Fanfic / Earth's Alien History

Earth's Alien History or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Mistrust the Xenos is a collaborative fanfic started by Neshomancer on AlternateHistory.com which can be found here if you happen to be a member of that site, and also on Sufficient Velocity and on Spacebattles.

The story starts out detailing the history of Earth as it deals with Alien Invasion after alien invasion starting at the tail end of the 19th century. It later evolves into a full on Space Opera as Earth and its allies become a Galactic power. The story is still ongoing and currently starting the 24th century. The story is a Massively Multiplayer Crossover that features characters and races from many famous works of science fiction such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Worldwar, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, just to name a few.

A spinoff called Earth's Alien History: Andromeda Dreams has been started, which is set to chronicle colonists sent from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy. It can be found here.

Another spinoff entitled Earth's Alien History: Ring of Fire, which crosses over with the 1632 series, has been started and can be found here.

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Tropes in this story:

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• Actor Allusion: Beka Valentine is noted to look just like William Boone's dead wife. Both characters were played by Lisa Ryder.
• Accidental Hero: The events of the Mekon War ended up unintentionally helping the galaxy deal with the Reapers in two major ways. First, because the Mekon's upgrades to Sovereign were mistaken for being standard issue among Reapers, everyone ends up overestimating how powerful they are, and end up overpowered themselves. Secondly, by detonating an Omega Particle Bomb right on top of the Citadel, the Harvest is delayed for decades.
• Ace Pilot: James T. Kirk takes this role in the Reaper War.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Andrew "Ender" Wiggin in the Third Formic War.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Many races who were painted purely as enemies of humanity in their source material become much more heroic here.
  • According to Amazonian lore, most of the Greek gods were far less dickish than mainstream ancient Greek lore would have you believe: for example, Apollo never cursed Cassandra. The main exceptions are Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares.
  • Spock's brother Sybok, rather than being a cult leader, is a missionary working to bridge the divide between Vulcans and Romulans.
  • Dr. Halsey, and the SPARTAN program as a whole by extension, is much more moral than canon, recruiting adult volunteers rather than abducting children as test subjects.
  • Bowser is only trying to kidnap Princess Peach in order to expose to her how she's been reduced to a puppet by the corrupt Toad aristocracy, who are also engaging in repressive Fantastic Racism against non-Toad races.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Due to not being led by Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood is a much more dangerously amoral organization in this world.
  • Hal Jordan in this continuity is a loyal agent of Torchwood.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Diana's code name is "Power Woman" rather than "Wonder Woman", which instead goes to the one we know as Big Barda.
  • The SSV Normandy is now known as the ECS Thunder Child.
  • Tiberium is named Pandorium after the ship that discovered it on an alien world.
  • Odo is named Chorderna.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Due to being a Surakan Buddhist, Spock is more in touch with his emotions.
• Advanced Ancient Humans:
  • A common belief to explain why there are so many human-like races in the galaxy. The only problem is that most of them have their own theory on it, which for the most part contradict each other.
  • The Hainish are a surviving example of this trope.
• A God Am I:
  • Lord Drakkon sees himself as this, and to be fair with the power of a Heart of a Master he's pretty close.
  • Poison Ivy claims to be something of a god herself while trying to use her pheromones to defeat Drakkon.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted by the geth, Cybertronians, Medabots, and Net Navis. Digimon will continue this pattern at least for the most part.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Foreign philosophies like free capitalism and Marxism become popular among the working classes of the Klingon Empire as tensions rise in the 23rd century.
• Alien Catnip: Ginger to the Race as per Worldwar canon.
• Alien Invasion: Obviously. The sheer number Earth goes through over the years gets thoroughly lampshaded.
• Aliens Are Bastards: Humanity has this outlook early on. Not surprising considering what they've been through. Their outlook becomes more nuanced as they meet friendly aliens like the Prawns and Vulcans.
• All Nations Are Superpowers: Earth basically becomes this after the Race invasion, with the only human-run nations left being the United States, the Euro-Canadian Union, the Soviet Union, and the Empire of Japan. Subverted by French Polynesia and New Zealand, which are later established by the narrative as independent nations but very minor compared to the others.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us:
  • The Mekon and his allies seize control of the Citadel and proceed to invade and overrun most of Citadel space.
  • Any Reaper attack is technically this, though the most prominent examples are during the Final Offensive, when the Reapers target numerous polities' home worlds.
• The Alliance:
  • The Terran Treaty Organization (TeTO) is initially a mutual defense pact and free trade agreement between the remaining human nations of Earth and all their colonies. However, over time it grows to include most of the alien races they become friendly with, until it's essentially Star Trek's United Federation (but remaining somewhat decentralized, thus keeping it from actually being a case of The Federation).
  • During the Reaper War, the Romulans organize several other non-TeTO powers into the Pact of the Raptor, both for mutual defense and in order to compete with TeTO on a political and economic level. However, it is specifically stated to not be anti-TeTO in nature.
  • Also, during the Reaper War, the Harvesters and Vinn, who aren't members of either of the above blocs, form an alliance of their own, and place numerous planets and polities also not part of either TeTO or the Pact under their protection. Following the war, they solidify as the Shield Alliance.
  • During both the Five Galaxies and Reaper wars, all the major power blocs of the Alpha Quadrant come together to fight off their common enemies.
  • The Crusader Pact, an alliance of most of the races in the Jumpgate Sector who come together to fight the Drahk.
  • Following the Reaper War, the Continuum of Makers and the Grasskan Empire form a mutual defense pact, both to better prepare for potential future threats and to stay independent of the other growing power blocs.
  • The Mirror Universe has a Klingon-Andorian alliance emerge in response to the crippling of TeTO and the Mekon and his allies conquering Citadel space. Later, they're joined by the turians, after the collapse of the Mekon's coalition and the rise of the Terran Empire.
  • The Klingons never join TeTO but following the Praxis War they do forge a mutual defense and economic pact.
  • In Katie's Bad Future, the Maker-Grasskan alliance grows into the Mutual Defense League, a coalition of minor Alpha and Beta Quadrant powers seeking to survive after the Galactic Empire conquers the major powers.
  • During the Goa’uld War, TeTo is allied with the Yautja, the Klingons, the Free Jaffa, the Tok'ra, and the Crusader Pact. After the war, the latter two merge with TeTO, which is then rechristened the Galactic Treaty Organization (GaTO).
• Alternate History: Aside from the obvious changes brought about by the existence of all the various aliens invading Earth, there's some other notable changes:
  • California was colonized by the British instead of the Spanish.
  • Alexander Hamilton lived longer and served as the third President of the United States.
• Amazon Brigade: Quite literally. Themyscira provides many of these.
• Anachronic Order: Due to the timeline being put together piecemeal by numerous writers, some events are conceived and written up after other events that take place later than them. Fortunately, AH.com's threadmark option allows for all entries to be organized in the proper order for readers who don't mind skipping the comment sections.
• Androids Are People, Too: The Terran Treaty Organization takes this stance.
• And Show It to You: Bobbie Draper kills Salazar, the last of the renegade Asgard-made human Super Soldiers, by ripping his heart out of his chest.
• And Then What?:
  • A Harvester Queen realizes at one point that her people have no solid plans on what they'll do once they have their revenge on the Reapers, which they've been dedicated to for 50,000 years. Following the war, they and the Vinn (who likewise had no other purpose) drift aimlessly, before taking up a new role as the protectors of the members of the Shield Alliance.
  • After being modified into a Super-Soldier by the Asgard and then spending 50 years hunting down renegades created by the same process, Bobbie Draper finds herself without purpose after killing the last one. Thor offers her a place in his people's society, but she chooses to stay in the Milky Way, where the Doctor swiftly recruits her into the Conspiracy.
• Animal Companion: Lumia, the Pathfinder for the Romulans' Andromeda mission, has a pet treecat named D'Deridex.
• Animal Mecha: Several Power Rangers teams use these, naturally.
• Arc Villain:
  • The Mekon for the Mekon War.
  • Voss Ratarau for the Tesskan War.
  • The Reapers for the Reaper War, which is large enough to be a story unto itself.
  • Scorponok for the Revenant Crisis.
  • Rentuv for the part of the "Conflicts in Diplomacy" arc taking place on Trillus.
  • The Syrannites led by the Goa'uld Seth are the threat in the "Trouble on Vulcan" arc.
• The Ark: The various galactic powers send fleets of Colony Ships to Andromeda in order to ensure continuity of species in case the Reapers win. The Andromeda Dreams spinoff follows these colonists.
• Arm Cannon: Used by Samus Aran of Metroid fame and the Iron Man suits that are based off of her armor.
• Artifact Title: Especially the second part as humanity has a more nuanced view of aliens now.
• "Ass" in Ambassador:
  • Aisha Clanclan, who serves as the Ctarl-Ctarl ambassador to TeTO, is obnoxious and loudmouthed and thinks that the entire alliance should just bend over and give her people whatever they want.
  • Rentuv, the Vinn who serves as the Shield Alliance's ambassador to Trillus, becomes obsessed with the idea that the Vinn and the Trill symbiotes are related, and keeps insisting on studying them in order to prove it, ignoring how offended the Trills are by this. Ultimately, he resorts to trying to steal some. After he's arrested, it's made clear that he was acting entirely on his own authority and is left to hang by the Alliance.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: After the Enterprise away team easily defeat his elite soldiers, the Roxolani emperor surrenders his entire species to TeTO. Despite not wanting to be conquerors, they accept the surrender, and the Roxolani become a Race vassal species (due to the Race having experience uplifting less advanced cultures).
• Attack Drone: Used with some frequency in the Reaper War.
• Authority in Name Only: As the Fringe Colonies are officially part of the United States, nominally the US President is their head of state. In practice, however, their unusual quasi-independent legal status means that the actual leader of the region is the First Senator elected by and from the local population.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: The Visitors destroying entire cities is described as this, as it forces Torchwood to dispense with secrecy and unveil hidden weapons emplacements in order to counterstrike and destroy them.
• Avengers Assemble: The Doctor organizes a version of the Legends of Tomorrow to fight Faction Paradox.
• Badass Boast: Susan Ivanova gives a variant of her canon "God sent me" speech during the Reapers' second assault on Earth.
• Badass Family: The T'Soni/Aran extended family which also includes Amazonian royalty.
• Bad Future:
  • Future Trunks comes from one of these, as per his own canon.
  • Katie Marek comes from a future where the Galactic Empire conquers all the major Alpha and Beta Quadrant powers. Q sends her back to try and avert this by influencing events.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work:
  • The Reapers kill the Mekon, and inadvertently break the power of the Orion Syndicate.
  • While helping Blackfire take over Tamaran, the Romulans also wiped out the Citadel Empire (not to be confused with the Citadel Council alliance) who had been tormenting the Tamaraneans for years.
• Balkanize Me:
  • After their second Civil War between progressives and reactionaries, the Klingon Empire is permanently split between the democratic Klingon Republic and the authoritarian Empire of Kahless. The latter ends up further splitting when the Unas Klingons rebel to break away and form the Pure Klingon Empire.
  • At the end of the Goa'uld War, most of the former Goa'uld Empire falls under the control of the Free Jaffa Nation, with the exception of Bastet's domain (which is now controlled by the Ka'tee movement, who keep Bastet as a figurehead and don't want to join the FJN) and Raiden's planet (which becomes a GaTO associate, but is independent as long as the Mortal Kombat tournaments are going on).
• Batman Gambit: The entire story is really one of these by the Time Lords in an effort to prepare humanity to enter the Last Great Time War as soldiers.
• Battle Aura:
  • Considering that Saiyans are in this universe this is a given.
  • Satoshi also has this when his emotions run rampant.
• Battle Couple:
  • Benezia and Samus
  • Diana and Liara
  • Kauri the Klingon and Mala the Amazon
  • Steve Rogers/Captain America and Donna Troy.
  • The Legends of Tomorrow are made almost entirely made up of these. Trunks and, Tali, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt Vin and Galen
  • Hanka and Satoshi
• Battle Trophy: Yautja, better known as Predators, are famous for this.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension:
  • Kauri and Mala.
  • Ursa and Peedee
• Big Bad Ensemble: For the Remnant storyline, there's Salem and the Yeerks. They're mutually unknown and their ultimate goals are very different, though their short-term plans both involve increasing societal chaos in Remnant.
• Big Bad Wannabe:
  • The Mekon. It's not that he isn't threatening, he's actually the first major villain of the story, it's just that he inadvertently helps more than he hurts our heroes.
  • Voss Ratarau. The Romulan warbird he manages to capture and reverse-engineer into a handful of other ships altogether makes him a minor threat, but as he's going up against TeTO and the entire Romulan Empire, he's nowhere near as impressive as he thinks he is.
• Big Damn Heroes: Happens frequently.
• Big Good: The Doctor and Q are this.
• Big "NO!": Lord Drakkon says one when shaking off Poison Ivy's pheromones.
• Bio Data: Used by Faction Paradox.
• Bird People: The Chozo.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Many examples from many different source materials. The story's original examples are the Gemini, a race of turian/krogan hybrids created when Xerneas used its powers to restore all husks on the planet ARC3-US back to life, resulting in Brute-type husks becoming this race.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: The Race and their subject species the Rabotevs and Hallessi to the asari. Since these reptilian species have a mating season triggered by pheromones they are the first sapient aliens encountered by the asari to not be attracted to them at all. That makes the asari very uncomfortable around them.
• Blow You Away: Used often by Kryptonians.
• Body-Count Competition: Mala and Kauri do this.
• Boomerang Bigot: The Syrannites hate anyone and anything that isn't purely Vulcan, yet they're led by a human/Vulcan hybrid. Considering that their leader is actually the Goa'uld Seth, this further undercuts their whole belief system.
• Boxed Crook: The Time Lords forcibly recruit the Master to fight the Doctor for them. He happily does so, not caring for their agenda but just wanting to fight his Worthy Opponent again.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Anyone Indoctrinated by the Reapers or possessed by the Vinn.
• Brain Uploading: Rip is able to digitize a copy of Miranda's mind using technology derived from Medabot medals.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: Done by Terran Treaty Organization during the Reaper War to compensate for Reaper numbers. With the most notable example being the ECS Thunder Child.
• Break the Haughty: The Race as per Worldwar canon. Later the Citadel, the Five Galaxies from Uplift, and the Reapers all have this happen to them in turn.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Starfire's faith in TeTO takes a blow after learning that they're allowing Blackfire to stay in power.
  • Satoshi's faith in Arceus is shattered when Arceus sends him, Hanka, and Inara back in time to Hisui with their only sure way back being to catch every Pokémon, something Satoshi is vehemently against on a philosophical level.
• Bug War:
  • The Formic Wars and arguably the Harvester Invasions.
  • The Fringe Colonies' conflicts against the Arachnids.
• The Caligula: Matriarch T'Kell, the leader of the Last-of-all-Cities, is an utter psychopath who rules with an iron fist and lashes at anyone who disagrees with her. When a rival faction seems close to overthrowing her, she's perfectly willing to use a weapon that might destroy the whole planetoid her people are on to defeat them, seeing it as preferable to letting them win.
• Canon Welding: As part of the nature of the timeline:
  • The Roswell incident was the result of a Harvester scout ship colliding with Quark's time-displaced ship.
  • The Reapers destroyed the Precursors of both the Vinn and the Fithp, as well as the original homeworld of the Harvesters (thus rendering them nomadic).
  • The Iron Man armor is based off of Samus'.
  • Torchwood is in the place of Section 31. Also, it turns out that the alien attack on Queen Victoria that led to their formation in this universe was by the Goa'uld Osiris.
  • Mars is home to multiple species, including the Molluscs, the various Barsoomians, the Whites and Greens, and the Ice Warriors and Osirians.
  • Speaking of Mars, when talking about the Blisk's extinction at the hands of the Furons, it's mentioned that the later are ancestors of the Reticulans.
  • The technology of the Jaegers is based on that of Galalunan battle armors; later developments (namely access to zord technology) lead to the creation of Gundams. Also, genetic links are found between the Kaiju and the creatures of Mutraad, though the truth of this is never fully established.
  • Speaking of Galaluna, General Modula's coup is in this universe backed by the Mekon, who does so to frame the salarians for it, both to directly deny TeTO another potential ally and to taint their relationship with the Citadel.
  • Mankind's first Warp flight, which attracts the attention of the Vulcans, is here the Commodore Perry, on its way to the Race's Home.
  • The H'urq who invaded Q'onos in the Klingons' ancient past were actually Collectors. And the Klingons' "gods" were Goa'uld.
  • The Lazarus Concordance are renegade Time Lords.
  • The Genesis Project is inspired by the Votans' own terraforming technology.
  • The powers of Black Canary are actually inherited from Kira Ford.
  • The DEO combines aspects of its canon form with UNIT and SHIELD.
  • The Klikiss apparently based their Portal Network on the Stargates.
  • Philippa Georgiou grew up in Race territories on Earth, and becomes part of their military.
  • Vibranium and Ninja Steel are the same substance.
  • The events of Animorphs appear to be happening on Remnant instead of on Earth.
  • Enetron is actually a mispronunciation of Energon.
  • The Transformers plot lines themselves are an example of canon welding. They combine elements from Armada, Energon, Beast Wars, and the IDW comics.
  • The Demon World dimension from Dragon Ball is stated to be the source of demonic forces from various other series, namely Power Rangers (it's stated to be the home realm of Queen Bansheera, the Morlocks, and Master Xandred) and Devil May Cry (Sparda gets name dropped).
  • Toshiko Sato of Torchwood is the granddaughter of Hoshi Sato
  • Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers both take place in this universe.
  • Samus is used as a template for the Super-Soldier program that creates Captain America and later leads to the Spartan program.
  • Raiden is a Goa'uld, while Shao Khan is Darkseid's brother, with New Genesis standing in for the Elder Gods.
  • The Twelve Colonies of Kobol will not only be standing in for the Robotech/Macross version of Earth, but will also have numerous elements from the Marvel Universe added to them.
  • The Gargoyles are native to Mirinoi.
  • The Morphing Grid is revealed to be an artificial means of accessing the Force.
  • Mobius is located in the Lylat system.
  • The events of Power Rangers RPM and Generator Rex end up occuring in the Mirror-verse. Furthermore, the Nanite Event is a final "screw you" from Venjix.
  • Samantha Carter is descended from John Carter.
  • Omni-Man tries to conquer Earth for the Viltrumites because the Dominion devastated them and they need a place far away to rebuild. Though it turns out that while he's been on Earth, the remaining Viltrumites were annexed by the Planet Trade Organization.
  • Cora Harper and Seamus Harper are siblings.
  • Lucca is an ancestor of Bulma and Trunks.
  • Lavos and Jenova are Celestials.
  • Excalibur is the same sword as Masamune.
  • Hypnos is a division of the DEO.
  • Picard's ancestor Renee was onboard the Commodore Perry.
  • While most Picards settled in England after fleeing Nazi-occupied France, a few settled in Angel Grove.
  • Eve was the result of a Torchwood program to create metahumans loyal to them.
  • T'Kuma's breed of Klingons are a subspecies created by the Goa'uld mixing their DNA with that of the Unas.
  • Remnant's Gods of Light and Darkness were the previous Grand Supreme Kai and God of Destruction.
  • The Phoenix Gate was powered by the captive Phoenix Force.
  • Jack Harper/the Illusive Man is a member of the Illuminati and acts as The Mole inside Stargate Command.
  • Certain Marvel elements (including the Fantastic Four, Daredevil and Iron Fist) are transplanted to Gaea, along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and Invasion America. The primary author has also stated that they plan to have the events of Falling Skies occur there.
  • The TMNT stuff is also an example, as it uses both the 2003 version of the Shredder and Mei Pieh Chi.
  • Zim winds up landing on Mirinoi instead of Earth.
  • The MJOLNIR armor contains elements of Spellbinder tech.
  • John-117's last name is revealed to be Sheppard.
  • Adonalsuim was an Ori.
  • Peggy Carter was an agent of Torchwood.
  • The Asgard take the place of the MCU Asgardians.
  • "Future Guy" turns out to the Meddling Monk.
  • Queen Titania is speculated to be the mother of Zatanna.
  • Evidence is found that links the Goa'uld, Trill, and Vinn to a common ancestor.
  • PorygonZ was the result of Porygon2 being infected with the X-Virus by the Zhat Vash. It's also specualted that the resulting crisis is somehow tied to the Ten Days of Darkness.
  • Torchwood were the ones who gave Julian Bashir his genetic augmentation.
  • The TOS-era Klingons (ie., the ones without headcrests) are the result of the Empire of Kahless experimenting with the DNA of Kull warriors.
  • The events of Rom: Spaceknight are occuring in the Andromeda Galaxy.
  • The Dire Wraith's current homeworld is sated to have been conquered from the Meeps.
  • Mushroom World is located in the Andromeda Galaxy. Other Mario Bros. elements include the presence of Goombella and Mario and Luigi having the last name Mario.
  • Mario, Luigi, Pauline, and Kongs (here depicted as an UpliftedAnimals) are colonists on Mirinoi, and the construction site where Mario and Donkey Kong have their first fight is stated to be the skyscraper where Xanatos plans to place a certain castle.
• Chummy Commies: The Soviet Union seriously mellows out by the 23rd century, thanks to the leadership of Superman.
• Civil War:
  • The Mirror Universe version of TeTO undergoes one when Hoshi Sato and her supporters launch a military revolution to overthrow the various governments, ultimately succeeding and creating the Terran Empire.
  • The Praxis War is a Klingon civil war, as reactionary forces led by House Duras rebel against Chancellor Azetbur's more progressive regime.
  • The Klingons undergo a second civil war when the Kahless clone emerges and denounces Azetbur's reforms, allying with the Bloodwine Society to launch a rebellion, leading the frontier worlds against Azetbur's power base in the core, which is backed indirectly by TeTO via the Conspiracy of Light. In the end, a truce is called and the Empire split, with Azetbur's territories becoming the TeTO-aligned Klingon Republic, and the rebel worlds becoming the Empire of Kahless, a hermit kingdom with no allies.
  • During the Goa'uld War, several Goa'uld infiltrators trigger one of these in the Ildiran Empire. They accomplish this by infesting a Designate, surgically upgrading him to turn him into a makeshift Mage-Imperator, and then use aerosolized narcotics to weaken the wills of an entire planet and its fleet to bend them to his will, turning them against the legitimate Mage-Imperator.
• Combination Attack:
  • Vin, Galen Marek, Dante, and Adam Park pull one on Lord Drakkon with lasers, lightning and a really strong punch. It doesn't finish Drakkon off, but it hurts a lot.
  • Satoshi, Hanka, and Inara pull one on Giratina using the fully evolved Hisuian starters' signature moves.
• Composite Character:
  • Scorponok is one of his G1 and Energon selves (after the Battle of Hyrillka, Alpha Q takes his body and infuses it with his advisor's mind, who opts to take Sorponok's old identity as his own).
  • This universe's Enterprise is described as the reboot ship piloted by the TOS crew.
  • Hot Shot has elements of Hot Rod mixed in as he ends up becoming Rodimus Prime.
  • Dukat ends up filling in Chakotay's place on the Voyager.
• Conflicting Loyalty: When war breaks out on Remnant, Weiss is torn between her friends in Beacon and her family in Atlas, eventually reluctantly choosing the latter.
• Corrupt Politician:
  • The asari Matriarchs who are in power during the Reaper War are so determined to stay in power that they undermine and sabotage Marshal T'Drak's war effort just to make themselves and their allies look better. T'Drak exposes this to the public, then uses the public outcry as a mandate to arrest the Matriarchs and take power.
  • Torg, the Klingon governor of the Vantar system, takes advantage of the chaos of the Reaper War to make money by selling weapon and resources to the pirates roosting in the system. When this is uncovered during the post-war reconstruction, Mala and Kauri are sent to eliminate him for it.
• The Coup: During the summit on Mirinoi, the revelation that the Skrull Emperor has sent infiltrators enrages everyone, including the Skrull delegation led by Kl'rt, leading to serious discussion about enabling the latter to overthrow the former.
• Crapsack World: Earth in the early part of the timeline. Having to deal with many devastating attacks in a relatively short span, as well as a couple nuclear wars made Earth's climate quite volatile and drove humanity on Earth to the brink of extinction.
• Crisis of Faith: Mike Stearns is noted to have lost his faith due to wondering why God would allow all the alien invasions to happen.
• Culture Clash: As to be expected from having so many species interacting in the same setting, there's numerous examples shown of cultural norms and beliefs being exchanged among different races, with more conservative elements on either side often looking down on anything different from their own way of doing things.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • When the Roxolani arrogantly attack the Enterprise away team, their elite soldiers are taken down in minutes thanks to the technology gap.
  • The Vogon's attempt to destroy Earth ends this way, as TeTO's defense fleets easily overwhelm them.
  • The Goa'uld's outdated technology and tactics mean that they don't stand a chance against TeTO and their allies.
  • Hanka and Agumon X (in their merged WarGreymon form) deliver one to Giratina Origin Form. Digimon generally being much more powerful than Pokemon as a rule and having weapons designed to fight draconic enemies.
• Curb-Stomp Cushion: When the Reapers reach the Pokemon planet, Rayquaza flies into the sky to take them on. Despite being unable to beat back dozens of Reapers, Rayquaza manages to not only survive the encounter but take on several of them. The rest of the Pokemon doesn't necessary manage to defeat the Reapers, but fight them hard enough to send them on a retreat.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Apophis was one of the longest lasting villains in Stargate canon. Here, he doesn't survive his first encounter with Earth.
  • Neo is killed by Black Widow.
• Defector from Decadence:
  • The asari Diaspora which begins after the Mekon War is partly a result of more progressive asari getting sick of the stagnation brought about by the ruling conservative-minded Matriarchs.
  • During the Five Galaxies War, the Tymbrimi and Tytlal defect from the Five Galaxies to TeTO because they're disgusted by the small-mindedness of the other Galactics.
• Didn't Think This Through: Omni-Man is accused of this by the Flash, who questions how he thought he could take over Earth single-handed considering all the powerhouses there, not to mention the rest of TeTO.
• The Dog Bites Back: When the Klingons and Romulans disrupt the Collector's power on Knowhere, the oppressed workers rise up to help finish routing his forces.

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• Earth-Shattering Kaboom:
  • When Palaven is invaded by the Reapers, the turians trigger massive explosions along underground fault lines, breaking the planet apart to Mercy Kill those civilians who couldn't evacuate in time, preventing them from being Indoctrinated or taken as resources.
  • Several in Katie's future, as the Galactic Empire used Sun Crushers to destroy Kryptonian and Tamaranean worlds, and later used the Death Star on Earth itself.
  • The Klingons destroy at least one of their own overrun colonies to deny the Reapers a victory.
  • During the Reapers' Final Offensive, one of them suicide rams Tuchanka with a Naquadah asteroid, partially destroying the planet itself and rendering its surface uninhabitable.
  • Praxis explodes as per Star Trek canon, due to a chain reaction of exploding generators in the mines.
  • The Pact apparently destroy the Leviathans by blowing up their planet.
• Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: The Roxolani, from Harry Turtledove's short story "The Road Not Taken", fail even worse than in canon in their attempted invasion of Earth due to humanity and their allies being even more technologically advanced. In fact, they're such an extreme example of this that by the time the Enterprise discovers their homeworld a couple of centuries later, just about everyone has forgotten they existed.
• Elite Army: The asari's Lightning Army, formed during the Reaper War, serves as this courtesy of the fact that its progressive leadership is willing to break from the stagnant clinging to traditional tactics demonstrated by other asari forces.
• Elite Mooks: The Reapers eventually make particularly effective Husks out of captured Pokemon, and on an even grander level, a group of Kryptonians (nicknamed Kryptohusks).
• Enemy Civil War: The Space Pirate Civil War, fought between Mother Brain's loyalists and those corrupted by Dark Samus.
• Enemy Mine:
  • The first steps taken towards humanity and the Race going from co-belligerants sharing a planet to actual allies come in the form of working together to fight off all the other aliens who invade Earth (the Harvester invasions being the biggest example).
  • The attacks by first the Mekon, then the Five Galaxies, and finally the Reapers bring together every major player in the Alpha Quadrant, who put aside their rivalries in order to survive the latest threat.
  • While not enemies per say, the Arks Sherran and Centus are from rival blocs (the former being from TeTO and the latter from the Citadel) but have to work together for mutual survival after the Scourge damages them and separates them from their respective fleets, stranding them in hostile Kett space.
  • The Klingon and Romulan Arks left the Milky Way before the Reaper War led to their peoples putting aside their old rivalries, so still don't trust each other. But they work together to prevent Krell technology from falling into the wrong hands. As their definition of "wrong hands" include Ronan and Thanos, this alliance also brings in the Novans, who are desperate for any aid against their enemies.
  • In the Mirror Universe, the Ferengi ally with TeTO against the Mekon, as his totalitarian regime is bad for business.
  • Also in the Mirror Universe, the remnants of the Conspiracy of Light eventually ally with the Klingon-Andorian Alliance in order to check the growth of the Terran Empire.
  • The Master suggests to the Legends that this will end up happening between them against Faction Paradox. The Legends' mission is to destroy the Faction to preserve the timeline, while the Master's is to find the Doctor, who is currently in hiding from the Faction; as such, he suggests that it's only natural they end up joining forces. Time will tell if this plays out.
  • The Klingon Republic and Kahless Empire put aside their ideological differences and work together to join the war against the Goa'uld.
  • Towa and Mira join forces with the Legends after Lord Drakkon betrays them.
  • The Conspiracy (as represented by Ash, Dawn, and Spock) and Torchwood (represented by Jaime Reyes) put aside their rivalry to work together against the Seth-controlled Syrannites on Vulcan, as the cult is a threat to TeTO's stability, and both organizations have the goal of protecting the alliance as a whole.
  • At one point during WWII/the Race invasion, Torchwood worked with the Race to defeat HYDRA and retrieve the Tesseract, as it made them a threat to both sides. Of course, they turned on each other as soon as the mission was completed.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • The rest of the Shield Alliance (except the Ferengi) are disgusted by the Bajorans' oppression of their occupied Cardassian colonies, and work with the Pact and TeTO to funnel weapons to the Cardassian resistance on those worlds.
  • Xanatos is still an arch-manipulator and schemer willing to resort to pretty much anything to get what he wants, but even he's disgusted by the Parental Neglect that Professor Membrane shows towards his children.
• Evil Reactionary:
  • The Race has to deal with a wave of terrorism by ultra-conservatives who despise the rapid changes made to their Empire ever since meeting humanity.
  • Conservative elements among the Votanis Collective's military and civilian leadership are so opposed to joining TeTO that they eventually back Rahm Tak staging a Military Coup.
  • During the Reaper War, the former leaders of the former Batarian Hegemony are indoctrinated and manipulated into starting a massive terror attack on the batarian homeworld, being so bad that the Romulans are forced to orbitally bombard several cities. This, combined with the sheer brutality shown by the terrorists, finally convinces the batarians that the "good old days" were anything but.
  • The Bloodwine Society, a group of conservative Klingons who want to undo all of Azetbur's progressive reforms and restore the Klingon Empire to a warrior-dominated culture. When the Kahless clone emerges and also denounces these reforms, they're quick to ally with him and back him in the resulting Civil War.
  • A short post summarizing the Pact of the Raptor's status at the start of the 24th century notes three distinct groups of conservative-minded individuals — the Sword of Gamilas, descendants of high-caste batarians who survived the purge following the above-mentioned Reaper War terrorism, and high-ranked members of Ildrian society — who all believe that their respective people's membership in the Pact is removing their cultural identities and making them Romulan puppets, and all of whom intend to act on their anger over it.
  • The Syrannites are a group of Vulcans who despise anything that deviates from Surak's original teachings, to the point of wanting to secede from TeTO, and use terrorist attacks to get their point across. Making things even worse is that their leader is a host for the Goa'uld Seth.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: Even the Space Pirates and Decepticons get in on fighting the Reapers, who would wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • Darkseid is noted to be the one being in the universe that Ra and the other System Lords are afraid of.
  • A group of Scrin corrupted by Dark Ichor (a mixture of Tiberium and Phazon) attempt to take over Phaaze, even corrupting Dark Samus... who proceeds to turn the tables and enslave them.
• Expanded States of America: After Canada merges with the European nations to set up the Euro-Canadian Union, Greenland (which had been jointly administered by Canada and America since WWII) votes to join the US, becoming a territory as it lacks the population for statehood.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • In addition to canonical examples, there's the asari's general disgust at the existence of those of their kind born to Romulan parents during the occupation of Thessia.
  • The Gemini, a hybrid race of krogan and turians created accidentally during the Reaper War, face discrimination by both species, who view them as abominations.
  • Vulcans who follow Surakan Buddhism are looked down upon by much of mainstream Vulcan society, viewed as misguided at best, heretics at worst.
  • In the Mirror Universe, TeTO's loss to the Mekon's alliance (and the Race and their vassals abandoning the organization shortly after) causes a rapid growth in xenophobia among humanity. While those species which had long been loyal are treated better, most others are subject to suspicion and hate crimes.
  • The Cardassians are punished for their failed invasion of Klingon space by being forced to surrender several colony systems to the Bajorans, who proceed to install an apartheid-style system of repression on them.
  • The Zhat Vash's canon hatred of A.I.s has naturally expanded to include beings such as Cybertronians, Geth, and Digimon, the last of which they've been systematically exterminating whenever they appear in Pact space.
  • The Star Trek: Discovery version of Klingons are a subspecies created by the Goa'uld mixing their ancestors' DNA with that of the Unas. Because of this impurity and the taint of association with the Klingons' hated "gods", they're looked down upon and hated by the rest of the species.
  • The Toads, or at least their corrupt aristocracy, have installed an apartheid state against non-Toads in the Mushroom Kingdom, with the Goombas in particular eventually fleeing to Bowser in order to escape persecution.
• Fantastic Religious Weirdness: As a result of the various species intermingling for long periods:
  • Surakan Buddhism is, as the name suggests, a philosophical school that bridges elements from Buddhist and Vulcan teachings.
  • The Church of the Divine Image is a Christian offshoot that believes God's salvation of humanity also applies to aliens — but only Human Aliens or, at a stretch, Humanoid ones, since they're the only ones made in God's image.
  • Certain aspects of the Race's culture expand their worship of their Emperor (and past Emperors) to include veneration of certain important other figures from their history, who are granted the saint-like title of "Most Loyal".
  • By the 23rd century, the most popular religion in TeTO space is the Church of the Cosmic Spirit, a dualistic faith which believes in a Spirit of Light responsible for all good in the universe, and an opposing Spirit of Darkness responsible for all evil, with major important and influential historical figures of all species believed to be avatars of one or the other. Reincarnation is also a major aspect as well.
  • Mormonism becomes the largest Christian denomination after the chaos of the 20th century causes Catholicism to collapse and people turn to the LDS Church due to Salt Lake City being the only Christian religious center that doesn't get damaged by any of the alien invasions. It also does surprisingly well for itself among other species, being shown to be quite popular with the Race, quarians, and asari, among others. Though they do have to make adjustments to the faith depending on the quirks of other species' values and biologies — for example, as the LDS Church prohibits same-sex marriages, and asari are all physically female (and the Church doesn't want to forbid asari members from marrying in their own species), asari converts have to declare themselves "officially" male or female so that their marriages aren't technically same-sex.
  • Cosmism eventually fully replaces traditional religion in the USSR and other communist states (and becomes popular with post-Praxis Klingons), evolving into a form that states that people should strive to become Sufficiently Advanced Aliens like others present in this universe.
  • The Gemini worship Xerneas, and the other Legendary Pokemon by extension, due to Xerneas' Heroic Sacrifice creating them. One Gemini, Emile, gets into a brief religious debate with Dr. McCoy (here a devout Mormon) over the logic of worshipping an abstract being when Physical Gods are present.
• The Federation: While in theory TeTO is The Alliance, in practice it's closer to this trope, as it grows increasingly centralized and homogenized.
• Feed the Mole: Once TeTO starts ferreting out Indoctrinated among their ranks, they make use of them to send misinformation to the Reapers.
• Feudal Future:
  • When the Lylat system is colonized, constitutional monarchy is chosen as the system of government most likely to be stable in the long term. As such, the founding colonial families are granted noble status, with a monarch being selected from among them.
  • After overthrowing the Race-backed fascist Fourth Republic, France returns to being a constitutional monarchy, which it continues to be from then on.
• Fictional Political Party:
  • The main political parties of the Lylat system are the Crown Loyalists (officially conservative, but stated to be centrist by modern standards), the Lylat Progressive Party (compared to a mix of the British Liberal-Democrats and American Democrats), and the Labour Party (leftist; described as more syndicalist than socialist).
  • When the Klingons become a parliamentary democracy following the Praxis War, several political parties emerge. There's the True Way Party (reactionaries who want a return to the old warrior-dominated government), the People's Coalition (an alliance of smaller communist, anarchist, and syndicalist groups), the Naturalist Party (ecologists), the Prosperity Party (centrists who believe the status quo is best for everyone) and the Freedom Party (ultra-capitalists and ultra-individualists who believe no government regulation of anything will drive people to survive and thrive on their own merits).
  • While the Asari Synod (the legislature set up by Daena T'Drak after reforming the Republics into an Empire) never forms official political parties, there are some prominent voting blocs — Loyalists (the main conservative bloc), Expansionists (proponents for continued deep-space exploration and aggressive colonization), Social Democrats (advocates for increasing the Synod's power and limiting the Empress', trimming military spending, and widening welfare systems), Greens (environmentalists), Concentracionists (isolationists), Limitationists (proponents for more laissez-faire economic policies), and Republicans (advocates for ending the constitutional monarchy and restoring a purely democratic state).
• Final Battle:
  • The Battle of the Citadel effectively serves as this for the Mekon War. While there are a few more skirmishes with the Romulans and Gamilas afterwards, with the Mekon out of the picture and the Citadel secured, his partners soon sue for peace.
  • Operation Harrowing essentially serves as this for the Vinn War, as it proves that the Daisy Cutter weapon can wipe out the Vinn in mass, bringing them to the negotiation table and bringing about a ceasefire.
  • The Final Offensive (most notably the Second Battle of Sol) serves as this for the Reaper War, as it breaks the Reapers' back and sends the survivors fleeing from the galaxy. Though technically, the actual final conflict of the war is the allied expeditionary force (which was launched years earlier) reaching and assaulting the Reapers' base in Dark Space.
  • The Battle of Hyrillka is this for the Revenant Crisis, as the rouge Decepticon-Klikiss alliance is left completely broken afterwards and unable to keep up their campaign.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Gradually, fighting several alien invasions helped humanity and The Race mend fences and work together.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: While it's not dwelled on, Catherine Langford has a bit of this after coming out of three-and-a-half centuries of cold sleep.
• Fling a Light into the Future: The reason that the Terra Venture and later the Arks are sent to Andromeda is to ensure continuity of species for all the civilizations of the Milky Way (or at least the Alpha and Beta Quadrants) in case they fail to stop the Reapers.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • The divergence point between the main timeline and its Mirror Universe is the Doctor being present at the Battle of the Citadel to sabotage the Mekon's forces. Without him, the Mekon successfully conquers Citadel space and uses the Omega particles to destroy FTL capabilities in TeTO space, crippling the alliance.
  • Due to SHINRA's attempts to kidnap her, Maya never leaves for Khura'in, and her continued presence sabotages Gavin's attempts to have Phoenix disbarred.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The Cardassians and Breen become this to the rest of the Pact of the Raptor after their failed invasion of Klingon space during the Praxis War ruins the Romulans' attempt to install a Pact-friendly Klingon government.
• Furry Reminder: This is apparently an occasional problem for Uplifted Animals. For example, when Raguel (an Uplifted dog) is visiting Tamaran, he's instinctively uncomfortable, due to the Tamaraneans having evolved from felines.
• Futureshadowing: A story post detailing the First Contact between Earth and the Citadel, but written long after the main storyline featured the slow downfall of the Citadel as a power bloc, has the Turian Councilor warn that humanity will eventually supplant the Citadel in importance.
• Galactic Superpower: TeTO becomes the hegemon of the Alpha Quadrant after the Mekon War, and only grows in power over the following years. With the Citadel's decline, its only other major rivals are the Klingons and Romulans, and the latter has to form the Pact of the Raptor in order to keep up. Post-Reaper War, the Shield Alliance also emerges as a competitor to both TeTO and the Pact.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Samus has her back lacerated by a Kryptohusk's eye beams, paralyzing her.
• God Guise: Katie kicks Bastet's ass as part of her initial mission to resurrect Vin and deliver her to the Legends. This leads to an underground religion worshiping the "Ka'tee" spreading among rebel Jaffa and human slaves.
• God's Hands Are Tied:
  • When the Doctor calls out the Guardians for not having the Green Lanterns more actively involved in solving the universe's problems (like the Reaper War), they counter that they're stuck having to defend Oa from Galactus, as his devouring of the Central Power Battery would be far worse than any of the evils they're letting run rampant.
  • Q can't simply undo Katie's Bad Future, because the rest of the Continuum want the Empire in power. So he goes for a loophole, sending Katie back in time to work to prevent them from winning.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Ra is desperate enough in the fight against TeTO that he welcomes Anubis back into the System Lords despite not remotely trusting him.
  • The terrorist attacks by the Syrannites get serious enough that the Vulcan governments invokes the clause in the TeTO charter that revokes a religion's protected status if that religion is a public threat. As this has never been done before and sets a dangerous precedent, the TeTO general assembly is hesitant to do this, and the motion barely passes.
• Good Is Not Dumb: After dealing with several destructive alien invasions, including one who pulled a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to make humanity let its guard down, humanity no longer unconditionally reaches out to aliens until they prove their benevolence.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: As a practicing Latter-Day Saint, Doctor McCoy doesn't swear, making do with "heck" and "darn".
• Government in Exile:
  • After T'Drak's coup and the formation of the Asari Empire, the Republics' representative to the Citadel Council sets up a government-in-exile on the Citadel, a move copied by the turian and volus representative after the Empire annexes the remnants of their space. Given T'Drak's popularity, almost no one in the galaxy takes these new governments seriously.
  • In response to Rahm Tak's Military Coup, Votanis Collective Vice-Chancellor Silora Voske takes asylum in the TeTO colony on New Votanis and establishes a government-in-exile with herself at the head.
  • The Fringe Colonies see themselves as this. They were established by President Lex Luthor as a means of increasing the United States' autonomy from the rest of TeTO, and following his administration's downfall no one knew what to do with the colonies legally, so they were effectively cut loose, allowing them to consider themselves the only legitimate continuation of Luthor's government. By the time America tries to talk them back into the fold, they've grown to enjoy their autonomy so much that they formalize the split by joining the Shield Alliance instead of TeTO.
  • As per Worldwar canon, the Free French forces in Polynesia are this in opposition to the Nazis' Vichy Puppet State, and later to the Race's similarly authoritarian Fourth Republic puppet. By the time the latter is overthrown and replaced by a constitutional monarchy, it's clear that the two states have diverged enough that reunification isn't feasible, so Free France restyles itself as the French Polynesian Republic, officially abandoning any claim to the mainland.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • The Daleks, though only one Dalek has appeared on screen, and even not at full power it's enough to terrify our heroes.
  • Thanos seems set to be this in Andromeda, as his presence has already been felt via his allies in both the Klingon and Romulan storylines, but he's currently occupied in his own fiefdom on the other side of the galaxy.
• Guest-Star Party Member:
  • Turok in Legends Episode 2.
  • Orion Pax also known as Optimus Prime in Legends episode 4.
• Heel–Face Turn: Several, humanity tends to become friends with old enemies as the Sorting Algorithm of Evil kicks in. These include the Race, the Romulans, and of particular note the Harvesters.
• Heroic Lineage:
  • Through his mother, Spock is descended from a sister of Carter Grayson, the Red Lightspeed Ranger, both of whom are in turn descended from Dick Grayson/Nightwing/the second Batman.
  • Annabelle Park qualifies as she is the daughter of Kimberly Hart and Adam Park
  • Katie Marek as the daughter of Vin Venture and Galen Marek
  • Asami Kirk is the daughter of James T. Kirk and Yoko Usami.
  • Kauri's helmswoman, a half-Klingon named B'mera Case, is a descendant of Russel Case.
  • Hanka Kamiya is the daughter of Tai Kamiya and Rika Nonaka.
  • Satoshi Ketchum is the son of Ash Ketchum and Dawn.
• Heroic RRoD: Happens to Annabelle Park when she cycles through powers of every Power Ranger team in an effort to defeat Lord Drakkon.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Every example of Ramming Always Works.
  • During the Vinn War, there's at least one example of a ship — the Japanese cruiser Ashigara — self-destructing in order to both destroy enough Vinn vessels for its surviving squad to escape, and to deny the Vinn access to their Warp engines to reverse-engineer.
  • Also, during the Vinn War, Sky Marshal Erica Hernandez self-destructs her crippled ship in order to destroy a large number of Vinn ships.
  • During the Continuum of Makers' battle with the Reaper Herald and its Indoctrinated fleet, a Maker ship destroys a larger vessel's Ring Drive with its own, creating an event which destroys Herald and all its ships.
    • A similar move is used during the Final Offensive of the Reaper War, in order to defend the Continuum's homeworld.
  • Trapped in a Conspiracy base being overrun by Collectors, Benezia and Hot Rod trigger the self-destruct, destroying themselves and whole facility in order to keep the Collectors from taking over the base's defenses and using them to destroy their colleagues' evacuation ship.
  • Ramjet holds off a horde of Husks to allow Stealth Assault to escape with some turian refugees and is overrun.
  • Xerneas overclocks its powers to restore life to all the Husks on ARC3-US, burning out its own life force in the process.
  • When the Reapers invade Romulus and an invasion force marches on the capital, Ael T'Vrahu drives among them and lets herself be the target of an orbital strike in order to wipe them all out.
  • Aria and Yondu Hold the Line against an army of Husks to allow a turian soldier to activate Palaven's planetary self-destruct and are overrun just before it's triggered.
  • When a Kryptohusk is unleashed during the Second Battle of Sol, Superman restrains her long enough to call down an antimatter torpedo strike on their position, obliterating them both.
  • During the assault on the Reapers' Dark Space base, the Maker Admiral Carad allows the last Kryptohusk to attack his ship, holding it still long enough for a Klingon ship to attack, destroying it along with the ship.
  • Colonel Machimaki Benzo and his unit, trapped in a cavern full of Klikiss robots about to escape to the surface, set off explosives that kill them along with the robots.
  • JJ Oliver sacrifices himself to destabilize Unicron's dark spark enough for the Doctor to drain it and merge it with the Super Energon in order to restore the worlds Unicron destroyed.
• History Repeats: When a techno-organic ship is commissioned for the Na'Vi, concerns are made that the end result might just end up being something akin to the Reapers.
• Horrifying the Horror: As ever, the Doctor's mere presence terrifies Daleks.
• A House Divided:
  • In the Mirror Universe, the Mekon/Romulan/Gamilan alliance conquers the Citadel races, and almost immediately fractures, with its members turning on each other.
  • The Yeerks are attempting to invoke this in Remnant, pushing Atlas and Vacuo into a path of xenophobia to make as much of Remnant as a whole reject TeTO's presence on the planet. Ironwood knows this is colossally stupid and near-pointlessly suicidal, given how much TeTO's presence has helped drive back the Grimm and helped jump-start Remnant's overcoming of their terminal dependence on Dust, but he's unceremoniously kicked off his military and Headmaster positions in favor of Pietro Polendina, who's being controlled by a Yeerk. Knowing something is deeply wrong in Atlas beyond the usual petty greed and self-aggrandization, he makes plans to go consult Ozpin.
• Humans Are Special: The Time Lords seem to have started sharing the Doctor's view of this, albeit in the most ass way possible; they've focused more on the whole Humans Are Warriors part, and have created this Merged Reality in an effort to make them as powerful as possible.
• Human Popsicle:
  • Catherine Langford is put in cold sleep in the 1970s to guarantee that whenever they finally figure out how to use the Stargate, they'll have someone on standby who understands it. She's eventually thawed in 2335.
  • Similarly, William Boone went into stasis after the Taelon-related conflicts, to be thawed out in case his expertise in dealing with hostile first contacts was ever needed again. For this reason, Xanatos has him brought along on the Andromeda Initiative and wakes him on Mirinol, out of the belief that TeTO needs a more aggressive stance when dealing with an entire galaxy of new species.
  • Jaime Reyes is normally kept in stasis by Torchwood and only taken out for missions that require the Blue Beetle, in order to prolong his life as long as possible.
• Human Resources:
  • TeTO scientists studying Remnant are disturbed to find that Dust contains traces of human DNA due to its origins in the destruction of the first iteration of humanity on Remnant.
  • In a potentially even more horrifying way, Pietro Polendina's work on the Aura machine is implied to be used to drain SDC "volunteers'"' Aura into Atlesian robots.
  • The Dire Wraiths are currently at war with the Anodites due to the former using the latter as living batteries of mana.
• Humongous Mecha: The Jaegers, Gundams, Galalunean armors, and the various Power Ranger Zords.
• Hypocrite: The reactionary Race terrorists denounce everything to do with humanity and TeTO as a whole, yet they eagerly use non-Race technology and tactics. They're called out on this, repeatedly.
• Identical Grandson: There are a couple in the Pokémon Legends: Arceus arc. Inara Iga looks almost identical to her ancestor, Irida, except for eye color, and Satoshi ancestor, Akari is noted as per canon to look just like his mother, Dawn.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: After Diana starts dating Liara, she receives one of these speeches offscreen from Samus (who's speaking on behalf of both herself and Benezia).
• The Illuminati:
  • This story uses the Gargoyles version, which is presented as not only having been secretly controlling Earth for centuries but has since expanded to include alien members so it could do the same to the rest of TeTO. They're so secretive that not even the Conspiracy of Light or Torchwood know they exist, and they have in fact infiltrated the latter.
  • After settling in on Mirinoi, Xanatos takes advantage of the fact that he's now technically the highest-ranked Illuminati member present in Andromeda (in that he's the only member present) to make himself de facto leader and start building up a new version of the brotherhood.
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  • Within ten minutes of arriving on the Enterprise for the first time, Kirk heads to his ready room to break open a bottle of brandy, after seeing Scotty try to dismantle Yoko's buddyroid For Science!.
  • The TeTO and Shield Alliance ambassadors to the Deltan Union retreat to a bar together after the Deltans decide to join the Pact of the Raptor instead of either of their respective blocs.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Humans raised in Race-controlled territories don't really have a nudity taboo.
• In Spite of a Nail: Invoked. Q is doing his best to make sure important recognizable characters appear because it would be boring otherwise.
• Invading Refugees: Omni-Man tries to conquer Earth for the Viltrumites because they need to get far away from the Dominion.
• Irony:
  • During the Second Battle of Sol, a ship named after President Whitmore is saved by a Harvester ship.
  • A meta example — the Bajoran repression of the Cardassians in their newly acquired systems is a total reversal of their canon situation.
• Kamehame Hadoken:
  • Mira unleashes the first of many of the first trope namer in part four of Shattered Grid.
  • Satoshi can use his aura powers in this manner.
• Kicked Upstairs: Xanatos runs DEO operations among the Andromeda colonists, which is a prestigious position, but the primary reason he got it was because he'd fallen out of favor with his Illuminati masters, who wanted to get rid of him.
• King Bob the Nth: The Race contingent of the Andromeda colonists are led by 1st Emperor Ttolmass, but it's noted that he's not actually the first Race Emperor with that name — they decided to reset the regnal numbering when they reached the new galaxy, in order to avoid any potential confusion if they ever regain contact with the main Empire back in the Milky Way.
• Klingon Promotion: Midway through the Goa'uld War, Ra is assassinated by an alliance between Anubis, Ares, and Nirrti, who take over as a reigning triumvirate.
• Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Unless they work directly for the military, Klingons who aren't warriors are marginalized and forced to accept lower standards of living.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: During his first encounter with TeTO on Abydos, Ra chooses to withdraw his forces when they start losing, in order to rally the other System Lords.

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• Laser-Guided Karma: The batarians being victims of the Space Pirates who like to take slaves and claim and raid planets. They find they don't care for the shoe being on the other foot.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: The ECS Thunder Child is name for the heroic ship of the Martian invasion.
• Like Father, Like Son: B'mera Case shares her ancestor Russel's insane piloting skills. Emphasis on insane.
• Living Weapon:
  • The Visitors use polymorphs as living bioweapons. TeTO also studies them as such, along with Xenomorphs, X-Parasites, and other such creatures.
  • The Space Pirates use them extensively during their Civil War.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • As the Terra Venture left for Andromeda prior to the Five Galaxies War, when the later Arks launched during the Reaper War arrive, they're surprised by some of the changes they learn happened in the meantime — most prominently the geth and quarians making peace, joining TeTO along with the krogan, and the Cybertronian Civil War ending.
  • The second wave of Arks have a similair problem, since they have no idea about the Reapers' defeat, or anything that came afterward (the Asari Republics becoming an Empire and its various reforms, the loss of the Krogan and Turian homeworlds, etc.).
• Logical Weakness: During the first Reaper invasion of ARC3-US, Lt. Surge's Raichu is able to One-Hit KO a Brute husk. It's later determined to be due to Raichu's electrical attacks shorting out several implants crucial to dealing with the problems of fusing the two otherwise incompatible biologies of Krogans and Turians.
• Lost Colony: A Pact of the Raptor fleet stumbles across the Last of all Cities, a long-lost Vulcan colony founded in the pre-Surak era.
• Lost Technology: The immensely powerful technology of the Krell is highly coveted by the powers of the Andromeda galaxy.
• Made of Iron: The Collector gets shot in the face (several times), thrown through a glass case, thrown through a wall, and is nearly decapitated, and not only survives but manages to get to his feet and run away.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Faction Paradox's standard MO is to make massive alterations to the timeline and feeding on the resulting paradoxical chaos. So far, that's repeatedly taken the form of trying to destroy Earth at any point in time prior to humanity taking their center role on the galactic stage.
• Manchurian Agent: Those Indoctrinated by the Reapers are used to spy upon and sabotage allied efforts against them.
• The Man Behind the Man:
  • The Rimillian Denialists turn out to be pawns of the Drakh, who are using their anti-terraforming stance to keep the Rimillians from finding some Shadow weaponry buried on the planet that they're after.
  • The Reapers were responsible for the Arachnids' invasions of the Fringe, triggering genetic programming left over from the last Harvest.
• Manipulative Bastard: Skrull Emperor Dorrek provides the Citadel Ark Paarchero with aid when they arrive in his territory in exchange for their more advanced technology and is planning to stab them in the back and conquer them as soon as he can.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Fillipods' reaction to seeing Earth history is this as they realized just how doomed the war is. This is what leads to their mutiny.
• May–December Romance: Between James T. Kirk and Yoko Usami, the latter is stated to be old enough to be the former's mother. Downplayed by the fact that medical tech has reached the point where a) Usami is Older Than They Look, and by proxy, b) such relationships are relatively common.
• Mêlée à Trois: The Praxis War, which starts as a simple two-sided civil war, turns into this when the Cardassians and Breen invade Klingon space and attack both sides.
• Merged Reality: This timeline exists because the Time Lords are combining universes, in an attempt at making humanity into the perfect warriors needed to help them win the Time War.
• Military Coup:
  • Following the conclusion of the Reaper War, Marshal T'Drak exposes the Matriarchs' corruption to the public and arrests them, taking over and declaring herself Empress, reunifying the declining Republics as a unified Empire. A very unique example, in that due to the exact circumstances, this is all essentially voted for by the public.
  • General Rahm Tak, backed by conservative elements in the Votan military and civilian government, overthrows and executes the Chancellor and most of his ministers for the "treason" of joining TeTO.
• Mirror Universe: One where TeTO, defeated in the Mekon War and gripped with revanchism and xenophobia, becomes the Terran Empire.
• The Mourning After: The main reason that Drax doesn't pursue his feelings for Takara is because he doesn't feel right about doing so without avenging his family first.
• Multiple Government Polity: The Terran Treaty Organization, which is formally The Alliance but in practice is basically The Federation. Its charter (heavily based on the United States Bill of Rights) does enforce certain democratic and republican principles and freedoms as requirements for membership, but its members are otherwise granted full autonomy in both internal and external political matters.
• The Mutiny: The Tesskan War ends with the Fillopods rebelling against the Tesskans, taking over their fleet, and promptly surrendering to TeTO.
• Mutual Kill: In Katie's Bad Future, Vin fatally electrocutes Vader, only for him to use the last of his strength to Neck Snap her.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The part of the TeTO charter that lets Torchwood do what it does? Section 31.
  • During a delegation, when Diana sees Liara talking to Shepard, she's struck with a sudden and inexplicable sense of jealousy. This is meant to be a reference to how Liara is a romance option in the original games.
  • Samus' 'If You Ever Hurt Her' speech sounds like something Khan would say.
  • The Tesskans' takeover of a Romulan Warbird is similair to what they did to a Continuum of Makers ship in Drive (Dave Kellett), right down to resorting to randomly hitting the controls due to a lack of Fillopods to help figure it out.
    Tesskan: (while killing his Roumlan guard) I told you, speak Tesskan.
• N.G.O. Superpower:
  • The Conspiracy of Light, an organization of various powerful individuals and groups, with some backing from various governments, which organizes to protect the galaxy from various threats before they become common knowledge.
  • Torchwood, as per canon, is officially a government organization but reports to no one and runs its own agenda.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Doctor separated Hal Jordan from his Green Lantern ring (for his actions with Torchwood) just in time to stop him from intercepting Omni-Man's arrival on Earth. And when Jessica Cruz became the new GL, the timing meant that the Guardians didn't bother passing the warning about Omni-Man on to her, as they thought she'd already received. As such, Nolan is able to keep operating on Earth for years.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • The Mekon's attempt to keep the neutral Vulcans and Andorians from getting involved in his war with TeTO is to try and use his Romulan allies in a False Flag Operation to get the two species fighting each other. When this is exposed, however, it just leads to both entering the war, and later formally joining TeTO.
  • The Goa'uld creating the Kull warriors to try and give themselves an edge against TeTO scares the military brass enough to authorize the creation of the SPARTANs in response.
• Noble Bigot with a Badge: William Boone went into stasis in the 1990s, when humanity's general attitude towards aliens was hatred, with him actually being fairly progressive due to just heavily disliking them. When he's awakened in the 24th century, he's now an outlier due to living in more tolerant times, but is otherwise considered a decent man.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: Queen Kara Zor-El better known as Supergirl, gives one to Unicron the second time they meet.
  "Oh, I know I can't really hurt you," Kara admitted, "but you know, I'm okay with that. I'm actually against killing in most circumstances. With powers like mine, it takes a lot of control not to turn everyone and everything you touch into powder or paste. Thankfully, I've mastered that skill. The good thing about fighting bastards like you, though? I don't have to hold back!"
• Not So Stoic: Secretary-General T'Piri, a strict Vulcan who avoids showing emotions, is shaken by the Reapers and their destructive power.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: At some point, the Pact discovers the Leviathans (the precursors to the Reapers) and destroy them with an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
• Operation: [Blank]:
  • Operation Kusanagi: The final drive by allied TeTO and Citadel forces to retake the Citadel from the Mekon's forces.
  • Operation Harrowing: The use of the "Daisy Cutter" weapon on a planet occupied by the Vinn, destroying most of them.
• Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Averted. The existence of aliens doesn't mean the abandonment of religion or faith: conventional religions update their core beliefs in the face of new realities, offshoots of certain faiths are formed to suit the needs of alien races, and completely new faiths gain ground. A particularly brutal invasion of Earth in the 1990s shatters the Race's belief in their traditional faiths, but the spiritual void is filled by Mormons.
• Outside-Context Problem:
  • The combined forces of humanity and the Race were this to the Fithp of Hearth during the Alpha Centauri War, since their technology exceeded that of the Fithp's Precursors, which the Fithp didn't think was possible.
  • For the Reapers, it's the abundance of non-Element Zero technologies being used by organic life this cycle. Not to mention metahumans, Kryptionians, Tamaraneans, Pokemon...
  • The Milky Way colonists are this to the various factions in Andromeda, again due to various technologies (cloaking, transporters, Jaegers, etc.).
• Peace Conference:
  • TeTO hosts one in Stockholm in 2226 for its members, the Klingons, and the Romulans (the Citadel races send observers, but they're already considered a spent force by then). Officially, this is simply to deescalate tensions among the powers, but its true purpose is to reveal the existence of the Reapers to all the involved governments.
  • After the end of the Goa’uld War, TeTO and its allies meet on Concourse to hash out the terms of how to divide up the former Goa'uld Empire.
  • Once all the Milky Way arks in Andromeda have regained contact with each other (except the Ctarl-Ctarl, who nobody is that concerned about), they gather for a summit on Mirinoi, along with the respective allies they've all made, to discuss how to handle each of the various threats that they've encountered in the new galaxy. Tensions are initially high due to old grudges on behalf of several of the present factions, but things overall go smoothly.
• Planet Spaceship: Concourse, a dead planet that the Harvesters hollow out and convert to a ship in order to act as a mobile and neutral headquarters for the Shield Alliance.
• Precision F-Strike: President Whitmore's reaction when, after having already spent most of his second term rebuilding from the Fithp and Harvester invasions, he's informed of the Taelons' arrival.
• Pretext for War: The Ctarl-Ctarl position a battlegroup on a "training exercise" right on the border with a star cluster that's disputed territory with TeTO, counting on being fired upon so they can start a war and thereby invade and annex the cluster. It doesn't work out for them.
• Protectorate:
  • The members of the Shield Alliance are this to the Harvesters and the Vinn.
  • After the Klingons and Romulans drive the Collector off of Knowhere, the former take up management of the station.
  • After the Turian Hierarchy collapses due to the destruction of Palavan and other worlds during the Reaper War, the newly formed Asari Empire absorbs their remaining worlds, bringing them under their authority and protection.
  • After the Klingon Empire collapses following its second civil war, the Klingon Republic that emerges from the territories led by Azetbur become a TeTO protectorate.
• Puppet State: The batarians become this to the Romulans after being conquered during the Mekon War.
• Puppeteer Parasite: The Yeerks. One of them is controlling Pietro Polendina.

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• Ramming Always Works:
  • During the Battle of Thessia in the Mekon War, the crippled asari dreadnaught Siege Perilous rams a Romulan warbird, the resulting explosion wiping out several other nearby Romulan ships.
  • Becomes a regretfully standard maneuver during the Reaper War, with ships too crippled to otherwise fight or flee instead slamming themselves into Reapers to destroy them. Later, as the tide starts to turn against them, the Reapers start doing this against their enemies.
• A Rare Sentence: This bit from Andromeda Dreams, as the Romulans and Klingons are investigating some Krell ruins.
  Drax: These walkways over huge chasms filled with lightning seem to go on forever.
  Takara: That…is not a sentence I thought I’d ever heard said.
• Realpolitik:
  • Despite finding the people of Troyius repulsive, the Klingons still provide them with military and technological aid to counter TeTO's alliance with the neighboring world of Elas, as this gives them a foothold in the system.
  • The quarians' reconciliation with the geth is purely to give them better standing against the Five Galaxies.
  • After crowning herself Empress, T'Drak has the new Asari Empire join the Pact of the Raptor alongside their old enemies the Romulans, noting that it's the best way to restore their species' prestige.
  • When Blackfire breaks her alliance with the Romulans and brings Tamaran into TeTO, TeTO looks the other way regarding the Romulan-backed coup which brought her into power in the first place due to preparing for the Reaper War and not having the time or resources to waste on removing her from power. After the war, they begrudgingly let her stay on as Queen (albeit with a transition to constitutional monarchy instead of absolute monarchy) since any other course of action would trigger a civil war which TeTO would get bogged down in.
  • During the Revenant Crisis, when TeTO is aiding the Ildrian Empire in fighting the rouge Decepticons and Klikiss robots, the Pact of the Raptor also gets involved. Officially, this is due to viewing the machines as a mutual threat to all organic life, like the Reapers before them. In truth, however, they're trying to win the Ildrians over towards the idea of joining them instead of TeTO, thus increasing their bloc's power and resources.
  • When Rimillia is discovered, Captain Georgiou offers to bring them into TeTO to help them terraform their hostile ecosystem and develop their primitive FTL technology to expand out of their system. In exchange, she admits, TeTO would get access to Rimillia's rich mineral resources and strategic location.
  • The Shield Alliance doesn't hesitate to take advantage of the genetic disorder plaguing the Valakians, playing up their own knowledge of genetic engineering as a cure and ignoring the potential dangers of it, to convince them to join their bloc instead of TeTO.
  • The Pact of the Raptor spreads propaganda of the Harvesters' and Vinn's past ways in order to besmirch the Shield Alliance's reputation and convince the Deltan Union to join them instead (they try to do the same to TeTO, but they have fewer skeletons in their closets).
  • The Romulans back the Duras rebels in the Praxis War, as they're more friendly to the Pact of the Raptor than the TeTO-aligned Azetbur government.
  • During the second Klingon civil war, TeTO can't directly intervene for political legal reasons, but still unofficially supply Azetbur's forces via the Conspiracy of Light, as the potential threat of reactionary forces regaining control of the Empire is too great to ignore.
  • TeTO reluctantly agrees to let the Pact of the Raptor keep Vorl-tak technology when they justify it as a counter to TeTO's vast number of superhumans. This then leads to a treaty between them and the Shield Alliance to share all new technologies in order to keep any one bloc from gaining an advantage over the others.
  • The Pact of the Raptor and Shield Alliance stay neutral in the Goa'uld War so that they can reap the benefits (per the aforementioned treaty) without any risk on their parts.
  • The Romulan government and its partners in the Pact reject the Zhat Vash's fear and hate of digital lifeforms, seeing them as potentially too good an asset to throw away. Because of this, and to maintain good relations with TeTO, they officially disavow the Zhat Vash after their Assassination Attempt on Hanka Kamiya and her Digimon partner.
  • The rest of the Shield Alliance is morally disgusted by the Bajorans' oppression of Cardassian colonists in the worlds Cardassia ceded them after the Praxis War, but unable to do anything about it because the Alliance's charter prevents intervention in a member polity's internal affairs. So to circumvent this, they coordinate with the Pact and TeTO to funnel weapons via the Conspiracy to a Cardassian resistance movement on the occupied worlds.
  • When deciding who to transfer Amber's Maiden Powers to, it's decided to give them to Blake Belladonna because she's from a prominent Faunus family, and a Faunus Maiden would keep Menagerie in the pro-TeTO coalition by ensuring an ace in the hole won't be used against them.
  • During the Peace Conference on Concourse following the end of the Goa'uld War, the decision to allow Bastet to keep her domain nearly makes the Tok'ra, Free Jaffa, and Dilgar all walk out in outrage, with them only being mollified by the fact that Bastet has been reduced to a powerless figurehead by the Ka'tee movement, who want to keep the domain intact as part of their beliefs about Katie's eventual return.
  • The Zhat Vash have a fundamentalist hatred of AI, and Yggdrasil is an AI supremacist program, yet they work together to cause the AI Crisis, as each side realizes that it creates an opportunity to achieve their goals — Yggdrasil can use the crisis to set up a scenario to reset the Digital World, and the Zhat Vash will have a chance to finally eliminate all AI in GaTO space.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bolehro, the Romulan commander of the Pact flotilla which discovers the Last-of-all-Cities, ends that storyline by verbally lashing Matriarch T'Kell, who is furious at how her people are being dispersed across Romulan space.
  Bolehro: Your people were a civilisation of ticking bombs. You are a particularly unstable combination of a tyrant and a spoiled brat. And your technology made you a potential danger to yourselves and the wider universe. Had I not stopped you, your planet would have been torn apart. For your pride. It’s thanks to us that your people still exist. We were as you, once. And we eschewed the extreme nature of Surak’s teachings. But we tempered our baser tendencies. Tempered them with duty. Duty to our families, duty to our loved ones...duty to the homeland. And that let us build an Empire while you clung to this planetoid.
• Reign of Terror: France (fittingly enough) undergoes this during the Fourth Republic regime of Jacques Doriot set up after transitioning from a Nazi Puppet State to a Race one following the war between them in the 1960s. Officially, the subsequent purges are aimed at Nazi collaborators, but as this is pretty much everyone in the country by this point, that's really just an excuse to target Doriot's political opponents. This lasts until a revolution following the chaos of the Fithp and Harvester invasions of the 90s overthrows the regime and replaces it with a restored constitutional monarchy.
• The Remnant:
  • A group of fifty or so Reapers who survived the end of their failed invasion of the Milky Way flee to Andromeda in order to start over. And separately from them, the Reaper Odium goes into hiding and starts upgrading itself with TeTO technology in an attempt to start over on its own, until the Enterprise discovers and kills it seven years later.
  • After the Cybertronian Civil War ended with peacefully reconciliation between the factions, a group of Decepticons led by Scorponok and Shockwave refuse to accept the peace and go rogue.
  • A heroic example. In Katie's Bad Future, after the Empire conquers the Milky Way, portions of GaTO (TeTO's successor state) manage to flee to the Pegasus and Ida galaxies.
  • Near the end of the Goa'uld War, Ba'al leads several System Lords who share his (correct) belief that they're about to lose to the TeTO-led alliance in fleeing to the Delta Quadrant with their remaining forces to escape extermination and rebuild their empire.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: As a result of helping to instigate the failed war against TeTO, the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire sends Aisha Clanclan on the Ark to Andromeda.
• Renegade Splinter Faction:
  • After Sirius is blockaded by TeTO, a portion of their military who were off planet escape, and they become terrorists. Especially once the Siriusi government finally sues for peace with TeTO, with the renegades denouncing them as traitors.
  • The Race has to deal with a wave of terrorism by ultra-conservatives who despise the progressive reforms made ever since the Empire joined TeTO.
  • Ronan and his forces break from the main Kree Empire in order to keep waging war on the Novan Empire despite the recent peace treaty between the two.
  • Scorponok and Shockwave's group of Decepticons who refuse to accept peace with the Autobots and go rogue.
  • When the Last-of-all-Cities captures a TeTO ship, their leadership decides to reverse engineer the technology and plan a long-term strategy to reconquer Vulcan. A more radical faction, however, goes rogue with the ship, operating under the delusion that using it in a show of force will make both their government and Vulcan surrender to them.
  • The Amazons of Bana-Mighdall betrayed the rest of their people to serve the Goa'uld, on the grounds that the Greek Gods did nothing to aid them.
  • The Zhat Vash are disavowed by the Romulan government after their attempt to kill Hanka Kamiya and her Digimon partner, both to preserve relations with TeTO and because the government and its partners in the Pact of the Raptor don't share the group's hatred of digital lifeforms, instead seeing them as an asset.
  • A heroic (or at least A Lighter Shade of Black) example in Andromeda, where Xanatos uses the fact that he's the only member of the Illuminati present in this galaxy to start building up his own version of the organization, built along his ideals. The heroic/morally grey part comes from the fact that his ideals are to use their secret control of society to do good, rather than for personal gain.
  • HYDRA was a splinter faction of the Illuminati formed by their members in the Axis nations, who felt that openly ruling through fascism was better than the main brotherhood's MO of using the facade of democracy, so broke away to take power for themselves.
• Rescue Romance:
  • Samus saves Benezia from some Space Pirates, and they later become a couple.
  • Similarly, Liara is saved from the Vinn by Diana, and they marry.
  • Sumeragi Tetsuo saves Koriand'r from the Romulans, and they become lovers.
• La Résistance: The Freedom for Pioneers Movement is a group of Cardassian colonists and sympathetic Bajorans who fight back against the Bajoran government's oppression of the Cardassian population of the worlds ceded to them following the Praxis War.
• Resurgent Empire: In response to the long decline of the Asari Republics, T'Drak transforms them into an empire, and works hard to rebuild them, turning them back into a galactic power player.
• Retired Badass: After the Reaper War, Diana and Liara step down from active military duty and full membership of the Conspiracy in order to raise their family in peace.
• Riddle for the Ages: Not even the Illuminati can figure out Professor Membrane's first name.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Asami Kirk says this word-for-word when it turns out that both the Conspiracy of Light and the Power Rangers have been individually combating Torchwood.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: The crews of the Arks Sherran and Centus work together to storm a Kett facility in order to rescue some abducted crew members.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Samus goes on one against the Collectors after they cause Benezia's death.
• Rousing Speech:
  • Admiral Yagami gives a brief one prior to the Battle of Nical during the Mekon War.
    "Once more, we face bitter enemies of our peoples on the field of battle.

    This will be a hard fight. Our enemies, though cruel, are no novices at the art of war. And their technological prowess is great. But they are slaves, and masters of slaves. Their will is weak. We are a free alliance of peoples, and we cannot be opposed by slaves.

    The eyes of our homeworlds are on us. Many of us will not survive this day. But our children, our grandchildren, and our worlds will thrive because of our actions today.

    Tennoheika Banzai!"
  • Shepard gives one to rally the troops when it seems the Reapers are getting the upper hand in the Second Battle of Sol.
    “I'm not going to sugarcoat this. Right now we are all that stands between the Reapers and Earth and you know what the Reapers will do if they land on Earth. So I have something to ask of all of you.” Shepard said, her voice broadcasting to everyone in her ragtag fleet. “I ask of you your lives, and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.

    “Each moment you fight is a gift to those on that planet. Each second we fight is a second longer that billions of people can draw breath. Each blast of a skelk cannon, each Reaper felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”

    There was a brief pause. “In the end, they will kill us,” Shepard said, voice loud, ringing across the fleet. “But first, they shall fear us!”
  • Sky Marshal Rantalon gives one to the allied expeditionary force right before they commence their assault on the Reapers' Dark Space base.
    “My fellow Men and Women of TeTO, before us stands a hive of abominations. Abominations that have been responsible for the deaths of more sentient beings than anyone could ever count. For over two years now they have been engaged in a war of extermination with out peoples. It is our duty to defeat them here and end their threat for all time." He paused for a moment, seemingly choked with emotion before recovering and saying, "I know many of you have feared for friends and family back in the Milky Way. I too have worried for my mother, my father, and all my siblings who are serving in the military. We don’t know what has happened with the invasion there. But I believe, no, I know that these mechanical monstrosities could not have succeeded. After we were freed from the Mekon, my people swore we would never again be dominated. The Tenctonese and the Prawn swore the same after being freed from the Overseers. The people of Earth have resisted invasion after invasion. We the races of TeTO are indomitable and unbreakable! Today we destroy the Reapers and end their threat forever! All ships, prepare for battle!”
• Roswell That Ends Well: In this universe, the Roswell incident was the result of a Harvester scout ship colliding with Quark's time-displaced ship. And despite humanity as a whole already knowing that aliens exist by this point, the US government still chooses to cover up what happened in order to keep the Race from learning of the crash and demanding the humans share the recovered technology.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something:
  • The Amazon royal family is consistently on the front lines in combat.
  • Kara-Zor-El, the Queen of New Krypton, led the charge when the Reapers tried to invade their planet, and later joins in the fight against Unicron.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • When the Klingons and Romulans start routing his forces on Knowhere, the Collector is quick to abandon the station and flee.
  • In the Mirror Universe, TeTO's loss in the Mekon War leads to the Race abandoning the alliance, and then the Solar System altogether after humanity tells them that they're not welcome anymore.
  • Gralem Cabcahal, a Middle-Management Mook in a batarian slavery ring whose POV is among those used to portray the Citadel races' initial reactions to meeting humanity, ultimately decides to quit the organization and go legitimate upon realizing that humans hate slavery and vastly outgun the batarians.
  • With a joint Conspiracy/Power Ranger team breaking into the Torchwood base on ARC3-US, and a captive Dalek going on a subsequent rampage, Ianto flees as fast as he can.
  • Bastet's reaction to the System Lords encountering TeTO is to declare herself neutral in the inevitable war, out of fear leftover from her encounter with Katie.
  • Apparently, around the time Earth first started getting invaded on a regular basis, The Children of Oberon left not just the planet but the entire Milky Way, eventually ending up in Andromeda and settling on Mirinoi.
  • The Goa'uld Seth likewise abandoned his hiding on Earth to escape the constant invasions and eventually ended up on Vulcan.
  • The Rani eventually decides that the other Time Lords' plan to forge humanity into anti-Dalek soldiers is such a sign of desperation that she steals a TARDIS and flees Gallifrey to get off what she sees as a sinking ship.
  • Near the end of the Goa'uld War, Ba'al and several likeminded System Lords realize that they're about to lose to the TeTO-led coalition, and flee to the Delta Quadrant with their remaining forces and enough resources to rebuild their empire.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: As Anubis' half-Ascended form means he can't be killed or otherwise detained, TeTO deals with him by banishing him to the Phantom Zone.
• Secret War: The Conspiracy of Light's conflict with Torchwood, born out of ideological differences over the best way to protect the galaxy from threats.
• Seen It All: Given the type of universe they inhabit, the Enterprise crew are pretty blasé about encountering a giant green hand in space.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Katie goes back in time to prevent the Empire from conquering the Milky Way.
• The Short War: The Alpha Centauri War, also called the Second Fithp War, last 75 hours from opening hostilities to the Fithp's official surrender.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Fithp's homeworld being called Hearth is taken from Worldfall.
  • The entry detailing the Mollusc invasion is primarily based on War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, including elements such as Teddy Roosevelt killing and stuffing a Mollusc, India gaining early independence, and China having a national resurgence due to Europe being weakened.
  • When discussing MissingNo In the Legends Arceus arc Satoshi quotes the poem about the Entity from Atop the Fourth Wall, going so far as to say it was written by a "Lewis something".
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Satoshi delivers one to Volo when the latter tries to get him to join in his plan to defeat and subjugate Arceus.
  Satoshi didn't even pause ton consider the offer. Instead he laughed in Volo's face. “Yeah, I've got beef with Arceus, but what you're proposing would kill untold millions, and I'm not an omnicidial maniac with a god complex like you.”
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Said word-for-word by Mirror!Spock to Prime!Kirk when the latter is trying to convince him to turn on the Terran Empire's ideology.
• Sixth Ranger: Vin Venture becomes this to the Legends of Tomorrow.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss:
  • Kauri swears revenge on Mala for killing her sister during a raid on an Amazon colony. However, they keep finding themselves forced to fight together against Collectors and other Reaper agents, and grow a grudging respect for each other as time goes by. By the time of the actual Reaper War, that respect has turned to love.
  • Ursa, the Klingon Pathfinder on the Andromeda mission, and Pelessaria, the Klingons' asari scientific advisor, constantly bicker and get on each other's nerves. And as their plot line goes on, it becomes apparent that they're in love, they just don't realize it yet.
• Space Age Stasis: Several species, most notably the Race (due to their cultural resistance to change), the Citadel members (due to the Reapers' technology trap), and the Ildirans (due to a universal lack of innovation) suffer from this, not advancing past a certain technological point for centuries (if not longer). At least, until they encounter humanity and their allies, who shake things up.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • The Bolshevik Revolution crippled the Illuminati's ability to act in Russia, as its agents there were all members of the bourgeoisie and were thus purged.
  • The Doctor's interference gives the allied forces enough of an edge that the Mekon War is cut considerably shorter than it would have been otherwise, including preempting the Mekon's planned attack on Earth. It later turns out that this is the divergence point between the main timeline and the Mirror Universe.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Elizabeth Tucker, the human/Vulcan cloned hybrid baby from the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise, doesn't die from a fever in infancy and actually lives to adulthood.
  • Apollo survives his encounter with the Enterprise, thanks to the belief of an Amazon priestess among the crew.
  • Newt and Ripley's ship doesn't crash, and the latter isn't infested by a facehugger, meaning they both survive.
  • Ra withdraws from his first encounter with TeTO on Abydos, and thus doesn't get nuked.
  • Roman Torchwick doesn't die, and is instead turned in to the authorities.
  • Chrono, Marle and Lucca are pulled out of their timelines before what would have been their deaths by the Supreme Kai of Time to join the Time Patrol.
  • The Last-of-all-Cities avoids its canon destruction.
  • GaTO is able to nurse Queen Egeria back to full health.
  • Cell is not killed in the Cell Games, instead, he is simply convinced to leave Earth and not cause more trouble.
• The Spymaster: The head of the Department of Extranormal Operations serves as this for TeTO.
• Stable Time Loop:
  • Katie Marek, as part of trying to avert her Bad Future, first takes steps to ensure that her parents meet in the first place, guaranteeing her own existence.
  • The origins of humanity constitute one of these spanning galaxies.
  • The Master goes to Cybertron prior to the Great War in order to disrupt the timeline enough to get the Doctor's attention. But the presence of himself and the Legends just leads to the events that result in Orion Pax becoming Optimus Prime and Megatron going from peaceful protester to violent revolutionary, setting the stage for the war.
  • Eobard Thawne's origin is this. He was inspired to become a hero by reading of Barry Allen's battles with the Reverse Flash, gained access to the Speed Force, and went back in time to become Barry's friend and sidekick. Barry disapproved of Thawne's brutal methods, and a dejected Thawne went to the Flash Museum, where he was driven mad by the fact the he was destined to be the Reverse Flash.
  • The Legends Arceus arc sets one up. Early on in their trip to the past Satoshi, Hanka, and Inara encounter a time displaced Porygon, which Professor Laventon studies. The Monster Makers, the people who created Digimon, were inspired do to so by the centuries-old record of a being made of data on ARC3-US, and their successes with early Digimon inspired the creation of Porygon and its line, as well as inadvertently leading to the creation of MissingNo.
• State Sec: As opposed to their Prime Universe counterparts, the Mirror Universe version of Torchwood is officially sanctioned by the Terran Empire and serve this role for them.
• The Stations of the Canon: Invoked by Q, who tells the Doctor that he's going to make sure that Picard and the others still exist in this new timeline, because it'd be boring without them.
• A Storm Is Coming: Aria says as much when recruiting Tevos into the Conspiracy of Light.
• Suddenly Significant City:
  • Little Rock becomes the capital of the United States after the Race invasion.
  • Stockholm serves as the capital of TeTO.
  • After the Mirror Universe version of TeTO is transformed into the Terran Empire, the capital is moved to Tokyo.
• Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: The Greek gods, as per Star Trek TOS canon. The Enterprise crew has an extensive debate on what actually defines a god, because of this.
• Suggestive Collision: Satoshi ends up lying on top of Hanka after tackling her out of the way of a Zhat Vash assassin's attack.
• Super-Toughness: Lord Drakkon tanked most of Annabelle Park's attack that cycled through and kept going, later in his final form he took planet killing blasts fired by Mira and Trunks like it was nothing.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Ultra Magnus finds himself feeling horrible for Blackfire after learning about the undeserved cruelty she went through when she was young.
• Take a Third Option: After the Citadel Council disbands, the population of the Citadel itself hold a plebiscite over whether to join the asari (and thus the Pact) or the salarians (and by extension, TeTO). Then Garrus suggests adding an option for independence, which is what ends up getting voted for.
• Terminally Dependent Society: One serious problem Remnant faces is that their entire tech base is built around Dust, a substance that doesn’t work outside the atmosphere, thus keeping them confined to the planet. The arrival of TeTO is therefore a huge game changer, as they bring a wide variety of alternative technologies.
• Trial by Combat: The bill of rights in the TeTO charter recognizes the right of accused criminals to have this in place of trial by jury, if it's a legally ordained practice in their home member-state.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:
  • The Reaper arc gives us the likes of Superman, Samus Aran, and Wonder Woman going up against the Reapers and their servants.
  • Katie's Bad Future quite prominently showcases Jedi Mistborn Vin vs Red Lantern Darth Vader.
• Undisclosed Funds: When Girani Ziyal is recruited to design parts of Concourse to be habitable for Bajorans, she asks to know what her budget is. We're not shown what it is, but when she sees it she almost faints from shock.
• Unwanted False Faith: Katie's curb-stomping of Bastet inadvertently inspires a religion built around her (as the "Ka'tee") amongst the human slave and rebel Jaffa populations. Later, circumstantial evidence also ties her into the Kuvah'magh prophecy in the eyes of some Klingons.
• Uplifted Animal: Becomes a common practice in TeTO, generally being applied to dogs, apes, and dolphins. The Race also get in on the act, uplifting Boto river dolphins.
• Values Dissonance: In-Universe, Ender goes from a beloved war hero to a reviled war criminal held on par with Hitler and the Mekon, as humanity's xenophobia fades and they realize that wiping out a whole species is an unacceptable act.
• Vestigial Empire:
  • The Gamilians are one of space-faring humanity's first major enemies, but after losing the Mekon War, they retreat and end up fracturing back into nation-states. Then they get invaded by the Reapers and rescued by the Romulans, to whom they become a Voluntary Vassal.
  • The Citadel races. War with the Space Pirates heavily damage their economy and infrastructure, then the Mekon and his allies invade, annexing the batarians, damaging many of their key worlds, and detonating an Omega particle near the Citadel itself which makes FTL travel to the station difficult. They recover somewhat by offering seats on the Council to all member races, but after the Five Galaxies War, the quarians and krogan defect to TeTO, weakening them again. Then the Reaper War hits them even harder with Pavalan being destroyed and the turian Hierarchy effectively ceasing to exist. Following the war's end, the severely weakened Council eventually disbands out of necessity, the various members joining TeTO or the Pact, leaving just the Citadel itself as essentially a city-state.
  • The Centauri Republic is almost completely dismantled by the Crusader Pact, Centauri Prime and its main colony being destroyed and them then being forced to abandon all colonies that previously belonged to other races. They rebuild from this remnant, however, becoming a sort of space Switzerland in later years.
  • TeTO becomes this in the Mirror Universe after losing the Mekon War. Not only does the detonation of the Omega particles destroying their ability to use FTL in the heart of their territory heavily cripple them, but the Race abandon the alliance in order to avoid continuing conflict with the Mekon and his allies.
  • The Klingon Empire goes into decline in the years following the Reaper War, due to being economically and technologically outmatched by all the other powers, with the societal tensions following the Praxis War not helping matters any. Following their second civil war, they're reduced to the Klingon Republic (a TeTO protectorate) and the Empire of Kahless (a hermit kingdom), the latter of which loses even more territory when the Unas Klingons rebel and split off to form the Pure Klingon Empire.
  • After the Goa'uld War, the Goa'uld Empire is reduced to just Bastet's domain, wherein Bastet herself is just a powerless figurehead to the Ka'tee movement.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • The Collector General being destroyed while Harbinger is still connected to it drives the Reaper completely insane.
  • Lord Drakkon has one in Shattered Grid part four as the heroes face him in the final battle he loses his tenuous grip on sanity and rants about how he's the hero.
• Villain Team-Up:
  • The Mekon, the Gamilans, and the Romulans ally to invade Citadel space.
  • The Reverse Flash allies with Faction Paradox to screw up history for their benefit. They also make temporary alliances with the Primagen and the Reapers at various points for specific plans.
  • The Decepticons and Rita Repulsa team up, mostly due to both taking up residence on Earth's moon and not viewing each other as a threat because of their exclusive goals.
  • Scorponok and Shockwave's rogue Decepticons end up allying with the Klikiss robots to make war against all organic life. After the main Decepticons are all killed, the remnants of the group are taken over by the Master.
  • Ares with the Goa'uld, to the point that the symbiote inside him has melded with his mind rather than taken it over.
  • Lord Drakkon and Towa and Mira. It doesn't last.
  • The Shinra Electric Power Company, the Foot Clan, and the Tyrusians are working together to take over Gaea. Each faction is planning to double-cross the others once they're no longer needed, and is aware that the others are planning to do the same, but are willing to work together until then out of necessity.
• Vindicated by History: In-Universe, Rentuv turns out to have been onto something about the Vinn and the Trill having a common ancestor.
• Voluntary Vassal: The Gamilans and the Orions become this to the Romulans after being saved from the Reapers.
• War Arc: Several so far — the Space Pirate-Citadel Council War, the Mekon War, the Vinn War, the Tesskan War, the Five Galaxies War, the Reaper War (which is long enough to be an entirely separate story on its own), the Revenant Crisis, the Praxis War, and the Goa'uld War.
• Wartime Wedding: A post-Reaper War entry is dedicated to the wedding of James Kirk and Yoko Usami.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction:
  • The "Daisy Cutter" is a device which unleashes a sonic wave capable of killing the Vinn in mass.
  • During the Reaper War, both sides use naquadah as super-nuclear weapons against each other.
  • The vorl-tak is an ancient Vulcan weapon which uses a planet's gravitational field to amplify psionic abilities into a Wave-Motion Gun. The Pact of the Raptor learn how to adapt it to work with biotics as well.
• We Can Rule Together: Volo tries this on Satoshi Ketchum. It doesn't work.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • Torchwood can be seen as this, as they're willing to do anything to protect humanity (and their allies) as per canon.
  • The Harvesters destroy sentient races and stripmine entire planets. From the outside perspective they are evil. They're really doing all of this to try and prevent the Reapers from coming back, or failing that, be strong enough to destroy them.
  • The Vinn possess races so that the galaxy will be united to fight the Reapers when they come back.
  • Xanatos is willing to support all kinds of morally questionable methods of keeping the Andromeda colonists safe from whatever threats are lurking in their new galaxy.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • The Vulcans to humanity after the Third Formic War.
  • Lumia to her AI companion Bloodhawk after he blocks her ability to tell anyone about the Krell Id machine. While she understands that it had to be done, since that knowledge is too dangerous to spread, she's still pissed about the violation.
  • The Veetans were not amused about how TeTO weaponized the Daisy Cutter, especially since, due to their pacifist nature and recognition of the Vinn parasite as a sentient lifeform all it's own, they were striving for a treatment that would save both host and parasite.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: In reaction to the arrival of TeTO and the changes they bring to Remnant, Salem immediately alters her plans to adapt to the situation.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • The Master destroys the Klikiss and Decepticons under his command the moment it looks like the Legends are turning them against him.
  • It's implied this happened to Hal Jordan after he was outted as a Torchwood double agent.

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