YMMV / J-Men Forever

• Awesome Music: "Get Up and Enjoy Yourself" (by Head East) playing as New York is being destroyed in the climax.
• Fridge Brilliance: The J-Men and the Lightning Bug perfectly complement each other: the former are multiple characters each portrayed by a single serial character, and the latter is a single character portrayed by multiple serial characters.
• Older Than They Think: The Lightning Bug dresses up in his "Darth Vader costume" when he goes to bomb M.U.S.A.C. in his flying wing. The scene being gag-dubbed is from 1938 serial The Fighting Devil Dogs, and it's been speculated that the costume worn by the supervillain was an inspiration for Vader's look, given that George Lucas is a fan of film serials.
• Retroactive Recognition: Leonard Nimoy's role in Zombies Of The Stratosphere gets referenced with the obligatory Spock joke.
  Moon Goon 1: Hey, ain't that Leonard Nimoy?
  Moon Goon 2: I don't know...can't see his ears.
• Rooting for the Empire: It's obvious we're supposed to cheer for the Lightning Bug and our God-given right to smoke dope, rather than the straight-laced good guys.
• Special Effects Failure: Lampshaded with various gags.
  • A Yellow Peril villain holds up a model ship and places it in a fish tank, saying it will be sent to rendezvous with a "normal sized submarine".
  • The Last Words of a J-Man killed by Sombra the Spider Woman. "Argh! Rubber spider venom!"
  • The Caped Madman picks up a bandit so he can be thrown at another bandit. The first bandit somehow turns into a stuffed dummy between cuts, so the Caped Madmen quips, "Take this, dummy!"

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