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* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: When Lee takes on the form of a gorgeous Playmate in the second film, his/her first reaction is to give the new girls a squeeze. It's played for laughs as she looks more bemused than aroused.
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* DeathBySex: Steve's attempt to get it on with April in the barn only scores him first place on the Crites' menu.
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* SexSignalsDeath: Steve's attempt to get it on with April in the barn only scores him first place on the Crites' menu.
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-->-- [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael,]] after having watched the first Critters movie. [[note]]Both Critters and the 90s Ninja Turtles were made by New Line Cinema.[[/note]]
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-->-- [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael,]] after having watched the first Critters movie. [[note]]Both Critters and the 90s Ninja Turtles were made released by New Line Cinema.Creator/NewLineCinema.[[/note]]
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The final film, starring Creator/AngelaBassett and Creator/BradDourif, takes place many years later in space, where they try to wipe out the remaining species of Crites.
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The final fourth film, starring Creator/AngelaBassett and Creator/BradDourif, takes place many years later in space, where they try to wipe out the remaining species of Crites.
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* VilerNewVillain: Post FaceHeelTurn Ug in the fourth movie is this, as, while the Crites at least [[ToServeMan have to eat meat to survive,]] Ug is just a greedy asshole who chooses to be the way he is.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Creator/DonKeithOpper, and Creator/TerranceMann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Creator/DonKeithOpper, and Creator/TerranceMann.Creator/TerrenceMann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Don Keith Opper, and Terrance Mann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Don Keith Opper, Creator/DonKeithOpper, and Terrance Mann.Creator/TerranceMann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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* LastDayOfNormalcy: Even as we're shown that the titular alien monsters have escaped their interstellar prison ship, we're introduced to the Brown Family in the almost pastoral setting of their farmhouse, including young son Brad's mischevious streak, which served him well against the alien menace.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Dee Wallace-Stone, Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Don Keith Opper, and Terrance Mann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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On October 2018, Creator/SyFy announced they plan to reboot the series by adding sequels on their network as part of their acquisition of multiple properties such as ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' and ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}''. In 2019, an eight-episode web series titled ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'' was made and distributed on Shudder. Later that same year, a direct-to-[=DVD=] sequel ''Critters Attack!'' was released and follows a more similar plot to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' than the original films.
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On October 2018, Creator/SyFy announced they plan to reboot the series by adding sequels on their network as part of their acquisition of multiple properties such as ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' and ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}''. In 2019, an eight-episode web series titled ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'' was made and distributed on Shudder. Later that same year, a direct-to-[=DVD=] sequel ''Critters Attack!'' was released and follows a more similar plot to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' than the original films.films by involving a cuter Crite who turns out to be good and helps the heroes in wiping out the other Crites.
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* SuddenlySpeaking: Jake refuses to communicate in any way besides texting for most of ''Critters Attack'', but eventually talks when he tries to point out something about Bianca to Drea.
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* TokenHeroicOrc: Bianca in ''Critters Attack'' is a good Crite who even helps the heroes in wiping out the rest of her kind.
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* LiterallyShatteredLives: The fourth film has a scene where Ethan kills a Crite by breaking it into pieces after letting it suck on a tube of liquid nitrogen.
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** The landlord and the Janitor in ''Critters 3'' also deserve their deaths. The former had no qualms with screwing over his clients and the latter was hired by the former to kill a tenant by unleashing rats on him in addition to being generally repulsive.
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** The landlord and the Janitor janitor in ''Critters 3'' also deserve their deaths. The former had no qualms with screwing over his clients and the latter was hired by the former to kill a tenant by unleashing rats on him in addition to being generally repulsive.repulsive.
** Captain Rick Buttram in the fourth film is a total scumbag who was willing to cheat [=TerraCor=] out of property they had a claim to and attempts to peep on Fran while she's showering, which makes it impossible to feel sorry for him when he becomes the first victim of the Crites.
** Captain Rick Buttram in the fourth film is a total scumbag who was willing to cheat [=TerraCor=] out of property they had a claim to and attempts to peep on Fran while she's showering, which makes it impossible to feel sorry for him when he becomes the first victim of the Crites.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: All three sequels have the phrase "No critters were harmed in the making of this movie" turn up in the credits.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Ug and Lee did that nearly destroyed a space colony on their ''last'' mission.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Ug and Lee did that nearly destroyed a space colony on their ''last'' mission.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: All three sequels The second, third and fourth films have the phrase "No critters were harmed in the making of this movie" turn up in the credits.
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* ShowerScene: Fran is shown showering in ''Critters 4'', with one shot panning up to show her rear and back.
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* CompanyCrossReferences: The second film has a scene featuring a poster of Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', another film series by Creator/NewLineCinema.
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* CompanyCrossReferences: The second film has a scene featuring a poster cardboard cut-out of Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', another film series by Creator/NewLineCinema.
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* StrawVegetarian: Brad's grandmother in the second film has shades of this, given her incessant preaching on how vegetables are far healthier for you than meat is and inferring at one point that humans were never meant to digest meat.
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On October 2018, Creator/SyFy announced they plan to reboot the series by adding sequels on their network as part of their acquisition of multiple properties such as ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' and ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}''. In 2019, an eight-episode web series titled ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'' was made and distributed on Shudder. Later that same year, a direct-to-[=DVD=] sequel ''Critters Attack!'' was released and follows a more similar plot to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' than the original films.
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* CompanyCrossReferences: The second film has a scene featuring a poster of Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', another film series by Creator/NewLineCinema.
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** Critters 4 never gives an explanation for why Ug turned evil in the 53 years between then and part 3, other than a cryptic "people change, Charlie".
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' took some inspiration from the film, though of course far LighterAndSofter.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' took some inspiration from the film, though of course far LighterAndSofter.
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The second film was released in 1988, featuring the return of Scott Grimes as Bradley Brown (the main character from the first film). The terror starts when the creature's eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs; they quickly multiply after they hatch.
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The second film was released in 1988, featuring the return of Scott Grimes Creator/ScottGrimes as Bradley Brown (the main character from the first film). The terror starts when the creature's eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs; they quickly multiply after they hatch.
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The final film takes place many years later in space, where they try to wipe out the remaining species of Crites.
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* EarthIsABattlefield: The TropeCodifier, as humans are stuck in the middle of a destructive battle between the bounty hunters and Crites.
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* EarthIsABattlefield: The TropeCodifier, as humans Humans are stuck in the middle of a destructive battle between the bounty hunters and Crites.
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* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: In the fourth movie, when Ethan is helping Charlie find the critters, he asks what they look like. Charlie asks if he knows what a piranha is, he says yes, so Charlie says that they don't look anything like piranhas but are hungry like them (which doesn't really answer his question, as he was asking what they ''looked like'', not how they behave.)
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->''[[SelfDeprecation "Yeeuch. Where do they come up with this stuff?"]]''
-->-- [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael,]] after having watched the first Critters movie. [[note]]Both Critters and the 90s Ninja Turtles were made by New Line Cinema.[[/note]]
-->-- [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael,]] after having watched the first Critters movie. [[note]]Both Critters and the 90s Ninja Turtles were made by New Line Cinema.[[/note]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' took some inspiration from the film, though of course far LighterAndSofter.
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''Critters'' is a film series featuring a group of deadly little furry aliens with several rows of teeth known as "Crites". The first film, directed by Stephen Herek, was released in 1986. In it, the title creatures terrorize a farm, with a pair of alien bounty hunters on their trail. It Starred a young Creator/ScottGrimes; also starring: Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Creator/MEmmetWalsh, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], Creator/BillyZane, Don Keith Opper, and Terrance Mann. The latter two would appear in all of the films.
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* PrecisionFStrike: A Krite utters "fuck" (its subtitled) in the original after witnessing another of its kind get shot.
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* PrecisionFStrike: A Krite utters "fuck" (its (it's subtitled) in the original after witnessing another of its kind get shot.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: In the second film, Charlie suggests a luring the critters to a determined spot and blow them up, which seems lime a good plan, until someone asks who's going to lure them them. After thinking about it, Charlie volunteers, since it was his idea.
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* AntagonistTitle: The Critters are aliens that devour everything.
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* AnswerCut: In the first film, one Critter tells another that humans have weapons. The second Critter asks, "So what?" before getting blown away by Helen with her 12 Gauge Double Barrel Shotgun. The remaining Critter remarks, "[[OhCrap FUCK!]]" and runs off to send in reinforcements.
* AntagonistTitle: The Critters arealiens alien furballs that devour everything.
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