History Main / BenevolentAlienInvasion

* Perhaps the most famous {{subver|tedTrope}}sion in history is ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'''s "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]" episode, adapted from an earlier short story by Creator/DamonKnight. The Kanamit actually manage to end famine and war, but it's eventually revealed the only way they want "to serve man" is [[spoiler: on a plate]], though [[ItWasHisSled that's not much of a spoiler]] by this point.

** Amusingly the Old Ones seem to have gone native, adapting titles and trappings of human society (the most fun title of all: The One Who Presides Over The New World -- think about it), rather than imposing their order on us.

* The aliens in ''Literature/TwitterStoryEarth5AR'' didn't come to destroy or enslave humanity. No, they came to adopt them as their babies.

* The backstory of ''Literature/{{Expedition}}'', a science fiction art book Creator/WayneBarlowe wrote about a joint human-alien expedition to a primitive planet called "Darwin IV." Surprisingly played straight, as the aliens arrived to stop humanity from wiping itself out. Considering [[PollutedWasteland the state of the earth]] by the time they show up, humanity may likely have driven itself extinct without their interference. It's suggested they did it more to save our biosphere (''including'' us) rather than solely to save humanity. The book is heavy-handed with it's multiple {{GreenAesop}}s so it's understandable.
* Inverted in ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'', where humans are the aliens invading the medieval Tines planet and changing its culture to benefit both species. Granted, the invasion wasn't intentional (a cargo ship carrying children in stasis crash-landed on the planet and the humans only expected to stay long enough for rescuers to find them, but things got much more complicated), but by the end of the book, the humans have upset the political balance of a large part of the planet. By the start of the sequel, ''Literature/TheChildrenOfTheSky'', the sole adult human has become co-ruler of the most powerful nation on the planet, is working to advance the Tines' technology beyond Space Age levels within a century, and the human children are intermingling with the native Tines and creating a social revolution almost unintentionally.
* One of the central premises of Julian May's ''Literature/GalacticMilieu'' series (''Intervention'', ''Jack The Bodiless'', ''Diamond Mask'', and ''Magnificat'').

* ''Literature/TufVoyaging'' by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin is a series of short stories where a benevolent "advanced" human travels the galaxy, offering his services to worlds with environmental problems, and sometimes imposing solutions of his own. His clients aren't always pleased by his solutions, but they're generally for the best overall, and his ship's overwhelming power dissuades refusal of payment. At the end of the series his last and most recurring client is forced to call him a god by his increasing ego and willingness to manipulate entire ecosystems.

* {{Played with}} in ''Literature/WorldWar''. The invading Race is far from benevolent as a whole - them conquering Earth would result in a state of submission to them - but humans living under more oppressive regimes such as Nazi Germany side with them, because [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the Race is shocked by]] some of the things the Nazis do (while the Race colonize, they don't wipe any native population out).

* Zigzagged in the erotic story series "Body Shifters Universe", links to most stories [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5085121&page=submissions here]], [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=910927&page=submissions here]], [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=3109861&page=submissions here]] and [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=126421&page=submissions here]], on one hand the aliens essentially [[SlimeGirl humansized shapeshifting bacteria that use human DNA both as a source of food and reproduction, thought they prefer men due to producing it in greater quantities]] (men produce more DNA faster in sperm than womed do in eggs), [[YoureDrinkingBreastMilk they can synthetise pretty much any chemical to optimise DNA production and their partners enjoyment]], [[ShapeshiftingSeducer shapeshift into their lovers ideal partner]], [[InstantExpert can learn anything either through genetic memory or regular learning]] [[AsteroidsMonster and once they get enough DNA they split into two "daughters"]] which together means a constantly expanding harem of lovers willing to do anything to [[ForHappiness make you happy]] eventually turning the whole world into a utopia simply as a [[AchievementsInIgnorance byproduct of that]], on the other hand their utopia has elements of GildedCage to it since while the shifters can't stand outright refusing their masters anything their LivingAphrodisiac powers make discouraging humans from doing things they're not supposed to easy, there have been a few incidents of OutWithABang, the "daughter" shifters have a natural [[ChildSupplantsParent oedipus complex]] to the point of prefering their human parent as a lover over other humans(though inbreeding is a non-issue, shifters who mate with the same human over several generations simply look less like their parents), most importantly it leads to a population crisis as shifters multiply exponentially while the human population decreases due to human (primarily) men and women prefering to have sex with shifters than with each other, this also has the effect of reducing human women to second class citizens.

** Another subversion occurs in the AlternateUniverse accessed via SCP-093 (the "Red Sea Object") -- some kind of HumanoidAbomination known only as "He" appeared from who-knows-where and granted humanity advanced technology and a [[AppliedPhelbotinum miracle substance known as "His Tears"]]. Said "Tears" had the unfortunate side-effect of turning people into faceless zombie-like monsters, who destroy humanity.

* Zigzagged in the erotic story series "Body Shifters Universe", links to most stories [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5085121&page=submissions here]], [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=910927&page=submissions here]], [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=3109861&page=submissions here]] and [[https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=126421&page=submissions here]], on one hand the aliens essentially [[SlimeGirl humansized shapeshifting bacteria that use human DNA both as a source of food and reproduction, thought they prefer men due to producing it in greater quantities]] (men produce more DNA faster in sperm than womed do in eggs), [[YoureDrinkingBreastMilk they can synthetise pretty much any chemical to optimise DNA production and their partners enjoyment]], [[ShapeshiftingSeducer shapeshift into their lovers ideal partner]], [[InstantExpert can learn anything either through genetic memory or regular learning]] [[AsteroidsMonster and once they get enough DNA they split into two "daughters"]] which together means a constantly expanding harem of lovers willing to do anything to [[ForHappiness make you happy]] eventually turning the whole world into a utopia simply as a [[AchievementsInIgnorance byproduct of that]], on the other hand their utopia has elements of GildedCage to it since while the shifters can't stand outright refusing their masters anything their LivingAphrodisiac powers make discouraging humans from doing things they're not supposed to easy, there have been a few incidents of OutWithABang, the "daughter" shifters have a natural OedipusComplex to the point of prefering their human parent as a lover over other humans(though inbreeding is a non-issue, shifters who mate with the same human over several generations simply look less like their parents), most importantly it leads to a population crisis as shifters multiply exponentially while the human population decreases due to human (primarily) men and women prefering to have sex with shifters than with each other, this also has the effect of reducing human women to second class citizens.

* ''WebAnimation/ShadowstonePark'' features an alien race who evolved without a killer instanct and are able to synthesize all the nutrients they need to survive from tiny amounts of non-living matter. They travel the cosmos and gene-splice this ability into any other species they find, in the belief that they will eventually free the galaxy from violence, hunger and unecessary suffering by doing so.

-->-- '''Disarm''', by Vylar Kaftan

* Two examples in ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'':

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'' could be considered a downplayed and alterdimensional (instead of an extraterrestrial) example. [[VillainProtagonist Ainz]] has stated that his end goal is to [[VisionaryVillain create a peaceful utopia]], and while he will '''not''' hesitate [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans to tread over the bodies of any perceived enemies to make this goal a reality]], [[AffablyEvil he is a]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist benevolent dictator]] at least to those on his side, [[CrapsackWorld which is more than can be said for many people in power in the New World]]. You know things are bad when the otherworldly {{Lich}} with [[LackOfEmpathy no feelings of compassion for humans]] '''still''' comes off as a breath of fresh air compared to the squabbling power-hungry nobles in your own kingdom.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': The Third Imperium was this. Of course most of the invaders had ancestors that were from Earth anyway.
* [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'', the Aliens are mostly trying to kill the [[EvilCounterpart Venusians]] over a petty grudge, but they also give protecting the humans as a reason to invade Earth
** For clarification, the Venusians are a different race of aliens from the PC race aliens and invaded Earth to steal our sense of Hope and Wonder to fight an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]].
* In ''Termination Shock'' humanity was facing extinction from a Sol-spanning RobotWar when a heavily armed multi-species charitable organization dropped out of hyperspace over Mars and evacuated the survivors.

%%not an invasion* An alien comes to earth and meets an earthling, He shakes hands with him as the following conversation takes place:
%%-->'''Alien:''' Do you have bathrooms here on Earth?\\
%%'''Earthling:''' Yes.\\
%%'''Alien:''' Do you have toilets?\\
%%'''Earthling:''' Yes.\\
%%'''Alien:''' Do you have toilet paper?\\
%%'''Earthling:''' Yes.\\
%%'''Alien:''' That's funny. We use our hands!

** ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'' - Played straight when the Exif and the Bilusaludo arrive on Earth, each with their own reason to flee to the planet. In return, they offer to use whatever they have at their disposal to destroy Godzilla. [[spoiler:They both fail, and wind up joining the humans in fleeing into space instead]].

"'I'm sorry too,' I say, trying to make a joke, but Trey doesn't laugh.''

->''"I make instant oatmeal and we turn on the TV. All the channels show the same images: tickheads at the new White House, at the U.N., everywhere. All the messages are the same: the war is over, and they're sorry for the damage we did to ourselves. The tickheads -- they call themselves something full of clicking noises -- are sorry for the violence with which humanity responded to their visit, and sorry that they failed to anticipate the reaction. They promise to work with the Galactic Whole to repair the damage, and they're sorry for the delays.\\
"'I'm sorry too,' I say, trying to make a joke, but Trey doesn't laugh."''

* According to WordOfGod, the final track of ''Music/{{Rush}}'''s rock opera ''Music/TwentyOneTwelve'' represents the return of the culturally enlightened Elder Race of Man, who overthrow the culturally repressive Solar Federation. Good news for humanity, but a bit too late for [[DrivenToSuicide the protagonist]].