Dead Poets Society/YMMV
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Is Keating the creativity-encouraging free spirit intellectual the students all see him as, or a pretentious egomaniac irresponsibly wielding his influence over impressionable young people?
- Ho Yay: Neil and Todd. It's virtual canon.
- It Was His Sled: Neil's death.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Charlie is paired with nearly everyone in fanfiction, mostly under the logic that he probably wouldn't object.
- Narm: The Big No is ruined by the slow motion and Neil's father being played by Kurtwood Smith from That '70s Show.
- Role Association: Neil's father either is Red or Clarence Boddicker!
- And Neil does in fact end up as a doctor.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Admit it, you wanted Neil to kill his dad instead of himself.