Fantômas film series:
- Critic-Proof: While the films were not critically praised (the sequels especially), they achieved popular success in France.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The movie trilogy of The '60s was bizarrely popular in Latin America (especially Cuba) and the Soviet Union (and former Soviet Union). And, just like most of the films with Louis de Funès in the place, were very popular in West Germany (and still fondly looked at in Germany nowadays).
- Memetic Mutation: Kanye West, of all people, caused a memetic reaction in France in 2021 when he wore a mask
that was oddly similar to this version of Fantômas. - Older Than They Think:
- For Spy Fiction tropes, Fantômas Unleashed predated You Only Live Twice's tobacco-gun and Volcano Lair by two years.
- Speaking of James Bond, the skydiving sequence of Moonraker by B.J. Worth is often considered groundbreaking for having been mostly filmed for real. A similar one was filmed for the ending scene of Fantômas Unleashed 14 years earlier by Jean-Jacques Dubourg.
