The Faculty: Difference between revisions

[[Six-Student Clique|Six students]], however, manage to find out what's going on: [[Dumb Jock|academically-challenged football player]] Stan Rosado, [[Goth]] chick Stokely Mitchell, [[Hollywood Nerd|nerdy kid]] and school newspaper photographer Casey Connor, [[Alpha Bitch|queen bitch]] Delilah Profitt, [[Delinquents|drug-dealing delinquent]] Zeke Tyler, and [[New Transfer Student]] Marybeth Louise Hutchinson. Together, they set out to put a stop to the aliens, armed only with Zeke's drugs (which are instantly fatal to the aliens) and [[Genre Savvy|their knowledge]] of [[Alien Invasion]] movies like ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''.

 

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=== This film has examples of the following tropes: ===

 

* [[Alien Invasion]]

* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Justified Trope|justified]]. When one character claims that it would be absurd for aliens to secretly invade via a [[High School]] in a small town and brainwash the population, another [[Genre Savvy]] charcter points out that this would attract a lot less attention than attacking a big city, which the whole world will notice. See the page quote.

* [[Fake American]]: Canadian actress [[Laura Harris]] as the Southern girl Marybeth, complete with a ridiculously over-the-top Southern accent. {{spoiler|In-universe, this also applies to Marybeth herself, making it a justified example.}}

* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Subverted. While breaking into the school's storeroom to steal ingredients for his drugs, Zeke cites the trope to reassure Marybeth should they be caught. However the two aren't patient, and start making out regardless.

'''Casey:''' I think so. }}

* [[Fingore]]: Mr. Furlong is bitten by the alien specimen that Casey finds. It takes a nice chuck out of his pointer finger. Later, {{spoiler|after having been infected by the aliens, he has all four fingers of one hand cut off by a paper slicer.}}

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]!: A veritable cornucopia of recognisable faces, most obviously amongst the teachers, including the T1000, Lilith, [[Twin Peaks|Catherine Martell]] and [[James Bond|Xenia Onatop]].

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Elijah Wood as the nerdy kid Casey.

* [[I Was Just Joking]]

{{quote| '''Casey''': Everyone's been acting really weird, especially the faculty.<br />

* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Justified. After Zeke examines one of the parasites, he notices that it doesn't have all the necessary organs to sustain itself independently, and concludes (correctly) that there must be an alien queen with a telepathic link to all of her "offspring." Killing her would kill all the parasites, returning everyone to their normal selves.

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: Even though the alien-controlled teachers make up a cover story for what he saw that would ''still'' realistically scare a teenager, his parents decide he needs counseling, search his room for drugs, and decide to remove his phone, internet and even his [[Porn Stash]] (which they seem bizarrely completely okay with). Because that's parenting.

* [[Orifice Invasion]]

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]:

** See also [[Ironic Echo]].

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]

* [[Red Herring Mole]]: Before the heroes find out who the real head alien is {{spoiler|(it's Marybeth)}}, they go through a number of false guesses, including {{spoiler|the principal}} and {{spoiler|the coach}}.

* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]: Zeke (Ezekiel) and Delilah both get their names from Biblical figures.

** And Casey [[The Terminator|Connor]].

** [[Bebe Neuwirth|Principal Drake]] gets her name from the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate how much intelligent life there is in the universe.

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: The head alien is from a planet covered entirely with water. This is the reason why people infected with the alien parasite need to drink lots of water -- the thing needs a lot of it, and it dehydrates people rather quickly.

* [[Six-Student Clique]]:

* [[Write What You Know]]: Casey references this trope when trying to explain to Stokely why he believes that ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' was [[Based on a True Story]].

* [[X Meets Y]]: [[The Breakfast Club]] must contend with the [[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]

 

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