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* {{Narm}}: Ator flying. And he's flying over a modern-day city in one shot. While it ''could'' be argued that this is a post-apocalyptic setting and those are remnants of our society... nobody working on the movie probably thought about it all that much, so almost certainly not.

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** Ator's attempt at expressing dismay and borderline whiny BigNo and Mila's "Grrr!" face as they watch the village being destroyed.
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Ator flying. And he's flying over a modern-day city in one shot. While it ''could'' be argued that this is a post-apocalyptic setting and those are remnants of our society... nobody working on the movie probably thought about it all that much, so almost certainly not.
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* {{Padding}}: Ator takes his sweet time to get to Zor's fortress with the hang glider.
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* SignatureScene: Ator flying with the anachronistic hang glider is the most infamous part of the film.
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* FoeYay: There seems to be this between Zor & Ator, which is lampshaded a bit by Joel & The Bots in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode.

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* FoeYay: There seems to be this between Zor & Ator, which is lampshaded a bit by FoeYayShipping: Joel & The Bots lampshade a case between Zor and Ator in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode.



* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero leaves his love behind to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in '80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two. If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.

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* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero [[ButNowIMustGo leaves his love behind behind]] to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in '80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two. If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.
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Thought this could be a little clearer.


* AssPull: The Mentor comes up with some bullshit about Zor being tried by an international council or some such idiocy to keep Ator from killing him at the last minute simply because he had been disarmed. And then Thong just kills him anyway when Zor tries to stab Ator in the back.

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* AssPull: The During the climax, the Mentor comes up with some bullshit about springs the idea of Zor being tried by the high court of an international council league that hasn't been mentioned or some such idiocy evidenced at all up to that point, to keep Ator from killing him Zor at the last minute simply because he had he's been disarmed. And then Thong just kills him anyway when Zor tries to stab Ator in the back.



* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero leaves his love behind to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in 80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two. If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.

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* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero leaves his love behind to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in 80s '80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two. If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.
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** The stupid giant snake is an obvious (and cheesy) velour puppet, which Ator "wrestles" in similar fashion to that Creator/BelaLugosi/giant octopus bout in Film/BrideOfTheMonster.

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** The stupid giant snake is an obvious (and cheesy) velour puppet, which Ator "wrestles" in similar fashion to that Creator/BelaLugosi/giant octopus bout in Film/BrideOfTheMonster.''Film/BrideOfTheMonster''.

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** Basically WhatMeasureIsAMook Even a fiendish warlord like Zor deserves a fair trial and just killing him when he's at the hero's mercy would make Ator a murderer. Okay... but then what about all the ''other'' bad guys Ator and his buddies hacked their way through to get to him? Zor's own soldiers, the samurai warriors, the cave dwellers, the snake cult? Why is killing all of ''those'' guys nothing to trifle themselves over?
*** Zor is defeated and at Ator's mercy - it wouldn't be unreasonable to demand that he surrender and throw him in a dungeon. While we might pick apart the other battles and killings, Akronas doesn't have all the relevant information at hand. Plus, Zor ''is'' a former student of Akronas, so Akronas might just not like the idea of watching him die.



* {{Narm}}: Ator flying.
** And he's flying over a modern-day city in one shot.
*** While it ''could'' be argued that this is a post-apocalyptic setting and those are remnants of our society... nobody working on the movie probably thought about it all that much, so almost certainly not.
* TheOtherDarrin: If you’ve seen the previous movie (Ator: The Fighting Eagle), you’ll immediately recognize the hair, costume, and ridiculous bird helmet worn by the character Griba in that film, except now placed on a different actor and referred to as Zor. It seems like Zor was originally supposed to be Griba (who suffered a DisneyDeath in the original), but at some point during shooting or post-production, they decided to make him a new character. It’s hard to say whether it was because the production team decided it would be too unbelievable, or because they didn’t want to spend time expositing how he survived—mainly because the movie already has lots of unbelievable things and long expository monologues.

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* {{Narm}}: Ator flying.
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flying. And he's flying over a modern-day city in one shot.
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shot. While it ''could'' be argued that this is a post-apocalyptic setting and those are remnants of our society... nobody working on the movie probably thought about it all that much, so almost certainly not.
* TheOtherDarrin: If you’ve seen the previous movie (Ator: The Fighting Eagle), you’ll immediately recognize the hair, costume, and ridiculous bird helmet worn by the character Griba in that film, except now placed on a different actor and referred to as Zor. It seems like Zor was originally supposed to be Griba (who suffered a DisneyDeath in the original), but at some point during shooting or post-production, they decided to make him a new character. It’s hard to say whether it was because the production team decided it would be too unbelievable, or because they didn’t want to spend time expositing how he survived—mainly because the movie already has lots of unbelievable things and long expository monologues.
not.



** Eventually downplayed with the [=MST3K=] revival series, which had [[Film/AtorTheFightingEagle the first movie]] as the Season 12 finale.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The over the top meat slammer sound effects of Zor pounding on the Great One, the hubcap armor, the dark age Soloflex, the tire tracks in the primaeval landscape...

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** Eventually downplayed with the [=MST3K=] revival series, which had [[Film/AtorTheFightingEagle the first movie]] as the Season 12 finale.
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The over the top meat slammer sound effects of Zor pounding on the Great One, the hubcap armor, the dark age Soloflex, the tire tracks in the primaeval landscape...



* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero leaves his love behind to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in 80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two.
** If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.

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* StrangledByTheRedString: The film seems desperate to shoehorn in the "Hero leaves his love behind to continue WalkingTheEarth" ending common in 80s SwordAndSandal flicks between Ator and Mila, even though there's almost ''nothing'' in the entire rest of the movie to suggest there's been any sort of romantic attraction brewing between the two.
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two. If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.
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Just letting it lie.


*** The rest of the movie is a barbarian action hero deal where the hero just slaughters everyone in his path to get to where he's going. Only the head villain deserving due process is definitely out of nowhere.
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*** Zor is defeated and at Ator's mercy - it wouldn't be unreasonable to demand that he surrender and throw him in a dungeon. While we might pick apart the other battles and killings, Akronas doesn't have all the relevant information at hand. Plus, Zor ''is'' a former student of Akronas, so Akronas might just not like the idea of watching him die.
*** The rest of the movie is a barbarian action hero deal where the hero just slaughters everyone in his path to get to where he's going. Only the head villain deserving due process is definitely out of nowhere.
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Don't really agree. The rest of the movie is a barbarian action hero deal where the hero just slaughters everyone in his path to get to where he's going. Only the head villain deserving due process is definitely out of nowhere.


** Zor is defeated and at Ator's mercy - it wouldn't be unreasonable to demand that he surrender and throw him in a dungeon. While we might pick apart the other battles and killings, Akronas doesn't have all the relevant information at hand. Plus, Zor ''is'' a former student of Akronas, so Akronas might just not like the idea of watching him die.
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** If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.

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** If anything, it's completely one-sided. Mila has a crush on Ator but Ator is apparently a CelibateHero who gently and politely turns her down early on.on.

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** Zor is defeated and at Ator's mercy - it wouldn't be unreasonable to demand that he surrender and throw him in a dungeon. While we might pick apart the other battles and killings, Akronas doesn't have all the relevant information at hand. Plus, Zor ''is'' a former student of Akronas, so Akronas might just not like the idea of watching him die.
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** Eventually downplayed with the MST3K revival series, which had [[Film/AtorTheFightingEagle the first movie]] as the Season 12 finale.

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** Eventually downplayed with the MST3K [=MST3K=] revival series, which had [[Film/AtorTheFightingEagle the first movie]] as the Season 12 finale.
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** Basically WhatMeasureIsAMook Even a fiendish warlord like Zor deserves a fair trial and just killing him when he's at the hero's mercy would make Ator a murderer. Okay...but then what about all the ''other'' bad guys Ator and his buddies hacked their way through to get to him? Zor's own soldiers, the samurai warriors, the cave dwellers, the snake cult? Why is killing all of ''those'' guys nothing to trifle themselves over?

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** Basically WhatMeasureIsAMook Even a fiendish warlord like Zor deserves a fair trial and just killing him when he's at the hero's mercy would make Ator a murderer. Okay... but then what about all the ''other'' bad guys Ator and his buddies hacked their way through to get to him? Zor's own soldiers, the samurai warriors, the cave dwellers, the snake cult? Why is killing all of ''those'' guys nothing to trifle themselves over?
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** Eventually downplayed with the MST3K revival series, which had [[Film/AtorTheFightingEagle the first movie]] as the Season 12 finale.

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This is from the first movie.


* AngstWhatAngst: Ator seems to have ''zero'' anxiety over the fact his beloved mentor is [[spoiler: actually an evil villain seeking to manipulate and destroy him, promptly easily curb-stomping Griba and never thinking of him again. Likewise, his friend Roon's death seems to not register with him seconds after she dies.]]



* TheOtherDarrin: If you’ve seen the previous movie (Ator: The Fighting Eagle), you’ll immediately recognize the hair, costume, and ridiculous bird helmet worn by the character Greeba in that film, except now placed on a different actor and referred to as Zor. It seems like Zor was originally supposed to be Greeba (who suffered a DisneyDeath in the original), but at some point during shooting or post-production, they decided to make him a new character. It’s hard to say whether it was because the production team decided it would be too unbelievable, or because they didn’t want to spend time expositing how he survived—mainly because the movie already has lots of unbelievable things and long expository monologues.

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* TheOtherDarrin: If you’ve seen the previous movie (Ator: The Fighting Eagle), you’ll immediately recognize the hair, costume, and ridiculous bird helmet worn by the character Greeba Griba in that film, except now placed on a different actor and referred to as Zor. It seems like Zor was originally supposed to be Greeba Griba (who suffered a DisneyDeath in the original), but at some point during shooting or post-production, they decided to make him a new character. It’s hard to say whether it was because the production team decided it would be too unbelievable, or because they didn’t want to spend time expositing how he survived—mainly because the movie already has lots of unbelievable things and long expository monologues.

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