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1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: General Granger is convinced that humanity is made up of misguided and self-destructive fools and that any means necessary (including siding with invaders and handing over half of the planet to them) should be used to achieve a "decent, moral society" that he will rule and keep in line with "[[HobbesWasRight an iron fist.]]" A WellIntentionedExtremist and wannabe messiah who genuinely believes that he is doing what needs to be done to save humankind from itself, or a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthrope]] who is invoking InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves to excuse being a wannabe dictator who is willing to let billions (including, it's implied, anyone who he has not deemed "useful") die to attain power?
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: The show had a lot of GreenAesop episodes, with the most overt probably being "Meltdown." The Genus manifest in a DerelictGraveyard and plan on causing an atomic disaster by detonating three nuclear submarines that have simply been abandoned there, so we get a lot of Lucy and Ira bickering over the negligence of the military-industrial complex in-between other scenes discussing such topics as conservation and [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves the folly of man]].
3	--> '''Scopes:''' See how we thrive on your mistakes, see how you have fed us with this radiation. See how you have given us a home by your carelessness. You and your kind are not worthy inhabitants of this planet. Soon, that will change. You will inhabit it no more.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: SAY HELLO TO ''[[https://youtu.be/-SfeWLAqT6Y EVOLUTION]]''!
5	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Ira ([[{{Flanderization}} who is much, much more science-obsessed here than he was in the film]]) is either AwesomeEgo or such a borderline-[[SmugSuper smug]] InsufferableGenius that you sometimes couldn't help but sympathize with General Woodman.
6	* CompleteMonster: [[LesCollaborateurs General Granger]] is a high-ranking general with ambitions of [[TakeOverTheWorld establishing a New World Order]] to control humanity, [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans believing that humanity is prone to violence and self-destruction without the guidance of a strong leader]]. To achieve this goal, Granger allies with SCOPES and the Genus, supplying the Genus with missiles to infect the entire planet and breaking SCOPES out when the latter is captured by the Alienators. During the series finale, Granger plans to launch more missiles to spread the Genus across the planet and planning to give the Eastern Hemisphere to SCOPES so he can rule over what's left. When the Alienators foil project Alpha-Omega, Granger tries to restart the project through using the [[KillSat satellite defense system]] to [[DetonationMoon launch a nuclear strike on the moon]] so the Genus cells there could be spread across Earth and successfully acquires most of the launch code. During the final battle, when Ira reveals to Granger that SCOPES has no intention of keeping his end of the bargain, Granger refuses to listen and continues to believe that SCOPES was under his control.
7	* CreepyAwesome: Scopes. Repetitive dialogue (something that they admittedly lampshaded at least once) aside, he's a cool-looking LargeHam who, surprisingly for a Saturday morning cartoon villain, never suffered too much VillainDecay ("Cradle Will Fall" was probably his worst showing).
8	** Wayne, though squarely a good guy, occasionally has some rather disturbing-looking mutations, such as his giant wasp form in "The Swarm" and his clones' monstrous Genus forms in "Dead Wayne Cells".
9	* EngagingChevrons: The LockAndLoadMontage, which oddly became ''less'' prominent as the series wore on.
10	* GeniusBonus: In his second appearance the lead Genus was accompanied by several primate-based subordinates, so Ira dubs him "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial Scopes]]."
11	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: According to series director Will Meugniot (most famous for ''WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}}'') it was rather popular in France.
12	* HarsherInHindsight: The Twin Towers are briefly seen twice in background shots of New York in "Genus in Your Tank". Keep in mind this series aired in ''2002'', a year after 9/11 (and considering various other Creator/FoxKids series, ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' chief among them, had been edited in the wake of it...and yet they somehow missed this).
13	* HilariousInHindsight: Ira's insitence of [[NotUsingTheZWord not calling the flying reptilian Genus a "dragon"]] is especially funny given that in the original film Ira encounters a creature that basically is a dragon, yet he refers to it as a "bird thing".
14	** The episode where gasoline-eating Genus take over car bodies and use them as armored shells is somewhat reminescent of ''Film/MonsterTrucks''.
15	** Ira, with his lopsided spiky hairstyle, smug cocky attitude and tendency to get out of difficult situations by ridiculous thinking out of the box, might remind anime fans of [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph Joestar]].
16	* NightmareFuel: Genus cells contaminate a reservoir, resulting in BodyHorror for anyone who obliviously drinks the water.
17	* TheScrappy: General Woodman is dismayed that a smarmy loose cannon like Ira Kane saved the day and got to meet and be given an award by the President, so he spends a little over half of the series being an ObstructiveBureaucrat JerkAss, pissing on the Alienators' parades while trying to make himself look good, at one point even claiming sole credit for having saved the day, something which the team doesn't contest, presumably assuming that it'll get him off of their backs for a while. He starts to [[TookALevelInKindness soften]] from "French Underground" onward, however, and by "Itching for the Genus" (which introduced [[KnightOfCerebus General Granger]]) he's become a full-fledged ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
18	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While all of the characters that originated from the film were [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] to a degree, Harry was the most detrimentally affected. In the film it was a running gag that he had a thing for women's sports. In the show he has an all-encompassing obsession with all sports, which he prattles on about endlessly when not freaking out over things (like [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes bugs]]) to an almost UncleTomfoolery extent. That he was a professor (like Ira) and a geology expert is only brought up twice and one those times was as part of a CutawayGag (he was shown teaching a class full of Wayne [[MesACrowd duplicates]]).
19	* SpiritualSuccessor: In a way to ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', with the protagonists being a special anti-monster squad and the complex and alien-looking creature designs being quite similar to the mutants of the ''Godzilla'' animated show.
20	** Also to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' (based off an Ivan Reitman film, though the CoolCar and crazy weapons, as well as the TeamPet, were all invented for this show) and even ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (given the colored armor the heroes wore).
21	* {{Squick}}: The Genus are... gross, and were frequently shown reproducing by vomiting more of their kind; on one occasion the "children" were somehow even bigger than the "parent" that threw them up.
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