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Critters

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Critters	label	Critters
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Critters	comment	Critters is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Scott Grimes; also starring: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Ethan Phillips, Billy Zane, Don Keith Opper, and Terrence Mann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.The second film was released in 1988, featuring the return of Scott Grimes as Bradley Brown (the main character from the first film). The terror starts when the creature's eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs; they quickly multiply after they hatch.The third film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in his film debut, begins when a family who has recently lost their mother return to their run-down apartment building after a vacation, followed by the title creatures after hitching a ride in their truck.The fourth film, starring Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif, takes place many years later in space, where they try to wipe out the remaining species of Crites.The series is often compared to the Gremlins series, despite the script having been written before that film was released.A short Fan Film, Critters: Bounty Hunter, was released in 2014. It's available on YouTube.On October 2018, Syfy announced they plan to reboot the series by adding sequels on their network as part of their acquisition of multiple properties such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Leprechaun. In 2019, an eight-episode web series titled Critters: A New Binge was made and distributed on Shudder. Later that same year, a direct-to-DVD sequel Critters Attack! was released and follows a more similar plot to Gremlins than the original films by involving a cuter Crite who turns out to be good and helps the heroes in wiping out the other Crites.
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Critters / int_11a4bc8b	type	Spike Shooter
Critters / int_11a4bc8b	comment	Spike Shooter: The Crites can shoot venomous quills that render victims unconscious.
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Critters / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Critters / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ug completely loses it when his partner is killed in Critters 2, reverting to his "nothing face" form and only snapping out of it to save the day towards the end of the film.
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Critters / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Critters / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The first two films had their grim moments but weren't so bad, there were no super terrifying deaths. The second was a bit darker with Lee's death. The third one was a bit lighter once we got past the jerk ass landlord's very gory death. The fourth is the darkest with the highest amount of the cast dying and Ug becoming an asshole and getting killed by Charlie.
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Critters / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Critters / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "They have weapons." "So what?" BLAM. "Fuck!"
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Critters / int_1697f7a0	type	Straw Vegetarian
Critters / int_1697f7a0	comment	Straw Vegetarian: Brad's grandmother in the second film has shades of this, given her incessant preaching on how vegetables are far healthier for you than meat is and inferring at one point that humans were never meant to digest meat.
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Critters / int_1b55d429	type	Shoot the Television
Critters / int_1b55d429	comment	Shoot the Television: In the original movie, Ug fires his weapon at a TV set in a bowling alley, which causes a ruckus with several of the town locals.
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Critters / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
Critters / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: Ug and Lee's default forms are glowing green faces that lack features.
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Critters / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Critters / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: In the first film, April's boyfriend Steve (Billy Zane) gets the fingers on his right hand bitten off by one of the Crites as he reaches to change the radio station.
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Critters / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Critters / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: The bounty hunters can change their appearance to blend in on alien planets. The rules of how it works seem to vary between the first and second films.
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Critters / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Critters / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: The first film ends with village idiot Charlie following the alien bounty hunters as they prepare to leave. By the second film he has become a bounty hunter himself.
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Critters / int_264fcc42	type	Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome
Critters / int_264fcc42	comment	Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Ug in the fourth movie becomes an uncaring asshole willing to kill anyone who tries to keep him from dealing with the Crites on his terms.
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Critters / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Critters / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Lilo & Stitch took some inspiration from the film, though of course far Lighter and Softer.
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Critters / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Critters / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: After a handful of Crites terrorize a farmhouse and the surrounding area in the first film, their far more numerous offspring take on the entire neighbouring town in part 2. Averted in the third (despite the video cover talking a good game), where the action shifts to the big city but is confined almost entirely to a single apartment building, with a Crite count much closer to the original film.
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Critters / int_39688852	type	Shapeshifter Default Form
Critters / int_39688852	comment	Shapeshifter Default Form: The bounty hunters start as Type A blank faces. Through the sequels Ug is Type B, allowing Terrance Mann to continue playing him.
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Critters / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Critters / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: In the original a Crite tries to escape via the toilet, which is then blown up.
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Critters / int_3a9bbb12	type	Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Critters / int_3a9bbb12	comment	Man, I Feel Like a Woman: When Lee takes on the form of a gorgeous Playmate in the second film, his/her first reaction is to give the new girls a squeeze. It's played for laughs as she looks more bemused than aroused.
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Critters / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Critters / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In the first film, it is brought up that Ug and Lee did something that nearly destroyed a space colony on their last mission. Critters 4 never gives an explanation for why Ug turned evil in the 53 years between then and part 3, other than a cryptic "people change, Charlie".
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Critters / int_3c694b06	type	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
Critters / int_3c694b06	comment	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer: In the fourth movie, when Ethan is helping Charlie find the critters, he asks what they look like. Charlie asks if he knows what a piranha is, he says yes, so Charlie says that they don't look anything like piranhas but are hungry like them (which doesn't really answer his question, as he was asking what they looked like, not how they behave.)
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Critters / int_3f4ec001	type	DestructiveSavior
Critters / int_3f4ec001	comment	Destructive Savior: The bounty hunters in the first film cause a lot of damage while hunting down the Crites.
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Critters / int_3fdac1c6	type	Literally Shattered Lives
Critters / int_3fdac1c6	comment	Literally Shattered Lives: The fourth film has a scene where Ethan kills a Crite by breaking it into pieces after letting it suck on a tube of liquid nitrogen.
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Critters / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Critters / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The computer system on board the fourth film's space base leaves much to be desired. It does the opposite of what it is ordered and generally isn't very helpful.
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Critters / int_422f23f9	type	Power-Up Food
Critters / int_422f23f9	comment	Power-Up Food: In the first film the Crites get progressively bigger the more they eat. One of them is roughly the size of an adult human by the conclusion. This is largely abandoned in the later films, particularly the third and fourth.
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Critters / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Critters / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Charlie and two Crite eggs get cryogenically frozen at the end of the third film, setting up the events of part 4.
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Critters / int_46e1fd22	type	Walking Disaster Area
Critters / int_46e1fd22	comment	Walking Disaster Area: The bounty hunters don't give a shit about property damage. There's a There Was a Door moment in the first film in which rather than walking through an unlocked door — he just rips it off the hinges.
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Critters / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Critters / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The exterior shots in Critters 4 are cobbled together from the previous films in the series, and an earlier Don Opper sci-fi film called Android. The bounty hunters use fast forwarded stock footage to learn about 1980s era Earth (aka American pop culture) to assimilate. One of the bounty hunters takes on the form of the fictional rock musician Johnny Steele.
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Critters / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Critters / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Steve's attempt to get it on with April in the barn only scores him first place on the Crites' menu.
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Critters / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Critters / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The Brown family farm is rebuilt at the end of the first film after being destroyed by the Crites. The second film subsequently reveals that they were soon driven out of town because the bounty hunters had trashed much of the local area and their stories of alien invasion were causing strife in the community.
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Critters / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Critters / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: After transforming into Playboy centerfold in 2, Lee stomps off to kill the Crites wearing nothing but gloves, boots and an ammo belt, unaware of the effect her curvaceous new body has. Charlie has to run after her to get her to put some clothes on.
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Critters / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
Critters / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: The second, third and fourth films have the phrase "No critters were harmed in the making of this movie" turn up in the credits.
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Critters / int_5ee0a2d8	type	Token Heroic Orc
Critters / int_5ee0a2d8	comment	Token Heroic Orc: Bianca in Critters Attack is a good Crite who even helps the heroes in wiping out the rest of her kind.
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Critters / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Critters / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The first film ends with a shot of Crite eggs in the farm's barn, while the third film ends with a space pod showing up to get the last Crite eggs from Charlie and a "To be continued" cliffhanger. The first sequel hook is retconned somewhat - the closing shot of the film is a handful of eggs beginning to hatch, while the second picks up two years later with dozens of eggs that have dubiously lain dormant due to cold conditions in the barn.
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Critters / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Critters / int_7315fd38	comment	Averted in the third (despite the video cover talking a good game), where the action shifts to the big city but is confined almost entirely to a single apartment building, with a Crite count much closer to the original film.
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Critters / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Critters / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: Fran is shown showering in Critters 4, with one shot panning up to show her rear and back.
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Critters / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Critters / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Ms. Mendes in Critters 3, even if she only gets to show it once.
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Critters / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Critters / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Any humans killed by the bounty hunters tend to be unsympathetic enough to deserve it. The landlord and the janitor in Critters 3 also deserve their deaths. The former had no qualms with screwing over his clients and the latter was hired by the former to kill a tenant by unleashing rats on him in addition to being generally repulsive. Captain Rick Buttram in the fourth film is a total scumbag who was willing to cheat TerraCor out of property they had a claim to and shamelessly walks in on Fran while she's showering, clearly intending something to happen, which makes it impossible to feel sorry for him when he becomes the first victim of the Crites.
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Critters / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Critters / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Though the Crites are canonically aliens, the first movies take place mostly on Earth. The fourth film shifts things to a sci-fi setting, and Alien and Star Wars rip-offs abound. It's even called Critters 4: Critters in Space in some releases.
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Critters / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
Critters / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: Even as we're shown that the titular alien monsters have escaped their interstellar prison ship, we're introduced to the Brown Family in the almost pastoral setting of their farmhouse, including young son Brad's mischevious streak, which served him well against the alien menace.
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Critters / int_9adcd93a	type	Bizarre Alien Locomotion
Critters / int_9adcd93a	comment	Bizarre Alien Locomotion: Crites curl up and roll like balls when they need to move quickly. In the second film, a whole pack of Crites form a single giant, rolling, biting ball that rolls over people.
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Critters / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Critters / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Second film happens at Easter.
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Critters / int_a0543350	type	Earth Is a Battlefield
Critters / int_a0543350	comment	Earth Is a Battlefield: Humans are stuck in the middle of a destructive battle between the bounty hunters and Crites.
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Critters / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Critters / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: Subverted, because the ship's AI is too stupid to realize that talking is not a free action.
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Critters / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Critters / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: A victim of the Krite Ball in Critters 2. This rare example◊ shows the bones in a small amount of bloody "meat".
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Critters / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Critters / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: A larger Crite appears in each of the first two films. Though, the one in the second movie turned out to be Ug in disguise.
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Critters / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Critters / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Charlie throughout the four films is shown to be pretty idiotic, naive, awkward, goofy, and sometimes doesn't think things through. Yet he demonstrates good aim at times (blows up several Crites in the third movie), bravery (end of the second film), willpower (end of the fourth film), adaption of future tech minutes after unfreezing (figured out how to fire a laser gun but his aim was a little off), and improvising when it counts (1st film).
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Critters / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Critters / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Quite a few, but the father's reaction in the first film when one of the Crites' poison spines slams into the wood an inch from his eyes is probably the strongest example. One of the Critters even has a moment of this; see below under Tempting Fate.
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Critters / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Critters / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: At some point in the years between films three and four, formerly heroic Ug becomes a corporate asshole.
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Critters / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Critters / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Lee plays it straight in the 2nd film, while doubling as an Innocent Fan Service Girl, the new look even come with Breast Expansion that the viewers actually get to see.
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Critters / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Critters / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Josh in 3 gets fed up with his stepfather expecting him to follow in his footsteps as an underhanded slimeball of a landlord and repeatedly calling him "Sport", and yells that he wishes he were dead before unknowingly locking him in a room with the Crites. He spends the rest of the movie regretting it.
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Critters / int_b4754f84	type	The Worm That Walks
Critters / int_b4754f84	comment	The Worm That Walks: More like the ever-hungry ball that rolls.
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Critters / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Critters / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: One Crite munches an ET The Extraterrestrial doll.
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Critters / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Critters / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Ug only appears at the very end of 3 as a hologram to tell Charlie he can't destroy the last of the Crite eggs as part of the film's Sequel Hook.
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Critters / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Critters / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A Crite utters "fuck" (it's subtitled) in the original after witnessing another of its kind get shot.
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Critters / int_befc25d4	type	Viler New Villain
Critters / int_befc25d4	comment	Viler New Villain: Post Faceâ€“Heel Turn Ug in the fourth movie is this, as, while the Crites at least have to eat meat to survive, Ug is just a greedy asshole who chooses to be the way he is.
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Critters / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Critters / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The Crites have green blood.
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Critters / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
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Critters / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: In the second film, Charlie suggests a luring the critters to a determined spot and blow them up, which seems lime a good plan, until someone asks who's going to lure them them. After thinking about it, Charlie volunteers, since it was his idea.
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Critters / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Critters / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: The second film has a scene featuring a cardboard cut-out of Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, another film series by New Line Cinema.
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Critters / int_dd7ecf98	comment	Toilet Teleportation: Subverted when one of the Crites attempts to escape from the bounty hunters via the toilet bowl. It's a bit too fat to fit, and can't squeeze down the hole before one of the hunters blows it (and the toilet itself) away.
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Critters / int_f01a1b71	type	Insignificant Little Blue Planet
Critters / int_f01a1b71	comment	Insignificant Little Blue Planet: It was noted by Siskel & Ebert that the charm of the first film was that the humans were caught in the middle of a fight between aliens, rather than fighting the aliens themselves.
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Critters / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: Jake refuses to communicate in any way besides texting for most of Critters Attack, but eventually talks when he tries to point out something about Bianca to Drea.
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Critters / int_f3c801ef	type	Cranky Landlord
Critters / int_f3c801ef	comment	Cranky Landlord: Mr. Briggs in 3 is a supreme jerkass of a man who is trying to make his tenants move out of their apartments of their own free will so he won't have to pay their relocation fees. To this end, he promises the janitor extra money to let trained rats loose in the building, and cuts off the power and phone lines.
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Critters / int_f41b26d	type	Breast Expansion
Critters / int_f41b26d	comment	Breast Expansion: One of the bounty hunters in 2 does this when it takes the form of a Play Boy model and names herself Lee, doubles as Fanservice as her chainmail armor can't handle the hunter's expansion.
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Critters / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Critters / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: In the first film, one Critter tells another that humans have weapons. The second Critter asks, "So what?" before getting blown away by Helen with her 12 Gauge Double Barrel Shotgun. The remaining Critter remarks, "FUCK!" and runs off to send in reinforcements.
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Critters / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
Critters / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Not so much, though there is an element of Ugly Cute to them.
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Critters / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
Critters / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: "Critterese" gets translated into English with subtitles.
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Critters / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Critters / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: During their attempted escape in their stolen ship at the climax of the original film, the Crites stop to blow up the farmhouse out of spite.
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Critters / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
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