We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill: Difference between revisions

* In [[Archie Comics|Archie's]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', humans dissecting the occupant of a downed Xorda spacecraft caused the entire race to launch genetic bombs at the Earth, thus killing off most humans and causing evolutionary mutation that led to our furry friends, the Mobians, becoming a dominant species along with the human-like Overlanders.

* ''[[Superman|Action Comics]]''. [[Crystal Spires and Togas|An ancient and wise race]] is doomed by [[Earthshattering Kaboom|planetary destruction]]. Their greatest scientist [[Ignored Expert|is ignored by his peers]], so he sends his infant son, the [[Last of His Kind]], to Earth, where his ship lands in a field outside a town called Smallville ... And because this is the [[Fantastic Racism|institutionally anti-alien]] Earth of the 31st century, Jun and Mara blast the infant with a laser-rifle and bury the remains behind the barn. They're still talking about how right they were to do so some months later, when they get killed in passing by a deranged [[Alternate Universe]] Superboy. [[Karmic Death|That's karma for you]].

* The very first issue of ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'' starts with the Evrons overwhelming the last Xerbian stronghold on their homeworld. Two issues later we find out from Xadhoom it was this trope in action: the Evrons, knowing that their army was superior to the Xerbian glorified police force but their ship wouldn't survive against the planetary defenses, sent ambassadors to sign a 'commercial agreement', and as soon as Xerba's planetary defenses were temporarily deactivated as sign of peace the Evron 'freighters' disgorged hordes of soldiers, overwhelming the Xerbians in a matter of days, with Xadhoom returning on the planet just in time to see the end of the last stronghold.

** In ''Spores'' we discover the Evrons are trying the same thing on Earth, trying to lull the United States and a [[Ruritania]] in a sense of peace, with the implied reason being that Earth is the exact opposite of Xerba: the Evrons ''can'' land, but there's no guarantee their soldiers would win (in fact they got their asses handed to them by human troops four times on-screen, one of them showing that Evrons with air support will win, albeith with [[Pirrhic Victory|heavy losses]], but as soon as the battle moved into the corridors of the attacked base the US Army needed just a couple minutes of pause to muster a counterattack that won the day with the power of [[More Dakka]]). Also, they know that Earth weapons can shoot down their landing ships (a dozen assault helicopters at short range of one of their heavily armed assault ships were treated as an [[One Hit KO|instant victory]] for the helicopters, and a blimp filled with TNT exploding near one of their 'Invasion Hives' in the upper atmosphere was enough to shoot it down), and while they know they can destroy our missiles they have no idea of how many nukes we have, and just one of them going off in a cluster of ships would annihilate them.

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