Professor Kessler was actually totally right about the Martians having telepathy
They may not even know they have it - but it can't project communication, only motivations for the
Rule of Funny. Whenever Martian leaders or officers are planning a trick, their grunt soldiers are automatically in on what's about to progress and act accordingly. For instance: At the end when the Martian Leader looks like he's about to strike a deal with the president, the grunts look confused - but they don't blast their leader for treason or anything— they're just acting along with the ruse to convince the president that the Martian Leader is serious.
How Taffy survived the attack on the White House
She was rescued by Byron's sons and hid at their apartment.
It's Spring Break on Mars.
Really, the whole invasion was the Martian equivalent of a long drunken weekend. Only with blasters and bombs rather than babes and bongs.
Then,
The Martian expedition to Earth was just a midnight stop looking for weed.
Or the Martian equivalent, the nuclear bombs. They get high with that, and they knew Earth is full of that stuff.
The aliens that inspired the Moai statues will not be happy to learn that the Martians knocked them down.
Although those aliens might be glad to know that
Earth found a way to take care of the Martians.
The Martians have been intercepting our
Alien Invasion movies for years and decided to act out their own alien invasion movie for fun.
The Martians did attack because of the bird
As noted in the main page, any time a bird is shown near Martians, they go for it. Perhaps in the Martian past they were attacked by a bird like species, and they assumed Earth is the origin point of them after the dove was released. They aren't jerkasses, just sadistically vengeful.
This movie was a propaganda film created by
Cerberus to indoctrinate new recruits
It makes about as much sense as anything
in the movie.
The Martians from the original trading cards caused the destruction of Mars themselves
Years of careless mining and subterranean experimentation ultimately damaged the interior of the planet, causing the unspecified "nuclear pressures" that would ultimately destroy it. After some big experiment gone wrong caused irreparable damage, the Martian leadership decided to cover up the truth, as they were afraid it would cause revolts, and attributed the upcoming destruction to natural causes. In this regard, the conquest of Earth also served as a mass distraction tactic for their own people.
All music harms the Martians. The attack is "retaliation" for that.
The Martians receive TV signals from Earth and suffer whenever it contains music, including bird songs. This is why they want to exterminate humans and birds.
The translator machine gives exactly the opposite of the correct translation every single time
The Martians didn't come in peace, but they gave Earth the chance to surrender. This was wrongly translated as them coming in peace. Then the machine translated the human general as a declaration of war, shocking the aliens, and they took the dove for a weapon launch.
The Martian Leader was so angry because the Martian Assassin was close/family.
His reaction to the Assassin's death is to basically declare total war on humanity. Despite most of the Martian screentime being psychotic, they generally seemed to be enjoying themselves, so it's a really out of character moment for one of them to be angry, especially when it was shown that at least one Martian had been killed previously. So, possibly the Assassin was someone the Leader actually cared about, hence the huge angry reaction.
