If aliens ever appeared in our skies , you ’d think the human slipstream would be fuck . After all , any species that ’s smart enough to travel quicker than light would have technology beyond our imagining . But somehow , foreign invader always lose .
At least , in science fabrication stories , they almost always break . ( With a few noteworthy exceptions , like the brain parasites of Stephenie Meyer ’s The Host . ) Why are alien invader such pushovers ? Here are 10 reasons that skill fable teaches us for the futility of extraterrestrial imperialism .
Top range : Vintage Mars Attacks gum card , viaK - Type on Flickr .
It ’s uncanny — as latterly as mid-2008 , we werelamenting the factthat alien invasion story were dead as a genre . Now , aliens are invading all over the position once again , and it ’s important to be prepared . So how are the majority of foreign invasion thwarted ? Find out below . Warning : Tons of spoilers for old account !
What Would It Take To Bring Alien Invasions Back ?
1 ) An noncitizen falls in love with a human and sabotage the invasion .
Weposted an example of this the other daylight , from the 1963 moving-picture show Invasion of the Star Creatures . But it also pass off in the picture show Robot Monster , Teenagers from Outer Space , Cat - Women of the Moon and The Human Duplicators .
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In the Animorphs Word of God series , two Yeerks , phallus of a race of invading alien parasite , denounce their master after their human host shine in love with each other . In another leger , the characters Cassie and Jake subdue the state of war - huckster Howler raceway by infecting its hive mind with feelings of making love . The thinker - controlling alien in the film The Beast With a Million Eyes is defeated after its first exposure to the feeling of love disarms it .
2 ) The extraterrestrial being have a deadly allergic reaction to some form of plentiful resource on Earth .
It could be water supply , like in Signs , The Outer Limits sequence “ Specimen Unknown , ” or Night of the Big Heat . Or maybe it ’s our atmospheric state , as in Quatermass II , Night Caller from Outer Space or Battlefield Earth . It could be Earthly bacterium , which does for the aliens in War of the Worlds . Or it could be car headlights , like in Invasion of the Saucer - Men or The Eye Creatures . perchance it ’s cocaine , as in The Faculty . Or country music , like in Mars Attacks or the Twilight Zone episode “ Hocus - Pocus and Mr. Frisby , ” where the aliens are force back by a mouth organ . It could even be Head and Shoulders shampoo — that ’s what happen in Evolution .
Whatever it is , the aliens are simply not taking the right precautions to protect themselves against allergy . Many alien invaders have an averting to cold temperatures , as evidenced by every avatar of The Blob , the
aliens in The Arrival , DC Comics ’ Starro the Conqueror and the Kilaakians from Destroy All Monsters .
3 ) Their higher-ranking technology is used against them .
In Independence Day , a computer computer virus is uploaded into the alien mothership to lour their defense shields long enough for a heroic suicide mission to save the satellite .
In Killers From Space , Peter Graves calculates that shut off the index at the local atomic industrial plant will surcharge the aliens ’ equipment and ruin their base .
In the 1940 ’s series The Purple Monster Strikes , the encroacher Martian is killed by a transonic pulse shank come off from its own ballistic capsule . The world power beginning to Nyah ’s spaceship in Devil Girl From Mars is exploited in another felo-de-se charge to blow it up . The invading golem Kronos has its polarity reversed , destroying it , in Kronos . In Flash Gordon , Ming the Merciless is spike upon his war rocket , Ajax .
4 ) They get blown up .
In both variant of Village of the Damned and its source text , the Midwich Cuckoos , the exotic children are corral into a room and taken out with a time bomb . The aliens from Creeping Terror and The Man from Planet X are destroyed with grenades . missile and rockets are used to quench the invaders in The Atomic Submarine , War of the Planets and Night of the Blood Beast . A prosthetic head filled with magician ’s flash powder explode an outlander in The Deadly Spawn after it bites down on it . The aliens Eros and Tanna in Plan 9 From Outer Space blow up in their flying saucer after it mysteriously catches fervour . Howard the Duck blows up the Dark Overlord by firing a neutron disintegrator at it .
And of course , despite the MD ’s protestation that blowup never solve anything , many of the invasions of Earth on Doctor Who are solved by a huge , cleansing blast .
Aliens also turn out to be vulnerable to flaming : Flamethrowers , napalm and Verbascum thapsus stamp out the aliens in Night of the Creeps , The Thing , It appropriate the World , Caltiki – The Immortal Monster , The Stuff , The Dark , The Crawling Eye , Invasion of the Animal People and Decoys . Destroyah , from Godzilla Vs . Destroyah , is susceptible to both heat and insensate , and is killed by a attack of Godzilla ’s fire breathing spell after being suspend by a laser . Top image : Doctor Who , “ come of Doom ” byDarryl Joyce .
5 ) Superheroes wash up them up .
It ’s difficult to recall of a bomber who has n’t save the world from exotic invasion at least once , but here are some notables : Superman teamed up with Muhammad Ali to fight an alien boxing whizz in a match where the circumstances of the domain was hold in the balance . In Blue Demon Vs . The Hellish Spiders , the Blue Demon get the better of an invading subspecies of wanderer that can take on human form . In the climactic battle , he fights the spider queen ’s gaffer henchman who ’s transformed his good hand into an awesome baseball mitt - puppet tarantula .
In Invasion of the Neptune Men , the hero , Iron - Sharp , combats an armada of metallic Neptunians with acrobatics . Commando Cody and his jetpack champion Earth in multiple serials from the 1950 ’s , admit Zombies of the Stratosphere , starring Leonard Nimoy . In Fantastic Four#2 , Reed Richards convinces The Skrulls to not obtrude upon Earth after showing them some threatening pictures of monster in a comic rule book . effigy by Gary Frank .
6 ) They get electrocuted .
Electricity is used to fry alien invaders in the remake of Little Shop of Horrors , The Brain Eaters , Nightbeast , The Quatermass Xperiment , The affair from Another World and The Flame Barrier .
7 ) Their single , obscure unaccented spot is key .
In Killer Klowns from Outer Space , it ’s discovered the alien goofball are instantly down when their cherry rubber eraser olfactory organ are damage . In the XTC Minus 1 episode “ The Seventh Order , ” a destructive and telepathic alien robot named George is sent to Earth to spearhead an invasion — And any endeavor to attack it is preemptively thwarted . After bargaining it could n’t read subconscious thought , a battalion of sniper is hypnotized to go off upon it after listen a programed cue . It works , and the invasion is right away cancelled .
In Starship Troopers and Slither , or in the case of Star Trek ’s Borg Queen , the aliens are check by a female parent head , which is either bolt down or conquer , incapacitating the drone . In Torchwood : Children of Earth , and the film prey : Earth , the extraterrestrial are killed by a certain audio signal on a particular relative frequency — although it ’s somewhat more complicated in the Torchwood story . In Earth Vs . the Flying Saucers , the UFOs are rap out of the sky by an audio sign coupled with a magnetic field . In They live on and Earth Dies Screaming , the intrusion is compromised after the wipeout of a receiving set tower that give off a mind - check frequency .
- The aliens decide they do n’t need it any longer .
In the 1969 clowning The Monitors , the aliens who have successfully study control of Earth decide to result after feel their continued presence would lead to violence and agitation . In the Lost in Space episode , “ Invaders from the Fifth Dimension ” , Dr. Smith reach over Will Robinson to a couple of float heads in search of a human brain to power their computer , but after seeing Will ’s teardrop , the aliens become repel by homo
emotions and leave . In Evils of the Night , David Carradine , Julie Newmar and Tina Louise play a trio of outlander plan to harvest human blood in a game to keep themselves as untested as potential . Not wanting to get their manus dirty , they conscript two mechanics played by Aldo Ray and Neville Brand as enforcers . By the end of the flick , the aliens seem to turn a loss interest and blast Ray with a optical maser from outer space .
Also , sometimes aliens can be gruntle with democratic polish — as is the case in the Futurama episode , “ When Aliens Attack , ” where the aliens just want to see the final episode of Single Female Lawyer . Or the Tales from the Darkside episode “ Distant Signals , ” about an alien descend to Earth to farm more sequence of his satellite ’s favorite scrub serial star Darren McGavin .
9 ) Other aliens step in .
In the movie Critters , and its continuation , alien bounty hunter get along to Earth to stop the alien “ critters ” — something sort of similar happens in Alien Vs . Predator . In Tales of Suspense#15 , Goom , an exotic crook from Planet X , come to Earth with intent to conquer , after following some radio signal . When he asks to round up Earth ’s most important scientist and statesmen , Goom is in public abase after his major planet is contacted a second time , and other members of his subspecies are ship to take Goom back to his home world . The unknown identify him as an outcast , and apologize to the humans . Plus , of course of study , “ other aliens intervene ” is pretty much the plot of land of every Doctor Who narration about alien encroachment .
10 ) Scale / perspective
The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy delineate a race of noncitizen that think a massive assault on Earth , but due to a miscalculation in the major planet ’s size , were eaten by a dog upon arrival . In the Twilight Zone episode “ The Invaders , ” the U.S. Air Force empty its invasion of an alien world after break the inhabitants are giant star . In Alan Moore ’s Green Lantern chronicle , “ Mogo Does n’t Socialize ” , an foreign autocrat named Bolphunga the Unrelenting come down upon a major planet to challenge the local Green Lantern , Mogo , but flees once he discovers “ Mogo ” represent the intact major planet . An alien named Krangro is sent to Earth in Tales of Suspense#30to collect three human striver so he may “ let out ” them before his king . Krangro stuns and remember the first three people he sees , but the Earthmen do n’t respond to his merciless beating . ferocious , the king puts Krangro to end , and vow never to occupy Earth since the people there are too strong . It ’s then revealed that Krangro ’s captured “ Earthmen ” were really statues of Abraham Lincoln , Theodore Roosevelt and George Washington .
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