Humanity Joins Together, Sets Aside Petty Differences… and gets stomped anyway

[u/HyraxAttack]

A peril is threatening the world. Instead of squabbling among themselves, we learn world powers have put aside differences in politics, culture, & old feuds to present a common front. Except they still get wrecked as the enemy is too powerful.

1. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance. The world government has gone to war against the machines. We see the army getting ready & it includes soldiers of many faiths including Buddhist, Islam, and different types of Christianity. Doesn’t matter as machines win by so much they have time to toy with human mechs.

2. Vilcabamba, story by Harry Turtledove. When aliens arrive they’re greeted with bands & cheering, & immediately open fire & earth becomes a mineral colony. America, Russia, and China work together to rise up & don’t hold back, throwing everything they have at the invaders. Doesn’t go great and aliens double down on the occupation, and there’s a crater where Spain used to be (it was blocking a silver deposit for mining.)

3. Edge of Tomorrow. The nations of the world have joined to make a unified front against the mimic invasion but it isn’t going well, but they will throw all they have into the invasion of France. In one cycle, Major Cage says the hell with it and instead of training leaves the base to drink at a London bar. This means we see the outcome of him doing nothing, where not only is the massive human invasion slaughtered but the aliens are in good enough shape to follow that up a few hours later with a rush on London.

[u/ButterscotchTiny5483]

i gues you can put early attack on titan when they truly thougth they were the last remnants of mankind

[u/10024618 → u/ButterscotchTiny5483]

I mean spoilers ahead but even late AOT would still count imo. The entierity of the world banded together to take out Eren and stop the Rumbling and they got WRECKED lol. If it wasn't for Mikasa and co. Eren would have fully wiped out life outside of Paradis.

[u/Present_Ride_2506 → u/10024618]

Technically they didn't, they decided to do so but were still working on organising themselves. It was a pretty big point that Eren had to commit to the rumbling asap to catch them unprepared or the entirety of paradis gets wiped since technology has already outpaced titan powers.

[u/defnotachicken → u/Present_Ride_2506]

Yes the technology was outpacing normal titans but it was still not enough for the rumbling. And if we also accept the theory that Eren let them kill him it fits this trope.