Basic Trope: An alien vessel crash lands on a farm and is found by a farmer.
- Straight: An alien vessel crash lands on a farm; the farmer sees the vessel and is the first human to meet the alien.
- Exaggerated: Every single farmer in the county shows up to see what happened.
- Downplayed: The farmer sees the crash and ignores it.
- Justified: The alien crashes the spaceship on a farm because he knows it's in a remote area and likely won't hurt anyone.
- Large sections of most countries consist of farmland.
- Inverted: A human spaceship crashes on a farm located on a distant planet and are greeted by a farmer who lives on said planet.
- Subverted: An alien crash lands in the middle of a city.
- Double Subverted: ...Who immediately makes contact with a farmer living in the city.
- Parodied: Every time the alien lands in a new location, he meets a farmer.
- Zig Zagged: An alien crash lands on a farm... who doesn't turn out to be an alien after all. The farmer mistakes him for an alien anyway.
- Averted: The alien crash lands in the city or a remote desert.
- Enforced: The crash scene is filmed on a farm so that the production team doesn't have to build a new set.
- The crash scene is filmed on a farm in a specific location where the writer/producer grew up.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Alice, another one of em aliens crashed in the cornfield!
- Invoked: The farmer deliberately tried to make contact with aliens and managed to attract the attention of one.
- Exploited: An alien knows he is about to crash into a farm, and he contacts the farmer by his radio to warn him.
- Defied: An alien is about to crash into a farm, and makes a quick maneuver to avoid a crash-landing.
- Discussed:Alice: It's an alien spaceship!Bob: In Nebraska? Why here, of all places?
- Conversed:Bob: Why is it that aliens always crash into farms?Alice: I know, right? You never hear about aliens crashing in some place like Cleveland.
- Implied: The spaceship crashes into a field.... but we don't see the farmer or his house.
- Played For Horror: An alien crash lands on a farm and meets a farmer... before promptly killing him and his family.
- Played For Laughs: An alien crash lands on a farm and meets a farmer... who tries to shake his hand and accidentally shakes his leg.
- Played for Drama: An alien protagonist crash lands on a farm and meets a farmer... and must convince him to calm down before the farmer shoots him with a shotgun.
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