History VideoGame / DestroyAllHumans

''Destroy All Humans!'' is a WideOpenSandbox ActionAdventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for UsefulNotes/Playstation2 and UsefulNotes/XBox.

Set in a satirical version of [[TheFifties 1950's America]], the story follows Cryptosporidium 137, an [[VillainProtagonist evil alien invader]] sent by the Furon Empire to collect human brains, harvesting their DNA to propagate his dying race. After his predecessor -- Cryptosporidium 136 -- went missing in his reconnoissance mission, Crypto has to deal with Majestic, an organization of [[TheMenInBlack Agents in Darkish-Brown]] hoping to use Furon tech to control America (and by extension, the world). Now it's up to Crypto -- with the help of Orthopox 13 (played by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fame) -- to [[EvilVersusEvil stop Majestic's plot]] before he can ''Destroy. All. Humans!''

The game's story would continue in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2'' and ''[[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansPathOfTheFuron Path of the Furon]]'', with the SpinOff ''[[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansBigWillyUnleashed Big Willy Unleashed]]''. After the rights to the franchise would be purchased by Black Forest Games, the game would be [[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2020 remade]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne in 2020.

* CrapsackWorld: America in 1959, where people are self-righteous, vapid and paranoid about communism? Check. And then the Furons decide to invade.

* DarthVaderClone: Silhouette is covered head to toe in feature-obscuring black with a mask that vocalizes [[spoiler:her]] breathing and alters [[spoiler:her]] voice, is TheDragon to the president wh intends on taking control from in and tends to alter deals [[spoiler:she]] makes with her peers.

* NoFairCheating: The first game has a lot of cheats, [[SubvertedTrope and there is no punishment for using them whatsoever]] (although in the developer commentary, the developers [[TakeThatAudience have no respect for anyone who cheats]]). Played straight in the Playstation 4 port, however, where using the DNA cheat will disable one trophy for collecting 500,000 DNA without cheats.

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[[caption-width-right:350:One giant step on Mankind[[note]]The original game on the left, its remake on the right[[/note]]]]

->'''Housewife:''' Aaah! Little green spacemen!\\
'''Crypto:''' I. Am not. green!

''[[ExcitedShowTitle Destroy All Humans!]]'' is a WideOpenSandbox ActionAdventure video 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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking exploding cows.]] Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "WebVideo/WhereTheHellIsMatt" Harding.[[note]]This game was more or less directly responsible for that, in fact -- he pitched the exact opposite of the game he actually wanted to make, then quit when Pandemic [[PoesLaw took the pitch seriously]].[[/note]]

It was followed up by a sequel, ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', taking place in an exaggerated version of TheSixties, and a pair of sequels set in TheSeventies: ''Big Willy Unleashed'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2008, and ''Path of the Furon'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} and UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} in 2009. Around 2006, it was pitched to FOX for a potential television show, but it was not to be.

In 2019, it was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNYZYVR8P0 announced]] that a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] was in the works, developed by Black Forest Games and published by Creator/THQNordic. It was released on July 28th on PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Creator/EpicGames, and Website/GOGDotCom, as well as having Google Stadia, [=PS4=] and Xbox One ports. The remake also includes a previously unused lost mission from the game's Area 42. Pre-Ordering got you free access to some cosmetic Skins for Crypto, while a later update added Christmas skins on December 17th, 2020.

A Free Demo of the [[VideoGameRemake remake]] that contains the first mission and Turnipseed Farm was put up on GOG [[https://www.gog.com/game/destroy_all_humans_demo on May 27th, 2020,]] with a Steam demo following two weeks later.

On February 23rd, 2021, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryddW4i9Y9Y&feature=youtu.be 'Midweek Madness Sale' trailer]] for the remake was uploaded. At the very end however, Crypto-138 appears asking if 137 is "done yet", before being told to "wait his turn". The remake of 2, ''Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl8fokvSrTw was later revealed]], and the trailer was released on September 17th, 2021 during [=THQ Nordic's=] livestream.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the KillAllHumans trope, though in case the name didn't tip you off, the game series definitely qualifies for it.

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* AchillesHeel:
** Crypto will immediately die if he touches water. Averted in ''Path of the Furon'' -- he will teleport back to land instead.
** Blisk Mutants and the Anal Probe, which return them back to the human host form. In addition, real Blisk and electricity, which weaken their shields.
** During the Kojira {{Kaiju}} battle, the monster's bottom-half lacks shielding, which makes it a weak spot for Crypto's weapons.
** During the final battle with [[spoiler:Milenkov, his Blisk form's shielding, which leaves him vulnerable to damage.]]
* AccidentalMisnaming: 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!
* AffablyEvil: Ponsonby in the second game.
* AGlassOfChianti: Crypto in the ending cutscene to ''2''. Unlike most examples, it's white (possibly [[AlienLunch alien]]?)
* AliensAreBastards: In a twist of irony, [[HumansAreBastards the humans are no]] [[EvilVersusEvil angels either]].
* AlienAbduction:
** Crypto is occasionally instructed by Pox to mind control then bring specific humans into his UFO for interrogation, the first being Miss Rockwell from "Earth Girls Are Easy".
** The Abducto-Beam weapon, though ironically not in the first game. In the first game you could only use it to pick things up, but in later installments you could actually abduct people into the saucer with it.
* AlienAmongUs: Invoked (obviously) with the Holobob ability, and the later Body Snatch ability.
* AlienAnimals: The Burrow Beast weapon, which summons what is effectively a graboid.
* AlienInvasion: With ''you'' [[VillainProtagonist playing as the alien invader]]. The game mostly favors the "infiltration" sub-type with Crypto committing subterfuge to gain control over the masses, but he has enough hardware at his disposal [[OneManArmy to wage all-out war by himself]], which is indeed required for a couple of missions.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Furons speak fluent English, though they do apparently have their own language given the various symbols aboard the mothership. Crypto also uses his native tongue in some missions during the second game.

* 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.
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Both Takoshima and Tunguska spawn tanks fitted with lazers when Crypto's notoriety increases. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K17_Szhatie While off by a few years, there does exist a prototyoe Soviet tank.]]
** In Takoshima, reading the minds of several men will reveal that they want to become geishas, and then immediately tell the player to look up the fact that [[http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/taikomochi.html#.WJ5uEiqdly0 the first geishas were men]].

* AnachronismStew: The games often joke about pop culture relevant to the time periods they're in, some of which accidentally falls into this.
** One pedestrian in Albion's scan thoughts is "My mind says BBC 1, but my body says Channel 4" when scanned. Channel 4 started broadcasting in 1982, 13 years after 1969 (the second game's setting).
** One Urban Female in the first game makes a reference to Creator/AudreyHepburn and her role in BreakfastAtTiffanys, which came out two years (1961) after the game's setting.
* 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.
* AndIMustScream: If you can actually read the thoughts of a Blisk Mutant, you learn there's still a bit of human left in them. They [[ICannotSelfTerminate just want to die]]. You can gladly grant them the mercy they desire.
* {{Animeland}} / ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: Takoshima (from the second game) is inhabited by {{s|ailorFuku}}choolgirls, {{salarym|an}}en, {{ninja}}s and a [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]].
* 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.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Every cell in your body is descended from the single zygote cell that resulted when your dad's sperm fertilized your mother's ovum, so if there were Furon DNA in any of your cells, it'd be in all of them.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: PlayedForLaughs in one mission of the first game where Crypto is tasked with assassinating U.S. Senators electing a new President after he killed the last one.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: As part of his effort to lure the Black Ninja over to Arkvoodle, Crypto claims he can devour photons. The Black Ninja leader states that with their knowledge of astrophysics, that just about makes sense to them.

* AstralFinale:
** The last area of the second game is a Russian Moon base.
** The last level of Path of the Furon takes place on the Furon homeworld.
* AssholeVictim: Nearly EVERY human in the series is portrayed as one, even the unarmed civilians.
* AsYouKnow: Played blatantly for laughs with the White Ninja, who broadcast the details about their secret base over the radio. Their leader finishes their recap with "[[LampshadeHanging And if you think that's clumsy exposition, you ain't just whistling Dixie, pal.]]"
* 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 Franchise/{{Godzilla}}esque Blisk [[{{Homage}} monster called Kojira]].
** The third game introduces four giant enemies that try to kill Crypto. The Nexo Walker, who become a DegradedBoss after their first appearance. The Nexo Dragon, which is a gigantic mechanical Chinese alien dragon. The Nexo Squid, which is a gigantic alien squid that’s large enough to wrap itself around the Eiffel Tower. And [[spoiler: Emperor Meningitis’s robotic bust, a giant floating robotic head modeled after the Furon Emperor himself, and acts as his last line of defense against Crypto.]]
* AxCrazy: ''Crypto.''
--> "Brains, man, when do I get to blow things up?!"
* {{Backtracking}}: Sometimes you might have to run back to an area in a mission if you miss a plot item or fail to kill everything somehow. Given that mission objectives are usually marked, you shouldn't be doing too much of it.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[spoiler: Ponsonby's dying speech implies that the Blisk took out the remaining Majestic stations around the world.]]
* BagOfSpilling: In the second game, thanks to Crypto leaving his weapons on the mothership when it was destroyed (apparently he thought carrying a massive arsenal would scare away the ladies).
* BattleThemeMusic: Each game has specific music tracks, different for each sandbox, that plays when in combat.
* BeehiveBarrier: Most Furon shields have this pattern.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: A plot element in the second game; The Tunguska event of 1908 was caused by [[spoiler: a Blisk warship crashing into a small remote community of Russia]]. Due to their mass amount of intelligence and being able to [[spoiler:disguise as humans]], they ended up [[spoiler:causing the Russian Revolution to succeed and seized control of the USSR]].
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: During the near end of the plot in the second game, it is revealed that [[spoiler:the previous Premiers of the USSR before Milenkov (Lenin and Stalin, but not Trotsky), and many members of the Communist Party, were all Blisk aliens in disguise or were controlled by the Blisk. In addition, the October Revolution and the founding of the USSR were both done by the Blisk to give them control of Russia]].

* BlackAndGrayMorality: In the first game, you've got the Furons verus the U.S. government and Majestic. The Furons have come to Earth to harvest humanity and flat out kill us [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Majestic is trying to brainwash America into becoming a bunch of right-wing nutjobs out to kill the commies, but are legitmately trying to prevent the human race from being turned into the Furons' all-you-can-eat buffet.
* BlandNameProduct: The titular restaurant mascot / HumongousMecha from ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is suspiciously similar to the mascot of the Big Boy restaurant chain.
* BlendingInStealthGameplay: Most of the stealth in the series takes the form of the alien PlayerCharacter, Crypto having an ability which allows the player to take the form of some hapless character.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The Sonic Boom does this to anything it doesn't outright vaporize. Of course, being a saucer-mounted weapon, it's more like "Blown Halfway Across The City."
* BodyArmorAsHitPoints: Played-straight since Crypto's health bar actually represents his energy shields, which recharge if he stays out of combat long enough.
* BodySnatcher: Invoked as an ability in the second game onward.
* BoldlyComing: The reason why every human being has some Furon DNA.
** After being recloned with genitalia, Crypto heavily implies having this with various human females in the second game. In the end of the game, it's implied he had this with [[spoiler:Natalya]].

** Crypto gets one in the first game after killing Armquist, right after pretending to sue for peace:

* BossInMookClothing: The Yeti in DAH!2. At first they just look like normal Blisk warriors with a white paint job, but they're actually considerably tougher and hit like a truck.
* BrainFood: While the plot of the series is Crypto and Pox are harvesting human brains to replenish DNA for Furon cloning, there are various allusions that this is also happening.
** In the first game, Crypto makes various eating-related quips ("Snack-time.") when given clearance to harvest brains.
** In ''Path of the Furon'', it's revealed that the Furon Empire had successfully created a synthetic replacement for Furon DNA, thus removing the need for Crypto's mission. After defeating the Emperor [[spoiler:and his EvilAllAlong master]], Crypto resigns himself to unemployment as he tastes the artificial DNA from its container. He remarks how foul its taste is, this being how Pox realizes that their mission still has importance since people will still prefer the genuine thing in spite of the option for alternatives.
** In the remake, the title-card for the mission "This Island Suburbia" features Crypto lickin a miniature brain on an ice-cream cone.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Pox and Crypto. "Don't look at me, Pox handles all the technical stuff, I just... Blow stuff up."
* BrainInAJar: Pox experiments with one in the intro to the second game. Later on, one can be seen behind Crypto in his saucer during the ending cutscene.
* BrainlessBeauty: Miss Rockwell in the first game, whose lack of intelligence makes her the first probing target.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Done rather often in the second, third and Big Willy Unleashed titles, mostly through self-aware humor from the main characters giving gameplay hints to the player.
** If you stay idle on the menu for long enough, Pox will eventually call out the player for making him wait around.
* BritishTeeth: Invoked in the second game: Orthopox describes Albion as a place where "the sun never sets and the natives never floss".
* CallBack: There are several to the first game in the second game.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Many times in the first game. Pox requires Crypto to extract information about Majestic or top secrets that the U.S. Government is hiding from several humans or in one mission Holobob and impersonate the Mayor of Rockwell. Each time you kill these people before they outlive their usefulness, Pox will angrily scream that [[YouHaveFailedMe you failed the mission]] and you'll be beamed back to the Mothership.
* CassandraTruth: In the first game, General Armquist rallies the leaders of the other military branches to try and unite them against the Furons. Crypto has to disguise himself as one and discredit him in front of the rest.
** If you fail to do so, either by picking the wrong dialogue options or just flat out revealing yourself, Armquist can actually call in support from the other millitary branches during his boss battle.
* CatchPhrase: "Pathetic Humans!" "Monkey!" and even the game title, "Destroy All Humans!"

* {{Chickification}}: Natalya. How many times do we have to escort her to her car?!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The crazies in the first game, as well as The Freak in the second game.
** The entire White Ninja clan from the 2nd game take their Furon worship a little too seriously.
* 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.
** The second game's radar is split into five sections -- green for general alert, blue for police awareness, and yellow, orange and red for military awareness.
** 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: In the second and third games, a second player could co-op split-screen or compete in minigames respectively. Players were differentiated by different color suits.
* ComicallySmallBribe: The beginning of ''Path of the Furon'' has Pox heavily berating Crypto for becoming lazy in his new casino, enjoying the luxuries of human life for almost a decade instead of continuing his mission of gathering Furon DNA. Crypto offers him a 5% cut of the profits coming, making Pox instantly change the subject to how he found a mole from a rival casino trying to sabotage their money making scheme.
* CommieLand: Tunguska in the second game. Referenced in Shen Long in Path of the Furon.
* ConfidenceBuildingScheme: In the second game, one of the missions for the cult requires Crypto to get the "The Freak" to draw up some posters that can help attract more potential followers. Unfortunately, the Freak is feeling really down about his art and believes that nobody likes it, forcing an exasperated Crypto to convince him otherwise by taking him on a tour of the murals he's painted across Bay City. For this mission to succeed, Crypto has to use his psychic powers to make the nearby hippies dance and rave in joy whenever the Freak examines a mural until the little self-confidence meter fills out.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Show up as [=NPCs=] or even enemies in most of the games. Some missions even involve invoking this trope to manipulate the human populace.
* ContinuityDrift: The third game's plot seems just a tad bit off in some places.
* ContinuityNod: There are several nods to past games in each of the new installments.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Bosses are immune to Crypto's PsychicPowers, since they'd all be laughably easy if they weren't. You can generally scan the human bosses' thoughts, but that doesn't exactly help you beat them any faster.
* 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 [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]! ''ANYTHING'' [[Film/AClockworkOrange BUT BEETHOVEN]]!"
* CoolCar: Furon anti-gravity cars are a prominent feature on the Fourth Ring of Furon level in 'Path of the Furon'.
** The hippie Volkswagen vans with mounted turret guns seen in some Bay City missions during the second game.
** Natalya's pink Jaguar E-type.
* CoolOldGuy: The Master, who happens to be an ancient Furon politician who fled the Furon homeworld to escape political injustice. He landed on Earth and took up practicing martial arts, ultimately developing a time-control Psychokinetic ability.
* CoolShip: The mothership, even though you don't get to fly it. Also Crypto's saucer, especially in the third game where it has the weapons popping out of the hull.

* CrateExpectations: Largely played straight, and then the second game hangs a very heavy {{lampshade|Hanging}} on it.
** "Hey, Pox, 'dja ever notice there seem to be a lot o' crates lyin' around? Just random crates. I mean, what could they all be for?" This continues for a while, until Pox finally says, [[BreakingTheFourthWall "I think they got the hint, 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: Show up a few times in the first game, and in Big Willy. At times they even serve as landing zones!

* CutsceneIncompetence: [[spoiler: So the Master is a martial arts expert and invented a psychic power to control time. He dies twice, one on purpose to his ex-apprentice Saxon. The second? Pox smacks him into a wall and turns him into paste.]]
* DancingMookCredits: In ''2'', while browsing through the soundtrack, the background is taken up by a {{mook}} or InnocentBystander doing an appropriate dance for the region you're in.
* DeadlyGas: Radiation in the second game. Big Willy's Windbreaker is a literal example in ''Big Willy Unleashed''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Crypto and Pox engage in the snark frequently throughout the series, though other characters join in rather often as well.
** 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 as if nothing happened.
** 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: The default weapon for Crypto's flying saucer. Could set buildings on fire in the first game and noticeable burn marks in structures in Path of the Furon. Also nicely averts ConvectionSchmonvection, as just sweeping the beam within a couple meters of a human is enough to fry it instantly.
* DeathTrap: The [[GasChamber toxic alien gas bubble]] Natalya is trapped in, in the second game.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: In the first game, after Armquist is slain by Crypto, there is a need to, without revealing the truth, explain the chaos in Union Town, and the zealous attempts of both Armquist and the Furons to eliminate the other. The obedient and hyper-patriotic Armquist is accused of a coup attempt in the newspapers.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Take all the problems America of the 1950s had, turn UpToEleven and you essentially have the first game.
* DenserAndWackier: While hardly serious, the first game wasn't quite as over the top as the sequels, all of which played up the humor tremendously.

* DestroyableItems: Everything from cars to crates, and if destroyed with certain abilities in later games yielded ammo and health.

** The second game takes this trope UpToEleven with the KGB and Premier Milenkov being the main villains. If Crypto also goes around in Bay City undisguised, many of the urban pedestrians will declare Crypto as still being a communist when spotting him.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Agent Oranchov in the second game kick-starts the plot by destroying the Mothership, and backing Coyote Bongwater, but on the first mission in Albion, he's infected by spores and turned into a Blisk mutant.
* DisintegratorRay: One of the earliest weapons Crypto unlocks in each game, and the first one that requires ammunition clips. It is able to burn humans down to a charred skeleton, alongside being easier to destroy objects faster than the Zap-o-Matic.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Occasionally, shooting people with the anal probe will cause them to moan suggestively instead of scream.
* DoubleEntendre: ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is VERY bad about this. Even the TITLE is one.
* DoubleJump: Thanks to the Jetpack.
* DoubleSpeak: While disguised as an {{NPC}}, Crypto has this conversation with the Yappies in the second game, but only if you don't use their leader's disguise to convert them, which fails to convert them to Arkvoodle.
-->'''Crypto''': So, are you guys like a gang or something?
-->'''Yappies Member''': Screw you man, we're not a gang! We're a group of disenfranchised youths who use violence and intimidation to get our point across.
-->'''Crypto''': In other words, you're a gang!
-->'''Yappies Member''': ''(as camera scrolls over to show Yappies leader)'' Beat it, square!
* DrugsAreBad: Played with in ''Destroy All Humans! 2''. If Crypto, disguised as hippie, decides to ask for a recap of the goals to the mission "They Shoot Hippies, Don't They?", he becomes exasperated with The Freak, whose drug-altered mind causes him to forget about the fact that Bongwater is about to fumigate Bay City with Revelade.
-->'''Crypto''':[[BreakingTheFourthWall (Looking at the camera)]] You see kids, '''this''' is why you shouldn't do drugs.
* EasterEgg: There is one in Vietmahl in ''Big Willy Unleashed'' -- Once the game is completed, Crypto can go to a temple ruins and activate a statue that summons a large group of Furons.
* EatsBabies: The Black Ninjas claim to do this when trying to out-evil Crypto after the latter implies that Arkvoodle eats kittens.
* EiffelTowerEffect:
** Surprisingly averted with Bay City (the San Francisco pastiche) in the second game -- the Golden Gate Bridge is not seen at all. The cover does depict it, and it is mentioned in the game, but it never appears, and instead the Coit Tower and Alcatraz are used as emblematic of San Francisco. Previews for the remake indicate that this has been corrected, with the new version of Bay City adding the bridge to Golden Gate Park.
** Happens with Belleville (the Paris pastiche) in ''Path of the Furon'', where the Eiffel Tower serves as the centerpiece of the map.
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Used in the first game in Area 42. Going down to the [[spoiler: Furon->human experiments lab]] has the elevator play a rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGNwXq6vPoI Summer Samba (So nice)]]. Crypto, understandably, gets frustrated with the music, and destroys the lifts' speaker system when they return to the surface.
* EliteMooks: A few examples, notably the Psi-agents for the Majestic, as well as the red Nexo warriors in Path of the Furon.
* TheEmpire: The Furon Empire, to hear Pox tell it, though it's only ever really represented in-game by him and Crypto.
* EmptyQuiver: One of the missions in the first game has Crypto stealing a nuke from a testing site and using it to level the nearby Area 42 airfield in an attempt to kill Armquist.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: If the game title wasn't a dead giveaway, this is pretty much the Furons' endgame for Earth.

* 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.
* EquippableAlly: Gastro, the ship's janitor, can be found and used as a weapon in [=DAH!2=].
* EscortMission:
** A FREAKING NUCLEAR BOMB in the first game.
** Several in the second game involving Natalya, but the most infamous one being "From Russia With Guns".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: "They're not high, but I got em'!"
** Crypto briefly mourning [[spoiler:Natalya after she gets shot by Milenkov's laser gun]].
*** A similar outcome also happens when Crypto finds out The Master has died... [[spoiler:until it's discovered it was just a set-up]].
** In the Path of the Furon, we find that while Crypto is always happy to slaughter humans, he is against attacking his own people. [[BrainUploading Until Pox gives him a quick reminder, anyway]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Crypto, AKA Crypto 137/8/9, AKA Cryptosporidium, AKA Cryptosporidium 137/8/9.
** Orthopox-13/14, AKA Pox or Orthopox.
* EverythingFades: True for everything that is destroyed, from dead bodies to destroyed vehicles.
** Lampshaded by Crypto in ''Big Willy Unleashed'' when Pox explains how he makes fast food.
--> ''Pox:'' Crypto, what do you think happens to the corpses of all the humans of whom you suck out the brain stems?
--> ''Crypto:'' I always figured they just faded away when I went around the corner.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Radioactive exploding zombie cows. You also get to bodysnatch them in Big Willy unleashed.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The Zombie Gun in BWU.
* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Ponsonby]], leader of Majestic Command 16th Sector, who serves as a secondary antagonist for a part of DAH!2.
* EvilDuo: Pox and Crypto. Well, more like AntiHero Duo.
* EvilerThanThou: Crypto tries to recruit the Black Ninjas to his cult by claiming he and his alien god eat kittens. They are unimpressed, claiming to eat [[ImAHumanitarian babies.]]
* 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."
* 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.]]
* EvilVsEvil: Crypto is evil, no question, but most of the antagonists (excluding regular enemies such as police officers and farmers of course) are not much better. Majestic, the main antagonists of the first game, did Crypto's homework for him by already subjugating the US Government and brainwashing people through chemicals in burger restaurants and broadcasting anti-Russian propaganda. All Crypto had to was wipe out Majestic and continue their work.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Pretty self explanatory really. It's a game about destroying humans.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* FaceHeelTurn:
** [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] in the second game starts off as a potential ally for Crypto in Albion, only to reveal that [[spoiler:he is actually a Majestic agent seeking revenge for the death of Silhouette]].
** [[spoiler:The Master in Path of the Furon once it is revealed he is TheChessmaster behind the entire plot]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Silhouette and Natalya, two attractive badass spygirls in tight catsuits. As a bonus Natalya is Russian and has an accent.
* FantasticRacism: Between the Furons and humans. On one hand, Furons view humans as filthy, stupid, inferior monkeys. On the other, humans view Furons as low-life savages. The latter is best exemplified by members of Majestic.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Crypto and Pox by the second game, who have grown rather fond of human culture. And in ''Path of the Furon'', it is revealed that human women are quite popular on Planet Furon.
* {{Fartillery}}: Big Willy's [[PunnyName Windbreaker]].
%%* FetchQuest: {{Lampshaded}} in ..Big Willy Unleashed''.
* FinalSolution: The later half of the second game focuses on [[spoiler:wiping out the entirety of the Blisk martian race. Justified as the Blisk are planning to destroy Earth to turn it into an underwater haven for themselves, having already taken control of the USSR government for years]]. Once they're finally taken care of, it turns out that [[spoiler:several of them survived and are seeking help, leading to you having to wipe them out once and for all]].
* TheFifties: A satirical version acts as the setting in the first game.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: In the first game, using Psychokinesis on a human and then pushing them outwards, even gently, can cause an instant death. And even if it doesn't, it's possible for a human you nudged over to ''[[EpicFail kill themselves]] [[MadeOfPlasticine trying to get up]]''. Understandably, the damage done is reduced in the second game.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] has been subdued by Crypto, [[spoiler:he tells Crypto to realize that he is not the only alien on earth, only for him to die before telling him the "alien" part]]. As Crypto asks him for an answer, Pox tells Crypto that [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] is dead and dismisses it. Later in the game, however, it turns out that the [[spoiler:Blisk]] are also on earth.
%%* FriendlyEnemy
* FreudWasRight:
** Will happen often when mind-scanning humans. The most common example are thoughts among the lines of "My mind says X but my body says Y". They happen a lot in the first game, and even more so in the second game.
** Mentioned when Transmogrifying an object in Albion in the second game.
-->''Female Hippie'': As if that's not Freudian!
* 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: ''Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed,'' a spin off for the Nintendo Wii which pretty much stood on its own with no regard for canon or continuity.
* {{Gangsterland}}: Invoked in Las Paradiso with the Italian mob enemies.
* GameplayAllyImmortality: Averted. Friendly [=NPCs=] (most notably Natalya) are capable of dying and a NonstandardGameOver will result if they do (in other words, be ''very'' careful with that Meteor Gun). Played straight with the various questgivers in the second game.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** Reading Ponsonby's mind when you get the chance can reveal he's a Majestic agent ahead of schedule. Similarly, reading Majestic agents' thoughts in the first game can reveal that Silhouette is a woman long before the formal reveal.
** Even if you take the mission to make the Black Ninja your allies, they'll still attack you for entering their territory. Justified later, as Shama Llama tells you that the Black Ninjas believe Crypto tricked them.
** Even if you kill Huffman in the first game by disintegration or removing and capturing his brain, Silhouette will still be able to acquire his brain.
* GasMaskLongcoat:
** Silhouette's outfit consists of a black gas mask and black trenchoat, the former of which comes with a voice filter.
** Some of the Red Army soldiers in Tunguska wear a green gas mask, and always wear a khaki longcoat.
* GayParee: Belleville in ''Path of the Furon,'' which is effectively a satirized version of Paris.
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* GiantEnemyCrab: The Blisk warriors are often referred to as this, technically, even though Pox describes the species as "a cockroach having mated with a lobster!".
* GiantFootOfStomping: An attack used by most of the large robot enemies, including [=RoboPrez=].
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: To show that the Furons [[AlwaysChaoticEvil aren't as benevolent]] as your common interpretation of TheGreys, Crypto's mouth is ''filled'' with sharp teeth. Since Furons don't eat through their mouths (or at least this was implied in the first game), one has to wonder what they are for.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Played rather straight in the first game when the government tries to cover up the Furon invasion.
* GratuitousDiscoSequence:
** In ''Big Willy Unleashed!'', set in TheSeventies, Pox plans to use Disco to brainwash the world's population, which disgusts Crypto, who proceeds to bash the genre.
** Disco Fever replaces the Free Love ability from the second game in ''Path of the Furon''.
* GratuitousNinja: Ninjas appear prominently as recurring {{Mooks}} in the second game. And all {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, too.
-->'''Crypto''': What are ninjas doing in 1969?!?!\\
'''Pox''': Just go with it. Besides, who doesn't love ninjas?
* GratuitousRussian: Oh dear, lots of it in the second game. Possibly a parodied version of this trope, knowing the nature of the series.
** Many of the KGB members say "Lestrovya!" in the second game. This is a {{Mondegreen}} of the word "no strovia", which means "cheers" in Russian.
** One of the more common mistakes is that "tovarisch" is commonly used as a greeting to Crypto by Natalya. This zig-zags between her saying the more correct "comrade".
** "Do svidaniya" is commonly misspelled as well.
* TheGreys: The Furons themselves. Crypto and Pox are Greys in the "evil conqueror" mode, although Crypto is often mistaken for a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man]].
* GroinAttack: The Nexo Walker's weakness in the third game, although they technically aren't testes...
* GuiltBasedGaming: Combined with a variant of IdleAnimation in the first game. If you linger around the Mothership's menu while doing nothing at all, Orthopox will make snarky comments to the player about leaving him waiting. None of it is harsh, however, as Orthopox is just guilting you over leaving it running whilst not actually playing the system, and Orthopox's responses are actually pretty funny.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Blasto in [[SpinOff Big Willy Unleashed]]. Invoked and/or implied after [[MarsNeedsWomen Furon Needs Women]] kicks in.
** In fact the whole series basically states outright that all of humanity are descendants of Furon.
* HatePlague: One mission in the first game deals with [[TheMenInBlack Majestic]] trying to spread one by TamperingWithFoodAndDrink at diners and ice cream parlors, and Crypto having to shut them down.

* 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]].
* HideYourChildren: Understandably, no children appear in any of the games at any time.

* 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 from DAH!2 are described as creatures with this trait, and it plays a major role in defeating them.
* HollywoodCalifornia: The Sunnywood level from Path of The Furon is definitely this.

* HumanoidAliens: Having been based off TheGreys the Furons are this, though much less so than the former.
* HumansAreMorons: The source of much of the series' humor. Though just because they're stupid doesn't mean they're not dangerous and serve as potentially formidable foes to Crypto.
* HumansAreSpecial: At least until their brain is removed.

* HumanResources: ''Big Willie Unleashed'' features a fast food shop which makes burgers out of the humans that have had their brain stems removed.
* HumanShield: One possible application of psychokinesis is using it to hold another human between Crypto and a shooter (although it's usually just faster to use PK or some form of weapon on the shooter instead). [[DevelopersForesight They actually will hold their fire while trying to flank you if you do]], though they'll occasionally try and shoot you through the hapless victim instead.
* HumongousMecha: Roboprez and Big Willy, both being large towering mechs.
* HundredPercentCompletion: Mostly obtained through the accruing of collectibles.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Crypto carries up to 8 weapons on him at a time, and in ''DAH!3'', all the saucer's giant weapons pop out of the hull. Judging by the in-game animations, Crypto's gun is able to [[SwissArmyWeapon reconfigure itself into the various weapons]].
* HypocriticalHumor:
** [[spoiler: Silhouette disguises herself as a man simply so that they would take her seriously. Yet ironically, her thoughts show blatant misandry]].
** In Sunnywood, Crypto disguises as an actor called [[Creator/JackNicholson Jack Trippleson]] to flirt with younger woman. When Pox tells him to remove the disguise, Crypto claims that Trippleson's voice gets on his nerves, despite the two both sounding the same.
* IconicLogo: The large ExcitedShowTitle on the games' box art can definitely be considered to be this.

* ILoveNuclearPower: The Blisk feed on radiation, mainly because it was the only way to survive after the Furons turned their home planet into a radioactive crater.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Quantum Deconstructor, Dislocator, Tornadotron, Black Hole Gun, Superballer... It should be quite telling that a self-recharging LightningGun and a superheated DeathRay are among the more ''boring'' weapons in Crypto's arsenal.
* InGameTV: On the Mothership in the first game, used to watch unlocked behind the scenes featurettes.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** In the first game, the player can use this during "Citizen Crypto" during the mayor's speech to explain why Santa Modesta hasn't experienced any problems.

** A hippie in the second game's second mission thinks her friend is sexist just because he doesn't agree with her wanting to get arrested to cause a revolution. She eventually goes on about how bad male hippies are until her black friend stops her.
* InsistentTerminology: In ''Path of the Furon'', the Master insists on pronouncing Shen Long by stretching out the "Long".
* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: Pretty much the point of the Big Willy Mascot in Big Willy Unleashed.
* InterfaceScrew: Invoked in the second game upon being hit with a drugged Revelade dart when fighting Coyote Bongwater.
* InterspeciesRomance: In the second game, Crypto invokes this when he gets new genitalia, as the only thing he can experiment on is human women. In the ending of the game, it is heavily implied that he made out with Natalya. 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: Subverted in the first game where leaving the mission area returned you to the game's hub, played straight in the later games though.
%%* IsThatWhatHeToldYou
* {{Irony}}: During ''Path Of The Furon'', Crypto tortures a Creator/JackNicholson {{Expy}} for having a grating voice. Crypto's voice is a subtle Jack Nicholson impersonation.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Some of the civilians minds that can be read are of ideas that would later be invented such as Fast food restaraunts and smartphones.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in the first game, where you may read the mind of someone who thinks the Edsel is going to be the next big thing.

** Played straight in the second game, where a female hippie in Bay City mocks [[Film/ANewHope "Georgie Boy's" film idea, The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller]].
** In Bay City, if you go to a house on the bottom of the hill where Coit Tower is, you can hear a couple talking about Bert Whither's report on the Vietnam War. The wife thinks that the way to stop the war is by uniting North and South Vietnam together, becoming a democracy, and then electing Ho Chi Minh, followed by her husband asking, "Why do you hate America?".
** Crypto mocks Dr. Orlov for developing video games for the computer.
** In ''Path of the Furon'' Crypto pitches a series of video games to Pox, such as a game about [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros a plumber who defeats his enemies by jumping on them]], [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog a hedgehog that runs really fast]] and [[Franchise/{{Halo}} a space marine on a ring shaped planet]]. Pox considers them all to be stupid ideas.

* {{Jerkass}}:
** Crypto, he's a sociopath alien hell-bent on destruction, and has little regards for others lives (including his own kind). He starts to show a slightly (read: slightly) softer side after being cloned for the 138th time, but it still shows.
** Pox has his moments, such as constantly moaning to Crypto in the second game to get his new clone body. [[spoiler:By the time he gets it, on the other hand...]]
** Shama Llama once his ego starts to rise.
* JerkassGods: Arkvoodle has his moments, like asking Crypto to smite some humans for travelling to the moon.
* JustifiedExtraLives: Respawning in the games is justified as Crypto is being cloned.
* {{Kaiju}}: The final mission of Takoshima in DAH!2 is fighting a giant Blisk mutant.
* KickTheDog: The "Ruin Lives" missions in the second game have Crypto [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ruining people's lives]] for no real reason.
* KillAllHumans: You'd ''expect'' this given the title, but it's subverted. The Furons are on Earth to harvest DNA, and they can't very well do that if they wipe humanity off the face of the planet. In fact, from the second game onwards, Crypto occasionally has to cooperate with humans. That being said, there's nothing stopping Crypto from killing anyone else that gets in his way.
* KillItWithFire: The Disintegrator Ray and Ion Detonator, both of which can burn down humans to a mere charred skeleton, and then into ashes. The Death Ray that comes with the saucer also counts.
** Blowing up a car or oil barrel when civilians are nearby causes the same effect
* KnightOfCerebus: The Blisk in the second game. Unlike the LaughablyEvil human villains they are treated as legimate threat and their plan would have wiped out humanity.
* LampshadeHanging: Done several times and mostly in the second game, such as:
-->'''Milenkov''': Maybe you wouldn't be so arrogant if you knew of my [[EvilPlan FIENDISH MASTER PLAN!]]
-->'''Crypto''': Alright already! Let's hear your damn plan. Geez, you guys just gotta have your [[EvilGloating monologues]].
* LargeHam:
** Pox loves to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]].
** Premier Milenkov in the second game, such as when he boasts to Crypto about his "FIENDISH MASTER PLAN!" (see LampshadeHanging above).
** Crypto's not bad at ChewingTheScenery himself. For example, in the opening of the first game:
--> "A Cryptosporidium captured by a ''bunch of monkeys?!'' We gotta go in. We gotta crack some craniums! We gotta rescue me- him- he's gonna rescue me... We gotta- I gotta- Brains, man, '''WHEN DO I GET TO BLOW THINGS UP?!'''"
* LatexSpacesuit: Natalya wears one on Solaris. [[RuleOfSexy Of course, it has heels and shows off most of her figure]].
* LarynxDissonance: Crypto's voice when talking in a Body Snatched human is the same as his regular alien voice, no matter what nationality, race, age or gender the person is. However, he is able to maintain a human's correct voice, as shown during "Citizen Crypto" and an Albion side mission in the second game. Presumably, Crypto uses the human's own voice in-universe, with his voice being used out-of-universe for convenience, both to make it clear to the player when Crypto is talking and to avoid having to cram a million different voice files into the game.
* LaughablyEvil: Most of the evil things Crypto does qualify.
** Pox as well, with a does of LargeHam.
** The villainous humans Crypto fights against.

* 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.
* LightningGun: Crypto's initial weapon, the ''Zap-O-Matic''. While it's not as spectacularly destructive as most of his arsenal, it still fries humans very well, especially when upgraded with ChainLightning capabilities. It also doesn't require ammo, making it an effective weapon that is still useful after Crypto has obtained much better arsenal.
** The humans have giant Tesla coils used as anti-air weaponry, capable of dealing heavy damage to Crypto's saucer. They don't appear in the second game, but the Blisk have very similar technology that does the same effect.
* LittleGreenMen: This seems to be how humans view Furons. [[BerserkButton Crypto does not approve]].
* MacGuffin: Human Brainstems. Crypto treats his groin as this.
* {{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!"
* MalcolmXerox: Surprisingly downplayed with the black hippies in Bay City ([[TokenMinority who are also the only black characters in the game]]) -- while they do make several references to them being Black Panther Party members and view Martin Luther King Jr. as a pussy compared to Malcolm X, they are surprisingly actually rather peaceful.
* ManaMeter: The first game gives Crypto a "concentration" meter that's used to fuel his PsychicPowers and Holobob and refills either over time or by reading people's thoughts.
* TheManBehindTheMan:
** [[spoiler:The Blisk, for Soviet Russia, and indeed the entire Cold War. Having been stuck on Earth for centuries, they engineered a buildup of space-travel and nuclear arms so they could make the Earth suitable for themselves.]]
** [[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!
* MarsNeedsWomen: Invoked when the majority of the Furons' male population gets genitalia for the first time.
* {{Martians}}:
** The Blisk are a race of crustacean-like aliens that once inhabited Mars. After the Furons rendered Mars an uninhabitable wasteland in the Martin War, the Furon soldiers would "let off a little steam" and inseminate early hominids (resulting in modern humanity possessing Furon DNA). The remaining Blisk escaped on a warship that would eventually crash in Tunguska, Russia (in what would be known as TheTunguskaEvent), infiltrating the Russian government in secret and becoming the [[TheManBehindTheMan true antagonists of the second game]].
** A RunningGag in the first game has people derisively refer to Crypto as a Martian (when they don't call him green, that is), [[BerserkButton something that frustrates Crypto]].

* MeaningfulName: Both "Cryptosporidium" and "Orthopox" are pathogens that cause bad diseases. Emperor Meningitis is more straight-forward, being named after the disease itself as opposed to a pathogen that could cause it.
* MechanicalLifeforms: Nexos, to a certain extent. They're identified as a machine race, like the Franchise/{{Transformers}} or [[VideoGame/MassEffect Geth]].
* MeaningfulName: Furons are all named after parasitic, infectious, or viral diseases.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Played straight with [[spoiler: Pox]] in DAH!2, subverted with [[spoiler: The Master]] in Path of the Furon.

* MeteorSummoningAttack: One of the attacks Crypto acquires is the ability to have meteorites strike a target, and can be upgraded to have a small planetoid smash onto the target area.

* MistakenIdentity: In ''Path of the Furon'', Pox says that he has a lead on the local crime boss of Shen Long, Saxon, and demands Crypto to head downtown and blow up a couple buildings and abduct well over a hundred humans to catch him. By the end of the mission, Pox admits that he mistook some random human for Saxon.
--> '''Pox:''' You know all humans look the same!
--> '''Crypto:''' [[SarcasmMode The all seeing all knowing Orthopox screws up again.]] I can't believe I actually take orders from you.
* MoonLandingHoax: When you read the thoughts of a male Russian DAH 2, they may comment on how they think the moon landing was filmed in [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Newark, New Jersey]]. Later in the game, when you really do go to the moon, one of the sidequests involves receiving a delivery from a courier.
-->'''Pox:''' It's being delivered by a courier company called... the '''N'''orth '''A'''merican '''S'''hipping '''A'''ssociation.
* MonumentalDamage: Invoked when destroying famous monuments like the Washington Memorial or Eiffel Tower. Subverted with the London Bridge-esque monument in Albion in the second game, which you can't destroy ''at all'' [[note]]You were originally supposed to be able to, as the trailers show the bridge's tower falling down.[[/note]]
* MoralMyopia: Played for laughs. Crypto considers the humans killing and dissecting his "brother" Cryptosporidium-136 to be an unforgivable atrocity and [[BerserkButton sees red whenever it comes up]] -- and never mind that he's been gleefully killing humans for their brainstems all game long.
* TheMothership: The hub of the first game, where Pox can be found. Blown up at the beginning of the second game.

** Parodied in a thought you can read off a cop in the first game:

** Scan the mind of one of the bobbies in Albion in the second game and they may say, "Move along, nothing to read here."
* MsFanservice: Natalya and Silhouette, both being badass babes wearing tight leather/[[SensualSpandex spandex]] suits.
* 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.]]
* MundaneUtility: Crypto's telepathic abilities allow him to mind-control humans... and when you're not using it for mission-specific purposes, it can be used to make people do the chicken dance.
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Furons from the Planet Furon. The Majestic in the first game confuse it as being called "Gorta", which is actually implied as it's capital city.
* {{Nerf}}:
** The Disintegrator Ray in Path of the Furon gets a major damage downgrade and fires considerably slower. Even slower than a stock DR in the first game.
** Throwing people around with Psychokinesis does much less damage in the second game than it does in the first. Additionally, the Quantum Deconstructor received a small nerf to its splash damage.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Subverted and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the first game, in which a cop will randomly say, in thought, "What would [[Film/TheUntouchables Eliot Ness]] do? Never carry a knife to a gunfight? No, that's not it..."
* NewAgeRetroHippie: The most common pedestrians in Bay City and Albion fall under the hippie category, referencing the American countercultures birthplace in San Francisco and Swinging London scene respectively.
* {{Ninja}}: Show up in Takoshima in the second game. Much {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing is made as the protagonist wonders why ninjas are still around in the modern day.
-->'''Several Characters''': Besides, who doesn't love ninjas?
* NoBiologicalSex: The Furons' penchant for gratuitous nuke usage ended up getting their genetic code degraded by their own weapons, leaving them without genitalia and therefore unable to reproduce except by cloning. This is also the reason why Crypto's "package" from the second game is a pretty big deal for them.

** Crypto's voice is a not-so-subtle Creator/JackNicholson impression. Parodied in Path of the Furon, where Crypto body-snatches a Jack Nicholson {{Expy}} in Sunnywood and has a habit of zapping him while [[HypocriticalHumor complaining about how his voice is grating.]]
** As mentioned above, Armquist is based on UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur.

** Also in Path of the Furon is [[Creator/GeorgeLucas Lucal]][[Creator/StevenSpielberg berg]], [[Music/SonnyBono Sammy]] and [[Music/{{Cher}} Faire]], [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Legg Tallman]], and [[Creator/JohnTravolta Tony the]] [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Dance King]].
* 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), Tunguska (USSR traits, Moscow and Siberia), Vietnmahl (Vietnam), Las Paradiso (Las Vegas), Sunnywood (Hollywood), Shen Long (Hong Kong) and last but not least, Belleville (Paris).

** Averted in the second and third games, where there are no cheats whatsoever. Big Willy Unleashed has cheats, although that game is easy enough that you shouldn't need them.
* NoFourthWall: By the third game, the fourth wall never even existed.

* 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.
** The Disintegrator Ray isn't actually a ray; it's closer to [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] than anything else.

* NoticeThis: Mission objectives are marked with a very visible column of magenta light.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: After taking down Armquist's MiniMecha in the first game, Crypto makes a speech asserting this to the defeated general, apparently offering peace. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then disintegrates him]] [[ISurrenderSuckers when he accepts.]]]]
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The humans can be quite a challenge when they bring out their soldiers and war machines.
* {{Notzilla}}: ''Videogame/DestroyAllHumans 2'' features a monster named "Kojira", and another called "Mohgra" (which is unseen, but whose eggs form the objective of a sidequest).
* ObviousBeta: Several aspects of ''Big Willy Unleashed'' and ''Path of the Furon'' seem unfinished. Notably, in ''Big Willy Unleashed'', whenever characters speak, they're almost always shown from the back, so as to cover up the fact that their lips aren't actually moving. Not to mention how chunky Big Willy Unleashed's graphics look chunky in some places, leading to several UncannyValley moments.
** Path of the Furon, on the other hand, has much more improved graphics over the former, but has a dire case of graphical ArtStyleDissonance in several places. It doesn't help mentioning that many of the weapons are [[GameBreaker way too strong]] even in the early stages of the game, meaning you can whip through the bosses easily with the Ion Detonator. It's also worth noticing the ridiculously easy boss battles (Crosteau is the only exception, as he puts up a challenge) and the fact that Crypto's psychic powers can be maxed out in about an hour or two of gameplay.
* ObviouslyEvil: In ''Path of the Furon'', Pox can tell right away that [[spoiler:The Master]] is evil, or that he at least shouldn't be trusted.
* OddballInTheSeries: The continuity-skewing ''Big Willy Unleashed'' SpinOff for the Wii.

* OldMaster: The Master is the Furon equivalent, supernatural martial arts and all.
* OneHitKill: The Burrow Beast can eat anything that's not a boss in one gulp. It can even chow down the enormous Blisk.
* OneWingedAngel: Milenkov and Oranchov when they transform into Blisk creatures for their boss fights.
* PeriodPiece: The series take place in a twenty year timespan from the first game taking place in 1959, to the latest game, Path of the Furon, taking place in 1979.
* PermanentlyMissableContent: One of the Furotech Cells in Albion is stationed on top of a building inside the Soviet Embassy complex. One of the later side missions in Albion requires destroying said complex, and after completion, all of the buildings remain permanently destroyed. Even with full jetpack upgrades, Crypto is unable to reach the Furotech Cell without the building, thus rendering one of Crypto's upgrades unobtainable.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Crypto. Well, Pox too. He was upset after his body was destroyed because there weren't any explosions.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz. The guy seems to love titular aliens.

* PlanetLooters: Pretty much invoked as the reason the Furons invade, with human brains being the thing they're looting.
* ProperlyParanoid:
** General Armquist is seen as highly paranoid by those around him, something Crypto uses to sabotage his directive to bring the military branches together against the Furon threat.
** Terry Squire during his assassination mission in the second game. Even though it's justified in a sense that he's being targeted by the KGB for destroying the Revelade supply in Bay City, he's being defended by EMP mines and secret agents. After killing him, your alert level goes all the way to the highest.
* PsychicPowers: [[MindOverMatter Psychokinesis]]; mind reading.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The RunningGag / CatchPhrase / TitleDrop "DESTROY! ALL! HUMANS!"
** Also, in the first game: "I. Am not. GREEN!"
* PunyEarthlings: The promotions and box art invoke this.
* PuppeteerParasite: Body-snatching becomes one of Crypto's main powers by the second game.
* 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 got this in the third game.

* RagdollPhysics: Used heavily with Crypto's PK powers in the first game.
* RealEventFictionalCause: The opening scene of the first game shows the Roswell incident being caused by an experimental nuke hitting Crypto-136's saucer. The second game reveals that the Tunguska event was caused by [[spoiler:a Blisk warship crashing on Earth]]; additionally, [[spoiler:the Blisk [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy went on to form the Bolshevik party]], instigating such events as the Russian Revolution and the Cold War]].
* RealMenEatMeat: Parodied, like everything else in the series. In the first game, reading the mind of a farmer is likely to result in getting thoughts about how much he loves steak. And equally likely to result in getting thoughts about how he'd like to get a salad or tofu once in a while.
* RedOniBlueOni: Pox is the Blue Oni being more thoughtful and intelligent, Crypto the Red Oni being more violent and destructive.
* RedScare: Heavily invoked in the satirical 50s American setting of the first game. Crypto decides to exploit the anti-Communist paranoia to manipulate the media and public. Also taken a notch further with the KGB in the second game.
* RedshirtArmy: The humans, considering they're going up against an advanced alien race that specializes in warfare.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If a Furon dies, they can just be cloned again, retaining their memories and personality from their past iteration; if that's not an immediate option, they can also linger as a VirtualGhost. It's all well and good until their DNA pool starts to run dry.
* {{Retcon}}: The second game is set in 1969 and states the events of the first happened "ten years ago", in 1959. However dialogue in the first game places it 5-6 years earlier.
--->'''Suburban Man:''' What's an [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]? Must be a new model car. [[ConspicuousConsumption I gotta get me one of those.]] The 1954 Elvis convertible!
* TheReveal: In ''DAH!2'': [[spoiler:The Blisk being behind the Russian Revolution; Majestic 16.]]
* RoswellThatEndsWell: Apparently, the Roswell incident resulted from a combination of US Army weapon testing and Crypto-136's saucer showing up at a ''very'' bad time.
** One of the areas in the game, Rockwell, is a thinly veiled parody of Roswell, but only by name. In the "Salad Days" commentary, Pox claims the town after the invasion began to respect alien culture, parodying Roswell's alien culture.
* {{Roofhopping}}: Invoked with how buildings are designed for Crypto's jetpack in mind. It's often the easiest way to get around without being shot up from five directions at once, and is occasionally required to grab Furon Probes/Furotech Cells.
* RuleOfThree: Crypto's Disintegrator Ray (the orange weapon) can shoot out three orbs instead of just one when you purchase the upgrades.
* RumpRoast: The Anal Probe can cause humans to have their rectums become ablaze of green fire.

* SandWorm: The Burrow Beast weapon summons one to eat people.
* 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. The second one spoofs TheSixties and the hippie counterculture, and the last two spoof TheSeventies and spoof off several popular movies.
* SatelliteCharacter: Crypto and Pox would be pretty bland alone.
* SayMyName: "CRYPTO!" Pox does this often in the second game.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Furons are roughly the "conquistadore" variety. Also parodied in the first game with the various comments made by humans that see Crypto's true form, often labeling him as a "[[DirtyCommunists communist]]" or claiming that he's there to destroy their way of life (which isn't inaccurate, but still). [[spoiler:The Blisk in the second game are an interesting example, in that they founded Communist Russia in this universe and tried to {{terraform}} the world to their needs by plunging it into nuclear war; the result of this attempt was the Cold War.]]
* SequelGoesForeign: The first game took place in various locales around the United States. The second game expands the scope with Crypto wreaking havoc also in England, Russia and Japan. And the Moon.

* 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: Invoked with Crypto's mind control abilities.
* TheSeventies: The setting in both "Big Willy Unleashed" and "Path of the Furon," heavily satirized of course.
* SimpleYetAwesome: The Zap-O-Matic and the Disintegrator Ray may not be as special as some of Crypto's later arsenal, but they are very useful in later parts of the first two games. This is due to the fact that the Zap-O-Matic requires no ammunition and is able to be daisy-chain onto humans when upgraded, leading to their health being drained quicker, and in the second game, can take on the tediously annoying Blisk Warriors better. As a side benefit, humans can't do anything while being electrocuted by the Zap-O-Matic, making it decent for crowd control. The Disintegrator Ray, on the other hand, requires ammo, but the ammunition is the most common type found (and with the Transmogrify ability, even easier to find), and is fairly effective on humans and vehicles.
* TheSixties: A satirized version makes up the setting in the second game.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Shama Llama starts to become this as you progress through the Arkvoodle Cult missions. By Takoshima, it's pretty much clear that it's the reason he wants to be the image of the cult in the first place.
* SlapSlapKiss: Crypto and Natalya start out this way.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: The number appended to a Furon's name indicates the number of times they've been cloned. Each time you die in the first two games, Crypto's clone number increases by one. Canonically, Crypto never dies in either game; Crypto-137 is KilledOffscreen between the first and second game, while Crypto-138 dies in a saucer crash between the second game and ''Path of the Furon''.
* SoundtrackDissonance:
** ''(So Nice) Summer Sammba'' by Walter Wanderly playing as Crypto is ordered by Pox to vaporize a group of partygoers and the mayor of Santa Modesta.
** In the second game, "She Changes Like The Weather" by Nic Armstrong plays twice -- When Crypto is about to destroy The Rock in Bay City, and later on as Crypto convinces the cosmonauts to [[spoiler:fight against their Blisk allies, leading to a massive war inside the dome]].
** In the third game, songs such as "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People or "Pick Up The Pieces" by Average White Band 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.

* SpyCatsuit: Silhouette and Crypto's Russian LoveInterest, Natalya, in the sequel.
* SpyDrama: The first two games have varying shades of, but especially the second one as it directly parodies James Bond.
* StandardFPSGuns: Most of Crypto's arsenal is composed of alien versions of familiar video game weaponry.
** The Zap-O-Matic is very obviously a LightningGun.
** The Ion Detonator is basically a GrenadeLauncher in all but name.
** The Disintegrator Ray is functionally an assault rifle.
** The Anal Probe serves as a marksman weapon, especially once it was reworked to specifically require targeting enemies' asses.
** The Meteor Strike functions like a [[PuppetGun laser designator]], only it calls down [[ColonyDrop asteroids]] rather than traditional artillery.
** Gastroenteritis serves as a SentryGun.
** Most other weapons serve as some form of {{BFG}}.

* TheStoner: Exaggerated to ludicrous extents with the aptly named The Freak, who claims he can pick radio signals with his teeth and read minds, and knows pretty much everything going on in Bay City. His thoughts even reveal that other hippies avoid him, and when they do need to talk to him, it's solely to buy drugs.
--->(lamenting) The chicks come for the stash, but they never stay for The Freak...
* StopPokingMe: In the first two games, if you stand too close to a pedestrian for a certain period of time, they'll let out a one-liner, usually among the lines of a threat. This will also happen if they keep getting bumped into.
* StormingTheCastle: The attack on the Blisk base in the second game, and the attack on the Furon palace in the third game.
* StrangeSalute: The Furon salute consists of extending one's arm perpendicular to the body, touching one's chest, and then raising the hand to about eye level at the side of the body. If Crypto is any indication, the salute is typically done with the left arm.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Furons and Blisk definitely invoke this.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Any human who thinks it's a good idea to attack Crypto after watching him disintegrate a dozen of their buddies.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Crypto in every game, except the third, in which he still can't swim, however he just gets warped back to the shore. The first game even has different post-mission headlines used when Crypto drowns. In the Remake the drowning is no longer instantaneous, as his shield prevents him from falling in unless he takes too much damage.
** Humans and objects in the game also universally sink like rocks.
* SuperheroPackingHeat: Crypto being a villain example with his guns and psychic powers.
* SurprisinglyEasyMiniQuest: There are a few that don't require much, if any real effort.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Pretty much the point of the third game. "Temporal Fist!"
** Basically what Silhouette wants to do according to her thoughts.

** A very subtle one, but the Cult of Arkvoodle appears to be a jab towards Christianity (with some elements mocking the Manson family). This becomes more apparent if you scan Shama Llama's mind.
** "Alientology" is a thinly veiled parody of Scientology.
** A Cortex Scan of a co-ed in Takoshima reveals that she aspires to be a mindless socialite heiress who is famous for a sex tape video, parties all the time, is drunk and half-naked on camera, and inherited a hotel business off her father. No points for guessing [[Creator/ParisHilton who]] that is.

** One of the things that you can get from reading the mind of a soldier ais the wish that they'd chosen to join the Texas Air National Guard, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush because it sounds like an easy assignment]].

* TelepathicSpacemen: The Furons have evolved PsychicPowers over the ages, allowing them to read minds, hypnotize lesser beings, and telekinetically throw enemies around. Crypto gets a lot of mileage out of all three.
* TellMeAgain: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', all conversations end with the option of Crypto asking for a condensed version of the conversation.
* {{Terraform}}: The [[spoiler:Blisk's]] big plan is [[spoiler:using nuclear power to invest the world with Blisk spores and turn it into a water-submerged haven.]] By the time the storyline reveals their plans, [[spoiler:they've already set up a nuclear-harvesting plant in Russia and enslaved cosmonauts to help built a giant hive on the moon]], and that's where Crypto comes in.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: In ''Destroy All Humans! 2'', while in Tunguska, Russians tend to do this dance when Crypto uses Free Love on them.
* ThemeNaming: Furon names are all names of pathogens.
* {{Theremin}}: Garry Schyman went all out with this in the first game's soundtrack, especially the opening theme. The later games still have traces of it too.
* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: Crypto in the second game upon seeing Natalya meet Sergei. It doesn't work, however.

* TimedMission: Show up many times, both as main missions and side quests.
* TokenMinority: The second game has one black hippie appear in Bay City. Later downplayed in the later games, which have a good few black characters.
* TornadoMove: ''Path of the Furon'' grants Cryptos saucer the Tornadotron, a weapon that can be used to form and control a massive tornado that sweeps everything in its path into the sky while it's active. It can even be used while invisible for the illusion of a natural disaster wrecking the city. DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud is in partial effect here, as cars and helicopters need to be somewhat close to the funnel be flung.
* TractorBeam: The Abducto Beam weapon for the saucer effectively functions as this.
* {{Twinmaker}}: The plot is driven by the Furon's need to harvest human brains to retain their immortality through cloning.
* TwoWordsAddedEmphasis: Crypto tries to convince British hippies that Arkvoodle has the best collection of music in the galaxy. When they ask what Arkvoodle listens to, Crypto says "Three words. And one of them's a disease. Blind Willie Syphilis."
* UnfortunateNames: The [[DoubleEntendre Big Willy Hotdog Franchise]]. And the game simply ''will not shut up about it''.
** Arkvoodle is the Lord of the Sacred Crotch, and from there goes a whole bunch of other references.
** Blind Willie Syphilis.
-->'''Crypto:''' (stepping on her head) Resist THIS.
* UnrealisticBlackHole: The final handheld weapon unlocked in ''Path of the Furon'' in the Black Hole Gun, a device that develops a black hole in the area it's pointed at. When formed, all humans, vehicles and debris nearby will be pulled and absorbed into the hole, killing them instantly, and then releasing all of their brains into a pile before dissipating. It takes a while to charge up, can only be fired twice when fully upgraded before needing ammo, and leaves Crypto unable to do anything else while he forms the black hole, but it can clear a whole block's worth of enemies quickly.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the second game, you can approach The Freak without disguising Crypto as a human, and he will show no reaction to the alien, with the game simply noting "The Freak doesn't like talking to squares."
* VenusIsWet: In ''Path of the Furon'', Pox claims that Venus used to be lush and sustained life before the Furon Empire turned into a "self-perpetuating inferno." While it is never clarified as to ''why'' they did that (though it can't be hard to guess with [[AxCrazy the Furons]]), the last remaining thing from this time in Venus' history are spore samples from a carnivorous plant species that would be used as ammo for the Venus Human Trap weapon.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: It's a game called "Destroy All Humans!" with you playing as an AlienInvader. This is a given.
** Telekinesis and Mind Control are such nicely sadistic weapons.
** The AnalProbe. Nothing says "cruelty potential" like a weapon that [[AssShove goes up the victim's ass]], causing [[PottyFailure rectal incontinence]] with a side of YourHeadASplode. In the first game, it didn't even have to be lethal; you could simply probe a hapless civilian repeatedly, watching them run away while uncontrollably soiling themselves. Rinse and repeat until bored.
** 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''.
** Then there are the Ruin Lives side-missions, in which you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ruin random people's lives]] [[ForTheEvulz for absolutely no reason]].
** You can use the Anal Probe to free the Blisk Mutants and turn them back into humans, or you can just kill them. Or you can [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Anal Probe the mutants and then kill them anyway.]]
** Extracting human brain stems takes the form of Crypto telekinetically [[YourHeadASplode making a person's head explode]] and then picking up the brain left behind. While generally used on corpses, there's nothing that says the victim has to be dead; in fact, in the first game, brain stems extracted from living people often yield ''more'' DNA.
** If mindless destruction gets boring, there are plenty of dialogue options for Crypto to harass, threaten and insult the people he talks to. One standout example is when Crypto has to get a code from Dr. Go's old girlfriend Yuki. Depending on how Crypto chooses his words she could end up giving him a second chance or want nothing to do with him. Either option advances the mission so feel free to pick whichever.
* VillainProtagonist: [[BlackAndGrayMorality Though your opponents aren't any better.]]
* ViolationOfCommonSense: During the fight with Kojira, Pox eventually notices that the beast's underside is [[AttackItsWeakPoint considerably less armored]] than its back. As a result, it takes more damage from Crypto's personal weapons than the ones mounted on the saucer. That's right: you're supposed to get out of the high-tech flying saucer and fight the {{Kaiju}} ''on foot''. This actually ''does'' make the fight easier, since Kojira will focus its attacks more on the humans (given that they're bringing in tanks and all) than on Crypto.
* VivaLasVegas: Las Paradiso in Path of the Furon.
* VodkaDrunkenski: The second game naturally makes lots of jokes about Russians and drinking. Most notably, [[spoiler:Crypto finally makes the cosmonauts at the moon base turn against the Blisk [[SeriousBusiness by claiming that the Blisk are taking away their vodka]].]]
* WantedMeter: Appears as a military response alert meter in each game.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** After the ending of the first game, we never see President Huffman again. Downplayed, as Huffman is mentioned to still be president by the time the second game rolls around. Pox also mentions cloning Huffman after Crypto lost interest in controlling the government.
** During the second game, when the Blisk hold Natalya hostage, she tells Crypto that Sergei has been infected with spores, and that's the last we hear of him.
** Veronica Stone in Path of the Furon. 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 when he delivers the access code to Natalya ("Eye Love You"), before adding [[LampshadeHanging "Also, Who's on first, what's on second and I don't know's on third."]]
* WorldOfJerkass: Every character in the game is a jerk but for different reasons. You control a sociopathic alien invader who is gleefully killing humans for his own entertainment while battling ferocious American warmongers who think you're a Communist invader but ironically are enabling an underground terrorist group that seeks world domination through mind control and propaganda.
* {{Wormsign}}: The Burrow Beast weapon is preceded by an ominous rumbling noise.
* WreakingHavok: A fairly obvious gameplay selling point for the games.
* 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. It's quite telling that, at the beginning of the series, Crypto is already at ''137.''
* YouHaveFailedMe: Admiral Cyclosporiasis is not very pleased when he learns Pox and Crypto lost the pure Furon DNA.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Crypto's reaction when both Pox (sarcastically) and Natalya [[ItMakesSenseInContext propose they should get therapy and counseling for]] [[{{Kaiju}} Kojira]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Agent Oranchov gives a slightly downplayed version of this when his mook, Coyote Bongwater, is defeated and is moments away from being killed by Crypto.
** Crypto does this to [[spoiler:Shama Llama]] after the latter goes against him.
* 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.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle:
** In the second game, KGB Agents, as well as the citizens of Takoshima and Tunguska, all talk in this manner. Averted with some of the more prominent characters in the KGB (Natalya, Oranchov, Sergei, and Milenkov).
** Also happens with Shen Long and Belleville in Path of the Furon.
* YourHeadASplode: The basic method for extracting brain stems from humans.
** The first game has an unintentional example, when Pox tries to brainwash humans en masse [[AliensStealCable by broadcasting a signal from the mothership on TV]], which turned out to be [[MySkullRunnethOver too strong for human brains to process]] and caused an epidemic of exploding craniums instead. The next mission basically has Crypto cleaning up the mess.
* YourMom: A variation: in the second game, after poisoning Crypto, making him delusional, this exchange is likely to happen:
-->'''Ponsonby:''' Now, tell me all the good things you remember about your mother.\\
'''Crypto:''' [[NonSequiturThud Mommy? No, not the hot iron treatment again! I'll be good, I promise!]]
* ZillionDollarBill: Furon DNA acts as this.
* ZombieApocalypse: The Blisk mutants in the second game.. Played straight with the Zombie Gun in BWU.
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[[folder: Specific to the Remakes]]
* AchievementSystem: There are 40 achievements overall; all from scanning people's minds for the first time (''"Covert Thoughts"''), juggling human bodies (''"Fly, my pretties"''), Abducting a cow with your [=UFO=] (''"As is Tradition"''), and transmogrifying something to get some ammunition (''"Reduce, Abuse, Recycle"'').
* AdaptationDeviation:
** Majestic agents (referred to "Basic Majestic") now use normal firearms in early stages, and only gain access to energy weapons ("Enhanced Majestic") in Area 42 and onwards after having reverse-engineered Furon technology; in the original, these guns were present throughout the game.
** In the original game, when Crypto sabotaged Armquist's meeting with the Joint Chiefs, he disguised himself as a Navy admiral. In the remake he instead holobobs the Marine Corps commandant. This actually fixes a minor issue as Armquist refers to disguised Crypto as "general", which didn't make sense in original game.
** Buildings that need to be destroyed during missions, such as the Rockwell fairgrounds or the Santa Modesta diners, are no longer permanently destroyed.
** Areas now have day-night cycles depending on missions, and the cycle is randomized when selecting an area from free roam.
** The live-action clip from ''Film/PlanNineFromOuterSpace'' has been replaced by one from ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' (presumably due to rights issues with the former).
** Silhouette's mask has been redesigned, as the original resembled the logo of the now-defunct original developer.
** Brainstem DNA variations are now more logically limited and not as based on rank or status: 50 points for mutants, 25 for everyone else... except Capitol City senators, who rank ''5''.
* AdaptationExpansion: A bunch of gameplay elements have been refined since the first games' release:
** Psychokinesis (henceforth now referred to as "PK") is now more oriented towards combat use. It now has more refined controls, it's more floatey than the original game, as well as being able to be used while shooting and using other abilities. You can now even ''throw back'' an army grenade at the person who threw it.
** The game now features a "lock-on" mode that fixes the camera onto a nearby target to make shooting at them easier.
** Recharging your saucers shield from vehicles was a mechanic from the sequel that has been directly imported into this remake. After the car can no longer be used to charge the shields up, the car will blow up.
** The Jetpack now lasts longer in the air, as well as being significantly faster to charge up (as soon as you touch ground essentially), which makes gliding and shooting much more viable than previous instalments.
** The death ray can now fire directly below the saucer, obliterating anything underneath it.
** Missions now have checkpoints, so you no longer have to keep repeatedly returning to the Mothership every single time you screw up and restart from the beginning.
** Missions now also feature optional objectives per level, which, when completed, unlock character skins for Crypto as well as awarding bonus DNA.
** '''A lot''' more objects can be picked up and interacted with when using [=PK=], everything from tires, crates,, hay bales, defenseless chickens.
** The Anal Probe now has an upgrade path that can chain and seek multiple targets, a similar feature from the third games' Anal Probe.
** When disguised as an NPC, [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing you can now jump!]] This is more helpful than it sounds as it makes stealth much easier in missions that do not require you to kill people to proceed,and you can traverse fences and uneven ground better to avoid enemies like Majestic agents that will foil your holobob.
** You can now pick up DNA from your saucer by hovering really close to the ground.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Gastro from the second game appears in the remake's training manuals, where he delivers different comments for each subject covered within.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the original game, Pox was mostly serious and almost never made an intentional joke. Here, thanks to the new dialogue, Pox's personality is a lot more like it was in later games: Light-hearted and humorous while still retaining the serious edge. [[AdaptationalNiceGuy He's also more prone to congratulating Crypto for a job well done.]]
* ArtEvolution: The art style is much cleaner and more stylised now, ditching semi-realistic textures for more of a [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fortnite-esque]] art style, which strikes a better balance between the two. Crypto is more detailed models-wise, but his skin is less realistic and more rubbery-looking. The [=NPC's=] also look intentionally goofier, matching the 50's parody aesthetic.
* AssShove: The Rammstein trailer begins with Crypto dropping a cow on some hapless dude who's barbecueing in his garden. [[BrickJoke It ends]] with another shot of the cow, now with the guy's arms and legs poking out of its rear, flailing wildly while trying to free himself.
* BlackComedy: The trailers are full of it, and the game itself has more than the original.
* BossRush: Mild example, but the game's two final bosses are fought in the same mission with only a brief cutscene in between and almost no other enemies showing up in the level.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the cutscene where Miss Rockwell is pulled into Crypto's ship, Crypto's response of "So vocal, so... responsive. This is gonna be gooooood." is changed to simply "Probin' time...", likely because of modern sensibilities regarding sexual humor.
* CallForward:
** After completing the Rockwell Rampage challenge (which requires Crypto to kill cows so Pox can make burgers out of them) Pox quickly falls in love with fast food, though he tries to hide it. In ''Big Willy Unleashed'', Pox is in the fast food business.
** The Furon god, Arkvoodle, is mentioned in passing a few times. Arkvoodle plays a prominent role in the sidequests of ''DAH!2'' and ''Path of the Furon''.
* CheckpointStarvation: Generally averted for most of the game, but played painfully straight in the final mission. There are ''no'' checkpoints during the two {{Boss Battle}}s, only right before them, so if anything goes wrong at all, you'll have to restart the entire battle from scratch.
* CreatorCameo: The BFG-137 skins' name is an acronym for ''Creator/BlackForestGames'', the remakes developer.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Crypto-138 shows up in the end of the "Midweek Madness Sale" trailer, wondering when 137 will be done.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the cutscene of "This Island Suburbia", when the two Majestic agents are talking, a scientist in the background messes with an EMP device and gets zapped for his trouble.
* HotterAndSexier: Some of the random female [=NPCs=] have more skin-revealing outfits, and new JigglePhysics to go with the remake's high definition graphics.
* HypocriticalHumor: Can be invoked by the player. The game has a RunningGag about Crypto getting mad about being called a "green" space man at every turn despite his skin being grey. However, the BFG Crypto skin from the preorder bonus pack has ''a lot'' of neon-green in its design, from his eyes to the TronLines all over his suit, making his claims of not being green unintentionally hilarious.
* ImageSong: The announcement trailers of the games all have Crypto singing songs by German Industrial band {{Music/Rammstein}}.
** The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ "Ich Will"]] is used in the reveal trailer for the first game, which is such an on-the-nose song to use for the game. It's an IWantSong about taking energy and getting attention, accompanied by a theramin and very gruff vocals that make it sound like Crypto is singing it.
** The second game uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM "Amerika"]], a song about [[{{Eagleland}} America's cultural domination of the world]], fitting for an [[PresidentEvil evil alien who's also the POTUS]] causing havoc around the world.
* MassHypnosis: In the first trailer, Crypto hijacks the town's local broadcast station and brainwashes the entire populous to join in on his impromptu Rammstein concert. He does the same thing on a worldwide basis for the reveal trailer for ''Reprobed'', even doing it to Kojira.
* NintendoHard: The final level's difficulty has been massively escalated from the original; the Robo-Prez fires missiles that can knock out huge chunks from your health, which can only be destroyed by the Repulse-o-Tron. As the fight goes on, the missiles fire more rapidly and you barely have time to drain the (limited amount) of cars before having the time the repulses just right. Fortunately, there is an [[AntiFrustrationFeatures mercy checkpoint]] that wasn't there between the two bosses in the first game, as Silhouette is even worse, leaving only a few seconds where she can be hit when her shield drops, whilst firing tracker shots and virtually unavoidable bursts of red energy that reduce your health to one point. What's worse, you'll find yourself starved of ammo pretty quickly.
* RaceLift: The setting is the same, but the humans are racially diverse, unlike how in the first game all the [[HumansAreWhite humans were Caucasian]].
** Which contradicts a line spoken by a Rockwell NPC, presumably inherited from the original, remarking on the lack of colour.
* RagdollPhysics: They're here, and boy is it satisfying throwing a cow around to knock over a cop.
* ShotForShotRemake: The intention is to remaster the first game in the series by making it look prettier, refining the controls to adhere to modern standards, and rebalancing the gameplay to make Crypto more powerful and less of a nuisance to control. Even the audio for the game is recycled audio from the original for the most part (the voice actors only re-recorded for new content, such as the lost Area 42 mission, as well as for any new additions for Pox and Crypto). In terms of more traditional examples; the cutscenes themselves use different camera angles than what the original game used. Additionally, whilst every region was set at a specific time of day in the original, it now fluctuates between day and night.
** There are a number of smaller changes too, for example in the original [[TheQuisling Bert Whither's]] hideout was in a simply underground passage no more than a few metres long whilst here it is a full blown underground lair, complete with a military boat.
** Bay City in ''Reprobed'' is far more closer to San Francisco than in the original, with the Golden Gate Bridge now being next to Golden Gate Park (the bridge was missing in the original game), the military base being moved, and Fisherman's Wharf now having a sizable port.
* ShoutOut: The pre-order bonus costumes reference various media:
** [[https://i.imgur.com/ot822tK.jpg "Killing Joke"]] references the Joker from ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', while [[https://i.imgur.com/6yXGs0b.jpg "Dollar Smart"]] is a skin based on Pennywise from ''Literature/{{It}}''.
** Two of the Majestic agents that can spawn [[ComicBookFantasyCasting look very much like]] Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/WillSmith, who play J and K respectively from ''Film/MenInBlack'' films. Here's [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/586105188419371008/719419055974383697/image1.png Not-J]] and [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/586105188419371008/719419055173402695/image0.png Not-K]].
* VariableMix: As you progress through a level, more instrumentation is unlocked for the track you listen to. Similarly, there's different music for when you become more or less hostile towards your enemies.
* VideoGameRemake: This game is a remake of the first game in the series, just with prettier visuals and more refined gameplay. Before this remake arrived, there was also a remastered version of the first two games compatible for [=PS4=].
* WeHaveReserves: Thanks to the upgrade in engine from Unreal 3 to Unreal 4, the remake can now handle more NPC's per level, meaning that it's quite easy for the police and the army to overwhelm Crypto if you're not careful.
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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.''

** The second game uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM "Amerika"]], a song about [[{{Eagleland}} America's cultural domination of the world]], fitting for a character who is now the POTUS causing havoc around the world.

On February 23rd, 2021, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryddW4i9Y9Y&feature=youtu.be 'Midweek Madness Sale' trailer]] for the remake was uploaded. At the very end however, Crypto-138 appears asking if 137 is "done yet", before being told to "wait his turn". The remake of 2, ''Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed'' was later revealed, and the trailer was released on September 17th, 2021 during [=THQ Nordic's=] livestream.

** The second game uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM "Amerika"]], a song about [[{{Eagleland}} America's cultural domination of the world]], fitting for a character who is now the President.

[[folder: Specific to the Remake]]
* AchievementSystem: There are 40 achievements overall; all from scanning people's minds for the first time (''"Covert Thoughts"''), juggling human bodies (''"Fly, my pretties"''), Abducting a cow with your [=UFO=] (''"As is Tradition"''), and transmogrifying something to get some ammunition (''"Reduce, Abuse, Recycle"'').
* AdaptationDeviation:
** Majestic agents (referred to "Basic Majestic") now use normal firearms in early stages, and only gain access to energy weapons ("Enhanced Majestic") in Area 42 and onwards after having reverse-engineered Furon technology; in the original, these guns were present throughout the game.
** In the original game, when Crypto sabotaged Armquist's meeting with the Joint Chiefs, he disguised himself as a Navy admiral. In the remake he instead holobobs the Marine Corps commandant. This actually fixes a minor issue as Armquist refers to disguised Crypto as "general", which didn't make sense in original game.
** Buildings that need to be destroyed during missions, such as the Rockwell fairgrounds or the Santa Modesta diners, are no longer permanently destroyed.
** Areas now have day-night cycles depending on missions, and the cycle is randomized when selecting an area from free roam.
** The live-action clip from ''Film/PlanNineFromOuterSpace'' has been replaced by one from ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' (presumably due to rights issues with the former).
** Silhouette's mask has been redesigned, as the original resembled the logo of the now-defunct original developer.
** Brainstem DNA variations are now more logically limited and not as based on rank or status: 50 points for mutants, 25 for everyone else... except Capitol City senators, who rank ''5''.
* AdaptationExpansion: A bunch of gameplay elements have been refined since the first games' release:
** Psychokinesis (henceforth now referred to as "PK") is now more oriented towards combat use. It now has more refined controls, it's more floatey than the original game, as well as being able to be used while shooting and using other abilities. You can now even ''throw back'' an army grenade at the person who threw it.
** The game now features a "lock-on" mode that fixes the camera onto a nearby target to make shooting at them easier.
** Recharging your saucers shield from vehicles was a mechanic from the sequel that has been directly imported into this remake. After the car can no longer be used to charge the shields up, the car will blow up.
** The Jetpack now lasts longer in the air, as well as being significantly faster to charge up (as soon as you touch ground essentially), which makes gliding and shooting much more viable than previous instalments.
** The death ray can now fire directly below the saucer, obliterating anything underneath it.
** Missions now have checkpoints, so you no longer have to keep repeatedly returning to the Mothership every single time you screw up and restart from the beginning.
** Missions now also feature optional objectives per level, which, when completed, unlock character skins for Crypto as well as awarding bonus DNA.
** '''A lot''' more objects can be picked up and interacted with when using [=PK=], everything from tires, crates,, hay bales, defenseless chickens.
** The Anal Probe now has an upgrade path that can chain and seek multiple targets, a similar feature from the third games' Anal Probe.
** When disguised as an NPC, [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing you can now jump!]] This is more helpful than it sounds as it makes stealth much easier in missions that do not require you to kill people to proceed,and you can traverse fences and uneven ground better to avoid enemies like Majestic agents that will foil your holobob.
** You can now pick up DNA from your saucer by hovering really close to the ground.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Gastro from the second game appears in the remake's training manuals, where he delivers different comments for each subject covered within.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the original game, Pox was mostly serious and almost never made an intentional joke. Here, thanks to the new dialogue, Pox's personality is a lot more like it was in later games: Light-hearted and humorous while still retaining the serious edge. [[AdaptationalNiceGuy He's also more prone to congratulating Crypto for a job well done.]]
* ArtEvolution: The art style is much cleaner and more stylised now, ditching semi-realistic textures for more of a [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fortnite-esque]] art style, which strikes a better balance between the two. Crypto is more detailed models-wise, but his skin is less realistic and more rubbery-looking. The [=NPC's=] also look intentionally goofier, matching the 50's parody aesthetic.
* AssShove: The Rammstein trailer begins with Crypto dropping a cow on some hapless dude who's barbecueing in his garden. [[BrickJoke It ends]] with another shot of the cow, now with the guy's arms and legs poking out of its rear, flailing wildly while trying to free himself.
* BlackComedy: The trailers are full of it, and the game itself has more than the original.
* BossRush: Mild example, but the game's two final bosses are fought in the same mission with only a brief cutscene in between and almost no other enemies showing up in the level.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the cutscene where Miss Rockwell is pulled into Crypto's ship, Crypto's response of "So vocal, so... responsive. This is gonna be gooooood." is changed to simply "Probin' time...", likely because of modern sensibilities regarding sexual humor.
* CallForward:
** After completing the Rockwell Rampage challenge (which requires Crypto to kill cows so Pox can make burgers out of them) Pox quickly falls in love with fast food, though he tries to hide it. In ''Big Willy Unleashed'', Pox is in the fast food business.
** The Furon god, Arkvoodle, is mentioned in passing a few times. Arkvoodle plays a prominent role in the sidequests of ''DAH!2'' and ''Path of the Furon''.
* CheckpointStarvation: Generally averted for most of the game, but played painfully straight in the final mission. There are ''no'' checkpoints during the two {{Boss Battle}}s, only right before them, so if anything goes wrong at all, you'll have to restart the entire battle from scratch.
* CreatorCameo: The BFG-137 skins' name is an acronym for ''Creator/BlackForestGames'', the remakes developer.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Crypto-138 shows up in the end of the "Midweek Madness Sale" trailer, wondering when 137 will be done.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the cutscene of "This Island Suburbia", when the two Majestic agents are talking, a scientist in the background messes with an EMP device and gets zapped for his trouble.
* HotterAndSexier: Some of the random female [=NPCs=] have more skin-revealing outfits, and new JigglePhysics to go with the remake's high definition graphics.
* HypocriticalHumor: Can be invoked by the player. The game has a RunningGag about Crypto getting mad about being called a "green" space man at every turn despite his skin being grey. However, the BFG Crypto skin from the preorder bonus pack has ''a lot'' of neon-green in its design, from his eyes to the TronLines all over his suit, making his claims of not being green unintentionally hilarious.
* ImageSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ "Ich Will"]] by {{Music/Rammstein}} is used in the reveal trailer, which is such an on-the-nose song to use for the game. It's an IWantSong about taking energy and getting attention, accompanied by a theramin and very gruff vocals that make it sound like Crypto is singing it.
* MassHypnosis: In the first trailer, Crypto hijacks the town's local broadcast station and brainwashes the entire populous to join in on his impromptu Rammstein concert.
* NintendoHard: The final level's difficulty has been massively escalated from the original; the Robo-Prez fires missiles that can knock out huge chunks from your health, which can only be destroyed by the Repulse-o-Tron. As the fight goes on, the missiles fire more rapidly and you barely have time to drain the (limited amount) of cars before having the time the repulses just right. Fortunately, there is an [[AntiFrustrationFeatures mercy checkpoint]] that wasn't there between the two bosses in the first game, as Silhouette is even worse, leaving only a few seconds where she can be hit when her shield drops, whilst firing tracker shots and virtually unavoidable bursts of red energy that reduce your health to one point. What's worse, you'll find yourself starved of ammo pretty quickly.
* RaceLift: The setting is the same, but the humans are racially diverse, unlike how in the first game all the [[HumansAreWhite humans were Caucasian]].
** Which contradicts a line spoken by a Rockwell NPC, presumably inherited from the original, remarking on the lack of colour.
* RagdollPhysics: They're here, and boy is it satisfying throwing a cow around to knock over a cop.
* ShotForShotRemake: The intention is to remaster the first game in the series by making it look prettier, refining the controls to adhere to modern standards, and rebalancing the gameplay to make Crypto more powerful and less of a nuisance to control. Even the audio for the game is recycled audio from the original for the most part (the voice actors only re-recorded for new content, such as the lost Area 42 mission, as well as for any new additions for Pox and Crypto). In terms of more traditional examples; the cutscenes themselves use different camera angles than what the original game used. Additionally, whilst every region was set at a specific time of day in the original, it now fluctuates between day and night.
** There are a number of smaller changes too, for example in the original [[TheQuisling Bert Whither's]] hideout was in a simply underground passage no more than a few metres long whilst here it is a full blown underground lair, complete with a military boat.
* ShoutOut: The pre-order bonus costumes reference various media:
** [[https://i.imgur.com/ot822tK.jpg "Killing Joke"]] references the Joker from ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', while [[https://i.imgur.com/6yXGs0b.jpg "Dollar Smart"]] is a skin based on Pennywise from ''Literature/{{It}}''.
** Two of the Majestic agents that can spawn [[ComicBookFantasyCasting look very much like]] Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/WillSmith, who play J and K respectively from ''Film/MenInBlack'' films. Here's [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/586105188419371008/719419055974383697/image1.png Not-J]] and [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/586105188419371008/719419055173402695/image0.png Not-K]].
* VariableMix: As you progress through a level, more instrumentation is unlocked for the track you listen to. Similarly, there's different music for when you become more or less hostile towards your enemies.
* VideoGameRemake: This game is a remake of the first game in the series, just with prettier visuals and more refined gameplay. Before this remake arrived, there was also a remastered version of the first two games compatible for [=PS4=].
* WeHaveReserves: Thanks to the upgrade in engine from Unreal 3 to Unreal 4, the remake can now handle more NPC's per level, meaning that it's quite easy for the police and the army to overwhelm Crypto if you're not careful.
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** Surprisingly averted with Bay City (the San Francisco parody) in the second game -- the Golden Gate Bridge is not seen at all. The cover does depict it, and it is mentioned in the game, but it never appears.
** Happens with Belleville in Path of the Furon.

In 2019, it was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNYZYVR8P0 announced]] that a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] was in the works, developed by Black Forest Games and published by Creator/THQNordic. It was released on July 28th on PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Creator/EpicGames, and Website/GOGDotCom, as well as having Google Stadia, [=PS4=] and Xbox One ports. The remake also includes a previously unused Lost Mission from the game's Area 42. Pre-Ordering got you free access to some cosmetic Skins for Crypto, while a later update added Christmas skins on December 17th, 2020.

On February 23rd, 2021, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryddW4i9Y9Y&feature=youtu.be 'Midweek Madness Sale' trailer]] for the remake was uploaded. At the very end however, Crypto-138 appears asking if 137 is "done yet", before being told to "wait his turn". The remake of 2, ''Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed'' was later revealed.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Majestic Agents voice by J. Grant Albrecht and Bob Joles in the first game. They make their initial appearance in the first mission and appear a number of times afterwards until the cut mission "The Wrong Stuff", where they tell Silhouette about Crypto's sabotage of the X-23.

* AliensAreBastards: In a twist of irony, [[HumansAreBastards the humans]] [[NotSoDifferent are no]] [[EvilVersusEvil angels either]].

On February 23rd, 2021, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryddW4i9Y9Y&feature=youtu.be 'Midweek Madness Sale' trailer]] for the remake was uploaded. At the very end however, Crypto-138 appears asking if 137 is "done yet", before being told to "wait his turn". This potentially hints that a similar remake for the sequel is in development.

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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking exploding cows.]] Also notable for being pitched by Matt Harding. Yes, as in "WebVideo/WhereTheHellIsMatt" Harding.[[note]]This game was more or less directly responsible for that, in fact - he pitched the exact opposite of the game he actually wanted to make, then quit when Pandemic [[PoesLaw took the pitch seriously]].[[/note]]

It was followed up by a sequel taking place in an exaggerated version of TheSixties, and a pair of sequels set in TheSeventies: ''Big Willy Unleashed'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} in 2008, and ''Path of the Furon'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} and UsefulNotes/{{PS3}} in 2009. Around 2006, it was pitched to FOX for a potential television show, but it was not to be.

** Crypto will immediately die if he touches water. Averted in Path of the Furon - Crypto will teleport back to land instead.

** The second game's radar is split into five sections - Green for general alert, blue for police awareness, and yellow, orange and red for military awareness.

* DirtyCommunists: Plays a large role in the satirical 1950s America setting of the first game. While you don't actually encounter any communists in the game, the government and GovernmentConspiracy cover up Crypto's attacks by blaming it on a communist invasion. The citizens eventually buy into the paranoia quickly enough to exclaiming Crypto as being one when he is encountered without a disguise. Crypto in the ending of the game even uses this trope - [[spoiler:Whilst disguised as President Huffman, he informs through television that communists have polluted the water supply. This is followed by setting up testing zones in America, which in reality are Crypto's way to discreetly extract Furon DNA from the humans]].

* EasterEgg: There is one in Vietmahl in ''Big Willy Unleashed'' - Once the game is completed, Crypto can go to a temple ruins and activate a statue that summons a large group of Furons.

** Surprisingly averted with Bay City (the San Francisco parody) in the second game - The Golden Gate Bridge is not seen at all. The cover does depict it, and it is mentioned in the game, but it never appears.

* MalcolmXerox: Surprisingly downplayed with the black hippies in Bay City ([[TokenMinority who are also the only black characters in the game]]) - While they do make several references to them being Black Panther Party members and view Martin Luther King Jr. as a pussy compared to Malcolm X, they are surprisingly actually rather peaceful.

'''Crypto''': I'M NOT-- These weapons: where are you making them? How many agents does Majestic have? How many other towns are you in?!? Son of a-- ''[To himself]'' Don't get mad - get sadistic.

* MoralMyopia: Played for laughs. Crypto considers the humans killing and dissecting his "brother" Cryptosporidium-136 to be an unforgivable atrocity and [[BerserkButton sees red whenever it comes up]] - and never mind that he's been gleefully killing humans for their brainstems all game long.

** In the second game, "She Changes Like The Weather" by Nic Armstrong plays twice - When Crypto is about to destroy The Rock in Bay City, and later on as Crypto convinces the cosmonauts to [[spoiler:fight against their Blisk allies, leading to a massive war inside the dome]].

* NotSoDifferent: The Majestic and Furons in the first game. Both are trying to brainwash the population of America to turn them hostile to their enemies, both indulge in FantasticRacism against the other race, and the Majestic use high-tech weaponry based on Furon technology and create psychic mutants by putting their Furon DNA to use.
** After taking down Armquist's MiniMecha in the first game, Crypto makes a speech asserting this to the defeated general, apparently offering peace. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then disintegrates him]] [[ISurrenderSuckers when he accepts.]]]]

In 2019, it was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNYZYVR8P0 announced]] that a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] was in the works, developed by Black Forest Games and published by Creator/THQNordic. It was released on July 28th on PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, Creator/EpicGames, and Website/GOGDotCom, as well as having Google Stadia, [=PS4=] and Xbox One ports. The remake also includes a previously DummiedOut Lost Mission from the game's Area 42. Pre-Ordering got you free access to some cosmetic Skins for Crypto, while a later update added Christmas skins on December 17th, 2020.

* AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]AmbiguouslyBi: You'll occasionally get a reference to a pedestrian's sexuality by reading their thoughts. For example, a farmer trying to deny the fact he admires Rock Hudson by thinking about baseball.
** In particular, Ponsonby. He loves Silhouette and Elizabeth II, yet admires Prince Phillip, and even outright says that although Silhouette was the "only woman (Ponsonby) would ever love", he is grateful that he still has the men.

* AstralFinale: The last area of the second game is a Russian Moon base.

* HotterAndSexier: Some of the random female NPCs have more skin-revealing outfits, and new JigglePhysics to go with the remake's high definition graphics.

** Majestic agents (referred to "Basic Majestic") now use normal firearms in early stages, and only gain access to energy weapons ("Enhanced Majestic") in Area 42 and onwards after having reverse-engineered Furon technology; in the original, these guns were present throughout.

** The Rockwell fairgrounds are no longer permanently destroyed.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Played sriaght in-game, and also in the trailer for the remake, Crypto sings in German. Make of that what you will.
* AnachronismStew: In the first trailer for the remake, the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ "Ich Will"]], by {{Music/Rammstein}} is used, the song having not existed until 2001.

* HumansAreWhite: All human characters in the first game (set in 1959 America) are white, which is somewhat inaccurate, since nearly 90% of Americans were white and the other 10% were black. The following games, as well as the remake, avert this.

* AliensMadeThemDoIt: The Hypno ability in the first game invokes this trope.

** The Rockwell map is now set during the daytime (except for missions explicitly set at night) and the fairgrounds are no longer permanently destroyed.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In Takoshima, reading the minds of several men will reveal that they want to become geishas, and then immediately tell the player to look up the fact that [[http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/taikomochi.html#.WJ5uEiqdly0 the first geishas were men]].

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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: