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* [[Accidental Hero]]: Florence, or {{spoiler| at least her choice of music}}.
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: See [[Brown Note]] below.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Fortunately, the Malignant [[Plot Tumor]] giant bugs didn't make the jump.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The film was based on a series of rather gruesome trading cards from the 1960s.
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* [[Brown Note]]: The aliens are defeated by {{spoiler|the playing of the Slim Whitman song "Indian Love Call."}}
** Probably a [[Homage]] to ''[[War of the Worlds]]'', in which the rampaging aliens are defeated by a similarly minor effect (germs), and possibly to ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'', in which the tomatoes are slain by a suspiciously similar song.
* [[Celebrity Survivor]]: Fashion [[Talk Show]] host Natalie Lake, singer Tom Jones ([[As Himself]]), and last but not least, Byron Williams, [[
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: An example so completely over the top, it could only possibly be a parody.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The kids are seen early in the movie shooting the aliens in a video game. Guess what happens later on? {{spoiler|During their field trip in the White House they are attacked and they save the day by taking some Martian guns and saving the president. Whether this is good or bad thing is your decision.}}
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* [[Dreadful Musician]]: See [[Brown Note]] above.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Jason Stone can't comprehend his vapid girlfriend somehow managing to outdo him: her show was contacted before his with the news that the President was cutting into everyone's airtime, and later, Donald Kessler appears on her show to discuss the Martians. She's on a ''fashion'' show. Even Natalie's dog won't listen to him.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: Came out the same year as ''[[Independence Day]]''. It lost. In fact, their initial plan was to do ''[[Dinosaurs Attack!]]''<ref>the ''much'' [[Bloodier and Gorier|more graphic]] card series Topps put out in the 80's as a [[Spiritual Successor]] to "Mars"</ref>, but they thought it would wind up being associated with ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. Oops.
* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]: {{spoiler|Yodeling. Making this the most absurd example ever.}} [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] ''and'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|of Awesome]]. It's both great and hilarious.
* [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai]]: They make for good bowling pins.
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* [[Last Kiss]]: Donald and Natalie.
* [[Little Green Men]]
* [["London, England" Syndrome]]: In one scene ''Tom Jones'' comments that he saw another character box "...in Cardiff, Wales once." Jones, being a native Welshman, would probably just say "Cardiff" in real life. Surprising he didn't pick up on this one, really.
** [[Justified Trope|He was talking to Americans.]] Most people outside the UK don't even know if Wales is even its own country, let alone the name of its cities.
*** [[Aliens in Cardiff|My, how times change]] (and become [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]).
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* [[The Power of Rock]]: See [[Brown Note]] above.
* [[Prop Recycling]]: [[Jeff Dunham]] fans, Achmed the Dead Terrorist's eyes are an old, spare pair of martian eyes from this movie.
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Raygun Gothic]]: The Martians' ships and equipment, [[Captain Obvious|including the rayguns]].
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The last shot of the film, in which Tom Jones apparently summons a bunch of woodland creatures like he was [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]].
* [[Roofless Renovation]]
* [[Rule of Perception]]
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