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  • Designated Hero: Bedford in the 1964 film.
  • Fridge Brilliance: 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 Science Marches On.
  • Fridge Horror
    • 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.
    • It's worse in the 1964 film when Cavor did so accidentally. All while trying to maintain peaceful relations with the aliens.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • 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.
    Grand Lunar: Men enjoy to make war?
    Cavor: No. No, they detest it!
    Grand Lunar: Then if they make war, they are defective.
    Cavor: Well... well, we're not perfect. Well, mankind is still developing. We're not, we're not perfect. There are men of peace.
    Grand Lunar: My concern is with the men of violence, the men who kill. Soon others will be coming from Earth. Our galleries will be strewn with dead.

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