The Name of the Rose/YMMV
- Anvilicious Aesop: Jorge's reason for hiding the book is because it might promote comedy, which might cause monks to disrespect scripture.
- Applicability
- Complete Monster: Bernardo Gui, and how. Between a vicious Knight Templar attitude and more Cold-Blooded Torture than you can shake a stick at, he earns that (albeit cheesy) Impaled with Extreme Prejudice death in the film.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Despite the above, he was much less melodramatic in Real Life.
- Magnificent Bastard: Jorge, serial killer and Knight Templar extraordinaire: a blind old man who manages to kill a lot of people with poison, traps and a careful use of murderous mooks
- Purity Sue: the eccentric Ubertino da Casale.
- What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Sean Connery and Christian Slater play professional celibates.
- According to the movie director, he initially turned down Connery for this exact reason, until Sean Connery forced himself into his office, and demanded to read just one line. And then he accepted.