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{{quote|''What sin could a man commit in a single lifetime to bring'' this '' upon himself?''|'''Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning'''}}
''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'' is a giant monster movie made in 1957, directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon; it's also a [[Trope Codifier]] for "[[Attack of the
Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Manning, Korean War veteran, is one of the lucky soldiers sitting in the trenches waiting to witness the test of a new nuclear weapon, a "plutonium bomb". The bomb doesn't go off when it's triggered, and Glenn gets caught in the blast when [[Too Dumb to Live|he races to rescue the pilot of a plane that crashes in the test area]]. It seems to be enough of a miracle for him to be found alive with severe third degree burns, but... well, this ''is'' how ''The [[
Sure enough, his burns are miraculously healed the next day; and soon after that Glenn's fiancee learns he's been spirited away from his original hospital to an abandoned medical facility in the desert. Traveling there, she does eventually learn that, [[I Love Nuclear Power|exposure to the bomb]] has caused Glenn's body to grow out of control and he's become a giant. And, he's continuing to grow at an alarming rate. Even worse, [[You Fail Biology Forever|since his heart's a single cell]], it's not keeping up with the rest of him, causing fainting spells, chest pain, the risk of eventual death... oh, and mental trauma on top of the obvious problems of being fifty feet tall.
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The film [[Developing Doomed Characters|spent quite a bit of time]] justifying tropes like [[I Love Nuclear Power]] audiences now take for granted. It also went into detail about Glenn's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|growing]] angst and insanity caused by his condition.
1958 saw the release of a sequel: ''War of the Colossal Beast''. In this installment, Glenn is found alive in Mexico after the events of the first film, scarred, mindless, and hunting bread trucks to survive; his ever-devoted <s>fiancee</s> [[Remember the New Guy?|sister]] finds him and leads the U.S. military to bring him back to Los Angeles. [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|They can't restore Glenn's memory]], and he inevitably goes on another rampage. Glenn's sister talks the Beast into freeing a bus of students he held captive, and Glenn, suddenly regaining his humanity, commits suicide by electrical power lines, somehow both disintegrating himself and turning the film from black-and-white to color for the last minute.
For the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' versions of these films, please see the following [[Mystery Science Theater 3000
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=== ''The Amazing Colossal Man'' and ''War of the Colossal Beast'' contain examples of: ===▼
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* [[The Adjectival Superhero]]
* [[Attack of the
* [[The Danza]]: Glenn Langan as Glenn Manning.
* [[Dying
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Attempted to restore Glenn's memory in the sequel.
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]
* [[Magic Pants]]: Averted (or at least [[Lampshaded]]) for once.
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* [[Monumental Battle]]: The climax happens atop Hoover Dam, Glenn also destroys a few famous (circa 1950s) pieces of the Vegas Strip along the way.
* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Glenn in the sequel.
* [[No More for Me]]: What a drunk says when he sees Glenn.
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* [[Shrunken Organ]]: Glenn's heart.
* [[Square-Cube Law]]: Played straight, although the "heart as a single cell" bit was probably meant in the same spirit as an aversion.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Glenn's devoted and loyal sister Joyce [[Remember the New Guy?|who never appeared in the original film]] is a lot like Carol, his devoted and loyal fiancee who [[Brother Chuck|never appeared in the sequel]].
* [[Tagline]]: Several, such as:
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* [[Technicolor Death]]: Glenn in the sequel, literally.
* [[Title Drop]]
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Let's go over this again. Glenn ''runs into the test site of an experimental new bomb'', shortly after the bomb has been triggered but has not detonated yet, against the direct orders of his superior officer
* [[Two-Faced]]: In ''War of the Colossal Beast'', half of Glenn's face has been left as exposed bone with an empty eye socket.
** [[The Other Darrin]]: This was a perfect excuse to cast another actor as Glenn.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: The heart is but a ''single'' cell? I just... I need to go lie down for a while.
** They probably got the "single cell" thing from the fact that heart muscle is ''syncytial'', which means that its cells are not separated by membranes.
* [[What Happened to
** He was vaporized.
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