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=== This game has examples of the following tropes: ===
 
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: You lose most of your weapons and items when entering a new time period.
* [[Boss Arena Recovery]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brain In a Jar]]: The [[Big Bad]]}}.
* [[Bug War]]: The Bugs, which are of the [[To Serve Man]] variant. Since due to time travel, you're fighting with them over a hundred year period, every new generation of the bugs features new enemy units.
* [[Bug War]]
* [[But What About the Astronauts?]]: The last humans in 2016 are on a space station orbiting Earth.
* [[Cool Shades]]: The Goliath bugs in level 2.
* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|With their invasion thwarted on four seperate occasions, the aliens decide to go for the [[Kill'Em All]] solution by trying to crash their artificial comet into Earth}}.
* [[Cool Shades]]: The Goliath bugs in level 2.
* [[The Dragon]]: The Man in the Black Suit. Later revealed to be {{spoiler|your Evil Twin}}. Becomes [[Dragon Ascendant]] after {{spoiler|you kill the Hive Mind}}.
* [[Dummied Out]]: [http://flickr.com/photos/mikedailly/sets/72157602060415175/ This image gallery] uploaded by a former DMA employee show there was going to be levels set in Hawaii, Japan and Antarctica.
** [[Dummied Out]]: The game changed genre quite a lot during development: Itit was first going to be a RPG, then a pure shooter before ending up in its current form. The completely different gameplay between the indoor and outdoor sections and the strange mapping of the landscape are relics of the different concepts. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031151435/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedailly/sets/72157602060415175/ This image gallery] uploaded by a former DMA employee show there was going to be levels set in Hawaii, Japan and Antarctica.
* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: Good luck getting access to level four if you've played through the previous three on Easy mode.
* [[Event Flag]]: In the first section of Java, you are supposed to take a lift to get back to your starting point. After completing the primary objective, going to the lift will trigger a jelly alien on the local electricity generator even though it was fine a few seconds before.
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* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: Your first major boss fight, no less.
* [[The Greys]]: One of them is found in [[Roswell That Ends Well|Roswell]], purportedly the one who had his [[Alien Autopsy]] videotaped; he gives you the key to his flying saucer.
* [[Hive Mind]]: Revealed to be {{spoiler|a [[Brain In a Jar]]}} during the game's final stages.
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: {{spoiler|Just before you kill the Hive Mind, it boasts that the aliens will return to consume the Earth's biosphere, and that they will kill you alongside themselves. At this point the aliens have been almost entirely destroyed, their plan to slam their comet into the Earth is twarthed, and are at the mercy of the humans. Just to drive the message home, Adam kills the brain by a mere kick to its container, which shatters it.}}.
* [[Invisible Wall]]: Subverted in that the walls are visible [[Deflector Shields]], and one of the goals is to destroy the generator that powers them. Doing so creates a crater that serves as the boss arena, making the walls unnecessary at that point.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: The intro movie shows Adam suiting up while the aliens are invading the space station.
* [[Mission Control]]: Daisy and the robot who gives you instruction on the map.
* [[More Dakka]]: Particularly noticeable during major boss battles in Alpha 1 and {{spoiler|the final stage}}.
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: Even with Adam's help, it's likely that thousands of people died during each stage of the alien invasion. Luckily he time travels to the next level before we have to deal with it.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|The Man In Black uses the Hive Mind's inherited power to transform into Tomegatherion at the end of the game}}.
* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]: All the bosses are named after mythological monsters and demons: Leviathan, Cerberus, Moloch, Beelzebub, and Tomegatherion.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]:
** There's a lovely part in one of the America stages where you're in a military base the aliens are trying to terraform. A fast-closing gate blocks your progress at one point, the intended solution being to {{spoiler|get a can of nitro fuel and drive a jeep through the gate, the fuel speeding up the jeep just fast enough to make it}}, but if you can't quite pull that off, take a nimble car onto the high ledges and you'll be able to jump a gap at the edge of the level. You are then able to drive in a flat area the designers clearly intended to be inaccessible. Result: Skip almost the entire level and drive straight to the boss.
** In the very first level, it's possible to get to the Alien Processor directly by using a motorcycle.
** In Java stage 4, if you keeping running towards the fence, you can glitch through it to get inside a harbor base without having to {{spoiler|Have the captain [[Going Down with the Ship]] to destroy the alien Barrier in a kamikaze attack}}.
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]:
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]:* Justified in game. Adam can swim but doing so drains his health very quickly, as the armor he's wearing is too heavy to swim for long periods of time.
** Also applies to the Alpha tank in level 5, which will get stuck in what is most likely acid and take damage until it explodes... even though it's a ''hovercraft''.
* [[Time Machine]]: The Alpha 1.
* [[To Serve Man]]: The aliens require human tissue to fuel their invasion force.
* [[Unexpected Genre Change]]: The boss battles and {{spoiler|the entire last stage}} takes place in the Alpha 1 vehicle. You can get out of it during the bosses but doing so is an exercise in futility.
* [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: {{spoiler|The Alien Comet}}.
* [[Vaporware]]: It was supposed to be released for the launch of the Nintendo 64 but problems during the developments and issues with [[Nintendo]] (The initial publisher) delayed it for two years.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|After Adam kicks the [[Brain In a Jar]], destroying it, your twin brother appears and transforms into the [[True Final Boss]]}}.
* [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: {{spoiler|The Alien Comet}}.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: {{spoiler|After Adam kicks the [[Brain In a Jar]], destroying it, your twin brother appears and transforms into the [[True Final Boss]]}}.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: The Siberia level.