History YMMV / Django

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The movie as a whole is very bleak, yet considered one of the greatest Spaghetti Westerns of all time.

*** Original 1966 film: During UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, [[SociopathicSoldier Major Jackson]] was a Confederate officer who killed [[AntiHero Django]]'s wife. After the war ended, Jackson and his men [[TakingOverTheTown took over a Texas border town]], entering into a MobWar with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, while the Major entertains himself by using Mexican civilians as target practice. Django arrives in town to seek vengeance, and rescues a prostitute from being crucified before Django's men. After Django robs a military base with the revolutionaries, Jackson ambushes them and slaughters the lot before trying to kill Django himself.

* ItWasHisSled: People who've heard of the movie tend to be aware that [[spoiler:The coffin has a gattling gun in it.]]

* NightmareFuel: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. It makes the violence in Sergio Leone's westerns look tame in comparison.

* TearJerker: The theme song.

** Luis Bacalov's score, while not as iconic as Music/EnnioMorricone's work on the Film/DollarsTrilogy, is every bit as epic, featuring plenty of brass with the occasional elements of Latin and rock music.

** Luis Bacalov's score, while not as iconic as Music/EnnioMorricone's work on the Dollars Trilogy, is every bit as epic, featuring plenty of brass with the occasional elements of Latin and rock music.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Django's theme song, sung by Rocky Roberts.

* MagnificentBastard: [[AntiHero Django]], an ex-Union soldier distinguished by the coffin he always carries behind him, combines stoic mystique with gritty cunning enough to influence SpaghettiWestern heroes for decades to come. Hunting down [[SociopathicSoldier Major Jackson]], the Confederate who killed his wife, Django eggs Jackson into sending the full force of his army against him with the latter's expectation of a CurbStompBattle, only to pop off the coffin's lid to produce a surprise [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] and single-handedly slaughter Jackson's men. Django teams up with Jackson's rival, Hugo, and masterminds the successful robbery of a military fort, only to backstab Hugo and abscond with the stolen loot himself. Almost entirely self-serving, Django nevertheless cares for women, such as the abused half-Mexican prostitute María, and even after his hands are crippled by Hugo, ends the film utterly victorious against Jackson by propping the gun on his wife's grave and using the hammer to shoot his enemies dead.

** Original 1966 film: During UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, [[SociopathicSoldier Major Jackson]] was a Confederate officer who killed [[AntiHero Django]]'s wife. After the war ended, Jackson and his men [[TakingOverTheTown took over a Texas border town]], entering into a MobWar with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, while the Major entertains himself by using Mexican civilians as target practice. Django arrives in town to seek vengeance, and rescues a prostitute from being crucified before Django's men. After Django robs a military base with the revolutionaries, Jackson ambushes them and slaughters the lot before trying to kill Django himself.
** ''Django Strikes Again'' (1987): [[BigBad "El Diablo" Orlowsky]] is a [[FromCamouflageToCriminal sadistic former soldier]] who runs a [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaving operation]] based around abducting children and adults, working them to death in his mines and killing and torturing any who disappoint him in any way. Having exhausted slaves hurled in the rivers to drown, Orlowsky frequently murders locals for sport. His worst operation is selling young girls to brothels as {{sex slave}}s, uncaring of who suffers [[{{Greed}} as long as he profits]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Django's theme song.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The movie as a whole is very bleak, yet considered one of the greatest Spaghetti Westerns of all time.

* NightmareFuel: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. Very disturbing. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre. It makes the violence in Sergio Leone's westerns look tame.

* AwesomeMusic: Django's theme song.

* TearJerker: The theme song.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Depending on your definition of sequel: there are literally dozens of alleged ''Django'' sequels, which are mostly same-titled rip-offs. Very few are actually good. The only official sequel is ''Django Strikes Again'', released in 1987.

** General Hugo Rodriguez crosses it in his EstablishingCharacterMoment by cutting a man's ear off, feeding it to him, and then shooting him InTheBack.

* NightmareFuel: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. Very disturbing. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre. Several villains in Sergio Leone's films has cruel acts, but this goes too far!

* {{Sequilitis}}: Depending on your definition of sequel: there are literally dozens of alleged ''Django'' sequels, which are mostly same-titled rip-offs. Very few are actually good. The only official sequel is ''Django Strikes Again'', released in 1987.

* NightmareFuel: When some outlaws cut off a man's ear and make him eat it. Very disturbing. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre. Several villains in Sergio Leone's films has cruel acts, but this goes too far!

* NightmareFuel: When some outlaws cut off a priest's ear and make him eat it. Very disturbing. It's probably the most sadistic scene in the entire Western genre.