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In The Future, when mankind has explored the outer reaches of space, the forces of evil threaten our peace. But never fear, for humanity is under the stalwart protection of the hero (or parody hero) of Space Operas and serials, known as Captain Space, Defender Of Earth! The parodies tend to be based more on (the popular perception of) Captain Kirk and on Adam West's portrayal of Batman than on the old Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers stories, but that does not stand in the way of their quest For Great Justice! Okay, it might, but even if he is an arrogant Jerkass (meant to mock the old values, or what we think they were), that won't stop people from admiring him (or Green Skinned Space Babes from falling into his arms) due to his deep, manly voice, larger than life mannerisms, dedication to truth and justice, and some of his trusty gadgets (Ray Gun mandatory). When our hero actually is heroic, although sometimes an idiot, he leads the fight to stop Death Rays, alien armadas, Space Pirates, and Evil Overlords from destroying The Federation! Furthermore, he does not need to do this alone, as he is always accompanied by a Girl Friday, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, or a Space Cadet, who may also be parodies of their respective archetypes or the true saviors of the day! In animation our hero is often drawn with an exaggerated chin and a top-heavy body, to show off his space manliness! Compare the Space Cadet (who aspires to be Captain Space when he grows up), Space Police, The Cape, The Ace, Raygun Gothic, Captain Superhero (with which this can overlap if a character is a Superhero In Space), For Great Justice, Space "X". Note that this is not merely parodies of space operas. This is about any character(s) acting this way. |
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In Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Oscar Hoffa's work as a television producer includes watching an episode of The Adventures of Crunch Crandall, Spaceman, whose titular hero fights to "save the fair Skarlotta, a Martian lass from the foul clutches of 'It,' the nameless monster of Ursa Minor." Oscar's executive complaints include not seeing enough cleavage on Skarlotta and the monster needing to be recast on the grounds of being "a faggot." | |
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Flip Hero in Hero and Hero Core. This heroic spaceman thwarts the machinations of Cruiser Tetron and his robot minions. Subverted: Hero is one of Tetron's machines gone rogue. | |
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Ignition City is a murder mystery set in a decrepit spaceport inhabited entirely by these. | |
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Nova becomes a reconstruction of this in Annihilation. | |
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Buckaroo Banzai from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. | |
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In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jupiter Jim is a popular series the turtles are big fans of, and the main character seems to be inspired by this trope. | |
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Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys as the name indicates is a parody of this trope mixed with Apes in Space. | |
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Honor Harrington has the series within a series Preston of the Spaceways, often mentioned in the context of warning against stupid heroics. To be told one is "playing Preston of the Spaceways" is not a compliment. | |
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Your protagonist in Creature Shock, investigating a monster-infested asteroid. | |
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The eponymous Commander Clark tries his hardest to live up to the trope, although his animal instincts can tend to get in the way. | |
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Ed Mercer from The Orville (played by series creator Seth MacFarlane) as the Orville is a parody of science fiction shows (mostly Star Trek) has overtones of this, although how much depends on the episode. | |
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Comic strip character Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! is the parody version of this trope. | |
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With a plot similar to Galaxy Quest, The Adventures Of Captain Zoom In Outer Space has an actor getting abducted by aliens who don't understand his show is fiction. The main difference is that his TV show was a parody of Buck Rogers rather than Star Trek. | |
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Uncle Art in Meet the Robinsons (voice, appropriately enough, by Adam West) is a subversion—his spaceship is a conveyance for delivering pizza. | |
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Duck Dodgers, in both the original cartoon and its TV series Spin-Off. | |
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The original Dan Dare is one of the most bona fide, straight examples you'll ever find, and we love him for it. Later iterations end up being deconstructions, though. | |
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Rocket Raccoon started as a very weird version of this trope plus Funny Animal. He later learned that the people he was protecting were actually abandoned mental patients; he'd been created to serve as the least-threatening asylum orderly possible. This leads to his modern characterization as a cynical, kleptomaniac bounty hunter. | |
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"Flash! AHAHHHH! He'll save every one of us!" | |
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The Space Academy series by C.T. Phipps: Vance Turbo, HERO OF SPACCCE develops this reputation by the third book where people correct his pronunctiation of the title affixed to his name. EarthGov and Space Fleet has worked to give him a legendary reputation as a defender of the innocent and opponent of evil through their propaganda machine. Interestingly, plenty of people believe he's the parody Idiot Hero of the trope as well, though neither is accurate. | |
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The Vindicators, and especially Vance Maximus (Renegade Starsoldier), from Rick and Morty, seem to be a more modern take on this, with Maximus himself being a clear nod to the film portrayal of Star-Lord. This contrasts with Rick and the various sci-fi beings he usually interacts with, who are based more on cheesy eighties and nineties cartoons. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin's Spaceman Spiff persona, who doesn't defend Earth so much as get randomly captured and shot down on faraway planets. | |
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SCP Foundation has SCP-1233, Moon Champion, champion of the Moon, defender of space justice and destroyer of evil. | |
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Captain EO featured Michael Jackson as a musical one of these. | |
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Rolf from Galaxy Fight fits the bill, with his heroic personality, wearing a red and white space suit at all times, and utilizing a ray gun and jet pack in combat. | |
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Marissa Faireborn in the third season of The Transformers has a bit of this vibe. It probably helps her badass status that she's implied to be Flint and Lady Jaye's daughter. | |
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Space Ghost is a rare latter-day example that plays this trope completely straight. | |
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In 1981 Dash Decent who was mostly a Flash Gordon parody, but whose name also suggested Dan Dare. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon started as a very weird version of this trope plus Funny Animal. He later learned that the people he was protecting were actually abandoned mental patients; he'd been created to serve as the least-threatening asylum orderly possible. This leads to his modern characterization as a cynical, kleptomaniac bounty hunter. Guardians of the Galaxy (2008) started on the very premise of deconstructing this trope, taking some of Marvel's forgotten characters who had played it straight and remaking them as severely flawed characters. |
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The MCU incarnation of Peter "Star-Lord" Quill from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) styles himself as one with some Lovable Rogue mixed in for flavor. This is actually his intentional presentation of himself, curated from his only Earthly experience being life as a small child before being abducted into space. As such, he pulls this off as a form of self-identity. Also, Iron Man, who nicknames everybody, actually refers to him as "Flash Gordon" in Avengers: Infinity War, which he actually takes as a compliment. | |
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The eponymous Space☆Dandy, though you'd be mistaken if you ever thought he was in it For Great Justice. | |
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The "Starboy and the Captain of Outer Space" movie-within-a-show in Home Movies. | |
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Nexus has more than a few elements of this, since he was based partly on Space Ghost. | |
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Not to be confused with... Space Patrol! This British series is this trope done with puppets. | |
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Likewise for Space Patrol. Notably, Elroy Jetson's favorite TV hero, "Captain Blast," is clearly a parody of Space Patrol, complete with the characters doing ads for breakfast cereal with giveaway toys in the box. | |
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The titular protagonist of The Middleman, a pulp hero who battles mad scientists and supervillains straight out of old-fashioned sci-fi novels and comic books. | |
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2000 AD: In 1981 Dash Decent who was mostly a Flash Gordon parody, but whose name also suggested Dan Dare. Around this same time, a "Tharg's Future Shocks" strip penned by Alan Moore centered around Rocket Redglare—"Golden-Haired Guardian of the Galaxy, Steel-Eyed Sentinel of the Spaceways, and Enemy of Evil Extra-Terrestrials." He's been living out his life as a washed up retiree, ever since he defeated his Meng the Merciless -styled arch enemy. |
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Captain Cosmos from Fallout 3. Posters even showed the time slot of his show to be identical to the original air time of Star Trek: The Original Series. In the fifth DLC, one of the major NPCs is a big fan. | |
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Rad Gravity in The Adventures of Rad Gravity. | |
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In the 1960's, Space Angel was this trope, with Clutch Cargo-style animation! (That is, real filmed actors' mouths superimposed over still drawings. Really!) | |
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Used as a joke in-universe in the X-Wing Series. | |
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Some LEGO minifigures; Intergalactic Girl travels the universe saving people. Retro Space Hero is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. |
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V for Vendetta has a Show Within a Show called Storm Saxon as an idealized Aryan hero. He seems to mainly be a Mighty Whitey who fights black cannibals. | |
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In Steven Universe, Lars helps the Off-Color Gems steal a Cool Starship in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome. He then becomes the ship's commander, and gets fully into this trope when making decisions (while posing heroically). | |
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Tek Jansen of The Colbert Report (which provides the above image) is a Parody Sue who is written by Colbert himself. | |
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Captain Sternn from Heavy Metal, although we don't get to see his exploits, just the trial. | |
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Earthworm Jim was a deliberate parody of space heroes plus the Mascot with Attitude. | |
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Generally speaking, Star Trek's critics have always accused it of being this trope (as if that were something to be ashamed of!), and its defenders have indignantly denied it, since the franchise has always tried to rise above the stereotypes and limitations of this trope's subgenre. | |
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Drake Redcrest in Chibi-Robo! is an action figure from a Show Within a Show. | |
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Captain Adam Francis Shatner in Tripping the Rift is a parody of this trope as the name implies (referencing two well-known actors of camp shows Adam West and William Shatner) as captain of the Confederation (the in-universe parody of The Federation) and with many characteristics of the trope. | |
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Black Mirror: Robert Daly, the antagonist of "USS Callister", is a very dark take on this character type. | |
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The Onion: Crash Comet, Space Commander From The Year Two Thousand, nemesis of Evil Overlord opinion columnist Gorzo the Mighty. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Galaxy Star is a sincere portrayal of this trope. Captain of the Galaxy's team, he's the charismatic and handsome American given jurisdiction to protect both Earth and Space, and does so without sinister intent. Both Zophy and Sharkungo consider him their good friend, and is eager to provide them with as much support as he can. | |
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Valérian plays it straight and likely inspired many other examples. While the titular character is heroic, he is part of the Space Police instead of a lone hero. | |
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CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH! of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is the Trope Namer. | |
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The Prince of Space from Prince of Space. Also his Captain Ersatz Space Chief from Invasion of the Neptune Men. |
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Captain Qwark of Ratchet & Clank. In the first game, Ratchet seeks his help to fight Chairman Drek, only to learn he'd been hired by Drek as a spokesman and The Heavy. In later games he varies between secondary antagonist and annoying Distressed Dude. | |
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Zapp Brannigan of Futurama thinks he's a dashing space hero, but in actuality is a despicable, cowardly, perverted idiot who inevitably gets all the men under his command killed pointlessly. Unlike most examples he is not so much a broad parody, as he is very explicitly based on Captain Kirk (his character was originally pitched as "What if William Shatner was captain of the Enterprise rather than Kirk?"), although he does have moments of referencing other things - in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" he has a recurring Imagine Spot in the form of an incredibly cheap looking black-and-white adventure serial called "The Transcredible Exploits of Zapp Brannigan", depicting Action Girl Leela as a helpless Damsel in Distress and Zapp as a macho hero fighting a stereotypical Yellow Peril villain. | |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a cartoon based off the Buzz Lightyear property seen in the Toy Story movies. In this cartoon, Buzz is less of a parody than Captain Space heroes often are and the show is closer in tone to genuine Space Opera. | |
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Around this same time, a "Tharg's Future Shocks" strip penned by Alan Moore centered around Rocket Redglare—"Golden-Haired Guardian of the Galaxy, Steel-Eyed Sentinel of the Spaceways, and Enemy of Evil Extra-Terrestrials." He's been living out his life as a washed up retiree, ever since he defeated his Meng the Merciless -styled arch enemy. | |
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The eponymous character of Captain Star is an egotistical Captain Kirk spoof totally oblivious to the fact that he's been Kicked Upstairs to a desolate planet at the edge of the universe. | |
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In a VeggieTales episode about bullying, Junior daydreams of being a space hero of this type, facing off against an evil alien who resembles his bully. | |
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Private Eye had Dan Dire◊, who was based on politician, Neil Kinnock and fought the Maggon (a Mekon parody, based on Margaret Thatcher). | |
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How to Hero has Boost, the Man From Beyond. | |
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As in the original game, Dexter is this in the Space Ace segments of Saturday Supercade. | |
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Deconstructed in Will Save the Galaxy for Food and its sequel Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, whose setting had a brief "golden age" of heroic star pilots before they were rendered technologically obsolete by teleportation. | |
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Crash and Coco's Star skins in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled have them look the part, but play it for laughs, since they end up having accidents with their respective tools. | |
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In universe, this is how Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!) is portrayed. Whether he is or not in person is debatable. | |
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Captain Commando mixes this with Toku tropes. | |
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Captain Video, the original TV space hero, was Played Straight in his billing as an "electronic wizard! Master of time and space! Guardian of the safety of the world!" All this while being the face of the No Budget DuMont network. His future space uniform was made out of an Army surplus uniform, and one of his weapons was made out of car parts. Not quite old enough to be the Ur-Example, but his show is certainly one of the Trope Codifiers. Sadly, only a few recorded episodes survive today. | |
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While most versions of the Flash Gordon franchise focus on a single planet, Mongo, and would therefore fall under the Planetary Romance trope, the 1950's Live Action TV series was of the Captain Space variety, with Flash, Dale, and Zarkov zipping all over the universe to fight evil. It was produced during the period when the comic strip had gone a similar route. | |
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Blasto: Phil Hartman voices the title charter, who is played for comedy. | |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is basically this, albeit with a Cassette Futurism aesthetic instead of a Raygun Gothic one. | |
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Starlight was a reconstruction of Flash Gordon where the Flash expy has come back to Earth and grown old with nobody believing his stories of space adventures apart from his now dead wife. He comes out of retirement when an alien teenager comes to Earth and asks him to save their planet again. | |
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Toby Frost's Space Captain Smith, hero of the British Space Empire, is Captain Space with a Stiff Upper Lip. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2008) started on the very premise of deconstructing this trope, taking some of Marvel's forgotten characters who had played it straight and remaking them as severely flawed characters. | |
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Atomic Betty uses this trope to add to the retro-futuristic appeal of the show. The title character is notably different other examples of this trope in that she's a 12-year-old girl who has to Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World (or in this case, the galaxy). | |
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Live A Live's Distant Future chapter features Captain Square, the protagonist of an in-universe retro video game. He looks like Captain Future with goggles in lieu of a helmet, and fights alien monsters across 9 different levels. | |
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Captain Falcon of F-Zero and Super Smash Bros. fame is this trope as seen through Japanese eyes, particularly in the latter where he is voiced in overly hammy and terse Fake American Engrish. | |
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Astro City's own Astro-Naut (in honor of whom the city was named) is a Decon-Recon Switch of the archetype - having developed space travel technology during the war with the help of (friendly) aliens, his refusal to share it with the goverment during the fifties led him to be labeled a traitor to the country. He kept traveling across the cosmos to keep an eye on alien menaces (and find his lost Green-Skinned Space Babe love) despite his decreasing popularity and detatchment from human life. His fall from grace was reversed, however, once he gave his life protecting the city from Space Invaders. In keeping with the Deliberate Values Dissonance of his mid-fifties time period, his spaceship had an airbrushed image of his girlfriend, and he kept smoking his cigarettes even when wearing a Fishbowl Helmet. | |
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In Stellaris, one Random Event has one of your science ship's chief officers (presumably a captain) going insane and believing themself to embody this trope, and that the very stars are pulsing to send them a coded warning about a coming catastrophe that only they can avert. The event ends with said officer being shipped back to your homeworld for therapy, bidding them farewell with "Thank you for your service, [Science Officer], protector of the realm!" | |
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Homestar Runner has "Space Captainface, pretender of the galaxies", Strong Bad's alter ego as head astronaut/poster boy for Strong Badia's space program, SBASAF (the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil, pronounced "sbace-aff"). His missions include Camera Spoofing an Italian spy satellite and attempting to turn fifteen bucks into a million dollars through a "vague understanding of the theory of relativity". | |
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Bronco from Gentlemen Broncos | |
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Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is exactly the sort of show the title makes you think it is, played straight. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. The holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton was an Affectionate Parody of this trope, even if downplayed compared to most examples. Generally speaking, Star Trek's critics have always accused it of being this trope (as if that were something to be ashamed of!), and its defenders have indignantly denied it, since the franchise has always tried to rise above the stereotypes and limitations of this trope's subgenre. |
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The Doctor Who New Adventures novel The Highest Science has the Doctor discover a triangular video cassette showing "Captain Millennium" battling "Libida, Queen of the Virenies", which he considers to be So Bad, It's Good. (And when it ends on a cliffhanger with the Captain's assistant being threatened by an evil robot, he concludes it's "almost like real life, in a glamorized sort of way".) | |
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Captain Future and his friends are another early straight example, complete with a popular animated adaptation in Japan. | |
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