History VideoGame / DestroyAllHumans2

** UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev is simultaneously referred to as dead or alive, despite Khrushchev dying two years after the game takes place. UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev isn't referenced at all, with Milenkov taking his role as the Premier of the Soviet Union.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The military scanner in Takoshima may make reference to the Emperor of Japan declaring martial law. In real life, the Emperor's powers are solely ceremonial and would not have control of the military.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Tunguska event of 1908 was caused by [[spoiler: a Blisk warship crashing into a small remote community of Russia]]. Due to their intelligence and being able to [[spoiler:disguise as humans]], they ended up [[spoiler:causing the Russian Revolution to succeed and seized control of the USSR]].

* ColonyDrop: The Meteor Gun is one of Crypto's weapons, unlocked pretty early on in the game. Fully upgrade, it drops a small ''planet'' on enemies.

* CommieLand: Tunguska is a town in Russia in during the Cold War. Unlike the other locations, the environment is drab and barren, the citizens are depressed, sardonic or fearful, soldiers roam the street instead of cops, and [[spoiler:the north of the region is home to Blisk refugees.]]

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: During "Russian Reversal", Crypto, while disguised as Commander Leonid, attempts to try liberate the cosmonauts from the Blisk. The cosmonauts dismiss all of the arguments against the Blisk as insanity. Until Crypto pretends that they're taking away their vodka.

** When [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] has been subdued by Crypto, [[spoiler:he laments the fall of Majestic to "aliens", only to die when chiding Crypto for assuming he's the only alien on Earth after the latter tells him he only destroyed the American branch]]. Pox dismisses it as [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] not being sane. Later in the game, however, it turns out that the [[spoiler:Blisk]] are also on earth.

* GiantEnemyCrab: The [[spoiler:Blisk warriors]] are often referred to as this, technically, even though Pox compares the species to "a cockroach mating with a lobster!".

* TheStoner: Exaggerated to ludicrous extents with the aptly named The Freak, who claims he can pick radio signals with his teeth and read minds, and knows pretty much everything going on in Bay City. His thoughts even reveal that other hippies avoid him, and when they do need to talk to him, it's solely to buy drugs.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The "Ruin Lives" optional side-missions are just Crypto ruining someone's life [[ForTheEvulz for the Hell of it]]; brainwashing a regular secretary into going to a Hippie party and ruining her reputation, turn in a draft-dodger to the US military, forcing a closeted trans-woman into a sex-change operation after making her tell her wife about it ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance keep in mind that this is The 60's]]), destroying a man's brand-new car after he gets a promotion ''multiple times'', killing subversives hidden in the KGB, and so on.

** Agent Oranchov gives a slightly downplayed version of this when his mook, Coyote Bongwater, is defeated and is moments away from being killed by Crypto.

''Destroy All Humans! 2'' is a WideOpenSandbox ActionAdventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for UsefulNotes/Playstation2 and UsefulNotes/XBox.

The game's story would continue in ''[[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansPathOfTheFuron Path of the Furon]]'', with the SpinOff ''[[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansBigWillyUnleashed Big Willy Unleashed]]''. After the success of the [[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2020 2020 remake of the first game]], a remake was announced by THQ Nordic in 2021 titled ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2Reprobed'' for UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, Xbox Series X/S and PC set for release in August 30, 2022.

* {{Notzilla}}: "Kojira", and another called "Mohgra" (which is unseen, but whose eggs form the objective of a sidequest).

* FunWithAcronyms: Played with. It's actually an initialism instead of an acronym. Pox creates an anti-Blisk retrovirus codenamed "'''O.M.G.W.T.F.'''"

** Reading Ponsonby's mind when you get the chance can reveal he's a Majestic agent ahead of schedule. Similarly, reading Majestic agents' thoughts in the first game can reveal that Silhouette is a woman long before the formal reveal.

* GiantEnemyCrab: The Blisk warriors are often referred to as this, technically, even though Pox compares the species to "a cockroach mating with a lobster!".

* ArtisticLicensePolice: In Albion, regular police officers on the street carry firearms. In real life, all regular British police forces are unarmed, with the special exception of Northern Ireland. Obviously this was changed for gameplay purposes since unarmed officers would provide no opposition.

* ArtisticLiscensePolice: In Albion, regular police officers on the street carry firearms. In real life, all regular British police forces are unarmed, with the special exception of Northern Ireland. Obviously this was changed for gameplay purposes since unarmed officers would provide no opposition.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:[[invoked]] Crypto can discuss this with Ponsonby when he asks him to investigate a Soviet art exhibit (which turns out to be the KGB's plan to distribute spores around Albion) that the Queen was planning to attend.

* {{Retcon}}: The second game is set in 1969 and states the events of the first happened "ten years ago", in 1959. However dialogue in the first game places it 5-6 years earlier.
--->'''Suburban Man:''' What's an [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]? Must be a new model car. [[ConspicuousConsumption I gotta get me one of those.]] The 1954 Elvis convertible!

* DoubleEntendre: Reading the minds of the coeds in Takoshima, they'll frequently mention how much they like shopping for the [[Franchise/HelloKitty Hiya Pussy]] [[BlandNameProductthe products]].

* AnachronismStew: UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev is simultaneously referred to as dead or alive, despite Khrushchev dying two years after the game takes place. UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev isn't referenced at all, with Milenkov taking his role as the Premier of the Soviet Union.

** When [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] has been subdued by Crypto, [[spoiler:he tells Crypto to realize that he is not the only alien on earth, only for him to die before telling him the "alien" part]]. As Crypto asks him for an answer, Pox tells Crypto that [[spoiler:Ponsonby]] is dead and dismisses it. Later in the game, however, it turns out that the [[spoiler:Blisk]] are also on earth.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Blisk being behind the Russian Revolution; Majestic 16.]]

* {{Terraform}}: The [[spoiler:Blisk's]] big plan is [[spoiler:using nuclear power to invest the world with Blisk spores and turn it into a water-submerged haven.]] By the time the storyline reveals their plans, [[spoiler:they've already set up a nuclear-harvesting plant in Russia and enslaved cosmonauts to help built a giant hive on the moon]], and that's where Crypto comes in.

* BleakLevel: Tunguska. The cutscenes still have humor, but it's where the Blisk make their presence fully known, and has a very oppressively atmosphere.

* GiantEnemyCrab: The Blisk warriors are often referred to as this, technically, even though Pox describes the species as "a cockroach having mated with a lobster!".

* ScooterRidingMods: The hippies in Albion act like stereotypical mods, being fans of fashion and music alongside dressing in beatnik attire, tailored [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] suits, and patterned sleeveless dresses. Scooters don't actually appear, but are referenced in dialogue.