145
edits
V (TV series): Difference between revisions
Not necessarily. The red dust had unintended side effects that weren’t so helpful for humans.
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (clean up grammar on new trope entry) |
(Not necessarily. The red dust had unintended side effects that weren’t so helpful for humans.) |
||
Line 50:
* [[Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes]]
* [[Day of the Jackboot]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Especially egregious during the original mini-series. Try playing a drinking game which requires imbibing upon the appearance of Nazi, Holocaust, or Hitler Youth references. It is unlikely you will see the end of the series due to intoxication.
* [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: When the Visitors find out that Mike managed to figure out their secrets, they hijack television and make Mike an outlaw.
Line 76 ⟶ 75:
* [[How to Invade An Alien Planet]]: The inspiration for this trope.
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Diana told her Supreme Leader that Humans are unusually resistant to her conversion process. Thus, while it's useful for putting a few important individuals under their control, mass conversion of the entire population is completely impractical for now. Still, she decides she’s going to continue to refine the process.
* [[Icon of Rebellion]]: The "V" hand gesture.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The Visitor soldiers wear body armor which resists small-caliber weapons fire. Only Donovan's stolen energy pistol is effective, but the Fifth Columnists can't supply any more considering the weapons are too closely guarded. Fortunately Ham Tyler, [[Anti-Hero|mercenary extraordinaire (played quite effectively by Michael Ironside)]], later comes to help with armor piercing ammo that can take the Visitors out. And no, no one has the wit to try a rifle, or shoot for the head.
Line 85 ⟶ 84:
** For an [[Evil Counterpart]] version, look no further than Kristine Walsh.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Danny and Eleanor}} both get served different versions of this. The latter's doubles as a crowning moment of awesome for {{spoiler|Stephen}} when he realizes what she's about to do and {{spoiler|shoots her in the back}} as she tries to switch sides.
** Also Daniel. After he kills Ruby, the resistance pulls some strings so that Steven believes Daniel has betrayed them and decides to have him be eaten by the Visitors. Ham Tyler was simply going to shoot him dead but Caleb’s idea actually works better.
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Diana pulls this off twice near the end of the second miniseries.
* [[La Résistance]]: Cleverly named "the Resistance".
Line 109:
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Visitors in their true reptilian forms.
** Inverted with Elizabeth's twin brother, who looked creepy because he had blue ''human'' eyes in a reptilian face.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The Visitors in their real form eat cuddly, fuzzy little hamsters and guinea pigs. They eat pretty little parakeets. And they have creepy red-and-yellow eyes. They spit acidic venom which can blind humans. This is averted with the Fifth Column and Willie, who are still technically reptiles but are legitimately compassionate towards humans.
* [[The Reptilians]]: The Visitors.
* [[Reverse Mole]]: Actually, a whole slew of them, in the Fifth Column.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Captain Jake, though it’s technically a disguise. He’s essentially Diana’s right-hand man.
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: The Visitors are going to put all the water in Southern California into a three mile wide spaceship? Um...No?
| |||