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=== YMMVs for the [[Kick-Ass|comics]]: ===
 
* [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|Red Mist and his father.}}
** {{spoiler|On the topic of Red Mist, in Kick-Ass Volume 2, in the space of an afternoon, Red Mist rapes Katie, kills her parents, several children & police officers. After it's all said & done, he managed to get [[Corrupt Cop|Vic Gigante]] telling him that the police will no longer turn a blind eye to his actions ''and'' the various mafia families are all gunning for him.}}
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The end of the second series. {{spoiler|The heroes beat down the villains. Kick-Ass beats down Red Mist.}}
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: The fruit of David's efforts to rescue people? People cosplaying as superheroes and taking pictures of themselves, which now goes past the hardcore geeks and to everyday people. Plus, a whole bunch of them actually start training to be superheroes like Kick-Ass, Big-Daddy and Hit-Girl.
** Also, "Tunk," the new swear word that Dave's friends made up (basically the male equivalent of Cunt) catches on unbelievably fast.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Red Mist and his father manage to cross it at the same time, after setting up Kick-Ass and the others. First, they beat the shit out of them. When Hit Girl tries to fight back, Johnny G orders his men to shoot her in the back, which they gladly do, sending her flying out a window. Red Mist then raves about how awesome that was, demonstrating that he's either a total sociopath or at least isn't very good at separating comic books from reality. In either case, that's the moment when both of them stop being mere villains and cross the line into [[Complete Monster]] territory. Interestingly, the film turned this into a humanising [[Even Evil Has Standards]] moment for Red Mist by having him instead be suitably horrified.}}
** Also {{spoiler|the revelation that Big Daddy isn't an ex-cop and dragged his daughter into the lifestyle after running away from her and lying to her about the fate of her mother}}. This is one point where a decent amount of people seem to prefer the film version of the character over the comic due to the absence of this.
* [[Stoic Woobie]]: Big Daddy and Hit Girl. {{spoiler|However, not so much the latter after the former died}}.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: Red Mist as The Motherfucker, to the point that he alienates all the gangsters and dirty cops working for him due to his pointless acts of villainy.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|Big Daddy's death.}}
** {{spoiler|After utterly destroying John G and the rest of his goons, Hit Girl finally breaks down.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Hit Girl''': Would you give me a ''hug''? My daddy just died.}}}}
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Pointed out by Kick-Ass in Volume 2, {{spoiler|after he & Hit-Girl find out that the Mother Fucker's plan is to burn New York to the ground - Chris is asthmatic, so ''what's he going to do when he blows up all of the pharmacys & hospitals, and he needs his medication?''}}
 
=== YMMVs for the [[Kick-Ass (film)|film]]: ===
 
* [[Breakout Character]]: Hit-Girl seems to be the most popular character of the movie.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Frank D'Amico has very few redeeming features. It could be argued that his interaction with Chris and what there is of the wife is a weak [[Pet the Dog]] moment, and that even for Chris, he's doing it to weed out Kick-Ass and not because he's supporting his son. His Crowning Moment of Evil comes when he murders an innocent bystander who witnessed him beat and shoot someone he {{spoiler|mistook for Kick-Ass}}. Admittedly, someone ''dressed'' as Kick-Ass.
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