Would the following situation fit:
After an air battle against an alien spacecraft, that gets shot down and the crew captured or killed, it turns out that spacecraft is an obsolete supply carrier that has been mothballed, supposedly dismantled but actually acquired by a smuggling outfit, that figured that there was plenty of money to be made from stealing valuable resources and priceless cultural artefacts (say the Mona Lisa, and other such valuable artworks) from primitive civilizations and selling them the black market, and this turns out to be not a prelude to an invasion but a First Contact with a galactic polity starting with a very bad first impression?
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Film
- The Warg Rider attack in The Two Towers.
Literature
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe's Frogstar Scout Robots.
Web Original
- The Rooster Teeth series supreme surrender is based around this trope.
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Literature
- Only in the film adaptation. In the novel, Théoden is marching out to meet Saruman's army head-on, and only elects to retreat to Helm's Deep when he encounters survivors of his own advanced guard who had just been driven from the Fords of Isen after a futile attempt to delay them there.
Team Fortress 2 comic series give us a scene where Scout, Pyro and Soldier find themselves in the middle of Siberian Tundra and suddenly are attacked by few large bears. Once they are defeated, Heavy (whom the trio was looking for) shows up and proclaims 'Those bears were babies'. The others chastise him for calling everything 'a baby' and everything actually being a baby to him, after which he poinst out 'No, they were literally babies. HER babies' and he points to an absolutely HUGE momma-bear suddenly appearing. He then fights and kills it (everything actually IS a baby to him). It differs in, that the babies were not actually sent against the heroes and just happened to be there, as well as the fact that Heavy does defeat the momma-bear.