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* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Prince of Space is probably the oldest japanese variant of this.
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** The villain travels through space to the planet Earth, so that he can steal a formula for rocket fuel that will allow him to... travel through space. This is even [[HandWave hand-waved]] in the film itself, by a group of journalists who ask the head scientist why such an advanced race needs Earth technology. The scientist's explanation - their explanation--their fuel technology lags behind ours - is ours--is wholly unconvincing. How could they master space flight with inferior fuel technology to 1950s earth? Then again, seeing as how they made four round-trips to earth throughout the film, maybe they are just not very fuel-efficient.
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** If The Phantom Of Krankor could observe the Humans humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: The Krankor invaders have interplanetary spaceflight, but their fuel technology is far behind Earth's, hence why they're here to steal our secrets.
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->'''Prince of Space''': Enough of this! When will you ever learn? Your guns won't work on me!
->'''Phantom of Krankor''': ''Shoot him!''
->'''Phantom of Krankor''': ''Shoot him!''
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* DullSurprise: The kids in the American version are at about the level you'd expect from a 60's TV dub, but the child actor dubbing Mickey takes it to a whole new level -- every one of his lines is delivered so flatly and loudly that he comes off as a belligerent, snide tough guy ("We like it ''very much!"'').
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* DullSurprise: The kids (and adults) in the American version are at about the level you'd expect from a 60's TV dub, but the child actor dubbing Mickey takes it to a whole new level -- every one of his lines is delivered so flatly and loudly that he comes off as a belligerent, snide tough guy ("We guy. His slight {{Joisey}} accent coming through doesn't help.
-->'''Mickey:''' What's wrong with bootblacking? We like it ''verymuch!"'').much!''
-->'''Mickey:''' What's wrong with bootblacking? We like it ''very
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". To put it in perspective, our moon is just under a quarter of a million miles away. A half a million miles wouldn't put them out of our solar system... it wouldn't even get them halfway to Mars! Although Krankor being quit close to Earth ''would'' close several plotholes...
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". To put it in perspective, our moon is just under a quarter of a million miles away. A half a million miles wouldn't put them out of our solar system... it wouldn't even get them halfway to Mars! Although Krankor being quit quite close to Earth ''would'' close several plotholes...
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** Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
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** Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, and--" "NEVER MIND THAT! GO!"
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". To put it in perspective, our moon is just under a quarter of a million miles away. A half a million miles wouldn't put them out of our solar system... it wouldn't even get them halfway to Mars!
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". To put it in perspective, our moon is just under a quarter of a million miles away. A half a million miles wouldn't put them out of our solar system... it wouldn't even get them halfway to Mars!Mars! Although Krankor being quit close to Earth ''would'' close several plotholes...
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** The villain travels through space to the planet Earth, so that he can steal a formula for rocket fuel that will allow him to... travel through space. This is even [[HandWave hand-waved]] in the film itself, by a group of journalists who ask the head scientist why such an advanced race needs Earth technology. The scientist's explanation - their fuel technology lags behind ours - is wholly unconvincing. How could they master space flight with inferior fuel technology to 1950s earth? Then again, seeing as how they made four round-trips to earth throughout the film, maybe they are just not very fuel-efficient.
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* BenevolentBossBenevolentBoss: For everything he does, the Phantom is actually very good to his own people, and when he promises to lead Earth into an era of peace and prosperity if they surrender you can actually believe it. Of course, if you ''don't'' surrender to him...
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* BigBad: Phantom of KrankorKrankor.
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* ClarkKenting: Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
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* ClarkKenting: ClarkKenting:
** Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
** Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
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* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Ssssort of. The alien death ray leaves behind hats, helmets, and guns, but not uniforms.
* EvilLaugh: Phantom of Krankor
* EvilLaugh: Phantom of Krankor
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* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Ssssort of. The alien death ray leaves behind hats, helmets, and guns, but not uniforms.
* EvilLaugh: Phantomof Krankorhas a pretty good one. "Hyeh! Hyeh! Hyeeeeh!"
* EvilLaugh: Phantom
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* LargeHam: Or in this case, chicken.
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* LargeHam: Or in this case, chicken.Phantom, which is one of the movie's redeeming features.
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* TheLoad: The scientistsscientists really do basically nothing throughout the movie except get captured, forcing Prince of Space to save them.
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* MacGuffin: The rocket fuelfuel the scientists recently designed, which is said to be the reason Phantom came to Earth. Although his ships are advanced, if he had a comparable fuel he could send 100 ships to Earth instead of one.
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* PlayingWithFire: The Guardian
* PlotHole: If The Phantom Of Krankor could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
* PlotHole: If The Phantom Of Krankor could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
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* PlayingWithFire: The Guardian
Guardian has fiery breath.
*PlotHole: PlotHole:
** If The Phantom Of Krankor could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
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** If The Phantom Of Krankor could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". The moon is 240,000 miles away.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They found out humans had the good fuel and planned their design around the short-range raid.]]
* SecretIdentity: Wally the bootblack.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They found out humans had the good fuel and planned their design around the short-range raid.]]
* SecretIdentity: Wally the bootblack.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". The To put it in perspective, our moon is 240,000 just under a quarter of a million miles away.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They foundaway. A half a million miles wouldn't put them out humans had the good fuel and planned their design around the short-range raid.]]
of our solar system... it wouldn't even get them halfway to Mars!
* SecretIdentity: Wally thebootblack.bootblack is actually Prince of Space.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They found
* SecretIdentity: Wally the
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* ShootingSuperman: At one point even the Prince laments the stupidity of the villains constantly shooting at him when their guns won't work on him.
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* ShootingSuperman: ShootingSuperman:
** At one point even the Prince laments the stupidity of the villains constantly shooting at him when their guns won't work on him.
** At one point even the Prince laments the stupidity of the villains constantly shooting at him when their guns won't work on him.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Dr. Macken's worthless servant chauffeur.
* {{Toku}}: The original films and the TV series that spawned them.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Dr. Macken's worthless "worthless" servant chauffeur.
chauffeur was disposed of in this way when Phantom captured them.
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* {{Superhero}}: As superheroes go, at least he has powers and knows how to use them. Unlike a certain [[PumaMan Puma themed superhero.]]
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* {{Superhero}}: As superheroes go, at least he has powers and knows how to use them. Unlike a certain [[PumaMan [[Film/PumaMan Puma themed superhero.]]
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace episode recap page]].
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace episode recap page]].
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* DubNameChange: Everybody. Planet Krankor is also called Ginsei, or Silver Star/Planet.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Dr. Macken's worthless servant chauffeur.
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* FakeNationality: Obviously Japanese people with English names (except that one white guy with the sideburns).
** And, in some cases, HollywoodNewEngland and/or BigApplesauce accents.
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* ThrowItIn: A bird lands on top of the laser gun of the Krankor ship, and stays on it ever as it starts twisting around. Doubles as a TheyJustDidntCare since the filmmakers didn't seem motivated enough to stop filming in order to remove it.
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->'''Phantom of Krankor''': "[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Shoot him!]]''
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->'''Prince of Space''': "Enough Enough of this! When will you ever learn? [[BoringInvincibleHero Your guns won't work on me!]]"
me!
->'''Phantom of Krankor''':"[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Shoot him!]]''
''Shoot him!''
->'''Phantom of Krankor''':
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* TooDumbToLive: The Prince of Space has stated numerous times that the aliens' weapons won't work on him. He's even proven it, by easily dodging and/or deflecting their ray gun shots. He's used managed to ''reflect'' their shots right back at them, killing or injuring numerous alien invaders with their own attacks. So, what do the aliens do about this? Why, keep trying to shoot him, of course! They do eventually try one other tactic against him: leading him through an AsteroidThicket. When he survives their first response is "hey, let's try it again."
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* TooDumbToLive: The Prince of Space has stated numerous times that the aliens' weapons won't work on him. He's even proven it, by easily dodging and/or deflecting their ray gun shots. He's used even managed to ''reflect'' their shots right back at them, killing or injuring numerous alien invaders with their own attacks. So, what do the aliens do about this? Why, keep trying to shoot him, of course! They do eventually try one other tactic against him: leading him through an AsteroidThicket. When he survives their first response is "hey, let's try it again."
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* TooDumbToLive: The Prince of Space has stated numerous times that the aliens' weapons won't work on him. He's even proven it, by easily dodging and/or deflecting their ray gun shots. He's used managed to ''reflect'' their shots right back at them, killing or injuring numerous alien invaders with their own attacks. So, what do the aliens do about this? Why, keep trying to shoot him, of course! They do eventually try one other tactic against him: leading him through an AsteroidThicket. When he survives their first response is "hey, let's try it again."
--> '''Crow:''' (After the alien invaders have been destroyed.) And a proud, noble civilization dies out. ...sometimes. This ''loser'' civilization, however, will not be missed!
--> '''Crow:''' (After the alien invaders have been destroyed.) And a proud, noble civilization dies out. ...sometimes. This ''loser'' civilization, however, will not be missed!
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* AlienInvasion: By the Phantom.
** Not quite, the Phantom comes to Earth to steal the plans to make the stuff he needs to invade the Earth properly.
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* AlienInvasion: By the Phantom.
** Not quite, theSubverted. The Phantom comes of Krankor actually came to Earth to steal the plans to make the stuff things he needs in order to properly invade the Earth properly.Earth.
** Not quite, the
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* AllEncompassingMantle: Botched. The Prince of Space and Krankor both have them, but since they barely go down to the waist, they end up looking more like old-lady shawls.
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* HeAlsoDid: Katsuhisa Hattori, who composed the music for the original TV series and films, would go on to produce the scores for a number of anime TV series and movies, including ''InfiniteRyvius'' and ''ArgentoSoma''.
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* MadeOfExplodium: A ridiculous amount of things explode easily in this film.
* MagicPants: The disintegration rays of the Krankor aliens instantly cause humans to vanish, but but for some reason leaves their hats and guns intact. There's not even a token pile of dust!
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* MadeOfExplodium: A ridiculous amount number of things explode easily in this film.
* MagicPants: The disintegration rays of the Krankor aliens instantly cause humans to vanish, butbut for some reason leaves leave their hats and guns intact. There's not even a token pile of dust!
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* PlotHole: If The Phantom Of Krankor Could could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
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** Maybe their weapons are useless against them too?
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->'''Prince of Space''': "Enough of this! When will you ever learn? Your guns won't work on me!"
->'''Phantom of Krankor''': "Shoot him!''
A group of chicken beak-nosed space men from the planet Krankor who refuse to wear underwear underneath their suits are led by their leader, Phantom, to invade Earth. But a superhero named Prince of Space (actually a bootblack in disguise) arrives to defeat the spacemen. His superpowers include a magical laser-proof grill lighter, reasonable skipping ability, and the knack for saying some variant of, "Your weapons are useless against me!", which is apparently quite accurate, although he dodges their laser blasts anyway, just to be safe. Although the weapons of the aliens are indeed useless against the Prince of Space, the Phantom continues to fight, and many plot twists (including capturing a group of elderly scientists) ensue.
Prince of Space was edited from two movies, "Planet Prince" and "Planet Prince - The Terrifying Spaceship" which may explain why the plot is a bit wonky. The films were adapted by Toei from a live-action television series of the same name, though with many differences such as a new costume for the main character. The original TV series was a follow up to the extremely popular ''Moonlight Mask'' superhero series, though it also borrowed liberally from the ''Super Giant'' film serials of the time. The television series even had the main character wearing a costume identical to Super Giant. The Prince of Space character is somewhat iconic in his home country. The two films actually retell a story arc from the television series featuring the Phantom of Krankor.
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace episode recap page]].
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* AlienInvasion: By the Phantom.
** Not quite, the Phantom comes to Earth to steal the plans to make the stuff he needs to invade the Earth properly.
* AliensAndMonsters: If by aliens you mean guys with chicken nose prosthetics and no undergarments and by monsters you mean weird lumpy guys with their zippers showing.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Guardian, which looks rather like a giant Ferengi made forty years early. Its ears are ''big.''
* BenevolentBoss
-->'''Phantom of Krankor:''' Give everyone four hours off!
* BigBad: Phantom of Krankor
* CatchPhrase: "Your weapons are useless against me!"
* ClarkKenting: Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
** The aliens themselves, on Earth, disguise themselves with big goggle glasses (to hide their alien eye-shadow) and mouth filters (to hide their chicken-noses).
* CompilationMovie: The US version of the film was cobbled together from two films covering the same material, leading to an even ''more'' incoherent plot.
* CoolShip: The prince and the Phantom.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The Phantom says this when he takes control of Earth's televisions.
* DubInducedPlotHole: In Japan, their weapons ''weren't'' useless against the Prince of Space, which is why he dodges so much.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: One guy in spandex with no super powers scares off the entire invasion force.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Ssssort of. The alien death ray leaves behind hats, helmets, and guns, but not uniforms.
* EvilLaugh: Phantom of Krankor
* {{Expy}}: Prince of Space is a character created in the wake of the success of ''Super Giant''.
* FakeNationality: Obviously Japanese people with English names.
** And, in some cases, HollywoodNewEngland and/or BigApplesauce accents.
* GoodHairEvilHair: The Phantom has an obviously evil mustache while the Prince is extremely clean shaven.
* HeAlsoDid: Katsuhisa Hattori, who composed the music for the original TV series and films, would go on to produce the scores for a number of anime TV series and movies, including ''InfiniteRyvius'' and ''ArgentoSoma''.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Prince claims this numerous times, but he still constantly dodges and runs away from them anyway. See DubInducedPlotHole above; it's supposed to be that he's so good at dodging and/or deflecting energy rays that they're useless against him rather than pure immunity.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: After the Phantom reveals his automated defense system the Prince dodges the dozen plus guns by doing ''absolutely nothing''.
* LargeHam: Or in this case, chicken.
-->'''Phantom of Krankor''': "I've got you now, [[YouRebelScum ya SCUM!]]"
* LaughablyEvil: Phantom of Krankor.
* TheLoad: The scientists
* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: Only in the dubbed version, however.
* MacGuffin: The rocket fuel
* MadeOfExplodium: A ridiculous amount of things explode easily in this film.
* MagicPants: The disintegration rays of the Krankor aliens instantly cause humans to vanish, but but for some reason leaves their hats and guns intact. There's not even a token pile of dust!
* MaskPower: The Prince himself.
* ParrotExposition: Apparently being a ''brilliant scientist'' requires constantly asking your captors to repeat themselves ad nauseum. There's a reason the trope name used to be "Prince of Space, sir!"
* PlayingWithFire: The Guardian
* PlotHole: If The Phantom Of Krankor Could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
** The villain travels through space to the planet Earth, so that he can steal a formula for rocket fuel that will allow him to... travel through space. This is even [[HandWave hand-waved]] in the film itself, by a group of journalists who ask the head scientist why such an advanced race needs Earth technology. The scientist's explanation - their fuel technology lags behind ours - is wholly unconvincing.
** How did Wally zip ahead into the apartment to leave that note warning the kids to run?
* RubberForeheadAliens: In this case, it's aliens with rubber chicken noses.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". The moon is 240,000 miles away.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They found out humans had the good fuel and planned their design around the short-range raid.]]
* SecretIdentity: Wally the bootblack.
* ShoeShineMister: Prince of Space is a shoeshine boy.
* ShootingSuperman: At one point even the Prince laments the stupidity of the villains constantly shooting at him when their guns won't work on him.
** And Krankor always has one, and only one, backup plan for when the Prince declares (and demonstrates) his immunity to their guns. It's usually some version of, "Blast him!"
* SpaceClothes: For an advanced civilization that can make spaceships, not inventing underwear is a mysterious oversight.
** Well...[[OneGenderRace there don't seem to be any women around...]]
* {{Superhero}}: As superheroes go, at least he has powers and knows how to use them. Unlike a certain [[PumaMan Puma themed superhero.]]
* ThrowItIn: A bird lands on top of the laser gun of the Krankor ship, and stays on it ever as it starts twisting around. Doubles as a TheyJustDidntCare since the filmmakers didn't seem motivated enough to stop filming in order to remove it.
* {{Toku}}: The original films and the TV series that spawned them.
* UnfortunateNames: Krankor. It really sounds like "crank whore" or "crack whore" when one first hears this.
* UnusualEars: The giant man creature on the planet Krankor has ''enormous,'' Ferengi-like ears.
* VillainBall: The aliens. C'mon after being told '''''repeatedly''''' their weapons won't work. He still gets shot at.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Krankor threatens to dispose of the kidnapped scientists by putting them in individual space capsules and launching them into space. Instead of, you know, shooting them. Or [[ThrownOutTheAirlock throwing them into space without the capsules]].
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->'''Prince of Space''': "Enough of this! When will you ever learn? Your guns won't work on me!"
->'''Phantom of Krankor''': "Shoot him!''
A group of chicken beak-nosed space men from the planet Krankor who refuse to wear underwear underneath their suits are led by their leader, Phantom, to invade Earth. But a superhero named Prince of Space (actually a bootblack in disguise) arrives to defeat the spacemen. His superpowers include a magical laser-proof grill lighter, reasonable skipping ability, and the knack for saying some variant of, "Your weapons are useless against me!", which is apparently quite accurate, although he dodges their laser blasts anyway, just to be safe. Although the weapons of the aliens are indeed useless against the Prince of Space, the Phantom continues to fight, and many plot twists (including capturing a group of elderly scientists) ensue.
Prince of Space was edited from two movies, "Planet Prince" and "Planet Prince - The Terrifying Spaceship" which may explain why the plot is a bit wonky. The films were adapted by Toei from a live-action television series of the same name, though with many differences such as a new costume for the main character. The original TV series was a follow up to the extremely popular ''Moonlight Mask'' superhero series, though it also borrowed liberally from the ''Super Giant'' film serials of the time. The television series even had the main character wearing a costume identical to Super Giant. The Prince of Space character is somewhat iconic in his home country. The two films actually retell a story arc from the television series featuring the Phantom of Krankor.
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace episode recap page]].
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!! ''Prince of Space'' contains examples of:
* AlienInvasion: By the Phantom.
** Not quite, the Phantom comes to Earth to steal the plans to make the stuff he needs to invade the Earth properly.
* AliensAndMonsters: If by aliens you mean guys with chicken nose prosthetics and no undergarments and by monsters you mean weird lumpy guys with their zippers showing.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Guardian, which looks rather like a giant Ferengi made forty years early. Its ears are ''big.''
* BenevolentBoss
-->'''Phantom of Krankor:''' Give everyone four hours off!
* BigBad: Phantom of Krankor
* CatchPhrase: "Your weapons are useless against me!"
* ClarkKenting: Wally actually does wear a mask in his Prince of Space identity, but he's still woefully inept at keeping it cool and allaying suspicions. "Wait, how did Prince of Space get in here and-" "NEVERMIND THAT, GO!"
** The aliens themselves, on Earth, disguise themselves with big goggle glasses (to hide their alien eye-shadow) and mouth filters (to hide their chicken-noses).
* CompilationMovie: The US version of the film was cobbled together from two films covering the same material, leading to an even ''more'' incoherent plot.
* CoolShip: The prince and the Phantom.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The Phantom says this when he takes control of Earth's televisions.
* DubInducedPlotHole: In Japan, their weapons ''weren't'' useless against the Prince of Space, which is why he dodges so much.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: One guy in spandex with no super powers scares off the entire invasion force.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: Ssssort of. The alien death ray leaves behind hats, helmets, and guns, but not uniforms.
* EvilLaugh: Phantom of Krankor
* {{Expy}}: Prince of Space is a character created in the wake of the success of ''Super Giant''.
* FakeNationality: Obviously Japanese people with English names.
** And, in some cases, HollywoodNewEngland and/or BigApplesauce accents.
* GoodHairEvilHair: The Phantom has an obviously evil mustache while the Prince is extremely clean shaven.
* HeAlsoDid: Katsuhisa Hattori, who composed the music for the original TV series and films, would go on to produce the scores for a number of anime TV series and movies, including ''InfiniteRyvius'' and ''ArgentoSoma''.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Prince claims this numerous times, but he still constantly dodges and runs away from them anyway. See DubInducedPlotHole above; it's supposed to be that he's so good at dodging and/or deflecting energy rays that they're useless against him rather than pure immunity.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: After the Phantom reveals his automated defense system the Prince dodges the dozen plus guns by doing ''absolutely nothing''.
* LargeHam: Or in this case, chicken.
-->'''Phantom of Krankor''': "I've got you now, [[YouRebelScum ya SCUM!]]"
* LaughablyEvil: Phantom of Krankor.
* TheLoad: The scientists
* LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe: Only in the dubbed version, however.
* MacGuffin: The rocket fuel
* MadeOfExplodium: A ridiculous amount of things explode easily in this film.
* MagicPants: The disintegration rays of the Krankor aliens instantly cause humans to vanish, but but for some reason leaves their hats and guns intact. There's not even a token pile of dust!
* MaskPower: The Prince himself.
* ParrotExposition: Apparently being a ''brilliant scientist'' requires constantly asking your captors to repeat themselves ad nauseum. There's a reason the trope name used to be "Prince of Space, sir!"
* PlayingWithFire: The Guardian
* PlotHole: If The Phantom Of Krankor Could observe the Humans from space, and peek into anywhere in the world, why didn't he just observe the creation of the formula and take notes? Of course, this blatant lapse in logic vanishes upon the realization that Phantom is a total clod.
** The villain travels through space to the planet Earth, so that he can steal a formula for rocket fuel that will allow him to... travel through space. This is even [[HandWave hand-waved]] in the film itself, by a group of journalists who ask the head scientist why such an advanced race needs Earth technology. The scientist's explanation - their fuel technology lags behind ours - is wholly unconvincing.
** How did Wally zip ahead into the apartment to leave that note warning the kids to run?
* RubberForeheadAliens: In this case, it's aliens with rubber chicken noses.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Phantom claims that the planet Krankor is "half a million [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes Earth miles from Earth]]". The moon is 240,000 miles away.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Oddly enough, that would explain how they could have better spaceships but worse fuel. They found out humans had the good fuel and planned their design around the short-range raid.]]
* SecretIdentity: Wally the bootblack.
* ShoeShineMister: Prince of Space is a shoeshine boy.
* ShootingSuperman: At one point even the Prince laments the stupidity of the villains constantly shooting at him when their guns won't work on him.
** And Krankor always has one, and only one, backup plan for when the Prince declares (and demonstrates) his immunity to their guns. It's usually some version of, "Blast him!"
* SpaceClothes: For an advanced civilization that can make spaceships, not inventing underwear is a mysterious oversight.
** Well...[[OneGenderRace there don't seem to be any women around...]]
* {{Superhero}}: As superheroes go, at least he has powers and knows how to use them. Unlike a certain [[PumaMan Puma themed superhero.]]
* ThrowItIn: A bird lands on top of the laser gun of the Krankor ship, and stays on it ever as it starts twisting around. Doubles as a TheyJustDidntCare since the filmmakers didn't seem motivated enough to stop filming in order to remove it.
* {{Toku}}: The original films and the TV series that spawned them.
* UnfortunateNames: Krankor. It really sounds like "crank whore" or "crack whore" when one first hears this.
* UnusualEars: The giant man creature on the planet Krankor has ''enormous,'' Ferengi-like ears.
* VillainBall: The aliens. C'mon after being told '''''repeatedly''''' their weapons won't work. He still gets shot at.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Krankor threatens to dispose of the kidnapped scientists by putting them in individual space capsules and launching them into space. Instead of, you know, shooting them. Or [[ThrownOutTheAirlock throwing them into space without the capsules]].
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