History Main / AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

** A downplayed example in Chapter 15, wherein during an argument with Lex, Tak is suddenly hit with the worrisome realization that with the small army of [=DIRs=] at his disposal, he's effectively taken over her base during the course of their partnership.

* ''Fanfic/HoursVerse'': Chapter 10 of ''Intermezzo'' shows how Yaldabaoth took over the Velvet Room. He [[spoiler: imprisions Igor]], drives out [[DeusExitMachina Margaret, Elizabeth, and Theo]], and captures [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn Nameless, Belladonna]], and Lavenza, [[spoiler: splitting the latter into two amnesiac halves to obscure her memories]]; then forbids entry for anyone other than his Trickster and his opponent, at least until [[spoiler: the BigDamnHeroes break in to reclaim it late in ''Butterfly Cascade'']].

* As in the novel, [[Film/Dune1984 both film]] [[Film/Dune2021 versions]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' have House Harkonnen conspire with Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV to destroy House Atreides, first by having them take stewardship of the planet Arrakis to extract the Spice, then by having their troops (Harkonnen soldiers, buttressed by Imperial Sardaukars) invade Arrakeen, the capital city where Atreides troops are concentrated, in a surprise assault with the help of TheMole and wipe them out.

** Played straight in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman: RIP]]'', where the Black Glove attack Batman in the Bat Cave, and after throwing him out on the street drugged up and mentally unbalanced, they briefly coordinate the remainder of their plan from there until relocating to Arkham Asylum for the endgame.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has had a couple instances of this:
** In 'Snow Day,' a drug lord had his guys storm the lab.
** In 'Today is Life,' the precinct is almost stormed by rioters, though fortunately not too many get in.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' John Harrison targets several Starfleet installations on Earth, from a data storage facility in London to Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco.
-->'''Harrison:''' Have I got your attention now?

*** ...and they took over the ''Enterprise'', or at least part of it, in ''First Contact''.

* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': In ''Freddy in Peril'', Freddy and Sir William return to the abandoned house where they're hiding out, only to find that [[MadScientist Professor Fleischkopf]] has broken in and captured Enrico and is waiting for them.

** [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah 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.

* ''Film/MenInBlackII'', Serleena in the MIB HQ.

* Many movies written or co-written by Creator/ShaneBlack involve home attacks (''Film/IronMan3'', ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', ''Film/TheLastBoyScout'', ''Film/LastActionHero'', and the first two films in the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' series).

* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'', as a fanmade novelization, has some arcs that weren't present in the namesake game. One of these original arcs is [[spoiler: a massive WarArc with the Yiga Clan. It officially begins with the Yiga laying siege and attacking every major settlement across Hyrule in one fell swoop. Thankfully, the heroes had ''just'' enough warning to mount a defense and throw back the Yiga.]]

* Happens in ''Film/IndependenceDay'': The aliens take out every major military base in the second day of their invasion, including NATO's headquarters; the president then assumes command and control in [[{{Area51}} Area 51]], which is a safe haven because of its top-secret nature.

* This has happened to the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} satellite a number of times. At one point, the writers had to promise to not destroy it anymore unless they rebuilt it first.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Super-villain Protector storms the Fortress of Solitude... right when both Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are at home. Let's say it wasn't a very brilliant plan.

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'': [[spoiler:As posing as]] ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, [[spoiler:Batmite]] strips off everything from the Batcave while Batman and Robin are away. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:Mr. Mxyzptlk, who is impersonating]] Supergirl, steals the whole Fortress of Solitude.

* ''For Want Of A Nail'': the [horse]shoe was lost, and the rider was either a spy with vital information about the invaders' strategy or else a pivotal fighter in the battle. Either way, his horse throwing a shoe led to his side losing the battle and then the kingdom, "and all for the want of a horseshoe nail."
* In the ''Literature/SpaceMarineBattles'' novel ''The Purging of Kadillus'', the orks have seized control of the Dark Angels’ basilica off-page by the start of the first chapter. Chaplain Boreas then leads multiple assaults in an effort to take the basilica back, finally succeeding on his fifth attempt.

* ForWantOfANail: the [horse]shoe was lost, and the rider was either a spy with vital information about the invaders' strategy or else a pivotal fighter in the battle. Either way, his horse throwing a shoe led to his side losing the battle and then the kingdom, "and all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}} Force'' actually has its final level be the C-Force/Blue Group's headquarters, which comes under attack by a squad of D.N.M.E. terrorists with [[BigBad its leader]] at the helm. Needless to say, you get to succeed in fending them off.

For shows featuring a SuperHero [[TheTeam team]], a military group, a secret service, or anything else that requires a MissionControl to operate, an attack on their headquarters is a great way to increase drama and tension. When an ordinary mission is botched, the heroes still have some place to return, lick their wounds, and {{plan}} their next encounter; but if they lose their homebase? Big morale crusher right there. Not only have they lost a safe haven and one of their biggest resources, but for many heroes, their [[DoomedHometown very home as well.]]

* Happens rather often in the ''Anime/{{Mazinger|Z}}'' saga, since several of the plans by the BigBad involve attacking the Photoatomic Institute. The Photoatomic Research Institute from ''Anime/MazingerZ'', the Fortress of Science of ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and the Space Science Lab from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' are preffered attack targets and often they get severely damaged, specially the first one. The worst damage the Institute suffered happened in the episode 34 from ''Anime/MazingerZ'', when [[{{Robeast}} Genocyder F9]] turned the place into smoking ruins. Great Mazinger's HQ was not destroyed in the anime, but in one of the [[AlternateContinuity manga versions]] it was completely obliterated. The heroes were driven out of it and were forced to run away and lie low for a while.

* Happens in ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'''s first season, during the last episodes when the villain takes full conrol of the Tuatha de Danaan.

** The Flower Division lose the Imperial Theater in this manner near the end of the 26-episode [[Anime/SakuraWars2000 TV series]] thanks to Aoi Satan and his cohorts.

** Happens in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'', in which the villains take over the Presidential Palace / ElaborateUndergroundBase. The protagonist sends visual transmission to the villains, asking if the base's armour works, right before [[spoiler:firing his {{BFG}} to open the base]].

* Happens in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' {{OVA}} (later gets carried over to OG Gaiden). An exhibition of new mecha series...nothing could go wrong with that. Except that those new mecha series [[AIIsACrapshoot got their AIs rigged on their own]] and goes berserk without warning. And the result was lots of casualties, the heroes too late to prevent that, and five of the main characters captured. [[spoiler:OG Gaiden adds up with the sudden kidnapping of one civilian in the middle of chaos.]] Getting their base attacked happens at least once per game throughout the entire series, if for no other reason than the fact that it happens so darn much in other anime series' (such as the ones included in those games).

* [[MonsterOfTheWeek EI-15]] in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' was produced from a programmer who didn't get picked to operate the heroes' base. As a Zonder, he infected the base computer itself, taking over all the systems. It took a double BigDamnHeroes moment by Volfogg infiltrating from outside while Entouji, GGG's main programmer, tries to retake the system from the computer end. On its way out, the Zonder assimilated several spare [[MirrorMatch GaoGaiGar]] parts, including some that let it mimic and counter [=GaoGaiGar=]'s moves.

* ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'': The Castle of Lions comes under attack multiple times in the course of the several series.

* In ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'', Galactor finally manages to destroy the heroes' base in episodes [[spoiler:91 and 92]]. The American ''Battle of the Planets'' had two-part "Invasion of Space Center" as a revamp of those episodes. However, since the show had added 7-Zark-7, they had to explain why the robot wasn't destroyed or even threatened by separating Center Neptune into two parts: Space Center and Research Center.

* In Part 3 of the five-part finale of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', Dreamland, Kirby's home country, gets attacked by fleets of Destrayer ships sent by Emperor Nightmare and his company, Holy Nightmare Co./Nightmare Enterprises.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'''s guild building can't seem to last 2 arcs without getting wrecked or otherwise lost. To date, it was wrecked during the night by Gajeel and later totally demoloished during the fighting of the Phantom Lord arc which was the 2nd arc, the rebuilt version was warped into Edolas two arcs later though later restored, and almost immediately afterwards the key members leave for a mission and the building is repossessed while they were away as the weaker members left behind couldn't keep the guild out of debt. It remains to be seen if they will ever get the old building back.

** Used for ironic purposes in ''ComicBook/BatmanCataclysm''. 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.

** Then Eggman launches an attack with the Death Egg Mk. II, which is temporarily interrupted by the CosmicRetcon of the ''Genesis'' arc, and resumes once the retcon is undone. This includes releasing the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Titan Metal Sonic]] to wreck havoc. Oh, and this all coincides with an EvilPlan by Ixis Naugus to usurp control of the city. [[spoiler: The former fails; the latter doesn't.]]

** Eggman launched another attack on the city, but was repelled by the efforts of Team Freedom (with some anonymous aid from the Secret Freedom Fighters) and the fact that the Death Egg was running low on power.

** ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'': After escaping from the Zone and sending Superman into it, the Phantom Zoners break into Superman's Fortress of Solitude, using its own key as a giant battering ram, and destroy anything could be used to get Superman out of his dimensional prison.

* In ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'', Alphel briefly takes over Mercury's dungeon in a joint strike with Keepers Arachne and Nero, while Nero creates a distraction forceing all of Mercury's minions to fight on a battle field of his choice. The battle is vicious and protracted; but in the end all three are defeated.

** Ganondorf occupies Canterlot early on in Season 2 as his headquarters for his conquest of Equestria. Fortunately, Vaati A) sees this coming, and B) know that the ponies can't win a straight up fight, so convinces the Princesses to evacuate to the Crystal Empire, and leave Discord behind to mess with Ganon's forces.

* In the penultimate chapter of Book 1 of ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'', the Ironborn launch a massive attack against Raylansfair, together with reonforcements from the Second Sons and the Band of Claws. Almost every Point-Of-View characters is present in the town at this point, leading to an entire chapter dedicated to this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo raids the Court of Miracles, the save haven of the gypsies, after an unwitting Quasimodo leads him there.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': The Bog King's raid against the fairy kingdom is incredibly successful, with all the guards and royal family members subdued without any loss of life. Security was so terrible that he could have wiped out the royal family without any losses. Instead, he merely kidnaps one of the princesses to act as hostage to swap for a stolen love potion.

** [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] takes over Washington D.C. (the capital of United States) and reforms the area as his own base of operations. His Titan army is mentioned as attacking capitals all over the world as well.

* Typically the enemy mooks burst into the heroes base and attack the {{Red Shirt}}s, slaughter ensues, but all (or most) of the named characters escape to fight another day thanks to the heroic sacrifice of countless Red Shirts. Seen in ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', ''Film/TheyLive'', and ''Film/LogansRun''.

** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The group move into Xavier's mansion after their previous HQ, a CIA compound, is attacked and destroyed by the Hellfire Club.

* Happens in ''Film/IndependenceDay'': The aliens take out every major military base in the second day of their invasion, including NATO's headquarters; the president then assumes command and control in [[{{Area51}} Area 51]], which is a safe haven because of its top secret nature.

** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Malekith and the Dark Elves attack Asgard in search for the Reality Stone, disable the shield over the royal palace from within, infiltrate it and kill the Queen, but have to leave without their prize.

** ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'': Kaecilius and his Zealots attacks all three Sanctums that the Masters of the Mystic Arts are sworn to protect. The London and Hong Kong Sanctums quickly fall to his assault, and the New York Sanctum is heavily damaged. Doctor Strange uses the Time Stone to reverse the damage done in Hong Kong.

** In ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', Daenerys Targaryen conquers three cities in Slaver's Bay, but only decides to settle in the third, Meereen. She soon learns that by leaving the others without adequate succession roadmap, all hell breaks loose: Astapor undergoes a FullCircleRevolution and becomes a WretchedHive, while Yunkai returns to slavery.

* The siege of Troy, told from the perspective of the Trojans in the Aeneid, is an example of this trope, while it is an example of StormingTheCastle, as told from the Greek perspective in the Illiad.

* The ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' have this as a once a season tradition.

** The Borg pulled a "All Your Captain Are Belong To Us" by assimilating Picard, then shortly having the Borgified Picard send a message that "You have no chance to resist; make your time" to the ''Enterprise''.

** On a smaller scale than is usual for this trope, Dexter pulls this most episodes with his victim of the week: Taking control of a place they had felt secure, sometimes only symbolically by putting up tokens of their criminal life and asserting dominance, other times literally taking control of their home base (a scrap yard, a cabin in the everglades, a shrink's office, etc.)

* ''Series/BabylonFive'', due to its nature, is threatened in one way or another almost every episode. However, there are at lest three examples of large-scale invasions by boarding parties.

* ''Series/TourOfDuty'': Firebase Ladybird suffers this in the episode [[http://www.tourofdutyinfo.com/EpGuide/UnderSiege.htm "Under Siege"]]. The [[CluelessBoss new company commander]] brushes off Anderson and Goldman’s concerns about the base defenses, thinking Charlie would be foolish to attack the base. Cut to the VC broadcasting over a loudspeaker that the base is now surrounded, and will attack that night. Oh, not to mention the base is desperately low on ammunition and no ground or air support is available. The VC attack and overrun the base. [[spoiler:Only thanks to some clever rigging of some IED’s in and around the base perimeter is the platoon able to get the upper hand and drive the enemy back. However, [[TrashTheSet the base is completely destroyed in the process.]]]]

* The most notable example of the post territorial era is Wrestling/{{TNA}}, who love to use both the invasion angle and the corporate takeover angle. In June 2014, someone decided to do the math and found that from its inception in 2002 up till then TNA had spent over 55% of their twelve year existence under siege by a hostile force. And after this figure was put out, there was ''another'' evil takeover of the Impact Zone.
* IWA Puerto Rico had this when Ray González was revealed as TheMole, still holding onto his shares in the Puerto Rican version World Wrestling Council and planning to use them to recreate the old Capitol Sports Promotions using IWA PR's assets. Ironically, González would become a hero to this branch of the International Wrestling Association when his own take over was derailed by an off island invasion by then Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA World Champion and TNA Wrestling founder Wrestling/JeffJarrett.

* Savio Vega was already a partial owner of The World Wrestling League due to it's less experienced founder, Richard Negrin's, failure to read the fine print, but the truth was he wanted his own company, IWA Puerto Rico, back. Vega and the former IWA PR talents managed to successfully takeover WWL's television show ''High Voltage'' and rename it ''Total Impacto'' after IWA PR's old flagship show before IWA and WWL formally split and IWA was {{reviv|al}}ed.

* ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' have it's second-to-last stage, "Lightspeed Rescue!" where the ranger headquarters gets captured by Queen Bansheera and her minions while you're busy dealing with Olympius.

** In ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the UNSC ''Infinity'' has to fight off enemy boarders in both the main campaign and ''Spartan Ops''.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has Besieged, wherein the city of Al Zahbi is, from time to time, overrun by beastmen. There's also an infamous 3-month period where the cities in "Wings of The Goddess" were faced with constant invasions because the enemies in Campaign were so damn strong it was nearly impossbile to hold any areas so city invasions wouldn't happen. Additionally, in one scene during the Battle of Jeuno mission arc, the Allied Forces of Altana are presented with an ultimatum from the Beastmen Confederacy. The orc presenting the surrender treaty says outright "You press seal here. Then all your Jeuno are belong to us". After the player and other npc heroes break up the meeting, that same orc yells "You have no chance to survive! Make your time!" One wonders what the game's japanese script had in the same scene.

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

** Come to think of it, this happens before hand when you liberate it from the bleedin' Trolls.

** Hyrule Castle has been taken over by the forces of evil a total of 4 times yet, twice by [[BigBad Ganondorf]], once by Vaati in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'', also once by ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'''s Agnahim. It might have something to do with the fact that Hyrulean [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Guards tend to be morons.]] Notably {{Averted}} in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]]'', despite the set up being perfect for it, with [[spoiler: the Princess being invisible]] and all; then there's also [[spoiler:Chancellor Cole who plotted his master's return from in the castle]].

** Halfway through ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:your base at Haven is assaulted by the BigBad Corypheus (his first appearance, not counting a visible outline earlier) with his army of Red Templars and his personal dragon. Despite all your efforts, Haven falls, and you end up going for a DelayingAction, while the survivors flee through a snowy mountains. Fortunately, Solas ends up leading them to an even better fortress at Skyhold, which becomes your new base. Unlike Haven, you can actually improve Skyhold and make it more defensible (besides already being a castle with high walls atop a mountain peak)]].

** 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. By the time you make it back to the castle at the end of the game, Bowser and the Koopalings have already taken it over and turned it into the game's LethalLavaLand world.

* In both the ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]'' 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.

* In ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutenScarletWeatherRhapsody'', an incredibly weak and localized earthquake destroyed the Hakurei shrine, a building that not only is the main character's residence, but is also built upon the barrier that separates Gensokyo from the outside world (so it's actually very important). This makes the heroine going mad at it, and she goes out for the culprit, a celestial being named ''Tenshi Hinanawi'' that purposedly caused the incident because she was bored and wanted someone to fight with (and she gets kicked a lot by nearly any character in the game, excluding Remilia Scarlet because she couldn't go out due to the inevitable exposure to the Sunlight). Tenshi is eventually forced to rebuild the shrine, but [[RealityWarper Yukari Yakumo]] destroys it again because she noticed that Tenshi rebuilt it to please her own tastes. Then, the shrine is rebuilt a second time by Suika Ibuki, with the help of some Tengus.

** In chapter 4 of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'', Yaksha launches a full scale assault on the Grand Imperial Theater.

** Don't forget that you're often fighting [[DemonicSpiders terror units]], who, by and large, are fearsome opponents, and have a battleship load of supporting aliens, [[{{BFG}} blaster bombs]], and [[MindControl psionic]] attacks they're all too eager to use. To make things worse, you often have to fight with a cobbled together band of scrubs with only beginner-level rifles and pistols, instead of the squads you've probably invested blood and tears training -- all thanks to quirks of how the game works.

** ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' starts with this, with the survivors only managed to re-emerge with skeleton crew 20 years after as the [[AirborneAircraftCarrier "Avenger"]] in which, after the Commander has been rescued, has to be rebuilt. Later, it has an even more dramatic version of this with Avenger defense missions. After a UFO uses an EMP weapon and a 'spike' to ground the Avenger, your soldiers have to mount a desperate defense to prevent hostiles from boarding the Avenger, while destroying the spike. Then you have to manually evacuate everyone who participated. This is even more dramatic because, due to the nature of the mission, you can use wounded soldiers. Additionally, the arbitrary headcount goes straight out the window; every few turns, Central will deploy another soldier from within the Avenger to help ensure that the mission succeeds.

* ''VideoGame/TimeSlip'' have it's opening cinematics depicting the obliteration of the human resistance base by the hostile Tirmatian aliens, while your player hero, Dr. Vincent Gilgamesh, hijacks a TimeMachine to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.

* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': The hero's HQ is a favorite target for their enemies, with all night time villains having tried at least once to conquer or destroy it, with varrying degrees of succes.

** Perhaps the most famous real life example is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor [[AndZoidberg and the Philippines]] that pulled the US into UsefulNotes/WorldWarII which before this point was distant and far away. The moment the Japanese [[WarComesHome made an attack on American soil]] the isolationist mentality reversed almost instantly.

** Similar the invasion of Denmark during which German forces crossed the border in the early morning and paratroopers took control of the Danish air bases. Some hours later German bombers dropped leaflets over Copenhagen, which pretty much said "All your base are belong to us!", and by noon the government had surrendered. The trope was played even more straight with the simultaneous invasion of Norway. Oslo's impressive naval defenses kept the German navy at bay for long enough to secure the kings escape into exile. Once he was safely away, the troops surrendered. [[LaResistance Or retreated into hiding.]]
*** Aided by extreme boldness of the Germans. On the first day of the invasion of Norway, only a few dozen paratroopers and a recon plane who landed at the airport were the only Germans in Oslo. But, within hours of landing, these guys were holding a parade on the streets of the capital that convinced the Norwegians that a much larger force had landed and has successfully gained control of the city.

** Of course, Poland's defeats have usually been due to overwhelming numerical superiority of their enemies, as Poland traditionally has a small but very ''very'' capable professional military. 1939, for example, the Germans (not counting the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Soviets]] who attacked from the east) enjoyed a 40-1 advantage over the Polish Army, and the Germans still ''lost more men than the Poles had in their entire army.''

** The Italian Navy later did it again, when they used the very first manned torpedo to infiltrate an harbour and sink another battleship. Doubles as a KickTheDog moment because by that point the Austro-Hungarian Empire was collapsing and begging for peace and that harbour and all the ships in it had been ceded to one of the break-away states right after the mission was launched.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' has a late game mission where the U.S.S. Barack Obama comes under assault by [[BigBad Menendez's]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]]. Depending on the player's choices, the ship is either destroyed by the mercenaries, or saved by the Chinese.

** The penultimate mission of the Ronin arc in ''Saints Row 2'' has the Ronin raid the Saints hideout, with Kazuo at the helm. He survives the attack however.
** The last mission of the first STAG arc in ''Saints Row: The Third'' has STAG launch an attack on the Saints HQ. It ends with STAG [[TrashTheSet trashing the penthouse]]. The penthouse still remains usable afterwards, however.

* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's Sanctum Sanctorum is similarly imperiled on a regular basis (once while it was serving as the headquarters of the New Avengers). He always comes back to it.

** In [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E9YeWhoEnterHere "Ye Who Enter Here"]], the Bus gets boarded by HYDRA, who kidnap [[Comicbook/DaisyJohnson Skye]] and Raina.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': At the end of Season 1, the Imperium of Man invades and occupies Axum and Anaxes, both founding worlds of the Galactic Republic. Anaxes was also the site of the Republic's most important war college and their navy's reserve shipyards. The Jedi and Clone Army then spend the following two seasons trying to retake Axum.

** Kind of the point actually. Firebombing Tokyo made the Japanese realize that their "Sacred" nation was vulnerable to attack, made them divert resources to protect space the allies had no real immidiate interest in and weakened them on other fronts, making them easier to defeat in battle.