Bluffing the Advance Scout: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(update links) |
m (→Comic Books) |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
** Then again, contemporary Earth in the Marvel Universe [[Subverted Trope|doesn't usually ''need'' to bluff the advance scout]] -- something noted in an issue of ''[[X-Men]]'' where an alien invasion is called off after one of the leaders gets a summary on Earth's recent history, and reads, with increasing horror, "Homeworld of the current Sorcerer Supreme? Executed the Kree Supreme Intelligence? Has repelled Galactus ''four times in the last ten years''? All ships halt! Reverse course!" |
** Then again, contemporary Earth in the Marvel Universe [[Subverted Trope|doesn't usually ''need'' to bluff the advance scout]] -- something noted in an issue of ''[[X-Men]]'' where an alien invasion is called off after one of the leaders gets a summary on Earth's recent history, and reads, with increasing horror, "Homeworld of the current Sorcerer Supreme? Executed the Kree Supreme Intelligence? Has repelled Galactus ''four times in the last ten years''? All ships halt! Reverse course!" |
||
* In one issue of ''[[Exiles]]'', the omniscient whatever-it-is that commands the Exiles sets up a chain of events that ends with some minor supervillain, feeling unappreciated, setting off a weapon that fills the Earth's atmosphere with foul-smelling gases for 72 hours. All because the omniscient whatever-it-is has foreseen that during those 72 hours an alien invasion fleet will arrive, scan the planet, and decide to move on to somewhere with a nicer atmosphere. |
* In one issue of ''[[Exiles]]'', the omniscient whatever-it-is that commands the Exiles sets up a chain of events that ends with some minor supervillain, feeling unappreciated, setting off a weapon that fills the Earth's atmosphere with foul-smelling gases for 72 hours. All because the omniscient whatever-it-is has foreseen that during those 72 hours an alien invasion fleet will arrive, scan the planet, and decide to move on to somewhere with a nicer atmosphere. |
||
* A fairly recent ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' story had the mouse and his sidekick, Goofy, visiting an archaeologist-friend at Abu Simpel in Egypt, when they're abducted by [[Ancient Astronauts]] - specifically, the old |
* A fairly recent{{when}} ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' story had the mouse and his sidekick, Goofy, visiting an archaeologist-friend at Abu Simpel in Egypt, when they're abducted by [[Ancient Astronauts]] - specifically, the old Egyptian gods and pharaohs, who left Earth back in the day after being insulted (and nearly accidentally fed to the crocodiles) by one of Goofy's ancestors. Now they've returned with an invasion-fleet to wipe out humanity in repayment! Mickey tricks them into believing that humanity has developed [[Psychic Powers]] in the meantime, by taking advantage of the knowledge that Abu Simpel contains their landing-beacon, and claiming that he was using his powers to affect their advanced navigation-equipment. Sure enough, the UFO crashes on approach, and the aliens are scared off. How did it work? Well, Abu Simpel was moved - in a massive engineering undertaking - back in the 1980s, to protect it from a flooding. The new location obviously screwed up the navigational calculations, but the aliens obviously didn't imagine that anyone would tear down something that huge, stone for stone, and then rebuild it exactly identically somewhere nearby. |
||
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'': One story has Scrooge McDuck make a bunch of money by producing and selling semi-sentient 'growing' cars to people. Things are already falling |
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'': One story has Scrooge McDuck make a bunch of money by producing and selling semi-sentient 'growing' cars to people. Things are already falling apart, however, when an alien race arrives and hits the planet with a shrink-ray, designed to leave the people of the planet helpless when the invasion-fleet shows up later... but since said aliens happens to be a race of sentient cars, they mistook the growing cars for the dominant species of Earth, and shrunk ''those'' instead of the people. Since there's [[Negative Continuity]], however, we never get to see the invasion-fleet show up, but presumably, they'd be in for a nasty surprise... |
||
* In the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "My Favorite Oitling", the human explorer convinces the Martian warrior women that the huge suit of power armour that arrives to rescue him is a typical Earth female and so Earth will be too tough to invade. |
* In the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "My Favorite Oitling", the human explorer convinces the Martian warrior women that the huge suit of power armour that arrives to rescue him is a typical Earth female and so Earth will be too tough to invade. |
||