#2 - Ecological Gap
With humans largely wiped out and no longer the globally dominant species (for whatever reason), it apparently opens up the food chain for a new dictator. Movies have made several postulations as to what that new supreme, apex predator might look like, including
talking apes, talking frogs (see above),
giant radiation-breathing dinosaur-dragons(including normal dinosaurs and normal
dragons),
zombies, zoo animals,
mindless vampires,
cyborgs,
evil robots,
scientologists,
Cthulhu monsters, and most scary
THIS THING. And this is assuming that most other types of aliens politely decide to leave us alone, such as the Xenomorphs, Predators, and ETs. Whatever it is, movie-land is certain that the earth cannot end up a barren, desolate wasteland largely uninhabited with only a few lingering candlelights of civilization on the brink of disappearing. Nope. Mutant turtles will learn kung-fu and ally with horse-riding monkeys! We've already covered that the planet will be an irradiated, deep freezer of well defended cities of sporting good aethesists. What will be our primary challenge? All of the above. And I pray to Moses that I survive the Holocaust just so I can charge into war with a spear gun and scream out: "Long live the New Flesh!"
