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** The episode "Susperience" features a group of human psychics, all with impressive abilities.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Common table salt intoxicates Gua like heroin, while also giving them [[TruthSerums loose lips]]. Some Gua are addicted to it, and indulge this habit to the deterrent of their mission.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode "Deluge" to the WickerMan.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode "Deluge" to the WickerMan.Film/TheWickerMan film.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Nostradamus was an alien refugee.]] [[spoiler: His prophesies come true because the aliens use exactly the same tactics on every world, with zero variation, it seems.]]
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Nostradamus was an alien refugee.]] [[spoiler: His prophesies come true because the aliens use exactly the same tactics on every world, with zero variation, it seems. Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events.]]
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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various TwilightZone episodes including ''The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street'' and ''The Shelter,'' with elements of ''The Encounter'' and ''Nothing in the Dark.''
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: How Cade figures out who was responsible for the events in "Hypnotic": [[spoiler:while talking to Vanessa, she mentions the triggers for different people; she mentions one trigger that she shouldn't have known about, and it all comes together.]]
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* MirrorUniverse: Foster is transferred to a mirror earth where all text is reversed, and the U.S. is ruled by a [[TheEmpire military dictatorship]]. Crazy Eddie is a tyrannical officer.
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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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* ProphecyPileup: Nostradamus and an a 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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* ClipShow: The episode, where the Gua higher-ups are discussing whether or not they should proceed to the Second Wave (i.e. AlienInvasion) is mostly made up of Joshua reminding the brass of all the times that Cade has thwarted them using this trope.
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* ClipShow: The episode, episode where the Gua higher-ups are discussing whether or not they should proceed to the Second Wave (i.e. AlienInvasion) is mostly made up of Joshua reminding the brass of all the times that Cade has thwarted them using this trope.
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''First Wave'' (1998-2001) was an early SciFiChannel original series. The show starred Sebastian Spence as Cade Foster, a man trying to expose an alien conspiracy to conquer the earth. After the aliens destroy his life and frame him for his wife's murder, he discovers a book of prophecies by Nostradamus that names him as the "Twice-Blessed Man" who is destined to save the world.
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''First Wave'' (1998-2001) was an early SciFiChannel [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] original series. The show starred Sebastian Spence as Cade Foster, a man trying to expose an alien conspiracy to conquer the earth. After the aliens destroy his life and frame him for his wife's murder, he discovers a book of prophecies by Nostradamus that names him as the "Twice-Blessed Man" who is destined to save the world.
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* OpeningMonologue: Cade Foster begins each episode (except for the pilot) with a quatrain from the "hidden chapters" of the prophecies of Nostradamus and spends the episode trying to interpret the archaic wording into the show's reality.
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* OpeningMonologue: OpeningNarration: Cade Foster begins each episode (except for the pilot) with a quatrain from the "hidden chapters" of the prophecies of Nostradamus and spends the episode trying to interpret the archaic wording into the show's reality.
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* LaResistance: At first, the only people who know about the Gua and fight them are Cade and Eddie. Later on, they meet a few other people who use their own means (less ethical than Cade's) to fight the Gua. The third season introduces Raven Nation, an organized force, dedicated to stopping the Gua, whose members have been following Cade's exploits throughout the years and have been using his experience to prepare. Cade is eventually brought in by Raven Nation's leader Jordan to work alongside them.
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* TheUnmaskedWorld: After being found guilty of sympathizing with humans, Joshua is sent to a PocketDimension that is contains a scripted GroundhogDayLoop, in which the Gua have tried and failed to invade Earth, resulting in Gua stragglers being hunted down by the human authorities. Meanwhile, the Gua command decides to destroy Earth in order to prevent humanity from retaliating someday.
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* DreamWithinADream: A variation. [[spoiler:Hypnosis within a hypnosis]].
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* CoolPlane: One episode involves a top-secret crashed stealth bomber that appears to have been designed by the Gua as part of their preparation for the invasion.
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* PocketDimension: The Gua are shown to be experimenting with creating "quantum pockets" (supposedly, they have studied the one in TheBermudaTriangle). Later on, they are shown using them as a flight recorder of sorts, preserving a 3D snapshot of their experimental aircraft just before the crash.
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* FrameUp: The reason why Cade is a fugitive is because the Gua killed his wife and framed him for her murder.
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* FrameUp: The reason why Cade is a fugitive is because the Gua killed his wife and framed him for her murder. In one episode, a government agent promises to expunge Cade's criminal record in exchange for helping them "recover" a valuable asset. She lies, and Cade barely escapes before the cops arrive.
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* ReformedCriminal: Cade used to be a professional thief with his own crew. After meeting his wife, he went legit and worked as a security expert, putting his skills to good use. After his wife's death at the hands of the Gua, Cade is once again on the other side of the law.
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* FrameUp: The reason why Cade is a fugitive is because the Gua killed his wife and framed him for her murder.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Part of the reason why Cade is determined to stop the Gua is to avenge his wife's death at their hands.
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* KillAndReplace: At times, the Gua will kill a human and replace him or her with an identical-looking husk. They do that to Cade's wife in the pilot.
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* CombatTentacles: In the pilot, Cade and his wife are having sex. Except it's not his wife, but a Gua in a husk that looks like his wife (his wife is already dead by this point). During the act, the Gua!wife suddenly sprouts tentacles that nearly choke Cade to death, while she is obviously having the time of her life.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The pilot features a Gua that can sprout CombatTentacles. We are never shown another Gua like that again.
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* ClipShow: The episode, where the Gua higher-ups are discussing whether or not they should proceed to the Second Wave (i.e. AlienInvasion) is mostly made up of Joshua reminding the brass of all the times that Cade has thwarted them using this trope.
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* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler:Cade and Eddie manage to temporarily fake Cade's death by having Eddie shoot a husk made in Cade's image on live TV. They gamble on the husk not dissolving due to a Gua consciousness not yet having been imprinted on it]].
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* GothGirlsKnowMagic: A self-described witch in an episode looks like a typical goth. While her "powers" are initially only shown in the form of baking cookies that poison Gua but are harmless to humans. She claims to have found the recipe in an old book, which then gets destroyed by a Gua. However, during Cade's fight with the Gua, the girl and a few other girls use some sort of ritual that possibly causes the Gua to be split in half by a falling axe.
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* {{Mjolnir}}: [[spoiler:Thor's hammer is an alien weapon.]]
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* PublicDomainArtifact: [[spoiler:Thor's hammer is an alien weapon.]]
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* ActingForTwo: Roger Cross plays Joshua, Cade's Gua ally, and Cain, an evil Gua using an identical husk to Joshua's.
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* PsychicPowers: A [[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 [[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. Then there's Nostradamus, who predicted the whole thing in the first place ([[spoiler:he was a member of a prescient alien species that has been exterminated by the Gua]]). The Gua in general are able to sense one another to an extent, since some information indicates that it would be otherwise impossible for them to determine if the being in front of them is a Gua or not (they change continuously as they age, meaning no two Gua look alike).
