History Film / AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes

* DemotedToExtra: The main villain of the first movie only makes a cameo towards the end of the second. Naturally, [[LampshadeHanging he bemoans this lack of screentime and dialogue during said cameo]] only to get beat down for it.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: In ''Return of the Killer Tomatoes'' Tara wants to have sex with Chad when she meets him in the resturant, while he's clearly protesting. Good luck changing the gender roles.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: Spoofed in the second film when Chad watches a cheesy horror flick where the mad scientist in the film repeatedly stresses that he will turn his creation human and quips "About time" when Chad finally gets the hint that Gangreen is making tomatoes human.

** Also from the first movie, tnderwater expert Greg Colburn is last seen swimming in a public fountain. He's never seen again for the rest of the movie.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" it's never revealed whatever happened to Mason Dixon, the hero of the first film, however he does appear in Wilbur's flashback of the first film.

This would have been the end for the red menace (no, not '''that''' [[DirtyCommunists red menace]]), if it hadn't been for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' using footage from the film to narrate a story called, "Attack of the Silly Tomatoes". It was a highly rated episode and New World Pictures inexplicably decided the world needed a sequel and offered the creators of the original 2 million dollars to film one.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The titular tomatoes don't quite reach 50 feet, but they grow very large for tomatoes. Revolutionary giant killer carrots are also seen. However, in the Season One episode ''Camp Casserole... So Vine'', there was an '''''ACTUAL''''' one. There is also Larry the Monster Mountain Tomatoe from the Nintendo game.

While the animated series didn't last long, two further movies were made: ''Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!'' and ''Killer Tomatoes Eat France!'' An UsefulNotes/Atari2600 game was an {{Homage}} to the film, called ''Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes''.

The plot itself has hardly changed\\

* ProductPlacement: Satirized brutally in ''Return of the Killer Tomatoes''.

While the animated series didn't last long, two further movies were made: ''Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!'' and ''Killer Tomatoes Eat France!''. An Atari2600 game was an {{Homage}} to the film, called ''Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes''.

* BlackBestFriend:
** Evan Flood is this to Lance Boyle in ''Killer Tomatoes Strike Back''.
** Sam Smith is this to Wilbur Finletter throughout the series.

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The titular tomatoes don't quite reach 50 feet, but they grow very large for tomatoes. Revolutionary giant killer carrots are also seen. However, in the Season One episode ''Camp Casserole... So Vine'', there was an '''''ACTUAL''''' one.

* BigBad: Professor Gangreen is the main antagonist of the original film's three sequels as well as in the animated series.

* AnthropomorphicFood: The premise revolves around sentient tomatoes attacking humans.

** Tomatoes, naturally. Carrots are often promised for sequels, but the carrots are a lie!

* BrickJoke: Used in ''Return...'' when Professor Gangreen answers a phone call from [[FramingDevice the show watching the film]] and ends up inadvertently saying the secret word ("the"). The hero and his friend even [[LampshadeHanging point out the plot device]]

* ExpositoryThemeTune: Loosely so in the case of the first film, the second is clearly an example of this trope, explaining that, yes, you are watching a sequel.

* ConspicuousCG: The second season of the animated series.

* RoleReprisal: The animated series has John Astin reprise his role from the films as Dr. Gangreen. It's one of his favorite roles.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In ''Killer Tomatoes Eat France'', after the tour guide is eaten by the giant tomato, her group (whom she'd been dragging through Gangrene's enormous castle hideout with no regard to their health of welfare) celebrate her demise, with one even bemoaning being out of film.

* StayInTheKitchen:Matt's idea of the perfect woman.

* HellishCopter: Unexpectedly, [[ThrowItIn a real helicopter crash]]. [[note]] The pilot escaped the crash unharmed.[[/note]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. A very young child gets eaten in the first film (off-screen). His grandparents doen't seem very concerned.
-->'''Grandfather''' (to Mason Dixon): Say, would you like to buy a used crib?

* TomatoInTheMirror: The TropeNamer.
* TomatoSurprise: Tara is actually a tomato made human.

''Return of the Killer Tomatoes!'' was released in 1988 and featured the same devotion to quality special effects, acting skills, and tightly scripted dialog as the first film: Still none detectable. Although it clearly does benefit from the increased budget, the film retains the original's tongue-in-cheek self-aware bad-movie quality, only now with more sex jokes. This film also introduces the villainous MadScientist [[MeaningfulName Professor Gangreen]], played by [[Series/TheAddamsFamily John Astin]], who apparently enjoyed [[ChewingTheScenery chewing on the scenery]] a lot as he returned for every subsequent sequel (and the AnimatedAdaptation, where his name was changed from "Mortimer" to "Putrid" and his title became Doctor).

While the animated series didn't last long, two further movies were made: ''Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!'' and ''Killer Tomatoes Eat France!''. An Atari2600 game was an {{Homage}} to the game, called ''Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes''.