History Film / TheHatefulEight

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Inverted. Mannix seems poised to kill Warren and let Daisy go free in exchange for Daisy's gang not sacking Red Rock, only to turn the deal down and reason out how unlikely it is that her gang is there. Played straight immediately after, as he faints from blood loss once he finishes his speech. With Warren lying unable to move in bed, Daisy makes for a machete to cut off John Ruth's arm so she can get at them.]]

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:At the end, Warren is bedridden and out of bullets, Daisy is chained to a heavy corpse without a gun, and Mannix has sided with Warren to destroy the Domergue gang once and for all. But then Mannix faints from his adrenaline and wounds, and Daisy starts to make her way to a pistol.]]

* TemptingFate:
** Warren goads on General Smithers by proclaiming that [[spoiler:he captured Smithers' son and led him stark-naked through a blizzard, then forced the man to perform oral sex on him. This eventually results in Smithers trying (and failing) to shoot Warren before being shot down in turn]].
** In a more comical example, O.B. curses at John Ruth that he will not go back out into the blizzard... only to be forced to do it later [[spoiler:when disposing of General Smithers' body]] because he drew the short straw.

* GiveMeAReason: Everyone feels this way towards at least some of the other people in the cabin.

* SelfDefenseRuse: Major Warren very deliberately places a loaded gun next to General Smithers, before proceeding to tell an elaborate and boastful story about [[spoiler:raping Smithers' son and leaving him to die in the snow.]] It's obvious to one and all that he's trying to goad Smithers into grabbing the gun, so he'll have an excuse to shoot him. [[spoiler:Smithers gets so enraged he falls for it anyway.]]

* EnclosedSpace: Except for the two first chapters in the mountains with the carriage and the occasional trip to the outhouse and the barn [[spoiler:and a quick reveal of a basement, a flashback to the mountains, and a man being executed out back]], the entire movie plays out inside Minnie's Haberdashery.

* SnowedIn: The vast majority of the film takes place in a snowed-in mountain lodge during a blizzard.

* LaserGuidedKarma: If Warren's story about [[spoiler:raping an attempted murderer before killing him is true, getting his balls shot off definitely counts as this]]. If.

* KarmicDeath:
** If Warren's story about [[spoiler:raping Smithers' son is true, then he bleeds out from having his balls blown off. If Jody's one-liner is anything to go by, he deliberately targeted his balls, too.]]
** [[spoiler:Daisy does indeed get hanged at the end of the film... by Warren and Chris, who tie her to the ceiling and watch her struggle in front of them.]]

* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly played straight, thanks to BoomHeadshot moves, but averted with [[spoiler:English Pete a.k.a. Oswaldo Mobray, who gets shot in the gut and still carries on a civil, if pained, conversation. He gets shot in the chest again later, and is still moving around in pain in the background for the rest of the film. Judy and Gemma don't die after the first shot, either, and Gage and Mobray (respectively) fire a second to finish them off.]]

* HeroWorshipper: Mannix to General Smithers -- Smithers is apparently a Confederate hero of the Civil War.

* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:When the film flashes back to when Jody's gang first arrived at Minnie's Haberdashery, it's pretty clear that everybody inside is going to be murdered.]]

* AntiHero: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Three of the titular Eight qualify, [[spoiler:since everyone else is either one of the villains or in league with them]], but ''everyone'' in this film did terrible things in the past and/or commits them on-camera. [[spoiler:Warren once escaped a POW fort by burning it to the ground, killing everyone in it (including his fellow prisoners), to say nothing of how he kills both General Smithers and (maybe) especially his son (not that either of them were good people either), and attacked Indian villages with the rest of his regiment; Mannix is a Southern racist and Lost Cause fighter who is strongly implied to have committed racist atrocities both during and after the war; Ruth is the most honest of the three, but still smacks around his unarmed female prisoner whom he is proudly taking to town to be hung. The rest of the Eight, though, are just murderous thugs and their selfish, DirtyCoward, war criminal hostage. The only exceptions who ''aren't'' one are O.B. and the background characters killed in chapter 5.]]

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Joe Gage/Grouch Douglas. When it's revealed he's an imposter, he surrenders as Chris Mannix is about to shoot him, placing his hands on the wall and yelling that he is unarmed. In the very next chapter, the story flashes back several hours to when Joe/Grouch had a worker at the lodge, Charly, at his mercy with a double-barrelled hotgun. Charly begs for his life, but Joe just shoots him dead. And he '''smiles''' as he does it.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: [[spoiler:Warren, Ruth, and Mannix aren't the easiest guys to root for, but everyone else at Minnie's sans O.B. and Smithers is a cold-blooded psychopath, and even the latter is an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]] DirtyCoward who's helping them.]]

* DirtyCoward:
** General Smithers. [[spoiler:After murdering the lodge owners, Jody Domingre makes a deal with him; Jody and his gang will spare Smithers' life if he keeps his trap shut when John Ruth arrives with Daisy. He didn't count on a former opponent from the War showing up, who in turn murders Smithers in "self-defense" after provoking a response, in order to exact vengeance for his execution of black soldiers in the War.]]
** [[spoiler:Joe Gage/Grouch Douglas. When it's revealed he's an imposter, he surrenders as Chris Mannix is about to shoot him, placing his hands on the wall and yelling that he is unarmed. In the very next chapter, the story flashes back several hours to when Joe/Grouch had a worker at the lodge, Charly, at his mercy with a double-barrelled hotgun. Charly begs for his life, but Joe just shoots him dead. And he '''smiles''' as he does it.]]

* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:On the off chance Warren actually did rape Chester to death, and if you interpret him doing so as an indicator of Warren's general preferences rather than a crime of opportunity.]]

* StraightGay: [[spoiler:If Warren's treatment of Smithers's son is true, and you interpret this as an indication of his personal preferences rather than a crime of opportunity.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Daisy's death by hanging is prolonged and slow, her struggles are intentionally filmed at length and in detail, and within the plot, Mannix and Warren laugh and gloat over her suffering.]]

* ApathyKilledTheCat:
** It turns out the main reason General Smithers was [[spoiler:left alive after the Habadashery massacre, despite the fact that he witnessed the brutal murders of Minnie and her workers, is that he doesn't "give a fuck about these people" because he just met them]]. This leads directly to him meeting Major Warren, [[spoiler:who not only reveals the horrific way his son died, but baits him into getting shot]].
** Similarly, [[spoiler:the gang decides to leave Smithers alive because he's no threat (and old). All it does is get Warren even more suspicious of the rest of the people in Minnie's Haberdashery]].

* ArcNumber: Eight.

* AintTooProudToBeg:
** According to Warren, [[spoiler:General Smithers' son didn't beg for his life or to go free, but, knowing he was going to die, instead begged for a blanket to die with some comfort, to the point of performing fellatio on Warren after he [[FalseReassurance promised to give it to him.]]]]
** When [[spoiler:Joe Gage finds Charly in the outhouse, the latter attempts to beg for his life by saying he had nothing to do with whatever Minnie did to make him mad. It doesn't help him much, as Joe blows his head off shortly thereafter]].

* AlwaysGetsHisMan:
** Played with. John Ruth is called "the Hangman" because he always takes his targets alive rather than dead, so they always hang.
--->'''Warren:''' When the handbill says "Dead or Alive", the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth the Hangman catches you, you hang.
** [[spoiler:And it's still played straight, as Daisy is indeed hanged to death at the end of the film. John Ruth isn't alive to see it happen, but both Warren and Mannix are happy to hang her in respect for him.]]

* TheChewToy: Daisy Domergue enters the film with a black eye and receives a constant barrage of blows, pistol whippings, and an elbow to the face, and she is shot three times. Her face is hit with blood, brain matter, stew, and bloody projectile vomit. This thread is played for laughs. Finally [[spoiler:her slow death by hanging]] is seen as a joke by the two final survivors. This ongoing thread approaches a TraumaCongaLine.

* DastardlyDapperDerby: Oswaldo Mobray wears one.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:John "The Hangman" Ruth. He's a badass, [[CrazyPrepared crazy-prepared]] bounty hunter who seems like he can handle anything, including the trap he knows he's walking into. He wasn't expecting poison, however, and dies of it halfway through the film. Warren and Mannix take his place.]]
* DefiantCaptive: Daisy. John Ruth doesn't have much patience for this, though.

* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:"English" Pete Hicox.]]

* EvilOldFolks: General Sanford Smithers, a racist Confederate general who once captured a group of black Union soldiers and massacred them all because he couldn't be bothered to drag them to a prison camp. [[spoiler:He also plays along with Jody's plot to rescue Daisy.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Jody Domingre. He's polite to the people he meets, compliments them nicely (namely Minnie on her lodge), and thanks them for the things they do for him, like rolling him a cigarette. But make no mistake, he's a cold-blooded killer, and all of his charm doesn't stop him from blowing the top of Minnie's head off and gunning down everyone at the lodge.]]

* FullNameBasis: John Ruth is, with very few exceptions, always called John Ruth.

* InformedAttribute: Minnie is said to hate Mexicans to the point that she put up a sign banning them from her haberdashery. However, the flashback reveals that [[spoiler:she let Bob inside with no complaints and displays a chipper, accommodating personality at odds with Warren's description]]. It's possible that [[spoiler:she doesn't know he's Mexican: he appears white, uses an Anglo-sounding name, and speaks little enough that she may not have caught his accent]].

* KnightOfCerebus: A rare case where it's one of ''the heroes'' who sets up the dark tone of the latter half. While not exactly peachy keen, ''The Hateful Eight'' doesn't get exactly gory or dark until [[spoiler:Warren tells his story in an attempt to goad Smithers into shooting him. Not only does this cause the first onscreen death in the film, but as revealed later, it proves to be a good enough distraction for Joe Gage to slip poison into the coffee, leading to not just the deaths of John Ruth and O.B., but also the confrontation between Warren and the gang]].
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Warren developed a reputation for this in the Civil War, eventually leading to his being stripped of his commission.]]
* LargeHam: The thing that stops Marquis' tale of how he [[spoiler:raped and killed General Smithers' son]] from being absolutely horrific is his over-the-top, sweeping demeanor, bizarre euphemisms, and victorious laugh (complete with a "WOOOOOOO!" worthy of Wrestling/RicFlair) during the monologue.

* MadeOfIron: In the real world, next to nobody could still be walking and talking after getting the severe beatings Daisy endures.

* NobleBigot: Mannix is a horrible racist and former Confederate war criminal, but aside from that, he is willing to buy drinks for Ruth and Warren (who is black, and Mannix has other valid reasons to despise him) for picking him up, praise O.B's talent as stagecoach, assist in putting a rope road, and in general is a jovial fellow. [[spoiler:He also doesn't shoot Gage (though he really wanted to), since he surrendered, and ends up siding with Warren.]]

* PetTheDog: Chris is a racist asshole, but he does offer to buy both John and, notably, Marquis dinner and drink with them when they get to Red Rock in gratitude for them saving his life. [[spoiler:As he's one of the only characters who isn't lying about who they really are, he is being entirely genuine.]]

* TheSheriff: Chris Mannix claims to be one. [[spoiler:He's telling the truth.]]

* UnreliableExpositor: It is not known whether the story Warren tells regarding the fate of Smithers' son was true or a lie he made up just to piss off Smithers. Warren had already established [[spoiler:with the Lincoln letter]] that he has no compunctions about lying to get what he wants. And the story was clearly calculated to enrage Smithers so much that he'd lose control and try to shoot Warren. It's easy to imagine that he either made up the whole story, or at least wildly embellished it.

** One of the owners loves his armchair so much he won't allow anyone else to sit in it, and even takes it when he travels. But the chair is left there, no one's prohibited from using it, and it's covered with blankets and furs (revealed to be concealing a bloodstain).

* SelfDefenseRuse: Major Warren taunts General Smithers (claiming to have raped Smithers' son then left him to die naked in the snow) until Smithers goes for his gun, allowing Warren to shoot Smithers in "self-defense".

* SpottingTheThread: There are multiple threads everywhere for Warren to spot, on account of him being familiar with the Haberdashery and all its traditions and quirks.
** Warren realizes that something is suspicious when he spots a lone jellybean on the ground, and the rest are kept up high in glass jars that do not contain that color jellybean. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that it was dropped by Minnie's helper when Jody and his gang took over the lodge.]]
** Warren notices the stew tastes exactly like it always has done when made by Minnie, except that she is supposed to have been away for a week according to Bob.
** The favorite armchair of one of the patrons is usually never allowed to be sat in by anyone else, except this time it is occupied and covered in blankets. Further inspection reveals a bloodstain on it.

* UnreliableExpositor: It is not known whether the story Warren tells regarding the fate of Smithers' son was true or a lie he made up just to piss off Smithers. Warren had already established [[spoiler:with the Lincoln letter]] that he has no compunctions about lying to get what he wants, and he wanted Smithers to try and kill him [[spoiler:to justify killing Smithers in self-defense]]. The specific phrasing Quentin Tarantino uses as the omnipotent narrator also suggests that Warren made it up.

* EveryoneDiesEnding: [[spoiler: Evidently the inclusion of the trope here is a dead giveaway but the closing of the movie sees Warren and Mannix slowly and resignedly succumbing to their injuries with every other character including the minor ones from the flashback sequences being dead.]]

* UnreliableExpositor: It is not known whether the story Warren tells regarding the fate of Smithers' son was true or a lie he made up just to piss off Smithers. Warren had already established [[spoiler:with the Lincoln letter]] that he has no compunctions about lying to get what he wants, and he wanted Smithers to try and kill him [[spoiler:to justify killing Smithers in self-defense]].

* EveryoneDiesEnding: [[spoiler: Evidently the inclusion of the trope here is a dead giveaway but the closing of the movie sees Warren and Mannix slowly and resignedly succumbing to their injuries with every other character including those in the flashback sequences being dead.]]

* "EveryoneDies" Ending: [[spoiler: Evidently the inclusion of the trope here is a dead giveaway but the closing of the movie sees Warren and Mannix slowly and resignedly succumbing to their injuries with every other character including those in the flashback sequences being dead.]]

* "EveryoneDies"Ending: [[spoiler: Evidently the inclusion of the trope here is a dead giveaway but the closing of the movie sees Warren and Mannix slowly and resignedly succumbing to their injuries with every other character including those in the flashback sequences being dead.]]

* CassandraTruth:
** [[spoiler:Neither John Ruth nor Major Warren believe Chris' story about him being the new sheriff of Red Rock. He '''is''' the new sheriff of Red Rock, and the only character other than [[TokenGoodTeammate John Ruth]] who isn't lying about ''anything.'']]
** Likewise, Chris twice warns [[spoiler:General Smithers that Warren is just trying to rile him up enough to go for a gun so Warren can kill him. Smithers doesn’t listen, he grabs the gun, and Warren kills him]].

* BlackComedyRape: While "a story about [[spoiler:a man torturing, revenge-raping and then killing a man's son out of revenge for war crimes committed]]" wouldn't be funny, the way [[spoiler:Major Warren]] delivers it ''is'': an over-the-top [[LargeHam and overblown]] speech filled with [[TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed very weird euphemisms]] that feels more like a campfire spooky story for kids than [[spoiler:a cruel gambit to trick a war criminal into getting killed.]]

* FurAndLoathing: John Ruth and Bob wear long, furry coats, and are some of the most untrustworthy characters: Ruth is a violent thug and Bob gives half-assed reasons for why he's doing something when it's clear it just makes him more suspicious.

** It turns out the main reason General Smithers is at the haberdashery [[spoiler:despite the fact that he witnessed the brutal murders of Minnie and her workers is that he doesn't "give a fuck about these people" because he just met them]]. This leads directly to him meeting Major Warren, [[spoiler:who not only reveals the horrific way his son died, but baits him into getting shot]].

* FurAndLoathing: John Ruth and Bob wear long, furry coats.

** This applies to [[spoiler:Mannix]] as well when [[spoiler:he stops short of killing Joe Gage because the latter is unarmed, despite Mannix himself having just been wounded by Gage's accomplices and it being likely that Gage will try to finish the job once the wounded Mannix lets his guard down. Gage even knows this and [[YouWouldntShootMe tauntingly reminds him of it]] when Mannix turns the gun his way.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Daisy does indeed get hanged at the end of the film... by Warren and Chris, who tie her to the ceiling and watch her struggle in front of them.]]