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* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Mr. Potter is a hateful and greedy man throughout the whole movie, but what he does to George near the end is where he crossed the line into [[Complete Monster]] territory and became immortalized as one of the most memorable and hateful villains in cinema.
{{quote|'''Mr. Potter''' Why, George ... you're worth more dead than alive.}}
* [[Narm]]: In the [[Alternate Timeline]], George learns that among other things, 1) the Building & Loan went bankrupt, 2) his Uncle Billy is now in an insane asylum, 3) all his old friends are cynical and miserable, 4) his brother Harry drowned in the ice when he was a little boy, and 5) all the people whose lives Harry saved in the War died. He asks Clarence what happened to his wife, Mary. Clarenece first says, "You don't want to know," which seems to imply that what happened to her is ''[[It Got Worse|even worse]]'' than everything else we've seen so far. He then says, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|"She became an old maid."]] The complete [[Values Dissonance]] of that line for 21st-century audiences and the build up leading up to it completely shatters what had been an effective [[Nightmare Fuel]] and [[Tear Jerker]] that Pottersville had been up to this point.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: The entire last act of the movie set on Christmas Eve, culminating in "I want to live again!".
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: For one thing, the [[Bar Brawl]] in the Martini bar when George looks so depressed, and the whole [[Alternate Universe]] part, with other bar brawls where the Martini bar used to be; the attempted arrest of George and Clarence for trespassing at a still-dilapidated house; the hand-biting; the possible [[Attempted Rape]] of Mary; and it all ends with police attempting to shoot George by firing guns as he runs away. And this was under the Hays Production Code.
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