History Main / EasilyConqueredWorld

** Speaking of which, despite being talked up as a big threat, the Goblin kingdom of the Misty Mountains is ultimately obliterated in the aftermath of the Battle of the Five Armies, which costed them three-quarters of their military strength. What did it take to accomplish this? Fewer than 2,000 Dark Ages tier troops,[[note]]1,000 Wood Elvish spearmen supported by "several hundred" archers, 500 Dwarves, 200-300 Men in Laketown's militia, and a handful of Great Eagles.[[/note]] plus a big bear.

* In the''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS4E07AFewBadgeysMore A Few Badgeys More]]", [[AIIsACrapshoot AGIMUS]] easily takes over a planet offscreen. Boimler utters under his breath that Starfleet can easily reverse it just as fast.

** Played depressingly straight in the ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' crossover for Marvel. [[Franchise/SpiderMan Norman Osborn]] was having a sickeningly easy time getting the entire US government to hand him control over the military and a private army of handpicked supervillains.

* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'': Dreamside is noted to have conquest "built in" -- all any conqueror has to do to take over is find the (poorly hidden, barely guarded) Disaster Stones in order to [[SealedEvilInACan unleash]] the Nightmare Knight and his minions on the world once more so he can do the subjugating for you. This happens in the first chapter. Naturally, none of Dreamside's kingdoms can put up a fight, and it'll take TheChosenOne to save the world just like 5,000 years ago. [[spoiler:Implied to be an InvokedTrope to ''protect'' the world. Dreamside being so easy to conquer means would-be conquerors don't put any effort into it, making them just as easy to eject once the Nightmare Knight is inevitably defeated -- if the Nightmare Knight doesn't [[EvilerThanThou destroy them himself]]. Unbeknownst to anyone, this has happened ''99'' times so far, and the Nightmare Knight is a ReluctantMonster who's well aware of his role in things.]]

** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' reveals that Goku was sent to Earth as a toddler with the full expectation that he would conquer and depopulate that entire planet by himself (too bad about [[AmnesiacDissonance that bump on the head]]). This is what the Saiyans apparently do for ''all'' their children (or according to Vegeta, only the ''weaker'' ones), and given how many there were before Frieza killed most of them, they were ''very'' successful.

* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Halloween shorts, there's a ''[[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw magical monkey's paw]]'' that grants wishes albeit at [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor great cost]]. Lisa wishes for world peace. Humanity stops fighting as a result, completely disarms, and gets conquered by a pair of aliens with slingshots. They are in turn driven off when Ned wishes that the aliens go away, and Moe attacks them with a board with a nail in it.

** The entire Western Continent is apparently a deconstruction.

** The deconstruction is taken UpToEleven with the revelation that [[spoiler:Tarquin and his five friends secretly rule the three largest kingdoms on the continent, and swap figureheads with fake "conquests" every few years so nobody gets wise.]] In other words, it's an EnforcedTrope.