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* In VladimirVasilyev's ''Death or Glory'' series, the Alliance is a group of 5 alien races: the clan-based reptilian [[TheReptilians Svaigh]] (the one to make FirstContact with humans), the avian Aczanny (small flight-capable birds) and Zoopht (ostrich-like flightless birds; technocrats), the insectoid [[InsectoidAliens Swarm]] (HiveMind; the most advanced race in the galaxy), and the crystalline [[SiliconeBasedLife Ayeshi]]. However, numerous other races exist but are either slaves or servants of the top Alliance races. Following the first novel, humanity joins the Alliance, despite the aliens initially consider humans to be little more than a curiosity (they consider sentient apes to be an evolutionary dead-end). The third and fourth novel take place centuries later, when two of the former servant races (the skeleton-like Shat-Tsurs and the shapeshifting [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Oaons]]) of the Aczanny secretly build an armada and launch a devastating assault on the complacent Alliance races. Naturally, only one race manages to put up [[HumansAreWarriors competent resistance]]. In the end, humans are the ones whom the Alliance rallies behind to defeat the new empire.

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* The Royal Crown Coalition in ''{{Erfworld}}'' is an alliance of royal sides devoted to destroying TheEmpire of Lord Stanley. Of course, the AlternateCharacterInterpretation would say that they're a group of religious fanatics who are only oppose Stanley because he challenges their beliefs about the superiority of royalty.
** Erfworld book one is essentially a {{Deconstruction}} of both this trope and of TheEmpire.
** Even more of a subversion in that about half of the members of the RCC were large enough to beat Stanly on their own with conventional warfare, they just wanted to make it a curbstomp battle.
* In ''{{A Mad Tea-Party}}'', Earth's ramshackle governments team up with some aliens to fight the giant alien robots.

** The plot of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is to form TheAlliance out of LaResistance. While the [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering Citadel Councillors dither]] and [[DyingLikeAnimals bury their heads in the sand]] about what to do against the Reaper invasion, Commander Shepard takes matters into their own hands and goes directly to the leaders of the respective government on their race's homeworlds to organise a war-summit and plan the counter-offensive.

* In Terry Brooks' ''{{Shannara}}'' series: the Freeborn Alliance, an alliance between the elves, dwarves, and the free human cities.

** Later on, this gets kicked UpToEleven -- [[spoiler:ol' massive Haven ends up ''joining'' the Alliance, in response to a mutual enemy that's an order of magnitude, perhaps multiple orders, larger than them and all previous alliance members combined.]]

* The Alliance for Democracy from [[TheDraka The Domination]] series, composed of the Americas, the British Isles and Oceania, as a direct counterpart to TheEmpire that is the Domination of the Draka.

* In the Marvel ''Transformers'' comics, the writers seemed to increasingly put the Autobots and Deceptions in positions where the two sides had to team up against some mutual threat including, but not limited to, Underbase-powered Starscream, Galvatron, the Swarm, the Cybertronian Empire, the Scraplets, the demons who live under the surface of Cybertron, Flame and his 'undead' army, the Quintessons and, most infamously, Unicron (several times). In fact, when Scorponok died in the defence of Cybertron from Unicron, he had a cool death scene and Optimus Prime mourned him as a friend. This approach won the approval of the faction of fans who preferred the idea of the Decepticons as free-thinking anarchists rather than being purely 'evil'. That said, these alliances inevitably collapsed whenever the greater enemy had been defeated.

* The Migar Council on ''Tracker'', although there were six worlds involved instead of five.

* ''MassEffect'' has the Citadel Council, run by the the Asari, the Turians and the Salarians, with Humanity getting the fourth seat at the end of the first game. Council membership is reserved for races that demonstrate the ability to protect and serve Galactic interests, while the other races have embassies allowing them to petition these leaders. The races who don't want to play by the rules aren't welcome in Citadel Space and tend to end up in the Terminus Systems, a lawless area of space made up of warring criminal factions.
** The Human government of ''MassEffect'' is actually called the Systems Alliance. However, it is more like TheFederation in terms of government, operating and protecting worlds colonised by Earth.

** The plot of ''MassEffect3'' is to form TheAlliance out of LaResistance. While the [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering Citadel Councillors dither]] and [[DyingLikeAnimals bury their heads in the sand]] about what to do against the Reaper invasion, Commander Shepard takes matters into their own hands and goes directly to the leaders of the respective government on their race's homeworlds to organise a war-summit and plan the counter-offensive.

* The Weave in AlanDeanFoster's ''The Damned'' trilogy.

This is to whom GondorCallsForAid. It may be the result of a GenghisGambit.

** In the book series ''StarTrekTyphonPact'', many of the second-tier powers form their own alliance. After the [[StarTrekDestiny Borg War]], featuring the end of the Borg, the Federation and the Klingons were severely weakened. The Romulans, Breen, Gorn, Tholians, Kinshaya and Tzenkethi, having seen the value in cooperation during the desperate conflict, formed the Typhon Pact to become the new superpower.