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*** Buffy herself turns out to be an Outside Context Problem for The Initiative, which is why Walsh tries to have her killed. ''Tries''.
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*** Buffy herself turns out to be an Outside Context Problem for The Initiative, Initiative (they were under the impression the Slayer was just a myth), which is why Walsh tries to have her killed. ''Tries''.
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* In ''Series/UltraSevenX'', most aliens seem considerably outclassed by the title hero. It turns out [[spoiler:Ultraseven is the ''Showa'' timeline Ultraseven who learned of the BigBad aliens when they [[MuggingTheMonster attempted to invade his universe]] and crossed over. Ultras don't exist in that universe whereas in his original timeline an Ultra showing up to stop an AlienInvasion amounts to 'oh no! It's the cops!' So even the main villains have little ability to deal with him at his full power.]]
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* In ''Series/UltraSevenX'', most aliens seem considerably outclassed by the title hero. It turns out [[spoiler:Ultraseven is the ''Showa'' timeline Ultraseven who learned of the BigBad aliens [[BigBad Graykess]] when they [[MuggingTheMonster attempted to invade his universe]] and crossed over.over only to fail miserably. Ultras don't exist in that universe whereas in his original timeline an Ultra showing up to stop an AlienInvasion amounts to 'oh no! It's the cops!' So even the main villains have little ability to deal with him at his full power.]]
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* ''Series/TokusouExceedraft'' typically deals with soft science-fiction plots involving criminals who use futuristic technology to commit various crimes. So who's the last bad guy they face? [[spoiler:{{Satan}}.]]
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** In Seasons 4—6, The High Sparrow. Neither Cersei nor Olenna are able to bend him to their will since, as an ascetic motivated purely by religion, he is blissfully immune to their blandishments of wealth and power, and not even King Tommen's interventions can persuade him to release Margaery or Cersei—mind you, his own wife and his mother—from his custody until they have repented of their sins.
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** In Seasons 4—6, The High Sparrow. Neither Both Cersei nor and Olenna are able well-versed in dealing with political schemers, who can be either negotiated with, bribed, or threatened. They're genuinely flummoxed in dealing with a genuine zealot, who's happy to bend him to their will since, as an ascetic motivated purely by religion, he put his own life on the line, is blissfully immune to their blandishments of wealth and completely uninterested in gold or secular power, and not even King Tommen's interventions can persuade him to release Margaery or Cersei—mind you, is completely unbending in his own wife rules. He promptly arrests the Queen, her brother, and his mother—from his custody until they later the Queen Mother for various crimes that would have repented of their sins.been ignored by any other leader, and no pleas, offers, or attacks will make him reconsider.
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* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Ezekiel, the leader of the Kingdom, keeps a ''pet tiger'' named Shiva; he was a former zookeeper and rescued her when she was injured in her exhibit. Said pet tiger is understandably rather out-of-place in a zombie apocalypse, and every survivor who meets her doesn't quite know what to make of her. This comes in very handy when the Kingdom fights back against the Saviors at the end of Season Seven; she's the first one to jump in, and her presence distracts everyone long enough for the Kingdom's forces to come in.
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* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Ezekiel, the leader of the Kingdom, keeps a ''pet tiger'' named Shiva; he was a former zookeeper and rescued her when she was injured in her exhibit. Said pet tiger She is understandably rather out-of-place in a zombie apocalypse, and every survivor who meets her doesn't quite know what to make of her. This comes in very handy when the Kingdom fights back against the Saviors at the end of Season Seven; she's the first one to jump in, and her presence distracts everyone long enough for the Kingdom's forces to come in.
* ''Series/ZeroZeroZero'': As drug brokers, the Lynwoods are comfortable dealing with organized crime figures of all stripes. When a series of unexpected circumstances force them to bus their latest shipment through North Africa, however, they run afoul of [[MiddleEasternTerrorists jihadists]] and have no idea what to do.
* ''Series/ZeroZeroZero'': As drug brokers, the Lynwoods are comfortable dealing with organized crime figures of all stripes. When a series of unexpected circumstances force them to bus their latest shipment through North Africa, however, they run afoul of [[MiddleEasternTerrorists jihadists]] and have no idea what to do.
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** Season 5 is based around combatting these newcomers, but also one of the characters becoming a bloodthirsty cult leader and half the cast undergoing serious SanitySlippage as a result.
** Season 6 tosses everything in the air when everyone is forced to relocate to a legitimately alien planet, and having absolutely no idea how to survive a borderline EldritchLocation, complete with a [[SwirlyEnergyThingy temporal anomaly]].
** Season 6 tosses everything in the air when everyone is forced to relocate to a legitimately alien planet, and having absolutely no idea how to survive a borderline EldritchLocation, complete with a [[SwirlyEnergyThingy temporal anomaly]].
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** Also The Initiative as an organization - science intruding into a [[Main/FantasyKitchenSink fantasy world. ]]
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** Also The Initiative as an organization - science intruding into a [[Main/FantasyKitchenSink fantasy world. ]]]]
*** Buffy herself turns out to be an outside context problem for The Intitiaive.
---> ''"If you think that's enough to kill me, you'' really ''don't know what a slayer is. Trust me when I say you're gonna find out."''
*** Buffy herself turns out to be an outside context problem for The Intitiaive.
---> ''"If you think that's enough to kill me, you'' really ''don't know what a slayer is. Trust me when I say you're gonna find out."''
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** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs (though this was more because the Asgard were busy keeping the aforementioned Replicators contained, and didn't have the resources to just wipe the Goa'uld off the map already), run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
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** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs (though this was more because the Asgard were busy keeping the aforementioned Replicators contained, and [[JustifiedTrope didn't have the resources to to]] [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just wipe the Goa'uld off the map already), already]]), run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
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** Season 5 introduces time travel, with the cast spending the whole season figuring out how it works and whether or not they can break the StableTimeLoop they've become trapped in.
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** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkyTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
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** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac [[OmnicidalManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkyTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
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* ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'': The monsters of the week for this season are typically either {{Mutants}} or robots commanded by [[TheStarscream Frax]]. However, the episode "Beware the Knight" has the Rangers fighting an evil BlackKnight who seeks to acquire a great power source. No explanation is given about who this Black Knight is and where he came from and the episode is really only an excuse so the Red Ranger can get his own SuperMode.
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** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs, run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
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** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs, backs (though this was more because the Asgard were busy keeping the aforementioned Replicators contained, and didn't have the resources to just wipe the Goa'uld off the map already), run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
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*** The Crisis itself is this to the [[LockedOutOfTheLoop various other Earths who didn't know]]; the opening shows the residents of [[Series/{{Titans}} Earth-9]], [[Series/{{Batman}} Earth-66]] and [[Film/Batman1989 Earth-89]] reacting to the red skies, while [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] is teleported from his Earth by Pariah just before its' destruction to assist the heroes. Thanks to skipping out on the ''Elseworlds'' event, the Legends are also unaware of the Crisis, until Lyla as HArbinger teleports into the bar where Ray and Sara are to recruit them. There's also the matter of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Movie-Barry Allen]], who encounters his Arrowverse counterpart in the Speed Force, [[HeroOfAnotherStory and is not only unaware of the Crisis]], [[NoodleIncident but unclear on how he's there in the first place.]]]]
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*** The Crisis itself is this to the [[LockedOutOfTheLoop various other Earths who didn't know]]; the opening shows the residents of [[Series/{{Titans}} Earth-9]], [[Series/{{Batman}} Earth-66]] and [[Film/Batman1989 Earth-89]] reacting to the red skies, while [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] is teleported from his Earth by Pariah just before its' destruction to assist the heroes. Thanks to skipping out on the ''Elseworlds'' event, the Legends are also unaware of the Crisis, until Lyla as HArbinger Harbinger teleports into the bar where Ray and Sara are to recruit them. There's also the matter of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Movie-Barry Allen]], who encounters his Arrowverse counterpart in the Speed Force, [[HeroOfAnotherStory and is not only unaware of the Crisis]], [[NoodleIncident but unclear on how he's there in the first place.]]]]
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** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkiesTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
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** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkiesTakeWarning [[RedSkyTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
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** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.
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** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.experience, which results in [[Series/{{Constantine}} John Constantine]] joining the Legends.
** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkiesTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
*** The Crisis itself is this to the [[LockedOutOfTheLoop various other Earths who didn't know]]; the opening shows the residents of [[Series/{{Titans}} Earth-9]], [[Series/{{Batman}} Earth-66]] and [[Film/Batman1989 Earth-89]] reacting to the red skies, while [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] is teleported from his Earth by Pariah just before its' destruction to assist the heroes. Thanks to skipping out on the ''Elseworlds'' event, the Legends are also unaware of the Crisis, until Lyla as HArbinger teleports into the bar where Ray and Sara are to recruit them. There's also the matter of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Movie-Barry Allen]], who encounters his Arrowverse counterpart in the Speed Force, [[HeroOfAnotherStory and is not only unaware of the Crisis]], [[NoodleIncident but unclear on how he's there in the first place.]]]]
*** The tie-in comic shows several other worlds who were unaware of the Crisis until it was too late, including [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Earth-F]], [[Series/WonderWoman Earth-76]] and [[ComicBook/New52 Earth-N52]].
** Finally, there's the matter of Mar Novu, the Monitor. He's introduced in the ''Series/Elseworlds2018'' event, having decimated Earth-90, with only [[Series/TheFlash1990 that Earth's Barry Allen]] as a survivor; he subsequently begins to cause havoc on Earth-1 with the Book of Destiny and John Deegan. It eventually emerges that he's doing this to prepare the denizens of Earth-1 for an even worse threat: [[EvilDoppelganger the Anti-Monitor, his double from the antimatter universe]]. The Anti-Monitor, with help from an unwitting Harrison "Nash" Wells, breaks free and constructs an anti-matter cannon, [[OmnicidialManiac designed to spread an anti-matter wave across the multiverse]]. [[RedSkiesTakeWarning This manifests in red skies across the afflicted Earths]], before they're wiped from existence. In turn, Wells becomes the Anti-Monitor's servant Pariah, forced to watch world after world be destroyed. To counter the threat, the Monitor assembles the various heroes with the help of his own ally, Harbinger (Lyla Diggle), and has them fight against the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons. Ultimately however, the Anti-Monitor succeeds in wiping both the Monitor and all remaining Earths from existence. It's only through the remaining heroes taking refuge in the Vanishing Point, and Oliver Queen becoming the Spectre, that they're able to deal with him (Oliver ends up rebuilding the multiverse, resulting in Earths 1 and 38, as well as Black Lightning's Earth, being merged into one Earth-Prime). Even then, he's still not down, and they ultimately [[AndIMustScream shrink him down to microscopic size forever]].
*** The Crisis itself is this to the [[LockedOutOfTheLoop various other Earths who didn't know]]; the opening shows the residents of [[Series/{{Titans}} Earth-9]], [[Series/{{Batman}} Earth-66]] and [[Film/Batman1989 Earth-89]] reacting to the red skies, while [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] is teleported from his Earth by Pariah just before its' destruction to assist the heroes. Thanks to skipping out on the ''Elseworlds'' event, the Legends are also unaware of the Crisis, until Lyla as HArbinger teleports into the bar where Ray and Sara are to recruit them. There's also the matter of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Movie-Barry Allen]], who encounters his Arrowverse counterpart in the Speed Force, [[HeroOfAnotherStory and is not only unaware of the Crisis]], [[NoodleIncident but unclear on how he's there in the first place.]]]]
*** The tie-in comic shows several other worlds who were unaware of the Crisis until it was too late, including [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Earth-F]], [[Series/WonderWoman Earth-76]] and [[ComicBook/New52 Earth-N52]].
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*** Queen Victoria, after an encounter with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw werewolves]] and the Doctor, established the Torchwood Institute, recognising the need for the Empire to have ''some'' measures in place to respond to Outside Context Problems, such as werewolves—and werewolves — and the Doctor.
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** Bran becomes this to Littlefinger in Season 7. Littlefinger may be a schemer and manipulator without peer among normal people, but it counts for naught against an omniscient boy who can see through all his lies and knows his true role in betraying Ned and instigating the entire conflict for his own gain. Bran exposes Littlefinger's treachery to Sansa and Arya and the Stark children have him summarily executed in front of all the assembled lords.
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** ''Series/DcsLegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.
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** ''Series/DcsLegendsOfTomorrow'' ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.
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** ''Series/DCsLegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.
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** ''Series/DCsLegendsOfTomorrow'' ''Series/DcsLegendsOfTomorrow'' lives for this trope. In the first season, Rip Hunter recruits a team of crooks, assassins and d-list superheroes to serve as this to his nemesis Vandal Savage. In the second season, the team have their first encounter with magic and changes to the timeline that can't be fixed with more time travel. In the third season, historical anachronisms have started appearing everywhere, giving rise to such situations as Caesar at a toga party in Aruba and Helen of Troy upstaging Hedy Lamar's acting career. Finally, season four sees all kinds of magical creatures let loose across history, of which almost nobody on the team has any experience.
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** Metahumans in general are something completely out of left field as far as most authorities in the Arrowverse are concerned, and in the first season of ''The Flash'' they (and the legal system) have no way of dealing with them. By the third season there's a dedicated metahuman wing at Iron Heights prison, Central City police are getting outfitted with special gear to deal with them, and are cooperating with the local superheroes.
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** Metahumans in general are something completely out of left field as far as most authorities of Earth-1 in the Arrowverse are concerned, and in the first season of ''The Flash'' they (and the legal system) have no way of dealing with them. By the third season there's a dedicated metahuman wing at Iron Heights prison, Central City police are getting outfitted with special gear to deal with them, and are cooperating with the local superheroes.
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* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Most of the problems the Fringe team face are out of their context, but the shapeshifters, and the improved ones in particular, come right out of the left field for them. But the crown contender is [[spoiler:The Invaders, time-travelling cyborgs who want the present day so they can ruin it. The only person who even suspected they were coming was William Bell. And when they do arrive, they quickly curbstomp the entire planet.]]
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** [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]]: The police and military who wind up encountering the villain are not UNIT, and thus unaware that they are dealing with [[spoiler:a Dalek]]. As a result, they either fail to realize it's a threat until too late, or suffer an utter CurbStompBattle when they try to destroy it with [[FiveRoundsRapid conventional weaponry]].
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Most of the problems the Fringe team face are out of their context, but the shapeshifters, and the improved ones in particular, come right out of the left field for them. But the crown contender is[[spoiler:The [[spoiler:the Invaders, time-travelling cyborgs who want the present day so they can ruin it. The only person who even suspected they were coming was William Bell. And when they do arrive, they quickly curbstomp the entire planet.]]
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Most of the problems the Fringe team face are out of their context, but the shapeshifters, and the improved ones in particular, come right out of the left field for them. But the crown contender is
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Judging Picard - and by extension, all of Humanity - to have grown overconfident and complacent, Q engineers such a situation. He transports the ''Enterprise'' several thousand light years from home, and right in the path of the Borg. The Borg are so powerful and so alien that the crew find they can do nothing against them. Not even escape. It's only through Q's intervention that they even survive. This was retconned later into Q ''averting'' this trope; the Borg were already on their way (making use of a SchrodingersGun from the first season of outposts mysteriously disappearing) and this engineered encounter gave them enough of a warning to survive.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Species 8472]]. They're the first species that the Borg can't assimilate, and one of their bioships can destroy 15 cubes.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Species 8472]]. They're the first species that the Borg can't assimilate, and one of their bioships can destroy 15 cubes.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' seldom has these, but when they do, they're doozies:
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Judging Picard - and by extension, all of Humanity - to have grown overconfident and complacent, Q engineers such a situation. He transports the ''Enterprise'' several thousand light years from home, and right in the path of the Borg. The Borg are so powerful and so alien that the crew find they can do nothing against them. Not even escape. It's only through Q's intervention that they even survive. This was retconned later into Q ''averting'' this trope; the Borg were already on their way (making use of a SchrodingersGun from the first season of outposts mysteriously disappearing) and this engineered encounter gave them enough of a warning to survive.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Species 8472]]. 8472 from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager.'' They're the first species that the Borg can't assimilate, and one of their bioships can destroy 15 cubes.cubes.
** Getting back to ''Next Generation:'' In season 3, there's an episode called [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted "The Hunted"]] that features Roga Danar, one of numerous former soldiers from the planet Angosia, who have been [[SuperSoldier enhanced with superhuman abilities]] in order to fight their wars. Unfortunately, they become renegades, and even prisoners, afterward, when there's no place in society for them. When the ''Enterprise'' crew are forced to deal with a rogue Danar, they find themselves completely unprepared for someone who can NoSell phaser blasts, block their own life signs from scanners, and - get this - ''resist the transporter beam.''
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Judging Picard - and by extension, all of Humanity - to have grown overconfident and complacent, Q engineers such a situation. He transports the ''Enterprise'' several thousand light years from home, and right in the path of the Borg. The Borg are so powerful and so alien that the crew find they can do nothing against them. Not even escape. It's only through Q's intervention that they even survive. This was retconned later into Q ''averting'' this trope; the Borg were already on their way (making use of a SchrodingersGun from the first season of outposts mysteriously disappearing) and this engineered encounter gave them enough of a warning to survive.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's
** Getting back to ''Next Generation:'' In season 3, there's an episode called [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted "The Hunted"]] that features Roga Danar, one of numerous former soldiers from the planet Angosia, who have been [[SuperSoldier enhanced with superhuman abilities]] in order to fight their wars. Unfortunately, they become renegades, and even prisoners, afterward, when there's no place in society for them. When the ''Enterprise'' crew are forced to deal with a rogue Danar, they find themselves completely unprepared for someone who can NoSell phaser blasts, block their own life signs from scanners, and - get this - ''resist the transporter beam.''
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** Spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E5E6SecretsOfTheStars "Secrets of the Stars"]] has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
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** Spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E5E6SecretsOfTheStars "Secrets of the Stars"]] has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using with astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
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** ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': "Secrets of the Stars" has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
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** ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff Spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E5E6SecretsOfTheStars "Secrets of the Stars" Stars"]] has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
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** Other spinoff ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' acquired this problem in its first (and only) season finale: [[spoiler:[[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Governors]] turn out to work for the [[EldritchAbomination Weeping Angels]], and are plotting to unleash some sort of ''Angel god''. While Weeping Angels are previously known to ''Doctor Who'' fans, not a single one of the protagonists of this show has ever heard of them, and in fact don't yet know about the true threat, much less how to deal with it.]] Unfortunately, due to the show's cancellation, if this is ever resolved, it probably [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised won't be on TV]].
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** Other spinoff ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' acquired this problem in its first (and only) season finale: finale, [[Recap/ClassS01E08TheLost "The Lost"]]: [[spoiler:[[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Governors]] turn out to work for the [[EldritchAbomination Weeping Angels]], and are plotting to unleash some sort of ''Angel god''. While Weeping Angels are previously known to ''Doctor Who'' fans, not a single one of the protagonists of this show has ever heard of them, and in fact don't yet know about the true threat, much less how to deal with it.]] Unfortunately, due to the show's cancellation, if this is ever resolved, it probably [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised won't be on TV]].
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[[OutsideContextProblem Outside-Context Problems]] in live-action TV.
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* Each season of ''Series/The100'' so far has ended with a new, completely unforeseeable problem for the main characters to face:
** The 100 spent season one fighting against [[FuturePrimitive Grounders]] until the last episode revealed that the [[TheDreaded Mountain Men]], previously thought to be another clan of natives, were in fact the remnant of the US government and military and by far the most technologically advanced faction in the story.
** In season two, the main storyline dealt with the conflict with Grounders and Mountain Men [[spoiler:the former becoming allies of the heroes, and the latter being exterminated.]] But the secondary plot ends up introducing A.L.I.E., an [[AIIsACrapshoot evil A.I.]] responsible for the nuclear apocalypse who tries to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate]] the last remains of mankind, and who comes completely out of left field compared to the more down to earth survival tone of the rest of the show.
** At the end of season three A.L.I.E. revealed that nuclear plants all over the globe were about to go critical after a century of lack of maintenance and threatened to send enough radiation in the atmosphere to exterminate all life on Earth, a problem so far out of reach for people who still live in scavenged pieces of trash with no means of intercontinental transportation it's not even funny.
** The better part of season four is spent looking for ways to survive the deathwave instead of fighting a human enemy, so when a spaceship from the barely mentioned before "Eligius Corporation" lands on Earth at the end it comes as quite a surprise.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' shows that S.H.I.E.L.D. has a name for Outside Context Problems: 0-8-4, code for an object of unknown origin and utility. [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor's hammer was one]], and a laser weapon found in some ancient ruins was another. Obviously, eventually sometimes context ''is'' provided; they still don't know much about Mjolnir, but they know where it came from and who it belongs to. Likewise, the laser weapon turned out to be a device commissioned from [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger HYDRA]] during WWII. The code 0-8-4 had a simple explanation: the first Outside Context Problem they ever found (What ultimately turned out to be a Kree gene-splicing tool that killed anyone who touched it without first being properly prepped or descended from someone who had been prepped) was the 84th unique item that the SSR confiscated from HYDRA, and so ended up in a box with 084 stenciled on it.
** Season 4 introduces magic, in the form of ComicBook/GhostRider and [[TomeOfEldritchLore the Darkhold]], which even in a world of superpowers and aliens, make no sense to the characters whatsoever.
* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' villain Marcus Ayers explicitly calls himself - and all other Alphas - an "out-of-context problem" for normal humans. He then fatalistically points out that only way humans know how to deal with such a problem is to destroy it, [[spoiler:which they try to do to him shortly afterwards]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had many examples of this trope. The first was Sahjan, whose presence was not even explained to the ''audience'' until his final episode. Then there was The Beast, the cast given only vague warnings about its arrival and were outclassed by it in every possible way. ''Then'' there was [[EldritchAbomination Jasmine]], who had even ''less'' warning and was so beyond their experience the only way they acquired information of her at all was due to a visitor from her home dimension.
** And then things really get bad when Illyria wakes up. Her two episode introduction is more or less devoted to a long realization that this really is a [[EldritchAbomination horrible Lovecraftian]] PhysicalGod, not a poser, and that things like pointing guns or swinging swords at her are really quite quaint.
* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** When [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry]] shows up to rescue [[Series/{{Arrow}} Team Arrow]] and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Malcolm Merlyn]] from the League of Assassins in Nanda Parbat, it's shown that dealing with a true superhuman of the Flash's abilities is something that they are so ''utterly'' unprepared for. CurbStompBattle doesn't even begin to describe how effortlessly he takes out an entire fortress of highly skilled warriors in about 10 seconds.
** Metahumans in general are something completely out of left field as far as most authorities in the Arrowverse are concerned, and in the first season of ''The Flash'' they (and the legal system) have no way of dealing with them. By the third season there's a dedicated metahuman wing at Iron Heights prison, Central City police are getting outfitted with special gear to deal with them, and are cooperating with the local superheroes.
** The {{Crisis Crossover}}s of the Arrowverse pretty much ride on this. In the first, "Invasion!", the heroes have to team-up against the AlienInvasion of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Dominators]], who are bent on destroying all metahumans on Earth, and in the second, "Series/CrisisOnEarthX", they have to deal with [[ThoseWackyNazis an army of Nazis from an Earth]] where Germany won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy had Glorificus. Best exemplified by Buffy's [[OhCrap expression]] when told that Glory isn't a demon, but a [[PhysicalGod god]].
** Inverted by Warren Mears. Used to dealing with vampires, demons, and gods, Buffy wasn't prepared to deal with one AxCrazy human MadScientist.
** Even before Warren Mears, there was Ted, the titular killer robot from the episode "Ted". Buffy knew how to handle vampires and demons and things that went bump in the night, but a killer robot who pretended to just be a guy? She had no idea how to deal until she figured out his secret.
** Also The Initiative as an organization - science intruding into a [[Main/FantasyKitchenSink fantasy world. ]]
* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'': Season Three introduces the Omec, a race from the Votanis System that everyone assumed didn't survive the system going nova. A rapacious, predatory species, they were considered demons and boogeymen by the other Votan races, and nobody mourned their apparent extinction. When they show up in Earth orbit with an Arkship of their own, that's actually quite a bit more advanced technologically than the other Votans, [[OhCrap nobody takes it well]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** By the show's basic premise, the Doctor is an Outside Context Hero. The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild very first episode]] of the show is about two schoolteachers concerned with the home life of an odd student; they go over to her address and instead find an old-fashioned Police Box with AlienGeometries belonging to a strange old man who turns out to be "not of this Earth". The GenreShift from a school-based drama to science fantasy is a phenomenal twist and the episode still packs quite a punch today, although [[LateArrivalSpoiler anyone who watches it is already spoiled for it]]. In the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens Series 5 finale]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang of the new series]], a large group of his enemies, none known for working well with others, pool their resources and abilities to trap him in the ultimate prison — as he was known for just "dropping out of the sky and ending your world".
** The villains of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker "The Celestial Toymaker"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield "Battlefield"]] have what appear to be actual magical powers, which stand out even in a science fiction series (even a Mohs/ScienceInGenreOnly show which uses a lot of MagicFromTechnology).
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors "The Ice Warriors"]] climate change scientists are trying to hold back a glacier, in a way that is clearly business as usual in the setting. Then one of the members finds a mummified body frozen in an ice floe and brings it back for research purposes. It turns out to be a Martian warrior downed in an ancient plane crash and trying to find its allies again. They are dependent on their computer to calculate probabilities and obsessively do what it says — naturally, it has no programming to deal with alien invasions, leaving them high and dry and forcing them to rely on the Doctor, for whom these things are more normal.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames "The War Games"]] is mostly a story about aliens kidnapping soldiers from various historical eras and making them fight each other, until (in the eighth episode of ten) the Doctor is [[spoiler:forced to summon the Time Lords to imprison the [[DiabolicalMastermind War Chief]], an evil Time Lord and get all of the kidnapped soldiers home. The Time Lords arrive and immediately break the plot, with irreversible consequences.]]
** Sutekh from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]] has such awesome power that, as the Doctor says, that if unleashed, even the Time Lords couldn't stand against him.
** The Beast from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]]. The Doctor is used to DoingInTheWizard, facing creatures that are just using technology or tricks to make themselves look fearsome. So when he faces something claiming to be from "before time", and the actual Devil, he has no idea what to do.
** In an entertaining twist on this trope, the Doctor becomes such an out-of-context problem for his enemies that, between seasons 5 and 7, he becomes very much permanently in-context. The overall storyline spanning three whole seasons involves multiple convoluted plots throughout all of time to get rid of him, planned by a coalition of his worst enemies (accompanied by quite a few monsters-of-the-week as filler). Pretty much every episode, even the typical plot-of-the-week ones, features some clue towards the nature the overarching conspiracy. Every time the Doctor encounters any recurring villain (and, for that matter, quite a few new ones), they seem to have been expecting him. Until he decides he "got too big" and goes up and down time and space erasing all possible record of his existence during Season 7. By Season 8 he's almost entirely unknown again.
** ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': "Secrets of the Stars" has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
*** And then Luke, who wasn't born and therefore has no astrological sign to allow the Ancient Lights to control him, breaks the villain's plan, essentially making him an Outside Context Problem to the Outside Context Problem.
** Other spinoff ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' acquired this problem in its first (and only) season finale: [[spoiler:[[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Governors]] turn out to work for the [[EldritchAbomination Weeping Angels]], and are plotting to unleash some sort of ''Angel god''. While Weeping Angels are previously known to ''Doctor Who'' fans, not a single one of the protagonists of this show has ever heard of them, and in fact don't yet know about the true threat, much less how to deal with it.]] Unfortunately, due to the show's cancellation, if this is ever resolved, it probably [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised won't be on TV]].
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Most of the problems the Fringe team face are out of their context, but the shapeshifters, and the improved ones in particular, come right out of the left field for them. But the crown contender is [[spoiler:The Invaders, time-travelling cyborgs who want the present day so they can ruin it. The only person who even suspected they were coming was William Bell. And when they do arrive, they quickly curbstomp the entire planet.]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Aegon I Targaryen to the seven divided kingdoms he invaded, though not to Houses Tyrell and Tully, whom he elevated to their current ranks.
** As in the books, the White Walkers: an almost invincible enemy from the periphery of the world, thought to be mythical until they return, who convert [[ZombieApocalypse those who die fighting them into their own almost invincible soldiers]], whose motives for their conquest are not known although they are bent on it all the same.
** In Seasons 4—6, The High Sparrow. Neither Cersei nor Olenna are able to bend him to their will since, as an ascetic motivated purely by religion, he is blissfully immune to their blandishments of wealth and power, and not even King Tommen's interventions can persuade him to release Margaery or Cersei—mind you, his own wife and his mother—from his custody until they have repented of their sins.
* While occasional ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episodes deal with truly supernatural creatures, most episodes and seasons revolve around dealing with Wesen, beast-like creatures that live among us and can only be seen by Grimms. Then along comes the sixth and final season, where the BigBad appears to be [[spoiler:the Wesen ''devil'' from their version of Hell, who doesn't appear to be able to be harmed by anything, even automatic bursts at full-auto. This Zerstörer ("destroyer" in German) slaughters an entire precinct full of cops, kills Hank, Wu, Eve, Renard, Adalind, Monroe, Rosalee, and Trubel with ease. Fortunately, he can't stand up to four angry Grimms: Nick, Trubel (resurrected by Zerstörer), and the ghosts of Nick's mom and aunt, and his staff turns out to have TimeTravel properties, rewinding everything back to before the creature arrived to our world]].
** In a way, Nick is this to the Wesen. Grimms are the boogeymen that all Wesen are taught to fear from birth. With some exceptions, Wesen reaction to realizing Nick is a Grimm is pants-wetting fear.
* The last half of season 2 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is shown to be controlled, at least in part, by Peter Pan. While people on both sides of the fourth wall had probably been expecting him since Captain Hook showed up, it's doubtful they thought it'd be as a villain. The first hint we see of him is his disembodied shadow coming to take lost and forgotten boys to Neverland, and even when he is finally shown in person, he's still different from anything they've experienced before. He controls Neverland completely, he can out-gambit Rumpelstiltskin, manipulate people without trying, and even those who have faced him before are unsure how to defeat him, or even if he ''can'' be. [[spoiler:The most startling thing about him is that he has ties to the entire main cast--he's Rumpel's ''father'', making him Neal's grandfather and Henry's great-grandfather--and no one had any inkling of the possibility of his interference]].
** The main villains in the latter half of season 2 are two humans from The Land Without Magic and not fairy tale or literature characters (although they are allied with Peter Pan).
* In Season 4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', criminal masterminds Dominic and Elias struggle for control of organised crime in New York, only to be gunned down in the SeasonFinale thanks to the machinations of an ArtificialIntelligence whose existence they're not even aware of.
* ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' has Rita and Zedd from the previous seasons celebrating on how they just blew up the Rangers' base, when the Machine Empire randomly comes along and decides to invade Earth, too. Though Rita and Zedd are PutOnABus for much of the season, the Rangers' retrieval of the Zeo Crystal gives them new powers and weaponry to stop the Machine Empire's plans. Somewhat lampshaded- once they're settled in at their new base beneath the old one, the Rangers immediately start bombarding Zordon and Alpha with questions, causing Alpha to have a nervous breakdown.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' as well:
** Initially, the Goa'uld themselves. The Earthers thought the one they'd killed in the movie was the LastOfHisKind and that they'd eliminated any threat to Earth when they took it out. Not so much...
** The Replicators, an extragalactic, mechanical HordeOfAlienLocusts who make all kinds of trouble for SG-1 and its allies and eventually invade the Milky Way. By then SG-1 had some experience with them, but the Goa'uld still saw them as this trope.
** Anubis, whom the System Lords thought had died eons ago after his banishment. Turns out he was NotQuiteDead. His return in Season 5 forces both the System Lords and the Earth/Tok'ra/Free Jaffa alliance to shift their priorities from each other to the new enemy.
** The Ori in the last two seasons. For nearly a decade the heroes have been fighting the Goa'uld, whose modus operandi is to use technology to trick primitives into thinking they're gods. Now they have to fight aliens who by almost any definition ''are'' gods.
** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs, run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Judging Picard - and by extension, all of Humanity - to have grown overconfident and complacent, Q engineers such a situation. He transports the ''Enterprise'' several thousand light years from home, and right in the path of the Borg. The Borg are so powerful and so alien that the crew find they can do nothing against them. Not even escape. It's only through Q's intervention that they even survive. This was retconned later into Q ''averting'' this trope; the Borg were already on their way (making use of a SchrodingersGun from the first season of outposts mysteriously disappearing) and this engineered encounter gave them enough of a warning to survive.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Species 8472]]. They're the first species that the Borg can't assimilate, and one of their bioships can destroy 15 cubes.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Several episodes deal with [[{{mundanger}} crazy humans]], leaving Dean bewildered. He even lampshades in the first episode with one of these villains that he can understand all sorts of supernatural things, like ghosts, vampires, demons, etc. It's ''humans'' he has trouble dealing with. "Demons I get. Humans are just crazy."
** Ironically, the first time Sam and Dean actually fought a demon in "Phantom Traveler", it was portrayed in this manner, being vastly more powerful than anything they'd faced until that point.
** Angels, especially Archangels, also qualify as this when first introduced. Angels hadn't been on Earth for millennia at the start of the series, so almost no human knew how to fight them when [[spoiler:they tried to bring about the Apocalypse]]. As more and more angel-killing weapons are introduced, and [[spoiler:the Archangels are all killed off]], they lose this status. Lucifer and Michael in particular, being immune to typical angel-killing weapons like angel blades, the Colt, and holy fire, take this to the next level.
** Alphas, similarly, were thought by many hunters to be myths before they appeared. They're hard to fight as they are immune to the typical weaknesses of their species. Crowley, however, quickly discovers that iridium can hurt them.
** Eve, the mother of all monsters, appears as a DiscOneFinalBoss in S6. Not only is she herself an example, again not having been on Earth for millennia, but she is made even more so by the fact that she has the ability to make new Outside-Context Villains, meaning that the season has a lot of them.
** The end of the season has yet another one, with [[spoiler:Castiel]], having become a PhysicalGod after [[spoiler:absorbing the souls of Purgatory]]. The Winchesters are forced to [[spoiler:[[SummonBiggerFish bind Death himself]]]] in order to have a chance against him.
** S7 has yet another with the Leviathans, beings locked in Purgatory by God at the beginning of time to stop them from killing everything else. They can't be killed by anything except other Leviathans [[spoiler:and "the bone of a righteous mortal cloaked in the three bloods of the fallen" (the blood of a fallen angel, the blood of the king of demons, and the blood of an Alpha)]].
** Season 11 introduces Amara, who is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:''God's sister''.]] Given her [[TimeAbyss age]] and power level, it's a while before anyone really has ''any'' idea of how to deal with her.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Short-lived series]] ''Series/{{Threshold}}'' was premised on the US government turning to the plans of the one person for whom alien invasion ''was not'' an Outside Context Problem. Many of the complications with her plans come from either the aliens being more insidious than she'd anticipated, or resistance and disbelief from everyone else for whom the aliens ''are'' completely outside their context.
* In ''Series/UltraSevenX'', most aliens seem considerably outclassed by the title hero. It turns out [[spoiler:Ultraseven is the ''Showa'' timeline Ultraseven who learned of the BigBad aliens when they [[MuggingTheMonster attempted to invade his universe]] and crossed over. Ultras don't exist in that universe whereas in his original timeline an Ultra showing up to stop an AlienInvasion amounts to 'oh no! It's the cops!' So even the main villains have little ability to deal with him at his full power.]]
* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Ezekiel, the leader of the Kingdom, keeps a ''pet tiger'' named Shiva; he was a former zookeeper and rescued her when she was injured in her exhibit. Said pet tiger is understandably rather out-of-place in a zombie apocalypse, and every survivor who meets her doesn't quite know what to make of her. This comes in very handy when the Kingdom fights back against the Saviors at the end of Season Seven; she's the first one to jump in, and her presence distracts everyone long enough for the Kingdom's forces to come in.
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* Each season of ''Series/The100'' so far has ended with a new, completely unforeseeable problem for the main characters to face:
** The 100 spent season one fighting against [[FuturePrimitive Grounders]] until the last episode revealed that the [[TheDreaded Mountain Men]], previously thought to be another clan of natives, were in fact the remnant of the US government and military and by far the most technologically advanced faction in the story.
** In season two, the main storyline dealt with the conflict with Grounders and Mountain Men [[spoiler:the former becoming allies of the heroes, and the latter being exterminated.]] But the secondary plot ends up introducing A.L.I.E., an [[AIIsACrapshoot evil A.I.]] responsible for the nuclear apocalypse who tries to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate]] the last remains of mankind, and who comes completely out of left field compared to the more down to earth survival tone of the rest of the show.
** At the end of season three A.L.I.E. revealed that nuclear plants all over the globe were about to go critical after a century of lack of maintenance and threatened to send enough radiation in the atmosphere to exterminate all life on Earth, a problem so far out of reach for people who still live in scavenged pieces of trash with no means of intercontinental transportation it's not even funny.
** The better part of season four is spent looking for ways to survive the deathwave instead of fighting a human enemy, so when a spaceship from the barely mentioned before "Eligius Corporation" lands on Earth at the end it comes as quite a surprise.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' shows that S.H.I.E.L.D. has a name for Outside Context Problems: 0-8-4, code for an object of unknown origin and utility. [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor's hammer was one]], and a laser weapon found in some ancient ruins was another. Obviously, eventually sometimes context ''is'' provided; they still don't know much about Mjolnir, but they know where it came from and who it belongs to. Likewise, the laser weapon turned out to be a device commissioned from [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger HYDRA]] during WWII. The code 0-8-4 had a simple explanation: the first Outside Context Problem they ever found (What ultimately turned out to be a Kree gene-splicing tool that killed anyone who touched it without first being properly prepped or descended from someone who had been prepped) was the 84th unique item that the SSR confiscated from HYDRA, and so ended up in a box with 084 stenciled on it.
** Season 4 introduces magic, in the form of ComicBook/GhostRider and [[TomeOfEldritchLore the Darkhold]], which even in a world of superpowers and aliens, make no sense to the characters whatsoever.
* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' villain Marcus Ayers explicitly calls himself - and all other Alphas - an "out-of-context problem" for normal humans. He then fatalistically points out that only way humans know how to deal with such a problem is to destroy it, [[spoiler:which they try to do to him shortly afterwards]].
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had many examples of this trope. The first was Sahjan, whose presence was not even explained to the ''audience'' until his final episode. Then there was The Beast, the cast given only vague warnings about its arrival and were outclassed by it in every possible way. ''Then'' there was [[EldritchAbomination Jasmine]], who had even ''less'' warning and was so beyond their experience the only way they acquired information of her at all was due to a visitor from her home dimension.
** And then things really get bad when Illyria wakes up. Her two episode introduction is more or less devoted to a long realization that this really is a [[EldritchAbomination horrible Lovecraftian]] PhysicalGod, not a poser, and that things like pointing guns or swinging swords at her are really quite quaint.
* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** When [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry]] shows up to rescue [[Series/{{Arrow}} Team Arrow]] and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Malcolm Merlyn]] from the League of Assassins in Nanda Parbat, it's shown that dealing with a true superhuman of the Flash's abilities is something that they are so ''utterly'' unprepared for. CurbStompBattle doesn't even begin to describe how effortlessly he takes out an entire fortress of highly skilled warriors in about 10 seconds.
** Metahumans in general are something completely out of left field as far as most authorities in the Arrowverse are concerned, and in the first season of ''The Flash'' they (and the legal system) have no way of dealing with them. By the third season there's a dedicated metahuman wing at Iron Heights prison, Central City police are getting outfitted with special gear to deal with them, and are cooperating with the local superheroes.
** The {{Crisis Crossover}}s of the Arrowverse pretty much ride on this. In the first, "Invasion!", the heroes have to team-up against the AlienInvasion of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Dominators]], who are bent on destroying all metahumans on Earth, and in the second, "Series/CrisisOnEarthX", they have to deal with [[ThoseWackyNazis an army of Nazis from an Earth]] where Germany won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy had Glorificus. Best exemplified by Buffy's [[OhCrap expression]] when told that Glory isn't a demon, but a [[PhysicalGod god]].
** Inverted by Warren Mears. Used to dealing with vampires, demons, and gods, Buffy wasn't prepared to deal with one AxCrazy human MadScientist.
** Even before Warren Mears, there was Ted, the titular killer robot from the episode "Ted". Buffy knew how to handle vampires and demons and things that went bump in the night, but a killer robot who pretended to just be a guy? She had no idea how to deal until she figured out his secret.
** Also The Initiative as an organization - science intruding into a [[Main/FantasyKitchenSink fantasy world. ]]
* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'': Season Three introduces the Omec, a race from the Votanis System that everyone assumed didn't survive the system going nova. A rapacious, predatory species, they were considered demons and boogeymen by the other Votan races, and nobody mourned their apparent extinction. When they show up in Earth orbit with an Arkship of their own, that's actually quite a bit more advanced technologically than the other Votans, [[OhCrap nobody takes it well]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** By the show's basic premise, the Doctor is an Outside Context Hero. The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild very first episode]] of the show is about two schoolteachers concerned with the home life of an odd student; they go over to her address and instead find an old-fashioned Police Box with AlienGeometries belonging to a strange old man who turns out to be "not of this Earth". The GenreShift from a school-based drama to science fantasy is a phenomenal twist and the episode still packs quite a punch today, although [[LateArrivalSpoiler anyone who watches it is already spoiled for it]]. In the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens Series 5 finale]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang of the new series]], a large group of his enemies, none known for working well with others, pool their resources and abilities to trap him in the ultimate prison — as he was known for just "dropping out of the sky and ending your world".
** The villains of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker "The Celestial Toymaker"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield "Battlefield"]] have what appear to be actual magical powers, which stand out even in a science fiction series (even a Mohs/ScienceInGenreOnly show which uses a lot of MagicFromTechnology).
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors "The Ice Warriors"]] climate change scientists are trying to hold back a glacier, in a way that is clearly business as usual in the setting. Then one of the members finds a mummified body frozen in an ice floe and brings it back for research purposes. It turns out to be a Martian warrior downed in an ancient plane crash and trying to find its allies again. They are dependent on their computer to calculate probabilities and obsessively do what it says — naturally, it has no programming to deal with alien invasions, leaving them high and dry and forcing them to rely on the Doctor, for whom these things are more normal.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames "The War Games"]] is mostly a story about aliens kidnapping soldiers from various historical eras and making them fight each other, until (in the eighth episode of ten) the Doctor is [[spoiler:forced to summon the Time Lords to imprison the [[DiabolicalMastermind War Chief]], an evil Time Lord and get all of the kidnapped soldiers home. The Time Lords arrive and immediately break the plot, with irreversible consequences.]]
** Sutekh from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]] has such awesome power that, as the Doctor says, that if unleashed, even the Time Lords couldn't stand against him.
** The Beast from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]]. The Doctor is used to DoingInTheWizard, facing creatures that are just using technology or tricks to make themselves look fearsome. So when he faces something claiming to be from "before time", and the actual Devil, he has no idea what to do.
** In an entertaining twist on this trope, the Doctor becomes such an out-of-context problem for his enemies that, between seasons 5 and 7, he becomes very much permanently in-context. The overall storyline spanning three whole seasons involves multiple convoluted plots throughout all of time to get rid of him, planned by a coalition of his worst enemies (accompanied by quite a few monsters-of-the-week as filler). Pretty much every episode, even the typical plot-of-the-week ones, features some clue towards the nature the overarching conspiracy. Every time the Doctor encounters any recurring villain (and, for that matter, quite a few new ones), they seem to have been expecting him. Until he decides he "got too big" and goes up and down time and space erasing all possible record of his existence during Season 7. By Season 8 he's almost entirely unknown again.
** ''Series/DoctorWho'' spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': "Secrets of the Stars" has the cast dealing with an astrologer who can control people using astrology using something called the Ancient Lights, despite it supposedly being impossible — even their supercomputer is unable to deal with it since astrology breaks the laws of physics. Finally they theorise that [[spoiler:the Ancient Lights come from a universe that predates ours, one where the laws of physics are different and astrology worked]].
*** And then Luke, who wasn't born and therefore has no astrological sign to allow the Ancient Lights to control him, breaks the villain's plan, essentially making him an Outside Context Problem to the Outside Context Problem.
** Other spinoff ''[[Series/Class2016 Class]]'' acquired this problem in its first (and only) season finale: [[spoiler:[[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Governors]] turn out to work for the [[EldritchAbomination Weeping Angels]], and are plotting to unleash some sort of ''Angel god''. While Weeping Angels are previously known to ''Doctor Who'' fans, not a single one of the protagonists of this show has ever heard of them, and in fact don't yet know about the true threat, much less how to deal with it.]] Unfortunately, due to the show's cancellation, if this is ever resolved, it probably [[TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised won't be on TV]].
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Most of the problems the Fringe team face are out of their context, but the shapeshifters, and the improved ones in particular, come right out of the left field for them. But the crown contender is [[spoiler:The Invaders, time-travelling cyborgs who want the present day so they can ruin it. The only person who even suspected they were coming was William Bell. And when they do arrive, they quickly curbstomp the entire planet.]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Aegon I Targaryen to the seven divided kingdoms he invaded, though not to Houses Tyrell and Tully, whom he elevated to their current ranks.
** As in the books, the White Walkers: an almost invincible enemy from the periphery of the world, thought to be mythical until they return, who convert [[ZombieApocalypse those who die fighting them into their own almost invincible soldiers]], whose motives for their conquest are not known although they are bent on it all the same.
** In Seasons 4—6, The High Sparrow. Neither Cersei nor Olenna are able to bend him to their will since, as an ascetic motivated purely by religion, he is blissfully immune to their blandishments of wealth and power, and not even King Tommen's interventions can persuade him to release Margaery or Cersei—mind you, his own wife and his mother—from his custody until they have repented of their sins.
* While occasional ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episodes deal with truly supernatural creatures, most episodes and seasons revolve around dealing with Wesen, beast-like creatures that live among us and can only be seen by Grimms. Then along comes the sixth and final season, where the BigBad appears to be [[spoiler:the Wesen ''devil'' from their version of Hell, who doesn't appear to be able to be harmed by anything, even automatic bursts at full-auto. This Zerstörer ("destroyer" in German) slaughters an entire precinct full of cops, kills Hank, Wu, Eve, Renard, Adalind, Monroe, Rosalee, and Trubel with ease. Fortunately, he can't stand up to four angry Grimms: Nick, Trubel (resurrected by Zerstörer), and the ghosts of Nick's mom and aunt, and his staff turns out to have TimeTravel properties, rewinding everything back to before the creature arrived to our world]].
** In a way, Nick is this to the Wesen. Grimms are the boogeymen that all Wesen are taught to fear from birth. With some exceptions, Wesen reaction to realizing Nick is a Grimm is pants-wetting fear.
* The last half of season 2 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is shown to be controlled, at least in part, by Peter Pan. While people on both sides of the fourth wall had probably been expecting him since Captain Hook showed up, it's doubtful they thought it'd be as a villain. The first hint we see of him is his disembodied shadow coming to take lost and forgotten boys to Neverland, and even when he is finally shown in person, he's still different from anything they've experienced before. He controls Neverland completely, he can out-gambit Rumpelstiltskin, manipulate people without trying, and even those who have faced him before are unsure how to defeat him, or even if he ''can'' be. [[spoiler:The most startling thing about him is that he has ties to the entire main cast--he's Rumpel's ''father'', making him Neal's grandfather and Henry's great-grandfather--and no one had any inkling of the possibility of his interference]].
** The main villains in the latter half of season 2 are two humans from The Land Without Magic and not fairy tale or literature characters (although they are allied with Peter Pan).
* In Season 4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', criminal masterminds Dominic and Elias struggle for control of organised crime in New York, only to be gunned down in the SeasonFinale thanks to the machinations of an ArtificialIntelligence whose existence they're not even aware of.
* ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' has Rita and Zedd from the previous seasons celebrating on how they just blew up the Rangers' base, when the Machine Empire randomly comes along and decides to invade Earth, too. Though Rita and Zedd are PutOnABus for much of the season, the Rangers' retrieval of the Zeo Crystal gives them new powers and weaponry to stop the Machine Empire's plans. Somewhat lampshaded- once they're settled in at their new base beneath the old one, the Rangers immediately start bombarding Zordon and Alpha with questions, causing Alpha to have a nervous breakdown.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' as well:
** Initially, the Goa'uld themselves. The Earthers thought the one they'd killed in the movie was the LastOfHisKind and that they'd eliminated any threat to Earth when they took it out. Not so much...
** The Replicators, an extragalactic, mechanical HordeOfAlienLocusts who make all kinds of trouble for SG-1 and its allies and eventually invade the Milky Way. By then SG-1 had some experience with them, but the Goa'uld still saw them as this trope.
** Anubis, whom the System Lords thought had died eons ago after his banishment. Turns out he was NotQuiteDead. His return in Season 5 forces both the System Lords and the Earth/Tok'ra/Free Jaffa alliance to shift their priorities from each other to the new enemy.
** The Ori in the last two seasons. For nearly a decade the heroes have been fighting the Goa'uld, whose modus operandi is to use technology to trick primitives into thinking they're gods. Now they have to fight aliens who by almost any definition ''are'' gods.
** And, of course, Stargate Command and the Tau'ri (Earth humans) in general are this to the Goa'uld. They had a nice little system set up where they could squabble with one another, had a treaty with the Asgard to keep them off their backs, run their own little kingdoms as they wanted... and then a small group of primitives from a long-forgotten world shows up and proceeds to kick their asses so hard that a system that survived millennia goes down in under a decade.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Judging Picard - and by extension, all of Humanity - to have grown overconfident and complacent, Q engineers such a situation. He transports the ''Enterprise'' several thousand light years from home, and right in the path of the Borg. The Borg are so powerful and so alien that the crew find they can do nothing against them. Not even escape. It's only through Q's intervention that they even survive. This was retconned later into Q ''averting'' this trope; the Borg were already on their way (making use of a SchrodingersGun from the first season of outposts mysteriously disappearing) and this engineered encounter gave them enough of a warning to survive.
** And from the Borg's perspective, there's [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Species 8472]]. They're the first species that the Borg can't assimilate, and one of their bioships can destroy 15 cubes.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Several episodes deal with [[{{mundanger}} crazy humans]], leaving Dean bewildered. He even lampshades in the first episode with one of these villains that he can understand all sorts of supernatural things, like ghosts, vampires, demons, etc. It's ''humans'' he has trouble dealing with. "Demons I get. Humans are just crazy."
** Ironically, the first time Sam and Dean actually fought a demon in "Phantom Traveler", it was portrayed in this manner, being vastly more powerful than anything they'd faced until that point.
** Angels, especially Archangels, also qualify as this when first introduced. Angels hadn't been on Earth for millennia at the start of the series, so almost no human knew how to fight them when [[spoiler:they tried to bring about the Apocalypse]]. As more and more angel-killing weapons are introduced, and [[spoiler:the Archangels are all killed off]], they lose this status. Lucifer and Michael in particular, being immune to typical angel-killing weapons like angel blades, the Colt, and holy fire, take this to the next level.
** Alphas, similarly, were thought by many hunters to be myths before they appeared. They're hard to fight as they are immune to the typical weaknesses of their species. Crowley, however, quickly discovers that iridium can hurt them.
** Eve, the mother of all monsters, appears as a DiscOneFinalBoss in S6. Not only is she herself an example, again not having been on Earth for millennia, but she is made even more so by the fact that she has the ability to make new Outside-Context Villains, meaning that the season has a lot of them.
** The end of the season has yet another one, with [[spoiler:Castiel]], having become a PhysicalGod after [[spoiler:absorbing the souls of Purgatory]]. The Winchesters are forced to [[spoiler:[[SummonBiggerFish bind Death himself]]]] in order to have a chance against him.
** S7 has yet another with the Leviathans, beings locked in Purgatory by God at the beginning of time to stop them from killing everything else. They can't be killed by anything except other Leviathans [[spoiler:and "the bone of a righteous mortal cloaked in the three bloods of the fallen" (the blood of a fallen angel, the blood of the king of demons, and the blood of an Alpha)]].
** Season 11 introduces Amara, who is ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:''God's sister''.]] Given her [[TimeAbyss age]] and power level, it's a while before anyone really has ''any'' idea of how to deal with her.
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Short-lived series]] ''Series/{{Threshold}}'' was premised on the US government turning to the plans of the one person for whom alien invasion ''was not'' an Outside Context Problem. Many of the complications with her plans come from either the aliens being more insidious than she'd anticipated, or resistance and disbelief from everyone else for whom the aliens ''are'' completely outside their context.
* In ''Series/UltraSevenX'', most aliens seem considerably outclassed by the title hero. It turns out [[spoiler:Ultraseven is the ''Showa'' timeline Ultraseven who learned of the BigBad aliens when they [[MuggingTheMonster attempted to invade his universe]] and crossed over. Ultras don't exist in that universe whereas in his original timeline an Ultra showing up to stop an AlienInvasion amounts to 'oh no! It's the cops!' So even the main villains have little ability to deal with him at his full power.]]
* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Ezekiel, the leader of the Kingdom, keeps a ''pet tiger'' named Shiva; he was a former zookeeper and rescued her when she was injured in her exhibit. Said pet tiger is understandably rather out-of-place in a zombie apocalypse, and every survivor who meets her doesn't quite know what to make of her. This comes in very handy when the Kingdom fights back against the Saviors at the end of Season Seven; she's the first one to jump in, and her presence distracts everyone long enough for the Kingdom's forces to come in.
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