Basic Trope: America is invaded and/or occupied in a work of fiction.
- Straight: As part of the People's Republic of China's campaign of world domination, the People's Liberation Army occupies the mainland United States. Now, it's up to the American Resistance Front to strike back....
- Exaggerated: America is invaded by a coalition of countries including Russia, China, Japan, North Korea, Iran, Mexico, UK, France, Canada, The Legions of Hell and Sealand all while fighting the civil war against the New Confederacy and an insurgency against Right Wing Militias with Western Terrorists seemingly blowing things up at random, with the armies of the Ruthless Foreign Gangsters of the world exploiting the chaos to steal everything that is not nailed down and shooting anybody who has a problem with it.
- Downplayed: Hawaii and other American overseas possessions are invaded and occupied by a foreign power, but the continental US remains untouched.
- The only attacks on the continental USA are commando raids and terrorist attacks by foreign agents and traitors, but no full scale invasion.
- Justified:
- The USA was broken apart due to a civil war, allowing foreign countries to effectively project military forces into the country in a proxy war.
- Inverted:
- A work made in another country features a fictional invasion of that country by the US.
- America Takes Over the World
- America is at war with itself.
- Subverted:
- America and China are at war, but the fighting never reaches America...
- The invasion turns out to be a False Flag Operation...
- Double Subverted:
- ...Until the U.S military is routed and General Ming announces his intention to take the war all the way to the White House.
- ...Which China takes advantage of by invading for real.
- Parodied: The United States is invaded by a nation that until then had literally no chance of ever invading it, and the entire thing is a hilarious mess.
- Zig Zagged: After the PLA takes over Taiwan and outer Mongolia, the American public is afraid that they will invade the Western seaboard next. However, this doesn't happen, because China chose to fight Russia instead. Before the Pentagon can breathe a sigh of relief, Confederates start a civil war.
- Averted: No foreign soldier sets foot on U.S soil.
- Enforced: "We've got to show something shocking and unbelievable, like a hostile foreign power rolling tanks down middle-class suburban neighborhoods! And we'll have a whole cast of patriotic freedom fighters fighting to drive them out!"
- Lampshaded: "At this point, the only country that hasn't staged an invasion of the US is Switzerland."
- Invoked: The leader UK secretly makes a deal with Canada and Mexico to divide the USA...
- Exploited: Top US command, through apparent diplomatic military weakness, goad China into attempting an invasion of the United States, counting on the absolutely massive logistical nightmare of trying to supply an invasion force large enough across the largest ocean in the world, plus the Second Amendment, to defeat the invasion and cause the weakening of Chinese global postion.
- Defied: President Miller threatens the Chinese with full-scale nuclear war if they attempt to land troops in the US.
- Discussed: "I never thought I would ever see another nation invade the US..."
- Conversed: "The Russians have invaded? This is just like Red Dawn!
- Deconstructed: The invasion turns out to be low-scale and easily defeated, due to the logistical difficulties and military disadvantage involved in mounting an invasion of the USA. This goes as well as you expect.
- Reconstructed: We get to see plotting and execution behind the invasion, and it is depicted in a way that is logically feasible.
- Emperor Evulz knows he has no chance in hell of invading the USA with his Legions of Doom, so he fights the USA through propaganda and bribery, subtly encouraging corruption and division and supporting crime bosses. When the USA finally becomes weak enough, he invades.
- Emperor Evulz does not has the firepower to take over the entire continent of the United States. But unfortunately for Washington (either the Northwestern state or D.C.) he has enough firepower to take over that, oppress it thoroughly and fend off any attempts to take it back that are not "nuke it and screw the millions of dead hostages".
- Implied: The Mexican flag is mysteriously shown flying over Texas, and no one travels through there, but it's not clear why.
Back to the Invaded States of America with you, capitalist pig-dog! America belongs to us now!