The Fly/YMMV

"Veronica: Don't you get it? I'm finally onto something big, huge!
 * Adaptation Displacement - There was a short story written first.
 * Complete Monster:
 * Alan Hines aka Ronald Holmes, industrial spy and Big Bad of Return of the Fly. He betrays Phillipe to steal the teleporter's plans for himself and murders a British agent who tries to stop him. Then he discovers the teleporter can mix and match living things. His most dickishly evil move? When he knocks out Phillipe in a fight, he places the unconscious Phillipe in the teleporter and adds a fly, knowing Phillipe will come out a monster. This backfires on Ronald when the mutated Phillipe tracks him down and kills him.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny - The exchange between Veronica and Stathis in the clothing store. The look of absolute incredulity on Stathis' face makes it even funnier:
 * Crowning Moment of Funny - The exchange between Veronica and Stathis in the clothing store. The look of absolute incredulity on Stathis' face makes it even funnier:

Stathis: Yeah? What? His cock?"

""Of course, now he stops talking...""
 * Another moment happens during David Cronenberg's commentary when he talks about Jeff Goldblum learning how to talk with various dental appliances in his mouth throughout the transformation sequences. He does this at the point where Veronica rips Seth's jaw off. Cronenberg even lampshades it:

"Brundle: Help me. Help me be human.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - Stathis, missing a foot and a hand, crawls over to his shotgun, retrieves it, and disables the teleporter before Ronnie is fused with "brundlefly".
 * Crowning Music of Awesome - Where there is Cronenberg, there is usually Howard Shore, and where there is Shore, there is this trope.
 * Designated Villain - In the 1986 version, this is subverted by Stathis Borans. While he plays the role of the antagonist at the beginning, the mutated Seth soon takes this position while
 * Nightmare Fuel - Some parts of it are rather scary.
 * Like the baboon experiment scene.
 * The moment Seth's flesh started to fall off and the Fly-head erupted from his normal head.
 * Seth realizing that Ronnie should stay away from him because he is starting to lose his humanity. Very tense scene.
 * Kind of doubles as a Tear Jerker if you notice the genuine tears Seth and Ronnie were both shedding after.
 * This little gem before the final transformation.

Veronica: How? (cut to Brundle jumping down into the lab with Veronica)

Brundle: (as he leads Veronica over to the computer) Well...I go there...(referring to one telepod) and, uh, you...go there...(referring to the other telepod) We...come apart...then, and then, we...come together there. (Veronica turns to see the prototype) You, me, and the baby. Together.

Veronica: No...

Brundle: We'll be the ultimate family. A family of three, joined together in one body. More human than I am alone."


 * The maggot baby nightmare. Especially since it's not framed as a dream until she wakes up.
 * Narm - The infamous "HEEEELP MEEEE! HEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEE!" scene from the original. (They had to keep reshooting the scene because the actors couldn't stop cracking up.) Appears as a Shout-Out in the remake, when Seth - under completely different circumstances - whimpers "Help me. Please, please help me," and the Narm is gone.
 * Similarly subverted in the 1965 sequel Curse Of The Fly.
 * Squick - The Seth Brundle 'Natural History Museum'.
 * Tear Jerker
 * The best test to see if your friend has a soul is whether or not he/she cries at the ending.
 * When the boy protagonist of the sequel
 * Ugly Cute: Depending on your point of view, Seth in his final fly form.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: 1000 Misspent Hours makes a pretty solid case for Cronenberg's film being an allegory for HIV infection in the 1980s.
 * The Woobie: Seth, poor Seth. And Ronnie.
 * Stathis becomes one near the end of the first movie after he gets his hand and foot melted off by Brundlefly. In the sequel he's even worse off.