History Main / InvadingRefugees

May result in the third variation of PlanetLooters.

** In series 1, the Nestene consciousness in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]" and the Gelth in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead The Unquiet Dead]]" were fleeing the great Time War.
** In series 4, the Pyroviles in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]" had their planet taken by the Daleks as revealed in the series finale.
** In series 5, the fish-aliens in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E06TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" fled from the Silence through the cracks in the universe.
** In the anniversary special "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" the Zygons are preparing an invasion of Earth because their home planet was lost in the crossfire of the war between the Timelords and Daleks.

* The Honored Matres in the ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' universe (who appear in the last two Frank Herbert novels of the series, ''Heretics of Dune'' and ''Chapterhouse: Dune'') are aggressors who attack many worlds and wreak havok in the old Empire--but it is stated they are fleeing an even more powerful and terrible mysterious enemy.

* The Canim of the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' are eventually shown to be this, and the protagonists actually ''go'' to Canea and see what chased them away. The Thinking Machines.

* The Canim of the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' are eventually shown to be this, and the protagonists actually ''go'' to Canea and see what chased them away.

Our heroes' hometown is invaded or simply attacked suddenly by enemies, so they fight the invaders off. Later, they find out the invaders weren't actually invading, but actually [[WarRefugees fleeing]] from [[AlwaysABiggerFish something much worse than them]]. Can result in an EnemyMine in order to deal with the bigger threat.

* The Goths and Vandals who invaded Roman territory were fleeing from Attila the Hun.

* In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', the Votans arrive in space arks after fleeing the destruction of their solar system when its sun went nova.

Our heroes' hometown is invaded or simply attacked suddenly by enemies, so they fight the invaders off. Later, they find out the invaders weren't actually invading, but actually fleeing from [[AlwaysABiggerFish something much worse than them]]. Can result in an EnemyMine in order to deal with the bigger threat.

Our heroes' hometown is invaded or simply attacked suddenly by enemies, so they fight the invaders off. Later, they find out the invaders weren't actually invading, but actually fleeing from [[AlwaysBiggerFish something much worse than them]]. Can result in an EnemyMine in order to deal with the bigger threat.

Our heroes' hometown is invaded or simply attacked suddenly by enemies, so they fight the invaders off. Later, they find out the invaders weren't actually invading, but actually fleeing from something much worse than them. Can result in an EnemyMine in order to deal with the bigger threat.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': This turns out to be the reason dragons raid villages.

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* The Insects From Shaggai (AKA Shan) in Ramsey Campbell's CthulhuMythos stories. When their home planet was destroyed by a Mythos abomination, some of them fled to a succession of other planets, finally ending up on Earth. They're still pretty evil by human standards.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'': The night elves of Northern Kalimdor initially take a dim view of the orcs and humans who have arrived on their continent and despoiled their forests, even when it becomes clear that they are refugees fleeing from [[TheUndead The Scourge]] and [[TheLegionsOfHell The Burning Legion]]. But they eventually join an EnemyMine alliance once it becomes clear that The Legion poses a much bigger threat to them and their beloved forests than the refugees.

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* In ''The CareBears Nutcracker Suite'', the train ends up besieged by what turn out to be [[LaResistance a small army of badly-injured toys]]: having failed to overthrow the [[BigBad Evil Vizier]] responsible for [[BigGood the Prince]]'s disappearance, they were trying to commandeer the train in order to flee the [[SugarApocalypse soon-to-be-ruined]] [[SugarBowl Toyland]].

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** As the Toa Metru journeyed through the Maze of Shadows, they were frequently attacked by Rahi running in their direction. After some battle they realize these Rahi were fleeing something away from where they were heading.

* Several races in the revived ''Series/DoctorWho'' tried to colonise Earth because their home worlds were destroyed by some greater threat. To wit:

* In the backstory for ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'', we find out that the forerunners have had a history of conflict with humans, leading to the Didact's current hatred of them. In reality, humanity was just trying to wipe out the flood, and fled from infected planets into inhabited ones

* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'': this turns out to be the reason dragons raid villages.

* In ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'', the Gargoyles, who are presented as [[LegionsOfHell demonic invaders at first]], are eventually revealed to be fleeing to Britannia from the collapse of their homeworld, [[spoiler:inadvertently caused by the Avatar's own actions in the two previous games]].

Our heroes' hometown is invaded or simply attacked suddenly by enemies, so they fight them off. Later, they find out the invaders weren't actually invading, but actually fleeing from something much worse than them. Can result in an EnemyMine in order to deal with the bigger threat.

Alternatively, the invader's home may have been or about to be lost to a disaster and the heroes may help them in restoring their home, finding them a new one, or prepare for the disaster when it reaches their home.