History Main / AllYourBaseAReBelongToUs

* ''Magazine/PrivateEye''[='s=] owner and longtime editor Peter Cook one led a raid on the ''Mirror'' offices at a time when Maxwell had tried to force the magazine off the newsstands (and succeeded with WH Smith, a large British newsagents chain). He and some cohorts, including current editor Ian Hislop, convinced the doorman and security at the Mirror offices that they were there to see Robert Maxwell. They used this to vandalize Maxwell's office, steal the master copy of a planned spoof ''Not Private Eye'' smear-job piece Maxwell had been producing (they had previously sent the journalists involved with the project a case of whisky, with predictable results), order a champagne lunch to be delivered at Maxwell's expense, and, finally, very drunk, phoning Maxwell personally in New York and saying "guess where we are".

* The final showdown of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' has the bad guys [[TheSiege launching an assault]] upon the church that served as the title character's primary place of refuge and peace. And just to drive home the point that the church is no longer a sanctuary for him or his love interest, at one point during the shootout, one of the bad guys uses a shotgun to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic blow the church's centerpiece, the statue of Mary, to smithereens]].

** Used for ironic purposes in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand Batman: Cataclysm]]''. Every Waynetech building survived the titular giant earthquake because Bruce Wayne made sure all his building were quake-proofed. Unfortunately, the Batcave and Wayne Manor were not.

** ''Film/ANewHope'' features a straight example and inversion simultaneously, with the Death Star coming after the base on Yavin IV and the Rebels attacking to stop it. In the EU, the Imperial counterattack stretched out into a months-long [[TheSiege siege]] during which the Rebels evacuated in stages.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hilariously subverted in "Agony of a Witch", when the Emperor's Coven attempts to attack the titular house to arrest Eda, only for [[BewareTheSillyOnes Hooty]] to [[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor with them]]. A season later in "Edge of the World", they attack again while Hooty is away with Luz and King to meet the Titan Trappers; "O Titan, Where Art Thou" reveals that while they failed to capture Eda or [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Lilith]]]], they were still forced to flee, allowing the Coven to ransack the house, leaving it empty and unused again until the end of the GrandFinale.

* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'':

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' in one episode had Francis the school bully kick out Timmy Turner and his parents out of their own house through sheer brutal force and enjoy the the house for himself. Timmy then had to learn martial arts to take back the house.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', Wario has taken over Mario's castle.

** Happens in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'', where instead of Peach getting taken to Bowser's Castle, Mario and co. are flung out her castle and have to make their way back there.

* ''[[Fanfic/AFutureOfFriendshipAHistoryOfHate A Future of Friendship, A History of Hate]]'': In Episode 2, after [[BigBad Ruinate]] manages to [[TheWorfEffect defeat the Princesses and Mane Six]], he has his shadow wraiths [[DemonicPossession possess]] the Royal Guard and then sets up shop in the royal castle.

* The first hour or so of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3'' consists of a Space Pirate attack on both the ship you're on, and the base on the planet you're orbiting.
* Occurs in the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' games several times, in which Kane hacks into the player's character communications to taunt him following an attack on the good guys. It's most apparent in the ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun Tiberian Sun]]'' GDI intro, which is eerily similar to the intro of Zero Wing.
** Can also ''literally'' happen in gameplay -- watch out for those Engineers....
*** And, of course, [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY All Your Base Are Belong To George Takei.]]

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': : The ultimate fate of Alan Jonah and his paramilitary forces in the [[spoiler:Ural]] outpost, due to a combination of [[ArtificialZombie the Many]] overrunning the base and Ghidorah's decapitated head psychically inflicting {{Sanity Slippage}}s to make Jonah and his men fuel the Many.

** [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Alan Jonah]] stages an assault on the Monarch outpost 61 that contains Mothra. He succeeds in killing every outpost guard and conquers the base, before taking Madison and Emma hostage.

* The last mission in ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune II: DoubleHelix'' takes place at [[spoiler:the Lockhart Shop HQ]], which has been taken over by the main terrorist organization, Prometheus. Strong, often [[HeavilyArmoredMook armored]] opposition, and the expected disarray of a building taken by force, including fires, collapsed masonry, insurmountable barricades and [[BlackoutBasement a general lack of working lighting]] make it the hardest set of levels in the game.

* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'' features a sneak attack on the good guy base...by [[EnemyMime mimes]]. With guns.

* The last mission in ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortuneIIDoubleHelix'' takes place at [[spoiler:the Lockhart Shop HQ]], which has been taken over by the main terrorist organization, Prometheus. Strong, often [[HeavilyArmoredMook armored]] opposition, and the expected disarray of a building taken by force, including fires, collapsed masonry, insurmountable barricades and [[BlackoutBasement a general lack of working lighting]] make it the hardest set of levels in the game.

* For the first half of ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' your apartment is a haven where you can heal and rearm. In the second half of the game [[spoiler:it is overrun by ghosts who can hurt you by proximity, and who will contribute to giving you a worse game ending if you don't clear them out.]]

* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'' ends with a full on invasion of the [[VideoGame/StarCraft Zerg]] on the [[Franchise/MassEffect Asari homeworld]].

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* In Shakespeare's ''Henry V'', the English come back to their base after kicking French butt at Agincourt to discover that some French knights had slipped out of the battle and killed all of the guards left to watch over the baggage train. Hal gets royally ticked off: "I was not angry since I came to France!"

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', the Zerg can infect a Terran Command Center, seizing control of it, and use it to produce Infected Terran units.

* In the final SWAT mission of ''SWAT 2'', the game's WesternTerrorists have invaded Metro Station, killing one of the major [=NPCs=] [[CutsceneIncompetence during a cutscene]] and putting the [[NonEntityGeneral Chief of Police's]] life in peril.

** ''VideoGame/RedFactionGuerrilla'': In the middle of a mission, the game pulls a swerve: without warning the mission is aborted and you have to race to save a safehouse from a full-on assault. The safehouse is wrecked and your commander is killed.

* Twice at the beginning of ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar''. First the Tarsus base in Chicago gets destroyed by a Templar GreyGoo bomb, then the Seattle base comes under attack by the Order.
** The first game started on Liberty Island, UNATCO headquarters, which was being occupied by NSF forces, although the actual base was not captured.
** [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution The third game]] started with the Sarif building being attacked by hostile mercenaries and supersoldiers.

* In both the ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'' and ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' franchises, your main goal is to sieze the enemy's main base of operations. The enemy can also win this way in the former.

* During the Waters of Life quest in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the Enclave storms the Jefferson Memorial and seizes Project Purity, jumpstarting the game's second act. Earlier, as the evil solution to the Tenpenny Tower sidequest, you can let the Ghouls into the building to massacre the residents. You can also arrange to have them move in, but they eventually backstab and slaughter the residents anyway. You and the Brotherhood also do this to the Enclave, twice if you have the ''Broken Steel'' DLC.
** In the [[NonStandardGameOver bad ending]] of ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', the Super Mutants take over the player character's vault, in addition to [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie converting him/her into a Mutant themselves]].

* ''VideoGame/CombatInstinct'' 1's second level involves the Gnork breaking into your destroyer. 3 has the Hrumians assault Hivezopolis.
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', the Minutemen and the Railroad both suffered this in their backstory. The former had it happen twice, first being chased out of The Castle by Mirelurks, then massacred in Quincy by the Gunners, while the latter were rooted out of the Switchboard by the Institute and forced to relocate to the crypts of the Old North Church.

** The [[FaceHeelTurn newly-minted]] Darth Vader pulled this on the Jedi Temple in a very heart-rending scene in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. According to supplementary material, Darth Sidious subsequently made it his official imperial residence and basically turned it into a Sith Temple.
** ''Film/ANewHope'' features a straight example and inversion simultaneously, with the Death Star coming after the base on Yavin IV and the Rebels attacking to stop it. In the EU the Imperial counterattack stretched out into a months-long [[TheSiege siege]] during which the Rebels evacuated in stages.

** The first ''VideoGame/MegaManZero1'' game also had a mission where you had to repel two attacks on the Resistance Base.

* In ''Fanfic/ChaoticHarmony'', [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman]] completely thrashes [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]]'s library looking for... a book.

* The climax of ''VideoGameMetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' has XOF forces, [[TrojanHorse disguised as a nuclear inspection team]], infiltrate Mother Base and set off explosives to destroy the sea-borne fortress, killing most of the MSF soldiers stationed there. This brutal attack becomes a catalyst for Snake and Miller's crusade for revenge nine years later.

** No less than twenty minutes after the player reaches the well-equipped and well-hidden resistance base outside of City 17, the Combine fly in with their helicopters and start shelling the place with headcrab canisters. The base is lost, and the survivors relocate to the White Forest Base, where, incidentally, the same thing happens... only this time, [[OneManArmy Gordon Freeman]] isn't cut off from the fray. Guess who wins.

* Second Ypres - the Germans almost, ''almost'' got through the British defenses with the help of poison gas. It came down to second-line troops attacking German Guards regiments, convincing the Germans that the British were still strong and causing them to back down). A captured German officer, asked what stood between his force and success, was told "Divisional headquarters." A small cluster of administrative staff, whose job is normally to plan battles and order supplies, were the last line of defense.