Catch-22/YMMV


 * Funny Moments: Try to read the part with Clevinger's Trial without cracking up.
 * Complete Monster: . Among the novel's nastier characters, Milo really can't be defined by human morality and Colonel Cathcart is so over-the-top he becomes funny. This guy has no excuse. He's a serial rapist who kept one of his victims locked up in a closet for an hour before just murdering her outright, and enjoys bragging about his, ahem, "conquests.".
 * Cult Classic: The movie, which was not well received in its day.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Features two examples.
 * Milo Minderbinder is the dark example. He starts out as a simple mess officer, is able to construct a black market empire with the help of the US military so he can deliver cheap but excellent food to USAAF messes. He becomes so adept at the world market that he is awarded high ranking positions around the world due to the profits he was creating. He gains so much power that he makes deals with almost every nation (including the Germans but not the Russians), and it culminates
 * is the positive example.
 * Moment of Awesome: The ending.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Several, many of them by the United States military, but the most notable happens with
 * Milo Minderbinder crosses it by trading the squadron's parachutes.
 * Tear Jerker:
 * Yossarian's memories of the dying Snowden. "I'm cold."
 * Yossarian waiting in his tent for Orr to return.
 * The chaplain, when he discovers
 * The part where Yossarian has to act like he's Guiseppe. Sure, it's pretty funny, but it's also kinda sad.
 * The Woobie: Major Major Major Major and, at some points, Yossarian. Also the Chaplain -- poor worrywart.