History Main / TheEternalChurchill

* The ChaosTimeline has a Sir Winston of Marlborough fighting the Socialists who's quite similar to him.

** At the end of the last DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', a Paragon Shepard [[ShutUpHannibal also gives this trope]] to [[EldritchAbomination Harbinger]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' will be this on a galactic level, but it starts on Earth. At the end of the last DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Shepard [[ShutUpHannibal also gives this trope]] to [[EldritchAbomination Harbinger.]]

* ''MassEffect3'' will be this on a galactic level, but it starts on Earth. At the end of the last DLC for ''MassEffect2'', Shepard [[ShutUpHannibal also gives this trope]] to [[EldritchAbomination Harbinger.]]

** In Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, the ending of the Protoss sub-campaign has about 5 of these. Every Protoss special unit has a commander and when he/she warps in they give a little speach about how the world is ending, [[CobraStarship and we're throwing the party.]]

* Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" universe - "When they came, you [humans] were waiting and dug in on a hundred worlds. Because you were, some of you and some of us are now alive." The alien narrator also comments on his race's perception that humanity had suffered war for its entire history, against the day when nothing less would serve for the survival of all life.

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' has several examples of this throughout the series, and it could be said that the entire premise was at least partly based on this trope.

--> '''Londo Molari''': The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for ''two years''; they never ran out of courage. But in the end, they ran out of ''time''.

** Armageddon's got it rough, but for the king of kings of this trope we turn to noble Cadia. The Cadian Gate is, literally, the front door to the Eye of Terror; a.k.a. where ''virtually all the forces of Chaos come from.'' They have held the line for over ten millenia. They have turned back mad warbands, rogue cults and entire Dark Crusades. Military service isn't required or expected, it's ''just how life goes'' there. And rather than be the most morbid bunch in the universe, they're not only the shining example of the Imperial Guard, they consider being born on any other world (and not becoming a SpaceMarine) a mark of ''shame''. For the Emperor, indeed.

* MassEffect3 will be this on a galactic level, but it starts on Earth. At the end of the last DLC for MassEffect2, Shepard also gives this trope to Harbinger.

* The entire ''{{X-Com}}'' series is pretty much about this. The original ''UFO Defence'' game even gave you a nice NightmareFuel cutscene to show the final fate of Earth, if you get a Game Over.

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** Amen.

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* {{Halo}}: The UNSC also runs off this trope, to the point where the human population at war's end was reduced from 320 billion to about ''10'' billion. That's roughly 3% of the original population ''alive''.

-->"We will not go quietly into the night...we will not vanish without a fight! We are going to live on! We are going to survive!"

** [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand!]] [[{{THISISSPARTA}} MEN! OF THE WEST!]]

* There were a few examples of this in ''DoctorWho'', which probably contributed to why the Doctor liked the human race so much.

* On the opposite end of the spectrum, Renegade Legion by FASA. TOG varies from 2 times the size of the Imperium, to 20. And their ships are larger and stronger too! Fortunately, the government is Decadent Roman, so if every Commonwealth planet gains a [[{{Fiction500}} Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark]] they can just buy their way out. Those that don't? You just blasted apart an entire TOG battle fleet, great job, there's only 80 million more where that came from.

Compare TheRemnant. See also PatrickStewartSpeech.

** If you talk to Commander Hayes, he reveals humans kept war going up to the point where Ur-Quan ships were positioned on the orbit, ready to glass the entire planet.

** ''The Story of English'' argues that Churchill's speech is a subtle example of ''AcceptableNationalityTargets''.

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The human race is under attack or otherwise being menaced by alien or supernatural forces. We're outgunned and seemingly completely screwed. But we still refuse to surrender, and so fight back. The trope doesn't necessarily have to involve violence; any sufficiently bad threat to our survival would do, but war seems to be the norm. Almost like a species-wide LastStand, and thus often requires a species-wide RousingSpeech.

** In Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, the ending of the Protoss sub-campaign has about 5 of these. Every Protoss special unit has a commander and when he/she warps in they give a little speach about how the world is ending, [[CobraStarship and we're are throwing the party.]]

-->"We will not go quietly into the night...we will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"

** [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} A day may come when the courage of Men fail, but it is not this day. Be it an hour of wolves, and shattered shields, when the age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day, we fight! By all that you hold dear, I bid you stand!]] [[{{THISISSPARTA}} MEN! OF THE WEST!]]

The human race is under attack or otherwise being menaced by alien or supernatural forces. We're outmanned, outgunned and seemingly completely screwed. But we still refuse to surrender, and so fight back. The trope doesn't necessarily have to involve violence; any sufficiently bad threat to our survival would do, but war seems to be the norm. Almost like a species-wide LastStand, and thus often requires a species-wide RousingSpeech.