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!!!This is about the DC series. For the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' series, see ''Comicbook/{{Savage}}.''
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[[caption-width-right:300:My, what big teeth you have, Grandma!]]
''Invasion!'' was a three-part CrisisCrossover miniseries published by Creator/DCComics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the [[Series/{{Invasion}} TV series of the same name]], or any other invasion-themed series.)
An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around Franchise/TheDCUniverse to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)
The combined might of the alien armada seemed invincible but thanks to a HeelFaceTurn by one of its own member races, it was routed. But a second threat happened when a Dominator scientist detonated a "meta-gene bomb" whose radiation rendered most of Earth's metahumans helpless. Another switching of sides--by, ironically, that same scientist--helped save them.
The series ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' (about a mercenary group that protected the galaxy in the Corps' absence) was spun off from the crossover. It also launched the series of [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]] and the Daxamite superhero ComicBook/{{Valor}} (also known as [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mon-El]]). (A team called The Blasters was introduced by the crossover and given a one-shot special, but never had its own series.)
In 2016, the story was adapted as third {{crisis crossover}} of the Series/ArrowVerse called ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}'' and the first to feature all four shows: ''Series/Supergirl2015'' ("[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E8Medusa Medusa]]"), ''Series/TheFlash2014'' ("[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' ("[[Recap/ArrowS5E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' ("[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E7Invasion Invasion!]]"), in that order.
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!!Tropes:
* ActionBomb: Lex Luthor contributed by making robotic replicas of heroes that would get captured, and then explode while being studied.
* AliensAreBastards: '''Full-Stop'''. The entire story happened because a race of aliens wanted to use humans as guinea pigs and weapons out of sheer prejudice and then convince a bunch of others to join along.
* AliensInCardiff: The alien armada begins its attack by... taking over Australia.
* AlienInvasion: An alliance of extraterrestrials invade earth, prompted by the supposed potential danger posed by the adaptability and powers inherent in the meta-gene present in some humans.
* BaldOfEvil: Thanagarian men are bald fascists.
* BrainMonster: The Gil'Dishpan look like misshapen brain-tubeworm things in tentacle covered bubbles.
* CaptainErsatz:
** Inverted with the Khunds who are pretty much pink [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingons]] but debuted three years before ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** Inverted with the Durlans, who are essentially the same as the more popular [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion Skrulls]] but predated their first appearance a month. [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Reep Dagle]] was the first of either species to grace the pages of comics back in 1961, and the Skrulls first appeared in 1962.
* CategoryTraitor: The Thanagarians joined mostly to capture Katar and Shayera Hol.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Earlier attempts by various races. This one came closer to succeeding however.
* EvilIsPetty: Part of what stopped the invasion was the various races sniping at each other, helped along by ComicBook/{{Deadman}} possessing some.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Dominators, to their disadvantage. The scientist who invented the gene bomb was only told to study the meta gene because of his caste status. His subsequent torture for going outside what his caste was permitted to do was what allowed the heroes to convince him to make a cure.
* FantasticRacism: Part of the reason for the alliance was... that aliens don't like how we look. The Daxamites and Thanagarians resembled Earth's humans, but they had no genetic variance eg. they all look alike. It's actually fascinating that the Daxamites were willing to ally with anyone given their traditionally extremely xenophobic culture.
* FindingJudas: Several groups, including the US military, start realizing they've been infiltrated by Durlans impersonating personnel. Franchise/WonderWoman's lasso and inherent sense of when she's being lied to gives her a leg up on figuring out who is really who they claim to be, which is helpful when ComicBook/SteveTrevor ends up abducted and impersonated.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** Any Dominator (very few) or Durlan that switches sides to aid the humans.
** Some were only revealed later. Most of those that become ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'s command crew after she is abducted by the Sangtee Empire were former members of the Alien Alliance. The Empire caught quite a few Durlans and Khunds while they were on their way home and a few invaders that were fleeing their own people in the aftermath (the Dominator Sakritt and Daxamite "Julia") of the failed invasion.
* DividedWeFall: The Durlans try to implement this, but while there is a great deal of distrust going around once people realize some their supposed allies are Durlan impersonators most groups are able to operate effectively anyway.
* TheDreaded:[[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Darkseid]]. Though he doesn't physically make an appearance, the alliance agreed not to completely destroy the Earth and leave just enough humans for Darkseid for his anti-life equation. Anybody violating that rule risks the Lord of Apokalips' wrath.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Dominators are not nice and have a bunch of long sharp pointy teeth constantly exposed since they have no lips to cover them with.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of the Daxamite observers for the alien alliance, who died of lead poisoning so he could reach a transmitter to tell his homeworld to throw in on Earth's side. (At the time, the Daxamite was the father of [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Lar Gand]], a.k.a. ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Mon-El; this has probably been {{retcon}}ned.)
* HumanAliens: The Daxamites and Thanagarians.
* {{Irony}}: Several things.
** The invaders had no idea that the superhumans were going to be used against them once captured.
** The Daxamites helping route the invasion.
** A Dominator helping save Earth's heroes (after almost killing them.)
** The Thanagarians' original reason for joining the Invasion was to capture Hawkman and Hawkwoman, rogue Thanagarians who had defected to Earth. The popularity of the ''ComicBook/{{Hawk|man}}world'' comic would lead to these characters being rebooted, and retconned the previous Hawkman and Hawkwoman members of the Justice League being advance agents of the Invasion who remained loyal. Hawkworld came out literally months after the conclusion to Invasion!, essentially making the Thanagarians' involvement immediately incoherent.
* LeeroyJenkins: The Khunds' battlelust ends up being less than benificiary for their allies.
* MetaOrigin: The meta-gene, present in some but not all humans. It grants superpowers when exposed to dangerous forces. Note that not all superheroes got their powers from it, just the majority.
** The "Blasters" team were the survivors of a group of 100 random humans [[AlienAbduction kidnapped]] to demonstrate the theory. The Dominator running the experiment expected that if they were all attacked by a firing-squad barrage, one of them would spontaneously develop powers that would allow him to survive. Instead, seven people did, including (unknown to them) former ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} sidekick Snapper Carr.
** The Daxamites gain powers on Earth similar to Superman's, since they're descended from Kryptonian colonists who intermarried with native Daxamites. However they were also vulnerable to lead-based pollution, and only survived because Earth's heroes saved them.
** Some people actually ''gained'' powers (or had them altered) as a result of the meta-bomb, most notably ComicBook/{{Justice League|International}} manager Maxwell Lord. Several of the new members of Comicbook/DoomPatrol introduced during the Creator/GrantMorrison run were also said to have got their powers from the meta-bomb.
*** ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} actually came back from the dead because of it. Notable not only in that it implied his powers were genetic rather than mystic, but also that the gene bomb could work on the dead.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Dominators. [[WhatAnIdiot Not that most of their allies realized it]].
* {{Parody}}: At the time, Marvel's ''ComicBook/XMen'' were situated in Australia. So they had an issue where they stopped a thinly-disguised version of DC's invasion.
* NoNeedForNames: Dominators and a certain subculture of Durlans do not use names, but rebellious members of each, such as the Dominator [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Sakritt]] do adopt names as part of their rebellion.
* TheMole: Several heroic characters and government officials have actually been replaced by Durlans.
* RedSkiesCrossover: Some comics had no direct ties to the event beyond a single black and white panel with reversed coloration, signifying the moment of the gene bomb's detonation.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Most of the alien races that weren't the Daxamites, Thangarians, or Gil'Dishpan.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Durlans have a default form as a bald orange humanoid with pointy ears and a pair of antenna. Those whose families were badly effected by the fallout from the "Six-Minute War" have essentially lost their default and instead look like a shifting writhing inconsistent mass of brown and grey tentacles in their "default" form.
* ShoutOut:
** The headline for the Daily Planet in response to the United Nations rejecting the Alien Alliance's demand to surrender their superheroes reads, "EARTH TO INVADERS: DROP DEAD!", a reference to the October 29, 1975 issue of the New York Daily News, whose headline reads, "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".
** The cover to the second issue is a reference to the US Marines hoisting up the US flag after the battle of Iwo Jima.
* SpacePolice: The [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]], and the [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]].
* StarfishAliens: The Gil'Disphan were the Invasion's submariner force, and looked like tumors floating in bubbles.
* TakeThat: The tag line for this event was [[ComicBook/SecretWars "Secret no more."]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Durlans of course, though as always they're under threat of being mode-locked in their current forms and the forms of those who came out the worst from Durla's "Six-Minute War" are more unstable.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Lead, for the Daxamites.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Dominator Leaders had not told their scientist what the real purpose of their mission was. So they rewarded his invention with torture, which led to his HeelFaceTurn.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The invading alliance seems to be defeated by the second issue... oh, wait, gene bomb.
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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/invasion_3970.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:My, what big teeth you have, Grandma!]]
''Invasion!'' was a three-part CrisisCrossover miniseries published by Creator/DCComics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the [[Series/{{Invasion}} TV series of the same name]], or any other invasion-themed series.)
An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around Franchise/TheDCUniverse to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)
The combined might of the alien armada seemed invincible but thanks to a HeelFaceTurn by one of its own member races, it was routed. But a second threat happened when a Dominator scientist detonated a "meta-gene bomb" whose radiation rendered most of Earth's metahumans helpless. Another switching of sides--by, ironically, that same scientist--helped save them.
The series ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' (about a mercenary group that protected the galaxy in the Corps' absence) was spun off from the crossover. It also launched the series of [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]] and the Daxamite superhero ComicBook/{{Valor}} (also known as [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mon-El]]). (A team called The Blasters was introduced by the crossover and given a one-shot special, but never had its own series.)
In 2016, the story was adapted as third {{crisis crossover}} of the Series/ArrowVerse called ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}'' and the first to feature all four shows: ''Series/Supergirl2015'' ("[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E8Medusa Medusa]]"), ''Series/TheFlash2014'' ("[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' ("[[Recap/ArrowS5E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' ("[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E7Invasion Invasion!]]"), in that order.
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!!Tropes:
* ActionBomb: Lex Luthor contributed by making robotic replicas of heroes that would get captured, and then explode while being studied.
* AliensAreBastards: '''Full-Stop'''. The entire story happened because a race of aliens wanted to use humans as guinea pigs and weapons out of sheer prejudice and then convince a bunch of others to join along.
* AliensInCardiff: The alien armada begins its attack by... taking over Australia.
* AlienInvasion: An alliance of extraterrestrials invade earth, prompted by the supposed potential danger posed by the adaptability and powers inherent in the meta-gene present in some humans.
* BaldOfEvil: Thanagarian men are bald fascists.
* BrainMonster: The Gil'Dishpan look like misshapen brain-tubeworm things in tentacle covered bubbles.
* CaptainErsatz:
** Inverted with the Khunds who are pretty much pink [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingons]] but debuted three years before ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** Inverted with the Durlans, who are essentially the same as the more popular [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion Skrulls]] but predated their first appearance a month. [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Reep Dagle]] was the first of either species to grace the pages of comics back in 1961, and the Skrulls first appeared in 1962.
* CategoryTraitor: The Thanagarians joined mostly to capture Katar and Shayera Hol.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Earlier attempts by various races. This one came closer to succeeding however.
* EvilIsPetty: Part of what stopped the invasion was the various races sniping at each other, helped along by ComicBook/{{Deadman}} possessing some.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Dominators, to their disadvantage. The scientist who invented the gene bomb was only told to study the meta gene because of his caste status. His subsequent torture for going outside what his caste was permitted to do was what allowed the heroes to convince him to make a cure.
* FantasticRacism: Part of the reason for the alliance was... that aliens don't like how we look. The Daxamites and Thanagarians resembled Earth's humans, but they had no genetic variance eg. they all look alike. It's actually fascinating that the Daxamites were willing to ally with anyone given their traditionally extremely xenophobic culture.
* FindingJudas: Several groups, including the US military, start realizing they've been infiltrated by Durlans impersonating personnel. Franchise/WonderWoman's lasso and inherent sense of when she's being lied to gives her a leg up on figuring out who is really who they claim to be, which is helpful when ComicBook/SteveTrevor ends up abducted and impersonated.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** Any Dominator (very few) or Durlan that switches sides to aid the humans.
** Some were only revealed later. Most of those that become ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'s command crew after she is abducted by the Sangtee Empire were former members of the Alien Alliance. The Empire caught quite a few Durlans and Khunds while they were on their way home and a few invaders that were fleeing their own people in the aftermath (the Dominator Sakritt and Daxamite "Julia") of the failed invasion.
* DividedWeFall: The Durlans try to implement this, but while there is a great deal of distrust going around once people realize some their supposed allies are Durlan impersonators most groups are able to operate effectively anyway.
* TheDreaded:[[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Darkseid]]. Though he doesn't physically make an appearance, the alliance agreed not to completely destroy the Earth and leave just enough humans for Darkseid for his anti-life equation. Anybody violating that rule risks the Lord of Apokalips' wrath.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Dominators are not nice and have a bunch of long sharp pointy teeth constantly exposed since they have no lips to cover them with.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of the Daxamite observers for the alien alliance, who died of lead poisoning so he could reach a transmitter to tell his homeworld to throw in on Earth's side. (At the time, the Daxamite was the father of [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Lar Gand]], a.k.a. ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Mon-El; this has probably been {{retcon}}ned.)
* HumanAliens: The Daxamites and Thanagarians.
* {{Irony}}: Several things.
** The invaders had no idea that the superhumans were going to be used against them once captured.
** The Daxamites helping route the invasion.
** A Dominator helping save Earth's heroes (after almost killing them.)
** The Thanagarians' original reason for joining the Invasion was to capture Hawkman and Hawkwoman, rogue Thanagarians who had defected to Earth. The popularity of the ''ComicBook/{{Hawk|man}}world'' comic would lead to these characters being rebooted, and retconned the previous Hawkman and Hawkwoman members of the Justice League being advance agents of the Invasion who remained loyal. Hawkworld came out literally months after the conclusion to Invasion!, essentially making the Thanagarians' involvement immediately incoherent.
* LeeroyJenkins: The Khunds' battlelust ends up being less than benificiary for their allies.
* MetaOrigin: The meta-gene, present in some but not all humans. It grants superpowers when exposed to dangerous forces. Note that not all superheroes got their powers from it, just the majority.
** The "Blasters" team were the survivors of a group of 100 random humans [[AlienAbduction kidnapped]] to demonstrate the theory. The Dominator running the experiment expected that if they were all attacked by a firing-squad barrage, one of them would spontaneously develop powers that would allow him to survive. Instead, seven people did, including (unknown to them) former ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} sidekick Snapper Carr.
** The Daxamites gain powers on Earth similar to Superman's, since they're descended from Kryptonian colonists who intermarried with native Daxamites. However they were also vulnerable to lead-based pollution, and only survived because Earth's heroes saved them.
** Some people actually ''gained'' powers (or had them altered) as a result of the meta-bomb, most notably ComicBook/{{Justice League|International}} manager Maxwell Lord. Several of the new members of Comicbook/DoomPatrol introduced during the Creator/GrantMorrison run were also said to have got their powers from the meta-bomb.
*** ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} actually came back from the dead because of it. Notable not only in that it implied his powers were genetic rather than mystic, but also that the gene bomb could work on the dead.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Dominators. [[WhatAnIdiot Not that most of their allies realized it]].
* {{Parody}}: At the time, Marvel's ''ComicBook/XMen'' were situated in Australia. So they had an issue where they stopped a thinly-disguised version of DC's invasion.
* NoNeedForNames: Dominators and a certain subculture of Durlans do not use names, but rebellious members of each, such as the Dominator [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Sakritt]] do adopt names as part of their rebellion.
* TheMole: Several heroic characters and government officials have actually been replaced by Durlans.
* RedSkiesCrossover: Some comics had no direct ties to the event beyond a single black and white panel with reversed coloration, signifying the moment of the gene bomb's detonation.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Most of the alien races that weren't the Daxamites, Thangarians, or Gil'Dishpan.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Durlans have a default form as a bald orange humanoid with pointy ears and a pair of antenna. Those whose families were badly effected by the fallout from the "Six-Minute War" have essentially lost their default and instead look like a shifting writhing inconsistent mass of brown and grey tentacles in their "default" form.
* ShoutOut:
** The headline for the Daily Planet in response to the United Nations rejecting the Alien Alliance's demand to surrender their superheroes reads, "EARTH TO INVADERS: DROP DEAD!", a reference to the October 29, 1975 issue of the New York Daily News, whose headline reads, "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".
** The cover to the second issue is a reference to the US Marines hoisting up the US flag after the battle of Iwo Jima.
* SpacePolice: The [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]], and the [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]].
* StarfishAliens: The Gil'Disphan were the Invasion's submariner force, and looked like tumors floating in bubbles.
* TakeThat: The tag line for this event was [[ComicBook/SecretWars "Secret no more."]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Durlans of course, though as always they're under threat of being mode-locked in their current forms and the forms of those who came out the worst from Durla's "Six-Minute War" are more unstable.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Lead, for the Daxamites.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Dominator Leaders had not told their scientist what the real purpose of their mission was. So they rewarded his invention with torture, which led to his HeelFaceTurn.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The invading alliance seems to be defeated by the second issue... oh, wait, gene bomb.
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to:
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/invasion_3970.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:My, what big teeth you have, Grandma!]]
''Invasion!'' was a three-part CrisisCrossover miniseries published by Creator/DCComics in 1988. (It should not be confused with the [[Series/{{Invasion}} TV series of the same name]], or any other invasion-themed series.)
An alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe. Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around Franchise/TheDCUniverse to aid them under the pretense that the "metahumans" were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)
The combined might of the alien armada seemed invincible but thanks to a HeelFaceTurn by one of its own member races, it was routed. But a second threat happened when a Dominator scientist detonated a "meta-gene bomb" whose radiation rendered most of Earth's metahumans helpless. Another switching of sides--by, ironically, that same scientist--helped save them.
The series ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' (about a mercenary group that protected the galaxy in the Corps' absence) was spun off from the crossover. It also launched the series of [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]] and the Daxamite superhero ComicBook/{{Valor}} (also known as [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Mon-El]]). (A team called The Blasters was introduced by the crossover and given a one-shot special, but never had its own series.)
In 2016, the story was adapted as third {{crisis crossover}} of the Series/ArrowVerse called ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}'' and the first to feature all four shows: ''Series/Supergirl2015'' ("[[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E8Medusa Medusa]]"), ''Series/TheFlash2014'' ("[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' ("[[Recap/ArrowS5E8Invasion Invasion!]]"), and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' ("[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E7Invasion Invasion!]]"), in that order.
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!!Tropes:
* ActionBomb: Lex Luthor contributed by making robotic replicas of heroes that would get captured, and then explode while being studied.
* AliensAreBastards: '''Full-Stop'''. The entire story happened because a race of aliens wanted to use humans as guinea pigs and weapons out of sheer prejudice and then convince a bunch of others to join along.
* AliensInCardiff: The alien armada begins its attack by... taking over Australia.
* AlienInvasion: An alliance of extraterrestrials invade earth, prompted by the supposed potential danger posed by the adaptability and powers inherent in the meta-gene present in some humans.
* BaldOfEvil: Thanagarian men are bald fascists.
* BrainMonster: The Gil'Dishpan look like misshapen brain-tubeworm things in tentacle covered bubbles.
* CaptainErsatz:
** Inverted with the Khunds who are pretty much pink [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingons]] but debuted three years before ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** Inverted with the Durlans, who are essentially the same as the more popular [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion Skrulls]] but predated their first appearance a month. [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Reep Dagle]] was the first of either species to grace the pages of comics back in 1961, and the Skrulls first appeared in 1962.
* CategoryTraitor: The Thanagarians joined mostly to capture Katar and Shayera Hol.
* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Earlier attempts by various races. This one came closer to succeeding however.
* EvilIsPetty: Part of what stopped the invasion was the various races sniping at each other, helped along by ComicBook/{{Deadman}} possessing some.
* FantasticCasteSystem: The Dominators, to their disadvantage. The scientist who invented the gene bomb was only told to study the meta gene because of his caste status. His subsequent torture for going outside what his caste was permitted to do was what allowed the heroes to convince him to make a cure.
* FantasticRacism: Part of the reason for the alliance was... that aliens don't like how we look. The Daxamites and Thanagarians resembled Earth's humans, but they had no genetic variance eg. they all look alike. It's actually fascinating that the Daxamites were willing to ally with anyone given their traditionally extremely xenophobic culture.
* FindingJudas: Several groups, including the US military, start realizing they've been infiltrated by Durlans impersonating personnel. Franchise/WonderWoman's lasso and inherent sense of when she's being lied to gives her a leg up on figuring out who is really who they claim to be, which is helpful when ComicBook/SteveTrevor ends up abducted and impersonated.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** Any Dominator (very few) or Durlan that switches sides to aid the humans.
** Some were only revealed later. Most of those that become ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'s command crew after she is abducted by the Sangtee Empire were former members of the Alien Alliance. The Empire caught quite a few Durlans and Khunds while they were on their way home and a few invaders that were fleeing their own people in the aftermath (the Dominator Sakritt and Daxamite "Julia") of the failed invasion.
* DividedWeFall: The Durlans try to implement this, but while there is a great deal of distrust going around once people realize some their supposed allies are Durlan impersonators most groups are able to operate effectively anyway.
* TheDreaded:[[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Darkseid]]. Though he doesn't physically make an appearance, the alliance agreed not to completely destroy the Earth and leave just enough humans for Darkseid for his anti-life equation. Anybody violating that rule risks the Lord of Apokalips' wrath.
* GoodLipsEvilJaws: The Dominators are not nice and have a bunch of long sharp pointy teeth constantly exposed since they have no lips to cover them with.
* HeroicSacrifice: One of the Daxamite observers for the alien alliance, who died of lead poisoning so he could reach a transmitter to tell his homeworld to throw in on Earth's side. (At the time, the Daxamite was the father of [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Lar Gand]], a.k.a. ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes member Mon-El; this has probably been {{retcon}}ned.)
* HumanAliens: The Daxamites and Thanagarians.
* {{Irony}}: Several things.
** The invaders had no idea that the superhumans were going to be used against them once captured.
** The Daxamites helping route the invasion.
** A Dominator helping save Earth's heroes (after almost killing them.)
** The Thanagarians' original reason for joining the Invasion was to capture Hawkman and Hawkwoman, rogue Thanagarians who had defected to Earth. The popularity of the ''ComicBook/{{Hawk|man}}world'' comic would lead to these characters being rebooted, and retconned the previous Hawkman and Hawkwoman members of the Justice League being advance agents of the Invasion who remained loyal. Hawkworld came out literally months after the conclusion to Invasion!, essentially making the Thanagarians' involvement immediately incoherent.
* LeeroyJenkins: The Khunds' battlelust ends up being less than benificiary for their allies.
* MetaOrigin: The meta-gene, present in some but not all humans. It grants superpowers when exposed to dangerous forces. Note that not all superheroes got their powers from it, just the majority.
** The "Blasters" team were the survivors of a group of 100 random humans [[AlienAbduction kidnapped]] to demonstrate the theory. The Dominator running the experiment expected that if they were all attacked by a firing-squad barrage, one of them would spontaneously develop powers that would allow him to survive. Instead, seven people did, including (unknown to them) former ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} sidekick Snapper Carr.
** The Daxamites gain powers on Earth similar to Superman's, since they're descended from Kryptonian colonists who intermarried with native Daxamites. However they were also vulnerable to lead-based pollution, and only survived because Earth's heroes saved them.
** Some people actually ''gained'' powers (or had them altered) as a result of the meta-bomb, most notably ComicBook/{{Justice League|International}} manager Maxwell Lord. Several of the new members of Comicbook/DoomPatrol introduced during the Creator/GrantMorrison run were also said to have got their powers from the meta-bomb.
*** ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} actually came back from the dead because of it. Notable not only in that it implied his powers were genetic rather than mystic, but also that the gene bomb could work on the dead.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Dominators. [[WhatAnIdiot Not that most of their allies realized it]].
* {{Parody}}: At the time, Marvel's ''ComicBook/XMen'' were situated in Australia. So they had an issue where they stopped a thinly-disguised version of DC's invasion.
* NoNeedForNames: Dominators and a certain subculture of Durlans do not use names, but rebellious members of each, such as the Dominator [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Sakritt]] do adopt names as part of their rebellion.
* TheMole: Several heroic characters and government officials have actually been replaced by Durlans.
* RedSkiesCrossover: Some comics had no direct ties to the event beyond a single black and white panel with reversed coloration, signifying the moment of the gene bomb's detonation.
* RubberForeheadAliens: Most of the alien races that weren't the Daxamites, Thangarians, or Gil'Dishpan.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Durlans have a default form as a bald orange humanoid with pointy ears and a pair of antenna. Those whose families were badly effected by the fallout from the "Six-Minute War" have essentially lost their default and instead look like a shifting writhing inconsistent mass of brown and grey tentacles in their "default" form.
* ShoutOut:
** The headline for the Daily Planet in response to the United Nations rejecting the Alien Alliance's demand to surrender their superheroes reads, "EARTH TO INVADERS: DROP DEAD!", a reference to the October 29, 1975 issue of the New York Daily News, whose headline reads, "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".
** The cover to the second issue is a reference to the US Marines hoisting up the US flag after the battle of Iwo Jima.
* SpacePolice: The [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]], and the [[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]].
* StarfishAliens: The Gil'Disphan were the Invasion's submariner force, and looked like tumors floating in bubbles.
* TakeThat: The tag line for this event was [[ComicBook/SecretWars "Secret no more."]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Durlans of course, though as always they're under threat of being mode-locked in their current forms and the forms of those who came out the worst from Durla's "Six-Minute War" are more unstable.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Lead, for the Daxamites.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Dominator Leaders had not told their scientist what the real purpose of their mission was. So they rewarded his invention with torture, which led to his HeelFaceTurn.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The invading alliance seems to be defeated by the second issue... oh, wait, gene bomb.
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* AliensAreBastards: '''Full-Stop'''. The entire story happened because a race of aliens wanted to use humans as guinea pigs and weapons out of sheer prejudice and then convince a bunch of others to join along.
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* HeroicSacrifice: One of the Daxamite observers for the alien alliance, who died of lead poisoning so he could reach a transmitter to tell his homeworld to throw in on Earth's side. (At the time, the Daxamite was the father of [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Lar Gand]], a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} member Mon-El; this has probably been {{retcon}}ned.)
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* TheDreaded:[[ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} Darkseid]]. Though he doesn't physically make an appearance, the alliance agreed not to completely destroy the Earth and leave just enough humans for Darkseid for his anti-life equation. Anybody violating that rule risks the Lord of Apokalips' wrath.
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