#Tv tropes alien invasion series

Disposable Superhero Maker: The miniseries retcons a lot of DC's heroes into having a 'metagene' that gives people powers when exposed to radiation or similar stresses, implying that most people would have died if exposed to Freak Lab Accidents or other superhero origins.The concept was demonstrated by an alien scientist performing a mass execution of fifty abductees six of them survived, gained powers, and briefly formed a superteam. Die or Fly: The miniseries introduced the 'metagene', which gives humans superpowers as a way to survive lethal trauma, as a way to Handwave the many heroes and villains with Freak Lab Accident origin stories.The Empire caught quite a few Durlans and Khunds while they were on their way home and a few invaders that were fleeing their own people in the aftermath (the Dominator Sakritt and Daxamite 'Julia') of the failed invasion. Most of those that become Wonder Woman's command crew after she is abducted by the Sangtee Empire were former members of the Alien Alliance. Any Dominator (very few) or Durlan that switches sides to aid the humans.

This crossover also introduced the Metagene Meta Origin concept in the DCU, as well as led to the launching of Justice League Europe and L.E.G.I.O.N., a 20th Century Legion of Super-Heroes spin-off title known mainly for having Lobo and Brainiac 2 on the roster. Crisis Crossover: A whole mess of alien planets get together and try to take over Earth to keep all the superbeings we keep producing under control yet again, it doesn't work out.Category Traitor: The Thanagarians joined mostly to capture Katar and Shayera Hol.Reep Dagle was the first of either species to grace the pages of comics back in 1961, and the Skrulls first appeared in 1962. Inverted with the Durlans, who are essentially the same as the more popular Skrulls but predated their first appearance a month.

Inverted with the Khunds who are pretty much pink Klingons but debuted three years before Star Trek: The Original Series.Brain Monster: The Gil'Dishpan, one of the members of the alien alliance, look like misshapen brain-tubeworm things in tentacle-covered bubbles.Bald of Evil: Thanagarian men are bald fascists.Aliens in Cardiff: The alien armada begins its attack by.The entire story happens because a race called the Dominators wanted to conqueror the Earth to use humans as guinea pigs and weapons out of sheer prejudice, forming an alliance with several other species to do so, including the Thanagarians and the Durlans. Alien Invasion: An alliance of several extraterrestrial militaries invades earth, prompted by the supposed potential danger posed by the adaptability and powers inherent in the meta-gene present in some humans.Alien Abduction: The Dominators abduct humans to experiment with the meta-gene, and the shapeshifting Durlans abduct humans to imitate and replace them.Action Bomb: Lex Luthor contributed by making robotic replicas of heroes that would get captured, and then explode while being studied.Another switching of sides-by, ironically, that same scientist-helped save them. But a second threat happened when a Dominator scientist detonated a 'meta-gene bomb' whose radiation rendered most of Earth's metahumans helpless. The combined might of the alien armada seemed invincible but thanks to a Heel≯ace Turn by one of its own member races, it was routed.

Realizing that they cannot beat the heroes by themselves, they convince several other races from around The DC Universe to aid them under the pretense that the 'metahumans' were too dangerous to be allowed to exist (and taking advantage of the fact that the Green Lantern Corps had, at the time, been reduced to only a handful.)

#Tv tropes alien invasion series

(It should not be confused with the TV series of the same name, or any other invasion-themed series.)Īn alien race called The Dominators discovers that Earth's superhumans get their powers from a 'meta-gene' and decide to capture them all to be used as living weapons with which to conquer the universe.

Invasion! was a three-part Crisis Crossover miniseries published by DC Comics in 1988.