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6''The Wild World of Batwoman'' is an American science fiction superhero film directed by Jerry Warren (not to be confused with [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate another incompetent director named "Warren"]]). The film stars Katherine Victor as Batwoman, George Andre as Professor G. Octavius Neon, and Steve Brodie as Jim Flanagan.
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8With the popularity of the ''Series/Batman1966'' television series, director Jerry Warren decided to make his own bat-focused superhero film. After being sued for copyright infringement, Warren re-released the film under the title ''She Was a Hippy Vampire''. Like Warren's other films, it's seen by modern critics and filmmakers as almost watchable. ''Almost.''
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10The film's ColdOpen features two so-called "Bat Girls" initiating a third by giving her a ComicStrip/DickTracy-esque wrist radio and making her drink a red concoction which turns out to be a smoothie (because they're only "synthetic" vampires). Note that this prologue was filmed and [[AnInsert added to the movie]] only after the aforementioned lawsuit; therefore, the three girls [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse vanish from the rest of the movie]].
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12Meanwhile, other Bat Girls are busily patroling the city, and one particular Bat Girl is kidnapped from a nightclub filled with her dancing colleagues. This Bat Girl, it turns out, is to be used as a bargaining chip by Mexican wrestler ''cum'' supervillain Rat Fink[[note]]Not to be confused with the titular character of ''Rat Pfink a Boo Boo'' by ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures'' auteur Ray Dennis Steckler[[/note]], to coerce Batwoman into helping him steal an atomic-powered listening device. But Batwoman insists on personally verifying the girl's safety first, and [[IdiotBall Rat Fink complies]], allowing Batwoman to rescue her and not have to commit the crime.
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14Whew. That wasn't so bad, now was it? Oh, wait; [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle it's not over yet]].
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16Now aware of Rat Fink's designs on the Atomic Hearing Aid, Batwoman alerts the device's manufacturer and arranges for her Bat Girls to guard the device until such time as it can be disposed of. But Rat Fink's goons infiltrate the company's office building using {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s and drug everyone, allowing them to steal the device and kidnap that same Bat Girl ''again'' by the young Mook who has fallen in love with her.
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18Batwoman follows up her failed guard duty with a failed seance, then with a failed search of the nearby beaches -- during which all her Bat Girls are kidnapped and taken to Rat Fink's ElaborateUndergroundBase (where he keeps his Mole People). But Batwoman had anticipated this (somehow) and has followed him here.
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20The film doesn't end here, but this summary does. Because words simply cannot describe the [[{{Narm}} sheer goofiness]] of that climactic fight scene. Or the {{Denouement}} afterwards. But, if you're brave, you can read for yourself, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160331051205/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Wild_World_of_Batwoman_1966.aspx here]].
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22Not to be confused with ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, a Creator/DCComics character. Though, obviously, [[TheMockbuster that's what the producer was hoping for.]]
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24For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E15TheWildWorldOfBatwoman episode recap page]].
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27!!This film provides examples of:
28* ArtisticLicenseChemistry:
29** There's no such isotope as "cobalt 40", as the cobalt isotope with the lowest number is 47. There ''is'' an isotope called cobalt ''60'', which is radioactive, and could theoretically be used to make a fission bomb, which may be what the writers were confusing it with.
30** Near the end when Rat Fink has the Batgirls captive he holds up a flask and claims it has "The most potent tranquilizing agent ever devised in a laboratory" and the goes on to say that it gives him strength and the ability to understand "mysteries that mortal man has never dreamed of before". How a ''traquilizer" would do that is anyone's guess.
31* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Chinese spirit during [[https://youtu.be/x38AM_SxIz0 the seance scene]] speaks [[ChingChong random combinations of "ching", "chang", and "chong"]].
32--> '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]:''' You know, [[SarcasmMode that may not really be Chinese.]]
33* BatmanGambit: Fittingly enough for a Batman ripoff, Batwoman has her girls combing the beaches, in full anticipation that Rat Fink will kidnap them and take them to his secret base, so that she can follow him there.
34* BehindTheBlack: Sure enough, the BatmanGambit works, with Rat Fink jumping out from behind boulders to snatch the girls as they walk past. Except he's hiding on the same side of the boulder that the girls are approaching it from, i.e. the opposite side from the camera.
35* BlackComedyRape: Plotting to force-breed a bunch of women with ''Film/TheMolePeople'' StockFootage in an otherwise goofy, lighthearted but rather stupid camp-fest would certainly qualify.
36* CardCarryingVillain: Anyone who openly calls himself Rat Fink definitely qualifies.
37* CatFight: Some of the batgirls get into a fight [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] of a scene, apparently over some dispute involving a game of horseshoes.
38* ChingChong: Batwoman holds a seance to help find the atomic hearing aid, but the seance is interrupted by a "Chinese" spirit who speaks like this.
39* ColdOpen: This being ''The Wild World of Batwoman'', they (yes, there are two) have nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.
40* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Rather than go to prison, Prof. Neon seems to be working for Batwoman in the ending.
41* CoversAlwaysLie: Two instances in the above-pictured poster. First, Batwoman's outfit depicted on the poster looks nothing like what she wears in the movie. Second, the poster depicts Bruno choking and trying to stab a woman, presumably a batgirl, when nothing like that happens in the movie.
42* CovertPervert: [[spoiler: JD turned into Rat Fink because he loves to listen to other people's phone conversations.]]
43* DancePartyEnding: Technically a pool party, but the Batgirls do a lot of dancing during it as well.
44* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Professor Neon thinks so, having created a number of monsters, and regarding them in a somewhat paternal matter.
45* DefeatMeansFriendship: All of the villains inexplicably become friends with Batwoman and the Batgirls at the end (with the exception of [[spoiler: Rat Fink]], who [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse seemingly just disappears,]]) and they all have a pool party in the final scene.
46* DistaffCounterpart: Batwoman, for Adam West's Batman; deadpan [[TheComicallySerious Comically Serious]] delivery and all.
47* DistractedByTheSexy: When Rat Fink's goons are drugging everyone with the happy pill-laced soup at the Ayjax cafeteria, they take a moment to down some themselves so they can dance with a particularly attractive woman who caught their attention before resuming the heist.
48* TheDitz: Batwoman's entire organization of "batgirls" are supposedly superheroes-in-training, but in practice all wildly incompetent {{Faux Action Girl}}s and distressed damsels-- to the point where Batwoman actually ''counts on'' them getting kidnapped to lead her to Rat Fink.
49* DrowningMySorrows: After the atomic hearing aid gets stolen, Flanagan calls up Batwoman completely smashed.
50-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]''': Hey, look, it's the producer!
51* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Only one Bat Girl is even afforded the dignity of her own ''number'' to differentiate her. And it isn't the one who gets the most attention in the story, either.
52* EvilLaugh: Rat Fink has a very obnoxious one.
53* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted. Rat Fink speaks in a slightly higher, yet gruffer, voice than his rather nebbishy civilian self.
54* FailedASpotCheck: When one of the Batgirls is being kidnapped early on she actually manages to grab the SmartBall and dangles her arm with her wristwatch (which is actually a [[CommLinks comm link]]). He's [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted enough by this]] that he doesn't notice for a while, and ends up [[SayingTooMuch revealing to the other Batgirls that he's kidnapped her.]]
55* {{Fanservice}}: Being a cheesy movie from the 60's, it's only natural to have young attractive barely dressed women dancing around more than a couple of times.
56* FanserviceExtra: Quite a few of the young female "Batgirls" in the movie. Most notably the brunette that gets quite a bit of focus in the movie and the girl who wears a leopard outfit of all things.
57* FauxAffablyEvil:
58** Professor G. Octavius Neon. For most of the movie he comes across as a generally decent guy (for a MadScientist) who was unfortunately caught under the thumb of a dangerous super criminal, and there are times when he shows genuine concern for his monsters, whom he treats like children. Then you reach the film's {{Denouement}} when Heathcliff regains his voice and his wits. [[spoiler: He reveals that he was formerly Neon's best friend and primary source of funds, before Neon secretly performed dangerous experiments on him to turn him into a gibbering simpleton, apparently so that Neon could have unlimited access to Heathcliff's money.]]
59** Rat Fink as well, who acts friendly to people, and even talks charmingly to Batwoman... and then he captures the Batgirls with plans to forcibly breed them with his mutant mole men.
60* FeeFiFauxPas: One of the film's few successful attempts at humor: After his offer of a smoke to the Batgirls gets [[NoSmoking coldly shot down]], Flannigan is left fumbling with the cigarette, awkwardly sticking it behind his ear like a pencil.
61* FreezeFrameBonus: It's hard to spot, but during the scene of the Batgirls frugging at the beach, one shot features a [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background extra]] FlippingTheBird at the camera.
62* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
63** Tons, most notably the "horseshoe fight". To the point where when this trope actually ''doesn't'' happen (like in the seance scene), you're kind of disappointed.
64** Just before the horseshoe fight, during Flannigan's talk with Batwoman, the two Batgirls sitting to either side of him are mocking his dialogue with exaggerated facial gestures.
65** Look carefully just after the beach makeout scene and you'll see an extra lean over and flip off the camera.
66* GRatedDrug: The happy pills.
67* GilliganCut: Batwoman assures Flanagan that her girls will work tirelessly to find the hearing aid. The movie then cuts to a beach where the Batgirls are dancing and making out with boys.
68* GracefulLoser: Professor Neon calmly submits to Batwoman at the end, which seriously irks Rat Fink.
69* HalfHumanHybrid: What Rat Fink plans to do by breeding the Batgirls with Prof. Neon's monsters.
70* HerrDoktor: Professor Neon was supposed to be this, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent but his actor isn't very good at it]].
71* IdiotBall: Batwoman ''knows'' that Professor Neon has a pill that gives people uncontrolled euphoria, but during her dinner with Flanagan, when she sees someone at another table suddenly start dancing, she shrugs it off and eats a bowl of soup she didn't order given to her by a suspicious waiter. HilarityEnsues.
72* TheIgor: Heathcliff is a very pathetic one.
73* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Nearly all of the ChingChong seance is one ''endless'' static take.
74* MadeOfExplodium: Fairly justified in that it's an ''atomic'' hearing aid mixing with radioactive cobalt.
75* {{Malaproper}}: The prologue, where the Batgirl recruits are told that they're "only vampires in a '''synthetic''' sense." From context, the word they were looking for was probably '''aesthetic''', which is to say that they are adopting the appearance and stylings of vampires. By comparison, to call oneself a "synthetic" vampire, would imply that they were created artificially from laboratory chemicals. It's likely "synthetic" is meant to refer to the artificial "blood" they drink.
76* MaleGaze: There are lots of scenes of the Bat Girls dancing, during which the camera usually lingers on them shaking what their mamas gave 'em.
77* MesACrowd: Rat Fink's body divider. It does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
78* MinionWithAnFInEvil: After Tiger's MookFaceTurn, ''all'' of Rat Fink's mooks, including Neon himself, are perfectly willing to give up amicably to the good guys. Needless to say, Rat Fink is not amused.
79-->'''Bruno:''' I don't wanna die because of ''you!''\
80'''Neon:''' You're a FINK, Rat Fink! ''(scuffle breaks out)''
81* {{Mockbuster}}: The movie is this to ''Series/Batman1966''.
82* MookFaceTurn: "''This'' boy... has fallen in love!"
83* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's not just a hearing aid -- it's an ''atomic'' hearing aid.
84* NonFatalExplosions: When the atomic hearing aid lives up to its name. All of the named characters end up at ground zero of a ''thermonuclear explosion'' but show up in the next scene, unharmed... including Heathcliff, who was ''holding the bomb when it went off''!
85* NonIndicativeTitle: "She Was A Hippy Vampire". There aren't any hippies in the movie, and they're not really vampires either. The Batgirl initiation involves drinking "blood" that's actually a strawberry fruit cocktail smoothie, because they're only [[{{Malaproper}} "synthetic" vampires]].
86* NoNameGiven: None of the Batgirls are given proper names. The closest we get is one of them being referred to as [[YouAreNumberSix "Batgirl #14".]] Even the credits just have one credit saying "Batgirls" and listing all the actresses' names, with no indication of who's who.
87* NoSmoking: The Batgirls shoot Flanagan some ''seriously'' nasty looks when he offers them a cigarette. An unusual statement in an era where smoking was still fashionable, or at least commonplace.
88* NumberTwo: The tall, blonde, Charro-esque Batgirl in the leopard-print outfit serves as Batwoman's lieutenant. Oddly, she goes by the number "14" rather than "2".
89* PaperThinDisguise:
90** Amazingly subverted with Rat Fink; the mask hides just enough of his face and the actor does a surprisingly decent job of disguising his voice.
91** Played straight when Neon, Bruno and Tiger infiltrate Ayjax's cafeteria wearing fake beards and mustaches. Bruno's, in particular, is little more than a tiny bow tie stuck to his upper lip.
92* PowerPerversionPotential: It's actually a '''plot point''' as being an audio peeping tom is Rat Fink's secret obsession, and why he stole the atomic hearing aid.
93* PunchClockVillain: Tiger, he even refers to it as his job at one point.
94* RummageSaleReject: Batwoman's costume. It's a leotard with a belt, stockings, some sort of pin over her right breast which is connected to her belt with a cord, a half-cape over one shoulder, a bat tattoo on her chest, a DominoMask, and ridiculous floofy hair with feathers in it. Apparently the actress put together the costume herself.
95* ScareChord: Done unintentionally with a ringing phone.
96* SecretIdentity: Averted. Batwoman is apparently Batwoman 24/7 and is even listed so in the phone book. Played straight with Rat Fink.
97* SlippingAMickey: Done a lot. A Batgirl [[spoiler: is kidnapped this way]] and you have the "Happy Pill" stupidity with the soup and chocolate milk.
98* StockFootage:
99** Warren used footage from the Universal Pictures film ''Film/TheMolePeople'' (itself not great, though miles ahead of this thing) for Professor Neon's monsters and ElaborateUndergroundBase. Since the characters from ''The Mole People'' show up in the foreground of the scene, a sequence is inserted showing Neon and one of the thugs walking through the cave wearing leather jackets identical to those of the characters from the other film.
100** Some of Rat Fink's footage is taken from an old Mexican wrestling movie.
101** The mugging murder scene is almost certainly stock footage as well, since the three Batgirls who watch it are never in the same shot (and don't do anything about it, and the guys involved in the robbery never show up again).
102** The scene where a man is walking through a dark office and answers a suddenly-ringing phone to assure someone that "Everything is in order." Just what he talking about and who he's talking to is never addressed, nor is the man seen again in the film.
103* SuperBreedingProgram: Rat Fink's interested in mating Neon's monsters with captive human women. It's not explained why he wants to do this, though, as it doesn't seem like the Batgirls' "ditzy human floozy" DNA would add much of benefit to the monsters. He is established to be a voyeur, so maybe he just wants to watch?
104* SuperheroPackingHeat: For a given value of "superhero", the Batgirls use a wide assortment of firearms. Batwoman herself prefers a RayGun.
105* SuperWristGadget: Each Batgirl has a wrist radio that lets them contact Batwoman. Also, later in the movie, Batwoman tells them to free their captured allies with a "magnetic-electron device" which, considering the radio is the only bit of futuristic-ish equipment they have, is probably built into it.
106* ThisIsUnforgivable: Rat Fink's plan to cross-breed Batgirls with Mole People gets this from Batwoman. Later on his TakingYouWithMe gets this from Bruno and Neon, who both pull a HeelFaceTurn since they aren't willing to die because of him.
107* TechnoBabble: Batwoman deploys it like a champ to defeat Rat Fink's "body divider".
108* TooDumbToLive: If you're walking down a Mexican-Swedish StockFootage alleyway in a crappy DistaffCounterpart Batman ripoff, and two goons demand your wallet ''at gunpoint''... refrain from quoting a song by Badfinger and just give them what they want!
109* UglyGuyHotWife: The reformed mook and the Batgirl. Tiger really isn't so bad-looking, though he is kinda short and rather doughy.
110* VegetarianVampire: Sort of. The prologue seems to be invoking this trope, but they're really only playing at being vampires. They're actually just human floozies who drink strawberry smoothies and call it blood.
111* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point Bruno and Tiger [[SlippingAMickey knock one of the Batgirls out by putting something in her drink,]] and even ''pick her unconscious body up and carry her away.'' Everyone in the club just ignores this and keeps dancing until we cut to the next scene.
112* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
113** What became of the girls in the prologue? Or the mugging-gone-wrong?
114** [[spoiler: Ratfink vanishes after the destruction of the atomic hearing aid]]
115** What happened to Doctor Neon's monsters? They are just footage from ''Film/TheMolePeople'', but there's no InUniverse answer for why we never find out. As Neon seems to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes actually care about them,]] you'd think he would have asked what became of them at the end.
116* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent:
117** Prof. Neon seems to be going for a stereotypical German scientist. What he delivers is vaguely European (when he doesn't sound East Indian).
118** There's also the previously-mentioned "Dwight D. Eisenhower the Weird-Accented Night Watchman".
119* WritingAroundTrademarks: The shot showing the "Ayjax" sign was added to avoid a lawsuit from Ajax.

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