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Battlefield Earth

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Battlefield Earth	label	Battlefield Earth
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Battlefield Earth	comment	The film version of L. Ron Hubbard's Science Fiction novel Battlefield Earth was released on May 12, 2000, directed by Roger Christian and starring John Travolta as Psychlo leader Terl (he originally wanted to play the part of the book's hero, Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler, but that role eventually went to Barry Pepper because Travolta was too old by then).The film covers the first third of the Doorstopper book: the Psychlos come to Earth, beat the humans in nine minutes, and establish an outpost here. They are here for gold — the rarest and most valuable substance in the universe, it seems. Jonnie leads a band of slaves to rise up against their masters.Travolta, a self-proclaimed Hubbard fan (and Scientologist), wanted to do the film for a long time, but had trouble securing money for it because of studios' apprehension to bankroll the film due to its connections with the real-life Church of Scientology. After Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox declined offers to distribute the film, it was eventually picked up by Franchise Pictures, a company known for helping stars rescue their troubled pet projects, and he poured millions of dollars of his own money into the project and signed on as a co-producer, and the rest ... well, is history.Travolta is still intent on having the second half of the book produced.
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Battlefield Earth / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Battlefield Earth / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Terl intentionally hands a human prisoner a ready-to-fire weapon, to prove his point that the "man-animals" are too stupid to operate firearms, even though the human has already shot one person, according to his subordinates. The prisoner ends up using the weapon to kill Terl's lieutenant. Psychlos are shown not to store loaded weapons, so this is apparently another example of the Psychlos' bizarre arrogance vis-Ã -vis humans in believing that they're not sentient, despite all the technology that Terl acknowledges they had.
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Battlefield Earth / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Battlefield Earth / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Psychlos have tall heads, like the Coneheads with dreadlocks, breathe air that is toxic to humans (and vice versa), and even the slightest amount of radiation is deadly to them. At least one female Psychlo has an Overly-Long Tongue that would make a Luxan proud, though this seems to be unusual for the race as both Terl and Ker regard it as a fetish. Additionally, Terl has six fingers, though the camera doesn't focus on any other Psychlo's hands to see if that's normal. (In the book, it's mentioned obliquely that Psychlos have six fingers on one hand and five on the other.) Also, loss of limbs seems to be a minor inconvenience.
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Battlefield Earth / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Battlefield Earth / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The film is free of gore, be it human or Psychlo. Rather jarring: a few Psychlos (e.g., Ker and Terl) lost at least one limb (not to mention the decapitated head of the Bartender). The humans? None.
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Battlefield Earth / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Battlefield Earth / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Virtually all the Psychlos except Ker, the bartender, and another low-ranking flunky or two.
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Battlefield Earth / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Battlefield Earth / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: "You are out of your skull-bone if you think I'm going to write on the report 'shot by man-animal' as the cause of death unless I see it!" "Piece o' cake, piece o' cake, piece o' cake, piece o' cake!"
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Battlefield Earth / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Battlefield Earth / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Held by the Psychlos' leader, Terl. Teaching your slaves everything there is to know about your civilization in an instant can only end badly, especially if you're supposedly doing it to help conquer their planet. Introducing your pet human to inspiring documents from The American Revolution will only make things worse. Holding your pet human's girlfriend hostage just makes things personal. Abusing your henchman only serves to set up the Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal in the final act. And not launching an all-out crackdown when the man-animals rebel and attack with air support ... not a good idea. Terl doesn't even notice an exploding collar Jonnie straps to his arm in a melee, and proceeds to amputate his own limb when he triumphantly hits the detonator. His (non)reaction shot is priceless. He appears to read the Bizarro Universe inversion of the Evil Overlord List, telling him exactly what to do wrong.
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Battlefield Earth / int_1ed1bead	type	Domed Hometown
Battlefield Earth / int_1ed1bead	comment	Domed Hometown: The Psychlo outpost is one of these, because of the whole "exploding breath gas" thing. In a shocking subversion, it's more of a pyramid, but the characters refer to it as a dome regardless.
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Battlefield Earth / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Battlefield Earth / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Terl to Ker: "It [Ker's informant] could even be ... OUR FRIENDLY BARTENDER!"
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Battlefield Earth / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Battlefield Earth / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The Psychlos love gold. They came to Earth looking for it, and spent a millennium on the planet doing so, mining it, and shipping it off. And yet in that millennium, they somehow failed to find Fort Knox, which is crammed with the stuff. Made worse by the fact that the Psychlos didn't overlook Fort Knox in the book. Also, the humans fool the Psychlos into thinking they are working by giving them the gold from Ft. Knox and pretending they mined it themselves and smelted it into bricks as a courtesy. Unless Terl left them the equipment to do this, which would be weird, he just accepts that explanation on its face and orders production doubled.
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Battlefield Earth / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Battlefield Earth / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ker amongst the Psychlos. He's often the only one to notice the instances of the other Psychlos picking up the Idiot Ball and percieving the humans clearly being much smarter than others thought.
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Battlefield Earth / int_254bd239	type	Gasoline Lasts Forever
Battlefield Earth / int_254bd239	comment	Gasoline Lasts Forever: Somehow, the fighter jets are still able to take off after a thousand years. Granted, jet fuel has a longer shelf life than gasoline, but even then it's only good for a few decades at most.
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Battlefield Earth / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
Battlefield Earth / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: Rock and Carlo, the first allies Jonnie makes from outside his tribe, are these respectively.
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Battlefield Earth / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Battlefield Earth / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Psychlos say "Crap" about every few sentences.
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Battlefield Earth / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Battlefield Earth / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Some of the Psychlos, namely Terl and Zete.
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Battlefield Earth / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Battlefield Earth / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: Doubles as Not With the Safety On, You Won't, since Terl says this to Jonnie and his friends aiming them at him. Of course, Terl correcting somebody else's gun safety is kind of ironic considering what OTHER film John Travolta was in.
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Battlefield Earth / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Battlefield Earth / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: In one of the film's 'highlights,' a caveman-pilot who runs out of missiles ejects from his plane just before ramming a Psychlo fighter with it, completely overlooking the aircraft's 25-millimetre cannon.
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Battlefield Earth / int_314afdb	type	In-Universe Factoid Failure
Battlefield Earth / int_314afdb	comment	In-Universe Factoid Failure: The Psychlos seem to have this regarding humans and Earth in general, the biggest being not knowing Fort Knox has a lot of gold in it (averted in the novel) despite invading Earth with the express purpose of finding and getting gold. There are several other humdingers as well, such as how, when Terl and another Psychlo are looking at a picture of a human driving a car with a dog riding in the passenger seat, they assume the humans acted like chauffeurs to their dogs, even after realizing how this "superior race" is incapable of doing most of the things their alleged servants can.
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Battlefield Earth / int_31d6fd00	type	Legend Fades to Myth
Battlefield Earth / int_31d6fd00	comment	Legend Fades to Myth: The humans have forgotten that the Psychlos invaded and conquered Earth over a thousand years ago, instead believing that demons came down from the sky because the gods were angry.
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Battlefield Earth / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Battlefield Earth / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Terl shoots the legs off a herd of cattle just to show how evil he is.
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Battlefield Earth / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Battlefield Earth / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool
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Battlefield Earth / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Battlefield Earth / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: One of the many poor decisions that makes Terl impossible to take seriously is the bizarrely unfitting voice Travolta uses for the character. You'd expect this guy◊ to have some variation of an mighty, villainous baritone, but instead he speaks in a jarringly high-pitched, quasi-aristocratic voice that's probably supposed to be a variation on an alien Evil Brit.invoked
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Battlefield Earth / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
Battlefield Earth / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: You can hardly sympathize with any of the Psychlos, except maybe Ker and the Bartender. In the book, it's explained that an implant in Psychlo brains has a side effect that causes them to feel pleasure when they're being bastards. Ker was nicer than the others because he didn't get the implant due to falling between the cracks when he was young.
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Battlefield Earth / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Battlefield Earth / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: The ruins of Denver look like they've only been abandoned for a year or so, with readable books instead of piles of dust. Then there's Fort Hood. Jets, nukes, stinger missiles, and flight simulators still work just as fine.
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Battlefield Earth / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Battlefield Earth / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Terl was stranded on Earth as punishment for "an incident involving the Senator's daughter" (usually interpreted as one or more unauthorized sexual encounters).
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Battlefield Earth / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Battlefield Earth / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: Terl and his fellow Psychlos believe that the humans are too stupid to do anything on their own, so they give them some 'assistance' in the form of Psychlo knowledge beams. More exasperating, the Psychlos know full well that Homo sapiens sapiens had created healthy industrial societies, yet they still assume they're too dumb to walk and chew gum at the same time. It wasn't until Terl used the machine to impart Psychlo knowledge to Jonnie that he even knew what a triangle was.
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Battlefield Earth / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
Battlefield Earth / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Chrissy. Jonnie says she can handle herself better than most men, but she barely has any screen time since she's a Token Romance, and for most of it she has an explosive collar strapped around her neck and Terl holds her hostage.
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Battlefield Earth / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Battlefield Earth / int_40bb59d0	comment	When Terl is inspecting the results of Jonnie's "mining," he asks for understandable reasons why Jonnie is presenting him with smelted gold bars, rather than the ore he was expecting. Jonnie, who hadn't spotted that flaw in his plan, explains lamely, "I assumed, sir, that a Psychlo of your refinement wouldn't settle for anything as coarse as raw ore." Terl accepts the flimsy excuse without question, even though he knows Jonnie was never provided with the training or the equipment to do this. Even if one were generous enough to assume he knows Jonnie is lying through his teeth, it doesn't change the fact that he lets Jonnie get away with it rather than demand his actual source or take precautions against Jonnie's blatant duplicity.
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Battlefield Earth / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Battlefield Earth / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The Psychlos exude disdain for Earth, with Zete calling it "pathetic" and "one of the ugliest crap holes in the entire universe." Their own narrow, selfish focus on mining out all its gold, everything else be damned, couldn't have helped it, though.
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Battlefield Earth / int_41a894d2	type	Voodoo Shark
Battlefield Earth / int_41a894d2	comment	Voodoo Shark: The explanation for why the Psychlos still haven't mined all the gold off the planet after 1,000 years is that the gas they breathe explodes on contact with radiation. The problem being that any planet orbiting a star will have radiation from said star fall on it, meaning their planet should have blown up shortly after being formed. There's also the question of why they can't just wear hazmat suits, or, better yet, use robots to do the mining (as we know they already have robots in the form of the "gas drones").
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Battlefield Earth / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Battlefield Earth / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: There is a rather pretty overhead shot of the Rocky Mountains in the beginning.
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Battlefield Earth / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Battlefield Earth / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The movie botches even this simple trope — the cow-shooting scene doesn't show us Terl turning live cattle into raining beef chunks, but it's shot so poorly (and the actors' responses so utterly bland) that it's hard to tell what's even happening. Not only that, but the one cow we do see get shot uses Bloodless Carnage at the same time, making the attempt at hiding the 'violence' come across as redundant.
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Battlefield Earth / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Battlefield Earth / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: A rare villainous example: Terl has been Reassigned to Antarctica as petty revenge for getting involved with the daughter of a senator, which leads to the destruction of the Psychlo race.
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Battlefield Earth / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Battlefield Earth / int_4a59e6f7	comment	One Nation Under Copyright: For the Psychlos, state and corporation are one and the same.
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Battlefield Earth / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Battlefield Earth / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Terl, in spades.
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Battlefield Earth / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
Battlefield Earth / int_52fbbe7	comment	The Asian-like Chinkos were renamed "Clinkos" for obvious reasons. That didn't stop them from using the offensive Asian stereotype personality and voice.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Battlefield Earth / int_5663a595	comment	The novel does suggest that the Psychlo home world exists in another universe altogether (Jonnie Goodboy concludes this when attempting to understand Psychlo math), but this goes unsaid in the film.
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Battlefield Earth / int_568b9d5	type	Orphaned Etymology
Battlefield Earth / int_568b9d5	comment	Orphaned Etymology: The cavemen oddly use idioms one wouldn't think they would even know about, much less use every day. The biggest offender, "piece of cake," is used to mean the same thing it does today (something easy) even though none of the cavemen is seen eating cake at any point and it seems unlikely they would even know what it is. (It's little more believable that Jonnie's people would understand the meaning of their derogative for him, "greener" — a reference to his belief that "the grass is greener on the other side", i.e., that things are better elsewhere.) A Psychlo tells Terl that he'll die and go to Hell, and it will be an improvement on Earth, even though there's no reason to assume the Psychlos' religion or religions (if they even have any, which we never seen any evidence of) would have a Hell. It's not that surprising that the Psychlos know (or at least, know of) Euclidean geometry. What is surprising is that they call it Euclidean geometry, which was named after Euclid of Alexandria. At one point Terl calls another Psychlo a "rat-brain." Even if he's seen rats from being on Earth, it's still kind of weird he would insult someone by comparing them to an Earth animal, rather than a Psychlo one.
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Battlefield Earth / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
Battlefield Earth / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: Most of the remaining Earth women in the book wore deerskins that exposed their breasts. Here, their skins cover their chests.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Battlefield Earth / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Terl uses knowledge of the Planetship's bookkeeping fraud to get him to sign off on blank work order forms that Terl can write whatever he wants on, making Terl the effective administrator of the entire planet. As Terl notes, the Planetship still gets to keep his job and salary, and it's better than being executed were Terl to report him.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Battlefield Earth / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The Psychlos always refer to the substance they breathe as "breath gas," not "atmosphere" or "air," or the specific gas that they inhale. Terl at one point says that another guard must be "out of [his] skull-bone." Just saying "skull" doesn't sound alien enough, apparently.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5b0eaf89	type	Upgrade Artifact
Battlefield Earth / int_5b0eaf89	comment	Upgrade Artifact: Used so our hero can become an Instant Expert without going through a Training Montage. Infamously not used to help the rest of humanity prepare for the revolution, even though having them do just that was a key plot point in the book.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Battlefield Earth / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Chrissy is the only female with anything approaching an impact on the story, and she's notable only for her relationship with Jonnie. Chirk is even less consequential and, likewise, she's only there to have a relationship with Terl.
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Battlefield Earth / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Battlefield Earth / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: Hidden cameras are a thing with the Psychlos.
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Battlefield Earth / int_605b8f40	comment	Bumbling Sidekick: Ker is presented as this to Terl, though the latter doesn't evince that much more brainpower.
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Battlefield Earth / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Battlefield Earth / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Apparently Ker got tired of being surrounded by his Large Ham Idiot Ball-carrying species (especially Terl) and joined up with the humans at the end.
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Battlefield Earth / int_61a84258	type	Deleted Scene
Battlefield Earth / int_61a84258	comment	The nameless guy running around with Jonnie and Carlo in Aspen is never seen again after that scene. (invokedHe died immediately afterwards in a Deleted Scene where Ker, bizarrely, suggests that humans must be able to fly, and Terl proves that they can't by throwing him into a chasm.)
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Battlefield Earth / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Battlefield Earth / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Terl is captured, and the human victors face an unknown future after winning a ruined planet. There is actually a whole other half of the book which would have formed the sequel...if one was made.
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Battlefield Earth / int_64246a6f	type	Barbarian Longhair
Battlefield Earth / int_64246a6f	comment	Barbarian Longhair: Humans and Psychlos alike sport long, flowing, ungroomed locks.
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Battlefield Earth / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Battlefield Earth / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: When Carlo blows up his own ship to destroy the "dome," and when Mickey detonates the nuclear bomb.
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Battlefield Earth / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Battlefield Earth / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Mickey, just before he detonates the nuke.
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Battlefield Earth / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Battlefield Earth / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: The Psychlos are almost all violent, profiteering, scheming, and stupid, although they're supposedly highly intelligent and conquered the Earth in nine minutes. Then again, it is Terl who tells this story.
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Battlefield Earth / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Battlefield Earth / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: There's enough "normal" Evil Laughter and fake, mocking laughter to fill a half-hour sitcom, not to mention Forest Whitaker's hearty chortles and some disturbingly fey laughter by Travolta. The Psychlos are a merry bunch (it makes one either wonder what gas they breathe, or think that's why their air is so volatile). Chris Stuckmann says this should be called "Evil Laughter: The Movie", as the Psychlos seem to do nothing else.
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Battlefield Earth / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Battlefield Earth / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: The Psychlos seem to lose limbs a lot easier than one would expect. At one point, Ker is shot in the hand by Terl, and everything above his wrist just vanishes, while Terl later on would lose his own limb courtesy of a shaped charge from Johnny. Both times, the injuries are mighty clean, though Ker's hand could at least be handwaved as being "vaporized" by the blaster shot, a property that's demonstrated several times throughout the movie.
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Battlefield Earth / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Battlefield Earth / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery/Evil Is Hammy/World of Ham: All the villains. Half the good guys as well. The other half just kind of stare blankly.
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Battlefield Earth / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Battlefield Earth / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: The flight simulator and Harrier jump jets the humans find at Ft. Hood are marked as property of the United States Marine Corps. The real Ft. Hood is an Army base.
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Battlefield Earth / int_7115b262	type	Repeat Cut
Battlefield Earth / int_7115b262	comment	Repeat Cut: When Terl's boss mentions that he plans to keep Terl on Earth instead of giving him a temporary reprieve, the movie plays back "With endless options for renewal!" three times for some reason. The same thing happens when a caveman tells Jonnie that the Psychlos can't be defeated.
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Battlefield Earth / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Battlefield Earth / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Jonnie's girlfriend, Chrissy, gets about four scenes in this film. All we know about her is that she left the village against her father's wishes.
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Battlefield Earth / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Battlefield Earth / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Terl teaches the humans how to operate their aircraft, weaponry, and speak the Psychlo language. He seems to be the only Psychlo who realizes the humans have intelligence and are capable of performing complex tasks, but doesn't consider the possibility that they could use this against him. When Terl is inspecting the results of Jonnie's "mining," he asks for understandable reasons why Jonnie is presenting him with smelted gold bars, rather than the ore he was expecting. Jonnie, who hadn't spotted that flaw in his plan, explains lamely, "I assumed, sir, that a Psychlo of your refinement wouldn't settle for anything as coarse as raw ore." Terl accepts the flimsy excuse without question, even though he knows Jonnie was never provided with the training or the equipment to do this. Even if one were generous enough to assume he knows Jonnie is lying through his teeth, it doesn't change the fact that he lets Jonnie get away with it rather than demand his actual source or take precautions against Jonnie's blatant duplicity.
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Battlefield Earth / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Battlefield Earth / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: After Terl assigns the prisoners to mine gold, his only security measure is a robotic drone that flies over them once in a while and takes a still photograph. This despite the fact that he had previously sewn small cameras into Jonnie's clothing and that of his friends (that Jonnie admittedly found), so there should be nothing stopping him from hiding even more on the ship.
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Battlefield Earth / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Battlefield Earth / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: As the film only adapts the first half of the novel, Terl is still alive at the end. In the novel he dies off-screen in a Teleporter Accident at around the 700-page mark.
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Battlefield Earth / int_78f6bb9b	type	Translation: "Yes"
Battlefield Earth / int_78f6bb9b	comment	Translation: "Yes": Terl delivers a flowery and overdramatic threat to the humans he's sending to mine gold for him. Jonnie, knowing his audience has no frame of reference for Terl's boasts, accurately summarizes in six words: "Try to run, he'll kill us". Terl immediately Lampshades the terse translation.
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Battlefield Earth / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Battlefield Earth / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the novel, the Psychlos have the ability to regenerate limbs, hence Ker's non-reaction to Terl shooting his hand off. The film doesn't explain this, making Ker's reaction come off as bizarre (albeit quickly forgotten amidst all the film's other idiocies).
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Battlefield Earth / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
Battlefield Earth / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: In record time, too, and from scratch. Luckily, they did have an Upgrade Artifact to train everyone instantly, and ... oh, wait ... they forgot to use itinvoked. This actually occurs twice: the second time was a rare example of the villains doing this to their own slaves.
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Battlefield Earth / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Battlefield Earth / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: A nuke sent to Psychlo causes a reaction with its atmosphere and blows up the planet ... except this time Psychlo is reduced to a cloud of noxious gas.
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Battlefield Earth / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Battlefield Earth / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Again, the Psychlos. Especially Terl. It borders on Stupid Evil at points, as they are willing to backstab each other even when it's not in their interest.
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Battlefield Earth / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Battlefield Earth / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: John Travolta. So very much. (Spoilers.) Barry Pepper, who plays Jonnie, veers wildly between Large Ham and Dull Surprise.
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Battlefield Earth / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Battlefield Earth / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: The movie's Tag Line is "Prepare to go Psychlo".
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Battlefield Earth / int_85c1004b	type	Incredibly Obvious Bug
Battlefield Earth / int_85c1004b	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bug: So obvious even cavemen can spot them.
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Battlefield Earth / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Battlefield Earth / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: Psychlos put teleporters on all the planets they control and colonize.
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Battlefield Earth / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Battlefield Earth / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse? The nameless guy running around with Jonnie and Carlo in Aspen is never seen again after that scene. (invokedHe died immediately afterwards in a Deleted Scene where Ker, bizarrely, suggests that humans must be able to fly, and Terl proves that they can't by throwing him into a chasm.) The Planetship, Terl's direct superior, abruptly vanishes in the latter stages of the movie. This coincides with Terl gaining leverage on him.
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Battlefield Earth / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Battlefield Earth / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: John Travolta seems to be going for a vaguely British accent for Terl, except for when he isn't. Made all the more confusing because all the other Psychlo actors just use their regular voices.
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Battlefield Earth / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Battlefield Earth / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera
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Battlefield Earth / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Battlefield Earth / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: When Terl catches Ker trying to pretend he wasn't hiding a report detailing the location of a newly exposed gold deposit, he criticizes Ker not for betraying him, but for not being competent enough to check what he was betraying him for. As Terl already knows, the gold deposit can't be mined because the entire area is radioactive, so Ker betrayed him over a worthless photo.
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Battlefield Earth / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Battlefield Earth / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Ker gets his hand shot off. The most reaction this gets out of him is mild confusion. In turn, Terl loses his entire arm and manages to be annoyed by it at worst. Maybe the Psychlo physiology dulls their pain or makes such an injury not a big deal, but the movie explains nothing.
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Battlefield Earth / int_94f517db	type	Discretion Shot
Battlefield Earth / int_94f517db	comment	Discretion Shot: At one point, a human gets his head exploded by a prison collar. The scene cuts away from the explosion itself to show other characters' reactions to it.
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Battlefield Earth / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Battlefield Earth / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: This seems to be a personality trait of a few Psychlos, especially Terl.
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Battlefield Earth / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Battlefield Earth / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Terl "graduated top of [his] class" at the Psychlos' mysterious Academy of Evil, which he reminds Zete of to protest the extension of his assignment to Earth.
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Battlefield Earth / int_9a8e9926	type	Alternate DVD Commentary
Battlefield Earth / int_9a8e9926	comment	Alternate DVD Commentary: Courtesy of RiffTrax.
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Battlefield Earth / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Battlefield Earth / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The ominous "Home Office", Terl's employer, and presumably the ruling entity of all Psychlos, has kept him on Earth to touch off the main plot of the film.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a11669c5	type	Braids, Beads and Buckskins
Battlefield Earth / int_a11669c5	comment	Braids, Beads and Buckskins: Suspiciously clean buckskins (Travolta didn't want the movie to look too grimy), for the first act, anyway. The Psychlos, though irredeemably evil, are nice enough to give the man-animals jumpsuits after capture.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
Battlefield Earth / int_a20d4674	comment	The Psychlos call their security cameras "picto-cameras". Not only is this a dumb name, other than being able to retract into the wall and hide, said cameras seem no more high-tech than modern-day security cameras, and indeed, have worse vision as they are all tilted at an angle and are in all green for no apparent reason.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a2921d68	type	Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
Battlefield Earth / int_a2921d68	comment	Mistook the Dominant Lifeform: The Psychlos interpret surveillance photos of humans with dogs in car passenger seats as evidence that the dogs were "obviously the superior race, having the man-animals chauffeur them around." They also mention that the dogs were much more willing to cooperate with the alien masters than humans. Unfortunately, dogs proved ill-equipped for manual labor (which, again, demonstrated their superiority, not needing to work). They can fetch, though.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a33bdefe	type	Fast-Killing Radiation
Battlefield Earth / int_a33bdefe	comment	Fast-Killing Radiation: Exaggerated and combined with Artistic License â€“ Physics with the Psychlos. They explode when exposed to the slightest bit of radiation. Humans, however, are able to survive in irradiated areas and form villages in such places.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Battlefield Earth / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The passcode to Terl's vault is his ID number backwards.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Battlefield Earth / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Carlo, the first time a Psychlo ray gun shoots him. Especially noteworthy since every other time a human gets hit, the shot merely knocks them back a bit or makes them fall over. A ray gun, used realistically, should cause no recoil at all, compounding the silliness.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a5001f7f	type	Chekhov's Classroom
Battlefield Earth / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: Subverted. Jonnie teaches his followers Euclidean geometry, claiming it will be very important. It never is (beyond what they would need for piloting anyway). Even better, he teaches some of his fellow prisoners geometry and others piloting.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a56e3cba	type	Language Barrier
Battlefield Earth / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: Before Jonnie learns how to speak Psychlo, at least.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Battlefield Earth / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Ker says he's supporting five wives back on Psychlo (none of whom is ever seen).
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Battlefield Earth / int_a5eb6c29	type	Vanity Project
Battlefield Earth / int_a5eb6c29	comment	Vanity Project: To quote The Other Wiki: "Travolta, a Scientologist, began attempting to adapt Battlefield Earth in the mid-1990s. He was unable to obtain major studio funding because of concerns regarding the script and its connections to Scientology. In 1998, it was picked up by the independent production company Franchise Pictures, which specialized in rescuing stars' pet projects. Production began in 1999, largely funded by the German distribution company Intertainment AG. Travolta, as co-producer, also contributed millions of dollars; he envisioned Battlefield Earth as the first in a two-part adaptation of the book, as it only covers the first half of the novel's story."
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Battlefield Earth / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Battlefield Earth / int_a796d2a6	comment	Later at the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, Jonnie runs in slow motion through a bunch of pillars as they are shot, just like how Neo runs through the government lobby in The Matrix.
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Battlefield Earth / int_a8e5bc60	type	All Hail the Great God Mickey!
Battlefield Earth / int_a8e5bc60	comment	All Hail the Great God Mickey! Many of the cavemen Jonnie encounter mistook product mascots for humans petrified for "angering the gods". Carlo tells Johnnie about temples where people would drive chariots to golden arches to magically receive food.
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Battlefield Earth / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
Battlefield Earth / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Nauseating camera angles, lurid blue or purple coloration, people dressed like cavemen hooting like howler monkeys.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Battlefield Earth / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: Fast food and automobiles are the stuff of legends, and mannequins are purportedly people punished for offending the gods. The Psychlos are shown at one point examining old Earth photos of people driving with their dogs, leading them to believe that the dogs were the superior species since they had the humans chauffeuring them around. They also note that dogs, while much more cooperative than "man-animals", which the Psychlos interpret to mean higher intelligence (after all, dogs recognize who their betters are), proved almost useless for manual labor (further proof that dogs were the masters of "man-animals", who did all the physical work). Even with his newfound intelligence, Jonnie assumes a map of the United States which has red lines depicting state borders is entirely literal and someone must have painted these giant lines on the ground. That they aren't there now just means they must have faded over time.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Battlefield Earth / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Terl towards his subordinates.
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Battlefield Earth / int_affdffd9	type	Stupid Good
Battlefield Earth / int_affdffd9	comment	Stupid Good: Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler snatches a gun off of Terl late in the movie, but instead of shooting him, he decides to give it back respectfully.
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Battlefield Earth / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Battlefield Earth / int_b01abe4f	comment	The Planetship, Terl's direct superior, abruptly vanishes in the latter stages of the movie. This coincides with Terl gaining leverage on him.
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Battlefield Earth / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Battlefield Earth / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: See Color Wash.
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Battlefield Earth / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Battlefield Earth / int_b58b4e3c	comment	This actually occurs twice: the second time was a rare example of the villains doing this to their own slaves.
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Battlefield Earth / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Battlefield Earth / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Jonnie delivers a Rousing Speech about how "We have enough problems without killing each other over food!" ... having just beaten the crap out of another human prisoner (granted, he was a prison bully and started the fight) over food.
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Battlefield Earth / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Battlefield Earth / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: It's an adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel Battlefield Earth.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ba183b0e	type	The Paralyzer
Battlefield Earth / int_ba183b0e	comment	The Paralyzer: The Psychlos' handguns have a stun setting, which they use to capture Jonnie without killing him. A closeup of one of these guns later shows its owner switching the setting between stunning and lethal.
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Battlefield Earth / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Battlefield Earth / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Ker joins the humans because of Terl's regular abuse and mistreatment (and because most of his race was exterminated when the planet Psychlo exploded).
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Battlefield Earth / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
Battlefield Earth / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: Now, center wipes are not very idiosyncratic as far as scene transitions go ... but every. Single. Transition is a center wipe. All of them, even the transition to the credits.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Battlefield Earth / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Many characters, but special mention goes to Terl's reaction to losing his right arm. Also earlier, Ker when losing his left hand.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Battlefield Earth / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Most of Jonnie's lines involve him violently expressing his grief over a person, animal, or thing.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Battlefield Earth / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The version on VHS and DVD makes the following alterations: A scene of Terl invoking Exact Words on the bartender over a damaging incident not magically appearing in his file is removed. A scene where Terl throws Floyd (the guy who Jonnie fights over food and escapes with Carlo and Jonnie to the mountains) off a cliff to show Ker that humans canâ€™t fly after the failed escape attempt is removed. A small scene during Terl and Jonnieâ€™s trip to the library of Terl quipping that Jonnie will find plenty of recipes for raw rat is removed. When Robert the Fox and his men ambush Terl and Jonnie gets his gun, thereâ€™s an exchange removed where Terl quips how humanity is similar to the Psychlos. An opening crawl is added between the studio logos and the opening credits, stating information that is made obvious in the film. A scene between Parson Staffor and Chrissie at the beginning, discussing Jonnieâ€™s status as a â€œgreener,â€� is added. Two brief scenes are added as Jonnie, Carlo and Rock head through the city. One is where Rock tells Jonnie that a statue is actually a god who was turned to stone for falling in love with a mortal woman. The other is Jonnie walking into a (very obvious) window in the mall where the three make camp. A scene where Jonnie, Carlo and Mickey search for and discover the instructions for the nuclear warhead is added. The version on Blu-Ray, streaming services and TV airings are of the original theatrical cut.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Battlefield Earth / int_c5385ad9	comment	Terl and his fellow Psychlos believe that the humans are too stupid to do anything on their own, so they give them some 'assistance' in the form of Psychlo knowledge beams.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Battlefield Earth / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: At the end of the movie, Jonnie keeps Terl alive so that if there are Psychlos living off their homeworld, and they come looking for revenge, humans can use Terl as leverage ... because the Psychlos would be really pissed at Terl for indirectly dooming the homeworld ... so if they get him, they won't bother with the humans, who directly doomed their homeworld. Clearly, he Didn't Think This Through very well. This was almost certainly meant as a Sequel Hook; the adaptation stops a third of the way through the book. In the book, Terl is put in protective custody as the (several including Ker) Psychlos are after his blood.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Battlefield Earth / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Jonnie is first shot, he falls through several glass panes Ã la Blade Runner, taking no lasting damage. Also, the first time we're presented with the Psychlo homeworld, the camera pans around a cityscape, also as in Blade Runner's opening. Later at the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, Jonnie runs in slow motion through a bunch of pillars as they are shot, just like how Neo runs through the government lobby in The Matrix. Two of the human slaves are named â€œHeywoodâ€� and â€œFloyd.â€�
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Battlefield Earth / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Battlefield Earth / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: Gold is apparently the rarest and most valuable material in the universe. There are dozens of rarer elements, and even if you discount the ones that would be of no use to the Psychlos because they're either radioactive or exist only in microscopic quantities, there are several other metals, such as rhodium, platinum, and palladium which are more valuable than gold.
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Battlefield Earth / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Battlefield Earth / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Jonnie starts to become a savior figure after the Psychlos capture him, and especially after they train him.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Battlefield Earth / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Terl is supposedly one of the most intelligent and dangerous Psychlos out there. But what the movie shows us is a bumbler who makes some downright idiotic mistakes.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Battlefield Earth / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Nearly all the humans we see are white. This even extends to the Psychlos themselves, with Forest Whitaker being the only black actor playing a Psychlo.
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Battlefield Earth / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Battlefield Earth / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Oh, so many examples. Nothing should be working after about a millennium; it takes years, not weeks, to learn to fly one; none of them has flight suits and yet they're all stunt dog-fighter material. And while they do mention that Harrier jets can hover, it depicts them being able to hover in wait indefinitely like a helicopter when in real life Harriers are only designed to hover briefly as doing it for too long can overheat and seriously stress the engine. Harriers are so unreliable it is almost ridiculous to suggest they can even be repaired. Not to mention that Harriers are infamous for being extremely difficult to master compared to most jets, primarily due to their unique flight characteristics.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Battlefield Earth / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: This film holds the dubious honor of providing audiences with the most overly dramatic "cavemen being sprayed with hoses" scene in film history. It's exactly as stupid as it sounds.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Battlefield Earth / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Terl demonstrates his marksmanship "skills" on some random cattle to make a point to the humans he's trying to threaten.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Battlefield Earth / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Sort of. Though he doesn't actually die, Terl blows off his own arm with the exploding collar he used on Jonnie's girlfriend. And in the end he's put in a cage in Fort Knox, surrounded by gold. It's ironic, y'see, because he put Jonnie in a cage and started the whole scheme to get gold.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Battlefield Earth / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Apparently, fighter jets that have been in storage for the last thousand years are perfectly serviceable when needed, and even the fuel still hasn't degraded.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Battlefield Earth / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The Psychlos' entire reason for conquering Earth was to mine all the gold from it. Despite having had Earth under their control for 1,000 years at the time the movie is set, they still haven't managed to mine all the gold, even though they are supposedly an interstellar empire that has similarly plundered countless other planets for their valuable metals.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Battlefield Earth / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": In one scene, Ker is seen placing a plate of sorts with a topographical map showing the location of some gold into a rack of other such plates (as he thinks Terl has left Earth for good by now and wants to 'find' the gold himself). When Terl comes in and confronts him about it, he inexplicably refers to the plate as a "photo," even though it's obviously a model or map and looks nothing like a photo. The Psychlos call their security cameras "picto-cameras". Not only is this a dumb name, other than being able to retract into the wall and hide, said cameras seem no more high-tech than modern-day security cameras, and indeed, have worse vision as they are all tilted at an angle and are in all green for no apparent reason.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d69421ec	type	Small Universe After All
Battlefield Earth / int_d69421ec	comment	Small Universe After All: The Psychlos generally think nothing of conquering entire galaxies. This is actually scaled down from the source novel, wherein they ruled several universes.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Battlefield Earth / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Hardly any of the Psychlos actually have names, and even in the credits are generally only referred to by their titles. One of them is even known as Bartender.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Battlefield Earth / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: This is Dutch Angle: The Movie. It notoriously used them to the point of excess. (A shot from the film provides the page image.) As Roger Ebert noted in his review: It's even used in-universe. When Terl looks at some security camera footage, that too is tilted.
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Battlefield Earth / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Battlefield Earth / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Yes. In nearly a thousand years of occupying Earth, the gold-hungry Psychlos completely overlooked Fort Knox and its hoard of untouched gold stashed within.
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Battlefield Earth / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Battlefield Earth / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Zete, the high-ranking Psychlo who visits Earth early in the story, was called â€œZztâ€� in the novel (though the novel's character was a mechanic and more of a rival to Terl). Presumably his name was changed to make it easier to pronounce. The Asian-like Chinkos were renamed "Clinkos" for obvious reasons. That didn't stop them from using the offensive Asian stereotype personality and voice.
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Battlefield Earth / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
Battlefield Earth / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: Terl allows Jonnie, Carlo, and another captured man out in the wild to find out what they will consume as food, as he doesn't know what humans like to eat. The only edible animals they find are rats, so they eat them, but Terl believes it was their preferred meal. Apparently he never stopped to consider that these slaves were so starved, they were actually willing to eat anything at this point (it's specifically stated that they haven't eaten for three days). They didn't even bother cooking it first, causing Terl to assume they prefer it raw.
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Battlefield Earth / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
Battlefield Earth / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: Most scenes involving the Psychlos.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
Battlefield Earth / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: With endless options for renewal! With endless options for renewal! With endless options for renewal! With endless options for renewal!
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Battlefield Earth / int_e0b2e1d4	type	Marquee Alter Ego
Battlefield Earth / int_e0b2e1d4	comment	Marquee Alter Ego: Jay of Half in the Bag points out that John Travolta and Forest Whitaker, the most famous actors in the cast, not coincidentally happen to be the Psychlos whose makeup covers up the least of their actual faces.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Battlefield Earth / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: While the Psychlos are in private, their language is translated into English, but when the humans are the focus, it's left untranslated. It gets a little weird once Jonnie learns the language and is speaking both in the same scene and 'translating.' Even before that, kicking off the Almost Out of Oxygen sequence noted above, the two guards involved talk to each other in Psychlo, then one clearly says, "Okay, he's down. Pull his breath mask off" in English.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e16a12cb	type	Call a Human a "Meatbag"
Battlefield Earth / int_e16a12cb	comment	Call a Human a "Meatbag": The Psychlos typically refer to humans as "man-animals."
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Battlefield Earth / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
Battlefield Earth / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: Because Psychlos are so much bigger than humans, a two-handed sideways grip seems to be the only way the humans can aim and fire the aliens' weapons.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Battlefield Earth / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Psycho breath gas explosively combusts when exposed to radiation. When the atmosphere on Planet Psychlo ignites thanks to a single nuclear bomb — one at least a thousand Earth years old, no less — the resulting explosion rips the entire planet apart, crust, mantle, core and all.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Battlefield Earth / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Scenes that take place in the dome are tinted blue. The rest of Earth is more yellowish-brown. The Psychlo planet itself is purple. In-universe, Psychlo security footage is all in green for no discernible reason. Perhaps they use old Apple IIe monitors.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Battlefield Earth / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Psychlos basically look like Klingons, except they are nine feet tall, invokedhave even less of a fashion sense, and lack any factors that make them scary or badass (or, indeed, especially interesting in any way). Only they're also slimy corporate businessmen, so imagine the Klingons if they had the personalities and culture of the Ferengi, and the juxtaposition is just as weird and jarring as that sounds.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e54a07ac	type	Wipe
Battlefield Earth / int_e54a07ac	comment	Wipe: Excessively used, second only to the overreliance on the Dutch Angle. Probably in some misguided attempt to ape Star Wars.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e5a9f2b9	type	While You Were in Diapers
Battlefield Earth / int_e5a9f2b9	comment	While You Were in Diapers: When Ker mocks Terl and says that he could have taken a much less stressful job, he says something to this effect: that he was trained to be a Galactic Conqueror since birth.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Battlefield Earth / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Psychlos don't even take poorly to amputations. Terl gets one of his arms blown off and merely seems to find it annoying.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e77e2787	type	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
Battlefield Earth / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: After wiping out human civilization, the Psychlos use the survivors as slave labor. It strains credibility that Terl's superiors would dismiss his proposal to extend this arrangement to gold mining.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Battlefield Earth / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Imagine the Coneheads with dreadlocks, furry hands, codpieces, limb extensions, and breathing tubes that look like long pieces of necklaced chains pierced on their nose.
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Battlefield Earth / int_e80cdd72	type	Almost Out of Oxygen
Battlefield Earth / int_e80cdd72	comment	Even before that, kicking off the Almost Out of Oxygen sequence noted above, the two guards involved talk to each other in Psychlo, then one clearly says, "Okay, he's down. Pull his breath mask off" in English.
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Battlefield Earth / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: Terl recognizes that Jonnie is unusually competent for a man-animal, and reasons that he can use Jonnie to mine the gold in the radioactive area. However, he also recognizes that Jonnie has a strong rebellious streak, and thus needs to break that to ensure Jonnie's compliance. He does this by taking Jonnie to the Library of Congress and allowing him to read anything he wants, boasting that humans at their height were powerless against the Psychlos and Jonnie shouldn't expect any better now. Jonnie uses this opportunity to learn everything he needs about where to find military equipment and pre-mined gold, then uses that against the Psychlos. He also reads a copy of the Constitution, making him even more rebellious.
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Battlefield Earth / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The planet Psychlo has an atmosphere that spontaneously ignites in the presence of radiation. This means radioactive decay does not naturally occur on the planet, meaning the planet violates the second law of thermodynamics and is effectively a perpetual motion machine. On a related note, the Psychlos have eyes, which means Planet Psychlo must orbit a light-producing star. Stars emit radiation. Copious amounts of radiation. Not to mention that a highly advanced, star-faring, and extremely warlike species supposedly got along without ever using radioactive materials. The novel does suggest that the Psychlo home world exists in another universe altogether (Jonnie Goodboy concludes this when attempting to understand Psychlo math), but this goes unsaid in the film.
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