History Film / JMenForever

* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles: [[{{Pun}} Lost]] Angeles has so much smog the Bug figures no-one will notice the hash smoke he intends to bombard the city with until it's too late. Fortunately Rocket Jock, wearing a full-face helmet to protect him from the smog, disregards his personal feelings for the city and blows up the hash missile with his RayGun, getting a face full of hash smoke in the process.
-->'''Rocket Jock:''' Makes me feel like I'm flyyyyiiiiiiiing!!!

--->'''The Bug:''' Ah-HAH! [[DisproportionateRetribution Making personal calls on MY line!]]

-->'''Admiral Ballsy:''' A flood of senseless, sensual music has been drowning out every sensible speaker in the city, but our crafty cryptographers are working day and night uncover some clue from this relentless flow of garbled gibberish.

-->'''Official:''' Gentlemen, this is incredible...[[BaitAndSwitchComment do you realise how butch you two look together?]]

* TapOnTheHead: Lampooned when The Caped Madman drops an engine block on a goon's head who complains, "ARRGH! You sadistic bastard, you crushed my skull!"

* ThoseWackyNazis: The U-boat commander realises he's on the wrong side of the United States, so decides to blast through the entire country with torpedoes.

** There's also the 1942 propaganda movie ''Flying Tigers'' (the scene with Creator/JohnWayne) and the destruction of New York City from the 1933 movie ''Deluge'' (used as stock disaster footage for several Republic serials) gets one more screening.

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: After listening to a sample of "Don't Touch Me There" by The Tubes, a female J-Man comments, "This kind of music could get me pregnant."

* LargeHamRadio: Justified as it's Machine Gun Kelly.

--->"Hello L.A., and make way, 'cause this is the Lightning Bug, your [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate DJ!]] Bless my soul, you're all under the control, of ''ROCK AND ROLLLLLLL!!!!!''

** There's also the 1942 propaganda movie ''Flying Tigers'' (the scene with Creator/JohnWayne) and the destruction of New York City scene from the 1933 movie ''Deluge'' (used as stock disaster footage for several Republic serials) gets one more appearance.

** The old guy who steps out of the toilet to speak to Billy Batchit says he's a member of the Privy Council, and departs saying, "May the Flush be with you!"

** '''[=R2ScrewU=]:''' HERE'S A HEAVY METAL SOUND, TO [[BondOneliner PUT YOU UNDERGROUND!]]

* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles: [[strikethrough:Lost]] Los Angeles has so much smog the Bug figures no-one will notice the hash smoke he intends to bombard the city with until it's too late. Fortunately Rocket Jock, wearing a full-face helmet to protect him from the smog, disregards his personal feelings for the city and blows up the hash missile with his RayGun, getting a face full of hash smoke in the process.

* MasterOfDisguise: Used to handwave why the Lightning Bug looks like half a dozen completely different villains.

-->'''Barton:''' "That kook said something about ''aliens'' being behind the whole thing."
-->'''The Chief:''' "Aliens? ''Suuure.'' Listen, Mexicans and Canadians are always a problem. Next thing you know they're going to be blaming it on little guys in shiny suits from Outer Space!"

** The old guy who comes out of the john to speak to Billy Batchit says he's a member of the Privy Council, and departs saying, "May the Flush be with you!"

** During a fight with the Bug's thugs The Lone Star decides "I'll just leap on this creep!"

* KillerRobot[=/=]TinCanRobot: [=R2ScrewU=]
-->'''Rocket Jock:''' "Uh-oh, an enraged water heater!"

* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles: [[strike:Lost]] Los Angeles has so much smog the Bug figures no-one will notice the hash smoke he intends to bombard the city with until it's too late. Fortunately Rocket Jock, wearing a full-face helmet to protect him from the smog, disregards his personal feelings for the city and blows up the hash missile with his RayGun, getting a face full of hash smoke in the process.

** '''[=R2ScrewU=]:''' "HERE'S A HEAVY METAL SOUND, TO [[BondOneliner PUT YOU UNDERGROUND!]]"

* {{Superhero}}es: Colonel Kink, aka Rocket Jock (Film/CommandoCody a.k.a [[Film/ZombiesOfTheStratosphere Larry Martin]], a.k.a the [[Film/KingOfTheRocketMen Rocket Man]]), Spy Swatter (Spy Smasher), the Caped Madman ([[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]) and the Lone Star (ComicBook/CaptainAmerica).
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: After listening to a sample of "Don´t Touch Me There" by The Tubes, a female J-Man comments, "This kind of music could get me pregnant."

* TakeThat: Plenty of jabs at popular targets of TheSeventies; e.g., the FBI, the Pentagon, and the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. Plus Los Angeles and [[TheBigRottenApple New York City]].

-->'''The Bug:''' "Turn it up! [[TimTaylorTechnology More juice, Bruce!]]"
-->'''Moon Goon:''' "But [[YoureInsane you're mad]] -- the Moon is being destroyed!"
-->'''The Bug:''' "You don't know good music when you hear it!"

-->'''The Bug:''' "That's what I call [[BondOneLiner getting stoned!]]"

-->'''Lone Star:''' ''(singing)'' "I'm a super copper on a super chopper! There's no job too dangerous or small for me! I'm the pro-tec-torrr..." ''(leaps a canyon on his motorcycle and lands hard on the other side)'' "''Uuuugh!!!'' Owww I forgot my protector..."
* HeroicComedicSociopath: The Caped Madman.
-->'''Caped Madman:''' "Dirty towelheads!"
-->'''Arab troops:''' "Wait, we're on your side! We're with the U.N!"
-->'''Caped Madman:''' "U.N., hey? I'll show your what we think of you One Worlders!" ''(machine-guns them InTheBack)''
* HomoeroticSubtext: Spy Swatter and Captain Duran.
-->'''Spy Swatter:''' "Drugs are being smuggled out of your country by a hooded hood called the Lightning Bug."
-->'''Captain Duran:''' "It's true; some of our troops have even been growing marijuana in window boxes!"
-->'''Official:''' "Gentlemen, this is incredible...do you realise how butch you two look together?"

* JetPack: Rocket Jock grumbles constantly about the problems of using an atomic-powered jetpack -- such as the worry that his tailor has forgotten the lead-lining, the need to hit his springboard in order to launch himself into the air, sore arches whenever he lands, [[ToastedBuns his shoes getting set on fire]], and the risk of drowning inside his full-face helmet should he get airsick.

* FilmSerial: Clips from ''Film/UnderseaKingdom'' (1936), ''S.O.S. Coast Guard'' (1937), ''The Fighting Devil Dogs'' (1938), ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' (1940), ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainMarvel'' (1941), ''Spy Smasher'' (1942), ''Flying Tigers'' (also 1942, but not a film serial), ''Secret Service in Darkest Africa'' (1943), ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' (1944), ''The Purple Monster Strikes'' (1945), ''Film/TheCrimsonGhost'' (1946), ''The Black Widow'' (1947), ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'' (1949), ''Film/RadarMenFromTheMoon'' (1952), and ''Film/ZombiesOfTheStratosphere'' (1952).

* StockFootage: Apart from the above-mentioned film serials, the oft-used scene from the 1933 movie ''Deluge'' -- where New York City gets swamped by a tidal wave -- makes one more appearance.

* LargeHamRadio: Justified as it's Machine Gun Kelly. He orders a number of underlings trained as DJ's too.
-->'''Lightning Bug:''' Take them away and teach them to talk like me: ''reeallll sexy!''

* TheBigRottenApple: Faced with the destruction of The Big Apple, the police engage in contract negotiations while the Mayor decides he should be the first to be evacuated ([[LaserGuidedKarma instead he drowns]] when the tunnel to New Jersey floods). When The Chief is told that the Lightning Bug has been destroyed at the cost of New York City being wiped off the map, he declares it, "A double victory!"

-->'''Evil Nazi:''' "Welcome to the Hot Hitler Disco, where the beat never Gestopos. If we can't spring some info from you, we'll make you listen to Music/DonnaSummer all winter, until you fall."
-->'''Spy Swatter:''' "{{Anything but that}}, fiend!"

* TemptingFate
** The Chief calls Spike and tells him to stay close to the phone. The wall the phone is mounted on [[AdvancingWallOfDoom slides towards Spike and crushes him]].

* {{Brainwashed}}: The Lightning Bug attempts to brainwash the people of Earth with rock & roll broadcasts, but is successfully countered by schmaltzy music from the Military Underground Sugared Airwaves Command (M.U.S.A.C.).

** Lampshaded at the end of the film when Agent Barton mourns the J-Men who died in order to take down the evil Lightning Bug. The Chief just laughs, and we get a montage of Cliffhanger cop-outs showing that [[NotQuiteDead all the J-Men survived their predicaments]].

** Creator/JohnWayne goes round bombing anyone who might be smoking marijuana.
** The Caped Madman breaks a man's skull when he tries to unload a Buick with a Chevy engine on him.

* DisconnectedByDeath: Several examples.
** A J-Man finds TheWallsAreClosingIn on his booth, though it's revealed at the end that, [[CliffhangerCopout like all J-Men]], he had the cunning to survive his predicament.
-->''(An informer is making a secret call to J-Men headquarters when the Lightning Bug bursts in on him)''
-->'''The Bug:''' "Ah-HAH! [[DisproportionateRetribution Making personal calls on MY line!]]"
-->''(The Bug zaps him with his ray-pistol. On the other end of the line, [[ReachingBetweenTheLines smoke pours from the phone]] held by the Chief)''
-->'''The Chief:''' "Hello? Operator? Listen, we were cut off in the midst of a [[VisualGag hot tip]]. I want to make sure we weren't charged for that call."
** Later a J-Men gets caught in a DrowningPit in a phone booth. On that occasion water pours out of the phone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: TheLittleDetecto the J-Men are using is called a Dildonator.

* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the credits when TheEnd appears, we then hear the Lightning Bug say, "Or is it, J-Men?" and give an EvilLaugh.