YMMV / Parker

• Draco in Leather Pants: Parker is a Genius Bruiser Caper Crew mastermind who has some standards and can look cool at his job, something which causes many fans to overlook how he can do genuinely awful things like torturing people for information, murdering Anti Villains in cold blood, threatening the life of a child, and shrugging off the deaths of loyal accomplices.
• He's Just Hiding: Multiple characters (enemies and allies alike) turn up alive after having been Left for Dead and/or spared under unusual circumstances. It can be nice to hope that other Parker associates or Anti Villains of varying degrees who are described or assumed as being dead or get a Bolivian Army Ending (Fred Ducasse, Harry Corbett, Ray Shelly, Salsa, Jock Daask, George Walheim, Morris, Briley, Ross, Carlson, Melander, Quittner, Ernie Dulare, Ralph Quintero, Paul Dunstan, Hanzen, Lucille Kasempa, Bob Beaghler, Ben Pelzer, etc.) somehow survived their wounds or talked their way out of being killed.
• Magnificent Bastard: Parker is a Gentleman Thief who has pulled many successful heists. The start of the film has him leading a robbery at the Ohio State Fair under the disguise of a priest, successfully stealing over a million dollars. When Parker's cohorts betray and nearly kill him for his cut of the heist money, upon being sent to the hospital by a family of farmers, Parker chokes out the nurse and takes his uniform and ambulance truck. Tracking down his cohorts to Palm Beach, Florida, Parker poses as a rich Texas oil baron under the alias of Daniel Parmitt looking for an extravagant house. Breaking into his cohorts house, he plants two extra guns hidden in it, as well as sabotages the firing pins on the remaining ones, allowing him to easily kill them and take their loot, splitting it with Leslie, as well as the family of farmers who saved his life at the start of the film.
• Squick: One story has a knife going through Parker's hand, which is described in excruciating detail.
• Strawman Has a Point: There are multiple instances throughout the series of Parker acting hostile towards fellow crewmen and/or employers. The intent is to make the audience go: "Wow, Parker's a dick", however the execution makes the audience go: "Wow, Parker's the only one here who's taking this seriously".
• Vanilla Protagonist: While Parker is a One-Man Army Genius Bruiser prone to Pragmatic Villainy and the odd Roaring Rampage of Revenge, he can often come across as less colorful and/or developed of a character than many of the people who work with him, whether recurring associates (like Alan Grofield, Brenda, Dan Wycza, Stan Devers, Handy McKay, Salsa, Noelle Braselle, Mike Carlow, Nick Dalesia, Lou Sternberg, and Sandra Locsalzo) or occasional one-shot crew members (Paulus, Brandon Williams, Fortumesca, William Manado, Littlefield, Abe Clinger, Pete Rudd, Ray Shelly, Little Bob Negli, Briley, Morris, Larry Lloyd, Hanzen, Tom Lindahl, etc.).

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