The Simpsons Movie/YMMV

Complete Monster: Russ Cargill, who manipulates President Schwarzenegger into first sealing Springfield off from the rest of the world against the town's will, and then attempts to nuke Springfield, killing thousands of people - including children.
- And how does he react to this plan's failure? By trying to kill Homer and Bart....for no better reason than to make himself feel better.
- At least when he sealed the town, he was trying to prevent the toxins of the city from spreading. Outright destroying it is just plain wrong.
- He didn't manipulate Schwarzenegger into sealing off the town - he put it forward as one of several options, and the President ordered it without reading it. The bomb, though, was all his fault, though he was mad with power by then.
Ear Worm: The Spider-Pig song.
Ensemble Darkhorse: Spider-Pig.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Springfield being domed brings to mind a certain show which was adapted from another show with an environmental theme as well. Bonus points for the fact that Fox used to air the franchise.
- Similarly, Stephen King's Under the Dome, published two years after the movie, features a town under a dome and a Green Aesop.
  - Called out in a post-movie episode when Mr. Burns announces that he's going to put a dome over the city as he holds a copy of the book. He relents when he is told it's been done before.
- And the scene where Bart mocks Disney is made even funnier when an issue of the Italian Mickey Mouse comic book paid homage to the film.
- The President's line, "I was elected to LEAD, not to READ," is EERILY similar to Herman Cain stating, after his Libya incident, that the United States "needs a leader not a reader."
- In the short scene with Tom Hanks he comments that "the government has run out of credibility and is borrowing some of mine". He's the narrator of an Obama campaign video.
Memetic Mutation: Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does...
- Cargill's whole "mad with power" speech.
Moral Event Horizon: Cargill crosses a line when he plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke. The kicker is that this plan would kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including children. And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.
Nightmare Fuel - The entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY (including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member.)
- Homer's epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
- The scene in the EPA truck where Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are gassed to sleep like animals is pretty unnerving.
Ruined FOREVER: Some saw the choice of Hans Zimmer rather than Danny Elfman and/or Alf Clausen to score the film as this (Zimmer got the job due to his work with James L. Brooks despite Elfman doing the iconic theme music and Clausen being with the show since partway through the second season). The music didn't impact the film but it makes you wonder had the latter two done the film.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Russ Cargill arguably starts as this. Sure, sealing Springfield and its citizens in a dome was pretty over the top, but he did it to keep the town's pollution from spreading. This doesn't last though, as he quickly goes off the deep end into considerably more power-hungry and sinister territory.
What Could Have Been: Read Ruined FOREVER above
The Scrappy: Others see Spider-Pig as this mainly because it was in every single frigging commercial.
Tear Jerker: Homer returning to his cabin and finding none of the family, but a video tape where Marge announces that she's leaving him.

[[spoiler: Marge: Lately, what's keeping us together is my ability to overlook everything you do. And I overlook these things because...
Homer: Because?
Marge: Well, that's the thing. I just don't know how to finish that sentence anymore. So I'm leaving with the kids to help Springfield, and we're never coming back. And to prove to myself that this is the end... I taped this over our wedding video. Goodbye, Homie.]]

- To make it even worse, the video promptly cuts to Homer and Marge sharing their first dance as husband and wife as "Close To You" plays.

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