As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- When Warren is interrogating Bob, you can see a hint that Oswaldo was in on the ambush attempt before the reveal when Warren starts disproving Bob's previous statement that he was left in charge of Minnie's establishment. Oswaldo shoots Bob a look that clearly reads with irritation at much Bob didn't think the cover story through enough.
- Tim Roth's character in Tarantino's eighth movie represents a perfect mirror image of his character in Tarantino's first movie. Where in the latter, Mr. Orange was a lone undercover operative (the law) in the midst of an ensemble of criminals after a failed heist with suspicion ultimately falling on him who finds redemption in confession, and faked an American accent for the part, here Oswaldo is one of an ensemble of criminals, personally posing as a hangman (again, the law) with suspicion being equally distributed (and ultimately, warranted) amongst all parties by only a few dubious "heroes", and never absolves himself of his guilt. He also uses his English accent, both the real, Cockney version and a fake posh one as part of his cover. Essentially then, Mr. Orange and Oswaldo are the same character, but flipped for lawfulness, morality, and support from the side he's really on. His identical manner of injury (getting shot in the gut but surviving and talking for quite some time) helps to underline this.
- John Ruth's extreme distrust towards every person he encounters while cuffed to Daisy and his absolute certainty that she has accomplices trying to free her come off as extreme paranoia for the first third of the movie, until one learns that Daisy is part of a notorious and vicious gang led by her own brother. John Ruth has every right to expect that the rest of the gang is going to make a move to release her before she gets to Red Rock to hang.
- Daisy is hit with heavy aversions of Beauty Is Never Tarnished. It makes perfect sense when you watch it with the fact that it's based off The Thing (1982) in mind. The Thing is a story where a monster is hidden within a group of people in an isolated place in the middle of a blizzard. Eventually, the monster's revealed, and it looks absolutely terrifying. Likewise, when it's revealed that the whole Locked Room Mystery is all a plot to break Daisy out, her face is covered with blood and her two front teeth are knocked out. Pretty terrifying.
- Throughout the entire movie, Warren seems to have no idea of who Daisy is or why she is worth such a high bounty, yet after The Reveal, he proves himself to be quite knowledgeable about all the members of the Domingre Gang and how much each of them is worth, including Jody. This appears to be an inconsistency until one realizes that Warren never actually inspected the warrant for her arrest and John Ruth had spent the entire movie mispronouncing her name as "DAW-mer-GOO" instead of the correct "Do-MIN-gray". Ruth's mispronunciation kept Warren from making the connection between Daisy and the Domingre Gang.
- When Oswaldo gives his speech about justice versus frontier justice, and the unbiased nature of being a hangman, Daisy is paying rapt attention to every word, seemingly due to how morbid she is. After the reveal, it's clear that she's listening closely because English Pete is actually one of her friends, and a former actor. She's enjoying a rare opportunity to watch him perform.
- An early hint that Joe Gage is in on freeing Daisy can be seen when John Ruth discovers that Warren's Lincoln letter is fake. Daisy is laughing her head off, and John angrily flings his stew in her face. If one looks closely in the background, Joe Gage quickly and angrily rises to his feet, foreshadowing that he is sweet on her.
- After John chains himself back to Daisy, she reacts with uncharacteristic alarm. This is because she knows that John has just drunk poisoned coffee, and she was hoping that he'd die before he reapplied the shackles and thus left her chained to a dead man. She also turns to look at Joe Gage, and when John looks at her in suspicion, she starts tapping her hands on the table, trying to look like nothing's up.
- Why does Warren decide to set himself up for a flimsy self–defense murder of General Smithers? Because Mannix had pushed him to reveal the Lincoln letter as a fake at the dinner table after Warren specifically told Mannix not to needle him, and Warren knows that Mannix greatly admires the General. Whether Warren was telling the truth about Smithers' son or not, the entire debacle might have been a calculated attempt to punish Mannix... making their eventual teamup all the sweeter.
- On a first viewing, Daisy casually mentioning that the new sheriff of Red Rock is travelling with them and that John Ruth "can share bananas with his nigger friend" may just seem like her running her foul mouth in order to aggravate her captor. On a rewatch, it becomes a lot more clear that she's covertly informing her fellow gang members (who are currently disguised as guests of the haberdashery) as to just how many men they're up against.
- There's another clue that something is wrong at the haberdashery that Warren seemingly fails to notice. When his group arrives, Oswaldo and Smithers are sitting on opposite sides of a chessboard with a game clearly ongoing. Yet, Oswaldo immediately rises to greet them and never returns to the game, nor does Smithers ever ask for him to come finish their game. This is because Smithers was actually playing with Sweet Dave, not Oswaldo.
Fridge Horror
- Oswaldo introduces himself to John Ruth by presenting a business card that identifies himself as the hangman in the area, and later, upon request, produces the death warrant for the man who killed the previous sheriff of Red Rock. His identity being a lie, but him still having both of those items, strongly implies that Jody's gang murdered the real Oswaldo Mobray and took his papers, just to make the setup more convincing.
- Say Daisy was right about there being fifteen members of her and Jody's gang waiting for them in the event Jody's mission was a success. Then the town of Red Rock is in for a rude awakening the moment the gang discover that Daisy and Jody didn't make it out alive, and they're now free to raid and slaughter the townsfolk in whatever manner they please.
- During the flashback when we see the Four Passengers arrive at the haberdashery, we see a cat sitting on Minnie's countertop, a cat we do not see at any other time during the 'present day'. So what did they do to that cat?
