History Characters / TheFourthKind

* AdultFear: It's bad enough to have your own child taken away from you. It's an even worse matter entirely when [[spoiler:your child literally gets abducted by aliens.]]

* TrainquilFury: When Sheriff August starts accusing her hypno-therapy being the reason why [[spoiler:Tommy kills his family and them himself]], Abbey very calmly tells him that his accusations are both offensive and ridiculous, though considering she's played by Milla Jojovich, you can CLEARLY tell she's thinking about slamming his big dumb head through the table.

* CareerEndingInjury: Abbey's hypno-therapy days are done [[spoiler:when the aliens decide to break her neck and confine her to a chair for the rest of her life.]]

* CareerEndingInjury: Abbey's hypno-therapy days are done when [[spoilers:the aliens finally decide to snap her neck and confine her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

* CareerEndingInjury: Abbey's hypno-therapy days are done when [[spoilers:the aliens finally decide to snap her neck and confine her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life]].

* CareerEndingInjury: Abbey's hypno-therapy days are done when [[spoilers: the aliens finally decide to snap her neck and confine her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of, it depends on how you look at it. By the end of the film, the Aliens seem to have successfully broken Abigail, both mentally and physically in this case. They completely sabotaged her and her husband's credibility, completely destroyed Abbey's family, and then broke her spine to make her seem like she's a crazy woman suffering from her own declining health. Nobody believes her words about the Aliens and anybody who does the Aliens have already been either mind-wiped or had their spines broken to keep them from supporting her. However, this could be seen as a Pyrrhic Victory for the Aliens as even though they managed to do all this to Abigail, she still intending on believing despite the rapidly growing odds against her.

* {{Alien Abduction}}: What they do to Abigail's daughter Ashley. And it's even implied that this isn't the first time they did this either.

* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of, it depends on how you look at it. By the end of the film, the Aliens seem to have successfully broken Abigail, both mentally and physically in this case. They completely sabotaged her and her husband's credibility, completely destroyed Abbey's family, and then broke her spine to make her seem like she's a crazy woman suffering from her own declining health. Nobody believes her words about the Aliens and anybody who does the Aliens have already either mind-wiped or broke their spines as well to keep them from supporting her. However, this could be seen as a Pyrrhic Victory for the Aliens as even though they managed to do all this to Abigail, she still intending on believing despite the rapidly growing odds against her.

The main threat of the film...[[AmbiguouslyEvil Possibly.]] An extraterrestrial presence is plaguing the small Alaskan town of Nome with strange nightmares, all of them the same thing: the dreamer wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a barn owl at their window staring at them. However things are more than meets the eye, as Dr. Abigail Tyler soon discovers as she looks into her patients hidden memories through hypnotherapy. Unfortunately for her, these beings are not very keen on the idea of getting found out, and are more interested in keeping their existence as well as what they're doing to Nome's township a secret. [[spoiler:Even if they have to break a few spines along the way.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Sort of, it depends on how you look at it. By the end of the film, the Aliens seem to have successfully broken Abigail, both mentally and physically in this case. They completely sabotaged her and her husband's credibility, completely destroyed Abbey's family, and then broke her spine to make her seem like she's a crazy woman suffering from her own declining health. Nobody believes her words about the Aliens and anybody who does the Aliens have already either mind-wiped or broke their spines as well to keep them from supporting her. However, this could be seen as a [[Pyrrhic Victory]] as even though the Aliens managed to do all this to Abigail, she still isn't intending on giving up. Despite the growing odds against her, by the end of the film Abigail is the one having the last laugh, because she still believes and is going to keep believing that she'll see her daughter again.

* Flying Saucer: In the few seconds of seeing the Tyler residence in the cop camera, you can actually spot what appears to be a stereotypical disc-shaped UFO coming into view right above the house.

* Nightmare Face: Specifically the "Owl" the Aliens use in place of the memories of those they abduct.

* Alien Abduction: What they do to Abigail's daughter Ashley. And it's even implied that this isn't the first time they did this either.

* AGodAmI: It's completely up in the air if the entity Abbey was talking to in the climax was in fact God or not. Abbey theorizes that the aliens aren't actually gods and just like pretending they are.

** When it seems like Abbey's not gonna quit her study, what do the aliens do next? They come and abduct her blind daughter Ashley. And when she contacts them through hypnosis to try to get her back, they basically tell her to sod off and then snap HER neck, confining her to a wheelchair for the remainder of her life.

* MindScrew: Part of what they're doing in Nome. They can mess with the memories of the people they abduct and can even [[MindRape mind rape]] them.

* MindScrew: Part of what they're doing in Nome. They can mess with the memories of the people they abduct and can even [[MindRape]] them.

* BlackSpeech: The aliens can speak Sumerian, though with how non-human their vocals are it comes off more as [[TheHellIsThatNoise distorted chaotic screaming]].

* BlackSpeech: The aliens can speak Sumerian, though with how non-human their vocals are it comes off more as [[TheHellIsThatNoise distorted chaotic screaming]].

* KickTheDog: As if abducting her daughter Ashley wasn't enough, they also snap Abigail's neck and confine her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life as retaliation for her continuing her research.

[[folder:The Aliens]]

* AliensAreBastards: You could forgive them for messing with people's memories, but obviously their attempts to keep people from investigating them are quite extreme. In retaliation to Abigail not stopping her investigation after warning her, [[spoiler: they abduct her daughter and then snap her neck and paralyzing her out of sheer spite.]]

* BreakThemByTalking: When Abigail tries one more time to contact them, they do this to her by telling her [[spoiler:they're gods and that she'll never see her daughter again...And then they break her neck.]]

* AliensAreBastards: You could forgive them for messing with people's memories, but obviously their attempts to keep people from investigating them are quite extreme, in retaliation to Abigail not stopping her investigation after warning her [[spoiler: they abduct her daughter and then snap her neck and paralyzing her out of sheer spite.]]