Kingdom of Heaven/YMMV

• Anvilicious: "Nearly a thousand years later, peace in the Kingdom of Heaven remains elusive", the final title card.
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped:

Balian: What is Jerusalem worth?
Saladin: Nothing. (He walks away then turns around) Everything!

• Canon Sue: The main character, mostly by making everyone else Too Dumb to Live, ^[1]
  • A brief scene in the directors cut has him designing a fortification centuries ahead of it's time in style.
• Complete Monster: Raynald de Chatillon, who leads attacks on innocent Arab villages in orgies of rape and head-chopping, just to provoke Saladin. It doesn't work until he cruelly and personally murders Saladin's sister.
  • And drinking water meant for King Guy gets his throat slit.
    • Saladin was going to kill him anyway, but offering water invokes Sacred Hospitality. "I did not give the cup to you."
• Ending Fatigue: The epilogue was especially prominent in the shorter theatrical release.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Even (or maybe especially) in the poorly-received theatrical cut, Edward Norton's King Baldwin impressed critics and audiences.
• Europeans Love Saladin
• Iron Woobie: King Baldwin.
• Marty Stu: Balian, to some extent.
• Mary Tzu: Balian is often accused of being this by people who haven't seen the Directors Cut because in the theatrical version he is presented as a humble blacksmith who seems to inexplicably have a lot of knowledge about war. The better-received Director's Cut restores deleted scenes in which he explains that he was an engineer who worked with the army and built war machines before retiring to a simpler life as a blacksmith.
• Memetic Badass: Saladin.
  • He has a province named after him in Iraq.
• Purity Sue: King Baldwin IV, based on his historical reputation.

1. ↑ The director's cut explains that he fought in several battles in the past and used to build siege engines.