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Bureau of Alien Detectors
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Bureau of Alien Detectors, or B.A.D., was a 1996 animated series produced by Saban Entertainment. In it, aliens are real, on earth and the job of the titular The Bureau of Alien Detectors is to monitor, control as well as battle those who are here for less than benevolent reasons. To help with this task they have the Phalanx Squad, a carefully selected and trained group of five people sent in when things get hairy but some people in the Bureau may have hidden agendas of their own concerning what to do with the aliens...The Phalanx Squad consists off: Military War Hero Sergeant Ben Packer Life Science Expert Special Agent Shane Sanderson; Alien Encounter Survivor Moose Trengganu Computer Specialist Colin Marcus Psychic communicator Casey TaylorDespite having a surprising amount of depth to its characters, a well-written plot and a serious tone with large amounts of violence and death for a cartoon of its time it didn't last long. only thirteen episodes on UPN Kids.Compare Men in Black: The Series and Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends. | |
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Bloodless Carnage: While the show didn't shy away from death, the only instance of non-Alien Blood was Sanderson accidentally cutting his hand on a sharp edge in "The Hunt." | |
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Material Mimicry: After having his genes messed with during an alien abduction, Moose has the power to take the properties of inanimate objects he touches, a move he calls the "Elemental Morph." | |
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Glowing Eyes: Casey's eyes glow an opaque green when she uses her Psychic Powers. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The show ended after thirteen episodes, with numerous plot lines like Ms. Gray seemingly being set up as the Big Bad, how Miguel ended up being regressed to an infant, the purpose of the objects given to B.A.D. by the benevolent aliens from "The Hunt" and "Twinkle, Twinkle", etc. going unresolved. About the only plot point that got any kind of closure was the fate of Moose's previous team and how he got his powers. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: The MO of the Martians/Plutons. They use technology to reanimate the dead warriors of the planets that they invade, equip the zombies with advanced weaponry, and then have them Zerg Rush strategic locations until the enemy either surrenders or has their world destroyed for refusing to submit. | |
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Death World | |
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Death World: Earth is this for many alien species. The ambassador from "The Hunt" notable had to wear an Hazmat Suit as the temperature on earth was to high for her to survive otherwise. And even that didn't allow her to stay for long. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: "Gifted" is the only episode without any extraterrestrial phenomena. The threat is instead a little girl given reality warping powers by experiments performed on her by her parents. | |
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Super-Soldier | |
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The aliens in "Always Faithful" abducted and gene-spliced people, but it turns out that they are doing this because they believe that they are helping to advance humanity, having been manipulated by rogue B.A.D. agents (who want Super Soldiers) into believing that they have a deal with the Earth's government. They pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here when the deception is made clear. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: A few people who get eaten by the plant monsters in "Hothouse," but especially Dr. Adam Edens, who shoves his colleague Dr. Amanda Faulkner aside when she's attacked by the plant monster, and gets eaten himself. He's shown being chewed on by the monster, and although there's no blood, his clothes get shredded to bits and we see his glasses go flying. In reruns, the scene was cut almost entirely, and Adam as a consequence just vanishes from the story. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Often, the more human-like an alien is the better it will be treated, but they do subvert the trope too. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: The Energy Beings from "The Curse of Tassim" are contained by hoses rigged to spray liquid fiberglass. The giant mutated larvae from "Grease Trap" fed on oil, so it died immediately from being shot by a flare gun (this was bad, though, as the team was supposed to take it in alive). The aliens from The Encounter have an extreme aversion to light. Hence why bodies they possesses constantly wear sunglasses. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Bureau of Alien Detection. | |
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Jurisdiction Friction | |
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Jurisdiction Friction: "The Encounter" aliens (having possessed a few local sheriffs) tries to pull this on the B.A.D team. Despite knowing that they are federal agents and their authority trumps local jurisdiction. | |
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Non-Malicious Monster: Not all aliens that B.A.D deals with are on earth for nefarious reasons. The aliens in "The Encounter" come off as very sinister, having possessed several people, but then it is revealed that they are stranded and awaiting rescue, and that the reason why they took over the townspeople is because they are unable to survive on Earth for very long in their natural forms and was afraid what would be done to them if they were found out. The aliens in "Always Faithful" abducted and gene-spliced people, but it turns out that they are doing this because they believe that they are helping to advance humanity, having been manipulated by rogue B.A.D. agents (who want Super Soldiers) into believing that they have a deal with the Earth's government. They pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here when the deception is made clear. | |
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