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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Disclaimers of this type were included at the start of the broadcast and following commercial breaks.
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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Disclaimers of this type were included at the start of the broadcast and following commercial breaks. Like [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" that it homages]], people disregarded the disclaimers, panicked, and called the TV station thinking it was real.
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* TheWormGuy: Dr. Avram Mandel is the top theorist in xenobiology at NASA and is called by the government to help them figure out what is going on. His warnings that the aliens are peaceful and attempting FirstContact [[IgnoredExpert fall on deaf ears]] and he eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere marches out of the building]], defying the ApocalypticGagOrder and [[ArmiesAreEvil calling the military a bunch of trigger-happy idiots who are going to get humanity killed]]. [[spoiler:He is completely right.]]
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* HumansAreBastards: Heavily implied, despite frankly quite measured defensive responses throughout; there is, after all, nothing unreasonable about defending one's planet against unprovoked and deadly attack. The [[AliensAreBastards opposing perspective]] doesn't get so much as a moment's worth of air time.
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* HumansAreBastards: Heavily implied, despite frankly quite measured defensive responses throughout; there is, after all, nothing unreasonable about defending one's planet against unprovoked and deadly attack. The [[AliensAreBastards opposing perspective]] doesn't get so much as a moment's worth of air time.time; neither do the possibilities that this is a [[PoorCommunicationKills tragic breakdown in communication]] or an example of BlueAndOrangeMorality. It is all but stated that the human race is entirely at fault for daring to try to defend ourselves.
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* HopeSpot: The nuclear weapons launched at the third wave of meteors successfully neutralize the threat to Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. [[spoiler:Cue a rather silent MassOhCrap moments later, when ''hundreds'' of new meteors are detected hurtling down, dooming all life on Earth.]]
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* HopeSpot: The nuclear weapons launched at the third wave of meteors successfully neutralize the threat to Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. [[spoiler:Cue a rather silent MassOhCrap moments later, when ''hundreds'' of new meteors are detected hurtling hurdling down, dooming all life on Earth.]]
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* BrokenAesop: When SufficientlyAdvancedAliens peacefully introduce themselves by peacefully bombing our planet with peaceful asteroids, we shouldn't defend ourselves, because such warlike behavior might provoke them to peacefully recreate the K-T extinction event.
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* BrokenAesop: When SufficientlyAdvancedAliens peacefully introduce themselves by peacefully bombing our planet with peaceful asteroids, we shouldn't defend ourselves, because such warlike behavior might provoke them to peacefully recreate the K-T extinction event.event several times over to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies peacefully get rid of us.]] Peacefully, of course.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie (not counting potential ad time) takes an hour and a half and events are presented as apparently taking place in RealTime. This leads to a few minor plot holes considering how quickly some events are presented.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll As far as it looks before the broadcast is interrupted by a meteor impact, the entire world is doomed to destruction]].]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll [[spoiler:[[EverybodyDiesEnding As far as it looks before the broadcast is interrupted by a meteor impact, the entire world is doomed to destruction]].]]
* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:In defending ourselves from alien first contact (mostly because it ''didn't'' look like first contact), we have proven ourselves to be hostile to them, and their immediate retaliation completely annihilates the world.]]
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:In defending ourselves from alien first contact (mostly because it ''didn't'' look like first contact), we have proven ourselves to be hostile to them, and their immediate retaliation completely annihilates the world.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:See above under KillEmAll.]]
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