History Film / IndependenceDayResurgence

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Dikembe, leader of his nation, killed scores of aliens in a years-long guerrilla war, and insists on coming along when the aliens show up. He spends as much of the film as he can in the thick of the action on the ground.

** Overlapping with RelationshipVoiceActor in the Japanese dub with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and by default, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', being both works that deals with humans fighting an alien invasion: Creator/MegumiHayashibara (Rei Ayanami) voices Catherine Marceaux, Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Mari Illustrious Makinami) voices Patricia Whitmore, Creator/YurikoYamaguchi (Ritsuko Akagi) as President Lanford, Creator/AkiraIshida (Kaworu Nagisa) as Charlie Miller, Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Gendo Ikari) as General Adams, Motomu Kiyokawa (Kozo Fuyutsuki) as Julius Levinson and Creator/HochuOtsuka (Shiro Tokida, the Jet Alone guy) as David Levinson.

'''Thomas J. Whitmore:''' We didn't last time, either. We convinced an entire generation, that this was a battle we could win.

** Major economic centers have been destroyed (New York with the NASDAQ and NYSE, London, Tokyo and the Nikkei Stock Index, Moscow, Paris, Frankfurt, the list goes on), and within those cities all of the banking institutions, monuments, major company headquarters, countless businesses, manufacturing hubs, homes and museums, including all of the critical power and transportation infrastructure has been 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 and trillions worth of damage, not to mention millions, if not ''billions'' of people are displaced, missing, and homeless. The destruction of almost every major economic center means currencies would likely be worthless and at least 36 cities that may have escaped relatively unscathed will have to deal with the wreckage of gigantic City Destroyers that crashed nearby.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: 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."

** The original mothership was stated to be 1/4 the size of the moon, and the city destroyers about 15 km wide. The new alien mothership is even larger, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki having a size of ''3,000 miles'', and when it touches down in the Atlantic Ocean the President asks "What part?" the reply was "All of it." It's large enough to house its own ecosystem.

* 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 a century or more to rebuild to a level approaching the world pre-1996. Major economic centers have been destroyed (New York with the NASDAQ and NYSE, London, Tokyo and the Nikkei Stock Index, Moscow, Paris, Frankfurt, the list goes on), and within those cities all of the banking institutions, monuments, major company headquarters, countless businesses, manufacturing hubs, homes and museums, including all of the critical power and transportation infrastructure has been 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 and trillions worth of damage, not to mention millions, if not ''billions'' of people are displaced, missing, and homeless. The destruction of almost every major economic center means currencies would likely be worthless and at least 36 cities that may have escaped relatively unscathed will have to deal with the wreckage of gigantic City Destroyers that crashed nearby. Many nations would almost certainly 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 and New Zealand, with only one city (Perth) destroyed and a second (Sydney) damaged by a crashing City Destroyer.

* 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, Frankfurt, 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.

* HollywoodNerd:
** Charlie is the brainy type with no social skills, sidekick to the hunky jock that is Jake.
** Floyd is the annoying nebbish who wants to help but gets in the way, until he [[TakeALevelInBadass levels up]] as an ActionSurvivor.

* WalkingSpoiler: Brent Spiner’s character Dr. Okun. The way it was left in the first film, most viewers believed he had died after his ordeal. But he shows up in the trailers, so it's obvious he is not as dead as he appeared.

* WalkingSpoiler: Brent Spiner’s character Dr. Okun . The way it was left in the first film, most viewers believed he had died after his ordeal. But he shows up in the trailers, so it's obvious he is not as dead as he appeared.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The aliens attack Earth for the second times exactly 20 years after their first assault, almost to the day.

The sequel to ''Film/IndependenceDay'', directed once again by Creator/RolandEmmerich.

* AllThereInTheManual: The [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160616221824/http://www.warof1996.com/ War of 1996]] website, which updates viewers about what has been going on for the last 20 years since the first alien invasion. It also details exactly which cities were destroyed in the invasion. Over 108 cities were reduced to rubble, ranging from megacities like Tokyo, Paris, London and Hong Kong, to average cities like Hamburg, Vancouver, and Liverpool, to even ''Mogadishu'', ''Rihyad'', and ''Pyongyang''. In addition, America actually had ''four'' destroyers; the fourth initially attacked San Francisco. An additional 36 cities are listed as having suffered minor damage when the humans intercepted them before the fourth wave of attacks.

* WalkingSpoiler: Brent Spiner. The way it was left in the first film, most viewers believed he had died after his ordeal. But he shows up in the trailers, so it's obvious he is not as dead as he appeared.

* TrampledUnderfoot: In the deleted scenes, [[spoiler: President Lanford is crushed underfoot by the Queen when she proves no longer useful.]]

* CoolPlane: The ESD's H-8 Global Defender hybrid SpaceFighter. A mixture of earth and alien technology, they are best described as jet-shaped UFO. Their most notable feature is the anti-gravity drives, granting them VTOL capability along with greater maneuverability than any conventional planes. They are also equipped with plasma blasters capable of overpowering the Alien fighters' DeflectorShields, so they can take them on right on the go instead of having to disable the shields first.

** It also takes three instances for Whitmore to recover. He becomes clear minded enough to trick his daughter and Secret Service attache. He leaves behnd his cane as he gives another RousingSpeech, and he shaves the BeardOfSorrow to indicate he's ready to get behind the stick again.

* RealityEnsues: Space is huge,[[spoiler: did the humans think there were only two species? As well as the fact, that if the Harvesters attack someone, they won't ever try and fight back?]]

* HumansAreSpecial: The humans are the only species ever known to have successfully [[spoiler:killed a Harvester Queen. The Sphere is so impressed that it asks Humanity to become the leader of the Resistance against the aliens]].

* ColonizedSolarSystem: Thanks to spending two decades reverse-engineering the Harvesters' technology, humanity has managed to establish bases on the Moon, Mars and Rhea. They're still not capable of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar travel]] though, but [[spoiler:that might change thanks to the Sphere offering to share her technology]].

* ColonizedSolarSystem: Thanks to reverse-engineering the Harvesters' technology, humanity has managed to establish bases on the Moon, Mars and Rhea. They're still not capable of [[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar travel]] though, but [[spoiler:that might change thanks to the Sphere offering to share her technology]].

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

* 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 and advanced weaponry of the mothership.

* NeverRecycleABuilding: ''The entirety of Las Vegas'' is this according to the TV spots. The city was leveled during the War of 1996, but it still remains a tourist attraction and several buildings have been repurposed.