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* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinjaInstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Lampshaded, too.
--> '''Crypto''': What are ninjas doing in 1969?!!!
--> '''Crypto''': What are ninjas doing in 1969?!!!
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*** {{Alien}}: The Russian soldiers on The Moon Base in ''DAH!2''; "In Space, no one can be hearing you screaming!"
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*** {{Alien}}: ''{{Alien}}'': The Russian soldiers on The Moon Base in ''DAH!2''; "In In Space, no one can be hearing you screaming!"screaming!
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* HeroicSociopath: For Furons at least, Crypto is a hero.
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* NoExportForYou: There is a Playstation 3 Version of "Path of the Furon", but it was released for Europe, Austrailia and New New Zealand only, so no US release.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: How the first game ends, after the credits are shown.
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* VerbThis: Crypto does this after defeating Silhouette in the first game.
-->'''Silhouette:''' (dying) Majestic... will... never... give up... the struggle... to... resist you alien FREAKS!\\
'''Crypto:''' (stepping on [[spoiler:her]] head) Resist THIS!
-->'''Silhouette:''' (dying) Majestic... will... never... give up... the struggle... to... resist you alien FREAKS!\\
'''Crypto:''' (stepping on [[spoiler:her]] head) Resist THIS!
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* {{Animeland}}: Takoshima (from the second game) is inhabited by [[SailorFuku schoolgirls]], [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], {{ninja}}s and a [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]].
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* {{Animeland}}: {{Animeland}} / ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: Takoshima (from the second game) is inhabited by [[SailorFuku schoolgirls]], [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], {{ninja}}s and a [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]].
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* TalkingToHimself: RichardHorvitz voices Pox and The Town Crazy, and J. Grant Albrecht voiced Crypto, the Majestic Agents, and Jack Nicholson parody Jack Trippleson.
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* TalkingToHimself: RichardHorvitz voices Pox and Pox, The Town Crazy, Crazy and The Freak, and J. Grant Albrecht voiced Crypto, the Majestic Agents, and Jack Nicholson parody Jack Trippleson.
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*** {{Alien}}: The Russian soldiers on The Moon Base in ''DAH!2''; "In Space, no one can be hearing you screaming!"
*** And, [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphing Power Alien!!]]
*** And, [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphing Power Alien!!]]
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Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "WhereTheHellIsMatt" harding.
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Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "WhereTheHellIsMatt" harding.
Harding.
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Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "Where the hell is".
"WhereTheHellIsMatt" harding.
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[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with KillAllHumans.
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[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with KillAllHumans.
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* {{Aliens Are Bastards}}
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* {{Aliens Are Bastards}}AliensAreBastards
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* HighlyVisibleNinja / TechnicolorNinja: There's a reason why the White clan and Black clan of ninjas exist and hate each other. Originally, they were united under one clan of Gray ninjas, but the clans started to split over personal preference between black and white uniforms when they ran out of gray fabric.
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* HighlyVisibleNinja / TechnicolorNinja: There's a reason why the White clan and Black clan of ninjas exist and hate each other. Originally, they were united under one clan of Gray ninjas, but the clans started to split over personal preference between black and white uniforms when they ran out of gray fabric.
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* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Crypto tries this on the crowd in "Citizen Crypto". It obviously doesn't work, leading to a brief Q&A session.
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* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Crypto tries this on the crowd in "Citizen Crypto". It obviously doesn't work, leading to a brief Q&A session.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Subverted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the first game, in which a cop will randomly say, in thought, "What would [[TheUntouchables Eliot Ness]] do? Never carry a knife to a gunfight? No, that's not it..."
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Subverted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the first game, in which a cop will randomly say, in thought, "What would [[TheUntouchables Eliot Ness]] do? Never carry a knife to a gunfight? No, that's not it..." "
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--> '''Crypto:''' Attention Blisk! I am Cryptosporidium of the planet Furon. This planet is a territory of the Furon Empire! And your asses belong to me!
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--> '''Crypto:''' Attention Blisk! I am Cryptosporidium of the planet Furon. This planet is a territory of the Furon Empire! And your asses belong to me! me!
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* SayMyName: "CRYPTO!" Pox does this often in the second game.
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* SayMyName: "CRYPTO!" Pox does this often in the second game.
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* ShoutOut: Crypto and Pox both discuss possible future VideoGames in the third game, giving shout outs to ''{{Mario}}'', ''SonicTheHedgehog'', ''{{Halo}}'', and games based on movies, all in the same conversation.
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* ShoutOut: Crypto and Pox both discuss possible future VideoGames in the third game, giving shout outs to ''{{Mario}}'', ''SonicTheHedgehog'', ''{{Halo}}'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', and games based on movies, all in the same conversation.
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*** ''DAH!2'' also features both a ShoutOut to ''StarWars'' and to ''TheMatrix''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In 2006, a TV sitcom produced by the producer of ''KingOfTheHill'' and based on this game was planned. It was scrapped soon after to make way for ''DAH!2''. Oh the possibilities...
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In 2006, a TV sitcom produced by the producer of ''KingOfTheHill'' ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' and based on this game was planned. It was scrapped soon after to make way for ''DAH!2''. Oh the possibilities...
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* XMeetsY: ''GrandTheftAuto'' meets ''RatchetAndClank'' meets ''InvaderZim''.
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* XMeetsY: ''GrandTheftAuto'' ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' meets ''RatchetAndClank'' ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' meets ''InvaderZim''.
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* PresidentEvil: Crypto, after the first game.
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** Perhaps to drive the reference home further, concept art shows Crypto's backpack was originally to have four spider-like mechanical legs folded away inside.
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* {{Malaproper}}: In the first game, a cop will randomly say, in thought, "To serve and protect, to serve and protect, to serve and protect, to swerve and defect, to curve and perfect -- dammit, I lost it!"
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in "Big Willy" but returned in "Path of the Furon".
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in "Big Willy" but returned in "Path of the Furon".
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in Big Willy.
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in Big Willy.
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* TheEmpire: The Furon Empire
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheFifties: In the first game.
* TheGreys: Crypto and Pox are Grays in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Master. Crypto believes his enemy is Curt Calvin, supposedly another Furon DNA gatherer. Then, after meeting the Master, Crypto believes his enemy is really Saxon, who supposedly used Calvin to try and destroy Crypto. It then turns out that Saxon was under the employ of Francodyne CEO Henri Crousteau. It is then revealed that Saxon and Crousteau were both part of Emperor Meningitis's operation to manufacture Synthetic DNA. Then after killing Meningitis, the Master appears and reveals that he was the actual conspirator all along, using all of them, including Crypto, in order to usurp the Furon throne.]] Talk about complex and confusing!
* TheSeventies: In both "Big Willy Unleashed" and "Path of the Furon".
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* TheEmpire: The Furon Empire
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheFifties
* TheSixties
* TheSeventies
* TheGreys: Crypto and Pox are Grays in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Master. Crypto believes his enemy is Curt Calvin, supposedly another Furon DNA gatherer. Then, after meeting the Master, Crypto believes his enemy is really Saxon, who supposedly used Calvin to try and destroy Crypto. It then turns out that Saxon was under the employ of Francodyne CEO Henri Crousteau. It is then revealed that Saxon and Crousteau were both part of Emperor Meningitis's operation to manufacture Synthetic DNA. Then after killing Meningitis, the Master appears and reveals that he was the actual conspirator all along, using all of them, including Crypto, in order to usurp the Furon throne.]] Talk about complex and confusing!
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheFifties
* TheSixties
* TheSeventies
* TheGreys: Crypto and Pox are Grays in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Master. Crypto believes his enemy is Curt Calvin, supposedly another Furon DNA gatherer. Then, after meeting the Master, Crypto believes his enemy is really Saxon, who supposedly used Calvin to try and destroy Crypto. It then turns out that Saxon was under the employ of Francodyne CEO Henri Crousteau. It is then revealed that Saxon and Crousteau were both part of Emperor Meningitis's operation to manufacture Synthetic DNA. Then after killing Meningitis, the Master appears and reveals that he was the actual conspirator all along, using all of them, including Crypto, in order to usurp the Furon throne.]] Talk about complex and confusing!
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Subverted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the first game, in which a cop will randomly say, in thought, "What would [[TheUntouchables Eliot Ness]] do? Never carry a knife to a gunfight? No, that's not it..."
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** Then there are the Ruin Lives side-missions, in which you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ruin random people's lives]] [[ForTheEvulz for absolutely no reason]].
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''Crypto has just conquered a single TV Tropes page. After the credits roll, the rest of the website comes into view, with '''''The End?''''' appearing as ominous, eerie theremin-laced music plays.''
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''Crypto has just conquered a single TV Tropes page. After the credits roll, the rest of the website comes into view, with '''''The End?''''' appearing as ominous, eerie theremin-laced music plays.''
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto Pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto Pleads pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
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* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler: Silhouette disguises herself as a man simply so that they would take her seriously....yet ironically she is quite sexist.]]
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Pox dies at the very beginning of the second game. Not that it stops him from harassing Crypto. Or Vice Versa]]
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Pox dies at the very beginning of the second game. Not that it stops him from harassing Crypto. Or Vice Versa]]vice versa.]]
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* HumanResources: ''Big Willie Unleashed'' features a fast food shop which makes burgers out of the humans used to remove brain stems.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Blasto in [[SpinOff Big Willy Unleashed]]. Invoked and/or implied after [[MarsNeedsWomen FuronNeedsWomen]] kicks in.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Blasto in [[SpinOff Big Willy Unleashed]]. Invoked and/or implied after [[MarsNeedsWomen FuronNeedsWomen]] Furon Needs Women]] kicks in.
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--> '''Crypto''': This is for [[spoiler:The Master]], and because I don't like you, and for your [[ThisIsSPARTA Bogus. Satin. JAMMIES!]]
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--> '''Crypto''': This is for [[spoiler:The Master]], and because I don't like you, and for your [[ThisIsSPARTA [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Bogus. Satin. JAMMIES!]]
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The RunningGag / CatchPhrase / TitleDrop "DESTROY! ALL! HUMANS!"
* PuppeteerParasite: Body-snatching becomes one of Crypto's main powers by the second game.
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* ThisIsSPARTA: The RunningGag / CatchPhrase / TitleDrop "DESTROY! ALL! HUMANS!"
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* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Everything was planned by the Master in the third game as a part of his plan to usurp the Furon throne and get Crypto to kill Emperor Meningitis.]]
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* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Everything was planned by the Master in the third game as a part of his plan to usurp the Furon throne and get Crypto to kill Emperor Meningitis.]]
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->''"Aaah! Little green spacemen!"\\
"I am '''not''' green!"''
''[[ExcitedShowTitle Destroy All Humans!]]'' is a WideOpenSandbox action game released in 2005 by Pandemic Games.
Taking place in a satirical version of [[EagleLand America]] in TheFifties, it follows a sarcastic, trigger-happy "grey" alien named Cryptosporidium-137 ([[SomeCallMeTim or just "Crypto" for short]]). Crypto's species, the Furons, have been rendered sterile through centuries of nuclear warfare, and are dependent on cloning to reproduce. To keep their genetic code from becoming too corrupted, the Furons must steal DNA from human brainstems. Apparently, Furon sailors on furlough [[BoldlyComing left some untainted genes in the human pool]] back when the species still had genitals. Unfortunately, it seems Crypto's predecessor, Cryptosporidium-136, has been captured by TheGovernment. Crypto's mission is to harvest human brains, find out what happened to the last Crypto, and generally cause mayhem. Along the way, Crypto confronts paranoia, mad science, the military, a government conspiracy, and exploding cows.
It was followed up by a sequel taking place in an exaggerated version of TheSixties, and a third game taking places in TheSeventies came out recently. Was pitched to FOX for a potential television show, but it was not to be.
Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "Where the hell is".
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with KillAllHumans.
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!!''Destroy All Humans!'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveAlienParents: According to Crypto, his ''cloning tube'' is more lovable than his own mother.
* ActorAllusion: Not confirmed, but it seems like it shouldn't be a coincidence that RichardHorvitz is cast to play the [[InvaderZim ornery alien invader who is in charge of a mission on Earth.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: Pox qualifies as this after he [[BrainUploading uploads his consciousness]] into a [=HoloPox=] Unit.
* {{Aliens Are Bastards}}
* AlienAbduction: The Abducto-Beam
* AlienAmongUs: Holobob and [=BodySnatch=]
* AlienAnimals: Burrow Beast
* AlienInvasion
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Hypno
* AliensSpeakingEnglish
* AliensStealCable: One of the missions in the first game.
* AliensStealCattle: Well, interrogate, then mutilate cattle...
* AlternateContinuity: The non-{{canon}} ''Big Willy Unleashed'', in which Crypto 137 is still alive, conceived a [[InterspeciesRomance Human-Furon hybrid child with Natalya]], and is promoting a lucrative dead-body-disposing restaurant operation.
* AnalProbing: In the first game the anal probe is a ChargedAttack that can make the victim's head explode. It returns in the second game without the need for charging, though it now requires ammo.
* AndThisIsFor: Crypto to Saxon.
--> '''Crypto''': This is for [[spoiler:The Master]], and because I don't like you, and for your [[ThisIsSPARTA Bogus. Satin. JAMMIES!]]
* {{Animeland}}: Takoshima (from the second game) is inhabited by [[SailorFuku schoolgirls]], [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], {{ninja}}s and a [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]].
* AnticlimaxBoss: An irritating number of examples, though some are more because of you can become rather overpowered over the course of the game (Meteor Gun, anyone?)
** Silhouette and possibly General Armquist, though Armquist was definitely more of a challenge. Played horribly straight in DAH!3, in which some of the bosses barely even move, and especially if you have an [[MoreDakka upgraded Ion Detonator]], except for [[spoiler: Henri Crousteau]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Humans are definitely subject to this a lot more then Furons, but three lead protagonists and one supporting protagonist die. Subverted with the furons, because they can clone themselves.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Crypto believes Bigfoot to be a crock.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the first game, the final mission is a two-tiered boss fight named Attack of the 50 Foot President, in which the first boss is a 50 foot tall robot with the President's brain inside. In ''DAH!2'', Takoshima, [[{{Animeland}} a thinly-veiled parody of Japan]], gets attacked by a {{Godzilla}}esque Blisk [[{{Homage}} monster called Kojira]].
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Pox finally gets a reward after being dead for 10 years.
* {{Backtracking}}
* {{Badass}}: Crypto. Also Pox, to some extent.
* BagOfSpilling: In the second game, thanks to the destruction of the mothership.
* BattleThemeMusic
* BeehiveBarrier: Most Furon shields have this pattern.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Crypto green.
* {{BFG}}
* BigNo: In the third game, [[spoiler:Crypto yells out a big one after the Master dies. This one is so big in fact, Crypto needs to take a breath before finishing it.]]
* BlandNameProduct: The titular restaurant mascot / HumongousMecha from ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is suspiciously similar to the mascot of the Big Boy restaurant chain.
* [[BodyArmorAsHitPoints Shields As Hit Points]]
* BodySnatcher
* BoldlyComing: The reason why every human being has some Furon DNA.
* BossInMookClothing: The Yeti.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Pox and Crypto. "Don't look at me, Pox handles all the technical stuff, I just... Blow stuff up."
* BrainInAJar
* BrainUploading: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', [[spoiler:Orthopox uploads his consciousness into a [=HoloPox=] Unit just before the mothership is destroyed by a Soviet missile.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall
* CallBack: There are several to the first game in the second game.
* CatchPhrase: "Pathetic Humans!" "Monkey!" and even the game title, "Destroy All Humans!"
* ChargedAttack: Anal probe in the first game. Also the Ion Detonator.
* {{Chickification}}: Natalya. How many times do we have to escort her to her car?!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Town Crazy in the first game, and The Freak in the 2nd game.
* CloneDegeneration: The reason the Furons are screwed without pure Furon DNA.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All the weapons, handheld and vehicle alike, are associated with a color and a symbol. Zap-O-Matic is blue, Anal Probe is green, Death Ray is red, etc.
** In the second game, you have to shoot glowing orbs with the right weapon to proceed, with the orbs being color-coded for the right weapon.
** In the third game, your primary enemies, the Nexos, serve as the police for for the Fourth Ring. Their weakest level is blue, their medium level is the regular green, and the toughest level is red.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer
* ConspiracyTheorist
* ContinuityDrift: The third game's plot seems just a tad bit off in some places.
* ContinuityNod
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: When you read people's minds, they give you a succinct sentence. Maybe not a relevant one, but what did you expect?
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Oh, God! Not [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]! ''ANYTHING'' [[Film/AClockworkOrange BUT BEETHOVEN]]!"
* CoolCar: Crypto's Flying Saucer, and the Big Willy Mech in the Wii [[GaidenGame Spin Off]].
* CoolOldGuy: The Master
* CoolShip: The saucer, especially in the third game.
* CrapsackWorld
* CrateExpectations: Largely played straight, and then the second game hangs a very heavy [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] on it.
** "Say, Pox, what d'you suppose all these crates are lying around for? What could they need with this many crates?" This continues for a while, until Pox finally says, [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I think they get the point, Crypto."]]
** The first game did too; if you read the mind of a dockworker, he mentions that he hates his job. "Push crate, climb crate, jump on crate, destroy crate...that's not fun!"
* CropCircles: Of course.
* {{Cutscene}}
* CutsceneIncompetence: And how. If you kill a Nexo with PK, it's smoking and Crypto is holding his Disintegrator ray in the cutscene.
* DeadlyGas: Radiation in the second game. Big Willy's Windbreaker is a literal example in ''Big Willy Unleashed''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Crypto
** Orthopox also makes frequent quips at the human race's expense (and sometimes Crypto's).
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In the second game, whenever Crypto dies, his clone is placed in the exact spot where he died, and he continues his duties.
** The second game plays around with this in a very interesting optional boss fight. [[spoiler:The final mission in the Arkvoodle cult tree has the figurehead leader of the cult deciding he doesn't want to listen to you anymore and attacking you. Arkvoodle grants him a number of "extra lives" equal to the number of times you've had to respawn so far. Even worse, if you die fighting him, you have to start the fight over AND he gets another life. Ouch.]]
* DeathRay: Part of Crypto's arsenal.
* DeathTrap: The [[GasChamber toxic alien gas bubble]] Natalya is trapped in, in the second game.
* DestroyableItems
* DirtyCommunists: The KGB
* TheDragon: [[VillainProtagonist Crypto]] plays this three times. Mostly to Pox, but also to [[spoiler: The Master]], and ultimately he and Pox are this to Emperor Meningitis. At least until [[spoiler: Emperor Meningitis dies and Pox becomes Emperor.]]
* DodgeThis
--> '''Silhouette:''' We will continue to resist you!\\
'''Crypto:''' Resist ''this''. *squish*
* DoubleEntendre: ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is VERY bad about this. Even the TITLE is one.
* DoubleJump: Thanks to the Jetpack.
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. Americans are stupid, paranoid, shotgun-toting dickheads. TheGovernment drugs the food supplies, the scientists all have German accents, and they think they're better than everyone else.
* EasterEgg
* EliteMooks
* EnemyChatter: As well as the conventional kind, the game allows and in fact requires the player to access the hidden ''thoughts'' of non-player characters as well.
* EnemyCivilWar: Crypto provokes a war between the Cosmonauts and the Blisk on Solaris.
* EnemyMine: Several humans team up with Crypto during the series.
* EscortMission: A FREAKING NUCLEAR BOMB in the first game. One in the second game even involves escorting a girl spy to her hot pink car.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Crypto, AKA Crypto 137/8/9, AKA Cryptosporidium, AKA Cryptosporidium 137/8/9.
* EverythingFades
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Radioactive exploding zombie cows.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The Zombie Gun in BWU.
* EverythingsFunkierWithDisco: In the third game, set in TheSeventies, Pox plans to use Disco to brainwash the world's population.
* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Ponsonby]]
* EvilDuo: Pox and Crypto. Well, more like AntiHero Duo.
* EvilIsHammy: Most of the villains, and Furons.
* EvilOverlooker: Subverted/inverted. [[spoiler:The Master on the third game's box art would qualify.]]
* EvilPaysBetter: In the second game, Crypto hears one Japanese man thinking, "Should I join White Ninja or Black Ninja? On one hand, White Ninja are in glorious harmony with universe. On other hand, Black Ninja get to live on island north of Takoshima City. White Ninja get spiritual fulfillment. Black Ninja get paid. Black Ninja."
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* {{Expy}}: Orthopox is voiced by InvaderZim's voice actor, RichardHorvitz, and shares many of his personality traits. If one were to make him the main character, you'd essentially have ''Zim: The Game''...
** Except for the important detail that unlike Zim, Pox is a competent invader. Still everything else seems to match between the two.
*** Pox is also far more nerdy and speaks more properly and with more big words. He still loves destroying stuff though.
** ... ''[[NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' (which stars Zim among others) notwithstanding.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* {{Fanservice}}: Silhouette, Natalya, and Veronica Stone.
* FantasticRacism: The Furon race views the human race as "inferior, filthy, pathetic, stupid monkeys" that are only useful for the strand of Furon DNA in their heads. Once the humans lose their usefulness via various means, they're just things to shoot/zoo animals/game pieces/something to try out their new sex organs on, and then throw away.
** Subverted eventually, Crypto and Pox, rulers of the planet, eventually grow to enjoy human customs, though they'll never admit it if you asked them.
* {{Fartillery}}: Big Willy's [[PunnyName Windbreaker]].
* FetchQuest: {{Lampshaded}} in ..Big Willy Unleashed''.
* FingerPokeOfDoom
* FriendlyEnemy
* FunWithAcronyms: Played with. It's actually an initialism instead of an acronym. Pox creates an anti-Blisk weapon in the second game codenamed "'''O.M.G.W.T.F.'''"
* GaidenGame: ''DestroyAllHumans! Big Willy Unleashed''
* {{Gangsterland}}
* GameplayAllyImmortality: Averted
* GasMaskMooks: Some of the Soviet soldiers in Tunguska.
* GayParee: Belleville in ''Path of the Furon''.
* GenreSavvy: Crypto to a certain extent.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
* GiantEnemyCrab: The Blisk
* GiantFootOfStomping
* GirlOfTheWeek / TemporaryLoveInterest: Natalya; Veronica Stone
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Majestic
* GovernmentConspiracy
* GroinAttack: The Nexo Walker's weakness in the third game, although they technically aren't testes...
* GuiltBasedGaming
* HalfHumanHybrid: Blasto in [[SpinOff Big Willy Unleashed]]. Invoked and/or implied after [[MarsNeedsWomen FuronNeedsWomen]] kicks in.
* HandicappedBadass: Pox, the genius fleet commander in the [[RuleOfCool extremely frikkin cool]] Cerebro Chair.
* HerrDoktor: The scientists in the first game mostly had German accents.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Up until the third game, the Furon Emperor is only mentioned twice, once in the first game, once in the second game. However, he does make an appearance at the end of the third game, just before [[spoiler:being killed by Crypto]].
* HeroicSociopath: For Furons at least, Crypto is a hero.
* HeyItsThatVoice
* HideYourChildren
* HighlyVisibleNinja / TechnicolorNinja: There's a reason why the White clan and Black clan of ninjas exist and hate each other. Originally, they were united under one clan of Gray ninjas, but the clans started to split over personal preference between black and white uniforms when they ran out of gray fabric.
-->'''White Ninja Leader''': Wrong! Supplier stop selling gray fabric. We wanted to be black ninja, but bastards put their order in first!
* {{Hivemind}}: The Blisk
* HollywoodCalifornia
* {{Hologram}}: Orthopox's [=HoloPox=] holographic projector unit.
* HumanoidAliens
* HumansAreMorons: The source of much of the series' humor.
* HumansAreSpecial: At least until their brain is removed.
* HumanResources: ''Big Willie Unleashed'' features a fast food shop which makes burgers out of the humans used to remove brain stems.
* HumongousMecha: Roboprez and Big Willy.
* HundredPercentCompletion
* HyperspaceArsenal: Crypto carries up to 8 weapons on him at a time, and it ''DAH!3'', all the saucer's giant weapons pop out of the hull.
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler: Silhouette disguises herself as a man simply so that they would take her seriously....yet ironically she is quite sexist.]]
* IconicLogo: "DAH!"
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Quantum Deconstructor, Dislocator, Tornadotron, Black Hole Gun, Superballer...
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Pox. Boy, he loves those nukes.
* InGameTV
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
* InterfaceScrew
* InterspeciesRomance: In the second game, Crypto invokes this when he gets new genitalia. The only thing he can experiment on is human women. Taken UpToEleven in ''Path of the Furon'', where the entire Furon race has been gradually recloned with genitalia. The Furon men find human women more attractive.
* InvisibleWall
* IsThatWhatHeToldYou
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Crypto is only offended by the ''green'' part of being called a Little Green [Space]Man. Then again, that may be because it's the only inaccurate part.
* {{Jerkass}}: Crypto. Pox has his moments too.
* JustifiedExtraLives: Cloning
* {{Kaiju}}
* KickTheDog
* KillAllHumans: Well... what do you expect?
* KillItWithFire: You can light some humans on fire in the first game, given the right circumstances.
* LampshadeHanging: Done several times. Mostly in the second game, such as:
-->'''Milenkov''': Maybe you wouldn't be so arrogant if you knew of my, FIENDISH MASTER PLAN!
-->'''Crypto''': Alright already! Let's hear your damn plan. Geez, you guys just gotta have your [[HannibalLecture monologues]].
* LargeHam: Pox loves to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]].
* IncomingHam: Whenever Crypto smarts off, Pox retaliates with Ham.
* [[strike:Last]] [[LastOfHisKind First Of His Kind]]: Crypto is the first Furon in millenia to have working sex organs.
* LeyLine: According to the "Lunarian Church of Alientology", they are "invisible rivers of mystical energy", and they want to build where the ley lines cross in order to use them to communicate interstellar distances with their minds.
* MacGuffin: Human Brainstems. Crypto treats his groin as this.
* MadScientist: Pox, who develops all your [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon diabolical weapons]], and their upgrades.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Invoked when the majority of the Furons' male population gets genitalia for the first time.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Nexos, to a certain extent.
* MeaningfulName: Furons are all named after parasitic, infectious, or viral diseases.
* MentorOccupationalHazard
* TheMenInBlack: The Majestic agents.
* MindRape: Hypno
* MissionControl: Crypto's commander, Orthopox.
* MonumentalDamage
* TheMothership
* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Crypto tries this on the crowd in "Citizen Crypto". It obviously doesn't work, leading to a brief Q&A session.
* MsFanservice: Natalya
* MyBrainIsBig
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: In the third game, [[spoiler:The Master stages his death in order to win Crypto's trust and set his plan in full motion.]]
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Emperor Meningitis addresses Crypto as "Klepto."
--> '''Meningitis:''' Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, ''Klepto!''\\
'''Crypto:''' CRYP-TO.
--> '''Meningitis:''' Whatever!
* MundaneUtility
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Furons from the Planet Furon.
* {{Nerf}}: The disintegrator ray in DAH!3
* {{Ninja}}: Show up in the Japanese city in the second game. Much [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] is made as the protagonist wonders why ninjas are still around in the modern day.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Crypto's voice is a not-so-subtle JackNicholson impression. In the third game, where Crypto body-snatches a Jack Nicholson expy and has a habit of zapping him while [[HypocriticalHumor complaining about how his voice is grating.]]
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Numerous. We've got Area 42 ({{Area 51}}), Union Town (Norfolk, Virginia), Capitol City (Washington D.C.), Bay City (San Francisco), Albion (London), Takoshima (Tokyo), Vietnmahl (Vietnam), Las Paradiso (Las Vegas), Sunnywood (Hollywood), Shen Long (Hong Kong) and last but not least, Belleville (Paris).
** Strangely averted with Russia, perhaps because the U.S.S.R. isn't around anymore.
* NoFairCheating
* NoFourthWall: By the third game, the fourth wall never even existed.
* NoGearLevel: The mission "Furon Down".
* NonActionGuy: Pox, up until the third installment.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite what the title suggests, Crypto spends the series ''avoiding'' the total destruction of humans, since he needs their DNA, and even has to protect them on numerous occasions.
* NotSoDifferent: Most of the antagonists in the series.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Humans can be quite a challenge when they bring out their soldiers and war machines.
* ObviousBeta: Several aspects of the third installment seem...unfinished.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Big Willy Unleashed''
* OldMaster
* OneHitKill: The Burrow Beast can eat anything that's not a boss in one gulp. It can even chow down the enormous Blisk.
* OneManArmy: Crypto
* OneWingedAngel: Milenkov & Oranchov
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Crypto, who combines this with AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and PresidentEvil.
* PaperThinDisguise: Apparently, in France, all Crypto really needs to disguise himself among the locals is a beret.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Crypto. Well, Pox too. He was upset after his body was destroyed because there weren't any explosions.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor: RichardHorvitz. The guy seems to love titular aliens.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: The Master; Crypto
* PlanetLooters
* PlayingWithSyringes
* PretendPrejudice: In the first game, Crypto genuinely dispises Humans. But, by the second game, he's really just pretending.
-->'''Crypto:''' Hey, you know, that big blue mudball starts to grow on ya. I mean at first you think it's a boil but-\\
'''Natalya:''' It's alright Crypto. You don't have to pretend. I know how you feel about humans.
-->'''Crypto:''' Weeellll... not ''all'' humans.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner
--> '''Crypto:''' Attention Blisk! I am Cryptosporidium of the planet Furon. This planet is a territory of the Furon Empire! And your asses belong to me!
* PreMortemOneLiner
--> '''Silhouette:''' We will continue to resist you!\\
'''Crypto:''' Resist ''this''. *squish*
* ProjectedMan: Orthopox again.
* PsychicPowers: [[MindOverMatter Psychokinesis]]; mind reading.
* PunyEarthlings: The promotions and box art invoke this.
* PutOnABus: Gastro in the third game. He's introduced in ''DAH!2'' as a major supporting character, with a background story. In the third game, he is never seen, heard from, or spoken of again. Mostly due to everyone treating him as simply a weapon, and not a character. Natalya also gets this in the third game.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Radioactive exploding zombie cows.
* RagdollPhysics
* RedOniBlueOni: Pox is the Blue, Crypto is the Red.
* RedScare
* RedshirtArmy: The Humans
* TheReveal: In ''DAH!2'': [[spoiler:The Blisk being behind the Russian Revolution; Majestic 16.]]
** [[spoiler: Silhouette [[SamusIsAGirl being a girl]] in the first game.]]
*** More of an [[TheUnreveal unreveal]] actually. There were a lot of hints, and the thoughts of the Majestic agents blatantly state it.
* [[strike:Roswell]] [[RoswellThatEndsWell Rockwell That Ends Well]]
* {{Roofhopping}}
* SamusIsAGirl
-->'''Crypto:''' You're a chick?!\\
'''Silhouette:''' I'm a patriot! If you had to put up with politicians playing grab-ass all day, you'd wear a mask too!
* SandWorm: The Burrow Beast.
* SatireParodyPastiche: All the games are generally a satirical parody of the date the setting takes place in. For example, the first game spoofs and parodies hundreds of events from TheFifties, including the first big Sci-Fi craze and America's fear of communism.
* SatelliteCharacter: Crypto and Pox would be pretty bland alone.
* SayMyName: "CRYPTO!" Pox does this often in the second game.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* SequelHook
* SeriesContinuityError: ''BWU'' is supposed to be a prequel to ''DAH!3'', but it barely has anything to do with the game, except that Crypto used the profits to create the space dust casino, which is completely false as Crypto crashed into it while drunk, and after Pox recloned him, they made it home sweet home.)
* SetAMookToKillAMook
* ShockAndAwe: Your initial weapon, the ''Zap-O-Matic'', a LightningGun with bite.
* ShoutOut: Crypto and Pox both discuss possible future VideoGames in the third game, giving shout outs to ''{{Mario}}'', ''SonicTheHedgehog'', ''{{Halo}}'', and games based on movies, all in the same conversation.
** The series itself is a shout out to ''MarsAttacks'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''InvaderZim'', and other alien related movies and shows.
*** ''DAH!3'' has the misson [[CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Close Encounters of the Furon Kind]] where you have to reply to cultists beeping tones at your ship.
-->'''Pox''':Great Arkvoodle! The fools think we have a musical language!
-->'''Crypto''':Nobody ''talks'' music, that's stupid!
*** ''DAH!2'' also features both a ShoutOut to ''StarWars'' and to ''TheMatrix''.
-->'''Crypto:''' (To Dr. Go!) My name is Luk-I mean, Cryptosporidium. I'm here to rescue you.
-->'''Pox:''' (In reference to Crypto being Son of Arkvoodle) Crypto! What if it's true?! What if you're ''THE ONE''?!\\
'''Crypto:''' Well, I ''did'' take a red pill this morning, heheh.
*** Panicking citizens of Albion may spout references to ''{{Quatermass}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* SlapSlapKiss: Crypto and Natalya start out this way.
* SoundtrackDissonance: ''(So Nice) Summer Sammba'' by Walter Wanderly playing as Crypto vaporizes a pool party.
** In the third game, "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People will sometimes play in the background during scenes where Crypto is causing massive destruction.
* SphereOfDestruction - The Ion Detonator's ammunition, as well as the quantum deconstructor.
* SpinningPaper: Every mission completed has a humorous headline pop up after.
* SpyCatsuit: Silhouette and Crypto's Russian LoveInterest, Natalya, in the sequel.
* SpyDrama: The first two games, but especially the second one.
* StepfordSmiler: Most of the humans in the first game. It is set in the 1950s, after all.
* StepfordSuburbia: Santa Modesta in the first game.
* StormingTheCastle: The attack on the blisk base in the second game, and the attack on the furon palace in the third game.
* StuffBlowingUp
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Pox dies at the very beginning of the second game. Not that it stops him from harassing Crypto. Or Vice Versa]]
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Crypto
* SuperDrowningSkills: Crypto in every game, except the third, in which he still can't swim, however he just gets warped to the shore.
* SurprisinglyEasyMiniQuest
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Pretty much the point of the third game. "Temporal Fist!"
* TakeOverTheWorld
* TakeThat: "Alientology" is a thinly veiled parody of Scientology.
* TalkingToHimself: RichardHorvitz voices Pox and The Town Crazy, and J. Grant Albrecht voiced Crypto, the Majestic Agents, and Jack Nicholson parody Jack Trippleson.
* TelepathicSpacemen
* TellMeAgain: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', all conversations end with the option of Crypto asking for a condensed version of the conversation.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', while in Tunguska, Russians tend to do this dance when Crypto uses Free Love on them.
* TheEmpire: The Furon Empire
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheFifties
* TheSixties
* TheSeventies
* TheGreys: Crypto and Pox are Grays in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Master. Crypto believes his enemy is Curt Calvin, supposedly another Furon DNA gatherer. Then, after meeting the Master, Crypto believes his enemy is really Saxon, who supposedly used Calvin to try and destroy Crypto. It then turns out that Saxon was under the employ of Francodyne CEO Henri Crousteau. It is then revealed that Saxon and Crousteau were both part of Emperor Meningitis's operation to manufacture Synthetic DNA. Then after killing Meningitis, the Master appears and reveals that he was the actual conspirator all along, using all of them, including Crypto, in order to usurp the Furon throne.]] Talk about complex and confusing!
* ThemeNaming: Furon names are all names of viruses.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto Pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in Big Willy.
* PuppeteerParasite: Body-snatching becomes one of Crypto's main powers by the second game.
* {{Theremin}}
* ThisIsSPARTA: The RunningGag / CatchPhrase / TitleDrop "DESTROY! ALL! HUMANS!"
* TimedMission
* TractorBeam: The Abducto Beam
* {{Twinmaker}}: The plot is driven by the Furon's need to harvest human brains to retain their immortality through cloning.
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: "Three words. And one of them's a disease. Blind Willie Syphilis."
* UnfortunateNames: The [[DoubleEntendre Big Willy Hotdog Franchise]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Telekinesis and Mind Control are such nicely sadistic weapons.
** And the anal probes, don't forget the anal probes.
** A big part of the appeal of the game is also the ability to get into a space-ship and use the various weapons it possesses to fly around [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed thinly-veiled versions of various cities]] and ''destroy the everlasting fuck out of them''.
* VillainProtagonist: [[BlackAndGrayMorality Though your opponents aren't any better.]]
* VirtualGhost: Pox, quite literally.
* VivaLasVegas
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Pox
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Everything was planned by the Master in the third game as a part of his plan to usurp the Furon throne and get Crypto to kill Emperor Meningitis.]]
* WantedMeter
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In 2006, a TV sitcom produced by the producer of ''KingOfTheHill'' and based on this game was planned. It was scrapped soon after to make way for ''DAH!2''. Oh the possibilities...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Veronica Stone in ''DAH!3''. After getting her the story of sending the Neo Walker into the corrupt police station, she is neither seen or heard from again.
* WhosOnFirst: The second game sees Crypto run into this kind of confusion, before adding [[LampshadeHanging Also, Who's on first, what's on second and I dont know's on third.]]
* WreakingHavok
* XMeetsY: ''GrandTheftAuto'' meets ''RatchetAndClank'' meets ''InvaderZim''.
* YouAreNumberSix: Each clone is designated by the number of times the Furon has been cloned. If you've been cloned 13 times, you clone number is 13.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Admiral Cyclosporiasis is not very pleased when he learns Pox and Crypto lost the pure Furon DNA.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Double example -- [[spoiler:The Master's plan is essentially regicide. After Crypto kills Meningitis, he gets Orthopox to kill the Master, who then decides to stick around as Furon Emperor.]]
* ZillionDollarBill: Furon DNA acts as this.
* ZombieApocalypse: The blisk mutants in DAH!2. Played Straight with the Zombie Gun in BWU.
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''Crypto has just conquered a single TV Tropes page. After the credits roll, the rest of the website comes into view, with '''''The End?''''' appearing as ominous, eerie theremin-laced music plays.''
->''"Aaah! Little green spacemen!"\\
"I am '''not''' green!"''
''[[ExcitedShowTitle Destroy All Humans!]]'' is a WideOpenSandbox action game released in 2005 by Pandemic Games.
Taking place in a satirical version of [[EagleLand America]] in TheFifties, it follows a sarcastic, trigger-happy "grey" alien named Cryptosporidium-137 ([[SomeCallMeTim or just "Crypto" for short]]). Crypto's species, the Furons, have been rendered sterile through centuries of nuclear warfare, and are dependent on cloning to reproduce. To keep their genetic code from becoming too corrupted, the Furons must steal DNA from human brainstems. Apparently, Furon sailors on furlough [[BoldlyComing left some untainted genes in the human pool]] back when the species still had genitals. Unfortunately, it seems Crypto's predecessor, Cryptosporidium-136, has been captured by TheGovernment. Crypto's mission is to harvest human brains, find out what happened to the last Crypto, and generally cause mayhem. Along the way, Crypto confronts paranoia, mad science, the military, a government conspiracy, and exploding cows.
It was followed up by a sequel taking place in an exaggerated version of TheSixties, and a third game taking places in TheSeventies came out recently. Was pitched to FOX for a potential television show, but it was not to be.
Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "Where the hell is".
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with KillAllHumans.
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!!''Destroy All Humans!'' provides examples of:
* AbusiveAlienParents: According to Crypto, his ''cloning tube'' is more lovable than his own mother.
* ActorAllusion: Not confirmed, but it seems like it shouldn't be a coincidence that RichardHorvitz is cast to play the [[InvaderZim ornery alien invader who is in charge of a mission on Earth.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: Pox qualifies as this after he [[BrainUploading uploads his consciousness]] into a [=HoloPox=] Unit.
* {{Aliens Are Bastards}}
* AlienAbduction: The Abducto-Beam
* AlienAmongUs: Holobob and [=BodySnatch=]
* AlienAnimals: Burrow Beast
* AlienInvasion
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Hypno
* AliensSpeakingEnglish
* AliensStealCable: One of the missions in the first game.
* AliensStealCattle: Well, interrogate, then mutilate cattle...
* AlternateContinuity: The non-{{canon}} ''Big Willy Unleashed'', in which Crypto 137 is still alive, conceived a [[InterspeciesRomance Human-Furon hybrid child with Natalya]], and is promoting a lucrative dead-body-disposing restaurant operation.
* AnalProbing: In the first game the anal probe is a ChargedAttack that can make the victim's head explode. It returns in the second game without the need for charging, though it now requires ammo.
* AndThisIsFor: Crypto to Saxon.
--> '''Crypto''': This is for [[spoiler:The Master]], and because I don't like you, and for your [[ThisIsSPARTA Bogus. Satin. JAMMIES!]]
* {{Animeland}}: Takoshima (from the second game) is inhabited by [[SailorFuku schoolgirls]], [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]], {{ninja}}s and a [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]].
* AnticlimaxBoss: An irritating number of examples, though some are more because of you can become rather overpowered over the course of the game (Meteor Gun, anyone?)
** Silhouette and possibly General Armquist, though Armquist was definitely more of a challenge. Played horribly straight in DAH!3, in which some of the bosses barely even move, and especially if you have an [[MoreDakka upgraded Ion Detonator]], except for [[spoiler: Henri Crousteau]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Humans are definitely subject to this a lot more then Furons, but three lead protagonists and one supporting protagonist die. Subverted with the furons, because they can clone themselves.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Crypto believes Bigfoot to be a crock.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the first game, the final mission is a two-tiered boss fight named Attack of the 50 Foot President, in which the first boss is a 50 foot tall robot with the President's brain inside. In ''DAH!2'', Takoshima, [[{{Animeland}} a thinly-veiled parody of Japan]], gets attacked by a {{Godzilla}}esque Blisk [[{{Homage}} monster called Kojira]].
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Pox finally gets a reward after being dead for 10 years.
* {{Backtracking}}
* {{Badass}}: Crypto. Also Pox, to some extent.
* BagOfSpilling: In the second game, thanks to the destruction of the mothership.
* BattleThemeMusic
* BeehiveBarrier: Most Furon shields have this pattern.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Crypto green.
* {{BFG}}
* BigNo: In the third game, [[spoiler:Crypto yells out a big one after the Master dies. This one is so big in fact, Crypto needs to take a breath before finishing it.]]
* BlandNameProduct: The titular restaurant mascot / HumongousMecha from ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is suspiciously similar to the mascot of the Big Boy restaurant chain.
* [[BodyArmorAsHitPoints Shields As Hit Points]]
* BodySnatcher
* BoldlyComing: The reason why every human being has some Furon DNA.
* BossInMookClothing: The Yeti.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Pox and Crypto. "Don't look at me, Pox handles all the technical stuff, I just... Blow stuff up."
* BrainInAJar
* BrainUploading: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', [[spoiler:Orthopox uploads his consciousness into a [=HoloPox=] Unit just before the mothership is destroyed by a Soviet missile.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall
* CallBack: There are several to the first game in the second game.
* CatchPhrase: "Pathetic Humans!" "Monkey!" and even the game title, "Destroy All Humans!"
* ChargedAttack: Anal probe in the first game. Also the Ion Detonator.
* {{Chickification}}: Natalya. How many times do we have to escort her to her car?!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Town Crazy in the first game, and The Freak in the 2nd game.
* CloneDegeneration: The reason the Furons are screwed without pure Furon DNA.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All the weapons, handheld and vehicle alike, are associated with a color and a symbol. Zap-O-Matic is blue, Anal Probe is green, Death Ray is red, etc.
** In the second game, you have to shoot glowing orbs with the right weapon to proceed, with the orbs being color-coded for the right weapon.
** In the third game, your primary enemies, the Nexos, serve as the police for for the Fourth Ring. Their weakest level is blue, their medium level is the regular green, and the toughest level is red.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer
* ConspiracyTheorist
* ContinuityDrift: The third game's plot seems just a tad bit off in some places.
* ContinuityNod
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: When you read people's minds, they give you a succinct sentence. Maybe not a relevant one, but what did you expect?
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Oh, God! Not [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]! ''ANYTHING'' [[Film/AClockworkOrange BUT BEETHOVEN]]!"
* CoolCar: Crypto's Flying Saucer, and the Big Willy Mech in the Wii [[GaidenGame Spin Off]].
* CoolOldGuy: The Master
* CoolShip: The saucer, especially in the third game.
* CrapsackWorld
* CrateExpectations: Largely played straight, and then the second game hangs a very heavy [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] on it.
** "Say, Pox, what d'you suppose all these crates are lying around for? What could they need with this many crates?" This continues for a while, until Pox finally says, [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I think they get the point, Crypto."]]
** The first game did too; if you read the mind of a dockworker, he mentions that he hates his job. "Push crate, climb crate, jump on crate, destroy crate...that's not fun!"
* CropCircles: Of course.
* {{Cutscene}}
* CutsceneIncompetence: And how. If you kill a Nexo with PK, it's smoking and Crypto is holding his Disintegrator ray in the cutscene.
* DeadlyGas: Radiation in the second game. Big Willy's Windbreaker is a literal example in ''Big Willy Unleashed''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Crypto
** Orthopox also makes frequent quips at the human race's expense (and sometimes Crypto's).
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In the second game, whenever Crypto dies, his clone is placed in the exact spot where he died, and he continues his duties.
** The second game plays around with this in a very interesting optional boss fight. [[spoiler:The final mission in the Arkvoodle cult tree has the figurehead leader of the cult deciding he doesn't want to listen to you anymore and attacking you. Arkvoodle grants him a number of "extra lives" equal to the number of times you've had to respawn so far. Even worse, if you die fighting him, you have to start the fight over AND he gets another life. Ouch.]]
* DeathRay: Part of Crypto's arsenal.
* DeathTrap: The [[GasChamber toxic alien gas bubble]] Natalya is trapped in, in the second game.
* DestroyableItems
* DirtyCommunists: The KGB
* TheDragon: [[VillainProtagonist Crypto]] plays this three times. Mostly to Pox, but also to [[spoiler: The Master]], and ultimately he and Pox are this to Emperor Meningitis. At least until [[spoiler: Emperor Meningitis dies and Pox becomes Emperor.]]
* DodgeThis
--> '''Silhouette:''' We will continue to resist you!\\
'''Crypto:''' Resist ''this''. *squish*
* DoubleEntendre: ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is VERY bad about this. Even the TITLE is one.
* DoubleJump: Thanks to the Jetpack.
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 2. Americans are stupid, paranoid, shotgun-toting dickheads. TheGovernment drugs the food supplies, the scientists all have German accents, and they think they're better than everyone else.
* EasterEgg
* EliteMooks
* EnemyChatter: As well as the conventional kind, the game allows and in fact requires the player to access the hidden ''thoughts'' of non-player characters as well.
* EnemyCivilWar: Crypto provokes a war between the Cosmonauts and the Blisk on Solaris.
* EnemyMine: Several humans team up with Crypto during the series.
* EscortMission: A FREAKING NUCLEAR BOMB in the first game. One in the second game even involves escorting a girl spy to her hot pink car.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Crypto, AKA Crypto 137/8/9, AKA Cryptosporidium, AKA Cryptosporidium 137/8/9.
* EverythingFades
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Radioactive exploding zombie cows.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The Zombie Gun in BWU.
* EverythingsFunkierWithDisco: In the third game, set in TheSeventies, Pox plans to use Disco to brainwash the world's population.
* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Ponsonby]]
* EvilDuo: Pox and Crypto. Well, more like AntiHero Duo.
* EvilIsHammy: Most of the villains, and Furons.
* EvilOverlooker: Subverted/inverted. [[spoiler:The Master on the third game's box art would qualify.]]
* EvilPaysBetter: In the second game, Crypto hears one Japanese man thinking, "Should I join White Ninja or Black Ninja? On one hand, White Ninja are in glorious harmony with universe. On other hand, Black Ninja get to live on island north of Takoshima City. White Ninja get spiritual fulfillment. Black Ninja get paid. Black Ninja."
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
* {{Expy}}: Orthopox is voiced by InvaderZim's voice actor, RichardHorvitz, and shares many of his personality traits. If one were to make him the main character, you'd essentially have ''Zim: The Game''...
** Except for the important detail that unlike Zim, Pox is a competent invader. Still everything else seems to match between the two.
*** Pox is also far more nerdy and speaks more properly and with more big words. He still loves destroying stuff though.
** ... ''[[NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' (which stars Zim among others) notwithstanding.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* {{Fanservice}}: Silhouette, Natalya, and Veronica Stone.
* FantasticRacism: The Furon race views the human race as "inferior, filthy, pathetic, stupid monkeys" that are only useful for the strand of Furon DNA in their heads. Once the humans lose their usefulness via various means, they're just things to shoot/zoo animals/game pieces/something to try out their new sex organs on, and then throw away.
** Subverted eventually, Crypto and Pox, rulers of the planet, eventually grow to enjoy human customs, though they'll never admit it if you asked them.
* {{Fartillery}}: Big Willy's [[PunnyName Windbreaker]].
* FetchQuest: {{Lampshaded}} in ..Big Willy Unleashed''.
* FingerPokeOfDoom
* FriendlyEnemy
* FunWithAcronyms: Played with. It's actually an initialism instead of an acronym. Pox creates an anti-Blisk weapon in the second game codenamed "'''O.M.G.W.T.F.'''"
* GaidenGame: ''DestroyAllHumans! Big Willy Unleashed''
* {{Gangsterland}}
* GameplayAllyImmortality: Averted
* GasMaskMooks: Some of the Soviet soldiers in Tunguska.
* GayParee: Belleville in ''Path of the Furon''.
* GenreSavvy: Crypto to a certain extent.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
* GiantEnemyCrab: The Blisk
* GiantFootOfStomping
* GirlOfTheWeek / TemporaryLoveInterest: Natalya; Veronica Stone
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Majestic
* GovernmentConspiracy
* GroinAttack: The Nexo Walker's weakness in the third game, although they technically aren't testes...
* GuiltBasedGaming
* HalfHumanHybrid: Blasto in [[SpinOff Big Willy Unleashed]]. Invoked and/or implied after [[MarsNeedsWomen FuronNeedsWomen]] kicks in.
* HandicappedBadass: Pox, the genius fleet commander in the [[RuleOfCool extremely frikkin cool]] Cerebro Chair.
* HerrDoktor: The scientists in the first game mostly had German accents.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Up until the third game, the Furon Emperor is only mentioned twice, once in the first game, once in the second game. However, he does make an appearance at the end of the third game, just before [[spoiler:being killed by Crypto]].
* HeroicSociopath: For Furons at least, Crypto is a hero.
* HeyItsThatVoice
* HideYourChildren
* HighlyVisibleNinja / TechnicolorNinja: There's a reason why the White clan and Black clan of ninjas exist and hate each other. Originally, they were united under one clan of Gray ninjas, but the clans started to split over personal preference between black and white uniforms when they ran out of gray fabric.
-->'''White Ninja Leader''': Wrong! Supplier stop selling gray fabric. We wanted to be black ninja, but bastards put their order in first!
* {{Hivemind}}: The Blisk
* HollywoodCalifornia
* {{Hologram}}: Orthopox's [=HoloPox=] holographic projector unit.
* HumanoidAliens
* HumansAreMorons: The source of much of the series' humor.
* HumansAreSpecial: At least until their brain is removed.
* HumanResources: ''Big Willie Unleashed'' features a fast food shop which makes burgers out of the humans used to remove brain stems.
* HumongousMecha: Roboprez and Big Willy.
* HundredPercentCompletion
* HyperspaceArsenal: Crypto carries up to 8 weapons on him at a time, and it ''DAH!3'', all the saucer's giant weapons pop out of the hull.
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler: Silhouette disguises herself as a man simply so that they would take her seriously....yet ironically she is quite sexist.]]
* IconicLogo: "DAH!"
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Quantum Deconstructor, Dislocator, Tornadotron, Black Hole Gun, Superballer...
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Pox. Boy, he loves those nukes.
* InGameTV
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
* InterfaceScrew
* InterspeciesRomance: In the second game, Crypto invokes this when he gets new genitalia. The only thing he can experiment on is human women. Taken UpToEleven in ''Path of the Furon'', where the entire Furon race has been gradually recloned with genitalia. The Furon men find human women more attractive.
* InvisibleWall
* IsThatWhatHeToldYou
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Crypto is only offended by the ''green'' part of being called a Little Green [Space]Man. Then again, that may be because it's the only inaccurate part.
* {{Jerkass}}: Crypto. Pox has his moments too.
* JustifiedExtraLives: Cloning
* {{Kaiju}}
* KickTheDog
* KillAllHumans: Well... what do you expect?
* KillItWithFire: You can light some humans on fire in the first game, given the right circumstances.
* LampshadeHanging: Done several times. Mostly in the second game, such as:
-->'''Milenkov''': Maybe you wouldn't be so arrogant if you knew of my, FIENDISH MASTER PLAN!
-->'''Crypto''': Alright already! Let's hear your damn plan. Geez, you guys just gotta have your [[HannibalLecture monologues]].
* LargeHam: Pox loves to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]].
* IncomingHam: Whenever Crypto smarts off, Pox retaliates with Ham.
* [[strike:Last]] [[LastOfHisKind First Of His Kind]]: Crypto is the first Furon in millenia to have working sex organs.
* LeyLine: According to the "Lunarian Church of Alientology", they are "invisible rivers of mystical energy", and they want to build where the ley lines cross in order to use them to communicate interstellar distances with their minds.
* MacGuffin: Human Brainstems. Crypto treats his groin as this.
* MadScientist: Pox, who develops all your [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon diabolical weapons]], and their upgrades.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Invoked when the majority of the Furons' male population gets genitalia for the first time.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Nexos, to a certain extent.
* MeaningfulName: Furons are all named after parasitic, infectious, or viral diseases.
* MentorOccupationalHazard
* TheMenInBlack: The Majestic agents.
* MindRape: Hypno
* MissionControl: Crypto's commander, Orthopox.
* MonumentalDamage
* TheMothership
* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Crypto tries this on the crowd in "Citizen Crypto". It obviously doesn't work, leading to a brief Q&A session.
* MsFanservice: Natalya
* MyBrainIsBig
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: In the third game, [[spoiler:The Master stages his death in order to win Crypto's trust and set his plan in full motion.]]
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Emperor Meningitis addresses Crypto as "Klepto."
--> '''Meningitis:''' Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, ''Klepto!''\\
'''Crypto:''' CRYP-TO.
--> '''Meningitis:''' Whatever!
* MundaneUtility
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Furons from the Planet Furon.
* {{Nerf}}: The disintegrator ray in DAH!3
* {{Ninja}}: Show up in the Japanese city in the second game. Much [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] is made as the protagonist wonders why ninjas are still around in the modern day.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Crypto's voice is a not-so-subtle JackNicholson impression. In the third game, where Crypto body-snatches a Jack Nicholson expy and has a habit of zapping him while [[HypocriticalHumor complaining about how his voice is grating.]]
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Numerous. We've got Area 42 ({{Area 51}}), Union Town (Norfolk, Virginia), Capitol City (Washington D.C.), Bay City (San Francisco), Albion (London), Takoshima (Tokyo), Vietnmahl (Vietnam), Las Paradiso (Las Vegas), Sunnywood (Hollywood), Shen Long (Hong Kong) and last but not least, Belleville (Paris).
** Strangely averted with Russia, perhaps because the U.S.S.R. isn't around anymore.
* NoFairCheating
* NoFourthWall: By the third game, the fourth wall never even existed.
* NoGearLevel: The mission "Furon Down".
* NonActionGuy: Pox, up until the third installment.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite what the title suggests, Crypto spends the series ''avoiding'' the total destruction of humans, since he needs their DNA, and even has to protect them on numerous occasions.
* NotSoDifferent: Most of the antagonists in the series.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Humans can be quite a challenge when they bring out their soldiers and war machines.
* ObviousBeta: Several aspects of the third installment seem...unfinished.
* OddballInTheSeries: ''Big Willy Unleashed''
* OldMaster
* OneHitKill: The Burrow Beast can eat anything that's not a boss in one gulp. It can even chow down the enormous Blisk.
* OneManArmy: Crypto
* OneWingedAngel: Milenkov & Oranchov
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Crypto, who combines this with AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and PresidentEvil.
* PaperThinDisguise: Apparently, in France, all Crypto really needs to disguise himself among the locals is a beret.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Crypto. Well, Pox too. He was upset after his body was destroyed because there weren't any explosions.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor: RichardHorvitz. The guy seems to love titular aliens.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: The Master; Crypto
* PlanetLooters
* PlayingWithSyringes
* PretendPrejudice: In the first game, Crypto genuinely dispises Humans. But, by the second game, he's really just pretending.
-->'''Crypto:''' Hey, you know, that big blue mudball starts to grow on ya. I mean at first you think it's a boil but-\\
'''Natalya:''' It's alright Crypto. You don't have to pretend. I know how you feel about humans.
-->'''Crypto:''' Weeellll... not ''all'' humans.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner
--> '''Crypto:''' Attention Blisk! I am Cryptosporidium of the planet Furon. This planet is a territory of the Furon Empire! And your asses belong to me!
* PreMortemOneLiner
--> '''Silhouette:''' We will continue to resist you!\\
'''Crypto:''' Resist ''this''. *squish*
* ProjectedMan: Orthopox again.
* PsychicPowers: [[MindOverMatter Psychokinesis]]; mind reading.
* PunyEarthlings: The promotions and box art invoke this.
* PutOnABus: Gastro in the third game. He's introduced in ''DAH!2'' as a major supporting character, with a background story. In the third game, he is never seen, heard from, or spoken of again. Mostly due to everyone treating him as simply a weapon, and not a character. Natalya also gets this in the third game.
* RaisingTheSteaks: Radioactive exploding zombie cows.
* RagdollPhysics
* RedOniBlueOni: Pox is the Blue, Crypto is the Red.
* RedScare
* RedshirtArmy: The Humans
* TheReveal: In ''DAH!2'': [[spoiler:The Blisk being behind the Russian Revolution; Majestic 16.]]
** [[spoiler: Silhouette [[SamusIsAGirl being a girl]] in the first game.]]
*** More of an [[TheUnreveal unreveal]] actually. There were a lot of hints, and the thoughts of the Majestic agents blatantly state it.
* [[strike:Roswell]] [[RoswellThatEndsWell Rockwell That Ends Well]]
* {{Roofhopping}}
* SamusIsAGirl
-->'''Crypto:''' You're a chick?!\\
'''Silhouette:''' I'm a patriot! If you had to put up with politicians playing grab-ass all day, you'd wear a mask too!
* SandWorm: The Burrow Beast.
* SatireParodyPastiche: All the games are generally a satirical parody of the date the setting takes place in. For example, the first game spoofs and parodies hundreds of events from TheFifties, including the first big Sci-Fi craze and America's fear of communism.
* SatelliteCharacter: Crypto and Pox would be pretty bland alone.
* SayMyName: "CRYPTO!" Pox does this often in the second game.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* SequelHook
* SeriesContinuityError: ''BWU'' is supposed to be a prequel to ''DAH!3'', but it barely has anything to do with the game, except that Crypto used the profits to create the space dust casino, which is completely false as Crypto crashed into it while drunk, and after Pox recloned him, they made it home sweet home.)
* SetAMookToKillAMook
* ShockAndAwe: Your initial weapon, the ''Zap-O-Matic'', a LightningGun with bite.
* ShoutOut: Crypto and Pox both discuss possible future VideoGames in the third game, giving shout outs to ''{{Mario}}'', ''SonicTheHedgehog'', ''{{Halo}}'', and games based on movies, all in the same conversation.
** The series itself is a shout out to ''MarsAttacks'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''InvaderZim'', and other alien related movies and shows.
*** ''DAH!3'' has the misson [[CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Close Encounters of the Furon Kind]] where you have to reply to cultists beeping tones at your ship.
-->'''Pox''':Great Arkvoodle! The fools think we have a musical language!
-->'''Crypto''':Nobody ''talks'' music, that's stupid!
*** ''DAH!2'' also features both a ShoutOut to ''StarWars'' and to ''TheMatrix''.
-->'''Crypto:''' (To Dr. Go!) My name is Luk-I mean, Cryptosporidium. I'm here to rescue you.
-->'''Pox:''' (In reference to Crypto being Son of Arkvoodle) Crypto! What if it's true?! What if you're ''THE ONE''?!\\
'''Crypto:''' Well, I ''did'' take a red pill this morning, heheh.
*** Panicking citizens of Albion may spout references to ''{{Quatermass}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* SlapSlapKiss: Crypto and Natalya start out this way.
* SoundtrackDissonance: ''(So Nice) Summer Sammba'' by Walter Wanderly playing as Crypto vaporizes a pool party.
** In the third game, "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People will sometimes play in the background during scenes where Crypto is causing massive destruction.
* SphereOfDestruction - The Ion Detonator's ammunition, as well as the quantum deconstructor.
* SpinningPaper: Every mission completed has a humorous headline pop up after.
* SpyCatsuit: Silhouette and Crypto's Russian LoveInterest, Natalya, in the sequel.
* SpyDrama: The first two games, but especially the second one.
* StepfordSmiler: Most of the humans in the first game. It is set in the 1950s, after all.
* StepfordSuburbia: Santa Modesta in the first game.
* StormingTheCastle: The attack on the blisk base in the second game, and the attack on the furon palace in the third game.
* StuffBlowingUp
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Pox dies at the very beginning of the second game. Not that it stops him from harassing Crypto. Or Vice Versa]]
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Crypto
* SuperDrowningSkills: Crypto in every game, except the third, in which he still can't swim, however he just gets warped to the shore.
* SurprisinglyEasyMiniQuest
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Pretty much the point of the third game. "Temporal Fist!"
* TakeOverTheWorld
* TakeThat: "Alientology" is a thinly veiled parody of Scientology.
* TalkingToHimself: RichardHorvitz voices Pox and The Town Crazy, and J. Grant Albrecht voiced Crypto, the Majestic Agents, and Jack Nicholson parody Jack Trippleson.
* TelepathicSpacemen
* TellMeAgain: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', all conversations end with the option of Crypto asking for a condensed version of the conversation.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', while in Tunguska, Russians tend to do this dance when Crypto uses Free Love on them.
* TheEmpire: The Furon Empire
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Duh.
* TheFifties
* TheSixties
* TheSeventies
* TheGreys: Crypto and Pox are Grays in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The Master. Crypto believes his enemy is Curt Calvin, supposedly another Furon DNA gatherer. Then, after meeting the Master, Crypto believes his enemy is really Saxon, who supposedly used Calvin to try and destroy Crypto. It then turns out that Saxon was under the employ of Francodyne CEO Henri Crousteau. It is then revealed that Saxon and Crousteau were both part of Emperor Meningitis's operation to manufacture Synthetic DNA. Then after killing Meningitis, the Master appears and reveals that he was the actual conspirator all along, using all of them, including Crypto, in order to usurp the Furon throne.]] Talk about complex and confusing!
* ThemeNaming: Furon names are all names of viruses.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Crypto Pleads the Master to allow him to face Saxon in the third game.
* TheOtherDarrin: Crypto and Poxs' voice actors are replaced by cheap knockoffs in Big Willy.
* PuppeteerParasite: Body-snatching becomes one of Crypto's main powers by the second game.
* {{Theremin}}
* ThisIsSPARTA: The RunningGag / CatchPhrase / TitleDrop "DESTROY! ALL! HUMANS!"
* TimedMission
* TractorBeam: The Abducto Beam
* {{Twinmaker}}: The plot is driven by the Furon's need to harvest human brains to retain their immortality through cloning.
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: "Three words. And one of them's a disease. Blind Willie Syphilis."
* UnfortunateNames: The [[DoubleEntendre Big Willy Hotdog Franchise]].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Telekinesis and Mind Control are such nicely sadistic weapons.
** And the anal probes, don't forget the anal probes.
** A big part of the appeal of the game is also the ability to get into a space-ship and use the various weapons it possesses to fly around [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed thinly-veiled versions of various cities]] and ''destroy the everlasting fuck out of them''.
* VillainProtagonist: [[BlackAndGrayMorality Though your opponents aren't any better.]]
* VirtualGhost: Pox, quite literally.
* VivaLasVegas
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Pox
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Everything was planned by the Master in the third game as a part of his plan to usurp the Furon throne and get Crypto to kill Emperor Meningitis.]]
* WantedMeter
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In 2006, a TV sitcom produced by the producer of ''KingOfTheHill'' and based on this game was planned. It was scrapped soon after to make way for ''DAH!2''. Oh the possibilities...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Veronica Stone in ''DAH!3''. After getting her the story of sending the Neo Walker into the corrupt police station, she is neither seen or heard from again.
* WhosOnFirst: The second game sees Crypto run into this kind of confusion, before adding [[LampshadeHanging Also, Who's on first, what's on second and I dont know's on third.]]
* WreakingHavok
* XMeetsY: ''GrandTheftAuto'' meets ''RatchetAndClank'' meets ''InvaderZim''.
* YouAreNumberSix: Each clone is designated by the number of times the Furon has been cloned. If you've been cloned 13 times, you clone number is 13.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Admiral Cyclosporiasis is not very pleased when he learns Pox and Crypto lost the pure Furon DNA.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Double example -- [[spoiler:The Master's plan is essentially regicide. After Crypto kills Meningitis, he gets Orthopox to kill the Master, who then decides to stick around as Furon Emperor.]]
* ZillionDollarBill: Furon DNA acts as this.
* ZombieApocalypse: The blisk mutants in DAH!2. Played Straight with the Zombie Gun in BWU.
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