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** In the original telling the Beast was very polite and courteous as he tried to make up for his hideous appearance.
* In ''The [[Final Destination]]'', whereas the dumb black-hating redneck received [[Death by Racism|a spectacular and humiliating end]] in the opening 20 minutes of Number 4, a Korean war vet is fine despite lines like this:
{{quote| '''Orderly:''' You feeling okay, Mr. Suby?<br />
'''Suby:''' Ha! What do you care? You know how many of your kind I killed in Korea?<br />
'''Orderly:''' I'm Chinese, sir.<br />
'''Suby:''' Pfft! Same difference! }}
* The 1942 movie ''[[Holiday Inn]]''... the musical number for February (Lincoln's birthday). [[Values Dissonance]] is one thing but this... Holy. Shit. A big blackface minstrel show about [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Naturally it gets cut when on TV (even in 1942, controversy forced Irving Berlin to alter the offending word "darky" to "negro").
** Even some of the ''characters'' think it's a dumb idea (in-story, the blackface was a last-minute addition).
* ''[[Film/Rules Of Engagement|Rules Of Engagement]]'': Someone guns down a crowd of protesters in Yemen... and later on it's revealed that it was okay, because the crowd ''was all armed and attacking''. Even a ''four year old girl'' is shown to be armed. Did we mention that when they show the crowd, they try to make all the Arab people as alien and as evil as possible? This may be an [[Unreliable Narrator]] at work, but it's all rather vague. As Mark Freeman said:
{{quote| "The message of Rules of Engagement is the necessity to kill all those who actively oppose the United States and that the murder of women and children is acceptable in such cases."}}
** This example counts as something of a [[Shocking Swerve]]. Throughout the movie, the Marines' attack on the protesting crowd was presented as abhorrent as it was believed that only a few people in the crowd were actually armed and that the Colonel (played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]]) overreacted by ordering his men to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|open fire on the entire crowd, armed or not]]. It was only after finding the security videotape that the audience finds out that 90+% of the crowd was in on the attack and that Jackson was justified (legally if not morally) in opening fire on a crowd of civilians.
** In the DVD commentary the director said the original scene was supposed to be unclear about whether the crowd was actually shooting, or if that's just what [[Samuel L. Jackson]] convinced himself into believing. However, the test audience [[Viewers are Morons|wanted a literal interpretation]], so that's what the film ultimately got. Also the Arab doctor is one of the people with the most moral fiber (note how he is able to make a tough choice when none of the American witnesses can).
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** Also, while Soviets (for once) are portrayed as decent human beings who are being fooled by Shaw just like the Americans, it should be noticed that there's only one Communist mutant, which is Azazel. Not only he's among the villains, he looks like a devil.
* Although hardly the only flaw in Uwe Boll's series of ''[[Blood Rayne (film)|Blood Rayne]]'' movies, [http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/16/saturday-crapshoot-bloodrayne-3 this article] points out how Boll seemingly has "nothing but contempt" for the aggressive, sexually charged female lead character. The review points out how Rayne herself is trumped at every turn in the fight scenes by ''original characters'', and how she is the more submissive partner in the [[Coitus Ensues|inevitable sex scene]].
{{quote| It's not that Boll didn't put competent female characters in the movie. He just didn't make Rayne one of them.}}
* [[Million Dollar Baby]] Implies that disability means that life is not worth living, or worthy to live.
* ''[[300]]'' has several: