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* PinchMe: In approximately every third episode.
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%%* TheMole: Joshua.
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* ReverseMole: Joshua.
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* SonsOfSlaves: The Gua name for themselves means "power to overcome". They are an aggressive, militaristic species because, at some point in the past, they were invaded and enslaved themselves, by another conquering group of aliens. Now they are doing the same thing to Earth to make sure that it never happens to them again.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: Cade ends up on the receiving end of these on the regular, where his presence will make someone nervous enough to send a gang of the local boys to beat him into the ground. As this tends to happen when he's getting close to the truth, he seems to take this as the cost of doing business.
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* PrideBeforeAFall: In Season 2, the Gua bring in a special, extra-deadly Acolyte to test Cade on a military level. When Joshua mentions the idea that they might have 50 million humans like Cade to deal with, she boasts that they'll crush them too. She's killed in that episode, by Cade and Eddie.
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** In one episode, Cade and Eddie take over a TV station to try and get the word of the invasion out. Naturally, everyone thinks they're nuts until one tech is shot and turns out to be an alien. Talking to Joshua on the phone, Cade notes the station staff now ready to help with the broadcast and lampshades "funny thing about that dizzolving trick you guys have. It always turns people into believers."
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* SensualSlavs: The hot Ukrainian telekinetic in an early episode.
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* ''Retcon'': In Cain's first appearance it was shown that he had stolen Joshua's husk and exiled his consciousness for "realignment." In a future episode, Joshua still has his husk and was exiled to a quantum pocket, while it was explained that Cain was simply given an identical husk to Joshua's.
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* ''Retcon'': {{Retcon}}: In Cain's first appearance it was shown that he had stolen Joshua's husk and exiled his consciousness for "realignment." In a future episode, Joshua still has his husk and was exiled to a quantum pocket, while it was explained that Cain was simply given an identical husk to Joshua's.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode "Deluge" to the Film/TheWickerMan film.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode "Deluge" to the Film/TheWickerMan film. ''Film/TheWickerMan1973''.
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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various Franchise/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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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various Franchise/TwilightZone episodes of ''Seres/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episodes, including ''The "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street'' Street" and ''The Shelter,'' "The Shelter", with elements of ''The Encounter'' "The Encounter" and ''Nothing "Nothing in the Dark.'' Dark".
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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various Franchise/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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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various Franchise/TwilightZone 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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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various Franchise/TwilightZone Series/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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* 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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* RecycledScript: The plot of ''Second Wave'' is basically a combination of various TwilightZone Franchise/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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* Room101: When Cade is captured, he is placed in Mabus' preservation chamber which is designed to delay the deteriatration of Mabus' husks. It has the side-effect of triggering the parts of Cade's brain responsible for guilt and regret. While in there he starts hallucinating having failed everyone he ever cared about.
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* StalkerWithATestTube: Mabus fears the union between Cade and Jordan, but quickly realizes the potential in the two having offspring. To this end, Mabus [[spoiler: possesses Jordan's body and then seduces Cade to get Jordan's body pregnant.]] Cade initially thinks that the encounter is just an hallucination, but becomes horrified when he finds out it was real.
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* PossessionBurnout: For those the alien leader possessed.
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* PossessionBurnout: For those that Mabus the alien leader possessed.possessed. If not maintained through various sci-fi tech means, any body Mabus inhabits starts bleeding and decaying. It is said that his consciouness is too powerful for an ordinary husk, and most times he appears he looks like a rotting corpse in a robe.
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* AdventureTownsAdventureTowns: Cade often visits these, particularly in the first season.
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* [[Retcon]]: ''Retcon'': In Cain's first appearance it was shown that he had stolen Joshua's husk and exiled his consciousness for ''realignment.'' "realignment." In a future episode, Joshua still has his husk and was exiled to a quantum pocket, while it was explained that Cain was simply given an identical husk to Joshua's.
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* Retcon: [[Retcon]]: In Cain's first appearance it was shown that he had stolen Joshua's husk and exiled his consciousness for ''realignment.'' In a future episode, Joshua still has his husk and was exiled to a quantum pocket, while it was explained that Cain was simply given an identical husk to Joshua's.
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* MachoMasochism: While [[spoiler: possessing Jordan's body]], Mabus tortures Cade by placing [[spoiler: Jordan's]] hand in a fire. Mabus states that pain means nothing to him, but [[spoiler: Jordan]] is screaming internally.
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* ShowingOffTheNewBody: [[spoiler: Mabus]] does this when he possesses [[spoiler: Jordan]]. He takes full advantage of this, even deceiving [[spoiler: Cade into having sex with him in Jordan's body and getting pregnant with their child so that he can possess it]].
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* FutureBadAss: Cade encounters his future self in a BadFuture who has been fighting the Gau for over a decade in the episode ''Terminal City.'' Said future Cade has long, wild hair and is completely disillusioned following his decision to [[sacrifice Jordan for the Hammer]]. He is convinced that if he prevents his past self from acting, it will prevent the BadFuture from happening at all.
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* FutureBadAss: Cade encounters his future self in a BadFuture who has been fighting the Gau for over a decade in the episode ''Terminal City.'' Said future Cade has long, wild hair and is completely disillusioned following his decision to [[sacrifice [[spoiler: sacrifice Jordan for the Hammer]]. He is convinced that if he prevents his past self from acting, it will prevent the BadFuture from happening at all.
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** There is also the episode ''Terminal City'' where Cade is transported to a future where a bitter, disillusioned Cade has been leading a resistance against the Gua for over a decade.
* TheCorruption: In one episode a MadScientist working for the Raven Nation injects Cade with Gua DNA to "improve" him. Instead, it starts mutating him and even changes his personality to become evil like a stereotypical Gua. Connecting with the Gua HiveMind might have had something to do with that.
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* TheFaceless: Mabus.
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* TheFaceless: Mabus. For the most part.
* FutureBadAss: Cade encounters his future self in a BadFuture who has been fighting the Gau for over a decade in the episode ''Terminal City.'' Said future Cade has long, wild hair and is completely disillusioned following his decision to [[sacrifice Jordan for the Hammer]]. He is convinced that if he prevents his past self from acting, it will prevent the BadFuture from happening at all.
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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).
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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.too and they are extremely powerul. 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).
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** Various versions of LaResistance are glimpsed in the BadFuture episodes.
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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.]] [[VoodooShark Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events on planet Earth.]]
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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.]] [[VoodooShark Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events on planet Earth.Earth and clearly predicted future events that happened to the main characters within each episode.]]
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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.]] [[VoodooShark Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events.]]
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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.]] [[VoodooShark Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events.events on planet Earth.]]
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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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* 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. ]] [[VoodooShark Yes, even the prophecies that named specific places, people and current events.]]
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* SaltSolution: Cade exploits the Gua's weakness to common salt to turn the tables on his interrogator in the episode ''The Box,'' by pouring some from a packet into the Gua's coffee. He then forces him at gunpoint to snort more of it so he will talk more.
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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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* 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. Sometimes Cade tries to exploit this: an intoxicated Gua is easier to deal with.
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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 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. The episode "The Trial of Joshua Bridges" could also count, consisting mostly of clips of Joshua interacting with Cade.
