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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 [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'' got started.
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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: ===
* [[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]]
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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:
{{quote| ''<small>Growing...!</small> Growing...! '''Growing...!''' To a Giant! To a Monster! When will it Stop!''}}
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* [[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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