YMMV / Killer Bean Forever

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • The bean that never showed up to Cappuccino's meeting because he had Jury Duty. Did he really not show because he actually had Jury Duty or is it because he knew he would get killed by Cappuccino and made this excuse out of survival?
  • Did Vagan lose so easily to Killer Bean because he wasn't as tough as he seemed, or did he lose because he realized there was no way he could possibly win against the Shadow Agency in that situation, especially since they would have just kept going after him regardless of what he did? Or, perhaps, did he deliberately allow Jack to shoot him, knowing his warnings would be vindicated post-mortem and that Killer Bean would have at least some idea about the Shadow Agency's plans on him?
• Anticlimax Boss: Vagan is taken down with rather little effort. It's actually pretty jarring when you compare this confrontation with the more elaborate Jet Bean fight later on, even though Vagan is the more important antagonist in the grand scheme of things.
• Awesome Music: What also really sells the movie's Dancing Bear premise is the serious and awesome music. Namely, "Fighting Mood".
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The opening dancing sequence itself qualifies, as you have drug-dealing beans breakdancing for a solid minute or so with no dialogue whatsoever. The party itself is relevant to the plot since it annoys Killer Bean enough to make him come and bring further trouble down on himself, but the scene still sticks out when compared to everything else in the film that happens afterwards.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Cappuccino interrogating Killer Bean after capturing him by bitch-slapping him repeatedly, with no blood shown to boot, is darkly hilarious.
• Dancing Bear: It's a movie about sentient coffee beans killing each other in surprisingly entertaining battles. It took nearly a decade to make. The whole thing is sold on that unique premise alone.
• Evil Is Cool: Jet Bean might be an amoral assassin that lacks the few heroic qualities Killer Bean has, but he’s probably the second most popular character of the movie after Killer Bean himself thanks to being a menacing, badass that fights purely with his martial artist prowess and gives Killer Bean his closest fight in the entire movie.
• Funny Moments: A cop tries to spout racist remarks towards Jet Bean after he intrudes on a crime scene. Jet's response is to kick him so hard he flies across the room in two seconds and flops against the wall.
• Ham and Cheese: In the first episode of the show, Cr1TiKaL's role as Kessler reads like another one of his videos where he's mocking whatever the topic of the video is as opposed to being a serious voiceover, not helped by the okay voice performance of the beans in the preceding scene and Killer Bean being The Other Darrin'd by Jeff Lew. That said, Charlie clearly loves eating it up and it's hilarious that Kessler is basically just Charlie transplanted into the Killer Bean universe.
• He's Just Hiding: The fans had been debating on whether or not Vagan or Jet Bean had really died after being shot by Killer Bean. The upcoming video game went further with the implication, with Jeff Lew himself stating that Vagan likely faked his death and is still alive, while Jet Bean was shown to have been resurrected in one of the game teasers.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of fans have admitted that, complete ridiculousness of the story aside, the fight scenes are actually very competently staged and animated, and if they were done in live action, it would be a legitimately great action movie.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Vagan, codename formerly "Dark Bean", was one of the Shadow Agency's most efficient beans who grew tired of their continued fall into corruption before leaving to work alone. Joining forces with Cappuccino, he manages his weapons department, collecting information from every sale to find out who to target next. After defeating two Shadow Beans who were sent to kill him, Vagan then has Killer Bean sent after him who he is nearly able to ambush and kill in one of Cappuccinos' abandoned warehouses. Later Vagan is able to get the best of Killer Bean and knock him unconscious before the latter breaks out and ends up in a standoff with Vagan. After explaining his motives, he catches Killer Bean in a brief moment of falter and though losing the stand off he accepts his fate and gives Killer Bean some haunting last words.
  • Jet Bean is a master of martial arts and one of the top Shadow Beans in the employ of the Shadow Agency. Contacted by the Agency to snuff out Killer Bean in Beantown, Jet Bean heads to his new target, but not before thrashing a restaurant's staff for attacking him in retribution for his immense bill, which Jet Bean nonetheless promises to pay back once he finishes his current task. Jet Bean manipulates two police officers into bringing him right to Killer Bean at a police station, demonstrates his intolerance for racial slurs when he kicks a racist cop across a room for insulting him, and utterly decimates an entire squad of cops in his way. Jet Bean gives Killer Bean the toughest fight of his life, even letting his enemy use guns while Jet Bean remains unarmed, and though he is ultimately killed, Jet Bean remains stoic and uses his last words to promise Killer Bean that there's more suffering to come in his life.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Calling Killer Bean the bean/animated version of John Wick (or Keanu Reeves in general) and creating montages of them together. It helps that they are both assassins with dual pistols as their weapons. Amusingly, Killer Bean himself knows about the John Wick comparisons.
  • Labeling the warehouse disco as what really happens in the boy's locker room/toilets.
  • "TURN DOWN YOUR DAMN MUSIC OR I'LL COME OVER THERE AND TURN IT DOWN MYSELF!"
  • "He's doing something illegal" is often used in memes, usually referring to overly paranoid authority figures such as parents and teachers who always falsely suspect their kids/students are doing something they don't like.
  • The scene of Killer Bean and Vagan aiming their guns at each other and the scene of Cappuchino being shot dead by the latter are often paired together, with the resulting template referring to when a person (Vagan) targets the wrong thing (Cappuchino) instead of the more desired target (Killer Bean)
  • "Let me put this in a language that you can understand..."
  • Jet Bean's death is often used as the "dies from cringe" meme.
• Narm:
  • It's hard not to laugh at the fight scenes when every dead bean goes flying with Ragdoll Physics. Particular mention goes to Vagan's death. After three minutes of exposition and grand reveals, Killer Bean shoots him, and Vagan just flops like a limp noodle. The same happens with Jet Bean not too long afterwards.
  • The presence of Bloodless Carnage despite the fairly high levels of violence throughout the movie falls into this as well. Seeing beans simply ragdoll after getting punched, kicked or shot isn't that much of a stretch, but when they die by having explosives go off in their face without so much as a bloody lip it becomes way more noticeable.
  • When the DJ turns up the club music to spite Killer Bean, the volume doesn't change for the viewers, making it seem like an empty comeback.
  • Everyone being a sentient coffee bean with their faces located on the flat surface opposite a coffee bean's characteristic groove, the designs tend to make the beans without pants look like they're showing their ass cracks.
• Narm Charm: The whole movie, from start to end. Ignoring the fact everybody is a living, talking coffee bean, you've got a solid action flick. The bean characters help make it more memorable.
• Offending the Creator's Own: Jet Bean speaks mangled English in a thick Chinese accent, as do the two beans in the Chinese restaurant in Jet's first scene. Later, a cop directs a number of racist remarks at Jet and mocks his accent. Creator Jeff Lew is himself of Chinese descent, and voices all four characters.
• Retroactive Recognition: Vegas Trip (Russell from The Walking Dead (Telltale)) is Killer Bean.
• So Bad, It's Good: Despite the goofy high concept and low-budget appearance, it's actually a good, schlocky-yet-charming action movie.
• Sequel Displacement: Some people don't realize that this is actually the third installment in the franchise.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Killer Bean can invoke this in some viewers. While it's true he was used and betrayed by the Shadow Agency, his cold arrogance and lack of significant redeeming qualities has made it difficult for some viewers to root for him. His habit of engraving his bullets with his name implies that he's either a sloppy assassin when working or an egotist wanting to take credit for those he kills.
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • On a more subtle level. While the ragdoll physics are hilarious, the final battle between Killer Bean and Jet Bean has clear deliberation put into how the ragdolls land, leading to more believable falls, and a seamless transition between the ragdoll physics and hand-done animation. As a result, it lends a lot more weight to not just the force of their blows, but their endurance for getting back up after such a hit.
  • A more straight example with the later episodes of Killer Bean, which look significantly better than the previous episodes due to Jeff Lew switching up programs.

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