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Alien invasion - Notable examples |  | Alien invasion - Notable examples: Encyclopedia II - Alien invasion - Notable examples |  | The classic treatment was The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Other treatments have posited biological invasions (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), or cultural invasion (The Uplift Wars by David Brin).
The 1988 cult film They Live uses its own alien infiltration backstory as a satire on what some perceived as Reagan's America and the 1980s as an era of conspicuous consumption, in which the hidden aliens and human members of the elite oppress po ...
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Alien invasion - Notable examples
The classic treatment was The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Other treatments have posited biological invasions (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), or cultural invasion (The Uplift Wars by David Brin).
The 1988 cult film They Live uses its own alien infiltration backstory as a satire on what some perceived as Reagan's America and the 1980s as an era of conspicuous consumption, in which the hidden aliens and human members of the elite oppress poverty-stricken humans and a shrinking middle class.
John Kessel makes use of the metaphor of alien invasion in his short story Invaders, by contrasting the Earth invasion of the Krel with Francisco Pizarro's conquest of Peru, as if to illustrate the horror of the real event.
- Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
- V (TV series) - Drama about reptile aliens disguised as humans.
- Doctor Who
- The Day the Earth Stood Still -alien invasion movie (1951), in which the alien being (played by Michael Rennie) and his robot/android demonstrate their superior technology and fire-power by neutralizing all of mankind's electronic machines (i.e. cars, trucks, planes, trains, etc.). The theme of the movie is pacifism/anti-war/one-world government: the alien attacks provoke the mutually-hostile human national governments to set aside their differences and to join forces, in an attempt to combat the overwhelming alien threat.
- Half-Life 2 illustrates the effects of a prolonged occupation of Earth by an alien empire known as "The Combine", an alien civilization in its post-Singularity age. After humans accidentally open a portal to another dimension, Earth is invaded by alien soldiers and wildlife. Earth's military forces are defeated in the Seven Hour War, allowing the Combine to take over the planet. Humanity is eugenically culled via reproduction suppression and the brutality of the Combine's human allies. The Combine's motives are unclear, but humans are seen being honed into another weapon fit for the Combine's arsenal.
- Alien Siege sees aliens demanding the lives of millions of people in return for vast amounts of knowledge and technology.
- ID4, instead of the typical large fleet of UFOs, aliens used large destroyers to cover an entire city and sychronize with each other worldwide by using artificial satellites so they could strike at the same time. Also very importantly, they used one giant heat ray to disintegrate the building it was hovering over, producing a large wall of fire that destroyed anything it touched in a circle pattern.
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