History YMMV / FearAndLoathingInLasVegas

* AdaptationDisplacement: The main page is categorized under "Literature". Now look at how many tropes are actually only for the movie.

*** Usually stops at the screamers and laughers, but sometimes includes, "...a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer/Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, '''the tendency is to push it as far as you can.'''”
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXGVDnPU9o "Ah, Devil Ether..."]]

* [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Big-Lipped Orangutan Moment]]:

** Speaking of Benicio Del Toro, it's pretty funny knowing that after playing a character constantly drugged out of his mind, he'd eventually play [[Film/{{Sicario}} a hitman going after the Mexican drug cartel]].

* MisaimedFandom: A ''lot'' of people seem to believe that adrenochrome really is a narcotic made from tortured human beings instead of just dried epinephrine.

* BrokenBase: An unusual example in regards to the fact that Creator/TerryGilliam ''intended'' for this to happen. When making the film, he wanted it to be seen as both the best movie ever made and the worst movie ever made. Needless to say, it worked.

* ShoutOut: The movie changes drug expert E.R. Blumquist's name to L. Ron Bumquist, an obvious reference to another charlatan, Creator/LRonHubbard.

* FilkSong: [[Music/AvengedSevenfold "He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the paaaaiin of beeeeiiing a maaaannn...YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!"]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Gonzo [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossed tons of lines already]] just by filling his head with the same shit that Duke's been taking, but one thing he does that most people will admit is [[KickTheDog truly hard to forgive]] (especially considering it's [[MoodWhiplash one of the most serious parts in an otherwise wacky movie]]) is harassing the waitress at the diner shortly before the end of the movie by threatening her at knife-point ''just for a pie'' and stuffing his money in her cleavage before leaving with Duke, [[TearJerker leaving her alone to break down]]. The worst part is [[KarmaHoudini he receives no consequences of any kind]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: The main page is categorized under "Literature." Now look at how many tropes are actually only for the movie.

** "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Gonzo [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossed tons of lines already]] just by filling his head with the same shit that Duke's been taking, but one thing he does that most people will admit is [[KickTheDog truly hard to forgive]] (especially considering it's [[MoodWhiplash one of the most serious parts in an otherwise wacky movie]]) is harass the waitress at the diner shortly before the end of the movie by threatening her at knife-point ''just for a pie'' and stuffing his money in her cleavage before leaving with Duke, [[TearJerker leaving her alone to break down]]. The worst part is [[KarmaHoudini he receives no consequences of any kind]].

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: ''[[Music/{{Slipknot}} Slipknot's]]'' Corey Taylor said it was like the acid trip version of ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' in [[https://youtu.be/P3kGjo_qtwQ his review]] with Creator/JamesRolfe.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The main page is categorized under "Literature." Now look at how many tropes are actually only for the movie. %%(To be fair, quite a few of said tropes are ones about movie visuals and the requirements of adaptations.)

* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Gonzo [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossed tons of lines already]] just by filling his head with the same shit that Duke's been taking, but one thing he does that most people will admit is [[KickTheDog truly hard to forgive]] (especially considering it's [[MoodWhiplash one of the most serious parts in an otherwise wacky movie]]) is harass the waitress at the diner shortly before the end of the movie by threatening her at knifepoint ''just for a pie'' and stuffing his money in her cleavage before leaving with Duke, [[TearJerker leaving her alone to break down]]. The worst part is [[KarmaHoudini he receives no consequences of any kind]].

* CantUnhearIt: Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/BenicioDelToro as Raoul Duke and Doctor Gonzo.

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: ''[[Music/{{Slipknot}} Slipknot's]]'' Corey Taylor said it was like the acid trip version of ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' in [[https://youtu.be/P3kGjo_qtwQ his review]] with Creator/JamesRokfe.

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: In part because the protagonists are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on drugs]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Gonzo [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossed tons of lines already]] just by filling his head with the same shit that Duke's been taking, but one thing he does that most people will admit is [[KickTheDog truly hard to forgive]] (especially considering it's [[MoodWhiplash one of the most serious parts in an otherwise wacky movie]]) is harass the waitress at the diner shortly before the end of the movie by threatening her at gunpoint ''just for a pie'' and stuffing his money in her cleavage before leaving with Duke, [[TearJerker leaving her alone to break down]]. The worst part is [[KarmaHoudini he receives no consequences of any kind]].

* CantUnhearIt: Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/BenicioDelToro as Rauol Duke and Doctor Gonzo.

* CantUnHearIt: Creator/JohnnyDepp and Creator/BenicioDelToro as Rauol Duke and Doctor Gonzo.

* CrazyAwesome: "I've never missed a plane yet."

-->'''Duke:''' Let's get down to brass tacks, here... How much for the ape?

-->'''Duke:''' With a little luck, [the businessman's] life was ruined forever -- always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts were getting incredible kicks from things he would never know.

--> '''Duke''': All right, ''listen:'' In a few hours, she'll probably be sane enough to work herself into a towering Jesus-based rage at the hazy recollection of being seduced by some kind of cruel Samoan who fed her liquor and LSD, dragged her to a Vegas hotel room, and then savagely penetrated every orifice in her body with his throbbing, uncircumcised member. ''(A passing hotel guest gasps in horror.)''

* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Gonzo crossed tons of lines already just by filling his head with the same shit that Duke's been taking, but one thing he does that most people will admit is [[KickTheDog truly hard to forgive]] (especially considering it's [[MoodWhiplash one of the most serious parts in an otherwise wacky movie]]) is harass the waitress at the diner shortly before the end of the movie by threatening her at gunpoint ''just for a pie'' and stuffing his money in her cleavage before leaving with Duke, [[TearJerker leaving her alone to break down]]. The worst part is [[KarmaHoudini he receives no consequences of any kind]].

* {{Applicability}}: The book has a huge number of different interpretations as to what Creator/HunterSThompson was trying to say with it, whether it's supposed to be a comedy, whether it's supposed to be serious, political, or [[LifeExaggerated just an exaggeration of things Thompson actually did]]. The reality is that they are ''all'' right, as the whole point of Gonzo journalism is to allow the reader to be put in the same frame of mind as the author, whatever the author was thinking at the time, which in the case of Thompson, a man who was politically astute, had a great sense of humor, and was known for being over the top, you get a book much like him: something equal parts genius, lunatic, and poet.

* {{Applicability}}: The book has a huge number of different interpretations as to what Creator/HunterSThompson was trying to say with it, whether it's supposed to be a comedy, whether it's supposed to be serious, political, or just an exaggeration of things Thompson actually did. The reality is that they are ''all'' right, as the whole point of Gonzo journalism is to allow the reader to be put in the same frame of mind as the author, whatever the author was thinking at the time, which in the case of Thompson, a man who was politically astute, had a great sense of humor, and was known for being over the top, you get a book much like him: something equal parts genius, lunatic, and poet.