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Love is a Battlefield indeed.
- Alan and Joe basically being partners in crime.
- The scene with Archer looking through Alan's computer. The music score itself encapsulates how precious knowledge and learning are for the Gorgonites.
- One image of the Yellowstone Park gives him pause, as it bears a striking resemblance to the Gorgonites' homeland. Archer marvels with hope that finding his homeland is a very real possibility.
Archer: (Awed) Gorgon.... - The cat. Normally dogs and cats in movies (and to an extent in real life) react violently to robotic figures that move and act like humans a la Terminator. But when this one meets Archer, it looks at him curiously before affectionately licking his face, with Archer chuckling.
- While Christy and her brother bicker, she does look genuinely upset when Alan tells her that the toys she came to buy for him are gone.
- A small one. When she learns the store was "robbed", Christy volunteers to help Alan clean up the place. She didn't have to, but that tells you she already likes Alan enough to stick around. Although the execution sounds cliché on paper, this is a moment that allows her and Alan to bond.
- While Alan is frustrated at how Archer has inconvenienced him thus far, he quickly changes his tune and brightens a bit when Archer clues him in that the Commandos attacking him can only mean the gorgonites were not destroyed. Despite all the trouble the toys have put him through thus far, it shows that Alan is invested in the Gorgonites and helping them.
- The Commandos mourning Nick Nitro, showing they're not complete sociopaths. Well, kind of. A little spoiled by their over-the-top blubbering, and Chip ripping out Nitro's processor - his brain - in order to form a base intelligence for the Gwendy-steins.
- The scene where Irwin meets the Gorgonites, he goes from slightly impressed that his creations act like how he made them to be, to terrifyingly amazed that they are able to act like human beings. A rare good example of Gone Horribly Right.
- In an odd way, the implications that all of the other Commando Elite besides the ones at the local warehouse will be repurposed for actual military missions at the end, giving them a chance at a nobler path than just continuing their pointless, one-sided war against the Gorgonites or being deactivated for something that isn't really their fault.
- Generally, in his greedy own way, Gil Mars recommending Larry get in touch with the Military, as he sees he has potential to apply his talent elsewhere. In a different movie, he would've fired Larry for creating the whole mess in the process. Instead, he simply points Larry in the right direction.
- Alan and Christy's Big Damn Kiss at the end of the movie. Extra points for the helicopter wind and Jerry Goldsmith's score.
- Alan discovering that the Gorgonites survived, due in no small part to the Phimples' felled satellite dish.
- The gently surprised tone in Archer's voice when he declares "Gorgonites, we won."
- Alan and Archer letting it be known to each other that they're glad the other survived the ordeal.
- "Gorgonites, we are free!"
- Alan and the Gorgonites saying goodbye.
- The ship they use at the end is the one from Alan's family's toy store.
- "Alan, just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there."
- The Novelization has an extra scene where they find an island that they decide is Gorgon and settle there.
- After the credits, there's an outtake featuring Phil Hartman. It ends with the words 'For Phil' and the last thing we hear is the sound of his chuckle.
Top Secret Dossier
- The book ends with Irwin receiving a postcard from the Gorgonites.Postcard: We're off to explore this fascinating world as we hunt for the world of Gorgon! Thank you for everything you've done for us. Signed, Archer, Slamfist, Insaniac, Punch-it, Scratch-it, Freakenstein, and Ocula.
