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== Fan Fiction ==

 

 

** Apophis. Starting with kidnapping [[It's Personal|several friends of the main characters]] for use as [[Puppeteer Parasite|hosts]] he remained a threat until he, after steadily losing power and influence because of the conflict with the heroes, was defeated and killed by a more powerful System Lord late in the second season.

** Sokar, having inspired the myth of [[Satan]] through his ruthlessness and evil and having a fleet of warships at his command ready to [[Take Over the World|conquer the galaxy]], was shaping up to be the new [[Big Bad]] when SG-1 and their [[Defector From Decadence|Tok'Ra allies]] killed him by [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blowing up a moon]]. Unfortunately, before Sokar was killed he had brought Apophis [[Back From the Dead]] so that he could [[The Punishment|suffer]] on said moon. Apophis, true to form, survived and took control over Sokar's resources and army.

** Next up is Anubis, who creates a nearly-unstoppable force of [[Super Soldier|super soldiers]], and has access to technology more advanced than literally everyone else except the [[Neglectful Precursors]], who are all gone. He devastates the remaining System Lords with his immense forces, leaving our heroes as the only hope of stopping him. He is finally defeated when the fleet sent to conquer Earth is destroyed by a [[Lost Technology]] Superweapon.

** Ba'al takes over the remainder of Anubis' forces and continues to take over the galaxy. He was doing a pretty good job until the replicators launch an all-out attack, starting by killing all the remaining System Lords other than Ba'al and Anubis, who's still alive and actually commands Ba'al, who defects and winds up in an [[Enemy Mine]] with the heroes. End result: Anubis is gone for good when Oma decides to [[Sealed Evil in A Duel|spend an eternity fighting him]]. The System Lords are all dead, except for Ba'al, who is overthrown, and the replicators are wiped out. Finally, with all major enemies defeated, the series ended. Everyone lives [[Happily Ever After]]...

** Wait, [[Post Script Season|what]]? Yeah, that's right, it's the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Ori]] on their universal Missionary Tour of Evil and Doom, but at least the finale may or may not have nuked them all... {{spoiler|and in fact did, but that left their self-created [[Dark Messiah|Jesus archetype]] Adria, newly Ascended, to take over all their power. It took brainwashing her followers into forsaking her with an ancient mind probe and falling into the same "fighting for eternity" trap that Anubis got into that the Universe was ''finally'' saved...or, at least as saved as it can be with the Wraith still bopping around the Pegasus Galaxy...}}

** [[Stargate Universe (TV)|I wouldn't hold your breath...]]

*** And now that it's done, there are two powerful Alien forces ([[Fan Nickname|Catfish Aliens]], and anti-technology Berserker Drones), although they are both pretty far from Earth.

* Much of the Undead plotline in ''[[War Craft]] III: The Frozen Throne'' follows Arthas, Sylvanas, and the Dreadlords fighting over who controls the Scourge now that the Burning Legion has been defeated.

* At the end of [[World of Warcraft|World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King]], much effort is spent [[Averted Trope|averting this]]. The players [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|beat the aforementioned Arthas in his Lich King form]]. Turns out this is a [[Oh Crap|really bad idea]], as all the undead he controlled are now free to [[Apocalypse How|kill everything]], so someone must [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|become the Lich King]] and [[And I Must Scream|sit on the Frozen Throne forever]]. The only [[Hand Wave]] given to why exactly the Scourge would be more powerful without its leader, how it could just take over the world by running rampant even after most of its operations and command structures have been taken apart in earlier quests, is that the small part of Arthas that is still human may have been holding him back - which should mean all those dire plans of his that everyone has been fighting have actually been deliberately useless stalling. It's [[Plot Hole|not very convincing]] if you [[Fridge Logic|think about it]].

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' had this happen twice: Oda Nobunaga's death at the hands of Akechi Mitsuhide led to the rise of Hideyoshi, whose death at the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu led to the rise of Ishida Mitsunari.

* Implied to be a force at play in the expansion to ''[[Dragon Age Origins]], Awakening.'' [[The Chessemaster|The Architect]] existed before the Blight, but was unable to attempt to "awaken" other [[Hive Mind|Darkspawn]] until the Archdemon arose and commanded them to the surface. However, while the Archdemon lived, it essentially put out interference, keeping the Architect's plans from bearing fruit. It was only after the Archdemon's death--a time that should have sent the Darkspawn back underground--that the Architect was able to begin his mission. Within a few years of the start of the Blight, his schemes have snowballed to the point that one NPC mentions that the Darkspawn army is greater than or equal to a Blight's strength--something unheard of in the world previously.

 

== Web Original ==

 

 

** The same had already happened earlier, after "Baby Doc" Duvalier's exile.

* Probably subverted/prevented during [[World War II]]: Plans were drawn up by the Allies to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]], but were shot down because the Allied commanders felt that Hitler's incompetent leadership was doing a better job of bringing [[Nazi Germany]] down than they were, and were afraid that someone more competent would take his place.

* Russia underwent this with the Time of Troubles following the death of czar Ivan the Terrible.

 

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