History YMMV / Gandhi

* {{Anvilicious}}: Colonialism is a horrible system that robs people of their dignity.

* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversaw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer ordered his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", and even had innocent civilians gunned down for trying to escape. His actions and callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgust his British peers]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Creator/JohnRatzenberger, one of the most distinctive voice actors of all time, gets a SameLanguageDub. The fact that the voice used is so goofy it takes a modern audience completely out of the movie.

* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversees the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer orders his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", gunning down women and children trying to escape. In real life, his actions and unrepentant callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted his British peers and even staunch colonialist Winston Churchill]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.
* HilariousInHindsight: The fact that Creator/JohnRatzenberger, one of the most distinctive voice actors of all time, gets a SameLanguageDub. The fact that the voice used is so goofy it takes a modern audience completely out of the movie.

** The horrific sectarian violence that rocked India after Pakistan broke away.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre The Jallianwala Bagh massacre.]] Men, woman and children slaughtered in the hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand, on the orders of a heartless butcher who thought he would "teach them a lesson"[[note]]This is historically correct - during the afterwards inquiry, he literally said his objective [[DisproportionateRetribution "was not to disperse the meeting, but to punish the Indians for disobedience"]][[/note]]. The whole sequence is as horrifying as it was historically, from Dyer making his troops fire on every Indian in sight, even on those trying to escape, to a few people jumping into the well in despair, then ''dozens more'' throwing themselves into the 'Martyr's well' until it looks like a literal flood of bodies.

* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversees the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer orders his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", gunning down women and children trying to escape. In real life, his actions and unrepentant callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted his British peers and even the staunchest imperialists of the era]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.

* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversees the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer orders his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", and even had innocent civilians gunned down for trying to escape. In real life, his actions and unrepentant callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgusted his British peers and even the staunchest imperialists of the era]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.

* CompleteMonster: [[InsaneAdmiral Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer]] oversaw the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]], intending "[[MakeAnExampleOfThem to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India]]". Dyer ordered his troops to fire "where the crowd was the thickest", and even had innocent civilians gunned down for trying to escape. His actions and callousness [[EveryoneHasStandards disgust his British peers]], and catalyzes UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi's pursuit for complete independence from British rule.

* MoralEventHorizon: Gandhi and his fellows were initially crusading simply for better treatment by the British Raj. However, after General Reginald Dyer orchestrates a massacre of peaceful protestors, Gandhi declares now their only goal is full independence from the British Empire.

* ValuesResonance: In a time of increased scrutiny and criticism over the legacy of the British Empire, particularly in India, the film's uncompromising representation of the struggles of Indian and Pakistani people under colonial rule and the disastrous consequences that plagues the subcontinent, even to the present day, makes it all the more relevant.

** Creator/TrevorHoward as Judge Broomfield
** Creator/EdwardFox as General Dyer