YMMV / Supersonic Man

• Angst? What Angst?: Patricia's father is kidnapped by Gulik. She seems worried...until she meets Paul and then she magically is smiling, laughing, and even has dinner at home with him, complete with dancing and champagne. It's like she completely forgot about the kidnapping and thinks she's in a rom-com.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Every scene with the drunk is this, as it has zero effect on the plot and doesn't affect any of the characters. The closest it comes to having any relevance to the plot is Supersonic tosses his watch out the window when his masters call for him to return to the ship and the drunk finds the watch, which results in him and his dog being sucked up by a tractor beam into the alien ship.
  • There is also during the scene where the henchmen are trying to board a boat with Patricia and Supersonic stops them. He changes one guy's gun into a banana randomly and the guy shouts, "I hate bananas!" and the hoofs it to the boat without Patricia.
• Complete Monster: Dr. Gulik is a Mad Scientist out to Take Over the World. To this end, he kidnaps a scientist who invented the world's most efficient fuel, massacring everybody in the military base he was in to do so. He tries to get his rival to give up by means of torture, and tries to kidnap his daughter when he refuses. Not caring that his plans could very well lead to humanity's demise, Gulik kills more soldiers in order to steal some fuel to tide himself over. Killing two goons who failed to capture the girl, Gulik doesn't let them live even after learning their claims of being stopped by Supersonic Man were true. Gulik decides to enact a plan to lure Supersonic to him, by threatening to kill the scientist, his daughter and the population of Manhattan. When Supersonic Man arrives to confront Gulik, Gulik destroys his base and leaves all his men to die with his foe.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dr. Gulik crosses it when he threatens to completely annihilate all of New York City to get Supersonic to bend to his will.
• Narm: It is absolutely everywhere in the movie, from Cameron Mitchell's hammy acting to the terrible drunk comic relief character. If it's really a mockbuster and not just an incredibly dumb Superman ripoff, then it was quite successful because almost every moment of the movie is ridiculous.
• Special Effects Failure: Dear God, everywhere. Supersonic is clearly a small toy or a mannequin during his flying scenes. The shots where he isn't a toy or a mannequin have the actor very awkwardly splayed out with his cape barely moving even though he's flying and he keeps awkwardly moving his arms like he doesn't know what to do with them. Then there's the fake bulldozer he picks up so Patricia doesn't crash into it. When he gets his ass kicked at the docks, the bad guys tie him up, put him in a burlap sack, and throw him overboard; when he's supposedly in the bag, it's very clear the actor is just in a tub or a tank with the camera right above the water instead of him being fully submerged and there is stock footage of a shark that is clearly nowhere near him to try and up the ante on the scene of him potentially drowning. The scene where Gulik traps him is possibly the worst except for the clearly toy helicopter that lands on his base. For the "ice" effect, it's clear the actor is standing behind some frosted, wavy glass. When he first flies down into the underground base, they have a video of him flying with dirt blowing past. Same for the lava—it's just an image of Supersonic with some red liquid superimposed on it. Lastly, hilariously, when he brings the professor to the hospital, it's pretty clear the actor is on some kind of rolling apparatus as he's upright, but he moves in a straight line without a stride. But all of these examples also make the movie unintentionally hilarious.
• Values Dissonance: The drunk character would not fly by today's standards. Not only does he have nothing to do with the actual plot or story, but it's not funny to see a homeless drunk stumbling around and Supersonic actually enables him after finding him in the backseat of his car having drank all the champagne. He gives him a small bottle of wine after he flies to go get more (yes, that's really a thing he does with his superpowers) and the drunk ends up abducted by Supersonic's masters in the end, leaving his fate unknown. Mike from Rifftrax sums it up nicely, "Hahaha, he's desperately addicted to a substance that is killing him!"
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Supersonic aka Paul definitely counts, as he has no discernible personality and does some outright rude things over the course of the movie that don't befit a hero. For one, he brushes off Patricia's concerns when the kidnappers told her not to call the number at a certain time of day. He didn't bother to call the cops to retrieve the two blown up henchmen until Patricia pressed him to do so. He then attempts to set a trap by putting her in a bar alone so he can confront or follow the kidnappers, but he gets his ass kicked and she gets kidnapped. The only reason he gets her back is the Mooks being stupid cowards who flee when they see his powers. He makes a rather insensitive joke after Dr. Gulik blows up her house and stole champagne and wine from a random restaurant. He also enables the local drunk by giving him some wine. He spends all his time as Paul seducing the woman whose father he is supposed to be rescuing and he shows Dr. Gulik no mercy, instead blowing up his escape shuttle and killing him rather than bringing him to justice back on Earth. He really isn't the best guy and is a borderline Designated Hero.