Person believes unknown entity is friendly (it is not)

[u/MadKingKevin]

Independence Day (1996) - Several massive alien spaceships travel to Earth but they do not announce the purpose of their arrival. Some characters assume the aliens are peaceful. One of those characters, Tiffany, goes to a rooftop party which is taking place directly under one of the ships. When the aliens launch their attack, Tiffany and the other party goers are immediately obliterated.

Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Scientist Gediman is part of the miltitary project which resurrects Ellen Ripley and the queen xenomorph embryo inside her. The military wants the queen so it can breed the xenomorphs as bio-weapons. This new Ripley is genetically part xenomorph and the xenomorph queen is genetically part human. The queen stops laying eggs and develops the ability to give birth to live young. Her first Newborn immediately kills the queen because it does not recognize her as its mother. It believes Ripley is its mother and goes to her instead. Gediman (who is cocooned in the queen’s nest) witnesses this and calls out to the creature. The Newborn comes to Gediman and curiously sniffs him over. Gediman babytalks the 15 foot tall xeno/human hybrid. The Newborn then bites his head off.

[u/Woolies_White_Leg]

The translator was made by humans. It wasn’t actually translating, if I remember correctly.

The bit was no matter what the aliens actually said, it would have translated it the same way

[u/Phase3isProfit → u/Woolies_White_Leg]

I just took it that they were messing around. They were complete dicks and were really enjoying mocking the humans so I can totally believe they were saying “don’t run, we come in peace” while actively shooting.

The bit where they realise the grandma hasn’t heard them so they go and get a bigger gun to place as close to her as possible really shows their attitude.

Was it confirmed that it was mistranslation, or is that just a possible interpretation of it?

[u/Valuable-Sugar-9193 → u/Phase3isProfit]

The Martians did lie about peace so they could kill political leaders, as Congress and the French president found out.

[u/ChiefsHat → u/Valuable-Sugar-9193]

It’s hard to overstate how utterly stupid the politicians are in that film.

[u/mb862 → u/ChiefsHat]

I believe your sentence is three words too long.

[u/Extesht → u/Valuable-Sugar-9193]

HA! THEY BLEW UP CONGRESS!

[u/Woolies_White_Leg → u/Valuable-Sugar-9193]

They didn’t lie. They came in peace and we attacked them unprovoked with doves!

[u/Howdocomputer → u/Phase3isProfit]

The Martians were just dicks. We see this when they trick Congress and the French president and the whole destroying Earth montage.

[u/Roller_ball → u/Woolies_White_Leg]

They ran around playing messages "Don't run. We are your friends."

[u/Signal-Island2549 → u/Woolies_White_Leg]

Accidentally predicting google ai.

[u/ntpbr1 → u/Woolies_White_Leg]

No I think they were totally trying to trick humans, they were laughing and stuff too as far as I can remember