History YMMV / MysteryMen

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: While it wasn't until ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} that the song truly became the cultural touchstone that it still remains today, "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth still getting its start here is something not forgotten by many and still appreciated in spite of this movie not garnering the same success at the time itself.

* CatharsisFactor: As terrifying as his death is, [[spoiler: [[ItsAllAboutMe Captain Amazing]] death via psycho-fraculation is as [[AssholeVictim well]] [[KarmicDeath deserved]] as it is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard self]] [[PoorCommunicationKills inflicted]]]]. You might even cheer for it given how he spends his last few moments insulting the Mystery Men.

** During the music video for Smash Mouth's ''All Star,'' the Mystery Men assault the band's limo after Steve cuts in on their hero work. With the song's ''enormous'' popularity in the late New 10's and this film's continued obscurity, it now looks like the heroes are mad at being overshadowed by ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''.

** During the music video for Smash Mouth's ''All Star,'' the Mystery Men assault the band's limo after Steve cuts in on their hero work. With the song's ''enormous'' popularity in the late New 10's and this film's continued obscurity, it now looks like the heroes are mad at being overshadowed by ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

** Tony P., leader of the Disco Boys, bears a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mysterymen/images/3/3d/Tony_Pompadour-1-.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130720024001strong resemblance]] to [[https://s3.amazonaws.com/app.growtix.com/media/big/20/38/64/5fbf57b3-4398-4982-bef2-c9ea15cc83bd.png Ricky]] from ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' with his blond pompadour and moustache/half-goatee facial hair. They both even have outdated lifestyles.

** Is the Sphinx a genuine EccentricMentor or a posturing phony (albeit a well-meaning one) whose proverbs [[IceCreamKoan sound profound]]?

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad The General]] is a corrupt military official operating in [[TheGreatDepression Depression-Era America]]. He is the leader of a group of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt industrialists]] called the Board, who control the economy and are drawing out the Depression for their own economic benefit. The General is allied with Nox--based on the Greek Goddess Nyx--who demands sacrifices in exchange for power. The General sacrifices a Broadway actress and tries to frame his son for the crime. The General is also a pedophile, wanting to sleep with an underage prostitute. The General slaughters an entire town to help Nox regain her power. To gain ultimate power, Nox and the General devise an a plan to kidnap several children and sacrifice them on the Summer solstice. When one of the Board members opposes this plan, the General kills him.

* CultClassic: There are Alamo Drafthouse screenings of it.

* CompleteMonster: In the otherwise-comedic film, the vicious [[BigBad Casanova Frankenstein]] is released from the asylum he's been in for twenty years. Showing he hasn't changed in the slightest, Casanova promptly blows the Asylum up and abducts his old nemesis Captain Amazing, who had him released in the first place out of boredom. Planning to create the greatest act of evil Champion City has ever seen, Casanova unveils the Psycho-Frakulator that will [[CruelAndUnusualDeath painfully warp reality and kill]] every citizen in the city. [[CardCarryingVillain Delighted by his own evil]], Casanova even [[BadBoss kills his own henchmen]] just to prove a point to the heroes when they try to stop him and abducts hero Mr. Furious's girlfriend with [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil obvious lewd intentions]] before attempting to annihilate the city with them.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie really has nothing to do with the great ''Flaming Carrot'' comics it takes its name from, but it's easily good enough on its own. Even WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, who read the comic, had no idea the film was based on it due [[InNameOnly having so little in common with the source material].

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie really has nothing to do with the great ''Flaming Carrot'' comics it takes its name from, but it's easily good enough on its own.

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