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--->'''Fowler:''' Quatermass, we've had dealings for a number of years. You as a driving force of an enterprise of The Future, I as one of the [[{{Lampshading}} obstructive civil servants you had to contend with]].
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* AdultFear: The plot runs on this in ''Quatermass''-- teens and young adults under an alien influence become violent; scientist Joe Kapp [[spoiler: loses his wife and children in one of the alien attacks.]]
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** In ''Quatermass'', [[spoiler:Quatermass himself and possibly his granddaughter (it doesn't seem that she actually knew what that big red button was for, although the novelization claims "she knew because he knew")]].
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** In ''Quatermass'', [[spoiler:Quatermass himself and possibly his granddaughter (it doesn't seem that she actually knew what that big red button was for, although the novelization claims "she knew because he knew")]].knew". Plus, the fact that her photo was propped up against it might have given her a clue)]].
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-->"Just thump it."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: ''Ring''stone ''Round'', the Stonehenge {{Expy}} in ''Quatermass''.
* JerkAss: Kickalong in ''Quatermass'' is a seething cauldron of hate. In one scene he pretends to beg for food from a man cowering in a boarded up house, and when the man passes out a can of beans Kickalong machine-guns him.
* MindControlMusic: Implied. While the Planet People are gathering, ethereal music plays on the sountrack, apparently symbolising the alien influence that's drawing them to their deaths like a deadly version of the [[Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin Pied Piper]]. The final closing credits make it clear that it has the same tune as the Ringstone Round nursery rhyme.
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* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: In ''Quatermass'', the sole survivor of an alien attack suddenly explodes into ash a couple of days later.
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* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: In ''Quatermass'', the sole survivor of an alien attack suddenly explodes into ash a couple of days later. (Quatermass had previously wondered why Annie hadn't noticed the corpses he saw at Ringstone Round a few days earlier. They'd obviously gone the same way.)
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Judith's parting words to Victor, before he departed in the rocket from ''The Quatermass Experiment'', was that he bring her back something from space. Turns out he ''does'' bring something back, but....
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Judith's parting words to Victor, before he departed set off in the rocket from ''The Quatermass Experiment'', was were a request that he bring her back something from space. Turns out he ''does'' bring something back, but....
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Judith's parting words to Victor, before he departed in the rocket from ''The Quatermass Experiment'', was that he bring her back something from space. Turns out he ''does'' bring something back, but....
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* BadassGrandpa: In the fourth serial, Quatermass deduces that only old people can withstand the alien influence and gets to work assembling a team of them to save the day.
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* AMythologyIsTrue: ''Quatermass and the Pit'' reveals that the insectoid Martians and their telekinesis and spectral projections, are the origins of the beliefs in poltergeists, ghosts, and horned demons.
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* SupportingProtagonist: Quatermass may be the title and main character of ''Quatermass and the Pit'', but it's Dr. Roney who first investigates the pit, is the only character unaffected by the Martian Devil, and ultimately performs a HeroicSacrifice to defeat the Martians.
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* SupportingProtagonist: Quatermass may be the title and main character of ''Quatermass and the Pit'', but it's Dr. Roney who first investigates the pit, is one of the only character characters unaffected by the Martian Devil, and ultimately performs a HeroicSacrifice to defeat the Martians.
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* SupportingProtagonist: Quatermass may be the title and main character of ''Quatermass and the Pit'', but it's Dr. Roney who first investigates the pit, is the only character unaffected by the Martian Devil, and ultimately performs a HeroicSacrifice to defeat the Martians.
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* CaptainErsatz: After the oresuccess of ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' Hammer immediately wanted to make a sequel. They couldn't get the rights however, so they made ''X the Unknown'' a movie with an extremely similar plot-structure and atmosphere to the first with a highly Quatermass-like hero named Doctor Adam Royston.
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* CaptainErsatz: After the oresuccess success of ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' Hammer immediately wanted to make a sequel. They couldn't get the rights however, so they made ''X the Unknown'' a movie with an extremely similar plot-structure and atmosphere to the first with a highly Quatermass-like hero named Doctor Adam Royston.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Invoked by Sladden in ''Quatermass and the Pit'' after the lights go out in the Underground station and he mutters to himself:
--> Where was Moses when the lights when out?\\
In the flippin' dark.
--> Where was Moses when the lights when out?\\
In the flippin' dark.
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* ''Quatermass'': Professor Quatermass (John Mills) comes out of secluded retirement when his granddaughter disappears. He finds that she has joined a New Age group called the Planet People, who believe that benevolent aliens will come and take them to a better life on another planet. This being science fiction, there really are aliens, and they really are taking Planet People, but Quatermass has grave doubts about their benevolence.
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* ''Quatermass'': Professor Quatermass (John Mills) (Creator/JohnMills) comes out of secluded retirement when his granddaughter disappears. He finds that she has joined a New Age group called the Planet People, who believe that benevolent aliens will come and take them to a better life on another planet. This being science fiction, there really are aliens, and they really are taking Planet People, but Quatermass has grave doubts about their benevolence.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Gustav Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" from ''The Planets'' is the theme for the first two serials and the 2005 remake.
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* ColdIron - proves the Martian "devil's" undoing in ''Quatermass and the Pit''.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: The RetroRocket-style design for the alien spacecraft in the tv serial of ''Quatermass and the Pit'' is replaced in the film with a more exotic design that gave it a more weirdly "alien" look.[[note]]Nearly 5 decades since the film's release, many of the design aesthetics of the alien spaceship -- the surfaces, the lines & curves, and even the color -- which all must have looked very unusual and exotic in 1967, now are all bizarrely similar to what is commonly found on the designs of contemporary automobiles today.[[/note]]
* CaptainErsatz: After thesuccess oresuccess of ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' Hammer immediately wanted to make a sequel. They couldn't get the rights however, so they made ''X the Unknown'' a movie with an extremely similar plot-structure and atmosphere to the first with a highly Quatermass-like hero named Doctor Adam Royston.
* CaptainErsatz: After the
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Unless he explicitly does so because he's familiar with science fiction, it's not *genre* savvy, it's just being quick on the uptake.
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* GenreSavvy: Howell, the Minister's aide in ''Quatermass and the Pit'', comprehends before either the Minister or Colonel Breen that Quatermass hypothesizes that a massive alien colonization of Earth happened in prehistoric times.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Minister of Defense Defence in ''Quatermass and the Pit''.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Minister of
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* DeathOfAChild: In ''Quatermass'', Joe Kapp's wife and children are killed off-screen in an alien bombardment.
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* CompilationMovie: ''The Quatermass Conclusion'' is an odd example, since the original serial was deliberately written and shot so that it could be edited down into a much shorter movie. An interesting idea, and it ''almost'' worked.
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* CompilationMovie: ''The Quatermass Conclusion'' is an odd example, since the original serial was deliberately written and shot so that it could be edited down into a much shorter movie.movie (the section with the old people in the scrapyard was specifically written to be cuttable without affecting the plot too much). An interesting idea, and it ''almost'' worked.
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* AstralProjection: In the climax of ''The Pit'', a Martian (whether real or just a manifestation of the spaceship) appears in this way.
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* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: In ''Quatermass'', the sole survivor of an alien attack suddenly explodes into ash a couple of days later.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The films were retitled ''The Creeping Unknown'', ''Enemy from Space'', and ''Five Million Years to Earth'' on US release, since Quatermass wasn't a selling point outside the UK.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Sladden the drill technician in ''Quatermass and the Pit'' is played by Duncan Lamont, who played Victor Carroon in the original BBC serial.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Dr. Roney in ''Quatermass and the Pit''. Also, [[spoiler: Quatermass and possibly his granddaughter in ''Quatermass'' (it doesn't seem that she actually knew what that big red button was for).]]
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* CoolGuns: Kickalong prominently uses a Sterling in several scenes in ''Quatermass''.
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* PathOfInspiration: The Planet People in ''Quatermass'' are a sect influenced by aliens to voluntarily submit themselves for consumption.
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* BigRedButton: The nuke detonator in ''Quatermass'' has one.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Twice in ''Quatermass'':
** [[spoiler:Annie gets either knocked out or killed in a sudden head-on crash with a Land Rover driven by possessed soldiers, and then gets incinerated by an alien energy bolt]]
** [[spoiler:Joe Kapp gets ready to heroically sacrifice himself as a backup to Quatermass to ensure the nuke is detonated, but is casually shot dead by Kickalong when the Planet People invade the observatory grounds.]]
** [[spoiler:Annie gets either knocked out or killed in a sudden head-on crash with a Land Rover driven by possessed soldiers, and then gets incinerated by an alien energy bolt]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Dr. Roney in ''Quatermass and the Pit''. Also, [[spoiler: Quatermass and possibly his granddaughter in ''Quatermass''.''Quatermass'' (it doesn't seem that she actually knew what that big red button was for).]]
