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Line 11: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== This work contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Actor Allusion]]: A bunch, mixed in with the rest of the [[Shout-Out\|Shout Outs]]: ** [[Aliens\|"Get away from her, you bitch!"]] Line 36: * [[Audible Sharpness]]: The sword that Clive tries out at Comic Con. * [[Author Appeal]]: Nick Frost and the American South. Much of the film's Southern elements came from his interest in the area. * [[Back ~~From~~from the Dead]]: Paul brings a dead bird back to life...then promptly eats it, citing his unwillingness to eat a dead bird. {{spoiler\|Occurs later in the film when he saves Graeme from a fatal gunshot wound to a heart - and technically, himself as well.}} * [[Badass Grandma]]: Sigourney Weaver as The Big Guy, who effortlessly and simultaneously manhandles Grame and Clive by herself ''unarmed'' without breaking a sweat. * [[Big Bad]]: The Big Guy Line 89: * [[Exotic Equipment]]: "Hey, on my planet, this is [[Gag Penis\|small!]]" * [[Exposition Beam]]: Paul can zap people with knowledge of the universe. * [[Fiction as Cover -Up]]: Inverted. According to Paul, the government commissioned movies about aliens in order to prepare society for [[First Contact]], not to make them skeptical. He was responsible for, among others, ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', and ''[[The X-Files]]''. * [[The Foreign Subtitle]]: The Chinese title of the film translates to "We Hit an Alien!" * [[The Fundamentalist]]: Ruth, [[Character Development\|initially]]. She freaks out at Paul even ''after'' he explains that his existence "only disproves... one world theologies". Her dad is even worse. Line 142: ** "''That's'' Jenga." * [[The Men in Black]]: Big Guy's men. Somewhat subverted in that two of them have no idea what's going on. Used as a plot point - when they figure it out, they think they're going to finally get promoted and start taking harsher methods that are more in line with villainous depictions of this trope. * [[Mission ~~From~~from God]]: Ruth's father claims this when Haggard tries to get him to back off from the pursuit. * [[Mistaken for Gay]]: A [[Running Gag]] throughout the film, from the hotel employee providing room service to Paul himself. It's not entirely [[Ho Yay\|unwarranted]]. * [[Mook Promotion]]: Haggard and O'Reilly (well, mostly Haggard) seek one by capturing Paul before Zoil can. Line 155: * [[One of Us]]: Writers/stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are huge nerds, and this is their love letter to the "alien encounter" sub-genre of sci-fi. * [[Overprotective Dad]]: Ruth's papa. * [[Playing Against Type]]: Nick Frost for once not playing [[The Ditz]]. Bill Hader as a semi-serious special agent who goes a bit [[Ax Crazy]], rather than a funny guy.