!! The original novel:
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The headquarters of the OneWorldOrder and subsequent utopia are based in ''Basra, Iraq.'' Let that sink in for a moment...
** The outbreak of the novel's version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It involves a Polish Jew, a [[THoseWackyNazis Nazi]], takes place in Danzig - and is PlayedForLaughs.[[note]]To elaborate: The Jew tries to adjust his ill-fitting dental plate, and the Nazi somehow assumes that he is making rude grimaces and gestures at him.[[/note]]
** The book says that in 1979, the ruling elite of OneWorldOrder (which despite being based in Iraq is mostly white and has no Arab members) would completely abolish the Islamic religion by occupying Mecca and demolishing all the mosques (inspired by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's seculuarization of Turkey). As Lebanese-American scholar George Nasser pointed out, the real life 1979 saw the establishment of the theocratic Islamic Republic of {{UsefulNotes/Iran}}, and the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan and the subsequent mujahideen uprising. These two events would re-invigorate Islamist extremism in the Middle East, and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror we all know what happened after that]]

!! The film:
* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Sure, [[BigBad Omus]] is defeated. However, Delta-3, the only source of [[TerminallyDependentSociety the live-saving drug everyone needs to live]], is [[EarthShatteringKaboom blown up]]. While the good guys have some of the drug left, it will probably run out meaning that humanity is doomed to extinction due to radiation poisoning.]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/{{Sledgehammer}} Dori Doreau]] (Eddie Benton is billed there as Anne-Marie Martin) plays Kim.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Which was only to be expected with Creator/BarryMorse as Dr. John Caball.
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