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1	* DesignatedHero: Bedford in the 1964 film.
2	** It's pretty clear that he's only with working with Cavor to share in the profit of Cavorite and sells a rented cottage to Cavor for thousands of pounds, whilst tricking Kate into signing the deed over instead of him, so she will take the fall in his place. When he finally sets foot on the Moon he cautiously greets the natives, [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill by throwing a dozen of them off a cliff]]. [[PoorCommunicationKills And later assumes that their understandable and relatively benign apprehension towards earthlings is instead a declaration of war.]]
3	** Hell, he even sadistically grins and chuckles when he realizes that Cavor's HeroicSacrifice accidentally spread a disease to wipe out all of the unsuspecting aliens.
4	* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Gatiss' conceit that Cavor used a sheet of Cavorite to flush the moon's atmosphere into space, rendering the moon the airless dead world Aldrin and Armstrong discover. An extremely elegant solution to the problem that ScienceMarchesOn.]]
5	* FridgeHorror
6	** [[spoiler: Cavor destroys an entire sentient race to prevent them fighting a war with humanity. While, yes, a huge war would have been awful, most wars tend to end, and usually with diplomacy and peace (or at least a cessation of conflict for some time). There's no reason there couldn't have been peace in the future.]]
7	** It's worse in the 1964 film when [[spoiler: Cavor did so ''accidentally''. All while trying to maintain peaceful relations with the aliens.]]
8	* TearJerker:
9	** From the 1964 film, Cavor and the Grand Lunar's discussion in regards to the concept of war. The Selenite leader comes across as being genuinely confused, and later frightened of the very concept.
10	--> '''Grand Lunar''': Men enjoy to make war?
11	--> '''Cavor''': No. No, they detest it!
12	--> '''Grand Lunar''': Then if they make war, they are defective.
13	--> '''Cavor''': Well... well, we're not perfect. Well, mankind is still developing. We're not, we're not perfect. There are men of peace.

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