History YMMV / SupermanVsTheElite

* OneSceneWonder: Adult Vera. She only appears briefly to hand secret info to Lois.

* EvilIsSexy: Menagerie.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Like the story it's based on, the film seemingly hand-waved the ideal that killing is wrong regardless of how justified within the first half, but later on when Superman pretends to adopt the take-no-prisoners approach, everyone's initial reaction was "This isn't right". The true anvil was that society does not always know what's best for it and that they need guidance, not the threat of punishment to progress.

--->'''Superman:''' You can't murder people and call yourselves heroes!
--->'''Manchester Black:''' Why not? Your government does it all the time.

* CompleteMonster: [[NuclearNasty Atomic Skull]], a psychopath with a grudge against Superman, starts to murder civilians to lure Superman out. Atomic Skull is about to kill 2 women and [[WouldHurtAChild a baby]] when Superman attacks him. Superman defeats Atomic Skull and he is arrested, later escaping and starting to kill more civilians. Superman and the Elite team up to defeat the Atomic Skull, but not before he kills Professor Baxter, a prominent Superman supporter. Atomic Skull is so vile, that he helps [[KnightTemplar the Elite]] gain support for their brutal tactics from the public.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Superman doesn't exactly do his ThouShaltNotKill code any favours. He refused to kill Atomic Skull, even when it was clear the villain was an unrepentant psychopath who couldn't be imprisoned solely because he didn't want to get his hands dirty. This is pretty out of character for him, as it's been shown in previous stories that Superman would in fact kill under these specific circumstances (Doomsday is a prime example). Later on, he sidesteps his no-kill policy with Manchester Black by lobotomising him against his will, which in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' was shown as a sign that Superman was on a slippery slope to becoming a tyrant.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Superman doesn't exactly do his ThouShaltNotKill code any favours. He refused to kill Atomic Skull, even when it was clear the villain was an unrepentant psychopath who couldn't be imprisoned solely because he didn't want to get his hands dirty. This is pretty out of character for him, as it's been shown in previous stories that Superman would in fact kill under these specific circumstances (Doomsday is a prime example). Later on, he sidesteps his no-kill policy with Manchester Black by lobotomising him against his will, which in''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' was shown as a sign that Superman was on a slippery slope to becoming a tyrant.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GifKfwDWq9Q main theme]] is appropriately heroic.

* Anvilicious: Like the story it's based on, the film seemingly hand-waved the ideal that killing is wrong regardless of how justified within the first half, but later on when Superman pretends to adopt the take-no-prisoners approach, everyone's initial reaction was "This isn't right". The true anvil was that society does not always know what's best for it and that they need guidance, not the threat of punishment to progress.

* InferredHolocaust: By killing the dictators of Bialya and Pokolistan, the Elite could have created a power vacuum similar to that of Iraq after Saddam Hussein was executed. Now, there could be several would-be dictators ready to being their conquest, leading to a war potentially worse than the previous one.