History Main / TheSiege

* Mystery Inc. spends a few issues of ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'' trapped in a "[[SerialNumbersFiledOff Mall Mart]]" surrounded by monsters.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': One of the later arcs of the Web Novels has Akira, most of TheSquad he has teamed up with by that point, as well as the RagTagBunchOfMisfits Hunter Gang Akira’s been building up with Sheryl defending their territory in the slums from a mechanized force of the Lion Steel MegaCorp on the outside, as well as several PrivateMilitaryContractors hired by them attacking from the inner part of the technically neutral city of Kugamayama on the other. It’s a multi-phase battle with the defenders trying to protect the fortified HomeBase gang headquarters, seeing whole swaths of the slums flattened. It ends with TheCorruption brought by the gone mad leader of the Lion Steel forces assimilating technology and corpses into monsters to attack all sides, finally prompting the Kugamayama City defenders to be NeutralNoLonger. This was all the result of TheConspiracy by multiple parties to try and demonstrate the power of the Lion Steel co to help recruit an A.I. into the company, and they pay everyone hush money.

* ''Film/TheWarLord'': In the 11th century, a band of Frisians make several attempts to storm the tower of Norman feudal warlord Chrysagon de la Cruex (Creator/CharltonHeston) and save their little prince who's held hostage inside, with the help of the angry villagers who want the woman Chrysagon took out of DroitDuSeigneur back. They use various methods including an attempt at infiltration by night (sabotaging the drawbridge's chains doing so), destroying the door with a BatteringRam made with a tree trunk, [[IncendiaryExponent burning the tower's door]] and finally using a siege tower. They fail every attempt, and they could have overwhelmed Chrysagon's forces on the last attempt had Chrysagon's brother Draco not brought [[TheCavalry reinforcements]] with a catapult.

* ''Film/{{Kolberg}}'': A Nazi propaganda film from 1945 (yes, 1945) about the RealLife siege of Kolberg by [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon's]] army in 1806-7. Meant to inspire Germans to resist the Russians who were invading their country as the film was being finished.

* The Siege, usually involving a Town Boss being held in a city jail, was the climactic event of four Creator/JohnWayne movies, including ''Film/RioBravo'', ''Film/ElDorado'', ''Film/TheSonsOfKatieElder'', and ''Film/RioLobo''. Apparently Duke liked this story line even more than he liked stalking and spanking beautiful women (three different movies!).
* ''Film/TheLastJedi'' has a siege as one of the primary narrative threads. The Resistance capital ships are under attack from the First Order with limited fuel, and their deflector shields can only hold off the First Order for so long. The siege continues and climaxes on the planet Crait, where the final pocket of surviving Resistance members are in a base under siege by First Order walkers and a battering-ram cannon.

* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': Walled Cities are guaranteed to be besieged at least once. The enemy always tries to storm the walls, instead of simply starving the defenders out, which is the more realistic and safer way. Even so, they'll succeed eventually and loot the city. Inhabitants will suffer much murder, rape and theft. Tourists however will always be able to escape with Secret Passages.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': The heroes [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100501.html defend Viceroy's Spire]] -- and by extension, all of Planet Butane -- from Fructose Riboflavin and his new WaveMotionGun.

* ‘’Film/GoTellTheSpartans’’: The village of Muc Wa spends most of the movie being besieged by the Viet Cong as the main cast tries to hold them back.

* Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' features one of these as its final shootout, with the title character and his CowboyCop ally defending the Killer's last place of sanctuary, a church, against a virtual army of assassins sent by his ex-boss to murder them all.

* ''Film/RedCliff'', also by John Woo, is based on the historical siege of a river fortress during the China's Three Kingdoms period.

* ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' ends with a siege by assassins working for Alejandro Sosa against Tony Montana's mansion, which doesn't really get going until Tony takes up an M-16 with a grenade launcher with a cry of "Say hello to my little friend!"

* The Siege, usually involving a Town Boss being held in a city jail, was the climactic event of four Creator/JohnWayne movies, including ''Film/RioBravo'', ''El Dorado'', ''The Sons of Katie Elder'', and ''Rio Lobo''. Apparently Duke liked this story line even more than he liked stalking and spanking beautiful women (three different movies!).

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* This trope is a case of TruthInTelevision. Sieges have been and (to some degree) remain a common military strategy. Modern infantry tactics favor going around strong points in the defense and let rear-echelon troops deal with them later, but sometimes there is no going around a well-placed defensive position[[note]]one example is from the Battle of the Bulge: the Germans' intentions were to quickly penetrate the American lines without stopping, but to be able to use the roads they ''had to'' take Bastogne (which they proved unable to do)[[/note]]. A good number of movies and television programs base their siege plots on real life sieges like Leningrad and the Alamo. These are well-remembered by a (defending) nation's population if their people either won the siege by successfully holding their position against an overwhelming enemy ''or'' (more commonly) lost gloriously.

* The old Norse game Hnefatafl simulates an escape from a besieged fortress, as opposed to a pitched battle(like TabletopGame/{{Chess}}).

** "Siege of AR-558" (''not'' to be confused with the above episode) is particularly gruesome.
*** Until you do the math and realize that the Federation troops suffered on average less than one casualty a day from randomly blundering around in the minefield ''and'' repeated Jem'Hadar attacks.

* ‘’Film/GoTellTheSpartans’’: The village of Muc Wa spends most of the movie being besieged by the Viet Congress as the main cast tries to hold them back.

* Issue 175 of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' had Eggman not only pull off a siege on Knothole, he razed it to the ground.

* Used ''twice'' in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', first at Helm's Deep, then again at Minas Tirith. Both times, the siege is broken when TheCavalry arrives... literally.
** Also during the War of the Ring, the dwarves of Erebor and the men of Laketown held the Lonely Mountain during a lengthy seige that tied up Sauron's northern armies for much of the war.

* Also shows up in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' when Thorin and his band are holed up inside the Lonely Mountain as the armies of Laketown and the Wood Elves try to get in to claim the treasure.
* Creator/DanAbnett's entire ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Necropolis'' is one prolonged siege battle, with the Chaos-corrupted hive city Ferrozoica hurling their entire population at the much larger but much less-militarized hive city Vervunhive. Think Minas Tirith, but with tanks and a good hundred times the manpower. It occurs again in ''Sabbat Martyr'', with Gaunt explicitly comparing and contrasting the two situations, noting that this second time around the "good guys" were even worse off.

** The three main engagements in the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel "Angel Exterminatus" boil down to "Iron Warriors do what they do best" - it opens with them cracking open an Imperial Fists fortress, moves on to a cross between this and a BoardingParty, and finalises with an Iron Warrior and Emperor's Children mixed force on an Eldar crone world attempting to set up siege lines...only for the situation to reverse when the wraithguard walk.
* Noticeably averted in ''Literature/WarAndPeace''. Kutuzov abandons Moscow despite everyone on his staff and his emperor demanding that he hold Moscow against a siege.
* A mainstay of [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy Henryk Sienkiewicz's ''Trilogy'']], set in the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Each of the books in the trilogy has a climactic siege featuring the defenders fighting against great odds.
* ''Rogue Male'': for a large part of the story, the hero is besieged alone in his hideout, which has gone from a refuge to a hellish trap.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' style "Base Under Siege" plot is spoofed heavily in the ''Radio/{{Nebulous}}'' story "Destiny of the Destinoyd" - an illogically unsafe moonbase setting, {{Retirony}}, {{Redshirt}} characters [[FatalFamilyPhoto talking about their family members]] before doing something GenreBlind, a large multinational team where everyone has a dark secret each and gets picked off by the monster one at a time, and a monster that wouldn't be out of place in a [[GothicHorror Tom Baker-era storyline]].

* Many of the scenarios in the board game ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' are variations on The Siege with different [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Game]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' used to have a siege scenario.
* One specialty of the Imperial Fists Space Marines in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is holding the line in sieges. Not coincidentally, the specialty of their [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]], the Iron Warriors, is launching them.
** In the ''Horus Hersey'' the Chaos Space Marines lay siege to Terra, and the Emperor along with his remaining forces were are forced to drive them off with all they have. The Imperial forces have been driven off the Chaos forces, and killed Horus, but at a terrible price, Sanguinius has been slain, and the Emperor is in a near death state, and is locked in life support in the golden throne.
* Several attempts were made in the golden age of table top wargaming to make siege games. The problem was that there is little maneuver in siege warfare and the most interesting parts are the gadgeteering which doesn't translate well. Some did manage to become classics like Creator/AvalonHill's ''Siege of Alessia''
* In TabletopGame/{{Checkers}} during an end game, if the vanquished player is stubborn about it, he can retreat to a double corner. It needs a carefully choreographed sequence of moves to dig him out and is rather like a siege.

* Many of the scenarios in the board game ''House on Haunted Hill'' are variations on The Siege with different [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Game]].

** In the next game, ''[[VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', the Freedom League are under siege by Krimzon Guard robots and Metal Heads, and later, Spargus comes under siege from the [[spoiler:Dark Makers]] - it's an interesting change, because in Haven the civilians would run and scream when confronted with enemies, while in Spargus there's no town guard because ''everyone'' is armed.