History Film / TheFinalSacrifice

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where the heck did Pipper's horse go after Rowsdower rode it to the area near the idol? He dismounts the thing and that's the last we see of it.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Of all the pick-up trucks in all of Canada, Troy stows away in the one that just so happens to belong to a man who has ties to the cult that killed his father and is now after him.

* CrucifiedHeroShot: Attempted with Rowsdower when he has a nightmare about when he was first inducted into the cult. The cult members tie him to a cruciform to brand him, and this for some reason causes [[FauxSymbolism his wrist to bleed]].
** The rope probably cut his wrist while he was struggling. It leads to a funny riff, though.
-->'''Crow:''' "I GOT KETCHUP ON MY HAND! *sobby noises*..."
* {{Cult}}[=/=]ReligionOfEvil: The goal of this particular religion is to raise an army of zombies to TakeOverTheWorld.
* DisappearedDad: Killed by the cult in the beginning of the film.

* FiveManBand: Only three protagonists, but they fill the roles surprisingly well.
** TheHero: Rowsdower/Troy.
** TheLancer: Rowsdower/Troy.
** TheBigGuy: Rowsdower.
** TheSmartGuy: Pipper/Troy.
** TheChick: Troy.
** SixthRanger: Pipper.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Rowsdower's tattoo

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy

* HumanSacrifice: Well, it's part of the title.
** Ironically, it turned out that ''Satoris'' was the titular ''Final Sacrifice''.
* TheDrifter: Zap, Canada's [[strike: worst]] [[strike: greatest]] worst action hero.
* TheHero: It's debatable who's the hero here. The insufferable, useless wimp or the doughy, unlikeable asshole, hmm...
** Rowsdower does way more heroic stuff than Troy; it's even debatable as to whether Troy was responsible for setting right what went wrong.
*** Well, Troy did kill Satoris by shooting him in the back ('...''in the BUTT!''...') with the rifle.

* InherentlyFunnyWords: '''Rowsdower!'''
** A close second is "Mike Pipper".
* LargeHam: Satoris loves to munch on the scenery and talk like [[strike:Garth]] Darth Vader.
* TheLostWoods: Expect to see a ''lot'' of forest. The movie probably couldn't afford anything else...

* MalevolentMaskedMen[=/=]{{Mooks}}: The black clad wrestlers.
* MyGreatestFailure: Rowsdower's unsuccessful attempt to save Troy's father—[[VillainsDyinggrace Satoris left him alive afterward just so his failure would continue to torment him.]]
* {{Nerd}}: Troy may just be the best example. ''Constantly'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] during the MST3K episode.

* OlderSidekick: Rowsdower has the indignity of being the sidekick to a 97 pound weakling.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Troy's pretty much ordinary other than the wrestlers coming after him.
** An ordinary high school student should have more muscle mass than that.
*** Not if he is in Chess Club.
*** Or "Mock U.N." or English Club or....
* {{Precursors}}: Ziox.

** Technically though, they're actually driving away from the sunset (or sunrise) in [[TheAllegedCar the]] [[ThemeMobile "Rowsdowermobile"]], which inexplicably managed to work again (despite 'dying' early on)
* The SmurfettePrinciple: There is literally only one female character in the entire film. Troy's elderly Aunt Betty, who has about only a minute of screentime. Sure, there's the female voices of a radio announcer & phone operator along with a photo on Rowsdower's dashboard but they wouldn't qualify as characters.

* TellMeAboutMyFather

* TooDumbToLive: During the car chase, cultists [[PlotArmor fail to shoot at Rowsdower]] while he's setting up Molotov cocktails. Furthermore, when they're sent off road down a very gentle grade, they fail to attempt to brake or steer.
** The shot before seems to imply that the cultist was reloading. Though that does mean he took over 90 seconds to reload his M16...

* UnexplainedRecovery: Rowsdower is run down and struck on foot by a truck driven by the cultists chasing him. He lies motionless, then the next shot shows Rowsdower up and running with no ill effect. Or pursuers for that matter.

* UnfortunateNames: Rowsdower and also the movie's director, Tjardus Greidanus.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where the heck did Pipper's horse go after Rowsdower rode it to the area near the idol? He dismounts the thing and that's the less we see of it.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Aunt Betty inexplicably has a British accent.
** Many Canadians actually do; a number of British people have emigrated to Canada over the years.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Satoris, after initially subduing Rowsdower and keeping him at bay by having every one of his goons pointing rifles at him... asks two of his minions to leave and kill him, thus providing Rowsdower with plenty of opportunity to escape. As opposed to just shooting him *right there* when he was helpless.
** Particularly heinous in that Satoris tells the minions "Take him out to the woods and kill him." Telling them this as they're holding him right there in the middle of the woods, and no reason whatsoever that the spot they were at was any worse to execute someone than another patch of woods 100 yards west.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Troy, although he ranks as the wussiest one ever.
* TheAlcoholic: Rowsdower. His empty beer bottles and flask do come in handy.

* {{Atlantis}}: It turns out the city was sunk because the Ziox worshiped a cheap mock up idol.

* AwesomeMcCoolname[=/=]FailOSuckyname: In this case, Zap Rowsdower is a name so stupid that, thanks to the riffs, it became ''awesome.''
** In the credits, the name "Kelly Zombor" is listed. The bots made sure to emphasize '''ZOMBOR'''... ''kelly'' '''ZOMBOR'''.
*** HilariousInHindsight: Kelly Zombor (actually a ''male'' boom operator!) went on to work for a lot of big Hollywood movies after "The Final Sacrifice." Not particularly ''good'' ones in some cases, but he sure has made a living!
* BadAss: We're clearly supposed to buy Rowsdower as one, but... not really seeing it. Maybe if he did anything impressive or cool, like, ever, yeah, but as it is...
** He does fight his way through the entirety of Satoris's army throughout the film though. Granted even the ultimate dweeb that is Troy managed to knock one out at the beginning, but fighting ones way through an army of mad (and heavily armed) cultists despite being nothing but a chunky, be-mulleted drunk is no mean feat.
* BadassLongcoat: Satoris has one. The badass part is debatable.

* CanadaEh: Smothered in back bacon and moose droppings.

-->''"'I'm Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower.'"''

-->''"You know what? You lose me straight away when your movie's protagonist is named 'Zap Rowsdower'. The second I hear him identified as 'Zap Rowsdower' I am squeezing past you and climbing over your legs and muttering "excuse me" and I am getting the hell out of the movie. Only this time I couldn't because I was at work and I'm hourly and I had used up all my vacation and sick time. How about Plink Holmgren? Or Pow Flowhauer?"''
-->-- '''Mary Jo Pehl'''

* EightiesHair: Zap Rowsdower's mullet. Satoris had one at the start of the film as well, before trading it in for a slick feather job.

* ZombieApocalypse: Satoris wants to conjure up this and....[[PinkyAndTheBrain ''TAKE OVER THE WOOOOORLD!'']] (Don't they all?)

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where the heck did Pipper's horse go after Rowsdower rode it to the area near the idol? He dismounts the thing and that's the less we see of it.

* YouKilledMyFather: Troy is led to believe that Rowsdower killed his father and loses faith in him. Eventually it's revealed that Rowsdower actually tried to prevent the death. Of course, since Satoris would have given the order, he's still the figure that gets the lion's share of the blame anyway.

* NamesTheSame[=/=]HilariousInHindsight: Rowsdower left or was kicked out of the cult due to being a [[HarryPotter "Half-Blood".]]

* FanNickname: Garth Vader, for Satoris.

* OldShame: Averted, at least for Bruce Mitchell a.k.a. Rowsdower. To this day he's a great sport about acting in this flick—even though neither he nor the rest of the cast received any compensation for the job—and doesn't consider any of his previous work a total waste (although we have a suspicion that Mitchell isn't returning Tjardus Greidanus's calls anymore).
** In an interview on the DVD release, Mitchell admits to never having seen the entire [=MST3K=] version of this film. Would one of our fellow [=MSTies=] to the north please do something ''aboot'' that?

* ATeamFiring: Throughout the film, most notably during a long car chase in which the villains spray the truck with bullets and yet fail to hit either of the truck's occupants. In another example, Rowsdower fires a shotgun at two cultists at near point-blank range and ''misses''.

*** HilariousInHindsight: Kelly Zombor (actually a ''male'' boom operator!) went on to work for a lot of big Hollywood movies after 'The Final Sacrifice'. Not particularly ''good'' ones in some cases, but he sure has made a living!

** Well he did survive being run over, was able to kill quite a few Mooks on his own, and managed to go toe-to-toe with the "superhuman" (im guessing) Garth Vader for a while. Granted the latter two are not exactly qualifiers but he may still count....maybe.