History Literature / GoMutants

* ParentalIncest: Russ comes into the She bar to make love to a hot Venusian Succubix. [[spoiler: Turns out its his ''mother''. And after her initial shock, she's [[AnythingThatMoves ''willing to go through with it''.]]]]

** Read Sheriff Furry's dialogue and try not to think of SarahPalin.

** It is mentioned that [[{{Fahrenheit 451}} paper burns at 451 degrees Fahrenheit]].

** J!m Anderson, on the cover, looks suspiciously like an alien JamesDean.

* ETGaveUsWiFi: Inverted, its humanity's development of nuclear weapons that brings us to the attention of other species at first. Later played straight when [[spoiler: Andi Ra', J!m's father, builds the [[strike:Internet]] Plex for humankind.]]
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: This novel has a surprisingly low body count. Except for a couple of Mooks, ''no one'' dies throughout the novel. In fact several characters thought dead actually turn out to be alive, leaving the body count at the end less than what it started with.]]

* NoExceptYes: On the government's possible abuse of the PLEX system
--> The government was not in the business of keeping files on all its citizens; it was more of a hobby, really.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: J!m Anderson, on the cover, looks suspiciously like an alien JamesDean.

* TheyWalkAmongUs

** AlbertEinstein, while still a Nobel Prize winning scientist, is ridiculed as a crank and a traitor for having befriended J!m's father.

* [[spoiler: EverybodyLives: This novel has a surprisingly low body count. Except for a couple of Mooks, ''no one'' dies throughout the novel. In fact several characters thought dead actually turn out to be alive, leaving the body count at the end less than what it started with.]]

* [[spoiler: IComeInPeace: What J!m's father, Andi Ra' came to Earth to do]]
** [[spoiler: WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: What ends up happening. Surprisingly though it wasn't caused by the human populace in general, but rather a Government conspiracy (and not by the entire government either).]] [[spoiler: Later we learn that the first alien to land on earth was considered a Communist for his pacifist ways... and tortured to death.]]

* [[spoiler:NarratorAllAlong: It turns out J!m's father, Andi Ra', is narrating the entire book.]]

* [[spoiler: ParentalIncest]]: Russ comes into the She bar to make love to a hot Venusian Succubix. [[spoiler: Turns out its his ''mother''. And after her initial shock, she's [[AnythingThatMoves ''willing to go through with it''.]]]]

* [[spoiler:ShockAndAwe: Another of J!m's post-metamorphosis powers. Combine that with his NighInvulnerability and his ability to access the [[strike: Internet]] PLEX and gain its power, and J!m basically becomes a PhysicalGod.]]
* [[spoiler:QuoteMining: "[Nobody's saying] YOU MUST GET RID OF YOUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR BE DESTROYED!"]]

** [[StanLee Stanley Lieber]] never went into writing comics, and is instead a philosopher-poet.

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[[caption-width:316:"No one ''understands'' me!"]]

** RonaldReagan is also in the presidential race, though his chances have been hurt severely upon the public discovery that his wife Nancy is really Si-Tchun of the Fulong, a race dedicated to the eradication of men.

*** Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman Fifty Foot Woman]], the SonOfKong, and the son of Film/TheBlob1958, among some humans and other alien species.

** Not to mention Film/{{Them}}, Film/TheBlob, Film/{{the Thing|1982}}, and the Fifty Foot Woman, who left her husband to date Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.
*** Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman Fifty Foot Woman]], the SonOfKong, and the son of Film/TheBlob, among some humans and other alien species.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Andi Ra' learned English by watching the {{BBC}}. As a result, his way of speaking is [[JustForPun very British]], accent and all.

** [[spoiler: WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: What ends up happening. Surprisingly though it wasn't caused by the human populace in general, but rather a Government conspiracy (and not by the entire government either).]]

** Not to mention Film/{{Them}}, {{the Blob}}, Film/{{the Thing|1982}}, and the Fifty Foot Woman, who left her husband to date Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.

*** Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman Fifty Foot Woman]], the SonOfKong, and the son of TheBlob, among some humans and other alien species.

Apparently, it's being optioned for film. The author says he's writing the screenplay for RonHoward, but he's likely joking about that.

* HotMom: Miw, much to her son's chagrin. As J!m himself says, no boy wants a sexy mother.

** Not to mention {{Them}}, {{the Blob}}, Film/{{the Thing|1982}}, and the Fifty Foot Woman, who left her husband to date Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.

*** Heck, this even applies to the main characters, who are basically the kids of said [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWoman Fifty Foot Woman]], the SonOfKong, and the son of TheBlob, among some humans and other alien species.

* MismatchedEyes: Marie; she has one blue eye, one green eye.

* PlanetEris: Another rare example in Literature, to the point where this could be considered the LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen for B-monster movies.