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* [[Ancient Rome]]
* [[Badass Boast]]: "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: Early in the film, there's a scene where Tiberius and Caligula are, despite the copious amounts of sex acts taking place in the background, having a serious discussion about how the political system works in Rome. All of a sudden, Tiberius calls for "more conviction," which leads to a three-minute-long orgy scene with various reaction shots of Caligula and Tiberius interspersed. After said orgy is over and done with, Tiberius and Caligula carry on with their previous discussion as if nothing had happened.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Despite torturing and killing several people, not to mention making his horse Incitatus a senator, it's only after Caligula declares himself a god in front of the senate Longinus exclaims "he's mad!"
** In fairness, the stuff Caligula had done until that point was apparently ''less'' crazy than what Tiberus had been doing in his final years. Declaring himself a god was probably the first sign that he was truly delusional, as opposed to just being a tyrant.
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** Making matters worse, according to Malcolm McDowell it was real vomit.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[The Woobie]]: Proculus. For the simple "crime" of already being engaged to a woman that Caligula likes the look of, he gets to {{spoiler|watch her get brutally raped by Caligula, and then gets Caligula's fist up his own anus}}. And following this humiliation, Caligula decides that he's a traitor because he's too honest -- and therefore a bad Roman -- and has him {{spoiler|castrated, killed, and urinated upon by two prostitutes}}. In that order.
** Some versions of the film take this all the way to [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] territory. The original introduction scene for Proculus had Caligula ordering him thrown into the path of the decapitation machine mentioned above, and he successfully climbed to the top of it and stopped the machine, earning him the adulation of the crowd, but also pissing off Caligula into later {{spoiler|raping his wife and fisting him on his wedding day}}.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: {{spoiler|A baby's head is smashed on a staircase.}} Something the [[IMDb]] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/parentalguide Parental Guide] makes sure to mark as "[[Gorn|UNRATED VERY BLOODY]] [[Nightmare Fuel|DISTURBING]].
 
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