Martian Leader

The Martian Leader was the Martian who led the Martian invasion Force that attacked earth in 1996.

Mars Attacks (1996)
The Martian leader sent the Martian Ambassador to represent him at a first contact meeting arranged by President James Dale. Although the Ambassador claimed to come in peace, the Martians quickly turned on the assembled earthlings when a hippie released a dove into the air. When James Dale, believing the Martian attack to be the result of a cultural misunderstanding, sends the Martians a message of peace, translated into their language, the Martian Leader and the Martian Ambassador studied the message for a moment and immediately burst out laughing. Nonetheless, the Martians agreed to renegotiate, with the Martian Ambassador planning to address Congress. His speech quickly turned into another massacre however, as the Ambassador and his bodyguards gunned down the congressmen and journalists, kidnapped Donald Kessler, and fled in their flying saucer.

Later, the Martian Leader, possibly inspired by a Playboy magazine he was reading, sent the Martian Girl to gain access to the White House by seducing Jerry Ross with the goal of assassinating President Dale. The Martian became enraged when Martian Girl was killed, mobilizing his army for a huge attack on Washington D.C.

The Martian Leader and his troops later breached the bunker where the President was hiding, killing General Decker by reducing him to the size of an insect and promptly squashing him. As the Martians were about to kill him, President Dale gave an impassioned speech, urging peace and cooperation between the two planets. The Martian Leader, apparently moved by the President's words, shed a tear and extended his hand in friendship. As Dale shook the hand however, it was revealed to be a robotic gadget that impaled the President through the chest. Then the hand, still embedded in the President's corpse, sprouted a flag, claiming the planet in the name of Mars.

The Martian Leader met his doom when his flying saucer picked up a broadcast of Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call, as the sound of the high-frequency yodeling caused his head to explode. Upon his death, his spaceship crashed into the ocean, also killing Donald Kessler and Natalie Lake.