History Main / EasilyConqueredWorld

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', while the Mushroom Kingdom has an administrative council to deal with the people's needs and affairs, the Toad guards are armed and helmeted purely out of decorum, with [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse Princess Peach Toadstool]] the only person capable of posing any meaningful resistance. Even then, fighting [[EvilOverlord Bowser]] and his minions entirely by herself is a fool's errand, so she seeks to petition the Kongs for aid in the upcoming battle before Mario gets entangled. [[spoiler:After that effort is thwarted postmortem, Peach orders the residents to evacuate immediately instead of attempting to rally any kind of meaningful defense, and her companion Toad instead assists her with sabotage when they are inevitably captured by Bowser.]]

[[caption-width-right:256:I leave for ''FIVE MINUTES...'' No wonder Bowser always kidnaps the Princess!]]

* ''Film/{{Superman II}}'':

* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': The Necromongers take Helion Prime in a single night.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

** This is also true of most RPG settings in the series. [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Rogueport]] and the surrounding areas do nothing to hold back either the Koopa Troop or the X-Naut forces, Beanbean Kingdom's government literally falls to Cackletta's forces about two minutes after she arrives back in the kingdom and then mostly collapses when Bowser's Castle is brought in, the Shroobs manage to conquer the entire world in minutes in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', and Fawful completely manages to disable/take over both the Mushroom Kingdom government and Bowser's Castle/forces with practically no help whatsoever in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory''. Same with the Mushroom Kingdom in ''Videogame/SuperMarioRPG'', as shown in the page image (conquered in minutes/hours at most by the Smithy Gang and their army).

** "The God Complex" has someone from the planet Tivoli, which he describes, with a touch of pride, 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.

** Averted in ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', where a single regiment of soldiers manages to hold off the alien invasion for quite a long time, and even manage a counter-invasion into Xen (it fails). Eventually they get sick of fighting and just drop a nuke on the enemy army after they realized just how outnumbered they were (and order to cover up the fiasco). The nuke plan is successful due to the G-Man's intervention, but the reality breach is unable to be closed and causes a portal storm that wreaks havoc for a few weeks across the world, making the Combine invasion easier.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}},'' oh dear God, '''''Pokémon'''''. Nobody uses weaponry aside from Pokémon, [[SkeletonGovernment there seems to be no centralized government]], no region has been depicted with more than a half-dozen police officers (several have been shown with none at all), and almost [[BystanderSyndrome no one who will do anything]] takes notice of the gangs of uniformed thugs roaming everywhere. Mind you, this was improved a bit with the introduction of VideoGame/{{Pokemon Ranger}}s (a combination of Pokémon Trainers, Police Force, Sentai, Park Rangers, and Superheroes) to the series, but not by much.
** There's implied to be an International Police Force in Platinum. However, you only meet one of their agents, Looker as he calls himself, in the entire game. He's not exactly competent. Either this explains perfectly why the world is like this, or Looker is lying through his teeth, and he's some crazy man who is actually trying to do something about his easily conquered world.
** Speaking of ''Platinum'', it's explained that no one took Team Galactic seriously because everyone just thought they were a bunch of [[FashionVictimVillain weirdly dressed]] idiots with bad haircuts that never committed anything but petty crimes [[NotSoHarmlessVillain up until]] [[spoiler:they set off a freaking ''bomb'' inside the Great Marsh]].
** With Team Galactic, you can expect them to be taken like jokes with their ridiculous getup. In Orre, we run into Officer Johnson and Deputy Sherles of Pyrite... and even with the two of them in the same town, Miror B. is moonwalking around like he owns the place. Whether the other officers were eighty-sixed or bought off or whatever doesn't change the fact that Cipher is running the damn region, and even five years later the mention of their name anywhere in Orre brings back memories people have been trying to rid themselves of.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', [[spoiler:Ghetsis]] is fully aware of this and ''counting on it''.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is probably like this in game world structure. Definitely the part about the army and palace security being useless.
** The intro of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' kinda explains why this (and relying on the OneManArmy hero) is a bad idea. No version of Link came, and it ended with the gods flooding Hyrule.
** Note that they have tried to execute Ganon before. Sadly, it was doomed from the start, as in addition to being an incredibly powerful warrior/sorcerer, he holds a piece of a CosmicKeystone that makes him an immortal PhysicalGod.

* The ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'' series tries its best to consciously avert this, what with all the penalties countries get for unbridled warmongering and conquest. However, some players have managed to not merely conquer the world, but do so [[CherryTapping with severely handicapped countries such as Xhosa, Trebizond, and Iroquois]].
** Even if you manage to pull it off, it still takes several in-game centuries (at best!) and many ''many'' real-life hours to achieve total world domination.

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* In ''Animation/SweetSea'', once Squidney steals the Royal Necklace for Sheeba, King and Queen Neptune give up on the kingdom being restored and sadly lament Sweet Sea's lost future as princess, while the inhabitants pack up and leave for friendlier waters.
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** 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 [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil declares theft and murder legal]], mass chaos breaks out with no sign of anyone reigning it in until Goku kills Piccolo.

** Happened immediately after the events of the ''ComicBook/TrinityWar'' in DC's ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' reboot, despite BewareTheSuperman being in full effect. The [[VillainWorld Villain]] WorldHalfEmpty that followed encompasses seven months of what is known as ComicBook/ForeverEvil.

** 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 their troops outnumber the planet they're attacking's 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.

** Averted in ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', where a single regiment of soldiers manages to hold off the alien invasion for quite a long time, and even manage a counter-invasion into Xen (it fails). Eventually they get sick of fighting and just drop a nuke on the enemy army after they realized just how outnumbered they were.

** ''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 Freeza killed most of them, they were ''very'' successful.

** As per the norm, this happens the minute Antasma is revived and Bowser arrives on Pi'illo Island in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', with the Koopa Troop forces quite quickly taking over from the native wildife by about the halfway point and all hell breaking loose when Neo Bowser Castle blows up a bunch of surrounding islands. Everyone who's not running away is apparently completely oblivious to the increasing numbers of monsters and evil taking over.

* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] counts as this at times. In Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1, 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'': You can conquer worlds and entire star systems very easily, destroying cities or de-terramorphing (or terraforming) planets. You can eradicate entire empires in a very short time.

* ''VideoGame/Spore'': You can conquer worlds and entire star systems very easily, destroying cities or de-terramorphing (or terraforming) planets. You can eradicate entire empires.

* Spore: You can conquer worlds and entire star systems very easily, destroying cities or de-terramorphing (or terraforming) planets. You can eradicate entire empires.

** 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 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.

** Planet Namek is taken without much effort by Frieza's forces. While its elite fighters far outpace the Earth's strongest warriors at the start of the series (and, indeed, manage to hold off Frieza's basic mooks), all it takes is Dodoria to take them all down easily. The only Namekian who could really put up a fight against Frieza's forces is Nail, who is forced to spend his time guarding the Grand Elder (far away from the rest of the action), and who has the misfortune of facing Frieza himself ([[CurbStompBattle who swiftly takes Nail down]]).

* The country of San Theodoros in the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comics.

** The androids in Trunks' timeline effortless took over and turned the Earth into a DeathWorld after they killed most of the Earth's powerful defenders.
** After Babidi released Majin Buu, he effortless wipes cities, and that is ''before'' he transforms into the more powerful and ruthless Super Buu, who eradicated all of humanity with one attack.

** Lrr's son once conquered the Earth by simply knocking on the White House door and asking for surrender.