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Gordon’s alive!

Flash, I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth! Sampled for Queen’s soundtrack single — along with the truly meme-worthy “Gordon’s alive!” — it’s a line that nails the very essence of 1980’s Flash Gordon.

It’s all there in those 14 breathless words: the incorruptible innocence of its heroes, the life-and-death stakes, the eternal wink that hovers over

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