History YMMV / Unforgiven

* HollywoodHomely: Delilah's scars aren't exactly pretty, but they don't exactly make her horrible either. And considering she is a small-town prostitute, it's not likely her customers would care much. In fact, she's still the prettiest of the girls. It's {{Lampshaded}}, though. This trope is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] as part of the plot is that the other prostitutes exaggerate just how horribly Delilah was mutilated (they go so far as to claim her breasts were cut off), mostly because they can't actually afford what they are offering and hope the bounty hunters will be driven by enough righteous fury that they will take out their targets before they ask for their money or will take some of the bounty in "free ones" in advance, which Ned and the Kid do. And also turned into a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} when Munny tells her that he declined her offer for a free advance on the bounty not because of her scars (of which he has his own, he tells her), but out of being faithful to his wife.

** The fact that Munny eventually "prospered in dry goods" becomes this once you find out that "dry goods" means textiles, ready-to-wear clothing, toiletries, etc. William Munny the OneManArmy outlaw...became the {{shopkeeper}}.

* {{Moe}}: Delilah. She's the cutest and most innocent of the prostitutes, and even her horrific injuries can't quite take that away. [[CryCute She also cries a lot.]]

** The fact that Munny eventually "prospered in dry goods" becomes this once you find out that "dry goods" meas textiles, ready-to-wear clothing, toiletries, etc. William Munny the OneManArmy outlaw… became the {{shopkeeper}}.

** Strawberry Alice's actress Frances Fisher would later be best known as Ruth [=DeWitt=] Bukater in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Little Bill a genuinely good sheriff who just uses some very harsh and questionable methods, or is he just a sadist who uses the position of sheriff as an excuse to embrace his former outlaw side, and doesn't care about the law if it does not give him a chance to become violent. The film paints him as the latter, but there is some evidence for the former.

* HollywoodHomely: Delilah's scars aren't exactly pretty, but they don't exactly make her horrible either. And considering she is a small-town prostitute, it's not likely her customers would care much. In fact, she's still the prettiest of the girls. It's {{Lampshaded}}, though. This trope is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] as part of the plot is that the other prostitutes exaggerate just how horribly Delilah was mutilated (they go so far as to claim her breasts were cut off), mostly because they can't actually afford what they are offering and hope the bounty hunters will be driven by enough righteous fury that they will take out their targets before they ask for their money. And also turned into a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} when Munny tells her that he declined her offer for a free advance on the bounty not because of her scars (of which he has his own, he tells her), but out of being faithful to his wife.

* HilariousInHindsight: A guy named Ned gets offered OneLastJob by an OldFriend and gets killed. Sounds like ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* HarsherInHindsight: English Bobs trolling of the Americans for not having a king. Takes on a much different note after the successes of the alt-right in the late 2010s, members of which actually do wish to reinstate monarchy and aristocracy into the US.

* MoralEventHorizon: Bill was no saint to begin with, but he crosses the line when he [[spoiler:tortures Ned to death]]. Munny thinks he crossed it a long time ago, but in the film he remains at worst a pretty dark AntiHero.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Sure, Sheriff Little Bill's methods are questionable at best, and certainly harsh, but being responsible for maintaining law and order in a territory riddled with lawlessness like bandits, mercenaries, thieves and other homicidal ne'er do wells, you'd probably have to cross a lot of moral lines to make people obey the law and maintain the peace. Confiscating firearms and keeping shady, if not outright criminal elements out of town could be seen as perfectly reasonable methods in the dangerous Old West.

** Little Bill's deputies. To Munny, their just {{Mook}}s of his nemesis but they seem like friendly guys just following the orders of the elected law enforcement official while trying to keep the peace. They aren't said to have directly participated in [[spoiler:Ned's death]]. Clyde even seems like he might have favored a harsher punishment for Quick Mike and Davey at the beginning.

** Davey, as mentioned below on DisproportionateRetribution on the main page. He's treated as equally guilty and targeted for death along with Quick Mike despite trying to stop him half way through the attack and making a genuine apology and gift to the prostitutes besides what he was ordered to pay Skinny.

* DesignatedVillain: Davey, as mentioned below on DisproportionateRetribution. Also Little Bill's deputies, who seem like friendly guys just following the orders of the elected law enforcement official while trying to keep the peace and might have favored a harsher punishment for Quick Mike and Davey.