History WMG / IndependenceDay

*** Or they just attacked the much larger and denser population centres in Asia first before moving to Australia. Jakarta on it's own has half the population the entire country of Australia has. Then there's Beijing, Karachi, Delhi, Shanghai, Mumbai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Seoul, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Dongguan, Bangkok, Wuhan, Lahore, Bangalore, Singapore, Surat, Chennai, Chongqing, Kolkata, Yangon, Shenyang, Hyderbad to destroy before you get down to cities the size of Sydney.

* Step 5: Even with advanced alien manufacturing technologies, the construction of the ship will last ca. 50 years. Meanwhile, the natives send out smaller scout ships to seek out and explore potential candidates for planetary colonization.

Step 5: Even with advanced alien manufacturing technologies, the construction of the ship will last ca. 50 years. Meanwhile, the natives send out smaller scout ships to seek out and explore potential candidates for planetary colonization.
Step 6: See Step 1.

[[It is a vicious circle.]]

[[WMG: The movie is actually intended as a GreenAesop]]

[[WMG: The mother ship contained the aliens' ''entire'' population.]]
* Thus, like so many times before, humanity is once again responsible for the [[WhatTheHellHero total extinction]] of an unique form of life. [[HumansAreBastards Bastards!]]

{[WMG: The mother ship contained the aliens' ''entire'' population.]]

* Why? because is the stereotype, which, as TheNostalgiaCritic argues, the film is full of Stereotypes. Also, he has to overcome his wife's death in some point.

Think about it. With all of the chaos that occurred, the government decides "Screw repairing Manhattan!" and throws the worst offenders in it. After Snake Plissken's little adventure, followed by the attack by {{Godzilla}} InNameOnly, they finally start fixing things again. (AlanMoore, if you're reading this, feel free to use it in a LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen segment).

* Sorry, the {{Novelization}} of ''EscapeFromNewYork'' actually provided an explanation, and it had absolutely ''nothing'' to do with aliens. [[spoiler: The United States was hit with a massive nerve gas attack by the Soviet Union, and New York is hit especially hard. As a result, it is subsequently declared uninhabitable, and the government decides to turn it into a prison.]] Interesting thought, though.

* Sorry, the {{Novelization}} of ''EscapeFromNewYork'' actually provided an explanation, and it had absolutely ''nothing'' to do with aliens. [[spoiler: The United States was hit with a massive tear gas attack by the Soviet Union, and New York is hit especially hard. As a result, it is subsequently declared uninhabitable, and the government decides to turn it into a prison.]] Interesting thought, though.

Think about it: With all of the chaos that occurred, the government decides "Screw repairing Manhattan!", and throws the worst offenders in it. After Snake Plissken's little adventure, followed by the attack by {{Godzilla}} InNameOnly, they finally start fixing things up again. (AlanMoore, if you're reading this, feel free to use it in a LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen segment).

[[WMG: The aliens are actually the ones from {{Watchmen}}.]]
[[spoiler: Veidt]] made his creations a bit too well and they punched a hole in space time, coming to an Earth without superheroes (save a few with {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s). Lucky for us he was right about humanity uniting in the face of an incomprehensible evil and the day was saved, mostly. (The fallout from all those nukes and the giant-ass [=UFOs=] raining from the sky, plus the major political and economic centers of each country destroyed means that we're going right back to HumansAreBastards a few years down the road.)
::"All those nukes"? Only two were used in the whole movie, & one of those was completely contained within the mothership.
*** This WMG assumes that the other nations also used their nuclear arsenal against the aliens.

See the above WMG. Humanity is going to take a long time to recover, and as evidenced by the looting that happened in New York and Los Angeles moments before the [=UFOs=] toasted them a lot of people won't want to wait for civilization to come back.

These events aren't mentioned in the archives because, well, it's been a few hundred years and the stories [[AdaptationDecay got a little]]...[[AdaptationDisplacement distorted]].

The situation we leave our heroes in as the movie fades to black is even more doomtastic than the [[NoEndorHolocaust Endor Holocaust]]. A spacecraft "one fourth the size of the Moon" has just blown itself to smithereens and at the altitude we saw it hovering when Goldblum and Smith went to meet it the debris is pretty much all coming down on us. Even if it was mostly hollow there's going to be enough wreckage to bury the surface of Earth several kilometers deep (after first incinerating it from the heat of all that junk reentering). Rocks fall, everyone dies.
* Everyone on the surface dies dies; those fortunate enough to reside in the vault-like extraterrestrial technology enhanced Area51 survive, their decedents emerge centuries later to form a post-apocalyptic technocracy.

Why did the aliens use such absolutely unreasonably gigantic spacecraft to cart around wimpy beam weapons that packed approximately as much punch as a pile of nuclear bombs that could fit in a modest-sized human aircraft? Why did the city killers burn so readily when shot with piddly little anti-aircraft missiles once their invulnerable energy shields were down? Why did the wrecked city killer hovering over Area 51 drift gently away to crash far off in the distance? How could they hover without Newton's third law crushing everything on the ground beneath them? No magic anti-gravity needed, they were almost entirely filled with lighter-than-air hydrogen bladders.
* Alternately, the ships are huge cause the aliens never invented the transistor-- the ships are full of giant ''vacuum tubes''.
** Remember that they were hauling their entire civilization on those ships? They needed quite a bit of space.