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* Literature/{{Dragonlance}}: During [[Literature/DragonlanceLegends The Dwarfgate War]] has Raistlin/Fistdantalius leading one of these consisting of people who are barely surviving after the Cataclysm. It doesn't take much to convince them they should take their chances trying to seize Thorbardin for themselves.

* Franchise/{{Dragonlance}}: During [[Literature/DragonlanceLegends The Dwarfgate War]] has Raistlin/Fistdantalius leading one of these consisting of people who are barely surviving after the Cataclysm. It doesn't take much to convince them they should take their chances trying to seize Thorbardin for themselves.

* The near-future thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' describes large-scale breakdowns in government services and public order as part of an economic doomsday scenario. When food disappears in the big cities, great hordes of gangsters, looters and simple people just trying to survive migrate out into the countryside to plunder farmers and small towns. They in turn are met by local police, militias and ad-hoc self-defense groups that shoot to kill with extreme prejudice, and the near-urban regions become savage battlefields before the swarming locusts exhaust themselves, succumbing to hunger and plagues.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', this happens with the batarians, who begin fleeing their home systems ''en masse'' when the Reapers invade. They did so in such numbers the Alliance thought at first the batarians were launching an invasion, but they fortunately figured out the batarians were just refugees quickly enough.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', as of the Utopia update, if your empire has decided to become psychic, you can talk to the Prethoryn Scourge and reveal that they fled their own galaxy and are survivors of something called The Hunters. They're only here to feed on the planets in the galaxy and will return to inter galactic space once that's over, dashing away any hope of peaceful teaming up against The Hunters.

** 1st Edition supplement ''Oriental Adventures'': In the section on randomly rolling up yearly events, one example of a Major Incursion was a barbarian horde that had been driven from its homeland.
** The ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''-inspired sourcebook "Explorer's guide to Wildemount" suggests a plot hook in which a group of migrating giants start causing a nuisance in Copia Wildwood, and a timber company foreman offers to pay a bounty for giant heads. When the party faces the giants, their sallow figures and haunted eyes hint at the fact that they're fleeing something much worse.

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K'': What the Imperials essentially are. The Xek-Tek Sector they hail from was about to come under siege from a [[SwarmOfAlienLocusts Tyranid Hivefleet]] tendril, and after Roboute Guilliman discovered that the [[SpacePirates Dark Eldar]] were lying in wait, and had arranged for a large number of Imperial forces to gather in one place so that the two enemies could destroy each other and leave the Imperial civilian populations virtually undefended and ripe for harvesting, he gave the order for them to evacuate. All of the people and resources in the Sector that could be withdrawn were loaded onto the ships, the planets were razed to deny the enemy what resources remained, and the combined armada of Battlefleet Xek-Tek, the three Astartes chapter fleets, and the other assorted military and civilian craft attempted to escape before the Tyranids and Drukhari could arrive, but were caught in a Warp Storm and were forced to make a risky jump into the Cicatrix Maledictum; thus being hurled through time and space to the ''Franchise/StarWars'' galaxy.

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40k'': What the Imperials essentially are. The Xek-Tek Sector they hail from was about to come under siege from a [[SwarmOfAlienLocusts Tyranid Hivefleet]] tendril, and after Roboute Guilliman discovered that the [[SpacePirates Dark Eldar]] were lying in wait, and had arranged for a large number of Imperial forces to gather in one place so that the two enemies could destroy each other and leave the Imperial civilian populations virtually undefended and ripe for harvesting, he gave the order for them to evacuate. All of the people and resources in the Sector that could be withdrawn were loaded onto the ships, the planets were razed to deny the enemy what resources remained, and the combined armada of Battlefleet Xek-Tek, the three Astartes chapter fleets, and the other assorted military and civilian craft attempted to escape before the Tyranids and Drukhari could arrive, but were caught in a Warp Storm and were forced to make a risky jump into the Cicatrix Maledictum; thus being hurled through time and space to the ''Franchise/StarWars'' galaxy.

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K'': What the Imperials essentially are. The Xek-Tek Sector they hail from was about to come under siege from a [[SwarmOfAlienLocusts Tyranid Hivefleet]] tendril, and after Roboute Guilliman discovered that the [[SpacePirates Dark Eldar]] were lying in wait, and had arranged for a large number of Imperial forces to gather in one place so that the two enemies could destroy each other and leave the Imperial civilian populations virtually undefended and ripe for harvesting, he gave the order for them to evacuate. All of the people and resources in the Sector that could be withdrawn were loaded onto the ships, the planets were razed to deny the enemy what resources remained, and the combined armada of Battlefleet Xek-Tek, the three Astartes chapter fleets, and the other assorted military and civilian craft attempted to escape before the Tyranids and Drukhari could arrive, but were caught in a Warp Storm and were forced to make a risky jump into the Cicatrix Maledictum; thus being hurled through time and space to the ''Franchise/StarWars'' galaxy.

* ''Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K'': What the Imperials essentially are. The Xek-Tek Sector they hail from was about to come under siege from a Tyranid Hivefleet tendril, and after Roboute Guilliman discovered that the Dark Eldar were lying in wait, and had arranged for a large number of Imperial forces to gather in one place so that the two enemies could destroy each other and leave the Imperial civilian populations virtually undefended and ripe for harvesting, he gave the order for them to evacuate. All of the people and resources in the Sector that could be withdrawn were loaded onto the ships, the planets were razed to deny the enemy what resources remained, and the combined armada of Battlefleet Xek-Tek, the three Astartes chapter fleets, and the other assorted military and civilian craft attempted to escape before the Tyranids and Drukhari could arrive, but were caught in a Warp Storm and were forced to make a risky jump into the Cicatrix Maledictum; thus being hurled through time and space to the ''Franchise/StarWars'' galaxy.

* The Germanic peoples who invaded Roman territory in the fourth and fifth centuries were fleeing from Hunnic expansion, during the UsefulNotes/TheMigrationPeriod. And many that weren't from continental Europe, such as the Burgundians and the Lombards, were fleeing the climate change and accompanying famine that was coming over Scandinavia at that time. Those who stayed behind became [[HornyVikings the Vikings]].

* After the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) toppled the Rwandan government, remnants of government loyalists and Génocidaires fled into neighboring Zaire. In the refugee camps on the Zairean border, the government loyalists organized themselves into rebel groups to raid the now RPF held Rwanda. Mobutu, the then president of Zaire, refused RPF demands to stop the attacks. Outraged by his inaction, the RPF government created a proxy rebel group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL), to overthrow Mobutu and stamp out Génocidaire remnant refugee bases. A Zairean dissident Laurent Kabila was installed as its' leader. The joint AFDL-Rwandan army [[CurbStompBattle captured all of Zaire and killed tens of thousands of Hutu refugees in just 6 months]]. Even after Mobutu's fall, Kabila had a falling out with his Rwandan backers, and [[HereWeGoAgain still continued to sponsor the Génocidaire remnants]]. The RPF tried forming another rebel group to remove Kabila and the still remaining ex government loyalists the following year, but this only resulted in a long and grueling statement.

** The Space Hunter Nebula M aliens of ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'' are giant alien cockroaches which want to take over the Earth because their own planet is being polluted beyond habitation, even for cockroach people, and Earth is similar enough to their original planet before the over-pollution.

* Crayak of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is said to be fleeing something even worse than him (or at least much more powerful. We don't know all the details). However, he did not achieve the godlike power that enables him to rival the [[BigGood Ellimist]] until after arriving.

* After the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) toppled the Rwandan government, remnants of government loyalists and Génocidaires fled into neighboring Zaire. In the refugee camps on the Zairean border, the government loyalists organized themselves into rebel groups to raid the now RPF held Rwanda. Mobutu, the then president of Zaire, refused RPF demands to stop the attacks. Outraged by his inaction, the RPF government created a proxy rebel group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL), to overthrow Mobutu and stamp out Génocidaire remnant refugee bases. A Zairean dissident Laurent Kabila was installed as its' leader. The joint AFDL-Rwandan army [[CurbStompBattle captured all of Zaire and killed tens of thousands of Hutu refugees in just 6 months]]. Even after Mobutu's fall, Kabila had a following out with his Rwandan backers, and [[HereWeGoAgain still continued to sponsor the Génocidaire remnants]]. The RPF tried forming another rebel group to remove Kabila and the still remaining ex government loyalists the following year, but this only resulted in a long and grueling statement.

* While the Sioux are probably the most iconic natives of the Great Plains, they weren't originally from there. After they were driven from their ancestral homeland along the Upper Mississippi by the Ojibwe, they moved westward to the plains, displacing many natives who were already there such as the Pawnee and Cheyenne. The name "Sioux" is not what they call themselves (they go by "Lakota" and "Dakota"), but a French corruption of other tribes' word for "enemy".

-> ''"Earth isn't a new home for them. It's a way station. They're on the run."''
-->-- '''Aloy''', ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest''

* In ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', Aloy and the others are led to believe that [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnFarZenith Far Zenith]] -- a group of wealthy elites who, after escaping the Faro Plague and using technology to become immortal -- intended on using GAIA to wipe out the Earth's biosphere and make it anew for their liking, their original colony having been destroyed in a natual disaster. By the very end however, the real reason is given: Far Zenith were stealing GAIA so that they could terraform a far-off planet, their original colony destroyed by a DigitalAbomination of their own making. This same DigitalAbomination attempted to scour the Earth by granting self-awareness to the [[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn first game's]] antagonist -- HADES -- and will most likely try again once it makes it to the Earth, so with or without GAIA chances of the Earth remaining habitable are slim.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', the Boov take over Earth because the Gorg destroyed their homeworld.

* In ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', Aloy and the others are led to believe that [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnFarZenith Far Zenith]] -- a group of wealthy elites who, after escaping the Far Plague and using technology to become immortal -- intended on using GAIA to wipe out the Earth's biosphere and make it anew for their liking, their original colony having been destroyed in a natual disaster. By the very end however, the real reason is given: Far Zenith were stealing GAIA so that they could terraform a far-off planet, their original colony destroyed by a DigitalAbomination of their own making. This same DigitalAbomination attempted to scour the Earth by granting self-awareness to the [[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn first game's]] antagonist -- HADES -- and will most likely try again once it makes it to the Earth, so with or without GAIA chances of the Earth remaining habitable are slim.

May result in a variation of PlanetLooters. See also ForebodingFleeingFlock. Depending on the severity of the danger, the invaders may simply [[WhyIsntItAttacking ignore]] whoever they run into.

Alternatively, the invaders' 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 preparing for the disaster when it reaches their home.

May result in the third variation of PlanetLooters. See also ForebodingFleeingFlock. Depending on the severity of the danger, the invaders may simply [[WhyIsntItAttacking ignore]] whoever they run into.

* The Baltans from ''Film/UltramanCosmosTheFirstContact'', having lose their home planet as result of a nuclear war, now targets our planet. Besides making Earth their new home, the Baltanian leader, Dark Baltan, is also a WellIntentionedExtremist who believe humans will destroy Earth with their own weapons, therefore having Earth suffer the same fate as Planet Baltan, and intends to prevent humanity from doing further damage -via saving the Earth by conquering it.