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Upon landing on one of the planets (actually the mountains surrounding Los Angeles) the scientists confront all manner of outsized reptiles (courtesy of clips from ''[[One Million BC]]''). When the planet's "dinosaurs" threaten our heroes, the huge lizards are dissipated by an atomic-bomb blast (more library footage). Having made the planet safe for colonization (?), the space travelers return to Earth.
 
For the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode see [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)/Recap/S02 E10 King Dinosaur|here]].
 
=== ''King Dinosaur'' provides examples of: ===
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The atomic battery.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Both Ralph and Nora get some of this in separate animal attacks; but Dick tops everyone when he has to [[Shirtless Scene|tear his entire shirt off]] to make a tourniquet.
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Subverted twice over, in that they don't die and they didn't even get to the sex -- but it's a close call on both counts.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bees]]: Especially giant, superimposed bees.
* [[Hard Work Montage]]
* [[It's All My Fault]]: Ralph's near death-by-croc comes as a side result of his and Pat's sneaking off to snog in the night. Pat is so distraught by this that she is [[Neutral Female|unable to help patch him up afterward]].
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Dick needed to wrap a wound.
* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: Dick notes that the giant iguana is identical to the tyrannasaurus rex. Um... no?
* [[Stock Footage]]: Not unlike ''[[The Deadly Mantis]]'' (which would feature in [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] some years later), ''King Dinosaur'' opens with about ten minutes of stock footage. Unlike the latter, however, here the stock footage is actually relevant to the story at hand -- it details construction of the rocket which will take the scientists to Planet Nova.
** The stock footage also includes a callout to the [[Chekhov's Gun|atomic battery]] and its explosive potential.
* [[Title Drop]]
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