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* BaffledByOwnBiology: Played for horror. Sil is a hybrid created by mixing human genes with alien DNA sent to Earth via radio transmission. She's biologically about 11 years old, chronologically three months, when she escapes from the lab that created her. Aboard a train, she steals huge amounts of food and eats ravenously. Late that night, she sees something moving under her skin before tentacles burst out, enveloping her. She's entering a cocoon to rapidly age to approximately twenty biological human years old, but with no understanding of what she is or how her hybrid body is meant to function, the experience is painful and terrifying for her.
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** Breasts seem to be solely for [[FanService our enjoyment]] ([[AllMenArePerverts thank you, oh mighty alien overlord Xenu!]]), or more specifically, to make the aliens more attractive to human mates, as their offspring move immediately on to a solid-food diet (not requiring breastmilk), and in alien-form the nipples are tentacle weapons, not glands. Though, given the length of the tentacles, the breasts could just be there to hold the spooled tentacles when they're not in use.

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** Breasts seem to be solely for [[FanService [[{{Fanservice}} our enjoyment]] ([[AllMenArePerverts thank you, oh mighty alien overlord Xenu!]]), or more specifically, to make the aliens more attractive to human mates, as their offspring move immediately on to a solid-food diet (not requiring breastmilk), and in alien-form the nipples are tentacle weapons, not glands. Though, given the length of the tentacles, the breasts could just be there to hold the spooled tentacles when they're not in use.



* FanService: The series is fueled on sex...

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The guy who helped Sil after the car accident and covered the hospital bill ends up being killed by her.
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* AntiVillain: Sil is a surprisingly sympathetic antagonist. She clearly has human-like emotions, including to some extent a desire to be loved ("she liked him"), and if you look at things from her perspective she's basically a young child completely alone on a world full of hostile StarfishAliens. She's a genetic freak tormented by dreams of a world and people she doesn't know, and over the course of the film seems to realise that she will never fit in anywhere. Yes, she's a killer, but she seems to be acting more out of instinct than conscious malice, from her point of view she's just defending herself or preserving her {{Masquerade}} which she absolutely has to maintain among [[HumansAreCthulhu the hostile Starfish aliens that surround her]]. She experiences something of an existential crisis; being the only one of her kind on the planet, she has no guide for what she is, why she's here, what she's supposed to be and do, what her purpose is. And her goals of having children and propagating her own species are hardly in and of themselves evil. Plus, if she had anything like the feelings toward her offspring that a human mother would, you can't help cringing a little imagining her [[spoiler: witnessing the heroes incinerating her infant son with a flamethrower]] at the end. You can see how she's a threat to people that needs to be contained or neutralized, but at the same time, you can sympathize with her.

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* AntiVillain: Sil is a surprisingly sympathetic antagonist. She clearly has human-like emotions, including to some extent a desire to be loved ("she liked him"), and if you look at things from her perspective she's basically a young child completely alone on a world full of hostile StarfishAliens. She's a genetic freak tormented by dreams of a world and people she doesn't know, and over the course of the film seems to realise that she will never fit in anywhere. Yes, she's a killer, but she seems to be acting more out of instinct than conscious malice, from her point of view she's just defending herself or preserving her {{Masquerade}} which she absolutely has to maintain among [[HumansAreCthulhu the hostile Starfish aliens hostile]] StarfishAliens [[HumansAreCthulhu that surround her]]. She experiences something of an existential crisis; being the only one of her kind on the planet, she has no guide for what she is, why she's here, what she's supposed to be and do, what her purpose is. And her goals of having children and propagating her own species are hardly in and of themselves evil. Plus, if she had anything like the feelings toward her offspring that a human mother would, you can't help cringing a little imagining her [[spoiler: witnessing the heroes incinerating her infant son with a flamethrower]] at the end. You can see how she's a threat to people that needs to be contained or neutralized, but at the same time, you can sympathize with her.

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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Stephen Arden gets killed after having sexual intercourse with Sil.]]


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* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler: Stephen Arden gets killed after having sexual intercourse with Sil.]]
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* HotScientist: Marg Helgenberger, from this film and the second.

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* HornyDevils: The mating alien antagonists are basically the [[RecycledInSpace science fiction alien take on the succubus and incubus legends]].


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* SuccubiAndIncubi: The mating alien antagonists are basically the [[RecycledInSpace science fiction alien take on the succubus and incubus legends]].

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* BriefAccentImitation: Laura asks Press to dance. He replies, in typical Michael Madsen tough-guy accent, "Who, me?" Laura does a pretty good impression of him as she answers "Yeah, you."



* InstantSeduction: [[spoiler: After stealing some keys and hiding in what turned out to be Dr. Arden's hotel room, Sil manages to seduce him easily in just a few minutes with a few words and some stripping]].

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* InstantSeduction: [[spoiler: After stealing some keys and hiding in what turned out to be Dr. Arden's hotel room, Sil manages to seduce him easily in just under a few minutes minute with a few words and some stripping]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A young Sil bursts through her glass cage and escapes after learning that she is to be terminated with cyanide.
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** Dan to Fitch at the boardroom: "She didn't like being locked up like that. She didn't like being along like that."

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** Dan to Fitch at the boardroom: "She didn't like being locked up like that. She didn't like being along alone like that."
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** Dan to Fitch at the boardroom: "She didn't like it when you locked her up".
** When they find the dead train conductor by the alien cocoon: "Something bad happened here". Preston actually lampshades the uselessness of this observation with a "No shit".
** They find Sil's car in the middle of the road without gas: "She walked... she walked".
** While Laura and Press flirt at the bar: "They like each other".

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** Dan to Fitch at the boardroom: "She didn't like it when you being locked her up".
up like that. She didn't like being along like that."
** When they find the dead train conductor by the alien cocoon: "Something bad happened here". here." Preston actually lampshades the uselessness of this observation with a "No shit".
shit."
** They find Sil's car in the middle of the road without gas: "She walked... she walked".
walked." He does point out the ''direction'' she walked, but given it's the same direction the car was pointing, his insight is as effective as a good guess in this case.
** While Laura and Press flirt at the bar: "They like each other".other."
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* DroolHello: Because the franchise hadn't borrowed enough from ''Alien'', one of the hybrids announces her presence in this way.


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* TamerAndChaster: The film was obviously shot with the intention of airing on the Sci-Fi channel first. There is nudity in the film, but it's sparse, shot in quick cuts, awkward angles, or deep shadows that make the film very easy to edit for content.

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