History YMMV / TerrorFromTheYear5000

* NightmareRetardant: The Terror's deformed face is ostensibly meant to, well, ''terrifying'', but mostly just looks comical and silly, complete with buck teeth (something already hard to make intimidating) that jut out from her underbite.

* EvilIsSexy: Salome Jens manages to make the Terror more alluring than terrifying. Even when her true face is revealed, her figure remains appealing.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Emphasis on the tumor.
* TheScrappy: Victor, one of the more whiny, oily characters seen in ''[=MST3K=]''. The riffers spend a good chunk of his scenes insulting him.

** Claire? [[YourCheatingHeart She jumps on Bob the minute he arrives]] [[{{Hypocrite}} but still gets angry when the Terror tries to seduce Victor]].

* DesignatedHero: Who is the hero of this movie? Not Bob, his major contribution to the movie was uncovering Victor's secret experiments and his JerkAss Nature, but that's because everyone else is [[SelectiveObliviousness Captain Oblivious.]] After that, he does nothing important. Victor? Hell no! Guy is a douchebag since scene one, always whining about something, acting like he owns the place, and doing the experiments, regardless of the risks. And in the last part of the movie, he suddenly becomes important... and makes a HeroicSacrifice.

* EvilIsSexy: Salome Jens manages to make the Terror more alluring than terrifying.

* TheScrappy: Victor, one of the more whiny, oily characters seen in ''[=MST3K=]''. The riffers spend a good chuck of his scenes insulting him.

** Claire? [[YourCheatingHeart She jumps on Bob the minute he arrives.]]

** Claire?

* RetroactiveRecognition: The Terror is Salome Jens, [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the female Changeling]], [[Series/MaryHartmanMaryHartman Mae Olinski]] and [[Series/{{Superboy}} Ma Kent]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: The Terror is Salome Jens, [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the female Changeling]].

* DesignatedHero: Who is the hero of this movie? Not Bob, his major contribution to the movie was uncovering Victor's secret experiments and his JerkAss Nature, but that's because everyone else is [[SelectiveObliviousness Captain Oblivious.]] After that, he does nothing important. Victor? Hell no! Guy is a douchebag since scene one, always whining about something, acting like he owns the place, and doing the experiments, regardless of the risks. And in the last part of the movie, he suddenly becomes important...and makes a HeroicSacrifice.

* DesignatedHero: Who is the hero of this movie? Not Bob, his major contribution to the movie was uncovering Victor's secret experiments and his JerkAss Nature, but that's because everyone else is CaptainObvious. After that, he does nothing important. Victor? Hell no! Guy is a douchebag since scene one, always whining about something, acting like he owns the place, and doing the experiments, regardless of the risks. And in the last part of the movie, he suddenly becomes important...and makes a HeroicSacrifice.

* InformedDeformity: Due to SpecialEffectsFailure, with her fake scarring, misaligned eyebrows and twisted teeth, the mutant woman from the year 5000 comes across as merely unattractive, even ugly, but still clearly human, and not the hideous, monstrous mutation the movie makes her out to be. This makes the nurse's overreaction seem odd.

* InformedDeformity: Due to SpecialEffectsFailure, with her fake warts and twisted teeth, the mutant woman from the year 5000 comes across as merely unattractive, even ugly, but still clearly human, and not the hideous, monstrous mutation the movie makes her out to be. This makes the nurse's overreaction seem odd.

* InformedDeformity: Due to SpecialEffectsFailure with fake warts and twisted teeth, the mutant woman from the year 5000 comes across as merely unattractive, even ugly, but still clearly human, and not the hideous, monstrous mutation the movie makes her out to be. This makes the nurse's overreaction seem odd.

* HollywoodHomely: Due to SpecialEffectsFailure with fake warts and twisted teeth, the mutant woman from the year 5000 comes across as merely unattractive, and not the hideous, inhuman mutation the movie makes her out to be. This makes the nurse's overreaction seem odd.

* DesignatedHero: Who is the hero of this movie? Not Bob, his major contribution to the movie was uncovering Victor's secret experiments and his JerkAss Nature, but that's because everyone else is CaptainObvious. After that, he does nothing important. Victor? Hell no! Guy is a douchebag since scene one, always whining about something, acting like he owns the place, and doing the experiments, regardless of the risks. And in the last part of the movie, he suddenly becomes important...and makes a HeroicSacrifice.