Hard Candy/YMMV


 * Acceptable Targets - Some have theorized that Hayley is just a sociopathic sadist who looks for socially acceptable targets, like pedophiles.
 * Some believe that the writers view pedophiles and hebephiles as Acceptable Targets and were playing this trope straight.
 * Alternate Character Interpretation - Both characters are subject to this, more so Hayley.
 * A lot of people seem to think Hayley was molested or otherwise abused, driving her to seek revenge on men like the one who hurt her, which does change things up a bit.
 * Complete Monster: Both characters. Jeff's monster-ness is more in the backstory, but Hayley's is the focus of the movie.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Similar to Sarah Connor, Hayley is seen by some as a righteous figure and paragon for feminism when in reality she's a sick and demented girl who tracks down child molesters so she has someone she can torture to death.
 * Just Here for Godzilla: That torture scene.
 * Mind Game Ship: Hayley and Jeff's entire interaction with each other.
 * Misaimed Fandom - The ambiguity of the film strikes again.
 * Moral Event Horizon - Both characters are complete monsters, and both cross the moral event horizon. Jeff crosses it offscreen, in the backstory, by virtue of being a predatory hebephile, Hayley during the Neither character is a good person at all.
 * Narrowed It Down to The Guy I Recognize:
 * Mind Game Ship: Hayley and Jeff's entire interaction with each other.
 * Misaimed Fandom - The ambiguity of the film strikes again.
 * Moral Event Horizon - Both characters are complete monsters, and both cross the moral event horizon. Jeff crosses it offscreen, in the backstory, by virtue of being a predatory hebephile, Hayley during the Neither character is a good person at all.
 * Narrowed It Down to The Guy I Recognize: