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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 (TV)/Recap|episode recaps]]:
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* [[The Danza]]: Glenn Langan as Glenn Manning.
* [[Dying As Yourself]]: Glenn finally remembers who he is and who Joyce is before being [[Driven to Suicide]].
* [["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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* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: When a truck driver asks what all the food he's delivering is ''really'' for, the sentry says it's for the giant living in the circus tent over there.
* [[Shrunken Organ]]: Glenn's heart.
* [[Square
* [[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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* [[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 The Mouse?]]: The audience never DID learn where that doomed pilot (the one Glenn was trying to rescue) came from in the first place. In fact, he was never mentioned again past that.
** He was vaporized.
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