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* SpinningPaper: In the start of Episode 1. Oil wells get blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD"; transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins up; a skyscraper gets blown up and it cuts to a woman holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION".
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* SpinningPaper: In the start of Episode 1. Oil wells get blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD"; transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins up; a skyscraper gets blown up and it cuts to a woman Joan holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION".
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or two.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: TheMainCharactersDoEverything:
** Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene ortwo.two.
** Handwaved when Henderson first turns up and tells them that due to the rocket being Top Secret our heroes (who already know if its existence having built it) will be the ones to fly it, in order to investigate this Moon menace.
** Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or
** Handwaved when Henderson first turns up and tells them that due to the rocket being Top Secret our heroes (who already know if its existence having built it) will be the ones to fly it, in order to investigate this Moon menace.
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Commando Cody would appear in a {{prequel}} ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''.
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Commando Cody would appear in a {{prequel}} ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''. See also ''Film/ZombiesOfTheStratosphere''.
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Commando Cody would return in ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''.
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Commando Cody would return appear in a {{prequel}} ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''.
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* CompilationMovie: It was later released by Republic in 1966 as the 100-minute television film ''Retik the Moon Menace''.
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Commando Cody would return in ''Film/CommandoCodySkyMarshalOfTheUniverse''.
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* ClassifiedInformation: Mr. Henderson's job is so secret he won't even tell the people working for him what it is. How Cody knows he has the authority to give him any orders whatsoever is a mystery.
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''Radar Men from the Moon'' (Republic Pictures, 1952) is the first Commando Cody FilmSerial [[note]] although not the first "JetPack" serial; that would be 1949's ''King Of The Rocket Men''[[/note]], in 12 chapters.
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''Radar Men from the Moon'' (Republic Pictures, (Creator/RepublicPictures, 1952) is the first Commando Cody ''Commando Cody'' FilmSerial [[note]] although not the first "JetPack" serial; that would be 1949's ''King Of The Rocket Men''[[/note]], in 12 chapters.
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The Chick is no longer a trope, disambiguating, undoing tropeslashing
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* BadGuyBar / MaltShop: Al's Diner. To Al's credit, it's not a BadGuyBar by design; it's just where the henchmen happen to hang out, and Al helps out the good guys whenever he can.
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* BadGuyBar / MaltShop: BadGuyBar: Al's Diner. To Al's credit, it's not a BadGuyBar by design; it's just where the henchmen happen to hang out, and Al helps out the good guys whenever he can.
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* TheChick / NeutralFemale: Joan. Particularly evident during the occasional trip to the Moon, where her duties consist -- solely, entirely and explicitly -- of cooking for the menfolk; she is shown doing practically nothing else. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's TheFifties, but c'mon now.
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* TheDragon / TheHeavy: Krog may (or may not) be Retik's official second-in-command, but he definitely fills this role as head of the preliminary invasion.
* DrivesLikeCrazy / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
* DrivesLikeCrazy / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
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* TheDragon / TheHeavy: TheDragon: Krog may (or may not) be Retik's official second-in-command, but he definitely fills this role as head of the preliminary invasion.
*DrivesLikeCrazy / ThrowItIn: DrivesLikeCrazy: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
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* FutureSpandex: The Moon Men wear spandex space shoots. King Retik supplements his own Future Spandex with a long white royal raiment.
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* MinimalistCast / TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or two.
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* MinimalistCast / TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or two.
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: It seemingly took them about two hours to travel to the moon. Could be a matter of not-entirely-well-done time compression; Joan does mention the need to prepare meals during the trip.
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: NeutralFemale: Joan. Particularly evident during the occasional trip to the Moon, where her duties consist -- solely, entirely and explicitly -- of cooking for the menfolk; she is shown doing practically nothing else. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's TheFifties, but c'mon now.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: It seemingly took them about two hours to travel to the moon. Could be a matter of not-entirely-well-done time compression; Joan does mention the need to prepare meals during the trip.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: It seemingly took them about two hours to travel to the moon. Could be a matter of not-entirely-well-done time compression; Joan does mention the need to prepare meals during the trip.
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* SharpDressedMan / FedoraOfAsskicking: The Earth men are all quite snazzy dressers. Well, it is TheFifties, after all.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel]]:''' Are you going to go flying around in that tie?
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel]]:''' Are you going to go flying around in that tie?
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* SpaceClothes / FutureSpandex: The Moon Men wearz em. King Retik supplements his own Future Spandex with a long white royal raiment.
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With the Moon's atmosphere growing thinner and less capable of sustaining life, the titular Radar Men have decided to [[AlienInvasion forcefully relocate to Earth]]. To this end, they hire [[LesCollaborateurs a pair of human henchmen]], hand them some [[DisintegratorRay advanced weaponry]] and set them to work softening up Earth's defenses and infrastructure in anticipation for the impending invasion. It's up to professional hero (and JetPack trustee) Commando Cody and his small team to stop the threat of the evil Moon King Retik and his unscrupulous underlings.
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With the Moon's atmosphere growing thinner and less capable of sustaining life, the titular Radar Men have decided to [[AlienInvasion forcefully relocate to Earth]]. To this end, they hire [[LesCollaborateurs a pair of human henchmen]], hand them some [[DisintegratorRay advanced weaponry]] and set them to work softening up Earth's defenses and infrastructure in anticipation for the impending invasion. It's up to professional hero (and JetPack trustee) Commando Cody (Creator/GeorgeDWallace) and his small team to stop the threat of the evil Moon King Retik and his unscrupulous underlings.
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Those Two Bad Guys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Graber and Daly are, for the most part, the invasion's visible operatives; Cody does not come face to face with Krog until the penultimate chapter, and Retik conducts affairs from the Moon for most of the story.
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I noticed "As You Know" was a part of the above trope's paragraph & realized it was missing a space.
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** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
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** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]* ]]
* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
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* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
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* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay:
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]
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* DrivesLikeCrazy / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
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* RealityEnsues / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
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* BadassBookworm: Cody and his assistant Ted are research scientists who the government trusts to build a rocket, but they're also quick-fisted adventurers who are the logical people to go exploring with that rocket. In the first episode, they put up a fight that lasts about two minutes when some collaborators rob them, with Cody ducking [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl swung chairs]] and delivering powerful right hooks even after taking several painful punches.
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* PlotArmor: Graber and a nameless mook are fleeing the police at one point and drive off a cliff. The mook is killed while Graber survives (albeit pretty banged up); the only explanation is this trope.
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** By contrast, the Moon Men's space suits are fully sealed and self-contained; yet these too have air hoses on the outside. Cody kinks the hose one one guy's suit in order to subdue him.
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** By contrast, the Moon Men's space suits are fully sealed and self-contained; yet these too have air hoses on the outside. Cody kinks the hose one on one guy's suit in order to subdue him.
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How To Create A Works Page explicitly says "No bolding is used for work titles."
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* LesCollaborateurs: It's never made clear exactly what motive the human henchmen have for essentially selling out their entire world to the Moon Men. Although the threat of being handed over to the police and a brief mention of "being paid" (neverminding how much) do crop up over the course of the story, these are situational instances, meant to provide context-sensitive incentive for specific tasks rather than to describe overall motivations.
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* LesCollaborateurs: It's never made clear exactly what motive the human henchmen have for essentially selling out their entire world to the Moon Men. Although the threat of being handed over to the police and a brief mention of "being paid" (neverminding how much) do crop up over the course of the story, these are situational instances, meant to provide context-sensitive incentive for specific tasks rather than to describe overall motivations.
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''Radar Men from the Moon'' (Republic Pictures, 1952) is the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters. The first eight chapters (and half of the ninth) were featured in several episodes from the first Comedy Central season of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
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With the Moon's atmosphere growing thinner and less capable of sustaining life, the titular Radar Men have decided to [[AlienInvasion forcefully relocate to Earth]]. To this end, they hire [[LesCollaborateurs a pair of human henchmen]], hand them some [[DisintegratorRay advanced weaponry]] and set them to work softening up Earth's defenses and infrastructure in anticipation for the impending invasion. It's up to professional hero (and JetPack trustee) Commando Cody and his small team to stop the threat of the evil Moon King Retik and his unscrupulous underlings.
The first eight chapters (and half of the ninth) were featured in several episodes from the first
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# Molten Terror (13min 20s)
# Bridge of Death (13min 20s)
# Flight to Destruction (13min 20s)
# Murder Car (13min 20s)
# Hills of Death (13min 20s)
# Camouflaged Destruction (13min 20s)
# The Enemy Planet (13min 20s)
# Battle in the Stratosphere (13min 20s)
# Mass Execution (13min 20s) (RecapEpisode)
# Planned Pursuit (13min 20s)
# Death of the Moon Man (13min 20s)
# Bridge of Death (13min 20s)
# Flight to Destruction (13min 20s)
# Murder Car (13min 20s)
# Hills of Death (13min 20s)
# Camouflaged Destruction (13min 20s)
# The Enemy Planet (13min 20s)
# Battle in the Stratosphere (13min 20s)
# Mass Execution (13min 20s) (RecapEpisode)
# Planned Pursuit (13min 20s)
# Death of the Moon Man (13min 20s)
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lampshaded by Cody when he meets Retik, Retik simply answers that all of their people are required to speak English so they can work more efficiently in the USA.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Lunarium, used to power the moon men's {{Ray Gun}}s.
%%* ChairmanOfTheBrawl:
* CliffhangerCopout: As early as the ''second episode''. "Commando Cody and Ted are trapped in a cave by the moon men, who use their ray-gun to melt the rock walls."
-->'''Cody:''' Maybe we can get out along that side?
* DisintegratorRay: Retik's RayGun. There is no visible ray; stuff (and {{Mooks}}) just disappears in a puff of smoke.
* HumanAliens: The men from the moon look exactly like humans.
* {{Jetpack}}: Commando Cody's flying suit.
%%* MadScientistLaboratory
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: It took them about two hours to travel to the moon.
%%* OutsideRide:
* RayGun: From small handheld guns to guns used in tanks and mounted to trucks. They [[DisintegratorRay Disintegrate]], melt rocks, and make stuff explode.
%%* RecapEpisode: Episode 10.
* RetroRocket: Looks like a rocket but takes off and lands like a plane.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Retik uses what presumably is an electromagnet to disarm Cody. Cody's gun flies out of his hand and gets stuck to the wall; nothing else is affected.
%%* SpaceIsNoisy:
%%* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear:
* SpinningPaper: In the start of episode one. Oil wells get blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD", transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins in, a skyscraper blows up and it cuts to a woman holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION."
%%* TwoDSpace:
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Lunarium, used to power the moon men's {{Ray Gun}}s.
%%* ChairmanOfTheBrawl:
* CliffhangerCopout: As early as the ''second episode''. "Commando Cody and Ted are trapped in a cave by the moon men, who use their ray-gun to melt the rock walls."
-->'''Cody:''' Maybe we can get out along that side?
* DisintegratorRay: Retik's RayGun. There is no visible ray; stuff (and {{Mooks}}) just disappears in a puff of smoke.
* HumanAliens: The men from the moon look exactly like humans.
* {{Jetpack}}: Commando Cody's flying suit.
%%* MadScientistLaboratory
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: It took them about two hours to travel to the moon.
%%* OutsideRide:
* RayGun: From small handheld guns to guns used in tanks and mounted to trucks. They [[DisintegratorRay Disintegrate]], melt rocks, and make stuff explode.
%%* RecapEpisode: Episode 10.
* RetroRocket: Looks like a rocket but takes off and lands like a plane.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Retik uses what presumably is an electromagnet to disarm Cody. Cody's gun flies out of his hand and gets stuck to the wall; nothing else is affected.
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%%* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear:
* SpinningPaper: In the start of episode one. Oil wells get blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD", transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins in, a skyscraper blows up and it cuts to a woman holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION."
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* AlienInvasion: The threat of one drives the plot.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lampshaded by Cody when he meetsRetik, Retik. Retik simply answers that all of their his people are required to speak English so they can work more efficiently in the USA.
*AppliedPhlebotinum: Lunarium, used to power AmericaSavesTheDay: Although the moon men's {{Ray Gun}}s.
%%* ChairmanOfTheBrawl:
Moon Men's stated intent is to conquer the entire Earth, they are shown attacking only American targets (in fact, only Southern California targets), and only American personnel are shown dealing with the crisis. Highlighted by the AliensSpeakingEnglish (and only English). See also Minimalist Cast, below.
* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Moon Men's atomic pistols can vaporize practically anything in a (literal) flash, but must be reloaded with {{Unobtanium}} after every individual shot. Cody [[ExploitedTrope exploits this]] to escape an assassination attempt. Note that the larger, mounted cannons do not seem to possess this limitation.
* BadGuyBar / MaltShop: Al's Diner. To Al's credit, it's not a BadGuyBar by design; it's just where the henchmen happen to hang out, and Al helps out the good guys whenever he can.
* BigBad: Moon King Retik commands things from afar.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: At one point the sabotage team needs more money to continue their odious operations. Graber, who is on parole for bank robbery, refuses to go back into that line of work -- until Krog threatens to hand him over to the police.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: As usual in Republic serials, the {{Fight Scene}}s feature furniture throwing a'plenty.
* CarFu: Daly drives a stolen ambulance right at Cody's car in an attempt to off him.
* TheChick / NeutralFemale: Joan. Particularly evident during the occasional trip to the Moon, where her duties consist -- solely, entirely and explicitly -- of cooking for the menfolk; she is shown doing practically nothing else. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's TheFifties, but c'mon now.
* CliffhangerCopout: As early as the''second episode''.'''third episode'''. "Commando Cody and Ted are trapped in a cave by the moon men, who use their ray-gun to melt the rock walls."
-->'''Cody:''' Maybe we can get out along thatside?
side?\\
[And they do]
* DisintegratorRay: Retik's RayGun. There is no visibleray; ray, stuff (and {{Mooks}}) just disappears in a puff of smoke.
smoke.
* TheDragon / TheHeavy: Krog may (or may not) be Retik's official second-in-command, but he definitely fills this role as head of the preliminary invasion.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: On occasion the characters (and the narration) will address Cody as "Commando", as if that were his real name rather than a title or rank. And it may [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep very well be]].
* HeavyWorlder: Averted. In what would be an inversion of the usual trope, Cody should be a Heavy Worlder on the moon, and the Moon Men should be correspondingly weaker on Earth. It never comes into play.
* HumanAliens: Themen from the moon Moon Men look exactly like humans.
humans. [[note]] At least in the black-and-white original; some films of the same vintage, if/when colorized, have added odd pigmentations to the aliens' skin in an attempt to downplay the trope.[[/note]]
*{{Jetpack}}: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: As with most Republic serials of the time, each episode title hints at the {{Cliffhanger}} to come.
* IdiotBall: At one point Graber is being hauled off in an ambulance after a hillside crash. Daly shoots the lone police guard but sends the ambulance driver on a long hike instead of killing him too; very soon after, the driver has called it in and the heat is on. Graber calls Daly out for this.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Usually applied to shooting guns out of enemies' hands.
* InstantDeathBullet: On those rare occasions when a gunshot hits its mark. However, an even-more-rare (for its day) subversion occurs in the third episode, when a {{Redshirt}} cop is wounded during a gunfight and it's made clear that he survives the encounter.
* JetPack: Commando Cody's flyingsuit.
%%* MadScientistLaboratory
suit, basically a leather jacket with a jet engine attached.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Retik kindly fills Cody in on the whole AlienInvasion plot. When Cody lampshades the trope, Retik justifies it by saying that, after having made the effort to travel to the moon, Cody deserves some form of reward, then further justifies himself by promising that Cody will not live to bring this information back to Earth. Needless to say, he does exactly that.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's never made clear exactly what motive the human henchmen have for essentially selling out their entire world to the Moon Men. Although the threat of being handed over to the police and a brief mention of "being paid" (neverminding how much) do crop up over the course of the story, these are situational instances, meant to provide context-sensitive incentive for specific tasks rather than to describe overall motivations.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Retik's lab seemingly doubles as his throne room. Krog also has one on Earth, hidden in a cave.
* MinimalistCast / TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or two.
* MookLieutenant: Graber. He is occasionally shown working independently of his partner Daly (or, at the least, with different {{Mooks}}), and is clearly the dominant one of the pair.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: It seemingly took them about two hours to travel to themoon.
%%* OutsideRide:
moon. Could be a matter of not-entirely-well-done time compression; Joan does mention the need to prepare meals during the trip.
* OutsideRide:
** Cody does this briefly whilst trying to board a light plane in-flight.
** During one chase scene, a cop rides on the running board of a squad car.
* RayGun: From small handheld guns toguns big cannons used in tanks and mounted to trucks. They [[DisintegratorRay Disintegrate]], disintegrate]], melt rocks, rock and make stuff explode.
%%*explode.
* RealityEnsues / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
* RecapEpisode: In Episode10.
10, "Mass Execution", the characters reminisce about the early parts of their adventure. They try to justify it by hoping to think of a clue they'd missed before, but nothing really comes of it (other than, you know, stretching the production budget).
* RetroRocket: Looks like arocket but zeppelin, flies like a rocket, takes off and lands like a plane.
* RuleOfThree: See Spinning Paper, below.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Retik uses what presumably is an electromagnet to disarm Cody. Cody's gun flies out of his hand andgets get stuck to the wall; wall, but nothing else is affected.
%%* SpaceIsNoisy:
%%** SharpDressedMan / FedoraOfAsskicking: The Earth men are all quite snazzy dressers. Well, it is TheFifties, after all.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel]]:''' Are you going to go flying around in that tie?
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Krog]] gets pushed up against a large electronic device, which immediately overloads and kills him. Subverted when the same happens to [[spoiler:Cody]], because [[spoiler:his Jet Pack absorbs most of the current]].
* SpaceClothes / FutureSpandex: The Moon Men wearz em. King Retik supplements his own Future Spandex with a long white royal raiment.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay:
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]
* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear:
** Cody's space suit consists of his usual JetPack suit (which is just a leather jacket with a rocket engine and a bullet-shaped helmet) combined with an oxygen tank and a couple hoses leading into his helmet; it's not even sealed up. Naturally, leading into one {{cliffhanger}} his air hose gets knocked out.
** By contrast, the Moon Men's space suits are fully sealed and self-contained; yet these too have air hoses on the outside. Cody kinks the hose one one guy's suit in order to subdue him.
* SpinningPaper: In the start ofepisode one. Episode 1. Oil wells get blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD", OILFIELD"; transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins in, up; a skyscraper blows gets blown up and it cuts to a woman holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION."
%%* TwoDSpace:EXPLOSION".
* StockFootage:
** All the footage of the flying "rocket man" was recycled from the 1949 Republic serial ''King Of The Rocket Men'', as were shots of folks parachuting. And a melting, lava-filled cave. [[RuleOfThree And a plane crash]], [[ExaggeratedTrope and...]]
** Also, the footage of Retik taking off in his own rocket [[spoiler:and getting shot down]] was taken from 1945's ''The Purple Monster Strikes'' [[note]] which Retik's actor featured in, making this a sort of ActorAllusion[[/note]]. So was an ambulance crash, [[RunningGag and...]]
** Over the course of the serial the heroes make two trips to the Moon; each voyage uses the exact same sequence of footage, completely whole and uncut, with only a couple key lines of dialogue modified.
** One episode depicts a series of floods using newsreel footage of actual flooding.
* TapOnTheHead: Typical for action fare of the day, but Joan seems particularly susceptible; in one instance she is knocked out by bumping her head against a '''padded headrest'''.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Graber and Daly are, for the most part, the invasion's visible operatives; Cody does not come face to face with Krog until the penultimate chapter, and Retik conducts affairs from the Moon for most of the story.
* TwoDSpace: Taking off from the surface of the moon, Cody tells his pilot to "Come about 180 degrees and head back to the Earth!"
* {{Unobtanium}}: Lunarium, used to power the Moon Men's {{Ray Gun}}s. Not only is it more powerful than uranium, it can be handled bare-handed.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lampshaded by Cody when he meets
*
%%* ChairmanOfTheBrawl:
* AsYouKnow: In this standard FilmSerial device, Retik keeps reminding Krog that the Moon Men's invasion of Earth cannot commence until the targets' infrastructure and defenses are sufficiently weakened.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Moon Men's atomic pistols can vaporize practically anything in a (literal) flash, but must be reloaded with {{Unobtanium}} after every individual shot. Cody [[ExploitedTrope exploits this]] to escape an assassination attempt. Note that the larger, mounted cannons do not seem to possess this limitation.
* BadGuyBar / MaltShop: Al's Diner. To Al's credit, it's not a BadGuyBar by design; it's just where the henchmen happen to hang out, and Al helps out the good guys whenever he can.
* BigBad: Moon King Retik commands things from afar.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: At one point the sabotage team needs more money to continue their odious operations. Graber, who is on parole for bank robbery, refuses to go back into that line of work -- until Krog threatens to hand him over to the police.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: As usual in Republic serials, the {{Fight Scene}}s feature furniture throwing a'plenty.
* CarFu: Daly drives a stolen ambulance right at Cody's car in an attempt to off him.
* TheChick / NeutralFemale: Joan. Particularly evident during the occasional trip to the Moon, where her duties consist -- solely, entirely and explicitly -- of cooking for the menfolk; she is shown doing practically nothing else. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's TheFifties, but c'mon now.
* CliffhangerCopout: As early as the
-->'''Cody:''' Maybe we can get out along that
[And they do]
* DisintegratorRay: Retik's RayGun. There is no visible
* TheDragon / TheHeavy: Krog may (or may not) be Retik's official second-in-command, but he definitely fills this role as head of the preliminary invasion.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: On occasion the characters (and the narration) will address Cody as "Commando", as if that were his real name rather than a title or rank. And it may [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep very well be]].
* HeavyWorlder: Averted. In what would be an inversion of the usual trope, Cody should be a Heavy Worlder on the moon, and the Moon Men should be correspondingly weaker on Earth. It never comes into play.
* HumanAliens: The
*
* IdiotBall: At one point Graber is being hauled off in an ambulance after a hillside crash. Daly shoots the lone police guard but sends the ambulance driver on a long hike instead of killing him too; very soon after, the driver has called it in and the heat is on. Graber calls Daly out for this.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Usually applied to shooting guns out of enemies' hands.
* InstantDeathBullet: On those rare occasions when a gunshot hits its mark. However, an even-more-rare (for its day) subversion occurs in the third episode, when a {{Redshirt}} cop is wounded during a gunfight and it's made clear that he survives the encounter.
* JetPack: Commando Cody's flying
%%* MadScientistLaboratory
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Retik kindly fills Cody in on the whole AlienInvasion plot. When Cody lampshades the trope, Retik justifies it by saying that, after having made the effort to travel to the moon, Cody deserves some form of reward, then further justifies himself by promising that Cody will not live to bring this information back to Earth. Needless to say, he does exactly that.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's never made clear exactly what motive the human henchmen have for essentially selling out their entire world to the Moon Men. Although the threat of being handed over to the police and a brief mention of "being paid" (neverminding how much) do crop up over the course of the story, these are situational instances, meant to provide context-sensitive incentive for specific tasks rather than to describe overall motivations.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Retik's lab seemingly doubles as his throne room. Krog also has one on Earth, hidden in a cave.
* MinimalistCast / TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Although Henderson (Cody's boss) talks about mobilizing military units in response to the impending invasion, we never see anyone actively working against the Moon Men's plans except Cody and his small circle of friends/co-workers. That's a grand total of three people (four, if you count the pilot who flies them to and from the Moon). Likewise, the Moon Men don't simply invade the Earth in full force, despite the oft-mentioned fact that the Earth would be unable to fend off their superior weaponry; instead, they use a small team of three core people to carry out clandestine acts of sabotage. Admittedly, we occasionally see both sides acquire situational {{Redshirt}} cops or {{Mooks}}, but never more than a couple at a time and never for longer than a scene or two.
* MookLieutenant: Graber. He is occasionally shown working independently of his partner Daly (or, at the least, with different {{Mooks}}), and is clearly the dominant one of the pair.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime / SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: It seemingly took them about two hours to travel to the
%%* OutsideRide:
* OutsideRide:
** Cody does this briefly whilst trying to board a light plane in-flight.
** During one chase scene, a cop rides on the running board of a squad car.
* RayGun: From small handheld guns to
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* RealityEnsues / ThrowItIn: During one car chase, Cody rounds a corner so fast and so wide he momentarily drives off the road. Another car takes a turn so sharply that the driver very nearly loses control.
* RecapEpisode: In Episode
* RetroRocket: Looks like a
* RuleOfThree: See Spinning Paper, below.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Retik uses what presumably is an electromagnet to disarm Cody. Cody's gun flies out of his hand and
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-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel]]:''' Are you going to go flying around in that tie?
* ShockAndAwe: [[spoiler:Krog]] gets pushed up against a large electronic device, which immediately overloads and kills him. Subverted when the same happens to [[spoiler:Cody]], because [[spoiler:his Jet Pack absorbs most of the current]].
* SpaceClothes / FutureSpandex: The Moon Men wearz em. King Retik supplements his own Future Spandex with a long white royal raiment.
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay:
** For one thing, it's very bright and sunny in space.
** SpaceIsNoisy too; you can hear that RetroRocket coming a mile out.
** Did you know there are fluffy white clouds in space? Must be the Cumulo-Nebula.
** Then there's the depiction of the Moon as having a (formerly) breathable atmosphere. [[ScienceMarchesOn Of course, we know better these days.]]
* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear:
** Cody's space suit consists of his usual JetPack suit (which is just a leather jacket with a rocket engine and a bullet-shaped helmet) combined with an oxygen tank and a couple hoses leading into his helmet; it's not even sealed up. Naturally, leading into one {{cliffhanger}} his air hose gets knocked out.
** By contrast, the Moon Men's space suits are fully sealed and self-contained; yet these too have air hoses on the outside. Cody kinks the hose one one guy's suit in order to subdue him.
* SpinningPaper: In the start of
%%* TwoDSpace:
* StockFootage:
** All the footage of the flying "rocket man" was recycled from the 1949 Republic serial ''King Of The Rocket Men'', as were shots of folks parachuting. And a melting, lava-filled cave. [[RuleOfThree And a plane crash]], [[ExaggeratedTrope and...]]
** Also, the footage of Retik taking off in his own rocket [[spoiler:and getting shot down]] was taken from 1945's ''The Purple Monster Strikes'' [[note]] which Retik's actor featured in, making this a sort of ActorAllusion[[/note]]. So was an ambulance crash, [[RunningGag and...]]
** Over the course of the serial the heroes make two trips to the Moon; each voyage uses the exact same sequence of footage, completely whole and uncut, with only a couple key lines of dialogue modified.
** One episode depicts a series of floods using newsreel footage of actual flooding.
* TapOnTheHead: Typical for action fare of the day, but Joan seems particularly susceptible; in one instance she is knocked out by bumping her head against a '''padded headrest'''.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Graber and Daly are, for the most part, the invasion's visible operatives; Cody does not come face to face with Krog until the penultimate chapter, and Retik conducts affairs from the Moon for most of the story.
* TwoDSpace: Taking off from the surface of the moon, Cody tells his pilot to "Come about 180 degrees and head back to the Earth!"
* {{Unobtanium}}: Lunarium, used to power the Moon Men's {{Ray Gun}}s. Not only is it more powerful than uranium, it can be handled bare-handed.
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'''''Radar Men from the Moon''''' (Republic Pictures, 1952) is the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters. The first eight chapters (and half of the ninth) were featured in several episodes from the first Comedy Central season of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
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* SpinningPaper: In the start of episode one. Oil wells gets blown up and it fades to a newspaper with the headline "MYSTERY ATTACK RAZES OILFIELD", transmission lines get blown up and a paper with the headline "TRANSMISSION LINE WRECKED" spins in, an skyscraper blows up and it cuts to a woman holding a paper with "OFFICE BUILDING WRECKED BY MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION".
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* HumanAliens: The men from the Moon looks exactly like humans.
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