...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
People in Rubber Suits
- 446 statements
- 84 feature instances
- 93 referencing feature instances
| People in Rubber Suits | type |
FeatureClass | |
| People in Rubber Suits | label |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits | page |
PeopleInRubberSuits | |
| People in Rubber Suits | comment |
Monsters played by humans in costumes. This is the single most important special effect of all time, bar none. The man in rubber suit technique was Hollywood's original go-to method (and still utilized extensively in Toku) for portraying the Kaiju, the extra-terrestrial invader, the experiment Gone Horribly Wrong, and the supernatural terror before computer generated effects were a twinkle in a programmer's eye. This is not to say that the method is perfect — many a great riff has been made at the expense of the weaker displays of this technique — but even at its lowest the man-in-suit still takes notoriety in the form of Narm Charm. Some special effects artists, such as Rick Baker, built their entire career on this. Note: Not necessarily made from rubber. Compare Pantomime Animal, Rubber-Forehead Aliens. Starring Special Effects is a sister trope for animated or puppet creations in live-action films, and it's possible for both tropes to be featured in one movie. Not related to Dressed All in Rubber. In-universe examples, if resembling a real animal, can qualify as Animal Disguise. Serkis Folk can be considered the modern descendant, with the main difference being that the "suit" is added in digital post-production. Also compare Stop Motion, the other main method of animating monsters before CGI became commonplace. |
|
| People in Rubber Suits | fetched |
2023-08-14T04:45:43Z | |
| People in Rubber Suits | parsed |
2023-08-14T04:45:43Z | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to Cujo: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to EvilTwin: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to HiddenInPlainSight: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to HumongousMecha: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to Kaiju: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to LizardFolk: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to NewspaperComic: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to RodentsOfUnusualSize: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to SerkisFolk: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to ShowWithinAShow: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to ShowWithinTheShow: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to SpecialEffectsFailure: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to SurrealHorror: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheAquabats: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to UrExample: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingComment |
Dropped link to lampshadehanging: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingUnknown |
Cujo | |
| People in Rubber Suits | processingUnknown |
NewspaperComic | |
| People in Rubber Suits | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_110d4471 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_110d4471 | comment |
Played to great effect in Predator. The original Predator costume was a rather goofy and awkward lizard; the crew asked for a new monster design very shortly after seeing the original. The designer decided to try something with mandibles... | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_110d4471 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_110d4471 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Predator | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_110d4471 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_15aded14 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_15aded14 | comment |
Smoking Causes Coughing: The Tobacco Force fight human sized monsters who are this. At some point a little girl looks at a video that they have made, and comments that the monster looks fake. This film also features hand puppets and animatronics. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_15aded14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_15aded14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smoking Causes Coughing | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_15aded14 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_1e5ea45c | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_1e5ea45c | comment |
The Boohbahs from Boohbah are fuzzy full-body puppets that appeared in very bright colors. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_1e5ea45c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_1e5ea45c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Boohbah | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_1e5ea45c | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_2fcc38cb | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_2fcc38cb | comment |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! turned Jim Carrey into the title character via a full-body suit that was painful and stifling for Carrey to the point that he almost quit early on; he needed help from a military torture expert to handle the experience. When he was performing in it, however, he was able to turn it to his creative advantage, and designers Rick Baker and Gail-Rowell Ryan won Best Makeup Oscars for their work. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_2fcc38cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_2fcc38cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_2fcc38cb | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3193e3f3 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3193e3f3 | comment |
Lampshaded by the Duck Dodgers cartoon, with a Godzilla-like monster called "Maninsuit". | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3193e3f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3193e3f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Duck Dodgers | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_3193e3f3 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_388eab30 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_388eab30 | comment |
The various Krofft Brothers productions, ranging from miscellaneous creatures (H.R. Pufnstuf) to an entire show of anthropomorphic hats (Lidsville). | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_388eab30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_388eab30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| H.R. Pufnstuf | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_388eab30 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3b182a22 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3b182a22 | comment |
StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds goes back to using a suit for the adult Gorn starting with Season 2's finale, "Hegemony." The new suit weighs 100lbs, contains a robotic tail, and even has custom clothes such as the EV Suit seen in its debut. Their first use for it? Zero-G wire work with minimal CGI assists. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3b182a22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_3b182a22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_3b182a22 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_46518682 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_46518682 | comment |
The "full-body" Muppet characters (e.g. Big Bird, Barkley, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Bear, Mopatop, Thog, Sweetums, Samson, Pino, Abelardo) fall into the "not necessarily rubber" category of this trope. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_46518682 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_46518682 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sesame Street | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_46518682 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_47dfc6f | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_47dfc6f | comment |
Owen from Total Drama World Tour dressed up as Godzilla for his team's commercial in Japan. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_47dfc6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_47dfc6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Total Drama | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_47dfc6f | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_48cd429d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_48cd429d | comment |
Influenced by the Kroffts, Yo Gabba Gabba!. They actually use several suits that come originally from the concerts given by the creators' band, the Aquabats (q.v. below). | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_48cd429d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_48cd429d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Yo Gabba Gabba! | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_48cd429d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_4b844fe9 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_4b844fe9 | comment |
In the film The Bad and the Beautiful, a director and a producer are assigned to make a low-budget horror film about cat men, who are supposed to be played by people in crappy suits. They declare that "five men dressed like cats look like five men dressed like cats", and they make the film without showing the monsters (a reference to the real classic horror film Cat People). | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_4b844fe9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_4b844fe9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_4b844fe9 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_516b12e8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_516b12e8 | comment |
The In the Night Garden... characters Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, and the Tombliboos are puppets of this type. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_516b12e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_516b12e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| In the Night Garden... | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_516b12e8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5538496c | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5538496c | comment |
In Walking with Beasts, they originally wanted to portray the Australopithecus this way, but in the end chose CGI because of the different body proportions between humans and protohumans. However the sequel, Walking with Cavemen went back to the rubber suit approach. Both of these effects are generally regarded as the series' less stellar FX accomplishments. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5538496c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5538496c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Walking with Beasts | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5538496c | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_57cb507e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_57cb507e | comment |
Used in the film The Last Dinosaur, here. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_57cb507e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_57cb507e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Last Dinosaur | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_57cb507e | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5c0e1998 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5c0e1998 | comment |
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Gusto Fan Comic frequently depicts the Synchro-Summoned Mist Wurm as Caam wearing the Mist Wurm Suit. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5c0e1998 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5c0e1998 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| YuGiOhCardGameGustoFanComic | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5c0e1998 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5d354f8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5d354f8 | comment |
Legion from Red Dwarf. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5d354f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5d354f8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ebd9db6 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ebd9db6 | comment |
Donkey Hodie: According to a Variety article, Stanley is played by a puppeteer who gets inside his body. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ebd9db6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ebd9db6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donkey Hodie | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5ebd9db6 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ed018f2 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ed018f2 | comment |
Beowulf (1999) reimagined Grendel as a man in a rubber suit... with a clearly visible zipper (it also reimagined Grendel's mother as a Cute Monster Girl who would later prove to have flammable blood). | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ed018f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5ed018f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beowulf (1999) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5ed018f2 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5fd1a34d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5fd1a34d | comment |
Creature from the Black Lagoon is the Trope Codifier for Fish People depicted this way. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5fd1a34d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_5fd1a34d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_5fd1a34d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_60697b93 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_60697b93 | comment |
Escape from the Planet of the Apes film had a painfully obvious human in a gorilla suit who killed one of the apes at the zoo. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_60697b93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_60697b93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_60697b93 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6300d32a | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6300d32a | comment |
300: Despite the extensive use of CGI, rubber suits were still used for deformed characters such as Ephialtes and the uber-immortal. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6300d32a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6300d32a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 300 | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_6300d32a | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_65d9acd2 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_65d9acd2 | comment |
The Sarah Jane Adventures. Like Doctor Who, except a smaller budget = less CGI + more people in rubber suits. Lampshaded: |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_65d9acd2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_65d9acd2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_65d9acd2 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_68571b69 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_68571b69 | comment |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Like Lord of the Rings before it, the live action Narnia films were replete with rubber suits, although to accurately portray the leg structure of the hooved fauns, satyrs and minotaurs, CGI was used in addition to the physical costumes. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_68571b69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_68571b69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_68571b69 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_691be369 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_691be369 | comment |
The X-Files. Spoofed in "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'". Scully begins performing an autopsy on a Grey Alien found dead in a field, only to find a zipper; it turns out to be a rubber suit. The video footage is edited and sold as a tape of an actual Alien Autopsy. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_691be369 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_691be369 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The X-Files | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_691be369 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6ae6b4c7 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6ae6b4c7 | comment |
Pacific Rim: As a love letter to every monster movie ever, the movie gives this a nod. While the kaiju are all completely computer generated, they are designed in such a way that they could, conceivably, be played by a man in a rubber suit. Early on in the film, we see this trope played straight in a Show Within the Show parodying the kaiju in-universe. |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6ae6b4c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6ae6b4c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pacific Rim | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_6ae6b4c7 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6b85085e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6b85085e | comment |
The first two Mortal Kombat films play with this on vastly different sides of the quality spectrum. Goro from the first film is a very elaborate example, with only the lower torso fitting in this category directly, with the rest of the costume being an elaborate animatronic that while rather goofy in the face, is otherwise pretty effective. A making of was posted by the suit's creators. On the more obvious side, there's Baraka and Motaro from Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Baraka in particular looks extremely lame, even for 1997. Motaro on the other hand is married to some god-awful CGI for his back half, while his front half is simply the actor wearing a pants suit done up to look like centaur legs, and poorly at that. |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6b85085e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6b85085e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mortal Kombat (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_6b85085e | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6c30a011 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6c30a011 | comment |
Tyranno's Claw have people in suits portraying the giant prehistoric rodent, and a tribe of furry ape-people. Averted for the dinosaur sequences, whom were played by animatronics. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6c30a011 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6c30a011 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tyranno's Claw | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_6c30a011 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6e859048 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6e859048 | comment |
In Big Hero 6, Fred dons a kaiju costume that allows him to breathe fire and calls himself "Fredzilla". This is in stark contrast with his other five teammates who all wear matching suits of high tech armor. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6e859048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_6e859048 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Big Hero 6 | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_6e859048 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7038c36b | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7038c36b | comment |
Spoofed in Danger 5 along with other Narm Charm clichés. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7038c36b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7038c36b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danger 5 | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_7038c36b | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_71ad1f9e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_71ad1f9e | comment |
A far more convincing gorilla example was Digit in Gorillas in the Mist. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_71ad1f9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_71ad1f9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gorillas in the Mist | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_71ad1f9e | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_75c31694 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_75c31694 | comment |
The A-Team: In one episode, Hannibal is shown to be in a Godzilla costume as part of a job. Also seen in the opening credits, without the headpiece on while smoking one of his iconic cigars. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_75c31694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_75c31694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The A-Team | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_75c31694 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7d122312 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7d122312 | comment |
On The Flintstones, Fred got a job in a monster movie not as the monster, but as the stand-in for the actor playing the monster. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7d122312 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7d122312 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Flintstones | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_7d122312 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7fd1abd5 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7fd1abd5 | comment |
In King Kong (1976), Jeff Bridges' character reacted to the plunderers' initial disbelief upon seeing the giant ape by saying "What do you think it was? A man in an ape suit?"... which is exactly what it looked like, because it was. Played by make-up artist Rick Baker, who wound up uncredited. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7fd1abd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_7fd1abd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| King Kong (1976) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_7fd1abd5 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81692f99 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81692f99 | comment |
Star Trek mostly has Rubber-Forehead Aliens, but some (the Gorn, for instance) play this trope straight. " Arena" became one of the most iconic episodes because of this. As time went on those species that were once men in suits were replaced by Serkis Folk. The Gorn appearance in Enterprise was all CGI, for example. StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds goes back to using a suit for the adult Gorn starting with Season 2's finale, "Hegemony." The new suit weighs 100lbs, contains a robotic tail, and even has custom clothes such as the EV Suit seen in its debut. Their first use for it? Zero-G wire work with minimal CGI assists. |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81692f99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81692f99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_81692f99 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81f5d35d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81f5d35d | comment |
Kamen Rider still relies on suits despite being on the air during the reign of three successive Japanese emperors, for both the heroes and villains. The earlier Heiseinote Kamen Rider Kuuga until Kamen Rider Fourze seasons rely on two-part episodes to cut down on the costs of creating monsters for a full fifty-ish episode series, plus at least two movies. The later Heisei series, on the other hand, are less reliant on 'monster of the week' plots and thus require less monsters to be made. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81f5d35d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_81f5d35d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kamen Rider (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_81f5d35d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_8426674b | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_8426674b | comment |
Conan the Destroyer: Dagoth, the god/monster Conan faces off against at the end, was played by wrestler André the Giant in a rubber suit. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_8426674b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_8426674b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Conan the Destroyer | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_8426674b | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_91fedfaa | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_91fedfaa | comment |
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular live show uses it with great effect for raptor-sized predators and a baby T. rex, in combination with animatronics for large dinosaurs. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_91fedfaa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_91fedfaa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Walking with Dinosaurs | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_91fedfaa | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_92844ddb | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_92844ddb | comment |
Most of the dinosaurs in Dinosaurs. The rest, however, are played by hand puppets. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_92844ddb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_92844ddb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dinosaurs | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_92844ddb | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9298878d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9298878d | comment |
One early rubber-plus-animatronics example was 1959's The Alligator People, in which the transformed protagonist's final gator head had a working jaw. Still looked very fake, the moreso because he winds up interacting with an actual alligator. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9298878d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9298878d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Alligator People | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_9298878d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9c556c08 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9c556c08 | comment |
Invoked for the designs of the monsters in SSSS.GRIDMAN and its sequel SSSS.DYNɅZENON, which look big enough to hide a person inside and utilize mocap technology to make the movements appropriately clunky. This is even done in-universe with Anonymous, whose ravenous "B" form hides in the cheap-looking "A" form until it gets sufficiently pissed off. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9c556c08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9c556c08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SSSS.GRIDMAN | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_9c556c08 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9e84c324 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9e84c324 | comment |
The Penguin in Batman Returns has two species of tame penguins helping him. The large emperor penguins are portrayed by little people in suits, and it's very much possible to watch the entire film without catching this. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9e84c324 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9e84c324 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman Returns | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_9e84c324 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9ff4a8d9 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9ff4a8d9 | comment |
Godzilla is an interesting case; Originally, Godzilla was to be animated in stop-motion, like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Eiji Tsuburaya informed the producers that the necessary scenes would take seven years to complete, so he was instead told to create the monster another way. He came up with a new plan: instead of splicing a tiny stop-motion model into live-action footage, make a realistic monster suit and build a set where everything is tiny compared to it. It worked. Applications of this method in the years after Tsuburaya's death in the Showa period turned out not to be as impressive, however... but they do have their charm. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9ff4a8d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_9ff4a8d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Godzilla (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_9ff4a8d9 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a14cdb6f | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a14cdb6f | comment |
The 1957 movie Night of the Demon, directed with dark understated dread by veteran Jacques Tourneur, from a story by horror master M. R. James, was considered by many to be undercut by Executive Meddling insistence on a rubber-suit demon (showing up at the beginning, no less). | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a14cdb6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a14cdb6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Night of the Demon | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_a14cdb6f | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a1bda379 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a1bda379 | comment |
In Night of the Lepus this is how the Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits are portrayed when they attack people. The suits...pretty much look nothing like giant bunnies. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a1bda379 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a1bda379 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Night of the Lepus | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_a1bda379 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a57cf54d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a57cf54d | comment |
Parodied in Darths & Droids, where Jabba's Gamorrean guards are humans in rubber suits in-story, apparently because Jabba has some bizarre tastes (it also conveniently makes them immune to Artie's Lost-Orb-enhanced shock prod). Apparently everyone else non-human-looking servant Jabba's palace is like that too, leading them to think Chewbacca isn't a real wookiee and C-3PO isn't a real droid and taking their protests as (the result of too much) Method Acting. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a57cf54d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a57cf54d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Darths & Droids (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_a57cf54d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8150af4 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8150af4 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power uses specific prosthetics made of encapsulated silicon and practical makeup for the Orcs. Only the people who would fit the created costumes were casted. Even better, Jamie Wilson, who worked on the cinematic trilogies, is the head of prosthetics for the show. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8150af4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8150af4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_a8150af4 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8e835c0 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8e835c0 | comment |
In an early music video ("Elephant Parts", 1981), Michael Nesmith is wearing the bottom half of a rubber suit while singing "Her Name Was Rodan". | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8e835c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_a8e835c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Michael Nesmith (Music) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_a8e835c0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ad20e006 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ad20e006 | comment |
Wonder Woman (1975): Gargantua is played by an actor in an oversized gorilla suit, with an extra tall head. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ad20e006 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ad20e006 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wonder Woman (1975) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ad20e006 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_aedc983a | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_aedc983a | comment |
In every main-series iteration of Wing Commander after II, the Kilrathi. Series creator Chris Roberts was NEVER happy with their appearance. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_aedc983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_aedc983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wing Commander (Video Game) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_aedc983a | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2165525 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2165525 | comment |
Pearl (the grotesquely obese vampire) from Blade (1998). It sounds like a grim kid's TV show. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2165525 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2165525 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blade (1998) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b2165525 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2fba3e0 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2fba3e0 | comment |
The granddaddy of them all, the Ultra Series uses nothing but people in rubber suits. Series from the 1990's onwards, but especially in the 2010s like Ultraman Orb and Ultraman Geed even have the heroes have forms that can be switched around during fights. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2fba3e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b2fba3e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ultra Series (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b2fba3e0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b310c8f4 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b310c8f4 | comment |
The dinosaurs of Barney & Friends fall into the "not necessarily rubber" category of this trope. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b310c8f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b310c8f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Barney & Friends | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b310c8f4 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b507f2d1 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b507f2d1 | comment |
Scooby-Doo: Oh the ghost is here, it's a crook in a suit. The ghost is here, he's protecting some loot. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b507f2d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b507f2d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| ScoobyDoo | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b507f2d1 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b6cb9396 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b6cb9396 | comment |
Lost in Space: Effects studio Spectral Motion and Shannon Shea (who did costumes for Jurassic Park and Predators) were specifically hired by Netflix to create the robot suit. They went as far as adding green fabric to certain portions of the suit, so that digital artists could create areas where people could see right through it. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b6cb9396 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b6cb9396 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lost in Space | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b6cb9396 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b8e7bb8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b8e7bb8 | comment |
Super Sentai and Power Rangers, while putting their heroes in spandex (apologies to Doctor K) the villains and their Monster of the Week minions are always in rubber suits, save for the occasional lady villain not in a full-body costume (eg. Rita Repulsa). Power Rangers: Dino Thunder even lampshaded their situation when they happen across an episode of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger (the Super Sentai show that their own show was based on. It's a long story.): |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b8e7bb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b8e7bb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Sentai (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b8e7bb8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b9a0d78d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b9a0d78d | comment |
The Xenomorph from Alien. They are MUCH scarier than most people in rubber suits though because they have such a un-human like head (which even requires lots of animatronics◊) and body that its hard to tell yourself they're just men in suits. Even more so in the first movie, where the alien was played by a 7FT 2INCHS TALL, but slender...student. Though in this case they cut down the appearances of the Xenomorph to the bare minimum because otherwise they looked like this trope. In later movies they afford to work more on the movement of the aliens. The VFX supervisor who started playing the Alien in the third movie (including AVP: Alien vs. Predator) made a career out of this. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b9a0d78d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_b9a0d78d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alien | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_b9a0d78d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bd3bfb55 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bd3bfb55 | comment |
As a competitor to the anniversary years of Ultraman, Super Sentai, and Kamen Rider, Madan Senki Ryukendo put this to work, although often mixing things up with CGI monsters, such as with a monster who is best described as a flying mood ring laser elephant. Ryukendo's spiritual successors Tomica Hero Rescue Force and Tomica Hero Rescue Fire kept up this tradition, although most Monsters of the Week would be CGI creations. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bd3bfb55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bd3bfb55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Madan Senki Ryukendo | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_bd3bfb55 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bddc4ebe | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bddc4ebe | comment |
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder even lampshaded their situation when they happen across an episode of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger (the Super Sentai show that their own show was based on. It's a long story.): | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bddc4ebe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_bddc4ebe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Power Rangers: Dino Thunder | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_bddc4ebe | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c03ad363 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c03ad363 | comment |
Played with in The Last Mimzy. At the beginning, the Scientist's lab gets attacked by two "alien" creatures that look like people in rubber suits. At the end, we learn that they were people in rubber suits. More specifically, they were people in all-enclosing protective suits because of the poisoned-beyond-repair environment. They shed their costumes when they see sunlight for the first time in ages. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c03ad363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c03ad363 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Last Mimzy | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_c03ad363 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c1c642f7 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c1c642f7 | comment |
The Hellboy series of movies (both directed By Guillermo Del Toro) use this technique a lot, and to great effect. In fact, Del Toro's movies almost always opt to minimize the use of CGI as much as possible. Granted though, their rubber suits are most often pretty damn advanced (containing heaps of animatronics and whatnot). One of the rubber-suited actors, Doug Jones, built a career out of this, including two other Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth (both the Faun and the Pale Man) and The Shape of Water ("The Asset"). |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c1c642f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c1c642f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hellboy (2004) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_c1c642f7 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c2cc38d6 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c2cc38d6 | comment |
The Day of the Triffids (1981). Though only the flower head was rubber, the triffids were operated by a man crouched inside, cooled by a fan concealed in the fiberglass neck. The clackers however were radio-operated. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c2cc38d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c2cc38d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Day of the Triffids (1981) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_c2cc38d6 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c43df4d8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who, too many times to mention. For his first-ever Doctor Who story (the second-ever for Doctor Who generally) Terry Nation invented the Daleks as a way to avert the trope. They still had plungers for hands. His second story (the fifth aired on Doctor Who) however already featured the Voord, literally, People In Rubber Suits. (Possibly. Perhaps the suits have fused with their actual bodies.) The Sensorites are people in velour suits, with visible zippers. The Dalek storyline "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" (which capitalised on how un-rubber-suity the Daleks look) still contained a totally gratuitous encounter with one as a Wacky Wayside Tribe, which, curiously, is considered by fans to be the first true Doctor Who "monster" (the first non-humanoid, non-robotic adversary). The Zarbi (First Doctor, "The Web Planet"): giant ants with two very, very humanoid legs. Future companion Peter Purves (who played Steven) actually auditioned for the part of a Zarbi, but the casting director was too impressed with him and wanted to spare him the indignity, and promised to have him back when he wanted "a real actor" — which indicates the lack of respect afforded to these parts. (The director stuck to the deal and had Purves back playing a human character for "The Chase".) Scared of those new series Cybermen? The original Cybermen were guys in a balaclava and a (somewhat loose) catsuit, carrying plastic stuff suspenders-like. Plus a funnel on their heads. And a serious speech impediment. It actually worked; they were terrifying instead of being ridiculous, because of how bizarre and lifeless they were. It's not limited to rubber suits, either — The Krotons from the eponymous Second Doctor serial resemble walking cardboard boxes with a (sometimes spinning) cardboard diamond on top. At least once, in "The Ark in Space", the monster (a Wirrn larva) was actually made out of green bubble wrap — but considering that bubble wrap had only just been invented (to the point where it wasn't even called 'bubble wrap' yet), the overall effect worked, if only for about five years after the episode's premiere. Supposedly the bubbles went 'pop-pop-pop' as the extras inched their way across stage reducing cast and crew to hysterics and the sound department to tears. Most of the scenes with the larva are recorded silently with incidental music over the top — if there's dialogue in the scene, a layer of smooth plastic is placed underneath the larva to reduce the likelihood of the bubbles bursting. The Wirrn looks better but, like the Zarbi, is a bipedal insect. The Terileptil Leader from "The Visitation" is notable in that it's the first rubber-suit monster to feature animatronics inside the head, which allowed its gills to move and eyes to blink. Interestingly enough, "The Rescue" used this trope to conceal the twist. Doctor Who fans were used to rubber suit aliens, so it actually came as a surprise that the villain really was a human wearing a costume, not a real alien. And it was more convincing than many of the "real" alien costumes of the era. |
|
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_c43df4d8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c7ea10cc | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c7ea10cc | comment |
Speaking of the sequel, the title character in Rise of the Silver Surfer, when not entirely CGI, is this trope — particularly when Doctor Doom has stolen his powers and cosmic surfboard. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c7ea10cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_c7ea10cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Silver Surfer (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_c7ea10cc | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ca846d7d | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ca846d7d | comment |
Halo: Nightfall: Axl the Yonhet is pretty clearly an actor in a costume, in sharp contrast to the film's other aliens, who are all CGI. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ca846d7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ca846d7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Halo: Nightfall | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ca846d7d | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cce5a834 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cce5a834 | comment |
Goro from the first film is a very elaborate example, with only the lower torso fitting in this category directly, with the rest of the costume being an elaborate animatronic that while rather goofy in the face, is otherwise pretty effective. A making of was posted by the suit's creators. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cce5a834 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cce5a834 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mortal Kombat: The Movie | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_cce5a834 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd0fa5bf | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd0fa5bf | comment |
The kung-fu fantasy film, Buddha's Palm has a Kirin which is portrayed by two suit actors using this method. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd0fa5bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd0fa5bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buddha's Palm | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_cd0fa5bf | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd9dfff8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd9dfff8 | comment |
In the novel Shambling Towards Hiroshima, the protagonist, Syms Thorley, is a B-Movie actor who specializes in this kind of effects. He is employed by the US navy to dress up as a Godzilla expy and destroy a scale model of Japan to avert the use of a real horde of gigantic, mutated iguanas. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd9dfff8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_cd9dfff8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| ShamblingTowardsHiroshima | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_cd9dfff8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d0799db8 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d0799db8 | comment |
Jurassic Park and its sequels used men in (partial) suits for the Velociraptors in some shots. The raptor that walks to the fallen Udesky and plunges its sickle-shaped claw into his back in the third film was a man wearing raptor 'pants'. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d0799db8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d0799db8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JurassicPark | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_d0799db8 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d109f322 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d109f322 | comment |
Andromeda, with all the Narm Charm, couldn't pass up this trope. Some Magog even have visible zippers. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d109f322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_d109f322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Andromeda | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_d109f322 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e293455a | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a few of these. "Reptile Boy" and "Bad Girls" are notable examples, though the lower halves of both demons weren't seen because one was in a tank of slime and the other a giant snake. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_e293455a | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e2fa7572 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e2fa7572 | comment |
Oily Maniac, another Shaw production, uses this method to depict the titular villain, a Blob Monster whose body is composed entirely of crude oil. Incidentally, the monster is played by the same guy (Danny Lee) who was Infra-man! | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e2fa7572 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e2fa7572 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Oily Maniac | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_e2fa7572 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e548c08a | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e548c08a | comment |
As a Toku version of Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon made use of the rubber suited people for their monsters of the week. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e548c08a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e548c08a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Toku | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_e548c08a | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e93b2f62 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e93b2f62 | comment |
In The Fly (1986), the final humanoid stage of the Doomed Protagonist's Slow Transformation into an insectoid monster is realized in this manner as the logical extension of the increasingly elaborate makeups used in earlier scenes. The prospect of having to act through pounds of makeup and rubber put off many big-name actors from taking the role but Jeff Goldblum was up for just such a challenge...and became a name in the process. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e93b2f62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_e93b2f62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fly (1986) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_e93b2f62 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ece42231 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ece42231 | comment |
The Ghost Busters, the live-action TV series, had Tracy the Gorilla in a Shout-Out to old-fashioned horror-comedies. Bob Burns, who played Tracy, got the part because he owned the gorilla suit! | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ece42231 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ece42231 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Filmation's Ghostbusters | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ece42231 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee221a4e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee221a4e | comment |
The Transformers (Marvel): In-Universe. The Decepticon Skullgrin used his Pretender shell to become a star in monster films. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee221a4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee221a4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Transformers (Marvel) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ee221a4e | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee77a8e2 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee77a8e2 | comment |
Kaiju Girl Caramelise is a series about a Notzilla called Harugon, but while the monster herself is not an example, the Kaiju-obsessed Manatsu Tomosato owns several suits. She tricks Kuroe into wearing a three-headed dragon suit resembling King Ghidorah, and when confronting Arata at his apartment building she wears a Harugon suit. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee77a8e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ee77a8e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kaiju Girl Caramelise (Manga) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ee77a8e2 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f051217e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f051217e | comment |
All of the characters in the Australian kids show Johnson and Friends are Living Toys depicted as full-body puppets. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f051217e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f051217e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Johnson and Friends | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_f051217e | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f1da64b5 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f1da64b5 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings produced record numbers of rubber suits, primarily for the various types of orcs but also for various other creatures, in fact the only characters who weren't either this or Rubber-Forehead Aliens were the human roles. This trend was somewhat subverted by The Hobbit films due to their greater use of the Serkis Folk techniques. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f1da64b5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f1da64b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_f1da64b5 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f6cc5f76 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f6cc5f76 | comment |
Toho even threw their experience into the television ring with their Chou Sei Shin Series trilogy, with even the heroes in costumes beyond simple spandex. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f6cc5f76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f6cc5f76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chou Sei Shin Series | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_f6cc5f76 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f79abfa3 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f79abfa3 | comment |
The 1936 Flash Gordon serial may be the Ur-Example for Kaiju, as it featured a man in a suit portraying a giant dragon some 18 years before Toho lit upon the idea. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f79abfa3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_f79abfa3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Flash Gordon (serial) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_f79abfa3 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fa85cc4f | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fa85cc4f | comment |
Parodied with Chameleon Sr. in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. Despite having a Notzilla-esque child that looks exactly like he does, he's actually a giant in a monster suit. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fa85cc4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fa85cc4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_fa85cc4f | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fb6e31ec | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fb6e31ec | comment |
The Sleestaks from the Land Of The Lost TV shows. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fb6e31ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fb6e31ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LandOfTheLost | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_fb6e31ec | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fdbc8ae2 | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fdbc8ae2 | comment |
One issue of Kochikame had Ryotsu end up stuck as a giant. After the initial shock wore off, he resolved new routines that took advantage of his size to help out around the city. One of them was wearing a Not Zilla costume to film more realistic footage for movies. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fdbc8ae2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_fdbc8ae2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kochikame (Manga) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_fdbc8ae2 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ff66c30e | type |
People in Rubber Suits | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ff66c30e | comment |
The Muppets: Large scale Muppet characters like Big Bird and Sweetums are played by performers in full costumes operating the mouth and other facial features with one hand. For the Gorgs in Fraggle Rock, a remote-control rig was made to allow puppeteers to control the face from the outside, allowing the costumed performers full motion of the arms for a more expressive performance. This technology was used for other Henson productions, including the aforementioned Dinosaurs. | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ff66c30e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| People in Rubber Suits / int_ff66c30e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Muppets (Franchise) | hasFeature |
People in Rubber Suits / int_ff66c30e |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.