History Main / ArmyOfTheAges

** In the episode "A Good Man Goes to War", [[spoiler: The Doctor himself does this. He recruits the space-spitfires from Churchill's England, space pirates, a Sontaran, a lesbian Victorian detective Silurian, her girlfriend Jenny, and an entire army of Silurians. WordOfGod says that he wanted the immortal Captain Jack Harkness by his side as well, but the actor was busy making ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay''. ]]

** In the episode "A Good Man Goes to War", [[spoiler: The Doctor himself does this. He recruits the space-spitfires from Churchill's England, space pirates, a Sontaran, a lesbian Victorian detective Silurian, her girlfriend Jenny, and an entire army of Silurians. WordOfGod says that he wanted the immortal Captain Jack Harkness by his side as well, but he was [[TorchWood busy]]. ]]
*** Of course that last part [[FridgeLogic makes no sense]] when you consider that the army is being recruited from all across time.

* ''ANightAtTheMuseum'''s schtick in a nutshell. Note that "hero" and "villain" are subjective: Custer may be remembered as EvilIsHammy, but he's still a hero in the show. Alongside Sacajawea.

* The ''{{Fallout}} 3'' expansion "Mothership Zeta" has you team up with several cryogenically-preserved warriors on the alien spaceship: a military doctor from Operation Anchorage, a contemporary slaver, a wild west cowboy, and a samurai.

* The War Lord does this in the ''DoctorWho'' serial "The War Games".

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** A noteable example is during Avengers Forver were Kang allies with the Avengers to fight a ArmyoftheAges sent by his older self Immortalus.

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* The Fourth Ninja War arc of ''{{Naruto}}'' features heavy use of a resurrection jutsu that brings back a wide range of ninja that had been previously killed. Even past villains the protagonists had faced.

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* The Fourth Ninja War arc of ''{{Naruto}}'' features heavy use of a resurrection jutsu that brings back a wide range of ninja that had been previously killed. Even past villains the protagonists had faced.

* The 2008 DCComics mini-series ''TheWarThatTimeForgot'' centered on this, with various characters from DC's war books dragged through time and dropped on Dinosaur Island.

One of the standard uses of TimeTravel for an EvilOverlord is to assemble is to pluck warriors from various wars throughout history and bring them through to the future (the EvilOverlord's present) and assemble them into an unbeatble fighting machine.

Occasionally more heroic entities will use this as a means of recruiting a TimePolice.

* The 2008 DCComics mini-series ''TheWarThatTimeForgot'' centred around this, with various characters from DC's war books being dragged through time and dropped on Dinosaur Island.
* Inverted in ''{{X-Men}}'', where Fitzroy tries to conquer the present (his past) with future sentinel technology. It finally backfires spectacularly when he opens a portal to a prison riot in the future, bringing in a horde of mutant inmates - Bishop follows.

* The title characters do this to battle Satan in ''TimeBandits''.

* This is the setting for FritzLeiber's ''Change War'' stories, but the stories are all told by grunts who have no understanding what the big picture.

* The recent first-person shooter ''{{Darkest Of Days}}''. Well, the organization that recruits you out of the American Civil War apparently isn't EVIL, and are more of a TimePolice. But they still do most of their recruitment by plucking skilled soldiers out of various wars throughout history, namely people who were considered 'missing in action' anyway.

* The 2008 DCComics mini-series ''TheWarThatTimeForget'' centred around this, with various characters from DC's war books being dragged through time and dropped on Dinosaur Island.