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* TheEmpire: The Gua are an expansionist totalitarian state, where the needs of an individual don't matter when faced with the needs of the state. They have already conquered and exterminated at least one alien race, and Earth is their next target. Only two thing are forcing them to bide their time before launching a full-scale invasion: the great distance between their homeworld and Earth and the desire to avoid massive casualties. Hence the titular First Wave, an infiltration to prepare Earth for a CurbStompBattle.
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* LongLived: According to Joshua, the average Gua lifespan is 1000 years.
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* ParlorGames: A group of popular high school girls play "Truth or Dare" near a football field, where the players are doing laps. One of them chooses "Dare" and is told to flash the players as they're passing them. She only shows the bare minimum amount of reluctance before agreeing, barely frowning at another girl's comment that most of the players have already seen her boobs anyway. She flashes the players, resulting in an unintentional football pileup. The game then turns more serious, when the girls choose "Truth" for another girl and demand that she tell them about [[DomesticAbuse her bruise]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: An episode with a self-described witch has a climax in which she and several of her friends hold hands and chant some spell, while Cade is fighting a Gua in a cabin. Suddenly, just as the Gua is about to deliver the killing blow, an ax falls from its place on the wall and cleaves the alien in two. We are left to wonder if the ax falling was the result of the spell or just a random accident. Then again, Cade does speak to Nostradamus's spirit at one point, and PsychicPowers are known to be real in this 'verse..
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* ArtificialGravity: One of the technologies mastered by the Gua. A Gua uses an anti-gravity field to fake a miracle, when posing as a cult leader. Cade then repeats the trick to break his hold on the believers.
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* HoneyTrap: Given that Gua husks are designed to be physically attractive, and that the Gua are perfectly willing to use sex to get their way (especially since, as they discover, human sex is pleasurable, while Gua sex is very painful), this is a standard tactic.
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* PuppeteerParasiteSuperStrength: While all Gua husks are stronger than the average human, one in particular is given incredible strength, speed, and endurance (not to mention the MostCommonSuperpower) in order to allow her to kill Cade. She is shown to be easily capable of punching through a metal shipping container, but [[spoiler:she can't survive having one dropped on her]].
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* OnlySixFaces: After Joshua is arrested and found guilty of being a human sympathizer, TheDragon Cain arrives to Earth and is given a husk identical to Joshua's, so that he can get close to Cade to capture him.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Gua, presumably, have an InterstellarWeapon capable of destroying the planet, and they might use it if the invasion fails to keep humanity from coming after them in retaliation.
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* TheDeterminator: Cade, as well as, presumably, 1 in every 117 human. This is one of the reasons why Joshua works to prevent his own people's invasion. If there are about 50 million humans with the same qualities as Cade, then the invasion is either doomed to fail or will be [[PyrrhicVictory extremely costly]] to the Gua.
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* DeadPersonConversation: One episode has a girl be hit by a car and wake up quoting the lost quatrains of Nostradamus in a deeper monotone voice. After Cade finds out, he gets to the girl, and she immediately recognizes him as the "twice-blessed man", even though she doesn't know what it means. Cade eventually figures out how to trigger another "episode" and has a short conversation with the dead prophet being channeled by the girl. Nostradamus, though, fails to mention that [[spoiler:he himself is an alien from a race destroyed by the Gua]].
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* HomeworldEvacuation: According to Joshua, this is the primary reason why the Gua seek to conquer Earth. Their own world will soon be incapable of sustaining life, so they need another planet. There are not many mentions of that in later seasons, and it pretty much degrades into a typical AlienInvasion plot, especially after it's revealed that [[spoiler:Earth is far from being the first planet on the Gua path of conquest, which begs the question of why they didn't move to one of their previously-conquered worlds]].
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* NeckSnap: Being stronger than humans, the Gua sometimes resort to this method.
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* PuttingOnTheReich: Some of the episodes imply this about the Gua. To them, humans are not even sentient beings. There's even an episode about a Mengele-like doctor, who cuts up people like lab rats for experiments. The GrandFinale has [[spoiler:Mabus appear to implant a false memory into Cade's mind about Cade supposedly being a Gua sleeper agent, wearing a suspiciously SS-like uniform and raising his hand in a salute]].
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* InSeriesNickname: Foster is nicknamed the "Alien Hunter" by a kid who found Crazy Eddie's website. Of course, Nostradamus nicknamed him the "Twice-Blessed Man".
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* InSeriesNickname: Foster is nicknamed the "Alien Hunter" by a kid who found Crazy Eddie's website. Of course, Nostradamus nicknamed him the "Twice-Blessed Man". When Eddie asks what the kid nicknamed him, Foster himself makes up the nickname "The Hidden Brain". Eddie likes that.
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** The first Gua spheres to arrive to Earth took hosts by wiping the minds of anyone touching them and overwriting them with their own. The human/Gua hybrid husks were developed later.
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* KillSat: Early in the series, Cade finds out that the US Government knows or, at least, suspects about the coming AlienInvasion, when he discovers a series of satellites in orbit armed with nuclear missiles. Except the satellites are facing ''away'' from Earth. The Gua find out about this and try to get them to self-destruct in order to shower the planet with radioactive material.
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* KillSat: Early in the series, Cade finds out that the US Government knows or, at least, suspects about the coming AlienInvasion, when he discovers a series of satellites in orbit armed with nuclear missiles. Except the satellites are facing ''away'' from Earth. The Gua find out about this and try to get them to self-destruct in order to shower the planet with radioactive material. This could be one reason why [[spoiler:the Gua try to build an army on Earth instead of invade using spaceships]].
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* KillSat: Early in the series, Cade finds out that the US Government knows or, at least, suspects about the coming AlienInvasion, when he discovers a series of satellites in orbit armed with nuclear missiles. Except the satellites are facing ''away'' from Earth. The Gua find out about this and try to get them to self-destruct in order to shower the planet with radioactive material.
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* CaptainsLog: Each episode starts with a fake Nostradamus quote, followed by the hero's exposition of what it could possibly mean. Sounds like he is reading from a journal.
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* CaptainsLog: Each episode starts with a fake Nostradamus quote, followed by the hero's exposition of what it could possibly mean. Sounds like he is reading from a journal. It's heavily implied that Eddie posts his journal notes online.
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* PsychicPowers: A telekinetic human girl working for aliens in the appropriately named episode ''UsefulNotes/MataHari''. Kills people by crushing them.
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* PsychicPowers: A telekinetic [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] human girl working for aliens in the appropriately named episode ''UsefulNotes/MataHari''. Kills people by crushing them. The main BigBad Mabus has some too.
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* PsychicPowers: A telekinetic human girl working for aliens in the appropriately named episode ''MataHari''. Kills people by crushing them.
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* PsychicPowers: A telekinetic human girl working for aliens in the appropriately named episode ''MataHari''.''UsefulNotes/MataHari''. Kills people by crushing them.
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I\'m pretty sure this counts as conversation in the main page.
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** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe, in a spectacular aversion of LegoGenetics, they tried to remove this defect only to discover that they can't?]]
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** In another episode, a Gua hypnotizes Cade into believing that everything that happened to him over the past few months was nothing but a dream, including his wife's murder.
* HypnoPendulum: In one episode, Cade is hypnotized with a pocket watch.
--> '''[[spoiler:Vanessa]]:''' You think I [[MassHypnosis hypnotized everyone]]? What if you're wrong? ''(pulls out a watch)'' What if this was {{all just a dream}}? ''(starts swinging the watch)'' What if the last three months of your life... were nothing but a dream?
--> '''[[spoiler:Vanessa]]:''' You think I [[MassHypnosis hypnotized everyone]]? What if you're wrong? ''(pulls out a watch)'' What if this was {{all just a dream}}? ''(starts swinging the watch)'' What if the last three months of your life... were nothing but a dream?
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* ProphecyPileup: Nostradamus and an Gua sage had both made prophecies about how to stop BigBad Mabus...they disagreed on whether or not Cade Foster should shoot him, however. According to the Gua prophet doing so would stop the invasion, according to Nostradamus it would jump-start it. [[spoiler: Nostadamus was right.]]
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It\'s a permanent red link.
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* NaughtyTentacles: Weird tentacle coming out of his wife's clone choking Foster during sex.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: The Gua can get high on table salt.salt, so high in fact that they often [[TruthSerums spill their secrets]]
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* PossessionBurnout: For those the alien leader possessed.
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* LittleKidLover: In one episode a teenage boy who reads Crazy Eddie's website thinks his neighbor is an alien and gets Cade to come to his house. The kid's parents are quite worried when they find an adult man in their son's bedroom, become ''more'' worried when they find out they met on the internet, but luckily when Cade claims to be a reporter they buy it.
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* MistakenForPedophile: In one episode a teenage boy who reads Crazy Eddie's website thinks his neighbor is an alien and gets Cade to come to his house. The kid's parents are quite worried when they find an adult man in their son's bedroom, become ''more'' worried when they find out they met on the internet, but luckily when Cade claims to be a reporter they buy it.
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* AlienCatnip: Salt is a potent drug to the Gua.
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** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe, in a spectacular aversion of LegoGenetics, they tried to remove this defect only to discover that they can't?]]
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Or Is It misuse cleanup
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* CuckooNest: The final episodes did this without the OrIsIt.this.
