YMMV / Django

• Awesome Music:
  • Django's theme song, sung by Rocky Roberts, is beautifully melancholic.
  • Luis Bacalov's score, while not as iconic as Ennio Morricone's work on the Dollars Trilogy, is every bit as epic, featuring plenty of brass with the occasional elements of Latin and rock music.
• Complete Monster:
  • Official films:
    • Original 1966 film: During The American Civil War, Major Jackson was a Confederate officer who killed Django's wife. After the war ended, Jackson and his men took over a Texas border town, entering into a Mob War with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, while the Major entertains himself by using Mexican civilians as target practice. Django arrives in town to seek vengeance, and rescues a prostitute from being crucified by Jackson's men. After Django robs a military base with the revolutionaries, Jackson ambushes them and slaughters the lot before trying to kill Django himself.
    • Django Strikes Again (1987): "El Diablo" Orlowsky is a sadistic former soldier who runs a slaving operation based around abducting children and adults, working them to death in his mines and killing and torturing any who disappoint him in any way. Having exhausted slaves hurled in the rivers to drown, Orlowsky frequently murders locals for sport. His worst operation is selling young girls to brothels as sex slaves, uncaring of who suffers as long as he profits.
  • Django Kills Softly (1967): El Santo is a vicious bandito patrolling the border of the town of Santa Anna, wiping out any caravans who can't pay his passage fee. El Santo opens the movie ruthlessly murdering an entire family, not sparing the child, and descends upon a saloon full of people to massacre everyone inside. In league with the film's other Big Bad, Dr. Thompson, El Santo promptly attempts to kill his partner and everyone affiliated with him the second he's crossed.
  • Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! (1967): Navarro is an unusually brutal Starter Villain who kills Django's father and every man accompanying him in the film's opening moments. In the scenes that follow, Navarro beats women; orders his own son murdered; kills one of his own men for annoying him; and tries to slaughter his way through a village of innocent people, all in the span of 20 minutes.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The bartender Nathaniel has his fans for being a fairly Nice Guy who gets some good lines.
• It Was His Sled: People who've heard of the movie tend to be aware that Django's coffin has a gatling gun in it.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Original 1966 film: Django himself is an ex-Union soldier distinguished by the coffin he always carries behind him, combines stoic mystique with gritty cunning enough to influence Spaghetti Western heroes for decades to come. Hunting down Major Jackson, the Confederate who killed his wife, Django eggs Jackson into sending the full force of his army against him with the latter's expectation of a Curb-Stomp Battle, only to pop off the coffin's lid to produce a surprise Gatling gun and single-handedly slaughter Jackson's men. Django teams up with Jackson's rival, Hugo, and masterminds the successful robbery of a military fort, only to backstab Hugo and abscond with the stolen loot himself. Almost entirely self-serving, Django nevertheless cares for women, such as the abused half-Mexican prostitute María, and even after his hands are crippled by Hugo, ends the film utterly victorious against Jackson by propping the gun on his wife's grave and using the hammer to shoot his enemies dead.
  • Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968): This version of Django is just as ruthless and clever as the original. Blowing into a small, dusty town held in a chokehold by corrupt politician David Barry and his pet killer Lucas, the ones responsible for murdering Django's wife, Django concocts a scheme to pose as a hangman and hold mock executions of the many, many people Barry and Lucas have framed for their own crimes. Django makes a point of executing three of the people he saved when they decide to opt out of his revenge scheme but otherwise opts for a minimum of bloodshed in executing his ruthless scheme, and is finally triumphant against Barry when he tricks the crooked villain into showing up with his full entourage in a graveyard, whereupon Django unearths his Gatling gun and wastes them all.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Major Jackson crosses it in the backstory by killing Django's wife.
  • General Hugo Rodriguez manages to cross the line three times: first in his Establishing Character Moment by cutting a man's ear off, feeding it to him, and finally shooting him In the Back; then he amazingly comes back to the more humane side - only to move past the horizon definitely by critically wounding Maria.
• Nightmare Fuel: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. It makes the violence in Sergio Leone's westerns look tame in comparison.
• Sequelitis: Depending on your definition of sequel: there are more than 30 alleged Django sequels, which are mostly same-titled rip-offs. Very few are actually good. The only official sequel is Django Strikes Again, released in 1987.

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