Alice Cooper has said that his onstage persona was inspired by The Great Tyrant in 1968 film Barbarella and, er, Emma Peel from The Avengers.
He said: "Without Barbarella there would be no Alice Cooper. When I saw Anita Pallenberg playing the Great Tyrant in that movie in 1968, wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, I thought, 'That's what Alice should look like.' That and a bit of Emma Peel from the Avengers".