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8	->'''Cueball:''' Well, you know what they say, the past is a foreign country--\
9	'''Black Hat Guy:''' --with an outdated military and huge oil reserves... hmmm...
10	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''
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12	TakeOverTheWorld meets TimeTravel.
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14	This is a character in ScienceFiction who comes from a distant future where the technology has advanced to the point where time travel is possible. Having found conquering his own time either too difficult or too easy, he travels back in time to the present, where he sets about using his advanced technology to conquer our world and become an EvilOverlord.
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16	Rarely does it occur to them that, depending on [[TemporalMutability exactly how the time travel functions]], if they were meant to succeed, history would already have recorded it, or that they might end up [[GrandfatherParadox screwing themselves up by tampering with time]]; unless, of course, they live in a multiverse. TimePolice exist to [[TerminatorTwosome stop these guys]].
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18	Sometimes this is combined with ThoseWackyNazis. For that, see StupidJetpackHitler. See also MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight, the supertrope of time travel used for evil. See TerminatorTwosome for when a hero comes back to stop them.
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21	!!Examples:
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26	* Cell from ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' is a variant of this. He comes from an alternate future where he killed that timeline's version of Trunks and stole his time machine to travel back to a point where Androids 17 and 18 were still active, so he could absorb them and achieve his perfect form. He then uses his power to terrorize the world.
27	* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Chao Lingshen is a subversion: the major antagonist for a huge portion of the story, bringing advanced technology from the future to meet her goal, she seems like this, but with two key differences: a) she doesn't want to conquer the world, just break the ExtraStrengthMasquerade earlier than "scheduled" and thus prevent a tragedy, and b) she's arguably not even a WellIntentionedExtremist, because she specifically ''avoids'' going to moral extremes to avoid becoming one: She doesn't lie, and [[TechnicalPacifist doesn't kill]]: her army of robot minions are equipped with [[TheNudifier disarmament beams]]. Interestingly, her profile lists ''world domination'' as one of her likes.
28	* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the Black Moon Clan traveled from a 1000 years in the future to conquer the present. And try to capture the present version of the Silver Crystal, as no one knows where the future version is.
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32	* As with its parent series, ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' features quite a few of these. One of the more subtle examples of this trope appears in "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]," in which the new-age cult known as the [[PathOfInspiration Somnus Foundation]] is secretly being run by individuals from the far future; having found a way to transmit their minds backwards through time, the Sleepers have [[GrandTheftMe taken over the bodies]] of people in the 21st century and are using the cult in order to track down more compatible bodies for their brethren to take over - with the eventual intention of kickstarting a psychic singularity and transforming the human race into a PhysicalGod powerful enough to change history. For added unpleasantness, the body-snatching process leaves the minds of the unfortunate victims trapped in the Sleepers' own time, condemned to live out the rest of their lives in the Sleepers' [[BodyHorror original bodies]]. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the Sleepers are actually the last remaining members of the human race, having transported themselves into the past in a desperate attempt to escape the Heat Death of the Universe.]]
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36	* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
37	** Max Bubba in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', who travels back to the end of the eighth century and sets about wrecking the timeline in order to get revenge on [[FantasticRacism the future]]. It's unclear just how aware he is that he's wrecking the timeline.
38	** In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''/''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' crossover "Judgment Day", an OmnicidalManiac sorcerer with a thing for zombies who was being hunted by Alpha travels back to Dredd's time to destroy the Earth with his undead hordes and erase Alpha's timeline.
39	* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'' featured the Time Being, a living temporal anomaly caused by a time travel paradox, as the villain of storyline also starring the ComicBook/SavageDragon. He exists in every possible moment, but he operates mostly at the end of time, where he plans to destroy the universe and recreate it as its new god.
40	* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season 12'': Harth Fray from the ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'' miniseries serves as this. Initially, he travels back in time to the present day to kill Buffy and the Scoobies, gather power, and then return to his time to conquer it, but during the final showdown, he decides to remain in the present and conquer it, reshaping the future the way he wants it. However, [[spoiler:he ends up suffering an AssimilationBackfire from the power he stole, giving Buffy the opportunity to dust him]].
41	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
42	** The most notable examples are Epoch, the self-proclaimed Lord of Time, who comes from the year 3786 to regularly have his butt handed to him by the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, Chronos the Time Thief, a present-day crook who acquires time travel technology for the same purpose, and the Time Trapper, who is from so far in the future that he is one of these to the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, who live in the 30th century.
43	** In the ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' story arc, Vandal Savage, an {{immortal\|ity}}, evil JuliusBeethovenDaVinci who has been alive since 50,000 B.C., manages to do this, when it is revealed that he is still alive in the 853rd century and has hatched a plot to send a deadly cybernetic virus backward in time to change the future. Interestingly, this ends up as something of a {{deconstruct\|edTrope}}ion, since the heroes realize that, since the villain's scheme originates in the future, [[spoiler:they have all the centuries in between to sabotage his plan]].
44	** ComicBook/TheFlash fights a number of villains who incorporate this trope to greater or lesser degrees:
45	*** Abra Kadabra (who goes by this alias because his real name is utterly unpronounceable) is a ForTheEvulz terrorist from the 64th century who uses futuristic technology to pass himself off as an EvilSorcerer. When not pestering the Flash, he can often be found masquerading as a stage magician.
46	*** Professor Zoom, meanwhile, is a criminal from the 25th century who recreated the accident that gave Flash his powers to become the Barry Allen Flash's EvilTwin and ArchEnemy.
47	*** While not originally one of these, the supervillain Cobalt Blue (who is related to Professor Zoom above) ultimately became one as part of a convoluted plot in which his MacGuffin gem was passed down to his descendants for a millennium, which ultimately culminated in the original Cobalt Blue reincarnating in the year 2957 and now possessed of the ability to travel through time.
48	*** One of the earliest Flash villains is the obscure Dmane, a criminal from the 70th century who was accidentally sent back to the year 1946 by a time travel experiment gone wrong.
49	** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' has Xotar the Weapons Master, a criminal from the 120th century. His first attempt (the JLA's second ever appearance, in ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' #29) actually addressed the history problem: Xotar had found a fragmentary old historical document mentioning that he had traveled to 1960 to defeat the Justice League. The story ends with the document being written, revealing that with all the missing portions in place it is an account of his ''unsuccessful attempt'' to defeat the Justice League.
50	** The ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' rogues gallery includes a couple of these.
51	*** ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' BigBad (later DemotedToDragon) Extant was one of the most dangerous enemies the Society ever fought. Originally the hero Hawk, he was forced by ExecutiveMeddling to become Monarch, the villain of the ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'' story (who was originally intended to be ComicBook/CaptainAtom). Following this forced FaceHeelTurn, Hawk mutated further into Extant, a deranged incarnation of chaos.
52	*** Originally a lab assistant from the year 1947, Per Degaton morphed into one of these over time, particularly after an encounter with a TimeyWimeyBall split him into two incarnations: the original Degaton and a "chronal duplicate" who ran around committing mayhem while the original Degaton seethed as a SealedEvilInACan. In one story he mentions that it would be foolhardy to try conquering the world after WWII because of how complex and advanced it became, hence why he tried manipulating WWII in his, from his perspective, second attempt.
53	** ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'' has the Sheeda, a race from ''very'' far in Earth's future, thrives by plundering earlier civilizations. They succeeded in destroying one now-forgotten [[{{Expy}} predecessor of Camelot]] but failed to destroy the present thanks to the Seven Soldiers.
54	** Two separate future versions of the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Brainiac have pulled this, the more successful being the 64th century native Brainiac 13, who nearly conquered the entire 21st century universe in ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar''.
55	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The comic [[http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+99119 "The World Begins and Ends in Duckburg"]] features a villain from the future who comes and turns off all electricity. (AnAesop follows about not relying on modern technology.)
56	* The robot [=Futur10n=] from ''ComicBook/TheIncredibles2009''. His arsenal includes [[DevolutionDevice Devolution Bombs]].
57	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
58	** The most notable examples are ComicBook/KangTheConqueror, Rama-Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, and Immortus. The catch is that these are all actually the same guy: he's traveled through time so often, and created so many [[AlternateTimeline Alternate Timelines]], that there is now an entire LegionOfDoom called the Council of Kangs made up entirely of his own iterations. Immortus, it seems, is the original Kang and the oldest, who is now a BoxedCrook: forced to spend eternity undoing the ContinuitySnarl that is the Marvel universe thanks largely to him.
59	*** The miniseries ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' is little more than an attempt to tie together all those threads. One issue was spent entirely summing up Kang's convoluted history.
60	*** The Scarlet Centurion also appears in Marvel's alternate-universe ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' limited series, albeit without the ContinuitySnarl baggage.
61	** Doctor Doom from ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' occasionally plays this role, thanks to his invention of the Time Platform. [[VillainousLineage He happens to be a proud descendant of the aforementioned Rama-Tut]]... and possibly also an ancestor of Kang. It's weird.
62	** The ComicBook/{{Maestro}} (who is actually an evil future incarnation of ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk himself) has become this when various incarnations of him have found their way from the "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulkFutureImperfect Future Imperfect]]" he rules over and into the present day.
63	** ComicBook/TheMightyThor occasionally contends with Zarrko the Tomorrow Man, a villain who came from a perfect pacifist utopia but got so bored of it he decided to snatch a nuke from the past and take over. He and Kang mentioned above know each other and don't get along; they've had time wars occasionally.
64	** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the Yorkes are a subversion; they came from the distant future to plunder the past, but during an unexpected detour in 1983, they made contact with the Gibborim, who conscripted them into a plan to remake the world, which kinda rendered any plans they might have had to conquer the world irrelevant, as the world would have ceased to exist in 2003.
65	** ''ComicBook/XMen'':
66	*** ComicBook/{{Cable}}'s crazy son Tyler Dayspring became one of these when his madness worsened to AxCrazy levels and he reinvented himself as Genesis, the self-styled successor of Apocalypse.
67	*** Preceding Genesis above (oddly enough given the former's name) was Stryfe, the ArchEnemy of Cable who drove his son crazy in the first place before travelling to the present day to work out his raging Oedipal complexes through pointless terrorism and biological warfare.
68	*** Trevor Fitzroy's character path eventually took him down this road as the Chronomancer, though in his case it was a rather convoluted path -- originally a dilettante turned heroic mutant revolutionary turned mutant criminal (thanks to Layla Miller resurrecting him without a soul) from the late 21st century, he travelled back in time 80 years to escape prison time and his ArchEnemy Bishop. After pinballing around the present day for a while, he eventually realized he'd been thinking too small and travelled thousands of years into the future, reinventing himself as the Chronomancer: Conqueror from the Past from the Future!
69	* ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' has Armaggon the Future Shark who regularly uses time travel in every story he appears in. Interestingly, while Armaggon has since become a CanonImmigrant, all his subsequent incarnations have done away with the time traveling conqueror aspect of him, reimagining him in more mundane occupations instead.
70	* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': Professor Benjamin Quatermass originates from a timeline 100 years in the future when humanity has abandoned the Earth's surface for floating cities. In a variation, he invades the past to make sure that his ancestor will ''invent'' time travel technology, allowing for the incredibly complicated series of events to ensure that he'll control all timelines.
71	* The Future, one of the five heads of the Fraternity in ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', is a Conqueror from the Future clearly based on [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Kang and his crew]], above -- only [[StupidJetpackHitler crossed with Nazis]].
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75	* Many ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fics, such as the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', like to portray Dark Danny as this in stories where he escapes from his SealedEvilInACan status.
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79	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}'', the Metal Men are invading Gandahar from a thousand years in the future. They petrify the locals and transport them to the future so that [[spoiler:their creator, the Metamorphis, can sustain its ailing body by draining the Gandaharians of their cells]].
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83	* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' had the infamous GainaxEnding where Leo gets back to his own time and finds Earth now run by apes. DVD special features say that General Thade found the other space pod and went back to conquer Earth at a earlier point.
84	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
85	** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', [[TheVirus the Borg]], realizing that they're having a lot of trouble assimilating TheFederation, travel back in time to prevent the Federation from being formed (and assimilate the Earth in its more vulnerable past). It initially succeeds, as a new timeline is created where the Earth is populated by Borg drones, but the Enterprise was protected from the changes due to being in the wake of the Borg ship's "temporal vortex". The Enterprise follows them into the past and sets history right.
86	** ''Film/{{Star Trek\|2009}}'': After being sucked back in time, Nero decides to get "revenge" on Starfleet for not averting a [[NegativeSpaceWedgie oddly powerful supernova]] in time to save his home planet. Of course, Starfleet has no idea what he's talking about.
87	* In ''Film/StargateContinuum'', Ba'al uses a time travel device to reverse the fallen fortunes of the [[TheEmpire Goa'uld empire]] and take the galactic throne for himself. He prevents the SGC from ever coming into existence so Earth will be defenseless when the Goa'uld fleet finally comes and then eliminates all the rival factions one by one before invading Earth.
88	* In ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', the villains first travel back to the present and trick the heroes into helping them erase Godzilla from existence, then summon King Ghidorah and have him ravage Japan, thus allowing them to take over. Fortunately, they didn't succeed in erasing Godzilla permanently.
89	* Inverted in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. [[spoiler:When the heroes travel back in time to retrieve the Infinity Stones, the Thanos of 2014 discovers what they're doing and why: his plan succeeded, but his future self is dead and his work is at risk of being undone. He travels to the present day to stop them, and brings his entire army -- the Black Order, the Chitauri, the Outriders -- with him.]]
90	* In ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'', Kang The Conqueror makes his live-action debut, he is a 31st century time-traveller who has already conquered and wiped out multiple universes, he ended up being imprisioned in the Quantum Realm as it is stated to be the only prison that could hold him, and he ended up conquering it too. [[spoiler: [[TheStinger The Stinger]] also reveals the presence of Rama-Tut, the Scarlet Centurion, and Immortus as the leaders of the Council of Kangs.]]
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94	* In ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'', the minor villain Polgar, mentioned in passing, is a direct ShoutOut to Kang the Conqueror, right down to the hero Blackwolf's erroneous belief that he is actually a future version of VillainProtagonist Dr. Impossible (a reference to the previously held belief that Kang was a future version of Doctor Doom).
95	* Inverted in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Literature/ByHisBootstraps". The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the world's "diktor" (dictator). Apparently the people from the future have become too soft after encountering {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
96	* An inversion also occurs in Creator/PoulAnderson's short story ''Flight to Forever'' where it's mentioned that the tyrannical Earth Directorate of the 23rd century attempted to take over Earth in the 24th century after being overthrown by a rebellion of Martian colonists in their own time. They were defeated at great cost, which made time travelers permanently unpopular.
97	* Happens after a fashion in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'': the time-traveling Afrikaners initially just try to change history, but turn their advanced weapons against the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate States]] when the latter, lead by President Robert E. Lee, starts moving to treat blacks fairly rather than keeping them as slaves and treating them as sub-humans, the way the AWB wants them.
98	* Creator/SMStirling has a deep affection for this trope and uses it often in his works:
99	** In ''Drakon'', the last novel of ''Literature/TheDraka'', an evil Draka scientist from the 25th century of their timeline is tossed through a wormhole to the 1990s of our timeline and tries to take it over.
100	** In ''Literature/IslandInTheSeaOfTime'' and its sequels, the entire island of Nantucket is tossed back in time to the Bronze Age. Most of the residents try to keep themselves to themselves, but the villainous [[MeaningfulName William Walker]] gathers a group of followers and commences to conquer Europe.
101	** In ''Literature/{{Conquistador}}'', a WWII vet and his buddies find a portal to an alternate universe version of California that Europeans never discovered. They use their access to modern weaponry and resources to create their own pirate kingdom and make themselves rich.
102	* "Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner is set in an alternate eighteenth century which is being exploited for resources by corporate overlords from the future.
103	* Creator/HenryKuttner's "Endowment Policy" has a variant: a person tries to [[spoiler:set his own past self as the world dictator.]]
104	* ''Flight from Tomorrow'', by Creator/HBeamPiper. A future dictator escapes a revolution with a time machine, and is determined to carry out this trope, then return with an army to seek revenge! However he turns out to be a WalkingWasteland because future mankind has become acclimatized to high levels of radiation after a series of atomic wars; twentieth century humans track down this radioactive TyphoidMary and carpetbomb the valley he's in, then fill it with concrete from one mountainside to the next.
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108	* ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'': When Sazer-X travels back in time to stop [[SpacePirates Descal]] from conquering Earth and establishing what would go on to be a [[GalacticConqueror universe-threatening]] evil empire, their [[TheEmpire Neo Descal]] descendants travel to the past as well to conquer Earth for their ancestors and ensure the timeline stays the same.
109	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is full of these:
110	** The two most prominent examples are the Master, who is the EvilCounterpart to the Doctor's time traveling alien, and the Daleks, who are {{Cyborg}} aliens. Both want to conquer the universe... in all time periods, past, present, and future.
111	** Arguably the most prominent new series example appears in the form of the Toclafane [[spoiler: who are later revealed to be the mangled remains of humanity from the far future, having traveled into the past with the help of the Master in order to escape the end of the universe. The Master has to build a Paradox Machine to stop them from cancelling themselves out - when the machine is destroyed, they're banished back to the end of time.]]
112	* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', the crew of the eponymous ship, who operate in the 22nd century, become embroiled in a "Temporal Cold War" between an entire race of Conquerors From The Future called the Sphere-Builders (who come from the 26th century) and a variety of forces opposed to their plans to change history (mostly from the 29th century).
113	* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E26S6E1TimesArrow Time's Arrow]]", Creator/MarkTwain believes Data is this trope.
114	* The villain Tempus from a multi-part episode of ''Series/LoisAndClark''.
115	* Kang The Conqueror and his nearly-infinite variants are the [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villains]] of ''Series/Loki2021'', the [[TimePolice Time Variance Authority]] was specifically created to prevent Kang from arising again, [[spoiler: which, at the end, he of course did]].
116	* The villains from year 2500 in ''Series/TheGirlFromTomorrow'' ponder this, but their leader Silverthorn retorts that conquering each 20th-century nation individually would take way too much time, compared to taking over their OneWorldOrder led by a MegaCorp.
117	* Jeffrey Sinclair in ''Series/BabylonFive'' is a heroic inversion, having come from the future to be a defender against conquerors.
118	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': as revealed in the BadFuture shown in "Letters of Transit," this is the mission of [[spoiler:the Observers]].
119	* Ransik, the BigBad from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' traveled back from the 30th century to 2001 for this purpose. In fact, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment his first dialogue]] in the series is "If I cannot rule the present, than I shall rule the past!".
120	* ''Series/TimeTrax''. A MadScientist invents a time machine and criminals are paying him to help them escape justice by fleeing into the past. During his MotiveRant in the pilot episode he says that they will help him TakeOverTheWorld, and one villain is shown to have a high rank in the CIA because he's used his knowledge of the future to deliver accurate intelligence assessments.
121	* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has the Expanoids, who travel back to a point in Earth's history where not much technology had been invented and banned people from using it in a bid to enslave humanity.
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125	* This is the goal of the Architects of the Flesh from the 2056 juncture in ''TabletopGame/FengShui''. Because of the way that the setting works, the Buro are not doing this just to satisfy a megalomaniacal urge, but because changes in previous junctures on the part of their enemies can lead to their downfall in a critical shift, just like what happened to the Four Monarchs.
126	* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'', being based on the classic superhero comics model, sometimes features this villain type, although sometimes in variant forms which reduce the temporal paradox problem:
127	** Timemaster is from the mid-21st century, where he wants to instigate a revolution for what he thinks are valid reasons. So he has traveled back to a period full of superheroes, who he studies and analyses while operating in the guise of a supervillain. His plan is eventually to take a group of heroes to his own time, where he is sure they will go along with his plans.
128	** ''Champions Universe'' (for 4th edition) briefly mentioned a research expedition from the very far future, based in Africa in our time, one of whose members, Belragor, had villainous plans. This was eventually picked up years later in ''The Sands of Time'', which includes game details for Belragor and his minions and pawns. His plan is to manipulate his world's past to give him power in his home time, but there is likely to be a bit of conquest along the way.
129	** Empress Istvatha V’han is from another dimension but has time travel abilities which she uses to their fullest in her campaigns of conquest.
130	** The 6th edition version of ''Golden Age Champions'' has Korrex the Conqueror, who plays this trope straight. (Well, straighter -- when he conquers a given era, a new timeline splits off from the original no-Korrex timeline.)
131	* According to the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Lords of Madness'', the [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Illithids]] (or [[BrainFood Mind Flayers]]) hail from the terrifyingly distant future, when the last suns were burning out and their empire was falling to a slave uprising. They escaped this by creating a psionic maelstrom that hurled the surviving Mind Flayers eons into the past, just a few centuries before the current ''D&D'' setting. The plan was to get a head start on conquering the universe and study the "lesser" civilizations to avoid falling prey to the problems that ended their first empire, though this was derailed somewhat when their new Gith slaves revolted and destroyed much of the Mind Flayers' advanced technology and magic. The Mind Flayers are still supremely confident that they'll win in the end - after all, they did it before, and it helps that they're implied to be distantly descended from humanity.
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135	* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'':
136	** Played straight with the player's party when they travel back to the Middle Ages, or even Prehistory, to try to avert a BadFuture in which an interplanetary parasite destroys the world. So you have a gun-slinging GadgeteerGenius and her RobotBuddy from even further in the future turning the tide of a Medieval conflict, and teenagers wielding magic during time periods when only nonhumans were thought to be capable of it.
137	** Inverted in the case of [[spoiler:Magus, who turns out to be from the ancient, [[{{Magitek}} magically- and technologically-advanced]] Kingdom of Zeal. An encounter with [[EldritchAbomination Lavos]] during the destruction of Zeal sent him thousands of years into his future, into the Middle Ages, where he used his sorcerous might to become leader of the Fiends while they waged war on humanity. That said, Magus is less interested in conquest and more focused on summoning Lavos so he can have his revenge.]]
138	** The DS UpdatedRerelease adds [[spoiler:Dalton, a fellow Zeal refugee, who after being beaten by the player party wound up in the game's present time via the Dimensional Vortex. After being defeated again he swears to raise an army and have his revenge on the heroes.]] It sounds like an empty threat, but those who played ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' now have their answer for how Porre turned from a mellow little village into a technologically-advanced empire that conquered Guardia, the home kingdom of ''Chrono Trigger'''s three main heroes.
139	* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' adds another example as well as a subversion in the game's backstory. [[spoiler: A time experiment in the year 2300 sent the research facility of Chronopolis tens of thousands of years into the past, while also summoning an equally-advanced civilization of evolved [[LizardFolk Reptites]] from an alternate timeline where Lavos never wiped them out. These Dragonians wanted to eradicate humanity and conquer the world for their own nature-friendly civilization, but Chronopolis was able to defeat and subdue them, then laid low for millennia, carefully manipulating events to prevent any {{Temporal Paradox}}es that might threaten its future existence.]]
140	* This is the plan of Spectre in the first ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'', travel back to various points in history (from the dinosaurs onwards) to try and make monkeys (or chimps, or whatever primate they were supposed to be) the dominant species, not humans.
141	* {{Inverted}} in ''Videogame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime''. Princess Shroob had already successfully conquered the Mushroom Kingdom in the past, and disguises as Princess Peach to have the titular brothers take her to the future so she can conquer it. Unfortunately for her, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Bowser]] [[SpannerInTheWorks tries to kidnap her and accidentally takes her back to the past]].
142	* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug XX'' has this as its main plot, with a time portal depositing high-tech soldiers and weaponry to aid Morden.
143	* Quint, an evil version of ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' from the time just before VideoGame/MegaManX's awakening, or possibly an alternate timeline, travels back in time to menace his past self in the second and fifth Platform/GameBoy games and the Platform/WonderSwan game ''[[VideoGame/RockmanAndForteMiraiKaraNoChosensha Mega Man & Bass: Challenger from The Future]]''.
144	* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'': [[spoiler: Inverted by Porky who traveled from the past and conquered a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] future with a primitive rustic society, though it's not made entirely clear what time period the game takes place in...]]
145	* ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'': [[spoiler:Inverted by Crow Harbor, an [[AbusivePrecursors ancient Ryuvian warlord]] from two thousand years in the past. Having accidentally transported himself into the present in a failed attempt to alter the outcome of a battle in his favor, and having broken his time machine in the process, he decides to conquer the galaxy and rebuild the Holy Ryuvian Empire]].
146	* ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'' features a rare inversion as the villains from the distant past use time travel to take over the future: specifically [[DemonKingNobunaga Nobunaga Oda]] uses a magic portal to send demon hordes from Japan to invade modern day France.
147	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Thanks to Kairoz's help, Garrosh Hellscream travelled 30 years into the past (albeit in an alternate timeline) and prevented the orcs' demonic corruption, ''then'' created the Iron Horde out of those uncorrupted orcs, conquered all of Draenor and attempted the same with Azeroth.
148	* The villains of ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' have no trouble setting up in their respective eras.
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152	* The time colonists from ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', who are sort of a LawyerFriendlyCameo of the ''Enterprise'' crew from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
153	* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[https://xkcd.com/1191/ looked at it]] from the other direction.
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157	* In ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/tzedek-tzedek-tirdoof.50490/ Tzedek Tzedek Tirdoof]]'', Israel and the Palestinian territories are {{ISOT}}ed to 3761 BCE. In the chaos that follows, countless "men-who-would-be-king" from both groups set out to conquer the stone-age natives and establish petty states. Quite a few succeed (or at least are able to evade the Israeli government's ire for the time being), though the conqueror of Uruk finds himself hauled off to prison and a Palestinian criminal's attempt to colonize Crete is thwarted by [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Marines]].
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161	* In ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'', Vile and Spark Mandrill come to the past to steal some Dr. Light's new Lightanium energy rods so that they can sell them in the future. Unfortunately for them, VideoGame/MegaManX goes back to the past to stop them.
162	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'', the LegionOfDoom subvert this by attempting to conquer the future... in the episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Conquerors of the Future"]].
163	* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'': In a reversal of the basic setup of "31st-century heroes summon 21st-century Superman to help", the second season has a 41st-century Superman clone summon the 31st-century heroes to help against the warlord Imperiex. Both the Superman clone and Imperiex remain in the 31st century (their past) for the rest of the season. (Note that this only applies to the cartoon Imperiex, not the comic character he was based on.)
164	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
165	** In the three-parter "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E24To26TheSavageTime The Savage Time]]", Vandal Savage sends a laptop computer and a complete history of World War II to his 1930s-era self, so that he may use the advanced technology and foreknowledge of history to take over the Nazi war machine, defeat the Allies, and conquer the world.
166	** Averted for BlackComedy in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped]]" when time-travelling supervillain Chronos punishes a minion by dropping him in the [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed Cretaceous period]].
167	--->'''Chucko:''' You think I'm scared? ''[ignites dual-bladed lightsaber]'' I'll be running this dump in a few yea... ''[sees asteroid coming down on his head]'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh, phooey...]]
168	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'', where a nerd that works in a zipper factory gains access to a time-travelling zipper and then makes himself ruler of Udragoth through supplying the citizenry with video games.
169	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Nelson appears as a futuristic gun-toting cyborg in the kids' CowboysAndIndians game.
170	-->'''Bart:''' That's no fair, Nelson! They didn't have the Kill-matic 3000 back then!\
171	'''Nelson:''' Hey, records from that era are spotty at best!
172	* {{Subverted\|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries:'' Sabrina goes back to ancient Rome with Gem and the two wind up in front of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar. Gem tries to intimidate him with a flashlight, but he's [[DeadpanSnarker less than impressed]].
173	-->'''Caesar:''' Ooh, a mini-lantern. ''[[SarcasmMode Spooky.]]''
174	* Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where Gorilla Grodd travels to the ''future'' [[AfterTheEnd following the end of the world]] which is inhabited with intelligent primates who he takes command of using LostTechnology from his own time.
175	* Kang the Conqueror from ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' came to the past to take over the world. However, he only did this to save his timeline from being destroyed.
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