YMMV / Flash Gordon

• Flash Gordon (1979)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Flash Gordon (1996)
• Flash Gordon (2007)

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• Complete Monster: See here.
• Dueling Works: With Buck Rogers, the other definitive science fiction comic of the Thirties.
• Mainstream Obscurity: While popular and influential in its heyday, the original comics today are best known through Pop-Cultural Osmosis, most prominently through the 1980 film.
• "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny: Flash Gordon is one of the most influential works on the genre of science fiction, helping to invent many of its most enduring tropes. Nearly a century later, and many stories have taken those tropes and run wild, leaving Flash looking quaint.
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• Reality Subtext: As World War II loomed on the horizon, strips featuring Ming's concentration camps appeared. Eventually, they dropped the subtext altogether and just had the heroes come home to fight Hitler.
• What an Idiot!: In the city of the Hawk Men, Gordon has a really bad moment where he suggests Thun take cover behind a door. And the signs around the doors read things like "Dragon's Pit" and "Death".