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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: The death of {{spoiler|[[The Mole|Agent Malik]] ([[Cruel and Unusual Death|who was skinned alive by the protagonists]]!)}} is enough to drop any resentment toward her character due to how [[The Woobie|pitiful]] she became during her [[Not So Stoic|suffering]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Anna. [[Beyond the Impossible|And]] ''[[Beyond the Impossible|HOW]]''.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** The Fifth Column leader and V doctor, Joshua. He can easily be seen as the most heroic out of all the others rebelling against the Vs because he has the most to lose. When it looked like {{spoiler|he died in the finale}}, many fans wanted to drop the show entirely, but {{spoiler|[[Unexplained Recovery|He Got Better]] by the end}}.
** Lisa similarly is well-liked; surprising since she is usually in scenes with [[The Scrappy]] Tyler.
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* [[Follow the Leader]]: Arguable, the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]:
** [[The Reveal]] of the {{spoiler|V armada that's ''en route'' to Earth}} at the end of episode 4.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: You can't help but feel for {{spoiler|Agent Malik as she dies from torture. She even cries, which is a [[Irony|human emotion]].}}
* [[The Scrappy]]: Tyler. Even allowing for the fact he's a teenage boy, he's stupid and blinded by hormones. Doesn't help that he's dating [[Even the Girls Want Her|Lisa (Laura Vandervoort)]]. The feeling is largely based on his oh shiny sexy aliens expression mixed with the whiny "The Vs are awesome, you just don't understand me" thing he's got going. It certainly doesn't help that he's so much of an [[Unwitting Pawn]] that he's falling for plans that ''didn't even have him in mind'', despite {{spoiler|his own V girlfriend secretly}} trying to save him from what is surely an unpleasant death.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: A number of fans of the original 1980s series complained that the lack of Nazi symbolism in the re-imagining ultimately leads it into losing the overall meaning behind the V's intentions.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Tyler. He could have been an interesting character if the writers had used him properly. Instead, they make a character who is a 10-year-old boy in an almost 20-something man's body. He perpetuates the stereotype that young people are just destructive, self-absorbed, stupid, whiny lemmings. He served no actual purpose in the show at all. If he had been done properly, {{spoiler|his death}} could have been shocking and horrible. Instead, it caused feelings of celebration, relief, a feeling of "You had this coming to you and you deserved it", and a feeling of "You reap what you sow." Yes, the writers made Tyler that bad. Such a terrible waste of potential.
* [[The Woobie]]: {{spoiler|Lisa}} at the end of "Hearts & Minds".
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