History YMMV / Christine

* MagnificentBitch (1983 film): [[CoolCar Christine]] is portrayed in the film as [[NighInvulnerability an indestructible car]] who has had a mind of her own from the moment she came off the assembly line. With a possessive love for her new owner Arnie Cunningham, Christine plays hit songs over the radio to communicate with him, while scaring off anyone who threatens their relationship. When she's nearly destroyed by Arnie's bullies, Christine uses her [[HealingFactor healing powers]] to regenerate from the damage, then creatively chases down and massacres the entire gang. When Arnie's friend Dennis challenges her to a duel, Christine accepts, putting up a fierce fight against a tanker and regenerating whenever she seems about to lose. When Arnie is killed trying to stop Dennis, Christine mourns him and mounts a final attack on Dennis and Leigh to avenge his death, and even as she goes down, she taunts them that they will never be rid of her.

* EvilIsCool:
** Even setting aside her supernatural powers, Christine herself is a simply gorgeous, badass classic car. In fact, the film may have ''[[TheRedStapler made]]'' the '58 Plymouth a classic; in real life, it'd been largely forgotten by 1983.
** And setting aside the fact that Buddy Repperton is an intolerable {{Jerkass}}, your average teenage boy (especially in 1983) would probably not mind being seen as a knife-toting rebel with a sharp leather jacket who cruises around town with his friends in a [[Music/TheDeadMilkmen bitchin' Camaro]] drinking beer and listening to Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.
** Under Christine's influence, Arnie starts dressing sharper and looking cooler. It stops being appealing when he goes off the deep end, though.

** Christine's first (more or less) kill wouldn't have been the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome it was without "Moochie Mix Four" playing in the background.

* CargoShip: Definitely. Not merely shipping, this is one of the few canonical pairings of this nature and with both being sentient, as Christine and Arnie openly love each other to the point of mutual obsession.

*** In the home video version, Arnie is voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka, a voice actor well-known for voicing leading male roles with many girls dying, figuratively, at his feet, like [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Bell Cranell]], [[LightNovel/NoGameNoLife Sora]], etc. In this film, he voice a guy which is a VillainProtagonist madly in love with his {{Yandere}} car, and now they are killing people in a literal way. Likewise, a few years later, he will end voicing another main character [[Anime/CannonBusters kicking ass with his car]].

* MagnificentBitch (1983 film): [[CoolCar Christine]] is portrayed in the film as [[NighInvulnerability an indestructible car]] who has had a mind of her own from the moment she came off the assembly line. With a possessive love for her new owner Arnie Cunningham, Christine plays hit songs over the radio to communicate with him, while scaring off anyone who threatens their relationship. When she's nearly destroyed by Arnie's bullies, Christine uses her [[HealingFactor healing powers]] to regenerate from the damage, then creatively chases down and [[KickTheSonOfABitch massacres the entire gang]]. When Arnie's friend Dennis challenges her to a duel, Christine accepts, putting up a fierce fight against a tanker and regenerating whenever she seems about to lose. When Arnie is killed trying to stop Dennis, Christine mourns him and mounts a final attack on Dennis and Leigh to avenge his death, and even as she goes down, she taunts them that they will never be rid of her.

* NauseaFuel: The bullies couldn't just be satisfied by beating the hell out of Christine; they had to [[spoiler:crap on the dashboard]].

* {{Narm}}: It takes a while before we find out exactly what Buddy did to Christine that was so horrible - and Leigh's reaction makes one think of mutilated babies and the like. It turns out he took a dump on the windscreen, which is bound to prompt an amused reaction.
* NauseaFuel: The bullies couldn't just be satisfied by beating the hell out of Christine; they had to [[spoiler: crap on the dashboard]].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The film chooses to have [[spoiler: Arnie driving Christine in the climax, averting his DyingMomentOfAwesome in the book where he tries to fight off being possessed]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: You'd think if King wanted to sideline Dennis through injury, he could possibly use the evil car that has a motive for wanting him dead do it (especially since it's been foreshadowed throughout act one), but instead he's randomly taken out in a pointless football game.

** And setting aside the fact that Buddy Repperton is an intolerable {{Jerkass}}, your average teenage boy (especially in 1983) would probably not mind being seen as a knife-toting rebel with a sharp leather jacket who cruises around town with his friends in a [[Music/TheDeadMilkmen bitchin' Camaro]] drinking beer and listening to Music/TheRollingStones.