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*** Assuming he didn't just flat out make up the guy was deformed.

* [[Values Dissonance]]: Both sides, although especially the Spartans.

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Political]]: Complicated again, as the film was made during The War On Terror, which Frank Miller supports, but the original comic was written a decade earlier. Notably, though, people who take this tack disagree on whether the Spartans are meant to represent the US and the Persians Islamic terrorism, or the other way around; it could be seen as brave freedom-lovers fighting Middle Eastern tyrants, or as a vast empire underestimating a local population and getting its butt kicked. At a March 2007 press conference, director Zack Snyder found himself nonplussed when asked by a reporter whether King Leonidas was meant to be George W Bush or Osama bin Laden. Original author Frank Miller claims that his comic to a large degree was inspired by the 1962 film ''The 300 Spartans'', which is often considered to be a metaphor for the Cold War. Whether such a message was intended or not is far from clear.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?]]: Complicated again, as the film was made during The War On Terror, which Frank Miller supports, but the original comic was written a decade earlier. Notably, though, people who take this tack disagree on whether the Spartans are meant to represent the US and the Persians Islamic terrorism, or the other way around; it could be seen as brave freedom-lovers fighting Middle Eastern tyrants, or as a vast empire underestimating a local population and getting its butt kicked. At a March 2007 press conference, director Zack Snyder found himself nonplussed when asked by a reporter whether King Leonidas was meant to be George W Bush or Osama bin Laden. Original author Frank Miller claims that his comic to a large degree was inspired by the 1962 film ''The 300 Spartans'', which is often considered to be a metaphor for the Cold War. Whether such a message was intended or not is far from clear.

* [[The Woobie]]: Ephialtes, to some extent.