![]() ![]() As you can probably tell from the title of the segment, it doesn't go very well for poor Jordy. Creepshow's segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is essentially an extended version of this trope, with a meteorite landing in the field of a dimwitted farmer (played by Stephen King, having the time of his life).However, he's wearing a radiation suit and the farmer's son has already identified the car as a spaceship, so he just winds up having to drive away for his life when Farmer Peabody goes for his gun. He crawls out of the DeLorean and tries to apologize to Farmer Peabody. In Back to the Future, Marty crashes into a pine tree, a scarecrow, and a barn upon arriving in 1955.Often used for a Start to Corpse prologue. Related to Crop Circles and Came from the Sky. there's a good chance that the first person they'll come across is a farmer. If an alien lands away from cities or suburbs, note Which the alien could have plenty of reasons to do, like if they're trying to hide (obviously you'd go where there are fewer people), their ship is crashing (crashing into a building would be both higher-profile and less survivable than crashing into a field), or both. Usually justified in that farmland usually covers a significant area of most countries. Sometimes the aliens are quite peaceful, and only interested in an intelligent dialogue or asylum on Earth. While usually Played for Drama, it can be Played for Laughs if the farmer is especially unlikeable or foolhardy.Īlternatively, the farmer may not be instantly attacked. ![]() This farmer is likely to be equipped with a firearm, and is equally likely to threaten the trespasser in a (futile) attempt to scare it off. ![]() When alien life forms land on Earth, the first specimen of intelligent life they are likely to encounter is a rural farmer. ![]()
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