History YMMV / VanityFair

* RetroactiveRecognition: Robert Pattinson was in Mira Nair's 2004 film before appearing in ''{{Literature/Twilight}}''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Robert Pattinson was in Mira Nair's 2004 film before appearing in Twilight.

* FanPreferredCouple: Joseph and Becky, at least in the film adaptations of 1935 and 2004.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Robert Pattinson {{Creator: Robert Pattinson}} was in Mira Nair's 2004 film before appearing in Twilight.

** The 2018 BBC adaptation plays with this, mainly by leaning into a depiction of Becky as AntiHero more than VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: In particular, it ends with her and Jos together and Jos still alive, but nevertheless alludes to "murdered for the life insurance" interpretation of the original ending as a possible fate for Jos.]]

** The 2018 BBC adaptation plays with this, mainly by leaning into an interpretation of Becky as AntiHero more than VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: In particular, it ends with her and Jos together and Jos still alive, but nevertheless alludes to "murdered for the life insurance" as a possible fate for Jos.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Dobbin finally loses his temper with [[spoiler: Amelia]]:
--> [[spoiler: "No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love."]]

* LighterAndSofter: Mira Nair's 2004 film, although it retains quite a lot of bite, also softens Becky up considerably. It emphasizes how she cares for Amelia and Rawdon, and gives her a belated but rapturous happy ending, marrying Jos and moving to India with him.

* HilariousInHindsight: David Bradley plays Sir Pitt Crawley, an old, lecherous, money-grubbing nobleman who has put two wives in their graves, in the 1998 television mini series. In 2011 he was cast as Lord Walder Frey in [[Series/GameOfThrones Game of Thrones]].
* LighterAndSofter: Mina Nair's 2004 film, although it retains quite a lot of bite, also softens Becky up considerably. It emphasizes how she cares for Amelia and Rowdan, and gives her a belated but rapturous happy ending, marrying Jos and moving to India with him.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Amelia is terrified of the bed she has to share with her husband.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Amelia is terrified of the bed she has to share with her husband.

* MisaimedFandom: Plucky and resourceful she may be, but Becky is also two-faced sycophant who is indifferent to the point of sociopathy about whom she hurts in her social climbing.

* MisaimedFandom: Plucky and resourceful she may be, but Becky is also two-faced sycophant who is indifferent about whom she hurts in her social climbing.

* HilariousInHindsight: David Bradley plays Sir Pitt Crawley, an old, lecherous, money-grubbing nobleman who has put two wives in their graves, in the 1998 television mini series. In 2011 he was cast as Lord Walder Frey in [[Series/GameOfThrones Game of Thrones]].* MisaimedFandom: Plucky and resourceful she may be, but Becky is also two-faced sycophant who is indifferent about whom she hurts in her social climbing.

* HilariousInHindsight: David Bradley plays Sir Pitt Crawley, an old, lecherous, money-grubbing nobleman who has put two wives in their graves, in the 1998 television mini series. In 2011 he was cast as Lord Walder Frey in [[Series/GameOfThrones Game of Thrones]].

* Misplaced Fandom: Plucky and resourceful she may be, but Becky is also two-faced sycophant who is indifferent about whom she hurts in her social climbing.