YMMV / Million Dollar Baby

• Angst Aversion: The film was severely disliked by some women viewers due to Maggie's paralysis and death, as the film's pre-release publicity gave no hint of the tragic ending and made it look like an inspiring women's sport movie.
• Ending Fatigue: The time duration from Maggie’s paralysis to the end credits is 40 minutes. Some critics complain that roughly half of the time could be removed and the film would have gone under the 2 hour mark (it's 2 hours and 12 minutes long).
• It Was His Sled: Maggie is rendered a quadriplegic from a boxing match and has Frankie put an end to her life by request.
• Memetic Mutation: X-Play made a running gag out of "the Stool of Paraplegia" (though they got a detail wrong, as it should be the "Stool of Quadraplegia").
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Maggie's family crosses it when coming to visit her in the nursing home... after spending a week at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with the ulterior motive of wanting her to sign her money over to them. Maggie earns a Moment of Awesome by rejecting them and forcing them to leave without a cent.
  • Billie the Blue Bear crosses it by being the one who disables Maggie.
• Retroactive Recognition: Apart from Jay Baruchel as Danger Barch, there's also Anthony Mackie (The Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) as Shawrelle Berry.

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