Perfume/YMMV
< Perfume
- Alas, Poor Villain: Grenouille.
- Complete Monster: Grenouille himself. As far as it shows, none of the persons who ever took him over taught much of morality or life value. He was sold as a slave, his own mother tried leaving him for dead underneath a fish tent, every kid in the orphanage hated and feared him and that the only guy who took actual care of him just wanted to use his talents for himself, and none of them ever tutored him for anything but work. He knows only the realm of scents and grieves only for the loss of it, as with the Plum Girl. He was never taught the value of life or love.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: The film casts Grenouille as something of an Antichrist by perverting aspects of the New Testament. After getting arrested, he is sentenced to die on a cross-shaped torture device. During his planned execution, he beguiles the crowd into seeing him as a righteous man. However, he refuses the call to rule the world when he realizes that he doesn't feel like it. When he dies, a crowd consumes his body in a perverse echo of the Eucharist.
- Hollywood Homely: Grenouille is a disheveled, scarred, filthy, bone-thin, and socially inept man, but he's played by the dashing Ben Whishaw. It's questionable whether this is also an example of Adaptational Attractiveness, since the character is clearly supposed to be unattractive.