Complete Monster (includes The Intruder II): The Intruder, once a mindless, indestructible Blob Monster, became something far worse after consuming TOM 1. Gaining sapience after absorbing TOM 1, the Intruder plotted revenge on TOM for defeating him. Having become proud of the thousands of lives it previously absorbed, the Intruder found TOM 4's signal and gleefully absorbed him and his cohosts Flash and D. Finding the Absolution Mk. III, the Intruder sets out to make TOM suffer before killing him by assimilating SARA and bragging about it to TOM, before trying to kill TOM with the Absolution's canons.
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Values Resonance: Shatner's character makes a speech about how integration will lead to Black people taking over the south and oppressing whites, and how the whole thing is a plot by communists and Jews to destroy America. Sadly, this mirrors a lot of speeches made by right wing groups and certain politicians today, only replace integration with things like Latino immigration and trans people. That said, values resonance comes in because all the townspeople are portrayed as being deeply gullible and in the wrong for listening to him, just like the media portrays the aforementioned right wing groups today.
