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* NotaryNonsense: The very cheesy opening narration states that a notary public leaves no doubt that this movie is based on true events:
-->'''Narrator:''' There is no doubt as to its authenticity. Testimony of people participating in the experiment, sworn to by a notary public, preclude the possibility of any fraud.
-->'''Narrator:''' There is no doubt as to its authenticity. Testimony of people participating in the experiment, sworn to by a notary public, preclude the possibility of any fraud.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The opening narration claims that the events of this movie are based on a real experiment. Naturally, there was no such true event involving a robot and an Aztec mummy.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: During Krupp's [[EvilGloating lengthy diatribe]] before he unveiled the Robot, he mentioned that he "tortured many animals, with pleasure" as part of his studies.
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* HorrifyingHero: Popoca, a living and violent mummy fighting against the MadScientist Dr. Krupp.
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With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this 1958 Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.
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With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this 1958 Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title titular tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification. [[note]] To be clear, Aztec mummies do exist, but are usually desiccated by natural processes rather than a deliberate enabling procedure. The mummy in this movie gets bindings and a sarcophagus that are much more in line with Egyptian practices [[/note]]
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification. [[note]] To be clear, Aztec mummies do exist, but are usually desiccated by natural processes rather than a deliberate enabling procedure. The mummy in this movie gets bindings and a sarcophagus that are much more in line with Egyptian practices practices.[[/note]]
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* CoolVersusAwesome: Welllllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about 2 years before the term was invented.
* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via said hypnosis by doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].
* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about 2 years before the term was invented.
* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via said hypnosis by doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].
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* CoolVersusAwesome: Welllllll...Wellllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about2 two years before the term was invented.
* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via saidhypnosis by hypnosis, doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].
* {{Cyborg}}: Probably what they meant by "human robot". To be fair, this movie came out about
* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via said
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* EvilGloating: Dr. Krupp cranks up the LargeHam and give a ludicrously-long monologue about his EvilPlan and what his cyborg is capable of. It goes on waaaaay to long which makes the AntiClimax even more glaring.
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* EvilGloating: Dr. Krupp cranks up the LargeHam and give a ludicrously-long monologue about his EvilPlan and what his cyborg is capable of. It goes on waaaaay to long too long, which makes the AntiClimax even more glaring.
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* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp (Big time. Like a Saturday Morning cartoon villain. He must be seen to be believed).
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dr. Krupp finally completes his humanoid robot- his lifelong work, the whole reason he wanted the Aztec treasure to start with. He has no reason to sic it on Popoca- who has already almost killed him once- except desire for revenge.
* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca & Xochi's backstory and the reason Popoca became a mummy. Xochi was a Vestal-virgin-like Priestess who committed the sin of being in a romantic relationship.
* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca & Xochi's backstory and the reason Popoca became a mummy. Xochi was a Vestal-virgin-like Priestess who committed the sin of being in a romantic relationship.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dr. Krupp finally completes his humanoid robot- robot -- his lifelong work, the whole reason he wanted the Aztec treasure to start with. He has no reason to sic it on Popoca- Popoca -- who has already almost killed him once- once -- except a desire for revenge.
* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca& and Xochi's backstory and the reason Popoca became a mummy. Xochi was a Vestal-virgin-like Priestess priestess who committed the sin of being in a romantic relationship.
* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca
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* TinCanRobot: The "Human Robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
* TwoFaced: As shown by the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman Bruno was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for having half of his face scarred.
* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find the Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.
* TwoFaced: As shown by the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman Bruno was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for having half of his face scarred.
* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find the Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.
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* TinCanRobot: The "Human Robot" "human robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
* TwoFaced: As shownby in the extensive flashback footage, Krupp's henchman Bruno was burned by Popoca and holds a grudge towards it for having scarring half of his face scarred.
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* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they findthe Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.
* TwoFaced: As shown
* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Flora seems to get hypnotized quite a bit in this movie.
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With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this 1958 Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.
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* DamselInDistress: Flora is pretty much this. She gets sacrificed in a past life as Xochi, gets kidnapped and hypnotized by Krupp in her present life and is made an unwilling servant of Krupp via said hypnosis by doing tasks for him while sleepwalking like a non-lethal [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Cesare]].
* EvilGloating: Dr. Krupp cranks up the LargeHam and give a ludicrously-long monologue about his EvilPlan and what his cyborg is capable of. It goes on waaaaay to long which makes the AntiClimax even more glaring.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Popoca & Xochi's backstory and the reason Popoca became a mummy. Xochi was a Vestal-virgin-like Priestess who committed the sin of being in a romantic relationship.
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* HypnotizeThePrincess: Flora seems to get hypnotized quite a bit in this movie.
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* {{Flashback}}: ''Almost the entire movie.'' The first half of the film consists of Dr. Almada narrating the events of the first two films in the series. The ''actual'' plot of this movie doesn't crop up until nearly the end.
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* {{Flashback}}: ''Almost the entire fricken' movie.'' The first half of the film consists of Dr. Almada narrating the events of the first two films in the series. The ''actual'' plot of this movie doesn't crop up until nearly the end.
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* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Popoca is completely harmless unless someone disturbs him. Guess what Dr. Krupp does.
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* HolyBurnsEvil: The Mummy doesn't like the sight of the cross, though he's not really evil.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Dr. Krupp finally completes his humanoid robot- his lifelong work, the whole reason he wanted the Aztec treasure to start with. He has no reason to sic it on Popoca- who has already almost killed him once- except desire for revenge.
* StockFootage: Dr. Almada's recap narration is peppered with stock footage from the previous two films. And some of the stuff from the ''first'' film had already been recycled for the ''second'' film.
* TheJuggernaut: Bullets have no effect on Popoca, and he makes short work of Krupp's super-strong robot. In previous films he survived a temple collapsing on him.
* StockFootage: Dr. Almada's recap narration is peppered with stock footage from the previous two films. And some of the stuff from the ''first'' film had already been recycled for the ''second'' film.
* TheJuggernaut: Bullets have no effect on Popoca, and he makes short work of Krupp's super-strong robot. In previous films he survived a temple collapsing on him.
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* UselessProtagonist: Dr. Almada and Pinacate get taken prisoner the instant they find the Dr. Krupp's lair. Popoca handles all the heavy lifting in the "beat the bad guy" department.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification. [[note]] To be clear, Aztec mummies do exist, but are usually desiccated by natural processes rather than a deliberate enabling procedure. The mummy in this movie gets bindings and a sarcophagus that are much more in line with Egyptian practices [[/note]]
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* AdvertisedExtra: The robot doesn't show up until the last ten minutes of the movie.
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* AntiClimax: The fight between the robot and the Aztec mummy only lasts about one and a half minutes.
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* AffablyEvil: Dr. Krupp is nice enough to give Dr. Almada a belated congratulations for his wedding.
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].
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* VersusTitle: The title.
* VersusTitle: The title.
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With a sub-barrel-bottomed budget, this Mexican horror outing features wicked old Dr. Krupp, a.k.a. "The Bat", the crazed experimenter who caused trouble in this film's two predecessors, ''The Aztec Mummy'' and ''Curse of the Aztec Mummy'' (both 1957), up to his old tricks. As in the former features, he is again trying to trick the Aztec mummy Popoca into leaving his crypt so the bad doctor can get at the treasure within. This time his scheme entails the invention of the title tin man (complete with incandescent light-bulb ears), a device he equips with a human brain. A horrific battle ensues when the two monsters collide.
For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].
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!!''Robot Monster'' provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification.
* CoolVersusAwesome: Welllllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Flora is hypnotized to remember her past life as the mummy's girlfriend, Xochi.
* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp.
* MadScientist: Doctor "The Bat" Krupp.
* MrExposition: Dr. Almada. About ''two thirds of the movie'' is a flashback that he narrates.
* {{Mummy}}: One notably based on Egyptian mummies, despite being ostensibly Aztec.
* TinCanRobot: The "Human Robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
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For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E02TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy episode recap page]].
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!!''Robot Monster'' provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Aztecs did not, in fact, practice mummification.
* CoolVersusAwesome: Welllllll... it's what they were ''going'' for, anyway.
* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Flora is hypnotized to remember her past life as the mummy's girlfriend, Xochi.
* LargeHam: Dr. Krupp.
* MadScientist: Doctor "The Bat" Krupp.
* MrExposition: Dr. Almada. About ''two thirds of the movie'' is a flashback that he narrates.
* {{Mummy}}: One notably based on Egyptian mummies, despite being ostensibly Aztec.
* TinCanRobot: The "Human Robot" is a man wearing a number of tin boxes and a bucket over his head.
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