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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Garth Ennis Really hates the IRA. He has several characters call them out in "Kitchen Irish" how stupid and cowardly they are.

** Some of Ennis' political thoughts are chilling. The first line of "The End", where the war on terror goes nuclear? Soon.

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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Joan was cute in the comic, but she's played by Rebecca Romijn in the 2004 movie. Also, Bumpo is much less [[Gonk|Gonkish]] when played by John Pinette.

* [[Better on DVD]]: The 2004 film, if you're watching the "Extended Cut"; several scenes are added in that actually improve upon the film's theatrical cut and flesh out a few plot holes - most specifically, scenes with Frank's former partner, who is revealed to have sold Frank out to Howard Saint, which leads to the Castle family being massacred. (The "Extended Cut" of the film is also the one shown when the film plays on the FX network.)

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: In the 'War Zone' film, Jigsaw gives an uncomfortably hilarious patriotic speech to several groups of blatant national stereotypes. It's done in such a way it's ''impossible'' to get offended.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: John Travolta's character kills Frank's family as payback for the death of his son. Five years later Travolta's son died.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Frank. In the comics, he usually just kills the bad guys. In this movie, that's not enough... he truly ''punishes'' them.