Broken Saints/YMMV

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• Awesome Music: Some of it original, some of it well-chosen and strategically placed.
• Complete Monster: Lt. Charles and Lt. Bravado qualify, as does Mars, as does Palmer. Any others who qualify are strongly debated.
• Epileptic Trees: In the epilogue on Lomalagi, Raimi and Oran are also dead.
• Get On With It Already
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Raimi's World of Cardboard Speech to Shandala is a textbook example.
  • And the ending, with the final quote by Mahatma Gandhi.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: In spades.
  • Chapter 22, Act 2. That is all.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Raimi and Oran.
• Magnificent Bastard: Lear.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Oran's first battle with Charles and Bravado: "I believe!', and the Meaningful Echo of that same line in the Grand Finale.
  • "You are going to get the girl and tell me what I want to know now, or I will fill your computers with gig after inhuman gig of child pornography. I will flood the FBI with perfect shots of you touching little boys of every age and creed--sent from your e-mail address, and I will smile when I think of the prison brothers prying you open and turning your ass into a gaping, bloody parking space. I can do it. In minutes. From anywhere. Believe it."
• Moral Event Horizon: Gabriel disembowels, gouges the eyes out of, and crucifies Shandala's cat in the Wham! Episode.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Pretty much every allusion the vagrant makes in Chapter 24, Act 1.
• Tear Jerker: A number of moments, for a number of different reasons.
• Unfortunate Implications: Palmer is heavily implied to be a homosexual and a pedophile. No other characters are either explicitly or implicitly gay, although there is considerable and intentional Ho Yay between Raimi and Oran.
• The Woobie: Our four heroes variously, especially Shandala.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Raimi and Oran both have their moments.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The Big Bad tries to turn Shandala into this.