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* ScientistVsSoldier:
** Sparks, the alien engineer, is constantly being bullied around by the three military members of the invasion squad while also questioning whether the humans deserve to be violently conquered.
** Tom is a mathlete and science fair competitor who favors learning about the aliens' capabilities and mission and taking the time to make practical weapons against them, while his cousin Jake, a paintball war games enthusiast, has a LeeroyJenkins attitude toward resistance at first. However, as the movie progresses, they develop into a BrainsAndBrawn team.
** Sparks, the alien engineer, is constantly being bullied around by the three military members of the invasion squad while also questioning whether the humans deserve to be violently conquered.
** Tom is a mathlete and science fair competitor who favors learning about the aliens' capabilities and mission and taking the time to make practical weapons against them, while his cousin Jake, a paintball war games enthusiast, has a LeeroyJenkins attitude toward resistance at first. However, as the movie progresses, they develop into a BrainsAndBrawn team.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler: The aliens' master plan is to dig up a device that makes them two stories tall.]]
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler: The aliens' master plan is to dig up a device that makes them two four stories tall.]]
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* PunyEarthlings: Inverted: The aliens are barely over a foot tall and only one shows above human intelligence. This doesn't stop them from referring to the humans as such, though.
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* PunyEarthlings: Inverted: The aliens are barely over a foot only around two feet tall and only one shows above human above-human intelligence. This doesn't stop them from referring to the humans as such, though.
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* ImmuneToMindControl: The kids discover that the aliens' mind-control device only works on adults. Kids and teenagers are immune to it.
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* GroinAttack: Ricky suffers [[RuleOfThree three]] of these, the last of which he was forced to inflict upon himself.
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* GroinAttack: Ricky suffers [[RuleOfThree three]] of these, the last of which he was forced to inflict upon himself. In the climax, when the kids use the aliens' mind-control device to make Commander Skip fight Tazer, they defeat Tazer by making Skip kick him in the crotch.
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* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: The kids use the aliens' own mind-control device to take control of Commander Skip.
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* BigEater: Sparks eats four hot dogs, which is really impressive considering he's only about two feet tall.
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* BigEater: Sparks eats four hot dogs, which is really impressive is extra-impressive considering he's only about two feet tall.
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* BigEater: Sparks eats four hot dogs, which is really impressive considering he's only about two feet tall.
* DepravedDwarf: The evil, toddler-sized aliens. Subverted with Sparks, who's the TokenGoodTeammate.
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* HateSink: Ricky is a {{Jerkass}} college student who dates a teenage girl four years younger than him, bullies her brother, and breaks up with her for petty reasons. Needless to say, his ButtMonkey status is entirely deserved.
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* HateSink: Ricky is a {{Jerkass}} college student who dates a teenage girl four years younger than him, lies to her parents about his age, bullies her brother, and breaks up with her for petty reasons. Needless to say, his ButtMonkey status is entirely deserved.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Sparks dislikes the idea of conquering Earth at the start of the invasion, and swiftly comes to sympathise with the humans.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Sparks dislikes the idea of conquering Earth at the start of the invasion, and swiftly comes to sympathise with the humans.humans, later leaving his team and joining the human family's side.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Bethany and her parents thought Rocky was a nice guy. He ''really'' isn't.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Bethany and her parents thought Rocky Ricky was a nice guy. He ''really'' isn't.
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* ButtMonkey: Ricky. ([[LaserGuidedKarma Not that he doesn't deserve every second of it.]])
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* HumiliationConga: Ricky goes through a lot of suffering after falling victim to the aliens' mind-control device.
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* ILied: When Ricky is alone with Tom, he tells him that he lied to Tom's parents about a lot of things, like that he's a high school senior instead of a college senior.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Tom used to get bullied for being a straight-A student and being on the school's math team.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Tom used to get bullied for being a straight-A student and being on the school's math team.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Ricky bullies Tom and lies to Tom and Bethany's parents. He then gets put through a lot of well-deserved pain and humiliation, and accidentally damages his belief car, due to getting shot with the aliens' mind-control device.
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* {{Slimeball}}: Ricky. He's a BitchInSheepsClothing who dates a high school senior (despite the fact that he's a college senior), lies to her parents about his age, and bullies her brother behind the rest of the family's back.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ricky pretends to be sweet when Bethany or her parents are around, but whenever they're not around, he shows his true colors.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler: The alien's aliens' master plan is to dig up a device that makes them two stories tall.]]
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* BigWhy: Ricky yells one when Nana (who's under mind-control) sends him flying with a karate kick. He yells another one when he gets hit with his third GroinAttack.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tom. He admits that he used to get good grades, but started failing on purpose because hethought doing that made wanted to fit in and got sick of the other kids picking on him uncool.for being a nerd.
* BrilliantButLazy: Tom. He admits that he used to get good grades, but started failing on purpose because he
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* HateSink: Ricky is a {{Jerkass}} college student who dates a teenage girl four years younger than him, bullies her family, brother, and breaks up with her for petty reasons. Needless to say, his ButtMonkey status is entirely deserved.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Bethany and her parents thought Rocky was a nice guy. He ''really'' isn't.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Bethany and her parents thought Rocky was a nice guy. He ''really'' isn't.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: Bethany and Hannah are the only girls in the main cast, and Bethany spends half the film unaware of the crisis.
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* SodaCandySplosion: Jake uses Mentos to create soda grenades to fight against the aliens during the climax. [[spoiler:The soda grenades become ineffective when the aliens use the molecular expander]].
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* IntimateLotionApplication: When Ricky and Bethany are hanging out by the pool, he comes on to her by taking out his shirt and asks her help to rub lotion on him. She's clearly into him, but her little brother who's watching in the bushes ''isn't'', and opens fire on Ricky with a paintball gun.
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* {{Wedgie}}: The main characters use Mind control to make Ricky give himself one.
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** The anti-gravity "bomb" is compared to ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
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* TagalongKid: Hannah amounts to this as she doesn't do much actual fighting, although she [[spoiler:helps Sparks decide to turn against the other aliens]].
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* PacManFever: The kids get affected with a grenade that makes them all float and one of the twins says: "They turned off the gravity like in ''Halo''!" What? CriticalResearchFailure doesn't begin to describe that.What?
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* ShoutOut: At one point the aliens watch ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' on a TV in the attic.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** At one point the aliens watch ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' on a TV in the attic.
** A toy of[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory [[Franchise/ToyStory Slinky Dogg]] Dog]] can be seen on a shelf.
** At one point the aliens watch ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' on a TV in the attic.
** A toy of
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** Hannah owns a [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girls backpack]] that Sparks hides in.
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* SchoolGradeHacking: Tom is guilty of this. See LaboriousLaziness.
