Mars Attacks!: Difference between revisions

* [[Hand Signals]]: When the Martians invade the senior citizen center where Richie's grandmother is staying, one of them silently beckons a large [[Disintegrator Ray]] device forward so it can destroy her.

* [[Helium Speech]]: The Martian leader. {{spoiler|With an absorbed ''nuclear blast''.}}

* [[Homage]]: To ''Earth vs. The Flying Saucers'' and ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''.

** The final scene on the Capitol steps to the final scene in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV [[A New Hope]]''. Becomes incredibly [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] because Natalie Portman went on to play Queen Amidala in the prequel trilogy, where she plays the same role in paying homage to the same scene.

** [[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]]).

* [[Monumental Battle]]

* [[Monumental Damage]]: Bowling with Moai, carving their heads in Mount Rushmore, blowing up Congress, attempting to crush Boy Scouts with the Washington Monument...

* [[Nuke'Em]]: Attempted against the Martians, but fails massively. The Martians actually capture the explosive force of the nuke, and smoke it! They actually get high on radioactive explosives. This <s>can either be considered funny or badass</s> is both funny and badass. It gives them ''helium voices''. [[Fridge Brilliance]] kicks in when you remember that nuclear fusion produces helium.

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Pierce Brosnan's brainy (if ridiculously utopian) scientist and Sarah Jessica Parker's airhead fashion show host.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]

* [[The Power of Rock]]: See [[Brown Note]] above.

* [[Rule of Perception]]

* [[Rushmore Refacement]]

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: A heroic example. Richie deciding to go save his grandmother Florence from the nursing home during the alien invasion. His parents tell him to forget about her and call her a nut and then criticize him again for not being like his {{spoiler|dead}} brother, at which point Richie decides enough is enough and goes anyway, {{spoiler|avoiding certain death.}}

* [[Sedgwick Speech]]

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Art Land selling the investors on building his casino while the Martians blow up real estate all around them.

{{quote| '''Art Land:''' Just five more minutes.}}

* [[Stab the Salad]]

* [[Stripped to The Bone]]: The effect of the Martian [[Disintegrator Ray]]. Colorized, too.