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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: A soundtrack with a band featuring Buckethead, Anthrax and John Carpenter on keyboard? For your consideration, "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_8svR_QIo Kick Ass]]" (the end credits theme).
2	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Between his [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic quips]] and the copious amounts of ass he kicks, [[{{Creator/JasonStatham}} Jericho Butler]] is a definitive highlight of the film.
3	* MagnificentBastard: James "Desolation" Williams is a criminal held at the Shining Canyon. A brilliant felon who survives the unearthing of the titular ghosts of Mars, Desolation helps the arriving police survive for his own sake while revealing he had men there to help break him out. Desolation is instrumental to the survival with his strategy and planning, saving heroine Lieutenant Melanie Ballard from her own possession and forming a plan to wipe out the Ghosts and allow the survivors to escape before slipping off himself. When the Ghosts take over a city at the end, Desolation arrives to assist Ballard, joking she'd make a great criminal before opting to take the fight to the Ghosts.
4	* {{Narm}}: The Martian commander is not unlike a Music/MarilynManson cosplayer voiced by a Muppet with an extra-silly voice.
5	* NarmCharm:
6	** Decidedly ''not'' Creator/JohnCarpenter's best film by a large margin, between the silly dialogue and the rock music that plays during the Martian attacks, it still manages to be pretty entertaining. Even the last lines are a gem.
7	--->'''Desolation Williams:''' If you ever wanna come to the other side, you'd make hell of a crook.
8	--->'''Melanie Ballard:''' You'd make hell of a cop.
9	--->'''Both:''' ''[[{{Beat}} [look at each other for a moment]]]'' [[NoJustNo Naaah]].
10	--->'''Desolation Williams:''' Let's just kick some ass.
11	--->'''Melanie Ballard:''' It's what we do best.
12	** The Martian BigBad's name is Big Daddy Mars. Your thoughts on that name are an exact litmus test for your feelings on the film itself.
13	* SoBadItsGood: This is Carpenter's goofiest movie by about a mile and a half, which is not to say it isn't entertaining as hell.
14	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
15	** A lesbian leather-clad matriarchy, but no girl-on-girl action?
16	** A lot of time was given to tension occurring between Melanie and the Martian leader. There seemed to be times where he went after the group specifically targeting ''her'', and the plot seemed to be building up to a final confrontation between the two. Instead, the Martian leader has a final confrontation with Williams instead and Melanie fights some random Martian mook on the train.
17	** The film ends just as Ballard and Williams are preparing for an all-out war against an army of possession victims. That sounds like it'd be a fairly entertaining movie in its own right.
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