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The Super Inframan
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The very first Chinese superhero film, The Super Inframan is a Tokusatsu-style film produced by the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio in 1975 and released in America the following year under the title Inframan. It's notable for being a fairly transparent knockoff of Ultraman and Kamen Rider (although, despite the poster or original namenote Literally Chinese Superman, not of Superman) that somehow managed to get a three-star review from Roger Ebertnote Originally he gave it two-and-a-half stars; he re-rated it upon Quentin Tarantino's theatrical re-issue of The Mighty Peking Man, the Shaws' imitation of King Kong. Nevertheless, it's a fun, campy Chop Sockey film whose special effects and acting are, if not great, then at least in the same league as its "inspirations."The story goes as follows: Princess Dragon Mom (Demon Princess Elzebub in the original) wakes up from hibernation and decides to conquer Earth, so she defrosts a few monsters — including the tentacled Octopus Mutant, the fire-breathing Emperor of Doom, and the oddly cuddly-looking Nemesis — and sends them out to wreak havoc. In order to combat them, young Science Patrol member Rayma (Danny Lee) volunteers to become cyborg Henshin Hero Inframan. Kung fu is utilized, motorcycles are ridden, Chekhov's Guns are fired, and even One Winged Angels prove to be vulnerable to Thunderball Fists. | |
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Giant Foot of Stomping | |
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Giant Foot of Stomping: The fight between Inframan and Spider Monster ends with Spider Monster being defeated and reduced to regular size, at which point Inframan - still in kaiju form - finished off his opponent with his boot. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Inframan is equipped with tiny missiles that can be used to thaw him if he ever gets frozen solid. But what are the chances of that? | |
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Beam-O-War | |
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Beam-O-War: The Laser Horn Monster gets into one of these with Inframan. Subverted — Laser Horn Monster simply breaks the stalemate by shooting him with the other horn. | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Dragon Mom can regenerate her decapitated head in seconds. | |
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Lightning Lash | |
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Lightning Lash: Dragon Mom's preferred weapon, while in human form, is her electrified whip. | |
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Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains | |
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Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Princess Dragon Mom and her Dragon Witch Eye both wear revealing and/or sexualised outfits, while Liu Mei-mei wears a jumper. | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: For a bunch of scientists, Science Patrol can kick some ass when they need to. | |
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Harmless Freezing | |
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Harmless Freezing: Professor Liu and his daughter gets frozen alive after getting captured by Dragon Mom, as she prepares to brainwash them, but when Inframan breaks them out they're none the worse for wear. Similarly, Inframan himself gets frozen and paralyzed by Dragon Mom at the end of the film, but he can orchestrate a quick breakout later on. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Dragon Mom's henchwoman, Witch Eye, who serves her directly and commands the lesser mooks around. | |
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Sizeshifter | |
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Sizeshifter: Giant Beetle can become gigantic. Thankfully — because he's basically Ultraman with the Serial Numbers Filed Off — Inframan can, too. | |
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Cave Mouth | |
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Cave Mouth: The entrance to Dragon Mom's lair is built after the mouth of a skeletal dragon-like beast. | |
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Losing Your Head | |
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Losing Your Head: A very unintentionally comical version in the final battle. When Princess Dragon Mom goes One-Winged Angel and changes into a dragon, Inframan cuts off her head with his laser attacks. It grows right back. This happens five times before Inframan decides to just disintegrate her whole body to finish her off. | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Of the various monsters Inframan has to face, the Long-Haired Monster and the Dragon Monster probably had the least amount of screentime and / or development. They're in the film for less than ten minutes combined, both of them getting killed quickly by Inframan in unsuccessful ambushes. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: A silent example: One of the monsters won't stop swaying and manages in one scene to slowly but surely move into almost every shot even though he has absolutely no relevance in the scene at all. It's distracting as all Hell. | |
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Behemoth Battle | |
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Behemoth Battle: Inframan vs. the Spider Monster, Round 2. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Prof. Chang's borderline heartwarming conversation with his daughter shortly before she gets kidnapped. | |
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The Professor | |
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The Professor: Chang serves in this capacity. | |
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Henshin Hero | |
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Henshin Hero: Transformation poses and all. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: "Super" is the opposite of "Infra". | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: Supposedly Inframan is solar-powered. When the bad guys try to exploit this by blocking out the sun near the end of the movie, his laser beam fails. Inframan then easily kills two monsters in the same scene without it. The only thing that actually stops his assault on the Princess's castle is being frozen solid, and even that doesn't stop him for long. | |
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People in Rubber Suits | |
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People in Rubber Suits: The monsters are depicted using this method. | |
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Science Hero | |
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Science Hero: A platoon of them. They, of course, convince the hero to undergo cyborg-ization to become Inframan. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: The Japanese release combines the Chinese and English titles to become Chuugoku Choujin Inframan (中国超人インフラマン, China Superhuman Inframan). | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands | |
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New Powers as the Plot Demands: Inframan's ability to enlarge himself to kaiju size is used exactly once, and that is when he's facing a similarly supersized monster. It never shows up again for the rest of the film. | |
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Dem Bones | |
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Dem Bones: Dragon Mom's mooks are dressed, awesomely enough, as biker skeletons. | |
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Rocket Punch | |
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Rocket Punch: The mighty Thunderball Fists do this. Additionally, the Iron Fist Robots have this as their primary attack. | |
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Eyes Do Not Belong There | |
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Eyes Do Not Belong There: She-Demon, The Dragon to Dragon Mom, has long, clawed hands with an eye in the center of each. They shoot Frickin' Laser Beams. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
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Made of Explodium / Stuff Blowing Up: Everything explodes in this movie. | |
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One Bad Mother | |
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One Bad Mother: In the English version. | |
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Monster in the Ice | |
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Monster in the Ice: The monsters have been hibernating in an ice cave for ten million years since the ice age ended, until the monster monarch, Princess Dragon Mom, arrives on earth to conquer the planet and awakens the monsters to be her servants. | |
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This Is a Drill | |
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This Is a Drill: One of Nemesis' arms ends in a drill, the other... in some sort of shovel thing. | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
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One-Winged Angel: Dragon Mom shapeshifts into her true form for the final battle. | |
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