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* [[Berserk Button]]: Fighter jets flying overhead send the giant aliens into a killing rampage, presumably because they've come to associate the sound with [[Death From Above]].
* [[Bioluminescence Is Cool]]
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* [[Crazy Homeless People]]: The only person left in the Texas Evacuated Zone is a mentally-ill bag lady who apparently didn't evacuate with the sane folks.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: An unwanted bunch of aliens from Mexico are constantly attempting to cross the US border and actually succeeding ''despite'' a giant fortified wall being put in place to stop them. Substitute "aliens" with "aliens" and you've got the American immigration controversy.
* [[Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods]] / [[Combat Tentacles]]
* [[Great Wall]]: To keep the monsters out of the US, a huge wall is built along the US-Mexico border. The main characters are trapped in Mexico and are trying to reach the wall to cross back into the United States -- but they may not be the only ones trying to reach and pass it.
* [[How We Got Here]]: The movie opens with a convoy of soldiers retrieving a young couple, then getting attacked by a giant alien which kills or wounds the woman. The rest of the movie depicts how the couple got to that point, {{spoiler|but ends before actually reaching it.}}
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: Surprisingly averted. It seems the military may rain down the occasional heavy-handed airstrike to take down an alien but aren't seen doing their usual "[[It's the Only Way to Be Sure]]" approach, namely making a crater the size of Mexico. People just seem to be trying to survive or adapt to the situation rather than kill each other over it.
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