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1	* AccidentalInnuendo: The co-pilot asks the stewardess if she would like to "ball it up" in UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}. Even in TheFifties, "balling" meant something other than going to a dance ball.
2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While most view Eros' behavior as that of a ridiculous {{manchild}}, there are a few who interpret it as him [[SanitySlippage losing his mind]] from having to deal with the colossally idiotic human characters. It's worth noting that his infamous "your stupid minds" moment was in response to one of them questioning why a device that would wipe out the entire universe was a ''bad'' thing, because it would make them "even a stronger nation than now", a sentence that TooDumbToLive doesn't even ''begin'' to describe.
3	* CommonKnowledge:
4	** The flying saucers are actual toy flying saucers, rather than the pie tins and paper plates that they are often mocked as.
5	** Plan 9 is the ninth attempt at stopping Earth from developing the Solaranite. At best it's the third: Attempt #1- Direct communication, that doesn't work because of [[ArtisticLicenseSpace "Atmospheric conditions in outer space"]]. Attempt #2- [[TheGreatOffScreenWar The destruction of a small town]]. Attempt #3- Plan 9. It's called "Plan 9" because the aliens have several different plans on hand.
6	* CompleteMonster: In the 2015 remake ''Plan 9'', [[BigBad Eros]] is portrayed as a [[AliensAreBastards genocidal alien invader]] with [[AdaptationalVillainy none of the original version's pretense of good intentions]]. A [[FantasticRacism horrendous bigot]] who takes one human's attempt to utilize Solaranite as a challenge to his species' superiority, Eros sets out to [[KillAllHumans destroy the human race]], starting in the small town of Nilbog. Using his mothership to raise the dead, Eros has his zombie drones murder every person they come across, intending to blanket the world with rays that will bring the countless dead under his control, until the entirety of Earthling civilization is extinguished. Personally murdering Chief Simpson, as well as several soldiers sent to end the invasion, Eros manages to capture the heroine Lucy, taking sadistic pleasure in revealing her own role in the deaths of her fellow citizens, before attempting to take her back to his home planet, where he plans to torture her for the secrets of Solaranite. A calculating, brutal mass-murderer who doesn't even bat an eye at the deaths of his own people, Eros is driven by nothing more than a malignant loathing for the human race.
7	* CultClassic: Thanks to its SoBadItsGood nature.
8	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
9	** The Ruler, thanks to Bunny Brickenridge’s “I’m so done with this shit” performance. He somehow manages to look like the most apathetic and competent person onscreen.
10	** Old Man/Ghoul Man both for being a hilarious FakeShemp, but also because in the scant few moments where Creator/BelaLugosi is actually onscreen, he gives a legitimately good performance, making the most of his final film.
11	** Inspector Clay and Vampire Girl are well remembered for their sluggish movements and blank stares. The former also has Creator/TorJohnson’s unintelligible accent going for him. The latter gets points for Vampira being the only cast member who was wise enough to reject the lines.
12	** Criswell is also one of the more entertaining parts due to his [[LargeHam hamtastic]] performance and dialogue.
13	** Lt. Harper gets constant laughs for his RecklessGunUsage and being a contender for the film’s biggest CaptainObvious.
14	* FightSceneFailure: The fight between Eros and Jeff in the finale mostly consists of the two just shoving each other around and throwing laughably unconvincing punches, while random explosions happen around them. On top of that, the start of the fight ends up being flubbed, creating the impression that Jeff for some reason decided he wanted to beat Eros up instead of the fight starting as the result of Eros trying to break free.
15	* HamAndCheese: Dudley Manlove as Eros. Criswell counts too.
16	* HarsherInHindsight:
17	** In real life, Criswell had a speech impediment, and couldn't pronounce certain words. He had to write all of the narration himself, because only he knew what he could enunciate properly. This is why he delivers his dialogue so oddly.
18	** The RealitySubtext of Bela Lugosi's death makes some of the opening narration less funny. The part about how death is a shock even when we know it is coming, is very likely a reflection of Creator/EdWood's reaction to losing his friend. It is particularly poignant in the clip of the Old Man smelling the flowers outside his house, and leaving "never to return again."
19	** Ed Wood's cameo as a drunken bum, which is pretty much what he would become in his later years.
20	** The multiple scenes of the "professional" pilots not even looking ahead while driving goes from hilarious to awkward when it cuts to [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror a plane flying right over the Pentagon]].
21	* HilariousInHindsight:
22	** The aliens do the [[Film/BlackPanther2018 Wakanda salute]].
23	** The plot revolves around hyper-advanced aliens trying to destroy humanity for fear they'll develop an energy source that'll destroy the universe. One wonders why the heroes never thought to use [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann drills]] against them.
24	* InferredHolocaust: Humans learn ''nothing'' from this ordeal, and it is implied that they will do exactly what the aliens feared, hence Criswell's warning at the end. Plan 9 is to stop humanity building a "solaranite bomb" and destroying the universe. Yet Plan 9 fails. What does this mean for the universe? Given that it is the Plan 9 Universe, total destruction may be merciful.
25	* LoveToHate: Eros is our main villain, and proves quite entertaining, thanks to being dumb even by this movie's standards and Dudley Manlove ChewingTheScenery in contrast with the other actors' DullSurprise. In another film, his SmugSnake attitude may have been annoying, but here, it only adds to our enjoyment as we see him utterly failing in his mission.
26	* MagnificentBastard: [[GreaterScopeVillain The Ruler]] is the dignified and enigmatic leader of the aliens, [[WellIntentionedExtremist who wishes to prevent mankind from destroying the universe]]. When attempts to negotiate with Earth fail, the Ruler endorses Plan 9, having his subordinate Eros bring several humans back from the dead and [[LeaveNoWitnesses dispose of any witnesses]]. As a show of power, he has Eros send one of the dead recruits to attack a house, then hit him with a beam that will vaporize him, planning to use this distraction to raise [[ZombieApocalypse an army of the dead to march on Earth's capitals]]. Always keeping his cool, the Ruler is quick to adapt to setbacks, and correctly anticipates that Plan 9 will fail due to Eros's incompetence. Taking command of Eros's other ships and keeping them in reserve to ensure minimal losses, the Ruler ends the film still at large and able to proceed with his plans.
27	* MemeticMutation:
28	** "Future events such as these will affect you in the future" and several other DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment lines.
29	** "You see? YOU SEE? Your stupid minds! Stupid! STUPID!"
30	** Tor Johnson's damn blank-angry face [[spoiler: when he becomes a zombie]] has achieved this status, even becoming a ''mask''!
31	** "Visits? Well, that would indicate ''visitors!''"
32	** "Ball it up in Albuquerque?"
33	* {{Misblamed}}: Of all the mistakes in the movie, one that you can't lay at Ed Wood's feet is the boom mic shadow and visible script in the airplane cockpit, which were cropped out in the original widescreen release as Wood intended.
34	* {{Narm}}: It would be ''charitable'' to list only the most obvious example: One of the zombies is constantly covering its face.
35	* NightmareRetardant: The ghouls really aren't very scary. Clay's keeps the same half-angry, half-emotionless look on his face the whole film and the ghoul man covering up his face the entire time ruins any suspense involved in their scenes. Vampira fares a bit better than those two, but that's not saying much, as her stiff movements and blank stare are still quite hilariously awkward as well.
36	* OlderThanTheyThink: Criswell's opening line -- "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives" -- is often held up as one of Wood's classically clunky lines. In actual fact, Criswell used that as the intro line for his TV show for several years before ''Plan 9'' was filmed (and continued to do so afterward), though he usually gave it a much wryer delivery than he does in ''Plan 9'' -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugaXWtIfdw4 witness it in action]] in his appearance on the Creator/JohnnyCarson New Year's Special in 1966. In fact, all of the narration was written by Criswell himself.
37	* SoBadItsGood: Time has been very kind to the movie, and its longstanding status as "worst movie ever made" is usually given in jest by cinemaphiles, as while it's certainly not a ''good'' film, any fan of shows like ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' or ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' can readily vouch that there are far, ''far'' worse movies out there than ''Plan 9'' that aren't even a fraction as amusing or watchable. [=VideoHound's=] ''Cult Flicks and Trash Pics'' describes ''Plan 9'' as a movie "that has become so famous for its own badness that it's now beyond criticism."
38	* SpecialEffectFailure: The tombstones ''wobble'' when people hit them. Also, the flying saucers which are ''square'' when they land and are visibly suspended from strings.
39	* SpiritualSuccessor: Hilariously, this film, the legendary ''bad'' fifties sci-fi movie, has almost ''exactly the same plot'' as ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'', one of the quintessential sci-fi films of the era, just without the budget, script, talent, production values, etc.
40	* StrawmanHasAPoint: If, and only if, such a device that could blow up not only the world but the ''universe'' were plausible -- then these visiting aliens would have a good point in trying to prevent it from being built. [[PoorCommunicationKills They really need to work on their methods though.]] It's actually said that they had attempted more sensible methods, but the humans would not cooperate. Hence why this was Plan 9 rather than Plan 1.
41	* {{Woolseyism}}:
42	** The fact that some subtitled and dubbed versions have better writing than the actual movie is less of a show of the translators' skills and more damning evidence of the movie's own ineptitude. Just being able to truncate the redundant dialogue and make some phrases sound much more natural is an improvement already.
43	** The Hungarian dub tried to avoid improving the film by having random people working for the DVD publishing company perform the voices rather than professional actors. It's usually agreed that this was a bad example of {{Woolseyism}}, as making the dub suck on purpose took away from the film's charmingly inept sincerity.
44	* WTHCostumingDepartment: The alien ruler is, for whatever reason, wearing what appears to be a Renaissance fair tunic with a crest of a halberd on it, the exact ''opposite'' of what a highly-advanced alien would wear. Makes you wonder if they just went with whatever outfits were lying around.

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