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* ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' features this. 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.

* The "Repair the Engines" mission from ''Pinball/TheAvengersZenStudios'' has Loki attacking the SHIELD Helicarrier.

* ''StarWars'': The famous battle of [[SingleBiomePlanet Hoth]] in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', one of the last permanent bases that the Rebel Alliance had before the Empire discovered it, necessitating a complete evacuation.
** The [[FaceHeelTurn newly-minted]] Darth Vader pulled this on the Jedi Temple in a very heart-rending scene in ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
** ''ThePhantomMenace'' starts with the Trade Federation invading Naboo and taking over Amidala's palace as well.

* A regular occurrence on ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', to the point where it is subverted in a later season: the final test for prospective team members is a simulated Film/DieHard scenario, complete with alien infiltrators and noble (yet harmless) sacrifices. In contrast with most other examples however, Stargate Command is designed and operated with the ''expectation'' that hostile forces would frequently attempt to invade, up to including a SelfDestructMechanism into the base design from the get go.

*** But then, the war was not entirely a military war.

*** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' has this during the crossover with the [[Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles]]. It happens early in the season so it is often overlooked.

* The "Repair the Engines" mission from ''Pinball/TheAvengers'' has Loki attacking the SHIELD Helicarrier.

* The last half of ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' is [[spoiler:Voldemort's siege of Hogwarts]].

* The name of this trope comes from the intro of ''ZeroWing'', which begins with an organization (or person?) known as "CATS" taking over the bases of the player's organization and attacking the ship the player is stationed in. The [[GoodBadTranslation badly translated]] line became an [[MemeticMutation Internet meme]] in late 2000 after a flash animation used it.
** ''ZeroWing'' is still one of the most popular games among the emulation community, despite being neither spectacularly good nor spectacularly bad; just [[WatchItForTheMeme because people want to see]] AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs in its original context.

* 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 AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety's base of operations, the Library [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Arcanium]], is taken over by the Sues in "Insert Red Skies Twilight Here".

* In ''[[CiemWebcomicSeries Ciem]]'', Candi and Denny's house gets blown up. That was ''his'' house. Candi's lakeside house was ''almost'' subject to this trope, but the invasion failed. But since Candi no longer had her other house when Denny's was blown up, she was forced to have to buy yet another house. ''That one'' stays up. Averted for Ploribus' / [[UltimateUniverse Darius]]' base, though Dirbine / Evansville [[DoomedHometown is pretty much trashed]] by the time of ''Ciem 3'' / ''Condemnation''. [[StormingTheCastle Inverted]] in ''Ciem 3''.

* ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' features this. 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, the rebels win.

** Inverted in the final season of ''Angel'', in a case of "All your Us are belong to our Base" -- [[spoiler:the Angel scooby gang ends up working ''for'' the bad guy law firm and setting up shop in their office building.]]
*** And one episode plays it straight, with Wolfram and Hart being invaded by cyborgs.

* Played with at the end of ''{{Batman}}: DarkVictory'' when the villains manage to invade the Batcave. However, the villains find it entirely by accident (they're simply trying to escape the chaos in the sewers) and are completely unable to capitalize on their find before Batman and a debuting Robin take them down. Most of the villains probably aren't even aware where they actually are.
** Used for ironic purposes in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand Batman: Cataclysm]]''. Pretty much 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.

* ''{{CSI NY}}'' had one,a drug lord had his guys storm the lab in 'Snow Day'' and in 'Today is Life',the precinct almost gets it,though the rioters never get in.

* In ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar'', the griffins attack and besiege Canterlot from chapter 14 until 17. Earlier, in chapter 8, they take over Cloudsdale. It remains theirs until it's recaptured in chapter 14.