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Both films

• Crowning Music of Awesome: The film's opening theme, Blood of Cuchulainn and its remix in the sequel Blood of Cuchulainn 2010.
  • Also, Saints from the Streets, which plays over both the opening scene and the Il Duce shootout.

First film

• Alternate Character Interpretation: In-universe, the end credits show a reporter interviewing people on their wildly varying views on the Saints.
• Critical Dissonance: You betcha.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The whole damn movie. Shooting an innocent cat? Utterly despicable. Accidentally shooting a cat, and reacting with a Cluster F-Bomb? Very funny. Attempting to conceal the blood splatter on the wall by taping a (much too small) piece of paper over it? Fucking hilarious.
  • The piece of paper is a picture of the cat.
  • "Is it dead?"
• Ho Yay: Connor and Murphy are very close. Some fans point to the scene where Connor rips a toilet from the floor in a frenzy and carries it up to the roof to drop on his brother's would-be killers when Murphy is in trouble, as well as jumping five stories down to land on an attacker as a sign of their profound love for one another.
  • Also the cauterization-by-iron scene where Murphy is holding Connor still from behind. They all got gagged to refrain from screaming, which reduces it somewhat... until Connor reaches behind and clutches at Murphy's hair while the camera pans over to leave only the two of them without even the iron in frame. Thus, it is extremely easy to take that scene out of context.
  • Then there's the hit on the Sick Mob Man, after which Connor puts his hand over Rocco's mouth, and kisses the back of his hand. Which doesn't even make sense in context, unless you count Rocco's immediate silence.
• Squick: Other reactions to fangirl shipping listed above.

Second film

• Non Sequitur Scene: When Eunice Bloom starts with the gun tricks in a cow girl outfit for no reason.
  • Also, the dream sequence in the hockey arena.
    • The hockey arena is a subtle callback to Greenly suggesting that their mass execution of the mob bosses take place center ice at a Bruin's game because of how public it will be. It's an homage to the passing of his character, as is the line "Thanks for coming out."
• Fanservice: Connor and Murphy get an outdoor shower scene.
• Fetish Fuel: Eunice Bloom at the scene of the priest's murder as well as her cowgirl outfit while investigating the penthouse shootout. (Actually, just Eunice Bloom in general.)
• Narm: Special Agent Bloom's slightly lisping southern accent sounds just a wee bit like Truman Capote at times.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: A lot of people were unhappy that Willem Defoe wouldn't be returning. then he shows up in the last five minutes of the movie!

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