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* ItDoesntGetsEasier: Major Jay is a veteran of TheKoreanWar, but still [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] after performing a BoomHeadshot on a desperate farmer that tried to take their transport at gunpoint (he invokes IDidWhatIHadToDo, as well).
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* ItDoesntGetsEasier: ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: Major Jay is a veteran of TheKoreanWar, but still [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] after performing a BoomHeadshot on a desperate farmer that tried to take their transport at gunpoint (he invokes IDidWhatIHadToDo, as well).IDidWhatIHadToDo and then adds this trope).
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* ItNeverGetsEasier: Major Jay is a veteran of TheKoreanWar, but still [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] after performing a BoomHeadshot on a desperate farmer that tried to take their transport at gunpoint (he invokes INeedWhatIHadToDo, as well).
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* ItNeverGetsEasier: ItDoesntGetsEasier: Major Jay is a veteran of TheKoreanWar, but still [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]] after performing a BoomHeadshot on a desperate farmer that tried to take their transport at gunpoint (he invokes INeedWhatIHadToDo, IDidWhatIHadToDo, as well).
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Turns out that, aside from their capability to be invisible and take over dead bodies, the Earth's atmosphere completely screws up their technology, forcing the aliens to use the humans' own weapons in a campaign of massively-destructive sabotage. Doesn't stops them from delivering a near-total CurbStompBattle, though.
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAliens: InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Turns out that, aside from their capability to be invisible and take over dead bodies, the Earth's atmosphere completely screws up their technology, forcing the aliens to use the humans' own weapons in a campaign of massively-destructive sabotage. Doesn't stops them from delivering a near-total CurbStompBattle, though.
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Turns out that, aside from their capability to be invisible and take over dead bodies, the Earth's atmosphere completely screws up their technology, forcing the aliens to use the humans' own weapons in a campaign of massively-destructive sabotage. Doesn't stops them from delivering a near-total CurbStompBattle, though.
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* ScienceHero: The whole group, truly, but Dr. Penner gets the lion's share of the [[EurekaMoment Eureka Moments]].
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* RaceAgainstTime: The aliens swear, on the moment they declare war, that they will KillAllHumans in a campaign lasting three days (and the armies of the world can do squat to stop them from fulfilling this promise), so the group has a ''very'' short deadline to find something that will stop the invaders.
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* MandatoryUnretirement: The movie starts with Dr. Adam Penner retiring from the Atomic Commission and swearing on his friend's grave that he will never use science to develop weapons again. The second act of the movie has him going back to the Atomic Commission and becoming part of a group of scientists secreted throughout the country which have been assigned to find something that will kill the aliens.
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*AmericaSavesTheDayAmericaSavesTheDay: What else would you expect from a movie made in TheFifties?
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** Double whammy: when the aliens order Penner to deliver their ultimatum, he insists that nobody will believe him without anything to provide proof. The aliens give him nothing and act offended when nobody listens to him.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: As "elaborate" as it can get with virtually no budget, any case: the underground fallout bunker where the group goes to and performs their research, one of various where other scientist VIPs have been placed around the world, with a big garage and top-of-the-line laboratory which includes a nice pressure chamber-slash-containment facility.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: As "elaborate" as it can get with virtually no budget, any case: the underground fallout bunker where the group goes to and performs their research, one of various where other scientist VIPs have been placed around the world, with a big garage and top-of-the-line laboratory which includes a nice pressure chamber-slash-containment facility.
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A minor cult classic, ''Invisible Invaders'' is mostly known for being the UrExample of ZombieApocalypse almost a decade before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
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A minor cult classic, ''Invisible Invaders'' is mostly known for being the UrExample of ZombieApocalypse almost a decade before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: The movie was filmed during this era and it shows it. When showing images about the apocalypse they use footage of an [[YellowPeril asian riot]] and they mention that the USSR had collapsed into anarchy, also AmericaSavesTheDay.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The same year this film was released, [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace another film]] was relased, also about aliens creating zombies to stop the living from experimenting with weapons of mass destruction.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: The reanimated corpses are never referred as zombies, justified since the term wasn't codified into the meaning it has today.
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* DontUseTheZWord: The reanimated corpses are never referred as zombies, justified since the term wasn't codified into the meaning it has today.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Corpses possessed by aliens, they do not eat human flesh and have considerable intelligence, but otherwise behave much like typical zombies.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The same year this film was released, [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace another film]] was relased, also about aliens creating zombies to stop the living of experimenting with weapons of mass destruction.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The same year this film was released, [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace another film]] was relased, also about aliens creating zombies to stop the living of from experimenting with weapons of mass destruction.
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Invisible Invaders is a 1959 Sci-Fi movie directed by Edward L. Cahn and starred by Philip Tonge as Dr. Adam Penner, John Agar as Maj. Bruce Jay, Jean Byron as Phyllis Penner and Robert Hutton as Dr. John Lamont and John Carradine as Dr. Karol Noymann.
After a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive accident]] were Dr. Noymann dies, his friend, Dr. Penner, starts the initiative to stop nuclear experimentation. Later, Dr. Noymann's body is possessed by an [[{{Invisibility}} invisible alien]] and goes to Penner's house to warn him that if humanity does not stop nuclear testing, they will destroy the earth. At first [[CassandraTruth no one believes him]] but the invaders start to make public announcements and Maj. Jay recruits him as well as his daughter Phyllis and her boyfriend Lamont to find a way to kill the monsters.
A minor cult-classic, is mostly known for being the UrExample of ZombieApocalypse almost a decade before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
After a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive accident]] were Dr. Noymann dies, his friend, Dr. Penner, starts the initiative to stop nuclear experimentation. Later, Dr. Noymann's body is possessed by an [[{{Invisibility}} invisible alien]] and goes to Penner's house to warn him that if humanity does not stop nuclear testing, they will destroy the earth. At first [[CassandraTruth no one believes him]] but the invaders start to make public announcements and Maj. Jay recruits him as well as his daughter Phyllis and her boyfriend Lamont to find a way to kill the monsters.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
* CapturedSuperEntity: The team successfully captures an invader, in an inversion of AlienAbduction
* CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
* {{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
* PuppeteerParasite: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
* TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
* ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
* CapturedSuperEntity: The team successfully captures an invader, in an inversion of AlienAbduction
* CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
* {{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
* PuppeteerParasite: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
* TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
* ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
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* BettyAndVeronica: {{Gender flip}}ped. Lamont is the Betty, Major Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie Archie, although it is largely downplayed.
* CapturedSuperEntity: The team successfully captures an invader, in an inversion ofAlienAbduction
AlienAbduction.
* CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities andpress reporters thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
* {{Invisibility}}: Thealiens aliens' main defense.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Theinvaders invaders' only weakness is a high pitch high-pitched sound wave, it wave. It turns them visible and the disintegrate then disintegrates them to foam.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: Theinvaders invaders, when they're visible
visible.
* PuppeteerParasite: The aliens possess human corpses and use them to attack living people.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so much misfits per se, butana tomic an atomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist psychologist and a military an Army major are the ones to save the world.
*TechnoBabble: {{Technobabble}}: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
* ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also anUnBuiltTrope, UnbuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.defeated.
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AlienInvasion: By invisible aliens
BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
{{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
{{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
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* AlienInvasion: By invisible aliens
* BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
* CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
* {{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
* PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
* TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
* ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
* BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
* CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
* {{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
* MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
* PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
* TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
* ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
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Invisible Invaders is a 1959 Sci-Fi movie directed by Edward L. Cahn and starred by Philip Tonge as Dr. Adam Penner, John Agar as Maj. Bruce Jay, Jean Byron as Phyllis Penner and Robert Hutton as Dr. John Lamont and John Carradine as Dr. Karol Noymann.
After a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive accident]] were Dr. Noymann dies, his friend, Dr. Penner, starts the initiative to stop nuclear experimentation. Later, Dr. Noymann's body is possessed by an [[{{Invisibility}} invisible alien]] and goes to Penner's house to warn him that if humanity does not stop nuclear testing, they will destroy the earth. At first [[CassandraTruth no one believes him]] but the invaders start to make public announcements and Maj. Jay recruits him as well as his daughter Phyllis and her boyfriend Lamont to find a way to kill the monsters.
A minor cult-classic, is mostly known for being the UrExample of ZombieApocalypse almost a decade before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
AlienInvasion: By invisible aliens
BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
{{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
After a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive accident]] were Dr. Noymann dies, his friend, Dr. Penner, starts the initiative to stop nuclear experimentation. Later, Dr. Noymann's body is possessed by an [[{{Invisibility}} invisible alien]] and goes to Penner's house to warn him that if humanity does not stop nuclear testing, they will destroy the earth. At first [[CassandraTruth no one believes him]] but the invaders start to make public announcements and Maj. Jay recruits him as well as his daughter Phyllis and her boyfriend Lamont to find a way to kill the monsters.
A minor cult-classic, is mostly known for being the UrExample of ZombieApocalypse almost a decade before ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''.
AlienInvasion: By invisible aliens
BettyAndVeronica: Lamont is the Betty, Jay the Veronica and Phyllis the Archie although is largely downplayed.
CassandraTruth: Penner's warning about the aliens. Authorities and press thought he was crazy and turned him into the target of jokes.
{{Invisibility}}: The aliens main defense.
MakeMeWannaShout: The invaders only weakness is a high pitch sound wave, it turns them visible and the disintegrate them to foam.
PeopleInRubberSuits: The invaders when they're visible
PuppeteerParasyte: The aliens possess corpses and use them to attack people.
RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not so misfits per se, but ana tomic scientist, a nondescript scientist, a pshycologist and a military are the ones to save the world.
TechnoBabble: Surprisingly averted for a film of its kind, the few lapses into technical terms are very short and simple.
ZombieApocalypse: The UrExample, and also an UnBuiltTrope, since the zombies are easily defeated.
