The Fighter/YMMV

• Award Snub: Persons were disappointed with the exclusion of a Oscar nomination for Mark Walhberg.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Seriously, Dicky is the most charismatic drug addict ever to grace the silver screen.
• Heartwarming Moments: Dickie goes to his drug-friends, and, without words, basically tells them they're never gonna see him again, then he goes to Charlene's house and basically tells her, "You're not that much better than me, but my brother loves you, and that's what's important."
• Jerkass Woobie: Dickie is selfish, incredibly unreliable, and seems not to give a damn about anything but himself. But he is so beaten down by his own faded dreams of glory and his self-hatred at what he has become its difficult not to feel for him.
• Memetic Mutation: NOT YOU! NAWT YOU!
• Moment of Awesome: Don't call Charlene a skank. Just...don't.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dicky's plan to get money.
  • Sherri (Micky's ex-wife) having Kasie watch the documentary just to show her what a wreck her uncle has become. Compare this to Alice not wanting Dicky's son to watch the documentary.
• Narm / Narm Charm: NOT YOU! NAWT YOU!
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The film ends with Ward's first title win and only mentions his true Crowning Moment Of Awesome - the legendary three-bout series with the late Arturo Gotti - in footnotes at the movie's end.
  • Mark Wahlberg and David O Russell have mentioned that they are considering making the Gotti story into a sequel.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Bale's performance has received so much acclaim, that he's mostly talked about, when Mark Walhberg is the main star and plays the main character, while Bale is in a supporting role. Lampshaded, as seen in the Leaning on the Fourth Wall quote on the main page.
• The Woobie: Micky. He constantly suffers from abuse from his family and when he finds happiness in Charlene, his family tries to take that away from him. Eventually, he makes it out okay.