History Main / MillionMookMarch

* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: Jamie Hewlett's music video ''Monkey Bee'' is a remix of a song from his ''Monkey: Journey To The West'' album. As expected, it is loosely based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. At the end of the video, the Monkey King is faced with a massive amry of the undead, resulting in a BolivianArmyEnding. The video can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZjO-i_vxg here]].

* In Series/{{Vikings}} [[RenegadeRussian Oleg the Prophet]] marches the gigantic Rus' army infront of Kiev while holding a NewEraSpeech. The army is number up towards at least ten thousand, dwarfing any army shown in the series leading Ivar to have a small MyGodWhatHaveIDone-moment.

* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': In ''Blood of Tyrants'', three hundred soldiers does not a Million Mook March make. Three hundred dragons, on the other hand, represents the largest aerial force ever assembled in Europe (which is itself still barely a fraction of China's full aerial corps [[note]]6,288 officially enlisted (because it's a lucky number), plus an unknown number of "unofficial" reserves[[/note]]), and the sight of them all flying in formation stuns Laurence and co. to speechlessness. RealityEnsues: this massive army is only possible because China maintains an extensive network of supply depots across its territory and feeds its dragons on easily-stored grain porridge rather than expensive and logistically-intensive raw beef in the European style; finding a sustainable food supply for three hundred 20-ton dragons becomes a major concern after they cross into Russia.

->"''The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will roll even stones along in its course.''"

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Yo-ee-oh! Yooo-um! Yo-ee-oh...!"]]]]

* The introduction of {{conscription}} during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution meant swelling of the size of the armies into ''up to tenfold'' which they previously had been. The sheer size of the armies made up what they were sorely lacking in skill.

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': The hyenas in Scar's VillainSong "Be Prepared", which references Nazi party rallies.

* The Imperial Order in the later ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' books fields an army that numbers in the millions. To put this in perspective, before they showed up, 100,000 troops was considered a large army.
* In Creator/AynRand's ''Literature/WeTheLiving'', one of the new Communist movies consists entirely of this.

* Jesus' army of saints at the Battle of Armageddon in the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Glorious Appearing''. Of course, they're mostly there to praise the Lord while Jesus does all the work of [[CurbStompBattle slaying His enemies]] with the [[Literature/TheBible Word Of God]].

* Ungatt Trunn's Blue Hordes in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ''Lord Brocktree'' do this when they march, and number enough to be able to intimidate his enemies by causing earthquakes by jumping in sync, making the stars "fall" by lighting torches and concealing the stars in the sky, and making the land "disappear" by standing on it. Of course this is one book where EasyLogistics is averted, the good guys attacking foraging parties in an effort to make them starve. For the most part they succeed, to the point where the "siege" that happens once Brocktree and his allies are in possession of Salamandastron again is more the woodlanders pretending that they're partying it up inside while the Blue Hordes sit and wait for scraps of food to be chucked out the window.
* Cao Cao's army that was set to invade the region of Wu in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''. Conveniently, always referred to as a million-man-army.
* In ''[[{{Literature/Temeraire}} Blood of Tyrants]]'', three hundred soldiers does not a Million Mook March make. Three hundred dragons, on the other hand, represents the largest aerial force ever assembled in Europe (which is itself still barely a fraction of China's full aerial corps [[note]]6,288 officially enlisted (because it's a lucky number), plus an unknown number of "unofficial" reserves[[/note]]), and the sight of them all flying in formation stuns Laurence and co. to speechlessness. RealityEnsues: this massive army is only possible because China maintains an extensive network of supply depots across its territory and feeds its dragons on easily-stored grain porridge rather than expensive and logistically-intensive raw beef in the European style; finding a sustainable food supply for three hundred 20-ton dragons becomes a major concern after they cross into Russia.

* [[{{Music/Gorillaz}} Jamie]] [[ComicBook/TankGirl Hewlett's]] music video ''Monkey Bee'' is a remix of a song from his ''Monkey: Journey To The West'' album. As expected, it is loosely based on ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. At the end of the video, the Monkey King is faced with a massive amry of the undead, resulting in a BolivianArmyEnding. The video can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZjO-i_vxg here]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' art likes to do this with the Imperial Guard, Space Marine chapters, Eldar warhosts, Ork hordes, etc. (though in the case of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] it's more like a Billion Bug March). One Imperial Guard codex even used photo-editing tricks to show just how large a single regiment was, resulting in a two-page spread of four thousand toy soldiers all lined up in formation.

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* Happens at least once in every part of both of Peter jackson's Middle Earth trilogies:

** The army of the Last Alliance in ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' as a flashback.
** Saruman's army in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers'' as well as Sauron's soldiers leaving Minas Morgul.
** Sauron's army outside the gates of Minas Tirith in ''The Return of the King'' and the Rohirrim coming to Gondor's aid.

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has Thanos siccing all of his Chitauri, Leviathans, Sakaarans and Outriders on Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. Eventually, [[spoiler:the battle starts to turn in the heroes' favor when their revived allies show up along with soldiers of their own]]. Avengers Assemble indeed.

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has Thanos siccing all of his Chitauri, Leviathans, Sakaarans and Outriders on Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. Eventually, the battle starts to turn in the heroes' favor when their revived allies show up along with soldiers of their own. Avengers Assemble indeed.

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-->-- '''Sun Tzu''', ''Literature/TheArtOfWar''

* As a way of intimidating the Allied Powers, who he knew would be watching, Creator/ErwinRommel staged a parade of his tanks and soldiers, a parade which went on for several hours and was several ''miles'' long. However, it was only later revealed that he had them marching around in circles to create the illusion of a vast number of tanks and men.

* As a way of intimidating the Allied Powers, who he knew would be watching, Creator/ErwinRommel staged a parade of his tanks and soldiers, a parade which went on for several hours and was several ''miles'' long. However, it was only later revealed in which he had them marching around in circles to create the illusion of a vast number of tanks and men.