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* BodySurf: The dictator of the alien's homeworld created clones and hopped through them to give the illusion that he was invincible and immortal. Nora, Louise, and Theo found out and destroyed all his clones except for one: [[spoiler:Max, who they spared because he was just a child]]. As a downside, any body he jumps into suffers from rapid CloneDegeneration so he needs to keep switching. [[spoiler:He succeeds in swapping bodies with Max after tricking them into letting him bond with him.]]
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* RuleOfThree: There are three nodes on the ArcSymbol, and there are three aliens. There's also confirmation that their parents were part of a triad that led LaResistance against the dictator of their homeworld and fled to Earth to escape him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, however, Max isn't one of the three. The actual third one, Dallas, was hidden further away.]]
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Jones]] spends most of season 3 trying to break into Maria's mind. She manages to keep him contained until he kills enough people to force himself through, and then she's able to barricade herself until Rosa and Isobel arrive to back her up. Isobel then drags him through Maria's memories and away from the memory he wants, buying them time for Maria to wake up.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:Jones]] spends most the first half of season 3 trying to break into Maria's mind. She manages to keep him contained until he kills enough people to force himself through, and then she's able to barricade herself until Rosa and Isobel arrive to back her up. Isobel then drags him through Maria's memories and away from the memory he wants, buying them time for Maria to wake up.
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* BenevolentConspiracy: Deep Sky, an organization dedicated to figuring out alien technology and creating a peaceful second contact after the government imprisoned and tortured the first aliens. [[spoiler:Jim Valenti was a part of it]], and Alex joins in season 3 to seek out an alien machine.
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* ThereIsAnother: With the ongoing reveal that Max was rescued by the original alien triad, the aliens eventually realize that there must be a fourth alien that was meant to be part of their three. In season 3 [[spoiler:they find out that his pod went off course and into a lake, and eventually reunite with him.]]
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** [[spoiler:The Dictator]] introduces himself to [[spoiler:Michael]] and then immediately tries to murder him. When that fails, he goes straight to torture and emotional manipulation.
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* MugglesDoItBetter: Due to the vast reservoir of power built up in his sword, [[spoiler:Jones]] is able to NoSell Michael and Isobel's attempts to telekinetically hurt him. Then [[spoiler:Rosa]] rolls in with a shotgun and blasts him off his feet.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Jones was described as "pure evil" by Nora, and he certainly acts creepy and shows some anger issues, plus he [[spoiler:attacked the military that responded to Roswell]]. On the other hand, it's heavily implied that Nora and Louise weren't the saintly victims they claimed to be, he's been cooperative thus far and he does love [[spoiler:Max]] like a son.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Jones was described as "pure evil" by Nora, and he certainly acts creepy and shows some anger issues, plus he [[spoiler:attacked the military that responded to Roswell]]. On the other hand, it's heavily implied that Nora and Louise weren't the saintly victims they claimed to be, he's been cooperative thus far and he does love [[spoiler:Max]] like a son. The ambiguity ends in "Goodbye Elizabeth", [[spoiler:when it's revealed that he was the dictator of their homeworld and his "love" for Max is pure narcissism.]]
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** Michael was abused by his foster father before the events of the series.
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** The entire reason the Roswell Regiment is still running free despite their history of hate crimes is that they have powerful friends in law enforcement and local politics who let them off or use bribery to silence the undocumented victims of their crimes.
** Diego isn't afraid to use his own federal connections to help out the Ortechos, particularly to intimidate ICE into letting Arturo go free.
** The entire reason the Roswell Regiment is still running free despite their history of hate crimes is that they have powerful friends in law enforcement and local politics who let them off or use bribery to silence the undocumented victims of their crimes.
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** The new sheriff in season 3 talks a big game about her fairness, name dropping Black Lives Matter and promising to get to the bottom of a recent wave of hate crimes, but in practice she lets the local hate group run free because [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections the leader is her friend's son]]. This is in comparison to Sheriff Valenti, who was honest about not liking illegal immigrants but still did her best to prevent hate crimes against them.
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* FantasticRacism: The aliens rightly fear xenophobic retaliation. Sergeant Ames seems to firmly believe that aliens are AlwaysChaoticEvil and the government seems to agree with him, and it's not clear if the Roswell alien attack was actually an invasion or if they were fighting back against scientists trying to dissect them. Kyle calls him out on this, saying that they should be innocent until proven guilty.
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* FantasticRacism: The aliens rightly fear xenophobic retaliation. Sergeant Ames Manes seems to firmly believe that aliens are AlwaysChaoticEvil and the government seems to agree with him, and it's not clear if the Roswell alien attack was actually an invasion or if they were fighting back against scientists trying to dissect them. Kyle calls him out on this, saying that they should be innocent until proven guilty.
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* LanguageOfTruth: Variation. People cannot lie in [[MentalWorld the mindscape]]. They can, however, misdirect, share limited information, or avoid the question, so the characters don't put as much stock in it as they would.
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** [[spoiler: Jones kills Zeke Murphy after coming across him beating on a farmer, who is a minority. He says that he killed a evil racist so that he could have enough energy to save Max's life, and by extension, Liz's and Kyle's.]]
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Season 3 references the 2021 New Mexico wildfires frequently, and they even become a plot point when [[spoiler:Maria realizes that the snow in her vision is actually ash]].
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* EvilDoppelganger: In the ending to season 2, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Max has one, who was an adult at the time of the crash. He caused the crash and attacked the soldiers (who were standing down), chained up Max as a child, and pursued Nora and Louise before sealing himself in a cocoon to wait for their awakening.]]
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* EvilDoppelganger: In the ending to season 2, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Max has one, who was an adult at the time of the crash. He caused the crash and attacked the soldiers (who were standing down), chained up Max as a child, and pursued Nora and Louise before sealing himself in a cocoon to wait for their awakening.]]]] Season 3 makes him a bit more AmbiguouslyEvil.
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[spoiler:Jones]] says that certain aliens have rare abilities and Nora and Louise were trying to replicate these. [[spoiler:Max was a direct clone of Jones, the only known alien with healing powers, while Michael is the product of her experiments with the Dictator, one of the most powerful of their race.]]
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[spoiler:Jones]] says that certain aliens have rare abilities and Nora and Louise were trying to replicate these. [[spoiler:Max was a direct clone of Jones, the only known alien with healing powers, while Michael is the product of her experiments with the Dictator, one of the most powerful of their race.]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Whoever the original aliens were fleeing from, and why. Season 3 finally reveals that it was [[spoiler:a dictator who took over their home planet and starting oppressing the people, leading the aliens to flee their homeworld when their rebellion against him failed.]]
* HealingHands: Maxand a few of the original aliens at Roswell have has this ability, and eventually realizes that he can reverse it to harm people rather than heal them.them. [[spoiler:Jones, his original donor, has it too.]]
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: In "Walk On The Ocean", Isobel and Maria have to undergo one to clarify her vision, guided by a construct of Liz [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit in a white rabbit hat]]. To get through, they have to face all the things they've been repressing.
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* TimeSkip: There's a one year skip between season 2 and 3.
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* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Wyatt Long]] after [[spoiler:Rosa]] accidentally erases ten years of his life, and therefore his trauma.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: In season 2, Forrest, [[spoiler: for Alex]]. We know very little about him other than his job and his general personality, and he only interacts briefly with anyone other than the character he’s a love interest for. [[spoiler:Subverted when he turns out to be a Deep Sky agent.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Deep Sky agents are inducted this way. [[spoiler:Alex]] is put in a waiting room with another would-be agent, then the door is locked and air starts getting sucked out of the room, leaving the two of them to try and survive. [[spoiler:That's not the test. The test is to see if Alex can figure out that the other guy is a mole. Once Alex points out a single inconsistency on his Air Force jacket, he laughs and the test ends.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: In Season 3, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Max's body is rejecting Noah's heart.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: In Season 3, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Max's body is rejecting Noah's heart.]]
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Grant Green, the local alien nut who traces everything, no matter how minor, to aliens. [[spoiler:He's fully aware of the actual alien presence, but the government paid him to keep quiet, so he floods the airwaves with fake aliens to make actual events seem small in comparison.]]
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Grant Green, the local alien nut who traces everything, no matter how minor, to aliens. [[spoiler:He's Ray Iburg is another one, but with a twist:[[spoiler:he's fully aware of the actual alien presence, but the government paid him to keep quiet, so he floods the airwaves with fake aliens to make actual events seem small in comparison.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Wyatt Long keeps getting away with his crimes because he successfully pins it on someone else or attacks undocumented people who can't go to the police. [[spoiler:Even when he does get caught killing Grant Green and nearly killing Liz, he manages to get off on a self-defense charge for Grant and no charge for Liz by threatening to deport Liz's father unless they cooperate.]] Max is so pissed off at this that he nearly goes full vigilante to punish him until Liz calls him on it.
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* RemakeCameo: Jason Behr, who played Max in the [[Series/{{Roswell}} original show]], plays Tripp Manes here, an Army man who responded to the original Roswell crash.
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* RemakeCameo: Jason Behr, Creator/JasonBehr, who played Max in the [[Series/{{Roswell}} original show]], plays Tripp Manes here, an Army man who responded to the original Roswell crash.
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