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* AGoodNameForARockBand: ''Music/DuranDuran'' named themselves after Durand Durand.

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* AGoodNameForARockBand: ''Music/DuranDuran'' named themselves after Durand Durand.Durand (having begun their career playing in a club called Barbarella’s).
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's painfully obvious that Jane Fonda is just rolling around on a pane of glass during the opening scene: not only is her movement always perpendicular to the camera's location, without floating up and down or forward & backward, but in one shot the credit appearing onscreen can be seen reflected in the glass.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's painfully obvious that Jane Fonda is just rolling around on a pane of glass during the opening scene: not only is her movement always perpendicular to the camera's location, without floating up and down or forward & backward, but in one shot the credit appearing onscreen can be seen reflected in the glass.
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** Averted with the Black Queen, who saves Barbarella and clearly wants this, but Barbarella isn't as generous with her.

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** Averted Subverted with the Black Queen, who saves Barbarella from two assailants and clearly wants this, to spend some sensual time with Barbarella in return, but Barbarella isn't as generous with her.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Once she gets the point of the whole sex thing, Barbarella isn't choosy about who she sleeps with. However she refuses the advances of the Black Queen even before she finds out she's the BigBad, in contrast to the comics where Barbarella was not adverse to female attention.
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* TriangRelations: If Barbarella/Pygar/Black Queen is taken as a love/lust triangle, then it's a type 6.
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:After he comes to power, Durand Durand uses his positronic ray to kill sympathetic characters like Professor Ping and Dildano without much fanfare. Then the Black Queen unleashes the Mathmos to stop him; Sogo is destroyed and everyone in there dies. The only survivors are Barbarella, Pygar and the Black Queen herself.]]

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On October 11, 2022, it was announced that Creator/SydneySweeney was set to star in and executive produce a remake of the film.
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* MentalAffair: The "Earth Way" of having sex. You take an Exaltation Transference Pill and touch hands for one minute until [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "full rapport is achieved"]]. Demonstrated by Barbarella and Dildano, leader of the Resistance.

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* MentalAffair: The "Earth Way" of having sex. You take an Exaltation Transference Pill and touch hands for one minute until [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow [[SexualEuphemism "full rapport is achieved"]]. Demonstrated by Barbarella and Dildano, leader of the Resistance.
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* OnlyOneName: Everybody, except Durand Durand and the Black Queen who just plain has no name.

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* OnlyOneName: Everybody, except Durand Durand Durand, and the Black Queen Queen, who just plain has no name.
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:After he comes to power, Durand Durand uses his positron ray to kill sympathetic characters like Professor Ping and Dildano without much fanfare. Then the Black Queen unleashes the Mathmos to stop him; Sogo is destroyed and everyone in there dies. The only survivors are Barbarella, Pygar and the Black Queen herself.]]

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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:After he comes to power, Durand Durand uses his positron positronic ray to kill sympathetic characters like Professor Ping and Dildano without much fanfare. Then the Black Queen unleashes the Mathmos to stop him; Sogo is destroyed and everyone in there dies. The only survivors are Barbarella, Pygar and the Black Queen herself.]]

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