Atomic Blonde / YMMV

Adaptation Displacement: The film is based on a graphic novel, but said graphic novel is so obscure that it doesn't even have a Wikipedia article. It doesn't help either that the movie was not promoted as a comic book adaptation (less so have a comic book tie-in, as some comic book adaptations have), possibly to distance itself from contemporary superhero films.
Award Snub: For The Oner (which is also the film's Signature Scene) and the great effect of some scenes in neon lighting, some moviegoers can wonder why this film hasn't been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Awesome Music: One thing everyone seems to be in agreement with in regards to the film is its fantastic soundtrack, which is comprised almost entirely of New Wave and Europop hits from The '80s (which were a thing in the underground fandoms in East Germany, Berlin included). There's even a dash of Vladimir Vysotsky's gravelly voice for amateurs of Soviet-era counter-culture.
Best Known for the Fanservice: The movie where Charlize Theron shows off her breasts and rear, has sex with another woman (who also shows her breasts), beats the shit out of some people, and then some spying stuff.
Common Crossover: It's very common for fans of Atomic Blonde to write fanfics that involve an older Lorraine Broughton team up with John Wick due to both works sharing a director, the same tone, neon aesthetics and fight sequences.
Ending Fatigue: Some of the air goes out of the movie after the hotel fight, if nothing else because it's that good!
Fan Nickname:
- "Jane Wick", both for Lorraine and the film itself, as this film and John Wick feature a highly effective and pragmatic assassin as the protagonist, revolve around secret societies, and have long action scenes that avert such tropes like Shaky Cam and Bottomless Magazines. This is helped by the fact that this film's director, David Leitch, co-directed John Wick.
- "Jane Bond" is also becoming a popular descriptor for the movie and the character after the film's release since its story, setting, protagonist and romance have more in common with him than with the more action-heavy, plot-light, non-Spy Fiction John Wick films.
Friendly Fandoms:
- Unsurprisingly, due to the film's director, Atomic Blonde and John Wick fans get along quite nicely due to them having a believable badass protagonist with iconic set pieces and heavy amounts of style. Going even further, some are even hoping for a crossover between the two characters to happen some day!
- Oddly enough, on tumblr anyway, there's been friendly interactions between fans of the film and those of Carol. Despite being in completely different genres, the presence of a lesbian couple in a mainstream film was enough to get both fandoms to rejoice and collide.
- Some James Bond fans love the film, in part because it's about a kickass and classy Cold War MI6 agent (if much less Tuxedo and Martini), and also because they're tired of the various calls to Gender Flip Bond himself, pointing out that it's much better to create and highlight original characters like Lorraine.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Played straight and even lampshaded during Lorraine’s and Delphine’s first encounter, as people outside the bar got excited over David Hasselhoff’s arrival. Delphine wasn’t amused.
Magnificent Bitch: Lorraine Broughton is the elegant spy for MI6 sent into Berlin to recover "The List" and expose the mysterious KGB mole Satchel. In the midst of double-dealings and betrayals, Lorraine comes out on top and betrays her superiors at MI6, being the true Satchel who had manipulated the situation the entire time. In truth, Lorraine actually works for the CIA to play MI6 and the KGB against one another, wiping out the Russian agents and escaping back to America with her job complete.
Moral Event Horizon: Bremovych beating a man to death with his own skateboard For the Evulz. Probably done to establish why you should think of him as the villain when all the other characters are such amoral bastards.
Signature Scene: The seven-minute one-take sequence involving the stairwell/apartment fight, which then keeps going about halfway into a car chase.
Spiritual Adaptation:
- Blonde-haired female badass SIS officer who brutally kicks arse in a morally ambiguous espionage drama? This is perhaps the closest moviegoers will get to seeing a film adaptation of Greg Rucka's Queen and Country comic books, albeit one set in the era where the D - Ops chief Paul Crocker was still Minder One.
- There are those that considered it a great Black Widow movie.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Several people, even those who did not know the comic book before the film, found the original revelation that Lorraine was actually a CIA agent all along an unnecessary addition and a trite insertion of America Saves the Day.

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