Trivia / Destroy All Humans!

• Acting for Two: A lot of the time, due to having a large cast.
  • Richard Horvitz, outside of voicing Orthopox, also voices the suburban crazies and The Freak.
  • J. Grant Albrecht, who plays the main role as Crypto, voices the urban crazies, urban males and the G-men. He also voices the thinly-veiled Jack Nicholson parody in Path of the Furon.
• Fake Nationality:
  • From Destroy All Humans! 2 onward due to the usage of non-American characters. Justified as most of the actors being American.
  • Fake Brit: Both averted and played straight with Albion NPC characters in Destroy All Humans! 2. While Edita Brychta and Robin Atkin Downes are British actors themselves, Paula Tiso and Yuri Lowenthal are both American.
• Franchise Killer: A twin-killing, as Big Willy Unleashed (Wii) and Path of the Furon (PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360) got hit with mediocre-to-bad review scores. However, Nordic Games (the current owner of the series) has expressed interest in reviving it, beginning by re-releasing the first two games on PlayStation 4 and making the first game backwards-compatiable on Xbox One. In 2019, they announced that a remake of the first game will be coming in 2020, followed by the sequel in 2022.
• No Export for You:
  • While the first game did get a (heavily edited) Japan release, none of the later games in the series were released there.
  • There is a Playstation 3 Version of "Path of the Furon", but it was released for PAL regions only.
• The Other Darrin: A pay dispute rendered J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Horvitz (the voice actors of Crypto and Pox) unable to voice their respective characters during Big Willy Unleashed, with Sean Donnellan and Darryl Kurylo replacing them as the voices. Albrecht and Horvitz would later return for Path of the Furon.
• Production Posse: Outside of the two main actors, many actors of Non Player Characters reprise their roles in the game. Paula Tiso, Phil Morris, Robin Atkin Downes, Jim Ward, Steve Blum and Susanne Blakeslee are some of the more recurring voice actors.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In 2006, a TV sitcom produced by the producer of King of the Hill and based on this game was planned. It was scrapped soon after the production of the second game, though references to it exist in 2.
  • The "Developer Darwinism" behind-the-scenes video shows that earlier builds of the game had a number of different features that didn't make the final cut.
    • Destruction was more detailed, with buildings showing damage and their collapse being physics-based. This proved to be beyond the limits of the technology at the time, leading to the use of canned animations to show buildings collapsing.
    • Union Town was originally meant to be considerably larger and more like a proper city, before being scaled back to just the dock areas, again because it proved too big for the technology of the time to handle. There were also planned levels called Bay City (which showed up in the second game as a San Francisco pastiche), Century City, Fort Macarthur, San Fortuno, and Chase Island, the last of which was based on New York City and would have served as the scene of the Final Boss fight that got moved to Capitol City in the finished game.
    • Many weapons were heavily altered. The saucer's Sonic Boom weapon originally functioned more like an autocannon before it was turned into a single-shot, high-power cannon. It also originally had an Invisibility Cloak, which was taken out because the developers thought it made saucer combat too easy and boring; it would later be included in the second game as part of the saucer's arsenal. Crypto's Psychic Powers, meanwhile, were originally all weapons; his ability to hypnotize people, for instance, started out as a hypno-beam gun. The Zap-o-Matic originally fired a Charged Attack, the opposite of its role in the final game where it was a Lightning Gun for close-range crowd control, the developers changing it because they thought it was too similar to the Disintegrator Ray. The Anal Probe, meanwhile, was originally called the Brain Bug and functioned more like a Sniper Rifle.
  • Ponsonby originally had a different voice actor, but THQ decided to cast him with a more recognizable actor. Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, and Patrick Stewart were considered before Anthony Stewart Head was cast.

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