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** Justified by the aliens' reliance on their innate telepathy resulting in their telecommunications technology being comparatively less advanced (hinted at in the opening scenes where the aliens use humanity's communication satellites to coordinate their attack, rather than their own ships, suggesting that they in fact did not have an equivalent capability on their own). The character in question tested his virus and his laptop on the recovered alien ship first, suggesting that either he or the scientists had already hacked the alien OS. Either that or human computer programming was inspired by leaked alien tech.
** Also, it's a safe bet that none of their prior victims had the opportunity to reverse-engineer their technology and use it against them. (If they had, the events of the movie probably wouldn't have happened.) These aliens rely on shock-and-awe tactics to eliminate the major threats before they can respond.
* The [[More Than Mind Control]]ling viral aliens in ''[[The Invasion]]'' had, in a matter of three or four days, infiltrated most of the Washington population and (going by the Shuttle debris pattern) must have had agents all over the US and ''the world'', painting a scenario where humanity will inevitably fall no matter what it does. {{spoiler|But, the heroes discover that some people who had a rare kind of bacterial infection in the brain were resistant to their [[The Virus|virus]], and in a matter of hours after delivering one such person had created a [[Magic Antidote]] which they delivered to everyone infected via ''dispersing it in the air.''}} The film concludes with a near [[Reset Button]], one character points out that we might never find and cure all infected individuals, but notes that we are in control of the planet because [[Humans Are
* Humorous example: ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'' and yodeling.
* ''[[Signs]]'' with water. Although it's not really necessary, given that this is a race that can be stopped by a pantry door that probably wouldn't have kept a determined human in. Seriously. It's like if humanity invaded the acid-covered world, with acid rain, and invaded the natives by wandering naked into the rural farmhouses.
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