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Robot Monster
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A 1953 B-Movie, released in 3D, by Phil Tucker, Robot Monster is one of the most famous So Bad, It's Good sci-fi films ever made. Simply put, it is about a family having a picnic in California and meeting an evil alien invader: the nefarious Ro-Man, who has used a special Death Ray to Kill All Humans. But the family survived by taking a special serum invented by their scientist dad.Using his amazing advanced galaxy-conquering technology — you can tell, because it emits soap bubbles at moments of high drama — Ro-Man must find a way around their defenses. The kicker is the Big Guy's also struggling with unforeseen human desires... oh, did we mention the scientist's nubile daughter? Not to mention her hunky lab assistant boyfriend, annoying younger brother and... Yeah, you figured? OK then.So far, so run-of-the-mill. It could even be argued that hey, as compared to, say, Manos, this thing has an actual plot (though not a good one), also a soundtrack involving the onscreen actors speaking in their own voices. But no other classic bad movie can boast of Ro-Man◊, the titular "Robot Monster". Quoth the film's then-twentysomething auteur, recalling the inspiration (and, not incidentally, budget) behind his lead character:"...I talked to several people that I knew who had robot suits, but it was just out of the way, money-wise. I thought, ‘Okay, I know George Barrows.’... When they needed a gorilla in a picture they called George, because he owned his own suit... I thought, ‘I know George will work for me for nothing. I’ll get a diving helmet, put it on him, and it’ll work!’"Well... no. At least, not in the way he intended.In his book, On Writing, Stephen King recalls seeing the movie as a kid, and says that he felt it was "art of quite a high nature"note In King's other non-fiction essay book, Danse Macabre, King provides an account of the first time he saw the movie while high and "almost laughed [himself] into a hernia.". It was also John Carpenter's favourite film when he was a child.For the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode see here. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Carla, Johnny's younger sister. In a meta example, her actress was so annoying that the other actors begged to have her character killed off so they could get her off the set. Johnny himself is this too, to Alice. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra / Logic Bomb: "I must... but I cannot..." | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Ro-Man almost seems like he's going to stop being a Jerkass at the end, but the Great Guidance has other plans. | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: Stockings, worn over the face and under the helmets, to convey the effect. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: There are only two life-bearing planets in the Universe. One is Earth, the other is a mechanical dystopia. The dystopic planet attacked Earth, and has won. There are only eight people left at the start of the film, relentlessly pursued by a robotic fiend. | |
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Panacea | |
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Panacea: The immunity serum was discovered by accident while attempting to create something that could cure all diseases. | |
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Kid Hero | |
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Kid Hero: Johnny, the viewpoint character of the movie. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Carla, the little girl, is strangled by Ro-Man, and Johnny is killed when The Great Guidance comes to Earth to kill the rest of the humans. | |
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Skull for a Head | |
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Skull for a Head: The poster shows that Ro-Man has a skull inside his helmet. | |
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Silly Simian | |
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Silly Simian: Part of the reason this movie is remembered at all is Ro-Man's hilarious gorilla suit. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: It's explained that much of movie takes place after Ro-Man has (almost) completely wiped out human civilization. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Ro-Man shows the family the destruction of humanity on their video screen. Why? Oh, just to make them feel shitty. Justified Trope, when you consider it's trying to drive the humans to despair and perhaps suicide. | |
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Garnishing the Story | |
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Garnishing the Story: We get a few cutaways to Stock Footage from dinosaur movies, including the baby-alligator-with-plastic-sail vs. lizard fight from One Million B.C. and some triceratops and sauropod Stop Motion Animation scenes from Lost Continent. They don't add anything to the plot, never interact with any of the main characters, and their presence makes no sense. An easily-missed line from Great Guidance suggests that somehow he has brought the dinosaurs back to life so they'll eat the last few humans. | |
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Mechanistic Alien Culture | |
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Mechanistic Alien Culture: The film features Ro-Man... Appearing as a man in a gorilla suit with a deep sea diver's helmet, the alien invader's exact morphology is elusive. It seems to be a cyborg, it comes from an advanced civilization, it is able to resist radiation, and speaks in a typical robotic style monotone popular at the time in B-movies. However they are not simply constructs or tools, as we learn in the scene where the earth stationed Ro-Man contacts the leader of the Ro-Men, who is a similar diving helmeted gorilla-bodied biped. | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: The Great Guidance is one for ordering the destruction of all humankind. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Just when all seems lost, it turns out to be All Just a Dream. | |
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Spock Speak | |
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Spock Speak: The ultra-rational dialogue of the Ro-Men. | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
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Funny Foreigner: It's unknown if the Professor was supposed to be one, but he certainly sounds like it (the actor playing him, John Mylong, was Austro-Hungarian). | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Alice's boyfriend Roy spends a good chunk of the movie shirtless. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Ro-Man has no problems killing children. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: A few random "dinosaur" shots from One Million B.C. and Lost Continent are worked in. The rocket launch, space platform, and destroyed human cities are all shown via stock footage as well. | |
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Straw Vulcan | |
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Straw Vulcan: Ro-Man's overly "logical" Mechanistic Alien Culture is set up specifically to be discredited by the narrative, with even Ro-Man realizing its flaws. | |
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? | |
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Ro-Man doesn't understand his sexual interest in the heroine of the film, accompanied by the above Madness Mantra. Doubles as a Logic Bomb. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Ro-Man's contempt for us "hu-men" | |
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Lunarians | |
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Lunarians: According to the poster, Ro-Man is a "Moon Monster" though in the movie he claimed to be from the planet Ro-Man. | |
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Shut Up, Kirk! | |
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Shut Up, Kirk!: Johnny gives Ro-Man a piece of his mind: | |
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TheUnseen | |
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The Unseen: Jason and McCloud, as well as the garrison on the "space platform". All end up killed by Ro-Man anyway. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Johnny goes by himself to confront Ro-man, insult him to his face, and brag about exactly HOW his family is immune to the calcination beam. Ro-man vows to adjust the beam to counteract it. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Despite the poster that appears as this page's article image, this movie does not have a rhedosaurus in it, although there is plenty of Stock Footage from much worse dinosaur movies with much worse effects. Most of the posters show Ro-Man with a Skull for a Head under his helmet, but in the actual movie he appears to be more The Blank. | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: The Professor's European accent. See Funny Foreigner, above. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Ro-Man has a gorilla body because there was no money for a robot costume, and the actor playing him already owned his own gorilla suit. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: At the end, after killing XJ2, the Great Guidance decides he has no more use for the Earth unleashes a "Q-Ray" to make the planet start to collapse and split apart. The only thing that prevents it from succeeding is Johnny waking up. | |
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Bullying a Dragon | |
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Bullying a Dragon: Johnny taunts Ro-Man from an apparently safe vantage point. | |
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Kill All Humans | |
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Kill All Humans: Eight are left at the start and it goes down from there. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Starts off as a Planetary Species Extinction, thanks to the the effect of the Calcinator Death Ray. Later upgraded to a Planetary Physical Annihilation, as the Great Guidance gets pissed off at Ro-Man's failure to kill the humans and unleashes a "Q-Ray" which completely destroys the planet. Subverted when it turns out to be All Just a Dream. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After XJ2 continually defies the orders to kill Alice first, Great Guidance has had enough. | |
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Robot Antennae | |
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Robot Antennae: The villain Ro-Man's head is a space helmet with antennae sticking out of it. | |
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B-Movie | |
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B-Movie: And how! Rampant use of Stock Footage from other movies, a shaky scifi plot with an incoherent Twist Ending, and one of the most iconically silly monsters in cinema history! | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: The Great Guidance, the space overlord who sent Ro-Man to Earth in the first place. | |
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The Professor | |
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The Professor: There's a character literally called ...The Professor. | |
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Bronson Canyon and Caves | |
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Bronson Canyon and Caves: A classic use of Bronson Canyon, and one that would set the tone for most of its '50s appearances. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Technobabble | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The end? Nope, Ro-Man comes out of a cave stretching his arms at the viewer! The end? Put that funky shot again, boy! The end? One more time! | |
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Or Was It a Dream? | |
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Or Was It a Dream?: While it's shown to be Johnny's dream, the movie ends with Ro-Man repeatedly running out of the cave like he does in the beginning.. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Right there in the title. He's a robot who is also a monster. And an alien, thought the title doesn't mention that. | |
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People in Rubber Suits | |
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People in Rubber Suits: Ro-Man looks like a person wearing a cheap gorilla costume and a diving helmet. | |
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Video Phone | |
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Video Phone: Ro-Man uses a video linkup to communicate with Great Guidance on the planet Ro-Man. | |
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Tin Man | |
| Robot Monster / int_b5c70c26 | comment |
Tin Man: The titular robot has a hard time dealing with his emotions | |
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Evil Overlord | |
| Robot Monster / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Evil Overlord: The Great Guidance (who is played and voiced by the same actor who does Ro-Man, except with a slightly different helmet). | |
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Action Figure Speech | |
| Robot Monster / int_ba0ff8e1 | comment |
Action Figure Speech: The titular aliens, looking for all the world like a guy in a gorilla suit wearing a space helmet flailed around wildly while speaking. | |
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Killer Space Monkey | |
| Robot Monster / int_c1caaba9 | comment |
Killer Space Monkey: The use of a gorilla suit to portray an alien. | |
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Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear | |
| Robot Monster / int_dcaf20c4 | comment |
Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Ro-Man's diving helmet is supposed to be a space helmet. | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots | |
| Robot Monster / int_e4900915 | comment |
Ridiculously Human Robots: Ro-Man falls in love with Alice, but in a twist, he is horrified and confused by his emotions. | |
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Mars Needs Women | |
| Robot Monster / int_e4d9e13b | comment |
Mars Needs Women: Played with in a weird way - Ro-Man has no idea why he wants to get into Alice's pants, and while he's struggling with it Great Guidance orders him to kill her, so he goes into the Madness Mantra. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
| Robot Monster / int_ea6f361f | comment |
You Are Number 6: The main Ro-Man differentiates from the others by his codename, XJ2. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
| Robot Monster / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: After the Great Guidance comes to Earth, Johnny wakes up, apparently having hit his head and dreamed the whole thing. | |
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Martians | |
| Robot Monster / int_ead6fd98 | comment |
Martians: Though the alien comes from the plane Ro-Man, an alternate title for this movie is Monster From Mars. | |
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1.0 | |
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Moment Killer | |
| Robot Monster / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: The Great Guidance calls up Ro-Man at the most inopportune times.... | |
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1.0 | |
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A Dog Named "Dog" | |
| Robot Monster / int_efd11fe3 | comment |
A Dog Named "Dog": Ro-Man's race are called Ro-Men. Great Guidance refers to him specifically as "Extension XJ2", however. This is probably a deliberate point about their Mechanistic Alien Culture having no use for individuality. | |
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| Robot Monster / int_fd5ce6a3 | type |
Robot Names | |
| Robot Monster / int_fd5ce6a3 | comment |
Robot Names: Ro-Man XJ2 | |
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