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* CuteMachines: Echo>
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* BittersweetEnding: The Kids managed to help Echo get home and locate his Ship without destroying the Neighborhood and the Highway construction has been call off. Despite all that, Alex and Munch still moved, but the kids meet again sometime later, waiting to meet Echo again.
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* BittersweetEnding: The Kids managed to help Echo get home and locate his Ship without destroying the Neighborhood and the Highway construction has been call off. Despite all that, Alex and Munch still moved, but the kids meet again sometime later, waiting to meet Echo again.
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* ShipTease: Tuck concocts an elaborate ruse at the beginning of the film where he pretends that he got Emma's phone number (he just asked her to give him a piece of paper) and then proceeds to pretend that they kissed. [[spoiler:Emma gets some real ShipTease with Alex towards the end of the film, where she has a slip of the tongue and accidentally refers to Alex as her "boyfriend" before correcting herself that Alex is a "friend who's a boy."]]
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* ShipTease: Tuck concocts an elaborate ruse at the beginning of the film where he pretends that he got Emma's phone number (he just asked her to give him a piece of paper) and then proceeds to pretend that they kissed. [[spoiler:Emma gets some real ShipTease with Alex towards the end of the film, where she has a slip of the tongue and accidentally refers to Alex as her "boyfriend" before correcting herself that Alex is a "friend who's a boy."]]boy".]]
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* WhatTheHell,Hero?: After Emma and Echo rescue Alex from the Security Guard at the Arcade, Tuck begins accusing Alex of wanting to get caught on purpose and then Alex gets into a fight with him for abandoning at the Arcade. Tuck in narrating admiting he knew what he did, but acted like he didn't. The two later forgive each other.
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* WhatTheHell,Hero?: WhatTheHellHero?: After Emma and Echo rescue Alex from the Security Guard at the Arcade, Tuck begins accusing Alex of wanting to get caught on purpose and then Alex gets into a fight with him for abandoning at the Arcade. Tuck in narrating admiting he knew what he did, but acted like he didn't. The two later forgive each other.
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* BittersweetEnding: The Kids managed to help Echo get home and locate his Ship without destroying the Neighborhood and the Highway construction has been call off. Despite all that, Alex and Munch still moved, but the kids meet again sometime later, waiting to meet Echo again.
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* WhatTheHell,Hero?: After Emma and Echo rescue Alex from the Security Guard at the Arcade, Tuck begins accusing Alex of wanting to get caught on purpose and then Alex gets into a fight with him for abandoning at the Arcade. Tuck in narrating admiting he knew what he did, but acted like he didn't. The two later forgive each other.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: What the movie ultimately turns out to be. The Kids just want to help Echo, Echo just wants to go home. [[spoiler: And the Jerkass construction workers are actually working for the Government in an attempt to save everyone in the neighborhood without revealing the existence of aliens.]]
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: What the movie ultimately turns out to be. The Kids just want to help Echo, Echo just wants to go home. [[spoiler: And the Jerkass {{Jerkass}} construction workers are actually working for the Government in an attempt to save everyone in the neighborhood without revealing the existence of aliens.]]
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: What the movie ultimately turns out to be. The Kids just want to help Echo, Echo just wants to go home. [[spoiler: And the Jerkass construction workers are actually working for the Government in an attempt to save everyone in the neighborhood without revealing the existence of aliens.]]
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* {{Homage}}: To coming-of-age films of previous decades, such as [[ETtheExtraterrestrial E.T. the Extraterrestrial]] or TheGoonies.
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* {{Homage}}: To coming-of-age films of previous decades, such as [[ETtheExtraterrestrial E.T. the Extraterrestrial]] ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' or TheGoonies.''Film/TheGoonies''.
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* ShoutOut: Munch's 'Goodbye' scene has a couple moments really similar to The Blair Witch Project.
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* CommunityThreateningConstruction: The film features a Nevada suburb about to be razed to make way for a new extension of the interstate. [[spoiler:It's later revealed to be a front for a government agency trying to find the eponymous alien; they're worried that its ship, which is buried underground, will take off and not only destroy the whole neighborhood, but kill everyone there as well.]]
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* TheHandicappedAndTheHelper: It's mentioned a few times that Echo was blinded and needs to use Alex's phone camera to see. When the phone is too far away, Echo is completely unable to see.
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* TheHandicappedAndTheHelper: HandyHelper: It's mentioned a few times that Echo was blinded and needs to use Alex's phone camera to see. When the phone is too far away, Echo is completely unable to see.
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''Earth to Echo'' is a 2014 [[FoundFootageFilms Found Footage Film]] centered around four children discovering a tiny "spaceship" a few miles away from their neighborhood and helping the small alien trapped inside, whom they name Echo, return home.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Emma's HystericalWoman act as detailed below. [[spoiler:Munch gets a moment like this near the end, where his beeping noises help revive the seemingly comatose Echo.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Emma's HystericalWoman act as detailed below. [[spoiler:Munch [[spoiler:Alex gets a moment like this near the end, where his beeping noises help revive the seemingly comatose Echo.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The villain just kind of disappears once [[spoiler: Echo's spaceship is rebuilt]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: Echo's ability to disassemble and reassemble machinery, repeatedly used in the first half of the movie to repair his pod, saves everyone's lives when they're about to hit a truck speeding in the opposite direction. He takes it apart and rebuilds it on the other side. [[spoiler: And then used again in the finale, when Echo has to dig his ship out from under the town. He does it in pieces to avoid destroying the whole place.]]
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* XMeetsY: ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' meets ''Film/TheGoonies'', starring WesternAnimation/WallE, featuring the cameraman from ''Film/Cloverfield.''Film/{{Cloverfield}}.''
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* HeroStoleMyBike: [[spoiler: After the "construction workers" take away Echo and Munch sneaks into the back of one of their trucks, Tuck suggests taking his brother's car in order to catch up with them. At a wild party, they find the brother drunk and passed out in the bathtub and swipe his keys. However, Tuck took the wheel while Alex Googled how to drive.
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* HeroStoleMyBike: [[spoiler: After the "construction workers" take away Echo and Munch sneaks into the back of one of their trucks, Tuck suggests taking his brother's car in order to catch up with them. At a wild party, they find the brother drunk and passed out in the bathtub and swipe his keys. However, being underage, Alex had to Google how to drive while Tuck took the wheel while Alex Googled how to drive.wheel.]]
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* HeroStoleMyBike: [[spoiler: After the "construction workers" take away Echo and Munch sneaks into the back of one of their trucks, Tuck suggests taking his brother's car in order to catch up with them. At a wild party, they find the brother drunk and passed out in the bathtub and swipe his keys. However, Tuck took the wheel while Alex Googled how to drive.
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* TravelMontage: A variation that uses something similar to Google Maps to show the kids' route, especially its distinctive arrows.
* TrueCompanions: The kids are this to each other, and eventually they become this with Echo, especially [[spoiler:Alex.]]
* TrueCompanions: The kids are this to each other, and eventually they become this with Echo, especially [[spoiler:Alex.]]
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* TrueCompanions: The kids are this to each other, and eventually they become this with Echo, especially [[spoiler:Alex.]]
