Strange Days/YMMV

• Broken Ace: Lenny
• Complete Monster: Steckler and Egelman and also Max, later reavealed.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: "While The Earth Sleeps" by Peter Gabriel and Deep Forest.
  • Hell, pretty much the whole damn soundtrack, except maybe Jeriko One's lackluster rap song.

• Hilarious in Hindsight: A news broadcaster mentioned that astrologists predicted that Moammar Ghadafi would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast forward to 2010 to the 2011 Libyan uprising...
  • Also, during Jeriko One's speech, he mentions the LAPD "arranging deckchairs on the Titanic." Considering who the writer is.
  • Very early in the film, a caller on a radio talk show can be heard complaining about the country's problems, among them how gas costs more than three dollars per gallon. Nowadays, the price can get as high as five dollars per gallon or more in some areas.
• Iron Woobie: Mace.
• Jerkass Woobie: Lenny, who is also a rather tarnished Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Nightmare Fuel: The rape scenes. 'Nuff said.
• Squick: The rape-murder recording, especially taking into consideration what that involves for the character using it. It isn't just seeing it in first person like the audience does (which is bad enough), but experiencing everything the perpetrator experienced. And, since he had it hooked up to a device he'd put on her head, she did, too. *shudder*
• Tear Jerker: The scene where Lenny reveals why exactly he's still so hung up on Faith:

When I met Faith, she was just another runaway, giving twenty dollar blowjobs to buy crank. Just another lost soul. But she had this voice... it was scary, like she could take all the hurt and rage of the entire world and lift it up to Heaven in one voice. I helped her. And I promised her that I'd always just be there, to protect her. See, it's not about what's in her head, it's what's in mine. I can't let go of the promise. It's like it's all I have left.

• • For added value, Lenny begins this by asking Mace whether she's ever been in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. Mace pointedly replies that yes, she has.
• What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Max stabs Lenny in the back both figuratively and literally, and to defeat him and Faith, Lenny must literally and figuratively cut the tie that connects them.