YMMV / Warrior of the Lost World

• Awesome Music: Although the quality of the actual movie is questionable, there's no doubt that the end theme by Daniele Patucchi is the epitome of awesomeness.
• Designated Hero: The Rider is selfish, sullen and whiny. Some dialogue tries to justify this by calling him "burnt out from all the conflict, only interested in survival." One might blame Robert Ginty, who has the same acting "skills" in The Exterminator films, where he plays another Designated Hero who borders on Villain Protagonist.
• Ensemble Dark Horse/Memetic Badass: Megaweapon, especially when crushing Einstein.
• Fan Nickname: Courtesy of the film's appearance on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Robert Ginty's character is very well known as "The Paper Chase (1978) Guy" and often referred to as such even more often than his official billing as "The Rider" (also despite it being a better moniker for Ginty himself rather than the character).
• Hilarious in Hindsight: While the movie was meant as a Mad Max ripoff, several elements of it (such as nature having regrown after the nuclear apocalypse, and society having been rebuilt as a totalitarian dystopia with an insurgent resistance against it) more closely resemble later YA dystopia fiction such as The Hunger Games or Divergent than more typical Post-Apocalyptic fiction.
• Narm Charm: Donald Pleasence is very clearly phoning in his performance, but this actually just increases his usual Cold Ham tendencies while playing villains and serves to make him even creepier.
• The Scrappy: As previously mentioned, Einstein is rather loathed by viewers of the film due to the movie's attempts to make him "cute".
• Strangled by the Red String: The Rider and Nastasia inexplicably get together at the end of the film, even though he was nothing but rude, selfish, and neglectful to her. In fact, the only reason she needed rescuing at the end of the film is because he refused to actually help her when it would have been rather simple to. Plus, she shot him. She had enough willpower to resist shooting her father and shoot Prossor instead, but not the Rider. One could speculate she wanted to shoot him.
• Rooting for the Empire: Not for the Omega itself but Megaweapon, the near-invincible tank that works for them. Mainly because its first act is to violently murder Einstein.

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