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* [[Complete Monster]]: Xerxes. His massacre of a defenseless Greek village which leaves countless men, women, and children brutally slaughtered ''obliterates'' the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* [[Designated Hero|Designated Heroes]]: Ordinarily, you wouldn't be rooting for the side that glorifies warfare, practices eugenics, is profoundly tribal/racist, kills diplomats and [[Leave No Survivors|systematically kills wounded and those attempting to surrender]]. Luckily, they didn't even try to tackle the slavery issue.
* [[Designated Villain|Designated Villains]]: the
* [[Enemy Mine]]: When the film came out, several Greek journalists protested to the way Persians were depicted.
* [[Fountain of Memes]]
* [[Genius Bonus]]: Leonidas calling the Athenians "boy lovers" isn't an insult on their homosexuality. Athens prohibits ''over-aged'' prostitutes. Leonidas was saying Athenians are a bunch of wimps for not having sex with "real" men.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The movie was a ''massive'' hit in Greece and cultural neighbor Cyprus, probably because it depicted Greeks as total [[Badass|badasses]]. ▼
* [[Gratuitous Special Effects]]: This movie makes heavy use of prosthetics, [[Green Screen]] and lots of CGI. The same battle was depicted in the movie ''The Three Hundred Spartans'' decades earlier with little more than fancy costumes and prop swords. The comic is
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** An in-story example: "We will fight in the shade."
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** It's hard to take many previous works with phrase "[[This Is Madness]]" seriously anymore due to the ''300'' film.
** Leonidas isn't the only [[God of War (series)|Spartan]] with an affinity for making gods bleed.
▲* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The movie was a ''massive'' hit in Greece and cultural neighbor Cyprus, probably because it depicted Greeks as total [[Badass|badasses]].
▲* [[Gratuitous Special Effects]]: This movie makes heavy use of prosthetics, [[Green Screen]] and lots of CGI. The same battle was depicted in the movie ''The Three Hundred Spartans'' decades earlier with little more than fancy costumes and prop swords. The comic is comparitavely more realistic with its visuals.
* [[Ho Yay]]: This movie might have been called ''Ho Yay: The Motion Picture''.
* [[HSQ]]: Shoots through the roof during battle scenes.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: While the Spartans were already commonly regarded as the most badass
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** "[[This Is Sparta]]" quickly became ingrained in popular culture, including [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|the inevitable dance mix]].
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That here, by Spartan law, we lie. }}
* [[Tear Jerker]]: The ending. Each man knows that he faces death at the hands of Xerxes, but they absolutely refuse to give in or abandon their king.
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* [[Unfortunate Implications]]:
** Beyond the
** The real Ephialtes wasn't Spartan or deformed, and only wanted a reward, but [[Frank Miller]] strongly changed this aspect of the story. The physically deformed, "defective" Ephialtes now "lives down to his physical unfitness" by betraying the athletic - and correspondingly morally upstanding - heroes to the Persians. This element was added to give Ephialtes a more interesting motive than simple greed, but also seems to suggest that their systematic eugenic cleansing practice (directly inspiring similar practices by the Nazis) was fully justified, and the problem was simply that one of them got away; along with [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]. The [[Unreliable Narrator]] justification doesn't work for this one.
*** Assuming he didn't just flat out make up the guy was deformed.
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