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Casey Connor
Casey Connor
Played By: Elijah Wood
- Accidental Athlete: It comes up more than once that Casey is a natural at long-distance sprinting.
- Action Survivor: Of all the protagonists, he's one of the least athletic and action-minded, yet he manages to survive the most dangerous situations out of all of them.
- Alliterative Name: Casey Connor.
- Bully Magnet: He is bullied relentlessly by his classmates due to being a geek.
- Butt-Monkey: Casey is the resident school punching bag.
- Chekhov's Skill: Turns out, being the Bully Magnet who spends a lot of time running away comes in handy escaping a monstrous alien queen.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: In the finale Casey now has product in his hair, which symbolizes his Character Development.
- Final Guy: He's the last one standing out of the main cast and ultimately defeats the aliens.
- Geek Physiques: He's very small and thin, which is appropriate for his status as a geek. Ironically, this makes him quite fast, and he even manages to outrun the infected football team.
- Grew a Spine: His Character Development most revolves around him becoming more assertive, with the first hint of this being when he talks back to Delilah, which is the first time she shows interest in him.
- The Hero: He graduates to this trope during the climax after spending much of the film as The Smart Guy, due to everyone else becoming infected or incapacitated.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: He's a nerd who is stereotypically unpopular at school.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He gives an awesome Ironic Echo to Marybeth before killing her."Guaranteed to jack you up."
- School Newspaper Newshound: Well, photographer, but he still possesses a very inquisitive mind.
- The Smart Guy: Casey is the one who astutely figures out the truth about the aliens and their plans.
- Stereotypical Nerd: He is small, thin, and pale, frequently bullied and considered uncool, timid and not one to stand up for himself (until his Character Development), and is the smartest one in the group, correctly deducing the alien invasion occuring.
- Took a Level in Badass: By the end, he's the last one who isn't infected or incapacitated.
Delilah Profitt
Delilah Profitt
Played By: Jordana Brewster
- Academic Athlete: She's the head of both the cheerleading squad and the school paper.
- Alpha Bitch: Played With. She is one of the most popular girls in school, but her meanness manifests in a more cynical manner and only acts as a Jerkass to people she thinks are being stupid or are jerks themselves, and actually tries to be welcoming to new girl Marybeth. Character Development makes her drop her negative traits and turns her into a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
- Brainy Brunette: She's fairly intelligent and has long dark hair.
- Brutal Honesty: When Stan pours his heart to her and confesses he wants to quit football and get into college via his grades, she's quick to point out he's not very bright and breaks up with him on the spot.
- Clark Kenting: She tries a rather weak version when she replaces her regular contact lenses with Nerd Glasses, in order to avoid being recognized by the aliens (who are targeting the most popular kids in school so that they can infect the most people). If her getting infected is any indication, it didn't work.
- Cruel Cheerleader: Subverted, along with Alpha Bitch. She is a cheerleader and can be mean, but her targets are those she thinks are acting stupidly and those who are jerks themselves, making her something of a Bully Hunter.
- Deadpan Snarker: She tosses off sharp remarks as easily as breathing.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts off bitchy, but becomes nicer after getting called out by Casey.
- Freudian Excuse: She mentions her mother being an alcoholic and her father being dead, which might help to explain her bitchy facade. Indeed, after being infected, she tells Casey that she hasn't been this happy since before she lost her father.
- Give Geeks a Chance: When it seems like Casey is hitting on her, she seems genuinely amused and intrigued. Naturally, she continues flirting back at him after she's been possessed. After she's been cured they end up dating.
- Hysterical Woman: She ends up freaking out when she and Casey witness Nurse Harper being infected, and Casey has to muffle her with his hand to prevent her from screaming.
- Intrepid Reporter: By school newspaper standards, at least. She's willing to invade and snoop in on the teacher's lounge to find out why they've been behaving so oddly. Of course, what she finds out is much more sinister and dangerous than she ever imagined.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Though she has the bitchy attitude on the surface, she's nicer once the other characters get to know her. She becomes a more conventional Alpha Bitch after getting infected, but is back to being likable at the end when everyone is cured.
- Peerless Love Interest: Casey has a major crush on her, but given she's the Alpha Bitch he doesn't think he has a chance with her, and wouldn't even interact with her if he wasn't the photographer for the school's newspaper while she's the editor, but she still ends up being his Love Interest and they're shown to be dating in the epilogue.
- Nerd Glasses: Part of her attempt at Clark Kenting is putting these on.
- School Newspaper Newshound: In addition to being the head cheerleader, she's editor-in-chief for the school newspaper, and she and Casey sneak into a closet in hopes of sniffing out a story. They get way more than they bargained for.
Stokely Mitchell
Stokely "Stokes" Mitchell
Played By: Clea DuVall
- Character Development: Over the course of the film, Stokely gradually opens up a little more and ceases to be a complete recluse, resulting in her graduation from Goth to Perky Goth.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has no trouble holding her own in Snark-to-Snark Combat with the likes of Delilah.
- Genre Savvy: She knows a lot about sci-fi pop-culture, and uses her knowledge it to try to predict how the Alien Invasion will go, including assuming killing the Hive Queen will fix everyone.
- Goth: A slightly more subdued version. Her hatred of her classmates is such that it leads her to tell everybody she's a lesbian just to get them to stop talking to her. Her outcast status is part of the reason why she's among the last students at the school who isn't infected by alien brain slugs, which started by assimilating the popular kids after going through the teachers.
- Goths Have It Hard: She a Goth and an major outcast at the school.
- Loners Are Freaks: She has no friends in school, and is considered a mean freak by most schools. Even Nice Guy Stan doesn't like her at first.
- Not Like Other Girls: She pretends to be a Butch Lesbian specifically to alienate everyone. She does end up getting noticed by the apparent Jerk Jock, who turns out to be a Lovable Jock that's uninterested in his Alpha Bitch of a girlfriend. In the epilogue she's shown wearing a slightly more feminine purple cardigan as a sign that she no longer cares what people think of her.
- Perky Goth: Post-Character Development she becomes less awkward and happier but still retain her goth looks.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: She dresses all in black for the majority of the film. In the epilogue when she's made a love connection with Stan, she's now wearing a bright purple cardigan.
- Sorry, I'm Gay: She pretends to be a lesbian to keep guys from hitting on her.
- Tsundere: She's mean to Stan, but actually has a major crush on him.
Stan Rosado
Stan Rosado
Played By: Shawn Hatosy
- Big Man on Campus: Being the star Quarterback and captain of the football, he's one of the most popular students in school.
- Dumb Jock: And not happy about it. He feels that his heavy involvement as the captain of the football team is damaging his academic performance, and that his teachers are giving him preferential treatment just because he's a star athlete. This causes him to quit the team in order to focus on schoolwork. He'd rather fail honestly than get a free ride through high school and college that'll leave him unprepared for life afterwards.
- Dumb Muscle: The dumbest of the protagonists, yet the most physically capable.
- Lovable Jock: Especially compared to the coach and the rest of the team, who are promptly infected.
- Nice Guy: He's the only guy who's decent to Casey from the start, stopping a couple of fellow jocks from bullying him, and shows no ill will toward his friend Gabe for becoming the new team captain in his place.
- The Quarterback: An incredibly talented one, but he decides to quit the team at the start of the film to focus more on his grades.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Played With in that people keep bending the rules for him because he's the school’s star quarterback, including teachers bumping up his grades, but he hates not having earned what he gets to the point of quitting the football team over it.
Marybeth Louise Hutchinson
Marybeth Louise Hutchinson
Played By: Laura Harris
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's instantly attracted to Zeke and seems impressed by his use of his intellect for less-than-legal pursuits.
- Decoy Protagonist: She's almost a parody of the Final Girl — a virginal, innocent, nice girl who abstains from drugs, alcohol, and sex. She doesn't make it to the end, leaving Casey to be the Final Boy.
- Deep South: Her Southern accent is extremely pronounced to an almost comical degree, marking her as being not from here.
- Full-Name Basis: She always introduces herself by her full name, Marybeth Louise Hutchinson.
- New Transfer Student: She just moved to town from Atlanta.
- Nice Girl: She's very polite, thoughtful, and charming, even with her naivety.
- Shipper on Deck: For Stokely and Stan. She smilingly shoves Stokely into Stan's lap.
- Walking Spoiler: Her true role in the film is not clear until the end.
Zeke Tyler
Zeke Tyler
Played By: Josh Hartnett
- Anti-Hero: He’s a fairly seasoned criminal despite being no more than nineteen, blows off and then hits on Ms. Burke when she tries to talk to him about it, and is the one of the heroes most willing to resort to violence and even lethal force. However, he uses his ill-acquired skills and habits to help his classmates prevent an alien invasion, and the ending implies he settles down somewhat.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's remarkably intelligent and easily soaks up knowledge as well as being a natural athlete, but he prefers to just deal drugs in the bathrooms.
- Cool Car: He drives an old-fashioned Pontiac GTO to school every day.
- Delinquent: He not only sells drugs, he cooks them himself.
- Establishing Character Moment: He comes to school in his Cool Car, takes up two parking spots, gets out to retrieve his drugs from the trunk, and proceeds to deal. This happens before the students are introduced.
- Held Back in School: Zeke is repeating his Senior Year.
- High-School Hustler: He's a delinquent with a Cool Car who sells his classmates such items as condoms, VHS tapes containing nude scenes of popular teen actresses (or so he claims), and most critically for the purposes of the story, a homemade drug that, as it turns out, is highly toxic to the aliens.
- Parental Neglect: His parents are frequently off traveling the world and are barely home, leaving Zeke to his own criminal devices.
- Teacher/Student Romance: It's heavily implied that he and Miss Burke hook up after the events of the film.
Gabe Santora
Gabe Santora
Played By: Usher
- Advertised Extra: In spite of how little he appears in the movie, Usher was a core part of the movie's marketing. He even replaced Shawn Hatosy and Laura Harris in a number of promotional materials, including one of the main theatrical posters, complete with misleading tagline, "These six teenagers are about to discover their teachers really are from another planet."
- The Bully: Downplayed. He verbally abuses Casey at one point early on in the film.
- Jerk Jock: Is one of the jocks who bullies Casey.
- The Quarterback: He takes over as the new team captain after Stan decided to quit the football team.
- Token Black Friend: To Stan. In fact, he interacts with him the most out of all the other students.
The Faculty
In General
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of the alien parasites, although they seem to be aware to some level — when the infected coach and the drama teacher stab the principal (and both have reasons to dislike her), they both comment that "I always wanted to do that."
- Sucky School: The principal only cares about making the school's image in this "football town" and holds a 0% Approval Rating among the staff, the coach is an unpleasant Drill Sergeant Nasty, the drama teacher is a spineless doormat, the history teacher is a known alcoholic, the nurse is forced to work while being sick herself, nobody does anything about the Teacher/Student Romance at the end, must we go on?
Principal Valerie Drake
Principal Valerie Drake
Played By: Bebe Neuwirth
- 0% Approval Rating: She only gives a damn about the football team (as the school's image; not their well-being). From what we see of her before she's infected, she halfheartedly vetoes Mrs. Olson's request to stage a musical out of complete disinterest. It's unsurprising when the infected Coach Willis and Mrs. Olson both remark upon stabbing her, "I always wanted to do that."
- Obfuscating Stupidity: While she's infected, she acts like a dimwitted adult to make people unsuspecting of her. It works well for the most part, best seen when our heroes have her at gunpoint and have trouble telling if she really is that stupid or she's just doing this trope.
- Meaningful Name: Named for the Drake equation, used to calculate the probability of other life in our galaxy.
- Red Herring: She's presumed by the students to be the Big Bad: Head Alien in charge, although the audience is probably more clued in due to the fact that Coach Willis is the first-seen alien infectee and is in fact the one who infects Drake. It isn't either of them.
- Skewed Priorities: Her attitude while she's infected so as to make her seem stupid and catch people off-guard.
- Supermodel Strut: When she confronts the students in the empty gym, she walks with a classy, confident saunter. This is used to illustrate her change of personality now that shes infected, as she didn't have this kind of body language before.
Coach Joe Willis
Coach Joe Willis
Played By: Robert Patrick
- Actor Allusion: At least two or three to the T-1000:
- The opening scene when he chases Principal Drake down a corridor before she closes a door on him is reminiscent of the T-1000 chasing the Connors and the T-800 to the elevator at the hospital.
- While infected, he's amused by the idea of chasing people, something the T-1000 did quite a bit in T2.
- His sadism towards his victims might also be a reference to the T-1000 implicitly growing a taste for it by the end of T2.
- Adults Are Useless: At the end, he doesn't give a damn when Zeke smokes a cigarette, only telling him to put it away so he can focus on practice.
- The Alcoholic: Principal Drake thinks he's been drinking when he confronts her in a sinister way; it's implied here and there that he has a somewhat hidden drinking problem. note
- Creepy Gym Coach: Subverted. He approaches the female principal in her office late at night, commenting on how "pretty" she looks in what's set up to look like a drunken rape attempt. It becomes obvious that he has very different plans when he stabs her through the hand with a pencil.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When he confronts Principal Drake to infect her, he sneaks into her office late at night while she's alone in there and stands uncomfortably close to her while sensually asking her for a pencil of all things... Drake, also suspecting that he's drunk, thinks it's a rape attempt and reacts accordingly. He also basically does the same thing to Nurse Harper before infecting her too.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Willis is hated by students and staff alike for being an aggressive, short-tempered asshole who screams at his players like he's the world's most psychotic Drill Sergeant. The thing that tips everyone off that he's not himself? He's being reasonable.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Drake keys two scars on his left cheek while trying to escape from him.
- The Heavy: He's the most overtly antagonist of the faculty, to the point the audience likely assumes he's the Head Alien, since he's the first infected person seen and certainly seems to hold some position of authority among them.He isn't.
- Jerkass: Even before infection, he's a massive asshole who verbally abuses his players and is in a perpetually grumpy mood.
- Nightmare Face:
- When he coughs up a parasite to infect Nurse Harper, Tainted Veins appear on his neck & face and his eyes roll backwards.
- A humorous instance: he makes weird overly happy faces during the football game while the school's football players infect the opposing team's players.
- After the game, he and the infected football players stand in the rain to take in the water. We're treated to a lovely shot of tiny tendrils wiggling out from his face in addition an x-ray shot of him having hidden razor-sharp teeth.
- SadistTeacher: Out of the teachers, he's shown to have the most fun dragging out a pursuit and taunting to-be victims.Casey: I don't think a person should run if they're not being chased.
Coach Willis: A chase... I like that. - We Want Our Jerk Back!: After being freed from the aliens' control, Zeke, who has joined the football team at the end, is relieved at seeing the coach back to his Drill Sergeant Nasty Jerkass self.
Miss Elizabeth Burke
Miss Elizabeth Burke
After her transformation...
Played By: Famke Janssen
- Beautiful All Along: Since she's Famke Janssen, she's always beautiful, but she's extremely shy and very dressed down. Her hair is tied back unfashionably, her head is always bowed, and she wears bottlecap glasses. After being infected, she turns up to school in a much sexier outfit while projecting confidence and even intimidation.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Up and down, from the glasses to the crippling shyness. When circumstances lead to the glasses coming off, this all changes.
- Evil Makeover: After her infection, she ditches the Nerd Glasses and grandmotherly fashion sense for a sexy red dress with her hair flowing like a supermodel in a wind tunnel.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Is regarded as one after her Evil Makeover reveals she was Beautiful All Along.
- Losing Your Head: During a car crash, her head is sliced off. Thanks to the alien regeneration, she's able to reattach it no worse for wear.
- Shrinking Violet: Before her infection, she's shy, mousy, and keeps her head down while being utterly unable to discipline her students. Even in class, she barely raises her voice to speaking level.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Post-infection, she gives a brutal (and oddly dominatrix-ily sexy) one to Zeke. It's hard to say it isn't entirely undeserved.Zeke: What are you gonna do? Are you gonna call my mother?
Miss Burke: And how am I supposed to do that, little Zekey boy? Do you even know where she is? Europe, Sri Lanka, Japan? I wonder what remote location she went to this week... to hide from her great big bastard mistake. I've taken your shit for too fucking long, you dickless drug-induced excuse for a human being. - Teacher/Student Romance: Her interplay with Zeke is filled with sexual tension. Initially, it's Zeke who's hitting on her in order to show his dominance and tell her to back off from his "personal business", but after she's infected, she's the one who takes charge. The ending implies that she's overcome her Shrinking Violet tendencies and is waiting for Zeke after his game at the school's football field.
- The Vamp: After she's infected, she acts in a much more sexually agressive manner towards Zeke, even wasting time just to be The Tease.
Nurse Rosa Harper
Nurse Rosa Harper
Played By: Salma Hayek
- Hospital Hottie: Shockingly averted considering who plays her. Nurse Harper is not only dressed like an average school nurse, but throughout the film she's suffering from a horrible cold.
- Evil Makeover: After she's infected she starts Letting Her Hair Down as opposed to the Prim and Proper Bun she wore before.
- Not What It Looks Like: While snooping around in the teacher's lounge, Delilah finds her bag with meds in it and mistakenly thinks that addicted to drugs. She just has a nasty cold.
Mrs. Karen Olson
Mrs. Karen Olson
Played By: Piper Laurie
- Evil Matriarch: After her infection, she becomes the token older representative of the aliens, especially after Mrs. Brummel's body gives out.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: She worriedly urges Principal Drake to hurry when she finds her trying to escape the school and screams to her that Coach Willis is getting closer, despite Drake not fully explaining to her who she was running from or why.
Professor Edward Furlong
Professor Edward Furlong
Played By: Jon Stewart
- Cool Teacher: Compared to the others, anyway. He's a fairly Nice Guy, and is excited by the scientific potential when the kids find a parasite and bring it to him.
- Eye Scream: Zeke kills him by jamming a pen full of drugs in his eye.
- Fingore: Zeke slices off several of his fingers with the blade of a paper cutter.
- Just a Flesh Wound: Assuming that the Brick Joke in the ending credits is canon, Furlong goes back to work, this time sporting an eyepatch and a bandage for his hand.
- Shout-Out: He shares his name with actor Edward Furlong, who starred in Terminator 2: Judgment Day with Robert Patrick (Coach Willis).
Mr. John Tate
Mr. John Tate
Played By: Daniel von Bargen
- The Alcoholic: Casey finds his flask in the teacher's lounge, causing Delilah to remark that she already broke that story.
- Apathetic Teacher: He's pretty clearly dismayed with his job, sneaking alcohol into his coffee and teaching his class from a chapter they already covered the week before. When this is pointed out to him, he just mutters "Whatever".
- Deadpan Snarker: Would you expect any less from Daniel von Bargen? Tate has a very dry and sardonic wit.
The Head Alien
The Head Alien (SPOILERS)
Marybeth Louise Hutchinson
In human form...
Played By: Laura Harris
- Alien Among Us: she pretend to be a transfer student from Atlanta, until she reveal herself as the Hive Queen.
- Affably Evil: She's sweet, thoughtful, and accepting... oh, and an alien bent on world domination.
- Aliens of London: She not only speaks English fluently but she has a southern accent, which she never drops. It's never elaborated how she learned it.
- Aliens Speaking English: She speak perfect English even though she an alien.
- Benevolent Alien Invasion: She is convinced that she would improve the world if she managed to control it.
- Big Bad: She's the main antagonist of the film, as the head of the alien invasion.
- Big Bad Friend: Marybeth quickly becomes a likable friend to the students, while also being the Big Bad.
- Bizarre Alien Limbs: All of her limbs in her true form are tentacles, which vary in size.
- Breaking Speech: She gives a fairly impassioned one to Casey."Casey, come out, come out, wherever you are. You know, in my world, Casey, there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see. A beautiful home until it started to dry up. So I escaped, came here and met you. All of you. All of you were different from the others. You were lost and lonely, just like me. And I thought that maybe I could give you a taste of my world: a world without anger, without fear, without attitude. Where the underachiever goes home at night to parents who care. The jock can be smart, the ugly duckling beautiful, and the class wuss doesn't have to live in terror. And the new girl? Well, she can just fit right in with people who are just like her. You see, Casey, even Marybeth's feelings can be hurt... by a bunch of pathetic, lost, little outcasts... who truly believe that their disaffected lonely life... is the only way they can survive. I can make you a part of something so special, Casey, so perfect, so fearless. Don't you want that, Casey?"
- Combat Tentacles: Her true form has tentacle for limbs, and she uses them both as a bludgeon and to wrap around her victims.
- Exposed Extraterrestrials: She wears no clothing in her true form, and her humans clothes end up shredded after she fist transforms, but even after she shifts back into a human, she still goes on a Full-Frontal Assault, clearly having no modesty, which is what clues in Zeke that she's not what she seems to be.
- Eye Scream: She is killed when she's stabbed in the eye by Casey's needle and he injects the drug into her system.
- Fake American: In her human form, she puts on a Southern accent so comically over-the-top that it in fact foreshadows her true identity. (The original script even had her drop the accent during The Reveal.)
- Full-Frontal Assault: As she shapeshifts back and forth, her clothes don't shift with her, and she ends up nude when taking her human form again and confronting the students.
- Graceful in Their Element: As an aquatic creature, she moves awkwardly on the ground in her true form, but once she gets in a pool she's clearly much faster.
- Hive Queen: She is the queen of an alien species who came to Earth to control humans after her planet started to die. When she goes down, all of the Puppeteer Parasites she's controlling die with her, freeing the people under their control.
- Homeworld Evacuation: Marybeth lived on a planet composed entirely of oceans, explaining why the aliens need water to survive. For unknown reasons, her planet started to die, so she decided to leave it and go to a new one.
- Hot in Human Form: Her human guise of Marybeth happens to be a rather attractive human female.
- Humanoid Abomination: When she drops her human form, the result isn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination. That said, she spends most of her time in human form because she's Intrigued by Humanity.
- Implausible Deniability: When she's trying to convince Zeke that Stokely is an alien and tried to rape her, Zeke asks one extremely obvious question that shoots right through her lies.Zeke: Answer me something, Marybeth... why are you naked?
- Mars Needs Water: Her motive for coming to Earth in the first place, is that hers is an aquatic species and the water from their planet is gone.
- Mole in Charge: She's hidden amongst the humans for most of the film, despite being The Leader and Hive Queen of the Alien Invasion.
- Monster Progenitor: The entire outbreak of the alien parasites goes back to her.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The mouth of her true form is covered with hundreds of teeth.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a shapeshifter who just so happens to be Hot in Human Form and gets completely naked at the climax, and our first glimpse of her after she returns to her human is of her doing a Sexy Surfacing Shot out of the swimming pool, and she remains nude when she confronts the students in the locker room. And while a combination of Censor Shadow, Shoulders-Up Nudity and Toplessness from the Back conceal most of it, they don't conceal all of it.
- Nudity Equals Honesty: She delivers her Motive Rant completely naked. An accidental example, though, as she is that way not by choice, but because while she was able to transform back into a human, her clothes didn't.
- Octopoid Aliens: Her true form resembles that of an octopi, being an aquatic Tentacled Terror with a huge head.
- Smug Snake: She clearly has a high opinion of herself and thinks she will easily Take Over the World with her parasites, but her Alien Invasion ends up thwarted by a bunch of high-school kids.
- Tentacled Terror: Her true form is covered in dozens of tentacles, which also serve as her primary weapon and limbs.
- They Look Like Us Now: She uses her Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities to pass herself off as a human girl.
- Token Evil Teammate: She was the head alien all along.
- Uncanny Valley Girl: Should you really trust the new girl who has all those... quirks about her, who doesn't seem to understand basic human society?
- Utopia Justifies the Means: She tells Casey that she can end all the cliquishness of the school... if only they submit their free will to the Puppeteer Parasites.
- The Vamp: She weaponizes her nudity to gain the advantage over Zeke. Initially she tries to hide it behind a corner, behaving like one would expect of a human distraught about her state, but when he turns suspicious, she opts to go out and nonchalantly presents him with her nude body while taunting him about it. It turns out she had an ally behind his back and was trying to distract him enough time for her to infect him.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can change between her human appearance and true alien form at will and within a few seconds. Her size does seem to depend on how close she is to a water source. After she jumps into the school's Olympic swimming pool, she suddenly quadruples in mass.
- Walking Spoiler: There's a reason why most of the tropes concerning her had to be put in a separate folder.
- We Can Rule Together: She tries to convince Casey to join her this way, but Casey refuses to listen her.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She only invaded the planet in order to save her race from extinction, and seems to genuinely believe that the world would improve under her control. Of course said world she wishes for is nothing more than for everyone to exist in a harmonious Hive Mind, devoid of messy things like hate, or prejudice, or free will.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Attempts this with Zeke in the locker room, trying to make herself look like a victim and claiming that Stokely tried to rape her. He doesn't fall for it.
