History Main / TheAlliance

** ''Series/TheWalkingDeadWorldBeyond'' features the Alliance of the Three, a diplomatic and trade pact between the survivor communities in Portland, Omaha (and its colony at the University of Nebraska), and the Civic Republic (a [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny military state]] hidden somewhere in New York).

* ''Fanfic/MarqueAndReprisal'' has the Coalition, an alliance of clans and tribes in the Serengeti region of Africa, opposing the Purifiers who want to KillEmAll.
* ''Fanfic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'': Multiple international alliances are formed as a result of the pending threat of invasion by the Race:
** The US, Canada, and Mexico sign a mutual defense treaty in case any of North America is invaded.
** The nations of the African Union and the Arab League form the African Mutual Defense Pact; at the same time, Egypt also signs mutual defense treaties with Israel and Turkey.
** Most of Europe unites as the European Coalition.
** The nations of South America form the South American Security Council.
** Australia, realizing that America will probably be too busy defending its own interests to help out, organizes the nations of the South Pacific in defense treaties.
** After the invasion actually starts, Ukraine gets mostly overrun. Seeing that EC forces are mostly tied up in fighting the other Race invasions in Germany and Italy and can't spare a lot of help, the Ukrainian government forms the Minsk Pact with Russia, Belarus, Romania, and Moldova in order to defend Eastern Europe.
* ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'': The Equestrian Alliance. It not only consists of the ponies, but also the Flutterponies, sea ponies, bees, griffins (that broke away from the Griffin Kingdoms before it reformed into the [[TheEmpire Griffin Empire]]), crabnasties, penguins, stonebacks, and several others. The Flutterponies, along with the bees, broke away for many centuries after the battle with Discord, but rejoined after Megan's return. Though it seems to run more like a [[TheFederation Federation]] or a [[TheRepublic Republic]].
* In ''I'm a Weir girl'' a ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' fanfic, the Five Nations of the Pegasus form an alliance against the Replicators - some of them join more willingly than the others.

* ''Fanfic/CyclesUponCycles'': The Terran, Zerg, and Protoss banded together into this at the beginning of the story. Later on, [[spoiler:the Quarians, the Krogan, and the Geth are brought in as their respective protectorates.]]

* ''Fanfic/Timeline191AfterTheEnd'' has multiple alliance systems form in the decades after the Second Great War. It gets a little complicated at times:
** The United States founds the Compact of Democratic States with its neighbors and allies in North and Central America, as well as with Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Following the collapse of the Japanese Empire, many of the new and liberated nations in Asia and the Pacific also join, as do several in Africa.
** The German Empire establishes the [[UnitedEurope European Community]] in order to politically and economically unite itself with its allies, vassals, and puppet states. Later, it also sets up the German Economic Association to bring its liberated colonies into the same orbit (but it also includes non-EC members later on).
** The Ottoman and Brazilian empires organize the Independence Movement for themselves and their various allies in the Middle East and South America so that they can stay free of the other blocs, though it later expands in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
** The Chennai Pact starts as a sub-division of the IM created by Bharat (one of the nations where India is in reality) and its neighbors as joint defense against China's growing influence in Asia. However, as a schism grows between Bharat and the Ottomans, the Pact grows in membership throughout Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, until it finally breaks away from the Movement.
** Russia establishes the Council of Astrakhan with its Central Asian vassals, while China found the East Asian Security Alliance with its own neighbors. Also, while neither country joins the CDS, they do form the Pacific Economic and Security Accord with the US and other CDS Pacific member states.
** As the IM falls apart, Brazil and the other South American members found the Council of the Western Hemisphere with the American members of the CDS.
** Bharat has a couple of unofficial alliances as well -- with the EC against the massive political power of the PESA alignment, and with Russia to weaken and destabilize the Ottomans.
* ''Fanfic/OutOfTheCornerOfTheEye'': In the TimeSkip since the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Section 13 has begun working internationally with other {{Anti Magical Faction}}s to better combat supernatural threats. As of the start of the story, this alliance consists of America (Section 13), the European Union (represented by France), Russia, China, and Japan.
* ''Fanfic/MyLittlePonyNakamaIsMagic'': Equestria eventually organizes one with other enemies of [[TheEmpire the Black Empire]], including Alabasta, the Drum Kingdom, and Water 7.
* ''FanFic/TheDifferenceOneManCanMake'' has the Norfolk, the conglomerate of wildling clans that Harry organizes in order to both build a proper society, and make a stand against the Others. For this latter goal, the Norfolk also make alliances with the North and Dorne.

* ''Fanfic/SummerCrowns'' has the Dragonhunt/Kingdom of Summer's military alliances with the Tattered Prince and Sallador Saan against Lys and the remnants of Myr and Tyrosh.

* ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'':
** After the Sunset Company helps Braavos conquer Pentos, conquer Myr for themselves, and start stretching their muscles in pursuit of further abolition of slavery, the city-states of Slaver's Bay form the Pact of Six Cities to stand united against abolitionism.
** The aforementioned Abolitionist Alliance between the Sunset Company-founded Kingdom of Myr and Braavos, which also has the tactic support of Westeros (though they stop being actively involved after the destruction of most of their royal fleet by Tyrosh in the Second Slave War) and the Summer Islands (which provide resources and volunteers, with formal membership of the alliance varying from island to island). Later, for {{realpolitik}} reasons, Lorath allows itself to become a client state of Braavos and starts slowly abolishing slavery, making itself an unofficial member of the alliance as well.
** In response to what they see as Braavosi colonialism, Saath and Ibben band together to cut off trade to the west and further abolitionist expansion.
** Also in response to the growing power of the abolitionists, Volantis and Lys grow closer and eventually form a mutual defense pact known as the Valyrian League, which later draws in Norvos as well after it's taken over by anti-abolition reactionaries. Mantarys is later press-ganged into the League as well after Viserys leads Volantis' forces in crushing them in battle, while the League and Pact sign a mutual defense treaty and Volantis allies with Khal Drogo and the pirate lord Chang the Invincible.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'':
** The New World Masons are a BenevolentConspiracy of pirate crews and [[DefectorFromDecadence a splinter sect of Marines]], which is aimed at bringing down the World Government and ending its corruption.
** During the Road to Sabaody and Sabaody Revolution arcs, the Straw Hats convince the other Supernova crews to all band together, first to [[RunningTheBlockade run the naval blockade on Sabaody]], and then to instigate an [[SlaveLiberation anti-slavery revolution]] on the archipelago. [[spoiler: And during the Marineford Misery arc, the Supernovas work together again to act as TheCavalry, swooping in to help save Luffy and Ace, both in order to further furbish their reputations and out of debt to Gold Roger's legacy.]]
* ''Fanfic/NewGamePlusOnePiece'': After ending up [[PeggySue back in the past]], Luffy decides to use this trope to ensure that his nakama can survive whatever the World Government throws at them, conceiving of a Straw Hat Armada composed of [[DefeatEqualsFriendship former enemies]] and anyone else he can convince to join. By the time they reach the Grand Line, this armada consists of the core Straw Hats, the Buggy Pirates, the Black Cat Pirates, the Don Pirates, and the Baratie (with Alvida joining as an individualist example). According to the outline of [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what would have happened had the story not been discontinued]], the armada would have increased to include the Millions of Whiskey Peak (with Vivi sticking around following Crocodile's defeat to be this group's captain), the Shuryama Alliance, the Foxy Pirates, and the Kuja Pirates. Lola and Law would have also allied with the Armada, but wouldn't officially join (on the grounds that it's getting too big at that point).

* ''Fanfic/DarthVaderHeroOfNaboo'': On advice from Vader, Padme seeks out and allies with various anti-Trade Federation groups (including the Mere Resistance and the Vulptereen) who are more than willing to liberate Naboo by force while the Senate blusters and wastes time.

** Later on, this gets kicked UpToEleven -- [[spoiler:ol' massive Haven, having endured a rather permanent change in government decidedly for the better (and stopped eating up single systems in the meanwhile), ends up ''joining'' the Alliance, in response to a mutual enemy that's an order of magnitude, perhaps multiple orders, larger than them and all previous alliance members combined.]] It could've been even bigger, as [[spoiler:the Andermani Empire wanted in, but Manticore and Haven convinced them to stay neutral and, instead, work against the Alliance's true enemy Mesa]].

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' has the New World Masons, a BenevolentConspiracy of pirate crews and [[DefectorFromDecadence a splinter sect of Marines]] which is aimed at bringing down the World Government and ending its corruption.

* ''Fanfic/XSGCOM'' has the Tau'ri form military alliances with many other humand and non-human races, including those that were one-offs in the show, like the Optricians (who were only mentioned by their Bedrosian enemies). Even the Aschen joined, although no one trusted them.

** In the ''Origin'' reboot, the unnamed alliance is formed by humans to fight the Skryve. It initially consists of the humans and the [[{{Nerd}} Tywom]] (who are happy to be anyone's friends), then you add the [[OctopoidAliens Mu'Kay]], the [[ProudMerchantRace Menkmack]], the [[TheAssimilator Trandals]], the [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Greegrox]], and the [[TheVirus Pinthi]]. You also make overtures to several other races, but they have no interest in allying with you.

* In the Marvel ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' comics, the writers seemed to increasingly put the Autobots and Deceptions in positions where the two sides had to team up against some mutual threat including, but not limited to, Underbase-powered Starscream, Galvatron, the Swarm, the Cybertronian Empire, the Scraplets, the demons who live under the surface of Cybertron, Flame and his 'undead' army, the Quintessons and, most infamously, Unicron (several times). In fact, when Scorponok died in the defence of Cybertron from Unicron, he had a cool death scene and Optimus Prime mourned him as a friend. This approach won the approval of the faction of fans who preferred the idea of the Decepticons as free-thinking anarchists rather than being purely 'evil'. That said, these alliances inevitably collapsed whenever the greater enemy had been defeated.

* In ''Literature/TheFalconCannotHear'', the Second American CivilWar features a few examples:

* The Tau'ri, Tok'ra, and Jaffa alliance against the Goa'uld in ''Series/StargateSG1''. (In other words, humans from Earth, PuppeteerParasite snakes [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch who bother to ask permission]], and what are effectively human-shaped incubators for baby snakes, fighting snakes.)
** In the backstory, the Alliance of Four Great Races between the Ancients, Furlings, Asgard, and Nox. At present the alliance is broken: the Ancients are {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}}ed, the Furlings are a NoodleIncident nonentity, and the Nox are PerfectPacifistPeople with their entire (known) civilization on one planet. The only member of the alliance with any remaining strategic importance are the Asgard (and [[spoiler:most of them are dead as of the show's GrandFinale, leaving only a rogue branch in the Pegasus Galaxy]]).
** During the Ori arc, the Tau'ri, Jaffa, and Asgard are allied against the Ori.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The crew of the ''Ghost'' starts out as a rebel cell only loosely affiliated with the larger rebellion through their contact with Fulcrum, with the crew outside of Hera [[spoiler: and Chopper]] being largely unaware of the larger rebellion. Their cell becomes a part of Phoenix Squadron and several other cells join the Rebel Alliance in full over the course of the series.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Over the course of Season 7, we see an alliance form between Alexandria, Hilltop Colony, the Kingdom, and the Scavengers (with some mostly unwilling help from Oceanside) in order to take down [[EvilOverlord Negan]] and the Saviors. [[spoiler: Though the Scavengers [[SixthRangerTraitor end up betraying them]].]]

* The Tau Empire from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', comprising the Tau, Kroot - though these are technically mercenaries with no ideological interest - Vespid, Gue'Vesa, Nicassar and Demiurg. Considered as such because they are the only faction with significant allies who are not of their own species. Incidentally the "nicest" of the factions, compared to everyone else who usually shoots first and asks questions [[strike: later]] [[strike: never]] when they find out that bullets don't work on you.
** True, the Tau foreign policy is to immediately ask new races to join their near-theocratic and strictly regulated and enforced empire, which is ruled with an iron fist by the unquestioned ruling caste. If the race says no, the Tau point every gun in their arsenal at the race and ask again, very politely. If that doesn't work, the Tau bombard the planet from orbit and invade, enforcing compliance with re-education camps, sterilization, and, within the Tau themselves, biologically based mind control. Given all that, they're still far and away the brightest and most idealistic race in the [=WH40k=] universe, since nobody else bothers to ask first, nor are they nice enough to conquer the populace. Nearly everyone else eliminates it and moves their own in.
*** If the Imperium is pretty sure that you're human or some form of stable abhuman and you're not tainted with Chaos, then they'll just introduce the Imperial cult. They don't really care what sort of planetary government you have as long as you recognize the authority of the Adeptus Terra and the Emperor, making them the sole "exception" to the omnicidal aspect of most factions. Of course, anything positive would ruin all the [[CrapsackWorld GRIMDARK]].

** [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] was able to rebel against and eventually overthrow Cyrodiil's [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleid rulers]] by forming an alliance between Cyrodiil's native humans, [[TokenHeroicOrc rebel Ayleid lords]], the [[HornyVikings Nordic]] [[ProudWarriorRace Empire]] to the north, her [[DivineDate demi-god husband]] [[ALoadOfBull Morihaus]], and her champion [[GodInHumanForm Pelinal Whitestrake]]. Together they captured Cyrodiil and, after some clever manipulation by Alessia in regards to the groups' conflicting pantheons, remained together to forge the First Empire of Men out of Cyrodiil.
** During the [[DarkAgeEurope Interregnum]] following the fall of the Second Empire and the rise of Tiber Septim's Third Empire, several alliances formed out of the former provinces of the Empire to repel various threats - The Daggerfall Covenant, The Ebonheart Pact, and the Aldmeri Dominion. Tensions remained high between the traditional enemy races within, but each showed that they could work together toward a [[EnemyMine common enemy]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'': The organization Nick Logan finds himself working for has this name. However it is a case of InNameOnly and is actually a GovernmentConspiracy. It May have started off as TheAlliance for real but has since grown into a powerful paramilitary organization that keeps control of the various aliens who are living on earth. It is seemingly independent of the government or any other oversight.

** Also in response to the growing power of the abolitionists, Volantis and Lys grow closer and eventually form a mutual defense pact known as the Valyrian League, which later draws in Norvos as well after it's taken over by anti-abolition reactionaries. Mantarys is later press-ganged into the League as well after Viserys leads Volantis' forces in crushing them in battle, while the League and Pact sign a mutual defense treaty and Volantis allies with the pirate lord Chang the Invincible.

** The Rebels in the original are essentially an {{expy}} of the ''StarWars'' Rebel Alliance, with the Confederation playing the role of TheEmpire.

* ''[[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php?id=timelines:tl-191_after_the_end Timeline 191: After the End]]'' has multiple alliance systems form in the decades after the Second Great War. It gets a little complicated at times:

** Also in response to the growing power of the abolitionists, Volantis and Lys grow closer and eventually form a mutual defense pact known as the Valyrian League, which later draws in Norvos as well after it's taken over by anti-abolition reactionaries. Mantarys is later press-ganged into the League as well after Viserys leads Volantis' forces in crushing them in battle.

*** And then "up to twelve", when [[spoiler:Queen Elizabeth III and President Eloise Pritchard decide to take steps to turning Grand Alliance into a more permanent political structure: instituting reciprocal citizenship (i.e. Manticoran citizens are also Havenite citizens, and vice versa), standardized warship design, reciprocal officer training, etc. And this is after the Grand Alliance fleet raids the Sol System and browbeats the League into ending the war and rewriting its constitution, effectively becoming the new galactic superpower]].

** Also in response to the growing power of the abolitionists, Volantis and Lys grow closer and eventually form a mutual defense pact known as the Valyrian League, which later draws in Norvos as well after it's taken over by anti-abolition reactionaries.

* ''Fanfic/NewGamePlusOnePiece'': After ending up [[PeggySue back in the past]], Luffy decides to use this trope to ensure that his nakama can survive whatever the World Government throws at them, conceiving of a Straw Hat Armada composed of [[DefeatEqualsFriendship former enemies]] and anyone else he can convince to join. By the time they reach the Grand Line, this armada consists of the core Straw Hats, the Buggy Pirates, the Black Cat Pirates, the Don Pirates, and the Baratie (with Alvida joining as an individualist example). According to the outline of [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what would have happened had the story not been discontinued]], the armada would have increased to include the Millions of Whiskey Peak (with Vivi sticking around following Crocodile's defeat to be this group's captain), the Shuryama Alliance, the Foxy Pirates, and the Kuja Pirates.