History YMMV / KickAss

*** This will evidently continue in the sequel, as Red-Mist as Motherfucker's more violent acts are going to be removed, particularly [[MoralEventHorizon the rape]], to which Christopher Mintz-Plasse flat-out said "''Thank God.''" He's still pretty evil in the sequel though as he [[spoiler:murders Dave's father, kills Colonel Stars And Stripes, and attempts to rape Night Bitch (and when that fails, he puts her in the hospital).]]

* MoralEventHorizon: D'Amico is most firmly established as a complete psycho-ass when he murders both some guy unfortunate enough to be wearing a Kick-Ass costume and an innocent witness to said murder, though to his defense he ''did'' believe it was the real Kick-Ass and that he'd been killing D'Amico's men. He really crosses the line when he finds out Kick-Ass had nothing to do with it but still insisted on him being [[spoiler: beaten and executed on a live webcast]]. The sheer look of sadistic pleasure on his face and the disgusted look Chris gives him when they're both watching it said it all.

* MoralEventHorizon: D'Amico is most firmly established as a complete psycho-ass when he murders both some guy unfortunate enough to be wearing a Kick-Ass costume and an innocent witness to said murder. He ''did'' believe it was the real Kick-Ass and that he'd been killing D'Amico's men. He really crosses the line when he finds out Kick-Ass had nothing to do with it but still insisted on him being [[spoiler: beaten and executed on a live webcast]]. The sheer look of sadistic pleasure on his face and the disgusted look Chris gives him when they're both watching it said it all.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Hit-Girl getting shot in the chest when the singer Mindy [=McCready=] committed suicide of self-inflicted gunshot wound may be difficult to watch.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Hit-Girl getting shot in the chest when [[NamesTheSame the singer]] Mindy [=McCready=] committed suicide of self-inflicted gunshot wound may be difficult to watch.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Frank D'Amico a subtle case of EvenEvilHasLovedOnes?

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The movie is lighter than the comics, but can still fall into this.
* {{Wangst}}: Same reason as the comics, as mentioned above.

* CommonKnowledge: After the car runs over him, Dave suffered nerve damage that in turn made him inmune to pain... But that's wrong. Dave complains of inguries during the comic. He only gets pain inmunity in the movie (itself a [[Reconstruction]] of Mark Millar's book). Also, he doesn't get 85% of his skeleton replaced by metal bones (Another thing that just happens in the movie), but just a metal plate in his skull.

* FoeYay: Red Mist being... Red Mist: "...and if I'm absolutely honest, I've wanted to see you in pain since the first night we met. I've even jerked off about it. Does that sound weird?" [[SickAndWrong Yes, Red Mist. Yes it does.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Dave Lizewski wants to become a real-life superhero. After a few weeks spent walking on walls and wearing his costume under his clothes, he decides he wants to start fighting crime for real. His first attempt to do so ends [[DidntThinkThisThrough as well as you might expect]] with him getting beaten up by a trio of vandals, stabbed, and finally getting hit by a car. Ultimately he manages to survive and recover from all of this, and although he tries to give up the superhero lifestyle, he soon gets drawn back into it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That if Dave was insistent about being a superhero, he'd try and take some martial arts/self-defense classes, or do something to give himself more chance in a fight, as soon as reasonably possible.\\
'''Instead:''' He does absolutely nothing of the sort until the next series.
** The Motherfucker wants revenge on Dave because of the latter's role in [[spoiler: the death of his father]]. He decides to go after the people Dave cares about.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Motherfucker to try and limit his victims to those connected to Dave, and not cause unnecessary bloodshed.\\
'''Instead:''' While going to attack Dave's crush, he and his supervillain friends massacre an entire suburb, respectively killing and injuring about 30 and 100 innocent people, including children. This results in the Motherfucker's friend [[CorruptCop Vic Gigante]] withdrawing police protection from The Motherfucker. And then, he decides to start another massacre in Times Square, seemingly for no other reason than it [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]]. Ultimately, this course of action leads to his downfall, and his actions turn him, and his secret identity, into figures of public hate.
** Pointed out by Kick-Ass in Volume 2, [[spoiler:after he & Hit-Girl find out that the Mother Fucker's plan is to burn New York to the ground - Chris is asthmatic, so ''what's he going to do when he blows up all of the pharmacys & hospitals, and he needs his medication?'']]

* WhatAnIdiot: For the [[DecoyProtagonist Armenian Kid With A History Of Mental Issues]], there's no way wings that size could generate enough lift to allow a person to fly.
** The women in Rasul’s apartment trying to kill Hit-girl instead of trying to escape, especially after she saw hit-girl slaughter everyone in the apartment.

* The women in Rasul’s apartment trying to kill Hit-girl instead of trying to escape, especially after she saw hit-girl slaughter everyone in the apartment.

* CantUnhearIt: Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson as Dave Lizewski, Creator/NicolasCage as Big Daddy and Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz as Hit Girl to name a few.

** During Dave's opening narration, he mentioned that since his mother died of Aneurysm in the kitchen, the viewers won't be expecting an "[[YouKilledMyFather I will avenge you mother]]!" storyline. [[spoiler: This is exactly what happened in the [[Film/KickAss2 sequel]] when Chris/The Motherfucker had his mother brutally tortured to death]].

** Both [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Dave]] and [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Todd]] ended becoming [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} superheroes]].

** During Dave's opening narration, he mentioned that since his mother died of Aneurysm in the kitchen, the viewers won't be expecting an "[[YouKilledMyFather I will avenge you mother]]!" storyline. [[spoiler: This is exactly what happened in the [[Film/KickAss2 sequel]] when Chris/The Motherfucker had his father brutally tortured to death]].

* CrazyAwesome: [[LittleMissBadass Hit Girl]], Big Daddy, Frank D'Amico and [[{{Determinator}} Kick-Ass]] himself, for, you know, beating the living manshit out of people while wearing [[CheapCostume scuba gear]].

** Dave Lizewski wants to become a real-life superhero. After a few weeks spent walking on walls and wearing his costume under his clothes, he decides he wants to start fighting crime for real. His first attempt to do so ends [[RealityEnsues as well as you might expect]] with him getting beaten up by a trio of vandals, stabbed, and finally getting hit by a car. Ultimately he manages to survive and recover from all of this, and although he tries to give up the superhero lifestyle, he soon gets drawn back into it.\\

** Also [[spoiler:the revelation that Big Daddy isn't an ex-cop and dragged his daughter into the lifestyle after running away from her and lying to her about the fate of her mother]].

* BetterThanCanon: The opinion of the movies from some, thanks to making the characters more sympathetic. [[CreatorPreferredAdaptation Including Mark Millar.]]

* LoveToHate: Red Mist, in contrast to his comic self who became a complete [[TheScrappy Scrappy]].

** Red-Mist [[LonelyRichKid to a]] [[WellDoneSonGuy lesser extent]]. He's much more sympathetic in the movie in comparison to the comic.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While the theatrical trailers for the film show plenty of foul language, violence, and countless other clues that this is not a kid's film, the television trailers are censored. Because of the young ages of the superheroes, there's a chance some parents may get a nasty surprise if they took their child to see it. Since the title of the movie is ''Kick-Ass'', [[WhatAnIdiot they'd sort of deserve what they got if they did that, especially since the movie is rated R.]]

** [[spoiler: Red Mist and his father manage to cross it at the same time, after setting up Kick-Ass and the others. First, they beat the shit out of them. When Hit Girl tries to fight back, Johnny G orders his men to shoot her in the back, which they gladly do, sending her flying out a window. Red Mist then raves about how awesome that was, demonstrating that he's either a total sociopath or at least isn't very good at separating comic books from reality. In either case, that's the moment when both of them stop being mere villains and cross the line. Interestingly, the film turned this into a humanising EvenEvilHasStandards moment for Red Mist by having him instead be suitably horrified.]]
** Also [[spoiler:the revelation that Big Daddy isn't an ex-cop and dragged his daughter into the lifestyle after running away from her and lying to her about the fate of her mother]]. This is one point where a decent amount of people seem to prefer the film version of the character over the comic due to the absence of this.
** In ''Volume Two'', they pull out all the stops to make the villains seem unstomachably cruel, clearly in an attempt to eradicate any surrogate thrill the reader might get from their exploits. Don't-give-a-shit wanton violence is such a primal power-fantasy, they really wanted it to seem as disgusting as it would in real life. Most common criticism is that they went too far in this, parts of the book are just really unpleasant to read.

* TheScrappy:
** Big Daddy for [[spoiler:turning his daughter into a killer just because he was bored with his life]].
** Chris Genovese/Red-Mist/The Motherfucker for the [[MoralEventHorizon horrible]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil atrocities]] [[WouldHurtAChild he committed]] [[YouKilledMyFather in volume two]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: As mentioned above, Chris can be seen as this in Volume 3. His HeelRealization and his RedemptionEqualsDeath moments may have somewhat balanced out the character, it seems [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil too]] [[WouldHurtAChild late]] for him to apologize given how atrocious his crimes were, even with his redemption.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Anyone who seems to be in the right is quickly revealed to be naive or secretly an asshole; the main character is a spineless worm who's deluding himself into thinking he can be a hero, while the primary hero character [[spoiler:is an utter tool who has turned his daughter into a violent criminal to live out his own dreams]]. And yet the people they fight against are even worse. There's a reason a ''lot'' of people prefer the movie's significantly more idealistic take on the story.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The movie is lighter than the comics, but can still fall into this.

* ShockingMoments:
** All the time from when Hit Girl enters D'Amico's stronghold and ends when [[spoiler:she and Kick-Ass make an exit with a jet pack]].

* {{HSQ}}:
** Hit Girl's first fight ''to the Banana Splits song'' is pretty high up on the Quotient.
** All the time from when Hit Girl enters D'Amico's stronghold and ends when [[spoiler:she and Kick-Ass make an exit with a jet pack]].

* AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9yfMW1y4o Flying Home]], the BGM track for when Kick-Ass flies away with an exhausted Hit-Girl on a jet pack following the climax of the film. So iconic is the track that it's also the DVD menu theme, and The Riker Maneuver has extended it into a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmICuWJTAYo&list=PL1501235F36E46A2C&index=3&t=0s 6 minute instrumental]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBraMBWCIA a lyrical version.]]