History YMMV / SelfLess

* RootingForTheEmpire: Albright is such a MagnificentBastard that a few wanted him to succeed. There's also the fact that he says the only reason he uses [[spoiler: real people]] is because he can't actually grow the bodies, and would switch to that immediately if it were an option.

* HeartwarmingMoments:

* TheUntwist: TheReveal that [[spoiler: the body Damian is using being a real person]] was guessed by most viewers instantly.

** Damian. [[spoiler: Is it all Damian using Mark's instincts or is Mark helping and influencing him on some level? We don't see Damian become an InstantExpert at hand-to-hand combat and guns until Mark's family were threatened. Both men's goals (both are fathers and both are protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line with each other so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would like to believe.]]

* Heartwarming:

** Damien. [[spoiler: Is it all Damien using Mark's instincts or is Mark helping and influencing him on some level? We don't see Damien become an InstantExpert at hand-to-hand combat and guns until Mark's family were threatened. Both men's goals (both are fathers and both are protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line with each other so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would like to believe.]]

** [[spoiler: Anna seeing and hugging Damien (in her father's body), saying that she knew he would come back.]]
** [[spoiler: Damien teaching Anna how to swim and being a father to her.]] [[spoiler: Even if it's for just a short time.]]
** [[spoiler: Madeline getting to know Damien as a person during their time together. She even greets him warmly at the end;]][[spoiler: before realizing that it's actually Mark.]]
** [[spoiler: Damien's message to Mark, thanking him for the months he had given him and welcoming him back. Mark is appropriately awed and in tears. Doubles as a Tearjerker. From the expression on Mark's face, he probably felt as if he had just lost a loved one.]]
** [[spoiler: Martin staying by Damien's side when he stops taking the pills so he can find out where Albright is and later helping Mark's family get to safety.]]
** [[spoiler: Damien's final meeting with his daughter and giving her a letter to give her closure.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Damien is a {{Jerkass}} who spends most of the film lying to Maddie and Anna, and is trying to extend his own life at the expense of someone else's. Granted he didn't know that at first but his plan also involves letting his daughter and the rest of his family and friends believe he's dead. [[spoiler: When Madeline finally confronts him, he does tell her the truth and becomes TheAtoner.]]
* TheUntwist: TheReveal that [[spoiler: the body Damien is using being a real person]] was guessed by most viewers instantly.

** [[spoiler: Damien's message to Mark, thanking him for the months he had given him and welcoming him back. Mark is appropriately awed and in tears. Doubles as a Tearjerker.]]

** Damien. [[spoiler: We don't see Damien become an InstantExpert at hand-to-hand combat and guns until Mark's family were threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien suddenly gaining fighting and gun-handling skills makes perfect sense. Both men's goals (both are fathers and both are protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line with each other so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would like to believe.]]

** [[spoiler: Damien's message to Mark, thanking him for the months he had given him and welcoming him back. Mark is appropriately humbled and in tears. Doubles as a Tearjerker.]]

** Damien. [[spoiler: We don't see Damien become an InstantExpert at hand-to-hand combat and guns until Mark's family were threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien not giving his new-found fighting and gun-handling skills a second thought makes perfect sense. Both men's goals (both are fathers and both are protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would want to think.]]

** [[spoiler: Damien's message to Mark, thanking him for the months he had given him. Mark is appropriately humbled and in tears. Doubles as a Tearjerker.]]

* Heartwarming: [[spoiler: Damien teaching Anna how to swim and being a father to her.]] [[spoiler: Even if it's for just a short time.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Damien is a {{Jerkass}} who spends most of the film lying to Maddie and Anna, and is trying to extend his own life at the expense of someone else's. Granted he didn't know that at first but his plan also involves letting his daughter and the rest of his family and friends believe he's dead. [[spoiler: When Madeline confronts him, he does tell her the turth and becomes TheAtoner.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Damien is a {{Jerkass}} who spends most of the film lying to Maddie and Anna, and is trying to extend his own life at the expense of someone else's. Granted he didn't know that at first but his plan also involves letting his daughter and the rest of his family and friends believe he's dead. [[spoiler: He does become TheAtoner in the end.]]

** Albright [[spoiler: Is he a WellIntentionedExtremist or someone who takes advantage of desperate people to supply him with subjects for his work?]]

** Damien. [[spoiler: We don't see Damien take any kind of action until Mark's family were threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien not giving his new-found fighting and gun-handling skills a second thought makes perfect sense. Both men's goals (both are fathers and both are protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would want to think.]]

** Damien. [[spoiler: Both he and Mark are fathers and Damien was already very protective of Mark's family when he found out about them. We don't see Damien take any kind of action until they're threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien not giving his new-found fighting and gun-handling skills a second thought makes perfect sense. Both men's goals (protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line so there would be no conflict between them. If so, then it would suggest that Shedding isn't as perfected as Albright would want to think.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Damien is a {{Jerkass}} who spends most of the film lying to Maddie and Anna, and is trying to extend his own life at the expense of someone else's. Granted he didn't know that at first but his plan also involves letting his daughter and the rest of his family and friends believe he's dead.

** Damien. [[spoiler: Both he and Mark are fathers and Damien was already very protective of Mark's family when he found out about them. We don't see Damien take any kind of action until they're threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien not giving his new-found fighting and gun-handling skills a second thought makes perfect sense. Both men's goals (protecting Mark's wife and daughter) are very much in line so there would be no conflict between them.]]

** Damien. [[spoiler: Both he and Mark are fathers and Damien was already very protective of Mark's family when he found out about them. We don't see Damien take any kind of action until they're threatened. Is it muscle memory and instinct (as Albright suggests), or is it some part of Mark's mind fighting back? If so, then Damien not giving his new-found fighting and gun-handling skills a second thought makes perfect sense.]]

* RootingForTheEmpire: Albright is such a MagnificentBastard that a few wanted him to succeed. There's also the fact that he says the only reason he uses [[spoiler: real people]] is because he can't harvest the bodies.

* HarsherInHindsight: Michelle Dockery plays a girl whose father is dying of a terminal illness. At the end of 2015 her fiancée passed away after a battle with cancer.