YMMV / The Old Guard

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Booker's reluctance to retrieve Nile when the group first dreams of her. Is he attempting to spare her from the capture and experimentation he knows is coming, or does he simply regard her as a potential obstacle in his plan to betray the others to Merrick?
• Captain Obvious Reveal: With all the trouble the movie goes to in depicting Quynh's fate in horrific detail, just about everyone will likely suspect she's coming back at some point.
• Fanfic Fuel: Given that the main characters are all several centuries old, fans are all too eager to come up with backstories for the various Noodle Incidents that are mentioned. Very popular is answering the question of what did happen "That time in Malta"?
• Fan Nickname: With the sequel's title still unknown, fans like to refer to it as 2 Old 2 Guard.
• Les Yay:
  • Film-only. Quynh and Andy were so close that Quynh's repeated deaths (and Andy's futile attempts at finding her) seem to have permanently impacted Andy's outlook on life and ability to form relationships with others in a way that Lykon's death did not, to the point that Quynh functions as The Lost Lenore. But if that's too subtle, Andy's favorite and signature weapon is a labrys, which is a well-known lesbian symbol. In the graphic novel, Andy and Noriko (Quynh's comic counterpart) were explicitly a couple.
  • Also in the film, during their fight on the airplane, Andy gives Nile some peculiarly intense looks.
• Nightmare Fuel: Quynh, an immortal, getting locked into an iron sarcophagus and dropped into the Atlantic Ocean.
• One-Scene Wonder: The unnamed, Good Samaritan pharmacy employee who bandages Andy's wound without question or comment is beloved by fans everywhere. Furthermore, her scene sums up the film's philosophy and reminds Andy that there is still good in the world.
• Signature Scene:
  • The first action scene, called "The Kill Floor Scene."
  • Joe's eloquent declaration of his all-encompassing love for Nicky, with some reviews going so far as to call it one of the greatest romantic speeches ever. Greg Rucka actually made sure to put in his contract that any adaptation of the comic had to include the speech verbatim, knowing full well it would likely be one of the first things to go with how squeamish the comic book movie industry continues to be about homosexual content. It received high praise as a game changer for the whole genre, with the film's spectacular success leaving future projects with no excuse for worrying that explicit gay characters would alienate fans.