YMMV / Lupin III: Island of Assassins

• Awesome Art: If you're a fan of '90's style anime art and animation, that is.
• Complete Monster:
  • Gordeau is the head of Tarantula, a sinister coalition of killers responsible for assassinations, bombings and massacres across the world. Gordeau ensures absolute obedience by poisoning his men with a venom that will agonizingly kill them should they leave his island without his special gas masks, and has no compunction having underperforming minions used as live game for the others. Demanding loyalty while possessing not a drop of his own, Gordeau ultimately sets up the death of everyone in his entire organization to make off with the gold hidden beneath his island, and finally meets his end trying to betray and kill his last remaining subordinate.
  • The seemingly-affable Doc is actually Gordeau's accomplice who matches his boss's reprehensible cruelty. Once Lupin's partner who betrayed him during a getaway, Doc would go on to assist Gordeau in his assassinations, taking an active part in carrying them out. Doc helps set up the death of everybody in Tarantula by tricking Ellen and the renegade assassins into stealing fake gold, resulting in dozens of casualties on both sides. Killing Gordeau to acquire the real gold for himself, Doc sadistically reveals to Ellen that he slit her brother's throat, afterwards attempting to leave everybody on the island behind to die with the gold in hand.
• Fridge Brilliance: The hidden inscription inside Ellen's pendant counts as an in-universe example (noted in the Chekhov's Gun entry on the main page).
• The Woobie: Ellen is one of the most tragic characters in the Lupin III series - from her backstory, to how she was eventually Made a Slave by Gordeau, and losing her brother who was one of the few people who ever cared about her. All she (and the others) wanted was to live a normal life. And her first taste of freedom meant so much to her, that she was actually willing to commit suicide to keep from going back. The only reason she didn't finish pulling the trigger, was her brother's memory. All of which made her death at the end heartbreaking.