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** Technically, he was being chased by [=KGB=] agents when he stumbled into the blast area.
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* DungeonBypass: The two patrolmen hunting for the Beast make a lengthy, dangerous climb to reach the cave he's chosen as a lair, and struggle to bring the kidnapped woman back down with them. Later, however, the two lost boys ''somehow'' wander straight to the cave and then flee just as easily.

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* DungeonBypass: The two patrolmen hunting for the Beast make a lengthy, dangerous climb to reach the cave he's chosen as a lair, lair ("1,000 feet up, over jagged cliffs"), and struggle to bring the kidnapped woman back down with them. Later, however, the two lost boys ''somehow'' wander straight to the cave and then flee just as easily.
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* DungeonBypass: The two patrolmen hunting for the Beast make a lengthy, dangerous climb to reach the cave he's chosen as a lair, and struggle to bring the kidnapped woman back down with them. Later, however, the two lost boys ''somehow'' wander straight to the cave and then flee just as easily.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The movie poster (above) claims "Commies made him an atomic mutant!" It's actually an American bomb test that results in the Beast.


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* InformedAttribute: The Russians in the opening are said to be "Moscow's most ruthless agents". All they do is chase Javorsky ineffectually before dying when the A-bomb explodes.
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* DangerTakesABackSeat: Javorsky sneaks into a car while the owner changes a flat tire.


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* ForTheEvulz: Mutated Javorsky's motive is "''killing just to kill''."
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** The young woman the the beast takes to his cave, while not quite dead yet, appears to hold some fascination for the former man.

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** The young woman the the beast takes to his cave, while not quite dead yet, appears to hold some fascination for the former man.

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Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Played by Creator/TorJohnson. Defected from Soviet Russia. Hunted by KGB. Walks onto a nuclear test site. Touch a button. Things happen. [[ILoveNuclearPower The A-bomb. A man becomes a beast.]]

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Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Played by Creator/TorJohnson. Defected from Soviet Russia. Hunted by KGB. Walks onto a nuclear test site. Touch a button. Things happen. [[ILoveNuclearPower [[NuclearMutant The A-bomb. A man becomes a beast.]]



* ILoveNuclearPower: An atomic bomb turns Joseph Javorsky into The Beast, a super-strong and incredibly tough killing machine.


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* NuclearMutant: An atomic bomb turns Joseph Javorsky into The Beast, a super-strong and incredibly tough killing machine.
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* BronsonCanyonAndCaves: Where most of the movie was shot.
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: If the Soviet Union actually got to the moon ahead of the United States, they would sooner embrace capitalism, [[UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy McCarthyism]], and UsefulNotes/McDonalds than keep it a secret; they would make sure every news station and newspaper on the planet announces and reports on the Soviet moon-landing. Along with their launching the first satellite and being the first nation to send a man to space and bring him back, being the first country to put humanity on the moon would mean the USSR flat-out wins the Space Race, the obvious showcase that socialist Soviet technology is years ahead of that of the capitalist United States plus the resulting crushing blow to the rivalling capitalism of the United States are two of many reasons the USSR would have for making sure every eye and ear on the planet knows of their accomplishment.

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* BottomlessMagazines: The deputy shoots a single-shot bolt-action rifle from the plane again and again and again and again without once stopping to reload.

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* BottomlessMagazines: BottomlessMagazines:
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The deputy shoots a single-shot bolt-action rifle from the plane again and again and again and again without once stopping to reload.reload.
** Averted in the shootout between the KGB agents and Javorsky's bodyguard; we're treated to a long sequence where he clumsily reloads his revolver.
--->'''Crow:''' Just don't shoot while I'm reloading, that wouldn't be fair!
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* RRatedOpening: A topless woman is killed by someone in the opening scene. There is no connection to the rest of the film (the man who kills her bears no physical resemblance to Tor Johnson's character and lacks the Beast's scarred hands).

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* RRatedOpening: A topless woman is killed by someone in the opening scene. There is no connection to the rest of the film (the film. (The man who kills her bears no physical resemblance to Tor Johnson's character and lacks the Beast's scarred hands).hands.)

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