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Season 1 finally got an official DVD release in 2011.
 
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Adventure Towns]]
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* [[Big Bad]]: Mabus.
* [[Bluffing the Advance Scout]]: A version of this is attempted by Joshua in order to prevent the invasion of Earth by the Gua or, at least, forestall the Second Wave. He continually brings up the experiment that resulted in Cade Foster (AKA Subject 117) becoming their greatest enemy. Joshua argues that, if every 117th human is [[The Determinator]] like Foster, then the invasion is doomed from the start or, at least, will be a [[Pyrrhic Victory]]. Joshua does not succeed in cancelling the invasion, but it is put off indefinitely.
* [[CaptainsCaptain's Log]]: Each episode starts with a fake Nostradamus quote, followed by the hero's exposition of what it could possibly mean. Sounds like he is reading from a journal.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Our heroes try to prevent and reveal the first stages of an alien invasion. No one but a small collection of conspiracy nuts believe them.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Subverted. The Gua are able to send only small objects through wormholes (called "white holes" in the show). Most of these are small spheres encoded with an alien's consciousness, which are later uploaded onto a human/Gua hybrid clone. (The first Gua spheres arrived on Earth in the late 1940s and would [[Mind Rape|erase the minds]] of any curious humans who chanced pick them up, replacing them with their own.)
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* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Mabus is able to force his consciousness into any human's body without even touching them. Does this to kidnap {{spoiler|Jordan}}.
** A Gua scientist develops a way to transfer his consciousness by touch. [[Body Surf|Body Surfs]] Foster.
* [[G -Rated Drug]]: The Gua can easily get addicted to ''table salt'', although their High Command frowns on such weakness and orders the addicts killed. This was discovered by accident when Foster was interrogating a wounded Gua and poured salt on the open wound. The result was a seriously stoned Gua. Given the Gua mastery of genetic engineering, it's strange they don't remove this weakness from their hybrid husks.
** [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe, in a spectacular aversion of LegoGenetics, they tried to remove this defect only to discover that they can't?]]
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: A [[Applied Phlebotinum|quantum pocket]] prison built specifically for Joshua, after the other Gua discover that he is a human sympathizer. An entire episode is focused on Foster and Joshua attempting to break the loop, which ends in the destruction of Earth by the Gua. Not only do they succeed, but also {{spoiler|trap Cain in Joshua's prison}}.
* [[I Can't Believe ItsIt's Not Heroin!]]: The Gua can get high on table salt.
* [[Immune to Drugs]]: The Gua hybrids are built to be stronger than regular humans and immune to our diseases and, presumably, our drugs. But they get completely stoned on table salt.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Mabus is said to be a seer but never demonstrates this ability. In fact, Foster outwits him pretty often.
* [[In -Series Nickname]]: Foster is nicknamed the "Alien Hunter" by a kid who found Crazy Eddie's website. Of course, Nostradamus nicknamed him the "Twice-Blessed Man".
* [[The Masquerade]]
* [[McGuffin]]: The Hammer.
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