History Film / TheAmazingColossalMan

** However, another glaring example is the official explanation for his growth; apparently instead of cellular division, "old cells" are replaced by "new cells" and in Glenn's case the "old cells" are "refusing to die".

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Every trailer for ''War Of the Colossal Beast'' show the TechnicolorDeath MoneyShot of Glenn getting fried.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Every trailer for ''War Of the Colossal Beast'' show the TechnicalDeath MoneyShot of Glenn getting fried.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' versions of these films, please see the following [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000 episode recaps]]:

* YouFailBiologyForever: The heart is but a ''single'' cell? I just... I need to go lie down for a while.
** They probably got the "single cell" thing from the fact that heart muscle is ''syncytial'', which means that its cells are not separated by membranes.

Eventually, Glenn goes insane, kills one of the doctors trying to cure his growth, kidnaps his fiancee, and rampages through Las Vegas before being taken down by the Army.

* MonumentalBattle: The climax happens atop Hoover Dam, Glenn also destroys a few famous (circa 1950s) pieces of the Vegas Strip along the way.

Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Manning, Korean War veteran, is one of the lucky soldiers sitting in the trenches waiting to witness the test of a new nuclear weapon, a "plutonium bomb". The bomb doesn't go off when it's triggered, and Glenn gets caught in the blast when [[TooDumbToLive he races to rescue the pilot of a plane that crashes in the test area]]. It seems to be enough of a miracle for him to be found alive with severe third degree burns, but... well, this ''is'' how ''The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'' got started.

-->'''[[MST3K Crow:]]''' He got shocked back to Oz!

1958 saw the release of a sequel: ''War of the Colossal Beast''. In this installment, Glenn is found alive in Mexico after the events of the first film, scarred, mindless, and hunting bread trucks to survive; his ever-devoted [[strike:fiancee]] [[RememberTheNewGuy sister]] finds him and leads the U.S. military to bring him back to Los Angeles. [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight They can't restore Glenn's memory]], and he inevitably goes on another rampage. Glenn's sister talks the Beast into freeing a bus of students he held captive, and Glenn, suddenly regaining his humanity, commits suicide by electrical power lines, somehow both disintegrating himself and turning the film from black-and-white to color for the last minute.

''The Amazing Colossal Man'' is a giant monster movie made in 1957, directed and produced by BertIGordon; it's also a TropeCodifier for "AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever".

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: The soldier in charge of the team waiting to be exposed to the fallout of the bomb[[hottip:*:Don't you just love the fifties' callous disregard for safety?]] explains that they can't tell when the bomb will explode because they have to "wait for the nuclear reaction to cool off." Clearly the writers had no concept of critical mass.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The audience never DID learn where that doomed pilot (the one Glenn was trying to rescue) came from in the first place. In fact, he was never mentioned again past that.
** He was vaporized.

''The Amazing Colossal Man'' is a giant monster movie made in 1957, directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon; it's also a TropeCodifier for "AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever".

Both films were featured as experiments on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''; ''War of the Colossal Beast'' was shown with the infamous ''{{Mr B Natural}}'', about an androgynous spirit of music selling instruments to prospective high school band members, and being unduly peppy doing it.

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!!The ''{{MST3K}}'' presentation of both films contain examples of:
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In War, used by name, [[ShoutOut probably in reference to the album that named the trope.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The first day after Glenn's nuked, when a nurse checks his bandages south of the equator and suddenly runs off in a panic:
-->'''Servo:''' Well, ''something's'' much bigger than she expected!
** Glenn's fiancee: "[[HotSkittyOnWailordAction I'm still looking forward to our wedding night]]!"
** The title's displayed, one word at a time -- ''The... Amazing... Colossal... Man'':
--->'''Crow:''' Oh, yeah, you ''wish''!
* RunningGag: Crow and Servo making insensitive food-related riffs in regard to the burned/disfigured Glenn, and equally insensitive size-related comments after he starts to grow.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: During the host segment, the crew state that Glenn could've had a far more fun rampage.

* DyingAreYourself: Glenn finally remembers who he is and who Joyce is before being DrivenToSuicide.

The film [[TwentyMinutesWithJerks spent quite a bit of time]] justifying tropes like ILoveNuclearPower audiences now take for granted. It also went into detail about Glenn's [[IncrediblyLamePun growing]] angst and insanity caused by his condition.

Both films were featured as experiments on ''{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}''; ''War of the Colossal Beast'' was shown with the infamous ''{{Mr B Natural}}'', about an androgynous spirit of music selling instruments to prospective high school band members, and being unduly peppy doing it.