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Mars Attacks! was originally a trading card series from Topps published in the early sixties. Created by Wally Wood, the series depicted an Alien Invasion of evil Martians colonizing Earth and exterminating all life on the planet in the style of EC Comics horror and science fiction stories at the time. The 55 cards that made up the series were quickly discontinued due to Moral Guardians who were horrified by the series' violence. In the 80s, another series of cards with a similar premise was released, known as Dinosaurs Attack!. In the 90s the property would resurface in the form of new trading cards and a comic series. A movie soon followed.The 1996 movie adaptation was directed by Tim Burton and depicted gleefully destructive Martians animated by Industrial Light & Magic as opposed to the more violent and terrifying versions seen in the trading cards or comics. Notable for its All-Star Cast, including Jack Nicholson, Lukas Haas, Annette Bening, Jim Brown, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenn Close, Martin Short, Rod Steiger, Michael J. Fox, Jack Black, Natalie Portman, note Do not confuse the below examples of Natalie the character with her Pam Grier, Danny DeVito, Tom Jones, Frank Welker and Jack Nicholson (again). Hilarity Ensues as most of them are jokingly killed off with bizarre weaponry as cheesily as possible. Despite underperforming at the box office and getting a tepid critical reception at the time, the film has developed a modest cult following since its release through frequent TV showings, and it's now widely considered one of Burton's best films.The movie has gotten a lot of attention for its numerous striking similarities to Independence Day, that other throwback to classic alien invasion stories released in 1996—which chose to play the premise completely straight rather than mocking it. Beyond having almost exactly the same premise, the two films also feature the President of the United States as one of the main characters, and they feature several near-identical scenes, characters, and story beats. The creative team behind Mars Attacks has maintained that this was a coincidence, as they were mostly unaware of Independence Day while making the film. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it achieved greater success - both critically and commercially - in Europe.Amusingly: much the same thing happened in 1964 with the films Fail Safe and Doctor Strangelove—which also have almost exactly the same premise, but play it completely differently (one is a drama, the other is a comedy). Doctor Strangelove also famously featured Peter Sellers playing multiple characters, much like Jack Nicholson does in this film.The Martians later appeared in the Walmart ad "Famous Visitors" for Super Bowl LIV in 2020 that has them ordering pick-up.In 2012, IDW Publishing launched a new ongoing Mars Attacks! comic series. This later led into a crossthrough event where, in one-shots, the Martians attacked such characters as the Transformers, KISS and even Popeye.In 2017, a new card series was made to celebrate its 55th Anniversary, Mars Attacks! The Revenge which picked up where the original card series left off and told the story of a new Martian invasion in the 1960s.
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Aliens Speaking English: Averted. They don't speak English and the humans' translating machine never works well, either. Interestingly, the Martians do appear to understand human language, going by some of their reactions to things the humans say. In particular, the Martian leader pretends to agree to the president's truce following his speech.
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Starfish Language
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Starfish Language: Downplayed in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how the Martians have no lips or cheeks with which to help them form more complex sounds. Their own evolution may have led to their language becoming a series of simple syllables.
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Bizarre Alien Biology
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Martians have green blood, their heads explode hearing certain music, and, according to the Novelization, they vomit by shedding tears.
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The Millstone
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The Millstone: The hippie that releases the dove, which sets off the Martians' Berserk Button and leads to the initial massacre in Nevada. Of course, they most likely were planning all along to vaporize everyone there, regardless.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: Billy-Glen, during the first Martian attack, quite stupidly charges at one with intent to kill it. He hit the magazine release by mistake. He then picks up an American flag and shouts "I surrender!" He dies anyway, but since no one heard what he actually said, he's honored as an American hero. This fuels his trailer trash parents' blatant favoritism of him over his less aggressive, smarter brother.
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Anyone Can Die: And does! All those people in the cast list at the top of the page? Most of them die.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Byron Williams shares a lot of similarities with Muhammad Ali, a black heavyweight boxer who converted to Islam.
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Fat Idiot
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Fat Idiot: Richie's brother and parents.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: "Gentlemen, there is no way that we can lose!" Art, just before the Martians blow up his hotel with him in it.
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Villain Team-Up
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Villain Team-Up: You can thank the Sea Hag for this one in "Mars Attacks Popeye," where she immediately intercepts the Martians upon their landing and hypnotizes them into attacking Popeye for her instead of invading Earth. Then the spinach-powered beatdown breaks their hypnosis, and they betray her through Defeat by Modesty (It Makes Sense in Context) before leaving Earth out of a new found fear of Popeye. The Martians trick the Decepticons into thinking that they're interested in one in "Mars Attacks the Transformers", only to betray them and seal them inside the same forcefield as the Autobots. This leads to the Autobots and Decepticons teaming up to deal with the Martians.
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Patrick Stewart Speech: The President tries it with the Martian leader. It doesn't work.
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Artistic License – Biology: Can a chihuahua's body really support the weight of a full-grown human head, never mind being able to physiologically function with it?
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Lovable Coward
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Lovable Coward: President Dale is a very nice man, but he's an absolute coward.
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The aliens destroying Earth's landmarks for giggles.
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Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer gives one of the Martian Emperor's gibberish lines the subtitle "Nice planet. We'll take it!" (which is also the film's tagline). In the actual movie, world conquest is never indicated as the goal of the Martians, who seem to be content with simply raising hell and blowing stuff up.
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Flying Saucer: The movie cribs its saucer design directly from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, all it the name of Affectionate Parody, and utilizing CGI to emulate the stop-motion spinning effect.
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Always Know a Pilot: Byron Williams rescues Tom Jones from Martians. He needs a pilot to fly him to Washington D.C., and it turns out that Tom Jones knows how to fly a plane!
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The Greys
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The Greys: The Martians don't exactly resemble Greys, but their UFO's and one autopsy of them mirrors the rumors spread about the Roswell incident.
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The Heavy: The Martian ambassador gets more screentime and contributes more than his leader.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Played six ways to Sunday. The Martians are the very definition of "Aliens Are Bastards", but at least at first a misunderstanding seems to make sense... until it doesn't. And even then, the aliens are amused enough by the translation machine that one scene showcases a Martian kill-team running around yelling who-knows-what while shooting anything that moves that the machine translates as "we are your friends!".
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Villain Ball
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Villain Ball: The Martian's weakness would likely never have been discovered, had one not halted to set up an enormous death machine to deal with Grandma and opted to shoot her instantly.
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Disaster Movie
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Disaster Movie: Played for Laughs, by taking everything that is normal about it (like a large ensemble cast) and then applying Black Comedy (Characters Dropping Like Flies).
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I Surrender, Suckers
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I Surrender, Suckers: The Martians love this trope. They have a habit of calling truces, only to attack moments later. It happens four times during the film, and every time it results in a massacre.
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Theremin
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Theremin: Used extensively on the soundtrack, mostly as a Leit Motif for the Martians.
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Raygun Gothic
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Raygun Gothic: The Martians' ships and equipment, including the rayguns.
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Technicolor Science: The rayguns have two variants; one that fires red lasers and reduces the victim to a red tinted skeleton, and one that fires green lasers and reduces the victim to a green tinted skeleton.
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Fingore: Jerry's finger gets bitten off by the Martian girl. To add insult to injury, it lands in the fish tank and the fish nibble at it.
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Ambiguous Situation: It's never fully explained why the Martian Ambassador goes berserk as soon as he sees the dove in Nevada: he could have misinterpreted it as a threat, he could have killed it as a declaration of war, or he could be just that evil. Relatedly: we never learn whether the humans' translation machines weren't working, or whether they accurately translated the Martians falsely claiming to be peaceful.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: In the cards, the more intellectual Paeccs were peaceful while the Gnards were the Savage warrior race. In the comics, the Paeccs are not only in favor of violently invading Earth, they're the ones calling the shots, although they do negotiate a short-lived truce at one point.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: A side effect of making nearly everyone an Asshole Victim. Earth is depicted as pretty sleazy, and a lot of the people populating it are clueless idiots or greedy jerks.
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Failed a Spot Check: The White House tour guide fails to notice the trilling sound of the flying saucers as the building is invaded, this leads to her death and the deaths of the children.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: There are several moments of this throughout the film, but Jack Black being killed horribly, the scene being caught on every camera, and the film cutting to his parents frantically flipping through channels to try and escape the image but being unable to do so because it's on EVERY channel, probably takes the cake.
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Aliens Steal Cattle: Averted in the opening scene, where the Martians set an entire herd of cows on fire.
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Chekhov's Gun: Slim Whitman's 1952 rendition of "Indian Love Call". Jason's severed hand is repurposed into a weapon to kill the President.
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Adaptation Expansion: The series had multiple storylines which expanded the universe beyond the original comic series.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Richie in a family of rednecks. Another reason why they don't like him, except his grandma. Also, General Decker, despite his warmonger attitude, is the only member of the President's staff who seems to understand that the Martians are not interested in peace like President Dale assumes, frantically working to convince the latter that war is their last option because of how desperate they are. Unfortunately, he gets ignored until it's practically too late.
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Ascended Fanboy
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Ascended Fanboy: In-Universe example. The Williams boys are so fond of an alien-killing light gun arcade game that they skip school to play it (even though they have a copy at home). This ends up being a fitting enough training to help them survive the invasion and even rescue the president.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: Played for Laughs in a horrible manner as a group of Boy Scouts get trolled by the Martian ship after they laser the Washington Monument, tipping it in a random direction before outright flattening them with the Monument, and tragically Played Straight (via Censored Child Death) when the Martians invade the White House and kill off the entire field trip that Byron's boys were attending right after killing their Tour Guide.
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Funny Background Event: Right after the Pahrump massacre, as the president and his advisers argue over what to do next, the First Daughter, for some reason, is grinning like an idiot, clearly loving the carnage. Onboard the Martian mothership, you can see a clown captured in a storage tank in the background in one shot.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: The female Martian assassin does so on the President's dog. This is based on a card that had a Martian vaporizing a dog.
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Humans Are Diplomats
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Humans Are Diplomats: Humans try to make peace every chance they get, for all the good that does.
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Claiming Via Flag
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Claiming Via Flag: After a tense standoff, the President proposes a truce, and extends his hand for a handshake. The Martian commander seems to concur, until his "hand" (really a small robot) detaches, skitters along the President's arm, and stops in the middle of his back. There, it embeds the Martian flag, with the pole skewering the President's heart. He topples over prone, of course.
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Ice-Cream Koan
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Ice-Cream Koan: The Martian leader's speech is one of these. "All grren of skin... 800 centuries ago... Their bodily fluids include the birth of half breeds... For the fundamental understanding of the cosmos... For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest." Neatly lampshaded by General Decker: "What the HELL does that mean?!" Note that the humans need a (human-made) translating machine to understand the Martians. It's never outright stated, but there are a few hints that the machine is not working correctly.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: All the Martians that appear, and on the other side of the invasion, there is also the overly hawkish (but sadly not hawk-eyed) General Decker.
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Little "No"
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Little "No": The President after watching miniaturized General Decker being squashed under a Martian's foot.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: The Martians win in the "Dinosaurs Attack!" crossover by having mind-controlled the dinosaurs that the humans unleashed through time portals in hopes of attacking the Martians.
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Glass Cannon
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Glass Cannon: The Martians as a whole seem to be this if not in a vehicle or on a war beast. They have incredibly powerful death rays...but any time a human gets into melee combat to them, the Martian gets their butt handed to them.
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Feng Schwing
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Feng Schwing: Jerry Ross, the sleazy spin doctor to the president, takes a Martian disguised as a woman to a secret one of these in the White House—and refers to it as the "Kennedy Room."
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Revenge Myopia
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Revenge Myopia: The Martians get enraged when one of them is killed, even though they had attacked Earth unprovoked to kill everyone for fun.
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Scatterbrained Senior
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Scatterbrained Senior: Richie's grandmother calls both of her grandsons (Richie and Billy Glen) "Thomas".
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Redemption Rejection
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Redemption Rejection: The Martians refuse the president's offer of peace and kill him.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: The President's daughter, after the White House attack. But came back to award Richie and his grandma.
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The Worf Barrage
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The Worf Barrage: Up until "Indian Love Call" starts broadcasting, the efforts of the U.S. military to stop the Martians at best only kills individual Martians. Even using nuclear weapons is completely useless (and only makes the Martians mock them).
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Several of the Martians weapons, namely their giant bugs, freeze rays, tidal wave rays, and giant shovels on their ships.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Or rather, shoot the dog. One of the most iconic images of the series was a martian soldier randomly shooting a farm dog in front of its helpless owner. The image can be seen on the Aliens Are Bastards trope page.
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Beat Still, My Heart
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Beat Still, My Heart: When we first see Donald's severed head, the camera trucks back to reveal his various dismembered body parts suspended around him, including his still-beating heart.
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Flipping the Bird
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Flipping the Bird: General Decker does this right before the Martian leader crushes him.
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Real Award, Fictional Character
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Real Award, Fictional Character: Richia and Florence receive the Medal of Honor at the end of the film.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: Pierce Brosnan and Joe Don Baker (James Bond and Jack Wade, respectively) in the same movie again. This isn't the first time Paul Winfield has been involved in a first contact situation - or been painfully disintegrated. Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Leader in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character The Joker tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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Aliens Are Bastards
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Aliens Are Bastards: The Gnards are violent creatures who want to wipe the Earthlings out.
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Psychopathic Manchild
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Psychopathic Manchild: Every Martian is one. They are all extremely intelligent and evil, but also act like bratty kids playing a real life shoot'em up video game. Ties in with their Laughably Evil nature.
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Plot Tumor
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Plot Tumor: The Martians mostly vanish from the cards in favor of the giant insects around #27, only coming back towards the end when humanity finally decides to take the fight directly to Mars.
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Stupid Scientist
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Stupid Scientist: Kessler figures the Martians are peaceful because of their advanced intelligence. He was wrong.
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Pistol-Whipping
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Pistol-Whipping: During the annihilation of Congress, Donald Kessler is knocked out by a blow on the back of the head from the butt of a skeleton beam rifle wielded by a Martian soldier.
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Board to Death
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Board to Death: The entire United States Congress and then the French officials are all slaughtered in one sitting by the Martians.
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Schizo Tech
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Schizo Tech: '80s cell phones, '50-'60s military hardware, etc., cars from the '70s-'80s.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: The Martian leader smacks one of the other Martians after the female Martian assassin is killed, despite it in no way being their fault.
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: When evacuating the White House, the Secret Service diverts the First Family away from one room because there's a tour group in it.
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Humans Are Bastards
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The humans themselves are just barely disqualified thanks to a handful of decent people amongst a sea of horrible assholes.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Earth's weaponry is completely ineffective against the superior Martian technology. The flying saucers No-Sell every type of ammunition on Earth, while the Martians unleash several flavors of Death Ray upon mankind, any of which can instantly annihilate almost anyone or anything. And that's before the Martians get the idea to unleash a swarm of flesh-eating Big Creepy-Crawlies upon humanity. Later on, this gets flipped on its head: while Martians are technologically superior, they are also physically much smaller and weaker than humans. When humanity launches a rocket to Mars, the soldiers wipe out whole Martian cities almost as easily as the Martians did to them.
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
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Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Grandma Norris, who calls both of her grandsons "Thomas".
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Humans Are Morons
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Humans Are Morons: When the Martians land their UFO's all over the earth, the humans don't react by taking cover and trying to hide and stay quiet but being so self-absorbed they go about their daily lives as usual as though nothing’s wrong such as blasting music and having loud sex at home, attending concerts, the White House allows a field trip of children right after the Martians vaporize Congress, the French accept a "negotiation" proposal with full knowledge of the two massacres in America, and the list goes on.
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Fainting
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Fainting: Natalie, upon Jason's death.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: In Mars Attacks Judge Dredd, the Martians inject a mob boss with ninites claiming they would allow him to understand their language. In addition the Martian adds this disclaimer:
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Most of the main cast is dead, including the entire American government (sans Taffy Dale, who's likely the next President of the United States) and likely most if not all other world leaders, and the destruction has taken a massive toll on the world. But at least Richie and his grandmother were able to stop the Martians, Byron reunites with his family, and those still alive are already starting to rebuild.
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Leg Focus
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Leg Focus: The first shot we see of Natalie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is her in a very short skirt and platform heels, casually leaning back in a chair with her leg on the table in the center of the shot.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The Martians vivisect some of their victims.
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LEGO Body Parts
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LEGO Body Parts: Natalie and her dog switch heads.
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Giant Wall of Watery Doom
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Giant Wall of Watery Doom: The Martians shoot a special ray at the ocean to cause a huge tidal wave.
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Ambiguous Gender
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Ambiguous Gender: Played straight in one scene, with the person at the press conference who asks if the Martians have two genders, like humans, to no answer.
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What Could Have Been
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Destroying Big Ben and the Taj Mahal (while taking a picture of the latter), melting the Eiffel Tower, bowling with Moai, carving their heads in Mount Rushmore, blowing up Congress, attempting to crush Boy Scouts with the Washington Monument, invading and damaging the White House...note the list would have been quite extensive as seen in the What Could Have Been section, had the film's budget not gotten out of hand.
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Why Couldn't You Be Different?
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Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Richie's parents make it blatantly clear that are very ashamed of him for not being like Billy-Glen.
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Bad Vibrations
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Bad Vibrations: Art's prospective hotel investors feel them on their tables as he finishes his pitch, completely oblivious to them caused by the saucers approaching the room until they're right in front of it.
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: After the president's big speech, the Martian Leader sheds a tear. He still kills the president anyway.
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Bait the Dog
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Bait the Dog: The president gives an impassioned speech to the Martian leader and two other Martians, offering them peace. The leader sheds a tear and appears to extend his hand. It's than revealed to be a robotic hand that kills the president.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: In one training card, a little girl is implied to be murdered by a Martian after she asks if he will be her friend.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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Always Chaotic Evil: The Martians are an inherently evil race. They attack Earth completely unprovoked and start killing everyone for fun. The Novelization elaborates that their entire civilization and way of life is based on attacking and depopulating other worlds For the Evulz, though in their case they seem to be always Laughably Evil. The humans themselves are just barely disqualified thanks to a handful of decent people amongst a sea of horrible assholes.
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Stock Footage
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Stock Footage: Possibly in keeping with the traditions of B-movies, Burton reused footage here. The first example involves identical Martians dual wielding lasers before dying in the White House and the second involves the first invasion fleet which involves footage from the opening credits. There is also stock footage of people praying at Mecca, implying it's about to be destroyed by Martians. Stock footage of Rapa-Nui (1994) is played before the Martians destroy the moais of Easter Island (the scene originally showed the Rapa Nui looking up to an iceberg in amazement; in Mars Attacks!, it looks like they are looking at an UFO). The stock footage montage that showcases the Martians' world-wide rampage ends with what seems to be the destruction of a city... and then it turns out that the Martians were watching Godzilla vs. Biollante. The Martian Leader asks to change the channel and they start watching The Dukes of Hazzard instead.
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Exploited Immunity: When the Martians hear recordings of Slim Whitman singing "Indian Love Call" their heads explode. The humans take advantage of this to destroy them.
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Big Good
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Big Good: President Dale. The leader of the US army and one of the humans who gets the most focus in the film.
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Advertised Extra
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Advertised Extra: Danny DeVito has top billing on the poster and gets a grand total of five minutes of screentime. Even more egregiously, out of everyone in the cast, he's one of the few who gets name-dropped in the movie's trailer (alongside Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, and Annette Bening). On top of that, his character isn't even given a name; he's listed as just "Rude Gambler".
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Apocalyptic Montage
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Apocalyptic Montage: There is one with the aliens attacking London, Mt. Rushmore, the Taj Mahal and Easter Island. Watch it starting at 2:45.
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Honey Trap
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Honey Trap: The Martian who dresses as a woman to get into the White House.
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Touch of the Monster
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Touch of the Monster: A couple of cards use the Touch of Evil version, though one of the unreleased cards has a rather graphic (and very obviously sexualized) depiction of Playing with Its Food/Angels' Envy. Another unreleased card is From the Pages of Bettie-style, but with more gore than obvious bondage, and, again, obviously sexualized.
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Celebrity Survivor
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Celebrity Survivor: Singer Tom Jones (As Himself), and last but not least, Byron Williams.
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Disproportionate Retribution: The Martian response to ONE assassin being killed while trying to kidnap the President? An immediate worldwide assault on Earth by thousands of raygun-toting Martian soldiers, warships and Giant Mecha.
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Donut Mess with a Cop
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Donut Mess with a Cop: Several cops were seen running out of a doughnut shop before it was destroyed and they get blown up in it.
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Energy Ring Attack
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Energy Ring Attack: After General Decker starts shooting at the Martian leader, the leader whips out a Shrink Ray gun and fires back. The Shrink Ray takes the form of concentric blue rings that strike the general, reducing him down to an inch in height.
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Granola Girl
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Granola Girl: Barbara Land (Annette Bening). She's seen doing meditation with crystals at several points of the film, especially during the first contact in Pahrump, and her despair rant is about how the Martian invasion is karmic retribution for humanity mistreating Earth.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: The Martian ambassador, wearing a red cloak. He leads the attack at the desert, blows up Congress, and even enters into fisticuffs with Byron at the end of the movie. He takes orders from the Martian leader, wearing a purple cloak (and pictured above).
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Guns Akimbo
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Guns did work in the White House invasion, but when the Martian Leader and his men corner President Dale and the American nuclear weapons command, General Decker fires away rapidly Guns Akimbo to no avail implying Decker's bullets were not thick enough or the Martian Leader wore better armor.
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Rule of Perception
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Rule of Perception: Art Land really misses this one during his final scene.
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Badass Family
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Badass Family: Byron Williams single-handedly kills the Martian ambassador in a boxing match and survives the beatdown that apparently left him for dead, and his sons take ray guns from a fallen Martian and start attacking the invaders so the president can be led to safety.
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BlackAndGreyMorality
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Black-and-Grey Morality: The Martians are some of the meanest and most evil aliens you will ever find in fiction, but many of the humans are assholes as well. There are a few good characters who you can root for.
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Domestic Abuse
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Domestic Abuse: It's hinted in the film that Byron had anger issues and that's why he separated from his wife. The script mentions that he was arrested for spousal abuse.
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Computer Voice
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Computer Voice: The translation device takes whatever is said to it and repeats it in either English or Martian language using a male voice.
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: You can thank the Martians for this one in Mars Attacks the Transformers, where their actions forces the Autobots and Decepticons to team up against the little green aliens.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: A Martian invasion is sure to have the police overwhelmed with emergency calls. But three cops still find this an appropriate time to hit a donut shop.
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Scientist vs. Soldier
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Scientist vs. Soldier: The scientists of the film (Professor Kessler being the face of them) posit that the Martians, being a more advanced civilization, must be pacifistic and need be approached in the same way, while General Decker recommends going to Martial Law (while the aliens are just floating around Earth and not done any contact) and instantly recommends the use of nukes ("Annihilate! Kill! Kill!") when the Martians prove themselves hostile (although maybe just overreacting to the dove, which the scientists use to convince the President to try a second contact). It turns out that the Martians are homicidal bastards on top of being technologically advanced, and humanity is screwed no matter what.
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Not His Sled
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Not His Sled: In the trading card series, the war with the Martians ended with a group of human soldiers launching a counterattack on Mars and destroying the planet with nuclear missiles. In the film, the humans defeat the Martians after they discover that country music causes their brains to explode.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: The Plot Tumor giant bugs aren't included in the film.
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Hand Signals
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Hand Signals: When the Martians invade the senior citizen center where Richie's grandmother is staying, one of them silently beckons a large Disintegrator Ray device forward so it can destroy her.
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Aliens in Cardiff
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Aliens in Cardiff: Played for Laughs: it's an Alien Invasion film that's largely seen from the perspective of people in rural Kansas and the Las Vegas strip.
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Femme Fatale Spy
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Femme Fatale Spy: The Martians send out a spy in a woman suit to infiltrate the White House and try to assassinate the President.
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Brown Note
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Brown Note: The Martians are defeated by the playing of the Slim Whitman song "Indian Love Call", which makes their brains explode when heard. Probably a homage to The War of the Worlds, in which the rampaging aliens are defeated by a similarly minor effect (germs), and possibly to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, in which the tomatoes are slain by a suspiciously similar song.
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The Casanova
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The Casanova: Press Secretary Jerry. At least he considers himself one. This eventually gets him killed by the Martian "Girl".
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We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
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We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill: The Martians' attitude in a nutshell. Best exemplified towards the end of the movie when they start using the translator machine to broadcast messages saying "Don't run! We are your friends!" while shooting everyone in sight.
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Trashy Trailer Home
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Trashy Trailer Home: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town". Our brief glance of the trailer of the man having sex with Sharona shows that he is a textbook Disco Dan.
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Brains Evil, Brawn Good
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Brains Evil, Brawn Good: The Martians use their superior technology for evil, attempting to wipe out humanity and relishing in the carnage and destruction. While humans are not as smart, they are physically much bigger and stronger, and eventually manage to overwhelm the Martians through sheer tenacity and strength.
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Sedgwick Speech
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Sedgwick Speech: General Decker's Defiant to the End Eagle Land speech (which apes Winston Churchill's "We will fight on the beaches, we will fight in the fields" speech). The head Martian shuts him up by stepping on him.
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Losing Your Head
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Losing Your Head: Donald and Natalie's heads are severed. Donald's survives in a jar on hanging wires. Natalie's is swapped with that of her chihuahua, before eventually falling off, still alive like Donald's.
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Brain Monster
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Brain Monster: The invading Martians are the acranial type. Their brains visibly pulsate and explode inside their clear helmets when exposed to their Weaksauce Weakness: really bad singing.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When a Martian steps into a giant mech suit, another one throws him a lunch box and waves him off like he's going to work.
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Spit Take
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Spit Take: the First Lady spits out her tea in shock when the Martians start killing everybody in Congress.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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General Casey is the first human to die when the aliens attack. Later in the film, Byron Williams makes a Heroic Sacrifice and fights the aliens off so Barbara, Tom Jones and a colleague can escape in Barbara's plane. When they fly over, it looks like the aliens have beaten him to death. It turns out he was Only Mostly Dead and makes a triumphant return to Washington D.C. to reunite with his family.
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: The Martian Leader sheds one before killing the president.
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Hostile Terraforming
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Hostile Terraforming: The Martian overlords have conquered Earth and are in the process of xenoforming Earth into a more Martian-like planet as so to let them live better at the expense of the largely expendable humans.
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Defeat by Modesty
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You can thank the Sea Hag for this one in "Mars Attacks Popeye," where she immediately intercepts the Martians upon their landing and hypnotizes them into attacking Popeye for her instead of invading Earth. Then the spinach-powered beatdown breaks their hypnosis, and they betray her through Defeat by Modesty (It Makes Sense in Context) before leaving Earth out of a new found fear of Popeye.
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Brandishment Bluff: When the Martian ambassador addresses congress he yanks out his speech as if he's about to pull out a gun. The second time, when congress is lulled into a more relaxed state...
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Militaries Are Useless
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Militaries Are Useless: Completely, even taking into account the technology gap. In the "first contact" scene, there are multiple riflemen in the background who clearly have a clear shot at the Martians, but are not shooting.
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Death by Looking Up: This is how the First Lady meets her end.
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Mummies at the Dinner Table
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Mummies at the Dinner Table: The senile old Granny never seems to realize that her cat Muffy is no longer alive.
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The Power of Rock
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The Power of Rock: Well, folk country music, but yes.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: General Decker was quite right to not trust the Martians, but this gets subverted when he pleads to use nuclear warheads that turn out to be useless.
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Uncanny Valley
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Uncanny Valley: Clearly invoked with the Martian Girl alien disguise. She has a bizarre 1950s sci-fi fashion sense, she is very pale, never speaks, for obvious reasons, and doesn't move like any normal human when she walks. It's hard to feel sorry for Jerry given that he falls for the disguise hook, line, and sinker.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Mars is the mythological Roman god of war.
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FanService
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Fanservice: A few cards pictured Martians carrying away scantly clad women.
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Artistic License – Military
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Artistic License – Military: General Casey is a three-star general, but when he arrives in Nevada, his jeep has four-star flags on it.
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TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste
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They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste: It's clear the unlikable characters and overall over-the-top nature were intentional.
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Opposites Attract
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Opposites Attract: Pierce Brosnan's brainy (if ridiculously utopian) scientist and Sarah Jessica Parker's airhead fashion show host.
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Godzilla Threshold
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Godzilla Threshold: Boy, does it backfire. In Dinosaurs Attack! vs. Mars Attacks!, a human scientist opens a series of time portals to release dinosaurs from the past to take down the Martians. It initially works because the dinosaurs were a surprise attack and there's just too many prehistoric beasts for even superb Martian technology to suppress - until the Martians score a sudden scientific victory that allows them to install microchips into dinosaurs brains thus enslaving the dinosaurs as their beastly servants to extinguish humanity.
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Swiss-Cheese Security
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Swiss-Cheese Security: The underground Presidential hiding place is breached by the Martians at the climax and we don't find out how they managed to discover it or if they had to slaughter more guards than the ones that were in the war room.
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The Cuckoolander Was Right
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: After witnessing the massacre in Pahrump, Barbara tries to convince her husband that what the Martians did was no misunderstanding, but he won't listen. She then plans on packing up and heading to a remote location in Tahoe. General Decker, an over-the-top violent and aggressive General Ripper type, immediately assumes that the Martians are hostile at the very start of the film, and keeps shouting at the President to treat them as a threat. Everyone else ignores him, while talking about historical moments for humanity and exciting scientific opportunities. Decker turns out to be right.
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Mundangerous
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Mundangerous: This is parodied when the invaders are killed by country music. Most specifically, "Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman... which is even more humiliating: they were fatally vulnerable to yodeling.
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Played for Laughs
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Danny DeVito's "Rude Gambler" is an exaggeration Played for Laughs: every single thing he says or does in the five minutes he's on-screen is a rapid-fire pile-up of reasons why nobody in the audience is going to miss him after he gets vaporized, from being a lecher to being a coward to revealing to a Martian that he's a lawyer and he can be of use in a desperate attempt to talk the Martian out of shooting him.
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The trading card series explained that the Martians were invading Earth because they discovered that Mars was on the verge of being destroyed by an explosion, and they needed a new home planet. The film cuts this explanation out; as far as anyone can tell, they're just wreaking havoc on Earth for the hell of it.
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Eagleland
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Eagle Land: Played straight in that America Saves the Day (hey, it's a homage to Fifties sci-fi) and invoked by General Decker ranting that America will win and fight to the last man as he's shrunken and stepped on.
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Violence is the Only Option
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Violence is the Only Option: The movie parodies this three times. The translation machines even say "We come in peace!" During their initial landing, the Martians massacre most of the humans present to greet them. When they appear before the U.S. Congress "to apologize", they wipe out everyone present. During a meeting to discuss peace with the French government, the obvious happens.
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Rushmore Refacement
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Rushmore Refacement: The Martians use their ship lasers to change Mt. Rushmore so it shows the faces of various Martians (probably some famous ones to them).
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Red Is Violent
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Red Is Violent: The Martian ambassador wears a red cape and is very violent. Than again, so are the other Martians.
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Martians' whole impetus for invading Earth is that "atomic pressure" within Mars will destroy it very soon and Earth is the nearest planet they can escape to. Unfortunately, it seems as if they don’t try to come in peace and instead decide to attack humanity, which backfires on them when the humans travel to Mars and wipe the Martians out just before the planet explodes.
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Laughably Evil
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The Martians are Laughably Evil so they can't be really hated, but the Norris family (except for Richie and Grandma) are idiotic trailer-trash rednecks who follow almost every bad stereotype in the book and get awful deaths.
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THeUnfavorite
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The Unfavorite: Richie to the rest of his family, who dote on his older brother, Billy-Glen. The only exception to this is his grandmother. Both survive the end of the movie.
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Make My Monster Grow
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Make My Monster Grow: The Martians would use growth rays to make giant insects.
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Freeze Ray
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Freeze Ray: A one off weapon used by the Martians.
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Star Wars (Franchise)
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The final scene on the Capitol steps to the final scene in Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope.
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Entertainingly Wrong
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Entertainingly Wrong: The Martians were always going to attack humanity, but accidentally hitting their Berserk Button (birds) before the first attack made everyone think it was just Poor Communication Kills.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Danny DeVito's character. "Rooollexx!" Glenn Close as First Lady Marsha Dale. "The Nancy Reagan chandelier!" Jack Nicholson as Art Land too. "There's no waaaaayyy... we can lose!"
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Alternate Universe
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Also in this crossover, the Martians were defeated when the Savage Dragon invaded their planet, used a growth ray to become a giant, and destroyed Mars in a similar fashion to the original trading card ending. Keep in mind that the "Image Comics version" were from an Alternate Universe. The "real" Martians made a brief appearance to observe their counterparts, realized they were not able to fight super heroes, and left the universe.
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Viva Las Vegas!
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Viva Las Vegas!: A washed-up boxer, a compulsive gambling lawyer, a huckster casino developer, copious showgirls, and Tom Jones.
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Last Kiss
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Last Kiss: Donald and Nathalie, as the Martian mothership goes down into the sea.
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I Know Mortal Kombat
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I Know Mortal Kombat: Kids practicing rail shooter games give them a leg up when they happen upon some real ray guns from a fallen Martian warrior.
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Suckiness Is Painful
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Suckiness Is Painful: Exaggerated. Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" is not what you would call the epitome of romantic songs. The yodeling is not just "painful" to the Martians, though — it's flat-out lethal.
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Untouchable Until Tagged
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Untouchable Until Tagged: Near the end Byron Williams faces off against a horde of Martians in hand to hand combat so the others can escape. He repeatedly punches the Martians until one of them jumps on his back and prevents him from defending himself, whereupon the rest swarm over him and take him down.
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The Big Board
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The Big Board: The floor of the President's war room is this, with many models showing the Martian invasion.
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Badass Cape
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Badass Cape: Both the Martian Leader (purple) and the Ambassador (red) wear one.
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Denser and Wackier
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Denser and Wackier: While the original card series had moments of dark humor, the movie was entirely comedic with a lot less gore. That being said, the movie is not without its scary moments.
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ImprovisedWeaponUser
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Improvised Weapon User: Marsha Dale throws the skull of their dog at the alien assassin who infiltrated the White House, moments after the dog was killed protecting them.
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Kill All Humans
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Kill All Humans: This is the goal of the Martians, and want to do so just for the fun of it.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Many of the characters are portrayed as stupid or sleazy, particularly Billy-Glen, his parents, Jerry, and Art Land. This helps make their deaths part of the jokes. This is also enforced pretty strongly with Danny DeVito's character who is a Bit Character that only gets about five minutes of screen-time. Within those five minutes, he reveals he is a lawyer and offers his services to a Martian who quickly zaps him. They really wanted to make sure the audience didn't sympathize too much just before bumping him off.
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Evil Genius
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Evil Genius: The Martians are incredibly advanced, with technology including rayguns, shrink rays, giant robots, and robotic hands that can detach and kill people. They are also incredibly skilled in medical technology, able to swap human and dog heads.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: The Martians, in all their hubris, conquering the Earth and decimating humanity just for shits and giggles are easily taken out by the vocals of a 50's country musician.
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Guilt-Free Extermination War
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Guilt-Free Extermination War: The Martians invade Earth and massacre everyone with glee. Then the humans in turn do the same to the invaders when they figured out their weakness.
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: By the end, the Martians have caused a Class 1, which is clearly shown, but it is implied that it ended up being a Class 2 due to most world leaders, including nearly the entire United States Government, having been killed. The lack of any functional governments around the world means even if the Martians failed in their goal of bringing a Class 3a (or perhaps a Class 4 because they're shown to despise birds as well) about, they succeeded in reducing humanity to an anarchic state which they may never recover from.
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A Glass of Chianti
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A Glass of Chianti: One scene has the Martian leader sipping from a red martini in his ship.
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Bowdlerized
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Bowdlerized: The card series was planned to be repainted and reissued in order to meet moral standards at the time, but the project was cancelled after only 13 cards were redone.
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Leeroy Jenkins
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Jack Black's character Billy-Glenn about to go Leeroy Jenkins on the Martians when the magazine falls out of his gun.
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Faux Affably Evil: The Martians continue to claim that they want to make peace with Earth, but they are really just there to kill everyone For the Evulz. They can put on an act of being friendly, but they are pure evil.
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Gratuitous Mariachi Band
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Gratuitous Mariachi Band: The movie has the new president sworn in while a mariachi band plays the national anthem, serving to underscore just how vast the devastation was that no regular musicians were around.
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Behind the Black
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Behind the Black: Played for laughs. Natalie grabs Jason's hand, but the camera pulls back to reveal she is holding his severed hand. She realizes this only after the audience sees it.
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Defiant to the End
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Defiant to the End: General Decker continues ranting that America will win even as he's shrunk by the Martian leader and stepped on.
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Prolonged Prologue
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Prolonged Prologue: The aliens only start attacking Earth about halfway through the movie.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: The Martian leader. He calls all the shots, was implied to be the one that ordered the experiments on Natalie and Donald, and personally kills Decker and then Dale.
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Tanks, but No Tanks
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Tanks, but No Tanks: The tanks used in the movie, M41 Walker Bulldogs, were all long obsolete by the time the film was made. The Pentagon, it is claimed, refused to lend more modern equipment because of its unhappiness with the military's ineffectiveness in the film. If so, then the fact that these tanks, the M151 Mutt jeeps and the uniforms and M14 rifles used by the soldiers, evoke the feel of a 1950's B-movie was a happy accident.
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: General Casey is the first human to die when the aliens attack. Later in the film, Byron Williams makes a Heroic Sacrifice and fights the aliens off so Barbara, Tom Jones and a colleague can escape in Barbara's plane. When they fly over, it looks like the aliens have beaten him to death. It turns out he was Only Mostly Dead and makes a triumphant return to Washington D.C. to reunite with his family. In the Novelization, Byron is Killed Off for Real.
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Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!"
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Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!": When General Decker tries to convince the U.S. President to launch nuclear weapons against the Martians, the President tells him to stop. When the general continues, the President repeatedly tells him to shut up.
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First Contact Faux Pas
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First Contact Faux Pas: Subverted. The Martians annihilate the welcome committee after someone in the audience releases a dove. The humans interpret this as this trope, but turns out the Martians just want to kill everyone.
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Falling Chandelier of Doom
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Falling Chandelier of Doom: How First Lady Marsha (Glenn Close) dies. It was her much-cherished Nancy Reagan chandelier, too.
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Villains Out Shopping
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Villains Out Shopping: The 2020 Walmart Super Bowl commercial featured the Martians... shopping for items at Walmart and even thanking the Walmart associates for this before leaving peacefully.
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Roofless Renovation
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Roofless Renovation: The apartment building that the Williams family lives in is showcased to miss the entire front wall in the aftermath of the Martian attack.
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Word-Salad Humor
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Word-Salad Humor: The Martians' first message to Earth?
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Death by Irony
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Death by Irony: Art Land is crushed beneath his hotel's giant globe. Martha Dale is crushed by a White House decoration after obsessing over decor and furniture earlier in the movie. The President shakes the Martian Emperor's hand only to be killed by it.
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: Card #35 features soldiers who figure out that even Big Creepy-Crawlies are vulnerable to fire, and use flamethrowers to fight back.
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Reality Has No Subtitles
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Reality Has No Subtitles: The scenes aboard the Martian spaceships are done without any subtitles.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "It's ME! Byron WILLIAMS! HEAVYWEIGHT! CHAMPION! OF THE WORLD!"
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Elite Mooks
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Elite Mooks: The Martian Girl is a skilled assassin who seems to be one of the Martian leader's best troops.
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Not Now, Kiddo
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Not Now, Kiddo: Art Land's investors try to point out that the Martians are getting closer, but he keeps brushing them off.
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Nuclear Option
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Nuclear Option: Nothing Earth has done thus far can so much as scratch the Martians. The General Ripper has spent the movie insisting on using nuclear weapons, and the President, depressed at how nothing is working, finally gives the go-ahead. The Martian response to a nuke headed their way is... a small flying nozzle which intercepts the missile and sucks up the explosion. The Martian leader inhales the explosive gas and mocks the Puny Earthlings in high-pitched Helium Speech. It's possible that this is a subtle joke: when you fuse hydrogen (as in a hydrogen/fusion bomb), you get helium.
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Homage
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Homage: To Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (the general design of the Martians' tech) and Dr. Strangelove (the belligerent General Ripper, the secret "war room" the President is taken to). The final scene on the Capitol steps to the final scene in Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope. The character Nathalie having her head being swapped with that of her chihuahua is one to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Also one to The War of the Worlds (1898). Poor Big Ben. The film is also one to Ed Wood, the subject of Burton's previous film. Nathalie evens comments that the flying saucers look like "giant hubcaps" alluding to Wood's use of Cadillac hubcaps for the saucers in Plan 9 from Outer Space.
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Purple Is Powerful
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Purple Is Powerful: The Martian leader has a purple cape.
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Single Tear
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Single Tear: The Martian Leader sheds one before killing the president.
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Stripped to the Bone
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Stripped to the Bone: The alien ray guns can blast through steel walls and evaporate machine guns as if they were ice cubes, and also destroy the human skeleton (which, in the film, turns a festive red or green color, depending on what color ray hit them).
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Language Barrier
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Language Barrier: Averted with a translator machine that both sides possess, not that the Martians care for anything the humans have to say about peace treaties and pleas for life whatnot. The Martians don't even need the machine to understand the humans anyway.
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Disintegrator Ray
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Disintegrator Ray: The Martians' ray guns, that only leave behind someone's skeleton. The skeleton is rendered either red or green depending on which color ray was fired.
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As Himself
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As Himself: Tom Jones, who becomes a Celebrity Survivor at the climax.
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Mutilation Interrogation
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Mutilation Interrogation: Martian Deathtrap, a novelization based on the comics/card series by Topps, has the Martians capture a showgirl and using a surgical tool that cuts and cauterizes at the same time on the bottoms of her toes after she refuses to tell them (a) how many humans are still alive in the mansion they're all trapped in and (b) how to drive a car, of all things. Given they could have just forced her to take them to the cars and have her drive them to safety at gunpoint, the torture might have been a bit excessive, if not totally unnecessary.
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Disturbed Doves
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Disturbed Doves: Subverted. The doves are calm... but the Martians go kill-crazy when they see them.
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Emerald Power
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Emerald Power: The Martians wear green spacesuits, have green blood, and one of the two variants of their rayguns are green.
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General Ripper
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General Ripper: General Decker, who wants to enact martial law the moment the Martians arrive and keeps on trying to get nukes approved for use, as well as several moments of belligerent ranting. Unusually for this kind of film, he turns out to be absolutely right about the Martians being a threat.
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Event Title
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Event Title: Mars Attacks! is the title of this movie and a Justified Title at that.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: The Martian leader makes three attempts on the President's life. He finally succeeds the third time.
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First Contact
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First Contact: Of the worst possible kind. While the Martian ambassador initially claims they come in peace, they whip out their rayguns and starts shooting when they see a bird.
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RealLife
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A Real Life example behind the scenes: The Landmark Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was being scheduled for implosion while the movie was being filmed. Burton, who was quite fond of the place, wanted to film its implosion and immortalize it by using it during the aliens' attack on Vegas. Special pyrotechnics were added to the implosion where special effects would be added in post. So when you see it being destroyed in the movie, it actually got destroyed.
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Juggling Loaded Guns
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Juggling Loaded Guns: When a soldier runs screaming towards a rifle, points it at a Martian — and hits the magazine release. Possibly justified because said soldier (Billy-Glen) is played by Jack Black and demonstrated to be a dim-witted redneck.
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Dead Star Walking
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Dead Star Walking: Michael J. Fox dies astonishingly early in the film without much fanfare, probably to let you know that the gloves are off. Danny DeVito also gets little screentime and meets his end pretty quickly.
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: Minor case. In the cards, the Martians' reason for attacking Earth was that Mars was going to explode from air pressure and they needed a new planet, whereas here they are doing it For the Evulz. Also, not all Martians were evil in the cards. The warlike Martians were called Gnards and the peaceful, intellectual ones were called Paecs.
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Martians all have red irises.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: The president delivers a great one to try to get the Martians to see why they should form a truce. It fails.
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Unexpected Successor
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Unexpected Successor: After the death of all top U.S. officials, at the end of the movie the President's daughter is apparently in charge of the government.
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No-Sell
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Earth's weaponry is completely ineffective against the superior Martian technology. The flying saucers No-Sell every type of ammunition on Earth, while the Martians unleash several flavors of Death Ray upon mankind, any of which can instantly annihilate almost anyone or anything. And that's before the Martians get the idea to unleash a swarm of flesh-eating Big Creepy-Crawlies upon humanity.
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Nuke 'em
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Nuke 'em: Attempted against the Martians, but fails massively. The Martians actually capture the explosive force of the nuke, and smoke it! They actually get high on radioactive explosives. This is both funny and badass. It gives them helium voices.
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Chekhov's Hobby
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Chekhov's Hobby: Jerry the press secretary is seen early on trolling for hookers in his limo; this habit comes back to bite him (and the planet Earth) in the ass when the next babe he picks up turns out to be a Martian assassin.
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Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
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Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Even though the Martians kick the humans' asses in nearly every battle on Earth, the humans are somehow able to fly to Mars and destroy several Martian cities before pressure in the planet's core blows it up.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Byron's kids are seen early in the movie shooting aliens in a video game. Guess what happens later on? During their field trip in the White House they are attacked and they save the day by taking some Martian guns and saving the president. Whether this is a good or bad thing is your decision. Subverted with Billy-Glen assembling a rifle blindfolded. It's implied that the same rifle he assembled was the one that wouldn't fire when he tried to shoot a Martian during their first attack.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Jack Black's character Billy-Glenn about to go Leeroy Jenkins on the Martians when the magazine falls out of his gun. The President when he hears that the French are about to negotiate a peace treaty with the Martians... or so they think.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: The Martians are not out to invade Earth, but destroy it because they seem to find it funny.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Taffy. When her father says it’s profoundly moving to know there is intelligent life out there, her response is “Glad they got it somewhere.� Her response to the Martians shooting Congress is an extremely dry "Guess it wasn't the dove".
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Shrink Ray
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Shrink Ray: Another one off weapon used by the Martians.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: A Las Vegas showgirl follows the main characters while still wearing her stage outfit. She doesn't get many lines and seems to be there just to bounce around in a revealing outfit. She was the waitress Art Land was flirting with at the beginning of the film. Also Sarah Jessica Parker in the aluminum bikini. Would have been nicer without the chihuahua head, though....
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Selective Obliviousness
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Selective Obliviousness: Art Land selling the investors on building his casino while the Martians blow up real estate all around them.
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Tap on the Head
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Tap on the Head: After Jerry Ross allows a strange woman into the White House in order to seduce her, she bites off his finger and knocks him unconscious by hitting him on the back of the head with a statuette. She turns out to be a Martian assassin wearing a human disguise.
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Dead-Hand Shot
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Dead-Hand Shot: Jason's death, quite literally.
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Innocent Aliens
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Innocent Aliens: The Paecs are peaceful beings who oppose the invasion.
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Civilization Destroyer
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Civilization Destroyer: The aliens deliberately attack and vandalize monument and historical sites.
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Sadist
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Sadist: All of the Martians are this. They take much joy in tormenting and killing people.
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Epigraph
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Epigraph: Each chapter in the Novelization starts with a quotation, which range from writers, playwrights, songs, and so on.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Virtually all humans, who continue trusting the Martians after they've consistently vaporized their most important dignitaries. Most of the humans even try going on with their daily lives or playing loud music both at home and in public venues (i.e. hosting Las Vegas concerts) instead of hiding and staying quiet.
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The Ace
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The Ace: Billy-Glenn is made out to be this at first. In reality, he's just as much of a dim-witted redneck as his parents are. Tom Jones is a Lounge Lizard, sure, but he knows how to fly a plane and can have a wild hawk act like it's domesticated merely by stretching out his arm.
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Two out of Three Ain't Bad
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Two out of Three Ain't Bad: Capitol Hill is vaporized early on, but at least the White House and the Supreme Court are okay... for the moment.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: General Decker. He orders martial law and going to high alert the very second the Martians arrive and spends the rest of the film insisting that they must be nuked with all the energy of a rabid dog. The Martians themselves are also this, as they are shown to love violence and killing.
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Doves Mean Peace
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Doves Mean Peace: A Martian ship lands on Earth in Nevada so the Martians can meet with the U.S. government. When the Martian Ambassador says that they come in peace, one person watching the event releases a dove as a symbol of the hope of peace between the Martians and Earth. Unfortunately, the Martian Ambassador kills the dove and the Martians start using their Disintegrator Rays on the humans.
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Minus the rape part, the novelization for the film clarifies this is the basis of the entire Martian civilization; invade planets, blast, kill, and destroy everything, take anything that might interest them (like porn magazines), and then move onto the next planet.
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Incredible Shrinking Man
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Incredible Shrinking Man: The Martian emperor uses a shrink-ray on General Decker and squashes him.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: The Martians really don't like birds. While they are violent and sadistic, note how the Martian that had the President hostage and was using him as a Human Shield immediately took its focus off its hostage and the men who had it at gunpoint as soon as it saw the bird. Also, the Martians drop their "We come in peace" act just so they can kill a dove. Not that it necessarily mattered, as the Martians were there to exterminate humankind regardless of the birds.
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Handshake of Doom
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Handshake of Doom: President Dale finds himself cornered by the Martian Leader, and manages to stammer out a rather clumsy Patrick Stewart Speech that actually seems to get through to the Leader - enough to get him to offer his hand in friendship. Thinking he's ended the war, the President shakes the Leader's outstretched hand... only for it to abruptly detach and crawl across Dale like a scorpion, before impaling him with its "stinger". As if to add insult to injury, the arm then transforms into a flagpole and raises the Martian flag over Dale's corpse.
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Alien Autopsy
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Alien Autopsy: Professor Kessler performs one on a dead Martian.
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Translator Microbes
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Translator Microbes: The humans build a translation machine before formally meeting the Martians. Subverted in that it doesn't really work (or the Martians are intentionally spouting gibberish half the time just for the fun of it). Several scenes make it clear that the Martians can understand English even if they can't speak it themselves.
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Useless Protagonist
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Useless Protagonist: President Dale himself. Given just how powerful, numerous and unstoppable the Martian invaders are, he has no idea on how to stop them since military firepower is ineffective and he hesitates to use nuclear weapons against them as soon as possiblenote He defended he didn't want to give the message of This Means War! to the Martians. In addition, he's a highly sought after target of the Martians so he has to concentrate more on his own protection than of others.
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Weaksauce Weakness
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Weaksauce Weakness: The Martians are defeated by country music of all things!
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Celeb Crush
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Celeb Crush: The only reason Donald Kessler, a world-renowned scientist, went on Today in Fashion is because he has the hots for Nathalie.
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Humans Are Warriors
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Humans Are Warriors: Even when they're hopelessly outmatched, humanity never gives up the fight against the invading Martians. They also turn out to be physically superior, and when they finally take the fight directly to Mars, the puny Martians are unable to resist the bigger, stronger human soldiers.
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Natalie Portman's character, Taffy Dale.
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Alien Blood
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Alien Blood: The Martians bleed green.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: The only way to kill the Martians prior to their Achilles' Heel being discovered. Their spacesuits are bulletproof, meaning the only chance is to shatter their bubble helmets via a direct shot to the head. Unfortunately the helmets are reinforced too, meaning it takes sustained fire to put them down, such as their own guns.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: The First Contact scene. The Martians say they've come in peace, everything seems to have worked out... and then they see one bird flying overhead, at which point shit immediately hits the fan. Although, it was really a ruse as they were there to invade and conquer regardless. The Congress scene. It appears that the first attack was due to a cultural misunderstanding and the ambassador has come to apologize. Everything seems fine, until he whips out his raygun and kills a ton of people for no reason at all. The president gives a big speech to the Martian leader to try to get them to form a truce. The Martians seem to be considering his offer and the leader even sheds a tear. The leader than shakes hands with the president. It is than revealed he was using a robotic hand, which proceeds to kill the president.
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Depraved Dwarf
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Depraved Dwarf: The Martians are all very short. Dale even calls them "little people".
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Aesop Amnesia
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Aesop Amnesia: All of the human characters seem to have a massive case of this. Namely, despite the aliens pretending they want to make peace, then massacring all the humans who show up to the "meeting", the humans keep falling for this, even when literally just a couple days have passed since the last such event. It gets to such Too Dumb to Live levels at points that the Martians are practically mocking them over it.
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One-Woman Wail
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One-Woman Wail: It's heard in the main theme during the opening credits.
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America Saves the Day
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America Saves the Day: Two affable yokels from Flyover Country find the aliens' fatal Weaksauce Weakness and every character who appears on-screen that is meant to be a hero is either blue-collar by profession or by mentality. As well, America is the only country that is seen trying to actually fight the aliens, let alone win. What else can be expected from a film that homages Fifties sci-fi?
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: The president is incredibly nice, repeatedly trying to make peace with the Martians.
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Helium Speech
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Helium Speech: The Martians in get the same effect as this from huffing a nuclear explosion. It even makes sense if it was a fusion bomb, since they work by fusing hydrogen to, well, helium.
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Horrible Judge of Character
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The President when he hears that the French are about to negotiate a peace treaty with the Martians... or so they think.
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Novelization
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Novelization: Written by the film's screenwriter, Jonathan Gems. It elaborates on the Martians and their civilization, making it clear how utterly evil they are and removing any ambiguity. A junior novelization was also released, written by Ron Fontes and Justine Korman.
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Ghostly Glide
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Ghostly Glide: The Martians are seen walking, but their leader and ambassador are usually clad in a cape and seems to be gliding for added effect. Also the case with the spy disguised as a human female.
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Insane Troll Logic
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Insane Troll Logic: Kessler believed that the Martians must have been peaceful because of their intelligence, ignoring the fact that intelligence really does not dictate what people are like.
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Artistic License – Awards
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Artistic License – Awards: Taffy awards Richie and his grandmother the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is only for military personnel (and is correctly called the Medal of Honor, as it was created by act of Congress, but awarded by the President). The highest civilian decoration in America is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Then again, she seems to be the only surviving member of the U.S. government in any capacity in the epilogue.
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
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During a meeting to discuss peace with the French government, the obvious happens.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Many of the images from the original cards were remade in the comics, including the aforementioned crossover with Image. The "Destroying A Dog" card was redrawn with Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the background instead of the farm boy (the turtles were being published by Image at the time). Also in this crossover, the Martians were defeated when the Savage Dragon invaded their planet, used a growth ray to become a giant, and destroyed Mars in a similar fashion to the original trading card ending. Keep in mind that the "Image Comics version" were from an Alternate Universe. The "real" Martians made a brief appearance to observe their counterparts, realized they were not able to fight super heroes, and left the universe. The cover◊ for IDW's Mars Attacks Classics Vol. 3 collection features what appears to be a human version of Applejack from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, whose tie-in comic is also published by IDW.note As seen in the What Could Have Been section, a one shot crossover between My Little Pony and Mars Attacks! was in the early planning stages before it was cancelled.
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"London, England" Syndrome
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"London, England" Syndrome: Justified. Tom Jones mentions seeing Byron box "in Cardiff, Wales once". One would expect Jones (a Welshman by birth) to just say "Cardiff", but he's saying this to a group of Americans; outside of the UK, most people wouldn't recognize Welsh cities by name, assuming they even knew Wales was its own country.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How the Martians kill the President of the United States. With a robotic "fake arm" gag.
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Artistic License – Chemistry
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Artistic License – Chemistry: The Martians must wear space helmets while on Earth because they breathe nitrogen rather than oxygen. However, not only is nitrogen inert, and therefore a poor choice as a gas to breathe, but it's the most plentiful gas in the Earth's atmosphere — i.e. there's more nitrogen than oxygen. The presence of free oxygen in the atmosphere and potential oxidization of their lungs isn't the problem, since a spy is able to get by in the atmosphere by chewing nitrogen-infused gum.
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Armies Are Evil
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Armies Are Evil: Parodied. General Decker's warmongering instincts ("We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!") prove to be entirely well founded. The Martians attack Earth completely unprovoked and start sadistically killing everyone For the Evulz. The novelization elaborates that their entire society is based around depopulating planets for fun.
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Child Soldiers
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Child Soldiers: The required age to join the army in defeating the Martians is 13 and up.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Averted. The warlike Martians are called Gnards and the peaceful, intellectual ones are called Paecs.
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Deus ex Nukina
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Deus ex Nukina: Satirized and averted. After a long time setting it up, all it does is allow the Martians to do a Helium Speech gag and showcase their technology to be too superior for them to be taken out that way.
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe, the Martians do their invasion For the Evulz, but when one of their own gets killed and autopsied, they break out the giant Mech simply for that reason.
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Gun Twirling
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Gun Twirling: After disintegrating a rude gambler, a martian twirls his ray gun and puts it back in his holster only to be killed by Barbara Land.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Mars Attacks Popeye.note The planned Mars Attacks My Little Pony one shot comic was planned to follow through on this as well in typical Pony fashion, had it not been cancelled.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Earth is burning, a majority of the human race is dead, and the survivors are still dealing with giant insect attacks. What is mankind's response? Why, take every available soldier, tank, and nuke on Earth, go to Mars on MASSIVE rocket ships, and tear every living thing on the planet limb from limb, before abandoning the planet right before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
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Lounge Lizard
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Lounge Lizard: Tom Jones sings "It's Not Unusual" in Las Vegas. Part of the way through the song, his backup singers are replaced by Martians, and everything goes to hell.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: The Martians actually have a valid reason to be invading Earth; Mars is about to explode and they need a new planet. That said, the fact that they decide to depopulate the planet Earth by wiping out all the humans instead of trying to ask them for help and trying to share Earth with them is needlessly harsh. It's later revealed that there are two tribes of Martians, and one tribe is composed of savage warriors while the other is composed of peaceful intellectuals. The former are bad while the latter are good.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": The President, when General Decker tries to get him to order a nuclear strike on the Martians.
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Bad People Abuse Animals
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Bad People Abuse Animals: The Martians kill birds and dogs and use one dog to perform an experiment on a human, grafting their head to the dog's body. Their Establishing Character Moment is setting cattle on fire.
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Tank-Tread Mecha
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Tank-Tread Mecha: Card #32 shows a Humongous Mecha moving around on spiked treads, using three claws and three laser cannons to slaughter terrified civilians.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: The last shot of the film, in which Tom Jones apparently summons a bunch of woodland creatures like he was Snow White.
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CloudCuckooLander
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Florence Norris (possibly due to senility and/or dementia), and Barbara.
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Dreadful Musician
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Dreadful Musician: Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" (and its high amounts of yodeling) is the Martians' Weaksauce Weakness.
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
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The opening credits show the distance between Earth and Mars as roughly that of Earth and the Moon in real life. Might also be an issue of Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale.
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Achilles' Heel
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Achilles' Heel: Corny folk country music. The Martians also can't survive on Earth without their helmets or other assistance.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A heroic example. Richie deciding to go save his grandmother Florence from the nursing home during the alien invasion. His parents tell him to forget about her and call her a nut and then criticize him again for not being like his dead brother, at which point Richie decides enough is enough and goes anyway, avoiding certain death.
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Cute Monster Girl
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Cute Monster Girl: Subverted; it's only a disguise. Also she looks really really creepy, check out the picture at the top of the page. She also moves in a completely inhuman way: She walks like she's rolling on wheels, and has a very disturbing left-right arm motion while doing so.
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Would Harm a Senior
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Would Harm a Senior: The Martians attack a retirement home at one point.
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Professor Donald Kessler spends several scenes with a pipe in his mouth showcasing he's a classy old-school sci-fi Omnidisciplinary Scientist while Art Land puffs cigarettes like a chimney and is a complete asshole. His wife Barbara also starts to puff a lot after the Pahrump massacre, but it's pretty obvious she's doing it to try to keep her nerves calm.
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Artistic License
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Artistic License: The First Lady spends a lot of time reorganizing and redecorating the White House. The White House is a national monument; the President and family aren't actually allowed to mess with it as much as she does.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: The President of the United States apparently crosses this line by the time he finally gives in to his general's request to fight back against the Martians using nuclear weapons. This is probably because his daughter has gone missing and his wife has been killed. And he gets killed by the Martians after trying and failing to reason with them. Barbara, after the Martians first attack. Early in the movie, she was convinced the Martians came to help the Earth. But later, in her sorrow she's gone back to drinking and believes humanity is being eradicated as punishment for destroying themselves.
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Monumental Damage
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Monumental Damage: Destroying Big Ben and the Taj Mahal (while taking a picture of the latter), melting the Eiffel Tower, bowling with Moai, carving their heads in Mount Rushmore, blowing up Congress, attempting to crush Boy Scouts with the Washington Monument, invading and damaging the White House...note the list would have been quite extensive as seen in the What Could Have Been section, had the film's budget not gotten out of hand. A Real Life example behind the scenes: The Landmark Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was being scheduled for implosion while the movie was being filmed. Burton, who was quite fond of the place, wanted to film its implosion and immortalize it by using it during the aliens' attack on Vegas. Special pyrotechnics were added to the implosion where special effects would be added in post. So when you see it being destroyed in the movie, it actually got destroyed.
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Your Head A-Splode
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Your Head A-Splode: The Martians when they hear the Brown Note.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: How Byron's wife is introduced. While out on her usual route, she sees her sons have skipped school. She immediately pulls over, and goes to yell at them and drags them onto her bus, where she receives applause from the passengers.
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Censored Child Death
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Censored Child Death: In the middle of the movie, the Martians are invading and attacking the White House, they open fire on a Tour Guide in front of a group of kids on a field trip, they then slaughter all but two of them off-screen.
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Friend to All Living Things
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Friend to All Living Things: Unusually enough, Tom Jones.
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Wiper Start
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Wiper Start: While trying to start the plane, Tom Jones accidentally turns on the radio... and is dumbfounded when he hears Slim Whitman being played.
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Interrupted Intimacy
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Interrupted Intimacy: The Martians spy upon a trailer park couple (the girl is played by Christina Applegate) and are quite amused by what they're seeing. Not that it dissuades them from annihilating the two.
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Mars Needs Women
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Mars Needs Women: It doesn't seem as though they need Earth women but they obviously take great interest in them anyway.
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Expy
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Expy: General Casey is one of Colin Powell (back in his roles prior to that for which he is most recently and well known). The Martians themselves are basically alien versions of the Gremlins.
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Gorn
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Gorn: The cards' major selling point was the brutal scenes of violence they depicted.
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Goth
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Goth: Taffy Dale seems to conform to this, as her Establishing Character Moment is her accepting a meal from the White House butler while lying on her bed under a long black mesh canopy, shown wearing black clothes, and being a Deadpan Snarker (see above) when the aliens blew up Congress. She seems to push away from that personality, or at least is putting on a politician's demeanor, when awarding the Medal of Honor to the two civilian heros of the war; as she seems to be the only surviving member of what's left of the US Government.
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Hate Sink
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Hate Sink: The Martians are Laughably Evil so they can't be really hated, but the Norris family (except for Richie and Grandma) are idiotic trailer-trash rednecks who follow almost every bad stereotype in the book and get awful deaths. Art Land is a complete asshole of a husband and sleazebag of a casino manager, and definitely deserves to die when his new casino gets demolished with him in it. Danny DeVito's "Rude Gambler" is an exaggeration Played for Laughs: every single thing he says or does in the five minutes he's on-screen is a rapid-fire pile-up of reasons why nobody in the audience is going to miss him after he gets vaporized, from being a lecher to being a coward to revealing to a Martian that he's a lawyer and he can be of use in a desperate attempt to talk the Martian out of shooting him.
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Take Me to Your Leader
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Take Me to Your Leader: The Martians set up a negotiation conference with the White House... simply so they can vaporize Congress in a surprise attack.
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Artistic License – Space
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Artistic License – Space: The opening credits show the distance between Earth and Mars as roughly that of Earth and the Moon in real life. Might also be an issue of Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale. Mars is shown to be bright red when, in reality, the Martian surface is more a desaturated orange-brown.
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Pacifism Backfire
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Pacifism Backfire: The U.S. tries twice to make peaceful contact with the Martians. The first time, the Martian ambassador and his soldiers wipe out the U.S. Army forces at the meeting site. The second time the Martian ambassador asks to address Congress. While he's doing so he and his soldiers destroy everyone there. Later on the French government tries the diplomatic approach: not surprisingly it ends in a bloodbath.
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Humongous Mecha
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Humongous Mecha: Card #52 has the Martians summon a 50-foot robot in a last-ditch attempt at stopping the human counterattack. A barrage of grenades and RPG fire manages to knock it down.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Satirized, as with everything else. The lone Martian soldier that Danny DeVito's lawyer comes across doesn't spare so much as a snicker when killing him.
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Four Lines, All Waiting
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Four Lines, All Waiting: This is the plot's structure, although it does establish the sadistic homicidal Martian Leader as the main villain lacks a central protagonist and offers 5 perspectives of Americans facing a Martian invasion from 1) the White House with a cowardly stubborn President and a tough-as-nails "shoot first, ask question later" General, 2) a ragtag team of Las Vegas stage performers and casino owners, 3) news reporters in love with each other who get their heads and bodies swapped with dogs, 4) a distant family trying to reunite with each other and 5) two adolescent African-American boys who manage to acquire a Martian weapon after a Secret Service agent was lucky enough to shoot down the Martian carrying it.
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1-Dimensional Thinking
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1-Dimensional Thinking: Played with when a flying saucer, planning to crush a group of Boy Scouts, demolishes the base of the Washington Monument, only for them to run out of the way. The saucer then flies around to the other side of the falling obelisk to make it fall the other way. Rinse, repeat.
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Talking the Monster to Death
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Talking the Monster to Death: The President's secure bunker has been overrun and his only offense is to give a speech to the Martian attackers. Just like similar attempts seen on screen, it doesn't quite work.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: In Mars Attacks Judge Dread, Dread makes an deal with a crime lord to have his record wiped clean in exchange for transport in his antique, gasoline-powered car after the Martians set off an EMP which renders all other forms of transportation inert. Once the Martians are taken care of, Dread arrests the crime lord anyway since, despite wiping his past crimes from the record as agreed, driving a gas powered vehicle violates Mega City's anti-pollution laws and counts as a new crime unaffected by the bargain. While this usually results in an extremely minor fine, judges are allowed to issue any sentence they see fit and Dread gives him a life sentence.
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Artistic License – Geography
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Artistic License – Geography: The Martian Girl appears in front of the Washington Monument. When she looks at the White House, she sees the north side (triangular facade with columns). When Jerry pulls up, the south side is correctly visible.
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Screw the War, We're Partying
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Screw the War, We're Partying: Played for Laughs. Las Vegas real estate developer Art Land is still holding a meeting with investors for his new casino hotel, even though the Martians are quite clearly flattening the city outside. And downstairs, some people are still playing the slot machines as the Martians are killing everyone. "Now, even in times of so-called 'intergalactic emergency,' people still wanna roll them bones!"
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My Brain is Big
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My Brain Is Big: The Martians. When the yodeling of Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Song" makes said brains explode, the resulting green gore floods the Martians' helmets..
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Improbable Hairstyle
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Improbable Hairstyle: The Martian "girl" has a towering flipped beehive with a central part far above the forehead and a spiral curl nested inside the part.
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Big Creepy-Crawlies
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Martians capture Earth bugs and spiders, enlarge them to 500 times their normal size, then release them back upon humanity, this time under their control.
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Guns Are Worthless
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Guns Are Worthless: Zigzagged in that human guns can kill Martians, but their guns are much deadlier. Guns did work in the White House invasion, but when the Martian Leader and his men corner President Dale and the American nuclear weapons command, General Decker fires away rapidly Guns Akimbo to no avail implying Decker's bullets were not thick enough or the Martian Leader wore better armor. Played straight in aerial warfare scenes when the US Army fire tanks and firearms at the saucers, where the armor of the Martian ships are so tough the bullets just bounce right off.
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Crossover
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Crossover: They had one with Image Comics. As far as Savage Dragon continuity goes, this crossover actually had major repercussions which is unusual in a crossover.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Every single Martian is a jerk and causes havoc on Earth. And many humans, especially Danny DeVito's character, most of Ritchie's family, the President, and Barbara's husband (the last two played by Jack Nicholson). The president is perhaps simply clueless.
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Mister Muffykins
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Mister Muffykins: Natalie's chihuahua, Poppy. At no point she stops barking, not even when its head is put on a human body.
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Translation Train Wreck
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Translation Train Wreck: "All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest."
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Aliens Steal Cable
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Aliens Steal Cable: Parodied when the first shown encounter the Martians have with Earth involves a herd of cows. The twist is that, instead of abducting them, the aliens simply sets the herd on fire. This scene was taken directly from one of the original Mars Attacks! trading cards.
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Uranus Is Showing
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Uranus Is Showing: There was a short-lived parody of the original trading cards called Uranus Strikes; the Uranians were ugly, disgusting creatures who tried to invade Earth as the Martians did, but were at most Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains.
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Emergency Presidential Address
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Emergency Presidential Address: This is satirized in the President's address to the U.S. after the Martians destroy Congress, in which he assures the public that a "very real response" will be coming "soon".
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Hugh Mann
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Hugh Mann: The Martian Girl acts very strangely and Jerry doesn't notice until it bites his finger off.
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Futile Hand Reach: Natalie and Jason reaching for each other in the massacre.
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Evil Plan
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Evil Plan: The Martians seek to Take Over the World and Kill All Humans.
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Incessant Music Madness
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Incessant Music Madness: Country music proves to be not only annoying for Martians, but also their deadly Achilles' Heel.
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Brain in a Jar: A container aboard one of the Martian's saucers has a huge human-like brain inside it.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: The Martians kill men and women alike.
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Tagline
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Tagline: "Nice planet... we'll take it!"
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Alien Invasion
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Alien Invasion: An Affectionate Parody of alien invasion movies which drew inspiration from the trading cards of the same name. Like the trading cards, the movie portrays a military invasion by the Martians.
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Mix-and-Match Critters
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Mix-and-Match Critters: Natalie's head is later put on her chihuahua's body (and vice versa).
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: For Taffy, Richie, his grandmother, Barbara, Byron and his family, Cindy the waitress, Tom Jones and the other characters who survive the invasion.
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Stab the Salad
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Stab the Salad: The aliens toss an ominously glowing sphere into the White House's War Room. They shake the object, revealing it to be a snowglobe, point, laugh, then shoot everyone anyway.
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Jason Stone can't comprehend his vapid girlfriend somehow managing to outdo him: her show was contacted before his with the news that the President was cutting into everyone's airtime, and later, Donald Kessler appears on her show to discuss the Martians. She's on a fashion show. Even Natalie's dog won't listen to him.
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Running Gag
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Although what they were actually saying may have been entirely different; the alien translator machine never working right was sort of a Running Gag. It's also possible that the Martians realized this and chose to cart it around because they thought it was funny. Note that after the first attack, when the Martians receive the President's message seeking reconciliation, the ambassador takes it to the emperor who reads it out loud... then both promptly burst into laughter.
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Humans Are Ugly
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Humans Are Ugly: Martians find humans very ugly, this is shown how the scientist sees the captured superheroine.
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The Dog Bites Back
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The Dog Bites Back: As the Martian mother ship starts to go down, Natalie's dog, whose head was surgically implanted on her body, grabs one of the Martians, and strangles him while yapping in his face.
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The War Room
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The War Room: Located on the President's last-resort bunker, including such things as a tactical map spread on the floor and concealed monitors to view the nuclear missile launch.
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Comically Missing the Point: When Byron refuses his offer to intimidate someone who owes him money, saying that he found Allah and gave up pork and is a new man, the only thing Art takes away from the conversation is "You gave up pork?" As the Martians are attacking Vegas, Byron asks Barbara if her plane can get to Washington. She asks why, since she wants to hide in Tahoe.
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Canon Immigrant
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Canon Immigrant: The Martian Spy Girl from the Tim Burton film is this as of the 2013 Invasion set- an Early Missions card depicts a version of the character.
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Gun Stripping
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Gun Stripping: The Establishing Character Moment of Billy-Glen and the rest of his family includes Billy-Glen putting together an M-14 while blindfolded. Although the rest of his family treats him as The Ace because he's currently serving in the military, the scene provides a very big clue about how much of a dim-witted idiot he is: even after some untold (but probably hefty) amount of time practicing, he's only gone down three seconds of the two minutes he used to take to fully make the assembling, and this is still greatly celebrated by him and his dad.
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Beware the Nice Ones: Byron Williams; while he is a boxer, he's a Nice Guy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, especially when there are Martians attacking. He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in Las Vegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down. However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.
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Gallows Humor
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Gallows Humor: When General Decker presents him with an order to sign, President Dale asks if it's his last will and testament.
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Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Prof. Donald Kessler is constantly shown smoking one.
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Bit Character
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This is also enforced pretty strongly with Danny DeVito's character who is a Bit Character that only gets about five minutes of screen-time. Within those five minutes, he reveals he is a lawyer and offers his services to a Martian who quickly zaps him. They really wanted to make sure the audience didn't sympathize too much just before bumping him off.
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Brick Joke: One (possibly androgynous) reporter asks the President "if the Martians have two sexes, like we do." Later, Kessler performs an autopsy on a Martian and finds that they lack genitalia.
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Evil-Detecting Dog: The President's dog started barking as soon as he saw the Martians, before anyone besides the general realized that they were dangerous. The next time he detects a Martian, the poor pooch gets vaporized by the Martian Girl.
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