History Recap / TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople

* PsychopathicManchild: It's clear from the start that he's not very mature as he acts sullen and hates authority and his later interactions with the Little People are very much in the vein of a child taking pleasure in tormenting helpless creatures or a schoolyard bully picking on a weaker kid. You eventually wonder how someone so lazy, immature and unstable could have become an astronaut to begin with.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given how quick Craig was to lord over the Little People (and his SanitySlippage afterwards) and how he already expressed desire for power and respect without earning them, he clearly wasn't alright in the head, even ''before'' he discovered them.
** He also expresses {{sadist}}ic pleasure in crushing the Little People and forcing them to do as he says, so he at the very ''least'', is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] with a God Complex.

* BadBoss: Once again, Peter Craig, who enslaves the little people and destroys their town inspite of all the work he forces them to do.

* DramaticIrony: When the giant aliens accidentally crush Craig, they express guilt over it for a moment. What they don't know is, they've just saved the little people from Craig's reign, and they're possibly [[MonumentalDamage more grateful]] for destroying their tyrant than the giant aliens will ever know.

* UngratefulBastard: What does Craig do after the Little People help him find edible food and drinkable water? He proclaims himself as their "God" and threatens to crush them if they don't bend to his will. He even ''does'' crush some of them just to demonstrate the power he has over them and partially [[ForTheEvulz just for his own amusement.

* AssholeVictim: Peter Craig.
* BadBoss: Once again, Peter Craig.

* TheBully: Again, Peter Craig.

* DramaticIrony: When the giant aliens accidentally crush Craig, they express guilt over it for a moment. What they don't know is, they've just saved the little people from Craig's reign, and they're possibly [[MonumentalDestruction more grateful]] for destroying their tyrant than the giant aliens will ever know.

* HumanAliens: The giant spacemen.

* VillainProtagonist: Peter Craig.

** Craig enjoys crushing the little people's houses, likely killing many of them, in order to demonstrate his power over them whereas the giant alien who accidentally kills Craig feels guilty about it.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fletcher is stern and a bit gruff but he isn't a bad guy. He is horrified at Craig's behavior and seeks to protect the Little People from and apologizes for his actions. He also tries to sincerely reach Craig and get him to come back to Earth.

* PsychopathicManchild: It's clear from the start that he's not very mature as he acts sullen and hates authority and his later interactions with the Little People are very much in the vein of a child taking pleasure in tormenting helpless creatures or a schoolyard bully picking on a weaker kid.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Peter Craig was a giant to the Little People, then he meets people who are giants to ''him''.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Given how quick Craig was to lord over the Little People (and his SanitySlippage afterwards) and how he already expressed desire for power, he clearly wasn't alright in the head, even ''before'' he discovered them.

* HereWeGoAgain: {{Subverted|Trope}}. After Craig dies, one of the giants wonders if there are other tiny aliens around. However, instead of looking for them, he joins his partner in getting to work repairing their ship.

** Wrath: After Fletcher rightfully calls him out of his cruelty towards the Little People and tells him that it's time to go, Craig threatens him by gun point, telling him to leave or he will kill him.

* UngratefulBastard: What does Craig do after the Little People help him find edible food and drinkable water? He proclaims himself as their "God" and threatens to crush them if they don't bend to his will. He even ''does'' crush some of them just to demonstrate the power he has over them.

* ADogNamedDog: The little people's species is never given a name (or show up on screen, so we don't even know what they look like). Fletcher and Craig just refer to them as "The Little People".

* TheWoobie: The Little People are this.

* SquareCubeLaw: Apparently, the giant aliens have never heard of it.

** He also expresses sadistic pleasure in crushing the Little People and forcing them to do as he says, so he at the very ''least'', is a sociopath with a God Complex.

* ChromosomeCasting: This episode has an all-male cast.
** It's possible that some of the Little People were female, but we never get to see them on-screen.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: The alien who killed Craig crushed him by accident while curiously trying to pick him up. He felt bad for it.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Both Fletcher and William's personalities are demonstrated in the first scene: Fletcher was checking on the repairs for the rocket while Craig lazily did nothing but complain. This continues when Craig complains about their location and the freeze dried food they have to eat which he then throws away. Fletcher, infuriated by his actions, then grabs the food and berates Craig, telling him that he should be grateful that they are alive, are in a place with oxygen and they at least have any food and water at all. This shows that Fletcher is the responsible, sensible one of the duo and Craig cares only about himself.
* EveryoneHasStandards: William Fletcher is a rather impatient man but he expresses horror and outrage when he sees that Craig ''deliberately'' crushed some of the Little People's houses and likely killed many of them. He even tries to stop him from crushing anymore of them and begs the small aliens for forgiveness for what Craig did.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: The nature of The Little People's relationship with their "God" Craig. Craig makes them give him all their food and water, uses his size to make them bend to his will, forces them to make a statue of his likeness, etc. When Fletcher asks what Craig gives the Little People in return for all their work, he responds by saying that he gives them his "smiling beneficence" and his promise to ''NOT'' trample on their town (unfortunately, Craig doesn't hold up to the second one).

** Pride: Peter Craig is has ''A LOT'' of it. He deems himself as "God" to the Little People and even demands to have a statue made in his likeness from the Little People, as a sign of his ego.

* SevenDeadlySins: Peter Craig exhibits sins throughout the episode.
** He expressed Envy at the sight of the giant aliens, as he wanted to be the ONLY giant (and "God") around.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Both Fletcher and William's personalities are demonstrated in the first scene: Fletcher was checking on the repairs for the rocket while Craig lazily did nothing but complain. This continues when Craig complains about their location and the freeze dried food they have to eat which he then throws away. Fletcher, infuriated by his actions, then grabs the food and berates Craig, telling him that he should be grateful that they are alive, are in a place with oxygen and they at least have any food and water at all.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After seeing that Craig has truly lost his mind and after he threatens him to leavy by ''gun point'' , Fletcher does leave but warns Craig that he will regret this.