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''Alien Nation'' is a [[Buddy Cop Show]] with a [[
As the story goes, at some point [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the early 1990s]], a malfunctioning starship loaded with a population of 250,000 alien slave laborers landed in the desert outside Los Angeles. The Newcomers (their real name is the Tenctonese) were remarkably adaptable to new information and environments. They are extremely strong and can learn quickly. They become intoxicated from [[Alien Catnip|spoiled milk]], and [[Kill It
The Newcomers had two personal names, the one that they were given by their parents or former masters, and an "Earth name" handed out by the immigration service. With 250,000 names to distribute, some of them are quite odd. George's name was originally "Sam Francisco", but he changed it at Matt's request. Other odd Newcomer names: "Dallas Fort-Worth", "Amos N. Andy", "Polly Wannacracker", "Thomas and Alva Edison".
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* [[Death World]]: Earth is practically one of these for the Tenctonese; see the explanation for Weaksauce Weakness.
* [[Defusing the Tykebomb]]: Susan does this to {{spoiler|Emily, just in the nick of time}}
* [[Desperately Looking for
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: George is guilty of this. He throws Buck around and almost strikes him. Later, he's physically rough with Emily as well as yelling at her while he tries to wash off an overseer mark she made on her wrist. Yelling at a child is usually non-abusive, but in the second case, Emily hadn't intentionally done anything wrong. It was akin to a human child realising that people are scared of/dislike the Nazi swastika or KKK hood and reasoning that it one of them would make a good Halloween costume.
** But keep in mind the situation was also equivalent to a child dressing up as a Nazi and walking up to a parent who was a Holocaust survivor. Slavery wasn't something George had heard about on the news, it was something he'd ''lived through'' about a decade before. His anger is pretty understandable.
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** Special notice must be given to "The Enemy Within," the fourth movie, which deals with the [[Fantastic Racism]] the Newcomers feel towards the Eenos, an untouchable class of Newcomers. The Eenos were the ones given the most disgusting jobs on the slaveship, such as to do with wastes and the dead. The other Newcomers like to believe that there is something dirty about the Eenos themselves, rather than admit that they would have done the same things if forced to by their slavemasters.
* [[Fantastic Slur]]: Human bigots refer to Newcomers as "slags" or "spongeheads". Humans, in return, are called "Terts."
* [[Firing in
* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: Inverted, in that in the Tenctonese language, "Sykes" roughly translates as "excrement cranium".
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: George Francisco and Matt Sikes, respectively. But hilariously reversed in 'Contact' against an Anti-Newcomer suspect.
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* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: The newcomers get drunk on sour milk.
* [[Insufficiently Advanced Alien]]: As a slave race, that wasn't their ship or their tech. Thus, they end up no more advanced than humanity.
* [[Jerk
** Grazer has more of a focus on the "jerk" part of the equasion, but it's clear he cares about his officers (and Albert) very much.
* [[Knight Templar]]: a few, such as {{spoiler|the old Newcomer man who hunts down Overseers and kills them}} and {{spoiler|the leader of the binnaums who has those who leave his order killed}}
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'''George:''' Do you think they might? I only tapped it. }}
* [[Punny Name]]: Most of the Newcomers, including George (whose human name officially was "Sam Francisco"). Explained as the immigration authorities getting burned out assigning names to the Newcomers and resorting to a form of sarcastic humor. Likewise with the [[Pun-Based Title|title of the series itself]].
* [[Puny Earthlings]]: The Newcomers have great strength, stamina, durability, ability to survive in environments humans can't, extra hearts, and if they overdose on an [[Fantastic Drug|extraterrestrial]] [[Psycho Serum|narcotic]], they transform into [[Ax Crazy|murderous, supercharged berserkers]]. But they do have a [[Weaksauce Weakness|strange weakness]] or two: [[Kill It
** And in the books it comes up they don't handle cold well at all: evidently their common buyers favored hot, dry worlds and they've been adapted to deserts. This is a minor factor contributing to their continued concentration in Los Angeles.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: The Udara.
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* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: The aliens use the term "sykes", which is later revealed to literally translate as "excrement cranium". Coincidentally, the main human character is named [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...|Sykes]]...
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Newcomer flesh dissolves on contact with ''[[Kill It
** Uncle Moodri [[Charles Atlas Superpower|accelerates this adaptation]] until he can ''stand in the ocean'' via his spiritual powers.
* [[What Happened to
** Explained in the first movie: Newcomer infants enter a cocoon at around a year old that [[Sarcasm Mode|protects the writers from having to mention them for the rest of the TV movies]].
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well-Intentioned Extremists]]: the Udara, a resistance movement against the Overseers during enslavement, who used any means necessary, up to and including creating sleeper agents (many of whom were children).
* [[Yiddish
* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: In the final movie, George and Susan have basically this argument about the Udara.
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