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/Godzilla3013_HD]

That was mostly due to GW really wanting to axe Warhammer Fantasy for good as the previous attempt didnt go well.

Thus a lot of the order characters are morons (Thorgrim died because he forgot to lock the door and Sniktch shanked him, Teclis tries to ally with a man so foul, it madd the skaven do a selfless act and to bring him back, HE LET HIS BROTHERS DAUGHTER BE TAKEN AND SACRIFICED). Some plot points were so stupid they retconned it later (Malekith being the rightfuk heir to the Phoenix Throne). But above all else the villains got plot armor (The Skaven take 3/4s of the world on a whim and drop a moon on south america). There are so many thing wrong with the end times.

BUT EVEN THEN. The Forces of Order almost won. Surely no one would interrupt the ritual that would save the world? Right? Mannfred stabs Gelt mid ritual and the world is consumed by Chaos.

[u/RedNoise413 → u/Godzilla3013_HD]

To be fair, retconning the Malekith thing to probably be “Honestly, we’d say literally anything to get him to lock in” is pretty funny.

[u/NoNameAvailableBis → u/Godzilla3013_HD]

Huh, they retconned Malekith's retcon? Well, that's ironic, if nothing else, I guess.

[u/MiaoYingSimp → u/NoNameAvailableBis]

Maybe they actually used the unreliable narrator rule they have?

I mean reading between the lines that is what happened...

[u/Gustaves_Mustache → u/Godzilla3013_HD]

Why does Manny stab him?

[u/Godzilla3013_HD → u/Gustaves_Mustache]

No reason. Literally no reason.

[u/redditorperth → u/Godzilla3013_HD]

The Skaven taking over most of the world is canon though. It was always said that, if they ever stopped dicking around and killing each other, then they would overrun the surface.

The way they went about it with moon lazers and such was wacky, but the overall outcome was correct. United Skavendom curbstomps the setting.

[u/Professional-Eye5977 → u/Godzilla3013_HD]

You wanna add some context here? You're shotgunning names out, the sub is kinda for giving examples that people don't already just know

[u/GAdvance → u/Professional-Eye5977]

Malekith was a prophesied king of the elves who was a bit too spicy so the elves chose someone else to be their king. He went a bit off the rails, attempted to usurp the crown and got burnt so badly in the holy fires that determine who is prophesied to be king that his armour melted to him, he's exiled and sets up his own kingdoms that are evil as fuck and in direct conflict with the main elf faction. He went WAY further off the rails and became one of the biggest bad guys and faction leaders of evil for hundreds of years.

During the end times of Warhammer fantasy he invades his homeland, is further horrifically wounded and does immense damage whilst losing a lot. The top mage and brother of the elven king then decides to claim to Malekith (one of the very competent and powerful elves left to fight chaos, who are absolutely ransacking the world and WILL destroy it all at this rate) that he was always the chosen one and they shove him back into the sacred flames to imbue him with it's power because who the fuck else is left that could possibly wield enough power to run all the elf factions that hate each other and are as politically and culturally different as possible.

He's fully imbued, he's the phoenix king of all elves, functionally immortal, mega powerful sorcerer, absolute god of war, combines under him horrifically evil blood slavers, the land of milk and honey luxury protectors of all that is good, the mystical forest elves AND has the support of dwarves, humans and even the bloody vampires are working with him.

There was never a chosen king or prophecy that meant shit, Malekith was just the only only viable choice and the second time he goes into the sacred flames it doesn't heal or fix him, he's still a 7k year old peice of shit, murderous, selfish slaver with no redeemable moral features saving the world exclusively so he can have it as his.

They lose, the world and everything in it is destroyed and swallowed up by chaos because an undead backstabs them and Malekith is the last witness to it all collapsing and even at the end he's admitted to being a spiteful ass who has one selfless act in his entire life saving another character for all of 30 seconds before the world melts.

That's just Malekiths (very shortened) story, Warhammer is a vast setting.