Most of the civilians and enemy factions have unique dialogue and conversations, most of it coming from the ability to read their minds.
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Destroy All Humans! (2005)
Farmers
Voiced By: André Sogliuzzo
Rural farmers encountered in Turnipseed Farm and Rockwell (and Santa Modesta in the 2020 remake). They're the first humans and enemies encountered by Crypto.
- Adaptational Ugliness: In the original game, they're stereotypical southerners wearing overalls and Stenson hats. The remake adds a few variants that have tattered clothing, scrawny physiques and Gonkish faces.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Occasionally fantasize about Rock Hudson while trying to think of baseball.
- The Goomba: Their shotguns and rifles pack a punch, but they're weaker than the cops and take more time to reload their weapons.
- Half-Witted Hillbilly: Of the country bumpkin variety. They're fond of their cows, ponder the idea of eating a steak and a pizza, and dislike "commies" and "pinkos".
- Short-Range Shotgun: Their shotguns can blow Crypto to the ground, but are ineffective at longer ranges.
Rural Males
Voiced By: Bill Farmer
Rural men and farmhands found around Rockwell.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: May express their desire to confess their love to Joe-Bob - that being their chicken.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Sometimes think that the cows around them are starting to look too good.
- Half-Witted Hillbilly: A country bumpkin example. They're farmers who dress like stereotypical cowboys, think that Mister Ed talks using magic oats, and outright say they want the dumber candidate after calling Adlai Stevenson a "smartypants".
- Real Men Eat Meat: Subverted. They'll express their desire to have a salad or tofu instead of a beef.
Rural Females
Voiced By: Kate Higgins (Freeroam), Paula Tiso (Cutscenes)
Young rural women found around Turnipseed Farm and Rockwell (and Santa Modesta in the 2020 remake).
- Farmer's Daughter: They're relatively younger than the rest of the rural civilians and dress in modest patterned skirts and shirts.
- Really Gets Around: A lot of their thoughts center around their promiscuity."Come on, boys — My Biological Clock Is Ticking like a time bomb! Work with me here, people!
- Shout-Out: May occasionally think about wearing pants and calling themselves Ellie Mae.
Suburban Males
Voiced By: Keith Ferguson, Brad Abrell
Young, married men with a fondness for the suburbs, distinguished by wearing letterman jackets or suits. They're found primarily around Santa Modesta and Rockwell.
- Conspicuous Consumption: Often brag about buying new cars or having several power tools.
- Irony: Although the remake has black suburban males appear, they may still occasionally wonder about the lack of color in the town.
- Race Lift: One of the models in the remake has a black variant, compared to them all being white in the original.
- Stepford Smiler: Not as pronounced as their female variant's thoughts, but scanning them may reveal they hide their suppressive rage with their collection of power tools and cars."Shiny new automobile - check! Wife cooking meatloaf, taking Valium - check! Monotonous job as a filing clerk - check! Unbridled inner rage hidden just below the surface of normalcy - check!
- This Is Going to Be Huge: Consider the Edsel tp be a classic in the making, and think the internet will be called "the Discotron" and change the face of humanity.
Suburban Females
Voiced By: Paula Tiso
Suburban women and housewives found around Santa Modesta. They hide an immense amount of anger and stress underneath their seemingly calm nature.
- Addled Addict: Addicted to Valium thanks to the stress of living in a suburb and their competitive nature.
- Housewife: They dress and act like stereotypical 50s housewives, with most of them wearing aprons and having prim, curled hair.
Urban Males
Voiced By: J. Grant Albrecht
Wealthy businessman found around Capitol City.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: After calling Rock Hudson a dreamboat, they try to distract themselves with lumberjacks and football.
- It Will Never Catch On: Sometimes ponder the idea of serving hamburgers to people in cars with windows, only to call it a dumb idea. Drive-thru restaurants weren't popularized until the 1960s.
Urban Females
Voiced By: Salli Saffioti
Wealthy secretaries and women found around Capitol City.
- High Heel Hurt: Invoked in one of their thoughts."I'd like to meet the man who invented high heels... so I could kill him!"
- Sassy Secretary: A lot of them are jaded and snarky regarding their surroundings."What's with all the guns and goons? What is this? A police state? ...Oh yeah...
- Women Drivers: In the original, one can be found next to a burning, tipped-over car, muttering that they should get an Edsel instead. They won't move away, likely killing them in the explosion.
Crazies
Voiced By: Susanne Blakeslee (Rural), Richard Steven Horvitz (Suburban), J. Grant Albrecht (Urban)
Alien-obsessed conspiracy theorists that can be found in various areas.
- Basement-Dweller: The suburban crazies are jobless nerds who prefer staying with their mother.
- Brainless Beauty: The rural crazies in the remake are far more attractive, having a Cleavage Window in their dresses, but still maintain their craziness.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Their defining personality trait. Though their belief that aliens exist is correct, they wrongly believe they can communicate with them.
- Crazy Homeless People: The urban crazies are drunk, decrepit homeless men that carry signs saying "the end is nigh". They also seem to be forgetful and oblivious.
- Irony: The urban crazies carry sandwich signs saying "Repent! The End is Nigh", yet have a thought saying they don't know what nigh means.
- Piñata Enemy: In the original game, crazies give the most Furon DNA from extracting them alive, giving 50 DNA and rarely 100. This doesn't apply to the remake, where they give the same amount as everyone else.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: They're right that aliens exist, albeit out of paranoid delusions rather than actually encountering them.
- Tinfoil Hat: The suburban crazies wear these, although it evidently doesn't work. In the remake, it drops off their head if they're bumped into.
Cops
Voiced By: John Cygan (missions), Fred Tatasciore (freeroam)
The police force of the first game, and the most common enemy faction encountered, spawning when Crypto's alert reaches its second stage. They're found in every region except for Turnipseed Farm (in the original game), Area 42, Union Town (in the original game) and Capitol City (in the original game).
- Malaproper: 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!".
- Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Joke about their fondness of saying this in their thoughts.
- Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight: Subverted and lampshade in one of their random thoughts."What would Eliot Ness do? Never carry a knife to a gunfight? No, that's not it..."
- Officer O'Hara: All cops (save exactly two who respond to the disturbance at the Turnipseed farm) — it doesn't matter if they're in SoCal, the Midwest, the Deep South, or Capitol City; they all have accents as thick and heavy as the Blarney stone. This gets especially amusing in the remake, which adds black models for police officers.
- Police Are Useless: The police aren't very focused on doing their jobs and daydream about their own egos and self-aspirations and walk around mindlessly just waiting for their shift to be over judging by Crypto's telepathic tapes. Their default response to spotting Crypto is to shoot at him with pistols/handguns which are no match for Crypto's detonators, flame gun and electric ray gun and also the arsenal Crypto has in the UFO.
- Police Brutality: May muse about beating up an old lady for jaywalking.
- Race Lift: The remake adds black cops, whereas they are completely white in the remake.
- Replacement Mooks: In the original game, they're absent from Area 42 and Capitol City, where the army take their place.
Destroy All Humans! 2
Bay City
Hippies
Voiced By: Phil Morris (male), Paula Tiso (female)
Disenfranchised youths part of the the hippie counterculture, they're the most common civilians found around Bay City.
- Ascended Extra: The armed hippies only appear in a few side missions in the original game. In Reprobed, they can be found around the outskirts of Hashbury and inside the Old Fort, and replace the KGB agents as Bongwater's bodyguards in "The Alien Who Probed Me".
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The white male hippies may say that "sequels bite", while the black hippies may tell a Your Mom joke to the player.
- Granola Girl: The female hippies often muse about clean living, sexual liberation and feminism, and wear flower crowns and short boho dresses.
- Hippie Van: Often seen driving these, either plain or decorated with psychedelic murals.Male Hippie: "Oh lord, won't you buy me a Volkswagen Thing?
- Malcolm Xerox: Subverted with the black hippies in Bay City (who are also the only black characters in the game) — while they do make several references to being Black Panther Party members and view Martin Luther King Jr. as a pussy compared to Malcolm X, they are rational and sarcastic.
- Palette Swap: The black male hippies share the same model as the white hippies.
- Race Lift: One of the female variants in Reprobed is black, whereas all of the female hippies in the original were white.
- Really Gets Around: Being hippies, they embrace the idea of free love and sexual liberation.Male Hippie: "The best thing about free love? Absolutely no moral or social consequences whatsoever!"
- Shout-Out: The male hippies, particularly the black ones, resemble Jimi Hendrix, having the same afro and sideburns and sporting similar clothing.
Squares
Voiced By: Jason Harris (male), Paula Tiso (female)
Urban men and women found around Bay City.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- A woman named Brenda can be found ranting about hippies to her friend and suggests they've never worked a day in their life. When her friend points out she doesn't have a job, she calls herself a homemaker. Her friend points out she's unmarried and lives off her trust fund in a studio apartment, making Brenda blame hippies.
- Reprobed adds a male model with long balding hair, making one of their thoughts about long hair being unnatural ironic.
- Shout-Out: The female squares dress and act like Mrs. Robinson. One of the model variations in Reprobed resembles Anne Bancroft, Robinson's actress.
Bay City Cops
Voiced By: Keith Ferguson
The police force of Bay City.
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Scanning their thoughts show most of them either hate the public and express extremist thoughts, or hold a low opinion on their jobs. In two of the Cult of Arkvoodle missions, they're willing to shoot down the hippie commune to destroy it.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: May shout "Damn donuts!" when shooting at Crypto. Reprobed adds a donut shop in Ginsberg Heights which is surrounded by them and appears in several missions involving them.
- Police Brutality: During the Cult of Arkvoodle sidequest, they try to disperse the cult by shooting down their commune under the orders of their chief, Rudolph Malletmeister. Crypto later helps Malletmeister clear his name by killing a snitch.
- Race Lift: Like the first game's remake, Reprobed adds several black cops.
Bay City Soldiers
Voiced By: Keith Ferguson
Members of the United States Army found in Bay City.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Private Danza's soldiers wear red uniforms to distinguish from the normal soldiers during "Crypto, Hired Gun - Private Danza". In Reprobed, their APCs are also red.
- A House Divided: The side mission "Crypto, Hired Gun - Private Danza" involves killing a rogue private caught selling weapons to the KGB. During the mission, a war between the normal soldiers and the private's own soldiers breaks out.
- The Vietnam Vet: A few of them are Vietnam draftees and mock the war.
Albion
Mods
Voiced By: Robin Atkin Downes (male), Edita Brychta (female)
Youths part of the mod counterculture in Albion, they're obsessed with fashion, music and partying.
- Addled Addict: Pox quickly discovers that despite destroying the Revelade supply chain, the mods are still in high demand for it. He sets up a happening and a pirate radio broadcast advertising it so Crypto can convince them to give it up.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: The female mods work as call-girls and, while snarky, are far more benevolent than most humans.
- Scooter-Riding Mod: While they aren't seen driving scooters (though several are found parked around Albion in Reprobed), they dress in kipper ties, patterned jackets and go-go boots, and enjoy rock music.
- Shout-Out: The male mods wear several outfits referencing The Beatles. One variant (nicknamed Mod in the game files) wears the mop-top and collarless suits combo worn during their earlier years, and another (nicknamed "Hipster" in the game files) wears the jacket and kipper ties worn in Yellow Submarine.
Secret Agents
Voiced By: Jim Ward
Agents working for M16 found in Albion.
- Tuxedo and Martini: Whereas Ponsonby is a mixture of James Bond and John Steed, the secret agents are closer to Bond. They wear fancy pinstripe tuxedos, drive white D B6s, favor pistols, and muse about alcohol and sex in their thoughts.
Tunguska
Scientists
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Voiced By: David Shaughnessey (male), Susanne Blakeslee (female)
Scientists found working around Tunguska.
- Adaptational Expansion: In the original game, they are mostly found wandering around Tunguska or the cooling tower of Science Town, and appear as enemies trying to kill Natalya in "The Good, The Bad, and The Furon". In Reprobed, they're seen doing experiments and research outside of Science Town, and working inside the reaction chambers in "A Deadly Reaction".
- Deadpan Snarker: Quite bitter and witty because of their working environment.
- "Not So Different" Remark: The intel for their Furonigami poster in Reprobed remarks that their treatment as underappreciated tools is similar to how Furon scientists are treated.
- Really Gets Around: Many of them express gay or bi-curious thoughts and having trysts with each other or Dr. Orlov.
