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** The doctors attempting to dissect Wikus, ''[[AndIMustScream live and fully conscious]]''. Not that they managed to do it in the end, but the fact he was one of them, he worked there, and they were willing to do it so ''unquestioningly''. Not to mention his father-in-law just ''ignoring him'' while he pleads for help.

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** The doctors attempting to dissect vivisect Wikus, ''[[AndIMustScream live and fully conscious]]''. Not that they managed to do it in the end, but the fact he was one of them, he worked there, and they were willing to do it so ''unquestioningly''. Not to mention his father-in-law just ''ignoring him'' while he pleads for help.

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* Wikus cheerfully taking a flamethrower to a nest of prawn eggs. The prawn babies are still alive. Despite his claim that the babies fall into a coma when their feeding tubes are removed, they're screaming in pain as they're burnt. And if that weren't enough, Wikus cheerfully explains to the camera what they're doing, and then compares the popping sound the exploding fetuses are making to [[{{Squick}} popcorn]]. One wonders how many theater-goers were put off their snacks after that line.
* While carrying out the evictions, Wikus tries to lure out Christopher's child to be taken away, calling out, "[[BlatantLies It's the Sweety-Man...]]", sounding for all the world like someone trying to lure a child into a [[CreepyStalkerVan white van]]. (Which, in a sense, he ''is''.)

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* Before his post-mutation CharacterDevelopment starts to kick in, the film makes it pretty clear that Wikus was a monster.
** The pure LackOfEmpathy he displays when he's going around and telling the prawns that they're being kicked out of their slums is just a tiny taste of how evil MNU is.
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Wikus cheerfully taking a flamethrower to a nest of prawn eggs. The prawn babies are still alive. Despite his claim that the babies fall into a coma when their feeding tubes are removed, they're screaming in pain as they're burnt. And if that weren't enough, Wikus cheerfully explains to the camera what they're doing, and then compares the popping sound the exploding fetuses are making to [[{{Squick}} popcorn]]. One wonders how many theater-goers were put off their snacks after that line.
* ** While carrying out the evictions, Wikus tries to lure out Christopher's child to be taken away, calling out, "[[BlatantLies It's the Sweety-Man...]]", sounding for all the world like someone trying to lure a child into a [[CreepyStalkerVan white van]]. (Which, in a sense, he ''is''.)
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* At the end of the documentary, an anthropologist notes that the press has speculated that the Prawn ship will return and declare war on Earth. He says this with great hesitation, as if he suspects that there is some truth to it, but the possibility is too frightening to consider. (Or, alternately, he doesn't want to admit it on camera at the risk of causing a mass panic.)

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* At the end of the documentary, an anthropologist notes that the press has speculated that the Prawn ship will return and declare war on Earth. He says this with great hesitation, as if he suspects that there is some truth to it, but the possibility is too frightening to consider. (Or, alternately, he doesn't want to admit it on camera at the risk of causing a mass panic.)) Keep in mind, this is after it's been well established in-universe and out that Prawn technology is ''lightyears'' ahead of anything we have here on Earth. Wikus was only taken down because he 1. Didn't have a firm grasp of how the tech worked and 2. Was being hampered by his accelerating transformation. If Christopher comes back with even a small team of his own people, each with their own mechs, the damage they could do would be unfathomable.
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** For that matter, [[spoiler: the Prawns who save Wikus from Koobus at the end of the film. Koobus has him dead to rights, and then a bunch of the aliens emerge from the surrounding slums. Koobus tells them to back off and starts shooting as they close in. You might think that they're here to save Wikus because, as a result of his slow transformation, they now consider him one of them. Nope: they're just really, ''really'' hungry. Hungry enough that they ''tear Koobus limb from limb and start EATING him!'' What really sells the horror of this is that, naturally, Koobus starts screaming as they rip him apart, and then is suddenly cut off without the camera angle changing.]]

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** For that matter, [[spoiler: the Prawns who save Wikus from Koobus at the end of the film. Koobus has him dead to rights, and then a bunch of the aliens emerge from the surrounding slums. Koobus tells them to back off and starts shooting as they close in. You might think that they're here to save Wikus because, as a result of his slow transformation, they now consider him one of them. Nope: they're just really, ''really'' hungry. Hungry enough that they ''tear Koobus limb from limb and start EATING him!'' What really sells the horror of this is that, naturally, Koobus starts screaming as they rip him apart, and then is suddenly cut off without the camera angle changing.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BodyHorror ''"WHAT [[caption-width-right:350:''[[BodyHorror "WHAT THE FOK IS WRONG WITH MY ARM!?"'']]]]ARM!?"]]]]''

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