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My Teacher Is an Alien

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My Teacher Is an Alien	comment	My Teacher Is an Alien is a series of four children novels by Bruce Coville: My Teacher Is an Alien My Teacher Fried My Brains My Teacher Glows in the Dark My Teacher Flunked the PlanetThe series is about Peter Thompson, a nerdy boy, and his best friend Susan Simmons who find out that their new teacher, Mr. Smith, is actually an extra-terrestrial agent named Broxholm. They suspect an Alien Invasion, and work to expose the infiltrator. In the second book in the series, Duncan Dougal, the class bully and a side character from the first novel, discovers that there is another alien posing as a teacher, and that he has been the subject of an alien experiment to expand his intellect.Book three completely changes gears, as Peter discovers that the aliens are not necessarily dangerous and ends up living with them as a guest on a gigantic alien exploratory vessel. He learns that Broxholm had been sent by an alien council who has decided to put Humanity on Trial to find a proof whether or not Humans Are the Real Monsters. In the final installment the kid and alien characters team up and embark on a research mission to explore the nature of humanity and determine whether the earth can be saved.The narrator changes character in each of the books, following Susan in the first as she attempts to find proof of Broxholm's supposedly "evil" plans (abduct 5 students and take them back for study, not realizing his true intent was to use them as proof that Earth can be redeemed), then Duncan in the second as he tries to prove one of his teachers in middle school is an alien, then finally Peter in the last two. The last two books were originally planned to be one longer book, which is why Peter is used as the narrator twice. The "switching narrator" technique is one Bruce Coville would later use in other books.The first book was also adapted into a video game by 7th Level and Byron Press Multimedia company.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1062982b	type	"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1062982b	comment	"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Duncan's intelligence boosting "Brain Frying" is temporary, and he will eventually return to ordinary human intelligence. Mildly subverted in that he is now much wiser and knows his potential, so he might find some use for ordinary human intelligence, whereas before he acted like a dimwitted bully.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Captain "talks" by making tinkling sounds with his crystal body. Many of the aliens communicate through various non-verbal signs (which the translator microbes do their best to decipher). For example, Broxholm "sighs" by stretching his nose to absurd lengths (and laughs by having his nose twitch), Kreeblim emotes through her "hair", and one large, pickle-like alien makes various exclamations by rearranging his warts and emitting powerful odors. As an inversion, we twice see aliens wink at humans to signal something even though the gesture has no meaning in their own cultures.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The fourth book features a lot of preaching about Earth's problems, along with portrayals of things such as people tortured for disagreeing with their government, people starving, and many more, while suggesting that the only way to prevent Earth's bad behavior is to nuke it out of existence.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Broxholm is the Big Bad of the first book, but becomes one of the main protagonists in the sequels.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The first two books are suspense stories about a kid trying to prove a certain teacher is an alien, and stop (what appears to be) an imminent threat. The last two books are far more akin to Star Trek in tone and genre, and reveal that the previous "villains" were actually good.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Played with. Earth is insignificant at the moment. However, Humans Are Special in that they are more violent and destructive than other species. Earth is the center of an ongoing debate between every other intelligent race in the universe about that fact.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1a6960dd	type	Flying Saucer
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1a6960dd	comment	Flying Saucer: Lampshaded with a reference that Peter really, really dislikes this term.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Duncan starts out as this.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1b9079be	type	Snooping Little Kid
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid: What the main characters essentially are in the first two books, in their attempts to get proof that their teacher is an alien.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_20ccdd29	type	Rear Window Investigation
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_20ccdd29	comment	"Rear Window" Investigation: In the first book, Susan breaks into her new teacher's house to look for evidence that he truly is otherworldly. Unfortunately, her lookout had a short attention span. Hilarity Ensues.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The kids (and the readers) take a tour of it in the fourth book, as they discover the problems going on in the impoverished or corrupt parts of Earth.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: Broxholm despises human music, which is so painful to his ears that it can incapacitate him. Peter later notes that he had special ear filters installed after the incident at the end of the first book as a counter.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Broxholm comes off as tactless and rude. As it turns out, however, on his planet being brutal with honesty is normal (although Broxholm describes it as just telling the truth and then getting on with things), and in fact in comparison to the rest of Broxholm's kind, Broxholm is a "pussycat". But even the "pussycat" Broxholm cannot understand what he sees as the humans' obsession with talking nicely all the time.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Peter's own father never knew HIS father.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Assistant principal Manuel "The Mancatcher" Ketchum and Mr. Black in the second book.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: The aliens travel by "folding" space (the details of which are conveniently skirted when the primary alien characters all admit they don't understand the physics of it). They also believe humans will soon discover even faster, easier FTL methods, a possibility which terrifies them.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Broxholm indicates that even those who are leaning toward the destruction of Earth only do so because they don't believe the other options will work. They would not celebrate the destruction of a world and its people, but mourn it deeply.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Susan and Broxholm play this game in the first book. Broxholm implies that he knows Susan was in his house, which indicates that he knows that Susan knows that he is an alien.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Duncan starts off as a Jerkass bully character but eventually grows into a more well-rounded character. In the end, the entire human race turns out to have Hidden Depths that many of the aliens did not give them credit for. We're capable of senseless war, but also of risking our lives for our fellows, for example.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Broxholm's reaction to television is "'I spit in deep disgust at your decision to play in your own garbage.' Only the last word wasn't 'garbage'."
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2ff4c09b	type	Special Person, Normal Name
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_2ff4c09b	comment	Special Person, Normal Name: Broxholm goes by the the nondescript human pseudonym "Mr. Smith." Of course.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: In the second book, Duncan is the only person who can get the word out that there's still an alien spy among the school staff, but because of his reputation as a troublemaker, few people will give him the time of day. Later, when he becomes super smart, he figures out the solution to problems such as world hunger, but because he's a kid, no one will take his ideas seriously.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Many races are undescribed, but the third book takes pains to emphasize the massive assortment of types of aliens, including something like 30 varieties of bathrooms, repulsive-looking alien foods, and a selection of furniture so vast that it takes many minutes to select a chair (and later, a bed) that would fit a human boy comfortably.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: Humans, from the aliens' perspective. Most races outgrow the need for violence long before they get to humanity's current tech level.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Peter starts out this way, but begins unleashing his knowledge when he learns it might help foil the alien plot. He does so even more as a Plan B, because he wants to see the stars. It turns out that Duncan is this way too, until the brain fryer unlocks his brain's true potential. According to the aliens, the same is true for all humans, as they have the largest (and least used) brains in the universe.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Broxholm possesses physical strength far beyond that of comparably-sized humans, and packs a laser gun to boot, but he only ever directly harms someone once. In fact, he chooses to be unmasked and jeopardize his mission rather than put human lives at risk.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The various aliens fall all over this scale. To clarify: the more idealistic aliens want to leave the humans alone, or even engage in diplomatic relations with the humans, while the more cynical aliens want to dominate the humans, or just blow them all up and wipe out the human race.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_393da8a1	type	Secret Message Wink
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_393da8a1	comment	Secret Message Wink: In the third book, Hoo-Lan is seemingly comatose in sick bay after a psychic incident, but while Peter is visiting him, he briefly opens one eye. The movement immediately strikes Peter as significant, but it's not until half the book later that he realizes Hoo-Lan was winking at him, to signify that the coma was fake.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: Zig-zagged, although they are well-meaning and mostly peaceful, some of the aliens do want to destroy Earth because of their somewhat justified belief that Humans Are the Real Monsters.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3e3f9b19	type	Stay with the Aliens
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_3e3f9b19	comment	Stay with the Aliens: The first book ends with Peter Thompson deciding to go with Broxholm, since his father's indifferent to his existence and he believes no one will miss him. The next three books more or less deconstruct this decision. Then Susan and Duncan wind up staying with them for good at the end of the series.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_46189c48	type	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_46189c48	comment	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: In one of the later books, the protagonists learn that all humans were once telepaths. People eventually suppressed this ability because of the growing population — contact with so many other minds would have driven them insane otherwise. This is used to explain, in part, why Humans Are Bastards sometimes, as they evolved to coexist using a means of communication and understanding which they no longer possessed.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: The alien teachers typically disguise themselves as humans with this kind of mask, plus gloves and such. Later, even the main human kids wear them to appear as different children. Justified since they have alien technology—for example, its material can change skin tone automatically.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Broxholm and Duncan. Averted with Big Julie, who Peter continues to dislike even after the big guy softens up a little and admits to liking him. Which is understandable, as Big Julie's affection for individual humans does not change the fact that he is in favor of destroying the planet.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The fate of Duncan starting from the second book.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Many of the aliens think this, and show some of the evidence to the protagonists. Determining whether this is in fact true is the task of our heroes in the final book.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Duncan becomes this after the aliens expand his mental capacity.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_4fb23084	comment	Crystalline Creature: The Captain of the New Jersey is a loose collection of limb-sized crystals that float freely in a tank of liquid and communicate through tinkling music, an uncommon body type even among the hugely diverse crew.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_547bb916	comment	Living with the Villain: Well, let's see here, the title might be a hint... (even if they turn out to not be evil after all in the third and fourth books)
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_56c5b0d8	comment	First Day from Hell: Duncan's first day in the second book. He catches all sorts of hell from teachers and classmates alike despite his best efforts to turn over a new leaf. Then he spends hours hiding in a dumpster after pulling a fire alarm on impulse.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Played with. Even the most vehemently anti-human aliens acknowledge the worth and value of individual humans, but it's hinted that many of them apply very broad generalizations to populace as a whole. Partially justified, however, for two reasons: first, some of the raw data the aliens used to draw their conclusions from included humans stockpiling food they then eventually throw away, while children in Third World countries starve, humans making war on each other for petty reasons, humans torturing each other, etc. In fact the protagonist refuses to describe a specific torture method that drives Broxholm to save the torturee, but given the torturee was female it's implied to be rape. Second, the aliens are familiar with non-violent humans, but are also disgusted that the non-violent humans are too apathetic to actually solve global problems.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: The beginning of My Teacher Flunked The Planet showcases Broxholm indicating a very prominent button on the starship New Jersey. The Button (as Peter calls it later) is inactive at the time, but if the proper series of codes are input to make The Button active, when pushed, it is capable of reducing Earth to stardust.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: Broxholm and the other aliens are revealed to be this in the sequels.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Peter's mom abandoned her family when "someone better came along", and his father lost HIS mom when he was "too old to be adopted", as he put it.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_69c864de	type	Deliberate Under-Performance
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_69c864de	comment	Deliberate Under-Performance: Played with; Peter informs the kids in school that aliens are going to kidnap 5 students: the best, the worst, and the three most average. This causes immediate chaos, with the top students deliberately trying to get in trouble or flunk tests; the worst students and troublemakers suddenly sucking up to the teachers, and mediocre kids paralyzed by uncertainty not knowing how to avoid being one of the three most average. And inverted with Peter himself; he begins to perform above his usual standard as a "Plan B" so that if the kidnapping does happen after all, he's more likely to be one of those selected.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_6a2486cd	comment	Graying Morality: The first book was just about some kids trying to stop an evil alien from abducting people from their class; likewise, Peter's decision to ditch his neglectful father is seen as at least somewhat understandable. The sequels then reveal the aliens' motives and begin to explore how Peter's dad is dealing with his disappearance.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted with Hoo-Lan.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Hoo-Lan giving television to mankind. See New Media Are Evil.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7071bfe9	type	Humans Advance Swiftly
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7071bfe9	comment	Humans Advance Swiftly: A big part of the plot. Most species have settled down into peaceful coexistence long before they have the technology to make weapons that pose an existential threat to themselves, but humans shot from the stone age to the atomic age in a ludicrously short period of time. From the perspective of other species humans are culturally a barbarian horde with nuclear weapons, and there's a very real fear of humans discovering effective space travel in the near future.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: The aliens pack laser guns that look like ordinary pencils. Other fantastic devices are cunningly (and apparently seamlessly) disguised mundane objects. Mental note: Don't EVER ask Broxholm if you can borrow something to write with.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The first book shows Broxholm unmasking at school, which he would never risk doing so in a public place, and then subverts it in the climax when he's coerced into it by Susan repeatedly playing "Stars and Stripes" on her flute. The second book implies that Duncan is going to have his brain fried as if he were in an electric chair, when what the device doing the "frying" really does is give his cognitive abilities a serious boost. The fourth book, though, is the worst offender. It shows Broxholm threatening to push The Button that will destroy the Earth while Susan and Peter are about to attack him. In reality, Broxholm and the kids are working together in a desperate attempt to prevent the Earth's destruction.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Broxholm, as "Mr. Smith". But ultimately a positive example, believe it or not. He believes in the value of honesty and integrity, for example, and he has no tolerance for children who behave violently to each other. This is part of the inspiration for the solution the human children eventually come up with to the aliens' problem: if the aliens were willing to send more teachers like Broxholm, maybe the students could be taught to actually do something about all the violence.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: In the second book, everyone believes that Duncan is lying about there still being an alien stationed in their town, especially after he pulls a false fire alarm on his first day of seventh grade (people thought that another alien attack was about to happen when the alarm went off).
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: The aliens are generally all high-minded pacifists who abhor violence. However, some of them are willing to destroy the human race if that's what it takes to protect the rest of the universe from us. Broxholm is a pacifist to the point where he would rather publicly unmask and fail his mission than harm any of the children attacking him, but during their study of earth he witnesses something (loosely implied to be an imminent rape) that causes him to knock someone out.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Hoo-Lan feels that triggering the invention of television was like giving a loaded rifle to a child instead of a watergun. At the time, he was trying to slow down humanity's technological progress by "Turning their brains into Swiss cheese". You know, by improving global communications.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: It may come to this.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: We never learn much about the alien's government, but it seems that most peaceful, intelligent species are part of a cooperative agency. Unlike most examples of this trope, humans are not a part of the Federation, which of course is the entire point of the story.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7ee93bc9	type	Some Call Me "Tim"
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7ee93bc9	comment	Some Call Me "Tim": In the last book, the protagonists meet an alien who fills a whole room. When asking for its name, they find out his name is long and almost unpronounceable, sounding something like "Uhuurbeheegjuli"; Duncan mishears "Big Julie" (sounding like a character from Guys and Dolls) and the name sticks. There is also "CrocDoc" whose real name is Kritzklumpf but Peter calls him this way internally before learning his name.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The kids' efforts to thwart Broxholm in the first book actually end up hurting their cause later.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Susan and Peter are mutually this. Susan believes Broxholm to be the malevolent vanguard of an alien invasion because he brainwashed a teacher into being stricter and is an all around unpleasant person. Peter claims Broxholm is just studying humanity. As evidenced by the fact that he chose to infiltrate an elementary school rather that some high level government facility and is, underneath the jerkass behavior, a pretty competent teacher. Turns out Broxholm IS studying humanity for a coalition of aliens as they debate what do about the threat of humanity's inevitable emergence on the galactic scene, one option of which is to destroy the species (though even the aliens backing this option are presented as finding it abhorrent but necessary).
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: In the last book the kids and the aliens are under specific instructions only to observe human behavior and not to interfere in any situation. Predictably, a Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! situation eventually presents itself. Specifically, a woman is being tortured right in front of them with a torture method the protagonists refuse to even describe to the reader, although given the context, an older reader might make an educated guess that it amounted to rape. Broxholm gets so pissed off that he knocks out the torturer and carries the woman to safety. Ultimately, the solution presented for the problem of "What do we do with the human race?" involves averting this trope: Send more aliens to Earth as teachers and guides, helping humanity build up from its current state until they are finally ready for greater galactic society. This process also involves rebuilding the mental unity humans used to have, the fracturing of which is part of why we're not so good at peace.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_87bf0789	type	Teacher's Pet
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_87bf0789	comment	Teacher's Pet: Mike and Stacy from the first book are nice and helpful to most people but are especially eager to help teachers. They (pathetically) act out to try to lose this reputation so that Broxholm won't kidnap one of them as the "best" student in the class. Subsequently, Duncan, who is a shoe-in for "worst" student, tries desperately to start doing favors for teachers for the same reason. And Peter tries desperately to do this as a Plan B; if the kidnapping can't be avoided, he wants to be picked to go.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Duncan becomes this to an extent, since he starts off as The Bully.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: Some aliens suggest this as the only solution to humanity's violent nature. Hey, at least they feel bad about it: when asked, one of the aliens explains that if they blow up the humans, the aliens will certainly not be singing songs about their glorious conquest that they won; instead, if they actually kill all the humans they will spend their time afterwards miserable and sorry that it had to come to that, mourning over what was lost and what might have been.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Hoo-Lan's attempt to slow human technological advancement (which to alien eyes had far outpaced social advancements) by introducing television. It just accelerated it, while slowing down social development even more. Given the current (im)balance between technology—like the Internet, smartphones and social media— and social norms, he had cause to be concerned.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8dabfad8	type	Genocide Dilemma
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8dabfad8	comment	Genocide Dilemma: None of the aliens really want to kill off all the humans, but many believe it's necessary for the safety of the galaxy.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_8e9cf84e	comment	Although it doesn't translate the meaning of the body language, or individual linguistic idioms, which can lead to in-universe "Blind Idiot" Translation. Doc Croc at one point uses a phrase that translates to "I hope I never have to eat your children". Um, thanks, I guess? Other in-universe Blind Idiot Translations include such gems as "I salute your sinus cavities" and "I put my hand beneath your grandmother's egg." Apparently these make sense to the alien using such body language, but not to the human protagonist or the readers. Which makes sense, given that certain English phrases (e.g. "Hit the hay") would be nonsensical to those unfamiliar with idioms in that language.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The kids and the aliens eventually discover that the entire human race was once a hive mind, but that we forcibly isolated our minds from each other because of the incredible strain created by the swelling population. Our violent ways are the result of subconscious trauma that comes of not being connected to one another as we're designed to be.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: The aliens believe this, and theorize that earthling children will be able to provide better perspective on humanity because they have not yet become jaded and cynical.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_943f7a7e	type	Wiki Walk
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_943f7a7e	comment	Wiki Walk: Peter experiences this when plugged into a virtual reality machine. You can start off on a boat, see a bird in the distance, have it appear in your hand, inhabit its body to see from its POV, and have a million other such experiences. There are strict limits on how long you can use such a device, since it can act as a Lotus-Eater Machine to some beings. If it ever gets hooked up to TV Tropes, the galaxy is probably doomed.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Subverted. The human protagonist assumes this after meeting Kreeblim, a female alien who looks very different to the previously introduced male alien, Broxholm. It turns out that they are of completely different species.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Or rather, a fifth. The aliens argue over about four different ways to handle the humans' situation. Either: leave the humans alone and see what happens, invade and dominate the humans by force to save them from themselves (while fixing the world's problems in the process), blockade the solar system to keep their threat contained, or blow the planet to smithereens and kill all the humans so the humans won't make war on the galaxy. The grand finale of the series is when the human children come up with option number 5: "Give us teachers!" According to the children, if students can be taught right by alien teachers, eventually the human race will get over its violent tendencies, and they can join the galactic community peacefully.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_96d2011	type	Noble Profession
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_96d2011	comment	Noble Profession: Broxholm and Kreeblim describe teachers as the most important job in the world.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_97ddee3e	type	My Skull Runneth Over
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_97ddee3e	comment	My Skull Runneth Over: In My Teacher Fried My Brains, Duncan goes from dumb bully to super-genius after using an alien machine. However, his brain soon begins to pick up information like radio and TV signals out of the air, making it impossible for Duncan to think. Justified: it turns out the alien's plan was to make his brain into a communication device so she could contact her leaders in space.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_999b267b	type	Phlebotinum Analogy
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_999b267b	comment	Phlebotinum Analogy: The exact same one that's used in A Wrinkle in Time. Possibly a Shout-Out.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9adf3455	type	Extra Parent Conception
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9adf3455	comment	Extra Parent Conception: The series mentions one species that requires "seven genders [sic] to produce an egg, and three more to hatch it". This being a kid's book, the exact mechanics of this are never explained.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Inverted. Here it's the aliens who are trying to decide the relative value of human lives.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the first book, Peter speculates that the aliens are afraid that humans will start an interstellar war if they make it further into space. He's right.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: A major concept in the series is that humans supposedly would be the most intelligent species in the universe if only we used all of our brains.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9e6221b0	type	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9e6221b0	comment	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: Hoo-Lan is revealed to have influenced history throughout centuries, with more or less success. He is feeling especially guilty about being responsible for the invention of television. TV was intended to distract people and slow technology growth until humanity had matured a bit more. It didn't end up doing anything but delay said maturation.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Averted in book 3 — Peter interrupts a meeting of some kind to get CrocDoc back to his office to help Hoo-Lan. Even though he just barged in with a cry of "Your office, now!", CrocDoc doesn't brush him off and instantly follows him. Good thing too.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: There's a lot of attention devoted to the fact that the protagonists (and the similar-aged readers by proxy, which is deliberate on the author's part) have comparatively easy lives when compared to all the suffering of humans abroad. Peter gets one when he sees the fact that Americans stockpile food and throw perfectly good food away if they have too much, while children around the world starve, and Peter is very uncomfortably reminded of the time when he got mad at his father for not having enough snacks in the house to keep him fed until dinner. Susan gets one when it's explained to her that contrary to what she previously thought, the humans can very easily solve all their problems if enough of them want to, the problem is not ability but apathy. This makes Susan mad enough that she resolves to do something about the world when she grows up, possibly even becoming a leader.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Duncan goes from a minor supporting character in the first book to being the protagonist of the second and goes through the biggest arc by the series end.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Averted with Peter in a huge way. See Hero Antagonist below.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Duncan's parents, but more so with his father. As revealed in ''My Teacher Fried My Brains", his brother bullies him and neither his parents do nothing about it. Although his mother is a bit kinder, though not much more supportive, his father whacks him too, although in all fairness, both sons receive the same treatment at times. His father says it toughens him up in life. This is likely Duncan's Freudian Excuse for becoming the class bully.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: Broxholm in the first book, Kreeblim in the first two (though readers don't find out until the second), and multiple cases in the fourth. Apparently, the aliens investigating Earth bought several pieces of property so they could blend in, with multiple redundancies if need be.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b474c23f	type	Misery Poker
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b474c23f	comment	Misery Poker: Referenced and then defied in My Teacher Flunked the Planet. When Peter hears Susan say "Boy, I miss my family" (as they're traveling with aliens and can't see their families, and she can only have occasional phone calls with them) he thinks "At least you have family to miss" (due to him thinking that his father couldn't care less about his disappearance) but keeps silent because he doesn't want to get in a game of "Who's the most miserable".
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b4bccabc	type	Genius Serum
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b4bccabc	comment	Genius Serum: The Brain Fryer was thought to be this when used on Duncan Dougal, so much so Duncan starts to fear this will wear off and he'll go back to being a meathead. Kreeblim insists the machine simply unlocks the potential of one's brain, with the flashes of insight and knowledge simply being him finally applying himself.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b5b507b0	type	Fold the Page, Fold the Space
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_b5b507b0	comment	Fold the Page, Fold the Space: A random alien explains the ship's movement using a noodle-like alien food. The book also makes a point that said alien knows the general theory but can't explain the mechanics of how it works, because he's not actually an engineer, much as how most people have only a vague idea of how an internal combustion engine works.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: This is what it seems like to Susan when Mr. Smith/Broxholm kidnaps Ms. Schwartz and replaces her as a boring and strict substitute teacher.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The aliens who want to destroy Earth for the safety of the rest of the galaxy.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Peter's Establishing Character Moment shows him as a spineless nerd who lets Duncan push him around without resistance... unless you mistreat his books. Then he fights back.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bda88535	type	Life Isn't Fair
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bda88535	comment	Life Isn't Fair: This trope is Duncan's pet peeve at the beginning of the second book, although in this series the phrase is "Life is rough". Interestingly, whether it's justified or not depends on the situation: his family uses it to justify the piss-poor treatment he gets at home, which makes Duncan sympathetic. But it's completely justified when it's said to Duncan at school, because it's used to justify stopping him from bullying others, which he felt was unfair until his character development.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Susan Simmons and Duncan Dougal.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Most of the aliens and Peter get a translation device transplanted into their brain so they can communicate to each other. It even translates body language. Although it doesn't translate the meaning of the body language, or individual linguistic idioms, which can lead to in-universe "Blind Idiot" Translation. Doc Croc at one point uses a phrase that translates to "I hope I never have to eat your children". Um, thanks, I guess? Other in-universe Blind Idiot Translations include such gems as "I salute your sinus cavities" and "I put my hand beneath your grandmother's egg." Apparently these make sense to the alien using such body language, but not to the human protagonist or the readers. Which makes sense, given that certain English phrases (e.g. "Hit the hay") would be nonsensical to those unfamiliar with idioms in that language.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bffc7851	type	Humanity on Trial
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_bffc7851	comment	Humanity on Trial: One of the main plot points of the series in the last two books.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: This is the big reason the other races are worried; largely due to how fast human technology advances, humans kept their full aggression and tribal thinking even after developing weapons that could sterilize a world with no signs of changing any time soon.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Duncan is a bully because his home life sucks: his older brother bullies him, his father thinks the bullying is healthy, and his mom just doesn't care.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The human protagonists eventually have to find examples of this trope from their own species, the human race. It's difficult, but eventually they do, one example involves a doctor risking his life in a hellish war zone to save a child whose limbs were blown off.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Betty Lou Karpou a.k.a. Kreeblim and Ms. Schwartz.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Generally averted. The kids realize that no one will believe their story about aliens, so they don't bother alerting the authorities. Played straight during Duncan's period of hyperintelligence. Putting his enhanced mind to such problems as world hunger and the energy crisis, he develops plans to solve all of these and sends them to various authorities, who basically ignore him. Peter's father initially doesn't believe the stories that Peter went to space with the aliens, and spends a great deal of time in the second book searching for him. It's not until he meets up with Ms. Schwartz in the fourth novel that he finally accepts the truth.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The last book takes a really heavy turn as the kids and the aliens examine the worst in human nature. Particularly traumatizing is a chapter about starving third world villagers.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d07edd79	type	Thermal Dissident
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d07edd79	comment	Thermal Dissident: A logistical challenge of all the alien species living together on the Mile-Long Ship. Private quarters are customizable, but the common areas are set to a compromise that has some people in parkas, others nearly naked, and humans pretty comfortable.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d1a69ab2	type	We Need to Get Proof
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d1a69ab2	comment	We Need to Get Proof: What kicks the plot of the first two books into action.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Peter, along with most of the aliens.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: A one-sided example — Duncan's introduction as The Bully to Peter is completely at odds with his claim later that he actually likes him. Susan is baffled, but can't detect anything but sheer sincerity from him. The next book shows Duncan's perspective, making it clearer that he just doesn't know how to express friendship properly.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d8ec79d5	type	Benevolent Alien Invasion
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d8ec79d5	comment	Benevolent Alien Invasion: One of the possibilities being considered to deal with the Earth problem is to take over the planet outright so that humans can be given the tools they need to end wars, eradicate disease and poverty, etc. in a controlled fashion while making sure the tools aren't abused.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Averted in the second and subsequent books. Although Duncan's intelligence boost is temporary (albeit lengthy), it's made clear that when it wears off he won't go back to being the same bully as before, but will instead realize that he has the potential to be so much more than just a bully, and learn from the experience.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Duncan figures out that one of the four new teachers at his school must be an alien spy. Predictably, the one he's most suspicious of turns out to be innocent.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_ddac33c8	type	The Nudifier
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_ddac33c8	comment	The Nudifier: After being "abducted," Peter has to go through some sort of decontaminating process to get on the New Jersey. He refuses to undress, so the aliens freeze him with a force field and send a laser crisscrossing over his body. The field turns off, Peter moves, and his clothes instantly fall to tatters on the floor, prompting a small Naked Freakout.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_de085a36	type	Green-Skinned Space Babe
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_de085a36	comment	Green-Skinned Space Babe: Subverted. Although Kreeblim may be green-skinned, female and humanoid, she is not at all attractive by human standards. But she says she's not considered ugly on her home planet.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Averted in one respect, but also played straight — the third book mentions that our technological progress has been much faster than most/any alien race's, and it's theorized that this is a reason our civility is not on par with other spacefaring races (it hasn't "caught up" yet). Also, turns out we're naturally telepathic, or were, and could be again.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e06d3a98	type	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e06d3a98	comment	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: So naturally the antagonistic aliens would like to destroy us first so they don't get caught in the mess. And even those who advocate leaving humanity alone generally do so because they believe that humanity will destroy themselves before they become a threat.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e1836adf	type	Bizarre Alien Sexes
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e1836adf	comment	Bizarre Alien Sexes: The series mentions one species that requires "five different genders just to get an egg-and three more to hatch it".
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: The alien vessel that Peter boards is called the New Jersey, because it actually is about the size of New Jersey.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e58e0124	type	PokÃ©mon Speak
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e58e0124	comment	PokÃ©mon Speak: Poot!
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Most of the main alien characters are like this, especially Broxholm, Kreeblim and Hoo-Lan. Somewhat justified in that the ship has a great variety of aliens from up to 10,000 worlds, and it would make sense to select those most similar to humans as infiltration agents and liaisons. See Starfish Aliens for plenty of aversions.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_eed6d1c3	type	The Glasses Gotta Go
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_eed6d1c3	comment	The Glasses Gotta Go: When the aliens are putting a translator device in Peter's brain, they take the liberty of fixing his eyesight.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_efe7b003	type	Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_efe7b003	comment	Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes: Susan teams up with Peter to work together to expose the alien. Peter makes it clear that She Is Not My Girlfriend at one point in the first book, offending Susan (despite her not having a crush on him either).
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: During his time as The Bully, Duncan does this to Susan, although it was an accident.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f48d0f54	type	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Broxholm and Kreeblim are the antagonists of the first and second book respectively, but both imply that there's something more at play with both characters, and the third one shows that they were trying to save Earth the whole time.
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My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f9a85905	type	Planet Spaceship
My Teacher Is an Alien / int_f9a85905	comment	Planet Spaceship: The New Jersey is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, and has members of more than 10,000 species on board. It's considered impressively small for a mothership class ship.
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My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	American Literature (J To M) / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	And Show It to You / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Attack of the Monster Appendage / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Reproduction / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Sexes / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Blinded by the Sun / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Crystalline Creature / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Decontamination Chamber / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Deliberate Under-Performance / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Disneyland Dad / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Doesn't Know Their Own Child / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Electronic Telepathy / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Fold the Page, Fold the Space / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Genius Serum / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Humanity Is Insane / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Humanity on Trial / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Humanoid Aliens / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Humans Advance Swiftly / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Humans Are Morons / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Living with the Villain / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Low Culture, High Tech / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Mile-Long Ship / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Misery Poker / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	My Skull Runneth Over / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	My X Is a Y / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Naked Freak-Out / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Not Now, Kiddo / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Odd Name, Normal Nickname / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Operator Incompatibility / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Pardon My Klingon / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Planet Spaceship / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Primal Fear / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	School Stories / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Secret Message Wink / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Some Call Me "Tim" / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Starfish Language / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Starship Luxurious / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Stern Teacher / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Surprisingly Improved Sequel / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	The Glasses Gotta Go / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	The Misophonic / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	The Nudifier / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	The World Is Not Ready / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Thermal Dissident / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	Vichy Earth / int_1f30cee7
My Teacher Is an Alien	hasFeature	We Need to Get Proof / int_1f30cee7

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