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* UncertainAudience: The silly, ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''-esque feel contrasts sharply with the visceral, bloody violence, death and BodyHorror of the original manga courtesy of director and effects artist Screaming Mad George (better known for such ventures as ''Film/{{Society}}'' than kids' films), creating a serious amount of MoodDissonance that leaves the film with an uncertain target demographic.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Striker survives the movie, accompanied by FBI agent Col. Castle. In the second movie, the government is much more aware of Chronos then before, with Atkins having a whole team. It's possible that Striker was a double agent, leaving the final battle to contact Castle, before going on to sell Chronos out. Castle thus deemed Sean a SpannerInTheWorks and left him alone, which explains why Atkins didn't know about him.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: We get one with a Zoanoid on the receiving end of the Guyver's kick.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: We get one with a Zoanoid on the receiving end of the Guyver's kick.
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* SoBadItsGood: The movie is very confused whether it wants to be treated seriously or not. It's got scene-cuts with short musical blasts like a cartoon, cheesy lines merely seconds away from serious exposition, a comic relief character with rap sequences, and a leitmotif stolen from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' during a shot where a blade sticks up from someone's chest like a shark's fin.
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* SpecialEffectFailure:
** While most critics of the film can agree that the effects are top-notch for the budget, one can clearly see the wheels of the mechanism that makes the Zoralord walk when it is blown away by the Guyver.
** While the suits look nice, [[FightSceneFailure not so much the fights they get into]].
* UncertainAudience: The silly, ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''-esque feel contrasts sharply with the visceral, bloody violence, death and BodyHorror courtesy of director and effects artist Screaming Mad George (better known for such ventures as ''Film/{{Society}}'' than kids' films), creating a serious amount of MoodDissonance that leaves the film with an uncertain target demographic.
** While most critics of the film can agree that the effects are top-notch for the budget, one can clearly see the wheels of the mechanism that makes the Zoralord walk when it is blown away by the Guyver.
** While the suits look nice, [[FightSceneFailure not so much the fights they get into]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of Max's subordinates references the ''Ninja Turtles'' regarding his claims of mutated humanoids. Creator/MarkHamill, Max's actor, would later voice Kavaxas in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''.
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*CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Fulton Balcus]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt CEO]] of Chronos Corporation, and secretly the Zoalord, leader of the Zoanoids, and seeks to TakeOverTheWorld. Balcus has his chief scientist Dr. Segawa brutally murdered when he goes renegade and tries to have his daughter Mizky kidnapped, resulting in her neighbor's throat cut and her boyfriend Sean targeted as well. Balcus dabbles in [[PlayingWithSyringes inhuman genetic experimentation]] on loads of innocent people in order to [[TransformationHorror forcibly transform]] them into Zoanoids, resulting in their grotesque mutation. Balcus gleefully kills Sean and Mizky's friend Max by painfully turning him into an imperfect Zoanoid, resulting in Max horrifically degenerating into an abomination before expiring.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Part human. Part alien. Pure superpower.'']]
''The Guyver'' is the 1991 live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', playing [[InNameOnly fast and loose]] with the original source material.
Ages ago, the alien race known as the Zoanoids created humanity on Earth to be the ultimate organic superweapon, imbuing within them genes that they could awaken to transform them into Zoanoid warriors. In the present day, the Chronos Corporation conducts genetic experiments on innocents to transform them into Zoanoids, while its CEO Fulton Balcus (David Cage) tries to figure out how to activate the control panel of a Zoanoid bio-suit called the Guyver unit. One of the scientists, Tetsuo Segawa escapes with the Guyver unit, which ends up in the hands of a teenager named Sean Baker (Sean Armstrong)--who combines with the suit, becoming the Guyver and fighting against the evil Chronos Corporation which now wants him dead with the help of Segawa's daughter and CIA agent Max (Creator/MarkHamill).
The film was directed by legendary gore SFX artist Screaming Mad George and produced by his partner Creator/BrianYuzna (who previously collaborated on horror film ''Film/{{Society}}'', likely accounting for some of the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence rather startling violence]] and BodyHorror in an otherwise comical, ''Series/PowerRangers''-esque film.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: Liberal applications: this ''is'' a Screaming Mad George film, and he takes many opportunities to show off his gruesome practical effects in tandem with FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDGS1NqL0 Max horribly and fatally degenerating into a Zoanoid]] is probably the worst and most prolonged instance of this, and Balcus' "growth corridor" filled with the mutating, amorphous forms of half-developed Zoanoids isn't far behind.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Balcus, the Zoalord in disguise and CEO of Chronos Corporation (which seems to have no other stated goal aside from "take over the world").
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Several:
** Being transformed or not, nothing downplays the horror of Tetsuo Segawa having his skull gorily crushed on-screen in the first five minutes of the movie.
** Balcus' QuirkyMinibossSquad is rather graphically killed one after another throughout the film; Sean electrocutes them to death, cuts their necks open, cuts his way ''out'' of one of them after regenerating from the Guyver unit within him, and saves probably the most brutal for TheDragon: gutting him numerous times before ripping open his skull with his ''bare hands''.
* ShoutOut: Striker, played by Jimmie Walker, closes the film with the catchphrase of his character on ''Series/GoodTimes'': ''dino-mite!''
* TotallyRadical: Striker, one of Lisken's mooks, is an inept comic relief villain who likes to interject more suspenseful moments with spontaneous rapping.
* TransformationHorror: Sean's first transformation into the Guyver is fairly visceral with the Guyver unit ensnaring Sean's face facehugger style and literally combining with him, but the pinnacle is Max's death at the end of the film. Experimented on by Balcus' scientists to become a Zoanoid but not allowed to stabilize, Max horrifically degenerates into something vaguely resembling a cockroach and croaks minutes later from the stress of it.
[[caption-width-right:350:''Part human. Part alien. Pure superpower.'']]
''The Guyver'' is the 1991 live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', playing [[InNameOnly fast and loose]] with the original source material.
Ages ago, the alien race known as the Zoanoids created humanity on Earth to be the ultimate organic superweapon, imbuing within them genes that they could awaken to transform them into Zoanoid warriors. In the present day, the Chronos Corporation conducts genetic experiments on innocents to transform them into Zoanoids, while its CEO Fulton Balcus (David Cage) tries to figure out how to activate the control panel of a Zoanoid bio-suit called the Guyver unit. One of the scientists, Tetsuo Segawa escapes with the Guyver unit, which ends up in the hands of a teenager named Sean Baker (Sean Armstrong)--who combines with the suit, becoming the Guyver and fighting against the evil Chronos Corporation which now wants him dead with the help of Segawa's daughter and CIA agent Max (Creator/MarkHamill).
The film was directed by legendary gore SFX artist Screaming Mad George and produced by his partner Creator/BrianYuzna (who previously collaborated on horror film ''Film/{{Society}}'', likely accounting for some of the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence rather startling violence]] and BodyHorror in an otherwise comical, ''Series/PowerRangers''-esque film.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: Liberal applications: this ''is'' a Screaming Mad George film, and he takes many opportunities to show off his gruesome practical effects in tandem with FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDGS1NqL0 Max horribly and fatally degenerating into a Zoanoid]] is probably the worst and most prolonged instance of this, and Balcus' "growth corridor" filled with the mutating, amorphous forms of half-developed Zoanoids isn't far behind.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Balcus, the Zoalord in disguise and CEO of Chronos Corporation (which seems to have no other stated goal aside from "take over the world").
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Several:
** Being transformed or not, nothing downplays the horror of Tetsuo Segawa having his skull gorily crushed on-screen in the first five minutes of the movie.
** Balcus' QuirkyMinibossSquad is rather graphically killed one after another throughout the film; Sean electrocutes them to death, cuts their necks open, cuts his way ''out'' of one of them after regenerating from the Guyver unit within him, and saves probably the most brutal for TheDragon: gutting him numerous times before ripping open his skull with his ''bare hands''.
* ShoutOut: Striker, played by Jimmie Walker, closes the film with the catchphrase of his character on ''Series/GoodTimes'': ''dino-mite!''
* TotallyRadical: Striker, one of Lisken's mooks, is an inept comic relief villain who likes to interject more suspenseful moments with spontaneous rapping.
* TransformationHorror: Sean's first transformation into the Guyver is fairly visceral with the Guyver unit ensnaring Sean's face facehugger style and literally combining with him, but the pinnacle is Max's death at the end of the film. Experimented on by Balcus' scientists to become a Zoanoid but not allowed to stabilize, Max horrifically degenerates into something vaguely resembling a cockroach and croaks minutes later from the stress of it.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Part human. Part alien. Pure superpower.'']]
''The Guyver'' is the 1991 live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', playing [[InNameOnly fast and loose]]
Ages ago, the alien race known as the Zoanoids created humanity on Earth to be the ultimate organic superweapon, imbuing within them genes that they could awaken to transform them into Zoanoid warriors. In the present day, the Chronos Corporation conducts genetic experiments on innocents to transform them into Zoanoids, while its CEO Fulton Balcus (David Cage) tries to figure out how to activate the control panel of a Zoanoid bio-suit called the Guyver unit. One of the scientists, Tetsuo Segawa escapes with the Guyver unit, which ends up in the hands of a teenager named Sean Baker (Sean Armstrong)--who combines with the suit, becoming the Guyver
The film was directed by legendary gore SFX artist
!!This film provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: Liberal applications: this ''is'' a Screaming Mad George film, and he takes many opportunities to show off his gruesome practical effects in tandem with FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDGS1NqL0 Max horribly and fatally degenerating into a Zoanoid]] is probably the worst and most prolonged instance of this, and Balcus' "growth corridor" filled with the mutating, amorphous forms of half-developed Zoanoids isn't far behind.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Balcus, the Zoalord in disguise and CEO of Chronos Corporation (which seems to have no other stated goal aside from "take over the world").
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Several:
** Being transformed or not, nothing downplays the horror of Tetsuo Segawa having his skull gorily crushed on-screen in the first five minutes of the movie.
** Balcus' QuirkyMinibossSquad is rather graphically killed one after another throughout the film; Sean electrocutes them to death, cuts their necks open, cuts his way ''out'' of one of them after regenerating from the Guyver unit within him, and saves probably the most brutal for TheDragon: gutting him numerous times before ripping open his skull with his ''bare hands''.
* ShoutOut: Striker, played by Jimmie Walker, closes
* TotallyRadical: Striker, one of Lisken's mooks, is
* TransformationHorror: Sean's first transformation into the Guyver is fairly visceral with the Guyver unit ensnaring Sean's face facehugger style and literally combining with him, but the pinnacle is Max's death at the end of the film. Experimented on by Balcus' scientists to become a Zoanoid but not allowed to stabilize, Max horrifically degenerates into something vaguely resembling a cockroach and croaks minutes later from the stress of it.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guyver_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''Part human. Part alien. Pure superpower.'']]
''The Guyver'' is the 1991 live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', playing [[InNameOnly fast and loose]] with the original source material.
Ages ago, the alien race known as the Zoanoids created humanity on Earth to be the ultimate organic superweapon, imbuing within them genes that they could awaken to transform them into Zoanoid warriors. In the present day, the Chronos Corporation conducts genetic experiments on innocents to transform them into Zoanoids, while its CEO Fulton Balcus (David Cage) tries to figure out how to activate the control panel of a Zoanoid bio-suit called the Guyver unit. One of the scientists, Tetsuo Segawa escapes with the Guyver unit, which ends up in the hands of a teenager named Sean Baker (Sean Armstrong)--who combines with the suit, becoming the Guyver and fighting against the evil Chronos Corporation which now wants him dead with the help of Segawa's daughter and CIA agent Max (Creator/MarkHamill).
The film was directed by legendary gore SFX artist Screaming Mad George and produced by his partner Creator/BrianYuzna (who previously collaborated on horror film ''Film/{{Society}}'', likely accounting for some of the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence rather startling violence]] and BodyHorror in an otherwise comical, ''Series/PowerRangers''-esque film.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: Liberal applications: this ''is'' a Screaming Mad George film, and he takes many opportunities to show off his gruesome practical effects in tandem with FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDGS1NqL0 Max horribly and fatally degenerating into a Zoanoid]] is probably the worst and most prolonged instance of this, and Balcus' "growth corridor" filled with the mutating, amorphous forms of half-developed Zoanoids isn't far behind.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Balcus, the Zoalord in disguise and CEO of Chronos Corporation (which seems to have no other stated goal aside from "take over the world").
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Several:
** Being transformed or not, nothing downplays the horror of Tetsuo Segawa having his skull gorily crushed on-screen in the first five minutes of the movie.
** Balcus' QuirkyMinibossSquad is rather graphically killed one after another throughout the film; Sean electrocutes them to death, cuts their necks open, cuts his way ''out'' of one of them after regenerating from the Guyver unit within him, and saves probably the most brutal for TheDragon: gutting him numerous times before ripping open his skull with his ''bare hands''.
* ShoutOut: Striker, played by Jimmie Walker, closes the film with the catchphrase of his character on ''Series/GoodTimes'': ''dino-mite!''
* TotallyRadical: Striker, one of Lisken's mooks, is an inept comic relief villain who likes to interject more suspenseful moments with spontaneous rapping.
* TransformationHorror: Sean's first transformation into the Guyver is fairly visceral with the Guyver unit ensnaring Sean's face facehugger style and literally combining with him, but the pinnacle is Max's death at the end of the film. Experimented on by Balcus' scientists to become a Zoanoid but not allowed to stabilize, Max horrifically degenerates into something vaguely resembling a cockroach and croaks minutes later from the stress of it.
[[caption-width-right:350:''Part human. Part alien. Pure superpower.'']]
''The Guyver'' is the 1991 live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', playing [[InNameOnly fast and loose]] with the original source material.
Ages ago, the alien race known as the Zoanoids created humanity on Earth to be the ultimate organic superweapon, imbuing within them genes that they could awaken to transform them into Zoanoid warriors. In the present day, the Chronos Corporation conducts genetic experiments on innocents to transform them into Zoanoids, while its CEO Fulton Balcus (David Cage) tries to figure out how to activate the control panel of a Zoanoid bio-suit called the Guyver unit. One of the scientists, Tetsuo Segawa escapes with the Guyver unit, which ends up in the hands of a teenager named Sean Baker (Sean Armstrong)--who combines with the suit, becoming the Guyver and fighting against the evil Chronos Corporation which now wants him dead with the help of Segawa's daughter and CIA agent Max (Creator/MarkHamill).
The film was directed by legendary gore SFX artist Screaming Mad George and produced by his partner Creator/BrianYuzna (who previously collaborated on horror film ''Film/{{Society}}'', likely accounting for some of the [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence rather startling violence]] and BodyHorror in an otherwise comical, ''Series/PowerRangers''-esque film.
!!This film provides examples of:
* BodyHorror: Liberal applications: this ''is'' a Screaming Mad George film, and he takes many opportunities to show off his gruesome practical effects in tandem with FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMDGS1NqL0 Max horribly and fatally degenerating into a Zoanoid]] is probably the worst and most prolonged instance of this, and Balcus' "growth corridor" filled with the mutating, amorphous forms of half-developed Zoanoids isn't far behind.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Balcus, the Zoalord in disguise and CEO of Chronos Corporation (which seems to have no other stated goal aside from "take over the world").
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Several:
** Being transformed or not, nothing downplays the horror of Tetsuo Segawa having his skull gorily crushed on-screen in the first five minutes of the movie.
** Balcus' QuirkyMinibossSquad is rather graphically killed one after another throughout the film; Sean electrocutes them to death, cuts their necks open, cuts his way ''out'' of one of them after regenerating from the Guyver unit within him, and saves probably the most brutal for TheDragon: gutting him numerous times before ripping open his skull with his ''bare hands''.
* ShoutOut: Striker, played by Jimmie Walker, closes the film with the catchphrase of his character on ''Series/GoodTimes'': ''dino-mite!''
* TotallyRadical: Striker, one of Lisken's mooks, is an inept comic relief villain who likes to interject more suspenseful moments with spontaneous rapping.
* TransformationHorror: Sean's first transformation into the Guyver is fairly visceral with the Guyver unit ensnaring Sean's face facehugger style and literally combining with him, but the pinnacle is Max's death at the end of the film. Experimented on by Balcus' scientists to become a Zoanoid but not allowed to stabilize, Max horrifically degenerates into something vaguely resembling a cockroach and croaks minutes later from the stress of it.
