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* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Not all the time, but Lecter's {{spoiler|escape in Silence of the Lambs ''runs'' on this. Disposing of the guards as mentioned above, then getting their backup to carry him out of the prison themselves by ''wearing his victim's clothes and mutilated face over his own''}}.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: in the book (only) of ''Silence''.

{{quote| '''Dr. Lecter:''' * ''showing Starling a letter''* "This is about my crucifixion watch. They won't give me a patent, but they advise me to copyright the face. ... You may have noticed that in most crucifixions the hands point to, say, a quarter to three, or ten till two at the earliest, while the feet are at six. On this watch face, Jesus is on the cross, as you see there, and the arms revolve to indicate the time, just like the arms on the popular Disney watches. the feet remain at six and at the top a small second hand revolves in the halo. What do you think?"}}

{{quote|'''Dr. Lecter:''' * ''showing Starling a letter''* "This is about my crucifixion watch. They won't give me a patent, but they advise me to copyright the face. ... You may have noticed that in most crucifixions the hands point to, say, a quarter to three, or ten till two at the earliest, while the feet are at six. On this watch face, Jesus is on the cross, as you see there, and the arms revolve to indicate the time, just like the arms on the popular Disney watches. the feet remain at six and at the top a small second hand revolves in the halo. What do you think?"}}

** In a bizarrely creepy way, some of Lecter's killing's. In particular, the way he {{spoiler|strings up the disemboweled guard to look like an angel during his escape}} in the movie. Another one is his "bloody angel" killing from ''Hannibal''. {{spoiler|He splits the victim's ribs near the spine and pulls the lungs out the back, and flattens them, making them look like wings.}} Both are, in a very disturbing and macabre way, almost artistic.

*** The books hint that part of the reason Lecter does this is to distract and shock investigators, tripping them up on the horrific details and giving him more time to cover his tracks or otherwise get clear.

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* [[Genius Bonus]]: Hannibal famously said of one victim that he "ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." Liver, fava beans, and wine all contain a substance called tyramine, which can cause a severe reaction in any person taking an MAO inhibitor drug. MAO inhibitors, in turn, are one of the first antidepressants and were a regular part of the drug regimen given to people in insane asylums before safer antidepressants became available. Thus, anyone committed to an insane asylum -- such as Hannibal Lecter himself -- would have been forbidden from consuming liver, fava beans, or Chianti.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Clarice thinks that Hannibal's crimes are due to some sort of [[Freudian Excuse]] and Hannibal tells her that its foolish thinking and that shes abandoning the concepts of good and evil for behaviouralism. Twenty years later, Hannibal Rising, a book detailing Hannibal's origins and motivations, was released.

{{quote| '''Dr. Lecter:''' ''Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling.'' I ''happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.''}}

{{quote|'''Dr. Lecter:''' ''Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling.'' I ''happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.''}}

* [[Les Yay]]: In a discussion of motivation, Hannibal tells Starling "we start by coveting the things we see every day." Starling repeats this observation to her FBI room-mate Ardelia, and they smile at each other.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: If ''anyone'' can be considered one, it's Lecter.