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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 mistook for Kick-Ass. Admittedly, someone dressed as Kick-Ass.
- Also his great idea of fun is watching a live video of his thugs beating up and torturing Big Daddy and Kick-Ass.
Crazy Awesome: Hit Girl, Big Daddy, Frank D'Amico and Kick-Ass himself, for, you know, beating the living manshit out of people while wearing scuba gear.
Crosses the Line Twice: A lot more than twice actually. Single scene example: Dave gets stabbed in the gut. The audience winces. He then staggers out into the street and gets flipped by a car. The audience starts laughing.
Ensemble Darkhorse: Hit-Girl
HSQ:
- Hit Girl's first fight to the Banana Splits song is pretty high up on the Quotient.
- All the time from when Hit Girl enters D'Amico's stronghold and ends when she and Kick Ass make an exit with a jet pack.
It Was His Sled: The movie makes no secret of the fact that Red Mist is The Mole, whilst it was a twist in the comic.
Jerkass Woobie: Big Daddy/Damon McCready
Memetic Mutation: The scene of Big Daddy testing the bulletproof vest on Hit-Girl became a popular staple of meme comics because of how disturbing it is out of context.
Moral Event Horizon: D'Amico is most firmly established as a complete psycho-ass when he finds out Kick-Ass had nothing to do with his plans getting ruined but still insisted on him being beaten, tortured, and executed on a live webcast. The sheer look of sadistic pleasure on his face and the disgusted look Chris gives him when they're both watching it said volumes about what a Complete Monster he was.
What an Idiot!: For the Armenian Kid With A History Of Mental Issues, there's no way wings that size could generate enough lift to allow a person to fly.
What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: While the theatrical trailers for the film show plenty of foul language, violence, and countless other clues that this is not a kid's film, the television trailers are censored. Because of the young ages of the superheroes, there's a chance some parents may get a nasty surprise if they took their child to see it. Of course, since the title of the movie is Kick-Ass, they'd sort of deserve what they got if they did that, especially since the movie is rated R.

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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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