Alien Invasion stories where you rooted for the aliens?

[Karthak]

I've been reading Harry Turtledove's Worldwar books lately, and considering the fact that the enemies of the invading Race include the likes of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia, I really would have liked it if the Race conquered the world.

Any other people here who sometimes cheer for the invaders in an alien invasion story?

 

[Esotera]

I've just started on season 4 of BSG and so far I've found the Cylons so much more interesting than humanity. Although that could probably change depending on how it ends. I can't really think of any stories where the aliens are ambiguous, I blame Hollywood...

 

[tippy2k2]

battleship the movie.. they cut off access they fought anyone who attacked them or threatened them but those horrible humans just wouldnt let them contact home !

Amen to that brother! [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.400271-Battleship-Popcorn-flick-or-brilliant-satire] (note: if you do click on the link, a video auto-plays a post below my OP)

The aliens crash land on our planet and put up a shield to protect themselves (they have no clue what we could do). Unable to communicate, the humans attempt to board the alien ship (pretty aggressive act...). The aliens use a non-lethal weapon to get the humans off their ship and the humans respond by killing everyone!

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Signs because just fuck everyone in that movie.

I liked Signs. It was the last good Shyamalan movie. Though I'll concede mileage varies tremendously with this movie, for some reason.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Alien 3. Not strictly an invasion movie, but I still rooted for the aliens. All the human characters in that movie other than Ripley are murderers, rapists, and other various scumbags, I don't see why anyone wouldn't be rooting for the aliens.

 

[Greymanelor]

Technically the film The Darkest Hour, but only because if the aliens had killed everyone then the film would have been over sooner.

More seriously, District 9. Poor Prawns.

 

[Frankster]

Avatar, I was cheering for the alien invaders the whole way.

Otherwise district 9, humans were really obnoxious in that one.

 

[Reiper]

Avatar, I was cheering for the alien invaders the whole way.

Otherwise district 9, humans were really obnoxious in that one.

Yeah haha I was rooting for the "alien invaders" in avatar as well. Not only was their tech sweet, but they never explored what was going on back on earth, other than "most plants dead, world f*cked". What happens if the "unobtainium" was actually the vital resource keeping billions of people alive.

I was likewise rooting for district 9 aliens, in their case, almost solely because their weapons were sweet.

 

[Thaluikhain]

None, on account of this:
A species capable of interstellar travel convenient enough to allow campaigns of conquest needs to fail, because the suckers deserve to get killed for being so dumb to waste ressources on conquest - in a universe filled with planets not ihabited by people that consider full scale nuklear war winnable at any point in time.

There is that, but sometimes the humans are even stupider than that.

 

[Asita]

Yeah haha I was rooting for the "alien invaders" in avatar as well. Not only was their tech sweet, but they never explored what was going on back on earth, other than "most plants dead, world f*cked". What happens if the "unobtainium" was actually the vital resource keeping billions of people alive.

That's not terribly far from the truth, actually. Earth in Avatar had basically become Coruscant and was suffering from overpopulation, pollution, significant deforestation, world hunger, ozone depletion, resources depletion, water shortages and the aftereffects of nuclear war and environmental terrorism. Additionally, the main source of food were artificially grown protean and algae, the gasmasks seen in the film were needed to survive a single day on Earth, and topping it all off, it was in the middle of an energy crisis (imagine the implications of THAT when the main food source is synthetic) which the unobtanium was mean to curb if not solve as basically the holy grail of superconductors (additionally, it's apparently crucial in developing a truly spacefaring civilization, meaning it's likely humanity's best chance to get off that dying rock).

...Which kinda makes you wonder what the film would have been like if the bureaucrat in charge of the expedition had acted in a way that reflected that instead of simply like a negligently amoral businessman concerned only with profit margins.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Just remembered about "Attack the Block." God I really wished all the kids had died in that movie and the aliens won. Every single character was awful and I was completely unsympathetic to them.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

District 9, definitely. I wanted the prawns to get more of those mech suits running and kick some ass. And from what I've seen of 40K, the Tau seem like the only people in the galaxy that aren't completely insane, so I'll get behind them. Also, if this counts, Killzone. The Helghast have entirely understandable and sympathetic reasons to fight, and they're the ones trying to bring down an exploitive, punishing, corporate-backed bloated monstrosity of a superpower. Plus they're just way damn cooler than the ISA.

 

[Abomination]

Were the "Prawns" in District 9 really "invading"? I believe the correct term is "stranded".

Other than that I can only think Avatar I wish the humans succeeded in their endeavors just not in the method they were employing. They technologically trounced the natives of Pandora and true co-habitation would have been possible if the expedition had conducted itself with more than one collective brain cell.

"Our people are dying and we require the resource under your tree to survive. Can we please harvest it in an ecologically friendly way? We do not want to have to resort to force to do this because, as I say again, WE ARE DYING without it." one would think the natives would consider allowing humans to take the rocks they don't use. Chief would have to be mad to refuse this race of stocky brown and pink creatures who arrived on giant flying metal beasts and could level the whole forest in a few hours should they feel the desire.

 

[Broken Blade]

Avatar, as has been mentioned. When I'm asked to weigh the survival of billions versus a single village on a planet that will never accomplish anything in the entirety of its history, it's a really easy answer. Now, of course Cameron didn't WRITE it that way, but I like to pretend it's a much better movie than we actually got. With nuanced characters and multiple viewpoints and no one being perfect.

Also, Duke Nukem Forever. Because if the aliens won, then the game would be over, and Duke would be dead.

 

[Mr Companion]

Signs because just fuck everyone in that movie.

Why route for the idiotic aliens? They thought they could take on an entire species with their rubbish seeping gas hands that only work in a chokehold, they brought no armor weapons vehicles or artillery and choreographed their invasion with stupid agricultural graffiti. All to invade a planet covered predominantly in a substance that burns their flash. I agree the humans were just as stupid but confiding in the aliens is just as pointless. What was their plan for when it rained? What if a kid with a waterpistol turned up? They never stood a chance.