Let's make Earth great again
Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a Finnish-German comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola, released on 16 January 2019 in Finland. It is a sequel to Iron Sky and takes place over 20 years after the first film.
At the end of the first film, Earth is destroyed in a nuclear war. The president of the USA takes shelter in an underground basis in the Antarctic which is revealed to be a gateway to the Hollow World, a group of survivors manage to fly to the moon in the last space ship and colonize the base of the Moon Nazis, and Vladimir Putin dances.
20 years later, a flying saucer from Earth approaches the moon base, where the protagonist Obi Washington, daughter of the protagonists of the first movie, lives. This and the appearance of the presumably dead moon Führer Wolfgang Kortzfleisch leads to the protagonist making a voyage to earth to find a power source that may ensure humanitys survival.
A sequel, Iron Sky: The Endgame about a Russian megapolis on Mars was announced on the official website for 2020/2021.
Iron Sky: The Coming Race contains examples of:
- Abusive Precursors: Kortzfleisch is the creator of humanity, but he doesn't treat them any better than the other Vril do.
- Adolf Hitlarious: Hitler riding a T. rex is one of the villains of the film.Sieg Heil, Mutterfickers
- After the End: The story takes place after a nuclear war has destroyed the surface of the earth and the only survivors live on the moon.
- Ancient Astronauts: The Vril came to earth in the mesozoic and created humans from monkeys.
- Artistic License – Paleontology:
- The classic featherless raptors.
- The monkeys which Kortzfleisch feeds with Vril energy to make them into humans are clearly modern monkeys and in no way resemble the actual ancestors of humans at the time of the dinosaurs (they were closer to rodents).
- Artistic License – Space: The filmmakers seem to think that a ship would take 80 to 100 years to reach Mars from the Moon. Here's why that's total crap: Lunar escape velocity is about 2.38 kilometers per second (i.e. they would have to have at least that much to be able to take off from the Moon and set course for Mars). The average distance between Earth and Mars is 225,000,000 kilometers. This means that the trip would take about 1094 days or just under 3 years. And the outer shot of the spacecraft shows working engines, meaning it's accelerating, so the total time should be even shorter. Even if Mars happens to be at the worst possible position for the journey, it would only take 2 years for it to be back in position.
- Bio-Armor: The Vril's spacesuits look like this.
- Burial in Space: Obi launches an empty coffin with a photo of Renate into space at the end of the film, since her body was left behind on the moon base. When she tries to do the same with Malcolm's body, he gets up and reveals he wasn't really dead.
- Bury Your Gays: Played With. Shortly after it's revealed that Malcolm is gay, he dies from a food allergy. When they try to bury him, he awakes just in time to avoid being Buried Alive and reveals that looking like he's dead is part of his allergic reaction.
- Bus Crash: James Washington died sometime before this movie. Renate is shown to be praying for him at the Jobsist church.
- Cain and Abel: Subverted. Both Wolfgang Kortzfleisch and Adolf Hitler are bastards.
- The Caligula: The real one appears because he's a Vril. Even among those he's a Cloudcuckoolander.
- Chekhov's Gun: The excommunication app and Sasha's Nokia 3310 are used to kill Wolfgang once and for all.
- Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: While the first film mainly was about Nazi conspiracy theories, this one goes all out and adds a Reptilian Conspiracy, Vril, Hollow World, the Holy Grail and Ancient Astronauts to the mix.
- Crapsack World: The surface of the earth is a nuclear wasteland, a few survivors are struggling in a former Nazi base on the moon and the Hollow World is populated by Lizard Folk who take pride in destroying humanity. It gets worse over the course of the movie.
- Disappeared Dad: While Renate Richter from the first movie is still around, with her daughter Obi being the protagonist, her father James Washington has died before the events of the movie.
- Disaster Scavengers: Sasha managed to repair a Reichsflugscheibe while living in the desolated post-apocalyptic Earth where nobody suspected any survivors.
- Domesticated Dinosaurs: The Vril use these, despite their space age technology.
- Duct Tape for Everything: This is how Sasha secures the Holy Grail to the evacuation ship. And it holds. FYI, Russians actually use electrical tape for everything, since they have no duct tape.
- Dumb Muscle: Malcolm, though he sometimes surprises us.
- Eagleland: Sasha assumes that the evacuation ship absolutely has to have weapons, since it was made by Americans. Obi assures him that it doesn't.
- Earth That Was: Earth is a nuclear wasteland. The Hollow World is still fine, but only the Vril know about it. Most of the surviving humans are living in the old Nazi base on the moon.
- Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: In stark contrast to the Used Future look of the rest of the moon base, the church of the Jobsists looks like this, which is very fitting.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Blondie the T. rex.
- Flying Saucer: Sasha managed to get one of the Nazi saucers from the first film to run.
- Generation Ships: The transport ship will take between 80 to 100 years to reach Mars (it's never specified why, given that it would take about 7 months at our current tech level, and theirs is a little higher), so Obi and Sasha state that their children would be the ones to lay eyes on Mars.
- Glorious Mother Russia: During the first part of the credits, there's a slow zoom in on Mars and upon arriving there, the camera pans around the planet to show that there's already a Russian colony on it that's shaped like a giant hammer and sickle. Also crosses with Soviet Superscience.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Renate stays behind to fight Hitler. She manages to kill him, but is then mortally wounded by Wolfgang and is crushed by falling debris.
- Historical Domain Character: Most of the Vril. There are Genghis Khan, Margaret Thatcher, Adolf Hitler, Caligula, Josef Stalin, Kim Jong-un, Idi Amin, Pope Urban II, Steve Jobs and Osama bin Laden, along with the still living Mark Zuckerberg and Vladimir Putin.
- Hollow World: A large chunk of the story is set there.
- Holy Grail: It is the source of the Vril's power.
- Homeworld Evacuation:
- At the end of the first movie, the human survivors evacuated Earth in the only still functioning space ship and took shelter at the Nazi base on the moon.
- Apparently, the Russians managed to get some of their people to the Mars in the end of the first movie.
- And then at the end of the movie, all the survivors evacuate the moon base and head for Mars.
- Hypocrite: Donald, the head of the Jobsist church, executes whoever is guilty of jail-breaking their phones, with the "iExcommunicate" app that causes them to blow up. Wolfgang took his phone, and the heroes manage to kill him with that same app by linking an old Nokia phone to it, meaning that Donald was jail-breaking his own phone as well.
- I Lied: Even Malcolm knows that Hitler never keeps his word, even reminding Donald about Czechoslovakia.
- Irony: The marketing of the movie often uses the phrase "Let's make Earth great again". This is ironic as the only place on earth which is still habitable, the Hollow World, gets destroyed by the end of the film, making the planet completely inhospitable.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Hitler doesn't finish calling Renate a filthy whore before being crushed by a falling piece of machinery.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The President, who's responsible for causing the nuclear war through sheer dickery in the first movie, is torn apart as punishment for it in this one.
- "Last Supper" Steal: The Vril leaders in Agartha are all seated on the same side of a long table, with the President in the middle of them.
- Lawful Stupid: Malcolm, who, upon agreeing to go on a dangerous adventure, removes his protective armor because he's not supposed to wear it off-duty and gets fined heavily if he does.
- Literary Allusion Title: The title is a Shout-Out to the novel The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, from which it takes the concept of Vril (who were in the Hollow Earth).
- Living Dinosaurs: They survived in the Hollow World.
- Loser Gets the Girl: Sasha and Obi finally get together in the end.
- Lost World: The Hollow World is a typical example.
- Mysterious Antarctica: The location of the entrance to the Hollow World.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: The female Vril when they are in their human form.
- Organic Technology: The Vril spaceship has an organic-looking tail and some more organic parts, while most of it looks like rock.
- Polluted Wasteland: The whole surface of the earth.
- Raptor Attack: A rare domesticated example, but they still look like they came straight out of Jurassic Park.
- Reptilian Conspiracy: The Vril can shift between human and lizard forms and play pretty much the same role as they do in most conspiracy theories.
- Rule of Cool: The driving force behind the whole movie.
- Russian Guy Suffers Most: It looks like this because Sasha finds it impossible to live up to Malcolm, but in the end he gets the girl.
- Shout-Out: Obi running with a sledgehammer in her hands, smashing the Jobsist chapel's glass walls with it and interrupting Donald's speech is made to look like Ridley Scott's famous 1984 Apple commercial, in an ironic reversal since that ad was meant to represent Apple ending "Big Brother" (IBM)'s monopoly.
- "Shut Up" Kiss: In the ending, while Obi has an discussion with Sasha, Sasha interrupts him by grabbing his collar, pulling his face to hers and planting a kiss on him.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Inverted. There was a trailer in which Donald Trump appears, but in the end of the trailer it's confirmed that he will definitely not appear in the film.
- Space Is Noisy: Zig-zagged. Some scenes in space are completely silent, while others are not.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The Moon Nazis from the first film pretty much set the stage for this one.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Hitler himself appears, along with the Nazi base and the moon Führer from the first film.
- Time Skip: The movie take place 29 years after the first one.
- Too Dumb to Live:
- Donald and his Jobsist cronies. Trusting Hitler and Jobs to obey an End-User-License Agreement, which they, naturally, didn't even bother reading, because he believes they're holy and possess divine power.
- Also Renate, who stands there in wonder after killing Hitler instead of running to the ship, which is what allows Kortzfleisch to shoot her.
- Underground City: Agartha, the city of the Vril.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Vril are able to shift between fully human, mostly human with a few scales and fully reptilian.
- Wasteland Elder: Renate Richter from the first movie is now one.
- Wrench Wench: Obi is a skilled mechanic.
- You Have Failed Me: Hitler has the other Vril tear the President to pieces for causing a nuclear war and ruining Earth's surface. Also, if any Jobsist is caught jail-breaking their phone, they are "excommunicated", which is code for being blown up.
