Manifest Extraterrestrial: When Aliens Ruled the Earth

**Manifest Extraterrestrial: When Aliens Ruled the Earth** is a computer-animated sci-fi indie film created by SmallBread Productions, possibly their first film.

## Synopsis

Literally the show Manifest Extraterrestrial except the movie explains Akin Newcomer's origins. Newcomer is at a bar and gets drunk when he signs up for the EDU and insults the Gorebex upon hearing them mentioned. It turns out that the reason for the Gorebex' mention was because they had entered the bar and were monitoring it for suspicious activity. The patrons scatter as the Gorebex start shooting up the bar, with Newcomer hiding and barely escaping with his life. Soon after, Akin is found by a camper van, the driver of which tells him that he received Newcomer's application for the EDU and that he should enter the vehicle promptly. After Akin explains how he joined and why he wants to decline, he is informed that the Gorebex will find him if he doesn't join. Reluctantly, Newcomer enters the camper van, upon which it is revealed that the RV is the EDU's mobile base, the World Defense Headquarters. Newcomer is impressed with the vehicle but informed that it is only a temporary base; he will soon get transported to the EDU's main ship, the Manifest Destiny.

## Characters

* Akin Newcomer (Twitchy/Grenadier)
* Swati Leto
* Esther Colston
* General Lacroix
* Navigator
* Intern (Happy-Go-Lucky/Ranger)
* Tech Support (Intense/Specialist)
* Universe Unit: "Sir! I have studied all the specs of the Exterminator Ship, and I am positive that it has the haste and firepower to destroy the Gorbex Mothership. Just give the word and I will prove it! Until then, I will keep defeating as many Gorbex as I can. That is my top priority – and the Exterminator's, too!” (By the Book/Sniper)
* Psi-Op (Hard Luck/Psi-Op)
* Doctor
* Ana Ribera: Ana Ribera is a commentator and columnist who has reported and written for *Neo America-Zembretta-Iztok-Daily* and *The Washington Huff*. One article chronicles her experience with a Gorbex Mothership in Neo America, and another features her interviewing the Gorbex President at the Washington D.C. Capitol Building.
* President Gorbex: "My life has been about winning. My life has not been about losing, so bahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!! Greetings, wussy Earthlings! I am President Gorbex, but you better call me your new Superior Overlord. And by the way, my fleet of alien spaceships has come to Planet Earth for only one cause: chromosome-addled cortexes! Once we have sucked your cerebrums more than semidry to sustain our universe batteries, there will be nada to prevent us from colonizing the whole planet and making it our skank! My plans are brainy! My army is indestructible!! My UFO is super, super huge!!! Absolute victory will soon be mine!!!! We won the debate, other than, you know, some crooked polls!!!!!"
* Supreme Masc-Bot: "There are 14.20 billion humans on planet Earth. According to my math, which seldom fails, the united brainpower of the human race will be enough to power the imperial fleet and simultaneously keep President Gorbex alive for 69 universal chrono units. Your planetary protection is no match against the Gorbex fleet. Be warned, you must never try to defeat us. You must never try to behave irrationally. I assure you that unexpected behavior will not ca-use feed-back in BUZZ my cap-ace-tor BUZZ BULB Sup-re-me Mas-bot inn-er work-ins turn-in off for re-boot ZAK" A minion of President Gorbex who dreams of one day colonizing Earth himself.
* Gorbex Ace Pilot: "Nerd! I love bein' the Gorbex Ace Pilot! Us guys get to fly quickly, oh, baby, quickly, like, wow quickly all the time! Us guys have got super-speedy turbo-charged super-reflexes, oh, baby, so nothin' moves quicker than us! Oh, wow! Hey, wanna race, mostly? You’ll win, oh, baby, because us guys can out-run, mostly out-fly and out-shoot anything in the clouds! The other Gorbex dudes bastich about us Ace Pilots not stopping our talkin', oh, baby, but that’s them harshing their mellow, like right? Us guys should totally have a race, oh, baby, nerd! I bet I can collect more cortexes and genes than you! Oh, wow! Wooooooo!"
* Gorbex Soldier: Hey, y'all! Yeah, y'all! Y'all look like y'all done got a right awful big brain, huh? A ton av a-thinkin' a-goin' on in there. Us Gorbex Soldiers, we don’t have ta do a ton av a-thinkin'. But we’re mighty damn good at a-takin' orders and a-shouting and killing crap.  Oh, and a-shooting our barking irons! Pew, pew! Like that there! It's awful tricky ta remember witch end av the barking iron ta point away from us.  That is why our brains are no damn good for powering a-spaceships. So we done came ta your planet ta get yours! Now hand over all of y'all's brains, aw, uh… aw else! Because ay done said so!”
* Gorbex Cortex Consumer: "Give me a break - boo, wussy humans! It’s me, President Gorbex again! So you want to know about our ultimate weapon, do you? Or, as I have been saying for years, and I think you will agree, because I said it to you once, well, I will tell you, because then you will have no choice but to wuss out in utter phobia and horror! What you call “Headcrabs” are truly "Gorbex Cortex Consumers." By the way, if you get one on your skull, it’ll latch on and possess you to make you do my bidding! Bahahahah!! I've totally got this under control! That, and, it will suck out all of your sweet, sweet cerebrum matter to power my flying saucers! Also, it will make you eat a crap ton of broccolini. I have said this for a long time, they love that stuff. Honestly, I have a pet Cortex Consumer myself, you know. I am going to lock the EDU up. If you want to know the truth, my Consumer's name is Captain Curt, and I take him with me wherever I go. I pay a tremendous number of taxes. Now if you remember, is he not beautiful? The people that are my friends called to say, President, yes he is! Now give me your cortexes and your Earth!!! You was totally out of control!!!" A body-snatcher whose infection spreads across its allies. Despite wishing to enslave the whole universe with their steel grit, the Gorbex Cortex Consumers are shockingly appreciative alien invaders. Often called Headcrabs or Gorbex Cortex Consumers, next to nothing is known about this race of skull-crunching body snatchers. Given the chance, it is easy as pie for Cortex Consumers to wholly possess victims... the tricky part is acting like there is no ginormous, slippery, gooey extraterrestrial munching on their head. Cortex Consumers majored in universal conquest. Earthling small talk? Flunked with a capital "F."

## Vehicles

* Walker
* Rocket Pack
* Small UFO: Guess
* Speeder: Smol
* EDU 2x2
* Tripod Mechs: War of the Worlds walkers.
* UFO: UFO
* Jet-Chopper
* Mothership: Big UFO
* Exterminator Ship: A Vic Viper.
* The HQ: Awesome personnel carrier.

## Themes

Manifest Extraterrestrial initially used alt-right, racist perspectives on the immigration of Arabs to Europe as a source for analogy (which Trigger thankfully never believed in) with symbolism of white colonialism to balance it out. While the imperialist overtones of the Gorebic regime are kept, anti-immigration applicability has been completely dropped. The Spokesperson was conceived as a jab at Angela Merkle but, knowing too little about her to form any effective judgement, Trigger has instead made him a parallel to J.K. Rowling, being a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. While the Gorebex align with right-wing authoritarianism politically, they are also coded as TERFs (despite evidently being misogynistic and anti-lesbian) who are hateful to LGBTQIA+ people. The Gorebex are a zealous race of technological superiority who are designed with Morions, Kepi-inspired military caps, wide-brimmed hats, and star insignias, a reference to conquistadors and the colonialist history of the United States.

The Gorebex further substantiate their transphobia with sex-centric studies, erasing all records (including the murder of all participants) of former EDU biologist Dr. Shot's study in sexual chimerism, where he found that transgender participants have the brain structure of their identified gender and non-binary subjects have a hybrid. While not wholly accurate, this is based on a real study and is a tacit criticism of scientific argument against LGBTQIA+ identity and "hate statistics" in general.

## Parents Guide

### Sex & Nudity

* There is a comic scene of implied cunnilingus. A woman jokingly 'refreshes' her vagina with a candle before engaging in sex. In one scene, a woman holds a vibrator while talking to her friends; however, there is no accompanying sexual activity. There is a comic scene in which a man believes that he is about to be circumcised. There are also moderate comic verbal and visual sex references, including to pornography, erections, prostitution, sex and sex toys, masturbation, and genitals.
* Crude humor includes a sequence of bleeped language in which a man mentions the way and position in which he wants to 'bleep' an actor and brief sight of a man with a finger trap covering his penis.
* One scene shows a doorway resembling and referred to as a huge sphincter.
* It is briefly implied that a woman is enjoying being probed.
* A few scenes where cars are seen rocking with handprints and footprints on steamy windows.

### Violence & Gore

* Scenes of violence include gunfights, stabbings, slashings, characters being blasted by fantastical powers, and crunchy blows. There is sight of blood - primarily from aliens and zombies. Spurts of blood are briefly seen coming out of people and aliens as they are shot.
* Characters sustain various injuries, including sight of blood and dead bodies. There are disturbing scenes in which it is implied dead aliens and zombies are being autopsied on with sight of blood and crunchy audio. A dead monster is seen missing an eye.
* There are cartoonish scenes of mass murder where aliens use futuristic blasters to electrocute, vaporize (reducing flesh and organs to ash, leaving only charred skeletons), and throw around soldiers and citizens.
* Screaming bystanders have anal probe rods inserted in their rectum to harvest their brains and hearts for genetic material, with splatters of green blood when organs are harvested and when their heads pop off.
* Alien spaceships use death rays to burn civilians, vehicles, and skyscrapers; a tractor beam to lift up bystanders and lob them into the air; superpowered nuclear weapons that launch nuclear bombs that melt victims in the blast radius like acid; and sonic explosives that shock the blast radius like a powerful earthquake. Comically portrayed with no blood or gore.

### Profanity

* There is implied use of strong language ('fracking'), a use of moderate language ('bitch'), and milder terms including 'ass,' 'piss,' 'crap,' 'screwed', 'God', 'hell' and 'damn'.
* There are uses of 'asshole' in other languages (pendejito, boludo).

### Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking

* Cigar and cigarette smoking.
* Characters talk about excessive drinking and Valium misuse.

### Frightening/Intense Scenes

* There are sustained scenes of threat and horror during action sequences in which aliens attack civilians, zombies swarm around characters, and spaceships explode. Sequences also include gun threat, terrorism, and people being blasted or held by fantastical powers. There are jump-scares involving ghosts, monsters, and zombies. There is brief body horror when a person turns into a monster with dripping flesh but no bloody detail. Most scary moments feature reassuring outcomes with a focus on action and occasional comedic interludes.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, crude and sexual material throughout, some bloody images, thematic elements, brief full nudity, and smoking.

## BBFC

12 for violence, bloody images, discrimination, horror, sex, crude humor, implied strong language, upsetting scenes

### Violence (3/5)

Scenes of violence include gunfights, stabbings, slashings, and characters being blasted by fantastical powers, frequently killing characters. Hand-to-hand fighting includes strangling and crunchy blows with fists and blunt objects. Spurts of blood are briefly seen coming out of people as they are shot. There is also sight of fantastical, discolored bloodshed from aliens, zombies, and monsters. There are comic scenes of mass violence where people are shot by ray guns and have their brains and hearts pulled out by probe guns.

### Threat & horror (3/5)

There are sustained scenes of threat and horror during action sequences in which aliens attack civilians, zombies swarm around characters, and when vehicles and buildings explode. Sequences also include gun threat, terrorism, characters being taken captive, and people being blasted or held by fantastical powers. There are jump-scares involving ghosts, monsters, and zombies. There is brief body horror when people turn into monsters with dripping flesh but no bloody detail. Most scary moments feature reassuring outcomes with a focus on action and occasional comedic interludes.

### Language (3/5)

There is implied strong language ('effin,' 'fracking'), uses of moderate terms ('bitch'), and milder terms including 'ass,' 'son of a bitch,' 'bastard,' 'douche,' 'pissed,' 'crap,' 'damn,' 'God,' 'hell,' 'butt,' 'idiot', 'morons,' and 'jerkwad'.

### Sex (3/5)

There is a comic scene of implied cunnilingus. A woman jokingly 'refreshes' her vagina with a candle before engaging in sex. In one scene, a woman holds a vibrator while talking to her friends; however, there is no accompanying sexual activity. There is a comic scene in which a man believes that he is about to be circumcised. There is some innuendo when it is implied that a man has ejaculated prematurely. There are also moderate comic verbal and visual sex references, including to pornography, erections, prostitution, sex and sex toys, masturbation, and genitals.

### Discrimination (3/5)

There is infrequent use of discriminatory language, including "n\*\*\*o," "f\*\*\*\*t," "tr\*\*\*y," "tr\*\*n," "she\*\*le," and "r\*\*\*rd." A villainous figure is transphobic and misgenders and deadnames many transgender characters. A character expresses discriminatory views in a speech, which are immediately condemned and he soon regrets. Discrimination is clearly condemned by the work as a whole.

### Suicide (2/5)

References are made to a man taking his own life by poisoning.

### Injury detail (3/5)

Characters sustain various injuries, including sight of blood and dead bodies in the aftermath of violence. There are disturbing scenes in which it is implied dead aliens and zombies are being autopsied on with sight of fantastical bloodshed and crunchy audio. A dead monster is seen missing an eye. There are comic scenes of people's heads bursting into green fluid after an alien probe is used on them, leaving a decapitated body with no injury detail.

### Nudity (3/5)

There is artistic, undetailed sight of erect penises on satyrs in an animated sequence. There is little emphasis on nudity in this scene. There is also sight of comic buttock nudity.

### Theme (3/5)

The film has themes of civil unrest and terrorism, which viewers might find find disturbing. There are upsetting death scenes, including of family members and innocent bystanders. References are made to mental health and illness. There are mentions of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting deaths and lockdowns.

### Rude humor (3/5)

There are various scenes of crude humour, including characters projectile vomiting onto others and the undetailed extraction of a makeshift key from a dog's bottom. There is brief sight of a man with a finger trap covering his penis, but without sight of nudity. A character performs a post-mortem examination on an alien monster by entering its bottom. There are references to the human body having seven holes and an alien having a penis.

### Alcohol & tobacco (2/5)

A man appears drunk and is seen drinking as a way of dealing with his grief. Other characters drink and smoke.

### Quotes

"*Men under god, may we eliminate this foreign threat encroaching on a nation that isn't theirs. May every one of you please your wife when you return from battle. This will be our Floyd Riot; may we be the everyday heroes who stood by and halted those attackers as they tried to burn our homes. May we reject the Gorebics as we rejected the communist stimulus program the government has set about. When the Gorebics offer us temporary healthcare, may we remember the vaccines that did nothing and made our kids r\*\*\*\*\*ed. May every man and woman do the duty of the one and only lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and kill those fat, pagan Gorebics in their all-consuming wave of blackness upon God's America."*
"Okay..."

"Would I still be alive if I told him it was actually Boogaloo Boys doing the rioting?*"*

- Rurik Folke, Admiral Zachary Harvard, Akin Newcomer

"*It appears that the breast-like features are zootoxin glands, hence the presence regardless of assigned sex. Of course, gender is a different matter."*
"Appreciate it.*"*

- Doctor Shotacon and Armitage

"*Flayed, just think of the possibilities if we could restrain them..."*
"I won't. I just won't.*"*

- Doctor Shotacon and Nguyen

"*Help wanted, rebel psychopaths! Are you addicted to the ecstasy of combat, hellbent to strike back at the Gorebics for all the horrifying sh\*t they have done to God's green Earth? Well, listen on; all I ask of you is a visit to your local 100% corner. Once there, blow off the head of the closest Gorebic cop with a high-caliber shotgun and make it a daily regiment!*"
- Rurik Folke

"*Being outnumbered by a million demonic bug-possessed zombies is crap. Being outnumbered by a million demonic bug-possessed zombies showing me their cadaverous, decomposing gooch? The Gorebics have outdone themselves.*"
- Akin Newcomer

"*Seriously, more zombie gooches? Who the hell are these people? Humble yourself, dudes!*"
- Akin Newcomer

## Points of Comparison

### Avatar

This film revolves around a war between Earth and a humanoid alien race, with the evil one colonizing the home planet of the other and being coded as the United States. The other side has a few blade users and is vastly outnumbered by the imperialists. Science is promoted by the narrative with a scientist on the heroes' side despite their former allegiance to the evil faction, who use superior technology including walkers and aircraft to turn the tide in their favor. A pivotal scene focuses on the fiery destruction of a marginalized settlement for unjust reasons, with the death of noncombatants and resisting locals alike including a parent. The final battle takes place in a forest and ends with the death of many heroes but is a greater failure for the villains, who intended to quash the entire faction. While the ending is self-contained, there is room for a sequel that will take very long to release; among other details, the film pervasively uses motion-capture CGI.

### Star Wars

1. Sci-fi war 2. Evil empire 3. Hopeless beginning (if there was any doubt the empire is winning by this point, a scene of enemy troops getting deployed and killing everyone will erase it) 4. Choking (the main villain strangles one of the remaining good guys right after this attack) 5. Space bar (after this but before things really pick up, there’s a bar scene involving imperial occupation) 6. Everyman hero (the protagonist is an average Joe in his world until—) 7. Army shooting (the empire gets pissed at him for little reason and they kill a few people in an attack that will render our hero unable to return to basic life) 8. Recruited (an older man finds and recruits the hero in a rebel cause that’s bigger than either of them) 9. Cocky pilot (one of the heroes is a pilot and engineering genius with an attitude and a larger “friend”) 10. Fly away (after being caught by the empire again, the good guys fly away in the pilot’s ship and make it to—) 11. Big empire airbase (converted to their side or a large imperial base) 12. Jailbreak (a key hero is broken out of an imperial prison by the main cast) 13. Late arrival (the token woman isn’t fighting for most of the film but directly joins the cause by the climax) 14. Conflict (sometimes, the fighting is between the heroes as much as against the bad guys) 15. Tentacles (a squid alien attacks the heroes) 16. Sword hero (although he also totes a laser rifle) 17. Blasters (everyone else uses a laser gun) 18. Direct attack (tired of hiding, the heroes directly attack an imperial base) 19. Jedi (while we don’t see a lot of them, one hero uses a laser sword and has magic powers) 20. Death (unfortunately, a lot of people die in the final battle) 21. Awards (the main cast is finally accoladed by the army at the end, but after a lot) 22. VFX (not all of the effects land, and that’s part of the charm) 23. Breakout hit 24. Trilogy.

## Trailer

Narrating Harvard: In a world... taken by aliens.

\*screen cuts to black, high-pitched piano key\*

\*pause, horn blast, UFOs landing and destroying shit, sad piano.\*

Leader (partly obscured): Hello, inferior idiot race! Believe me, you have been DISSUADED BY the modern liberal SYSTEM. If you want to know the truth, LAY DOWN your arms AND we will bring you a TRUE republic. One that has won the debates, other than, you know, crooked polls.

Harvard: I ain't buying this crap.

Narrating Harvard: We didn't know what hit us, and we had to.

\*action, man looks into the distance at smoke\*

Man: Oh my God...

Narrating Harvard: The world changed that day, and we were thrust into the unknown.

\*Earth loses, Cyberpunk skyline, police brutality, cut to Akin\*

Akin: My whole life, I've been alienated by the elitist structure.

\*humiliation conga\*

Some planted drugs got me thrown in the slammer for the past 15 years, and now you're telling me that we're all being alienated by a new elite of... aliens?

?: There's no easy way to break it to you.

\*acoustic version of *Whispers In My Head* by Onlap sets in\*

Harvard: Your mission, shall you choose to accept it, is to take down this new regime of sunburned imperialists who think they're God's chosen.

Akin: Heh, you gonna talk about stunts and scientology next? I'm in.

Harvard: This message will self-destruct.

\*explosion\*

Akin: Nailed it.

\*bar scene\*

Akin: My whole life, I've been afraid to talk to people. They never viewed me as an equal.

Hero: Akin, people are asshats. There is nothing wrong with you, no matter what the empire says. It's people like us, put down by the evil system before, who will destroy the new one.

\*inspection of mud\*

Hero: Legend has it that this is mud from the Gorebex planet, it will make you smarter if you rub it on your face.

\*Akin does so\*

Akin: Ah yeah, that's the...

\*bug shits out more of it\*

Akin: ...crap.

\*screen flicker and intense music as woman lead grapples from one building to another, Harvard gets kicked in the nuts.\*

Crowd: Ooh!

The Spokesperson (partly obscured and threatening): Do you want to live out your life free, or do you want to burn in Hell for defying God's plan?

\*cat takes a shit, action, training with Beam Lances and telekinesis\*

Akin: Whoa, you're just like a...

\*music stops\*

Jedi: \*hand out\* I'm not a space wizard.

Akin: You're not a space wizard.

Jedi: Wait--

Akin: Nah, I'm screwing with you.

\*music resumes\*

Go on a quest like you've never known in MANIFEST EXTRATERRESTRIAL: WHEN ALIENS TOOK EARTH

\*Femboy twerking during photoshoot after battle\*

Femboy: Get this in the picture!

\*farts\*

Akin: Oh, dude!

Hero: All I smell is crap.

All transitions are a fade to black

## BBFC (3)

15 for very strong language, strong sex references, sex, violence, threat, crude humour

This boisterous and raunchy sci-fi comedy finale about fighting an alien empire contains many crude verbal sex references, scenes of sexual activity, and bloody violence.

### Sex (4/5)

Scenes of sex include an extended masturbation scene using a massage device and a threesome sequence with implied penetration and cunnilingus. Sex references occur throughout. Visual and verbal sex references feature throughout, including references to sexual positions, erections, masturbation, cunnilingus, ejaculate, pornography, bestiality, BDSM, ball gags, and sex toys. Children also make make frequent crude references, including to blow jobs, hand jobs and 'cumming', all within a comic context. There are also references involving genitalia, including a man waking with an erection visible under his shorts. Some scenes also contain brief breast and buttock nudity, as well as focus on the opening of an alien creature's legs. Alien monsters are showing 'humping' garden statues and other objects. There is focus on a dog's erection and many references to penis size. Infrequent references are made to necrophilia and coprophilia. A man is briefly shown masturbating. In one scene, a boy mistakes anal beads for a necklace.

### Rude humour (4/5)

Extensive jokes are made featuring excrement, urine and projectile vomit, including a man being covered in poo, aliens urinating on one another to show their friendship, and the suggestion that the contents of a shampoo bottle have been replaced with semen. A man is shown shaving his genitals. There is sight of a man with a finger trap on his penis, but without focus on nudity. There is a long sequence of bleeped language in which a man reels off the many ways and positions in which he wants to 'bleep' someone.

Rated R for strong crude and sexual content, strong violence, and language throughout