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* Displayed quite nicely in ''[[Independence Day]]'', in which a [[Strawman Political|horde of GenreBlind people]] has assembled atop a skyscraper waving "hello and welcome to Earth" placards as the alien spaceship positions itself directly over them... and then fires its massive "[[Applied Phlebotinum|frission]]" cannon, destroying the building and most of the city. Earlier, the government sent a helicopter rigged with [[Close Encounters of the Third Kind|a grid of flashing lights]] to try and communicate: the aliens promptly blew it out of the sky.
** This is not only a darkly funny [[Take That]] to ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', but a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[War of the Worlds]]''. A group of astronomers tried to use semaphore flags to communicate their good will to a pit containing the Martian ship and a half-constructed tripod. [[Hilarity Ensues|Heat Ray-ity Ensues]].
* Subsequently parodied in ''[[Mars Attacks
* ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' (the original) is the quintessential movie for demonstrating how badly humans would treat [[Innocent Aliens]].
* ''[[Starman (film)|Starman]]'' (the movie, and then the TV series based on it) was about a friendly alien who was hounded by the government. He first came to Earth in response to our friendly greetings carried aboard one of the Voyager probes... and was promptly shot down.
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