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V (1983)

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V (1983)	comment	This page is for the 1983 miniseries and its sequels. For the 2009 reimagining try V (2009).A militaristic alien starfleet arrives on Earth from Sirius, and its people, human-like aliens, appeal to Earth to help produce chemicals to save their dying world. As months go by, the so-called Visitors infiltrate every level of human society. But a select few become suspicious; forming a resistance, they soon discover the truth — the Visitors are not like us, they are not our friends, and they don't want our help; they want our water. And other things.Originally aired as two miniseries and a one-season regular series, V is, in the words of creator Kenneth Johnson, a story of power — how different people react to it, and how they react to those who have it. It is an unabashed metaphor for the rise of Nazism prior to World War II; in fact, the story was originally to be a direct allegory involving a home-grown fascist regime being elected to govern the United States, based on Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, but NBC wanted a sci-fi show since Star Wars had been such a hit.The story is told in several interweaving arcs, each following a different set of characters (not unlike The Lord of the Rings or many disaster films of the 1970s) as their individual plotlines eventually merge and they unite to combat the all-powerful evil.V (1983): Fifty three-mile-wide spaceships take positions over key cities of the world. The aliens reveal themselves to be human in appearance (but with an electronic voice effect), and ask for help to save their doomed home planet. As they weave their way into society, biologists, archaeologists and scientists of similar fields begin disappearing; and a med student, Julie Parrish, organizes a small resistance.Meanwhile, news cameraman Mike Donovan also grows suspicious and sneaks aboard the Mother Ship where he discovers the aliens' secret: they're really humanoid reptiles. He also learns that they've come to steal Earth's water and to harvest humans for food. The Visitors use their contrived influence with human governments to institute martial law, effectively taking over the world. The Visitors attack Donovan's home town and kidnap his family; meanwhile, in a biological "experiment," a kidnapped girl named Robin Maxwell is impregnated by a Visitor. The rest of the miniseries focuses on the fledgling Resistance's struggle to become a significant threat to the Visitors' plans.V: The Final Battle (1984): Moving forward several months, we find that the Resistance is still struggling a near-futile battle with the Visitors, and Robin Maxwell's alien pregnancy advances with no way to stop it. But the tide turns when the Resistance stages an attack on the Visitor admiral, unmasking him on live television. Unfortunately, leader Julie is captured and put through a brainwashing "conversion chamber", though she is later rescued. Robin eventually gives birth to twins, one a human-like girl and the other a reptiloid with blue eyes. The reptile dies, and a bacterium is found in its system. The girl, Elizabeth, quickly molts into the body of an eight-year-old, after which she is taken to the Visitors by a priest who believes she is a bridge of peace. He is killed for his trouble and Elizabeth stays with the Visitor leader Diana.Meanwhile, the bacteria which killed the reptile baby is developed into a biotoxic weapon that will poison the Earth to the Visitors without harm to humans or the ecology. The Resistance mounts a bold attack to spread the so-called "Red Dust" into the atmosphere, but the villainous Diana has an ace — a thermonuclear device in her spaceship that will destroy Earth. And so, as the Visitors withdraw from all over the globe, the Resistance must take over the L.A. ship and fly it into space before the Earth-Shattering Kaboom. But Elizabeth deactivates the bomb with hitherto unreferenced magical powers, saving the day.V: The Series (1984-85): A year after the events of The Final Battle, Star Child Elizabeth molts again, into a 20-year-old. Diana escapes custody on her way to stand trial and flees into space where it is revealed that the Visitor fleet has retreated only as far as the moon. It is also revealed that the Red Dust not only has had an impact on Earth's ecosphere, but that it requires a sustained cold spell to reproduce, rendering it ineffective in warm climates (like Los Angeles). The Visitors re-invade Earth, and Diana quickly strikes a truce with businessman Nathan Bates, making L.A. a "free" city.However, the core members of the original Resistance (now including Bates's son Kyle) are having none of that, and they reunite to cause mayhem and disrupt the Visitors at every turn. Eventually, after heavy casualties on both sides of the struggle, the Visitors' "Great Leader" arrives on Earth to call off the war and to take Elizabeth home with him. The cliffhanger ending reveals that Kyle, who has pursued a romance with the Star Child, has stowed away on the Leader's ship.V: The Second Generation (2008): Written by Kenneth Johnson and ignoring the events of the second miniseries and the series, this new novel picks up the progress of the Visitor occupation of Earth some twenty years later, here in the modern day. Answering a distress signal from Earth (sent at the end of the first miniseries), a new alien race has arrived to help the humans win their freedom.Aside from the TV series', there were also several novels written detailing other parts of the planet, an 18-issue comic book series from DC Comics, and a 1989 manga adaptation by Go Nagai.Not to be confused with V for Vendetta or its 2006 film adaptation (although both works do involve the main protagonists fighting back against a tyrannical government). And it definitely shouldn't be confused with the novel by Thomas Pynchon.
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V (1983) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
V (1983) / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: Ruby is able to burn a V shuttle using a Molotov cocktail because V soldiers and human cops collaborating with them are focused on searching young men, not an older woman like her. Only one cop realizes she did it, but lets her go because he secretly agrees with the resistance, chuckling in amusement at her feat.
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V (1983) / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
V (1983) / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Since the Visitors are trying to fit into human society, they must speak the local language at all times. The trope was also subverted with the character of Willie, who was initially assigned to the Middle East and trained in Arabic, but ended up in Los Angeles by mistake and has to learn English on the fly.
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V (1983) / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
V (1983) / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Subverted in the regular TV series, which begins right at the moment V: The Final Battle ended where Diana made her escape. Donovan immediately realizes that she's getting away, chases her and catches her right away.
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V (1983) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
V (1983) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Major characters are routinely killed off throughout the weekly series' run.
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V (1983) / int_127ebb74	type	A Sinister Clue
V (1983) / int_127ebb74	comment	A Sinister Clue: Whenever a human is converted to the villains' cause, it causes a brain-dominance switch. Since there are no lefties in TV Land, this leads to left-handed human collaborators.
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V (1983) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
V (1983) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Especially egregious during the original mini-series. Try playing a drinking game which requires imbibing upon the appearance of Nazi, Holocaust, or Hitler Youth references. It is unlikely you will see the end of the series due to intoxication.
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V (1983) / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
V (1983) / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Danny goes from merely being a self-serving, amoral, vaguely sociopathic Jerkass to unquestionably evil when he executes his elderly neighbor, Ruby, after learning she's a resistance fighter.
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V (1983) / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
V (1983) / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Somehow, a male Visitor (they're actually Lizard Folk) can impregnate a human girl, despite them not even being in the same taxa and from different planets.
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V (1983) / int_18687317	type	Fluorescent Footprints
V (1983) / int_18687317	comment	Fluorescent Footprints: The TV series had a Visitor use this technology in a fold-down eyepatch to track La RÃ©sistance members.
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V (1983) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
V (1983) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Is the Red Dust a bacteria or a toxin? The two things are very different, but the dust is referred to as both, seems to have the properties of both, and doesn't make sense as either. There is an offhand mention in the series that it was both.
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V (1983) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
V (1983) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The first miniseries ends with Grandpa referencing World War II's "V for Victory" motto.
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V (1983) / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
V (1983) / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: The rebels often borrow the Visitors' uniforms in the miniseries and series. In the original miniseries, Donovan takes the uniform of a much smaller, female Visitor, who explains that it will stretch to fit him. Apparently they're one-size-fits-all.
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V (1983) / int_193adfd1	type	The Right of a Superior Species
V (1983) / int_193adfd1	comment	The Right of a Superior Species: The aliens don't really think of themselves as a superior race, but consider the humans they covertly conquered as a resource to be consumed. At one point, the original miniseries has aliens offhandedly discussing how it was inadvisable to sedate human captives before butchering them because the drug alters the taste of the flesh.
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V (1983) / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
V (1983) / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Right before tossing a Molotov Cocktail into a Visitor craft, Ruby says, "This one's for Abraham".
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V (1983) / int_1a6960dd	type	Flying Saucer
V (1983) / int_1a6960dd	comment	Flying Saucer: The Visitor ships are saucer-shaped.
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V (1983) / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
V (1983) / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Diana — Jane Badler even got top billing, thanks to alphabetical order. Although Diana commands the Los Angeles mothership during the initial invasion, she shares power in the Visitor fleet hierarchy with several others such as Steven as head of security and several superiors who outrank her in military matters. At the end of the two miniseries, she takes power from Supreme Commander (Fleet Admiral) John and boasts that while she planned the entire operation, he was just a meaningless figurehead.
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V (1983) / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
V (1983) / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Happens at least twice in V: The Final Battle. In the scene where Donovan arranges to trade himself for his son, the rebels are set up to ambush the visitors, but they don't. Instead, they let Donovan get taken by the aliens. In a scene where the rebels are sabotaging the water facility, one of the rebels (Mark) is wounded. Mark's fiance Maggie comes back for him and insists she will stay with him. Two (fit) mercenaries (Ham and Chris) come back, too. They pick up Maggie and haul her away, leaving the wounded Mark behind to be killed. If they'd grabbed Mark instead, they would have all made it out alive. It was actually not that senseless as Mark put up a good rearguard action, killing two of the Visitors and delaying the rest. Without the delaying action, not all of the others may have made it out alive. As it was, Donovan just barely survived as he was shot at as he was climbing up the exit ladder.
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V (1983) / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
V (1983) / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Kristine Walsh, Eleanor Dupres, and Daniel Bernstein are the most prominent examples. Kristine pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn and gets shot by Diana, Eleanor tries to save herself and gets shot by Stephen, and Daniel is framed by the Resistance as a spy and it's implied he gets eaten by Stephen.
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V (1983) / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
V (1983) / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set
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V (1983) / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
V (1983) / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The Red Dust stops working in warm environments. Further deployment of the Dust is ruled out because it affects terrestrial reptiles as well.
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V (1983) / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
V (1983) / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The humans send out a message for help for the aliens' enemies, with the idea "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Said potential allies never appeared in the show, but The Second Generation continues this point.
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V (1983) / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
V (1983) / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: Maggie and Mark agree to get married right before going on a raid. Mark doesn't come back.
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V (1983) / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
V (1983) / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Relationships between humans and Visitors, as all the aliens look human, but are really reptiles. The alien Willie (played by a pre-Freddy Robert Englund) is a kindly, nerdy bumbler who strikes up a relationship with a human woman named Harmony. When she learns the truth, the horrified look on her face as his fake hand is ripped open was one of the most poignant scenes in the mini. Later, they hook up again as she admits that she didn't fall for his looks in the first place. Unfortunately, she is tragically killed in the end. This mini also subverts the trope on a routine basis, but the nastiest example is with the character of Robin Maxwell. Long story short, she falls for one of the aliens, but it turns out she was only being manipulated into sleeping with him to conceive a hybrid child and their night together technically counts as rapenote by fraud, both in that the appearance she was attracted to is not what he looks like, and that he has no care or concern for her, he was Just Following Orders. Robin utterly refuses to believe what everyone else says the Victor's look like, and experiences extreme distress when confronted by it in a way she cannot deny or rationalize away. After she gives birth to two children, one mostly human and the other mostly reptilian, she murders the father with a bio-weapon engineered from the blood of the less human child.
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V (1983) / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
V (1983) / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: In the original miniseries: A Fifth Columnist gives Donovan her uniform to help him escape the ship, then makes him shoot her so it will look like a genuine escape. She actually tells Donovan to kill her, not stun her, as her superiors would never believe any story she'd come up with. He checks her pulse, and she luckily survived the blast. Donovan is confronted at gunpoint by his mother. He points out that she'd never shoot her own son, so as he runs off she fires her gun in the air and rips her own dress.
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V (1983) / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
V (1983) / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The Visitors' most powerful weapon, the Particle Beam Triax, is capable of vaporizing an entire planet. They test it out on Io.
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V (1983) / int_29fb4ade	type	Withholding the Cure
V (1983) / int_29fb4ade	comment	Withholding the Cure: As part of a campaign against scientists, it's claimed medical researchers have withheld cancer treatments to insure they keep getting research money.
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V (1983) / int_2a94a479	type	Outside-Genre Foe
V (1983) / int_2a94a479	comment	Outside-Genre Foe: Donovan is filming communist guerrillas fighting helicopter gunships in El Salvador, when suddenly the gunships fly off. Donovan turns round and finds himself facing a huge frickin' UFO.
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V (1983) / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
V (1983) / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Mike Donovan has a claustrophobic nightmare where he and his son Sean try to escape a Visitor mothership (Sean had previously been processed to be used as food for the aliens) and are pursued by Visitor soldiers. After Mike sees his son shot to death in front of him, he jumps awake at resistance headquarters with Julie sitting besides him.
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V (1983) / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
V (1983) / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: The resistance occasionally refers to the Visitors as 'snakes'.
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V (1983) / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
V (1983) / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The Visitors blame scientists for terrorist activities, using this excuse to enact martial law, as well as turning public opinion against the people most likely to discover the Visitors' true nature.
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V (1983) / int_31254f02	type	Two-Keyed Lock
V (1983) / int_31254f02	comment	Two-Keyed Lock: In the second miniseries, the Visitors intend to deploy their mothership as a nuclear bomb as a last resort in case their troops can't hold on to Earth. John and Diana both take one of the arming device's two keys. John is willing to concede defeat and just retreat, but a spiteful Diana wants to kill off all of humanity because they defeated her. She orders John to hand over his key at gunpoint, and kills him when he voices his disgust.
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V (1983) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
V (1983) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Eleanor Dupres catches Donovan breaking into her house and threatens to shoot him as he's escaping out the window. Donovan just laughs. "You'd shoot your own son? Not even you're that cold, mother." He's right; as he runs off Eleanor fires the gun in the air and rips her dress to make it appear she'd been overpowered. Supreme Commander John ultimately detests irradiating the entire Earth by deploying their ship as an atomic bomb and tells Diana to concede defeat. She demands John's key at gunpoint and tries to do it anyway just to spite her enemy.
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V (1983) / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
V (1983) / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Invoked in the premiere of the weekly series when Willie is trying to dodge gunfire.
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V (1983) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
V (1983) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Cleverly named "the Resistance".
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V (1983) / int_34de376f	type	Backup Twin
V (1983) / int_34de376f	comment	Backup Twin: Martin's brother Philip appeared several episodes after Martin was killed off, and more or less filled Martin's role. Given that the Visitors were alien reptiles disguised as humans, there was no actual reason for Philip to be Martin's twin brother, as opposed to just another Visitor wearing the same human mask as Martin, except it would provide a good reason for why Philip was a Fifth Columnist, too.
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V (1983) / int_39688852	type	Shapeshifter Default Form
V (1983) / int_39688852	comment	Shapeshifter Default Form: In the original miniseries, the alien invaders took on human form to disguise their true reptilian nature (as well as their intentions to cannibalize the human race). Oddly, the aliens continued to maintain their human appearance long after the jig was up. (It's possible the human suits had some sort of protective factor against the environment, but it also conveniently kept half the cast from having to don expensive alien makeup before shooting.) It doesn't explain why the electronic voices from the aliens vanished, though.
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V (1983) / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: Danny pitches this to Robin before he realizes she digs Brian and not him.
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V (1983) / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
V (1983) / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Elizabeth, with the Hand Wave that she's a hybrid, but moreso so she can have romantic involvement. Considering the TV series was a thinly disguised soap opera...
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V (1983) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
V (1983) / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The Red Dust, which initially does exactly what the plot needs it to do to ensure a happy ending. Elizabeth saving the day through never-before-hinted-at magic powers.
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V (1983) / int_400f03bc	type	Faked Rip Van Winkle
V (1983) / int_400f03bc	comment	Faked Rip Van Winkle: The Visitors try this on Donovan in one episode of the original series, trying to locate Elizabeth so they can kidnap her.
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V (1983) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
V (1983) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The high school band that greets the Visitors arriving in Los Angeles is really bad.
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V (1983) / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
V (1983) / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Willie was supposed to be sent to Israel, not California, so he's not that proficient at English and does this pretty much all the time.
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V (1983) / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
V (1983) / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: The Visitors have a brainwashing method called conversion, but humans are so resistant to it that it is only considered worth the bother for a few vital individuals.
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V (1983) / int_442e3d95	type	Professor Guinea Pig
V (1983) / int_442e3d95	comment	Professor Guinea Pig: V: The Final Battle. The dust used to kill the Visitors is tested on an alien prisoner. Then while the others are busy arguing about whether they should find a human collaborator to test it on, the scientist steps into the chamber instead, and survives.
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V (1983) / int_44471313	type	Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor
V (1983) / int_44471313	comment	Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor: Subverted, a reptilian humanoid is required to undergo surgical alteration (and make no mistake, even the simple act of implying as much was pretty racy for early 1980s primetime!) before mating with a human female. The novelization goes a little further than the TV show did, noting that the human subject of the experiment — although unaware of how alien her lover is — senses that something is wrong.
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V (1983) / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
V (1983) / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: The Visitors only look human. Indeed their disguise is so good they can even fool the mammals they have sex with!
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V (1983) / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
V (1983) / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Little alien ship flies into big alien saucer vessel. Little alien ship flies out of little alien saucer vessel. One little alien ship shoots death rays at another little alien ship, pew pew pew! Apparently the first one or two episodes used up the entire special effects budget, and these three sequences are reused over and over and over and OVER and over and over and over and over, to the point of being really, really noticeable. Plenty of stock footage celebrations when the resistance wins.
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V (1983) / int_4aa5f9f7	type	Ominous Floating Spaceship
V (1983) / int_4aa5f9f7	comment	Ominous Floating Spaceship: Most major cities are covered with the Visitors' flying saucers. Likely the Trope Codifier. In the novelisation when a second saucer shows up, Donavon comments that there'll be a lot of dead grass with two of those things floating over Los Angeles.
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V (1983) / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
V (1983) / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: In V: The Final Battle, the hero Mike Donovan is injected with an alien truth serum and fulfills this trope completely. This is an alien formula, so...
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V (1983) / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
V (1983) / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Martin, Elias and Robin's father in the first few episodes of the weekly series.
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V (1983) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
V (1983) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "They've come for the water."
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V (1983) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
V (1983) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The guinea pig. The entire sequence—from Steven and Diana revealing what the Visitors are really up to, to Steven eating the mouse, to Diana eating the guinea pig, the Visitor guard revealing the slitted eyes and lizard tongue, and finally the reveal of the Visitors' real faces—is one long sequence of Wham Shots, but Diana swallowing the guinea pig is the corker. Today, one can clearly see that it is an animatronic, but in 1983, no one noticed; the moment came completely out of the blue; nobody expected that. It was one of the more shocking things shown on scripted TV, and people were talking about it for days afterward.
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V (1983) / int_4f8037fd	type	Mookâ€“Face Turn
V (1983) / int_4f8037fd	comment	Mookâ€“Face Turn: Willie gets captured by the Resistance and ends up joining them.
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V (1983) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
V (1983) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: After the resistance successfully bombs a Visitor supply depot, Ham Tyler inspects the damage and quips, "Now that's a waste of good luggage."
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V (1983) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
V (1983) / int_52871b4e	comment	Vichy Earth: The Visitors turn the Earth into a puppet state under their military control to facilitate their plans to steal all the resources.
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V (1983) / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
V (1983) / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: In the original series, which followed the mini-series and The Final Battle, the visitors seem to have abandoned their original plan to steal all of Earth's water and use the people for food and have instead chosen to enslave the people for some reason. Even though they still use people for food, this appears to be a secondary motive rather than the primary purpose as it was in the original miniseries.
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V (1983) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
V (1983) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The original miniseries begins and ends in the mountain camp of two different resistance groups. Further, they both feature a courageous Rebel Leader firing at an attacking flying vehicle (a helicopter in the first case, a Visitor fighter later) with only a handgun (originally, it's even brought down this way).
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V (1983) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
V (1983) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: John, the leader of the visitors. His kind smile and congenial public image hides the Visitors' true intentions.
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V (1983) / int_53bb70b2	type	Flashback
V (1983) / int_53bb70b2	comment	Flash Back: Original Miniseries: Josh catches us up on how he ended up alone in the street at the beginning of part 2.
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V (1983) / int_53dc1e7	type	Throw-Away Country
V (1983) / int_53dc1e7	comment	Throw-Away Country: In the original series episode "Juggernaut", Diana has the Particle Beam Triax Cannon destroy Io as a warmup exercise prior to taking station over Earth. Fortunately, before it can destroy Los Angeles a Resistance member crashes one of the motherships into it.
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V (1983) / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
V (1983) / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine / Faked Rip Van Winkle: In an episode of the weekly series, Donovan is captured by the Visitors and wakes to find himself in the bedroom of an apartment where it is ten years in the future, the war has been won and the Visitors vanquished and he is living happily with his son and his wife, Julie. In reality, of course, Julie and his son are Visitors wearing shapeshifting devices to alter their appearance and the aim is to trick him into revealing the time and location of a resistance meeting - information that he would believe was no longer relevant ten years later. Donovan finally realises it's all a trick when the Visitors overplay their hand, leaving a future edition of a newspaper in his room which includes a picture of the Star Child still as a little girl. Donovan knows, but the Visitor's don't, that the Star Child evolved into a young woman at the start of the series. Although...you'd think that they'd have figured she might have grown up anyway ten years later, so why they still had her a child...!
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V (1983) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
V (1983) / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Each week, the newscaster would tell of actions from around the globe with a Freedom Network Medal of Valour being awarded to a different resistance fighter who performed a heroic action.
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V (1983) / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
V (1983) / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mike Donovan and Martin are fugitives inside the Visitor spacecraft when Martin finds a means of escape. Because their spacecraft spend a lot of time parked in the atmosphere, automatic-deploying parachutes were stashed on the lower decks as an emergency escape system. It so happens that Donovan had recently mentioned he had a fear of parachuting after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War. Martin ends up shoving Donovan down the escape chute first just to make sure he jumps.
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V (1983) / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
V (1983) / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: V: The Final Battle opens with a claustrophobic sequence in which Donovan is trying to escape a Visitor mothership with his son Sean, who have previously been abducted by the aliens to be preserved as food. In the dream Mike and his son try to flee the ship as they're pursued by enemy soldiers. He breaks down when Sean is blasted to death, upon which Julie wakes him up at resistance headquarters.
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V (1983) / int_5d9b8c3a	type	Femme Fatale Spy
V (1983) / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Femme Fatale Spy: Maggie Blodgett, who sleeps with collaborator Daniel to get information about the Visitors' plans. This of course sets up a conflict with her fiance Mark before he is killed. Her efforts reach a climax when she sets up Daniel and Brian for an ambush where Brian is captured and Daniel is framed for it.
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V (1983) / int_5e544ae6	type	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
V (1983) / int_5e544ae6	comment	We Come in Peace â€” Shoot to Kill: An example of Version 2.
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V (1983) / int_5ee0a2d8	type	Token Heroic Orc
V (1983) / int_5ee0a2d8	comment	Token Heroic Orc: Willie was a Visitor but played on the humans' team. It turns out, though, that there is an entire underground of Visitors who resists the leaders from within called "The Fifth Column". Their leader, Martin saves Mike and explains their intentions to help the resistance drive the nefarious visitors out of Earth and to peacefully co-exist with the humans.
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V (1983) / int_5f168ae3	type	I Kiss Your Foot
V (1983) / int_5f168ae3	comment	I Kiss Your Foot: In the second miniseries, human collaborator Daniel forces some college schlub to lick his boots.
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V (1983) / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
V (1983) / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Mike Donovan and his cameraman Tony. For an Evil Counterpart version, look no further than Kristine Walsh.
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V (1983) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
V (1983) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Does the name "Nathan Bates" sound like one of the most famous psychopaths in cinema?
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V (1983) / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
V (1983) / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Robert is coerced into giving up the site of the rebel camp to the Visitors with a threat of harm against his daughter Robin, who they're holding prisoner. The Visitor commander who makes the deal promises his wife and their second younger daughter (who are still there in the camp) will have a chance to leave before they attack (naturally, he lied).
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V (1983) / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
V (1983) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Some reviewers at the time noted that the script seemed to be constructed largely of these.
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V (1983) / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
V (1983) / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Visitor females develop a ring of discoloration around their necks when pregnant, which is how Willie recognizes that Robin is expecting.
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V (1983) / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
V (1983) / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: The Visitors go only by a first name.
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V (1983) / int_677ecaa9	type	People Farms
V (1983) / int_677ecaa9	comment	People Farms: The original mini-series and subsequent series had reptilian aliens disguised as human-like beings bringing peace and love, only to secretly harvest the human race as a) cannon-fodder foot-troops for their wars and b) food.
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V (1983) / int_6a582e34	type	Day of the Jackboot
V (1983) / int_6a582e34	comment	Day of the Jackboot: Kenneth Johnson wanted to make a mini-series based on Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. The project was originally called "Storm Warnings." It became V when the network suggested Americans would be more likely to find the specter of Soviet Russia taking over scary than a homegrown fascist movement. Johnson felt this would destroy the entire point of the source material, and instead chose to make the oppressors aliens.
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V (1983) / int_6eaff95	type	Leno Device
V (1983) / int_6eaff95	comment	Leno Device: Howard K. Smith's update reports.
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V (1983) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
V (1983) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Our hero Mike Donovan has been captured by the alien leader, Diana, and injected with a truth serum so that he will have no choice but to reveal the identity of the spy within her ranks. The serum doesn't work as well as it should and our hero is able to resist it. Does he pretend that it's worked so that he can lie convincingly to Diana and throw her off track? No. He defiantly lets her know that it hasn't worked by answering her first easy question (What colour are my eyes?) wrongly. Unsurprisingly, Diana's response is to inject him again. This time it works fully and he is forced to tell the truth, causing near disaster for the resistance. John mocking the psychopath Diana as Queen of a poisoned realm right after she activates the doomsday device. While heâ€™s turned his back to her.
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V (1983) / int_733f713f	type	HumanAlien
V (1983) / int_733f713f	comment	Human Alien: Invoked and subverted by the aliens, as they wanted to get people to trust them.
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V (1983) / int_74150406	type	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
V (1983) / int_74150406	comment	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: At one point in V: The Final Battle, the heroes discover that Visitor body armor is now impervious to conventional bullets. Teflon-coated bullets solve this problem rather quickly.
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V (1983) / int_755ecb56	type	Infraction Distraction
V (1983) / int_755ecb56	comment	Infraction Distraction: Donovan's mother catches him breaking into her house to steal a security pass. He pretends he was there to steal a photo of his son.
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V (1983) / int_7593bcd5	type	Full-Body Disguise
V (1983) / int_7593bcd5	comment	Full-Body Disguise: The alien lizards use human bodysuits to hide their true nature. It gets torn off occasionally for the scare factor.
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V (1983) / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
V (1983) / int_768ae1c9	comment	Happens to the traitor Daniel. One of the few cases where the claim is made and the audience accepts it without even blinking.
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V (1983) / int_770107f9	type	Coconut Superpowers
V (1983) / int_770107f9	comment	Coconut Superpowers: The reptilian aliens wore clever disguises to pass as human. And, since reptile-face makeup is expensive and hard on the actors, the aliens wore their clever disguises even aboard their spaceships when no humans were around to see. Also, in V: The Series, the Visitors lost the reverb effect added to their voices in both mini-series.
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V (1983) / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
V (1983) / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: When the mothership has to leave earth in the final episode, it does so by flying sideways, despite its Dramatic Alien VTOL.
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V (1983) / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
V (1983) / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Michael Ironside portrays merc Ham Tyler, who was initially distrusted by the Resistance as being a warmonger. He's always the first to suggest some immoral course of action to further the insurgency. He wasn't without Pet the Dog moments though. When Ruby is killed by Daniel, nobody took it harder than Ham, who swore merciless revenge.
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V (1983) / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
V (1983) / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Elias, who suffered Why Couldn't You Be Different? in comparison to his doctor brother, Benjamin. Tragically, he gets over it too late. Technically, Elizabeth's short-lived, scaly brother qualifies too, as no one but Willie was willing to show him any affection and he was never given a name. They eventually realize that the lizard baby was not only misunderstood, but the poor thing was born with fatal disease.
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V (1983) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
V (1983) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Ham Tyler has a tendency to shoot inanimate objects with his MAC-10.
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V (1983) / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
V (1983) / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Several silenced pistols are used over the course of the series and they all make the classic 'fwip' sound.
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V (1983) / int_7ef9fa03	type	Expanded Universe
V (1983) / int_7ef9fa03	comment	Expanded Universe: A number of novels explored the adventures of Resistance fighters from other key locations around the globe. Probably the best of these was East Coast Crisis, set in New York City and concurrent with the original miniseries.
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V (1983) / int_7fb534b7	type	Plot-Relevant Age-Up
V (1983) / int_7fb534b7	comment	Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Elizabeth grows from infant to romantic-plot-capable in record time. In a single night she grows from an infant to about ten years old.
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V (1983) / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
V (1983) / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: A big deal is made of the abduction and conversion of Donovan's son in the miniseries, and The Series revisits this in one episode. After this, no follow-up is ever attempted. The Series ended on a cliffhanger episode. After this was filmed, the series was unceremoniously canceled and the cliffhanger never resolved (except in a comic book adaptation).
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V (1983) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
V (1983) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Mike Donovan, especially during fight or chase scenes.
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V (1983) / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
V (1983) / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The Resistance recruit a criminal (Dan Pascal, played by Dick Miller) to forge a pass to the medical center gala, but he's captured and leads the Visitors to their hidden base. Fortunately that's when Ham Tyler first makes his appearance — he sets off an explosive charge while the rebels escape through a hidden exit. As wounded Visitor soldiers stagger out of the rubble, their leader guns down Pascal, either believing he led them into a trap or just as a gratuitous act of revenge against a human. In Pascal's defense, it did appear that he was tortured to give the information, as he had a bloody face while on the Visitor mothership.
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V (1983) / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
V (1983) / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Robin, when near full term, becomes convinced that something is wrong with her pregnancy, pleading for an abortion. Father Andrew, of course, as the Catholic priest in the cell opposes this (and not just on moral grounds-he argues a Half-Human Hybrid is too extraordinary to not preserve). Her father Robert and Julie though agree with Robin. When they attempt to abort though it turns out the fetus is bonded with her body too much for safe removal, so she's nearly killed before they stop.
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V (1983) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
V (1983) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Willy the kind alien and the human Harmony Moore had a genuine romance, unfortunately cut short by her death in the second miniseries.
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V (1983) / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
V (1983) / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: The kids living at the all versions of the rebels camp have free range to wander as much as they want, even though the camp is storing dangerous weapons, has active labs and are discussing secret plans...
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V (1983) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
V (1983) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Donovan's ex-wife was also taken when the Visitors kidnapped Sean. However in The Final Battle, Donovan's forgotten all about her. (Sean doesn't seem to care either, but he has been brainwashed by that point.)
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V (1983) / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
V (1983) / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: The series featured assorted newscasters as themselves. Howard K. Smith for instance was a well known news reporter from World War II to the 1970s and appeared as himself covering the Visitors' arrival.
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V (1983) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
V (1983) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: The malevolent alien Visitors begins like this, gaining control of the world's governments by pretending to be Human Aliens who have come to share their great knowledge, thus facilitating their real plan to enslave and devour mankind.
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V (1983) / int_8a88d726	type	Reptilian Conspiracy
V (1983) / int_8a88d726	comment	Reptilian Conspiracy: The Visitors. Lizard people who manipulate human governments for nefarious purposes. Their portrayal is iconic enough that they provide the current trope image.
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V (1983) / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
V (1983) / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Diana (and most of the other women as well) suffer acute cases of this at various points.
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V (1983) / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
V (1983) / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: Zigzagged, as Robin's pregnancy by a Visitor at first looks like this trope, causing her to crave raw meat and nearly killing her when an abortion is attempted. She gives birth to twins: a daughter who looks human, then reveals a reptilian tongue and poison spit, but grows up to be one of the good guys; and a short-lived scaled son who's the carrier of a toxin that becomes the heroes' chief weapon against the alien invaders. So he's a Fetus Terrible for humans in looks and for the aliens in physiology.
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V (1983) / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
V (1983) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Diana is seriously moved by Father Andrew bringing Elizabeth to her, and his pleas for peace between their people; she even reads a substantial portion of the Bible and seems to like what it says. However this happens at the exact same time as Pamela and John launch a plot to remove her from her position. She tells Andrew, almost apologetically, that part of her agrees with him, but that part of her had made her weak and she has to eradicate it. She then shoots both him and the Bible.
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V (1983) / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
V (1983) / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: V is Nazism WITH ALIENS!
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V (1983) / int_90766cc6	type	Voice of the Resistance
V (1983) / int_90766cc6	comment	Voice of the Resistance: V: The Series used to begin each episode with a faux bulletin from "Freedom Network" in New York, until they dropped the idea in mid-run. There's also a brief glimpse of what they hope will be their final broadcast, following the truce in the final episode.
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V (1983) / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
V (1983) / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Diana, among her own people.
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V (1983) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
V (1983) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Danny and Eleanor both get served different versions of this. The latter happens via Stephen figures out what she's about to do and shoots her in the back as she tries to switch sides.
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V (1983) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
V (1983) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As noted above, Daniel gets hit with a version of this, though the Visitors still have one use for him.
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V (1983) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
V (1983) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Elias when his brother dies. An unusual variant in that Elias isn't the show's main antagonist, he's villainous in that he is a thief and black market trader and partly blames for his brother's death because he refused to help the resistance with their illicit activities.
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V (1983) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
V (1983) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: For the first mini-series, Kristine Walsh doesn't mind how she's reporting more and more favorable stories of the Visitors. In the second, she meets a veteran newsman she's long admired only to have him tear into her as nothing but the mouthpiece of an occupation force and openly comparing her to Nazi propaganda masters. She's stunned and more so when (thanks to brainwashing by Diane), the man later is much warmer to her and the Visitors. That, combined with the talk from Mike on the Visitor's true natures, makes her realize the truth and tell the world just before she's killed by Diane. Averted by Eleanor and Daniel who spend the entire saga totally in denial over how they're on the bad guy's side. Eleanor's husband, on the other hand, openly tells her off on her being so damn selfish and walks out on her.
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V (1983) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
V (1983) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Technically John during the miniseries, but he remains a fairly uninvolved character during the Visitor occupation. Diana quickly overshadows him and kills her own superiors while cracking down on the resistance.
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V (1983) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
V (1983) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Everyone in attendance when Robin's giving birth - including the mother herself.
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V (1983) / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
V (1983) / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: A human resistance group tries to expel the aliens who have taken control of Earth.
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V (1983) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
V (1983) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: The Visitor soldiers wear body armor and helmets which resist small-caliber weapons fire. Only Donovan's stolen energy pistol is effective, but the Fifth Columnists can't supply any more considering the weapons are too closely guarded. Fortunately Ham Tyler, mercenary extraordinaire, later comes to help with armor piercing ammo that can take the Visitors out.
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V (1983) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
V (1983) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Diana becomes this. The Visitors are ultimately defeated by a bioweapon developed from the corpse of a human-Visitor hybrid. Diana's next plan, to use the ship to destroy Earth's biosphere, is thwarted by another human-Visitor hybrid. The only reason the hybrids were born in the first place? Diana ordered Brian to seduce Robin, supposedly in the interest of science but largely for her own perverse amusement.
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V (1983) / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
V (1983) / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Julie says that, if they have to kill the humans held prisoner on the Visitor motherships, it's what they'll do because they must weigh that against the billions more the Visitors might harm if they're not destroyed.
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V (1983) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
V (1983) / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Visitors' Leader, who is more or less a stand-in for Adolf Hitler. He has the entire Visitor civilization under his heel, and ordered the invasion of Earth, but he remains on their home planet until late in the last series.
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V (1983) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
V (1983) / int_9b54d536	comment	For an Evil Counterpart version, look no further than Kristine Walsh.
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V (1983) / int_9e31f0b1	type	One-Letter Title
V (1983) / int_9e31f0b1	comment	One-Letter Title
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V (1983) / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
V (1983) / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: The Visitors are the Trope Codifiers. They infiltrate many parts of human society, and they want to eat us (along with other tasty mammals). Rather than shapeshifting, however, they use fake human-like skin to mask their true appearance, a method best exemplified by the iconic shot of Diana peeling back the skin on one side of her face to reveal green scaly skin and a catlike eye. It should be noted that, aside from inspiring the creation of other fictional Reptilians, V led to the plethora of conspiracy theories about Reptilians, which were pretty much nonexistent before the show aired.
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V (1983) / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
V (1983) / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Resistance used biological warfare against the enemy. Given that most Visitors lived in sealed starships and thus had the option of simply leaving unharmed, it's not quite as nasty as it sounds.
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V (1983) / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
V (1983) / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: The Sirian Scary Dogmatic Aliens call themselves "visitors" and are referred to as "lizards".
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V (1983) / int_a2ba7393	type	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes
V (1983) / int_a2ba7393	comment	Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: The Visitors have to wear sunglasses because they're unaccustomed to bright lights. It later turns out that this is because they're actually humanoid reptilians.
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V (1983) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
V (1983) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Elizabeth Maxwell, the so-called Star Child. Robin takes a liking to Brian, the Visitor youth leader. Diana then orders him to impregnate Robin, resulting in the Star Child.
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V (1983) / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
V (1983) / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: V: The Final Battle opened with a slow-motion nightmare in which Mike Donovan tries to escape from a Visitor ship with his captured son before he's shot to death in front of his father by a group of pursuing soldiers, prompting a Catapult Nightmare.
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V (1983) / int_a51933bd	type	Icon of Rebellion
V (1983) / int_a51933bd	comment	Icon of Rebellion: The "V" hand gesture.
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V (1983) / int_a5c29c9c	type	Persecuted Intellectuals
V (1983) / int_a5c29c9c	comment	Persecuted Intellectuals: The Visitors begin persecuting and rounding up scientists and getting humanity to go along with it, because scientists had readily identified that the Visitors were not actually Human Aliens, so they feared exposure of their true natures or nefarious agenda. In order to do this, they brainwashed famous scientists who blow the lid on a fake international conspiracy among scientists to seize Visitor technology, and say that they withhold breakthroughs like cancer treatments for money.
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V (1983) / int_a63a8586	type	Graffiti of the Resistance
V (1983) / int_a63a8586	comment	Graffiti of the Resistance: The graffiti "V" stood for Victory for the resistance.
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V (1983) / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
V (1983) / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: V: The Final Battle was full of Hollywood tactics. Some examples: The aliens in the movie tend to stand around out in the open in brightly-colored uniforms, despite knowing that there are rebels who will attack them. When shooting starts, they tend to flock together, making themselves an easier target. At least those brightly-colored uniforms were bulletproof in the second miniseries. The aliens also tend to yell, "Halt!" a few seconds prior to shooting at anyone and continue to shoot even after their targets have rounded a corner or closed a door in front of them. The humans have their stupid moments, too. When Donovan made a bargain for his son, he agreed to trade himself for his son. The aliens meet the humans in a canyon where the humans have a very nice ambush scenario set up. Donovan and his son trade places in a tunnel, but no one thinks that maybe Donovan should just turn around and run back to safety, even though the aliens are completely at their mercy and the humans have no reason to honor the bargain, except to advance the plot and get Donovan aboard the mother ship again. Instead, he just happily walks into the custody of the aliens and ends up blowing the cover of two Fifth Column agents. All it would have taken would be a line of dialogue about how the Visitors have air support, which was their main advantage over the humans. It counts as a stupid moment for the Visitors two, since the Resistance's other leader and their tactical mastermind-slash-weapons supplier is at the meeting too. They could have killed three birds with one stone and kill them too, thus decapitating the resistance in one blow.
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V (1983) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
V (1983) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Visitors, but only when it was situationally appropriate. They randomly blew a lot of things and people up too. It became comical as the series went on; the Visitors, supposedly an alien invasion army that makes worlds tremble, can never shoot straight if a named character is onscreen. In the original miniseries, the protagonists and their fellow resistance fighters are also not particularly skilled marksmen, especially with the awkward-to-use alien weapons, which some of them don't even know how to hold correctly. They win most of their firefights through sheer volume of fire. Many of the battle scenes boil down to two groups of combatants spraying ineffective suppression fire at each other from behind cover.
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V (1983) / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
V (1983) / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: The very beginning of both the original series and the remake. Alien ships appear over Earth, and the humanlike aliens promise that they have come in peace and want to establish relations with mankind. Their motives and nature turn out to far more sinister.
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V (1983) / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
V (1983) / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Visitors in their true reptilian forms. Inverted with Elizabeth's twin brother, who looked creepy because he had blue human eyes in a reptilian face.
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V (1983) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
V (1983) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Diana's experiment to create a Human/Visitor hybrid led to the discovery of the "red dust" which is extremely toxic to Visitors, allowing the resistance to claim victory and reclaim the planet.
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V (1983) / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
V (1983) / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Diana's interrogation techniques are used not for their effectiveness, but because she enjoys it.
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V (1983) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
V (1983) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: When the female Visitor gives Mike Donovan her uniform so he can escape the camera certainly lingers on her underwear-clad body as she takes the pants off. Even Mike can't help Eating the Eye Candy, despite already knowing the aliens are reptilian underneath.
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V (1983) / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
V (1983) / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Diana pulls this off twice near the end of the second miniseries.
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V (1983) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
V (1983) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: The captured Visitor laser pistols seemingly never need to be reloaded or recharged. The Novelization is basically an attempt to fill every Plot Hole in the series; the lasers, like all their technology, are powered by cold-fusion, and run on deuterium (heavy water). Still doesn't explain why they need water from planets, though. It's actually far more common in space.
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V (1983) / int_b44e86c4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
V (1983) / int_b44e86c4	comment	You Do NOT Want To Know: The novelisation of V: The Final Battle doesn't have the scene where the nasty young human collaborator Daniel Bernstein gets dragged off to "serve us better" after being framed by La RÃ©sistance, but it does have Eleanor Dupres asking what happened to him and being told by a Visitor: "Believe me, you wouldn't want to know!"
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V (1983) / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
V (1983) / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Visitors are barely-concealed Nazi substitutes.
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V (1983) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
V (1983) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Robin Maxwell first wanders out of hiding, to be discovered by collaborator Daniel, which leads to the Maxwells having to move, Daniel's parents being arrested, and his grandfather being killed. Having learned nothing, she leaves hiding again, this time getting captured by the Visitors, which leads to the Resistance camp being attacked and her mother being killed. Not to mention actually falling for one of the Visitors' sweet talk — very dumb, even if it did lead to a useful Half-Human Hybrid. In the series that followed the mini-series, Robin passed this trait on to her daughter, Elizabeth.
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V (1983) / int_b9a22821	type	Jive Turkey
V (1983) / int_b9a22821	comment	Jive Turkey: Subverted with Elias Taylor talking in jive and his respectable brother, Benjamin, who talks in perfectly erudite English, tells to stop using such bad grammar in a "poor man's Richard Pryor act." Given how he speaks plainly later on, it's clear Elias was just putting on an act for his street rep.
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V (1983) / int_ba183b0e	type	The Paralyzer
V (1983) / int_ba183b0e	comment	The Paralyzer: Visitor infantry weapons clearly hurt when they hit, but never do any serious damage even though we see a number of people on both sides take center-of-mass hits at close range.
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V (1983) / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
V (1983) / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Early in the first miniseries, a scientist who becomes suspicious of the Visitors is kidnapped from his car and never seen again.
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V (1983) / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
V (1983) / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Campaigns of persecution against social undesirables, heavy propaganda state and totalitarian control of information, obsession with spiffy uniforms; considering V originated from an idea for a TV show about a fascist government in the United States, it is no surprise that the fascist overtones of the Vistors are reinforced in spades throughout the show. Kind of overt, since the alien's logo was a thinly disguised swastika, and a Holocaust survivor points out the similarities, even giving a Title Drop as "V for victory" over the regime (something used in World War II.) Bernstein is a Jew helping the Space Nazis. Guess what happens to him?
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V (1983) / int_bcc5c9a5	type	Replaced the Theme Tune
V (1983) / int_bcc5c9a5	comment	Replaced the Theme Tune: The series changed its theme tune a number of times during its run.
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V (1983) / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
V (1983) / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: One EU novel highlighted this by having a Visitor munching on ladyfingers a lady's fingers.
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V (1983) / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
V (1983) / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: In one of the most reviled (or at least hotly debated) scenes.
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V (1983) / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
V (1983) / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Mother:
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V (1983) / int_bed31639	type	Mind Probe
V (1983) / int_bed31639	comment	Mind Probe: The "conversion chamber", which employs More than Mind Control. This also leaves A Sinister Clue — conversion renders collaborators left-handed (or right-handed, if they were lefties to begin with).
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V (1983) / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
V (1983) / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Happens to the traitor Daniel. One of the few cases where the claim is made and the audience accepts it without even blinking. Eleanor, one of the most prominent collaborators, declares her son Mike Donovan as no longer being part of her family (despite keeping his own son safe from the Visitors all the same) because he's a resistance leader.
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V (1983) / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
V (1983) / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Mike Donovan's only expression. Except when he closes his mouth. Then it's just dull.
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V (1983) / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
V (1983) / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Visitors are quite deliberate Nazi stand-ins, so the parallels are numerous. The Visitors' logo is just two strokes away from being a swastika and their uniforms are obviously Nazi-esque, they harvest humans in concentration camp-like meat processing plants, run a totalitarian Propaganda Machine, scientists are persecuted with the same type of rhetoric as were the Jews, they establish quisling regimes in occupied countries staffed by collaborators and intend to completely loot the water and even the people that live there (i.e. Eastern Europe), though unlike the Nazis they don't intend to settle on the land they conquered.
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V (1983) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
V (1983) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	A big deal is made of the abduction and conversion of Donovan's son in the miniseries, and The Series revisits this in one episode. After this, no follow-up is ever attempted.
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V (1983) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
V (1983) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ham Tyler and Mike Donovan go way back, and they hate each other's guts. Nonetheless they have each other's back as part of the resistance.
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V (1983) / int_c3debc8e	type	V-Sign
V (1983) / int_c3debc8e	comment	V-Sign: The series was named after this trope. The oldest Bernstein family member, a Holocaust survivor, teaches some kids in the streets the meaning and sprays the Visitors' propaganda posters with the symbol.
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V (1983) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
V (1983) / int_c5237d05	comment	Slow Laser: Not only are the blasts of the Visitors' sidearms slow enough to dodge, if you're in good shape you could probably outrun them.
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V (1983) / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
V (1983) / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: A. C. Crispin wrote an unusually good one covering both miniseries. She also co-wrote the previously mentioned East Coast Crisis.
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V (1983) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
V (1983) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In a scene welcoming the Visitors, a high-school marching band plays the Star Wars theme — badly.
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V (1983) / int_c89b151b	type	Brainwash Residue
V (1983) / int_c89b151b	comment	Brainwash Residue: Diana has attempted to brainwash Julie Parish into being her slave. She fights off the brainwashing, mostly successfully, but occasionally catches herself using the wrong hand. In V: The Final Battle, Diana telepathically commands Julie and she has flashbacks to the brainwashing. Julie doesn't quite give in, but the internal struggle gives Diana a chance to escape.
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V (1983) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
V (1983) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: When Martin saves Donovan on the mothership, he behaves as if they have never met before (even telling Donovan his name), but then refers to him with the familiar "Mike" instead of "Michael" or "Mr. Donovan". Martin had appeared in the previous episode as a shuttle pilot who spoke familiarly with Donovan, and was in fact the one who dropped the key to the cryogenic section of the mothership that he swiped.
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V (1983) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
V (1983) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Abraham Bernstein about Daniel and his disturbing personal tendencies before the Visitors arrive, not believed by anyone, even his friend Ruby. He's right.
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V (1983) / int_d28d210a	type	Daydream Believer
V (1983) / int_d28d210a	comment	Daydream Believer: Ever got one of those chain emails from schizos about Lizard Folk? see Paranoia Fuel.
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V (1983) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
V (1983) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The visitors' entire plan goes to hell all because Diana wanted Brian to impregnate Robin as part of some sick experiment, which resulted not only in Elizabeth, who has the power to disable the mothership's ultimate weapon, but the second reptilian child who was born with the fused anti-visitor virus. Without this one act that resulted in the perfect human-safe/anti-visitor germ warfare, the resistance would have arguably had no way to combat the visitors and eventually would have been wiped out over time.
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V (1983) / int_d4b34379	type	Lightbulb Joke
V (1983) / int_d4b34379	comment	Lightbulb Joke:
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V (1983) / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
V (1983) / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The Visitors are going to put all the water in Southern California into a three mile wide spaceship? Um... no? The again, Martin did say the more ships were en route.
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V (1983) / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
V (1983) / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Although the story is said to have a global scale, most of the pivotal events occur in Los Angeles. The weekly series, where Los Angeles itself becomes a Truce Zone, tried to avoid this by constantly mentioning the Great Offscreen War that took place in other parts of the world, but pretty much all the show's plots still took place in the same area.
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V (1983) / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
V (1983) / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: The aliens intend to harvest the human race for use as snack food and drain all the water, and were turning the planet into a thinly disguised version of Nazi Germany to make it easier. In the end there would be nothing left but a dead desert planet. Diana puts a spin on this when the resistance is close to winning — if she can't have it then no one will. She tries to deploy her mothership as a bomb to turn the world into an irradiated wasteland.
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V (1983) / int_d84b22a5	type	Immoral Journalist
V (1983) / int_d84b22a5	comment	Immoral Journalist: Kristine Walsh is one of many journalists reporting on the initial First Contact with the alien Visitors, but soon becomes a spokesperson for their cause because of the boost it will give to her career. As the Visitors become increasingly tyrannical by rounding up scientists, this gets her chewed out by an older journalist she used to look up to by calling her "Goebbels". Kristine has a Heel Realization and later tries to expose the Visitors on live air, but it's too little, too late: Diana immediately blasts her.
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V (1983) / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
V (1983) / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Diana is basically a Mengele-Expy with her medical "experiments". She's also the head interrogator of the Visitors and responsible for brainwashing people to serve them against their will. She insists on carrying out the Mind Rape herself specifically because she enjoys it.
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V (1983) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
V (1983) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Donovan sneaks aboard the 3 mile wide ship and manages to find Diana and Steven discussing Diana's conversion process and the ruse against the scientists in great detail. Then Diana swallows a guinea pig whole...
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V (1983) / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
V (1983) / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Used by humans to justify working for the visitors. One woman is called out on this, being told that the same excuse was used at the Nuremberg Trials.
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V (1983) / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
V (1983) / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: In V: The Final Battle, Daniel Bernstein is framed for the kidnapping of the Visitor Brian. Daniel is then captured, tortured, and taken away to be served to the aliens
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V (1983) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
V (1983) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Subverted Trope. In V: The Final Battle, the street smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way and his father admits he has a point.
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V (1983) / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
V (1983) / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: Elizabeth's powers were never explained or examined in any detail— and we can't help thinking that's probably for the best, as any Hand Wave the writers came up with would probably have been even more teeth-grinding than the powers themselves.
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V (1983) / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
V (1983) / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Diana told her Supreme Leader that Humans are unusually resistant to her conversion process. Thus, while it's useful for putting a few important individuals under their control, mass conversion of the entire population is completely impractical for now.
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V (1983) / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
V (1983) / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: Ham Tyler is brainwashed to kill resistance leader Michael Donovan.
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V (1983) / int_e1ac3d95	type	Supernatural Soap Opera
V (1983) / int_e1ac3d95	comment	Supernatural Soap Opera: Of the Science Fiction variety. The casting choices didn't even hide it, not to mention the use of Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome. Jane Badler's first role, for instance, was Melinda Cramer Janssen on One Life to Live, and was Meredith Braxton on Falconcrest. She would even have a classic soap brunette vs. blonde rivalry with Lydia (June Chadwick) in the series. Badler even lampshaded in a 1984 TV Guide interview that as an alien, she got away with things that normally her characters wouldn't get away with.
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V (1983) / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
V (1983) / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: Red and black are the signature colors of the fascistic reptilian Visitors, with almost all their uniforms and even their flag featuring some combination of the two.
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V (1983) / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
V (1983) / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The Visitors in their real form eat cuddly, fuzzy little hamsters and guinea pigs. They eat pretty little parakeets. And they have creepy red-and-yellow eyes. They spit acidic venom.
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V (1983) / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
V (1983) / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The series is basically a World War 2 historical drama with a thin veneer of sci-fi layered on top. The entire thing could have been set in 1940s France with Nazis instead of aliens and you'd have to change very little of the overall plot.
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V (1983) / int_e4d39e54	type	Mars Needs Water
V (1983) / int_e4d39e54	comment	Mars Needs Water/Planet Looters: The Visitors come to earth to strip it clean, but are focused on water and meat (and humans are so damned plentiful). The Novelization makes an effort to justify it; in the Visitors' experience, the industrial effort necessary to develop interstellar civilization inflicts irreversible damage on biospheres. Recycling technologies are found to be insufficient when applied to billions of people, so all civilizations they know of are fighting over what few natural resources remain. Earth is thus ripe for the plucking.
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V (1983) / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
V (1983) / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: V The (Original) Series turned Los Angeles into a Truce Zone, although fighters on both sides would circumvent the truce at every opportunity.
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V (1983) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
V (1983) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: You will grow to truly loathe Daniel Bernstein, a despicable Quisling and petty bully whom you will hate with a burning fury.
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V (1983) / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
V (1983) / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: Water is a very common element in space - even in the 1980s it was pretty well known that comets are almost entirely icewater. The idea of needing to suck it up from a planet and ship it interstellar distances is silly in real life. Of course, they also came for another reason, and one could justify stealing water as terraforming.
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V (1983) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
V (1983) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Walsh is visibly shaken when a former mentor accuses her of being the minister of propaganda for a fascist state. She's even more shocked when the Visitors introduce them again...and he burbles enthusiastically about how great it is to see her again, having been conditioned by the Visitors.
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V (1983) / int_efbb5f9c	type	Down L.A. Drain
V (1983) / int_efbb5f9c	comment	Down L.A. Drain: Elias takes the rebels to set up their HQ there.
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V (1983) / int_f01a54f1	type	Evil Feels Good
V (1983) / int_f01a54f1	comment	Evil Feels Good: It is clearly stated that Evil Overlord Diana enjoys what she does.
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V (1983) / int_f01a54f1	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f01a54f1
V (1983) / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
V (1983) / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Kristine Walsh, who's essentially become the Visitors' PR agent, breaks and announces their true nature on air. Diana promptly shoots her. Subverted by Mike Donovan's mother, who only switches sides (and merely gets her comeuppance) when it's obvious the resistance is winning.
V (1983) / int_f1492605	featureApplicability	-0.3
V (1983) / int_f1492605	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f1492605
V (1983) / int_f1f9c12c	type	Squaring the Love Triangle
V (1983) / int_f1f9c12c	comment	Squaring the Love Triangle: A variation where Robin Maxwell loved Kyle Bates, but he ended up with her rapidly grown child Elizabeth instead (although there was never a triangle in the first generation).
V (1983) / int_f1f9c12c	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f1f9c12c	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f1f9c12c
V (1983) / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
V (1983) / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Combining this with Back from the Dead, we have Phillip, who adopts the same human guise as his brother, the late Mole Martin. Phillip later pulls a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
V (1983) / int_f2dadf81	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f2dadf81	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f2dadf81
V (1983) / int_f40ede4e	type	SorryILeftTheBGMOn
V (1983) / int_f40ede4e	comment	Sorry, I Left the BGM On: In the scene where Ben bleeds to death after being shot during a raid, there is a radio in the background playing cheerful music the whole time, until someone angrily smashes it.
V (1983) / int_f40ede4e	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f40ede4e	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f40ede4e
V (1983) / int_f55d739f	type	The Baroness
V (1983) / int_f55d739f	comment	The Baroness: Diana is the Sexpot variety. She's beautiful and sadistic, although those who know that she's an evil reptile underneath her human skin are understandably disgusted. She proves herself more extreme than any of her comrades and ends up as the primary villain. Considering Jane Badler was an experienced Soap Opera villainess, it wasn't a stretch for her.
V (1983) / int_f55d739f	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f55d739f	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f55d739f
V (1983) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
V (1983) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: When Sarah Douglas she chose not to return for the series,note (Douglas later regretted choosing a role on Falcon Crest, telling Starburst she should have returned for the series, as V: The Series only had 3 bitches, while Falcon Crest had 27!) the role of British-accented alien was filled by June Chadwick as Lydia.
V (1983) / int_f5a3e496	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f5a3e496	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f5a3e496
V (1983) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
V (1983) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Part of Donovan and Tyler's dynamic has Mike insulting Ham's driving while Ham insults Mike's marksmanship.
V (1983) / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_f9f2c33
V (1983) / int_fd1b902c	type	Non-Malicious Monster
V (1983) / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: Robin's lizard-baby. Poor thing looks scary, but literally is just... an ill baby Visitor.
V (1983) / int_fd1b902c	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_fd1b902c	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_fd1b902c
V (1983) / int_fd87290b	type	The Mothership
V (1983) / int_fd87290b	comment	The Mothership: Multiple alien Motherships are featured throughout the show.
V (1983) / int_fd87290b	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_fd87290b	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_fd87290b
V (1983) / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
V (1983) / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Actually, birds and rodents. Justified, given the reptilian nature of the aliens.
V (1983) / int_ff6ae1f6	featureApplicability	1.0
V (1983) / int_ff6ae1f6	featureConfidence	1.0
V (1983)	hasFeature	V (1983) / int_ff6ae1f6
V (1983) / int_ffa0483f	type	Cut Short
V (1983) / int_ffa0483f	comment	The Series ended on a cliffhanger episode. After this was filmed, the series was unceremoniously canceled and the cliffhanger never resolved (except in a comic book adaptation).
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V (1983) / int_ffa0483f	featureConfidence	1.0
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Aliens Are Bastards / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Biological Weapons Solve Everything / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Black Shirt / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Brainwashed / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Burial in Space / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Detectives Follow Footprints / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Did Not Die That Way / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Do Not Adjust Your Set / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Dragon-in-Chief / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Dramatic Drop / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Dressing as the Enemy / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Exploited Immunity / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Faked Rip Van Winkle / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Fetus Terrible / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Fluorescent Footprints / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Full-Body Disguise / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Goo-Goo-Godlike / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Graffiti of the Resistance / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Human Mom, Non-Human Dad / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Humans Are Special / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Foot / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Immoral Journalist / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Immune to Bullets / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Indo-European Alien Language / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Infraction Distraction / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Insufficiently Advanced Alien / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Just Desserts / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Kidnapped Doctor / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Latex Perfection / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Les Collaborateurs / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Lightbulb Joke / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Literally Shattered Lives / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Lizard Folk / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Lying in the Dirt Together / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Magic Plastic Surgery / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Make It Look Like a Struggle / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Manchurian Agent / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Mars Needs Water / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Mind Probe / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Mondegreen Gag / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Newscaster Cameo / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Obliviously Evil / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Occupiers Out of Our Country / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Ominous Floating Spaceship / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	One-Letter Title / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Palm Bloodletting / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Patience Plot / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	People Farms / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	People Jars / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Persecuted Intellectuals / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Phony Newscast / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Planet Looters / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Putting on the Reich / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Red and Black and Evil All Over / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Replaced the Theme Tune / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Reptiles Are Abhorrent / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Reptilian Conspiracy / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Reverse Mole / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Default Form / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Sleeping Their Way to the Top / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Squaring the Love Triangle / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Supernatural Soap Opera / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Tested on Humans / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	The Baroness / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_231df7d2
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V (1983)	hasFeature	Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Token Heroic Orc / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Trans Nature / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Trial by Combat / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Truth Serums / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Two-Keyed Lock / int_231df7d2
V	seeAlso	V (1983)
V (1983)	hasFeature	V-Sign / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Vichy Earth / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Villain: Exit, Stage Left / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Villain with Good Publicity / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Voice of the Resistance / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Volumetric Mouth / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	War from Another World / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	What If the Baby Is Like Me / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Withholding the Cure / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	You Do NOT Want to Know / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	Flying Saucer / int_231df7d2
V (1983)	hasFeature	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill / int_231df7d2

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