History Film / CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse

** After landing on the Moon, Cody does a radio check to see if communications were effected by the "low gravity". One would think the lack of atmosphere would be a greater factor influencing radio waves.

** In "Chapter 2: Atomic Peril", the villains steal Cody's RetroRocket and fly it to Venus, so Cody sabotages it so they're forced to release him so he can strap on his rocket suit and go outside the rocket to repair it. While he's there he manually seals off the port steering jet so they'll fly around in circles forever, forcing the villains to surrender. After handing over their guns, they ask why Cody doesn't go outside to repair the damage, only to be told he can open the jet again just by using the controls in the cabin.

* HandyCuffs: Balin has Joan cuff Dick's hands behind his back, then he handcuffs her hands in front, allowing her to secretly turn on her insignia radio to warn Cody what's happening. When Balin is captured again Dick cuffs his hands in front, so he's able to set off a gas grenade while they're waiting to ambush his friends. At the end of the episode all the villains are handcuffed to each other.

* DeflectorShields: Earth is being bombarded by missiles from another planet, so Cody surrounds the Earth with a cloud of radioactive dust which will overheat the missiles as they pass through the cloud and destroy them (let's hope none of that dust fell to Earth!) Plans to get through this cloud so he can invade Earth form much of the Ruler's motivation. Cody has a device that disperses the dust when he has to fly through in his rocketship, and a smaller belt-mounted device for his rocketsuit, and in the final chapter uses this as TheBait to lure the Ruler into a trap so he can be captured.

* CommLinks: Cody's assistants are given an insignia badge to wear on their chests the same as what Cody wears, to show that they work for him. They're actually two-way radios with a special frequency reserved for Cody, which comes in handy when his assistants are captured and want to let him know what's going on by secretly turning on their radio.

* DecontaminationChamber: Averted; after climbing inside the exhaust vent of the atomic-powered rocket for a MidairRepair, Cody says they'll need to contaminate themselves. As it's TheFifties, they just cut to the next scene instead of providing the audience with scrubdown fanservice.

* CasualInterstellarTravel: In "Chapter 6: Destroyers of the Sun", the Ruler--who up to now has operated from Venus--decides to put out the Sun and kill everyone in the Solar System. Naturally this means he's operating from a planet in another system, so Cody casually takes his rocketship there without the slightest mention of him having invented FasterThanLightTravel.

* RocketRide: In "Atomic Peril", one of the Ruler's henchmen lands on Earth in a one-man rocket small enough to penetrate the cosmic dust blanket.

* DominoMask: Cody wears a cloth mask under his helmet because his true identity is a government secret, even to his trusted associates. This is despite Cody not needing it in ''Film/RadarMenFromTheMoon'', so the actor always suspected it was so he could be replaced with TheOtherDarrin if he made unreasonable pay rise demands.

* TheBait: In the last two chapters, [[spoiler:Balin is a FakeDefector who pretends to be a captured Mercurian scientist who escaped to ask Cody for his help liberating their planet, which the Ruler has just invaded. The invasion turns out to be real, but it's a trap to lure Cody and his rocketship there so it can be captured along with the dispersal ray used to get through the cosmic dust cloud. When Cody discovers this, he uses his rocketship to lure the Ruler to him so he can be captured instead.]]

* HandyCuffs: Balin has Joan cuff Dick's hands behind his back, then he handcuffs her hands in front, allowing her to secretly turn on her insignia radio to warn Cody what's happening. When Balin in captured again Dick cuffs his hands in front, so he's able to set off a gas grenade while they're waiting to ambush his friends. At the end of the episode all the villains are handcuffed to each other.

* BinarySuns: Weaponized in "Chapter 9: Solar Sky Raiders" when a second sun in the sky threatens drought, forest fires, skin cancer and melting icecaps. As more suns appear, it becomes obvious that the Ruler is using a refractive forcefield to duplicate the sun until Earth either surrenders or is burnt to a cinder.

* BBCQuarry: Even though we're repeatedly shown a still photo of the Ruler's [[SpaceRomans Greco-Roman city]], we only ever meet him and his mooks hanging about in caves. Justified in some cases as they happen to be mines for {{unobtanium}}.

* GadgeteerGenius: Cody has no problem putting together TheLittleDetecto needed to find out where the enemy is mining {{unobtanium}} on a planet, or lurking in outer space. And in the chapter where he makes the below BadassBoast, Cody converts his insignia radio into a ray to cut through the lock on his chains.

* ILoveNuclearPower: As befits TheFifties, atomic power can do anything from driving an interstellar rocket to creating worldwide floods.

* SpacePolice: Cody is after all the "Sky Marshal of the Universe" though it's a bit vague as to what this means. In early episodes his interplanetary rocketship is a new invention that's only just left Earth, but later episodes portray him as being familiar with other planets and their inhabitants as if he's visited them between episodes.

* GhostTown: To maintain secrecy Cody's rocketship is assembled in Graphite, a ghost town that's clearly PropRecycling from a Western film serial. Which is probably why a shootout with six shooters occurs, until someone brings it to a halt with an anachronistic hand grenade.

* TheAnticipator: Justified as a sentry has warned the Ruler that Cody has landed.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: There's no effort to make Venus or Mercury look like [[VenusIsWet popular]] [[MercurialBase conceptions]] of those planets, let alone what those planets are actually like. People on Venus wear spacesuits, while those on Mercury don't bother. Other than that everything looks like Southern California.

** Even the crates of Saturian are labelled in English. They helpfully inform Cody that the contents are VOLATILE and not to be shot with at, which of course [[StuffBlowingUp he does]].
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: There's not even a token effort to make Venus or Mercury look like [[VenusIsWet popular]] [[MercurialBase conceptions]] of those planets. People on Venus wear spacesuits, while those on Mercury don't bother. Other than that everything looks like Southern California.