History YMMV / Coonskin

* HilariousInHindsight: Some of the women have heads that make them look like [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Bellsprouts.]]
** One of the Godfather's sons has a remarkable resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart King Snugglemagne.]]
** Simple Savior scoots along the ground on his ass like (ironically enough) a certain [[WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken red devil.]]

* DesignatedHero: Despite being the protagonist, Brother Rabbit has no qualms about killing at the drop of a hat. In addition, his plan to "help" the black neighborhood is to [[MeetTheNewBoss do exactly what the Mafia was doing]], except he and the black gangster keep all the money. As such from the perspective of the people in the neighborhood, [[FullCircleRevolution nothing changed]]. Yet, the story [[InformedKindness portrays this as a positive change]] for some reason.

* DesignatedHero: Despite being the protagonist, Brother Rabbit has no qualms about killing at the drop of a hat.

* NightmareFuel: From the brutal reality of systemic racism that inspired the film to its rampant UncannyValley and SurrealHorror, this film has no shortage of terrifying imagery.

* ValuesDissonance: Like ''Blazing Saddles'' above, satire or not, there's absolutely no way a film like this would get made nowadays without being slammed with accusations and controversy. If anything, though, that's just indicative of how important and needed works like these are, even more-so today than ever, due to the blind outrage of PC culture without taking context into account for anything that looks or sounds even remotely rebellious against the current status quo.

* ValuesDissonance: Like ''Blazing Saddles'' above, satire or not, there's absolutely no way a film like this would get made nowadays without being slammed with accusations and controversy.

* OvershadowedByControversy: Thanks to Creator/AlSharpton, who famously denounced the movie while refusing to actually see it and lobbied to have it pulled from theaters. It apparently got so bad that one theater showing the film was ''smoke bombed'' by protestors.

* MagnificentBastard: [[BadassInANiceSuit Brother Rabbit]] starts out as a simple rabbit who travels to Harlem with his friends Brother Bear and Preacher Fox. Upon tricking con artist Simple Savior into letting him go and killing him after exposing his revolution as a scam and stealing his money, Rabbit finds that he has the chance to take over all of Harlem's crime rackets. Seeking this position by taking out all potential obstacles, Rabbit starts with the racist, homophobic cop Managan, having him drugged, put in blackface and a dress to [[SanitySlippage break his sanity]], and then killed by police during a rampage. With the Godfather and his sons up next, Rabbit works with Fox to trick Bear into becoming the mob's boxer and promises to show up to a match, only to entangle the family in a tar baby trap and blow them all up. Rabbit ends the story [[FromNobodyToNightmare the king of Harlem's underworld]], proving to be as smart and mean as can be.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the Godfather's sons bears a striking resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart King Snugglemagne.]]

* OvershadowedByControversy: Thanks to Al Sharpton, who famously denounced the movie while refusing to actually see it and lobbied to have it pulled from theaters. It apparently got so bad that one theater showing the film was ''smoke bombed'' by protestors.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: It's telling that the film was released a year after ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', a live-action comedy that, while not without its own critics, also featured similarly overused racist language to depict racism as horrible and is considered a masterpiece. While this movie, being an animated crime-drama, is relegated to the "exploitation" category.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The film's theme song, "Coonskin No More" by Scatman Crothers. "Walk on, niggas, walk on!"

* {{Misblamed}}: Much of the film's controversy came from its usage of blackface stereotypes and repeated usage of the N-word. However, what most people don't understand was that a lot of this was intentional as a mockery of the otherwise offensive portrayal of African-Americans in cartoons of the 1940s.