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* AlmostDeadGuy: Paleontologist Andrew Merliss and two government agents attempted to capture a live graboid, [[KilledOffscreen but the agents were killed when it transformed into the shrieker phase]]. He attempted to get away by dousing himself with a fire extinguisher to avoid the shrieker's heat vision, but was still mortally injured in the back. He lives long enough to reach Burt's group and tell them what happened before dropping dead.
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* DaylightHorror: Averted. The climax of the movie is a junkyard battle against assblasters taking place at night. At the same time this clearly has less to do with night time being scarier and more to do with the fact that fire looks prettier at night.
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Good news: the Graboids going on a rampage did not smashed the phone lines early on this time, so Nancy calls for help. Bad news: The "help" that arrives are a pair of {{Obstructive Bureaucreat}}s from Wildlife Protection and their AnimalWrongsGroup scientist who promptly declare Perfection Valley a wildlife sanctuary for Graboids, prohibit Burt and the others from killing the Graboids because they are allegedly engendered, and make clear they are going to kick out the residents.
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Good news: the Graboids going on a rampage did not smashed the phone lines early on this time, so Nancy calls for help. Bad news: The "help" that arrives are a pair of {{Obstructive Bureaucreat}}s Bureaucrat}}s from Wildlife Protection and their AnimalWrongsGroup scientist who promptly declare Perfection Valley a wildlife sanctuary for Graboids, prohibit Burt and the others from killing the Graboids because they are allegedly engendered, endangered, and make clear they are going to kick out the residents.
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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Good news: the Graboids going on a rampage did not smashed the phone lines early on this time, so Nancy calls for help. Bad news: The "help" that arrives are a pair of {{Obstructive Bureaucreat}}s from Wildlife Protection and their AnimalWrongsGroup scientist who promptly declare Perfection Valley a wildlife sanctuary for Graboids, prohibit Burt and the others from killing the Graboids because they are allegedly engendered, and make clear they are going to kick out the residents.
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* BoringButPractical: When Agent Statler and Agent Rusk claim that they intend on ordering more advanced (and expensive) tranquilizer darts and launcher, frustrated expert Burt points out that they could get the same results for $50 using an RC car and in the darts they already have.
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* BoringButPractical: When Agent Statler and Agent Rusk claim that they intend on ordering more advanced (and expensive) tranquilizer darts and launcher, frustrated expert Burt points out that they could get the same results for $50 using an RC car and in the darts they already have.
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* BoringButPractical: When Agent Statler and Agent Rusk claim that they intend on ordering more advanced (and expensive) tranquilizer darts and launcher, frustrated expert Burt points out that they could get the same results for $50 using an RC car and in the darts they already have.
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* YouCanPanicNow: When Burt, Jack, and Jodi find themselves with an Ass Blaster right above them that doesn't seem to see them we get this:
-->'''Jack:''' Okay. Just ''calmly'' get out of the boat, and ''calmly'' head for-
-->* the Ass Blaster roars*
-->'''Jack:''' It's seen us, shit! Run!
-->'''Jack:''' Okay. Just ''calmly'' get out of the boat, and ''calmly'' head for-
-->* the Ass Blaster roars*
-->'''Jack:''' It's seen us, shit! Run!
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-->'''Jack:''' Okay. Just ''calmly'' get out of the boat, and ''calmly'' head for-
-->* the Ass Blaster roars*
-->'''Jack:''' It's seen us, shit! Run!
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* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThis: After being eaten by, then extracted from, a Graboid, Burt insists to Jack and Jodi that the incident be kept between them.
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* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThis: LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After being eaten by, then extracted from, a Graboid, Burt insists to Jack and Jodi that the incident be kept between them.
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* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThis: After being eaten by, then extracted from, a Graboid, Burt insists to Jack and Jodi that the incident be kept between them.
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** Averted with Desert Jack, who repeatedly demonstrates he knows practically nothing about Graboids, and is told often that he "really needs to read the comics." In particular, his con of a Graboid tour has the guests marooned on a rock while they wait for the fake Graboid to get bored and leave, which anyone who knows Graboids knows isn't going to happen. When a real Graboid attacks, fortunately Mindy is there to come up with a plan to actually get them to safety.
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** The propellent for the potato gun was liquor scrounged from Nestor's old trailer from the first film.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: After previously averting it, they get a little lax regarding this. One example would be when Burt finds out that Jack's gun is fake, and hands him a pistol. Jack sticks the thing ''down his pants'', which is a great idea if you plan on [[GroinAttack blowing your own nuts off]], but generally something you want to avoid. Burt doesn't even bat an eyelid at this.
** Probably because at that point in the film Burt doesn't like Jack and is hoping he does.
** Probably because at that point in the film Burt doesn't like Jack and is hoping he does.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: After previously averting it, they get a little lax regarding this. One example would be when Burt finds out that Jack's gun is fake, and hands him a pistol. Jack sticks the thing ''down his pants'', which is a great idea if you plan on [[GroinAttack blowing your own nuts off]], but generally something you want to avoid. Burt doesn't even bat an eyelid at this.
** Probably because at that point in the filmthis. Then again, Burt doesn't particularly like Jack and is hoping at this point.
* {{Irony}}: Burt, firearms enthusiast extraordinaire, doesn't know what a potato gun is. As hedoes.explains, as a child he had already converted his BB gun to full auto, so he skipped right past the need to cobble together firearms.
** Probably because at that point in the film
* {{Irony}}: Burt, firearms enthusiast extraordinaire, doesn't know what a potato gun is. As he
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* CassandraTruth: While Burt has encountered Graboids since the first film, it's been a decade since everyone else in the valley has seen one. As a result he is the only one who takes the possibility of their return seriously and is prepared when they return.
* GenreSavvy:
** When the graboids make their grand return, Nancy's the first one to make the sensible suggestion of calling the authorities for aid on the grounds that, unlike last time, [[ClosedCircle they're not cut off from the outside world]].
*** Unfortunately, this trope proceeds to bite on the ass when the feds that arrive tell them that not only are they banned from killing the graboids, but they're seriously considering eminent containing the whole valley and kicking everyone out to make a preserve. The graboids might be monstrous man-eaters, but they're still just animals, and their scarcity means they qualify as an endangered species.
** When the graboids make their grand return, Nancy's the first one to make the sensible suggestion of calling the authorities for aid on the grounds that, unlike last time, [[ClosedCircle they're not cut off from the outside world]].
*** Unfortunately, this trope proceeds to bite on the ass when the feds that arrive tell them that not only are they banned from killing the graboids, but they're seriously considering eminent containing the whole valley and kicking everyone out to make a preserve. The graboids might be monstrous man-eaters, but they're still just animals, and their scarcity means they qualify as an endangered species.
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* RealityEnsues:
** While Burt has encountered Graboids since the first film, it's been a decade since everyone else in the valley has seen one. As a result he is the only one who takes the possibility of their return seriously and is prepared when they return.
** When the graboids make their grand return, Nancy's the first one to make the sensible suggestion of calling the authorities for aid on the grounds that, unlike last time, [[ClosedCircle they're not cut off from the outside world]].
*** Unfortunately, this trope proceeds to bite on the ass when the feds that arrive tell them that not only are they banned from killing the graboids, but they're seriously considering eminent containing the whole valley and kicking everyone out to make a preserve. The graboids might be monstrous man-eaters, but they're still just animals, and their scarcity means they qualify as an endangered species.
** While Burt has encountered Graboids since the first film, it's been a decade since everyone else in the valley has seen one. As a result he is the only one who takes the possibility of their return seriously and is prepared when they return.
** When the graboids make their grand return, Nancy's the first one to make the sensible suggestion of calling the authorities for aid on the grounds that, unlike last time, [[ClosedCircle they're not cut off from the outside world]].
*** Unfortunately, this trope proceeds to bite on the ass when the feds that arrive tell them that not only are they banned from killing the graboids, but they're seriously considering eminent containing the whole valley and kicking everyone out to make a preserve. The graboids might be monstrous man-eaters, but they're still just animals, and their scarcity means they qualify as an endangered species.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Burt's sonic wristwatch. The signals it gives off act like a homing beacon for graboids. This comes in handy at the end where Jack uses it get El Blanco to eat the last Ass-blaster.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Burt's sonic wristwatch. The signals it gives off act like a homing beacon for graboids. This comes in handy at the end where Jack uses it get El Blanco to eat the last Ass-blaster. A two-for-one, as he sticks it to the Ass-Blaster with the tape Mindy used to repair his pants at the beginning of the film.]]
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* UnexplainedAccent: Michiganer Shawn Christian's character speaks with a ''painfully'' bad Southern accent.
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* CallBack: When the government agents threaten to Eminent Domain the town, Burt snarks that he warned people about this back in the original film.
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Eleven years after the first, the Graboids return to Perfection and it falls to CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) -- the EnsembleDarkhorse from the first two films -- to stop them. The Graboids mutate yet again, turning into [[FartsOnFire jet-propelled, farting]] "Ass-blasters".
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Eleven years after the first, the Graboids return to Perfection and it falls to CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) (Creator/MichaelGross) -- the EnsembleDarkhorse from the first two films -- to stop them. The Graboids mutate yet again, turning into [[FartsOnFire jet-propelled, farting]] "Ass-blasters".
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* DidntSeeThatComing: As ever with the creatures. Burt finally thinks he has them figured out, but is he ever wrong.
** Burt uses high-heat flares to lure in Shriekers and a .50 cal anti-aircraft gun to mow them down in droves in the opening with astonishing ease compared to the second film. Then, not only do they change again, confronting him with airborne enemies that render all the characters' attempts to hide on higher ground moot, but their feeding habits do too, leading to a spectacular case of {{Irony}}, when he blows up his house and all the food in it to prevent them multiplying - only to discover immediately afterwards eating too much sends Ass-Blasters ''into a FoodComa''.
** He also discovers there's such a thing as non-breeding graboids with the sterile El Blanco, leading to him having to deal with attacks from the air and below ground at the same time.
** Burt uses high-heat flares to lure in Shriekers and a .50 cal anti-aircraft gun to mow them down in droves in the opening with astonishing ease compared to the second film. Then, not only do they change again, confronting him with airborne enemies that render all the characters' attempts to hide on higher ground moot, but their feeding habits do too, leading to a spectacular case of {{Irony}}, when he blows up his house and all the food in it to prevent them multiplying - only to discover immediately afterwards eating too much sends Ass-Blasters ''into a FoodComa''.
** He also discovers there's such a thing as non-breeding graboids with the sterile El Blanco, leading to him having to deal with attacks from the air and below ground at the same time.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Jack may be a confidence shyster, but he's not happy to see his assistant Buford perving on Mindy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the comics on the store's rack is "Graboids vs. Shriekers". Desert Jack later [[spoiler: takes out the last Ass-Blaster by baiting El Blanco into eating it]], in a comparable display of life-cycle stages turning on each other.
** Val mocking the last Graboid if it can fly. Then come the Ass-Blasters...
** Val mocking the last Graboid if it can fly. Then come the Ass-Blasters...
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** One of the comics on the store's rack is "Graboids vs. Shriekers". Desert Jack later [[spoiler: takes out the last Ass-Blaster by baiting El Blanco into eating it]], in a comparable display of life-cycle stages turning on each other.
** The first film had Val mocking the last Graboid if itcan fly. could fly after tricking it into falling to its death. Then come in this one we find out at the Ass-Blasters...right stage of its life cycle, it actually can...
** One of the comics on the store's rack is "Graboids vs. Shriekers". Desert Jack later [[spoiler: takes out the last Ass-Blaster by baiting El Blanco into eating it]], in a comparable display of life-cycle stages turning on each other.
** The first film had Val mocking the last Graboid if it
