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* AlienBlood: The Martians bleed green.
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* AlienBlood: The Martians bleed green.a stringy, translucent green slime.
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''Mars Attacks!'' was originally a trading card series from Topps published in the early [[TheSixties sixties]]. Created by Wally Wood, the series depicted an AlienInvasion of evil Martians colonizing Earth and exterminating all life on the planet in the style of Creator/ECComics horror and science fiction stories at the time. [[https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/86858/1962-Topps-Mars-Attacks?PageIndex=1 The 55 cards that made up the series]] were quickly discontinued due to MoralGuardians who were horrified by the series' violence. In the 80s, another series of cards with a similar premise was released, known as ''TabletopGame/DinosaursAttack''. In the 90s the property would resurface in the form of new trading cards and a comic series. A movie soon followed.
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''Mars Attacks!'' was originally a trading card series from Topps published in the early [[TheSixties sixties]]. Created by Wally Wood, the series depicted an AlienInvasion of evil Martians {{Martians}} colonizing Earth and exterminating all life on the planet in the style of Creator/ECComics horror and science fiction stories at the time. [[https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/86858/1962-Topps-Mars-Attacks?PageIndex=1 The 55 cards that made up the series]] were quickly discontinued due to MoralGuardians who were horrified by the series' violence. In the 80s, another series of cards with a similar premise was released, known as ''TabletopGame/DinosaursAttack''. In the 90s the property would resurface in the form of new trading cards and a comic series. A movie soon followed.
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''Mars Attacks!'' was originally a trading card series from Topps published in the early [[TheSixties sixties]]. Created by Wally Wood, the series depicted an AlienInvasion of evil Martians colonizing Earth and exterminating all life on the planet in the style of Creator/ECComics horror and science fiction stories at the time. The 55 cards that made up the series were quickly discontinued due to MoralGuardians who were horrified by the series' violence. In the 80s, another series of cards with a similar premise was released, known as ''TabletopGame/DinosaursAttack''. In the 90s the property would resurface in the form of new trading cards and a comic series. A movie soon followed.
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''Mars Attacks!'' was originally a trading card series from Topps published in the early [[TheSixties sixties]]. Created by Wally Wood, the series depicted an AlienInvasion of evil Martians colonizing Earth and exterminating all life on the planet in the style of Creator/ECComics horror and science fiction stories at the time. [[https://www.tcdb.com/Gallery.cfm/sid/86858/1962-Topps-Mars-Attacks?PageIndex=1 The 55 cards that made up the series series]] were quickly discontinued due to MoralGuardians who were horrified by the series' violence. In the 80s, another series of cards with a similar premise was released, known as ''TabletopGame/DinosaursAttack''. In the 90s the property would resurface in the form of new trading cards and a comic series. A movie soon followed.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Corny folk country music]]. The Martians also can't survive on Earth without their helmets.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:Corny folk country music]]. The Martians also can't survive on Earth without their helmets.helmets or other assistance.
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* AxCrazy: All the Martians that appear and on the other side of the invasion there is also the overly hawkish (but sadly not hawk-eyed) General Decker.
* BadassCape: Both the Martian Leader and the Ambassador wear one. The former a purple one while the latter a red one.
* BadassFamily: Byron Williams [[spoiler:single-handedly kills the Martian ambassador in a boxing match and survives the beatdown that apparently left him for dead]] and his sons [[spoiler:who take ray guns from a fallen Martian and start attacking the invaders so the president can be led to safety]].
* BadassCape: Both the Martian Leader and the Ambassador wear one. The former a purple one while the latter a red one.
* BadassFamily: Byron Williams [[spoiler:single-handedly kills the Martian ambassador in a boxing match and survives the beatdown that apparently left him for dead]] and his sons [[spoiler:who take ray guns from a fallen Martian and start attacking the invaders so the president can be led to safety]].
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* AxCrazy: All the Martians that appear appear, and on the other side of the invasion invasion, there is also the overly hawkish (but sadly not hawk-eyed) General Decker.
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* BeatStillMyHeart: When we first see Donald's severed head, the camera trucks back to reveal his various dismembered body parts suspended around him including his still-beating heart.
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* BeatStillMyHeart: When we first see Donald's severed head, the camera trucks back to reveal his various dismembered body parts suspended around him him, including his still-beating heart.
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* BerserkButton: The Martians really don't like birds. While they are violent and sadistic, note how the Martian [[spoiler:that had the President hostage and was using him as a HumanShield]] immediately took its focus off its hostage and the men who had it at gunpoint as soon as it saw the bird. Also, the Martians drop their "We come in peace" act just so they can kill a dove. Not that it necessarily mattered as the Martians were there to exterminate humankind regardless of the birds.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Byron Williams, while he is a boxer, he's a NiceGuy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, [[PapaWolf especially when there are Martians attacking.]] He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane [[spoiler:defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down]]. [[spoiler:However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.]]
* BigBad: The Martian leader. He calls all the shots, was implied to be the one that ordered the experiments on Natalie and Donald and personally kills [[spoiler:Decker and then Dale]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Byron Williams, while he is a boxer, he's a NiceGuy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, [[PapaWolf especially when there are Martians attacking.]] He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane [[spoiler:defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down]]. [[spoiler:However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.]]
* BigBad: The Martian leader. He calls all the shots, was implied to be the one that ordered the experiments on Natalie and Donald and personally kills [[spoiler:Decker and then Dale]].
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* BerserkButton: The Martians really don't like birds. While they are violent and sadistic, note how the Martian [[spoiler:that had the President hostage and was using him as a HumanShield]] immediately took its focus off its hostage and the men who had it at gunpoint as soon as it saw the bird. Also, the Martians drop their "We come in peace" act just so they can kill a dove. Not that it necessarily mattered mattered, as the Martians were there to exterminate humankind regardless of the birds.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: ByronWilliams, Williams; while he is a boxer, he's a NiceGuy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, [[PapaWolf especially when there are Martians attacking.]] He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane [[spoiler:defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down]]. [[spoiler:However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.]]
* BigBad: The Martian leader. He calls all the shots, was implied to be the one that ordered the experiments on Natalie andDonald Donald, and personally kills [[spoiler:Decker and then Dale]].
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* BigBad: The Martian leader. He calls all the shots, was implied to be the one that ordered the experiments on Natalie and
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the main cast is dead, including the entire American government (sans Taffy Dale, [[YouAreInCommandNow who's likely the next President of the United States]]) and likely most if not all World Leaders are dead, and the destruction has taken a massive toll on the world, but at least Richie and his grandmother were able to stop the Martians and Byron reunites with his family and those still alive are already starting to rebuild.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the main cast is dead, including the entire American government (sans Taffy Dale, [[YouAreInCommandNow who's likely the next President of the United States]]) and likely most if not all World Leaders are dead, other world leaders, and the destruction has taken a massive toll on the world, but world. But at least Richie and his grandmother were able to stop the Martians and Martians, Byron reunites with his family family, and those still alive are already starting to rebuild.]]
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* BlackComedy: There are several moments of this throughout the film but [[spoiler:Creator/JackBlack being killed horribly, the scene being caught on every camera and the film cutting to his parents frantically flipping through channels to try and escape the image but being unable to do so because it's on EVERY channel]] probably takes the cake.
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* BlackComedy: There are several moments of this throughout the film film, but [[spoiler:Creator/JackBlack being killed horribly, the scene being caught on every camera camera, and the film cutting to his parents frantically flipping through channels to try and escape the image but being unable to do so because it's on EVERY channel]] channel]], probably takes the cake.
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** When her father says it's profoundly moving. To know there is intelligent life out there, her response is "Glad they got it somewhere."
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** When her father says it's profoundly moving. To moving to know there is intelligent life out there, her response is "Glad they got it somewhere."
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* AliensAreBastards: ''Funny'' bastards, too. The Martians, true to their trading card source material, are sadistic assholes who delight in making humanity think they can be reasoned with only to turn around and kill everyone. Making things easier for them is the fact that the vast majority of the humans are gullible fools who keep falling for the Martians' tricks. Why they're being such bastards however (other than ForTheEvulz) is never actually explained, which is [[DontExplainTheJoke probably]] for [[FanDislikedExplanation the best]][[invoked]].
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* AliensAreBastards: ''Funny'' bastards, too. The Martians, true to their trading card source material, are sadistic assholes who delight in making humanity think they can be reasoned with with, only to turn around and kill everyone. Making things easier for them is the fact that the vast majority of the humans are gullible fools who keep falling for the Martians' tricks. Why they're being such bastards bastards, however (other than ForTheEvulz) ForTheEvulz), is never actually explained, which is [[DontExplainTheJoke probably]] for [[FanDislikedExplanation the best]][[invoked]].
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted. They don't speak English and the humans' translating machine never works well, either. Interestingly, the Martians do appear to ''understand'' human language going by some of their reactions to things the humans say. In particular, [[spoiler:the Martian leader pretends to agree to the president's truce following his speech.]]
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted. They don't speak English and the humans' translating machine never works well, either. Interestingly, the Martians do appear to ''understand'' human language language, going by some of their reactions to things the humans say. In particular, [[spoiler:the Martian leader pretends to agree to the president's truce following his speech.]]
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* BadassCape: Both the Martian Leader and the Ambassador wear one. The former a purple one while the latter a red one.
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* OneWomanWail: It's heard in the main theme during the opening credits.
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** Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Leader in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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** [[spoiler: Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Leader Leader]] in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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** Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Ambassador in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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** Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Ambassador Leader in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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** Jack Nicholson's character President Dale is tricked and killed by the Martian Ambassador in a manner not too dissimilar from how Nicholson's earlier character [[Film/Batman1989 The Joker]] tricked and killed one of his rivals.
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Tropers had accidentally given *two* examples of "Aliens Are Bastards" so rather than delete one, merged the two examples together.
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* AliensAreBastards: ''Funny'' bastards, too. Why they're being such bastards is never explained, which is [[DontExplainTheJoke probably]] for [[FanDislikedExplanation the best]][[invoked]].
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* AliensAreBastards: The Martians, true to their trading card source material, are sadistic bastards who invade Earth ForTheEvulz. They delight in making humanity think they can be reasoned with only to turn around and kill everyone. Making things easier for them is the fact that the vast majority of the humans are gullible fools who keep falling for the Martians' tricks.
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* AliensAreBastards: AliensAreBastards: ''Funny'' bastards, too. The Martians, true to their trading card source material, are sadistic bastards assholes who invade Earth ForTheEvulz. They delight in making humanity think they can be reasoned with only to turn around and kill everyone. Making things easier for them is the fact that the vast majority of the humans are gullible fools who keep falling for the Martians' tricks. Why they're being such bastards however (other than ForTheEvulz) is never actually explained, which is [[DontExplainTheJoke probably]] for [[FanDislikedExplanation the best]][[invoked]].
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* AdaptationalVillany: In the cards, the more intellectual Paeccs were peaceful while the Gnards were the Savage warrior race. In the comics, the Paeccs are not only in favor of violently invading Earth, they're the ones calling the shots, although they do negotiate a short-lived truce at one point.
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* AdaptationalVillany: AdaptationalVillainy: In the cards, the more intellectual Paeccs were peaceful while the Gnards were the Savage warrior race. In the comics, the Paeccs are not only in favor of violently invading Earth, they're the ones calling the shots, although they do negotiate a short-lived truce at one point.
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* AdaptationalVillany: In the cards, the more intellectual Paeccs were peaceful while the Gnards were the Savage warrior race. In the comics, the Paeccs are not only in favor of violently invading Earth, they're the ones calling the shots, although they do negotiate a short-lived truce at one point.
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Massive example crosswicking. Also deleted some cruft and natter, and also commented out several ZCE entries (though I managed to add context to some of them). Lastly, neither this page nor the Screw The War Were Partying page specifies who says the quote cited in the example in question. If you know who, please add the name!
* OneDimensionalThinking: Played with when a flying saucer, planning to crush a group of Boy Scouts, demolishes the base of the Washington Monument, only for them to run out of the way. The saucer then flies around to the other side of the falling obelisk to make it fall the other way. Rinse, repeat.
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* AlienHair: "Tenctonese." None of the Martians have hair.
* AlienInvasion: Type 3, played multiple times.
* AlienInvasion: Type 3, played multiple times.
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* AlienInvasion:
* AliensAreBastards: The Martians, true to their trading card source material, are sadistic bastards who invade Earth ForTheEvulz. They delight in making humanity think they can be reasoned with only to turn around and kill everyone. Making things easier for them is the fact that the vast majority of the humans are gullible fools who keep falling for the Martians' tricks.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Massive aversion. They don't speak English and the humans' translating machine never works well, either. Interestingly, the Martians do appear to ''understand'' human language going by some of their reactions to things the humans say. In particular, [[spoiler:the Martian leader pretends to agree to the president's truce following his speech.]]
* AliensStealCable: Amidst the chaos going on down on Earth, we cut to the Martian leader channel surfing in his flagship.
* AliensStealCable: Amidst the chaos going on down on Earth, we cut to the Martian leader channel surfing in his flagship.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Massive aversion.Averted. They don't speak English and the humans' translating machine never works well, either. Interestingly, the Martians do appear to ''understand'' human language going by some of their reactions to things the humans say. In particular, [[spoiler:the Martian leader pretends to agree to the president's truce following his speech.]]
* AliensStealCable:Amidst Parodied when the chaos going on down on Earth, we cut to first shown encounter the Martian leader channel surfing in his flagship.Martians have with Earth involves a herd of cows. The twist is that, instead of abducting them, the aliens simply [[KillItWithFire sets the herd on fire]]. This scene was taken directly from one of the original ''Mars Attacks!'' trading cards.
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** Though ''awesomely'' subverted with [[spoiler:Byron.]]
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* ArmiesAreEvil: The Martians' army is no doubt this.
** The US Army isn't much better. Prominent characters representing it are a cowardly bully of a private and two generals, one being a shameless ass-kiss and the other an obnoxious warmonger.
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* ApocalypticMontage: There is one with the aliens attacking London, Mt. Rushmore, the Taj Mahal and Easter Island. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJyCjSGOa4c starting at 2:45]].
* ArmiesAreEvil: Parodied. General Decker's warmongering instincts ("We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!") prove to be entirely well founded. TheMartians' army is no doubt this.
**Martians attack Earth completely unprovoked and start sadistically killing everyone ForTheEvulz. The US Army isn't much better. Prominent characters representing it are a cowardly bully of a private and two generals, one being a shameless ass-kiss and the other an obnoxious warmonger.novelization elaborates that their entire society is based around depopulating planets for fun.
* ArmiesAreEvil: Parodied. General Decker's warmongering instincts ("We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!") prove to be entirely well founded. The
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: The Martians must wear space helmets while on Earth because they breathe nitrogen rather than oxygen. However, not only is nitrogen inert, and therefore a poor choice as a gas to breathe, but it's the most plentiful gas in the Earth's atmosphere -- i.e. there's more nitrogen than oxygen. The presence of free oxygen in the atmosphere and potential oxidization of their lungs isn't the problem, since a spy is able to get by in the atmosphere by chewing nitrogen-infused gum.
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** Any Martian that's killed might count as well.
* BehindTheBlack: Played for laughs. Natalie grabs Jason's hand, but the camera pulls back to reveal she is holding his severed hand. She realizes this only after the audience sees it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Byron Williams, while he is a boxer, he's pretty much a NiceGuy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, [[PapaWolf especially when there are Martians attacking.]] He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane [[spoiler:defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down]]. [[spoiler:However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Byron Williams, while he is a boxer, he's pretty much a NiceGuy who just wants to go home and see if his wife and kids are okay, [[PapaWolf especially when there are Martians attacking.]] He prefers to leave his fighting in the ring, but has often broken this rule to defend his friends in UsefulNotes/LasVegas. The first time, he just knocks a Martian headfirst into a slot machine. The second time, he challenges the Martian ambassador to a one-on-one fist fight, to distract them from his friends escaping via plane [[spoiler:defeating the Ambassador at the cost of his life when dozens of the Ambassador's guards swarm him and beat him down]]. [[spoiler:However, we later see him arriving home to see his family, implying he managed to defeat the group.]]
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: The US fell for the same trick three times.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: CensoredChildDeath: In the middle of the movie, the Martians are invading and attacking the White House, they open fire on a Tour Guide in front of a group of kids on a field trip, they then slaughter all but two of them off-screen.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys:
** The US fell for the same trick threetimes.times.
** The French President joyfully calls the American President to announce that he has signed a peace treaty to end the war. [[spoiler:The American President is forced to listen to his dying screams.]]
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys:
** The US fell for the same trick three
** The French President joyfully calls the American President to announce that he has signed a peace treaty to end the war. [[spoiler:The American President is forced to listen to his dying screams.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Byron's kids are seen early in the movie shooting aliens in a video game. Guess what happens later on? [[spoiler:During their field trip in the White House they are attacked and they save the day by taking some Martian guns and saving the president. Whether this is a good or bad thing is your decision.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill:
** Byron's kids are seen early in the movie shooting aliens in a video game. Guess what happens later on? [[spoiler:During their field trip in the White House they are attacked and they save the day by taking some Martian guns and saving the president. Whether this is a good or bad thing is your decision.]]
** Byron's kids are seen early in the movie shooting aliens in a video game. Guess what happens later on? [[spoiler:During their field trip in the White House they are attacked and they save the day by taking some Martian guns and saving the president. Whether this is a good or bad thing is your decision.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: A side effect of making just about everyone an AssholeVictim. Earth is depicted as pretty sleazy, and a lot of the people populating it are clueless idiots or greedy jerks.
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* CrapsackWorld: A side effect of making just about nearly everyone an AssholeVictim. Earth is depicted as pretty sleazy, and a lot of the people populating it are clueless idiots or greedy jerks.
* DeathByLookingUp: This is how the First Lady meets her end.
-->'''First Lady:''' The Nancy Reagan chandelier! ''[crunch]''
-->'''First Lady:''' The Nancy Reagan chandelier! ''[crunch]''
* EliteMooks: The Martian Girl is a skilled assassin who seems to be one of the Martian leader's best troops.
* EvilIsOneBigFamily: The sole redeeming quality of the Martians is that they have a great sense of camaraderie. One Martian woman is shown giving her husband lunch, the Martians become furious when the Martian Girl, one of their best troops, is killed and dissected, with the leader launching a full scale attack afterward, and they share a group photo while blowing up a building. The leader and ambassador even appear to have a VillainousFriendship.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mars attacks Earth!...'''HARD.'''
%%* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mars attacks Earth!...'''HARD.'''
* FengSchwing: Jerry Ross, the sleazy spin doctor to the president, takes a Martian disguised as a woman to a secret one of these in the White House--and refers to it as the "Kennedy Room."
* FirstContactFauxPas: Subverted. The Martians annihilate the welcome committee after someone in the audience releases a dove. The humans interpret this as this trope, but turns out the Martians [[AlwaysChaoticEvil just want to kill everyone]].
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* FlyingSaucer: The Martians' spaceships. Even gets name-dropped.
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* FlyingSaucer: The Martians' spaceships. Even gets name-dropped.movie cribs its saucer design directly from ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'', all it the name of AffectionateParody, and utilizing CGI to emulate the stop-motion spinning effect.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: This is the plot's structure, although it does establish the sadistic homicidal [[BigBad Martian]] [[AliensAreBastards Leader]] as the main villain lacks a central protagonist and offers 5 perspectives of Americans facing a Martian invasion from 1) the White House with a cowardly stubborn President and a tough-as-nails "shoot first, ask question later" General, 2) a ragtag team of Las Vegas stage performers and casino owners, 3) news reporters in love with each other who get their heads and bodies swapped with dogs, 4) a distant family trying to reunite with each other and 5) two adolescent African-American boys who manage to acquire a Martian weapon after a Secret Service agent was lucky enough to shoot down the Martian carrying it.
* GhostlyGlide: The Martians are seen walking, but their leader and ambassador are usually clad in a cape and seems to be gliding for added effect. Also the case with the spy disguised as a human female.
* AGlassOfChianti: One scene has the Martian leader sipping from a red martini in his ship.
* AGlassOfChianti: One scene has the Martian leader sipping from a red martini in his ship.
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* TheGreys: The Martians don't exactly resemble Greys, but their UFO's and one autopsy of them mirrors the rumors spread about the Roswell incident.
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* GratuitousMariachiBand: The movie has the new president sworn in while a mariachi band plays the national anthem, serving to underscore just how vast the devastation was that no regular musicians were around.
* TheGreys: The Martians don't exactly resemble Greys, but their UFO's and one autopsy of them mirrors the rumors spread about the Roswellincident. incident.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Martians invade Earth and massacre everyone with glee. Then the humans in turn do the same to the invaders when they figured out their weakness.
* TheGreys: The Martians don't exactly resemble Greys, but their UFO's and one autopsy of them mirrors the rumors spread about the Roswell
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The Martians invade Earth and massacre everyone with glee. Then the humans in turn do the same to the invaders when they figured out their weakness.
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* HeliumSpeech: The Martian leader. [[spoiler:With an absorbed ''nuclear blast''.]]
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* HeliumSpeech: The Martian leader. [[spoiler:With an absorbed ''nuclear blast''.]]Martians in get the same effect as this from huffing a nuclear explosion. It even makes sense if it was a fusion bomb, since they work by fusing hydrogen to, well, helium.
* HoneyTrap: The Martian who dresses as a woman to get into the White House.
* IceCreamKoan: The Martian leader's speech is one of these. "All grren of skin... 800 centuries ago... Their bodily fluids include the birth of half breeds... For the fundamental understanding of the cosmos... For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest." Neatly {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by General Decker: "What the HELL does that mean?!" Note that the humans need a (human-made) translating machine to understand the Martians. It's never outright stated, but there are a few hints that [[BlindIdiotTranslation the machine is not working correctly]].
* IComeInPeace: The Martians' translator indicates that they are all shouting "We come in peace! We come in peace!" as they're blowing everything to kingdom come.
* IComeInPeace: The Martians' translator indicates that they are all shouting "We come in peace! We come in peace!" as they're blowing everything to kingdom come.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: The Martians love this trope. They have a habit of calling truces, only to attack moments later. It happens ''four times'' during the film, and every time it results in a massacre.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: President Dale attended Princeton.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: President Dale attended Princeton.
* IncessantMusicMadness: Country music proves to be not only annoying for Martians, but also their deadly AchillesHeel.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The Martians love this trope. They have a habit of calling truces, only to attack moments later. It happens ''four times'' during the film, and every time it results in a massacre.
%%* IvyLeagueForEveryone: President Dale attended Princeton.
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* KillAllHumans: This is the goal of the Martians.
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* KillAllHumans: This is the goal of the Martians.Martians, and want to do so just for the fun of it.
* LegoBodyParts: Natalie and her dog switch heads.
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* LittleGreenMen: Who else but the Martians?
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* MoodMotif: Satirized.
* MsFanservice: A Las Vegas showgirl follows the main characters while still wearing her stage outfit. She doesn't get many lines and seems to be there just to bounce around in a revealing outfit. She was the waitress Art Land was flirting with at the beginning of the film.
* MsFanservice: A Las Vegas showgirl follows the main characters while still wearing her stage outfit. She doesn't get many lines and seems to be there just to bounce around in a revealing outfit. She was the waitress Art Land was flirting with at the beginning of the film.
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** A Las Vegas showgirl follows the main characters while still wearing her stage outfit. She doesn't get many lines and seems to be there just to bounce around in a revealing outfit. She was the waitress Art Land was flirting with at the beginning of the film.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: The senile old Granny never seems to realize that her cat Muffy is no longer alive.
* {{Mundangerous}}: This is parodied when the invaders are killed by [[spoiler:country music. Most specifically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8jcKx8H_w "Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman]]... which is even more humiliating: they were fatally vulnerable to ''yodeling'']].
* {{Mundangerous}}: This is parodied when the invaders are killed by [[spoiler:country music. Most specifically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8jcKx8H_w "Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman]]... which is even more humiliating: they were fatally vulnerable to ''yodeling'']].
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** Ritchie is also a genuinely nice fellow.
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* NuclearOption: Nothing Earth has done thus far can so much as scratch the Martians. The GeneralRipper has spent the movie insisting on using nuclear weapons, and the President, depressed at how nothing is working, finally gives the go-ahead. The Martian response to a nuke headed their way is... a small flying nozzle which intercepts the missile and sucks up the explosion. The Martian leader inhales the explosive gas and mocks the PunyEarthlings in high-pitched HeliumSpeech. It's possible that this is a subtle joke: when you fuse hydrogen (as in a hydrogen/fusion bomb), you get helium.
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* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: "Now, even in times of so-called 'intergalactic emergency,' people still wanna roll them bones!"
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* ScientistVsSoldier: The scientists of the film ([[TheProfessor Professor Kessler]] being the face of them) posit that the Martians, being a more advanced civilization, ''must'' be pacifistic and need be approached in the same way, while [[{{Warhawk}} General Decker]] recommends going to Martial Law ([[EstablishingCharacterMoment while the aliens are just floating around Earth and not done any contact]]) and ''instantly'' recommends [[NukeEm the use of nukes]] ("Annihilate! Kill! Kill!") when the Martians prove themselves hostile (although maybe just overreacting to the dove, which the scientists use to convince the President to try a second contact). [[spoiler:It turns out that the Martians are [[AliensAreBastards homicidal bastards]] on top of being technologically advanced, and humanity is screwed no matter what.]]
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: PlayedForLaughs. Las Vegas real estate developer Art Land is still holding a meeting with investors for his new casino hotel, even though the Martians are quite clearly flattening the city outside. And downstairs, some people are still playing the slot machines as the Martians are killing everyone. "Now, even in times of so-called 'intergalactic emergency,' people still wanna roll them bones!"
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: PlayedForLaughs. Las Vegas real estate developer Art Land is still holding a meeting with investors for his new casino hotel, even though the Martians are quite clearly flattening the city outside. And downstairs, some people are still playing the slot machines as the Martians are killing everyone. "Now, even in times of so-called 'intergalactic emergency,' people still wanna roll them bones!"
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* ShrinkRay: Used to kill the general.
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* ShrinkRay: Used to kill The Martian leader uses a shrink ray gun on General Decker, then squashes the general.general under his boot.
* SkewedPriorities: When evacuating the White House, the Secret Service diverts the First Family away from one room because there's a tour group in it.
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* SkewedPriorities: When evacuating the White House, the Secret Service diverts the First Family away from one room because there's a tour group in it.
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* SkewedPriorities: When evacuating StabTheSalad: The aliens toss an ominously glowing sphere into the White House, House's War Room. They shake the Secret Service diverts object, revealing it to be a snowglobe, point, laugh, then shoot everyone anyway.
* StarfishLanguage: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how theFirst Family away from one room because there's Martians have no lips or cheeks with which to help them form more complex sounds. Their own evolution may have led to their language becoming a tour group in it. series of simple syllables.
* StarfishLanguage: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how the
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* StabTheSalad
* StarfishLanguage: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how the Martians have no lips or cheeks with which to help them form more complex sounds. Their own evolution may have led to their language becoming a series of simple syllables.
* StrippedToTheBone: The effect of the Martian DisintegratorRay. Colorized, too.
* StarfishLanguage: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how the Martians have no lips or cheeks with which to help them form more complex sounds. Their own evolution may have led to their language becoming a series of simple syllables.
* StrippedToTheBone: The effect of the Martian DisintegratorRay. Colorized, too.
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* StarfishLanguage: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that they are making vocalizations, it's just that they sound to human ears like an endless stream of "Ack ack, ack ACK ACK!" Possible Fridge-Brilliance seeing as how the Martians have no lips or cheeks with which to help them form more complex sounds. Their own evolution may have led to their language becoming a series of simple syllables.
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* TakeThat: "They blew up Congress! Hahahahaha!"
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* TakeMeToYourLeader: The Martians set up a negotiation conference with the White House... simply so they can vaporize Congress in a surprise attack.
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%%* TakeThat: "They blew up Congress! Hahahahaha!"
* TanksButNoTanks: The tanks used in the movie, M41 Walker Bulldogs, were all long obsolete by the time the film was made. The Pentagon, it is claimed, refused to lend more modern equipment because of its unhappiness with the military's ineffectiveness in the film. If so, then the fact that these tanks, the M151 Mutt jeeps and the uniforms and M14 rifles used by the soldiers, evoke the feel of a 1950's B-movie was a happy accident.
* TapOnTheHead: After Jerry Ross allows a strange woman into the White House in order to seduce her, she bites off his finger and knocks him unconscious by hitting him on the back of the head with a statuette. She turns out to be a Martian assassin wearing a human disguise.
* TapOnTheHead: After Jerry Ross allows a strange woman into the White House in order to seduce her, she bites off his finger and knocks him unconscious by hitting him on the back of the head with a statuette. She turns out to be a Martian assassin wearing a human disguise.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:The President's daughter, played by Natalie Portman.]]
* UselessProtagonist: President Dale himself. Given just how powerful, numerous and unstoppable the Martian invaders are, he has no idea on how to stop them since military firepower is ineffective and he hesitates to use nuclear weapons against them as soon as possible[[note]]He defended he didn't want to give the message of ThisMeansWar to the Martians[[/note]]. In addition, he's a highly sought after target of the Martians so he has to concentrate more on his own protection than of others.
* UntouchableUntilTagged: Byron, fending off Martians until they mobbed him.
* UselessProtagonist: President Dale himself. Given just how powerful, numerous and unstoppable the Martian invaders are, he has no idea on how to stop them since military firepower is ineffective and he hesitates to use nuclear weapons against them as soon as possible[[note]]He defended he didn't want to give the message of ThisMeansWar to the Martians[[/note]]. In addition, he's a highly sought after target of the Martians so he has to concentrate more on his own protection than of others.
* UntouchableUntilTagged: Byron, fending off Martians until they mobbed him.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:The After the death of all top U.S. officials, at the end of the movie [[spoiler:the President's daughter, played by Natalie Portman.]]
daughter is apparently in charge of the government]].
* UntouchableUntilTagged: Near the end Byron Williams faces off against a horde of Martians in hand to hand combat so the others can escape. He repeatedly punches the Martians until one of them jumps on his back and prevents him from defending himself, whereupon the rest swarm over him and take him down.
* UselessProtagonist: President Dale himself. Given just how powerful, numerous and unstoppable the Martian invaders are, he has no idea on how to stop them since military firepower is ineffective and he hesitates to use nuclear weapons against them as soon as possible[[note]]He defended he didn't want to give the message of ThisMeansWar to the Martians[[/note]]. In addition, he's a highly sought after target of the Martians so he has to concentrate more on his own protection than of others. \n* UntouchableUntilTagged: Byron, fending off Martians until they mobbed him.
* UntouchableUntilTagged: Near the end Byron Williams faces off against a horde of Martians in hand to hand combat so the others can escape. He repeatedly punches the Martians until one of them jumps on his back and prevents him from defending himself, whereupon the rest swarm over him and take him down.
* UselessProtagonist: President Dale himself. Given just how powerful, numerous and unstoppable the Martian invaders are, he has no idea on how to stop them since military firepower is ineffective and he hesitates to use nuclear weapons against them as soon as possible[[note]]He defended he didn't want to give the message of ThisMeansWar to the Martians[[/note]]. In addition, he's a highly sought after target of the Martians so he has to concentrate more on his own protection than of others.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: The movie parodies this [[RuleOfThree three times]]. The translation machines even say "We come in peace!"
** During their initial landing, the Martians massacre most of the humans present to greet them.
** When they appear before the U.S. Congress "to apologize", they wipe out everyone present.
** During a meeting to discuss peace with the French government, [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys the obvious happens]].
** During their initial landing, the Martians massacre most of the humans present to greet them.
** When they appear before the U.S. Congress "to apologize", they wipe out everyone present.
** During a meeting to discuss peace with the French government, [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys the obvious happens]].
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* WarHawk: General Decker. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is to demand for Martial Law to be enabled once the Martians arrive and pushes for an immediate preventive strike when the Martians still appear peaceful, and wishes to escalate to full-blown nuclear warfare after the FirstContact attempt goes pear-shaped. Unusually enough, even if appearing to be a jingoistic BloodKnight of epic proportions from first appearance to unceremonious death, he was pretty much right about the aliens.
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* WarHawk: General Decker. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is to demand for Martial Law to be enabled once the Martians arrive and pushes for an immediate preventive strike when the Martians still appear peaceful, and wishes to escalate to full-blown nuclear warfare after the FirstContact attempt goes pear-shaped. Unusually enough, even if appearing to be a jingoistic BloodKnight of epic proportions from first appearance to unceremonious death, he was pretty much right about the aliens.
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* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThingsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: The aliens destroying Earth's landmarks [[AliensAreBastards for giggles]].
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* TouchOfTheMonster: A few of the fanservicy cards displayed Martians carrying off scantly-clad women.
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* TouchOfTheMonster: A few couple of cards use the Touch of Evil version, though one of the fanservicy unreleased cards displayed has a rather graphic (and very obviously sexualized) depiction of Playing with Its Food/Angels' Envy. Another unreleased card is From the Pages of Bettie-style, but with more gore than obvious bondage, and, again, obviously sexualized.
* UranusIsShowing: There was a short-lived parody of the original trading cards called ''Uranus Strikes''; the Uranians were ugly, disgusting creatures who tried to invade Earth as the Martianscarrying off scantly-clad women.did, but were at most {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s.
* UranusIsShowing: There was a short-lived parody of the original trading cards called ''Uranus Strikes''; the Uranians were ugly, disgusting creatures who tried to invade Earth as the Martians
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Played stright, unlike the film.
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* HostileTerraforming: The Martian overlords have conquered Earth and are in the process of xenoforming Earth into a more Martian-like planet as so to let them live better at the expense of the largely expendable humans.
* HumansAreUgly: Martians find humans very ugly, this is shown how the scientist sees the captured superheroine.
* HumansAreUgly: Martians find humans very ugly, this is shown how the scientist sees the captured superheroine.
* MutilationInterrogation: ''Martian Deathtrap'', a novelization based on the comics/card series by Topps, has the Martians capture a showgirl and using a surgical tool that cuts and cauterizes at the same time on the bottoms of her toes after she refuses to tell them (a) how many humans are still alive in the mansion they're all trapped in and (b) how to drive a car, of all things. [[TooDumbToLive Given they could have just forced her to take them to the cars and have her drive them to safety at gunpoint, the torture might have been a bit excessive, if not totally unnecessary.]]
* RapePillageAndBurn: Minus the rape part, the novelization for the film clarifies this is the basis of the entire Martian civilization; invade planets, blast, kill, and destroy everything, take anything that might interest them (like porn magazines), and then move onto the next planet.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Minus the rape part, the novelization for the film clarifies this is the basis of the entire Martian civilization; invade planets, blast, kill, and destroy everything, take anything that might interest them (like porn magazines), and then move onto the next planet.
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* VillainTeamUp: You can thank the Sea Hag for this one in "Mars Attacks Popeye," where she immediately intercepts the Martians upon their landing and hypnotizes them into attacking Popeye for her instead of invading Earth. [[spoiler:Then the spinach-powered beatdown breaks their hypnosis, and they betray her through DefeatByModesty (ItMakesSenseInContext) before leaving Earth out of a new found [[TheDreaded fear of Popeye.]]]]
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* VillainTeamUp: VillainTeamUp:
** You can thank the Sea Hag for this one in "Mars Attacks Popeye," where she immediately intercepts the Martians upon their landing and hypnotizes them into attacking Popeye for her instead of invading Earth. [[spoiler:Then the spinach-powered beatdown breaks their hypnosis, and they betray her through DefeatByModesty (ItMakesSenseInContext) before leaving Earth out of a new found [[TheDreaded fear of Popeye.]]]]
** You can thank the Sea Hag for this one in "Mars Attacks Popeye," where she immediately intercepts the Martians upon their landing and hypnotizes them into attacking Popeye for her instead of invading Earth. [[spoiler:Then the spinach-powered beatdown breaks their hypnosis, and they betray her through DefeatByModesty (ItMakesSenseInContext) before leaving Earth out of a new found [[TheDreaded fear of Popeye.]]]]
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* {{Novelization}}: Written by the film's screenwriter, Jonathan Gems. It elaborates on the Martians and their civilization, making it clear how utterly evil they are and removing any ambiguity. A junior novelization was also released, written by Ron Fontes and Justine Kormsn.
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* {{Novelization}}: Written by the film's screenwriter, Jonathan Gems. It elaborates on the Martians and their civilization, making it clear how utterly evil they are and removing any ambiguity. A junior novelization was also released, written by Ron Fontes and Justine Kormsn.Korman.
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Considering that the reaction of the Martians when one of their own is liquidated or brutalised is wrathful, there is no doubt that their morality isn't any different from the standard whatever I do to others is okay but the others doing it isn't. Simply said selfish monsters
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* AxCrazy: The Martians and the overly hawkish General Decker.
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* AxCrazy: The All the Martians that appear and on the other side of the invasion there is also the overly hawkish (but sadly not hawk-eyed) General Decker.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Martians, period.
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The 1996 movie adaptation was directed by Creator/TimBurton and depicted gleefully destructive Martians animated by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic as opposed to the more violent and terrifying versions seen in the trading cards or comics. Notable for its all-star EnsembleCast, including Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/LukasHaas, Creator/AnnetteBening, [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Jim Brown]], Creator/PierceBrosnan, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/MartinShort, Creator/RodSteiger, Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/NataliePortman, [[note]]Do not confuse the below examples of Natalie the character with her[[/note]] Creator/PamGrier, Creator/DannyDeVito, Music/TomJones, Creator/FrankWelker and Creator/JackNicholson (again). HilarityEnsues as most of them are jokingly killed off with bizarre weaponry as cheesily as possible. Despite underperforming at the box office and getting a tepid critical reception at the time, the film has developed a modest [[CultClassic cult following]] since its release [[VindicatedByCable through frequent TV showings]], and it's now [[VindicatedByHistory widely considered one of Burton's best films]].
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The 1996 movie adaptation was directed by Creator/TimBurton and depicted gleefully destructive Martians animated by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic as opposed to the more violent and terrifying versions seen in the trading cards or comics. Notable for its all-star EnsembleCast, AllStarCast, including Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/LukasHaas, Creator/AnnetteBening, [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Jim Brown]], Creator/PierceBrosnan, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/MartinShort, Creator/RodSteiger, Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/NataliePortman, [[note]]Do not confuse the below examples of Natalie the character with her[[/note]] Creator/PamGrier, Creator/DannyDeVito, Music/TomJones, Creator/FrankWelker and Creator/JackNicholson (again). HilarityEnsues as most of them are jokingly killed off with bizarre weaponry as cheesily as possible. Despite underperforming at the box office and getting a tepid critical reception at the time, the film has developed a modest [[CultClassic cult following]] since its release [[VindicatedByCable through frequent TV showings]], and it's now [[VindicatedByHistory widely considered one of Burton's best films]].
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* ArtisticLicense: The First Lady spends a lot of time reorganizing and redecorating the White House. The White House is a national monument; the President and family aren't actually allowed to mess with it as much as she does.
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The movie has gotten a lot of attention for its numerous striking similarities to ''Film/IndependenceDay'', that ''other'' [[GenreThrowback throwback]] to classic {{alien invasion}} stories released in 1996--which chose to [[PlayedStraight play the premise completely straight]] rather than mocking it. Beyond having almost exactly the same premise, the two films also feature the President of the United States as one of the main characters, and they feature several near-identical scenes, characters, and story beats. The creative team behind ''Mars Attacks'' has maintained that this was a coincidence, as they were mostly unaware of ''Independence Day'' while making the film.
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The movie has gotten a lot of attention for its numerous striking similarities to ''Film/IndependenceDay'', that ''other'' [[GenreThrowback throwback]] to classic {{alien invasion}} stories released in 1996--which chose to [[PlayedStraight play the premise completely straight]] rather than mocking it. Beyond having almost exactly the same premise, the two films also feature the President of the United States as one of the main characters, and they feature several near-identical scenes, characters, and story beats. The creative team behind ''Mars Attacks'' has maintained that this was a coincidence, as they were mostly unaware of ''Independence Day'' while making the film. \n Perhaps unsurprisingly, it achieved greater success - both critically and commercially - in Europe.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Can a chihuahua's body really support the weight of a full-grown human head, never mind being able to physiologically function with it?
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** This is also enforced pretty strongly with Danny [=DeVito's=] character who is a BitCharacter that only gets about five minutes of screen-time. Within those five minutes, he reveals he is [[AcceptableTargets a lawyer]] and offers his services to a Martian who quickly zaps him. They really wanted to make sure the audience didn't sympathize too much just before bumping him off.
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** This is also enforced pretty strongly with Danny [=DeVito's=] character who is a BitCharacter that only gets about five minutes of screen-time. Within those five minutes, he reveals he is [[AcceptableTargets a lawyer]] lawyer and offers his services to a Martian who quickly zaps him. They really wanted to make sure the audience didn't sympathize too much just before bumping him off.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Martians are an inherently evil race. They attack Earth completely unprovoked and start killing everyone for fun. The novelization elaborates that their entire civilization and way of life is based on attacking and depopulating other worlds ForTheEvulz, though in their case they seem to be always LaughablyEvil.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: The Martians have green blood, their heads explode hearing certain music, and, according to the novelization, they vomit by shedding tears.
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** In the novelization, [[spoiler:Byron is KilledOffForReal.]]
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* {{Epigraph}}: Each chapter in the {{Novelization}} starts with a quotation, which range from writers, playwrights, songs, and so on.
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* TapOnTheHead: Jerry Ross is knocked unconscious by a female Martian assassin when she hits him on the back of the head with a statuette. It seems as though this blow [[spoiler:kills him, as we never see or hear from him again afterwards. Confirmed by the Novelization.]]
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* TapOnTheHead: Jerry Ross is knocked unconscious by a female Martian assassin when she hits him on the back of the head with a statuette. It seems as though this blow [[spoiler:kills him, as we never see or hear from him again afterwards. Confirmed by the Novelization.{{Novelization}}.]]
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* LondonEnglandSyndrome:
** In one scene ''Music/TomJones'' comments that he saw another character box "...in Cardiff, Wales once". Jones, being a native Welshman, would probably just say "Cardiff" in real life. Surprising he didn't pick up on this one, really.
** [[JustifiedTrope He was talking to Americans.]] Most people outside the UK don't even know if Wales is even its own country, let alone the name of its cities.
** In one scene ''Music/TomJones'' comments that he saw another character box "...in Cardiff, Wales once". Jones, being a native Welshman, would probably just say "Cardiff" in real life. Surprising he didn't pick up on this one, really.
** [[JustifiedTrope He was talking to Americans.]] Most people outside the UK don't even know if Wales is even its own country, let alone the name of its cities.
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** In one scene ''Music/TomJones'' comments that he saw another characterLondonEnglandSyndrome: Justified. Music/TomJones mentions seeing Byron box "...in "in Cardiff, Wales once". Jones, being a native Welshman, One would probably expect Jones (a Welshman by birth) to just say "Cardiff" in real life. Surprising he didn't pick up on "Cardiff", but he's saying this one, really.
** [[JustifiedTrope He was talkingto Americans.]] Most people a group of Americans; outside of the UK don't UK, most people wouldn't recognize Welsh cities by name, assuming they even know if knew Wales is even was its own country, let alone the name of its cities.country.
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-->'''Martian Translator:''' ''*while mass firing and attacking civilians*'' Do not run. We are your friends.
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* EventTitle[=/=]ExcitedShowTitle: ''Mars Attacks!'' is the title of this movie and a JustifiedTitle at that.
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* EventTitle[=/=]ExcitedShowTitle: EventTitle: ''Mars Attacks!'' is the title of this movie and a JustifiedTitle at that.
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-->-- '''The Martian Ambassador at FirstContact in Pahrump, NV, May 13, 1996...Day 1 of the Martian Invasion.'''
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-->-- '''The Martian Ambassador at FirstContact in Pahrump, NV, May 13, 1996... Day 1 of the Martian Invasion.'''
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* AffectionateParody: [[TheFifties 1950s]]-[[TheEighties 1980s]] ScienceFiction Alien Invasion B-Movies, as well as ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds''.
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* AffectionateParody: [[TheFifties 1950s]]-[[TheEighties 1980s]] ScienceFiction Alien Invasion B-Movies, as well as ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds''.''Franchise/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
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* BrownNote: [[spoiler:The Martians are defeated by the playing of the Slim Whitman song "Indian Love Call", which makes their brains explode when heard.]] Probably a {{homage}} to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', in which the rampaging aliens are defeated by a similarly minor effect (germs), and possibly to ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', in which the tomatoes are slain by a suspiciously similar song.
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* BrownNote: [[spoiler:The Martians are defeated by the playing of the Slim Whitman song "Indian Love Call", which makes their brains explode when heard.]] Probably a {{homage}} to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', ''Franchise/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', in which the rampaging aliens are defeated by a similarly minor effect (germs), and possibly to ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', in which the tomatoes are slain by a suspiciously similar song.
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** The character Nathalie having her head being [[MixAndMatchCritters swapped with that of her chihuahua]] is one to ''Film/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers|1978}}''.
** Also one to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' poor Big Ben.
** Also one to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' poor Big Ben.
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** The character Nathalie having her head being [[MixAndMatchCritters swapped with that of her chihuahua]] is one to ''Film/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers|1978}}''.
''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978''.
** Also one to''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' poor ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898''. Poor Big Ben.
** Also one to
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* TrashyTrailerHome: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town". Or brief glance of the trailer of the man having sex with Sharona shows that he is a textbook DiscoDan.
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* TrashyTrailerHome: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town". Or Our brief glance of the trailer of the man having sex with Sharona shows that he is a textbook DiscoDan.
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* TrashyTrailerHome: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town".
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* TrashyTrailerHome: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town". Or brief glance of the trailer of the man having sex with Sharona shows that he is a textbook DiscoDan.
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* AliensInCardiff: PlayedForLaughs: it's an AlienInvasion film that's largely seen from the perspective of people in rural Nevada and the UsefulNotes/LasVegas strip.
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* AliensInCardiff: PlayedForLaughs: it's an AlienInvasion film that's largely seen from the perspective of people in rural Nevada Kansas and the UsefulNotes/LasVegas strip.
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* TrashyTrailerHome: As if we needed more evidence of the Norris family being stereotypical rednecks, they live in a trailer park somewhere in Kansas best described as "God-forsaken" and "a one-stoplight town".
