History YMMV / HighlanderTheSearchForVengeance

** A lot of this comes from just how ''loyal'' it is to the rules of the series. Everything from how one becomes an Immortal, to The Buzz when they near another, to rules like holy ground being sacred and only one to a fight, are all strictly honored by the filmmakers. Not to mention the animated medium really showing just how far removed from mortals Immortals are for the very first time, something the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/HighlanderTheAnimatedSeries last attempt at animation]] failed to take advantage of. The only major exception is having Marcus and his lover team up in harmony without coming to blows over the Prize, and every installment after the first film eventually had Immortals doing that in some form or other two.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The film's view of revenge is blatantly one-sided to the point of being cliché and fails to consider that sometimes, it's justified.

** A lot of this comes from just how ''loyal'' it is to the rules of the series. Everything from how one becomes an Immortal, to The Buzz when they near another, to rules like holy ground being sacred and only one to a fight, are all strictly honored by the filmmakers. Not to mention the animated medium really showing just how far removed from mortals Immortals are for the very first time, something the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/HighlanderTheAnimatedSeries last attempt at animation]] failed to take advantage of.

* EvilIsSexy: Being immortals neither Marcus or Kyala have much need for protection against the elements, so they casually go [[WalkingShirtlessScene bare-chested]] and [[LeotardOfPower stripperiffic]] respectively throughout the film, though both wore more [[AncientRome concealing]] [[TheHighMiddleAges clothing]] in [[UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod ages]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII past]]. This being anime both are, of course, extremely attractive no matter their attire anyway.

* IronWoobie /JerkassWoobie: Colin.

* NightmareFuel: The brutal moments where A woman stabs a man several times.

** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: That being said, not wasting your life hell-bent on revenge to the exclusion of everything else all for a loved one who wouldn't appreciate you sinking to such depths, is a pretty good point to make.

** A lot of this comes from just how ''loyal'' it is to the rules of the series. Everything from how one becomes an Immortal, to The Buzz when they near another, to rules like holy ground being sacred and only one to a fight, are all strictly honored by the filmmakers. Not to mention the animated medium really showing just how far removed from mortals Immortals are for the very first time.
* SpiritualSuccessor: A better animated format of the Highlander franchise than Highlander: The Animated Series.

* AwesomeMusic: The use of Music/{{HIM}}'s "The Sacrament" as the ending theme.

** A lot of this comes from just how ''loyal'' it is to the rules of the series. Everything from how one becomes an Immortal, to The Buzz when they near another, to rules like holy ground being sacred and only one to a fight, are all strictly honored by the filmmakers. Not to mention the animated medium really showing just how far removed from mortals Immortals are for the very first time.

* IronWoobie /JerkassWoobie: Colin.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: For all the film's posturing about Colin being selfish for being obsessed with revenge; it glosses over the fact that Moya betrayed his trust by drugging him, offering herself as a bribe to Marcus, and then strong-arming him into promising not to seek revenge despite the fact that she caused all of it through her own selfishness.

** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped‎: The film's point isn't that vengeance is bad, it's that Colin has all that time on his hands, and he's wasting his life.

** The film's point isn't that vengeance is bad, it's that Colin has all that time on his hands, and he's wasting his life.

* IronWoobie/JerkassWoobie: Colin.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While not a sequel per se, most people agree that this film is better than anything [[{{Sequelitis}} that came before]] ([[Film/HighlanderTheSource or after]]), with the exception of the [[Film/{{Highlander}} 1986 original]] and the [[Series/{{Highlander}} TV series]].