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* RedemptionRejection: Akronas manages to convince Ator not to kill Zor... but the instant Ator turns his back, Zor grabs his discarded sword and charges him. Thankfully for Ator, Thong hurls a knife into Zor's back before he closes the distance.
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The movie was written and directed by Creator/JoeDAmato. It stars Miles O'Keeffe as Ator, a man skilled in not only fighting, but in many other arts as well. It also stars Charles Borromel as Akronas, a wise ruler and teacher who is also called the Great One. Lisa Foster stars as Mila, the daughter of Akronas, and David Brandon as Zor -- the principal villain of the film. The film was released in theaters as ''Ator the Invincible'' and later as ''Ator, the Blade Master''. It received the name ''Cave Dwellers'' after it was re-edited by distributor Film Ventures International. It is the sequel to 1982's ''Ator l'invincible'' (with the English title ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle''), which received the Podcast/RiffTrax treatment in 2017 and appeared on ''[=MST3k=]'' itself in 2018.[[note]]The show likely skipped the original film the first time around due to highly uncomfortable material like Ator's romantic feelings towards the woman he thinks is his sister, and an Amazon tribe who plan to rape him, which never would have flown on TV in the early '90s.[[/note]] The third film was 1986's ''Iron Warrior'', followed by ''Film/QuestfortheMightySword'' (which was also released as ''Troll 3'', one of ''three'' InNameOnly sequels to ''Film/{{Troll|1986}}''.) The movies were made to [[FollowTheLeader capitalize]] on the popularity of the Conan movies which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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The movie was written and directed by Creator/JoeDAmato. It stars Miles O'Keeffe as Ator, a man skilled in not only fighting, but in many other arts as well. It also stars Charles Borromel as Akronas, a wise ruler and teacher who is also called the Great One. Lisa Foster stars as Mila, the daughter of Akronas, and David Brandon as Zor -- the principal villain of the film. The film was released in theaters as ''Ator the Invincible'' and later as ''Ator, the Blade Master''. It received the name ''Cave Dwellers'' after it was re-edited by distributor Film Ventures International. It is the sequel to 1982's ''Ator l'invincible'' (with the English title ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle''), which received the Podcast/RiffTrax treatment in 2017 and appeared on ''[=MST3k=]'' itself in 2018.[[note]]The show likely skipped the original film the first time around due to highly uncomfortable material like Ator's romantic feelings towards the woman he thinks is his sister, and an Amazon tribe who plan to rape him, which never would have flown on TV in the early '90s.[[/note]] The third film was 1986's ''Iron Warrior'', followed by ''Film/QuestfortheMightySword'' ''Film/QuestForTheMightySword'' (which was also released as ''Troll 3'', one of ''three'' InNameOnly sequels to ''Film/{{Troll|1986}}''.) The movies were made to [[FollowTheLeader capitalize]] on the popularity of the Conan movies which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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* HumanSacrifice: Zor's henchmen feed a few hapless girls to a bunch of growling snakes to appease their god.
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--->'''Tom Servo:''' Well, looks like he flew into 17th century Bulgaria and that's Mad Ludwig's castle right there.

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--->'''Tom Servo:''' Well, looks like he flew into 17th century 17th-century Bulgaria and that's Mad Ludwig's castle right there.



* ChekhovsSkill: Implied in the beginning with Mila and her way with gunpowder. Needlessly subverted with a vengeance when NONE of those skills come to play later on, and Mila just cowers in the corner of the snake-pit when she could've helped out with a gunpowder skull-bomb or grenade! Twisted in that it's Ator who seizes the Gun later on by using gunpowder bombs to distract the cannibals.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Implied Played with. Early in the beginning with film, Mila and her way with proves to Ator that she's the daughter of Akronas by making gunpowder. Needlessly subverted Instead of Mila herself doing anything useful with the skill (such as helping out in the snake pit with a vengeance when NONE of those skills come to play later on, and Mila just cowers in the corner of the snake-pit when she could've helped out with a gunpowder skull-bomb skull bomb or grenade! Twisted in that something), it's Ator Ator, the ''student'' of Akronas, who seizes the Gun later on by using uses gunpowder bombs to distract the cannibals.cannibals and later against Zor's soldiers.



* FauxActionGirl: Mila. Sure, she's a strong-willed young lady with lots of rebellious spunk. Sure, she has some nominal experience fighting bad guys with swords. Sure, she knows everything her Dad taught her, even did a neat {{MacGyver|ing}} job with gunpower made from cave wall minerals in a test Ator set for her. However, she gets shot with an arrow, becomes a DamselInDistress with both the cannibal cavepeople AND the snake cult and cowers in the corner like a helpless blob of jello when in the snake pit with Ator.

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* FauxActionGirl: Mila. Sure, she's a strong-willed young lady with lots of rebellious spunk. Sure, she has some nominal experience fighting bad guys with swords. Sure, she knows everything her Dad taught her, even did a neat {{MacGyver|ing}} job with gunpower gunpowder made from cave wall minerals in a test Ator set for her. However, she gets shot with an arrow, becomes a DamselInDistress with both the cannibal cavepeople AND the snake cult and cowers in the corner like a helpless blob of jello when in the snake pit with Ator.
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The movie was written and directed by Creator/JoeDAmato. It stars Miles O'Keeffe as Ator, a man skilled in not only fighting, but in many other arts as well. It also stars Charles Borromel as Akronas, a wise ruler and teacher who is also called the Great One. Lisa Foster stars as Mila, the daughter of Akronas, and David Brandon as Zor -- the principal villain of the film. The film was released in theaters as ''Ator the Invincible'' and later as ''Ator, the Blade Master''. It received the name ''Cave Dwellers'' after it was re-edited by distributor Film Ventures International. It is the sequel to 1982's ''Ator l'invincible'' (with the English title ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle''), which received the Podcast/RiffTrax treatment in 2017 and appeared on ''[=MST3k=]'' itself in 2018.[[note]]The show likely skipped the original film the first time around due to highly uncomfortable material like Ator's romantic feelings towards the woman he thinks is his sister, and an Amazon tribe who plan to rape him, which never would have flown on TV in the early '90s.[[/note]] The third film was 1986's ''Iron Warrior'', followed by ''Film/Quest for the Mighty Sword'' (which was also released as ''Troll 3'', one of ''three'' InNameOnly sequels to ''Film/{{Troll|1986}}''.) The movies were made to [[FollowTheLeader capitalize]] on the popularity of the Conan movies which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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The movie was written and directed by Creator/JoeDAmato. It stars Miles O'Keeffe as Ator, a man skilled in not only fighting, but in many other arts as well. It also stars Charles Borromel as Akronas, a wise ruler and teacher who is also called the Great One. Lisa Foster stars as Mila, the daughter of Akronas, and David Brandon as Zor -- the principal villain of the film. The film was released in theaters as ''Ator the Invincible'' and later as ''Ator, the Blade Master''. It received the name ''Cave Dwellers'' after it was re-edited by distributor Film Ventures International. It is the sequel to 1982's ''Ator l'invincible'' (with the English title ''Film/AtorTheFightingEagle''), which received the Podcast/RiffTrax treatment in 2017 and appeared on ''[=MST3k=]'' itself in 2018.[[note]]The show likely skipped the original film the first time around due to highly uncomfortable material like Ator's romantic feelings towards the woman he thinks is his sister, and an Amazon tribe who plan to rape him, which never would have flown on TV in the early '90s.[[/note]] The third film was 1986's ''Iron Warrior'', followed by ''Film/Quest for the Mighty Sword'' ''Film/QuestfortheMightySword'' (which was also released as ''Troll 3'', one of ''three'' InNameOnly sequels to ''Film/{{Troll|1986}}''.) The movies were made to [[FollowTheLeader capitalize]] on the popularity of the Conan movies which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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