Line #2 Trivia/HeavyMetal


1	* ApprovalOfGod: Richard Corben said the producers did a good job adapting his comics for the "Den" story, especially with Creator/JohnCandy playing the lead role.
2	* BreakawayPopHit: Music/{{Journey\|Band}}'s contribution to the soundtrack, ''Open Arms'', ended up completely overtaking the film itself, staying at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and becoming one of the band's signature hits.
3	* BreakoutCharacter: Taarna became the symbol and flagship character of the film, and started becoming the title character in comic books, four decades after the film's release.
4	* CutSong: Music/BlueOysterCult wrote "Vengeance (The Pact)" for this movie but it was replaced with "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" due to the former song's lyrics having major spoilers for Taarna. Both would be released in their 1981 studio album ''Music/FireOfUnknownOrigin''.
5	* FollowTheLeader: ''Film/TheFifthElement'' borrows heavily from the Harry Canyon segment.
6	* MissingTrailerScene: In the trailer, Taarna can be seen with a visible six pack, which she doesn't sport in the film. Likewise, the thug holding up Harry Canyon has a different voice.
7	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JohnCandy, known as a BigFun comedian, is not the type you'd think would play the voice of a scrawy kid turned into the ultimate MrFanservice in Neverwhere, but he had the acting skill to perfectly convey the teenage innocence of someone placed in a macho sexual fantasy.
8	* RecursiveAdaptation:
9	** ''ComicBook/{{Den}}'' started as an [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hjD_W0yI animated short]] before it was a comic.
10	** Taarna is loosely based on a comic, ''Arzach'' drawn by Creator/{{Moebius}}. Taarna got her own comic strip in ''Heavy Metal'' in 2018.
11	* ReferencedBy:
12	** The tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Chalt}}'' has a [[SpaceElves Romulan]] NPC who's constantly high on [[FantasticDrug nyborg]].
13	** One of the posters Jable's FantasyForbiddingFather rips off his bedroom wall in ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'' is a ''Heavy Metal'' poster.
14	** The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SouthParkS12E3MajorBoobage Major Boobage]]" homages the animated movie in the hallucination sequences of Kenny.
15	* RefittedForSequel: Taarna's theme was written for Alex in ''Saturn 3'', but not used.
16	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The VHS had to be removed for years due to issues with licensing the music.
17	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Music/ElmerBernstein reworked some of his ''Heavy Metal'' score as "Dana's Theme" from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''.
18	* ThrowItIn: Notice in the Harry Canyon segment that the Girl's breasts [[BreastExpansion seem to get bigger]] at one point? The animator apparently just got so bored doing that segment, he just made them bigger and thought no one would notice.
19	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
20	** The plot was meant to be connected and more complex than an anthology, but due to the release date being bumped up and a rushed production, the animation had to be done by several animation houses, including Creator/CineGroupe and Atkinson Film-Arts. Some of the abandoned ideas included Hanover Fiste showing up in "So Beautiful, So Dangerous," appearing on Zeke and Edsel's ship (saying "Sternn will go free!"); and a sequence linking Sternn and B-17 called "Neverwhereland," wherein the Loc-Nar lands on a planet and affects its development.
21	** As shown in [[http://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2010/03/b-17-heavy-metal-1981.html concept art]], the B-17 segnent was to involve Gremlins rather than zombies. This ironically would have made the sequence more period accurate to the segment's setting.
22	** Kyle Gass had revealed that the director of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' had approached Music/TenaciousD with an idea for a remake of Heavy Metal. The band was to appear in it as a duo of alien stoners, and they even composed the song "Deth Starr" for the film. Unfortunately, though, the idea never came to pass for fear that an R-rated cartoon would not sell well, so the band ended up releasing the song years later on their album ''Rize of the Fenix''.
23	** Along with Tenacious D, Creator/DavidFincher was also planning to do a segment for the film with Tim Miller. That eventually spun off to ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'', 11 years later.
24	** ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' itself began as a concept to revive ''Heavy Metal'' as an anthology TV series, after the theatrical sequel ''Heavy Metal 2000'' flopped.

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