History Film / FugitiveAlien

* BatManGambit: Rocky's attack on Ken with the forklift was meant to be this, to force Ken to reveal that he was, indeed, from Valnastar.

The [[TitleDrop fugitive alien]] tries to hijack the Bacchus to escape, but he gets caught by a very drunk Captain Joe. He has his reasons -- he just learned that he'd [[RetIrony lost his wife and child in the Valna attack, just when he was planning to retire]]. Despite his anger at what Ken's people did, Joe actually listens to Ken's story, and is convinced enough to end up "[[{{Blackmail}} inviting]]" Ken, who is STUCK HERE!, to join the rest of his crew: Rocky the pilot, some other guys, and Tammy the [[TheChick morale officer]]. Ken accepts. At first, Rocky distrusts Ken, and he even tries to kill Ken with a forklift and fails, which would at least hint that Ken's a Star Wolf; but later they become friends. Tammy has an unrequited crush on Ken.

* TheChick: Tammy/Hime.

* NiceHat: Captain Joe's "JOE" baseball hat.

* DarthVaderClone: Lord Halkon. His face isn't masked but he has other hallmarks and stylistic similarities to Vader [[note]]The ''Star Wolf'' series and the ''Fugitive Alien'' movies made from them were clearly aping ''Star Wars'' in a lot of ways and the original series was made when Darth Vader was still considered the BigBad of the latter[[/note]].

-->--'''Joel Robinson''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

Meanwhile on Valna(star), Rita, the sister of Ken's dead friend -- and also Ken's girlfriend, is ordered by Valnastar ruler Lord Halkon to avenge her brother's death by finding and killing Ken. The Bacchus 3 visits the planet Kararru, populated by [[{{Brownface}} Japanese people pretending to be Arabs]], on a diplomatic mission. Ken disobeys orders, leaves the ship, and gets himself thrown in prison. Via two-way radio, Captain Joe orders Ken to find a Colonel from the planet Seysar in the same prison and break him out. After accomplishing this mission, Ken abruptly runs into Rita. But Rita still loves Ken, so she can't bring herself to kill him. Rita is then killed when she and Ken are attacked by Kararan guards. She blames Ken with her last breath. Ken and the Seysarian Colonel make it back to the Bacchus 3. The story ends here until the sequel, ''Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2''.

In the sequel, the Bacchus escapes a NegativeSpaceWedgie and reaches the planet Seysar with the Colonel. Their mission: infiltrate a military base with said Colonel's help and sabotage a secret weapon being developed there. Despite the Colonel having a fatal attack of conscience over, let's face it, betraying his homeland, the mission is a success. Fast forward to the end of the series: everyone has new uniforms, Ken finds someone who might be his MissingMom, and the final battle between Ken and Lord Halkon rages in the skies...

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Tammy is a very pretty lady and a sweet person and all but her attempts at wooing Ken consist of either giving him too much attention or annoying him with probing questions like "Who's Rita?". She's very socially inept concerning wooing guys and never gets around to outright professing her feelings to Ken. Needless to say, she gets stuck in the "friendzone".

* BigGuyLittleGuy: The Sultan (a tiny giggling fey guy) and his Vizier / Right-Hand man (a tall grim-faced man who looks like Jimmy Carl Black of [[Music/FrankZappa The Mothers of Invention]] ).

* DarthVaderClone: Lord Halkon. His face isn't masked but he has the other hallmarks and stylistic similarities to Vader [[note]]The ''Star Wolf'' series and the ''Fugitive Alien'' movies made from them were clearly aping ''Star Wars'' in a lot of ways and the original series was made when Darth Vader was still considered the BigBad of the latter[[/note]].

* ForkliftFu: An infamous action scene afterwards scored with an instrumental of the show's theme song.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The Seysarian Colonel. He's rescued by Ken in the Karraran jailbreak and becomes a tool for the Bacchus 3's mission to destroy the Seysarian superweapon. The Bacchus 3 crew isn't upfront with their true intentions for him at first (Ken physically attacks him when the Colonel deduces that Ken was a Star Wolf). However, when the Seysarians refuse to acknowledge to Colonel [[note]]Basically "ghosting" the Colonel and knocking him from their list of officials due to suspecting him of treason after his imprisonment by Karrarans[[/note]] and fire on the Bacchus 3, he agrees to help the Bacchus 3 crew in revenge. Then, during the mission, [[spoiler: at the last moment, the Seysarian Anthem plays and Colonel gets second thoughts.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The DecoyDamsel who passes for Ken's MissingMom when Halkion throws his sword, javelin - style at Ken, getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice as a result.]]

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How the Colonel deduces that Ken was really a Star Wolf / Valna Raider. Earlier, everyone is discussing a black hole that emerged between their ship and Planet Seysar. Ken then states a way that they can go through the black hole and survive... knowledge that only a Valna Star Wolf would know.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets. The Captain never keeps bullets in his gun, which makes it easy for him to overcome Ken when he grabs it out of his holster.

** However, due to weird editing, and Ken describing their situation in past tense when dragging in the woman passing as his mom (to explain herself), it's implied the scientist and his daughter somehow escaped off-screen and are fine.
* LittleUselessGun: While the Seysarian's superweapon is a gigantic, several-stories-tall flashy thing in a silo, Lord Halkon's superweapon appears to be about the size of microwave over and can be carried around.

* MisterBig: The Ruler of Kararru is a tiny man but is still an autocratic ruler who's more than happy to have Ken beheaded (when the latter disobeys Joe to wander around, enter a market, get in a BarBrawl and get captured in a Treasury).

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: In Part Two, the Bacchus 3 approaches Demeter's Star, unaware that it's in the process of going supernova. As a result, the engine shuts down and almost everyone succumbs to heatstroke. However, Ken, with some help of the Colonel, manages to fix the issue in the nick of time.
* NeutralFemale: Tammy is basically this (at least in the 'movies'). Her purpose in the story seems to consist of pining for Ken and saying behind on the Bacchus 3 while the other guys go out and have adventures. Subverted slightly in that she's the Communication's Officer using the Bacchus 3 as the "home base".

* NotNowKiddo: In The Sequel, when the Bacchus 3 approaches a star called Demeter's Star, they are unaware that it's going supernova. This causes the engines to shut down and the interior of the ship hot enough to make everyone faint. The Colonel tries telling them ahead of time but the crew locked him in a cell after an altercation and refuse to listen to him. It isn't until it's well into the situation that Ken finally listens.

** Then there's the Seysarians, who are basically Nazis / Fascists and who are revealed in the sequel (through a loudspeaker speech by their leader) to want to conquer not only Karrarru but every other planet (even Valnastar). If their superweapon hadn't been destroyed, they might have become a credible challenger to the "BigBad" throne.