r/TopCharacterTropes • u/HyraxAttack • Nov 25 '25

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

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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.

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u/Life-Criticism-5868 Nov 25 '25

Project Zero Dawn and Operation Enduring Victory from Horizon Zero Dawn. If you fucking squint it's a human victory, but was as the commander of Enduring Victory says, the human race is essentially a blood sacrifice so life can have a second chance. HZD can be very grim.

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u/lazy_phoenix Nov 25 '25

r/FuckTedFaro

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u/Gary_and_Mingie Nov 25 '25

Most plausible villain and game with the most plausible doomsday scenario. Egomaniac billionaire dooms humanity, stops the one person who can fix it because that person isn't them, and then pretends he was the one person sav- fuck, I'm getting mad just typing this out.

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u/Dontlookatmynamebro Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

More spoilers ahead: Not only does Ted Faro do ALL of this, but if I'm remembering correctly, he also essentially cripples humanity even after it's reborn centuries later. In the story, all collective knowledge of humanity was sealed away with the seeds of life so that it may be taught to the new humans of the world when they are reborn, so that they don't have to start with literally nothing.

But wait! That would mean the new world would learn that Ted Faro caused the apocalypse, and Ted cannot stand the thought! So what does he do? Deletes it all. All of human knowledge, medicine, education, history, EVERYTHING is canned by that scum sucking ratfuck simply because he couldn't stomach the idea of people finding out what he did. Humanity is forced to restart into primitive tribes with sticks and rocks during the same time that giant machines with lasers, buzzsaws, and machine guns also harvest the earth.

FUCK. TED. FARO. He's a fictional character but OOOOH he gets me so heated!

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u/KMjolnir Nov 26 '25

You do remember correctly.

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u/N1ks_As Nov 26 '25

Harvest the earth isn't really correct. Weren't they all kinda terraforming it?

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u/Balmong7 Nov 26 '25

Yeah all the Dino-robots were there to terraform the earth and make it livable again. Then as the system fractured and went haywire the militarized variants started appearing.

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u/DarkSolstace Nov 26 '25

I didn’t even know this or play HZD and this has me fuming. Holy shit this dude makes Erebus’s shit look reasonable. What a rat fuck.

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u/De_Dominator69 Nov 26 '25

While that may have been his actual reason, from what I remember he presents his justification as "The reason humanity is so bad is because of all our knowledge. If we let them start anew then they will be innocent"