The Toxic Avenger: Difference between revisions

Now he's the Toxic Avenger, a Hideously Deformed Creature Of Superhuman Size And Strength. After hooking up with a blind, blonde female accordion player, he proceeds to beat up the baddies (and boy are they bad) in the most gore-tastic ways possible.

 

 

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* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Toxie rips a guy's arm off in the first film. The actor only had one arm to begin with (you can tell because he never ''uses'' his right arm).

* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]'s [[Elite Mook|Hench-lady]] gives this to Toxie after she receives a [[Groin Attack|kick to the crotch]]... by his blind ''girlfriend'', no less!

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: the kid-friendly "Toxic Crusaders".

* [[Author Filibuster]]: ''The Last Temptation of Toxie'' is pretty much entirely an anti-corporation [[Author Filibuster]]. {{spoiler|The head of the Apocalypse Corporation is literally [[The Devil]].}}

* [[Blind and the Beast]]: Though strangely when she can see again, she thinks Toxie is the sexiest man alive, and that normal people are hideous.

* [[Body Horror]]: Melvin turning into Toxie, for one.

** {{spoiler|And Toxie turning back into Melvin in the third film.}}

*** Sarah's last name is revealed to be Junko in Part IV. Melvin may have acquired his last name through Sarah.

**** The idea to apologize for II & III in IV was the editors' idea. If [[Lloyd Kaufman]]'s first book is any indication, Uncle Lloydie has a rather soft spot for III. See also the Lighter and Softer entry on this page.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The Toxic Avenger tends to do this to his victims, [[Jerkass|but they]] [[Asshole Victim|always have]] [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|it coming.]]

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Tito and Sweetie Honey in part 4 are supposed to be 13. ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Riiiiight.]]''

** One of Toxie's victims in the first film is a man who's pimping out a twelve-year-old girl. If she's twelve, this website is the Gutenberg Project.

* [[Detect Evil]]: Toxie has an innate ability to sense evildoers.

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Lampshaded in ''Citizen Toxie'':

** Marissa Tomei appears onscreen for about 5 seconds in the 1st film, before she became famous.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: One of these ends with Melvin going out the window and taking a swan dive into the barrel of toxic waste.

* [[In Love with Your Carnage]]: The female villains in the first film are sexually excited by blood and carnage by their boyfriend's turning pedestrians into roadkill... {{spoiler|and taking photos of it afterward}}! Yeah, it's that kind of movie.

* [[Jerkass]]: At the end of the first movie, the crowd ''[[And There Was Much Rejoicing|cheers]]'' when the mayor gets disemboweled.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: In the first movie, the villains shoot a blind girl's seeing-eye dog. This remains ''the'' most complained-about scene in Troma history.

* [[Large Ham]]: Some of the characters in the series. Bozo in the first movie is probably the most infamous example.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Parts II and III were deliberately less graphic than the first film, yet the MPAA still removed a bit of stuff compared to the director's cuts.

** The animated children's series had this trope in spades.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie moves from a romance scene straight into a dark horror scene, where the scary monster is the same person who was just in the romance.

* [[The Other Marty]]: John Altamura, the original actor that was hired to play Toxie in the second and third films, was fired halfway through filming due to an alleged case of [[Small Name, Big Ego]]. Because they couldn't afford to re-shoot the footage, they just had his stunt double, Ron Fazio play Toxie for the rest of the shoot. In a rare case of this trope being acknowledged, both men were credited as Toxie in the finished films.

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: Toxie's leitmotif in the first film is "Night on Bald Mountain".

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]/[[Bond One-Liner]]: Toxie is one of the all time masters of the bon mote, up there with [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]], [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]], and [[Evil Dead|Ash Williams]].

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Practically Tito's catchphrase.

* [[Sequel Goes Foreign]]: [[The Toxic Avenger]] 2 takes place in Japan.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Part IV references ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' numerous times.

{{quote|'''Toxie:''' "I don't think we're in Tromaville anymore, Toto."

'''Tito:''' "Tito! My name is Tito!" }}

** At one point, the Noxious Offender gets a nosebleed. Cue him muttering "noseblood" and [[Citizen Kane|dropping a snowglobe]]. Then again, since the movie is titled "Citizen Toxie", it would be odd ''not'' to have a ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' reference.

* [[Spank the Cutie]]: Averted to one of the villainess' bad babes who tried to [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|rape]] and brutalize Toxie's girlfriend. Toxie gives the scarlet woman an equally red behind!

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Muffled 80's pop plays while the villains [[Complete Monster|run down an innocent young boy for fun and back the car up over his head]], [[Your Head Asplode|crushing it completely]]. They then proceed to get out of the car and the girls take pictures of the incident [[Nightmare Fetishist|for future use]].

* [[Two-Part Trilogy]]: The second and third films were originally shot together all as one film. But it was so freakishly long that they divided the movie in half during post production.

** Averted with the fourth movie, which was thrown in a decade or so after the previous films.

* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Nipples.

* [[Working Title]]: ''The Monster Hero'', which is why the line gets thrown around so much in the first movie - it was supposed to be a [[Title Drop]].

 

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