clay has any family to go back to, Clay responds with
  Clay: I got Roque!
• Magnificent Bastard: Aisha al-Fadhil is a beautiful yet brutal Afghan guerrilla fighter and a uneasy ally of the eponymous unit of rogue CIA agents in their quest to topple the wicked power broker Max and his plot for nuclear supremacy. A trained killer from an early age when she fought the Soviets, Aisha alternately aids the Losers and the CIA proper to suit her own agenda, meanwhile seeing to it that those who would abuse Middle Eastern civilians meet with brutal ends. During the final raid on Max's compound, New Jerusalem, Aisha kills both him and the Losers' leader, Clay, revealing her intent to punish all Americans equally for their actions toward the Muslim world, fighting on even when badly wounded by Max's brother and co-conspirator. Though seemingly killed when the Loser Cougar sacrifices himself to blow up New Jerusalem, team survivors Jensen and Pooch are skeptical even that would be enough to take her down for good.
• Moment of Awesome: Can we really list them all? You can pretty much just close your eyes, fast forward a bit, stop, and land on one in the film.
• Moral Event Horizon: What moral event horizon? Max blew right through it before the movie even started, and seems contemptuous of those who haven't.
• Stoic Woobie: Cougar.
• Tear Jerker: The children. Those poor, sweet children...
  • And the teddy bear...
• Too Cool to Live: Cougar.

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