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First Contact Farmer
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When alien life forms land on Earth, the first specimen of intelligent life they are likely to encounter is a rural farmer. This farmer is likely to be equipped with a firearm, and is equally likely to threaten the trespasser in a (futile) attempt to scare it off. While usually Played for Drama, it can be Played for Laughs if the farmer is especially unlikeable or foolhardy. Alternatively, the farmer may not be instantly attacked. Sometimes the aliens are quite peaceful, and only interested in an intelligent dialogue or asylum on Earth. Usually justified in that farmland usually covers a significant area of most countries. If an alien lands away from cities or suburbs,note Which the alien could have plenty of reasons to do, like if they're trying to hide (obviously you'd go where there are fewer people), their ship is crashing (crashing into a building would be both higher-profile and less survivable than crashing into a field), or both. there's a good chance that the first person they'll come across is a farmer. Related to Crop Circles and Came from the Sky. Often used for a Start to Corpse prologue. May overlap with Pastoral Science Fiction. |
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The Far Side: One strip features aliens whose heads look like human hands. Unfortunately for all concerned, the first human they meet is a farmer who grabs the leader by the head and gives what he thinks is a firm handshake in welcome. | |
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Kaguya is a princess of the moon who is found and raised by a lowly bamboo cutter until she decides to return to it after becoming an adult. | |
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Enforced in Icon, where the titular superhero's powers and backstory are meant to evoke Superman. In this case the alien superhero crash lands in the American South of 1839. His first contact is an enslaved cotton plantation worker named Miriam, who adopts him as her son. | |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow", a Klingon crashes in a corn field in Oklahoma. The first human he meets is a pissed-off farmer who shoots him with a plasma shotgun. | |
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Inverted in The Ship Who... Won. Carialle and Keff, exploring an exotic planet, first find and study several villages of subsistence farmers before making First Contact, and only afterwards discover that the farmers are under the boot of a more violent and powerful upper class of "mages". Both are actually Human Subspecies. | |
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The intro of Part Time UFO begins with an old Farmer crashing his truck into a sign after seeing something flash in the sky, causing the cargo to fall off. Upon seeing Jobski the UFO float nearby, the Farmer asks for their help in putting everything back on the truck. | |
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In Back to the Future, Marty crashes into a pine tree, a scarecrow, and a barn upon arriving in 1955. He crawls out of the DeLorean and tries to apologize to Farmer Peabody. However, he's wearing a radiation suit and the farmer's son has already identified the car as a spaceship, so he just winds up having to drive away for his life when Farmer Peabody goes for his gun. | |
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Akropolis, a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Matt Wallace. The extraterrestrial city that drops from the sky is explored by a couple of farmers and their families before the authorities turn up, and it 'alters' them to be the first stage in an alien takeover. | |
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In The Colour Out of Space, a meteorite lands in the fields of a farmer named Nahum Gardner. The meteorite gives off light of a colour never before encountered, whose influence gradually destroys the farm and all upon it. | |
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In Rhythm Heaven's "Second Contact" minigame, a Martian travels to Earth and interviews a farmer named Farmer Bob, who's a little too interested in meeting Martian women. At the end of a Superb playthrough, the Martian takes the farmer to Mars. | |
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Probably the most memorable character in The Giant Spider Invasion is Dan Kester, a truly loathsome man whose farm becomes the staging ground for the eponymous invasion after a meteorite lands in one of his fields. Kester actually lasts most of the way into the movie before finally getting devoured by the Giant Spider. | |
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In The Tripods, prequel book, there’s a British version. The first victim of the first tripod on Earth is a farmer who’s taken up into the vehicle after the vehicle lands in the countryside. His house is wrecked and his wife and dog die. The British army destroys the tripod and finds the guy in the wreckage with his head sliced open. | |
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Smallville: The same as in the comics, the Kents find baby Kal-El when his rocket crash-lands in their field. | |
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Love, Death & Robots: in "Suits" a community of farmers fights off an alien invasion with the help of makeshift mechas. Subverted, in that they've set up their farms on a hostile world, and the aliens they're fighting have slipped through holes in their protective force field. | |
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Creepshow's segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is essentially an extended version of this trope, with a meteorite landing in the field of a dimwitted farmer (played by Stephen King, having the time of his life). As you can probably tell from the title of the segment, it doesn't go very well for poor Jordy. | |
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The first casualty of the Klowns is a farmer that goes lookin for the landing site of their ship thinking that it's Halley's Comet that crashed and he can dig it up for lots of money. | |
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The first victim of the titular entity of The Blob (1958) is a farmer who witnesses the meteor crash and the foolishly prods at the protoplasmic lifeform within. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: By happenstance Etta Candy is the first human to come across the Rykornians and their invasion attempt starts on her family's Bar-L ranch. | |
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In The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, two Human Aliens crash-land their spaceship on Earth, and their pet mutant escapes to go on a violent rampage. Its first victim is a farmer. | |
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A variation in the Priscilla Hutchins novel Cauldron where our heroes try making first contact by ringing up a physicist, which means first flying out into the boondocks and physically tapping into a phone line so they can place the call. When they do meet face-to-face, they discover that, due to a mistranslation, they're actually speaking to a physical health guru. | |
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The main antagonist of Men in Black is an alien who crash-lands on a farm, eats the farmer who comes to check out the crash, and wears his skin as a disguise. Played for dark comedy, as the farmer, Edgar, is quickly established as an unlikable Asshole Victim and domestic abuser. | |
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Superman: When Kal-El first arrived on Earth as a baby, he landed on the farm of the Kents, who subsequently adopted him (averted before the 1986 reboot, though, since Pre-Crisis Jonathan Kent was a small town shop owner). In Supergirl: Being Super, Kara Zor-El lands as a toddler on the farm of the Danvers family and is raised by them. | |
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In Ultima VII, a Kilrathi ship crashes into the fantasy world of Britannia. A crossover is averted when a local farmer discovers it; startled, the alien leaps at him, and he quite accidentally impales it on his enchanted hoe. | |
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The Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Little Twelvetoes" takes place on a farm at night, where a farmer stumbles upon the titular alien. This one simply wants to learn our number system, and the farmer is interested in multiplying in twelves. | |
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Brightburn: A nice couple with a farm in the American Midwest desperately want a baby. One night, an alien spaceship crashes on their farm; they find a seemingly human baby in the wreckage, and raise him as their own, giving him a loving home. Alas, this is not Kal-El of Krypton, and the baby boy grows up to adolescence to become an inhumanly murderous supervillain, killing numerous people, including both his adoptive parents. | |
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In The Whisperer in Darkness, a Vermont farmer named Henry Akeley writes a letter to the protagonist - a prominent skeptic - about his encounters with peculiar fungoid aliens that have been lurking around his farm. | |
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