The Wolf Man/YMMV

The 1941 version provides examples of:

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Larry Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr., comes home because his brother died in a hunting accident. Lon Chaney is in fact distantly related to Dick Cheney. Put two and two together.
  • It should also be noted that Danny Elfman's score for Batman shared some uncanny resemblances with Salter and Skinner’s score for the original. Guess who ended up composing the score for the remake?
• The Woobie: Larry, although not to the Chew Toy extent of his character in the remake.
  • The ending makes his father John one too, a complete opposite of his remake incarnation.

The 2010 version provides examples of:

• Adaptation Displacement
• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Fans' reaction to the news that a remake was in the works was generally well recieved and spazz-worthy.
  • Not so much that it was being remade, but the fact that it was going to use actual make-up and not just be another generic CGI-suckfest.
  • Also, that it would star Benicio Del Toro, who already looked kind of like the Wolfman.
• Complete Monster: Sir John, both figuratively and literally.
• Crazy Awesome: Sir John is basically a proper, English gentleman who's also a keen shot with a rifle, a keen liar/actor, and a great hunter as he is dressed in different furs and his home is decorated with different stuffed beasts is a testimony of this.
  • Plus he's completely INSANE and a werewolf to boot.
  • May also be a perspective of the movie as a whole.
• Designated Villain: Inspector Abberline is really only an antagonist so far as he's trying to kill the hero. Sir John is the actual villain of the story.
• Everybody Remembers the Stripper: You know what we are talking about.
• Fan Myopia: Karla Patterson thinks you guys totally ripped off Twilight!
• Hero Antagonist: Inspector Abberline. He's just a cop doing his job and trying to stop Laurence from killing again.
• Magnificent Bastard: Sir John.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Abberline seizes Sir John's silver headed cane, after being the only man to fight close quarters with the werewolf and survive and with incredibly Badass music playing rushes out to settle the score...and arrives when Gwen has already shot the lycanthrope.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Admit it...the transformation sequences are pretty damn awesome.
  • Not to mention Rick Baker's incredible makeup effects. No wonder they won an Oscar for Best Makeup.
• The Woobie / The Chew Toy: You can't help but feel pretty crappy for Lawrence after his time in the asylum.
  • Heck, you feel pretty crappy for him for most of the entire movie!
  • Arguably an Iron Woobie at the end, when he goes off to kill his father.