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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: It's possible partially to exonerate Tamora, on the grounds that her child (Alarbus) has been brutally killed after pleading for mercy. Her instructing her sons to rape and dismember Lavinia is tit for tat (''see'' [[Not So Different]], ''below''), and most of the other atrocities are committed by Aaron.
** For that matter, Aaron himself can be seen as a bitter, lost and unhinged [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] if you squint a bit.
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Depending on how it's played
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] Dialogue: After finding out about the abovementioned [[
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'''Aaron''': Villain, I have done thy mother. }}
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Aaron, though he does tend to get overlooked amongst Shakespeare's other Magnificent Bastards such as [[Othello|Iago]] and [[Richard III]].
** The film really highlights this in [[Evil Gloating|Aaron's monologue]] after [[For the Evulz|betraying Titus]] with the [[Life or Limb Decision]] ("I have done a thousand dreadful things as willingly as one would kill a fly, and nothing grieves me heartily indeed, but that I cannot do ten thousand more" ''etc., etc.''), which is set to [[Soundtrack Dissonance|a jaunty jazz tune]].
** Titus himself is a boderline case too.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Can't sleep. Titus won't eat me. He'll make someone else eat me.
* [[Squick]]: If a production doesn't squick someone out, something is very, ''very'', wrong.
* [[This Is Your Premise
* [[Values Dissonance]]: This was one of Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and right afterward but has pretty much had the exact opposite reputation since then.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Really, Saturninus? You think it's a good idea to marry a defeated enemy who has sworn revenge right in front of you and elevate her to empress? And then convict the two sons of the man responsible for her son's death based on one piece of evidence that this revenge-sworn Queen of the Goths gave you?
** This is justified since Saturninus is potrayed though out the play as an arrogant dumbass.
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