History Main / UndefeatableLittleVillage

* Seeking the supersoldier Frank Simpson, [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]] seeks the hidden village of Saloth, in Vietnam. He finds it, but there are no adult men: just children, women and elders. One of those elders told cap that he's not the first big and strong guy who shows up giving orders, but that they defeated all the previous ones and used them to feed the pigs. Cap ignored him as a senile folk... and then discovers the secret: the children, women and elders are '''all''' super soldiers.

* The Village of Kun Lun in ''Liturature/SupposeAKidFromTheLastDungeonBooniesMovedToAStarterTown'' seems to be a simple little town in the middle of no where, right on the edge betweem human and demon territory. Few people outside of the village even believe it to exist.

''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'': Pop Star is a lush, idyllic planet in a backwater corner of the universe that periodically comes under attack by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, {{Evil Sorcerer}}s, warlords, and others, all seeking to conquer it or plunder its resources. Pop Star is also home to Kirby, a tiny pink puffball described as a being of infinite power, and his friends are no slouches themselves. Each game usually ends with the villain(s) dead along with their entire power base, aside from cases of DefeatMeansFriendship, as Kirby is a child who doesn't really hold grudges.

* During an arc of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', it's revealed that a small town near the Canadian border ended up playing this role for a crime-syndicate who had, previously, used it as a center for their smuggling operations. The reason? KnifeNut TykeBomb Quasi-Immortal Oasis, whose most recent reincarnation had turned out unusually sane and kindhearted, had made it her {{Protectorate}}. Wearing a red hoodie, she turned into the vigilante 'Red Riding Hood' and simply stabbed any criminal who dared enter the city. The syndicate finally sent a top-tier, highly-paid ProfessionalKiller - a master assassin. He managed to kill her, but obviously didn't know about the 'Quasi-Immortal' bit, and wound up getting stabbed anyway. He sought alternate employment with great rapidity at that point.

* A neo-nazi version is Kinsland in David Lane's novel ''KD rebels'', which is a small mountain area taken by white supremacists which somehow are capable of keeping the United States federal government at bay. The title itself is an acronym for "Kinslad's Defense". Although instead of defense the main protagonist kidnaps two white striper girls to be his (at first) unwilling wives... (yes, is that kind of novel).

* Buenos Aires, in Argentina, during the wars of independence of the 19[[superscript:th]] century that involved the whole of Latin America. There were patriots and royalists, similar to the patriots and loyalists of the US of some decades earlier. Some cities had patriot revolutions but were recaptured and then liberated again (Santiago, Sucre, La Paz), and others stayed as royalist strongholds for some time, resisting against the patriots, until the patriots finally prevailed (Lima, Montevideo, Asunción). Buenos Aires had its revolution as early as 1810, and it was never recaptured. There was even a time by 1816 that only Buenos Aires and its areas of influence were still free.

* TheSmurfs' Village is always facing terrible (for them) enemies like evil wizards, giants, predators, etc.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' is the TropeNamer. The Gaulish village is not the only case: there are similar undefeatable little villages in Britain and Spain (which is [[GenreSavvy lampshaded]] by Caesar, who is sure he had seen something like that somewhere else). Corsica is only nominally under Roman rule: yes, there are Romans there, but they are completely incapable of making the Corsicans do anything (be it accept a Roman registration of the house, or just load some boxes onto a ship). This is quite {{Ironic}}, as the earliest known example of this trope was a ''Roman'' city assaulted by a mostly ''Gaulish'' force (see Real Life below).

** Somewhat more justified than most other entries, while Redwall's inhabitants are mostly peaceful creatures the abbey itself is a fortified castle built to survive a siege. It has it's own orchards, gardens, fields and a freshwater pond with edible fish living in it; their stores are usually well stocked with fresh and preserved food and a full wine cellar. As pointed out in the first book, Redwall is virtually self-supporting. The few times vermin get inside the abbey is mostly defenseless, it's getting inside that's the hard part.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', the Ewoks are a sort of a tiny Teddy Bear take on this.

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* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', the Ewoks are a sort of midget Teddy Bear take on this.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series, Scuttle Town has proven difficult to pillage for Risky Boots, since it's protected by the title half-genie. Naturally, the town immediately gets imperiled any time Shantae is on exile or held up elsewhere. It only gets left alone when Risky goes to the same island resort Shantae is vacationing in.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series, Scuttle Town has proven difficult to pillage for Risky Boots, since it's protected by the title half-genie. Naturally, the town immediately gets imperiled any time Shantae is on exile or held up elsewhere.

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* From a cosmic perspective, planet Earth may be counted as this in the MarvelUniverse. A tiny planet which has not even colonized its moon, but has resisted time and again against the Kree Empire, the Skrull Empire, the Shi'Ar Empire, Ego, the Phoenix force, the Celestials... and even drove Galactus away, and humbled him near to death.
* In the ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' album "The Good Prince", TheEmpire is severely shaken by such a village, having sent more troops against it than it could afford to lose.

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* Buenos Aires, in Argentina, during the wars of independence of the 19th century that involved the whole of Latin America. There were patriots and royalists, similar to the patriots and loyalists of the US of some decades earlier. Some cities had patriot revolutions but were recaptured and then liberated again (Santiago, Sucre, La Paz), and others stayed as royalist strongholds for some time, resisting against the patriots, until the patriots finally prevailed (Lima, Montevideo, Asunción). Buenos Aires had its revolution as early as 1810, and it was never recaptured. There was even a time by 1816 that only Buenos Aires and its areas of influence were still free.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' is the TropeNamer. The Gaulish village is not the only case: there are similar undefeatable little villages in Britain and Spain (which is [[GenreSavvy lampshaded]] by Caesar, who is sure he had seen something like that somewhere else). Corsica is only nominally under Roman rule: yes, there are Romans there, but they are completely incapable of making the Corsicans do anything (be it accept a Roman registration of the house, or just load some boxes onto a ship). This is quite {{Ironic}}, as the earliest known example of this trope was a ''Roman'' city assaulted by a mostly ''Gaulish'' force (see Real Life below).

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* The Italian city of Cremona ''started out'' as one, and the oldest example on record: founded by the Romans as a ''colonia'' (a town in recently conquered territory, with a large civilian population to show the benefits of Roman civilization and a garrison for protection) in Gaul-inhabitated northern Italy shortly before the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]], the arrival of Hannibal and his army caused a general revolt of the local populations, leaving Cremona cut off and [[TheSiege besieged]] for years until the Romans turned the tide. Her twin ''colonia'' of Placentia barely missed qualifying, as the Hannibal-aligned Gauls ultimately managed to burn it down-after ''eighteen years'' and Hannibal leaving Italy and being defeated at Zama getting them to lower their guard, with the Gaulish army eventually being wiped out the following year when they tried to attack Cremona and found pretty much ''Rome's entire military'' waiting for them.

** Goodsprings is one of these, if you decide to help them drive away the [[BombThrowingAnarchists Powder Gangers]]. If Caesar's Legion wins, and provided you didn't help the Powder Gangers destroy the town, the Legion passes up on conquering the Goodsprings, despite going RapePillageAndBurn everywhere else in the Mojave. Though, this may be a case of NotWorthKilling, since they're a town of 20 ranchers in a tactically unimportant location.
** The Boomers are another example -- except for the fact they have howitzers, missile launchers, assault rifles and eventually [[spoiler: a WWII bomber]] on hand.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', you can [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers train]] Big Town to be one.

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* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Goodsprings is one of these, if you decide to help them drive away the [[BombThrowingAnarchists Powder Gangers]]. If Caesar's Legion wins, and provided you didn't help the Powder Gangers destroy the town, the Legion passes up on conquering the Goodsprings, despite going RapePillageAndBurn everywhere else in the Mojave.[[note]] Though, this may be a case of NotWorthKilling, since they're a town of 20 ranchers in a tactically unimportant location.[[/note]]

* The Italian city of Cremona ''started out'' as one: founded by the Romans as a ''colonia'' (a town in recently conquered territory, with a large civilian population to show the benefits of Roman civilization and a garrison for protection) in Gaul-inhabitated northern Italy shortly before the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]], the arrival of Hannibal and his army caused a general revolt of the local populations, leaving Cremona cut off and [[TheSiege besieged]] for years until the Romans turned the tide. Her twin ''colonia'' of Placentia barely missed qualifying, as the Hannibal-aligned Gauls ultimately managed to burn it down-after ''eighteen years'' and Hannibal leaving Italy and being defeated at Zama getting them to lower their guard.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_House Pavlov's house]] during the battle of Stalingrad.

* A neo-nazi version is Kinsland in David Lane's novel ''KD rebels'', which is small mountain area taken by white supremacists which somehow are capable of keeping the United States federal government at bay. The title itself is a reference of this been acronym for "Kinslad's Defense". Although instead of defense the main protagonist kidnaps two white striper girls to be his (at first) unwilling wives... (yes, is that kind of novel).