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** Zarth Arn's superweapon is played up like an expy of the Death Star, but is actually pretty lame. It doesn't blow up planets, it projects psychic waves towards ships to make the crash... and it only works on ships that are passing directly by the planet it's on.
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** Zarth Arn, the villain, is much more like Darht Vader, only he's the actual BigBad, not just TheDragon.
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* SpacePolice: L and Thor were members of this before being assigned to help Stella and Akton, though Thor was apparently a DirtyCop.
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* WorthyOpponent: Before the movie began, L was a member of the SpacePolice assigned to tracking down the smugglers Stella and Akton. Stella admits later on that while she found L's determination infuriating at the time it's also his best trait.
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* CurbstompBattle: The climax of the movie, but not in the way you'd think. The Imperial forces get their asses thoroughly kicked. How thoroughly? The extended ship-launching sequence that precedes the battle actually lasts several times longer than the battle itself.
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* FaceHeelTurn / TheMole: It's unclear which of these [[spoiler: Thor]] is, as they don't clarify whether he'd always been a traitor or if he had just recently gone over to working for Zarth Arn
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* RammingAlwaysWorks: The titular "Starcrash" involves piloting a mobile city into an enemy ship.
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* Expy: Par for the course for a ''Film/StarWars'' ripoff, but actually [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] a lot.
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* GreyAndBlackMorality: The Emperor's regime sees nothing wrong with sentencing people to a lifetime of slave labour in radioactive conditions with no protective clothing... and not even hardened super-criminals, but simple smugglers like Stella. Still, the film portrays them as the good guys because Zarth Arn is pretty-much pretty much literally a pantomime villain.
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* ActionGirl: Stella Star
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Star. She's the best pilot in the galaxy, a smuggler, a good shot with a ray gun, and ends up being the hero of the film.
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* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: The robot
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Many of the posters make L look like a looming DarthVaderClone.DarthVaderClone, when he's actually one of the heroes.
* DeathIsCheap:
** L the robot dies ''twice''. The first time he's shot in the chest by space amazons, but turns out to be NotQuiteDead. The second time he's literally smashed into pieces by cavemen before bursting into a shower of sparks and smoke and yet there's somehow enough of him left for the Emperor to rebuild him.
** [[spoiler: Akton, maybe. He doesn't come back, but he does promise that he'll live forever, even if this body dies.]]
** L the robot dies ''twice''. The first time he's shot in the chest by space amazons, but turns out to be NotQuiteDead. The second time he's literally smashed into pieces by cavemen before bursting into a shower of sparks and smoke and yet there's somehow enough of him left for the Emperor to rebuild him.
** [[spoiler: Akton, maybe. He doesn't come back, but he does promise that he'll live forever, even if this body dies.]]
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* EvilOverlord: Zarth ArnArn the evil Count. He's said to rule half of the galaxy and be the Emperor's sole rival.
* Expy: Par for the course for a ''Film/StarWars'' ripoff, but actually [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] a lot.
** As explained in CoversAlwaysLie, L the robot ''looks'' a lot like a low-rent Darth Vader but his personality is basically the complete opposite. He's basically a somewhat less obnoxious [=C3PO=].
** Stella Star is an ace pilot, former smuggler, and crack shot, sort of like a sexy female Han Solo.
** Akton has mystical powers and a lightsaber and plays an Obi-Wan role.
** The Emperor, of course, but unlike Emperor Palpatine, this one is one of the heroes of the film.
** Simon is the Emperor's son and also one of the heroes, and briefly uses Akton's lightsaber, making him close to Luke Skywalker.
* Expy: Par for the course for a ''Film/StarWars'' ripoff, but actually [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] a lot.
** As explained in CoversAlwaysLie, L the robot ''looks'' a lot like a low-rent Darth Vader but his personality is basically the complete opposite. He's basically a somewhat less obnoxious [=C3PO=].
** Stella Star is an ace pilot, former smuggler, and crack shot, sort of like a sexy female Han Solo.
** Akton has mystical powers and a lightsaber and plays an Obi-Wan role.
** The Emperor, of course, but unlike Emperor Palpatine, this one is one of the heroes of the film.
** Simon is the Emperor's son and also one of the heroes, and briefly uses Akton's lightsaber, making him close to Luke Skywalker.
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** ''Star Wars'' ripoffs were all the rage at the end of the 1970s -- this is the best-known European example.
** ''Star Wars'' ripoffs were all the rage at the end of the 1970s -- this is the best-known European example.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Akton's supernatural abilities and lightsaber, and the Emperor's flagship's time-stop power come out of absolutely nowhere.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Akton's supernatural abilities Tons. Akton is presented as merely being Stella's friend and lightsaber, navigator until his battle with Thor, when his eyes flash and the he suddenly gains super strength and an immunity to lasers. Later he gets a lightsaber out of nowhere, and then reveals himself to be an immortal energy being. Seriously. The Emperor's flagship's time-stop power come out of absolutely nowhere.
flagship having the ability to selectively stop time is another big one.
* ObiWanMoment: Fittingly for aStarWars ''Film/StarWars'' rip-off, Akton gets one.
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''Starcrash'' (original title ''Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione''[[labelnote:translation]]literally "stellar clashes beyond the third dimension"[[/labelnote]]) is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
In 2017 it was included in the revival of''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Tropes related to the ''[=MST3K=]'' episode are found [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E06Starcrash here]].
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* MadeOfExplodium: ''People'', when they're hit with laser beams. (Except for [[spoiler:Akton, who just turns into sine waves]].)
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* MadeOfExplodium: ''People'', when they're hit with laser beams. (Except for [[spoiler:Akton, who just turns into sine waves]].)) Also, nuclear reactors, which blow up spectacularly after being shot once, which makes one wonder why guards are allowed to bring guns into that room in the first place.
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* VacationDearBoy: Creator/ChristopherPlummer's reason for taking the role.
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* RealityEnsues: What did they THINK was going to happen when they sent eight [[SpaceMarine space marines]] to fight an entire fortress full of enemy soldiers?
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* BoardingPod: Towards the end of the film the heroes send troops into the BigBad's fortress using golden torpedoes which are fired through the windows.
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''Starcrash'' (original title ''Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione''[[labelnote:translation]]literally "stellar clashes beyond the third dimension"[[/labelnote]]) is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
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* CowardlyLion: L is always saying how various things make him "nervous." It doesn't stop him from being a BadAss
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In the late '70s, Italian director Luigi Cozzi attempted to capitalize of the success of ''Franchise/StarWars'' by [[FollowTheLeader creating a space movie]] with B-movie faves Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner, plus Creator/ChristopherPlummer and even David Hasselhoff. The result? ''STARCRASH!''
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* ObviouslyEvil: Zarth Arn has a BeardOfEvil, an OminousOperaCape, dresses his {{Mooks}} in [[PaintItBlack black versions of the Emperor's troop uniforms]] and cannot go five minutes without [[EvilIsHammy monologuing dramatically]] or at least giving an EvilLaugh. Also he straight-up calls his weapon "The Doom Machine".
* ObviouslyEvil: Zarth Arn has a BeardOfEvil, an OminousOperaCape, dresses his {{Mooks}} in [[PaintItBlack black versions of the Emperor's troop uniforms]] and cannot go five minutes without [[EvilIsHammy monologuing dramatically]] or at least giving an EvilLaugh. Also he straight-up calls his weapon "The Doom Machine".
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''Starcrash'' is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
Note: Irony-chan has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes''.
Note: Irony-chan has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes''.
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''Starcrash'' is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
Note: Irony-chan has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes''.
peril.
Note: Irony-chan has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes''.
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* ShoutOut: The Imperial warship at the beginning in named ''Murray Leinster''. Two of her officers are named Clarke and Bradbury.
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* ShoutOut: The Imperial warship at the beginning in is named ''Murray Leinster''. ''Creator/MurrayLeinster''. Two of her officers are named Clarke [[Creator/ArthurCClarke Clarke]] and Bradbury.[[Creatore/RayBradbury Bradbury]].
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Note: Irony-chan of ''GetMedieval'' fame has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''DumnestorsHeroes''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"By sunset I'll be the new emperor. And I'll be the master of the whole universe!" -- Count Zarth Arn posing in his fist-shaped space fortress]]
->''We'll scan it with our computer waves.''
->''The only solution is to leave space and re-enter on the other side.''
The evil Count Zarth Arn is threatening to take over the galaxy with the most powerful weapon in the galaxy. The Emperor's son has gone missing after this weapon destroyed his spaceship, and smugglers Akton and Stella Star must find him and destroy the weapon.
In the late '70s, Italian director Luigi Cozzi attempted to capitalize of the success of ''Franchise/StarWars'' by [[FollowTheLeader creating a space movie]] with B-movie faves Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner, plus Christopher Plummer and even David Hasselhoff. The result? STARCRASH!
''Starcrash'' is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
Note: Irony-chan of ''GetMedieval'' fame has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''DumnestorsHeroes''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Stella Star
* AmericanAccents: The robot (!) L speaks with a Texan accent.
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Thor]]
* BondVillainStupidity: Zarth Arn corners the heroes with an army of armed robot guards... and proceeds to leave them on a planet set to explode.
* CaptainObvious: The smugglers come across a drifting, derelict spacecraft. They can see it out the window, big and glaring, for several seconds. Then, Stella Star gets a look of utter surprise on her face, and squeals, "IT'S A SPACE SHIP!!"
* ColonyDrop: The titular Starcrash.
* ContemplateOurNavels: The Emperor of the Galaxy tries to do this at the end of the movie, but the script isn't really written well enough for him to succeed.
* CowardlyLion: L is always saying how various things make him "nervous." It doesn't stop him from being a BadAss
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Stella's name means "Star Star".
** RealityIsUnrealistic: There have been actual people named Stella Starr, and at least one Stella Star.
* DeusExMachina: Stuck on a planet only 48 seconds before it explodes? [[spoiler: Good thing your battleship can stop time long enough for you to get off the planet]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are ''giant, golden torpedoes'' that fly through space and have soldiers in them that shoot lasers.
* TheEmperor: Christopher Plummer as the Emperor of the Galaxy [[spoiler:And he's a good guy, to boot.]]
* ExpandedUniverse: Yes, there really is one, thanks to a anthology called, of course, ''Curved Space''.
* EvilOverlord: Zarth Arn
* FaceHeelTurn / TheMole: It's unclear which of these [[spoiler: Thor]] is, as they don't clarify whether he'd always been a traitor or if he had just recently gone over to working for Zarth Arn
* FollowTheLeader: ''Star Wars'' ripoffs were all the rage at the end of the 1970s -- this is the best-known European example.
** 'Zarth Arn' is also the name of the younger son of the Galactic Emperor in Edmond Hamilton's 'The Star Kings'. This is probably coincidence, though that book did include a star system destroying weapon (implied to be galaxy or universe destroying if handled incorrectly).
* GreenLanternRing: The sine waves that Akton can make hover over his hand seem to be able to do anything from allowing him to see into the future to acting as an emergency microwave oven.
* LargeHam: Zarth Arn
* YouFailLogicForever: "You knew [[spoiler:Thor]] would betray us? Then you can see into the future!"
* MadeOfExplodium: ''People'', when they're hit with laser beams. (Except for [[spoiler:Akton, who just turns into sine waves]].)
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Akton spends the trip through hyperspace enumerating the probabilities of all the different ways he and Stella could be killed. No {{Determinator}} here, but neither of them seem to find it particularly interesting.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Zarth Arn's means of taking over the galaxy is a weapon so large it had to be hidden inside a planet. The weapon only seems to be able to attack things right next to the planet, which has no means of propulsion. Zarth Arn has nothing to do but walk around his spaceship talking about how he will rule the galaxy by sunrise.
* ShoutOut: The Imperial warship at the beginning in named ''Murray Leinster''. Two of her officers are named Clarke and Bradbury.
* SpaceFriction: Leaves a trail.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: At one point, Stella ''swims'' between two spaceships.
* SpaceIsNoisy: All spaceships move through space making all kinds of whooshing, whirring and/or beeping sounds.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Stella. Apparently, skimpy clothing is perfectly suitable for ''manually moving around radioactive material''. At least she puts on some clothes for the ice planet. To a lesser extent, [[AmazonBrigade the entire population of the planet of Amazons]], ''including their HumongousMecha''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"By sunset I'll be the new emperor. And I'll be the master of the whole universe!" -- Count Zarth Arn posing in his fist-shaped space fortress]]
->''We'll scan it with our computer waves.''
->''The only solution is to leave space and re-enter on the other side.''
The evil Count Zarth Arn is threatening to take over the galaxy with the most powerful weapon in the galaxy. The Emperor's son has gone missing after this weapon destroyed his spaceship, and smugglers Akton and Stella Star must find him and destroy the weapon.
In the late '70s, Italian director Luigi Cozzi attempted to capitalize of the success of ''Franchise/StarWars'' by [[FollowTheLeader creating a space movie]] with B-movie faves Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner, plus Christopher Plummer and even David Hasselhoff. The result? STARCRASH!
''Starcrash'' is a [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] movie, made better by the hilariously artificial-sounding translation. Many believe it to be even worse than that. It's a really, really, really badly done movie, so watch at your own peril.
Note: Irony-chan of ''GetMedieval'' fame has put a ([[SoBadItsGood somewhat]]) more flattering review [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14305&mpe=0#strip2 here]] in ''DumnestorsHeroes''.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Stella Star
* AmericanAccents: The robot (!) L speaks with a Texan accent.
* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Thor]]
* BondVillainStupidity: Zarth Arn corners the heroes with an army of armed robot guards... and proceeds to leave them on a planet set to explode.
* CaptainObvious: The smugglers come across a drifting, derelict spacecraft. They can see it out the window, big and glaring, for several seconds. Then, Stella Star gets a look of utter surprise on her face, and squeals, "IT'S A SPACE SHIP!!"
* ColonyDrop: The titular Starcrash.
* ContemplateOurNavels: The Emperor of the Galaxy tries to do this at the end of the movie, but the script isn't really written well enough for him to succeed.
* CowardlyLion: L is always saying how various things make him "nervous." It doesn't stop him from being a BadAss
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Stella's name means "Star Star".
** RealityIsUnrealistic: There have been actual people named Stella Starr, and at least one Stella Star.
* DeusExMachina: Stuck on a planet only 48 seconds before it explodes? [[spoiler: Good thing your battleship can stop time long enough for you to get off the planet]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are ''giant, golden torpedoes'' that fly through space and have soldiers in them that shoot lasers.
* TheEmperor: Christopher Plummer as the Emperor of the Galaxy [[spoiler:And he's a good guy, to boot.]]
* ExpandedUniverse: Yes, there really is one, thanks to a anthology called, of course, ''Curved Space''.
* EvilOverlord: Zarth Arn
* FaceHeelTurn / TheMole: It's unclear which of these [[spoiler: Thor]] is, as they don't clarify whether he'd always been a traitor or if he had just recently gone over to working for Zarth Arn
* FollowTheLeader: ''Star Wars'' ripoffs were all the rage at the end of the 1970s -- this is the best-known European example.
** 'Zarth Arn' is also the name of the younger son of the Galactic Emperor in Edmond Hamilton's 'The Star Kings'. This is probably coincidence, though that book did include a star system destroying weapon (implied to be galaxy or universe destroying if handled incorrectly).
* GreenLanternRing: The sine waves that Akton can make hover over his hand seem to be able to do anything from allowing him to see into the future to acting as an emergency microwave oven.
* LargeHam: Zarth Arn
* YouFailLogicForever: "You knew [[spoiler:Thor]] would betray us? Then you can see into the future!"
* MadeOfExplodium: ''People'', when they're hit with laser beams. (Except for [[spoiler:Akton, who just turns into sine waves]].)
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Akton spends the trip through hyperspace enumerating the probabilities of all the different ways he and Stella could be killed. No {{Determinator}} here, but neither of them seem to find it particularly interesting.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Zarth Arn's means of taking over the galaxy is a weapon so large it had to be hidden inside a planet. The weapon only seems to be able to attack things right next to the planet, which has no means of propulsion. Zarth Arn has nothing to do but walk around his spaceship talking about how he will rule the galaxy by sunrise.
* ShoutOut: The Imperial warship at the beginning in named ''Murray Leinster''. Two of her officers are named Clarke and Bradbury.
* SpaceFriction: Leaves a trail.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: At one point, Stella ''swims'' between two spaceships.
* SpaceIsNoisy: All spaceships move through space making all kinds of whooshing, whirring and/or beeping sounds.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Stella. Apparently, skimpy clothing is perfectly suitable for ''manually moving around radioactive material''. At least she puts on some clothes for the ice planet. To a lesser extent, [[AmazonBrigade the entire population of the planet of Amazons]], ''including their HumongousMecha''.
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