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3	''Robot Holocaust'' was a 1986 post-apocalyptic yarn by director Tim Kincaid, who was mainly a director of Gay porn films. It involves a world in the far-future after [[RobotWar "The Great Robot Rebellion of '33"]], in which most of humanity & human civilization are wiped out. All that's left is a city called "New Terra" (played here by a fully functional New York City), which is ruled by the [[TheGhost mysterious]] [[TheBigBad Dark One]]. The remaining humans become his "Air Slaves" and are forced to fuel the power station that keeps the Dark One alive & in charge. The Dark One has the power to clean the poisoned air and uses this as a means to control the "Air Slaves".
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5	The film itself is horribly done with cheap, cheesy sets, no-name actors, horrible acting, poorly-written plot and script and bad special effects. It was the first modern, color film to be shown on the television cult classic comedy, ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (barring the KTMA episodes) in one of the more memorable episodes of the First Season. For the said episode see [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E10RobotHolocaust here]].
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8	!!Robot Holocaust provides these Tropes:
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10	* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The "Beast of the Web" evidently consists of a single articulated leg that flops up and down at its prey.
11	* BarbarianHero: Kai is this with a bit of TheBigGuy & TheSpeechless.
12	* TheBigBad: The Dark One.
13	* BigNo: Bray lets one out when Haim [[spoiler: is killed by the mutants]].
14	* CassandraTruth: Valeria tells The Dark One that the power source has been compromised but the latter doesn't believe her (despite being dependent on said energy...again, the screenplay is poorly thought out).
15	* ConceiveAndKill: What the Amazons had planned for Kai before Neo and his bunch came waltzing through. They overpower and kidnap a guy, cut out his tongue, gang-rape him to get themselves pregnant then kill him.
16	* DoesNotLikeMen: Nyla. Comes with being an Amazon and all.
17	* DullSurprise: Jorn takes this to a whole other level. [[spoiler: Even when confronted by the Dark One's true form, the most he can muster up is looking like he has slight indigestion.]]
18	* DwindlingParty: Little by little, the group of protagonists end up in the [[WentToTheGreatXInTheSky Big B-Movie in the Sky.]]
19	* ElectricInstantGratification: The "Pleasure Chamber", where Valeria stands around and [[FanService shows us her boobies]]. She [[DullSurprise doesn't appear to be getting much pleasure out of it]], even though the Dark One reprimands her for using it as a habitat instead of a reward.
20	* ElectricTorture: Valeria inflicts this on Jorn. Valaria also gets this briefly a couple of times from The Dark One.
21	* {{Expy}}: Klyton... world's most annoying [=C3PO=] clone.
22	* TheHeavy: Torque, the Dark One's other main henchman... a big mean robot who resembles an anthropomorphic lobster man.
23	* IAmAHumanitarian: The mutants roaming "The Wastelands", they [[spoiler: have Haim for a nice snack.]]
24	* KidnappedScientist: Jorn, which sets off the plot.
25	* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Jorn's fate, which also kills the Dark One in the process. Jorn's half-eaten but barely alive but it's impossible to save him at that point (most of his body is likely dissolved but not enough to stop Jorn from telling Deeja & Neo to kill him)]].
26	* MrFanservice: Kai the mute barbarian. The wrestlers in the beginning may also qualify.
27	* MsFanservice: Valeria wears a variety of skimpy outfits and even has a gratuitous topless scene.
28	* NeckLift: Torque does this to Neo during their battle near the end.
29	* NonindicativeName: With a name like the Dark One, you might think of a MadeOfEvil EldritchAbomination or an insane MasterComputer in keeping with the RobotWar. [[spoiler: Instead we have a seedpod type thing...it's unclear.]]
30	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The mutants.
31	* {{Phlebotinum}}: The anti-air-toxin gizmo that Jorn & Deeja invent.
32	* PlantAliens: [[spoiler: The Dark One...we think.]]
33	* PluckyComicRelief: Klyton is meant to be this but comes off more as royally annoying.
34	* TheQuisling: ZigZagged, Valeria looks like she's sold out the human race just to get access to ElectricInstantGratification, but then it turns out [[spoiler: she's a robot.]]
35	* TheReveal: Valeria [[spoiler: turns out to be a robot.]]
36	** Jorn [[spoiler: is eaten by The Dark One, who's apparently a triffid-like thing, giving the appearance of Jorn becoming an avocado-man.]]
37	* RobotGirl: [[spoiler: Valaria.]]
38	* {{Room101}}: "The Room Of Questions", "The Tortures Of The Damned" and other stupidly-named stuff.
39	* TheSpeechless: Kai, due to having his tongue cut out by the Amazons.
40	* TheStoic: Neo, TheHero & Jorn...and both are acted so woodenly that they seem comatose.
41	* ThoseTwoGuys: Roan & Korla. Bray & Haim.
42	* TheThunderdome: The film opens with two guys wrestling to the death...[[{{Padding}} but it's not very thrilling.]]
43	* TongueTrauma: Why Kai, the hunky be-loinclothed barbarian the gang rescues, is a mute.
44	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Kai is spends the entire film in a dinky loincloth.
45	** Also, some of the guys at the Air Slave's place, especially the big hunky wrestler guys clobbering each other in the beginning of the film.
46	* WeCanRuleTogether: In a futile effort to beg for mercy [[spoiler: The Dark One says this verbatim]].
47	* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: The Dark One wants to know the secret of Jorn's invention, so Jorn is kidnapped and tortured & Valeria threatens to do the same to Deeja. Jorn still doesn't budge.
48	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Valeria. She has some kind of European-sounding accent combined with a lisp. [[TheUnintelligible She's nearly impossible to understand]] [[spoiler:even more so with the mechanically processed voice she has when it's revealed she's a robot]].

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