Alien Invasion: Difference between revisions

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[[File:alienuploading 4992.jpg|link=Mars Attacks!|frame|So, do you [[We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill|think they're friendly]]?]]

{{quote|''If you were going to take over the world, would you blow up the White House ''[[Independence Day]]''-style, or sneak in through the back door?'' |'''Casey''', ''[[The Faculty]]''}}

 

 

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* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': [[Big Damn Movie|Paint It White]] The plot involves an alien invasion of Earth {{spoiler|in which about [[Kill All Humans|90% of the global population]] and their countries are transformed into what looks like [[Faceless Masses|white featureless humanoid clay]], known as [[The Greys|the Pict]]. In the final scene of the movie, <s>millions</s> billions of converted <s>humans</s> Pict can be seen walking into a giant mothership [[Aliens Are Bastards|which then]] [[Alien Abduction|departs Earth]] after [[Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending|our heroes save the day]]. So even with the "happy" ending, there are still [[Inferred Holocaust|only a few hundred million people left on Earth]]. And [[True Neutral|the Swiss]]. And Iceland.}}

* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': TV series the Scab Coral in literally drove humanity out of Earth for 10,000 years (unintentional) when it arrived. It grew and formed an outer layer around earth, fooling humanity into thinking it is another planet when they settled in. The Scab Coral later spawned human Coralians to live among humans to study and communicate with them. The [[Big Bad]] uses this planet takeover history to justify his actions against the Scab Coral which was just trying to communicate with humanity.

* ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': An early Anime example and the third series of the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' trilogy. The Vega homeworld had become unstable due to the radioactive materials within it and the King decided to expand his militaristic empire to find a suitable planet to settle on. The main character lived in Fleed, one of the first planets the Vegan army attacked and was forced to run away. He landed on Earth and settled peacefully in there. Then two years later the Vegan army struck his new homeworld.

 

* ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'':This Italian Disney series features the Evronians, a hostile species of [[Alien (franchise)|H.R. Giger-inspired]] aliens, planning the invasion of the Earth. The main thing standing in their way? ''[[Donald Duck]] in a superhero suit''.

 

* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'': Loki brings the aliens known as the Chitauri to Earth to act as "his" army.

* ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'' : The alien invaders land off of the coast near California and immediately launch a military offensive. The movie is notable for using reasonably accurate in presentation of the military and the aliens operating as a military force.

* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' : Inverted. After a series of attacks on human colonies and a direct attack Buenos Aires Earth humanity declares war and invades the bug worlds.

* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' :Everyone's favorite evil robots the Decepticons, decide to give the All Out Attack a shot. The Autobots are of course the good aliens helping out humanity here.

 

* ''[[Animorphs]]'': The aliens use infiltration, with only five kids armed with alien technology and one helpful alien available to fight the threat.

* ''[[Arrivals From the Dark|Invasion]]'' by [[Mikhail Akhmanov]] : The novel details the arrival of a giant [[Human Alien]] starship from another galactic arm in order to conquer and enslave humans, who only have a tiny fleet of ships with no shields, [[Antimatter]], or FTL capability. After the humans barely survive (thanks to {{spoiler|another alien}}), the following novels chronicle humanity using the leftover technology to build an interstellar empire (well, more of a [[The Federation|federation]] but with [[Gunboat Diplomacy]]).

* The ''[[Worldwar]]'' series by [[Harry Turtledove]]: This is a variation: the aliens invade during [[World War Two]] and this forces the warring sides to [[Enemy Mine|unite against them]]. Also, the aliens are deliberately given contemporary (at time of writing, i.e. 1994) levels of technology plus a little extra to allow them to travel between stars, rather than the usual insanely advanced aliens vs. present day humans. They are also really, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|conservative]]. Like, they've been ruled by the same dynasty for [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|tens of thousands of years]] and are surprised that humans have advanced from the medieval era to the present in only a few hundred years, conservative.

 

* ''[[Dark Skies]]'': A series on FOX was pretty much a textbook type 2, infiltrating with parasites and (at the end) electronic implants. The point of the series was that many of the events of the 20th century were secretly part of the infiltration, such as the Kennedy assassination.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Uses all three variants of invasion. The series also inverts this tropes in many future-based stories, humans are themselves the invaders. We're usually not outright malicious, but we're often quite destructive to native species, paralleling historical imperialism and colonization.

* "The Invaders" (1967) with Roy Thinnes as a man who accidentally sees a flying saucer land and can't convince people that we've been invaded. They use the infiltration method, altering their bodies to look like humans. Because of the year there was a lot of heavy handed storylines involving race and the youth culture.

 

* [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]'s "Iron Heads" from the ''Death Metal'' split-album and ''Masquerade'' is about version 1.

* ''Invader'' by [[Judas Priest]]. At this point, if that's what it was at all, it didn't get far yet, but the narrator anticipates one.

 

* ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'' has two extra-terrestrial factions, both launching All-Out Attacks ''at the same time''. The Martian Menace uses [[Tripod Terror|Tripods]] and [[Flying Saucer]]s whereas the Planet Eaters use [[Kaiju]] and a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]].

* The point of the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Alien Alien] monsters in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game.

 

* ''[[Achron]]'': The game starts immediately after the greatest space fleet humanity has ever assembled has been all but completely destroyed by the alien invaders. They did this despite actually being outnumbered and outgunned by the human forces. It turns out that [[Time Travel]] actually gives you a hell of an advantage.

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'': Takes place in the aftermath of an extra dimensional alien invasion, which was hard-won and remnants of the Rikti forces still infest the world. {{spoiler|And of course, it turns out that the Rikti are mutated humans. BUT, that leads into another possible future invasion by different aliens.}} The Rikti's weakness? ''Magic''. The Shiva in Bloody Bay are the remains of a [[Planet Eater|planet-devouring entity]] that was destroyed in deep space but is now trying to rebuild itself by conquering Earth for its resources.

* ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'': The various aliens in the game series are generally set on utterly destroying humanity. The infiltration method they attempt in the first game was merely a tactic toward the goal of total destruction.

 

* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'': Subverted, where the Nemesites have legally owned Earth since before mankind even evolved. Until we develop good enough technology to leave Earth, they don't particularly ''care'' whether or not we know they own the planet. [[Space Pirates]] do attack Earth once, not to conquer it but to randomly steal stuff. Nemesite Princess Voluptua comes to stop them, informing them, "Earth is a ''nature preserve,'' you feebs! This isn't even piracy--It's ''poaching!"''

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': the show is about an alien using the infiltration method. [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|He's really bad at it]]. However the Irkens are really good at what they're doing, no matter how bad Zim is. We've seen them successfully take over several planets and they seem to run a galactic monopoly that can't be challenged by any other being in the Universe (to our knowledge).

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'': Three separate times. The first time the Yokians arrived to Earth they stole every adult in Retroville (except Miss Fowl) only to take them to their planet. The second time they arrived on Earth they successfully earned everyone's trust and tried to kill off all the adults once more. Then there is Grandma Tater's, who's apparently one of many similar aliens that take over planets using hypnosis.

** The Season Two [[Grand Finale]] "Starcrossed" sees the League nearly destroyed by another invasion. The {{spoiler|Thanagarian}} infiltration was far more effective, because they had a [[The Mole|Mole]] in the Justice League itself, providing them with the information to neutralize its members. These invaders initially present themselves as the Good Aliens, claiming that they're fortifying Earth to defend it from their enemies; the ''real'' Good Alien turns out to be their Mole, {{spoiler|Hawkgirl,}} who learns of their true intentions for Earth and is [[Becoming the Mask|unable to go through with it]].

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': The [[Grand Finale]] had the previously once introduced [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] invade Earth for rather no real reason at all. All they did was send in [[Humongous Mecha]]s while the two aliens just sat and relaxed. Rather than an "official" government-backed invasion, it appears that the whole attack was simply a private vendetta against Drakken/Earth on the part of Warmonga.

* ''[[Little Audrey]]'' cartoon "Dizzy Dishes": In Audrey's dream there are alien invaders attacking with a disintegrator.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': In the episode "Troq". [[Inverted Trope|Gets inverted]] The Titans launch a preemptive attack against the [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|robotic, alien]] menace on their own, alien planet. Our heroes succeed in killing the entire planets’ population off! Then they tell off the guy who brought them there for being a [[Fantastic Racism|racist douche]].

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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