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13	!!Films and film franchises with their own pages
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15	* ''NeverLiveItDown/StarWars''
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18	* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Jennifer sometimes gets the most hate out of all of Buffy's friends for being Jeffrey's rebound girl after he dumps Buffy (which is all many people remember about her character), but, while still a flawed ValleyGirl, she does seem guilty and conflicted about her relationship with Jeffrey, mistakenly thinks that Buffy has been cheating on Jeffrey with Pike, and is also the last of Buffy's friends to abandon her after they fall out.
19	* ''Film/Downfall2004'': Due to being the source of the WebVideo/HitlerRants videos, many viewers' perception of Hitler and his cronies are often simplified based on the infamous rant scene along with a few other scenes. To name a few:
20	** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is seen as a LargeHam dictator [[HairTriggerTemper who gets angry whenever he hears the slightest of bad news]] despite spending most of the film's runtime as a quiet, almost disturbingly affably person (which gives his outbursts a lot more impact).
21	** Alfred Jodl, the general who warns Hitler that moving the 12th Army would give an opening for the Allies in the Western Front, is ultimately a loyal YesMan who sticks with Hitler despite knowing he's a madman. But since his one prominent scene is him getting on Hitler's nerve for questioning his plan, he's largely seen as a CommanderContrarian and the OnlySaneMan in Hitler's inner circle.
22	** Hermann Fegelein is a SmugSnake who cowardly went AWOL, only to be caught and unceremoniously executed by Hitler's goons. He's not even important to Hitler as he initially wanted to punish UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, Fegelein's boss, instead. But ever since Hitler pounded his table shouting Fegelein's name, [[MemeticBadass Fegelein is remembered to as the man that Hitler cannot find]] and [[TheGadfly thus the subject of all the dictator's ire]].
23	** The [[TheGhost unseen]] Felix Steiner is just one of many generals that Hitler pins his delusional hopes on to turn the tide and he isn't even the last HopeSpot in the film; that honor goes to Walther Wenck and his 12th Army. But Steiner's failure to launch a counterattack is what drove Hitler into his iconic VillainousBreakdown whereas Wenck's failure is only discussed by the bunker staff in private (and Hitler had no more energy to get angry at Wenck). As such, Steiner is largely remembered as the only man whom Hitler greatly depends on to win the war... [[MemeticLoser and failing miserably]].
24	* ''Film/TheField'' is best known as the "death by cow" movie due to Creator/SeanBean dying yet another gruesome death courtesy of a bovine stampede that drives him off a cliff.
25	* On the commentary to ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' Creator/KevinBacon states that whenever he attends a social function where there will be dancing, he has to slip the DJ a $20 bill to ensure no one plays that Music/KennyLoggins song and expects him to dance.
26	* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'':
27	** Creator/WilliamAtherton has had a quite respectable career spanning several decades, but it'll always come back to being called "dickless", which is what Peter Venkman called him in the movie. On the film's DVDCommentary, Creator/IvanReitman recounts the time a quite angry Atherton talked to him about a tour bus that pulled up beside him so everyone could shout, "Yo, dickless!".
28	** Peter Venkman himself is known for [[MadScientist his experiment where he lies to the female test subject that she's psychic]] so that he can date her and zaps the male test subject with electricity.
29	** A lot of fan fiction writers make Egon [[TrademarkFavoriteFood obsessed with Twinkies]], even though in the movie, he only ate one.
30	** Some viewers seem to think that Ray has a creepy kink for ghosts, based on one very short scene where he possibly has sex with a ghost ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane but it might have been]] an EroticDream).
31	* ''Film/{{Hypothermia}}'' combines splatter flick elements with the character study found in atmospheric horror. It contained a less than convincing man-in-suit monster too - which was onscreen perhaps ''three minutes.'' A comparitively large number of reviews say positive things to say about the character-driven portion which the first ''forty minutes of the movie,'' have little to no negative things to mention beyond the ''barely-seen'' unconvincing suit - the ratings accompanying these reviews would at first glance give the impression the reviewer hated the entire movie!
32	* In ''Film/TheInnkeepers'', Claire, while drunk, plays an immature prank on drunk colleague Luke, putting a bedsheet over her head, thus playing a "ghost" as comic relief. At least one review cites "the bedsheet ghost" as a reason the film is bad - suggesting the filmmakers tried to scare the audience, and that the scene is genuinely intended as scary.
33	* Film/JamesBond has become known as the film series where 'The main Bond girl works for the villains until she falls in love with James Bond'. In fact, this has [[DeadUnicornTrope only happened on one occasion]]; in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Most of the other times, the Bond girl is either an ally of Bond from the first (e.g. ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''), an innocent drawn into the villain's schemes (e.g. ''Film/DrNo'', ''Film/AViewToAKill'', ''Film/GoldenEye''), working with the villains but unaware of the true nature of their plans (''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', and ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''), a willing accomplice/BigBad who never changes sides (''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'') or effectively a slave rather than an ally of the villains (''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'').
34	** Complicating matters, several Bond films (such as ''Thunderball'', ''Goldeneye'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'') have genuinely evil beautiful henchwomen ''as well'' as heroines, and Bond will sleep with said evil henchwoman, in almost every single film. Doesn't help that Bond is also a frequent offender of tropes like SexEqualsLove and NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization.
35	** The stereotypical Bond plot structure can have up to three girls in each film, and usually has at least two. The archetypes are the "good" one who gets killed off early on as a SacrificialLamb, the "evil" one who also gets killed off, often after [[HighHeelFaceTurn changing sides]], and the third, main one who survives until the end.
36	** Arguable in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. She did believe she was working for the Russian government against the British, so she'd still qualify as working for an enemy. She just didn't realize which enemy she was really working for.
37	** Messrs. Albert Wint and Charles Kidd will forever be known chiefly as not just early examples of blatant gay villains in a mainstream motion picture, but also pyromaniacs, never mind that only their first attempt to kill Bond involved burning him alive, hence the fairly infamous "[[SignatureScene Hot Coffin]]" bit near the tail end of the Slumber Inc. scene. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:they both ended the film dying in flames after their third and final attempt literally blew up in their faces, with Kidd catching fire entirely and Wint being literally hoist with his own petard]].
38	** Goldfinger and the laser deathtrap, to the point where, when he appears on ''Midday with Jennifer Hicks'' alongside Blofeld and Largo, Blofeld brings it up early on during a discussion on what not to do when you capture James Bond. You know, the discussion that spawned the EvilOverlordList.
39	** James Bond isn't held in very high regard among feminists, partly due to a single scene in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' where he makes unwanted advances towards, and all but rapes, a nurse. It doesn't help that Bond as written by Ian Fleming was much worse in regards to the whole rape thing, particularly in ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.
40	* Creator/JimCarrey has put in some well-developed, nuanced performances (''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', ''Film/TheMajestic''), but to many folks he's still the guy who [[Film/AceVentura bends over and talks out of his rear end]].
41	* Look at all the ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' fanworks that include Jareth saying "precious" or "precious thing". He only said that phrase ONCE in the whole film.
42	** Also, Music/DavidBowie's rather tight pants that draw the eye no matter how much you try to resist.
43	* ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Superman killing Zod, despite [[ShootTheDog only doing it as a last resort to save a family and he was obviously anguished about having to take a life it]] and before he adopted his ThouShallNotKill rule. It is still cited and brought up by DCEU detractors as emblematic of everything they consider wrong with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, even more than [[InferredHolocaust the massive destruction of the city caused by the fight prior]].
44	* If you ever see a Creator/JohnWayne impression, odds are it'll feature his ending every sentence with "Pilgrim." This is based entirely on his using it a few times to mock Creator/JamesStewart's pacifism in ''Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance''.
45	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
46	** During the opening battle of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Captain America reprimands Iron Man for swearing, later saying "it slipped out". After the second joke about it ''during that battle'', Cap mutters "That's not going away any time soon." [[RunningGag And it doesn't]]. Many fans have then latched on to that joke, with many fanworks depicting Cap as a straight-laced prude who wants to censor anyone who swears. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBOoYPV_nSU The YouTube video compilations]] are ''hilarious''.
47	** Clint Barton as Hawkeye will forever be known by fans as [[MemeticLoser the most useless superhero]] ever since ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'', which was his first major exposure to mainstream audiences. In that entry, he spends most of his screen-time as the brainwashed lackey of Loki and his archery skills aren't seen as practical or impressive as Iron Man's power armor, Thor's lightning powers and hammer, or even Captain America's indestructible shield. Not helping matters is that he was absent from more grounded installments in like ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' that could've shown off his fighting skills without being compared to other superpowered heroes. His poor reputation is even referenced in the movies themselves with Black Widow joking about how he actually keeps the team together because the other Avengers all have to work hard to pretend he's useful, and Ant-Man calling him "Arrow Guy" because he didn't even bother to know his name. Marvel Studios seems to have given up on Hawkeye's reputation so Clint ditched his Hawkeye persona and became a vengeful vigilante known as Ronin in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. In contrast to his stint as Hawkeye, Barton is well-received by fans as Ronin, who quickly became a MemeticBadass even with his stupid haircut.
48	** A minor, more comedic example: in the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' film, Darcy makes a comment about the titular character scarfing down a box of pop tarts. The fandom has been treating pop tarts as Thor's TrademarkFavoriteFood ever since.
49	* ''Film/TheMummy2017'' proving to be such a critical and commercial failure that it prompted Creator/UniversalStudios to shut down their much-vaunted ''Film/DarkUniverse'' after just one film has cemented the legacy of the latter as a punchline, brought up only to mock other {{Stillborn Franchise}}s. The film itself, meanwhile, has been overshadowed by [[https://youtu.be/kRqxyqjpOHs a version of its first trailer]] with the sound effect and music channels accidentally muted, turning what was supposed to be an intense plane crash scene into [[{{Narm}} a well of unintentional comedy]].
50	* Divine said that the infamous [[RoadApples dog droppings]] [[IAteWhat ending]] of ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' forever tarnished his public image, saying that people thought "I run around doing it all the time":
51	-->"I've received boxes of dog shit – plastic dog shit. I have gone to parties where people just sit around and talk about dog shit because they think it's what I want to talk about."
52	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
53	** The little pirate of Jack's crew has on multiple occasions proven himself to be capable and talented. But he'll always be the dwarf in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' who got blown back into the very hole he had just worked his way out of... by the recoil of a large gun he was toting. Later on in the film, he uses the same gun without the comical effect.
54	** Barbossa is an unmovable monster who led his crew to reclaim every last piece of stolen gold they'd "frittered away" and undo the curse set upon them. He performed the marriage ceremony between Will and Elizabeth. He also rocks a fancy wooden leg in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''. But he's still 'that guy who eats apples.'
55	* ''Film/StandByMe'': Creator/WilWheaton said in an interview on the DVD extras that the line "Suck my fat one, you cheap dimestore hood" is one he'll never live down.
56	* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': [=McLovin=], to the point that nobody even remembers the character's real name (Fogell) or that of Creator/ChristopherMintzPlasse.
57	* ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'' is known primarily for being two things:
58	** A Creator/BruceLee classic; and
59	** The one time in his entire career as an action superstar where Creator/ChuckNorris ''loses''.
60	* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' is known amongst many DC fans to be the film where Wonder Woman [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale rapes a man]] while Steve Trevor was [[GrandTheftMe possessing his body.]]

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