Mystery Men/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Adaptation Displacement: The movie really has nothing to do with the great Flaming Carrot comics it takes its name from, but it's easily good enough on its own.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Is the spirit of the Bowler's father really in the bowling ball, or does the Bowler have some form of telekinesis (inherited from her father) and an Imaginary Friend and/or schizophrenia?
  • Non Sequitur Scene: The entire skunk-humping-spleen's-leg scene.
  • Blessed with Suck: Mr Furious who is supposed to have the power of unstoppable rage, and never seems to use it, but when you realise he tears cars apart with his bare hands after his landlady/employer rags on so much how even tempered he actually is. Then Casanova Frankenstein puts him straight into mad.
  • Complete Monster: Cassanova Frankenstein.
  • Deader Than Disco: Tony P's stake in Casanova's takeover is to resurrect disco in general.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Casanova Frankenstein relishes a hammy moment where he eats an apple.
    • Lance Hunt pretends to be Captain Amazing's sponsor as cover. Currently[when?], Batman's doing the exact same thing.
  • Nightmare Fuel: What Captain Amazing warps into at his death.
    • "I don't think he's going to pull through."
  • Nightmare Retardant: The Seinfeldian Conversation before, during, and after Captain Amazing's death
  • Retroactive Recognition: Dane Cook appears as the Waffle Man aka The Waffler during the superhero try-outs.
    • Also Doug Jones is Pencil Head in the aforementioned auditions.
    • Cee-Lo Green to those who have known him post-"Crazy".