History Main / TheSiege

* Siege of the Charm fortress and the Lady's tower in first novel from ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'' by Glen Cook. Although[[spoiler: the defenders held Lady's tower]], due to considerable number of [[EvilSorcerer powerful sorcerers]] serving both sides and usage of magical [[WeaponOfMassDestruction weapons of mass destruction]], almost all of the attackers and defenders were wiped out.

* Back in 134 BC, the Iberian hillfort of Numantia, in today's Spain, held off a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Numantia siege by the Roman Army for 13 months]]. In the end, the surviving defenders chose to suicide rather than be killed or captured by the Romans. To this day, the Spanish language has the adjective/noun ''numantino'', meaning "he who tenaciously resists to the limit, often on precarious conditions."

* In ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'', the Burgundians are too moronic to properly maneuver their SiegeEngines... until Myth/KingArthur finds a way to coordinate them, rendering them able to besiege Kaamelott in the climax and allowing him to retake it from TheUsurper, Lancelot.

* ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}'': In the 11th century, a band of Frisians make several attempts to storm the tower of Norman feudal warlord Chrysagon de la Cruex (Creator/CharltonHeston) and save their little prince who's held hostage inside, with the help of the angry villagers who want the bride Chrysagon took out of DroitDuSeigneur back. They use various methods including an attempt at infiltration by night (sabotaging the drawbridge's chains doing so), destroying the door with a BatteringRam made with a tree trunk, [[IncendiaryExponent burning the tower's door]] and finally using a siege tower. They fail every attempt, and they could have overwhelmed Chrysagon's forces on the last attempt had Chrysagon's brother Draco not brought [[TheCavalry reinforcements]] with a catapult.

* The climax of ''Film/StrawDogs'' has a microcosmic siege, when five thugs try to break into Dustin Hoffman's house, and he proceeds to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass not allow violence against his house]].

-->-- ''Film/StrawDogs''

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': In Chapter 12, a portion of Phobos' forces under Frost's command assault [[TheAlcatraz Cavigor]] in order to free and recruit the prisoners there. Even with reinforcements sent by Elyon, the defenders are soon overwhelmed and forced to hole up inside the prison and try to ward off further attacks. [[spoiler: In Chapter 14, Frost uses the [[EliteMooks Razor Khan]] to infiltrate the prison and force the doors open for his main troops, while a reserve force breaks in through a secret underground tunnel. By Chapter 15, the prison has fallen to them.]]

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': One of the later arcs of the Web Novels has Akira, most of TheSquad he has teamed up with by that point, as well as the RagTagBunchOfMisfits Hunter Gang Akira’s been building up with Sheryl defending their territory in the slums from a mechanized force of the Lion Steel MegaCorp on the outside, as well as several PrivateMilitaryContractors hired by them attacking from the inner part of the technically neutral city of Kugamayama on the other. It’s a multi-phase battle with the defenders trying to protect the fortified HomeBase gang headquarters, seeing whole swaths of the slums flattened. It ends with TheCorruption brought by the gone mad leader of the Lion Steel forces assimilating technology and corpses into monsters to attack all sides[[spoiler:, finally prompting the Kugamayama City defenders to be NeutralNoLonger. This was all the result of TheConspiracy by multiple parties to try and demonstrate the power of the Lion Steel co to help recruit an A.I. into the company, and they pay everyone hush money.]]

** Also famously averted in the back story as well. The incident which first made Tywin Lannister infamous was a series of battles with defiant lords who had been used to the Lannisters being an [[PuppetKing Puppet Lords]] and having things their own way. In one of the battles, with the Reynes of Castamere, the Reynes and their garrison retreated into a series of mines, knowing that the Lannisters would suffer unthinkable casualties trying to storm the narrow mines and weren't equipped for a siege, so they thought they could outwait the Lannisters. Instead Tywin ordered the exits of the mines sealed and [[KillItWithWater diverted a local river to flow into the mines]]. No need for a siege if every single man, woman, and child of your enemies has drowned in the darkness.

* The entire premise of ''Literature/{{Legend}}'' by Creator/DavidGemmell: the garrison of the fortress of Dros Delnoch must hold on against [[TheHorde the Nadir army]] to buy enough time for their country to levee an army. Most of Gemmel's books will end with The Siege and/or LastStand

* ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted:'' One of Drogo's rival khals spends three weeks trying to penetrate the outer walls of Saath. Once he finally does (after taking heavy losses), he finds that the locals have built a second wall directly behind the first one, and now he has to try to penetrate that.
* Morally inverted in ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'', where the Wolf has been using Harrenhal as a base and demands that the Seven Kingdoms come and besiege ''him''. The lords of Westeros are kind of iffy on the idea, but fortunately Red Priests show up to convince them that letting the Chaos Gods run around would be a ''very bad idea''.

%%* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' combines this with DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu. [[note]]''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' combines ''everything'' with DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu.[[/note]]

* Mystery Inc. spends the back end of ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'' trapped in a "[[SerialNumbersFiledOff Mall Mart]]" surrounded by monsters.
* Of course, ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' is about a siege. Asgard, the city of the gods, is under siege by the Dark Avengers, H.A.M.M.E.R. and an army of superheroes of the 50 states initiative. Then TheCavalry (the good Avengers, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Patriot]]) shows up, but [[spoiler:Asgard was destroyed by Sentry]].
* Issue 175 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had Eggman not only pull off a siege on Knothole, he razed it to the ground.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction, an outbreak of {{Artificial Zombie}}s in the ElaborateUndergroundBase forces the handful of survivors who aren't killed and/or taken to hole up for days on end in makeshift barracks while waiting for Monarch to send rescue.
%%* Basically the entire plot of ''FanFic/EnemyOfMyEnemy''.

* The climax of ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' is the siege of Jerusalem by Saladin's forces.

* ''Film/{{Siege}}'' is a harrowing documentary short filmed inside Warsaw during the German siege of September 1939.

** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' features the Siege of Gondolin, except unlike the above examples, Morgoth's forces succeed in taking the city, with only a remnant of its population escaping.

from a barricaded log cabin to a massive CitadelCity with stone walls, and the must hold off an overwhelming enemy force against impossible odds. The besiegers have surrounded the good guys so no resupply is possible, and they are attacking the defenders from a distance with ranged weapons and by trying to breach the walls. The besiegers can resupply with fresh troops and weapons but the besieged grow weaker each day. Can they hold out?

The good guys must hold off an overwhelming enemy threat against impossible odds.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]], though it was slightly subverted in that the good guys did not actually end up holding off the evil Daleks, and by the end of the episode, every main ''and'' minor character, with the exception of Rose Tyler, was [[KillEmAll dead]]. Two [[TheNthDoctor get]] [[BackFromTheDead better]].