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Independence Day

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Independence Day	comment	Independence Day is a 1996 movie by Roland Emmerich, known in its promotional material as ID4. At its core, it is an archetypal Summer Blockbuster, boasting an All-Star Cast of familiar character types, Stuff Blowing Up, fighter jets dogfighting alien craft, Rousing Speeches, Area 51, and an otherwise fairly by-the-book Alien Invasion premise with overt influence from well-known sources like The War of the Worlds.On a beautiful July day in the present (c. 1996), a New Mexico-based organization searching for extraterrestrial life detects a strange signal coming in, a possible sign of alien life and an exciting discovery — until they find out it's coming from the Moon.Unknown to them, a ship 1/4 the Moon's size arrives in orbit and deploys 36 city-sized saucers that settle over major cities worldwide. What at first is apprehension at the confirmation of alien life turns to horror as they begin firing their Wave Motion Guns to wipe out entire cities with a single shot.Hell-bent on wiping humanity out and taking Earth for themselves, the vicious alien race turns a normal July day into a desperate fight for survival, with U.S. Marine pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith), President Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and computer programmer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) pulling together a plan to save the human race.A sequel entitled Independence Day: Resurgence was released on June 24, 2016. Almost all of the main cast, including Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum returned to reprise their roles, but Will Smith did not.The film also spawned two tie-in novels: Independence Day: Silent Zone, which is about Okun's work to study their technology before the invasion, and Independence Day: War in the Desert, which follows the RAF pilots seen in the film as they battle alien survivors in the Middle East. In anticipation of the sequel, both books were re-released, along with the original novelization, as part of the Independence Day Omnibus, which is available as an eBook.
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Independence Day / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Independence Day / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: At one point a Marine receives orders while pointing his pistol at his superior with his finger on the trigger. David Levinson asking Major Mitchell to fire a bullet at the alien spaceship. The bullet ricochets dangerously around the room containing what's left of the American administration and the only scientists on Earth with knowledge of the aliens' technology. David can at least be partially excused; he's a scientist with either little or no knowledge of guns, and he probably assumed that the bullet would just flatten against the shields instead of ricocheting, which is still a stupidly dangerous risk to take. Mitchell, being a trained military officer, really should have at least voiced some objection. He at least checks with the president, and doesn't fire until given the okay, but he's almost as bad as David here. Steve chews David out over it with a, "What the HELL are you doing?!?"
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Independence Day / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Independence Day / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: A notable aversion. The Harvesters do not speak our language. They communicate with the characters through telepathy.
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Independence Day / int_10b58de3	type	Genius Burnout
Independence Day / int_10b58de3	comment	Genius Burnout: Downplayed. David Levinson graduated from MIT but now works for a media company troubleshooting network problems. It's actually a passable job for someone of his credentials, but he gets some grief for being a "cable repairman."
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Independence Day / int_10e7d43c	type	Fanfare
Independence Day / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: The movie opens with it and plays it constantly.
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Independence Day / int_119498ff	type	Monumental Damage Resistance
Independence Day / int_119498ff	comment	Monumental Damage Resistance: The Pyramids of Giza and the Sydney Opera House both survive, though the presence of Destroyers nearby indicates they were targets; but humanity shot down the Destroyers before that could happen. When Jasmine and Dylan emerge from the tunnels in LA, the palm trees are just about the only thing still standing, just to let you know yes this was LA. The World Trade Center is also still standing, though clearly damaged.
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Independence Day / int_12213488	type	Random Smoking Scene
Independence Day / int_12213488	comment	Random Smoking Scene: Steve and David both take cigars along with them when they plan to defeat the aliens for once and for all. When it looks like their death is certain, they light up before completing their mission (Can't let a cigar go waste after, all). This seems to be standard for Steve and Jimmy (and the rest of the Black Knights) as they both take cigars along without any prior conversation and they both take waiting until "the fat lady sings" to smoke it very seriously. A box of cigars is being passed out during the briefing, so indeed it is expected for the Black Knight pilots to have a cigar with them on the flight and smoke it after a successful (and they are Marines so all are) missions. That's why when Steve needed the cigars before he and David left to go deliver the package, getting Julius' last two.
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Independence Day / int_122e956a	type	One Bullet Left
Independence Day / int_122e956a	comment	One Bullet Left:
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Independence Day / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Independence Day / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Dean Devlin voices Eagle-2 in the final battle.
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Independence Day / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Independence Day / int_128e4ba8	comment	The President: "All right, boys, let's give Mr. Casse some cover. GENTLEMEN! LET'S PLOW THE ROAD!"
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Independence Day / int_13ad64d6	type	DeflectorShield
Independence Day / int_13ad64d6	comment	During the failed Los Angeles counterattack, Hiller's unit pulls up their planes to avoid the Destroyer's Deflector Shield. When the alien fighters are launched, he orders them to fly through the aliens to escape.
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Independence Day / int_13d6db18	type	One Last Smoke
Independence Day / int_13d6db18	comment	One Last Smoke: Trapped on the mothership and realizing there's no way they'll get out alive, Steve and David decide to light up their "victory dance" cigars and launch the nuke. However, launching it ends up releasing the docking mechanism, allowing them to make a beeline for the main entrance.
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Independence Day / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Independence Day / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism Everyone makes fun of Russell for believing that he was abducted by aliens, even after the aliens show up. But it's doubtful that his acquaintances got an opportunity to compare his description of the aliens to the one taken prisoner by Captain Hiller, and in any case, he's the town drunk. Even after the attacks, the President refuses to believe in Area 51, though in this regards, his disbelief stems from not being told it existed. As the leader of the nation, he assumed that something of such magnitude wouldn't have been kept from him — especially when aliens began arriving under his watch. It's the Secretary of Defense's fault for not informing him.
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Independence Day / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Independence Day / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert The civilian pilots conscripted for the final battle learn how to fly an F/A-18 in combat in just a few hours. Captain Hiller's F/A-18 experience somehow enables him to learn how to fly an alien spacecraft in a few hours.
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Independence Day / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Independence Day / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Not quite as severe as normal uses of this trope, but it's made clear that David hits bottom after a nuclear weapon is used against the aliens against his protests and doesn't work. He gets drunk and lashes out in despair, throwing a rather violent tantrum before his dad inadvertently gives him an idea on how to defeat the aliens. The President has one, lamenting of all the death and destruction caused by his indecision to prepare if the aliens indeed turned out to be hostile. Steve also has one when meeting with General Grey. He asks the General to be transferred back to El Toro, where he told Jasmine to go with Dylan, his stepson - only for the General to inform him that El Toro had been destroyed.
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Independence Day / int_14a5a8e2	type	Nerds Are Sexy
Independence Day / int_14a5a8e2	comment	Nerds Are Sexy Jeff Goldblum is in this film, after all. Averted however with Brent Spiner, who can be sexy but played the very unkempt and awkward Dr. Okun in this movie. That hair!
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Independence Day / int_15e6f29f	type	Low-Tech Spears
Independence Day / int_15e6f29f	comment	Low-Tech Spears: During a celebratory montage showing various countries trying to fight back against the technologically advanced alien threat, we see barefoot, loincloth-wearing African tribesmen waving spears and staffs in celebration as a ship explodes near Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Independence Day / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Independence Day / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Before going onto his suicide mission, David's father lets him know that he is very proud of him.
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Independence Day / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Independence Day / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novelization and deleted scenes contain details that make the widely-derided Technobabble aspects of the film more palatable, such as the "MacBook virus" being based on the communications algorithm David decrypted earlier and an analysis of the alien craft's systems by the Area 51 staff.
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Independence Day / int_18314bc3	type	You Had Us Worried There
Independence Day / int_18314bc3	comment	You Had Us Worried There: The radio contact to David and Steve has been lost for 20 minutes, making everyone believe they didn't make it. Then something appears on the radar...
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Independence Day / int_18606a38	type	Passing Judgment
Independence Day / int_18606a38	comment	Passing Judgment: Hiller and his best friend are discussing brown-nosing in a locker room. His best friend is on one knee when Smith drops the engagement ring he was going to give his girlfriend. Just as the best friend holds it up to give it back, someone else on their squad passes by, makes an "I didn't see anything" gesture, and leaves.
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Independence Day / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
Independence Day / int_1865f13a	comment	The packet of fireworks that Steve gives Dylan with the promise of setting them off once everything is over gets used later on in the official novelization, when Jasmine uses them to scare away some looters that were about to attack her group of survivors.
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Independence Day / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Independence Day / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" And to make it more awesome? Bill Pullman ad-libbed that line.
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Independence Day / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
Independence Day / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: The supposedly unstoppable race of alien invaders that has conquered dozens of worlds meets its match in Steven Hiller, David Levinson, and a laptop computer.
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Independence Day / int_1915143f	type	Epileptic Flashing Lights
Independence Day / int_1915143f	comment	Epileptic Flashing Lights: When the alien pilot attacks the staff during the Alien Autopsy, the room is filled with smoke and the lights flicker menacingly.
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Independence Day / int_1a6960dd	type	Flying Saucer
Independence Day / int_1a6960dd	comment	Flying Saucer: Could be viewed as a Reconstruction after only existing in parodies and B-movies since the 60's note the Enterprise from Star Trek was designed to avoid looking like a rocketship or flying saucer, indicating they were already looking dated at that time. The sheer scale of them and raw firepower make them scary instead of silly.
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Independence Day / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Independence Day / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: Two of these can be heard within the timespan of a few minutes. The first one occurs when Dr. Brackish Okun and a few medical assistants at Area 51 are attempting to remove the biomechanical suit from the unconscious alien and it suddenly rips open. The second one occurs after the alien wakes up, kills the medical assistants plus Dr. Okun, and destroys most of the containment laboratory. With most of the room in a dense fog, President Whitmore gets near the glass separating the rooms when Dr. Okun's lifeless body abruptly appears from out of the fog right up against the glass.
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Independence Day / int_1b588096	type	Always Know a Pilot
Independence Day / int_1b588096	comment	Always Know a Pilot Whitmore is a former combat pilot, and brings up his combat experience at several points throughout the film. When it comes time for the final battle, he suits up himself and joins the fight, and ends up being one of only three known pilots shown to have survived the battle and subsequent destruction of the ship over Area 51. The military is so devastated that there is literally a call for anyone with prior piloting experience. Emphasized later, when Whitmore points out to Grey that the pilots they've assembled for the final battle look very young. Russell has experience with crop dusting, but seems to be able to pilot a fighter plane just fine. Played With in the novelization and original — Major Mitchell refuses to allow Russell to pilot a fighter jet because he's drunk, so the latter eventually shows up during the fight with a missile strapped to his old biplane. Played with when it comes to Steve flying the alien spacecraft. He is a combat pilot who always dreamed of being an astronaut and had close-range first-hand experience on how the alien spacecraft maneuver, and the scientists have at least deduced the basic flight controls (even if they forgot to invert them). But still none of that really explains how he would know how to fly the spacecraft as expertly as he does when escaping the alien mothership, having had minimal practice beyond flying in a mostly straight line going up there.
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Independence Day / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Independence Day / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Kurt Fuller and Vincent Schiavelli make uncredited appearances in the background news broadcasts, which are featured in full on the 20th anniversary Blu-ray.
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Independence Day / int_1be3af98	type
Independence Day / int_1be3af98	comment	"Nations of the World" Montage: We're treated to scenes of air forces in the Middle East, Russia, and Japan getting America's instructions for the counterattack.
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Independence Day / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Independence Day / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The two USAF officers (one of whom is played by Raphael Sbarge) who work side-by-side from Air Force One to Area 51.
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Independence Day / int_1ddc03c1	type	Breaking Bad News Gently
Independence Day / int_1ddc03c1	comment	Breaking Bad News Gently: Inverted when President Whitmore can't bear to tell his daughter about her mom's death. She then breaks the bad news gently to herself by sadly asking, "Is Mommy sleeping?" The President quietly responds, "Yeah," and hugs her. This was the scene that actually got Mae Whitman the role. She auditioned, then asked if Patricia knew her mom was dead or actually believed she was sleeping. When told that she knew but didn't want to admit it, Whitman said she would have done the scene differently in that case and asked to do it again.
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Independence Day / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Independence Day / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: David goes for the bottle when he hears about the Nuclear Option being approved by Whitmore.
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Independence Day / int_1f9bddfb	type	Plug 'n' Play Technology
Independence Day / int_1f9bddfb	comment	Plug 'n' Play Technology: David's Macintosh laptop is somehow able to directly interface with the alien mothership and upload the virus to their systems (complete with a helpful "Uploading Virus" indicator). It's possible that this framework was set up by David and the lab technicians at Area 51 in the interim between the former's idea and his reveal to Whitmore and the others, but this isn't explicitly stated. The novelization reveals that modern human computers are essentially reverse-engineered from the captured ship.
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Independence Day / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Independence Day / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: When the counter-attack requires someone to pilot an alien fighter, the Secretary of Defence protests that nobody on Earth is qualified to pilot the ship, at which point Steve observes that he's seen the ships in action and at least has an idea of their manoeuvring capabilities.
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Independence Day / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Independence Day / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Captain Steven Hiller, a U.S. Marine pilot whose job depends on having excellent vision, steps outside to get the paper, looks left and right and above and only notices a gigantic 15-mile-wide, black saucer hovering over Los Angeles when he looks directly at it?
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Independence Day / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Independence Day / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: According to a back-story established by the cast and crew, Dr. Okun was recruited by the military out of Berkeley in the 1960s, and due to the top-secret nature of his work, has been isolated at Area 51 since. Although never revealed in the film, his first name was established as Brackish, a word meaning "unappealing" or "repulsive".
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Independence Day / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Independence Day / int_222dc873	comment	Played for Black Comedy when David gets black-out drunk before he gets his "Eureka!" Moment and mutters that maybe humanity should contaminate Earth as fast as they can to make the aliens not want it anymore.
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Independence Day / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Independence Day / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun In the extended cut, there's a scene where David finds the alien signal and tells Marty he'll be able to calculate a reversal, thus clearing their television broadcasts. This later becomes the basis for his "computer virus." When Russell gets inside his new fighter jet, he starts screwing around with the controls and accidentally arms a missile to be fired. Guess which missile jams at the end, forcing Russell into a heroic sacrifice? Averted with Russell's crop-dusting biplane, which is carried behind his RV as the family evacuates. The original cut of the film (which made it to the official novelization) had Russell being denied to be part of the fighter wave, so he makes his Heroic Sacrifice by duct-taping a missile to the side of the biplane and charging into the melee. Dr. Okun mentions that the captured fighter did not become active until they arrived in orbit. This hints that the aliens draw most of their energy from the mothership, which would be critical in the plan to disable the shields. The packet of fireworks that Steve gives Dylan with the promise of setting them off once everything is over gets used later on in the official novelization, when Jasmine uses them to scare away some looters that were about to attack her group of survivors.
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Independence Day / int_22d1c3d5	type	Radar Is Useless
Independence Day / int_22d1c3d5	comment	Radar Is Useless: An alien mothership nearly as big as the Moon isn't noticed by deep space radar until, in astronomical units, it is within spitting distance of Earth.
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Independence Day / int_22eff5dd	type	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam
Independence Day / int_22eff5dd	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam: After the City Destroyers take position over major cities around the world, everybody and their dog try their damnedest to evacuate, leading to a scene in which David Levinson and his father Julius are the only people in the lanes heading towards Washington, D.C. while the other half of the highway is loaded with bumper-to-bumper traffic. Jasmine Dubrow and her son are also stuck in a similar traffic jam of people fleeing Los Angeles. A later scene in which the military tries to nuke a City Destroyer flying over Houston has a brief shot of an APC sent to surveil the nuke's effectiveness stopping on an overpass that has the "outgoing" lanes full with empty cars (General Grey mentions to President Whitmore that the city was evacuated hours ago, and that â€œcasualties should be at a minimumâ€� - looks like the people of Houston wasted no time in abandoning their cars and getting out of town).
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Independence Day / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Independence Day / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo At the start of the film, David berates his father for smoking, saying it's unhealthy. At the end, after helping save the world, David smokes a cigar and Julius asks if it's now healthy. "Oops." "Checkmate" takes this to ridiculously lampshaded lengths. And the First Lady lovingly calling her husband "Liar." Right before the attack begins, David realizes that the strange signal the aliens are using is a count-down to attack. The virus at the end gives David the chance to do the same to the mothership, doing a count-down to the nuclear explosion that takes the ship out.
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Independence Day / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Independence Day / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: The President gives a Rousing Speech about July 4 being Independence Day for the entire world, after America Saved the Day.
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Independence Day / int_2469cff4	type	Oblivious Astronomers
Independence Day / int_2469cff4	comment	Oblivious Astronomers: The massive alien mothership and its attendant fleet are only detected when they start broadcasting their signal, by which point they've passed the lunar orbit. Though once Earth knows the alien ships are around, they have no trouble tracking them (even behind the moon).
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Independence Day / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Independence Day / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends There's enmity between President Whitmore and David because of Connie. By the end of the film, they're friends. Steve and David don't have enmity between them but aren't really friends until after they go on the mission together.
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Independence Day / int_24ac70d6	type	Surprisingly Super-Tough Thing
Independence Day / int_24ac70d6	comment	Surprisingly Super-Tough Thing: The US military launches a nuclear missile at a city-sized alien spacecraft. The ship's Deflector Shields repulsed normal missiles from jet fighters earlier, but everyone is truly demoralized when the intense fireball explosion subsides, only to reveal that the alien craft hasn't even suffered a single scratch.
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Independence Day / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Independence Day / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: Marines have a strong presence in the film's cast. Steven Hiller is a cigar-chomping Marine Corps F-18 pilot. William Grey, the President's most trusted right-hand man throughout the film, is a Marine Corps General. Also, Grey is alluded to (if not outright referred to) as the President's former commander, which strongly suggests that President Whitmore is a Marine as well.
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Independence Day / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
Independence Day / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: Steve Hiller "borrows" a helicopter to find his girlfriend. One soldier catches him and draws his pistol, ordering Hiller out. Hiller just gives him a look and asks if he really wants to shoot him, which makes the soldier lower the gun. As he's taking off, Hiller goes, "Look, just tell 'em I hit you." The soldier is quite a bit bigger than Hiller's character, making his "you shittin' me?" look particularly amusing.
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Independence Day / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Independence Day / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Unless the film takes place in a universe where the Soviet Union survived in a reformed state, the Russian broadcast is rife with these. George Putnam opens the report by mentioning an extraordinary event taking place in the "Russian Republic." The Russian Republic was a short-lived provisional government that existed following Tsar Nicholas' abdication until the October Revolution. Following the dissolution of the USSR, Russia officially became the Russian Federation. The report is broadcast from "Soviet Central News." Though this is also incorrect as the central news agency in the Soviet Union was the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. This map includes the entirety of the USSR prior to its breakup, including Ukraine and the Central Asian and Baltic countries. That same map points to a city on the northwest coast. The Cyrillic gives the name Petrograd, which is what Saint Petersburg was renamed following the start of World War I. It was renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death in 1924 and restored as Saint Petersburg after the collapse of the USSR.
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Independence Day / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Independence Day / int_25dc6ef5	comment	The gravitational pull of both the attack ships and the mothership would be enormous just from their presence in orbit, with earthquakes and tidal waves around the world. The only acknowledgement of this is a low level earthquake as a destroyer settles over Los Angeles, but being it is California Steve and Jasmine shrug it off.
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Independence Day / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Independence Day / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Steve and David have a moment of this at the end of the film when it appears they're not going to survive bombing the alien mothership.
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Independence Day / int_262be073	type	Lemming Cops
Independence Day / int_262be073	comment	Lemming Cops: The three spacecraft chasing the humans out of the mother ship run right into the door.
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Independence Day / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Independence Day / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The primary weapon of the City Destroyers. It is fired in three stages. First, eight pylons stream high-energy plasma to a central spire, called a "schism." Once the weapon is charged, a bright beam is shot down into the target. The final step is the "Hammer," a ball of energy that obliterates the target and causes a chain reaction to wipe out the entire area.
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Independence Day / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Independence Day / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: At least one version of the DVD has on its main menu an exterior view of the White House as the alien destroyer ship closes on it. If you leave it running long enough without clicking a button, Jeff Goldblum's "Time's up" line plays, the aliens fire on the White House, and then the movie starts automatically.
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Independence Day / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Independence Day / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: As Whitmore is giving his address about the alien arrivals, you can see Connie mouthing his speech.
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Independence Day / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
Independence Day / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: Teddy, one of the survivors in Jasmine's group, says he lived because he decided to take the subway that day.
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Independence Day / int_27da9a33	type	Some Kind of Force Field
Independence Day / int_27da9a33	comment	Some Kind of Force Field: When the first air-to-air missiles reveal an invisible barrier surrounding the big flying saucer, Steve declares, "They must have some kind of protective shield over the hull!"
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Independence Day / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Independence Day / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The events of the movie take place over a weekend, July 2nd to the 4th. In that time period aliens show up, decimate the first wave of cities, humans lead the first disastrous counterattack, regroup, decide to use the Nuclear Option, then put into play their Last Stand.
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Independence Day / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Independence Day / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: The father of Jasmine's son has been out of the picture for some time.
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Independence Day / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Independence Day / int_2941069e	comment	In fact, according to the Law of Inverse Recoil, just having a ship that size hovering above a city would flatten it like a pancake, since the force pushing the spaceship up would need an equal amount of force pushing down. In short, the ship would destroy the city without even needing to fire its weapon.
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Independence Day / int_294bd58a	type	Reentry Scare
Independence Day / int_294bd58a	comment	Reentry Scare: An inversion of the usual subject of this trope, as the alien ships are protected from atmospheric entry by their force fields. Instead, the scouting plane that was attempting to break through the cloud generated around the ships by their entry ends up colliding with the surrounding Ring of Fire, destroying it.
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Independence Day / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Independence Day / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus A Hispanic farmhand says something on the lines of "Already did that again" in Spanish, right after Miguel berates Russell for dusting the wrong field. Julius Levinson (father of David), who had heretofore not been "on speaking terms with" God, is seen leading a group in the sixteenth benediction of the Shemoneh Esrei near the film's climax.
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Independence Day / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Independence Day / int_29a39f6	comment	There are also shout-outs and Easter Eggs to classic sci-fi shows and films dating all the way back to the 1940s. Most specific among these is the bomber sent to deliver the nuke - the Northrop B-2 Stealth bomber is the direct descendant of the Flying Wing tasked with the same mission in George Pal's version of The War of the Worlds, which was a real Northrop XB-49 and not a Hollywood prop. The real aircraft was itself a shout-out to the older one, the B-2's wingspan was designed to be exactly the same as the XB-49's, to the inch.
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Independence Day / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Independence Day / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Marty, a character who acts stereotypically gay (although his actual sexuality is never confirmed in the movie) dies when his car is hit by another car thrown by an explosion.
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Independence Day / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Independence Day / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka When the alien at Area 51 telepathically attacks the President, everybody present unloads their weapons into it, followed by Major Mitchell finishing him off. When the President orders his men in the final battle to "Plow the Road". Although, for F/A-18s, that was actually quite insufficient Dakka. The Vulcan Cannons carried by American fighter jets fire at a rate of about 6,000 rounds per minute in Real Life. Also in Real Life, the F/A-18 only carries 578 rounds. There's a reason its only mode is burst fire.
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Independence Day / int_2b8e2d45	type	Nausea Dissonance
Independence Day / int_2b8e2d45	comment	Nausea Dissonance: David gets airsick on Air Force One, and an especially bad case is triggered when his father innocently babbles on about how unaffected he is.
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Independence Day / int_2b9cf587	type	Back in the Saddle
Independence Day / int_2b9cf587	comment	Back in the Saddle: President Whitmore, getting back in the cockpit to rally the surviving military forces after they have been on the wrong side of a Curb-Stomp Battle in order to Save the World. Foreshadowed earlier in the film with discussion that he was elected as the youthful war hero, only to be seen as being too young to be an effective politician. Quite a few of the other pilots were long-since retired, including Russell, who hadn't flown a military jet since the Vietnam War.
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Independence Day / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Independence Day / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: With extra bonus points for hacking into an alien computer, and figuring out its display well enough to send a laughing skull and crossbones to the invaders. The novelization and deleted scenes imply that Apple computers (among other things) were derived from alien technology.
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Independence Day / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Independence Day / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Connie mentions that David punched Whitmore when David accused Connie over having an affair.
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Independence Day / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Independence Day / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: As David warns Marty about the oncoming alien spaceships, he uses "Checkmate" as the deadly euphemism.
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Independence Day / int_2fa3e371	type	Sky-Consuming Dogfight
Independence Day / int_2fa3e371	comment	Sky-Consuming Dogfight: There are two dogfighting scenes — the first where the alien ships are invulnerable due to their shields, and the second at the end where they aren't.
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Independence Day / int_30401348	type	Too Fast to Stop
Independence Day / int_30401348	comment	Too Fast to Stop: The alien dogfighters, inexplicably, towards the end of the movie, even though they are stated to be extremely maneuverable. During the failed Los Angeles counterattack, Hiller's unit pulls up their planes to avoid the Destroyer's Deflector Shield. When the alien fighters are launched, he orders them to fly through the aliens to escape.
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Independence Day / int_306dece3	type	Office Golf
Independence Day / int_306dece3	comment	Office Golf: The man on duty at the S.E.T.I. Institute is playing golf. A red light starts blinking alerting him about the alien spacecraft approaching Earth. He excitedly calls his boss on the phone, and the boss rushes to the office where he trips over the golf balls.
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Independence Day / int_30d2689a	type	Ominous Visual Glitch
Independence Day / int_30d2689a	comment	Ominous Visual Glitch: TV signals all over the world are distorted due to the aliens using our satellites for communication. The disrupted news broadcasts give off an eerie vibe.
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Independence Day / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Independence Day / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: An F-18 ramming into the primary weapon of the alien ship just as it's about to fire happens to be precisely what's needed to destroy it. It sort of makes sense, as the alien laser, instead of hitting the people on the ground, explodes right next to the ship. Also it probably detonated the armed missile still attached to the plane (thanks to a malfunction).
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Independence Day / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Independence Day / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: A whole lot, to be exact. The line of fire even blows up Congress!
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Independence Day / int_31f242b3	type	Smoke Shield
Independence Day / int_31f242b3	comment	Smoke Shield: When the nuclear missile is used against one of the Destroyers, everything goes up on smoke And Mission Control Rejoiced. Then the visuals come in and it shows the alien ship unharmed. The nuke did not penetrate the Deflector Shield.
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Independence Day / int_325ef3ab	type	Incredibly Obvious Bomb
Independence Day / int_325ef3ab	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bomb: The nuclear missile David and Steve plant on the mothership has a countdown display with a beeping sound for each second passing.
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Independence Day / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Independence Day / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: More like "Taglines Always Lie". The Destroyers actually open fire the day they arrive, July 2nd. July 3rd features the human counterattack, which is an unmitigated disaster. There are subsequent alien attacks on the 3rd (the aliens track where the human fighters came from and destroy bases, the destruction of NORAD, and at least 3 more America cities are destroyed) so that part is true at least.
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Independence Day / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Independence Day / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The Aliens begin their attack at 12 AM July 3rd, 1996
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Independence Day / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Independence Day / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The President was a fighter pilot and leads a raid against one of the ships, though he doesn't get the final shot to take them down.
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Independence Day / int_347fd07d	type	Converging-Stream Weapon
Independence Day / int_347fd07d	comment	Converging-Stream Weapon: The motherships' primary weapon.
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Independence Day / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Independence Day / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: The invading aliens are a mix of these and Planet Looters. President Whitmore even explicitly compares them to locusts after a brief telepathic connection to one.
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Independence Day / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Independence Day / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: This is not a film that attempts to portray realistic physics for an invasion of colossal alien ships but the visual effects and Scenery Gorn due to the City Destroyer attacks are a marvel to behold in the movie theater.
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Independence Day / int_37d2818	type	Title In
Independence Day / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: Locations are named via on-screen text accompanied by the typical sound effect.
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Independence Day / int_382c7a57	type	Now You Tell Me
Independence Day / int_382c7a57	comment	Now You Tell Me: Jasmine is in her car, in the middle of fleeing residents, when there's an announcement order everyone to evacuate. Jasmine's response is "Oh great, now he tells me."
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Independence Day / int_38e5177d	type	Jews Love to Argue
Independence Day / int_38e5177d	comment	Jews Love to Argue: David and his father, who use a lot of Yiddish while bickering, and Marty, who's implied to be Jewish.
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Independence Day / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Independence Day / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: If you think Jeff Goldblum's "must go faster, must go faster" line as David and Steve are escaping the alien mothership sounds familiar, it's because they used the dialogue loop from Jurassic Park when Goldblum says the same line.
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Independence Day / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Independence Day / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Steven Hiller and David Levinson know they're screwed when their fighter refuses to unlatch from the mothership, and the aliens decide to investigate. They decide to launch the nuke anyway, knowing full well that it will kill them, and finish their mission with a last smoke. Fortunately, launching the nuke dislodges the fighter, giving them enough time to escape before the mothership gets blown to kingdom come.
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Independence Day / int_39cee4cc	type	Team Power Walk
Independence Day / int_39cee4cc	comment	Team Power Walk: A variant that's not played in slow motion happens when Steve and David walk from their capsule towards the rescue team after their successful mission of destroying the mothership.
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Independence Day / int_39d37c25	type	The Ruins I Caused
Independence Day / int_39d37c25	comment	The Ruins I Caused: "Didn't I promise you fireworks?"
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Independence Day / int_3a153596	type	Dead Guy Puppet
Independence Day / int_3a153596	comment	Dead Guy Puppet: The captured alien pilot at Area 51 uses Okun's body to talk to the President.
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Independence Day / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
Independence Day / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: The Trope Namer (the original title of this trope was a line from the film itself, "You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?"). Alicia's boyfriend tries to pressure her to lose her virginity when the alien ships are first sighted, until her brother pulls her out of the car and says they're leaving. In a deleted subplot, Alicia meets a boy in the refugee convoy and later asks him the same thing during the Area 51 battle, but this trope is subverted when he says that they can both die as virgins together.
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Independence Day / int_3c4c5d6f	type	Crowd Panic
Independence Day / int_3c4c5d6f	comment	Crowd Panic: People are temporarily in awe at seeing the alien ships arriving. Then once one of them starts to park itself over New York City, they break out into a panic to get out while they can.
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Independence Day / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Independence Day / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: For the aliens. They have the space travel, laser beams, indestructible force fields... but their computer security technology is so primitive a guy with a laptop can hack it; they didn't even think about the possibility of a security breach, even though they were interfacing with the Earth's satellite network. It wouldn't be the first time an alien race of invaders had some technological deficiency that lead to them being defeated (it goes all the way back to The War of the Worlds) but this one is particularly egregious.
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Independence Day / int_3cc17d05	type	Forgot to Mind Their Head
Independence Day / int_3cc17d05	comment	Forgot to Mind Their Head: The boss at SETI who gets called at night forgets that he was sleeping in what appears to be a bunk bed and hits his head on his way up.
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Independence Day / int_3cc4cdb9	type	Check and Mate
Independence Day / int_3cc4cdb9	comment	Check and Mate:
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Independence Day / int_3cc67dff	type	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People
Independence Day / int_3cc67dff	comment	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Faced with an hostile alien invasion who threatens to exterminate all humanity, all of the nations unite against the alien invaders. In the course of 48 hours they throw away centuries worth of bad blood and disagreements for the sake of one thing, survival. Made even better in the sequel, because it stuck.
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Independence Day / int_3cd56ee	type	"Bringer of War" Music
Independence Day / int_3cd56ee	comment	"Bringer of War" Music: The track "Darkest Day" has this rhythm, as the alien ships appear in various parts around the world, literally bringing doom and war with them.
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Independence Day / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Independence Day / int_3d2c6d30	comment	David apparently spent some time coding a nice viewer-friendly "uploading virus" progress bar for his own benefit. Skewed Priorities there David?
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Independence Day / int_3d543714	type	This Just In!
Independence Day / int_3d543714	comment	This Just In!: Following the disastrous counter attack on the Los Angeles City Destroyer, we hear this news report from a radio in the R.V. refugee convoy:
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Independence Day / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
Independence Day / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: The Mothership for the aliens. All their power and shield energy, plus coordination, originates from the ship. Once David uploads his virus, all alien craft lose their shields, and the novelization confirms that once it's destroyed, they also lose their power, hence the 34 remaining City Destroyers plummet to the ground.
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Independence Day / int_3e152bdf	type	Surprise Checkmate
Independence Day / int_3e152bdf	comment	Surprise Checkmate: In his Establishing Character Moment, David quickly beats his father at chess without much fanfare. Julius tries to protest but concedes shortly after his son has left. In addition, David uses a chess metaphor to explain that the aliens are going to attack, seeing the terrifying "checkmate" well before it actually happens and in time to save President Whitmore and most of his staff.
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Independence Day / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Independence Day / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: "There is no Area 51", rather than "Okay, turns out there is, but no aliens. We swear."
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Independence Day / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Independence Day / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto Or satellite in this case. As the mothership enters orbit, an old, decrepit Russian satellite is pulled in and literally explodes against the ship's hull. Averted during the city destruction scenes. Cars are shown getting thrown up and consumed in the blaze, but they don't actually explode.
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Independence Day / int_3eca7ea6	type	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
Independence Day / int_3eca7ea6	comment	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?: The president delivers one to the head scientist of Area 51 when the latter comments that the last 24 hours have been really exciting. The president doesn't believe the destruction of every major American city and the deaths of millions of people world-wide is "exciting". Subverted in that the scientist wasn't referring to the destruction, he was referring to the alien space ship in their custody acting up.
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Independence Day / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Independence Day / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome Once they figure a way to get around the alien force fields, they realize that they are still trying to take down city-sized spaceships with regular aircraft missiles, roughly the equivalent of using BB guns to take out a tank. It isn't until they find the Achilles' Heel that they stood a chance short of nuclear weaponry. Whitmore takes a shot with a missile as soon as the virus is uploaded to the mothership; the missile is yet again foiled by the force field. He takes a moment, then fires another, which finally breaches. The virus needed a few moments to be downloaded to the dozens of ships planetside, much like how transferring files over from one system to another, even on the same server, might be delayed to appear even after downloading is complete.
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Independence Day / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Independence Day / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Steve takes a helicopter without asking to go to El Toro. A Marine turns a weapon on him and tells him to get out. Steve says he doubts the other man really wants to shoot him. Marine lowers his weapon and Steve offers him a paper-thin excuse:
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Independence Day / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Independence Day / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The aliens are defeated, but millions (if not billions) of people are dead, most of Earth's cities are in ruins and almost every military has been destroyed. The city destroyers falling to the ground will no doubt cause some further damage on impact. On a positive note, it is strongly implied that world peace is achieved, which is confirmed in the sequel.
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Independence Day / int_40d6724	type	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
Independence Day / int_40d6724	comment	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: Inverted with Independence Day UK, a BBC radio drama based on the movie, but set in the UK with original characters. The one stipulation Fox placed on the BBC was that the Brits couldn't substantially contribute to the Americans' victory. This leads to one character muttering, "I bet the Yanks are going to take all the credit!"
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Independence Day / int_419545ad	type	Desperation Attack
Independence Day / int_419545ad	comment	Desperation Attack: After the Invaders destroyed 36 cities across the world, we see the President of the United States order airstrikes on the ships that leveled Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington. Within the span of about one hour, what was supposed to be the opening phase of a counterattack, ends in failure as, thanks to the Invaders' Deflector Shields, every aircraft sent up to meet them were shot down, and their bases were destroyed. Citing this failure, the Secretary of Defense levies the possibility of using nuclear weapons, but the president is against the idea. Hours later, after a captured pilot forces its way into the lead scientist's mind and reveals their ultimate plan to conquer earth, kill every living thing, and take every natural resource for themselves, the president finally agrees to use nuclear weapons. When a nuclear missile is launched at the ship hovering above Houston, Texas, the president and his staff are ecstatic to see the detonation. Unfortunately, the ship's shield saves it, and the president orders every aircraft with a nuclear payload to abort the mission.
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Independence Day / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Independence Day / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: The Vice President and Joint Chiefs of Staff; their deaths are reported to the President just after the failed counterattacks on July 3. The rest of the Cabinet are not mentioned, but as Whitmore ordered that they also be moved to NORAD, they were killed as well.
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Independence Day / int_45f63263	type	Mistaken for Quake
Independence Day / int_45f63263	comment	Mistaken for Quake: When the alien ships arrive at Earth:
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Independence Day / int_46f86041	type	Bad Vibrations
Independence Day / int_46f86041	comment	Bad Vibrations: In the opening scene, the alien mother ship erases Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's footprints from the moon with this method, and the smaller city destroyers create vibrations strong enough to be mistaken as an earthquake by the characters. There is also the diner scene where a coffee cup shakes violently on a table.
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Independence Day / int_47f5fe7d	type	Inscrutable Aliens
Independence Day / int_47f5fe7d	comment	Inscrutable Aliens: The aliens just show up and blow up cities, the only time they communicate with humans is when one is taken prisoner and takes telepathic control of a scientist in order to demand its release.
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Independence Day / int_48373d9a	type	Silence of Sadness
Independence Day / int_48373d9a	comment	Silence of Sadness: Near the end, after Russell Casse had pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to destroy the Harvester's superweapon, blowing up himself with the rest of the Harvester ship in the process, the entirety of Area 51 is seen celebrating the victory over the alien invaders... except for Russell's oldest son, Miguel Casse, the only person remaining silent among the cheering crowd. The commanding officer of Area 51, Major Steven Mitchell, then comes over, pats Miguel on his shoulder, and said what Miguel's father did was very brave and he should be proud of his old man.
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Independence Day / int_489ce93a	type	Capital Offensive
Independence Day / int_489ce93a	comment	Capital Offensive: The first wave includes the destruction of Washington DC, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New Delhi, Jerusalem, Tehran, Seoul, and Beijing. Numerous other capital cities, such as Brussels, Hanoi, Prague, Islamabad, Baghdad, Pyongyang, Buenos Aires, and Riyadh, are destroyed in subsequent attack waves.
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Independence Day / int_498cb6a4	type	Time Zones Do Not Exist
Independence Day / int_498cb6a4	comment	Time Zones Do Not Exist: When people come out to celebrate the destruction of the City Destroyers, it is simultaneously daylight at Area 51, Cairo, and Sydney. It should at the very least be night in Australia.
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Independence Day / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Independence Day / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: This film revels in the wholesale destruction of the populated centers of the world. (Emmerich returned to make similarly spectacular carnage in The Day After Tomorrow and 2012). Love of this trope must be the reason that a movie which features the destruction of the White House is shown on American television every year on the Fourth of July.
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Independence Day / int_49ef37e6	type	Catch Your Death of Cold
Independence Day / int_49ef37e6	comment	Catch Your Death of Cold: Julius tells David to get off the freezing floor of the hangar so he doesn't catch cold. This remark hits David just right to inspire him to try using a virus on the aliens.
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Independence Day / int_4aa5f9f7	type	Ominous Floating Spaceship
Independence Day / int_4aa5f9f7	comment	Ominous Floating Spaceship: The alien Mother Ship in all its glory. Big enough to darken a city during day due to it covering the sky, and powerful enough to destroy entire cities.
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Independence Day / int_4ab02d9f	type	Bombers on the Screen
Independence Day / int_4ab02d9f	comment	Bombers on the Screen: There are shots of this interspersed with action shots to drive home the scale of the aliens' attack across the world (and by "world" we mean the continental United States).
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Independence Day / int_4ad1816a	type	Everyone Knows Morse
Independence Day / int_4ad1816a	comment	Everyone Knows Morse: Except aliens, although they break the code pretty quick: first thing they did after the message was to send a Wave-Motion Gun to Area 51. Then again, they don't even need to read the message to deduce that a sudden rise in communications from a previously silent location means the enemy has activated a backup command center.
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Independence Day / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Independence Day / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The opening credits have a shadow fall over them and then the letters explode outward, foreshadowing what the aliens are about to do. When the Humane Society's credit appears during the end credits, it says "no animal or alien was harmed in the making of this film."
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Independence Day / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
Independence Day / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: Most of the major cities on Planet Earth have been wiped out, and all attempts at attacking the aliens have failed so far. But there are still planes, and pilots to fly them. And besides, it's the Fourth of July!
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Independence Day / int_4ba0ce53	type	Apocalyptic Montage
Independence Day / int_4ba0ce53	comment	Apocalyptic Montage: A catastrophic showcase of destruction is seen when the aliens use their Kill Sats on the major cities.
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Independence Day / int_4c5724ab	type	God Help Us All
Independence Day / int_4c5724ab	comment	God Help Us All: After the aliens make their intentions abundantly clear, Sky News anchorman Bob Friend gives a very resigned look to the camera and says "Indeed, God help us all."
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Independence Day / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Independence Day / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Capt. Steve Hiller yells this at his subordinate and best friend Jimmy, who has taken his air mask off in the middle of a dogfight with alien fighters. Jimmy is too far gone in gasping panic to obey, and it quickly becomes a moot point when the aliens shoot him down.
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Independence Day / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Independence Day / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Russell Casse yells "Hello, boys! I'm back!" before proceeding to shove his F/A-18 up the alien ship's ass and completely annihilate it in a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Independence Day / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Independence Day / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Will Smith does this over and over in this movie, to good effect.
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Independence Day / int_51a485d1	type	Brought Down to Badass
Independence Day / int_51a485d1	comment	Brought Down to Badass: David's computer virus collapses the alien's shields, thus giving the fighter pilots a better chance. However, the aliens remain a serious threat and would have destroyed Area 51 but for Russell Casse's kamikaze run.
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Independence Day / int_522811b8	type	Falling into the Cockpit
Independence Day / int_522811b8	comment	Falling into the Cockpit: Civilian pilots are recruited and given a few hours of lectures before taking to the sky in modern fighter jets without any actual flight simulations and manage to help win a battle against the aliens. Although Russell Case at least is noted as being a Vietnam veteran and thus has some relevant experience, although the scene switches before the Air Force officer who's appraising the volunteers can ask for further details. Steven pilots the crashed UFO to dock with the mothership. Despite not knowing about aliens until two days prior, he defends himself as the best choice because he's "seen these things in action" and therefore knows of their maneuvering capabilities. But that's more experience than anybody else has, because he's the only member of his squadron to not only survive the first engagement but successfully force one down, so he gets the gig.
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Independence Day / int_52856092	type	Backing Away Slowly
Independence Day / int_52856092	comment	Backing Away Slowly: While Jimmy demonstrates to Steve how kneeling makes it easier to kiss a superior's butt, Steve's engagement ring for Jasmine falls out of his locker and Jimmy picks it up for him. Another airman walks in just in time to see what looks like Jimmy proposing to Steve and slowly backs away.
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Independence Day / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Independence Day / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When Jimmy bends down on the floor to retrieve a wedding ring dropped by Steve, another Marine passing by thinks he's proposing to his best friend. The other guy helpfully leaves immediately, not wanting to spoil the moment (or not wanting to get his friends kicked out of the military in the "don't ask, don't tell" era).
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Independence Day / int_5353bf39	type	With This Ring
Independence Day / int_5353bf39	comment	With This Ring: Steve has been carrying around an engagement ring with leaping dolphins for his girlfriend Jasmine. His pal Jimmy hits on the reason Steve hasn't asked yet: the Air Force will not look kindly on his career ambitions because Jasmine is a stripper. Jimmy gets on one knee to encourage his friend to kiss the butt of the brass so they'll overlook it. Cue the rest of the Black Knights walking in on them.
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Independence Day / int_53dc1e7	type	Throw-Away Country
Independence Day / int_53dc1e7	comment	Throw-Away Country: Especially when the aliens are arriving, with mention of destroyers over the capitals of India, England, Germany, and Russia.
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Independence Day / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Independence Day / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: Many of the TV spots had the destroyer's shadow coming over the 20th Century Fox logo, but this wasn't included in the film itself.
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Independence Day / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
Independence Day / int_5521ed05	comment	When the Humane Society's credit appears during the end credits, it says "no animal or alien was harmed in the making of this film."
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Independence Day / int_5573c3a0	type	Shadow of Impending Doom
Independence Day / int_5573c3a0	comment	Shadow of Impending Doom: Even anyone who never saw a trailer would realise something casting shadows that big is a bad omen.
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Independence Day / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Independence Day / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Jimmy gets down on one knee to demonstrate how to properly kiss ass, and then a wedding ring box falls out of Steve's locker. When he shows it to Steve, another pilot walks by, sees the scene and quickly excuses himself. "Don't ask, don't tell," of course.
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Independence Day / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Independence Day / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: When a Russian pilot says that the Americans have found a way to take down the alien shields, his commanding officer eagerly asks when they want to attack.
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Independence Day / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Independence Day / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: From the Novelization:
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Independence Day / int_573da164	type	Hemisphere Bias
Independence Day / int_573da164	comment	Hemisphere Bias: Most of the City Destroyers are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere, because the aliens were initially targeting the Earth's major military-industrial nation-states (i.e. NATO, Russia, and China). Near the beginning of the invasion a news headline is briefly seen that says "Southern Hemisphere Unaffected", but it also says only 10-15 City Destroyers have been observed: the eventual total is 36 ships. By the end we do see crashed UFOs in Sydney and right against Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The War of 1996 website for Resurgence contained a map with a full list of the nearly 100 cities destroyed. The first film briefly alluded that the aliens planned out the follow-up second and third waves of their attacks, each wave and city bombardments happening roughly every twelve hours: they managed to stop the fourth wave just before it happened. The website clarified that the aliens concentrated their first strikes where nearby targets were concentrated for the second and third waves: SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil might be one of the world's ten largest cities, but southern China has many more (if somewhat smaller) cities concentrated in one region.
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Independence Day / int_5932d12b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Independence Day / int_5932d12b	comment	Cerebus Callback: Early on in the film, when the President talks to his wife on the phone, she affectionately calls him a liar whenever he tells Blatant Lies. She uses the same response when he tells her that the doctors said she would be okay, as she lies dying in the hospital.
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Independence Day / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Independence Day / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Israeli, Egyptian, Iraqi and British air forces are shown working alongside each other during the scene where the global counter-offensive is planned, seemingly having agreed to a mutual dÃ©tente in the face of the alien threat. They also mention a Belgian contingent which was lost in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Independence Day / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Independence Day / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: After they narrowly escape Washington, Whitmore takes a moment on Air Force One to grasp the fact that millions of Americans have just died on his watch, all because he didn't plan for the possibility that the aliens were hostile.
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Independence Day / int_5bb56da	type	Justified
Independence Day / int_5bb56da	comment	The Area 51 guard lets Steve and his huge convoy into the base without so much as a phone call. Justified though, as the alien invasion has made the secret of housing an alien craft moot, and no one would be willing to turn away a few thousand scared refugees while the President is there on an inspection.
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Independence Day / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Independence Day / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois The Russian fireball is said to be "clearing the mountains" near Novosibirsk. There are no mountains in the area, as the city is located on the Western Siberian Plain. El Toro base is depicted surrounded by flat desert, even though it's actually surrounded by hilly Orange County.
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Independence Day / int_5d90c8e	type	Lunarians
Independence Day / int_5d90c8e	comment	The Apollo 11 landing site. The American flag was actually blown over by the lunar module ascent (later missions would place the flag farther away); moreover, by now, the flag is all white due to the cosmic rays. In addition, the "We came in peace for all mankind" plaque was placed at the foot of the LEM rather than the nearby soil. The trivia commentary on the anniversary edition had some fun with this, pointing out that this scene is inaccurate "...unless...someone else moved it..."
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Independence Day / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Independence Day / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Twice: One where the City Destroyer attacking Area 51 blows up, and another when a montage shows humanity celebrating their survival.
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Independence Day / int_5e544ae6	type	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
Independence Day / int_5e544ae6	comment	We Come in Peace â€” Shoot to Kill In one of many shout-outs to War of the Worlds, a trio of helicopters attempts to make contact with the aliens through light glyphs. The aliens vaporize the helicopters without a second thought. In the novelization, Dr. Isaacs explains that Okun's predecessor, who performed the original autopsy, actually communicated with the alien survivor before it died and received images suggesting that they were peaceful.
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Independence Day / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
Independence Day / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: At the strip club, none of the patrons pay any attention to Jasmine's pole dance routine, as they're all instead watching the news reports of aliens. Jasmine eventually notices and walks off the stage as a result.
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Independence Day / int_5ff71094	type	Finger in a Barrel
Independence Day / int_5ff71094	comment	Finger in a Barrel: One City Destroyer charges its main gun and Casse finds his missiles malfunctioning. In a Heroic Sacrifice, he flies his plane right into the firing port, causing the energy blast to explode prematurely and sending the whole ship crashing down.
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Independence Day / int_6004e99c	type	Activation Sequence
Independence Day / int_6004e99c	comment	Activation Sequence: The City Destroyers' main cannon. First, the petal-like doors surrounding it open, bathing the target city in an eerie-calm blue light. As eight pylons approach the central spire, it also unlocks and lowers the firing mechanism, the "Hammer." The pylons begin charging the spire, activating the targeting laser that shines down. Then, the "Hammer" fires an energy pulse which obliterates the target building, and the chain reaction quickly moves outwards to wipe out the target city.
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Independence Day / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Independence Day / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works The spacecraft that crash-landed in Roswell ends up saving mankind when the Harvesters finally arrive to attack the planet. Studying the fighter has allowed humanity to grasp a basic understanding of the aliens' technology, which allows them to create a backdoor into the mothership's computer systems and disable the shields. This buys the human race enough time to figure out how to destroy the city destroyers before they fire again. Earth and humanity itself serve as the ultimate spanner. The aliens have conquered countless worlds, exterminating the natives and stripping all natural resources, leaving nothing but barren husks in their wake. When they decide to attack Earth, however, mankind unites and thwarts the attack. Of course, it might also help that the final battle takes place on the Fourth of July.
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Independence Day / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
Independence Day / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: The movie is divided into "chapters" numbered July 2, July 3 and July 4.
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Independence Day / int_61a35c24	type	Improbable Piloting Skills
Independence Day / int_61a35c24	comment	Improbable Piloting Skills: Steven Hiller gets an If it flies with the alien space craft. Then he crashes. The President orders anybody with piloting experience to fly F/A-18 Hornet fighters in the battle over Area 51. This includes a crop duster pilot.
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Independence Day / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Independence Day / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The mechanical moan-like sound of the ship destroyer as it arrives in New York. Sounds almost like a T-Rex.
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Independence Day / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Independence Day / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: The invading alien armada have energy shields so potent they can shrug off nuclear weapons without a scratch. Humanity ultimately wins by uploading a computer virus to the mothership that disables the shields, then nuking the mothership before they can correct the problem. Without the shields, the alien fighters are more or less on par with if not worse than the human fighters, although by that point they have a numbers advantage due to repeated one sided battles.
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Independence Day / int_630910ba	type	Finger-Twitching Revival
Independence Day / int_630910ba	comment	Finger-Twitching Revival: The first sign that the alien pilot comes back to life during the Alien Autopsy is its hand starting to move.
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Independence Day / int_634c5775	type	Came from the Sky
Independence Day / int_634c5775	comment	Came from the Sky: Area 51 conceals a repaired attacker and three alien bodies recovered from Roswell in 1947. A fresh one also gets shot down.
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Independence Day / int_6366c81c	type	Planar Shockwave
Independence Day / int_6366c81c	comment	Planar Shockwave: The explosion of the alien Mothership spreads horizontally on the screen, eventually engulfing the camera. Might have looked like a Praxis Shockwave from another angle.
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Independence Day / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Independence Day / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: When Marty Gilbert finds out the aliens are about to attack, he quickly worries about who he needs to warn.
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Independence Day / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Independence Day / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Miguel Casse's response to seeing Russell being arrested on television.
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Independence Day / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Independence Day / int_6439de78	comment	A bit more direct at the climax of the film when Russell makes his Heroic Sacrifice against the aliens' city busting laser with a jet fighter and missile causing the entire thing to backfire and blow the ship up.
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Independence Day / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Independence Day / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: The alien destroyers charging up their weapons is accompanied by a droning trombone sound. Also accompanied by "Psycho" Strings.
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Independence Day / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Independence Day / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Russell Casse, who gets his revenge on the aliens by suicide bombing the destruction laser with an F/A-18 before it can fire. "Hello boys! I'm baaaaaaaack!" Taken up to eleven in the novelization - he flies his old biplane with a missile strapped to it.
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Independence Day / int_67b9dd47	type	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear
Independence Day / int_67b9dd47	comment	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Early in the film, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff does a variation while in a meeting with the President. After receiving a message by phone from an AWACS pilot investigating one of the newly-arrived UFOs, he turns on the speakerphone and orders the pilot to repeat everything he just said, so the President can get the message first-hand.
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Independence Day / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Independence Day / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: During the Hacked by a Pirate moment, the skull and crossbones cackles manically.
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Independence Day / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Independence Day / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Whitmore says to leave the cities "in an orderly fashion" - cut to anarchy in the New York streets.
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Independence Day / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
Independence Day / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: The alien mothership is mistaken for a meteor until it's discovered that it is slowing down as it approaches Earth.
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Independence Day / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Independence Day / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: As an alien ship approaches Area 51 a conversation is had about any options if Steve and David's plan takes longer than expected. While they say being under a mountain might give them some cover, it's pointed out the area has become a refugee haven on the surface. Cue sudden scramble to get civilians inside.
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Independence Day / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
Independence Day / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: Whitmore's VP is never named or shown onscreen, but is evacuated to NORAD before getting killed by the aliens.
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Independence Day / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
Independence Day / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: David realizes the aliens are planning to attack. He enlists his father to drive him from New York City to Washington, DC so he can warn the president. David's ex-wife Constance happens to be the president's aide. By the end of the film, David is a hero who's helped saved the world, and he and Connie are on the road to reconciliation.
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Independence Day / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Independence Day / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: An Air Force AWACS jet goes out to recon the alien ships. The pilot is so horrified by the sight of the fireball as the ship enters the atmosphere that he doesn't pull up and away in time. Back at the White House, the military officer bangs fruitlessly on the phone button before he realizes that the connection was lost because the recon plane was. Happens again at the end of the film. No contact from Steve or David for 20 minutes — but then the radar tech spots something on radar...
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Independence Day / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Independence Day / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: David is berated by his father, and later Connie, for spending eight years at MIT to become a cable repairman.
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Independence Day / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Independence Day / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: The events of July 3rd quickly shape up as this. The morning counterattack is an utter failure due to the aliens' shields. They destroy an additional 36 cities, and are poised to destroy all remaining major cities within a day and a half. In the evening, Whitmore learns that the aliens will not settle for anything less than mankind's extermination and orders a nuclear strike, which fails. As the aliens destroy the third wave of cities, Whitmore realizes that humanity is truly lost.
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Independence Day / int_6b898eb8	type	Post-Apocalyptic Dog
Independence Day / int_6b898eb8	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Jasmine Dubrow and her son Dylan have their dog Boomer with them throughout the film, and three of them are amongst the only survivors of the alien attack in LA. A shot of Boomer escaping a car being blown away by the firestorm is one of the filmâ€™s iconic images. Boomer makes it to the end of the film where he joins Jasmine and Dylan in welcoming Steve and David back to Earth.
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Independence Day / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Independence Day / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Jasmine's dance at the club.
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Independence Day / int_6c6d32a0	type	The Maiden Name Debate
Independence Day / int_6c6d32a0	comment	The Maiden Name Debate: In the special edition, David tries to find Constance's cell phone number by searching numerous variations of her name. Julius suggests he try searching "Levinson," even though David points out that she didn't take his name when they were married. Sure enough, "Connie Levinson" is what's listed.
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Independence Day / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Independence Day / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: David Levinson is a chess player. He constantly uses chess analogies to describe the alien invasion.
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Independence Day / int_6dd37459	type	It's Going Down
Independence Day / int_6dd37459	comment	It's Going Down: The alien mothership, and the Los Angeles city destroyer over Area 51.
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Independence Day / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Independence Day / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Hiller uses his F/A-18's drogue chute to blind the alien fighter pursuing him into colliding with the canyon wall. Real F/A-18s don't have drogue chutes. Air Force One is shown being escorted by two F-15C Eagles and a US Navy F-14 Tomcat during its flight from Washington, D.C. Given the nature of the situation, and the fact that several cities have just been destroyed by alien invaders, Air Force One (carrying the President) would merit a much larger escort of fighters. President Whitmore's F/A-18 is explicitly shown to be equipped with four missiles (two underwing and two on the wingtips) yet fires five. He fires one underwing missile to test the shield, another underwing to confirm the shields are down, then a wingtip missile afterwards. He additionally fires another wingtip missile at an alien fighter, and a third wingtip mounted missile at the City Destroyer's cannon opening, somehow firing two missiles from the same hardpoint. "FOX TWO" is a radio call for an infrared-guided air to air missile (for US fighters at the time, an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder). Yet the missile fired is either an active-radar-homing AMRAAM (which would be FOX 3) or semi-active-radar-homing Sparrow (which would be FOX 1). The nuclear missile shots, being mounted in Harpoon air-to-surface missiles, would be called as "BULLDOG." In 1996, US Space Command was located at Peterson Air Force Base, near NORAD, not the Pentagon. In addition, the script and novel list Marine General Grey as being head of Space Command, even though all American space operations at the time were coordinated by the US Air Force. A piece of wreckage at Area 51 bears the shield of the Tactical Air Command, which had become the Air Combat Command in 1992. The Air Combat Command, however, inherited its shield from TAC, with only the text on the scroll at the bottom of the shield having changed. El Toro has F-14 Tomcats and F-16 Fighting Falcons on the flight line. Although the Navy does have F-16s, they're used as wargame aggressors. Possibly justified due to a joint operation being conducted for the counter-strike. All of the planes launching from Area 51, an Air Force installation, are Navy and Marine Corps ones: F-14s, F/A-18s, and even A/V-8 Harriers. Multiple cases in Jimmy's death. He attempts to make a high-speed turn when he and Steve were presumably supersonic, which disorients him long enough for an alien fighter to get a clear shot. Except a) no Marine pilot would do that, as they would know exactly what would happen when they bank at that speed even with a G-suit (and Steve even tells him he can't bank at that speed), b) no fighter pilot period would then proceed to unhook their oxygen mask to try to get a clear breath of air. The O2 masks fighter pilots wear aren't just there to look cool, they supply varying amounts of oxygen so that a pilot undergoing high G-forces won't pass out. USS Georgia notifies Atlantic Command of the ship over Iraq. Since 1983, the Middle East is under the theater area of authority for Central Command. Whitmore addressees the army officer who announces the approach of the City Destroyers as a "commander." That is not an army rank and the officer is actually a colonel. Protocol stipulates that Marine One's rotors are not activated until the President is aboard and the doors are secured. Of course, given the rather extreme nature of the emergency, it's probable that Whitmore ordered them to get ready for takeoff as soon as possible. The correct name of Area 51 is Groom Lake, which is what military personnel refer to it as. "Area 51" was assigned to it in CIA classified documents. The fighter that Whitmore flies during the final battle should have had the callsign "Air Force One". The name "Air Force One" doesn't just refer to the Boeing VC-25 that serves as the President's official transport; it's the default callsign used for any US Air Force plane that the President happens to be on. Of course, using his squadron's call sign symbolically indicates that he is putting himself in the line of fire with all the other volunteers. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (nicknamed "The Black Knights") is depicted as being stationed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. While this was once accurate, it was already outdated at the time of the film's release: the squadron was transferred to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in 1994.
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Independence Day / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Independence Day / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Steve and David not quite outrunning the explosion of the mothership.
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Independence Day / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Independence Day / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement:
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Independence Day / int_71281a48	type	Pre-Battle Banter
Independence Day / int_71281a48	comment	Pre-Battle Banter: During the briefing before the first attack on one of the invaders' ships, Marine pilots Wilder and Hiller joke around. Later on, when they're at the flight line Captain Wilder continues.
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Independence Day / int_712c8e6f	type	Phony Newscast
Independence Day / int_712c8e6f	comment	Phony Newscast: The DVD release includes the faux newscasts depicting how TV news reported on the arrival of the alien craft. One of the Making-Of featurettes used to promote the film also opened like this.
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Independence Day / int_713e479	type	Sensor Suspense
Independence Day / int_713e479	comment	Sensor Suspense: When the Air Force goes out to recon the alien ships, it's all cloudy and they cannot get any kind of reading what's in front of them. Then the air clears.
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Independence Day / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Independence Day / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: "Eagle Twenty, Fox Two!" And for good reason. Pilots call "Fox" one through four to indicate firing of different weapons to help avoid friendlies catching one of them. At least that's what these guys say, anyway. Plus it's all dramatic and stuff. In reality, with such a massive fleet of friendlies, this wouldn't be occurring at the outset since the radio feed would get garbled by fifty pilots doing their call while firing a simultaneous opening shot.
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Independence Day / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Independence Day / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold President Whitmore is cognizant of the fact that if the Nuke 'em strategy works the cure could be worse than the disease. Played for Black Comedy when David gets black-out drunk before he gets his "Eureka!" Moment and mutters that maybe humanity should contaminate Earth as fast as they can to make the aliens not want it anymore.
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Independence Day / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Independence Day / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security The Area 51 guard lets Steve and his huge convoy into the base without so much as a phone call. Justified though, as the alien invasion has made the secret of housing an alien craft moot, and no one would be willing to turn away a few thousand scared refugees while the President is there on an inspection. Only Steve Hiller, a serviceman who survived a battle with the aliens, is allowed into the top secret research facility. The Casse family and the other refugees stay on the surface, until the base comes under attack and they're put in the secure laboratories. Steve and David fly a 50-year old captured alien spacefighter to the alien mothership in orbit. The mothership allows the craft to land without attempting to contact the crew on board or determine what mission they were returning from. They also don't send anyone to meet with the crew once it docks, and only eventually get suspicious enough to get some craft into a firing position past the point where the virus has been uploaded..
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Independence Day / int_740f0e9e	type	Wronski Feint
Independence Day / int_740f0e9e	comment	Wronski Feint: Steven Hiller uses the canyon ploy to escape from the alien dogfighters. He then uses the actual Wronski Feint on his last pursuer, ejecting and deploying his plane's drag chute, causing both plane and alien fighter to crash. Mostly justified since the chute obscures the alien's sight, and by the time it slides off the alien craft, it's too close to the canyon wall to pull up in time.
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Independence Day / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Independence Day / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words "We don't light up til the fat lady sings!" "Checkmate."
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Independence Day / int_74cd99f8	type	See the Whites of Their Eyes
Independence Day / int_74cd99f8	comment	See the Whites of Their Eyes: The city buster laser apparently required the destroyers to be immediately above the cities and well in the atmosphere. There is also the old fashioned dogfighting.
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Independence Day / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Independence Day / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: Our presidents are ace jet fighter pilots. This one is actually Truth in Television in that the 1990s and the Turn of the Millennium were when a lot of former Vietnam veterans were running for public office. Bush Senior flew in the Second World War and Bush Junior qualified on F-102's.
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Independence Day / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
Independence Day / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me! David tries to call Connie shortly after the aliens' arrival and tell her that they're going to attack. She brushes him off as paranoid, causing him to drive all the way to Washington to convince her in person. A classic example comes when Russell is arrested for dropping leaflets from his plane, saying the aliens are going to kill them all even as he's hauled into a police car.
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Independence Day / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Independence Day / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Dr. Okun can barely contain his enthusiasm for the aliens' technology and anatomy.
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Independence Day / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
Independence Day / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: The aliens are a version of The Greys encased in an exoskeleton with numerous tentacles used for offense.
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Independence Day / int_776ce0ac	type	Speaks in Binary
Independence Day / int_776ce0ac	comment	Speaks in Binary: We see a close-up on a printout David makes from the signal, all in binary code.
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Independence Day / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Independence Day / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: When Steve attempts to steal a helicopter, the guard points a gun at him but Steve makes a reference to this trope and takes off.
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Independence Day / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Independence Day / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser Played with, as the aliens used Earth's satellite system to coordinate their attack, giving David a chance to study their signal system and turn their own trick back on them. A bit more direct at the climax of the film when Russell makes his Heroic Sacrifice against the aliens' city busting laser with a jet fighter and missile causing the entire thing to backfire and blow the ship up.
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Independence Day / int_7a4c6931	type	Aliens Never Invented Democracy
Independence Day / int_7a4c6931	comment	Aliens Never Invented Democracy: The movie doesn't offer much detail about the society of the invading aliens.
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Independence Day / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Independence Day / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: The Earthlings defend their home planet against the evil, heartless alien locusts from outer space.
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Independence Day / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Independence Day / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Whitmore's famous speech was a reworked version of the King's St Crispin's Day Speech in Henry V.
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Independence Day / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Independence Day / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox One of the cable employees takes a complaint from a customer and says "Yeah, I like X-Files too." At one point in The X-Files: Fight the Future, Mulder takes a leak next to a poster of Independence Day. Another one of the cable employees has a Mr. Spock mug on her desk. Brent Spiner, who plays Dr. Okun, had already appeared with Spock on TNG.
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Independence Day / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Independence Day / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Julius and David Levinson are shown playing chess together early on, with David winning easily. He spends much of the rest of the movie talking in Chess Motifs.
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Independence Day / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
Independence Day / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: The Area 51 scientists attach a radio transmitter to the bottom of the fighter so that they'll be notified once David uploads the virus. It's still able to transmit confirmation despite being deep inside the mothership, which clearly has a thick hull.
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Independence Day / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
Independence Day / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: The giant fireballs in the sky caused by the city destroyers entering Earth's atmosphere.
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Independence Day / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Independence Day / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: The movie toys with the "don't want to die a virgin" variant twice. In the first instance, after the alien ship appears over Los Angeles, teenaged Alicia Casse's then-boyfriend tries using "Do you want to die a virgin?" to persuade her to have sex with him, but is foiled by the arrival of her older brother. Later in the film, Alicia herself tells another boy that she doesn't want to die a virgin, to which he replies something to the effect of "We'll both die as virgins together." The latter scene, however, only made it into the Special Edition DVD version of the film.
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Independence Day / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
Independence Day / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: The alien fighter that crashed in Roswell (and the Area 51 scientists repurposed for humans to pilot) is used to invade the mothership (where David will shut down the force fields and Steve will fire a nuke to destroy the thing from within).
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Independence Day / int_7ebc29a2	type	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire
Independence Day / int_7ebc29a2	comment	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire: The city destroyers are so named because their main energy weapon is capable of creating a chain reaction effect that can incinerate an entire city in a single shot. However (provided their shields are down), any damage to the firing mechanism during the charging sequence will cause the beam to reverse itself and destroy the ship.
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Independence Day / int_7ed96790	type	Trapped in Containment
Independence Day / int_7ed96790	comment	Trapped in Containment: The alien autopsy scene goes off script when the alien turn out to be only mostly dead and psychically takes control of the poor man in the surgical suite.
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Independence Day / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Independence Day / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: David is introduced playing chess with his father, which quickly establishes his Brilliant, but Lazy attitude.
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Independence Day / int_815ea2a1	type	All Is Well That Ends Well
Independence Day / int_815ea2a1	comment	All Is Well That Ends Well: The kids of the drunkard who crashes his plane into the soft spot of the alien mother ship are pretty sad because their dad just died only to be all "Hooray!" when Bill Pullman tells them "All their base are belong to us! The good guys win! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!". However, the oldest child does appear to be more solemn than anyone else when a serviceman tells him "What your father did was very brave. You should be proud." And the teenager informs him "I am."
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Independence Day / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Independence Day / int_816a4e80	comment	The hangar housing the alien craft has "R2" painted in large letters of the wall.
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Independence Day / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Independence Day / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: The destroyer ships' primary (city killing) weapons — if you can get through the force field, at least.
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Independence Day / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Independence Day / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: The scene where the alien talks through Dr. Okun. The first time the President's entourage (and Major Mitchell) heard it, the Major thought the doctor was begging them to be let out; it was actually the alien, trying to trick them into letting it out. The speaking through the human doesn't help. Fortunately, General Grey sees through it just in time.
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Independence Day / int_849d24d9	type	Last Kiss
Independence Day / int_849d24d9	comment	Last Kiss: President Whitmore and the First Lady in the hospital, just before she passes away.
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Independence Day / int_84fde8d1	type	Big Entrance
Independence Day / int_84fde8d1	comment	Big Entrance: Referenced. "You know me." "Yeah, I know, you always like to make a big entrance."
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Independence Day / int_850e84d5	type	Eye Awaken
Independence Day / int_850e84d5	comment	Eye Awaken: When the alien is being removed from its bio-mechanical suit. Major Mitchell later puts a few more bullets in it until it finally gives out a death cry, obviously aware of the trope.
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Independence Day / int_8552d6d4	type	Universal Chaplain
Independence Day / int_8552d6d4	comment	Universal Chaplain: During the climax, David's father Julius is leading a prayer from the Torah as the aliens prepare to obliterate Area 51. The former Secretary of Defense walks up to join them, but mentions he isn't Jewish. Julius looks up, remarks "Eh, nobody's perfect", then invites him into the circle.
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Independence Day / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Independence Day / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic When Steve first meets the President, they only shake hands. This is correct, as he's uncovered (not wearing headgear) and thus he's not required to salute. They play it straight at the end, though. The President salutes Steve, who is still without headgear. Steve has to hurriedly hand Jasmine his cigar to appropriately salute back. Marine One is able to travel from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base within the nine minutes left before the aliens' attack. Assuming the helicopter went close to its maximum speed, given how short on time they were, it can take about four minutes to fly the roughly ten miles as the crow flies between the two locations.
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Independence Day / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Independence Day / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: As Russell Casse is flying underneath the invader's ship, he looks at a picture of his three children in the cockpit just before he performs a Heroic Sacrifice by flying his jet into the ship's primary weapon and destroying it.
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Independence Day / int_85b00e2e	type	Disaster-Dodging Dog
Independence Day / int_85b00e2e	comment	Disaster-Dodging Dog: When Jasmine sees the fireball that used to be LA coming for her, she grabs her son and runs. Once she and her son get to safety, she calls for her dog Boomer. Much to our relief, it manages to Outrun the Fireball and reach its master's shelter just in time.
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Independence Day / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Independence Day / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The likely alien survivors, of which there would most possibly be a significant number, since one was able to survive a crash landing of its ship, an Earth-welcoming punch from Will Smith, and a head dissection.
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Independence Day / int_86a00a8e	type	If My Calculations Are Correct
Independence Day / int_86a00a8e	comment	If My Calculations Are Correct: David uses this line before announcing to his colleagues that the signal will be gone in seven hours.
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Independence Day / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
Independence Day / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo George Puttnam, Jerry Dunphy, Barry Nolan, Julie Moran, Wendy Walsh, Bob Friend, and the then-cast members of The McLaughlin Group all appear as themselves. Los Angeles sportscaster Gary Cruz is briefly shown as an anchorman discussing the alien ship hovering over L.A.
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Independence Day / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Independence Day / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: There are multiple maps and displays in the Area 51 control room tracking the alien ships and plotting which cities have been destroyed.
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Independence Day / int_8763fb60	type	Iwo Jima Pose
Independence Day / int_8763fb60	comment	Iwo Jima Pose: The Iwo Jima memorial statue is briefly seen in Washington.
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Independence Day / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Independence Day / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Russell is released early from jail as the Los Angeles Destroyer closes in; he explains to his kids that the government has bigger fish to fry now.
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Independence Day / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Independence Day / int_8a4988bb	comment	When the alien at Area 51 telepathically attacks the President, everybody present unloads their weapons into it, followed by Major Mitchell finishing him off.
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Independence Day / int_8ab145f5	type	Profound by Pop Song
Independence Day / int_8ab145f5	comment	Profound by Pop Song: Julius tries to nudge Connie into reviving her marriage with David, but his quote from The Beatles comes off a little Cloudcuckoolander:
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Independence Day / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
Independence Day / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: President Whitmore is talking to one of the aliens that are destroying earth's cities and killing humans. He tries to find out if there is a way to negotiate a peace:
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Independence Day / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Independence Day / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Happens during the humans' first (and horribly unsuccessful) attack on one of the alien craft; every missile fired by the numerous fighter jets hits the ship's shields, doing absolutely nothing.
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Independence Day / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Independence Day / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: July 2, 1996 starts as just an ordinary day. Only weird thing is satellite disruptions on every TV channel.
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Independence Day / int_8c481e9a	type	Risking the King
Independence Day / int_8c481e9a	comment	Risking the King: President Whitmore takes up a fighter and leads the final battle against the aliens. Justified, as he's one of the few men around who can fly a plane (and has combat experience) and if they lose, he won't have a country to lead anyway.
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Independence Day / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Independence Day / int_8d23f3a7	comment	3001: The Final Odyssey (which came out the year after ID4; presumably Clarke had decided on or even penned the ending before ID4 came out) has the heroes dispatch the aliens with the exact same strategy. Arthur C. Clarke writes in the ending notes that he doesn't know "whether to congratulate them for their one stroke of originality or accuse them of retroactive plagiarism". (not exact quote)
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Independence Day / int_8d6ecc32	type	Dropped-in Speech Clip
Independence Day / int_8d6ecc32	comment	Dropped-in Speech Clip: As the film opens, we see the Apollo 11 landing site and hear the recording of Neil Armstrong reading the plaque commemorating the first landing on the moon right before the Mothership passes overhead.
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Independence Day / int_9006ff70	type	Sorry to Interrupt
Independence Day / int_9006ff70	comment	Sorry to Interrupt: Somebody walks in on what looks like a pilot proposing to another pilot.
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Independence Day / int_902f19e	type	Hacked by a Pirate
Independence Day / int_902f19e	comment	Deep in the mothership and not expecting to get out, Steve makes a V-sign to the alien in charge of the hangar, shouts "PEACE!" and fires the nuke. And just beforehand, David activates a special option in his virus causing all the alien display screens to show an animated laughing skull and crossbones, complete with demonic-sounding digital laughter.
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Independence Day / int_909a8f76	type	Victorious Chorus
Independence Day / int_909a8f76	comment	Victorious Chorus: Can be heard in the finale as they watch the remains of the mothership falling from the sky.
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Independence Day / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Independence Day / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: The aliens, in keeping with their Horde of Alien Locusts nature, have no issues wiping out entire cities full of people. Humanity has no issues returning the favor for the alien mother ship. The US President actually does probe for peace even after they destroy every major city on Earth, with an alien that had just slaughtered a team of scientists no less; the response was a Mind Rape that would have killed him if the alien hadn't been shot, and it showed him that their entire civilization is based upon this, moving from one world to another, wiping out the natives, using up all the resources, and then moving on to the next planet to repeat.
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Independence Day / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Independence Day / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The aliens' ultimate goal as Planet Looters who devour every last natural resource on a planet before moving on means that if they win, they'll likely bring a Class 5-6. According to the sequel Independence Day: Resurgence where the aliens have a new Evil Plan, it'd probably even reach a Class X once they were done with the Earth and ready to move on. The aliens are defeated in the end, but humanity still suffers a Class 1 with most major cities around the world destroyed and human civilization at first left in a diminished state.
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Independence Day / int_92fa2e5f	type	I Got You Covered
Independence Day / int_92fa2e5f	comment	I Got You Covered: At the end of the film, the President and Mission Control order the rest of the jet fighters to cover Russell since he has the only missile left.
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Independence Day / int_945885c	type	Rocky Mountain Refuge
Independence Day / int_945885c	comment	Rocky Mountain Refuge: Subverted. The very first thing that the U.S. government does once the aliens arrive on July 2 is to send the Vice President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Cheyenne Mountain to keep them safe (they also request President Whitmore to go, but he refuses). NORAD is then demolished by the aliens on July 3, effectively decapitating the government beside Whitmore. note In the novelization, the aliens achieved this with swarms of fighters alone rather than with the larger, Wave-Motion Gun-equipped City Destroyers, highlighting just how powerful their weaponry is. However, supplementary materials for the sequel suggest that a City Destroyer was used instead. This means that when Area 51 detects a City Destroyer moving towards it and Major Mitchell remarks that the base is partially embedded in a mountain, everybody knows that this is not going to make any difference.
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Independence Day / int_945a09d5	type	The End Is Nigh
Independence Day / int_945a09d5	comment	The End Is Nigh: In the special edition, Jasmine and her survivor group come across a man preaching from the rubble that the end has come. Which indeed it has.
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Independence Day / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
Independence Day / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: As July 2 starts, we see an ordinary day for several of the characters before the aliens arrive... David Levinson plays chess with his father, then goes to work where the satellite systems have gone down. Russell Casse is trying to earn a living as a crop duster. Steve Hiller and Jasmine Dubrow are in bed, hungover after a night out, before having breakfast and getting the paper.
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Independence Day / int_94b78deb	type	Every Helicopter Is a Huey
Independence Day / int_94b78deb	comment	Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Though most of the aircraft used are period — and setting-appropriate, two Hueys still show up to escort the doomed S-64 Skycrane "Welcome Wagon". They explode moments later.
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Independence Day / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Independence Day / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: A behind-the-scenes version. Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos made two versions for the Harvesters' design: a larger, fearsome-looking one and a smaller, frailer one. Roland Emmerich decided to use both: the larger one became a bio-suit and the smaller one was the real Harvester under the suit.
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Independence Day / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Independence Day / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Dr. Okun is named for, and modeled after, Jeffrey Okun, the visual effects supervisor on Stargate, while Vincent Schiavelliâ€™s character of Dr. Engel is named for the filmâ€™s visual effects supervisor Volker Engel.
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Independence Day / int_95d5fa0e	type	Area 51
Independence Day / int_95d5fa0e	comment	When Julius brings up Area 51, the Roswell Incident, and other alien conspiracies, the President dismisses it. It turns out Julius was entirely correct — the President just didn't know about it because the Secretary of Defense never saw fit to tell him (or, apparently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in the name of Plausible Deniability.
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Independence Day / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
Independence Day / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: The triumphant moment when Steve and Jasmine reunite at El Toro.
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Independence Day / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Independence Day / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Steve walks out the front door, picks up the paper, reads it, looks to the neighbors to his left and right packing up, then when a helicopter flies overhead he sees the giant flying saucer that's been in front of him the whole time. You'd think it'd be the first thing he saw when he opened the door. To make things worse, Jasmine makes the same mistake, not noticing it until she sees he's staring at it. Justified since Steve was looking down most of the time, first just sleepily then after tripping over a toy left in the sidewalk. Jasmine was bringing Steve a brimming cup of coffee, so was likely watching that to make sure she didn't spill. The enormous size of the spaceship might have contributed. Not looking at it, sleepy, concentrating on other things ... big dark thing hanging over the city in the distance = "dark cloud".
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Independence Day / int_960a9ef8	type	Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock
Independence Day / int_960a9ef8	comment	Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: A brief case played for laughs when Russell Casse hops in an F-18 fighter jet. He flew military jets in Vietnam, and has been flying a crop duster ever since, and has been given a crash-course in modern military jets, but the first button he presses activates the "Missile Launch". Fortunately, he manages to find the off switch before any missiles actually launch.
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Independence Day / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Independence Day / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The beginning of July 3 on Air Force One. See Heroic BSoD. The President and his daughter reuniting with the First Lady following the attack and learning that she is dying from internal bleeding.
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Independence Day / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
Independence Day / int_970ca74e	comment	Big "OMG!": How David's boss, Marty, reacts when David explains to him that that in six hours time, the aliens are going to strike with everything they've got.
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Independence Day / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Independence Day / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: The first person to die to alien weapons fire is the black "Welcome Wagon" pilot (and his white co-pilot). However, the first actual casualties are the crew of the exploratory plane, who are consumed by the fires surrounding the ship as it enters the atmosphere.
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Independence Day / int_97d63115	type	Matrix Raining Code
Independence Day / int_97d63115	comment	Matrix Raining Code: Can be seen on David's laptop when he tries to hack into the alien's network to upload the virus.
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Independence Day / int_97f53f5b	type	Superweapon Surprise
Independence Day / int_97f53f5b	comment	Superweapon Surprise: The humans defeat a seemingly unstoppable alien invasion via a computer virus.
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Independence Day / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Independence Day / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": When the Destroyer's "hammer" starts to activate, the people on the LA rooftop stare with increasing amount of alarm/horror. Presumably, even through their optimism they recognized that couldn't possibly be anything other than a weapon. The terrified reactions of the people in the streets once the primary weapon fires.
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Independence Day / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Independence Day / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: David's father telling him that he is divorced and should move on. One of the people working at SETI says the distance from the source of the noise at the start means that it's coming from the Moon. As the initials stand for "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence", they would have all known how far away the Moon is from Earth.
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Independence Day / int_99c3dd05	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
Independence Day / int_99c3dd05	comment	Lifesaving Misfortune: Tiffany may have not gotten that job in Las Vegas, and subsequently lost all her money gambling, but at least she wasn't in LA for the 1994 Northridge quake.
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Independence Day / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Independence Day / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: The aliens' ships are this thanks to their shields. Heck, they're nuclear weapon-proof. The aliens themsevles, however, aren't.
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Independence Day / int_99dd103c	type	Safe Zone Hope Spot
Independence Day / int_99dd103c	comment	Safe Zone Hope Spot: After the aliens destroy the world's biggest cities, the heroes are flying toward NORAD, the most heavily defended bunker in the world, when they learn it has been destroyed as well.
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Independence Day / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Independence Day / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Death by Cameo Volker Engel, who was head of the FX unit. He's the guy in the LA office building. Dean Devlin, the film's writer, voices Eagle Two, one of the pilots who attempts to shoot the City Destroyer attacking Area 51 during the climax and is subsequently shot down.
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Independence Day / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Independence Day / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing The first song we hear playing at the SETI station? "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," by R.E.M.. When Dr. Okun says that they've spent forty years trying to repair the Roswell ship, David asks if they're really hoping to fly it.
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Independence Day / int_9d473705	type	Official Presidential Transport
Independence Day / int_9d473705	comment	Official Presidential Transport: Air Force One plays a prominent role, helping evacuate several characters from Washington and serving as the command center for the first counterattack. The film also features an aversion near the end of the movie: one of the fighter jets in the assault on the alien ship, despite carrying the President of the United States (as the pilot, no less), has the callsign Eagle One rather than Air Force One.
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Independence Day / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Independence Day / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck David, when the city destroyers show up and he realizes that the mysterious signal he found in the satellites is actually a countdown to a global alien attack. You can practically hear this trope in his voice when his computer ticks to zero and he says "Time's up." Jimmy's wide-eyed reaction when the LA City Destroyer begins to deploy hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small craft in response to the attack.
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Independence Day / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Independence Day / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: Guess what track is playing when the nerdy Asian astronomer first detects the transmission of the alien ships? R.E.M.'s "It's the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". In an early trailer, the song in this scene is instead "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, also suspiciously apropos.
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Independence Day / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Independence Day / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The Alien Invasion starts on 2 July and ends on 4 July, the American "Independence Day".
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Independence Day / int_a0543350	type	Earth Is a Battlefield
Independence Day / int_a0543350	comment	Earth Is a Battlefield: Featuring some pretty impressive set pieces when the humans fight over recognizable landmarks.
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Independence Day / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Independence Day / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: Russell... or so he claims. The viewer is left to draw their own conclusions about whether or not this was entirely a delusion brought on by alcoholism, war trauma, or just being nuts. The novelization has him see the alien downed by Captain Hiller, and think that it's not the same as the ones who abducted him. Then he starts to wonder whether other aliens are visiting Earth, or if it even really happened. The same novelization strongly implies that it did happen: inside their bio-suits, the invading aliens look exactly like the ones in Russell's memories. There was a Marvel comic book that shows several events from the earlier lives of the characters, as a sort of "prequel". Russell is clearly shown to be abducted by the invaders.
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Independence Day / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Independence Day / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: Nuclear weapons are used only once, over Houston (a city that's about to fall victim to one of the leviathans), and after significant consideration, primarily over the fact that, whether it works or not, the city is about to get razed to the ground anyway. When the first one fails to even get through the target's shields, the rest are immediately called off.
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Independence Day / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Independence Day / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: The prayer that Julius gives at the end is actually supposed to be given while standing. Justified as the lab is clearly overcrowded, and as he tells Nimziki, nobody's perfect.
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Independence Day / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
Independence Day / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: The climactic 30-second countdown to the bomb's detonation on the mothership took one minute, 33 seconds of screen time.
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Independence Day / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
Independence Day / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Russell's last words.
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Independence Day / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Independence Day / int_a4883667	comment	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: Captain Hiller at first, accidentally, when trying to pilot the captured UFO. He then turns the control instructions upside down and retapes them to the dashboard.
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Independence Day / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Independence Day / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: When the captured alien breaks loose in the Area 51 laboratory, several guards open fire on it through a glass window. When the bullets hit the alien, it's blown backward across the laboratory.
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Independence Day / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Independence Day / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash Steve's line that he's always dreamed of flying in space accompanied with majestic music and the image of the craft flying triumphantly away from Earth... only for the music to suddenly turn dark and ominous as the camera pans to show them heading towards the Mothership. Another example comes at the beginning of the final battle. President Whitmore fires a single missile at the alien ship advancing on Area 51 in the belief the virus has taken effect. The missile impacts harmlessly against the shield and everyone in the air and on the ground slumps in despair. General Grey orders the fighter pilots to disengage and save themselves but Whitmore, against advice, moves in for another shot. As everyone watches with bated breath the missile...sails through the point on radar where the shield should be and slams into the ship's hull. The atmosphere immediately changes from one of despairing belief that this is the end to delight that the plan has worked and they can finally hit back against the invaders. Small wonder in some theatres the audience were cheering at this point along with the characters on screen.
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Independence Day / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Independence Day / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: No surface-to-air weapons are attempted, even after the ships wipe out the cities and mostly eliminate any possible collateral damage. Surface-to-air fire deflecting off the shields would at least let militaries know about the existence of a force field without having to risk pilots. The existence of naval forces is barely noted, and no mention is even made of the naval vessels themselves helping out where possible. In the novelization, General Grey mentions that the navy's carriers are still operational and helping along the east coast. The jets sent to fight the aliens that had just wiped out some major cities are kind of underarmed... (the nukes being employed only as a last resort is justified, at least). The novel clarifies that the Black Knight assault was meant as a probing strike in order to assess the ship's weaknesses, while the second wave would provide heavier firepower. However, the shields put a halt to that. This is actually indicated during the mission briefing, their commander says "You men will be the first wave of our counterattack..." The final battle is also justified, as they were flying with whatever they had available (which was little to begin with).
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Independence Day / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Independence Day / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: With the alien saucers not responding to any radio communications, the military sends a helicopter equipped with massive lights in an attempt to establish visual dialogue. The aliens respond by blowing up the helicopter and its escorts.
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Independence Day / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Independence Day / int_a8559a9f	comment	Similarly, a television reporter mentions in passing that much of the current information that anybody has is being passed around via amateur radio operators, given the widespread destruction of the government-run infrastructures note Which is actually a role that amateur radio fills in Real Life. Guess how the remaining military forces pass word to each other to coordinate their final counter-attack?
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Independence Day / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Independence Day / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Since the ARG for the sequel Independence Day: Resurgence dates the first film as "The War of 1996", it's retroactively been made this.
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Independence Day / int_a8739d3e	type	Urban Ruins
Independence Day / int_a8739d3e	comment	Urban Ruins: After surviving the first wave of attacks, Jasmine Dubrow and her son drive through the crumbling ruins of Los Angeles in search of survivors, with the desolate landscape shown in great detail.
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Independence Day / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Independence Day / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: What the Aliens have in store for us. President Whitmore's Mind Rape by a captive Alien reveals that this isn't the first time they've done this, either; before arriving on Earth, the Aliens had already invaded, exterminated, colonized, and plundered countless other worlds.
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Independence Day / int_a9a1d6f0	type	Repeat What You Just Said
Independence Day / int_a9a1d6f0	comment	Repeat What You Just Said:
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Independence Day / int_aa368af0	type	Two Scenes, One Dialogue
Independence Day / int_aa368af0	comment	Two Scenes, One Dialogue: During the preparation for the final campaign, the various Air Forces of the world lay out the battle plan they've received from the Americans, each scene showing combat planners from each Air Force discussing or briefing the next step of the plan.
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Independence Day / int_aa6c24ee	type	Slept Through the Apocalypse
Independence Day / int_aa6c24ee	comment	Slept Through the Apocalypse: Steven Hiller briefly wakes up to the house shaking and thinks it's an earthquake, only for his wife Jasmine to tell him "not even a four-pointer, go back to sleep." They only find out what it really was when Steven steps outside to grab the morning paper, sees the neighbors packing all their things and getting ready to leave, and then looking out and seeing the city-sized spaceship hovering over downtown Los Angeles.
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Independence Day / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Independence Day / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: "In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind... that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united by our common interest. Perhaps it is fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared, in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish, without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today... we celebrate... our Independence Day!'"
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Independence Day / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Independence Day / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: Steve steals a helicopter to go to El Toro.
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Independence Day / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Independence Day / int_ab2df806	comment	Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (nicknamed "The Black Knights") is depicted as being stationed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. While this was once accurate, it was already outdated at the time of the film's release: the squadron was transferred to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in 1994.
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Independence Day / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
Independence Day / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: The SETI staff member tells his boss on the phone to "listen to this" instead of telling him straight away about the signal.
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Independence Day / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Independence Day / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Tiffany's welcome party sign says "Welcome! Make yourselves at home!" Which is exactly what the aliens want to do. Just gotta kill the current tenants first.
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Independence Day / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Independence Day / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The aliens' force fields are effectively impenetrable as far as Earth's defensive forces are concerned. At one point, they shrug off a direct nuclear attack. They seem to hardly notice counterattacks - until, that is, their shields are disabled, and then things start going the other way.
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Independence Day / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Independence Day / int_ac320c0e	comment	President Whitmore is cognizant of the fact that if the Nuke 'em strategy works the cure could be worse than the disease.
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Independence Day / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Independence Day / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby Similarly, a television reporter mentions in passing that much of the current information that anybody has is being passed around via amateur radio operators, given the widespread destruction of the government-run infrastructures note Which is actually a role that amateur radio fills in Real Life. Guess how the remaining military forces pass word to each other to coordinate their final counter-attack? Connie and Julius both mention that David, a capable electronics' engineer, settled with merely being employed by a cable company. Care to guess who not only discovered the aliens' hidden attack signal, while working at said cable company, but also devised a way to sabotage the alien ships' computer systems?
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Independence Day / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Independence Day / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: The final battle over Area 51. The alien saucer's primary Death Ray is already firing up when a Heroic Sacrifice by a human pilot destroys the entire ship by ramming its weak point.
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Independence Day / int_ac711709	type	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
Independence Day / int_ac711709	comment	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: It takes a simple computer virus (and, a large nuclear warhead) to take down spaceships 1/4th the mass of the moon and kill millions of aliens. Gotta love that universal Operating System!
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Independence Day / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Independence Day / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: General Grey, in contrast to the weaselly, ass-covering Secretary of Defense Nimziki. Honestly, Grey is the only person in the government who manages to keep a cool head throughout the crisis, besides President Whitmore, who himself is a badass from the Gulf War. It's really no surprise that in the movie's second act — by which point the Vice President has been killed off-screen by the alien invaders — General Grey becomes the President's de facto second-in-command and closest adviser. It's likely that in the movie's universe, General Grey emerges from the crisis with a George Marshall or Dwight Eisenhower-like level of respect, and it's likely that he's either going to be Whitmore's new VP or Secretary of Defense... and the most likely candidate to be Whitmore's immediate successor once his term of office is up. Spinoff material and the sequel reveal that Whitmore appointed him National Recovery Director, and then convinced him to run in his place in the 2000 election due to his own declining health. Grey ran against Nimziki of all people, and handily won the election.
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Independence Day / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
Independence Day / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: The crisis reconnects David and his ex-wife Connie.
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Independence Day / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Independence Day / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Due to this being a Disaster Movie, this reaction is very common throughout the film. It's easier to say that someone reacts this way every few minutes. Most notable of all comes during the climax, when the alien controller in the mothership hangar realizes a nuke is about to go off five feet in front of his face.
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Independence Day / int_ad54ff39	type	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
Independence Day / int_ad54ff39	comment	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: When describing the mass of the alien mothership, it's said to be "a quarter the size of the moon."
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Independence Day / int_ad8df7ab	type	Don't Celebrate Just Yet
Independence Day / int_ad8df7ab	comment	Don't Celebrate Just Yet: After it becomes clear the nuclear missile had an effect, the Area 51 personnel make the mistake of celebrating when they had not yet seen if the alien destroyer had been destroyed. It hadn't.
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Independence Day / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
Independence Day / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious: An exchange like this takes place when Hiller and Levinson try to escape from the enemy mothership after setting up the bomb that is meant to destroy it. Some airships are pursuing them during the escape sequence:
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Independence Day / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Independence Day / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: After the destroyers take out the first wave of cities, Russel (who has spent the last decade being mocked for his alien abduction claims) is bitterly smug about it all.
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Independence Day / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
Independence Day / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: Russell's Heroic Sacrifice has him laughing and shouting profanities at the aliens all the way.
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Independence Day / int_b0194b51	type	Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
Independence Day / int_b0194b51	comment	Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot: The opening shot of the movie has an alien ship flying over the Moon's Sea of Tranquility Mare Tranquillitatis about to enter Earth orbit.*
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Independence Day / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Independence Day / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: A dog manages to Outrun the Fireball despite being practically inside it. Naturally, the dog should have been flash-fried.
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Independence Day / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Independence Day / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Subverted with the fighter jets running out of missiles, as it seems like they won't have anything else to attack with. But then the pilots "plough the road" with a seemingly endless supply of bullets from their Gatling cannons. In real life, fighter jets carry enough rounds for less than ten seconds of continuous fire.
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Independence Day / int_b30dd522	type	Quizzical Tilt
Independence Day / int_b30dd522	comment	Quizzical Tilt: One of the alien invaders tilts their head upon seeing Steven Hiller and David Levinson in one of their ships.
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Independence Day / int_b364b551	type	Civilization Destroyer
Independence Day / int_b364b551	comment	Civilization Destroyer: Apart from deliberately destroying the headquarters of government and religious places on Earth, no civilization would be left after all resources are looted (especially if those include oil, water and maybe even oxygen).
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Independence Day / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Independence Day / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live The people that were waiting for the aliens in the rooftop of a building in Los Angeles. Including Tiffany, who promised Jasmine she wouldn't. At first, these people had no explicit reason to believe the aliens were hostile, so they were more optimistic than foolish. It's only when they ignored police loudspeakers urging them to evacuate that they became idiots. The scientists who were removing the captured alien's suit without any security nearby despite the fact that they knew the alien was still alive, wasn't restrained, might wake at any time, and wanted to kill them. Jimmy goes into a panic when he can't shake his bogey and tries to outrun it on pure velocity, even though all it does is make him a steady target, locks up his ship, and causes him to run short on oxygen even with an O2 mask on, and then takes his mask off to get even less oxygen still. Lampshaded by Steve.
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Independence Day / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
Independence Day / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: After losing a good friend during a dogfight with the aliens, Hiller is quickly back to cracking jokes and never mentions the loss again.
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Independence Day / int_b96831b8	type	Onscreen Chapter Titles
Independence Day / int_b96831b8	comment	Onscreen Chapter Titles: The movie has a title card for every day from 2 to 4 of July.
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Independence Day / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Independence Day / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Subverted with David. He cracks the signal jamming their satellites and is trying to relay that information to his ex-wife, who is part of Whitmores staff and they all have bad blood between them. Phone lines are understandably crowded at that time and she's dismissive of his calls, so he makes the effort to drive to Washington to meet with her personally. Once he gets a chance to explain what he has found directly to the President everyone takes him seriously, and they had just enough time to evacuate and save most of the upper leadership. During a later conversation Nimziki is dismissive of David's opinion before his father steps in and reminds them they are only alive because of David.
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Independence Day / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Independence Day / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Strangely averted. Steven drives across the desert with an unconscious alien in the back of his truck. He brings it to the secret lab without incident. Very unexpected.
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Independence Day / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Independence Day / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: At one point, Steve captures an alien that crashed along with him and drags it to Area 51. The alien's telepathy and bio-mechanical suit make it a formidable force when it's found to still be alive.
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Independence Day / int_bcd09c8e	type	Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye
Independence Day / int_bcd09c8e	comment	Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye: Downplayed. The alien ship is about to destroy Area 51 with its primary weapon and all of the attacking jets are out of missiles. Just before pilot Russell Casse performs a kamikaze attack to ram the ship and destroy it, he asks the ground controllers to tell his children that he loves them very much. His son is present in the control room and hears him.
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Independence Day / int_bcf135d7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Independence Day / int_bcf135d7	comment	Curb-Stomp Cushion: Captain Hiller manages to force down an alien ship by blinding it with his plane's dragchute. In exchange, his entire squadron was wiped out.
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Independence Day / int_bcf1bb32	type	Ominous Multiple Screens
Independence Day / int_bcf1bb32	comment	Ominous Multiple Screens: Compact Cable has a bank of dozens of screens showing various networks. When we first see the office, they're all showing distortions or "technical difficulties" cards. As the scene progresses, they have an increased amount of breaking news broadcasts until finally President Whitmore appears on all of them at once to give his speech about first contact.
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Independence Day / int_bda3b88e	type	Sudden Soundtrack Stop
Independence Day / int_bda3b88e	comment	Sudden Soundtrack Stop: When the aliens attack, the bombastic orchestral music that was playing a few seconds prior ceases, replaced with silence to evoke a feeling of tension.
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Independence Day / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
Independence Day / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Right after Russell is arrested for throwing leaflets from his plane, Miguel takes the RV, with the intent of taking his sibling Alicia and Troy and leaving Russell behind in jail. Just then Miguel is surprised to see Russell walking towards him, who goes on to explain that with the impending Alien Invasion, the police had bigger things to worry about. In a deleted scene included in the Extended Edition, Miguel calls him out for being a drunk and tells him that he's not their father, "just a man that married our mother," though Russell reminds him that Troy is his. As the movie progresses, Miguel sees how much Russell actually loves his children, and even feels proud when Major Mitchel tells Miguel "your father was a brave man," after Russell rams his fighter plane into the Invaders' ship's primary weapon, causing it to backfire and destroy the ship.
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Independence Day / int_be5ada51	type	Sniping the Cockpit
Independence Day / int_be5ada51	comment	Sniping the Cockpit: This trope is brought up when Dr. Okun is asked by the president if the alien invaders can be killed. He replies that "Their bodies are just as frail as ours ... You just have to get past their technology, which is, I'm sorry to say, far more advanced".
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Independence Day / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Independence Day / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: After inviting her and Dylan to stay with him at El Toro, Steve jokes with Jasmine that he will have to "let all [his] other girlfriends come over" and to "cancel the freaky deaky".
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Independence Day / int_bf298865	type	Alien Autopsy
Independence Day / int_bf298865	comment	Alien Autopsy: Dr. Okun and his colleagues at Area 51 try to surgically extract the unconscious alien brought to them by Steven Hiller from its organic suit. Unfortunately, it wakes up before they finish. Three others are said to have been autopsied after the Roswell crash; their remains are kept on display.
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Independence Day / int_bf4fb49b	type	Aerial Canyon Chase
Independence Day / int_bf4fb49b	comment	Aerial Canyon Chase: Steven pulls this against an alien fighter.
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Independence Day / int_bf798be	type	Dangerous Windows
Independence Day / int_bf798be	comment	Dangerous Windows: Subverted in Independence Day: the monster smashes into the window but it doesn't break. And then promptly Inverted when Grey comes up with an idea to get rid of the threat.
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Independence Day / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Independence Day / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Only two, but they're memorable ones. The captive alien's biological suit suddenly bursting open during the autopsy. The same alien suddenly slamming Dr. Okun against the glass. In the DVD Commentary, the writers comment on this. "It's all about stretching the moment. Everyone already knows something is going to happen."
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Independence Day / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
Independence Day / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: Sky-warriors to be exact, even their President.
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Independence Day / int_c108e7a4	type	Save Sat
Independence Day / int_c108e7a4	comment	Save Sat: The sudden cut in the satellite communications network helps tip off the Earthlings that the aliens are coming.
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Independence Day / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Independence Day / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball Air Force One does it during the first destroyer ship attack, when Washingfton D.C. is incinerated. The explosion of Los Angeles, which apparently moves so slowly that Jasmine has time to grab her son, break open a locked maintenance closet, and even call her dog inside before the explosion reaches her location. It also, miraculously, does not fill the open closet with fire and debris. Nor does it suck the oxygen out of the tiny space, despite the fact the "sucking oxygen" would be the primary cause of the fire shooting through the tunnel. Also averted. Most of the people on the streets clearly failed to outrun the fireball and were killed. A second helicopter is shown attempting to take off from the White House when the Destroyer fires, and it is almost instantly destroyed. The chopper carrying the First Lady also crashed. And later in a tiny spaceship after a nuclear bomb annihilates the mother ship. The fireball quickly caught up, but it survived well enough to safely crash-land on Earth.
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Independence Day / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Independence Day / int_c145f69b	comment	Steven Hiller gets an If it flies with the alien space craft. Then he crashes.
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Independence Day / int_c186a39c	type	He Didn't Make It
Independence Day / int_c186a39c	comment	He Didn't Make It: Marilyn Whitmore, the President's wife and the First Lady, passes away after being unable to resist the wounds of a helicopter crash. The President is unable to explicitly tell his daughter that her mom died, so he relies on a poorly.disguised euphemism:
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Independence Day / int_c250346f	type	Generic Doomsday Villain
Independence Day / int_c250346f	comment	Generic Doomsday Villain: The invading aliens only barely manage to avoid completely falling into this trope. Only one attempt at diplomacy is managed, which ends in failure and the revelation that they're simply a race of Always Chaotic Evil Planet Looters comparable to locusts.
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Independence Day / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Independence Day / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Steve's reaction to seeing Jimmy trying to hotdog his way out from the aliens chasing him, and failing fatally. "JIMMY! NOOOO!!!"
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Independence Day / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Independence Day / int_c325f125	comment	Ho Yay: Invoked. Steve and Jimmy have more than a bit of this going on ("Hold me!") although it's all Played for Laughs and purely justified considering that they're Hetero Sexual Life Partners.
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Independence Day / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Independence Day / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Major Mitchell kills the captive alien who just tried to telepathically attack the President with three of these.
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Independence Day / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Independence Day / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: An extended cut of the film is often included with the original film. It's mostly bit and pieces, longer versions of the same scenes. Much of it clarifies Russell Casse and his family, revealing he was Miguel's step-father, his wife died from an unspecified illness and his actual son Troy was also ill (remnants of that, implied to be car sickness, remained in the theatrical cut). There is also a further explanation of the virus, as David is shown the cockpit of the crashed ship and reveals that their basic computer programming is similar to the signal David cracked.
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Independence Day / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Independence Day / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The instant the nuke hits the ship in Houston causes SecDef Nimziki to shout "it's a hit!" and for everyone to break out into applause, only for confirmation that the strike completely failed.
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Independence Day / int_c3debc8e	type	V-Sign
Independence Day / int_c3debc8e	comment	V-Sign: Steve flashes one before firing the nuke to destroy the mothership.
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Independence Day / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
Independence Day / int_c4b910bf	comment	Slow Doors: The exit to the mothership. Justified, as said exit is huge.
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Independence Day / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Independence Day / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: The plan to save the world was conceived by the American characters at Area 51, then broadcast via Morse code to the rest of the world. It's a Justified Trope, considering Area 51 is portrayed in the film as harboring a recovered scout craft used by the very alien race invading — implying that the U.S. has had decades to study them for forty years prior. Without that ace up its sleeve, the United States was as helpless as everyone else. Notably, the Independence Day UK radio play had the British military specifically refer to this trope after they manage to deal a decisive blow to the aliens in their part of the world.
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Independence Day / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Independence Day / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: By screenwriters Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich with Stephen Molstad.
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Independence Day / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
Independence Day / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: When Russell realizes he has the only missile left and it's jammed, he says, "Tell my children... I love them very much," and flies his plane into the alien ship's weak point.
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Independence Day / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Independence Day / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome The July 4th counterattack. We only see it take place at Area 51, but the RAF, the Luftwaffe, the Russian Air Force, and every other military in the world was able to do the same. Steve successfully performing a crash-landing in the fighter, especially considering that its main power system likely cut out moments after the mothership was destroyed. Jasmine finds a working truck to get her son out of the ruins of Los Angeles. Between there and El Toro, she picks up a whole crowd of refugees and starts coordinating first aid & food for them all. The only part of this that the audience sees is when she picks up the First Lady.
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Independence Day / int_c62aee4c	type	From Zero to Hero
Independence Day / int_c62aee4c	comment	From Zero to Hero: Russell Casse, after having served in the Vietnam War, has been living a marginal existence in a camper as an alcoholic crop duster. After the invading aliens have eradicated most of Earth's best fighter pilots, Russell offers his services and flies an F/A-18C Hornet at the huge alien warship. Russell actually makes a Heroic Sacrifice by flying directly into the muzzle of the Beam-O-War, which causes the alien ship to overload and destruct. Russell's heroics are remarked upon by the President.
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Independence Day / int_c642b187	type	In Working Order
Independence Day / int_c642b187	comment	In Working Order: The crashed alien ship from Roswell still works. To be fair, though, they have quite obviously patched huge sections of the hull with Earth-made metal plates, and they've had decades to work on it. It's also said that the ship started booting up since the mothership came into orbit, indicating the alien technology is heavily interconnected.
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Independence Day / int_c6c86cd	type	Collapsing Lair
Independence Day / int_c6c86cd	comment	Collapsing Lair: The destruction of the enemy mothership, with a tactical nuclear missile with a 30 second timer.
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Independence Day / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Independence Day / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out To Jurassic Park; Jeff Goldblum's character says, "Must go faster. Must go faster." in the same way as he does in one scene in Jurassic Park. There are also shout-outs and Easter Eggs to classic sci-fi shows and films dating all the way back to the 1940s. Most specific among these is the bomber sent to deliver the nuke - the Northrop B-2 Stealth bomber is the direct descendant of the Flying Wing tasked with the same mission in George Pal's version of The War of the Worlds, which was a real Northrop XB-49 and not a Hollywood prop. The real aircraft was itself a shout-out to the older one, the B-2's wingspan was designed to be exactly the same as the XB-49's, to the inch. The strategy to defeat the aliens mirrors the defeat of the aliens in The War of the Worlds, with a different interpretation of the word "virus". 3001: The Final Odyssey (which came out the year after ID4; presumably Clarke had decided on or even penned the ending before ID4 came out) has the heroes dispatch the aliens with the exact same strategy. Arthur C. Clarke writes in the ending notes that he doesn't know "whether to congratulate them for their one stroke of originality or accuse them of retroactive plagiarism". (not exact quote) David's Mac boots up with a picture of HAL-9000 and the greeting "Good Morning, Dave." Steve having the darn thing in reverse. The hangar housing the alien craft has "R2" painted in large letters of the wall. After punching the alien, Steve says "Now, that's what I call a close encounter." Russell Casse "picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'. Just before the ships fire, Marty is trying to call his therapist, Dr. Katz. The shot of an office worker in an LA building being engulfed in flames is similar to the death of a victim of an explosion in Prophecies of Nostradamus.
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Independence Day / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
Independence Day / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability Played straight and directly mentioned, as the Secretary of Defense Nimziki kept the President in the dark, and also the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by judging his reaction to learning this. Also more indirectly:
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Independence Day / int_ca7e95f6	type	Citywide Evacuation
Independence Day / int_ca7e95f6	comment	Citywide Evacuation: They're not mandatory evacuations, but the President tells the citizens of the US that if they feel compelled to leave a city they should do so immediately and in an orderly fashion. The citizens get the "immediately" part.
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Independence Day / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Independence Day / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me Russell gets revenge for his abduction years back and shows humanity how to win the war. Steve and David fire the nuke as a last resort after being trapped in the mothership.
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Independence Day / int_cb12aacf	type	Deus ex Nukina
Independence Day / int_cb12aacf	comment	Deus ex Nukina: You can destroy the unshielded atmospheric city destroyers and fighters, but the aliens have billions of reserves on board a super mothership in orbit. The heroes have exactly one trans-orbit Space Fighter; the enemy undoubtedly has thousands just like it, and they're more skilled at flying them. Fortunately it's already going to the mothership to enable the main attack — so the heroes load it with a single "tactical nuclear missile" to cause as much damage as possible. Instead, the entire mothership blows up.
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Independence Day / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Independence Day / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: We can hear the distinctive sound of the alien fighter's engine when Steve and David are spaceflying on their way to the alien mothership, as well as the nuclear explosion that obliterates said mothership in space, and even the shockwave from said explosion and the debris pieces from the mothership shaking up Hiller and David's fighter... although to be fair they were already in atmospheric re-entry when this happens.
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Independence Day / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Independence Day / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The first half hour of the film is very coy about revealing the alien ships in detail. Excepting a silhouetted view of a city buster disengaging from the mothership, until one breaks cloud cover over New York everything about the aliens is about impossible size, power and obscurity. The ship flies over the moon (evoking the Star Destroyer overhead from A New Hope) but we never see the back of it, a satellite crashes against an advancing wall that dwarfs it, a wall of fire engulfs a scout plane, entire cities are cast into shadow.
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Independence Day / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Independence Day / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Several notable examples. The F/A-18C is shown to have a deployable braking parachute. The F/A-18, being a carrier-based aircraft does not actually possess a braking parachute, relying on its arrestor hook to slow it down when landing on carriers. F-16Cs are shown on the tarmac at MCAS El Toro during the alien's attack. The F-16C is an Air Force aircraft; the Marine Corps has never operated it. Two-seat F-5 Freedom Fighters can also be spied at MCAS El Toro. While the Marine Corps operates the F-5, it does not operate any twin-seat variants; the F-5T that it operates is an aggressor fighter for exercises, and is single-seat. The F/A-18C, even at stall speeds, is not manoeuvrable enough to fly through a canyon of the size shown in the film. Area 51 is (officially) an Air Force base, it would not have Marine F/A-18s on station unless they were conducting test flights of some sort. It also officially does not conduct combat sorties, so it would not have its own deployed squadron of fighters. F/A-18s at the base are also shown with "ARMY" markings on the fuselage; the Army does not operate it, only the Navy and Marine Corps. The RAF (Royal Air Force) is shown operating F-16C Fighting Falcons, whilst the Israeli Air Force is shown operating F/A-18C Hornets. Neither air force has ever operated, or intends to operate those fighters. Following the devastating alien attack, F-14 Tomcats are seen on the tarmac at MCAS El Toro. The F-14 is not operated by the Marine Corps, it is a Navy aircraft and is thus meant for carrier operations. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is shown deploying a nuclear missile at close range to its target. The B-2's low speed and maneuverability would mean it wouldn't escape the ensuing blast and EMP. Realistically it would deploy its payload at BVR (Beyond Visual Range). General Grey refers to a single AWACS as an AWAC. The "s" is not to pluralize it, as the acronym stands for "Airborne Warning And Control System". The original ending had a rejected Russell Casse stealing a missile, strapping it to his biplane and flying that into the alien ship. Had that happened in reality, the plane would have stalled and fallen when attempting to reach the ship's cannon. Even Dean Devlin thought this ending was unrealistic.
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Independence Day / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
Independence Day / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: Before Whitmore gives his Rousing Speech, he tests the megaphone which gives off a beeping sound.
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Independence Day / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Independence Day / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth Quite a few people David initially tries to warn about the alien "countdown" don't take him seriously, including his own ex-wife, who thinks he's either crazy or trying to get back at her for choosing her career over their marriage. However, his boss believes him immediately, and when he manages to meet with the President, Whitmore immediately takes his warnings seriously as well. This is expanded on even more in the novelization. The President, a military veteran and fighter pilot, is already very uneasy about the alien's approach, with their ships entering the atmosphere and then spreading out to different points of the compass, etc. He understands about tactics and maximizing an initial attack for shock value, so David's information merely confirms what his gut was already telling him, which is why he stopped thinking politically and started looking at it from a military viewpoint. When Julius brings up Area 51, the Roswell Incident, and other alien conspiracies, the President dismisses it. It turns out Julius was entirely correct — the President just didn't know about it because the Secretary of Defense never saw fit to tell him (or, apparently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in the name of Plausible Deniability. Russell Casse is a better example. Nobody believes that he was abducted by aliens, and thanks to his less than stable behavior, nobody takes him seriously when he warns that the alien ships are an invasion force.
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Independence Day / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Independence Day / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: David's idea to create a computer virus, coming from a simple reminder by his father to take care of himself lest he catch cold.
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Independence Day / int_d1d3157d	type	Standard Alien Spaceship
Independence Day / int_d1d3157d	comment	Standard Alien Spaceship: The invaders' ships all look like they were carved out of black stone, and look very smooth (from a distance, at least). Their city-destroying Flying Saucers and their planetoid-sized mothership have greebles in a few spots, but otherwise they fit the bill.
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Independence Day / int_d212847f	type	Key Under the Doormat
Independence Day / int_d212847f	comment	Key Under the Doormat: Jasmine finds the keys to the fire truck above the sun visor.
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Independence Day / int_d2437b08	type	Short-Lived Aerial Escape
Independence Day / int_d2437b08	comment	Short-Lived Aerial Escape: The First Lady is evacuated from Los Angeles in a helicopter, but doesn't get out of the blast zone in time when the aliens attack.
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Independence Day / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Independence Day / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: "Release me!" Fortunately, General Grey spots the trap.
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Independence Day / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Independence Day / int_d332bf54	comment	"Checkmate" takes this to ridiculously lampshaded lengths.
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Independence Day / int_d3510138	type	Right on the Tick
Independence Day / int_d3510138	comment	Right on the Tick: The aliens are going to attack at a precise, pre-determined time. The War of 1996 website shows the course of the alien invasion, with all ships moving to their next target within twelve hours and destroying them, then doing so again like clockwork.
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Independence Day / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Independence Day / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard First, the aliens' signal, that they used to synchronize their attack on the planet provided humans with a way to interface and access their systems (it's stated in the expanded edition that the same frequency is used for their communications) using a Mac of all things. Second, the "Hammer". This is a nice one: If you look at the L.A. destruction scene, you'll see that the beam turns into a chain-reaction/explosion the moment it hits solid matter, and just keeps going until there's no significant obstacle left. Therefore, the denser the target, the worse the explosion (like the Mothership from Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, which was inspired by this movie), making it perfect for leveling cities. When Russell Casse crashed his plane into the generator, he did it at the very moment the beam started, and at the very "tip" of the gun, therefore setting off the chain reaction inside the alien's ship (which is likely to be just as densely packed as a city, if not more so).
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Independence Day / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Independence Day / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece The flying saucer had been stored for decades under Area 51 when they suddenly needed it. Variation/subversion in that the vehicle is just as advanced as what the aliens are still using (and actively did not work until the mothership showed up in orbit). In the novelization, several pilots show up with WWII-era aircraft to join the fight. Not expecting to survive, but because for every alien shooting at them, there's one that won't be shooting at the F/A-18s.
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Independence Day / int_d49291cd	type	Over-the-Top Secret
Independence Day / int_d49291cd	comment	Over-the-Top Secret: The Secretary of Defense has kept the existence of a recovered spaceship and alien corpses at Area 51 a secret even from the President, in order to maintain Plausible Deniability, so the President doesn't learn about the secret laboratory beneath Area 51 until Julius Levinson confronts them and the truth comes out. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff points out that a good time to share this secret would have been some time after the aliens themselves arrived in force over Earth and before the military launched a fruitless attack against them without knowing anything about their capabilities.
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Independence Day / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Independence Day / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale An entity as massive as the alien mothership (said to be 1/4th the size of the moon) would be easily detectable for months prior to approach and visible with the naked eye long before it entered Earth's orbit (for example, Saturn's moon of Tethys, which is less than 1% the mass of the Moon, was discovered in 1684 and can be seen with a regular backyard telescope). It definitely strains belief nobody noticed an object that size within Earth's orbit. While played very straight for the most part (mainly with regards to how big the spaceships are), they actually avert it at one point where, even after the force fields are disabled, the fighter planes can't do enough damage to actually threaten the spaceships, which makes sense considering they are 15 miles across and the humans are just using regular (non-nuclear) missiles.
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Independence Day / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Independence Day / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: Subverted. What initially looks like naked aliens is later established to be some type of environmental/combat suit. Under the suit they're naked.
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Independence Day / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Independence Day / int_d7639dba	comment	Once they figure a way to get around the alien force fields, they realize that they are still trying to take down city-sized spaceships with regular aircraft missiles, roughly the equivalent of using BB guns to take out a tank. It isn't until they find the Achilles' Heel that they stood a chance short of nuclear weaponry.
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Independence Day / int_d779d7a5	type	Oh No You Didn't
Independence Day / int_d779d7a5	comment	Oh No You Didn't:
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Independence Day / int_d79a579f	type	Improbable Cover
Independence Day / int_d79a579f	comment	Improbable Cover: Every time there's an explosion that the heroes escape, they do so by this trope. The most blatant is the tunnel one: Jasmine, Dylan and Boomer hiding in a maintenance room inside the tunnel could be plausible... if not for the door that remains open with a wall of fire running through and somehow not entering the room.
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Independence Day / int_d8ad2130	type	Anal Probing
Independence Day / int_d8ad2130	comment	Anal Probing: Russell attests to having been abducted by aliens. Those who don't believe him crack jokes and ask if he was ever sexually abused on the flying saucer, suggesting this trope.
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Independence Day / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Independence Day / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here Once the aliens arrive, the reaction of many people in the targeted cities is to get the hell out. A number of LAPD helicopters fly over the welcome parties on the Los Angeles high-rises, telling them to get the hell out of there. You can hear their voices becoming annoyed when the people are not heeding their warning. After several minutes of this, the helicopters break off and fly away just before the ship opens up.
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Independence Day / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Independence Day / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: The humans' assault against the aliens, until the humans are able to devise a way to deal with the aliens' Deflector Shields.
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Independence Day / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Independence Day / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The Movie. Just look at the Artistic License entries.
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Independence Day / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Independence Day / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Steve only smokes cigars at the end of any aerial dogfight he wins, because he's the hero. David, on the other hand, spends the whole movie as an over the top green type. He berated his father for smoking cigarettes. But after he and Steve have saved the world (and they light up Victory Cigars together), he cheerfully tells his father, "Oh, I could get used to it."
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Independence Day / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Independence Day / int_dae3999d	comment	Action Bomb: Upon realizing that the missiles of his airship are stuck and thus cannot be shot at the alien saucer's Wave-Motion Gun, Russel Casse performs a Heroic Sacrifice by piloting straight at it to prevent the next city destruction. His last words are "Hello boys! I'm baaaaaaack!"
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Independence Day / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Independence Day / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: Area 51 appears to be a small, unassuming Air Force base in the Nevada desert. 25 stories underground it is a sprawling research base containing a recovered UFO and the corpses of its crew.
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Independence Day / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Independence Day / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The President: "All right, boys, let's give Mr. Casse some cover. GENTLEMEN! LET'S PLOW THE ROAD!" Deep in the mothership and not expecting to get out, Steve makes a V-sign to the alien in charge of the hangar, shouts "PEACE!" and fires the nuke. And just beforehand, David activates a special option in his virus causing all the alien display screens to show an animated laughing skull and crossbones, complete with demonic-sounding digital laughter. After the captured alien launches a mental assault on Whitmore and shows him their plans, we get this:
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Independence Day / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Independence Day / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence The only man who figures out the alien signal is a countdown happens to have an ex-wife who works for the President, thus getting him access. Additionally, it's stated in dialogue that David knew Whitmore before the latter became President, and they already have a degree of familiarity with each other. Not good familiarity (David started a fight with him), but familiarity nonetheless. Jasmine happens upon the First Lady, so when Steve finds her, he finds the President's wife (who everyone had given up for dead). Steve's dogfight with the alien fighter happens to take him near enough to spot Area 51, and his crash put him close to a convoy of refugees he can point in that direction. A surprisingly large number of civilians amongst those refugees turn out to be former jet-qualified combat pilots. Although the recruiter specifically says while he is hoping for people with military training, "anyone who can fly a plane would be useful". The novelization takes it a step further, mentioning that they only have so many missiles to load on the jets, and some of them, with the least-experienced pilots, are going up completely unarmed to act as decoys.
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Independence Day / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Independence Day / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Dates: Repeat mention is made to suggest that this takes place over a weekend. July 2 to July 4, 1996 was in the middle of the week. Television Marilyn calls Whitmore at 2:45AM, which is 5:45AM in Washington. The McLaughlin Group did not air so early in the morning. Although this could have been a rerun. One of the cable employees tells a customer that he hopes he'll get to watch The X-Files, which had already concluded its third season in May. Network channels only broadcast reruns of their main shows in the summer.
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Independence Day / int_dd797c1c	type	Universal Driver's License
Independence Day / int_dd797c1c	comment	Universal Driver's License: Steve claims that he is aware of the alien fighter capabilities and that makes him the best chance of flying the Roswell ship. Being a pilot he already has a background in adjusting to different control schemes, but the controls seem fairly intuitive using dual joysticks. His first attempt in the cockpit ends with him going in reverse, although the movement directions being labeled wrong by the scientists weren't helpful. Immediately after making that claim David asks him quietly if he really believes he can fly it.
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Independence Day / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Independence Day / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: A BBC radio tie-in, which was basically Elsewhere Fic combined with a The War of the Worlds homage, featured the following exchange:
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Independence Day / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Independence Day / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: When even nuclear weapons, Earth's last line of defense, prove useless against the aliens' force fields.
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Independence Day / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Independence Day / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: It's taken to an extreme, which shouldn't be surprising since this is a Roland Emmerich film. Among the casualties are the Empire State Building, the White House, the U.S. Bank Tower, the Capitol Building and the Statue of Liberty. The trailers spoiled this one big-time. The first thing you see is the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty, after the alien attack. The targeted buildings such as the Empire State Building and the White House is actually justified. They are located in or near the center of large cities, which the aliens target in order to kill as many humans in their first wave as possible. The White House is doubly justified, given that it's the seat of the US government, and therefore a prime target. The aliens seem to deliberately target monuments, in London it was Big Ben and in France it was the Eiffel Tower. Similar to the case with the White House, Big Ben being next to the Houses of Parliament makes it an ideal target.
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Independence Day / int_df4e55b9	type	Pulled from Your Day Off
Independence Day / int_df4e55b9	comment	Pulled from Your Day Off: Steve is given leave for the titular holiday weekend, but gets recalled when the aliens show up. Lampshaded a couple times in his rant after being shot down:
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Independence Day / int_dfbb1685	type	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending
Independence Day / int_dfbb1685	comment	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: The movie ends with a pan up to the falling debris of the mothership in the sky.
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Independence Day / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Independence Day / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: There totally was an alien vessel at Area 51 — and it was piloted by the aliens invading now.
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Independence Day / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Independence Day / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography The City Destroyer arriving over New York is all over the place. First, it is shown approaching from the southeast (from Brooklyn), over the Statue of Liberty. Then it is shown approaching over the Hudson River from the southwest. Then a later shot shows it emerging from the Brooklyn side of Manhattan from the southeast, then it is shown again approaching from the south. The ship that arrives over Washington, D.C. is shown approaching from the direction of Arlington, Virginia (west of the city) but its shadow falls across the Lincoln Memorial from the feet going upwards, which is only possible if the ship approached from the direction of the Capitol (the Memorial faces the National Mall, the shadow should go from the top of the head down to the feet if the ship was approaching from Arlington, which subsequent shots confirm). In addition, the shadow falls across the Washington Monument, then the Capitol Building and finally the White House. The White House and Washington Monument are within sight of each other; the shadow should have covered both at roughly the same time. Lastly, the shadow covers the White House in a completely different direction (from the South Lawn going northwards). Earlier dialogue also states said ship is approaching from the Atlantic, which is east of Washington. A shot of the City Destroyer over Washington, D.C. is shown in a shot when Julius and David enter the city. While the Washington Monument and Capital are visible, the ship hovering above is shown to have its center farther away from either building (the edge of the City Destroyer is plainly visible in the same shot) despite the White House (which it is hovering over) being very close to both. Julius and David enter Washington, D.C. from the northeast, but then drive down Pennsylvania Avenue, past Federal Triangle towards the Capitol Building. This is the opposite direction to get to the White House, their destination. The New York ship appears to just barely clear the Empire State Building, meaning it wouldn't clear the Twin Towers as they were both significantly taller. Also, the Empire State Building is not in the middle of any street; it sits on the corner of West 34th Street and 5th Avenue. The New York ship is centered over the Empire State Building. A later shot shows New York with the ship over it, but the Empire State Building is shown and the ship's center is not over it. The Los Angeles City Destroyer appears to approach from Imperial Valley, which is to the southeast. However, its shadow falls over the Hollywood Sign, which is in the north of the city. Regarding the scene where they nuke Houston, a brief shot of highway exits for South Houston and the University of Houston side-by-side. Those areas are about nine miles apart. Nowhere in Houston will you see exits for those that close together.
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Independence Day / int_e04c0759	type	Unstoppable Mailman
Independence Day / int_e04c0759	comment	Unstoppable Mailman: Even with aliens invading, mail is still delivered.
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Independence Day / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
Independence Day / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: As the LA City Destroyer starts to prime its main weapon over Area 51, General Grey tells Whitmore to retreat and save himself after his last missile fails to hit. Fortunately, Russell arrives with one more missile.
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Independence Day / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
Independence Day / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: The saucers are 15 miles in diameter, the mothership is a Planet Spaceship.
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Independence Day / int_e305ffa8	type	Expositing the Masquerade
Independence Day / int_e305ffa8	comment	Expositing the Masquerade: When they visit Area 51, it turns out The Government knew about the aliens all along. Well, some of the government. Not the President. Or the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Independence Day / int_e368e1bc	type	Wiper Start
Independence Day / int_e368e1bc	comment	Wiper Start: A jet fighter version — as Vietnam War-era pilot (gone to seed) Russell Casse tries to ready his F/A-18, he almost fires a missile.
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Independence Day / int_e3a440c0	type	Limited Window of Vulnerability
Independence Day / int_e3a440c0	comment	Limited Window of Vulnerability: The computer virus that lowered the alien ships' shields can only work for approximately fifteen minutes.
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Independence Day / int_e435d187	type	Sucking-In Lines
Independence Day / int_e435d187	comment	Sucking-In Lines: The Hammer, when it's about to fire.
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Independence Day / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
Independence Day / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: An initial assault with conventional weapons ends in a massacre, as the Deflector Shield prevents their weapons from piercing the ships. However, once the force fields are dealt with, they are susceptible to conventional weapons in their weak spot.
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Independence Day / int_e528c7b4	type	And Mission Control Rejoiced
Independence Day / int_e528c7b4	comment	And Mission Control Rejoiced First happens when they nuke the alien destroyer ship over Houston and everyone rejoices until the visual kicks in. Happens twice at the end, both in the Area 51 control room. The first when Whitmore's missile penetrates the shield and then when Russell takes down the LA City Destroyer.
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Independence Day / int_e57198a4	type	Advancing Wall of Doom
Independence Day / int_e57198a4	comment	The less said of the advancing wall of fire (moving at walking speed) that goes on through the tunnel without entering the room Jasmine is hidden, the better. The Novelization adds to the scene and attempts to explain it: A grating was in the room, and the firewall caused a vacuum effect, drawing air from the tunnel below with enough force to make them grab onto it to keep from getting sucked/blown back into the tunnel, but also kept the heat of the fire wall from roasting them alive.
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Independence Day / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Independence Day / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Secretary of Defense Nimziki is a complete jerkwad. To begin with, he had some knowledge that aliens existed way in advance (thanks to the Roswell crash) and he refused to tell the President anything about it even as aliens were settling over Earth's cities and had started to wipe them out for the sake of maintaining Plausible Deniability. He also constantly advocates the use of nuclear weapons to the point that once it's proven that the City Destroyer shields can No-Sell a direct hit with a nuke, he says that they should just try with more nukes. Finally he is the only one who deems David's plan as too crazy to work and tries to convince President Whitmore to not support it by exploiting the memory of his wife, who had been deceased for only a few hours at the most. This one costs Nimziki dearly as Whitmore decides to fire him right then and there.
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Independence Day / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Independence Day / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Troy Casse hits the TV in hope to get the garbled signal working again.
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Independence Day / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Independence Day / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: Dozens of ships that size hitting the ground would throw up enough dust to blot out the sun. And that's not even considering blowing up something as big as the mothership in Earth's orbit like that. The novelization mitigates a bit by putting the Moon between the Earth and the mothership. This makes sense if you consider that something that big would have to have a huge angular velocity to maintain Low Earth Orbit. However, the movie shows an enormous amount of debris racing the delivery fighter back into the atmosphere, and later burning as "fireworks" overhead. If it was actually out beyond the moon when it detonated, the number, implied velocity (a good chunk of the speed of light) and size of those fragments would have been a rather incredible bombardment all on their own.
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Independence Day / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
Independence Day / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: Multiple with the submarine USS Georgia, which reports on the alien ship coming in over Iraq. The real Georgia is an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. The submarine shown is a Los Angeles-class attack submarine. No submarine would be surfaced while operating in enemy waters. In fact, the Persian Gulf is only ninety meters at its deepest point, nowhere near deep enough for a US submarine to operate. It should be noted that the featured ship was originally scripted to be an aircraft carrier.
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Independence Day / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Independence Day / int_e6558beb	comment	The novelization mitigates a bit by putting the Moon between the Earth and the mothership. This makes sense if you consider that something that big would have to have a huge angular velocity to maintain Low Earth Orbit. However, the movie shows an enormous amount of debris racing the delivery fighter back into the atmosphere, and later burning as "fireworks" overhead. If it was actually out beyond the moon when it detonated, the number, implied velocity (a good chunk of the speed of light) and size of those fragments would have been a rather incredible bombardment all on their own.
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Independence Day / int_e71ef25c	type	Let's Get Out of Here
Independence Day / int_e71ef25c	comment	Let's Get Out of Here: Line used by Miguel Casse when their van shakes violently during the approach of the destroyer ship.
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Independence Day / int_e8763c7e	type	Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
Independence Day / int_e8763c7e	comment	Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: The aliens have superior technology in many respects, but their actual computer technology lacks any sort of safety protocols to prevent intrusion. A lone man with a laptop is able to hack into the network of the mothership, and by proxy, the entire fleet, shutting down their shields. It's often theorized that the aliens are some sort of a Hive Mind who've never encountered any other species with computers, and thus were unfamiliar with the idea of malware (the movie's distant sequel debunks this, however).
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Independence Day / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Independence Day / int_e8b295de	comment	Russell has experience with crop dusting, but seems to be able to pilot a fighter plane just fine. Played With in the novelization and original — Major Mitchell refuses to allow Russell to pilot a fighter jet because he's drunk, so the latter eventually shows up during the fight with a missile strapped to his old biplane.
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Independence Day / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Independence Day / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The movie starts following David in New York, President Whitmore in Washington, and Russell and Captain Hiller in Los Angeles. After the aliens begin their attack, we get Jasmine looking for survivors in LA. The plot points start to converge about halfway through the film, as the survivors start arriving at Area 51.
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Independence Day / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Independence Day / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: In the Middle East, one of the RAF pilots says they may have reinforcements hiding in the "Golan Strait." The Golan Heights are actually a hilly region between Israel and Syria. Imperial Valley and Los Angeles are some 200 miles away from each other. While it can be explained that the ship passed over the Gulf of California on its way to LA, it definitely wouldn't have been visible from the trailer park after stopping over the city. Two ships are stated to be off the East Coast of the United States, headed for Washington, DC and New York. However, the DC ship arrives over Washington from the wrong direction if it were coming from the coast, which is east of the Capitol Building. Area 51's map, which is tracking the alien ships, is missing the U.K. from Europe. The letter Steve gets from NASA has the address "El Toro, CA 50055." The zip code 50055 is actually for Collins, Iowa. Prior to its closure, the zip code for El Toro was 92609. In addition, the base is later shown to be in the desert, when it was in a built-up area of Orange County. When David is explaining the countdown to Marty, he points to a TV with a map showing the arrival of alien ships. One of them is listed as being over Bombay, which changed its name to Mumbai in 1995. Before that, a reporter states that a ship has arrived over the capital of India, which is actually New Delhi. However, similar to how one of the ships is listed as being over "Germany" instead of Berlin, this could be an in-universe mistake at the network, which is trying to cover an alien invasion. Also, according to the War of 1996 site for the sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, both Bombay and Delhi were targeted on the same day (along with Calcutta/Kolkata), which would partially explain it if both ships were over their targets. The Empire State Building is in a row of buildings, not on a traffic island. When David leaves his office, he says there's six hours left on the countdown. When he reaches his father's house, the roads are already packed. Given that it takes four hours to drive from New York to Washington DC in perfect traffic, he would never have made it to the White House in time.
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Independence Day / int_eaa3f1a5	type	Helpless Window Death
Independence Day / int_eaa3f1a5	comment	Helpless Window Death: The "release me" scene, in which the alien being autopsied regains consciousness and slaughters its way through the laboratory while the President and his retinue look on through the observation window in horror. For good measure, Professor Okun is eventually slammed against said window and used as a mouthpiece for the alien. However, in a subversion of standard fare, the guards realize they can do something as the glass is not bulletproof and open fire.
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Independence Day / int_eab1efea	type	Landmark of Lore
Independence Day / int_eab1efea	comment	Landmark of Lore: Area 51. The President tries to convince Julius that Area 51 is just tabloids and screw loose conspiracy theories. Turns out, not so much.
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Independence Day / int_eb682304	type	Wartime Wedding
Independence Day / int_eb682304	comment	Wartime Wedding: Steve and Jasmine tie the knot just before the final battle.
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Independence Day / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Independence Day / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: "It's me, Russell Casse, sir! Told you I wouldn't let you down!"
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Independence Day / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Independence Day / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: David and Steve have just bid their loved ones goodbye and are striding down the ramp towards their waiting ship... and Steve abruptly realizes he doesn't have any cigars.
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Independence Day / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
Independence Day / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot Assumed when David is closing an airsickness bag and again when he runs off after Julius gives a particularly nauseating description of motion on a plane. When Troy, Russell's youngest son, begins to feel sick and asks for him to stop the RV. He proceeds to get out and vomit (offscreen) in the background while Russell points out the convoy to Miguel.
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Independence Day / int_ee9a54a0	type	Sitting Duck
Independence Day / int_ee9a54a0	comment	Sitting Duck: After wiping out the Black Knights, the aliens fly to El Toro and destroy the planes that were preparing for a second wave against the City Destroyer.
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Independence Day / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Independence Day / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: After arriving at Area-51, Nimziki states that the facility had been kept secret from the presidential office for the sake of Plausible Deniability. General Grey, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces berates Nimziki saying:
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Independence Day / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Independence Day / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: The good guys have an epiphany over the alien ship's weak point, but nobody has any missiles left - save for one, which malfunctions. With no other choice to stop the all-destroying enemy attack, the pilot of the malfunctioning jet pilots it straight in said weak point. Boom go the missile, the jet, the pilot and the gigantic alien ship.
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Independence Day / int_f1815858	type	Literal Soapbox Speech
Independence Day / int_f1815858	comment	Literal Soapbox Speech: As July 4 dawns, President Whitmore grabs a bullhorn mic and jumps on the back of a truck to rouse the spirits of his pilots before they embark upon the battle that will determine if humanity survives or is annihilated.
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Independence Day / int_f1bb4bd4	type	Emergency Presidential Address
Independence Day / int_f1bb4bd4	comment	Emergency Presidential Address: The President delivers an address to urge caution to the public as the alien ships enter the Earth's atmosphere and approach major cities. This is later followed by his "We will not go quietly into the night" speech once the aliens plans are revealed.
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Independence Day / int_f314f8c4	type	Traveling at the Speed of Plot
Independence Day / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: The city-destroying explosions created by the alien weapons seem to work this way, with the explosions needing to move slow enough that they don't just completely obliterate the target cities within seconds (which would be the actual result of a nuclear-level blast), but fast enough that it can lead to a bunch of suspenseful Outrun the Fireball scenes.
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Independence Day / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
Independence Day / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision Captain Steven Hiller, a U.S. Marine pilot whose job depends on having excellent vision, steps outside to get the paper, looks left and right and above and only notices a gigantic 15-mile-wide, black saucer hovering over Los Angeles when he looks directly at it? His wife does no better, and doesn't even have the excuse of tripping on something as soon as she gets out of the house. She also later doesn't notice the giant wall of fire consuming LA until it is almost upon her.
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Independence Day / int_f494af54	type	Defcon 5
Independence Day / int_f494af54	comment	Defcon 5: Averted. President Whitmore considers upgrading to DEFCON 3 but we are not told from where.
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Independence Day / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
Independence Day / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Steve and Jasmine have a fight before he leaves for the Marine airbase at El Toro. After Steve demands to know why she's "acting like this", she incredulously goes to the window, pulls back the curtains and gestures to the giant spaceship hovering outside.
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Independence Day / int_f4c0f8d5	type	Emergency Broadcast
Independence Day / int_f4c0f8d5	comment	Emergency Broadcast: Whitmore orders Connie to activate the Emergency Broadcast System to advise citizens not to panic. When the DC City Destroyer makes its final approach to the White House, he decides to switch to an emergency speech (see below).
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Independence Day / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Independence Day / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: In the ads, as a The War of the Worlds Shout-Out.
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Independence Day / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Independence Day / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The aliens take out every major military base in the second day of their invasion, including NATO's headquarters; the president then assumes command and control in Area 51, which is a safe haven because of its top-secret nature.
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Independence Day / int_f50c4557	type	Viewer-Friendly Interface
Independence Day / int_f50c4557	comment	Viewer-Friendly Interface: Whenever the Air Force launches missiles against the destroyer ships, we see them as little symbols moving across a monitor screen. David apparently spent some time coding a nice viewer-friendly "uploading virus" progress bar for his own benefit. Skewed Priorities there David? The F/A-18 fighter's display is much more advanced than most F/A-18 HUDs and also kindly tells you why your missile is jammed. At least the last one is conceivably the sort of information a fight computer might display to assist in troubleshooting note Modern airplanes with glass cockpits are more akin to telling a computer what to do instead of flying the plane directly, and technical malfunctions would often give considerable information on the nature of the problem to allow the crew to take the appropriate corrective action, albeit without the fancy extra graphics, and the fact that the missile is armed but failed to launch is very useful to know.
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Independence Day / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Independence Day / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The best-known example is David using a PowerBook 5300ce (ironically, the 5300 series is considered even by die-hard Apple fanboys to be one of the worst Macs ever made, in terms of its performance relative to the model it was introduced to officially replace) to hack into the alien ship. A Reebok billboard can be clearly seen when the Empire State Building is destroyed. Numerous Coca-Cola cans, and a few vending machines.
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Independence Day / int_f522d94b	type	Kneel Before Frodo
Independence Day / int_f522d94b	comment	Kneel Before Frodo: At the end of the film, both President Whitmore and General Grey salute Steve after they destroy the mothership. Correct military protocol has the subordinate salute first until it's returned by the superior. Instead, both a general and the commander-in-chief recognize Steve for his extraordinary accomplishment. It should be noted that this is actually correct for the situation, as what they had done was well above and beyond the call of duty, and Steven, being a US Marine, would've been awarded the Medal of Honor for such an action. At which point, it doesn't matter what your rank is, it is customary in the US military that anyone with a Medal of Honor is saluted ahead of anyone else.
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Independence Day / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
Independence Day / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: The aliens send several massive ships over major cities. They then use powerful Wave-Motion Gun to destroy the cities. They later launch assault with fighter craft to attack the human military attempting to fight back.
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Independence Day / int_f5954c2c	type	Last Wish Marriage
Independence Day / int_f5954c2c	comment	Last Wish Marriage: Just before Steven Hiller goes on his incredibly dangerous mission to implant the computer virus in the alien mothership, he finally marries his girlfriend.
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Independence Day / int_f612d2d	type	Ignored Vital News Reports
Independence Day / int_f612d2d	comment	Ignored Vital News Reports: Hiller takes a passing glance at the news and assumes it's about the "small earthquake" he and his girlfriend felt a few minutes prior. It's only when he gets outside and notices everyone hurriedly packing their cars that he takes a good look around and finally sees the several-mile-wide spaceship.
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Independence Day / int_f69a0d07	type	Surveillance Station Slacker
Independence Day / int_f69a0d07	comment	Surveillance Station Slacker: The guy in S.E.T.I. playing Office Golf near the start.
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Independence Day / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Independence Day / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Both Whitmore and Grey do this when Julius begins ranting about Area 51. David does this when he has his epiphany regarding giving the alien ships a computer virus, apparently feeling stupid he hadn't thought of it earlier.
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Independence Day / int_f9a85905	type	Planet Spaceship
Independence Day / int_f9a85905	comment	Planet Spaceship: The alien Mother Ship was estimated to be more than 550 kilometers in diameter, or nearly a quarter the size of Earth's (very large) moon.
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Independence Day / int_fa5699d9	type	Washington D.C. Invasion
Independence Day / int_fa5699d9	comment	Washington D.C. Invasion: The most famous scene has the aliens destroying the White House, though they were simultaneously attacking many other cities as well.
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Independence Day / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
Independence Day / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: During the initial wave of city attacks, several people are blown through the air by the force of the destruction and land on top of nearby cars.
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Independence Day / int_fba729d7	type	The War Room
Independence Day / int_fba729d7	comment	The War Room: Air Force One has one, where Whitmore, Grey, and Nimziki observe the initial counterattack. Later, the command center of Area 51 is converted into one for the final battle.
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Independence Day / int_fbc1a522	type	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour
Independence Day / int_fbc1a522	comment	Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: The SETI technician calls the director to tell him about the signal in the middle of the night. When General Grey is briefed on the approaching mothership, he calls someone to alert the Secretary of Defense, and when told he's asleep, bluntly says to wake him.
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Independence Day / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Independence Day / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The Capitol Building's iconic dome is shown disintegrating as if it were made of stone. The dome is actually made of wrought-iron, and it wouldn't disintegrate like a stone structure. The gravitational pull of both the attack ships and the mothership would be enormous just from their presence in orbit, with earthquakes and tidal waves around the world. The only acknowledgement of this is a low level earthquake as a destroyer settles over Los Angeles, but being it is California Steve and Jasmine shrug it off. In fact, according to the Law of Inverse Recoil, just having a ship that size hovering above a city would flatten it like a pancake, since the force pushing the spaceship up would need an equal amount of force pushing down. In short, the ship would destroy the city without even needing to fire its weapon. A spaceship with a mass of a quarter the size of the moon would be enough to pull it out of orbit. If the destroyers arriving over their target cities caused low level earthquakes, Washington, D.C. and New York should have suffered structural damage as neither city has buildings rated for earthquakes, unlike Los Angeles. The less said of the advancing wall of fire (moving at walking speed) that goes on through the tunnel without entering the room Jasmine is hidden, the better. The Novelization adds to the scene and attempts to explain it: A grating was in the room, and the firewall caused a vacuum effect, drawing air from the tunnel below with enough force to make them grab onto it to keep from getting sucked/blown back into the tunnel, but also kept the heat of the fire wall from roasting them alive. The destroyer over Sydney, Australia is shown to have plowed into the ground at a near 90 degree angle. In order for it to have impacted as such, it would have to have been hovering at an extremely high altitude and would have kicked up a significant amount of debris and dust from a ship of its mass crashing into the ground. Let's just say that multiple city-sized ships suddenly crashing to the ground should have caused much more trouble than they did, especially the ones that were nuked. The alien mothership is specifically stated to be about 600 kilometers wide, with a mass one-quarter that of the moon. At that size, its own gravity would commence to pulling it into a sphere shape. It doesn't matter what alien Unobtainium it's made of, gravity is going to win that fight. It would be an extremely slow process, but the warping and buckling of its entire structure would be constant and inexorable.
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Independence Day / int_fc9c4dfc	type	Defensive Failure
Independence Day / int_fc9c4dfc	comment	Defensive Failure: A rare good-guy/good-guy example occurs as Major Steven Hiller is climbing into a helicopter to go look for his girlfriend:
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Independence Day / int_fd87290b	type	The Mothership
Independence Day / int_fd87290b	comment	The Mothership: The main alien ship has a diameter of over 550 kilometers and a mass equal to 1/4 that of the Moon. It looks almost like a moon had been sawed in half.
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Independence Day / int_fdeed2aa	type	Old-School Dogfight
Independence Day / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: Two dogfighting scenes: the first where the alien ships are invulnerable due to their shields, and the second at the end where they aren't.
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Independence Day / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Independence Day / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Before leaving for El Toro, Steve gives Dylan a packet of firecrackers. Near the end, he promises that they'll light them as soon as he gets back from the mothership. All this leads to the final line of the film, as Steve and Dylan watch the mothership's debris enter the atmosphere:
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Independence Day / int_fe74de12	type	Interrupted Cooldown Hug
Independence Day / int_fe74de12	comment	Interrupted Cooldown Hug: An amusing part happens where a news report is specifically warning citizens not to do this. Not that it helps...
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Independence Day / int_fe9a3c3f	type	We Would Have Told You, But...
Independence Day / int_fe9a3c3f	comment	We Would Have Told You, But...: The Secretary of Defense decides not to tell the President of the U.S. about Area 51 (where the alien spaceship is being studied) because of "plausible deniability". It was established in his dealings with his family that the President was a bad liar, and if he had known about Area 51 he wouldn't have been able to effectively lie if questioned about it (e.g. by a reporter).
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Independence Day	hasFeature	Elvis Has Left the Planet / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Elvis Impersonator / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Emergency Presidential Address / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Epic Movie / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Event Title / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Every Car Is a Pinto / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Everyone Knows Morse / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Evil Lawyer Joke / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Expanded Universe / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Exposed Extraterrestrials / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Expositing the Masquerade / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Extremely Short Timespan / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Exty Years from Publication / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Facepalm / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Falling into the Cockpit / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Family-Friendly Stripper / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Fanfare / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Fatal Family Photo / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Final Solution / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Finger in a Barrel / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Finger-Twitching Revival / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	First-Person Dying Perspective / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Five Rounds Rapid / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Floating Head Syndrome / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Founding Day / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Four Lines, All Waiting / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Four-Star Badass / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	From Zero to Hero / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Generic Doomsday Villain / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Genius Burnout / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Girly Run / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	God Help Us All / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Godzilla Threshold / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Good Hair, Evil Hair / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Gratuitous Russian / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Guilt-Free Extermination War / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hacked by a Pirate / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	He Didn't Make It / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Helpless Window Death / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hemisphere Bias / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	High-Altitude Battle / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hollywood Action Hero / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hollywood Density / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hollywood Hacking / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hope Springs Eternal / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Hopeless War / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Horde of Alien Locusts / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Humans Are Special / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	I Got You Covered / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	I Will Fight Some More Forever / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Ignored Vital News Reports / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Immune to Bullets / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Improbable Cover / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	In Working Order / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Inscrutable Aliens / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Interrupted Cooldown Hug / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Iron Lady / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	It's All My Fault / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Iwo Jima Pose / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Jewish and Nerdy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Jews Love to Argue / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Jumping the Shark / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Just Before the End / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Key Under the Doormat / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Keystone Army / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Kill All Humans / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Last Day of Normalcy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Last Request / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Last Wish Marriage / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Layman's Terms / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Leno Device / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Lifetime Movie of the Week / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Limited Window of Vulnerability / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Literal Soapbox Speech / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Little Green Man in a Can / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Locked Out of the Loop / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Low-Tech Spears / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Magic Countdown / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Magical Jew / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Majorly Awesome / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Make It Look Like a Struggle / int_a40b1126
MaryMcDonnell	seeAlso	Independence Day
Independence Day	hasFeature	Masquerade / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Meaningful Release Date / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mighty Glacier / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mile-Long Ship / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mistaken for Gay / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mistaken for Quake / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mobile-Suit Human / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Money-Making Shot / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Monochromatic Eyes / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Monumental Damage Resistance / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Multiple Gunshot Death / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Must Not Die a Virgin / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Mutually Fictional / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Narrating the Obvious / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	/ int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Nausea Dissonance / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Near-Villain Victory / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Newscaster Cameo / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Nice Jewish Boy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	No Animals Were Harmed / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	No Endor Holocaust / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	No Mere Windmill / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Not Bad / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Not Distracted by the Sexy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Not So Invincible After All / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Nuclear Option / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Oblivious Astronomers / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Offending the Creator's Own / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Office Golf / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Official Presidential Transport / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Officially Shortened Title / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Oh No You Didn't / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Ominous Floating Spaceship / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Omnicidal Maniac / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	One Bullet Left / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	108 / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	One Last Smoke / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Onscreen Chapter Titles / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Our Presidents Are Different / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Over-the-Top Secret / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Passing Judgment / int_a40b1126
PatrickMoore	seeAlso	Independence Day
Independence Day	hasFeature	Patriotic Fervor / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	People Farms / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	People Jars / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Phony Newscast / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Planar Shockwave / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Planet Looters / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Planet Spaceship / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Plasma Cannon / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Plausible Deniability / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Please Wake Up / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Plug 'n' Play Technology / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Dog / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Powered Armor / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Pre-Battle Banter / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Profound by Pop Song / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Pulled from Your Day Off / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Quizzical Tilt / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Radar Is Useless / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Red Sky, Take Warning / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Repeat What You Just Said / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Repeating So the Audience Can Hear / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Right on the Tick / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Risking the King / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Rock Beats Laser / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Rocky Mountain Refuge / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Roswell That Ends Well / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Rousing Speech / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Running Gagged / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Safe Zone Hope Spot / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Save Sat / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Scary Dogmatic Aliens / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Scrap Heap Hero / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	See the Whites of Their Eyes / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Self-Damaging Attack Backfire / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Semper Fi / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sensor Suspense / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Serendipitous Survival / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Shattered World / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Shocking Defeat Legacy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Short-Lived Aerial Escape / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Silence of Sadness / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Single Mom Stripper / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sitting Duck / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sky-Consuming Dogfight / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Slept Through the Apocalypse / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Smoke Shield / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sniping the Cockpit / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sole Surviving Scientist / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sorry to Interrupt / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Space Fighter / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Space Nomads / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Space Stories / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Standard Alien Spaceship / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Stupid Sexy Flanders / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Sucking-In Lines / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Suddenly Sober / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Super Bowl Special / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Superweapon Surprise / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Surprisingly Super-Tough Thing / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Surveillance Station Slacker / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Suspiciously Apropos Music / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Swiss-Cheese Security / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Tank-Top Tomboy / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Technologically Advanced Foe / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	That's an Order! / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	That's No Moon / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	That's What I Call / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Alliance / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Battlestar / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Big Rotten Apple / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Brigadier / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Coconut Effect / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Complainer Is Always Wrong / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Cuckoolander Was Right / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The End Is Nigh / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Greys / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Maiden Name Debate / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Mothership / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Mountains of Illinois / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You / int_a40b1126
TheReturner	seeAlso	Independence Day
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Ruins I Caused / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Short War / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Tokyo Fireball / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Unmasqued World / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The War Room / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The War to End All Wars / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Worf Barrage / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The World Is Just Awesome / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	This Just In! / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Time Zones Do Not Exist / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Tired of Running / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Trapped in Containment / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Two Words: Added Emphasis / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Universal Chaplain / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Universal Driver's License / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Unstoppable Mailman / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Unusual Chapter Numbers / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Urban Ruins / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	V-Sign / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Vice President Who? / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Victorious Chorus / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Viewer-Friendly Interface / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Violence is the Only Option / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Voice of the Resistance / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Wartime Wedding / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Washington D.C. Invasion / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Wave-Motion Gun / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	We Would Have Told You, But... / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Whole-Plot Reference / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Wiper Start / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Wronski Feint / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Xenomorph Xerox / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Yiddish as a Second Language / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	You Can See That, Right? / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	You Have to Believe Me! / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	You're Not My Father / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	Flying Saucer / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_a40b1126
Independence Day	hasFeature	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill / int_a40b1126

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