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* DeathByWomanScorned: Nancy kills Honey by dropping a roof beam on top of her. It's unclear whether she then killed Harry by squeezing the life out of her (he is heard saying "I can't breathe!" when she picks him up) or got killed during the transformer explosion that does Nancy in at the end.
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* DeathByWomanScorned: Nancy kills Honey by dropping a roof beam on top of her. It's unclear whether she then killed Harry by squeezing the life out of her him (he is heard saying "I can't breathe!" when she picks him up) or got killed during the transformer explosion that does Nancy in at the end.
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* MenstrualMenace: Discussed. When the doctor says that Nancy's condition is due to a hormonal imbalance, Harry quips that he's discovered a new kind of PMS.
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* ShoutOut: Music/PJHarvey's single "50 ft. Queenie" from ''Music/RidOfMe'' is inspired by this film.
** Music/TheTubes also wrote a song about it, also titled "Attack of the 50ft Woman".
** Inspired the character Ginormica from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''.
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** Inspired the character Ginormica from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''.
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* {{Prospector}}: One of the first to see the giant Nancy. In a modern twist, he's looking for uranium.HA
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* OldRetainer: Jess has been Nancy's butler since childhood.
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** Music/TheTubes also wrote a song about it, also titled "Attack of the 50ft Woman".
** Inspired the character Ginormica from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''.
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** Inspired the character Ginormica from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a rather large source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''.''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a rather large source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The poster sure seems to promise it, doesn't it? True enough, she ''is'' wearing only a bra and skirt. Alas...again, we don't see her post-growth (besides her hand) until the final attack.
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* ImprovisedClothes[=/=]MonsterModesty: Giant Nancy wears a bra and skirt supposedly made from her bed sheets. [[FridgeLogic How they got on her while in her tiny bedroom]] is unclear.
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* SayMyName: "HAAARRY!"
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* WardrobeMalfunction: When Nancy grows.
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* AcmeProducts: The doctors get everything they need to sedate and restrain giant Nancy from Acme Medical Supplies, including chains and meat hooks.
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* GrievousBottlelyHarm: While fighting Jess, Harry hits him with an empty bottle.
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* MyCarHatesMe: Nancy's car won't start when she tries to get away from the alien giant. Also, the sheriff's station wagon gets stuck in the mud when he finds the giant.
* NoMoreForMe: The old prospector throws away his bottle when he sees giant Nancy.
* NoMoreForMe: The old prospector throws away his bottle when he sees giant Nancy.
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* FeministFantasy: This is a movie that ends with three giant women keeping their husbands/boyfriends in a jar as they all fly off in the spaceship.
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* FeministFantasy: This is a movie that ends with three giant women keeping their husbands/boyfriends in a jar as they all fly off in the spaceship. Also, the closest thing to a sympathetic male character is the sheriff who is morally neutral. Even Nancy's husband's mistress is treated more sympathetically.
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* BullyingADragon: Nancy's husband does this to her. Kind of justified, as he knows of her heart condition and is trying to stress her out.
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Obviously the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] {{Trope Namer|s}} for AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
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* TheMistress: One girl plays the mistress to both Nancy's husband ''and'' [[{{Squick}} father]]. Surprisingly, she's played sympathetically, and Nancy [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre gives her advice]] when when she catches her during the rampage instead of squishing her.
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* TheMistress: One girl plays the mistress to both Nancy's husband ''and'' [[{{Squick}} father]]. Surprisingly, she's played sympathetically, and Nancy [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre gives her advice]] when when she catches her during the rampage instead of squishing her.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a [[IncrediblyLamePun rather large]] source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a [[IncrediblyLamePun rather large]] large source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
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The remake, with Creator/DarylHannah, ramps the unsympathetic portrayal of her husband UpToEleven, and has a much happier ending for Nancy. The remake has some markers of a [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime original movie]], with every man being despicable or useless, and all the women, [[DoubleStandard including her husband's mistress]], getting sympathetic portrayals and happy endings.
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The remake, with Creator/DarylHannah, ramps the [[{{Jerkass}} unsympathetic portrayal portrayal]] of her husband UpToEleven, and has a much happier ending for Nancy. The remake has some markers of a [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime original movie]], with every man being despicable or useless, and all the women, [[DoubleStandard including her husband's mistress]], getting sympathetic portrayals and happy endings.
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Obviously the TropeNamer for AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a [[IncrediblyLamePun rather large]] source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
The basic plot is that Nancy Archer, a woman with a drinking problem and a cheating husband, has a close encounter out in the desert with aliens. In an attempt to convince her husband of what she saw, she takes him back out into the desert, where he [[DirtyCoward abandons her]] when the aliens reappear. She's found later, and her husband plots to kill her, but she's grown giant in her sleep. She goes on a classic {{Kaiju}} rampage upon awakening, looking for her husband. During her rampage, she kills the other woman and kidnaps her husband ''Film/KingKong'' style. She's killed by an exploding power line transformer, which kills off her husband in the process.
The remake, with Daryl Hannah, ramps the [[JerkAss unsympathetic portrayal]] of her husband UpToEleven, and has a much happier ending for Nancy. The remake has some markers of a [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime original movie]], with every man being despicable or useless, and all the women, [[DoubleStandard including her husband's mistress]], getting sympathetic portrayals and happy endings.
Obviously the TropeNamer for AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
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!!!The 1958 movie contains examples of:
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: After she grows, all we see of Nancy until the final attack is her enormous hand.
* AutoErotica[=/=]TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: A young couple making out in their car are startled by the giant Nancy.
* BattleButler: Jess, Nancy's butler since childhood, gets in a rumble with Harry when he tries to skip town.
* CluelessDeputy: Charlie, who also serves as the PluckyComicRelief.
* FilmPosters: One of the most iconic in cinema history, better known than the film itself.
* HerrDoktor: Dr. Heinrich von Loeb.
* KentBrockmanNews: The newscaster openly mocks Nancy after she reports seeing the alien giant. It is implied that she is just imagining it.
* MyCarHatesMe: Nancy's car won't start when she tries to get away from the alien giant.
* {{Prospector}}: one of the first to see the giant Nancy. In a modern twist, he's looking for uranium.
* SpheroidDropship
* StockFootage: The same scene of giant Nancy walking is used over and over.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Characters use the word "satellite" when referring to the spaceship. This was because Sputnik had launched the year before, so "satellite" was the latest popular buzzword for anything from 'up there'.
* YourSizeMayVary: Giant Nancy doesn't seem to stay the same size throughout.
!!!The 1993 remake contains examples of:
* ApologizesALot: Nancy is set up as having no backbone before she grows.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Naturally.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As soon as she started to realize that she couldn't be pushed around at 50 feet tall, Nancy starts telling off her father for controlling her.
* DontYouDarePityMe
* FeministFantasy: This is a movie that ends with three giant women keeping their husbands/boyfriends in a jar as they all fly off in the spaceship.
--> "Nancy, that's sick! What, do you want me to get a wetsuit and a flashlight?"
* FlyingSaucer
* FootFocus: This and the original since Nancy's clothes don't grown with her and she stomps around barefoot.
* GenderFlip: Dr. Cushing, who was male in the original, becomes Nancy's female therapist. Also done with the sheriff's deputy.
* HumanAliens:[[spoiler: Maybe. In the end we see Nancy beamed onto a spaceship with two other giant women, but it's not clear whether they're the same as her or actual aliens.]]
* TheIngenue: Nancy falls way into this, being too naive and sweet to realize that she's used as a pawn by both her father and husband to get her money.
* JerkAss: Every male character.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Nancy's husband ends up trapped with two other men in an endless sensitivity training session controlled by giant women.]]
* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: Men are abusive, sex-obsessed monsters? Check. Women are weak, spineless victims? Check. This thing could have been made by Lifetime.
* LonelyRichKid: Her husband's a philandering asshole and her father only cares because he needs her to sign papers so he can keep accessing her trust fund. Her only friend is her psychiatrist.
* TheMistress: One girl plays the mistress to both Nancy's husband ''and'' [[{{Squick}} father]]. Surprisingly, she's played sympathetically, and Nancy gives her advice when when she catches her during the rampage instead of squishing her.
* NotNowKiddo: After she sees a [=UFO=], her father tells her to ''stop embarrassing him''. He uses this same line when asked to talk her down from her rampage...
* TouchedByVorlons
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:Noticeably only for the female characters.
* WomanScorned: She grows when she's scorned, too.
* YourCheatingHeart: The least of her husband's crimes.
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Originally a 1958 movie that acted as something of a DistaffCounterpart to ''TheAmazingColossalMan''. One of the classic [[BMovie B-Movies]], ''Attack of the 50-Foot Woman'' is well remembered for its rather silly premise, as well as being a [[IncrediblyLamePun rather large]] source of {{Fanservice}}. The movie was also remade for HBO in 1993.
The basic plot is that Nancy Archer, a woman with a drinking problem and a cheating husband, has a close encounter out in the desert with aliens. In an attempt to convince her husband of what she saw, she takes him back out into the desert, where he [[DirtyCoward abandons her]] when the aliens reappear. She's found later, and her husband plots to kill her, but she's grown giant in her sleep. She goes on a classic {{Kaiju}} rampage upon awakening, looking for her husband. During her rampage, she kills the other woman and kidnaps her husband ''Film/KingKong'' style. She's killed by an exploding power line transformer, which kills off her husband in the process.
The remake, with Daryl Hannah, ramps the [[JerkAss unsympathetic portrayal]] of her husband UpToEleven, and has a much happier ending for Nancy. The remake has some markers of a [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime original movie]], with every man being despicable or useless, and all the women, [[DoubleStandard including her husband's mistress]], getting sympathetic portrayals and happy endings.
Obviously the TropeNamer for AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
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!!!The 1958 movie contains examples of:
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: After she grows, all we see of Nancy until the final attack is her enormous hand.
* AutoErotica[=/=]TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: A young couple making out in their car are startled by the giant Nancy.
* BattleButler: Jess, Nancy's butler since childhood, gets in a rumble with Harry when he tries to skip town.
* CluelessDeputy: Charlie, who also serves as the PluckyComicRelief.
* FilmPosters: One of the most iconic in cinema history, better known than the film itself.
* HerrDoktor: Dr. Heinrich von Loeb.
* KentBrockmanNews: The newscaster openly mocks Nancy after she reports seeing the alien giant. It is implied that she is just imagining it.
* MyCarHatesMe: Nancy's car won't start when she tries to get away from the alien giant.
* {{Prospector}}: one of the first to see the giant Nancy. In a modern twist, he's looking for uranium.
* SpheroidDropship
* StockFootage: The same scene of giant Nancy walking is used over and over.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Characters use the word "satellite" when referring to the spaceship. This was because Sputnik had launched the year before, so "satellite" was the latest popular buzzword for anything from 'up there'.
* YourSizeMayVary: Giant Nancy doesn't seem to stay the same size throughout.
!!!The 1993 remake contains examples of:
* ApologizesALot: Nancy is set up as having no backbone before she grows.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Naturally.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As soon as she started to realize that she couldn't be pushed around at 50 feet tall, Nancy starts telling off her father for controlling her.
* DontYouDarePityMe
* FeministFantasy: This is a movie that ends with three giant women keeping their husbands/boyfriends in a jar as they all fly off in the spaceship.
--> "Nancy, that's sick! What, do you want me to get a wetsuit and a flashlight?"
* FlyingSaucer
* FootFocus: This and the original since Nancy's clothes don't grown with her and she stomps around barefoot.
* GenderFlip: Dr. Cushing, who was male in the original, becomes Nancy's female therapist. Also done with the sheriff's deputy.
* HumanAliens:[[spoiler: Maybe. In the end we see Nancy beamed onto a spaceship with two other giant women, but it's not clear whether they're the same as her or actual aliens.]]
* TheIngenue: Nancy falls way into this, being too naive and sweet to realize that she's used as a pawn by both her father and husband to get her money.
* JerkAss: Every male character.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Nancy's husband ends up trapped with two other men in an endless sensitivity training session controlled by giant women.]]
* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: Men are abusive, sex-obsessed monsters? Check. Women are weak, spineless victims? Check. This thing could have been made by Lifetime.
* LonelyRichKid: Her husband's a philandering asshole and her father only cares because he needs her to sign papers so he can keep accessing her trust fund. Her only friend is her psychiatrist.
* TheMistress: One girl plays the mistress to both Nancy's husband ''and'' [[{{Squick}} father]]. Surprisingly, she's played sympathetically, and Nancy gives her advice when when she catches her during the rampage instead of squishing her.
* NotNowKiddo: After she sees a [=UFO=], her father tells her to ''stop embarrassing him''. He uses this same line when asked to talk her down from her rampage...
* TouchedByVorlons
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:Noticeably only for the female characters.
* WomanScorned: She grows when she's scorned, too.
* YourCheatingHeart: The least of her husband's crimes.
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