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** They were trying to start World War I early, in a bid to get the - as they saw it - inevitable violence over with quickly and with relatively minimal loss of life. They were considerably surprised when, after carefully explaining this to the leaders who would be involved and asking them to hurry it up, the leaders avoided it instead.
* Kate Elliot's ''[[Jaran Series]]'' involves the vast Chapalii Empire, who simply absorb the Earth and humans into their Empire without effort or aggression. Even though they've received many technological benefits from being ruled by the Chapalii and very little in the way of drawbacks, the humans still rebel.
* The body-snatching alien invaders in Stephenie Meyer's ''[[The Host (novel)|The Host]]'' see themselves this way (they cut down on crime, improved healthcare, and generally civilized those violent and barbaric humans! Isn't it great?), but the humans don't exactly
** Part of the problem is that the "souls," as they call themselves, never even conceived that their hosts may be unwilling, or that it would be wrong to take away that freedom. (Many of the other species they have gotten involved in were nonsentient or borderline intelligent, similar to dolphins or apes here on Earth.) When the main (soul) character runs into a truly altruistic human, she realizes the aliens were wrong.
*** The aliens are definitely well-intentioned. The only other race that was actually intelligent enough to possibly mind honestly didn't care, and in fact welcomed them. In fact, they were only wrong once before, out of all the other planets they tried.
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** And they have screwed it up a few times, especially with the Chelgrians.
*** True. That's just acknowledging the element of chance, though; they succeed far more often than they fail. The Culture apparently has the statistics to back it up, and lest you think it's propaganda, even those opposed to intervention have never challenged their numerical basis. Even the books, which to avoid the mundane are naturally interested in exceptions to the rule, show them succeeding far more often than not.
* ''[[Lilith's Brood|Liliths Brood]]'' by Octavia Butler (also known as the ''Xenogenesis'' trilogy) is about a race of tri-gendered aliens who kidnap the scattered survivors of a [[The End of the World as We Know It|global nuclear war]] in order to mate with them and repopulate the ruined Earth with the resulting hybrid offspring. [[Squick
* Inverted in ''[[Ender's Game|Speaker for the Dead]]''- Instead of being invaded, the Humans invaded a planet belonging to a race of weird, pig like aliens.
** Worth mentioning that in the original Ender's Game, we learn that the bugger invasion {{spoiler|was a mistake. The buggers mistook humans for <s> wild animals</s> [[Blue and Orange Morality|drones in a hive mind like their own, the losing of some being akin to our losing a few skin cells or a hangnail while shaking hands]], and were really very sorry about killing them. Unfortunately, [[Starfish Aliens|they]] [[Starfish Language|got their apology across]] too late.}}
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{{quote|'''Eddington''': You [[Not So Different|assimilate]] people... ''and they don't even know it.''}}
* 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
* In ''Galactica 1980'' this is {{spoiler|the goal of Dr.Zee -- to get Earth's technology to a point to fight off a Cylon invasion.}}
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** Upon leaving the train depot in the introductory level of ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', the PC hears people make comments implying they are at least somewhat resigned to the situation, if not aware, the Combine does in fact suck.
** The implication in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' is that life under the Combine started out rather better than it is at the point where Gordon shows up, but that the administration more or less dropped off after humanity was sufficiently neutered; they don't even paste up new propaganda posters any more.
* The backstory to ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' involve peaceful contact between Morrigi traders and primitive human civilizations some ten thousand years
* The Vasari in ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'' were half this. If your species hadn't mastered space travel, you were peacefully integrated and given a minimal amount of standing as a "valued citizen". If you ''had'' mastered space travel, your civilization was violently overthrown and your race enslaved.
* In ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', [[The Greys|the Maians]] planned to do this eventually, but left the humans to develop on their own for a few millennia. The end of the main plot revolves around the Maian ambassadors finally coming down to meet with the authorities in the White House and establish peaceful connections. {{spoiler|Then the game plays the evil [[Alien Invasion]] straight when [[Little Green Men|the Skedar]] come rolling along.}}
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