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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: "An offer he can't refuse", the horse's head, "the day of my daughter's wedding", "may your first foist child be a masculine child", the first known use of the phrase "badabing!", and many more.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: More than a few people have, when discussing the film, referred to Michael as the ultimate Bad Ass. Smart, powerful, decisive, etc. That is not the point of his character arc. His story is a tragedy. Real-life mobsters are huge fans of the trilogy.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: It's kinda hard to place one in a movie where [[The Mafia]] is involved, but {{spoiler|what happens to that poor horse in ''Part I'' is unforgettably horrific...}} and it's done by the respective ''good guys''. {{spoiler|It's almost forgivable [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|because the horse's owner - Woltz - is revealed as a pedophile using his position as film producer to seduce young women.]]}}

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: It's kinda hard to place one in a movie where [[The Mafia]] is involved, but {{spoiler|what happens to that poor horse in ''Part I'' is unforgettably horrific...}} and it's done by the respective ''good guys''. {{spoiler|It's almost forgivable [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|because the horse's owner - Woltz - is revealed as a pedophile using his position as film producer to seduce young women.]]}}

** ''Part II'''s [[Moral Event Horizon]] is much clearer {{spoiler|where Michael has his own brother Fredo killed for unwittingly betraying Michael to Hyman Roth. Even when it's become obvious that there was no need for the killing.}} It's so painful that ''Part III'' {{spoiler|can be viewed as Michael's attempt to [[The Atoner|atone]] for the sin of fratricide by seeking salvation allying with the Catholic Church.}}

*** {{spoiler|Fredo}} though, at least had done something to deserve it. Arguably worse, and the starkest illustration of the moral emptiness at the heart of Michael's pretensions of family, is the {{spoiler|casual murder of the prostitute to frame Senator Geary. She just happened to be the girl with him that night and her death was good for business.}}