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-> ''The truth is NOT out there. The truth is among us.''
''Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends'' (1999-2000) was an animated show from the Creator/{{BKN}} line-up, not to be confused with the ''other'' [[Series/{{Roswell}} show about Roswell]]. Consists of many diverse myths being debunked as alien activity, sort of like ''Series/TheXFiles''.
The main character is Nick Logan, a BountyHunter who finds one of his marks is a little more than meets the eye. Soon after, he receives a contract to track down another, a Banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. The two wind up saving each other's life and begin working together to figure out who's trying to kill them, only to wind up working for said organization, Nick so he can find out what happened to his father, Sh'lainn because she's been exiled from her clan and has nowhere else to go. It eventually builds up with a slow MythArc involving alien invaders, Werewolves, Vampires, Banshee and other aliens all coming to a head by the 40th episode.
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!!Show provides examples of:
* AlienFairFolk: Vampires, werewolves, Banshees, Sirens, Yeti and other fantasy creatures are in fact aliens that have arrived to Earth many years ago and have moulded legends.
* AliensOfLondon: The Banshees all have some sort of Irish accent. In the pilot it's mentioned that they first settled (on Earth) in the British Isles, so presumably they settled in Ireland. [[JustifiedTrope Well, considering where the legend comes from...]]
* TheAlliance: The organization Nick Logan finds himself working for has this name. However it is a case of InNameOnly and is actually a GovernmentConspiracy. It May have started off as TheAlliance for real but has since grown into a powerful paramilitary organization that keeps control of the various aliens who are living on earth. It is seemingly independent of the government or any other oversight.
* AllMythsAreTrue: and they're all aliens. Sasquatch & Yeti, Werewolves, Banshee, Talos, Norse Mythology, etc.
* ALoadOfBull: The Minotauri, Canmort and Charon.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Nema, later revealed to be Egyptian.
* AncientAstronauts: Prometheus, among others, was actually a Tribune... the single Tribune. Set, who is mentioned, is revealed to have been a Vampire in addition.
* AntAssault: One episode has the Alliance dealing with hybrid ants that have begun attacking a small town. [[spoiler:Turns out the ants are so large and aggressive because they've been crossed with Shadoen DNA]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Numerous characters bite the dust, including main characters.
* AREA51: Mentioned a few times and one episode involves a supremely destructive robot that was buried there. Another had them trying to infiltrate it. The Alliance also stages UFO sightings there.
* {{Atlantis}}: [[spoiler:The first to fight, and drive off, the Shadoens.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Logan
** He even spends an episode with Fitz fighting over who gets to wear it.
* BadassNative: Jefferson Trueblood.
* BadBadActing[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: Fitz, whenever he appears before the press, offers a half-assed explanation of the current event along with some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial so the public will suspect the government is doing something like DNA experiments on prisoners, transporting chemical weaponry, etc.
* BadBoss: General James Rinaker. He's almost killed our heroes on several occasions, and declares almost everybody an enemy at least once. [[spoiler: We eventually find out why.]]
* BaldOfEvil: The Vampire Ruthen.
* BattleCouple: Nick and Sh'lainn have become one by the the end of the series.
* BeardOfEvil: The Vampire Davos.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Occasionally played with by Nick and Sh'lainn, but they get through it fairly quick. [[spoiler: By episode 14 they've had their first kiss and by the second half of the series they've had declarations of love.]]
* BenevolentMonsters: Ti-Yet, a Yeti whose tribe settled in the Himalayas. Although initially antagonistic he is a being of honor who is only seeking to defend his people who have been safeguarding a Doomsday Device from those who might abuse it. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes friends with Nick Logan and an agent for the Alliance.]]
* BerserkButton: Vampires to Banshees
* BetaCouple: Fitz and Nema.
* BigBad: In-between several recurring villains, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]], and personal drama, ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'' plays with the concept of a HiddenVillain antagonist for the majority of the series in the form of an enigmatic traitor in the Alliance's ranks that drives much of the most important conflicts of the plot. Towards the end of the series, the BigBad is revealed as none other than [[spoiler:General Rinaker, or rather a Shadoen agent named Wraith taking his place,]] who -- being behind both the disappearance of Nick's father, the corruption of the Alliance, and the various acts of sabotage -- essentially sets up and drives the series' MythArc.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Keel, the commander of the Shadoen invasion fleet is technically Rinaker/Wraith’s superior and tries to assert his dominance over him. However he’s not nearly as competent a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] as him and Wraith tricks him into getting himself killed not long after he arrives, then promptly takes over the invasion himself.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids cooked up by TheMole, [[spoiler: Rinaker.]]
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be enslaved by the Lycanthrope.
* BountyHunter: Nick, of course, but also the Minotauri.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, Roswell's resident conspiracy theorist is taking notes on a shadow without a source, then notices a camera. "What'choo lookin' at!?"
* TheBrute: Korlan to Hanek's BigBad
* CatFolk: The species that Agazza belonged to, which was overrun and taken over by the Vodun.
* CharacterTic: Rinaker constantly toying with a set of keys.
** [[spoiler: Shows up again in his Shadoen form as he clicks his pincers together in a similar manner.]]
* ChekhovsArmoury: In the final set of episodes many characters and items are brought back to [[spoiler:repel the Shadoen invasion.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The EMP bomb the Yeti stole from the Lycanthropes and then hid is just what was needed to utterly destroy the Shadoen fleet.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Athos, son of Ruk.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:In the end, it is revealed that "Rinaker" is actually a Shadoen agent whose mission was to manipulate the Alliance into suppressing the various alien races on Earth, and to keep the aliens from uniting together, fearful that if they did so they would be a threat. His plan worked for decades, but in the 11th hour the aliens did unite and work with the humans to fight back against the Shadoen invasion.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate the commander of the Shadoen fleet into going to the White House to demand surrender, telling him humans would be incapable of resistance. The U.S. military didn't surrender and instead destroyed the commander's vessel, leaving Rinaker in control of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* {{Chupacabra}}: Actually a Vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him. [[spoiler:That something was General Rinaker]]. Ever since, he's lived in the rainforest, biting livestock and scaring the locals.
* CircleOfStandingStones: Such stones often indicate a Banshee outpost which they use as teleportation hubs.
* TheConspiracy: Actually faked to throw people off the scent of what was really going on, though that probably just makes it a conspiracy hidden inside another conspiracy. Subverted in that the ones running it are the good guys... most of the time.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The crazy guy in Roswell. [[spoiler:Really ObfuscatingStupidity. He's a former Alliance operative]] and then [[spoiler:'cause he's actually a Shadoen assassin.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hanek, the Vampire head of Intracom.
** And Verhooven, his rival, also a Vampire.
* CropCircles: They are actually made by the Alliance as part of their misdirection ops.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rinaker. A Shadoen killed him and took his form.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: All the characters have their moments, but special mention goes to Fitz, with Nema not far behind.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Tanner
* DetonationMoon: The GrandFinale opens with a shot of [[spoiler:the Shadoan fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.
* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Nick's father is actually a substitute the Alliance installed to keep an eye on Nick. A nice guy who actually gives Nick a lot of support when he decides to find his real father.
* [[spoiler:DivideAndConquer: The Shadoens realized that if the alien races on earth ever started working with humans and each other, it would be much harder to take over. One of their own was sent to infiltrate the Alliance and ensure that such unity was never achieved until too late.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Banshees are all barefoot, including Sh'lainn in her dress outfit.
* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler: The EMP bomb.]]
** [[spoiler: Also the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* TheDragon: Chief Trueblood to Rinaker due to [[MyMasterRightOrWrong My General Right or Wrong]].
** Agaza to Baron Samedi.
** Dorn to Hanek
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Rinaker himself]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sh'lainn. She hates technology to begin with, and therefore doesn't know how to drive. Needless to say, Nick gets rather annoyed when she tries to drive his car.
* {{EMP}}: When the Yeti escaped slavery at the hands of the Lycanthrops, they managed to steal an EMP bomb that they then modified, making it powerful enough to wipe out all life on a planet.
* EnemyMine: After Sh'lainn finds out [[spoiler:Vampires were the ones who abducted Queen Mab, she and the Banshees join forces with the Alliance to save Queen Mab and the Banshee Tree of Lights.]]
** And the Alliance later allies with Hanek to hunt down Valra
* EnemyCivilWar: Turns out that [[spoiler: Shadoen high command ''really'' doesn't like Rinaker, but put up with him because they didn't really have any better choices. They still keep a Shadoen spy on Earth to keep tabs on him, and said spy had no problem trying to blow up the Alliance base with Rinaker in it. In the show's final arc, when Rinaker returns to the fleet, he clearly doesn't get along with the fleet commander, and Rinaker is quite satisfied when he tricks the commander into getting nuked by the U.S.]]
* EvilInc: Intracom
* EvilGenius: Valra.
** Also TheMole in the Alliance, [[spoiler: Rinaker himself]].
* EvilOverlord: Hanek
* EvilRedhead: Valra, again
* {{Expy}}: Jerich, Our Protector, is one of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, including having a "kryptonite" of his own and some "bathed by sunlight" scenes.
* ExtranormalPrison: The Alliance has a prison facility for all the various alien they've arrested, many of whom have special abilities.
* EyeBeams: [[spoiler:The Shadoen.]]
* FacelessMooks: Most of the S.T.A.R. Team
* FakeDefector: Lobo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** The show specializes in all sorts of nasty (for the age group) deaths, but the worst likely has to go to [[spoiler:Trueblood]], who's viciously ''torn apart'' by [[spoiler:Shadoen Rinaker]]. We're ''just'' spared the details of the actual carnage through a GoryDiscretionShot, but we get [[spoiler:Trueblood's]] howling, agonized death scream in place of it and his knife, still covered in his adversary's blood, falling to the ground in the next shot.
** There's also Lord Hanek's final scheme, which entails the use of Banshees as living batteries to power his teleporters. This has the side effect of ''tortuously'' expending their energy and reducing them to screaming, crone-like husks -- we see one of the Banshees Hanek uses reduced to this state after having suffered hours of torture as a battery before finally collapsing into dust.
* FanService:
** Though we never get any actual nudity, we do get a very nice shot of Sh'lainn Blaze the Banshee from behind wearing very thin pants and that nightgown we sometimes see her in. When she discards her long skirt, underneath having a miniskirt and showing her shirt is the BareYourMidriff type. Finally, there's the outfit when she was temporarily TheLeader of the the Banshee.
** Nema, when she dresses as Vampire bait.
* FieryRedhead: Prof. Marina Petrovic.
* FantasticRacism: Between the races. Banshees and Vampires cannot stand each other and the Lycanthrope keep Yeti slaves. Even the closely related Yeti and Sasquatch don't get along. [[spoiler: This hatred between the races is exploited by the Shadoen. The different races get over it by the end to save Earth.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit of it.
** The AED Unit's target: [[spoiler:Rinaker.]]
** The Tribune surveillance satellite recorded [[spoiler: a ship landing a year before the Roswell conspiracy began]].
** Prior to the Fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids infestation of a small town, [[spoiler:Rinaker is not present]]. Later in the episode [[spoiler: he shows up in the town, just after the hybrids interrupt their attack and flee.]] And conveniently, [[spoiler: he has gene-scrambling ammo that can kill them.]]
** The communicator in Sh'lainn's quarters mysteriously malfunctions so she hears about a Minotauri attack, prompting her to flee the Alliance base.
** 25 years ago, a man disguised as Walter Logan, whom Chupacabra refers to as "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan", bombs an Conduit safehouse and frames the Alliance. Chupacabra was originally a Vampire named Dvorak who bit "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan" and got transformed by his blood. [[spoiler: Later in the same episode, Rinaker is seen rubbing the back of his neck.]]
** Sh'lainn sees visions of an alien fleet capable of destroying planets in "Countdown." Just before TheMole attacks her.
** [[spoiler: Rinaker's]] eagerness to attack the Conduit safehouse with lethal force.
** The conspiracy theorist in Roswell [[spoiler: who is actually a Shadoen infiltrator, saying he knows how Rinaker mind works.]]
** [[spoiler:Rinaker knowing what a Shadoen was.]]
** "There's more betrayal, Nick Logan... Omega Level."
** After Rinaker finds out the Alliance were framed by the Vampires for the abduction of Queen Mab [[spoiler:he decides to attack the Banshee nevertheless.]]
** The human skeleton in Area 51: [[spoiler:Rinaker's]].
** Atlantis fought and drove off an unknown enemy.
* GeneralRipper: Mentioned above.
* GeniusBruiser: Ti-Yet
* GenreSavvy: Nick Logan. Nema and Fitz as part of their Detail jobs.
* GentleGiant: Ti-Yet. Chauf.
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* GrandFinale: A ''huge'' one, involving a major alien fleet, the Moon being attacked, all the show's heroes and villains coming together, and the finale of a big MythArc.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: While many of the aliens are a danger to humans, the Alliance, under Rinaker, hunts down and locks up virtually any alien, threat or no.
* {{Heavyworlder}}: The Aesir are from a planet with heavy gravity, making them nearly indestructable.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Fitz and Nema
* HumanAliens: Banshees, Lycanthropes, and Vampires.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: Turns out Walter Logan has been one since the 70s.]]
* HeroInsurance: Nick has a tendency to blow things up and cause a lot of damage. He gets away with it because the Alliance is an undercover organization. They have a team dedicated specifically to keeping the cover-up going, either making up stories or arranging someone else to take the blame.
* HeroicSacrifice: A good amount in the GrandFinale:
--> [[spoiler:'''Trueblood''': Today is a good day to die. YAAAAAHHHH!\\
'''Jerich, Our Protector''': If I fall, I gladly give my life… for the protection… OF EAAAAARTH!!!\\
'''Walter, Nick's Foster Dad''': Rinaker, I got your Roswell Conspiracy right here!\\
'''Ruck''': My ten year lifespan… is nearly complete. I welcome an honourable end!]]
* HumongousMecha: The Cyclopses.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Oni
* ImprovisedWeapon: "Available weapons, son, available weapons!"
* InterspeciesRomance: Nick and Sh'lainn.
* KnightTemplar: General Rinaker
** Queen Mab as well
* MadeOfExplodium: Every car, when damaged, will explode, with enough force to break through a fortified bunker entrance.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Sh'lainn
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Banshees use nature magic while the Vampires are pro-technology, and there is a blood feud between the two races going back centuries.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Averted by Jefferson... until he plays it straight by becoming the leader of his tribe and doing a Spirit Walk thing.
* TheMole: There's one in the Alliance and he's one stept ahead of Nick. Pretty much the entire cast (save for Ti-Yet due to his size) is suspect. Turns out its [[spoiler: [[MoleInCharge General Rinaker]]]]
* MysteriousInformant: Kraker. Nick's contact who has access to seemingly unlimited amounts of information.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Sh'lainn's hair's snow white and she has all the powers other Banshees have. Some other Banshees also fit this trope, with the rest [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair having slight tints]].
* MythArc: It starts off with Nick trying to find out what happened to his father but before long, hints of something beyond the alliance begin to appear. [[spoiler: It eventually culminates with the Shadoen invasion of Earth]].
* NatureSpirit: The Banshee certainly fit the bill.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Agaza is technically a zombie cyborg alien parasite [[CatFolk furry]].
* NumberTwo: Smith-Heisen to Rinaker
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the Vampires to burst into flames.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug-like creatures who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
* OutOfFocus: Kraker stops showing up after a point, eventually becoming unused.
* PhraseCatcher: Every time our heroes discover that General Rinaker has endangered their lives for the sake of the mission, they all say a sarcastic "''Thank you'', General Rinaker!"
** [[spoiler:Gets something of an IronicEcho in the series finale when Nick says this in a sincere tone with Trueblood's name in place of Rinaker's, as the former had hidden the EMP device before his death so Rinaker couldn't get it.]]
* PlasmaCannon: Plasma weapons are standard to the Alliance. Not only "family-friendly", but many things Nick fights are ImmuneToBullets anyway.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Ruk uses this once to get into the Alliance's maximum-security prison [[spoiler: to kidnap Ti-Yet]].
** [[spoiler: Trueblood after turning against Rinaker does this so he can get into the Alliance headquarters and break Sh'lainn out of there.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Lycanthropes.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Vodun are parasites that can only control corpses. They have been trying to upgrade to living bodies for years. When they do find technology that allows them to inhabit living hosts they find that this leads to a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between parasite and host that usually leaves both parties permanently brain-dead.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sh'lainn is older than she looks, though she won't tell Nick how old.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ms. Smith-Heisen.
* RedOniBlueOni: Fitz is Red, Nema is blue.
* RefugeInAudacity: How the Alliance manages some of their cover ups. They don't deny what happened to a witness, but instead give them an even more ludicrous cover story that manages to discredit them when they try to tell others.
* RentalCarAbuse: In the second half of the pilot, after Sh'lainn is taken to the Alliance base, Nick rents the biggest sport utility available, insured to the hilt. He then proceeds to drive it straight into the Alliance's fortified front door. The resulting explosion blows it open.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Vampires in this series are based on snakes rather than bats.
* TheRival: Agent Ling to Logan
* RoswellThatEndsWell: The Roswell incident was staged and the witnesses were plants to spread the rumors that the government then had to coverup. This focused the country's attention on the conspiracy while members of the military who were involved could form The Alliance.
* RunningGag: Sh'lainn's predicting Nick's impending doom. Eventually gets to the point, due to them getting closer, where she can tell when he's in danger a continent away. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Rinaker mentions that she's predicted Nick's death a number of times with him surviving.
* SharpDressedMan: Hanek in human disguise.
* ShoutOut: The first episode features a fairly long one to the Film/TheBluesBrothers.
* TheSmartGuy: Prof. Antonio Alascano. He designed the transforming Alliance vehicles and even modified Nick's car.
* SpiderSense: Sh'lainn, being a Banshee, can tell when a person is in mortal peril and how long they have until they are potentially killed. As she spends a lot of time with Nick, someone who regularly puts himself in mortal peril, Sh'lainn's "death sense" goes off regularly, acting as a warning to Nick, letting him know how long he has left if he doesn't take action to save his life.
* SpyCatsuit: Sh'lainn in "The Conduit"
* SpySatellites: An alien one has been watching the earth since the year before the Alliance was founded.
* TheStarscream: Valra to Hanek.
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:The Shadoan fleet]] simulates what will happen if they blow up the moon. It's not pretty.
* SupernormalBindings:
** Lycanthropes when they transform, can easily break bonds meant for humans, so their cuffs must be much stronger.
** Banshee restraints cover their hands completely, so they can't fire their heat beams.
* SupermanSubstitute: Jerich is very blatantly meant to be a ShoutOut to Superman, [[spoiler: except for the fact he’s not naturally a HumanAlien.]]
* TheSyndicate: Vampire families are organized like this. Special mention goes to Intracom, Hanek's front.
* [[TakeCareOfTheKids Take Care Of The Pup]]: A dying Kara, Ruk's mate, entrusts Nick with the care of Athos, their son.
* {{Technophobia}}: The Banshees are a tribe of aliens that arrived on Earth and settled in the wilds of Ireland. Their society is close to the earth and nature, which makes them distrustful to downright homicidal when machines are involved. Sh'lainn is the only known exception, having a more progressive attitude toward technology (she was in favor of steam engines), but even she is frequently hear exclaiming, "I hate technology, I ''hate'' it!"
* TemporarilyAVillain: This happens to Sh'lainn three times:
** Once when she suffers from an affliction called "the iron death," which causes a Banshee to go insane, and [[OneWingedAngel transform all the machinery around her, into a techno organic mesh,]] after staying away from nature for too long.
** Again when she's named Queen of the Banshees, and leads them in a war against the Alliance.
** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into Vampire/Banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: Shateera and Sheenta of the Banshee.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The Detail Team, Nema and Fitz. Responsible for passing off alien activities as accidents, mishaps, or acts of Congress.
* TimmStyle
* TookALevelInJerkass: Nick in "The Conduit," and S'hlainn after being crowned Queen of the Banshee.
* TrueSight: Logan inherited this ability from his father, which allows him to see through the disguises of Lycanthropes, Vampires, and other races. He can also sense the Vodun inside their host.
* UndergroundRailroad: The Conduit.
* TheVoice: Nick's friend Kraker only exists as a voice on the other end of his phone. We never get a good look at him.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Nick frequently calls his friend Kraker on his cell phone, who uses his computer skills to get Nick information he needs for his job as a bounty hunter. In one episode Nick goes missing and Sh'lainn teams up with Kraker to find him.
* WalkingSpoiler: The traitor in the Alliance, whose identity serves as one of the main mysteries of the show's MythArc alongside what happened to Walter Logan. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker -- and, in an even bigger twist, he's actually a Shadoen.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Most of the main alien antagonists are shown to be this, mainly wanting to defend their people from whatever threats they see. The only real exceptions are the Aesiri, who are just AxCrazy psychopaths who want to kill everything in sight, and Hanek, who's ''much'' more self-serving than every other Vampire lord (including his own successor). [[spoiler:It takes the threat of annihilation from the Shadoen armada to actually get them to work together.]]
* WhamLine:
** In Episode 37, where we discover a rather shocking reveal:
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Right now, I have something vital to show you: a human skeleton. The flesh had been absorbed from the bones by an unknown lifeform, but this is who it was originally.
-->'''Walter''': It's ''[[spoiler:Rinaker!]]''
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Bingo. And [[spoiler:he's been dead since 1946.]]
** The last line of episode 39 definitely sets the stakes for the climax:
-->'''[[spoiler:Wraith/Rinaker]]''': [[spoiler:Target their moon...and '''[[DetonationMoon blow it out of the sky]]'''.]]
* WhamShot: Near the end of the series, in "Conspiracy Revealed," Sh'lainn connects her own mind to Nick's to unlock a hidden memory of his and finally reveal the person who took Nick's father. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker]].
* WithDueRespect: Nick and General Rinaker. Every frick'n episode.
* {{Yakuza}}: Led by the Oni.
* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Our Queen Now]]: Sh'lainn after, [[spoiler:Mab is abducted by the Vampires.]]
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-> ''The truth is NOT out there. The truth is among us.''
''Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends'' (1999-2000) was an animated show from the Creator/{{BKN}} line-up, not to be confused with the ''other'' [[Series/{{Roswell}} show about Roswell]]. Consists of many diverse myths being debunked as alien activity, sort of like ''Series/TheXFiles''.
The main character is Nick Logan, a BountyHunter who finds one of his marks is a little more than meets the eye. Soon after, he receives a contract to track down another, a Banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. The two wind up saving each other's life and begin working together to figure out who's trying to kill them, only to wind up working for said organization, Nick so he can find out what happened to his father, Sh'lainn because she's been exiled from her clan and has nowhere else to go. It eventually builds up with a slow MythArc involving alien invaders, Werewolves, Vampires, Banshee and other aliens all coming to a head by the 40th episode.
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!!Show provides examples of:
* AlienFairFolk: Vampires, werewolves, Banshees, Sirens, Yeti and other fantasy creatures are in fact aliens that have arrived to Earth many years ago and have moulded legends.
* AliensOfLondon: The Banshees all have some sort of Irish accent. In the pilot it's mentioned that they first settled (on Earth) in the British Isles, so presumably they settled in Ireland. [[JustifiedTrope Well, considering where the legend comes from...]]
* TheAlliance: The organization Nick Logan finds himself working for has this name. However it is a case of InNameOnly and is actually a GovernmentConspiracy. It May have started off as TheAlliance for real but has since grown into a powerful paramilitary organization that keeps control of the various aliens who are living on earth. It is seemingly independent of the government or any other oversight.
* AllMythsAreTrue: and they're all aliens. Sasquatch & Yeti, Werewolves, Banshee, Talos, Norse Mythology, etc.
* ALoadOfBull: The Minotauri, Canmort and Charon.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Nema, later revealed to be Egyptian.
* AncientAstronauts: Prometheus, among others, was actually a Tribune... the single Tribune. Set, who is mentioned, is revealed to have been a Vampire in addition.
* AntAssault: One episode has the Alliance dealing with hybrid ants that have begun attacking a small town. [[spoiler:Turns out the ants are so large and aggressive because they've been crossed with Shadoen DNA]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Numerous characters bite the dust, including main characters.
* AREA51: Mentioned a few times and one episode involves a supremely destructive robot that was buried there. Another had them trying to infiltrate it. The Alliance also stages UFO sightings there.
* {{Atlantis}}: [[spoiler:The first to fight, and drive off, the Shadoens.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Logan
** He even spends an episode with Fitz fighting over who gets to wear it.
* BadassNative: Jefferson Trueblood.
* BadBadActing[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: Fitz, whenever he appears before the press, offers a half-assed explanation of the current event along with some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial so the public will suspect the government is doing something like DNA experiments on prisoners, transporting chemical weaponry, etc.
* BadBoss: General James Rinaker. He's almost killed our heroes on several occasions, and declares almost everybody an enemy at least once. [[spoiler: We eventually find out why.]]
* BaldOfEvil: The Vampire Ruthen.
* BattleCouple: Nick and Sh'lainn have become one by the the end of the series.
* BeardOfEvil: The Vampire Davos.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Occasionally played with by Nick and Sh'lainn, but they get through it fairly quick. [[spoiler: By episode 14 they've had their first kiss and by the second half of the series they've had declarations of love.]]
* BenevolentMonsters: Ti-Yet, a Yeti whose tribe settled in the Himalayas. Although initially antagonistic he is a being of honor who is only seeking to defend his people who have been safeguarding a Doomsday Device from those who might abuse it. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes friends with Nick Logan and an agent for the Alliance.]]
* BerserkButton: Vampires to Banshees
* BetaCouple: Fitz and Nema.
* BigBad: In-between several recurring villains, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]], and personal drama, ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'' plays with the concept of a HiddenVillain antagonist for the majority of the series in the form of an enigmatic traitor in the Alliance's ranks that drives much of the most important conflicts of the plot. Towards the end of the series, the BigBad is revealed as none other than [[spoiler:General Rinaker, or rather a Shadoen agent named Wraith taking his place,]] who -- being behind both the disappearance of Nick's father, the corruption of the Alliance, and the various acts of sabotage -- essentially sets up and drives the series' MythArc.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Keel, the commander of the Shadoen invasion fleet is technically Rinaker/Wraith’s superior and tries to assert his dominance over him. However he’s not nearly as competent a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] as him and Wraith tricks him into getting himself killed not long after he arrives, then promptly takes over the invasion himself.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids cooked up by TheMole, [[spoiler: Rinaker.]]
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be enslaved by the Lycanthrope.
* BountyHunter: Nick, of course, but also the Minotauri.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, Roswell's resident conspiracy theorist is taking notes on a shadow without a source, then notices a camera. "What'choo lookin' at!?"
* TheBrute: Korlan to Hanek's BigBad
* CatFolk: The species that Agazza belonged to, which was overrun and taken over by the Vodun.
* CharacterTic: Rinaker constantly toying with a set of keys.
** [[spoiler: Shows up again in his Shadoen form as he clicks his pincers together in a similar manner.]]
* ChekhovsArmoury: In the final set of episodes many characters and items are brought back to [[spoiler:repel the Shadoen invasion.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The EMP bomb the Yeti stole from the Lycanthropes and then hid is just what was needed to utterly destroy the Shadoen fleet.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Athos, son of Ruk.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:In the end, it is revealed that "Rinaker" is actually a Shadoen agent whose mission was to manipulate the Alliance into suppressing the various alien races on Earth, and to keep the aliens from uniting together, fearful that if they did so they would be a threat. His plan worked for decades, but in the 11th hour the aliens did unite and work with the humans to fight back against the Shadoen invasion.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate the commander of the Shadoen fleet into going to the White House to demand surrender, telling him humans would be incapable of resistance. The U.S. military didn't surrender and instead destroyed the commander's vessel, leaving Rinaker in control of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* {{Chupacabra}}: Actually a Vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him. [[spoiler:That something was General Rinaker]]. Ever since, he's lived in the rainforest, biting livestock and scaring the locals.
* CircleOfStandingStones: Such stones often indicate a Banshee outpost which they use as teleportation hubs.
* TheConspiracy: Actually faked to throw people off the scent of what was really going on, though that probably just makes it a conspiracy hidden inside another conspiracy. Subverted in that the ones running it are the good guys... most of the time.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The crazy guy in Roswell. [[spoiler:Really ObfuscatingStupidity. He's a former Alliance operative]] and then [[spoiler:'cause he's actually a Shadoen assassin.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hanek, the Vampire head of Intracom.
** And Verhooven, his rival, also a Vampire.
* CropCircles: They are actually made by the Alliance as part of their misdirection ops.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rinaker. A Shadoen killed him and took his form.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: All the characters have their moments, but special mention goes to Fitz, with Nema not far behind.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Tanner
* DetonationMoon: The GrandFinale opens with a shot of [[spoiler:the Shadoan fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.
* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Nick's father is actually a substitute the Alliance installed to keep an eye on Nick. A nice guy who actually gives Nick a lot of support when he decides to find his real father.
* [[spoiler:DivideAndConquer: The Shadoens realized that if the alien races on earth ever started working with humans and each other, it would be much harder to take over. One of their own was sent to infiltrate the Alliance and ensure that such unity was never achieved until too late.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Banshees are all barefoot, including Sh'lainn in her dress outfit.
* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler: The EMP bomb.]]
** [[spoiler: Also the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* TheDragon: Chief Trueblood to Rinaker due to [[MyMasterRightOrWrong My General Right or Wrong]].
** Agaza to Baron Samedi.
** Dorn to Hanek
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Rinaker himself]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sh'lainn. She hates technology to begin with, and therefore doesn't know how to drive. Needless to say, Nick gets rather annoyed when she tries to drive his car.
* {{EMP}}: When the Yeti escaped slavery at the hands of the Lycanthrops, they managed to steal an EMP bomb that they then modified, making it powerful enough to wipe out all life on a planet.
* EnemyMine: After Sh'lainn finds out [[spoiler:Vampires were the ones who abducted Queen Mab, she and the Banshees join forces with the Alliance to save Queen Mab and the Banshee Tree of Lights.]]
** And the Alliance later allies with Hanek to hunt down Valra
* EnemyCivilWar: Turns out that [[spoiler: Shadoen high command ''really'' doesn't like Rinaker, but put up with him because they didn't really have any better choices. They still keep a Shadoen spy on Earth to keep tabs on him, and said spy had no problem trying to blow up the Alliance base with Rinaker in it. In the show's final arc, when Rinaker returns to the fleet, he clearly doesn't get along with the fleet commander, and Rinaker is quite satisfied when he tricks the commander into getting nuked by the U.S.]]
* EvilInc: Intracom
* EvilGenius: Valra.
** Also TheMole in the Alliance, [[spoiler: Rinaker himself]].
* EvilOverlord: Hanek
* EvilRedhead: Valra, again
* {{Expy}}: Jerich, Our Protector, is one of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, including having a "kryptonite" of his own and some "bathed by sunlight" scenes.
* ExtranormalPrison: The Alliance has a prison facility for all the various alien they've arrested, many of whom have special abilities.
* EyeBeams: [[spoiler:The Shadoen.]]
* FacelessMooks: Most of the S.T.A.R. Team
* FakeDefector: Lobo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** The show specializes in all sorts of nasty (for the age group) deaths, but the worst likely has to go to [[spoiler:Trueblood]], who's viciously ''torn apart'' by [[spoiler:Shadoen Rinaker]]. We're ''just'' spared the details of the actual carnage through a GoryDiscretionShot, but we get [[spoiler:Trueblood's]] howling, agonized death scream in place of it and his knife, still covered in his adversary's blood, falling to the ground in the next shot.
** There's also Lord Hanek's final scheme, which entails the use of Banshees as living batteries to power his teleporters. This has the side effect of ''tortuously'' expending their energy and reducing them to screaming, crone-like husks -- we see one of the Banshees Hanek uses reduced to this state after having suffered hours of torture as a battery before finally collapsing into dust.
* FanService:
** Though we never get any actual nudity, we do get a very nice shot of Sh'lainn Blaze the Banshee from behind wearing very thin pants and that nightgown we sometimes see her in. When she discards her long skirt, underneath having a miniskirt and showing her shirt is the BareYourMidriff type. Finally, there's the outfit when she was temporarily TheLeader of the the Banshee.
** Nema, when she dresses as Vampire bait.
* FieryRedhead: Prof. Marina Petrovic.
* FantasticRacism: Between the races. Banshees and Vampires cannot stand each other and the Lycanthrope keep Yeti slaves. Even the closely related Yeti and Sasquatch don't get along. [[spoiler: This hatred between the races is exploited by the Shadoen. The different races get over it by the end to save Earth.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit of it.
** The AED Unit's target: [[spoiler:Rinaker.]]
** The Tribune surveillance satellite recorded [[spoiler: a ship landing a year before the Roswell conspiracy began]].
** Prior to the Fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids infestation of a small town, [[spoiler:Rinaker is not present]]. Later in the episode [[spoiler: he shows up in the town, just after the hybrids interrupt their attack and flee.]] And conveniently, [[spoiler: he has gene-scrambling ammo that can kill them.]]
** The communicator in Sh'lainn's quarters mysteriously malfunctions so she hears about a Minotauri attack, prompting her to flee the Alliance base.
** 25 years ago, a man disguised as Walter Logan, whom Chupacabra refers to as "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan", bombs an Conduit safehouse and frames the Alliance. Chupacabra was originally a Vampire named Dvorak who bit "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan" and got transformed by his blood. [[spoiler: Later in the same episode, Rinaker is seen rubbing the back of his neck.]]
** Sh'lainn sees visions of an alien fleet capable of destroying planets in "Countdown." Just before TheMole attacks her.
** [[spoiler: Rinaker's]] eagerness to attack the Conduit safehouse with lethal force.
** The conspiracy theorist in Roswell [[spoiler: who is actually a Shadoen infiltrator, saying he knows how Rinaker mind works.]]
** [[spoiler:Rinaker knowing what a Shadoen was.]]
** "There's more betrayal, Nick Logan... Omega Level."
** After Rinaker finds out the Alliance were framed by the Vampires for the abduction of Queen Mab [[spoiler:he decides to attack the Banshee nevertheless.]]
** The human skeleton in Area 51: [[spoiler:Rinaker's]].
** Atlantis fought and drove off an unknown enemy.
* GeneralRipper: Mentioned above.
* GeniusBruiser: Ti-Yet
* GenreSavvy: Nick Logan. Nema and Fitz as part of their Detail jobs.
* GentleGiant: Ti-Yet. Chauf.
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* GrandFinale: A ''huge'' one, involving a major alien fleet, the Moon being attacked, all the show's heroes and villains coming together, and the finale of a big MythArc.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: While many of the aliens are a danger to humans, the Alliance, under Rinaker, hunts down and locks up virtually any alien, threat or no.
* {{Heavyworlder}}: The Aesir are from a planet with heavy gravity, making them nearly indestructable.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Fitz and Nema
* HumanAliens: Banshees, Lycanthropes, and Vampires.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: Turns out Walter Logan has been one since the 70s.]]
* HeroInsurance: Nick has a tendency to blow things up and cause a lot of damage. He gets away with it because the Alliance is an undercover organization. They have a team dedicated specifically to keeping the cover-up going, either making up stories or arranging someone else to take the blame.
* HeroicSacrifice: A good amount in the GrandFinale:
--> [[spoiler:'''Trueblood''': Today is a good day to die. YAAAAAHHHH!\\
'''Jerich, Our Protector''': If I fall, I gladly give my life… for the protection… OF EAAAAARTH!!!\\
'''Walter, Nick's Foster Dad''': Rinaker, I got your Roswell Conspiracy right here!\\
'''Ruck''': My ten year lifespan… is nearly complete. I welcome an honourable end!]]
* HumongousMecha: The Cyclopses.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Oni
* ImprovisedWeapon: "Available weapons, son, available weapons!"
* InterspeciesRomance: Nick and Sh'lainn.
* KnightTemplar: General Rinaker
** Queen Mab as well
* MadeOfExplodium: Every car, when damaged, will explode, with enough force to break through a fortified bunker entrance.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Sh'lainn
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Banshees use nature magic while the Vampires are pro-technology, and there is a blood feud between the two races going back centuries.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Averted by Jefferson... until he plays it straight by becoming the leader of his tribe and doing a Spirit Walk thing.
* TheMole: There's one in the Alliance and he's one stept ahead of Nick. Pretty much the entire cast (save for Ti-Yet due to his size) is suspect. Turns out its [[spoiler: [[MoleInCharge General Rinaker]]]]
* MysteriousInformant: Kraker. Nick's contact who has access to seemingly unlimited amounts of information.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Sh'lainn's hair's snow white and she has all the powers other Banshees have. Some other Banshees also fit this trope, with the rest [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair having slight tints]].
* MythArc: It starts off with Nick trying to find out what happened to his father but before long, hints of something beyond the alliance begin to appear. [[spoiler: It eventually culminates with the Shadoen invasion of Earth]].
* NatureSpirit: The Banshee certainly fit the bill.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Agaza is technically a zombie cyborg alien parasite [[CatFolk furry]].
* NumberTwo: Smith-Heisen to Rinaker
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the Vampires to burst into flames.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug-like creatures who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
* OutOfFocus: Kraker stops showing up after a point, eventually becoming unused.
* PhraseCatcher: Every time our heroes discover that General Rinaker has endangered their lives for the sake of the mission, they all say a sarcastic "''Thank you'', General Rinaker!"
** [[spoiler:Gets something of an IronicEcho in the series finale when Nick says this in a sincere tone with Trueblood's name in place of Rinaker's, as the former had hidden the EMP device before his death so Rinaker couldn't get it.]]
* PlasmaCannon: Plasma weapons are standard to the Alliance. Not only "family-friendly", but many things Nick fights are ImmuneToBullets anyway.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Ruk uses this once to get into the Alliance's maximum-security prison [[spoiler: to kidnap Ti-Yet]].
** [[spoiler: Trueblood after turning against Rinaker does this so he can get into the Alliance headquarters and break Sh'lainn out of there.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Lycanthropes.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Vodun are parasites that can only control corpses. They have been trying to upgrade to living bodies for years. When they do find technology that allows them to inhabit living hosts they find that this leads to a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between parasite and host that usually leaves both parties permanently brain-dead.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sh'lainn is older than she looks, though she won't tell Nick how old.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ms. Smith-Heisen.
* RedOniBlueOni: Fitz is Red, Nema is blue.
* RefugeInAudacity: How the Alliance manages some of their cover ups. They don't deny what happened to a witness, but instead give them an even more ludicrous cover story that manages to discredit them when they try to tell others.
* RentalCarAbuse: In the second half of the pilot, after Sh'lainn is taken to the Alliance base, Nick rents the biggest sport utility available, insured to the hilt. He then proceeds to drive it straight into the Alliance's fortified front door. The resulting explosion blows it open.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Vampires in this series are based on snakes rather than bats.
* TheRival: Agent Ling to Logan
* RoswellThatEndsWell: The Roswell incident was staged and the witnesses were plants to spread the rumors that the government then had to coverup. This focused the country's attention on the conspiracy while members of the military who were involved could form The Alliance.
* RunningGag: Sh'lainn's predicting Nick's impending doom. Eventually gets to the point, due to them getting closer, where she can tell when he's in danger a continent away. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Rinaker mentions that she's predicted Nick's death a number of times with him surviving.
* SharpDressedMan: Hanek in human disguise.
* ShoutOut: The first episode features a fairly long one to the Film/TheBluesBrothers.
* TheSmartGuy: Prof. Antonio Alascano. He designed the transforming Alliance vehicles and even modified Nick's car.
* SpiderSense: Sh'lainn, being a Banshee, can tell when a person is in mortal peril and how long they have until they are potentially killed. As she spends a lot of time with Nick, someone who regularly puts himself in mortal peril, Sh'lainn's "death sense" goes off regularly, acting as a warning to Nick, letting him know how long he has left if he doesn't take action to save his life.
* SpyCatsuit: Sh'lainn in "The Conduit"
* SpySatellites: An alien one has been watching the earth since the year before the Alliance was founded.
* TheStarscream: Valra to Hanek.
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:The Shadoan fleet]] simulates what will happen if they blow up the moon. It's not pretty.
* SupernormalBindings:
** Lycanthropes when they transform, can easily break bonds meant for humans, so their cuffs must be much stronger.
** Banshee restraints cover their hands completely, so they can't fire their heat beams.
* SupermanSubstitute: Jerich is very blatantly meant to be a ShoutOut to Superman, [[spoiler: except for the fact he’s not naturally a HumanAlien.]]
* TheSyndicate: Vampire families are organized like this. Special mention goes to Intracom, Hanek's front.
* [[TakeCareOfTheKids Take Care Of The Pup]]: A dying Kara, Ruk's mate, entrusts Nick with the care of Athos, their son.
* {{Technophobia}}: The Banshees are a tribe of aliens that arrived on Earth and settled in the wilds of Ireland. Their society is close to the earth and nature, which makes them distrustful to downright homicidal when machines are involved. Sh'lainn is the only known exception, having a more progressive attitude toward technology (she was in favor of steam engines), but even she is frequently hear exclaiming, "I hate technology, I ''hate'' it!"
* TemporarilyAVillain: This happens to Sh'lainn three times:
** Once when she suffers from an affliction called "the iron death," which causes a Banshee to go insane, and [[OneWingedAngel transform all the machinery around her, into a techno organic mesh,]] after staying away from nature for too long.
** Again when she's named Queen of the Banshees, and leads them in a war against the Alliance.
** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into Vampire/Banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: Shateera and Sheenta of the Banshee.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The Detail Team, Nema and Fitz. Responsible for passing off alien activities as accidents, mishaps, or acts of Congress.
* TimmStyle
* TookALevelInJerkass: Nick in "The Conduit," and S'hlainn after being crowned Queen of the Banshee.
* TrueSight: Logan inherited this ability from his father, which allows him to see through the disguises of Lycanthropes, Vampires, and other races. He can also sense the Vodun inside their host.
* UndergroundRailroad: The Conduit.
* TheVoice: Nick's friend Kraker only exists as a voice on the other end of his phone. We never get a good look at him.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Nick frequently calls his friend Kraker on his cell phone, who uses his computer skills to get Nick information he needs for his job as a bounty hunter. In one episode Nick goes missing and Sh'lainn teams up with Kraker to find him.
* WalkingSpoiler: The traitor in the Alliance, whose identity serves as one of the main mysteries of the show's MythArc alongside what happened to Walter Logan. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker -- and, in an even bigger twist, he's actually a Shadoen.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Most of the main alien antagonists are shown to be this, mainly wanting to defend their people from whatever threats they see. The only real exceptions are the Aesiri, who are just AxCrazy psychopaths who want to kill everything in sight, and Hanek, who's ''much'' more self-serving than every other Vampire lord (including his own successor). [[spoiler:It takes the threat of annihilation from the Shadoen armada to actually get them to work together.]]
* WhamLine:
** In Episode 37, where we discover a rather shocking reveal:
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Right now, I have something vital to show you: a human skeleton. The flesh had been absorbed from the bones by an unknown lifeform, but this is who it was originally.
-->'''Walter''': It's ''[[spoiler:Rinaker!]]''
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Bingo. And [[spoiler:he's been dead since 1946.]]
** The last line of episode 39 definitely sets the stakes for the climax:
-->'''[[spoiler:Wraith/Rinaker]]''': [[spoiler:Target their moon...and '''[[DetonationMoon blow it out of the sky]]'''.]]
* WhamShot: Near the end of the series, in "Conspiracy Revealed," Sh'lainn connects her own mind to Nick's to unlock a hidden memory of his and finally reveal the person who took Nick's father. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker]].
* WithDueRespect: Nick and General Rinaker. Every frick'n episode.
* {{Yakuza}}: Led by the Oni.
* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Our Queen Now]]: Sh'lainn after, [[spoiler:Mab is abducted by the Vampires.]]
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-> ''The truth is NOT out there. The truth is among us.''
''Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends'' (1999-2000) was an animated show from the Creator/{{BKN}} line-up, not to be confused with the ''other'' [[Series/{{Roswell}} show about Roswell]]. Consists of many diverse myths being debunked as alien activity, sort of like ''Series/TheXFiles''.
The main character is Nick Logan, a BountyHunter who finds one of his marks is a little more than meets the eye. Soon after, he receives a contract to track down another, a Banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. The two wind up saving each other's life and begin working together to figure out who's trying to kill them, only to wind up working for said organization, Nick so he can find out what happened to his father, Sh'lainn because she's been exiled from her clan and has nowhere else to go. It eventually builds up with a slow MythArc involving alien invaders, Werewolves, Vampires, Banshee and other aliens all coming to a head by the 40th episode.
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!!Show provides examples of:
* AlienFairFolk: Vampires, werewolves, Banshees, Sirens, Yeti and other fantasy creatures are in fact aliens that have arrived to Earth many years ago and have moulded legends.
* AliensOfLondon: The Banshees all have some sort of Irish accent. In the pilot it's mentioned that they first settled (on Earth) in the British Isles, so presumably they settled in Ireland. [[JustifiedTrope Well, considering where the legend comes from...]]
* TheAlliance: The organization Nick Logan finds himself working for has this name. However it is a case of InNameOnly and is actually a GovernmentConspiracy. It May have started off as TheAlliance for real but has since grown into a powerful paramilitary organization that keeps control of the various aliens who are living on earth. It is seemingly independent of the government or any other oversight.
* AllMythsAreTrue: and they're all aliens. Sasquatch & Yeti, Werewolves, Banshee, Talos, Norse Mythology, etc.
* ALoadOfBull: The Minotauri, Canmort and Charon.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Nema, later revealed to be Egyptian.
* AncientAstronauts: Prometheus, among others, was actually a Tribune... the single Tribune. Set, who is mentioned, is revealed to have been a Vampire in addition.
* AntAssault: One episode has the Alliance dealing with hybrid ants that have begun attacking a small town. [[spoiler:Turns out the ants are so large and aggressive because they've been crossed with Shadoen DNA]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Numerous characters bite the dust, including main characters.
* AREA51: Mentioned a few times and one episode involves a supremely destructive robot that was buried there. Another had them trying to infiltrate it. The Alliance also stages UFO sightings there.
* {{Atlantis}}: [[spoiler:The first to fight, and drive off, the Shadoens.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Logan
** He even spends an episode with Fitz fighting over who gets to wear it.
* BadassNative: Jefferson Trueblood.
* BadBadActing[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: Fitz, whenever he appears before the press, offers a half-assed explanation of the current event along with some SuspiciouslySpecificDenial so the public will suspect the government is doing something like DNA experiments on prisoners, transporting chemical weaponry, etc.
* BadBoss: General James Rinaker. He's almost killed our heroes on several occasions, and declares almost everybody an enemy at least once. [[spoiler: We eventually find out why.]]
* BaldOfEvil: The Vampire Ruthen.
* BattleCouple: Nick and Sh'lainn have become one by the the end of the series.
* BeardOfEvil: The Vampire Davos.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Occasionally played with by Nick and Sh'lainn, but they get through it fairly quick. [[spoiler: By episode 14 they've had their first kiss and by the second half of the series they've had declarations of love.]]
* BenevolentMonsters: Ti-Yet, a Yeti whose tribe settled in the Himalayas. Although initially antagonistic he is a being of honor who is only seeking to defend his people who have been safeguarding a Doomsday Device from those who might abuse it. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes friends with Nick Logan and an agent for the Alliance.]]
* BerserkButton: Vampires to Banshees
* BetaCouple: Fitz and Nema.
* BigBad: In-between several recurring villains, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]], and personal drama, ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'' plays with the concept of a HiddenVillain antagonist for the majority of the series in the form of an enigmatic traitor in the Alliance's ranks that drives much of the most important conflicts of the plot. Towards the end of the series, the BigBad is revealed as none other than [[spoiler:General Rinaker, or rather a Shadoen agent named Wraith taking his place,]] who -- being behind both the disappearance of Nick's father, the corruption of the Alliance, and the various acts of sabotage -- essentially sets up and drives the series' MythArc.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Keel, the commander of the Shadoen invasion fleet is technically Rinaker/Wraith’s superior and tries to assert his dominance over him. However he’s not nearly as competent a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] as him and Wraith tricks him into getting himself killed not long after he arrives, then promptly takes over the invasion himself.]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids cooked up by TheMole, [[spoiler: Rinaker.]]
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be enslaved by the Lycanthrope.
* BountyHunter: Nick, of course, but also the Minotauri.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, Roswell's resident conspiracy theorist is taking notes on a shadow without a source, then notices a camera. "What'choo lookin' at!?"
* TheBrute: Korlan to Hanek's BigBad
* CatFolk: The species that Agazza belonged to, which was overrun and taken over by the Vodun.
* CharacterTic: Rinaker constantly toying with a set of keys.
** [[spoiler: Shows up again in his Shadoen form as he clicks his pincers together in a similar manner.]]
* ChekhovsArmoury: In the final set of episodes many characters and items are brought back to [[spoiler:repel the Shadoen invasion.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The EMP bomb the Yeti stole from the Lycanthropes and then hid is just what was needed to utterly destroy the Shadoen fleet.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Athos, son of Ruk.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:In the end, it is revealed that "Rinaker" is actually a Shadoen agent whose mission was to manipulate the Alliance into suppressing the various alien races on Earth, and to keep the aliens from uniting together, fearful that if they did so they would be a threat. His plan worked for decades, but in the 11th hour the aliens did unite and work with the humans to fight back against the Shadoen invasion.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:"Rinaker" was able to successfully manipulate the commander of the Shadoen fleet into going to the White House to demand surrender, telling him humans would be incapable of resistance. The U.S. military didn't surrender and instead destroyed the commander's vessel, leaving Rinaker in control of the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* {{Chupacabra}}: Actually a Vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him. [[spoiler:That something was General Rinaker]]. Ever since, he's lived in the rainforest, biting livestock and scaring the locals.
* CircleOfStandingStones: Such stones often indicate a Banshee outpost which they use as teleportation hubs.
* TheConspiracy: Actually faked to throw people off the scent of what was really going on, though that probably just makes it a conspiracy hidden inside another conspiracy. Subverted in that the ones running it are the good guys... most of the time.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The crazy guy in Roswell. [[spoiler:Really ObfuscatingStupidity. He's a former Alliance operative]] and then [[spoiler:'cause he's actually a Shadoen assassin.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hanek, the Vampire head of Intracom.
** And Verhooven, his rival, also a Vampire.
* CropCircles: They are actually made by the Alliance as part of their misdirection ops.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Rinaker. A Shadoen killed him and took his form.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: All the characters have their moments, but special mention goes to Fitz, with Nema not far behind.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Tanner
* DetonationMoon: The GrandFinale opens with a shot of [[spoiler:the Shadoan fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.
* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Nick's father is actually a substitute the Alliance installed to keep an eye on Nick. A nice guy who actually gives Nick a lot of support when he decides to find his real father.
* [[spoiler:DivideAndConquer: The Shadoens realized that if the alien races on earth ever started working with humans and each other, it would be much harder to take over. One of their own was sent to infiltrate the Alliance and ensure that such unity was never achieved until too late.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Banshees are all barefoot, including Sh'lainn in her dress outfit.
* DoomsdayDevice: [[spoiler: The EMP bomb.]]
** [[spoiler: Also the entire Shadoen fleet.]]
* TheDragon: Chief Trueblood to Rinaker due to [[MyMasterRightOrWrong My General Right or Wrong]].
** Agaza to Baron Samedi.
** Dorn to Hanek
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Rinaker himself]].
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sh'lainn. She hates technology to begin with, and therefore doesn't know how to drive. Needless to say, Nick gets rather annoyed when she tries to drive his car.
* {{EMP}}: When the Yeti escaped slavery at the hands of the Lycanthrops, they managed to steal an EMP bomb that they then modified, making it powerful enough to wipe out all life on a planet.
* EnemyMine: After Sh'lainn finds out [[spoiler:Vampires were the ones who abducted Queen Mab, she and the Banshees join forces with the Alliance to save Queen Mab and the Banshee Tree of Lights.]]
** And the Alliance later allies with Hanek to hunt down Valra
* EnemyCivilWar: Turns out that [[spoiler: Shadoen high command ''really'' doesn't like Rinaker, but put up with him because they didn't really have any better choices. They still keep a Shadoen spy on Earth to keep tabs on him, and said spy had no problem trying to blow up the Alliance base with Rinaker in it. In the show's final arc, when Rinaker returns to the fleet, he clearly doesn't get along with the fleet commander, and Rinaker is quite satisfied when he tricks the commander into getting nuked by the U.S.]]
* EvilInc: Intracom
* EvilGenius: Valra.
** Also TheMole in the Alliance, [[spoiler: Rinaker himself]].
* EvilOverlord: Hanek
* EvilRedhead: Valra, again
* {{Expy}}: Jerich, Our Protector, is one of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, including having a "kryptonite" of his own and some "bathed by sunlight" scenes.
* ExtranormalPrison: The Alliance has a prison facility for all the various alien they've arrested, many of whom have special abilities.
* EyeBeams: [[spoiler:The Shadoen.]]
* FacelessMooks: Most of the S.T.A.R. Team
* FakeDefector: Lobo.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** The show specializes in all sorts of nasty (for the age group) deaths, but the worst likely has to go to [[spoiler:Trueblood]], who's viciously ''torn apart'' by [[spoiler:Shadoen Rinaker]]. We're ''just'' spared the details of the actual carnage through a GoryDiscretionShot, but we get [[spoiler:Trueblood's]] howling, agonized death scream in place of it and his knife, still covered in his adversary's blood, falling to the ground in the next shot.
** There's also Lord Hanek's final scheme, which entails the use of Banshees as living batteries to power his teleporters. This has the side effect of ''tortuously'' expending their energy and reducing them to screaming, crone-like husks -- we see one of the Banshees Hanek uses reduced to this state after having suffered hours of torture as a battery before finally collapsing into dust.
* FanService:
** Though we never get any actual nudity, we do get a very nice shot of Sh'lainn Blaze the Banshee from behind wearing very thin pants and that nightgown we sometimes see her in. When she discards her long skirt, underneath having a miniskirt and showing her shirt is the BareYourMidriff type. Finally, there's the outfit when she was temporarily TheLeader of the the Banshee.
** Nema, when she dresses as Vampire bait.
* FieryRedhead: Prof. Marina Petrovic.
* FantasticRacism: Between the races. Banshees and Vampires cannot stand each other and the Lycanthrope keep Yeti slaves. Even the closely related Yeti and Sasquatch don't get along. [[spoiler: This hatred between the races is exploited by the Shadoen. The different races get over it by the end to save Earth.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit of it.
** The AED Unit's target: [[spoiler:Rinaker.]]
** The Tribune surveillance satellite recorded [[spoiler: a ship landing a year before the Roswell conspiracy began]].
** Prior to the Fireant-[[spoiler:Shadoen]] hybrids infestation of a small town, [[spoiler:Rinaker is not present]]. Later in the episode [[spoiler: he shows up in the town, just after the hybrids interrupt their attack and flee.]] And conveniently, [[spoiler: he has gene-scrambling ammo that can kill them.]]
** The communicator in Sh'lainn's quarters mysteriously malfunctions so she hears about a Minotauri attack, prompting her to flee the Alliance base.
** 25 years ago, a man disguised as Walter Logan, whom Chupacabra refers to as "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan", bombs an Conduit safehouse and frames the Alliance. Chupacabra was originally a Vampire named Dvorak who bit "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan" and got transformed by his blood. [[spoiler: Later in the same episode, Rinaker is seen rubbing the back of his neck.]]
** Sh'lainn sees visions of an alien fleet capable of destroying planets in "Countdown." Just before TheMole attacks her.
** [[spoiler: Rinaker's]] eagerness to attack the Conduit safehouse with lethal force.
** The conspiracy theorist in Roswell [[spoiler: who is actually a Shadoen infiltrator, saying he knows how Rinaker mind works.]]
** [[spoiler:Rinaker knowing what a Shadoen was.]]
** "There's more betrayal, Nick Logan... Omega Level."
** After Rinaker finds out the Alliance were framed by the Vampires for the abduction of Queen Mab [[spoiler:he decides to attack the Banshee nevertheless.]]
** The human skeleton in Area 51: [[spoiler:Rinaker's]].
** Atlantis fought and drove off an unknown enemy.
* GeneralRipper: Mentioned above.
* GeniusBruiser: Ti-Yet
* GenreSavvy: Nick Logan. Nema and Fitz as part of their Detail jobs.
* GentleGiant: Ti-Yet. Chauf.
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* GrandFinale: A ''huge'' one, involving a major alien fleet, the Moon being attacked, all the show's heroes and villains coming together, and the finale of a big MythArc.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: While many of the aliens are a danger to humans, the Alliance, under Rinaker, hunts down and locks up virtually any alien, threat or no.
* {{Heavyworlder}}: The Aesir are from a planet with heavy gravity, making them nearly indestructable.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Fitz and Nema
* HumanAliens: Banshees, Lycanthropes, and Vampires.
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler: Turns out Walter Logan has been one since the 70s.]]
* HeroInsurance: Nick has a tendency to blow things up and cause a lot of damage. He gets away with it because the Alliance is an undercover organization. They have a team dedicated specifically to keeping the cover-up going, either making up stories or arranging someone else to take the blame.
* HeroicSacrifice: A good amount in the GrandFinale:
--> [[spoiler:'''Trueblood''': Today is a good day to die. YAAAAAHHHH!\\
'''Jerich, Our Protector''': If I fall, I gladly give my life… for the protection… OF EAAAAARTH!!!\\
'''Walter, Nick's Foster Dad''': Rinaker, I got your Roswell Conspiracy right here!\\
'''Ruck''': My ten year lifespan… is nearly complete. I welcome an honourable end!]]
* HumongousMecha: The Cyclopses.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Oni
* ImprovisedWeapon: "Available weapons, son, available weapons!"
* InterspeciesRomance: Nick and Sh'lainn.
* KnightTemplar: General Rinaker
** Queen Mab as well
* MadeOfExplodium: Every car, when damaged, will explode, with enough force to break through a fortified bunker entrance.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Sh'lainn
* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: The Banshees use nature magic while the Vampires are pro-technology, and there is a blood feud between the two races going back centuries.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Averted by Jefferson... until he plays it straight by becoming the leader of his tribe and doing a Spirit Walk thing.
* TheMole: There's one in the Alliance and he's one stept ahead of Nick. Pretty much the entire cast (save for Ti-Yet due to his size) is suspect. Turns out its [[spoiler: [[MoleInCharge General Rinaker]]]]
* MysteriousInformant: Kraker. Nick's contact who has access to seemingly unlimited amounts of information.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Sh'lainn's hair's snow white and she has all the powers other Banshees have. Some other Banshees also fit this trope, with the rest [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair having slight tints]].
* MythArc: It starts off with Nick trying to find out what happened to his father but before long, hints of something beyond the alliance begin to appear. [[spoiler: It eventually culminates with the Shadoen invasion of Earth]].
* NatureSpirit: The Banshee certainly fit the bill.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Agaza is technically a zombie cyborg alien parasite [[CatFolk furry]].
* NumberTwo: Smith-Heisen to Rinaker
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the Vampires to burst into flames.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug-like creatures who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
* OutOfFocus: Kraker stops showing up after a point, eventually becoming unused.
* PhraseCatcher: Every time our heroes discover that General Rinaker has endangered their lives for the sake of the mission, they all say a sarcastic "''Thank you'', General Rinaker!"
** [[spoiler:Gets something of an IronicEcho in the series finale when Nick says this in a sincere tone with Trueblood's name in place of Rinaker's, as the former had hidden the EMP device before his death so Rinaker couldn't get it.]]
* PlasmaCannon: Plasma weapons are standard to the Alliance. Not only "family-friendly", but many things Nick fights are ImmuneToBullets anyway.
* PlayAlongPrisoner: Ruk uses this once to get into the Alliance's maximum-security prison [[spoiler: to kidnap Ti-Yet]].
** [[spoiler: Trueblood after turning against Rinaker does this so he can get into the Alliance headquarters and break Sh'lainn out of there.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Lycanthropes.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Vodun are parasites that can only control corpses. They have been trying to upgrade to living bodies for years. When they do find technology that allows them to inhabit living hosts they find that this leads to a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between parasite and host that usually leaves both parties permanently brain-dead.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Sh'lainn is older than she looks, though she won't tell Nick how old.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ms. Smith-Heisen.
* RedOniBlueOni: Fitz is Red, Nema is blue.
* RefugeInAudacity: How the Alliance manages some of their cover ups. They don't deny what happened to a witness, but instead give them an even more ludicrous cover story that manages to discredit them when they try to tell others.
* RentalCarAbuse: In the second half of the pilot, after Sh'lainn is taken to the Alliance base, Nick rents the biggest sport utility available, insured to the hilt. He then proceeds to drive it straight into the Alliance's fortified front door. The resulting explosion blows it open.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Vampires in this series are based on snakes rather than bats.
* TheRival: Agent Ling to Logan
* RoswellThatEndsWell: The Roswell incident was staged and the witnesses were plants to spread the rumors that the government then had to coverup. This focused the country's attention on the conspiracy while members of the military who were involved could form The Alliance.
* RunningGag: Sh'lainn's predicting Nick's impending doom. Eventually gets to the point, due to them getting closer, where she can tell when he's in danger a continent away. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode where Rinaker mentions that she's predicted Nick's death a number of times with him surviving.
* SharpDressedMan: Hanek in human disguise.
* ShoutOut: The first episode features a fairly long one to the Film/TheBluesBrothers.
* TheSmartGuy: Prof. Antonio Alascano. He designed the transforming Alliance vehicles and even modified Nick's car.
* SpiderSense: Sh'lainn, being a Banshee, can tell when a person is in mortal peril and how long they have until they are potentially killed. As she spends a lot of time with Nick, someone who regularly puts himself in mortal peril, Sh'lainn's "death sense" goes off regularly, acting as a warning to Nick, letting him know how long he has left if he doesn't take action to save his life.
* SpyCatsuit: Sh'lainn in "The Conduit"
* SpySatellites: An alien one has been watching the earth since the year before the Alliance was founded.
* TheStarscream: Valra to Hanek.
* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: [[spoiler:The Shadoan fleet]] simulates what will happen if they blow up the moon. It's not pretty.
* SupernormalBindings:
** Lycanthropes when they transform, can easily break bonds meant for humans, so their cuffs must be much stronger.
** Banshee restraints cover their hands completely, so they can't fire their heat beams.
* SupermanSubstitute: Jerich is very blatantly meant to be a ShoutOut to Superman, [[spoiler: except for the fact he’s not naturally a HumanAlien.]]
* TheSyndicate: Vampire families are organized like this. Special mention goes to Intracom, Hanek's front.
* [[TakeCareOfTheKids Take Care Of The Pup]]: A dying Kara, Ruk's mate, entrusts Nick with the care of Athos, their son.
* {{Technophobia}}: The Banshees are a tribe of aliens that arrived on Earth and settled in the wilds of Ireland. Their society is close to the earth and nature, which makes them distrustful to downright homicidal when machines are involved. Sh'lainn is the only known exception, having a more progressive attitude toward technology (she was in favor of steam engines), but even she is frequently hear exclaiming, "I hate technology, I ''hate'' it!"
* TemporarilyAVillain: This happens to Sh'lainn three times:
** Once when she suffers from an affliction called "the iron death," which causes a Banshee to go insane, and [[OneWingedAngel transform all the machinery around her, into a techno organic mesh,]] after staying away from nature for too long.
** Again when she's named Queen of the Banshees, and leads them in a war against the Alliance.
** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into Vampire/Banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]
* ThoseTwoGirls: Shateera and Sheenta of the Banshee.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The Detail Team, Nema and Fitz. Responsible for passing off alien activities as accidents, mishaps, or acts of Congress.
* TimmStyle
* TookALevelInJerkass: Nick in "The Conduit," and S'hlainn after being crowned Queen of the Banshee.
* TrueSight: Logan inherited this ability from his father, which allows him to see through the disguises of Lycanthropes, Vampires, and other races. He can also sense the Vodun inside their host.
* UndergroundRailroad: The Conduit.
* TheVoice: Nick's friend Kraker only exists as a voice on the other end of his phone. We never get a good look at him.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Nick frequently calls his friend Kraker on his cell phone, who uses his computer skills to get Nick information he needs for his job as a bounty hunter. In one episode Nick goes missing and Sh'lainn teams up with Kraker to find him.
* WalkingSpoiler: The traitor in the Alliance, whose identity serves as one of the main mysteries of the show's MythArc alongside what happened to Walter Logan. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker -- and, in an even bigger twist, he's actually a Shadoen.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Most of the main alien antagonists are shown to be this, mainly wanting to defend their people from whatever threats they see. The only real exceptions are the Aesiri, who are just AxCrazy psychopaths who want to kill everything in sight, and Hanek, who's ''much'' more self-serving than every other Vampire lord (including his own successor). [[spoiler:It takes the threat of annihilation from the Shadoen armada to actually get them to work together.]]
* WhamLine:
** In Episode 37, where we discover a rather shocking reveal:
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Right now, I have something vital to show you: a human skeleton. The flesh had been absorbed from the bones by an unknown lifeform, but this is who it was originally.
-->'''Walter''': It's ''[[spoiler:Rinaker!]]''
-->'''Lt. Crowe''': Bingo. And [[spoiler:he's been dead since 1946.]]
** The last line of episode 39 definitely sets the stakes for the climax:
-->'''[[spoiler:Wraith/Rinaker]]''': [[spoiler:Target their moon...and '''[[DetonationMoon blow it out of the sky]]'''.]]
* WhamShot: Near the end of the series, in "Conspiracy Revealed," Sh'lainn connects her own mind to Nick's to unlock a hidden memory of his and finally reveal the person who took Nick's father. [[spoiler:It's Rinaker]].
* WithDueRespect: Nick and General Rinaker. Every frick'n episode.
* {{Yakuza}}: Led by the Oni.
* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Our Queen Now]]: Sh'lainn after, [[spoiler:Mab is abducted by the Vampires.]]
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The main character is Nick Logan, a BountyHunter who finds one of his marks is a little more than meets the eye. Soon after, he receives a contract to track down another, a Banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. The two wind up saving each other's life and begin working together to figure out who's trying to kill them, only to wind up working for said organization, Nick so he can find out what happened to his father, Sh'lainn because she's been exiled from her clan and has no where nowhere else to go. It eventually builds up with a slow MythArc involving alien invaders, Werewolves, Vampires, Banshee and other aliens all coming to a head by the 40th episode.
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* RefugeinAudacity: How the Alliance manages some of their cover ups. They don't deny what happened to a witness, but instead give them an even more ludicrous cover story that manages to discredit them when they try to tell others.
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The main character is Nick Logan, a BountyHunter who finds one of his marks is a little more than meets the eye. Soon after, he receives a contract to track down another, a banshee Banshee named Sh'lainn Blaze. The two wind up saving each other's life and begin working together to figure out who's trying to kill them, only to wind up working for said organization, Nick so he can find out what happened to his father, Sh'lainn because she's been exiled from her clan and has no where else to go. It eventually builds up with a slow MythArc involving alien invaders, werewolves, vampires, banshee Werewolves, Vampires, Banshee and other aliens all coming to a head by the 40th episode.
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* AncientAstronauts: Prometheus, among others, was actually a Tribune... the single Tribune. Set, who is mentioned, is revealed to have been a vampire in addition.
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* {{Chupacabra}}: Actually a vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him. [[spoiler:That something was General Rinaker]]. Ever since, he's lived in the rainforest, biting livestock and scaring the locals.
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** 25 years ago, a man disguised as Walter Logan, whom Chupacabra refers to as "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan", bombs an Conduit safehouse and frames the Alliance. Chupacabra was originally a vampire named Dvorak who bit "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan" and got transformed by his blood. [[spoiler: Later in the same episode, Rinaker is seen rubbing the back of his neck.]]
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** 25 years ago, a man disguised as Walter Logan, whom Chupacabra refers to as "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan", bombs an Conduit safehouse and frames the Alliance. Chupacabra was originally a vampire Vampire named Dvorak who bit "Logan-Not-Walter-Logan" and got transformed by his blood. [[spoiler: Later in the same episode, Rinaker is seen rubbing the back of his neck.]]
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** After Rinaker finds out the Alliance were framed by the vampires for the abduction of Queen Mab [[spoiler:he decides to attack the Banshee nevertheless.]]
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** After Rinaker finds out the Alliance were framed by the vampires Vampires for the abduction of Queen Mab [[spoiler:he decides to attack the Banshee nevertheless.]]
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Sh'lainn's hair's snow white and she has all the powers other banshees have. Some other banshees also fit this trope, with the rest [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair having slight tints]].
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Sh'lainn's hair's snow white and she has all the powers other banshees Banshees have. Some other banshees Banshees also fit this trope, with the rest [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair having slight tints]].
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** Once when she suffers from an affliction called "the iron death," which causes a banshee to go insane, and [[OneWingedAngel transform all the machinery around her, into a techno organic mesh,]] after staying away from nature for too long.
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** Once when she suffers from an affliction called "the iron death," which causes a banshee Banshee to go insane, and [[OneWingedAngel transform all the machinery around her, into a techno organic mesh,]] after staying away from nature for too long.
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** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into vampire/banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]
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** In another episode she's nicked by Valra, who uses her blood to turn them both, into vampire/banshee Vampire/Banshee hybrids. [[spoiler: She resists when she's asked to drain Nick dry, giving The Alliance time to turn up, knock them out, and reverse the process.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Most of the main alien antagonists are shown to be this, mainly wanting to defend their people from whatever threats they see. The only real exceptions are the Aesiri, who are just AxCrazy psychopaths who want to kill everything in sight, and Hanek, who's ''much'' more self-serving than every other vampire lord (including his own successor). [[spoiler:It takes the threat of annihilation from the Shadoen armada to actually get them to work together.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Most of the main alien antagonists are shown to be this, mainly wanting to defend their people from whatever threats they see. The only real exceptions are the Aesiri, who are just AxCrazy psychopaths who want to kill everything in sight, and Hanek, who's ''much'' more self-serving than every other vampire Vampire lord (including his own successor). [[spoiler:It takes the threat of annihilation from the Shadoen armada to actually get them to work together.]]
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* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Our Queen Now]]: Sh'lainn after, [[spoiler: Mab is abducted by the vampires.]]
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* [[YouAreInCommandNow You Are Our Queen Now]]: Sh'lainn after, [[spoiler: Mab [[spoiler:Mab is abducted by the vampires.Vampires.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires to burst into flames.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires Vampires to burst into flames.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, slug-like creatures who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
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* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires to burst into flames.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires to burst into flames.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Vampires in this series are based on snakes rather than bats.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent/ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires to burst into flames.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Vodun are actually slug like creatures, who inhabit dead corpses. Their leader has been trying to help them become {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s to living bodies, but hasn't been successful.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The lycanthropes.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The lycanthropes.Lycanthropes.
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* TrueSight: Logan can see past the disguises of lycanthropes and vampires, and even sense the Vodun inside their hosts.
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* TrueSight: Logan can inherited this ability from his father, which allows him to see past through the disguises of lycanthropes Lycanthropes, Vampires, and vampires, and even other races. He can also sense the Vodun inside their hosts.host.
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* BaldOfEvil: The vampire Ruthen
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* BaldOfEvil: The vampire RuthenRuthen.
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
* OurBansheesAreLouder: Banshees are an all female race of aliens with the ability to fly and shoot energy blasts. They also have the ability to tell when a person is in danger of being killed.
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* BeardOfEvil: The vampire Davos
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* BeardOfEvil: The vampire DavosDavos.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropes in are actually aliens who look like humanoid wolf creatures. They poses the ability to shape-shift back and forth between their true form and a human appearance.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Conspiracy Guy is taking notes on a shadow without a source, then notices a camera. "What'choo lookin' at!?"
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Conspiracy Guy At one point, Roswell's resident conspiracy theorist is taking notes on a shadow without a source, then notices a camera. "What'choo lookin' at!?"
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be slaves of the Lycanthropes.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be slaves of enslaved by the Lycanthropes.Lycanthrope.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Yeti and Saquatch are two aliens races that used to be slaves of the Lycanthropes.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent[=/=]OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires are presented as basically snakes with human features.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent[=/=]OurVampiresAreDifferent: Instead of being associated with bats, Vampires are presented as basically snakes with far more snake-like, having a long tail instead of legs and having a long neck. Their human features.appearance is actually accomplished via a sophisticated hologram, and being exposed to sunlight causes the vampires to burst into flames.
