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* [[spoiler: ButICantBePregnant: After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.]]
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* [[spoiler: ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler: After he and Jenny made love on the train train, Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.]]
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* InterspeciesRomance: Possibly a subversion as Starman in human form seems to be almost biologically indistinct from human- [[spoiler: after all, he and Jenny managed to reproduce.]]
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* InterspeciesRomance: Possibly a subversion as Starman in human form seems to be almost biologically indistinct from human- [[spoiler: after human - [[spoiler:after all, he and Jenny managed to reproduce.]]]] Could be justified by his body, a copy of her husband, essentially being a clone that is just ''that'' biologically accurate.
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* TheEighties: [[RetCon Retconned]] to TheSeventies in the [=TV=] show [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome so that Jenny's kid could be a teen in the contemporary 1980s]].
* TheEighties: [[RetCon Retconned]] to TheSeventies in the [=TV=] show [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome so that Jenny's kid could be a teen in the contemporary 1980s]].
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* TheEighties: [[RetCon Retconned]] to TheSeventies in the [=TV=] show [[spoiler: [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome so that Jenny's kid could be a teen in the contemporary 1980s]].]]
* TheEighties: [[RetCon Retconned]] to TheSeventies in the [=TV=] show [[spoiler: [[SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome so that Jenny's kid could be a teen in the contemporary 1980s]].]]
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* [[spoiler: ButICantBePregnant: After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.]
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* InterspeciesRomance: Possibly a subversion as Starman in human form seems to be almost biologically indistinct from human- after all, he and Jenny managed to reproduce.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Possibly a subversion as Starman in human form seems to be almost biologically indistinct from human- [[spoiler: after all, he and Jenny managed to reproduce.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Bridges stated he based his performance on CLU from ''{{TRON}}'', at least before he was captured by the MCP.
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JohnCarpenter's '''''Starman''''' is a kind of ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for adults, played as a RoadMovie of all things. Fans will argue that it's a beautiful, beautiful love story between [[AlienAmongUs a man from the stars]] (JeffBridges) and an Earthling woman (Karen Allen) while dissenters will argue that it's a mediocre ClicheStorm.
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* AcademyAward: Jeff Bridges got nominated for Best Actor, which is remarkably in two ways: it's in the SciFiGhetto, and it's the only Academy Award nomination that ''any'' of JohnCarpenter's films have earned.
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* AcademyAward: Jeff Bridges got nominated for Best Actor, which is remarkably in two ways: it's in the SciFiGhetto, and it's the only Academy Award nomination that ''any'' of JohnCarpenter's Creator/JohnCarpenter's films have earned.
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-->'''Men's Room Guy:''' ''*sigh*'' Every god-damn place you go...
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-->'''Men's Room Guy:''' ''*sigh*'' [[MistakenForGay Every god-damn place you go...]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[invoked]] Invoked in-universe, as Shermin learns: "He yelled 'Greetings!' and melted his lug wrench?!"
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-->'''Starman:''' ''(upset)'' ''Why'' do you do this?
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* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Starman can't get enough of Dutch apple pie, to the point that eating it is nearly a sexual experience for him.
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* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Starman can't get enough of Dutch apple pie, to the point that [[OrgasmicallyDelicious eating it is nearly a sexual experience for him.him]].
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* MaleRestroomEtiquette: Starman becomes quite interested in seeing a man use the urinal at a gas station's men's room, much to the man's annoyance.
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-->'''Men's Room Guy:''' ''*sigh*'' Every god-damn place you go...
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** It has less to do with hunting and more to do with the alien's concept of death - there is ''no'' death, survival or even food consumption where he comes from, so he's shocked that a living creature would willingly kill another.
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* AcademyAward: Jeff Bridges got nominated for Best Actor, which is remarkably in two ways: it's in the SciFiGhetto, and it's the only Academy Award nomination that ''any'' of JohnCarpenter's films have earned.
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Not to be confused with the Robot Master from MegaMan5, or the enemies from the first two VideoGame/{{Mother}} games.
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Not to be confused with the Robot Master from MegaMan5, Videogame/MegaMan5, or the enemies from the first two VideoGame/{{Mother}} games.
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JohnCarpenter's ''Starman'' is a kind of ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for adults, played as a RoadMovie of all things. Fans will argue that it's a beautiful, beautiful love story between [[AlienAmongUs a man from the stars]] (JeffBridges) and an Earthling woman (Karen Allen) while dissenters will argue that it's a mediocre ClicheStorm.
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JohnCarpenter's ''Starman'' '''''Starman''''' is a kind of ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for adults, played as a RoadMovie of all things. Fans will argue that it's a beautiful, beautiful love story between [[AlienAmongUs a man from the stars]] (JeffBridges) and an Earthling woman (Karen Allen) while dissenters will argue that it's a mediocre ClicheStorm.
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Hey It\'s That Guy was already on the trivia section.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]] arives on Earth and falls in love with [[Franchise/IndianaJones Marion Ravenwood]].
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* HumansAreBastards: As usual.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: As usual.
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* NoNameGiven: Starman never gives his name and is never referred to as anything, not even "Starman" (although that is how he's named in the credits)
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* AliensInCardiff: Alien in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin
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* StockholmSyndrome: Jenny starts out freaked out by Starman and thinks of herself as kidnapped, but this doesn't last long.
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* UncannyValley: In-universe, Starman took on a human form at least partially to not scare humans. Unfortunately, his bizarre not-quite grasp of language or human customs have a tendency to make him appear quite creepy
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Not to be confused with the Robot Master from MegaMan5, or the enemies from the first two {{Mother}} games.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]] arives on Earth and falls in love with [[IndianaJones Marion Ravenwood]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]] arives on Earth and falls in love with [[IndianaJones [[Franchise/IndianaJones Marion Ravenwood]].
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* ButICantBePregnant: Starts {{Narm}}y ("I gave you a baby tonight."), but becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
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* ButICantBePregnant: Starts {{Narm}}y ("I After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight."), but becomes " Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.
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* PantyShot: Jenny Hayden spends the first few minutes of the movie in her white panties.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheBigLebowski The Dude]] arives on Earth and falls in love with [[IndianaJones Marion Ravenwood]].
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one of the movie\'s best and more suspenseful lines, from near the climax, shouldn\'t be given away like this. Hid other spoilers in the synopsis
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->'''Starman:''' "You are a strange species, not like any other... and you'd be surprised how many there are. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?" (Shermin nods) "You are at your very best when things are at their worst."
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->'''Starman:''' "You are a strange species, not like any other... and you'd be surprised how many there are. Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you?" (Shermin nods) "You are at your very best when things are at their worst."
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As usual, the military [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill has it in for friendly aliens]]. They are led by the hard-as-nails George Fox (Richard Jaeckel) who wants to dissect or kill Starman. His obligatory MoralityPet Mark Shermin (Charles Martin Smith) vainly attempts to convince him to do otherwise. In the end, Starman has sex with Jenny, reveals he gave her a baby (she couldn't have children before he came along) and then he catches his ride home.
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As usual, the military [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill has it in for friendly aliens]]. They are led by the hard-as-nails George Fox (Richard Jaeckel) who wants to dissect or kill Starman. His obligatory MoralityPet Mark Shermin (Charles Martin Smith) vainly attempts to convince him to do otherwise. In [[spoiler:In the end, Starman has sex with Jenny, reveals he gave her a baby (she couldn't have children before he came along) and then he catches his ride home.
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* SecondFaceSmoke: Shermin does this to Fox after allowing Starman to escape.
-->'''Fox''': Shermin, you are finished. I will have you ''eviscerated'' for this.\\
'''Shermin''': Well, as much as I hate to stoop to symbolism...\\
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-->'''Fox''': Shermin, you are finished. I will have you ''eviscerated'' for this.\\
'''Shermin''': Well, as much as I hate to stoop to symbolism...\\
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* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Starman can't get enough of Dutch apple pie, to the point that eating it is nearly a sexual experience for him.
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JohnCarpenter's ''Starman'' is a kind of ''[[{{ptitle8pp9w72sx8tq}} ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' for adults, played as a RoadMovie of all things. Fans will argue that it's a beautiful, beautiful love story between [[AlienAmongUs a man from the stars]] (JeffBridges) and an Earthling woman (Karen Allen) while dissenters will argue that it's a mediocre ClicheStorm.
