History Characters / ResidentAlien

* Minion with an F in Evil: Subverted. While Joseph is generally compotent, his hybrid nature leads him to underestimate humans and fall for suprisingly basic misdirects and traps. For example, while trying to extort Asta for information, she sarcastically gives him clearly false information...which he doesn't even question and proceeds write down, much to Astra's surprise and amusement.

* MinionwithanFinEvil: Subverted. While Joseph is generally compotent, his hybrid nature leads him to underestimate humans and fall for suprisingly basic misdirects and traps. For example, while trying to extort Asta for information, she sarcastically gives him clearly false information...which he doesn't even question and proceeds write down, much to Astra's surprise and amusement.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When D'arcy attempts to take up competitive skiing again, she throws herself into an intensive training regime. In a lot of other films, she'd be a MadeOfIron Determinator who would muscle through all obstacles, beat the competition, and hoist the trophy to the raucous cheers of her friends. Here, she's a woman who's well past her prime and cannot push herself as hard or recover as quickly as she used to. The injury that ended her skiing career flares up again. The hard training just to succeed in the qualifying run leaves her in constant agony, addicted to painkillers, begging Harry to give her cortisone injections so she can compete, behaving erratically from the painkillers, driving away her boyfriend, and finally admitting her addiction to Asta and moving in with her and Dan to wean herself off the addiction.

** She also has one immediately beforehand, when she's attacking Harry and punching as hard as she can...only to suddenly realize Harry is doing a NoSell on everything she's throwing at him. [[spoiler: he's an alien with SuperStrength. Her best efforts are barely noticeable to him]].

** She also has one immediately beforehand, when she's attacking Harry and punching as hard as she can...only to suddenly realize Harry is doing a NoSell on everything she's throwing at him [[spoiler:because he's an alien with SuperStrength]].

* AliensAreBastards: He only came to Earth just to fry the human race but now that he's passed off as one of them and developed a bond with D'Arcy and Asta he appears to be GoingNative and is coming to actually enjoy his time as an AlienAmongUs. Although the show keeps zigzagging between whether he really does have some affection for humans or not since while Harry ''does'' sincerely seem to enjoy his moments of spending time with and being made to feel special by the humans, he always reverts back to his default mindset of killing all humans with his device then getting back on his ship and flying off triumphant in achieving human extinction.

** Played more dramatically when Harry stands up D'Arcy on their date so he can go look for his ship's device, leaving her sad and lonely by the end of the episode.

* BestFriend: To D'Arcy. They've been friends since school and know each other better than anyone else.

* {{Cuddlebug}}: She gets touchy-feely when she's upset or nervous. D'Arcy says it's her tell.

* AmicableExes: With D'Arcy. They're still good friends and he looks up to her.
* ButtMonkey: Ben is a genuinely NiceGuy but also a punching bag of the show. The sheriff routinely mocks him and at one point steals his office to investigate the murders, his wife blames him for Max's ranting about aliens thanks to letting him watch ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', Harry keeps spilling his therapy secrets to anyone that wanders into their sessions and he ends up violently ill on the lake while dredging for [[spoiler:the original Harry's body]] after accidentally eating dog treats and getting seasick. In the finale he even admits he admires D'Arcy's fearlessness because he's scared of ''everything''.

* HappilyMarried: With Kate. He rebuffs D'Arcy's drunken kiss because he is happily committed to his wife, though the second season brings to light some problems in their marriage. Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it's revealed that he isn't really happy, that he feels he can't be himself around Kate, and that the two of them have wild sex to avoid having actually discussions about sensitive issues.

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* PassionateSportsGirl: In addition to Olympic-caliber skiing, D'Arcy plays catcher for a local baseball team.
* ReallyGetsAround: Judy and D'Arcy tease each other for their promsicuity.

-->'''D'Arcy:''' I had a couple edibles and a pill I found in my couch.

* ClingyJealousGirl: When D'Arcy and Ben reminisce about their grade school years and former relationship, Kate becomes this.

* PassionateSportsGirl: She was a champion runner in college. She and D'Arcy bond over their athletic histories.

* UrineTrouble: Accidentally pees on D'Arcy's hand during a pregnancy test. When D'Arcy jokingly tells her that it's okay, she's been peed on before, Kate admits that she has too and that she "kinda likes it." After a slightly disturbed D'Arcy says she was talking about a frog doing it that she picked up as a kid, Kate tries to walk it back and claims she meant frogs too.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To the audience, she seems adorable, but D'Arcy and the rest of the women at [=GN59=] reject her because she's clingy, ditzy, and one-sidedly considers herself D'Arcy's best friend. Rejection doesn't seem to bother her.

--> '''D'Arcy:''' Okay, uh, Judy's clothes are coming off.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: She's a bowling alley clerk when scenes take place there, an exploitative tour guide when Ben tries to fix Patience's "murder town" reputation, and a NoTellMotel clerk when Harry, Asta, and D'Arcy need to [[spoiler:dispose of a body in the motel pool.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: D'Arcy jokingly calls her a slut or "Miss Chlamydia."

An archaeologist from Jessup who becomes romantically involved with D'Arcy.

* NiceGuy: D'Arcy is caught off-guard by his genuine kindness and willingness to give her a second chance after she stood him up on their first date.

* TheCassandra: He is the only person who can see Harry as an alien but no one believes him. Eventually, he realizes the constant accusations will do nothing so he and Harry call a truce.

* ImmuneToBullets: Is apparently able to generate a protective shield around himself that deflects bullets. Whether this is a natural ability or is provided by some device is not known.

* PutOnABus: At the start of Season 3, she gets accepted into a prestigious Californian school for gifted students and has to move away from Patience.

* SuperStrength: Has the strength to bust through a wall and easily strangle Jimmy. Also dislocates Ethan's shoulder during an arm wrestling match. He can toss around a fully grown man around like a rag doll, and later tells Asta that he has the strength of "six gorillas." Considering that a ''single'' gorilla is estimated to be about five times stronger than an average man...

* SuperStrength: Has the strength to bust through a wall and easily strangle Jimmy. Also dislocates Ethan's shoulder during an arm wrestling match.