The Faculty: Difference between revisions

* [[Eye Scream]]: How Mr. Furlong is killed.

* [[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.}}

* [[Fiction As Cover Up]]:

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* [[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.}}

** Zeke is phlegmatic

** Marybeth is supine until {{spoiler|she reveals herself to be the [[Big Bad|Queen alien]]}}

* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Marybeth always introduces herself by her full name, Marybeth Louise Hutchinson.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: This ''is'' a [[The Nineties|late '90s]] teen horror film -- it goes with the territory.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Used multiple times by the pod people against the heroes, but the big one is delivered by {{spoiler|Marybeth}}. When {{spoiler|she}} confronts Casey in the locker room, {{spoiler|she}} tries to convince him that, by joining the aliens, he will be happy, and will no longer have to suffer through humiliation at the hands of his peers. When Casey [[Shut UP, Hannibal|refuses to be swayed]], {{spoiler|Marybeth}} simply gives up, tells him that it's too late and that the aliens have already won, and comes after him.

* [[High School]]

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

** The drug test scene is an homage to the blood test in ''[[The Thing (Film)|The Thing]]''.

* [[I Was Just Joking]]

* [[School Newspaper Newshound]]: Delilah and Casey, although the latter is only a photographer.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Stan's teachers curve his grades because he's the captain of the football team. Unlike most examples, he's fairly dismayed by this, enough so that he quits the team.

** The name of the science teacher, [[The Terminator|Mr. Furlong]].

** 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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