Video Game / Stupid Invaders

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"A visual dynamo that could best be described as Monkey Island on some weird alien crack..."
- IGN.com

Stupid Invaders is a 2000 Point-and-Click Adventure Game, based on the animated series Space Goofs. It was created by the French company Xilam, and produced by Ubisoft.

It revolves around the (mis)adventures of the five aliens: Etno, Stereo, Bud, Gorgious, and Candy, who have been living in a house on Earth since their ship crashed. Being hunted by a Mad Scientist and a menacing assassin hired by him, they aim to escape the villains and return to their home planet.

The game is no longer commercially available.

The game provides examples of:

• Adaptational Gender Identity: In the original show, Candy is an effeminate, Ambiguously Gay, crossdressing cis man. In Stupid Invaders, Candy is a trans woman who plans on having bottom surgery once she returns to her home planet. It's answered years later via Word of God that they are non-binary in the show, yet the writers didn't know the language of it at the time.
• Adaptation Title Change: The game is based on the animated series Space Goofs, but for whatever reason is titled Stupid Invaders instead.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Downplayed. Etno's computer is not outright evil — but it can blow up the house with all the protagonists inside if you tell it the wrong thing.
• Animated Actors: The game's defunct official website had a section where Bud Budiovitch was interviewed about the game's development and the aliens were depicted as actors playing characters for the game. Bud the actor is notably a different person from Bud the character, being rather erudite and self-conscious instead of a moronic couch potato.
• Area 51: Dr. Sakarin is based in Area 52, a secret location shown to keep various aliens prisoner to use as guinea pigs in experiments.
• Big Bad: Mad Scientist Dr. Sakarin from the show's episode "Zero Stuff" is the main antagonist of the game, intent on studying the aliens for his experiments.
• Bittersweet Ending: The aliens finally get to go home, but all life on Earth is destroyed via the planet exploding. Oh, and Candy doesn't get the sex change operation (not yet anyway).
• Black Comedy Rape: During the Dung Factory, Candy finds herself trapped in a love nest, where a creepy guy named Nelson forces her to take lewd pictures and implicitly has sex with her. This wouldn't normally be funny, but the fact that Candy is an alien and Nelson is a fat guy in a pink bunny suit (with a visible ass) makes it too ridiculous to take seriously.
• Cruelty Is the Only Option: At some points, you are required to do outright immoral things to progress in the game. The most outrageous example is probably pouring drain cleaner into a chimney where Santa Claus got stuck, thus dissolving him into a puddle of sludge.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Early in the game, Bolok threatens Bud with "You are going to die and you are going to scream while you die and then you will be dead"
• Darker and Edgier: The game is noticeably a lot more serious on top of being Ruder and Cruder compared to the show it was based on, despite still retaining its wackiness. The five aliens are constantly hunted by an assassin hired by an Area 52 Mad Scientist that wants to dissect them for his twisted experiments. There's also numerous ways to die in the game as well. Notably, it's rated T for Teen instead of E for Everyone, due to risque subject matters.
• Death by Adaptation: The game ends with Dr. Sakarin, his assistant Igor and Bolok dead, the first and last due to the game ending with an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. In the original cartoon, they were still alive by the end of their relevant episodes.
• The Dragon: Bolok the assassin from the show's episode "The Pro" serves as Dr. Sakarin's right-hand man and tries to hunt the aliens throughout the game.
• "Everything Explodes" Ending: Every chapter ends with the aliens leaving the setting in a spacecraft before it's destroyed in a massive explosion. Thanks to Serial Escalation, this extends to the very Earth itself by the endgame.
• Guide Dang It!: To the point where the game's manual has a guide section towards the end labeled "Too stupid to figure it out yourself?!" on how to deal with the more cryptic puzzles.
• Improvised Bungee: Bud in the final act at one point needs to jump down a very long shaft meant for space rockets. To do this, he uses a garden hose that is standing right next to it. In fact, he needs to first shorten the hose before using it, since otherwise it would be too long and he'd smash the ground at the bottom, triggering a game over.
• Inconsistent Spelling:
  • Bud Budiovitch's surname is spelled with two Ds in the instruction manual.
  • Dr. Sakarin's surname is spelled as "Sakarin" in promotional material and the instruction manual, but is spelled with a silent E at the end in the game's dialogue subtitles.
• Intimate Telecommunications: Bud can answer the phone and get this meant for Candy
• Never Trust a Title: The game is titled Stupid Invaders when not all of the aliens are idiots and they're more interested in leaving Earth to return to their home planet than they are in conquering it.
• Oh, My Gods!: Etno says "Oh my flying Zeeeebrus!" and "Holy mother of Zeebra!"
• Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: The aliens finally get to go home, but all life on Earth is destroyed via the planet exploding.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Dr. Sakarin is indicated to be transphobic due to being disgusted by Candy's desire for a sex change operation and referring to her as a "sexual pervert" in one of the Game Over scenarios.
• Ruder and Cruder: The game gets away with a lot more than it did compared to the cartoon. In addition to more explicit (albeit comedic) violence, there's a lot of sexual and scatological humour in the game.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" being played on a music box isn't really suitable for this type of game, especially since it plays in the context of Gorgious encountering a dog that will maul him to death if he's not too careful.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: The chunky orange robot who has sex with Candy while she's in a chunky pink robot suit speaks in sentences that have the order of his words scrambled.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Through one reason or another, every act ends with the place the aliens just escaped from exploding. Taken to the extreme at the end of the game, where the entire planet explodes.
• Toilet Humour: There's a considerable amount of toilet humor in the game, such as the main objective of the second act being that Candy and Gorgious have to get some cow manure to refuel the aliens' ship and the ending cutscene showing Gorgious on the toilet as the aliens finally make their way home.
• Your Mom: Bolok makes this kind of insult towards Bud before zapping him with his freeze ray in one of the Game Over scenarios.
  Bolok: Do you know the difference between a wimp and a man like me? Your mama!