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* ChildSoldiers: The main characters, since the movies being incorporated were ripped off from anime where kids or teenagers usually piloted mecha against alien invaders.

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* ChildSoldiers: The main characters, since the movies being incorporated were ripped off from anime where kids or teenagers usually piloted mecha against alien invaders.



* DecoyProtagonist: Who are the space thunder kids? There's a random focus on at least three different space travelling groups, but none of them do anything of importance, and none of them ever last longer than a scene or two. Eventually it becomes impossible to discern who are supposed to be the bad guys and who are the heroes, because all the ships look the same.

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* DecoyProtagonist: Who are the space thunder kids? Space Thunder Kids? There's a random focus on at least three different space travelling space-traveling groups, but none of them do anything of importance, and none of them ever last longer than a scene or two. Eventually it becomes impossible to discern who are supposed to be the bad guys and who are the heroes, because all the ships look are equally generic and what setup the same.various space battles got was left in their source movies.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kim Il-sung, as the evil general working with the aliens.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kim Il-sung, as the evil general working with the aliens. A lot of the incorporated movies had villains who were thinly-veiled analogues of the North Korean military, but the movie that character came from (''Solar Adventure'') was especially blatant.



* RecycledAnimation: Taken to a whole new level with this film. The animation of the entire film was taken from several other Korean cartoons.

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* RecycledAnimation: Taken to a whole new level with this film. The animation of the entire film was taken from several other Korean cartoons.cartoons and stitched together into one big thing.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: Inverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is a one foot tall robot pig creature named Sandy.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Inverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is a one foot tall robot pig creature named Sandy. [[note]] It isn't explained any better in the movie that part comes from, ''Savior of the Earth''. [[/note]]
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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'' (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie ''Film/{{TRON}}''), ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'', and even robot cartoons from America, like ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and even ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).

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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'' (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie ''Film/{{TRON}}''), ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'', and even robot cartoons from that gained fame in America, like ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and even ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).
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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'' (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie ''Film/{{TRON}}''), ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).

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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'' (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie ''Film/{{TRON}}''), ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'' ''Anime/MazingerZ'', and even robot cartoons from America, like ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and even ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).
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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'', ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).

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The film was edited with footage from ''Savior of the Earth'', Earth'' (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie ''Film/{{TRON}}''), ''Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King'', ''King Robot'', ''Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7'', ''Solar Adventure'', ''Animation/SpaceTransformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5'', ''Super Mazinger 3'' and ''Iron Man Trio''. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like ''Anime/MazingerZ'' (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).
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%%* AbortedArc: A lot of these. Or are there? Thanks to the constant art shifts, it is hard to tell what is and what isn't supposed to be there.

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%%* * AbortedArc: A lot of these. Or these, thanks to it being stitched together from pieces of around 9-10 totally unrelated movies. Lots of threats are there? Thanks to the constant art shifts, it is hard to tell what is and what isn't supposed to be there.set up but never paid off, because those plot beats were left in their original movie.
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Still copyrighted apparently


* PublicDomainAnimation: This movie fell under this early for unknown reasons, with no producer claiming it.

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%%* ChildSoldiers: The main characters.

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%%* * ChildSoldiers: The main characters.characters, since the movies being incorporated were ripped off from anime where kids or teenagers usually piloted mecha against alien invaders.
* CompilationMovie: As noted, it was made by splicing together bits from a plethora of other Korean knockoff anime with no rhyme or reason.

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Changing initially deleted Filler example to Padding. Fixing indentation.


* {{Padding}}: In one scene, an animation cycle of rolling tanks was looped for 5 minutes straight.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** The space station that was attacked by the meteors at the beginning were never seen again. Either that or [[ArtShift the space station was drawn differently from there on out.]] Who knows?

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
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WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The space station that was attacked by the meteors at the beginning were never seen again. Either that or [[ArtShift the space station was drawn differently from there on out.]] Who knows?

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Hiding or fixing Zero Context Examples and deleting complaining. At least by this site's definition, filler can only apply to whole installments (episodes, games, films) in a series, not individual scenes


* AbortedArc: A lot of these. Or are there? Thanks to the constant art shifts, it is hard to tell what is and what isn't supposed to be there.

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* %%* AbortedArc: A lot of these. Or are there? Thanks to the constant art shifts, it is hard to tell what is and what isn't supposed to be there.



* ChildSoldiers: The main characters. (Now, if only we could tell who the main characters ''are''...)
* CoversAlwaysLie: None of the characters on the cover are actually in the movie. Unless they look completely different in the film proper, of course...which isn't much of a stretch, really.
* DecoyProtagonist: Who the hell are the space thunder kids? There's a random focus on at least three different space travelling groups, but none of them do anything of importance, and none of them ever last longer than a scene or two. Eventually it becomes impossible to discern who are supposed to be the bad guys and who are the heroes, because all the ships look the same.

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* %%* ChildSoldiers: The main characters. (Now, if only we could tell who the main characters ''are''...)
characters.
* CoversAlwaysLie: None of the characters on the cover are actually in the movie. Unless they look completely different in the film proper, of course...course, which isn't much of a stretch, really.
could be the case given this film was made by splicing together other cartoons.
* DecoyProtagonist: Who the hell are the space thunder kids? There's a random focus on at least three different space travelling groups, but none of them do anything of importance, and none of them ever last longer than a scene or two. Eventually it becomes impossible to discern who are supposed to be the bad guys and who are the heroes, because all the ships look the same.



* {{Filler}}: In one scene, an animation cycle of rolling tanks was looped it for 5 minutes straight.



* HeelFaceTurn: The general (who is North Korean communist dictator Kim Il-sung) at the end.

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* %%* HeelFaceTurn: The general (who is North Korean communist dictator Kim Il-sung) at the end.



* NeverTrustATrailer: Inverted; the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc trailer]]" found online? The repeated exclamations of ''SPACE THUNDER KIDS''? That's in the actual ''film''.



* RecycledAnimation: Taken to a whole new level with this film.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: The film itself, even more so than the already knocked-off films it was based on.

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* RecycledAnimation: Taken to a whole new level with this film.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct:
film. The animation of the entire film itself, even more so than the already knocked-off films it was based on.taken from several other Korean cartoons.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: Subverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is... a one foot tall robot... pig... thing... named Sandy.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Subverted Inverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is... is a one foot tall robot... pig... thing... robot pig creature named Sandy.
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* NoBudget: This film is made up of [[StockFootage stock animation]] from other low-budget anime titles that were made at the time, resulting in an incredibly bizarre and incoherent end result of a film.

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