History Main / ConquerorFromTheFuture

* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Shendu tries to ensure his everlasting reign by rewriting the "Book of Ages". However, Jade manage to get a page from the book before it was rewritten, [[RippleEffectProofMemory so she remembers the "true" history of our world]], and thus manages to gather the heroes to take down Shendu and [[SetRightWhatOnceWasWrong restore history]].

* ChronoCross: After the events of ''ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler: Dalton, who's already pretty ticked off after Magus stole the queen's favor, and after Crono thwarted his takeover of Surviving Village in Antiquity, lands in the Dimensional Vortex, and he somehow gets into the present, and raises an army in Porre and conquers the entire kingdom of Guardia. Which, by the way, lasted for about 1000 years and is inhabited by player characters Crono, Marle, and Lucca (and the former two are possibly killed, but this is debated) I guess this is another example of "Conquerer from the Past."]]

* This is the plan of Spectre in the first ApeEscape, travel back to various points in history (from the dinosaurs onwards) to try and make monkeys (or chimps, or whatever primate they were supposed to be) the dominant species, not humans.

* In ''JackieChanAdventures'', Shendu tries to ensure his everlasting reign by rewriting the "Book of Ages". However, Jade manage to get a page from the book before it was rewritten, [[RippleEffectProofMemory so she remembers the "true" history of our world]], and thus manages to gather the heroes to take down Shendu and [[SetRightWhatOnceWasWrong restore history]].

* ''DoctorWho'' is full of these. The two most prominent examples are the Master, who is the EvilCounterpart to the Doctor's time traveling alien, and the Daleks, who are {{Cyborg}} aliens. Both want to conquer the universe...in all time periods, past, present, and future.

* jeffrey sinclair in Babylon Five is an heroic inversion, being coming from the future to be a defender against conquerors.

** Interestingly the Master and the Daleks come from the past.

* After the events of ''ChronoTrigger'', [[spoiler: Dalton, who's already pretty ticked off after Magus stole the queen's favor, and after Crono thwarted his takeover of Surviving Village in Antiquity, lands in the Dimensional Vortex, and he somehow gets into the present, and raises an army in Porre and conquers the entire kingdom of Guardia. Which, by the way, lasted for about 1000 years and is inhabited by player characters Crono, Marle, and Lucca (and the former two are possibly killed, but this is debated) I guess this is another example of "Conquerer from the Past."]]

** In addition, it is implied that mind flayers are an evolved form of ''humanity'', and the reason they implant their tadpoles into humans is because they are frightened of evolving ''too far'' (a tadpole deprived of a host long enough will metamophose into a beast called a neothelid).

* According to the ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'' book "Lords of Madness," the mindflayer empire was crumbling at about the same time that the universe was ending. So in one last attempt to save themselves, they traveled billions of years into the past, where the games we play take place. And since they conquered the universe once, they'll probably be able to do it again. They even use their time to study "lesser" civilizations, in an effort to improve their own by avoiding the flaws of everything non-illithid.

* Interestingly the Master and the Daleks come from the past.

* ''DoctorWho'' is full of these. The two most prominent examples are the Master, who is the EvilCounterpart to the Doctor's time traveling alien from the future, and the Daleks, who are {{Cyborg}} aliens from the future. Both want to conquer the universe...in all time periods, past, present, and future.

* Inverted in RobertAHeinlein's "By His Bootstraps". The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the world's "dictor" (dictator). Apparently the people from the future have become too soft or something.

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* The Japanese, when attacking Pearl Harbor, crossed the International Date Line, from December 1st to November 30th, thus striking at the US fleet from one day in the future.

* Inverted in RobertAHeinlein's "By his bootstraps". The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the world's "dictor" (dictator). Apparently the people from the future have become too soft or something.

* In TheDCU, the most notable examples are Epoch, the self-proclaimed Lord of Time, who comes from the year 3786 to regularly have his butt handed to him by the {{JLA}}, Chronos the Time Thief, a present-day crook who acquires time travel technology for the same purpose, and the Time Trapper, who is from so far in the future that he is one of these to the LegionOfSuperHeroes, who live in the 30th century.

* The ''Series/LegionOfSuperheroes'' cartoon: in a reversal of the basic setup of "31st-century heroes summon 21st-century Superman to help", the second season has a 41st-century Superman clone summon the 31st-century heroes to help against the warlord Imperiex. Both the Superman clone and Imperiex remain in the 31st century (their past) for the rest of the season. (Note that this only applies to the cartoon Imperiex, not the comic character he was based on.)

* Pulled by HITLER of all people in ''FreedomForce''. [[spoiler:First, he gets his ass kicked in the past. He waits, gets time travel equipment, goes BACK in to the past with new superpowers AND technology. Then he uses his timemachine to pull endless army from the FUTURE where he has won thanks to his new toys. You got to admit, that one is one big and awesome plan.]]
** I don't think that was Hitler.

* [[MahouSenseiNegima Chao Linshen]] is a subversion: the major antagonist for a huge portion of the story, bringing advanced technology from the future to meet her goal, she seems like this, but with two key differences: a) she doesn't want to conquer the world, just break the ExtraStrengthMasquerade ''earlier'' and thus prevent a tragedy, and b) she's arguably not even a WellIntentionedExtremist, because she specifically ''avoids'' going to moral extremes [[GenreSavvy to avoid becoming one]]: She doesn't lie, and [[TechnicalPacifist doesn't kill]]: her army of robot minions are equipped with [[TheNudifier disarmament beams]].

** The Scarlet Centurion also appears in Marvel's alternate-universe ''SquadronSupreme'' limited series, albeit without the ContinuitySnarl baggage.