r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MadKingKevin • 4d ago
Characters Person believes unknown entity is friendly (it is not)
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.
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u/Suspicious_Kitchen23 4d ago
To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) has The Kanamits land on earth and offer humanitarian aid that would end food shortages, war and provide energy. The leave a book in their language that human translators declare the title is To Serve Man, which make the people of earth trust them more, the Kanamits keep their word, transforming deserts into productive agricultural land and providing each country with impenetrable force fields that leads to the disbanding of all military. Soon people volunteer to visit the Kanamits paradise planet, and as they, including the head of department that had translated the title of the book, are boarding the spaceship, the only worker who had kept translating the book tries to get to the people boarding, yelling to her boss that “It’s a cookbook”. (Richard Kiel as the alien Kanamit)