Highlander/YMMV

The films:
"Jacob Kell: What's wrong? Don't you want to be inside me?"
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Queen's song, "Princes of the Universe" as well as their cover of "New York, New York", which has apparently never been released in its complete form anywhere. As well as "Who Wants To Live Forever?"
 * Foe Yay: All over the place, but the ultimate example would have to be...


 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The last line of the opening narration of the first film. "No one ever knew we were among you, until now." Well, except a whole organization of Watchers...
 * I Am Not Shazam: There are times when the Immortals as a whole were called "Highlanders" by viewers new to the franchise.
 * And by plenty of writers for Cracked.com.
 * Memetic Mutation: "There can be only one!"
 * Appending "The Quickening" or some variant of it onto parody sequel titles.
 * "You have the manners of a goat."
 * Retroactive Recognition: John C. "Dr. Perry Cox" McGinley is the Corrupt Corporate Executive in the second movie.
 * Sequelitis: One of the most infamous instances of it.
 * Special Effect Failure: Connor's makeup in Highlander: Endgame. Just watching the movie, you think that Christopher Lambert is horribly showing his age, and it's impossible to see him as the Immortal 18-year old Connor Macleod. Until you watch the cast interviews and see that Lambert is actually not all that bad-looking, and that they had to have made him look 70 intentionally. Presumably it's to reflect how he's tired of life and ready to give up, but without any explanation, you just assume it's the actor too old for the role.
 * Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Connor MacLeod vs. FREDDIE FREAKING MERCURY in the video for "Princes of the Universe".
 * Freddie uses his iconic mic stand, and battles Connor to a draw. What does that tell you?
 * World of Ham: The only Immortal in the first movie who is even the tiniest bit understated is Connor himself, and once he gets the Prize..."I KNOW EVERYTHING! I AM EVERYTHING!"

The series:

 * Designated Villain: While there are plenty that don't fall into this category, its very easy to make a case that alot of Highlander villains are exactly this. Offscreen, other immortals are almost certainly coming for them, so they come for other immortals. If they can get an extra quickening, their odds of survival go up. A particularly notable case was  who   To underscore this point
 * Ensemble Darkhorse, thy name is Methos.
 * Moral Event Horizon: From The Pharaoh's Daughter we have Nefetiri.
 * Another one in Under Color of Authority we have Lawful Stupid Mako.
 * Retroactive Recognition: The series contains repeated instances of this, particularly in the early seasons, including appearances by Jason "Lucius Malfoy" Isaacs, Ron "Hellboy" Perlman, and Marion "Mal" Cotillard.
 * The Scrappy: Richie.