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** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian's Wham-O Airblasters nor was ever seen getting unfrozen.
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** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian's Wham-O Airblasters nor was ever seen getting unfrozen.unfrozen (though she is mentioned in a news report to have identified Santa's kidnappers as Martians).
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* AdvancedCivilizationHollowImagination: Mars' child portion of their civilization has becomes this, according to Chochem. Their knowledge is fed directly into their brain by machines, but are distracted by Earth television broadcasts because of how uninteresting and fun-lacking their culture is. To bring some into their lives, a few martian explorers travel to Earth and kidnap Santa Claus. Voldar, one of them, is more of a GeneralRipper and a traditionalist, thinking that this would undermine their glory.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Betty Foster
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Betty Foster
* ArchEnemy: VoldarFoster spends most of the story whining at her brother about how much she dislikes the current state of affairs.
* ArchEnemy: Voldar
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* CloudCuckoolander: Santa, big time!time! You'd think even jolly ol' St. Nick would be a ''little'' confused by the sudden revelation of extraterrestrial life, but...
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* EnclosedSpace: The air lock where Santa Claus and the earth kids were trapped. Oddly, it has an air duct.
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* FoodPills: The Martian cuisine of choice.
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* FoodPills: The Martian cuisine of choice.
choice. The script goes through the old "list off delectable dishes and then reveal they're actually pills" gag.
* TheFool:Dropo.Dropo, though without the whole "stupidity working in his flavor" angle.
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* HermitGuru: Chochem, the Troll doll. The Martian leaders come to him for advice; his response is basically "What the hell did you ''think'' taking their childhoods away would do?"
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* HouseWife: Momar is the Martian version.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Voldar.
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* HouseWife: Momar is the Martian version.
version. Her name even comes from "Mother Martian".
* {{Jerkass}}:Voldar.Voldar is very insistent that Mars should remain a planet of warriors, and sees this whole Santa Claus business as undermining said goal.
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* NuclearFamily: Kimar, Momar, Gimar, and Bomar.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Voldar, ridiculously so.
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* NuclearFamily: Kimar, Momar, Gimar, and Bomar.
Bomar - father, mother, 2.3 children.
* ObviouslyEvil:Voldar, ridiculously so.
Voldar spends any screen time he doesn't use for committing evil trying to argue other Martians ''into'' committing evil.
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* OffTheShelfFX: The Martians are armed with Whammo air guns.
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* ThePollyanna: Santa.Santa never loses his cheer, even when threatened with being blown into the vacuum of space.
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* TheSlacker: DropoDropo is introduced as "the laziest man on Mars", and lives up to that tile throughout.
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* NiceHat: The hats that every Martian wears. The only one that doesn't wear one is Chochem.
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** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian Wham-O Airblasters.
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** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian Martian's Wham-O Airblasters.Airblasters nor was ever seen getting unfrozen.
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* EpicFail: The Martians have voice-activated technology for their doors, and have been able to create devices that receive Earth television transmissions... yet no one on Mars seems to have ever invented locks, which would have kept Droppo from stowing away in the ship's radar box and prevented Voldar from sabotaging the toy machine.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The whole "Earth's militaries search for Santa" subplot, it just sort of disappears, never to be mentioned again.
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** The whole "Earth's militaries search for Santa" subplot, it just sort of disappears, never to be mentionedagain.again.
** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian Wham-O Airblasters.
** The whole "Earth's militaries search for Santa" subplot, it just sort of disappears, never to be mentioned
** While this movie marked Mrs. Claus first appearance in audio-visual format. She never reappears in the movie after she gets frozen by Martian Wham-O Airblasters.
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''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'' (also titled ''Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens'') is a 1964 science fiction film in which Martians, trying to cure the malaise of their children, kidnap THE SantaClaus (and a couple of earth kids that got mixed up in the plot) and take him to Mars to create the first Martian Christmas. Santa takes the whole thing ''surprisingly'' well and is only too happy to help. However, a small band of Martians rebel against the idea of Christmas or children being happy and try to kill Santa Claus. By the end of the movie, the Martians discover that they can just get a really annoying Martian named Dropo to stuff a pillow down his shirt and DRESS as Santa, thus allowing Santa and the earth kids to go home.
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''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'' (also titled ''Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens'') is a 1964 science fiction fiction/fantasy film in which Martians, trying to cure the malaise of their children, kidnap THE SantaClaus (and a couple of earth kids that got mixed up in the plot) and take him to Mars to create the first Martian Christmas. Santa takes the whole thing ''surprisingly'' well and is only too happy to help. However, a small band of Martians rebel against the idea of Christmas or children being happy and try to kill Santa Claus. By the end of the movie, the Martians discover that they can just get a really annoying Martian named Dropo to stuff a pillow down his shirt and DRESS as Santa, thus allowing Santa and the earth kids to go home.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The epilogue of the novelization mentions that some years later, [[spoiler:Dropo]] Claus would be kidnapped and taken to Venus because they wanted a Santa too.
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: The novelization states that Martians are incapable of harming Martian children, which explains how [[spoiler:four kids, two of them Martian, were able to defeat Voldar with nothing but toys in the finale.]]
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* AdvertisedExtra: Every synopsis of the film mention Creator/PiaZadora, who's not really important to the plot.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Every synopsis of the film mention (including the one here!) mentions Creator/PiaZadora, who's not really important to the plot.
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* OnlySaneMan: Chochem appears to be the only Martian who realized it was a bad idea to force Martian children into a mechanistic life from birth. His verdict that Mars needs a Santa Claus appears to be his way of telling the others that Martian children need their ''childhoods'' back.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: At the climax, Voldar attempts this with Santa [[note]]"You'll be going to sleep, ''permanently!''"[[/note]], only to get stopped by being pelted with toys.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: At the climax, Voldar attempts this with Santa [[note]]"You'll be going to sleep, relaxing, ''permanently!''"[[/note]], only to get stopped by being pelted with toys.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: At the climax, Voldar attempts this with Santa [[note]]"You'll be going to sleep, ''permanently!''"[[/note]], only to get stopped by being pelted with toys.
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* HerrDoktar: Dr. Werner von Green, the German military space travel expert guy.
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* FinalBattle: An extremely goofy one involving Voldar and his two goons getting pelted by toys while the movie's theme plays.
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* MistakenIdentity: Voldar's scheme is foiled [[spoiler: by confusing Droppo-Dressed-As-Santa for Santa, kidnapping the former instead of the intended latter]].
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* EvilReactionary: When Mars takes a turn for the peaceful, relaxed and fun, Voldar wants to go back to the days Mars the warmongering, cold and spartan.
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* EvilReactionary: When Mars takes a turn for the peaceful, relaxed and fun, Voldar wants to go back to the days of Mars the warmongering, cold and spartan.
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* AbortedArc: Much is made of the Earth's militaries coming together to save Santa Claus (complete with tons of stock footage and a goofy 'German' Guy) but [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse we never get the payoff.]]
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* EvilReactionary: When Mars takes a turn for the peaceful, relaxed and fun, Voldar wants to go back to the days Mars the warmongering, cold and spartan.
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* GoodHairEvilHair: Of the facial variety; Santa's full, floofy white beard of Good vs. Voldar's wicked, shaggy Mustache of Evil.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Voldar's goofy sidekicks, Stobo and Shim.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Kimar chuckles at Betty asking the martians if they're television sets.
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* ChristmasElves: Unfortunately, they don't stand a chance against the Martians' [[http://www.retroland.com/air-blaster-gun/ Whamo Air Blasters]].
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* ChristmasElves: Unfortunately, they don't stand a chance against the Martians' [[http://www.retroland.com/air-blaster-gun/ Whamo Wham-O Air Blasters]].
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** Some of which appears to be ''from World War II''.
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** Some of which appears to be ''from World War II''.UsefulNotes/WorldWarII''.
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* AirVentPassageway: Santa escapes being ThrownOutTheAirlock this way. Given that this ''is'' SantaClaus, shimmying through vents should be a given.
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* AirVentPassageway: Santa escapes being ThrownOutTheAirlock this way. Given that this ''is'' SantaClaus, Santa Claus, shimmying through vents should be a given.
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A NoBudget kids film with cheap sets, awful costumes, cheesy acting, and a laughably bad script, the film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the ''[[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira's Movie Macabre]]'', the 1986 syndicated series ''Canned Film Festival'' and numerous other venues for bad movies over the years. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8-year-old Creator/PiaZadora playing the role of one of the Martian children, and is the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in an audio-visual medium.
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A NoBudget kids film with cheap sets, awful costumes, cheesy acting, and a laughably bad script, the film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the ''[[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira's Movie Macabre]]'', the 1986 syndicated series ''Canned Film Festival'' and numerous other venues for bad movies over the years. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8-year-old Creator/PiaZadora playing the role of one of the Martian children, and is the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in an audio-visual medium.
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A NoBudget kids film with cheap sets, awful costumes, cheesy acting, and a laughably bad script, the film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the Elvira hosted ''Movie Macabre'', the 1986 syndicated series ''Canned Film Festival'' and numerous other venues for bad movies over the years. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8-year-old Creator/PiaZadora playing the role of one of the Martian children, and is the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in an audio-visual medium.
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A NoBudget kids film with cheap sets, awful costumes, cheesy acting, and a laughably bad script, the film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the Elvira hosted ''Movie Macabre'', ''[[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira's Movie Macabre]]'', the 1986 syndicated series ''Canned Film Festival'' and numerous other venues for bad movies over the years. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8-year-old Creator/PiaZadora playing the role of one of the Martian children, and is the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in an audio-visual medium.
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''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'' (also titled ''Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens'') is a 1964 science fiction film in which Martians, trying to cure the malaise of their children, kidnap THE Santa Claus SantaClaus (and a couple of earth kids that got mixed up in the plot) and take him to Mars to create the first Martian Christmas. Santa takes the whole thing ''surprisingly'' well and is only too happy to help. However, a small band of Martians rebel against the idea of Christmas or children being happy and try to kill Santa Claus. By the end of the movie, the Martians discover that they can just get a really annoying Martian named Dropo to stuff a pillow down his shirt and DRESS as Santa, thus allowing Santa and the earth kids to go home.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Custume" designer?
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A NoBudget kids film with cheap sets, awful costumes, cheesy acting, and a laughably bad script, the film regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the Elvira hosted ''Movie Macabre'', the 1986 syndicated series ''Canned Film Festival'' and numerous other venues for bad movies over the years. It was directed by Nicholas Webster, and it stars John Call as Santa Claus. It also includes an 8-year-old Creator/PiaZadora playing the role of one of the Martian children.
children, and is the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in an audio-visual medium.
