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* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: The film has badly suffered from being idolized by gun-toting sociopaths who believed They'd found Their representative in Travis (Most infamously John Hinckley Jr). The other side of the fandom is nutjobs who take Travis' racism and vigilante ways as something to be admired. Like ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' five years earlier, a brilliant work of art that suffered because it was viewed by dangerous idiots.
* [[Never Live It Down]]: John Hinckley trying to emulate Travis by shooting Ronald Reagan. Not that any sane person would ever see that link otherwise, though.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Martin Scorsese as a ''very'' deranged cuckolded husband. For once in the movie, Travis is the most stable person in his taxi.
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: An unreleased video game was in the works. According to [http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1005431#1005431 to one] [http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1005870#1005870 of the staff], it was going to be a GTA Clone, written by Hollywood Writers who had never played a video game or seen the movie (beyond the mirror scene) before. [http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=606445&highlight=taxi+driver#606445 Featured stupid dialog with awful voice acting] and made Travis a mass-murdering psychopath instead of a deranged loner posing in the mirror. It even went through a period where the license was removed from the game before getting it applied again.
* [[The Woobie]]: Travis is quite possibly some category of this:
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