YMMV / Dr. Cyclops

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: Poor Pedro's Heroic Sacrifice. Bad enough to be blasted with a shotgun, but to be blasted with a shotgun while the size of a G.I. Joe. Ouch!
• Complete Monster: Dr. Alexander Thorkel is a biologist seeking to perfect size reduction. Upon discovering an abandoned gold mine rich with pitchblende, Thorkel began to conduct his research. When Dr. Mendoza—Thorkel's former student and lab assistant—threatens to shut down his research, Thorkel exposes him to a lethal amount of radiation, causing his skin to ignite as well as his skull to glow. With his eyesight worsening, Thorkel invites three scientists to his Peruvian home; angered by their continual intrusion in his plans, Thorkel traps the group in a radiation chamber, and shrinks them. Seeing his victims as nothing more than lab rats, Thorkel kills Dr. Bulfinch upon realizing that the shrinking process was temporary. Chasing the group into the jungle, Thorkel blasts Pedro with the full gauge of his shotgun, and sets the grass ablaze in an attempt to kill the three survivors in one fell swoop.
• Designated Hero: Bill. Let's face it, he's a snarky jerk. But he manages to rise to the challenge given his circumstances.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Pedro to some extent, although it may be an aversion because he is quite intelligent and resourceful.
• I Am Not Shazam: The villain is named Dr. Thorkel, not Dr. Cyclops. "Dr. Cyclops" is an insult hurled at him by the shrunken Bulfinch at one point, in reference to his metaphorical narrow vision. He does eventually sarcastically accept it as a nickname for himself after Bill smashes one of the lenses of his glasses, though.
• Special Effects Failure: While generally the film features fantastic effects for 1940, the shot of Thorkel falling into the mine at the end is particularly bad.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The special effects look impressive even now, and had earned an Oscar nomination at the 1941 Academy Awards (though this movie lost to The Thief of Bagdad (1940)).