The Devil to Pay in the Backlands/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: After a huge Narm (see below) - "I only have God, Joca Ramiro... and you, Riobaldo".
 * Fanon Discontinuity: Movie, what movie?
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: When the jacunços were so tired and hungry that they shoot a monkey and ate it. !
 * The horses' massacre. All that blood, and the cries...
 * How about Madeiro Vaz shooting the leprous man in the head? So damn hideous.
 * All the war. War Is Hell, indeed.
 * It Was His Sled: Well, all these spoiler tags are nonsensical to Brazilians, but maybe if you are a foreign reader.
 * Narm: Before the big battle, in a scene that is pure Unresolved Sexual Tension, Riobaldo asks Diadorim if he doesn't have any sister.
 * Romantic Plot Tumor: There's a FREAKING WAR going on, but mostly people just remember the gay love thing, wich is written amazingly, by the way.
 * Stoic Woobie: Riobaldo, near the end for sure, and Diadorim, all the time.
 * Tear Jerker: Thirty pages before the end, go there and cry.
 * Too Cool to Live: Madeiro Vaz and.