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!"''

* ''[[Titanzer]]'': They not only invaded but [https://web.archive.org/web/20130128142620/http://titanzer.com/new-readers/ punched the head off the statue of liberty].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* ''An Introduction to Planetary Defense'' by Travis S. Taylor, Bob Boan, R.C. Anding and T. Conley Powell: A nonfiction look at the possibilities of an alien invasion of Earth. They make various suggestions, discuss issues regarding first contact, and possible ways to help deal with an invasion.

* ''When Aliens Attack'': A production on the National Geographic Channel, and takes a look at the trope, using input from scientists, military personnel, and various other professionals.