History WesternAnimation / RoswellConspiracies

-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Bingo. And [[spoiler: he's been dead since 1946.]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** After Logan gives CPRCleanPrettyReliable to Fitz his response: is "I didn't know you cared".
** After Logan pretends to be a superior officer and yells at two Alliance mooks to infiltrate the HQ, Sh'lainn says: "Gives me tingles".
** The first episode has Nick mentioning Sh''lain will wind up burning off her clothes and 'running bare bottomed in the wind' should she use her laser blasts while he's holding her hands against her body.
** Fitz refers to the Minotauri as 'bad ass hunters' at one point.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Plasma weapons are standard to the Alliance. Not only "family-friendly", but many things Nick fights are ImmuneToBullets anyway.

* CatchPhrase: "[[SarcasmMode Thank you General Rinaker!]]"
** [[spoiler: Gets something of an IronicEcho in the series finale when Nick says this in a sincere tone with Trueblood's name in place of Rinaker's, as the former had hidden the EMP device before his death so Rinaker couldn't get it.]]

* ConspiracyTheorist: Sid, the crazy guy in Roswell. [[spoiler: Really ObfuscatingStupidity. He's a former Alliance operative]] and then [[spoiler:'cause he's actually a Shadoen assassin.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Rinaker. A Shadoen apparently killed him and took his form.]]

** Sid [[spoiler: who is actually a Shadoen infiltrator, saying he knows how Rinaker mind works.]]

* PhraseCatcher: Every time our heroes discover that General Rinaker has backstabbed them ''again'' somehow, they all say a sarcastic "''Thank you'', General Rinaker!"

* PhraseCatcher: Every time our heroes discover that General Rinaker has backstabbed then ''again'' somehow, they all say a sarcastic "''Thank you'', General Rinaker!"

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The lycanthropes

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to let them be {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s, but hasn't been successful.

* WhamLine: In Episode 37, where we discover a rather shocking reveal:

* TheVoice: Nick's friend Cracker only exists as a voice on the other end of his phone. We never get a good look at him.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Nick frequently calls his friend Cracker on his cell phone, who uses his computer skills to get Nick information he needs for his job as a bounty hunter. In one episode Nick goes missing and Sh'lainn teams up with Cracker to find him.

* HeroicAlbino: Sh'lainn Blaze.

* SharpDressedMan: Hanek in human disguise

** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate the commander of the Shadoen fleet into going to the White House to demand surrender, telling him humans would be incapable of resistance. The military didn't surrender and instead destroyed the commander's vessel, leaving Rinaker in control of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]

* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler: The EMP charge.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Turns out that [[spoiler: Shadoen high command ''really'' don't like Rinaker but put up with him because they don't really have any better choices. They still keep a Shadoen spy on Earth to keep tabs on him, and said spy had no problem trying to blow up the Alliance base with Rinaker in it. In the show's final arc, when Rinaker returns to the fleet, he clearly don't get along with the fleet commander, and Rinaker is quite satisfied when he tricks the commander into getting nuked by the U.S.]]

** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate his commanding officer into going to the White House to demand surrender, telling him humans would be incapable of resistance. The military didn't surrender and instead destroyed the officer's vessel, leaving Rinaker in command of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]

** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate his commanding officer into attacking the White House, by telling him that the humans would surrender after a show of force. The military destroyed the attacking alien vessel, leaving Rinaker in command of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]

* EyeBeams: The Shadoen

** The show specializes in all sorts of nasty (for the age group) deaths, but the worst likely has to go to [[spoiler:Trueblood]], who's viciously ''torn apart'' by a Shadoen. We're ''just'' spared the details of the actual carnage through a GoryDiscretionShot, but we get [[spoiler:Trueblood's]] howling, agonized death scream in place of it and his knife, still covered in his adversary's blood, falling to the ground in the next shot.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:In the end, it is revealed that "Rinaker" is actually a Shedoen agent whose mission was to manipulate the Alliance into suppressing the various alien races on Earth, and to keep the aliens from uniting together, fearful that if they did so they would be a threat. His plan worked for decades, but in the 11th hour the aliens did unite and work with the humans to fight back against the Shedoen invasion.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate his commanding officer into attacking the White House, by telling him that the humans would surrender after a show of force. The military destroyed the attacking alien vessel, leaving Rinaker in command of the entire Shedoen fleet.]]

* DetonationMoon: The GrandFinale opens with a shot of [[spoiler:the Shedoan fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.

* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: The Shedoan fleet simulate what will happen if they blow up the moon. It's not pretty.

* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Banshees use nature magic while the Vampires are pro technology, and there is a blood feud between the two races going back centuries.

* EnemyCivilWar: Turns out that [[spoiler: the Shadoen high command ''really'' don't like Rinaker but put up with him because they don't really have any better choices. They still keep a Shadoen spy on Earth to keep tabs on him, and said spy had no problem trying to blow up the Alliance base with Rinaker in it. In the show's final arc, when Rinaker returns to the fleet, they clearly don't get along, and Rinaker is quite satisfied when the Shadoen high commanders get nuked by the U.S.]]

* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Banshees use nature magic and the Vampires are pro technology, and there is a blood feud between the two races going back centuries.

* DetonationMoon: The GrandFinale opens with a shot of the Shedoan fleet blowing up the moon and uses the Eiffel Tower Effect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.

* [[spoiler: DivideAndConquer: The Shadoens realized that if the alien races on earth ever started working with humans and each other, it would be much harder to take over. One of their own was sent to infiltrate the Alliance and ensure that such unity was never achieved until too late.]]

** There's also Lord Hanek's final scheme, which, when revealed, entails the use of banshees as living batteries to power his teleporters. This has the side effect of ''tortuously'' expending their energy and reducing them to screaming, crone-like husks -- we see one of the banshees Hanek uses reduced to this state after having suffered hours of torture as a battery before finally collapsing into dust.

** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into vampire / banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]

* BadBadActing[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: Fitz, whenever he appears before the press offers a half-assed explanation of the current event along with some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial so the public will suspect the government is doing something like DNA experiments on prisoners, transporting chemical weaponry, etc.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Conspiracy Guy taking notes on shadow without a source notices the camera. "What'choo lookin' at!"

* EnemyMine: After Sh'lainn finds out [[spoiler: vampires were the ones who abducted Queen Mab she and the Banshees join forces with the Alliance to save Queen Mab and the banshee Tree of Lights.]]

* CharacterTic: Rinaker constantly toying with a set of keys
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The EMP charge kept by the Yeti is just what was needed to utterly destroy the Shadoen fleet.]]

* GrayAndGrayMorality

* {{Chupacabra}}: Actually a vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him ([[spoiler:General Rinaker]]). Ever since, he's lived in the rainforest, biting livestock and scaring the locals.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent[=/=]OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires are presented as basically [[PettingZooPeople snakes with human features.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams