lot of the details of The Fifth Element are pretty vague. Okay, so there's some kind of Big Nasty Thing out in space, and it's evil, and it shows up every 5,000 years to try to destroy everything. A race of friendly aliens have cooked up a way to stop it, using four talismanic stones representing earth, fire, air and water -- plus the key item, the mysterious Fifth Element. Normally, these five objects are stored on Earth. But when World War I is about to break out, the aliens decide their treasures aren't safe, and so they nab them for safekeeping.
Cut to Generic Dystopian Far Future #11, where people live in sterile, automated cracker-boxes and drive their aircars through breathtakingly crowded skies. The Big Nasty has shown up, right on schedule, and so has the spaceship bearing the Fifth Element.
But lo and behold, some rubbery Little Nasties (who look a lot like the dog-goblins from Ghostbusters) blast the helpful ship out of the sky. A human scientist manages to recover it,......
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