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* CliffhangerCopout: Wiki/TheOtherWiki's Website/TheOtherWiki's entry on ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_Kingdom Undersea Kingdom]]'' has a list of all the times this happens, but a few concrete examples for our purposes:
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Crash" Corrigan, U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Notably, at no point in the story does anyone refer to him as "Ray", nor does he himself ever introduce himself using that name, suggesting that the '''character''' name really is Crash.
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* NiceHat:
** Of course, there's Sharad's and Unga Khan's respective crowns.
** Naturally, Diana has a nice cloche hat.
** Atlantean military commanders, such as Crash or Unga Khan's {{Mook Lieutenant}}s, wear caps with tall frills like peacock crests (or, for the villains, lightning bolts).
** Furthermore, Crash wears an officer's hat with his Navy uniform, and Billy wears a sailor's cap.
** Most of the rest of the soldiers wear either bullet-shaped helms or cloth skull caps.
** Of course, there's Sharad's and Unga Khan's respective crowns.
** Naturally, Diana has a nice cloche hat.
** Atlantean military commanders, such as Crash or Unga Khan's {{Mook Lieutenant}}s, wear caps with tall frills like peacock crests (or, for the villains, lightning bolts).
** Furthermore, Crash wears an officer's hat with his Navy uniform, and Billy wears a sailor's cap.
** Most of the rest of the soldiers wear either bullet-shaped helms or cloth skull caps.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Crash wears short-shorts as part of his "Captain Of The Guard" uniform, in stark contrast to the other White Robes in their man-skirts.
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U.S. Navy Lt. Crash Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy at the bottom of the ocean. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
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U.S. Navy Lt. Crash Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy at the bottom of the ocean. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan [[BigBad Unga]] [[AVillainNamedKhan Khan]] from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity / ZeroPercentApprovalRating: While Unga Khan clearly has enough loyal followers (and technology) to form a credibly threatening army, the average citizenry of Atlantis appears to live inside the city and support Sharad the High Priest.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity / ZeroPercentApprovalRating: VillainWithGoodPublicity: While Unga Khan clearly has enough loyal followers (and technology) to form a credibly threatening army, the average citizenry of Atlantis appears to live inside the city and support Sharad the High Priest.
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* AccidentalPervert: At about 17:30 into Chapter 1, Crash Corrigan (as Crash Corrigan) rejoins the group and, apparently trying to place his hand on the shoulder of Lois Wilde (as Diana Compton), instead places it squarely on her (clothed) right breast. She reacts with perfect aplomb and removes the hand from her breast with a motion worthy of a Wing Chun master.
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* NeutralFemale: Zig-zagged with Diana. In scenes where the group are held captive, the guys will be tied up (even the child and the old man) but Diana is always left unbound, as if even the villains know she will never take any action. On the other hand, in one instance she grabs a dropped gun to hold the bad guys at bay during an escape attempt, and on another occasion helps Billy try to sabotage Unga Khan's tower-raising rockets.
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* NeutralFemale: Zig-zagged with Diana. In scenes where the group are is held captive, the guys will be tied up (even the child and the old man) but Diana is always left unbound, as if even the villains know she will never take any action. On the other hand, in one instance she grabs a dropped gun to hold the bad guys at bay during an escape attempt, and on another occasion helps Billy try to sabotage Unga Khan's tower-raising rockets.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers can pack a whallop, but due to the way they are mounted they cannot be aimed, making it easy to evade their fire.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers can pack a whallop, wallop, but due to the way they are mounted they cannot be aimed, making it easy to evade their fire.
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* ChokeHolds: One of Crash's favourite methods of dispatching his enemies. He's even strong enough to take down two men at once.
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** Crash kills a White Robe (allegedly), breaks a statue of Poseidon (accidentally), and refuses to execute his foe after winning a ForcedPrizeFight. For all of this he is sentenced to death; but after rescuing High Priest Sharad from a kidnapping attempt Crash is not only pardoned on the spot, he is immediately appointed Captain Of The Gaurd.
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** Crash kills a White Robe (allegedly), breaks a statue of Poseidon (accidentally), and refuses to execute his foe after winning a ForcedPrizeFight. For all of this he is sentenced to death; but after rescuing High Priest Sharad from a kidnapping attempt Crash is not only pardoned on the spot, he is immediately appointed Captain Of The Gaurd.Guard.
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* SchizoTech: The Black Robes have robots and armomred cars, elevators and electricity, an earthquake machine, the [[Franchise/StarTrek USS Enterprise]], flying torpedoes, {{Video Phone}}s and {{Ray Gun}}s. The White Robes have only flame throwers. The vast majority of everything else is swords, bows, and chariots.
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* SchizoTech: The Black Robes have robots and armomred armored cars, elevators and electricity, an earthquake machine, the [[Franchise/StarTrek USS Enterprise]], flying torpedoes, {{Video Phone}}s and {{Ray Gun}}s. The White Robes have only flame throwers. The vast majority of everything else is swords, bows, and chariots.
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* TagalongKid: Billy, though on rare occassions he makes himself actually useful -- in one instance, by stealing a Volkite's RayGun and rescuing Crash and Diana from Unga Khan's clutches.
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* TagalongKid: Billy, though on rare occassions occasions he makes himself actually useful -- in one instance, by stealing a Volkite's RayGun and rescuing Crash and Diana from Unga Khan's clutches.
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* CataclysmClimax: Not quite the climax; but leading into it, Unga Khan's technology tower does indeed rocket out of Atlantis toward the ocean surface... [[spoiler:puncturing Atlantis' protective dome and flooding the underwater continent]].
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* Cliffhanger: The first chapter ends with an almost literal example -- Crash and Billy are trapped at the top of a cliff while Unga Khan shoots missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse with both of them still standing there.
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* Cliffhanger: {{Cliffhanger}}: The first chapter ends with an almost literal example -- Crash and Billy are trapped at the top of a cliff while Unga Khan shoots missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse with both of them still standing there.
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* MookLieutenant: Captain Hakur of the Black Robes, played by Lon Chaney Jr.
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* MookLieutenant: Captain Hakur of the Black Robes, played by Lon Chaney Jr.Creator/LonChaneyJr.
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* AmbiguousReligions: Sharad, High Priest Of Atlantis, dresses like a Catholic archbishop, complete with [[ErmineCapeEffect ermine cape]] and crosses on his crown; but the Atlanteans adhere to the classical Greek pantheon (particularly Poseidon the Sea God).
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A Republic serial from 1936. The plot is basically the classic "Atlantis found" story. U.S. Navy Lt. Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
See ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches here]]'' and ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan here]]'' for the episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' that featured the two installments of ''Undersea Kingdom''.
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See ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches here]]'' and ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan here]]'' for the episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' that featured the two installments of ''Undersea Kingdom''.
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A Republicserial FilmSerial from 1936.1936, in twelve chapters. The plot is basically the classic "Atlantis found" story.
U.S. Navy Lt.Ray "Crash" Crash Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy.alloy at the bottom of the ocean. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
'''Chapters:'''
# Beneath The Ocean Floor (30 min 51 s)
# The Undersea City (19 min 13 s)
# Arena Of Death (18 min 58 s)
# Revenge Of The Volkites (18 min 7 s)
# Prisoners Of Atlantis (17 min 33 s)
# The Juggernaut Strikes (16 min 40 s)
# The Submarine Trap (17 min 20 s)
# Into The Metal Tower (16 min 49 s)
# Death In The Air (16 min 48 s)
# Atlantis Destroyed (17 min 28 s)
# Flaming Death (19 min 23 s)
# Ascent To The Upperworld (16 min 54 s)
See ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches here]]'' and ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan here]]'' forthe episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' that which featured the first two installments of ''Undersea Kingdom''.
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A Republic
U.S. Navy Lt.
'''Chapters:'''
# Beneath The Ocean Floor (30 min 51 s)
# The Undersea City (19 min 13 s)
# Arena Of Death (18 min 58 s)
# Revenge Of The Volkites (18 min 7 s)
# Prisoners Of Atlantis (17 min 33 s)
# The Juggernaut Strikes (16 min 40 s)
# The Submarine Trap (17 min 20 s)
# Into The Metal Tower (16 min 49 s)
# Death In The Air (16 min 48 s)
# Atlantis Destroyed (17 min 28 s)
# Flaming Death (19 min 23 s)
# Ascent To The Upperworld (16 min 54 s)
See ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches here]]'' and ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan here]]'' for
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* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. TheOtherWiki's entry on ''Undersea Kingdom'' has a list of all the times this happens.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience -- Well, it is black and white, but good guys = white cloaks, bad guys = black cloaks.
* CompilationMovie -- Released for the TV market in TheSixties as "Sharad of Atlantis" (after the leader of the good "White Robe" Atlanteans).
* IntrepidReporter -- Diana Compton
* {{Mooks}} -- The Black Robes
** MechaMooks -- The TinCanRobot Volkites.
* SchizoTech -- The Black Robes have robots and an earthquake machine, the USS Enterprise, flying torpedoes, view screens and ray guns. The White Robes only have flame throwers. The vast majority of everything else is swords, bows, and chariots.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Unga Khan has to have cameras literally ''everywhere''.
* TagalongKid -- Billy.
* ThoseTwoGuys -- Briny and Salty.
* YellowPeril -- Unga Khan, who is totally not Ming the Merciless.
* YouFailPhysicsForever -- Everything. All the time.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience -- Well, it is black and white, but good guys = white cloaks, bad guys = black cloaks.
* CompilationMovie -- Released for the TV market in TheSixties as "Sharad of Atlantis" (after the leader of the good "White Robe" Atlanteans).
* IntrepidReporter -- Diana Compton
* {{Mooks}} -- The Black Robes
** MechaMooks -- The TinCanRobot Volkites.
* SchizoTech -- The Black Robes have robots and an earthquake machine, the USS Enterprise, flying torpedoes, view screens and ray guns. The White Robes only have flame throwers. The vast majority of everything else is swords, bows, and chariots.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Unga Khan has to have cameras literally ''everywhere''.
* TagalongKid -- Billy.
* ThoseTwoGuys -- Briny and Salty.
* YellowPeril -- Unga Khan, who is totally not Ming the Merciless.
* YouFailPhysicsForever -- Everything. All the time.
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* CliffhangerCopout: AccidentalMurder: [[ThoseTwoGuys Briny and Salty]], captured by the Black Robes, accidentally arrange for their guard to sit on a stick of dynamite (literally, he actually '''sits on it''') during an escape attempt.
* AffablyEvil: When Diana and Prof. Norton are brought before Unga Khan, he is charming and polite, painting High Priest Sharad as the true villain. Subverted when, after Norton lets slip about his rocket-powered sub and how those same rockets could be used to raise Unga Khan's tower/fortress to the ocean surface, Unga Khan [[FauxAffablyEvil drops the pretense]] and shows his true [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying]] colors.
* AlienInvasion: Well, if you consider undersea dwellers to be aliens; but the main plot revolves around wicked Unga Khan trying to raise his technology tower to the surface in order to conquer the world above.
* AmbiguousReligions: Sharad, High Priest Of Atlantis, dresses like a Catholic archbishop, complete with [[ErmineCapeEffect ermine cape]] and crosses on his crown; but the Atlanteans adhere to the classical Greek pantheon (particularly Poseidon the Sea God).
* AmbitionIsEvil: Unga Khan wants to conquer the Upper World, and everyone calls him mad because of it.
* {{Atlantis}}: Sunken underwater for centuries and protected by a huge metal dome, this is where the bulk of the story takes place.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers can pack a whallop, but due to the way they are mounted they cannot be aimed, making it easy to evade their fire.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Crash" Corrigan, U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Notably, at no point in the story does anyone refer to him as "Ray", nor does he himself ever introduce himself using that name, suggesting that the '''character''' name really is Crash.
* BadassInANiceSuit: For the first chapter and half of the second, Crash wears his dark blue Navy dress uniform.
* BittersweetEnding: The Upper World is saved, of course; but [[spoiler:Atlantis is destroyed and all her people dead]].
* BloodlessCarnage:
** {{Mooks}} on both sides of the war are stabbed and arrowed with impunity, with nary a red drop[[labelnote:*]]Well, it's B&W, but you know...[[/labelnote]] to be seen.
** In keeping with their role as PluckyComicRelief, Briny and Salty's AccidentalMurder (which see) leaves behind a dead body which is fully intact and free of visible injury.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: At one point Crash is chased into a cave with a set of bars at the other end. He quickly bends the bars apart, slips through and bends them shut again; and, even though his pursuers are as beefy/bulky as he is, they cannot replicate the feat.
* ChekhovsSkill: At the start of the serial, Crash is shown to be a skilled wrestler, which comes in handy when fighting mooks down in Atlantis.
* ChokeHolds: One of Crash's favourite methods of dispatching his enemies. He's even strong enough to take down two men at once.
* Cliffhanger: The first chapter ends with an almost literal example -- Crash and Billy are trappedon at the top of a cliff as while Unga Khan fires shoots missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. collapse with both of them still standing there.
* CliffhangerCopout: TheOtherWiki's entry on''Undersea Kingdom'' ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_Kingdom Undersea Kingdom]]'' has a list of all the times this happens.
* ColorCodedForYourConveniencehappens, but a few concrete examples for our purposes:
** Regarding the literal Cliffhangar mentioned above -- in the following episode, Crash and Billy simply climb down the back of the cliff before it is destroyed.
** Chapter Two ends with Crash being shot by a Volkite and falling down an elevator shaft, and [[PlummetPerspective we see the body fall]]. Next episode: the Volkite's shot misses Crash (barely), and Crash jumps into the shaft and grabs hold of a ledge, then climbs down to the bottom.
** The end of Chapter Five sees Crash and DefectorFromDecadence Moloch falling to the ground in the middle of a battle plain, with enemy horses and chariots visibly running over the bodies. Next chapter: The chariots are clearly shown going '''around''' the two.
** And, in a bizarre example which isn't even the episode cliffhanger: Moloch the SixthRanger gets very clearly stabbed through during a sustained battle. Next episode: Moloch staggers to his feet and shakes it off.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Well, it is black and white, but good guys =white cloaks, White Robes, bad guys = black cloaks.
Black Robes.
*CompilationMovie -- CompilationMovie: Released for the TV market in TheSixties as "Sharad of Atlantis" (after the leader of the good "White Robe" Atlanteans).
*IntrepidReporter -- CoolAirship: Unga Khan's Volplane, a sort of "flying chariot".
* CoolBoat: Prof. Norton's submarine, which is rocket-propelled. This, in fact, is what gives Unga Khan an idea for how to raise his tower to the Upper World.
* CoolCar: The Volkites' tank, the Juggernaut, looks like a cross between a Chrysler town car and the C.S.S. Virginia (aka Merrimac).
* DeathByLookingUp: [[spoiler:Sharad]] is killed during a bombing run when part of the Atlantean temple collapses on top of him.
* DirtyCoward: Joe The Panicky Sailor is nervous from the start about taking the professor's submarine so deep into the ocean; but when they actually do it he completely loses his shit and tries to crash the sub into the ocean floor. Later, when confronted by the Volkites, Joe ditches the gang and runs away, ironically making himself an easier target in the process.
* TheDragon: Black Robe Ditmar is never far from Unga Khan's side and operates most of the villains' technology from a control box on his belt.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Crash sneaks into Unga Khan's tower, overpowers a couple of soldiers and steals a uniform. It's apparent that he wouldn't want to draw attention to himself whilst sneaking around, but it never really comes into play because the very next scene is him arriving in the tower's control room to rescue his friends. He later does it again to impersonate the MookLieutenant.
* EasilyForgiven:
** Joe The Panicky Sailor goes [[DirtyCoward Space Happy]] and tries to wreck the submarine, to the point where Crash has to slug him to get him under control. Afterwards, everyone is perfectly fine with letting Joe run around loose and continue hanging with them; no one ever so much as '''mentions''' his near-fatal panic attack, not even to dismiss it.
** Crash kills a White Robe (allegedly), breaks a statue of Poseidon (accidentally), and refuses to execute his foe after winning a ForcedPrizeFight. For all of this he is sentenced to death; but after rescuing High Priest Sharad from a kidnapping attempt Crash is not only pardoned on the spot, he is immediately appointed Captain Of The Gaurd.
** Crash's ForcedPrizeFight foe himself, Moloch, switches loyalties and is accepted into the White Robe army without question.
* EmperorScientist: Unga Khan is the despot ruler of Atlantis, and it is notable that only his faction employs what could be described as high technology. Even if he is not the inventor/engineer of said technology, he is highly conversant with it.
* ETGaveUsWiFi: In the {{Denouement}}, Prof. Norton is attempting to reverse-engineer a scavenged Volkite.
* ForcedPrizeFight: What the White Robes do with their Black Robe prisoners.
* HeelFaceTurn / DefectorFromDecadence / SixthRanger: Moloch, Crash's opponent in the ForcedPrizeFight whom Crash refuses to execute, switches allegiance as a result.
* IdiotBall:
** Briny and Salty, after their AccidentalMurder of the guard watching over them, utterly fail to take advantage of the situation and escape. It's possible they were [[WorkingOnTheChainGang still chained together]], but evidence from the film would suggest they're just idiots.
** Crash and Company grab the Ball tightly every time they try to rescue Prof. Norton from the Black Robes. They reason with him and carry him around unbound and unsecured, '''in full knowledge''' that he has been brainwashed by Unga Khan. Inevitably, Norton evades/disrupts their rescue attempts and returns to the villain's side. [[spoiler:At least, until they finally buy a clue and actually undo the brainwashing.]]
* IntrepidReporter: DianaCompton
Compton, who for the first couple chapters does nothing except gush on about what a great story this is going to be.
*{{Mooks}} -- KillItWithFire:
** This is the intent behind the White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers, but... well, see AwesomeButImpractical above.
** For the {{Cliffhanger}} to Chapter Eleven, Crash and Company attempt to disable the rockets that will launch Unga Khan's science tower to the surface; Unga Khan lets them try, confident that the fire from the rockets will kill them. In the next chapter, everyone escapes the rocket flames [[spoiler:except Moloch]].
* LargeHam: Sharad pronounces the name of Unga Khan in a ridiculously dire tone and with a bug-eyed expression, like he's warning his grandkids about the Boogeyman.
* LastOfHisKind: One of the episode-starting intertitles reveals that Sharad is the "last of the line of true Atlanteans."
* MauveShirt: Moloch the SixthRanger becomes Crash's generic sidekick early in the serial, replacing Joe TheBlack Robes
** MechaMooks --Panicky Sailor. He remains loyal to Crash and Company right up until [[spoiler:his death in Chapter Eleven's Cliffhanger]].
* MechaMooks: The TinCanRobot Volkites.
*SchizoTech {{Mooks}}: Unga Khan's Black Robes. The White Robes could count as well, at least until Crash and Company fall squarely on their side.
* MookLieutenant: Captain Hakur of the Black Robes, played by Lon Chaney Jr.
* MoreThanMindControl: Unga Khan has a phone booth / [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenstein]] device / smoke machine which can bend anyone's mind to his will. [[spoiler:The good news is, it's reversible.]]
* NeutralFemale: Zig-zagged with Diana. In scenes where the group are held captive, the guys will be tied up (even the child and the old man) but Diana is always left unbound, as if even the villains know she will never take any action. On the other hand, in one instance she grabs a dropped gun to hold the bad guys at bay during an escape attempt, and on another occasion helps Billy try to sabotage Unga Khan's tower-raising rockets.
* NiceHat:
** Of course, there's Sharad's and Unga Khan's respective crowns.
** Naturally, Diana has a nice cloche hat.
** Atlantean military commanders, such as Crash or Unga Khan's {{Mook Lieutenant}}s, wear caps with tall frills like peacock crests (or, for the villains, lightning bolts).
** Furthermore, Crash wears an officer's hat with his Navy uniform, and Billy wears a sailor's cap.
** Most of the rest of the soldiers wear either bullet-shaped helms or cloth skull caps.
* NonIndicativeName: Unga Khan's "Projector" weapon is a giant rocket launcher which shoots flying torpedoes.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** "Awesome" part inverted as follows: In Chapter Two, Crash tells Billy to head back to the submarine before he himself heads off to infiltrate Unga Khan's lair. In the recap cards for Chapter Three, we learn that Billy was captured offscreen by the White Robes and brought before Sharad, High Priest Of Atlantis.
** Briny and Salty [[spoiler:ultimately escape from their captors]] offscreen, with absolutely no hint of how they managed to pull it off. It's not a huge PlotHole, since they have no effect on the actual Plot; but it's still a Hole.
* PluckyComicRelief: Briny and Salty, whose exploits are concurrent with, but entirely discreet from, the main story.
* PlummetPerspective: At the end of Chapter Two, Crash is clearly shown falling down an elevator shaft, leading to Chapter Three's blatant CliffhangerCopout.
* PresidentEvil: Unga Khan. It's even implied that he's not the '''legitimate''' ruler of Atlantis, as High Priest Sharad calls him a "usurper"; another hint that this is so is that he "rules" from his tower rather than from a palace in the capitol city.
* PreviouslyOn: Downplayed to the extreme. Whereas most {{Film Serial}}s utilize some sort of title card at the start of each chapter to recap the story and/or the {{Cliffhanger}}, ''Undersea Kingdom'' employs a series of intercards, each giving a single-sentence sketch of the main characters -- which may or may not relate any updates on their individual situations.
* PrisonersWork / WorkingOnTheChainGang: Briny and Salty's insular subplot involves them being captured and put to work by the Black Robes, first at breaking boulders and later cleaning out the horse stables. The latter trope is downplayed as the two are chained only to each other.
* RayGun:
** Unga Khan's "Disintegrator Ray", which can blow up mountains but mostly generates earthquakes to menace the Upper World.
** The Volkite MechaMooks are armed with lightning rifles.
* {{Redshirt}}: Joe The Panicky Sailor doesn't even live out the first chapter.
* SchizoTech: The Black Robes have robots and armomred cars, elevators and electricity, an earthquake machine, the [[Franchise/StarTrek USSEnterprise, Enterprise]], flying torpedoes, view screens {{Video Phone}}s and ray guns. {{Ray Gun}}s. The White Robes have only have flame throwers. The vast majority of everything else is swords, bows, and chariots.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: UngaKhan has Khan's [[VideoPhone "Reflector Plate"]], which can see/hear to have cameras literally ''everywhere''.
any remote location. '''Any''' remote location (including the Upper World). It even automatically knows what location he wants to see without his having to specify.
*TagalongKid TagalongKid: Billy, though on rare occassions he makes himself actually useful -- Billy.
in one instance, by stealing a Volkite's RayGun and rescuing Crash and Diana from Unga Khan's clutches.
*ThoseTwoGuys -- TalkingAnimal: Sinbad the Parrot.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Briny andSalty.
Salty; as noted above, practically all of their scenes and adventures are separate from the main group.
*YellowPeril -- TightropeWalking: Crash does this on a few occasions, walking across high-tension lines to sneak into/out of Unga Khan's tower.
* UnderwaterCity: Technically, Underwater Continent (or "island", as the case may be). Well, to be fair, there is a city.
* VideoPhone: The Reflector Plate, which is both a communications device and SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands.
* AVillainNamedKhan: O hai, Unga Khan!
* AVillainNamedZrg: One of Unga Khan's mooks is named Zogg.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity / ZeroPercentApprovalRating: While Unga Khan clearly has enough loyal followers (and technology) to form a credibly threatening army, the average citizenry of Atlantis appears to live inside the city and support Sharad the High Priest.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Crash wears short-shorts as part of his "Captain Of The Guard" uniform, in stark contrast to the other White Robes in their man-skirts.
* YellowPeril: Unga Khan, who istotally not [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent totally]] [[BlatantLies not]] [[Franchise/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless.
* YouFailPhysicsForever -- Everything. All the time.Merciless]].
* AffablyEvil: When Diana and Prof. Norton are brought before Unga Khan, he is charming and polite, painting High Priest Sharad as the true villain. Subverted when, after Norton lets slip about his rocket-powered sub and how those same rockets could be used to raise Unga Khan's tower/fortress to the ocean surface, Unga Khan [[FauxAffablyEvil drops the pretense]] and shows his true [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying]] colors.
* AlienInvasion: Well, if you consider undersea dwellers to be aliens; but the main plot revolves around wicked Unga Khan trying to raise his technology tower to the surface in order to conquer the world above.
* AmbiguousReligions: Sharad, High Priest Of Atlantis, dresses like a Catholic archbishop, complete with [[ErmineCapeEffect ermine cape]] and crosses on his crown; but the Atlanteans adhere to the classical Greek pantheon (particularly Poseidon the Sea God).
* AmbitionIsEvil: Unga Khan wants to conquer the Upper World, and everyone calls him mad because of it.
* {{Atlantis}}: Sunken underwater for centuries and protected by a huge metal dome, this is where the bulk of the story takes place.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers can pack a whallop, but due to the way they are mounted they cannot be aimed, making it easy to evade their fire.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Crash" Corrigan, U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Notably, at no point in the story does anyone refer to him as "Ray", nor does he himself ever introduce himself using that name, suggesting that the '''character''' name really is Crash.
* BadassInANiceSuit: For the first chapter and half of the second, Crash wears his dark blue Navy dress uniform.
* BittersweetEnding: The Upper World is saved, of course; but [[spoiler:Atlantis is destroyed and all her people dead]].
* BloodlessCarnage:
** {{Mooks}} on both sides of the war are stabbed and arrowed with impunity, with nary a red drop[[labelnote:*]]Well, it's B&W, but you know...[[/labelnote]] to be seen.
** In keeping with their role as PluckyComicRelief, Briny and Salty's AccidentalMurder (which see) leaves behind a dead body which is fully intact and free of visible injury.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: At one point Crash is chased into a cave with a set of bars at the other end. He quickly bends the bars apart, slips through and bends them shut again; and, even though his pursuers are as beefy/bulky as he is, they cannot replicate the feat.
* ChekhovsSkill: At the start of the serial, Crash is shown to be a skilled wrestler, which comes in handy when fighting mooks down in Atlantis.
* ChokeHolds: One of Crash's favourite methods of dispatching his enemies. He's even strong enough to take down two men at once.
* Cliffhanger: The first chapter ends with an almost literal example -- Crash and Billy are trapped
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** Regarding the literal Cliffhangar mentioned above -- in the following episode, Crash and Billy simply climb down the back of the cliff before it is destroyed.
** Chapter Two ends with Crash being shot by a Volkite and falling down an elevator shaft, and [[PlummetPerspective we see the body fall]]. Next episode: the Volkite's shot misses Crash (barely), and Crash jumps into the shaft and grabs hold of a ledge, then climbs down to the bottom.
** The end of Chapter Five sees Crash and DefectorFromDecadence Moloch falling to the ground in the middle of a battle plain, with enemy horses and chariots visibly running over the bodies. Next chapter: The chariots are clearly shown going '''around''' the two.
** And, in a bizarre example which isn't even the episode cliffhanger: Moloch the SixthRanger gets very clearly stabbed through during a sustained battle. Next episode: Moloch staggers to his feet and shakes it off.
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* CoolBoat: Prof. Norton's submarine, which is rocket-propelled. This, in fact, is what gives Unga Khan an idea for how to raise his tower to the Upper World.
* CoolCar: The Volkites' tank, the Juggernaut, looks like a cross between a Chrysler town car and the C.S.S. Virginia (aka Merrimac).
* DeathByLookingUp: [[spoiler:Sharad]] is killed during a bombing run when part of the Atlantean temple collapses on top of him.
* DirtyCoward: Joe The Panicky Sailor is nervous from the start about taking the professor's submarine so deep into the ocean; but when they actually do it he completely loses his shit and tries to crash the sub into the ocean floor. Later, when confronted by the Volkites, Joe ditches the gang and runs away, ironically making himself an easier target in the process.
* TheDragon: Black Robe Ditmar is never far from Unga Khan's side and operates most of the villains' technology from a control box on his belt.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Crash sneaks into Unga Khan's tower, overpowers a couple of soldiers and steals a uniform. It's apparent that he wouldn't want to draw attention to himself whilst sneaking around, but it never really comes into play because the very next scene is him arriving in the tower's control room to rescue his friends. He later does it again to impersonate the MookLieutenant.
* EasilyForgiven:
** Joe The Panicky Sailor goes [[DirtyCoward Space Happy]] and tries to wreck the submarine, to the point where Crash has to slug him to get him under control. Afterwards, everyone is perfectly fine with letting Joe run around loose and continue hanging with them; no one ever so much as '''mentions''' his near-fatal panic attack, not even to dismiss it.
** Crash kills a White Robe (allegedly), breaks a statue of Poseidon (accidentally), and refuses to execute his foe after winning a ForcedPrizeFight. For all of this he is sentenced to death; but after rescuing High Priest Sharad from a kidnapping attempt Crash is not only pardoned on the spot, he is immediately appointed Captain Of The Gaurd.
** Crash's ForcedPrizeFight foe himself, Moloch, switches loyalties and is accepted into the White Robe army without question.
* EmperorScientist: Unga Khan is the despot ruler of Atlantis, and it is notable that only his faction employs what could be described as high technology. Even if he is not the inventor/engineer of said technology, he is highly conversant with it.
* ETGaveUsWiFi: In the {{Denouement}}, Prof. Norton is attempting to reverse-engineer a scavenged Volkite.
* ForcedPrizeFight: What the White Robes do with their Black Robe prisoners.
* HeelFaceTurn / DefectorFromDecadence / SixthRanger: Moloch, Crash's opponent in the ForcedPrizeFight whom Crash refuses to execute, switches allegiance as a result.
* IdiotBall:
** Briny and Salty, after their AccidentalMurder of the guard watching over them, utterly fail to take advantage of the situation and escape. It's possible they were [[WorkingOnTheChainGang still chained together]], but evidence from the film would suggest they're just idiots.
** Crash and Company grab the Ball tightly every time they try to rescue Prof. Norton from the Black Robes. They reason with him and carry him around unbound and unsecured, '''in full knowledge''' that he has been brainwashed by Unga Khan. Inevitably, Norton evades/disrupts their rescue attempts and returns to the villain's side. [[spoiler:At least, until they finally buy a clue and actually undo the brainwashing.]]
* IntrepidReporter: Diana
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** This is the intent behind the White Robes' wall-mounted flame throwers, but... well, see AwesomeButImpractical above.
** For the {{Cliffhanger}} to Chapter Eleven, Crash and Company attempt to disable the rockets that will launch Unga Khan's science tower to the surface; Unga Khan lets them try, confident that the fire from the rockets will kill them. In the next chapter, everyone escapes the rocket flames [[spoiler:except Moloch]].
* LargeHam: Sharad pronounces the name of Unga Khan in a ridiculously dire tone and with a bug-eyed expression, like he's warning his grandkids about the Boogeyman.
* LastOfHisKind: One of the episode-starting intertitles reveals that Sharad is the "last of the line of true Atlanteans."
* MauveShirt: Moloch the SixthRanger becomes Crash's generic sidekick early in the serial, replacing Joe The
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* MookLieutenant: Captain Hakur of the Black Robes, played by Lon Chaney Jr.
* MoreThanMindControl: Unga Khan has a phone booth / [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenstein]] device / smoke machine which can bend anyone's mind to his will. [[spoiler:The good news is, it's reversible.]]
* NeutralFemale: Zig-zagged with Diana. In scenes where the group are held captive, the guys will be tied up (even the child and the old man) but Diana is always left unbound, as if even the villains know she will never take any action. On the other hand, in one instance she grabs a dropped gun to hold the bad guys at bay during an escape attempt, and on another occasion helps Billy try to sabotage Unga Khan's tower-raising rockets.
* NiceHat:
** Of course, there's Sharad's and Unga Khan's respective crowns.
** Naturally, Diana has a nice cloche hat.
** Atlantean military commanders, such as Crash or Unga Khan's {{Mook Lieutenant}}s, wear caps with tall frills like peacock crests (or, for the villains, lightning bolts).
** Furthermore, Crash wears an officer's hat with his Navy uniform, and Billy wears a sailor's cap.
** Most of the rest of the soldiers wear either bullet-shaped helms or cloth skull caps.
* NonIndicativeName: Unga Khan's "Projector" weapon is a giant rocket launcher which shoots flying torpedoes.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** "Awesome" part inverted as follows: In Chapter Two, Crash tells Billy to head back to the submarine before he himself heads off to infiltrate Unga Khan's lair. In the recap cards for Chapter Three, we learn that Billy was captured offscreen by the White Robes and brought before Sharad, High Priest Of Atlantis.
** Briny and Salty [[spoiler:ultimately escape from their captors]] offscreen, with absolutely no hint of how they managed to pull it off. It's not a huge PlotHole, since they have no effect on the actual Plot; but it's still a Hole.
* PluckyComicRelief: Briny and Salty, whose exploits are concurrent with, but entirely discreet from, the main story.
* PlummetPerspective: At the end of Chapter Two, Crash is clearly shown falling down an elevator shaft, leading to Chapter Three's blatant CliffhangerCopout.
* PresidentEvil: Unga Khan. It's even implied that he's not the '''legitimate''' ruler of Atlantis, as High Priest Sharad calls him a "usurper"; another hint that this is so is that he "rules" from his tower rather than from a palace in the capitol city.
* PreviouslyOn: Downplayed to the extreme. Whereas most {{Film Serial}}s utilize some sort of title card at the start of each chapter to recap the story and/or the {{Cliffhanger}}, ''Undersea Kingdom'' employs a series of intercards, each giving a single-sentence sketch of the main characters -- which may or may not relate any updates on their individual situations.
* PrisonersWork / WorkingOnTheChainGang: Briny and Salty's insular subplot involves them being captured and put to work by the Black Robes, first at breaking boulders and later cleaning out the horse stables. The latter trope is downplayed as the two are chained only to each other.
* RayGun:
** Unga Khan's "Disintegrator Ray", which can blow up mountains but mostly generates earthquakes to menace the Upper World.
** The Volkite MechaMooks are armed with lightning rifles.
* {{Redshirt}}: Joe The Panicky Sailor doesn't even live out the first chapter.
* SchizoTech: The Black Robes have robots and armomred cars, elevators and electricity, an earthquake machine, the [[Franchise/StarTrek USS
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* UnderwaterCity: Technically, Underwater Continent (or "island", as the case may be). Well, to be fair, there is a city.
* VideoPhone: The Reflector Plate, which is both a communications device and SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands.
* AVillainNamedKhan: O hai, Unga Khan!
* AVillainNamedZrg: One of Unga Khan's mooks is named Zogg.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity / ZeroPercentApprovalRating: While Unga Khan clearly has enough loyal followers (and technology) to form a credibly threatening army, the average citizenry of Atlantis appears to live inside the city and support Sharad the High Priest.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Crash wears short-shorts as part of his "Captain Of The Guard" uniform, in stark contrast to the other White Robes in their man-skirts.
* YellowPeril: Unga Khan, who is
* YouFailPhysicsForever -- Everything. All the time.
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->''Hey! It's the Undersea Kingdom! For you and for me -- and it's'' FINE!
->--'''Joel and the 'Bots''', [[WithLyrics singing along]] to the opening fanfare.
A Republic serial from 1936. The plot is basically the classic "Atlantis found" story.
U.S. Navy Lt. Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
Does this remind you of anything? *cough* ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' *cough*
The first two installments of ''Undersea Kingdom'' were featured during episodes of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
->--'''Joel and the 'Bots''', [[WithLyrics singing along]] to the opening fanfare.
A Republic serial from 1936. The plot is basically the classic "Atlantis found" story.
U.S. Navy Lt. Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
Does this remind you of anything? *cough* ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' *cough*
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* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference. TheOtherWiki's entry on ''Undersea Kingdom'' has a list of all the times this happens.
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* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference. TheOtherWiki's entry on ''Undersea Kingdom'' has a list of all the times this happens.
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* FashionVictimVillain -- The 'Bots aren't too impressed with the wardrobe of Unga Khan and his cronies, and discuss with Joel world-domination plots and costumes. Joel decides that a true global domination-oriented supervillain will end up "looking like a real snickerdoodle". Cue Dr. Forrester in Deep 13, dressed in an ornate outfit with a puffy shirt, fake hook, eye patch, clown shoes, and a Carmen Miranda hat.
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Lt. Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
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U.S. Navy Lt. Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Professor Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world."
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!!''The Undersea Kingdom'' contains examples of:
* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference.
* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference.
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* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference. TheOtherWiki's entry on ''Undersea Kingdom'' has a list of all the times this happens.
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A Republic serial from 1936. Plot is basically the classic Atlantis found. Lt. Ray (Crash) Corrigan, Billy, Joe, Professor Norton, and the Intrepid Reporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world" Does this remind you of anything? *cough* ''FlashGordon'' *cough*
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->''Hey! It's the Undersea Kingdom! For you and for me -- and it's'' FINE!
->--'''Joel and the 'Bots''', [[WithLyrics singing along]] to the opening fanfare.
A Republic serial from 1936. Plot The plot is basically the classic Atlantis found. "Atlantis found" story.
Lt. Ray(Crash) "Crash" Corrigan, Billy, Joe, Professor Norton, Norton and his son Billy, Joe the panicky sailor, and the Intrepid Reporter IntrepidReporter Diana Compton (and two other guys with a parrot, but they show up so little it doesn't count) journey to Atlantis Atlantis, a "continent" that is under a dome of a gold/copper alloy. There they have misadventures trying to prevent the evil Unga Khan from destroying/conquering Atlantis, and eventually the "upper world" world."
Does this remind you of anything? *cough* ''FlashGordon'' *cough*
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A Republic serial from 1936.
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* CliffhangerCopout: Crash and Billy are trapped on the top of a cliff as Unga Khan fires missiles at them, and we actually see the cliff collapse. Next episode -- They climb down the back before the recap ends. On ''{{MST3K}}'', Tom Servo does the honors of making the ''{{Misery}}'' reference.
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* YellowPeril -- Unga Khan, who is totally not Ming theMerciless
Merciless.
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