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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Chao Linshen is a subversion: the major antagonist for a huge portion of the story, bringing advanced technology from the future to meet her goal, she seems like this, but with two key differences: a) she doesn't want to conquer the world, just break the [[Extra
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', the minor villain Polgar, mentioned in passing, is a direct [[Shout
* Inverted in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s "[[By His Bootstraps]]". The main character is brought from the present to the far future and becomes the world's "dictor" (dictator). Apparently the people from the future have become too soft or something.
* Happens after a fashion in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[The Guns of the South]]'': the time-traveling Afrikaners initially just try to change history, but turn their advanced weapons against the [[American Civil War|Confederate States]] when the latter, lead by President Robert E. Lee, starts moving to treat blacks fairly rather than keeping them as slaves and treating them as sub-humans, the way the AWB wants them.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* In ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', the crew of the eponymous ship, who operate in the 22nd century, become embroiled in a "Temporal Cold War" between an entire race of Conquerors From The Future called the Sphere-Builders (who come from the 26th century) and a variety of forces opposed to their plans to change history (mostly from the 29th century).
* The villain Tempus from a multi-part episode of ''[[Lois and Clark (TV)|Lois and Clark]]''
* The villains from year 2500 in ''[[The Girl From Tomorrow]]'' ponder this, but decide conquering each nation individually would take too much time compared to taking over their [[One World Order]] led by a [[Mega Corp]].
* Jeffrey Sinclair in ''[[
* As of the [[Bad Future]] shown in "Letters of Transit," this appears to be the mission of the Observers in ''[[Fringe]]''.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', Shendu tries to ensure his everlasting reign by rewriting the "Book of Ages". However, Jade manages to get a page from the book before it was rewritten (specifically the part that mentions ''her'' joining the fight against the forces of evil), [[Ripple
* In the ''[[Mega Man (Animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon, Vile and Spark Mandrill came to the past to steal some Dr. Light's new Lightanium energy rods, so they could sell them in the future. Unfortunately for them, [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] went back to the past to stop them.
* In the old ''[[Super Friends]]'' cartoon, the [[Legion of Doom]] subvert this by attempting to conquer the future... Conqueror(s) from the Past? Bwah-ha-ha!!!
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