History Film / IndependenceDayResurgence

ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay: The interior of the Harvester mothership contains an entire ecosystem, including an atmosphere and plant life. Justified, as the mothership is [[PlanetSpaceship larger than the moon]] itself, and must be able to support the Harvesters’ civilization.

ArtificialOutdoorDisplay: The interior of the Harvester mothership contains an entire ecosystem, including an atmosphere and plant life. Justified, as the mothership is [[PlanetDpaceship larger than the moon]] itself, and must be able to support the Harvesters’ civilization.

* CrazyPrepared: Earth spends twenty years using alien technology to create defense systems and colonize the solar system in preparation for the inevitable second invasion. It's still not enough to repel the harvester attacks when they finally arrive, mostly due to the sheer size of the mothership.

* KnightOfCerebus: Once again, the harvesters prove to be a formidable threat, but this time they threaten the entire universe should the invasion succeed. The harvester queen even more so, as she is the leader of the entire invasion force.

* KnightOfCerebus: Once again, the harvesters prove to be a formidable threat, but this time they threaten the entire universe should the invasion succeed.

* KnightofCerebus: Once again, the harvesters prove to be a formidable threat, but this time they threaten the entire universe should the invasion succeed.

** Okun's coma ending abruptly is something of a ContrivedCoincidence, but {{Justified|Trope}} due to his psychic link to the aliens. Coincidence or not, though, a human who has been comatose and immobile for ''twenty years'' would have far too much muscle atrophy to be able to move as frantically as Okun does after waking up.

* ApocalypseHow: The aliens this time threaten to cause a ApocalypseHow/ClassX to Earth via PlanetaryCoreManipulation. The Sphere confirms they've already done this to many other worlds, and the opening shows the Queen's Harvester ship in the process of doing it to an alien world.

* IsThatWhatTheyAreCallingItNow: Floyd notices how David and Catherine are snarking LikeAnOldMarriedCouple, so David explains they "bumped into each other" during a few conferences. Floyd mutters, "I'll bet."

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The War of 1996 website depicts the Tokyo City Destroyer moving on to Yokohama for the second attack wave. The two cities are only 17 miles apart, and given that the range of the weapons are stated to be about twenty miles, it's unlikely Yokohama would have survived the first attack.

** The aliens' plan to drill into Earth's core and suck it out for energy seems inspired by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionofEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth ]] or [[Film/AustinPowers Project Vulcan]]. Hell, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers MEGATRON]]'' tried doing this ''more'' than once during Generation One!

* TheWorfBarrage: The city-destroying {{Wave Motion Gun}}s from the first movie were reverse-engineered and adapted to lunar and orbital defenses. The one on the Moon [[spoiler:barely makes a dent on the new bigger alien mothership]] (likely because the alien's technology included a power source strong enough to use said weapons, whereas human technology is still behind in said area, even with some reverse-engineered alien technology) while the orbital batteries [[spoiler:are destroyed by the mothership's canons before they even get a chance to fire.]] A similar cannon at Area 51 does manage to swat a few Attackers while trying (and failing) to penetrate the shields of the mothership.

** Naturally, since the world wasn't invaded by aliens in 1996 in RealLife, world events throughout the 21st century have been drastically altered. Humanity has enjoyed an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity brought on by the unity of a common alien foe, avoiding most of the [[TheWarOnTerror significant conflicts]] of the early 21st century, and the technology recovered from the invasion spearheaded the early development of things like smartphones and drones. The Earth Space Defense initiative is established, and the world's military forces are improved with alien weaponry, and humans have established colonies throughout the Solar System. All in all, humanity seems to be doing very well for itself... until ''they come back''.

** Okun's coma ending abruptly is a little bit ContrivedCoincidence, and {{Justified|Trope}} due to his psychic link to the aliens.

* InfantImmortality: Lampshaded by David Levinson. When [[spoiler:the alien queen escapes her crashed ship and immediately targets the kids on the school bus that his father was taking care of]], one of the kids goes back to rescue the family dog. David asks, "Are we really gonna wait for the dog?"

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics:
** There is absolute ''zero'' possibility that humanity would recover from the War of 1996 (the most devastating conflict in human history, easily eclipsing both World Wars, the Black Plague and multiple other wars ''combined'') in just 20 years, with a moonbase, functional spacecraft, rebuilt cities and restored infrastructure. Such a devastating event (imagine post-[=WW2=] Europe, scaled up globally and with 108 cities reduced to nothing but rubble) would set humanity back multiple decades, if not at least over century to rebuild fully. Major economic centers have been destroyed (New York with the NASDAQ and NYSE, London, Tokyo and the Nikkei Stock Index, Moscow, Paris, the list goes on), and within those cities all of the banking institutions, monuments, major company headquarters, countless businesses, manufacturing hubs, homes and museums, all of the critical infrastructure were completely destroyed. The world (North America, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia especially) would be in unparalleled economic ruin for the foreseeable future, as countries attempt (some likely succeeding more than others based on how many cities they lost or their economic prosperity prior to the invasion) to rebuild ''trillions'' and trillions of dollars worth of damage, millions, if not ''billions'' of people are displaced, missing, and homeless, the destruction of major economic centers means currencies would likely be worthless and at least 36 cities have the wreckage of gigantic City Destroyers that crashed nearby. Many nations would collapse into anarchy due to the loss of their capital cities, manufacturing centers, and critical infrastructure. In short, the prosperous world that ''Resurgence'' depicts wouldn't exist, not for at least 100-200 years after the events of the first film; a more realistic depiction would be a large portion of the world's population in makeshift refugee camps fighting over supplies, with looting being rampant, while many nations commence massive cleanup/rebuilding operations, tallying survivors and assessing damage, with the ultimate goal being to restore themselves from ruin. The only region that didn't suffer as much damage by comparison was Australia, with only one city (Perth) destroyed and a second (Sydney) damaged by a crashing City Destroyer.

* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:As leader of the interstellar resistance, the Sphere]] is this to the Harvesters.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted to a monumental degree. Studying the technology of the crashed ships in the first film made a very advanced 2016 Earth that has casual space travel, a moon base, outposts on Saturn, anti-gravity vehicles, energy weapons and more. While the aliens are still malevolent enough to shrug off or neutralize nearly all their countermeasures, the fight still feels a lot more even on the outset than in the first film.

US Release was June 24, 2016. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M here]], and the Super Bowl TV spot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5K0lKrebqg here]]. The second trailer is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJgT89hEME here]]. An extended five minute trailer is [[http://youtu.be/NCe_JshWOZ0 here]].