History YMMV / V1983

** The moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRuiqtoGjI main theme]] from ''The Final Battle'' by Barry De Vorzon sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, reflecting that the Visitors' are a ReptilianConspiracy of alien [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis]].

** The moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRuiqtoGjI main theme]] from ''The Final Battle'' by Barry De Vorzon sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, reflecting the Visitors' nature as [[TheReptilians reptilian alien]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis]].

** ''The Second Generation'', by Kenneth Johnson: The [[BigBad Leader]], [[TheGenerallissimo military dictator]] of the Visitors, won her place at the head of the Visitors via her charisma, but eventually simply resorted to outright murder and jingoism to keep control. [[GalacticConqueror Initiating brutal intergalactic conquests]], the Leader approved Diana's cruel schemes and infiltration of Earth with intent to [[KillAllHumans genocide humanity]] and [[ToServeMan turn them into food]] for the Visitors. Arriving on Earth herself, she has one young volunteer to the Visitors murder an alien Zedti POW before trying to use humankind as shields against the Zedti fleet before wiping them out as well.

** ''The Second Generation'', by Kenneth Johnson: The [[BigBad Leader]], military dictator of the Visitors, won her place at the head of the Visitors via her charisma, but eventually simply resorted to outright murder and jingoism to keep control. [[GalacticConqueror Initiating brutal intergalactic conquests]], the Leader approved Diana's cruel schemes and infiltration of Earth with intent to genocide humanity and [[ToServeMan turn them into food]] for the Visitors. Arriving on Earth herself, she has one young volunteer to the Visitors murder an alien Zedti POW before trying to use humankind as shields against the Zedti fleet before wiping them out as well.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheBaroness Diana]] is a remorseless commander of the Visitor invasion forces and by far the worst one seen. During the first occupation she planned the entire operation and was [[DragonInChief the real powerholder in the fleet]]. She engineered the genocide of the human race and invented both the process of [[ToServeMan harvesting humans for food]] and the [[MindRape mind-raping]] "conversion procedure". She personally oversees these [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]], during which the victim is haunted with vivid nightmares until they've either been {{brainwashed}} into obedience or rendered a vegetable, simply [[ForTheEvulz because she enjoys them]]. She performs lethal experiments on captured prisoners, [[KlingonPromotion kills her own superiors to take their place]] and orders Brian to implant Robin with his alien fetus as an experiment, leaving her a traumatized wreck. As the Visitor fleet is leaving, she goes ahead with trying to irradiate the Earth with an atomic bomb even after they've already lost and despite [[EvenEvilHasStandards John's disgust with her pettiness]]. After being captured for war crimes, she escapes back to the fleet and launches a second, much more destructive invasion of Earth.

** The episode ''The Sanction'' was obviously inspired by Film/TheKarateKid1984 (which was just hitting theaters as it was being written) with Klaus being a stand-in for Kreese. The plot of Film/TheKarateKidPartIII (released five years later) bears considerable resemblance to this episode.

** ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Visitors plan to wipe out humanity, albeit by turning most of them into food and using a minority for slave labor.

** WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: the Visitors' logo is [[NoSwastikas just two strokes away from being a swastika]]. Also there is the Nazi-like propaganda that they employ against scientists.

** ANaziByAnyOtherName
** PuttingOnTheReich

* MoralEventHorizon: Daniel Bernstein steadily becomes worse as [[LesCollaborateurs he joins the visitors]], using his newfound power for petty acts of cruelty and to threaten other people to get what he wants. He eventually kills an old woman who was spying for the resistance in the Visitor Headquarters, despite her pleas to him to let her go and how she's known him since he was a kid. The moment is portrayed as the point of no return for him, [[spoiler:and the resistance sets him up to be killed when they raid his house later on.]]
* {{Narm}}: The reptile baby. It's meant to be repulsive and terrifying, but the puppet is so awkward and silly-looking you can't help but laugh at it.

* HilariousInHindsight: A prominent V propaganda poster has the tagline, "Friendship is Universal". V was originally broadcast on NBC. In 2004, NBC was merged with Universal entertainment. Three years later, NBC launched an environmental campaign, "[[http://www.greenisuniversal.com/ Green is Universal]]."

* TheWoobie: Willie was a minor part of the original miniseries and ''The Final Battle'', but was so popular with fans they made him a regular on the subsequent television series. He's one of the first of the Visitors to join the Resistance, he speaks broken English ("English is not well to me. I learned Arabic for going there.") and [[spoiler: at the end of ''Final Battle'' his human girlfriend dies in his arms after she takes a laser gun blast in the chest to save him]]. He's got a perpetual hangdog look and in the series he wears a bow tie!

** The moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRuiqtoGjI main theme]] from ''The Final Battle'' by Barry De Vorzon sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, reflecting the Visitors' Nazi-esque character.
** Both of the regular series' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgndDtqlzU0 main]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWCZmhh6wI themes]] by Dennis [=McCarthy=].

** The moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRuiqtoGjI main theme]] from ''The Final Battle'' by Barry De Vorzon sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, echoing the Visitors' Nazi-esque character.

** The miniseries' moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aJsw-cAl0 main theme]] by Joe Harnell sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, echoing the Visitors' Nazi-esque character.

** The regular series' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgndDtqlzU0 main theme]] by Dennis [=McCarthy=]. Try getting it out of your head. You can't.

* HateSink: You will grow to truly loath Daniel Bernstein, a despicable [[TheQuisling Quisling]] and petty bully whom you will hate with a burning fury.

* EvilIsSexy: Jane Badler as Diana makes space fascism look hot, though it's played up [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/1f/8c/3e1f8c519379c9991ad049eb7df4c8c2.jpg in advertising]] more than the actual show. Plus, she's actually a lizard wearing human skin.

* EvilIsSexy: Diana.

* CompleteMonster: Diana is a remorseless commander of the Visitor invasion forces and by far the worst one seen. During the first occupation she planned the entire operation and was [[DragonInChief the real powerholder in the fleet]]. She engineered the genocide of the human race and invented both the process of [[ToServeMan harvesting humans for food]] and the [[MindRape mind-raping]] "conversion procedure". She personally oversees these [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]], during which the victim is haunted with vivid nightmares until they've either been {{brainwashed}} into obedience or rendered a vegetable, simply [[ForTheEvulz because she enjoys them]]. She performs lethal experiments on captured prisoners, [[KlingonPromotion kills her own superiors to take their place]] and orders Brian to implant Robin with his alien fetus as an experiment, leaving her a traumatized wreck. As the Visitor fleet is leaving, she goes ahead with trying to irradiate the Earth with an atomic bomb even after they've already lost and despite [[EvenEvilHasStandards John's disgust with her pettiness]]. After being captured for war crimes, she escapes back to the fleet and launches a second, much more destructive invasion of Earth.

* FridgeHorror: About Julie's past. During her brainwashing in the prisoner mothership, they use and amp up a memory from her past to begin the process. They say it happened when she was very young, it happened in an abandoned building, and it is her running away from what sounds like very heavy male breathing. Which then makes the whole MindRape thing rather more literal, even if not done directly.

* HateSink: You will grow to truly loath Daniel Bernstein, a despicable [[TheQuizling Quizling]] and petty bully whom you will hate with a burning fury.