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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In "Unrealized Reality", John Crichton encounters a series of possible realities while learning to navigate wormholes. In one of these realities the [[BigBad Scarrans]] invaded Earth centuries ago, turned it into a colony and used humans as breeding stock. Crichton and his father are now [[HalfHumanHybrid Human-Scarran hybrids]] living in a world where their freedoms are severely limited and off-world travel is forbidden.
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** The series involves the alien Lizards, themselves largely a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Imperial Japan (minus the more infamous elements we know and love today), attempting to do this in the middle of World War II. They only half succeed, but basically turn everything south of the Brandt Line plus Poland, Iberia, and Australia into Vichy Earth.
** Albeit only to an official extent--the actual people being governed aren't very willing about it. Even in The Race's headquarters city in Egypt, they're routinely harassed and shot at with small arms and weapons ''larger'' than small arms.
** Later, after [[spoiler:a second war between the Race and Nazi Germany]], they "liberate" France, but everyone knows it's really a weak PuppetState.
** Albeit only to an official extent--the actual people being governed aren't very willing about it. Even in The Race's headquarters city in Egypt, they're routinely harassed and shot at with small arms and weapons ''larger'' than small arms.
** Later, after [[spoiler:a second war between the Race and Nazi Germany]], they "liberate" France, but everyone knows it's really a weak PuppetState.
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** The series involves the alien Lizards, themselves largely a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Victorian Britain and Imperial Japan (minus the more infamous elements we know and love today), latter's most brutal elements), attempting to do this in the middle of World War II. They only half succeed, but basically turn everything south of After the Brandt Line plus Poland, invasion ends with the Lizards and the Big Five powers agreeing to a cease-fire, the Global South, Iberia, Poland and Australia into Vichy Earth.
become this trope.
**Albeit only to an official extent--the Within the conquered territories, actual people being governed aren't very willing about it. acceptance of Lizard rule and collaboration differs between regions. Latin America, India and non-Muslim Africa tend to be compliant with unrest tending to occur only when the aliens interfere too greatly in local life. China and the Islamic world, on the other hand, are perpetually in rebellion. Even in Cairo, where The Race's Race establishes its headquarters city in Egypt, on Earth, they're routinely harassed and shot at with small arms and weapons ''larger'' than small arms.
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** Later, after [[spoiler:a second war between the Race and Nazi Germany]],they "liberate" France, France is given its "independence", but everyone knows it's really a weak PuppetState.PuppetState answerable to the Lizards. Finland takes steps towards this trope as well (hosting an alien military base) to stave off Soviet aggression.
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** Later, after [[spoiler:a second war between the Race and Nazi Germany]],
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* This is how you lose a game of ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'' or its revival, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. As the campaign progresses and alien infiltrators put pressure on Earth's governments, or panic spreads if you're unable to thwart alien terror attacks, nations will drop out of the XCOM Project and sign secret nonaggression pacts with the alien invaders, denying you both funding and places to engage and salvage [=UFOs.=] If half of these nations give up, XCOM is disbanded, and Earth's governments try to become LesCollaborateurs in a futile bid to avoid humanity's subjugation.
* ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' is set in an AlternateTimeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing ''Enemy Unknown'' ([[NintendoHard which you probably did on your first playthrough]]), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are {{Gilded Cage}}s full of security checkpoints and HalfHumanHybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. [[PerspectiveReversal Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows,]] operating out of [[AirborneAircraftCarrier a mobile base,]] launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
* ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' is set in an AlternateTimeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing ''Enemy Unknown'' ([[NintendoHard which you probably did on your first playthrough]]), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are {{Gilded Cage}}s full of security checkpoints and HalfHumanHybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. [[PerspectiveReversal Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows,]] operating out of [[AirborneAircraftCarrier a mobile base,]] launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
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* This is how you lose a game of ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'' or its revival, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. As the campaign progresses and alien infiltrators put pressure on Earth's governments, or panic spreads if you're unable to thwart alien terror attacks, nations will drop out of the XCOM Project and sign secret nonaggression pacts with the alien invaders, denying you both funding and places to engage and salvage [=UFOs.=] If half of these nations give up, XCOM is disbanded, and Earth's governments try to become LesCollaborateurs in a futile bid to avoid humanity's subjugation.
*subjugation. Should you lose in the games in the original continuity, the aliens subvert the trope, killing off most of humanity, poisoning the air and water, and enslaving the survivors, who they move off-world. The game over cutscene of the first game in the Firaxis continuity plays this trope straight (see below).
** ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' is set in an AlternateTimeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing ''Enemy Unknown'' ([[NintendoHard which you probably did on your first playthrough]]), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are {{Gilded Cage}}s full of security checkpoints and HalfHumanHybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. [[PerspectiveReversal Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows,]] operating out of [[AirborneAircraftCarrier a mobile base,]] launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
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** ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' is set in an AlternateTimeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing ''Enemy Unknown'' ([[NintendoHard which you probably did on your first playthrough]]), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are {{Gilded Cage}}s full of security checkpoints and HalfHumanHybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. [[PerspectiveReversal Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows,]] operating out of [[AirborneAircraftCarrier a mobile base,]] launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
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* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto uses this trope a ''[[CreatorThumbprint lot]]'', especially in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' and ''Manga/CaptainHarlock''. The ''Harlock'' spinoff ''Cosmo Warrior Zero'' revolves around an Earth starship serving a Vichy Earth. Matsumoto's vision might be more directly influenced by his childhood in U.S. occupied Japan. This seems particularly evident in the rhetoric of the character of Maya in ''Waga Seishun no Arcadia''. E.g. "The sun which set yesterday will rise again this morning. And we believe that the sun will rise again tomorrow."
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* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto uses this trope a ''[[CreatorThumbprint lot]]'', especially in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' and ''Manga/CaptainHarlock''. The ''Harlock'' spinoff ''Cosmo Warrior Zero'' revolves around an Earth starship serving a Vichy Earth. Matsumoto's vision might be more directly influenced by his childhood in U.S. occupied Japan. Japan.
** This seems particularly evident in the rhetoric of the character of Maya in''Waga Seishun no Arcadia''.the ''Harlock'' movie ''Anime/ArcadiaOfMyYouth'', who was a VoiceOfTheResistance focusing on encouraging the defeated Earthlings. E.g. "The sun which set yesterday will rise again this morning. And we believe that the sun will rise again tomorrow."" On the other hand in the same movie, Earth's remaining leaders were preparing to join the invaders in exterminating one of the other {{Battle Thrall|s}} races that had outlived its usefulness; being asked to participate is one of the main reasons Harlock is driven to rebel in this story.
** The ''Harlock'' spinoff ''Cosmo Warrior Zero'' revolves around an Earth starship and captain serving a Vichy Earth. Nevertheless, Captain Zero is portrayed as a man of honor who respects and is respected by the younger Harlock, despite their differing loyalties and beliefs.
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** The ''Harlock'' spinoff ''Cosmo Warrior Zero'' revolves around an Earth starship and captain serving a Vichy Earth. Nevertheless, Captain Zero is portrayed as a man of honor who respects and is respected by the younger Harlock, despite their differing loyalties and beliefs.
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* It sorta happens in ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' -- the Bell conquers the planet, and earth goes on, mostly because its military forces were thrashed. But the hand of the conqueror is very light -- apparently content to just observe.
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* It sorta happens in ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' -- the Bell conquers the planet, and earth Earth goes on, mostly because its military forces were thrashed. But the hand of the conqueror is very light -- apparently content to just observe.
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* This was a major plot-point in the DarkerAndEdgier Giffen-Birnbaum ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes: Earth was officially allied with the [[ComicBook/InvasionDCComics Dominators]], but in reality was under the Dominators control, and the earth government was fully collaborating with the Dominators. Needless to say, this put the Legion on the outs with earth.
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* This was a major plot-point in the DarkerAndEdgier Giffen-Birnbaum ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes: ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Earth was officially allied with the [[ComicBook/InvasionDCComics Dominators]], but in reality was under the Dominators Dominators' control, and the earth government was fully collaborating with the Dominators. Needless to say, this put the Legion on the outs with earth.Earth.
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Often, in the more worse case scenario, Earth would become a totalitarian {{Dystopia}} [[RecycledINSPACE emulating]] occupied Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, where humans are being enslaved or/[[FinalSolution before being]] killed; expect LaResistance and (less often) the aliens being [[ScaryDogmaticAliens actually allegories]] [[PuttingOnTheReich for]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis]] especially if this condition is depicted. LesCollaborateurs will sometimes help them, usually in a bid to get some of their old power back. See also VillainWorld and HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies.
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Often, in the more worse case scenario, Earth would become a totalitarian {{Dystopia}} [[RecycledINSPACE [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE emulating]] occupied Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, where humans are being enslaved or/[[FinalSolution before being]] killed; expect LaResistance and (less often) the aliens being [[ScaryDogmaticAliens actually allegories]] [[PuttingOnTheReich for]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis]] especially if this condition is depicted. LesCollaborateurs will sometimes help them, usually in a bid to get some of their old power back. See also VillainWorld and HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies.
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* The science fiction short story ''Disarm,'' by Vylar Kaftan opens as Earth is losing a rather costly war with an invading race the narrator calls "Tickheads." The narrator watches the broadcast of Earth's surrender, with the tickheads giving a backhanded apology for all the human causalities ("sorry for the violence with which humanity responded to their visit") and promise that now that they're in charge they'll clean up the damage. From there life goes on as normal; the tickheads control all media and television and survivors of their attacks have been altered to telepathically broadcast "Resistance Is Futile" messages to everyone around them (and subtly pushed to join resistance groups to spread the effect). The narrator, whose boyfriend is one such survivor, slowly lapses into apathy and loses all passion the more he hears the message, and ends the story quietly accepting the new regime without question.
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* The science fiction short story ''Disarm,'' [[https://vylarkaftan.com/bibliography/2008-2/disarm/disarm-2/ "Disarm"]], by Vylar Kaftan opens as Earth is losing a rather costly war with an invading race the narrator calls "Tickheads." The narrator watches the broadcast of Earth's surrender, with the tickheads giving a backhanded apology for all the human causalities ("sorry for the violence with which humanity responded to their visit") and promise that now that they're in charge they'll clean up the damage. From there life goes on as normal; the tickheads control all media and television and survivors of their attacks have been altered to telepathically broadcast "Resistance Is Futile" messages to everyone around them (and subtly pushed to join resistance groups to spread the effect). The narrator, whose boyfriend is one such survivor, slowly lapses into apathy and loses all passion the more he hears the message, and ends the story quietly accepting the new regime without question.
