History Main / EasilyConqueredWorld

** In "A Taste of Freedom", the Decapodians conquer Earth by sending one of their own [[PaperThinDisguise with a fake mustache, posing as a human named "Hugh Mann",]] to steal the codes for Earth's defense grid. This proves unnecessary as Zapp Brannigan simply hands said spy the codes willingly, solely because he likes the name "Hugh Mann." This is apparently all it takes because all of Earth's forces are subsequently disabled. They then occupy the planet with a single palace/mech walker, until it is destroyed by a single 20th century missile [[BreakOutTheMusuemPiece fished out of a museum]].

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* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] counts as this at times. In Recap/ToWhereAndBackAgainPartOne, the Changelings conquer Equestria and capture all characters who could have stopped them offscreen in a single day. And in WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017, the Storm King takes out the princesses and conquers Equestria in all of ten minutes. His army is later easily defeated by the protagonists with a handful of allies.

* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] counts as this at times. In Recap/ToWhereAndBackAgain, the Changelings conquer Equestria and capture all characters who could have stopped them offscreen in a single day. And in WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie, the Storm King takes out the princesses and conquers Equestria in all of ten minutes. His army is later easily defeated by the protagonists with a handful of allies.

* Earth in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Zim still manages to find a way to fail to conquer it every episode.

* Asgard in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. It takes Hela, alone, a scene lasting only a few minutes to slaughter Asgard's entire army. Justified, given that Hela is a ridiculous powerhouse who breaks Mjolnir ''with one hand''.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Axe": After firing his HypercompetentSidekick, Lord Hater thinks he can conquer a planet by beating its leaders in a fight and planting his flag there[[labelnote:*]]Planets in this show [[BabyPlanet are the size of small towns]], so it at least makes sense that he would fight the hole place at once.[[/labelnote]]. A competing villain points out that if he doesn't leave an occupying force, he hasn't conquered much of anything.

This is the Easily Conquered World. A place where the good guys' military (if they even have one) never manages to hinder the bad guys, palace security is so lax that somebody could casually sneak into the queen's bedroom and trot off with her over their shoulder, and a glorified LaserBlade is considered powerful enough to ensure WorldDomination to whoever holds it.

* ''{{TabletopGame/Starfinder}}'' has [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the expansionist Vesk]] and the [[FriendToAllLivingThings friendly]], [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter cuddly]] Skittermanders. The Vesk code of conduct means they won't engage in combat with those that are unarmed, while the Skittermanders are ''so'' helpful that they genuinely assisted with the Vesk occupation of their homeworld. This has resulted in the Skittermanders taking desk jobs within the Veskarium as [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect they abhor non-combat positions]], and jokes about who actually conquered who.

* The second ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' book had the Emerald City conquered by a force of young women armed with knitting needles. (Turns out the soldier with the green whiskers who briefly appears in the first book was the entire Royal Army of Oz.) All of the surrounding kingdoms were friendly by that point and they had been relying largely on diplomacy. It's also explicitly only the Emerald City that is so vulnerable; their southern neighbor sent an all-female army (avoids the problem with men refusing to fight women) to liberate it.

* The Literature/LandOfOz has always been this, partly due to their almost complete lack of a military (which consists of one soldier with a gun, who isn't even good at shooting), and partly due to the fact that Princess Ozma is a pacifist almost to the point of SuicidalPacifism. Oz is protected mainly by the surrounding Deadly Desert. This first shows up in the second Oz book, ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'', when Oz is taken over by an army of housewives with sewing needles and the Scarecrow ousted from the throne. Some quick thinking allows Oz to fend off an invasion in ''Literature/TheEmeraldCityOfOz'' without having to fight back, but this practically came down to luck. It reaches new levels of ineptitude in ''Literature/JackPumpkinheadOfOz'', when an Ozian warlord from southern Oz named Mogodore easily conquers the Emerald City while every single person of importance in the palace is playing Blind Man's Bluff, and is blindfolded. So while the desert protects Oz from external threats, it is highly vulnerable to internal threats.

* The Literature/LandOfOz has always been this, partly due to their almost complete lack of a military (which consists of one soldier with a gun, who isn't even good at shooting), and partly due to the fact that Princess Ozma is a pacifist almost to the point of SuicidalPacifism. Oz is protected mainly by the surrounding Deadly Desert. Some quick thinking allows Oz to fend off an invasion in ''Literature/TheEmeraldCityOfOz'' without having to fight back, but this practically came down to luck. It reaches new levels of ineptitude in ''Literature/JackPumpkinheadOfOz'', when an Ozian warlord from southern Oz named Mogodore easily conquers the Emerald City while every single person of importance in the palace is playing Blind Man's Bluff, and is blindfolded. So while the desert protects Oz from external threats, it is highly vulnerable to internal threats.

* Most planets in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' are this; they almost universally (except for capital worlds and some other similar cases) have pitifully small defense forces and tend to change hands once any invaders have successfully smashed their way through those, usually with forces that were in turn not all that much bigger even ''before'' taking casualties into account. (This is to some extent an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality acceptable break from reality]] since it helps players feel that their small-scale tabletop skirmishes with frequently only a few units on each side can still be significant.)

** Piccolo Daimao attacks the [[OneWorldOrder unified world government's]] capital, defeats the forces stationed there, and the king surrenders to him personally. Piccolo's authority is apparently universally recognized, as when he [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans declares theft and murder legal]], mass chaos breaks out with no sign of anyone reigning it in until Goku kills Piccolo.

** Piccolo Daimao takes over the world in about a day. [[OutsideContextProblem The world wasn't prepared]] for someone that powerful, and admittedly his rule also lasted about a day before Goku caught up with him. His coup was also made easier by the world having a single centralized government that was focused on promoting peace.

Warhammer 40,000 is a more reasonable example than most, in that the invaders either have overwhelming numbers (mentioned Tyranid invasion), and we do mean overwhelming, as in our troops outnumber your population, or, especially with the human factions, the Imperium is reconquering human worlds (Macharian Crusades, 100 space marines). When you are trying to bring a world back into the empire, it is much easier than trying to annihilate everything living there. All that is required is the destruction of leadership and a few military victories, and the human population will likely capitulate.

* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', King Vespa turns over the codes of Druidia's air lock rather than allow his daughter's nose job to be reversed.

** "The God Complex" has someone from the planet Tivoli, which he, with a touch of pride, describes as the most conquered planet in the galaxy. Their global anthem is "Glory to Insert Name Here". He works as a city planner and is currently planting trees along a main street so that the invaders can march along it in the shade.

** Earth again when The Silence invaded. Their abilities to make everyone forget them as soon as they're not looking directly at them and plant suggestions meant that not only did they not need to even bring weapons, but no one realized it had happened.

** During the Dominion War, Betazed, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration home of Counselor Troi]] was conquered by the Dominion in less than ten hours thanks to outdated defense systems and the fleet assigned to protect it off on training excercise.

Enabling this is the fragile set-up of the SkeletonGovernment, where MilitariesAreUseless and TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. Often related to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: the most we know about the Kingdom's struggles against the invaders, the less likely they are to just consist of a series of quick defeats, because it would negate all the tension of narrating it. On the other hand, when the battles are just evoked, stating that the villains won them all makes a bigger threat of them and thus creates more tension when fighting them again.

* Phase Four, point 11, of HowToInvadeAnAlienPlanet gives you the reasons this shouldn't work.