History YMMV / TheSearchers

** SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It's a Western about racism; so what's the big deal? Well, the "big deal" is that it was ''the'' TropeBreaker for the older, shiny-white-good-guys version of TheWestern, and was so powerful that virtually every Western, and a huge number of films in general that followed, felt compelled either try to respond to it in ''some'' way to avoid being tacky, or to at least homage and acknowledge it. Also, it must be noted that in the classic era, [[FairForItsDay there were very few movies that actually deal with settler/native relations with the same kind of honesty]] and lack of BlackAndWhiteMorality, as noted by author Sherman Alexie.

* OnceAcceptableTargets: Native American women, especially if they're not sexualized in any way. See ValuesDissonance below.

* RootingForTheEmpire: You'd been forgiven for cheering for the Chief Scar and the Native Americans, especially after hearing that Scar also had a living family who was killed by an opposing race and recalling that our "hero" his no better than Scar.

!!Due to NamesTheSame, this page has been split into folders.

** Also the song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-KeikPmFg The Searchers,]]'' by the Sons of the Pioneers (it starts at 0:19).

** The AccidentalMarriage sub-plot would be considered in bad taste today. The Comanche sell a woman of their tribe to Martin for a hat, and she's enthusiastic to be bought by a strange (though handsome), itinerant white man who doesn't speak her language and for whom she's an AbhorrentAdmirer. The whole thing is PlayedForLaughs, basically being a prank Ethan pulls on naive Martin by not clueing him in to what was happening in the negotiation, and with her as a ButtMonkey who even gets kicked down a hill when she tries to lay beside her new husband. That said, her obvious fear when the subject of Scar is brought up and her ultimate fate make her a sympathetic figure.

** The AccidentalMarriage sub-plot would be considered in bad taste today. The Comanche sell a woman of their tribe for a hat, who is enthusiastic to be bought by a strange, itinerant white man who doesn't speak her language and obviously doesn't even want her. Further, the film plays this all off as straight comedy, with the Comanche woman being a clueless AbhorrentAdmirer who gets kicked down a hill when she tries to lay beside her new husband.