Benevolent Alien Invasion: Difference between revisions

 

A subversion of [[Alien Invasion]] and [[Aliens Are Bastards]]. Often, the "invaders" are a [[Superior Species]]. Compare [[Vichy Earth]].

 

* ''[[Crest of the Stars]]''. While the Abh are annexing planets, they are generally depicted as positive. They will even accept some of their subjects into their rank of nobles. It doesn't help that the Abh are a space elves [[Mary Sue]] race (including the ears).

** The series is told from the sanitized and factually suspect perspective of the Abh royalty. I'm sure one or two of the Nazi youth were cute blue headed elfgirls too, but we are given no one elses perspective and they may be the murdering imperialist monsters that the Four Nations Alliance say they are.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** On the other hand, the humans certainly don't do themselves any favours, seeing as the Cylons are holding all the cards. It enters [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory when you realise that one [[Dying Race]] of around 40,000 people is '''suicide bombing''' another race that is both numerically superior and functionally '''immortal'''.

*** Technically, the suicide bombers weren't targeting the Cylons, but the human collaborators.

* Perhaps the most famous [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] in history is ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'''s "[[To Serve Man]]" episode, adapted from an earlier short story by Damon Knight. The Kanamit actually manage to end famine and war, but it's eventually revealed that only way they want "to serve man" is [[It Was His Sled|on a plate]].

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the second invasion of Earth Alliance was a more-or-less benevolent assault—led by humans but backed by aliens—to remove an oppressive dictator.