V (2009 TV series): Difference between revisions

ABC cancelled it after the second season.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Anna as of "Hearts & Minds". She backhands {{spoiler|Lisa}} then has her legs broken to make it look like she was attacked by Fifth Column members, thereby [[Invoked Trope|invoking]] a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] on both Tyler and ''the entire human race''.

** The Visitors claim to need Earth's water; water ice exists all over our solar system, and ice doesn't shoot back. This may be a [[Mythology Gag]]: the original ''V'' had water as the *hidden* agenda. Turned out that they indeed didn't come for water, but this is pretty implausible lie, as said before.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Erica's son is a troubled teen due to lack of father, and [[Missing Mom|mother who works long hours]] because of the nature of her job as an FBI agent.

** The episode ''Laid Bare'' had the extreme misfortune to air 10 days after the Tucson shooting that led to the deaths of six people and congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords being hospitalized. There was considerable media buzz following the shooting and many accused right-wing pundits like [[Glenn Beck]] and [[Sarah Palin]] of encouraging violent behavior through rhetoric. Keeping this in mind, ''Laid Bare'' has a scene involving a {{spoiler|fake}} relative of a victim of an anti-V suicide bomb blaming ''protagonist'' Jack's rhetoric for the bombing. Of course, this episode aired [[Too Soon|so soon]] after the tragedy that it was obviously completed before it occurred, making this a case of ''extremely'' bad timing.

** In "Devil in a blue dress" Anna is {{spoiler|giving Bliss to Tyler}} while looking like she is having sex with him. That happy smile on his face afterward doesn't help either.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: The {{spoiler|FBI investigation concerning}} Erica's involvement in the Fifth Column ended due to the {{spoiler|setting up Erica as a fake hostage, a situation that ended with Joe's death}}. The {{spoiler|investigation ended}} because of the supposed {{spoiler|hostage situation}}, but as soon as {{spoiler|the investigation ended}} Erica {{spoiler|[[Take Up My Sword|took Eli's sword]] ([[I Thought It Meant|not that way you pervs]]) and became the sole leader of the Fifth Column}}.

* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Given the premise of the show, it's no surprise there will be a few of these.

* {{spoiler|[[Evolutionary Levels]]}}: {{spoiler|Apparently, the Visitors are here to steal the best of the human race's DNA, so they can "speed up their evolution". The characters stop using particular phraseology rather fast though; when they do things make more sense.}}

* [[Evil Detecting Baby]]: Well, a child. Jennifer Hartswell retreats behind her mother at the sight of [[Big Bad|Anna]].

* [[Evil Twin]]: Not technically an evil twin, but {{spoiler|another "Queen daughter" that hatched and upon which Anna immediatedly put human skin on; human skin that looked just like Lisa's}}

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Ryan}},as a result of {{spoiler|[[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Daughter]]}} and {{spoiler|Joshua}} thanks to [[Trauma Induced Amnesia]]. {{spoiler|Both seem to be turning back as of "Devil in a Blue Dress".}}

* [[Fan Service]]:

** Lisa (Laura Vandervoort) in her underwear. [[Justified Trope|Quick thinking by her]], as it allows her to hide her {{spoiler|V uniform from Tyler's mom}}.

** Erica and Hobbes bare quite a lot in "Uneasy Lies the Head".

* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: {{spoiler|Erica}} basically [[Tempting Fate|tempted fate]] by looking through her iPhone of photos with {{spoiler|Joe and Tyler}}.

** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]]: Anna

** [[The Dragon]]: Marcus

** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|The]] <s>Sixth</s> [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|Fifth Ranger Traitor]]: Joshua

** [[Tagalong Kid|The Tag Along Kid]]: Tyler -- a rare case of the ''villains'' getting their own [[Tagalong Kid]], but that's just because he's [[Too Dumb to Live]].

** [[The Hero]]: Erica -- a refreshing example of a female hero whose vagina isn't treated as a defining character trait.

** [[The Lancer]]: Ryan

** [[The Chick]]: Father Jack

** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Joshua. He replaces Georgie as [[The Smart Guy]]

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Hive species tend to respond... unsocially towards other colonies of the same species. If Diana's/Anna's colony wiped out the rest of their kind on their homeworld, they'd be left with two choices: Risk inbreeding, or learn how to adapt sufficiently similar species for procreational stock.

** [[Idiot Ball|Due to our inherent humanity and our emotions being practically infectious to the Visitors, something they fear and despise, why risk procreating and creating a new generation of V's with emotions?]] Because they Vistor's have apparently cherry-picked a few races clean... Earth is the closest viable target in reach left, Earth has the technological development high enough that they can use it, but low enough to not be much of a threat, and they're possibly scraping the barrel in order to get themselves evolutionally prepared to go after some bigger fish.

* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]]: They call it "bliss."

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: In Season 2's opener "Red Rain", Anna uses her tail to slash open one of her lackies' disguises. There is much splattering of blood but it's done off camera. However, the impaling afterward is onscreen.

** And now it is revealed that Anna's goal is to populate Earth with half-Visitor, half-human hybrids. And it is implied that they did it to other sentient races as well.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The V's that are part of the Fifth Column have done this, and by extension any who go through the [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] process are likely to.

** Not exactly. It's shown that taking off human skin from a V is painful, and the subject would die. In fact, taking off a V's skin is a form of torture among them.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: If you still had any doubts that Anna just wants what is best for her species instead of being capital-E EVIL, then {{spoiler|forcing Lisa to watch as Lisa's sister has sex with Tyler and then ''kills'' him}} certainly removes them.

* [[La Résistance]]: Both humans and the Vs' Fifth Column.

* [[Left Hanging]]: Assuming it's not picked up by another network, it seems like {{spoiler|we'll never know if Erica's discovery of another resistance movement succeeds in finally overthrowing the V's}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Jack's speech to his congregation ends with him declaring "Let V stand for Victory!" which is what it also stood for in the original miniseries.

** Also, Anna's mother, Diana, is played by [[V|Jane Badler]].

** Also in "Devil in a Blue Dress". Their attempt to {{spoiler|sabotage the Blue Energy reactor}} ends in {{spoiler|the Vs making it look as if they restored power after a human failure, getting them ''even more'' public approval. Admittedly, the alternative would have been destroying an entire city.}}

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Though they're aliens, the Vs are guilty of this in the construction of their Concordia reactors. When one reactor is made to go unstable through the addition of a second batch of unstable blue energy, the reactor has to be shut down ''manually''. Mind you, there's enough there to wipe out a city.

* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: {{spoiler|Erica}} does a variation with the blue energy "freeze ball" grenade in the season one finale.

** Which was pretty [[Narm|Narmish]] considering the [[Conspicuous CG]].

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Erica for Lisa.

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: The actress who plays Anna is five years older than the one playing her daughter, Lisa.

* [[Plot Relevant Age Up]]: The V's age {{spoiler|Ryan's daughter as a test to perfect the technology for use on a new Queen Egg.}} Somewhat subverted in that she's still very much a child, as opposed to an adolescent who'd be a new character.

* [[The Power of Love]]: John May turned against the V and started the Fifth Column because he discovered that human emotions are "beautiful" and got married to a human woman with a son. Ryan also discovered this {{spoiler|at John May}}'s funeral, leading to his [[Heel Face Turn]].

** Lisa is going this way for Tyler, up to and including being immune to her mom's Bliss treatments.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Anna in the birthing pool.

* [[Red Sky Take Warning]]: Subverted. Anna pumped some sort of gas or dust into atmosphere causing the sky to turn red. This scared the crap out of people, but didn't seem to have any negative effect. Of course, Vs being Vs, it probably does have some horrible use that will become apparent when Anna is actually supposed to do it (she jumped the gun in a moment of rage).

* [[Revealing Hug]]:

** Ryan hugs Valerie when she tells him {{spoiler|she's pregnant}}. Ryan fakes happy to her face, but during the hug looks rather distressed because Valerie doesn't know Ryan is {{spoiler|both a V and a member of the resistance}}.

** There's also a lot of Erica/Jack, and they apparently filmed a few [[US Tier]] scenes that were later cut.

** Erica can be shipped with everyone and everything.

** Well, [[MST3K Mantra|you know what they say...]]

* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: Anna, naturally. By means of Decker.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Anna}} has a positively '''''epic''''' one at the end of the first season after {{spoiler|Erica}} destroys nearly all {{spoiler|her soldier eggs}} culminating in her {{spoiler|going "[[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies]]" on the entire planet}}.

* [[Wham Episode]]:

** The season 1 finale. [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore|Oh boy]]...

* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|"I believe [[Big Bad|you've]] just experienced your first human emotion."}}

** And as of the season 2 finale {{spoiler|" Now, ''that's'' how you kill your mother."}}

** And what about that {{spoiler|actual mouse transferred from Anna's mouth to Ryan's daughter's?}}

*** Some animals - including, apparently, Vs, [[spoiler:feed their young by regurgitating their food, as explained [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regurgitation_<!-- 28digestion29 on that Other Wiki]]]] -->

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