History Film / Skyline

** [[spoiler:The alien overlord is killed when Trent, who he had converted into a drone to begin with, shoots his organic mecha through the head with his mothership's gun.]

* CurbStompBattle: It would appear humanity loses. All we see are shots of devastated cities, and even our best weapons appear to only slow them down for a bit.

* RealityEnsues: A really brutally honest example. So a super advanced alien race invades Earth? How will humanity fight off these powerful foes? [[spoiler: They don't. You didn't ''really'' think humanity stood a chance against alien beings advanced and powerful enough to travel across millions miles to fuel their unstoppable war machines did you?]] It says a lot that in the sequel, the only thing that starts turning the tables is humans getting their hands on ''alien'' tech and turning it against them.

* BigBad: The aliens' overlord, who led the invasion and was [[NonActionBigBad working behind the scenes in the first film]], but appears in the second film in action.

* PullingThemselvesTogether: The alien mothership -- even after being nuked.

* BehemothBattle: [[spoiler:The climax of the second film is the alien overlord fighting Trent, both in giant organic mechas.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: Jarrod gets one of these [[spoiler: at the very end when he rescues Elaine while in a superhuman alien body.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The aliens appear to be biomechanical, and most have an abundance of metallic tentacles and other strange appendages, and run on human brains.

* OffWithHisHead: The aliens steal brains, taking the entire head and most of the spine with it, using them as brains of their soldiers.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Oliver]] tries this on one of the "Tanker" aliens. It doesn't work.

* BrownNote: The alien light this mixed with TheVirus.

* TheBadGuyWins: Sure, [[spoiler:Jarrod]] ''may'' get a somewhat happy ending if he and [[spoiler:Elaine]] can escape the ship, but these aliens have killed most of humanity already, and it's implied they aren't going to leave... at least until they run out of humans, at any rate. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the second film, where the [[BigBad aliens' overlord]] gets killed by Trent, who is in an alien biosuit, but regained his human memories in the final battle.]]

* InvincibleVillain: The aliens to an unbelievable degree. Absolutely nothing stops them, they brush every attack, and [[spoiler: the heroes completely fail to fight back against them]]. Probably the biggest moment is when the aliens manage to shrug off '''a nuke''' without any trouble. Subverted in the sequel, however, as it turns out they do actually have specific weaknesses, one of which being fire.

* RealityEnsues: A really brutally honest example. So a super advanced alien race invades Earth? How will humanity fight off these powerful foes? [[spoiler: They don't. You didn't ''really'' think humanity stood a chance against alien beings advanced and powerful enough to travel across millions miles to fuel their unstoppable war machines did you?]]

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: The aliens can recover from anything short of having their brains physically torn out, and even that might not stop them if they can grab a nearby human.

* ImplacableMan: The Film/KingKong sized Tankers. One of them survives being hit with a rocket launcher, shot with an M-16, falling off a building, shot with several .50 BMG sniper rounds, getting caught in a gas explosion, falling off a building (again), and getting shot with an F-22's Vulcan. Having the F-22 crash into it, however, seems to kill it.
* InvincibleVillain: The aliens to an unbelievable degree. Absolutely nothing stops them, they brush every attack, and [[spoiler: the heroes completely fail to fight back against them]]. Probably the biggest moment is when the aliens manage to shrug off '''a nuke''' without any trouble.

''Skyline'' is a 2010 science fiction film directed by the [[Creator/{{Hydraulx}} Brothers Strause]]. Though it made quite a bit of money at the box office, the movie has met with negative critical reception.

* * ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Oliver was looking at a nuclear explosion ''through a telescope''. You're not supposed to look at the sun through a telescope, certainly not a nuclear explosion. That eye should be at the very least temporarily blinded - or more realistically - permanently.

->''"The big brain am winning again. I am the greetest. Now I am leaving Earth, for no raisin!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/ConfusedMatthew summarizing the film'''

* AlienBlood: The aliens bleed dark purple blood.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Oliver was looking at a nuclear explosion ''through a telescope''. You're not supposed to look at the sun through a telescope, certainly not a nuclear explosion. That eye should be at the very least temporarily blinded - or more realistically - permanently.

%% * AlienInvasion

A young couple, Jarrod (Eric Balfour) and Elaine (Scottie Thompson), travel to LA for their friend Terry's (Creator/DonaldFaison) birthday party at his penthouse apartment. After the wild party, everyone goes to sleep it off... only to be awoken by mysterious blue lights that fall from the sky into the city. As people are drawn to the lights in a twisted trance, they are snatched by the light, never to be seen again.

A young couple, Jarrod (Eric Balfour) and Elaine (Scottie Thompson), travel to LA for their friend Terry's (Donald Faison) birthday party at his penthouse apartment. After the wild party, everyone goes to sleep it off... only to be awoken by mysterious blue lights that fall from the sky into the city. As people are drawn to the lights in a twisted trance, they are snatched by the light, never to be seen again.

* TheBadGuyWins: Sure, [[spoiler:Jarrod]] ''may'' get a somewhat happy ending if [[spoiler:Elaine]] and him can escape the ship, but these aliens have killed most of humanity already, and it's implied they aren't going to leave... at least until they run out of humans, at any rate. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the second film, where the [[BigBad aliens' overlord]] gets killed by Trent, who is in an alien biosuit, but regained his human memories in the final battle.]]

A young couple, Jarrod and Elaine, travel to LA for their friend Terry's birthday party at his penthouse apartment. After the wild party, everyone goes to sleep it off... only to be awoken by mysterious blue lights that fall from the sky into the city. As people are drawn to the lights in a twisted trance, they are snatched by the light, never to be seen again.

--> '''Oliver''': Vaya con Dios, you son of a bitch!