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== Comic Books ==
* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'', in which fairy tale characters have fled from their magical homelands, which were conquered by the evil Adversary, to the mundane world, with most settling in New York. {{spoiler|Eventually played straight when the Adversary sends the witch Baba Yaga leading an army of wooden soldiers to New York to conquer Fabletown.}} The Mundies never notice, because they think they are marching young Republicans.
* [[The DCU]] villainess the Queen of Fables is the [[Wicked Stepmother]] from "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literaturenovel)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]". The twist is that in [[The DCU]], (a [[Grimmification|bloodier version of]]) the events of the fairytale [[All Myths Are True|actually happened]], but then Snow White used a magic book to [[Ret-Gone]] the whole thing into fiction, so the Queen is also a sort of [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]. When the magic book is reopened, the Queen takes over Manhattan and becomes convinced that [[Wonder Woman]] is Snow White.
** There is also Brother Grimm, King of Eastwind, who antagonizes [[Flash]] and lusts after Flash's wife, Linda Park West. He has similar powers to the Queen of Fables, and can somehow detect and attack someone who is using [[Super Speed]], making him a tough foe for Flash to face.
* {{spoiler|The squid}} in ''[[Watchmen]]'', or that's what {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}would have you believe.
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== Film ==
* Queen Narissa from ''[[Enchanted]]''.
* Borderline example in ''[[Mirror Mask]]'': {{spoiler|The Princess does escape to the real world for a while, but the destruction she causes is limited to "eating chips and snogging boys and smoking and everything." Her own world, however, faces [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]}}.
* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] ''Beastmaster II: Through the Portal of Time,'' [[Evil Overlord]] Arklon finds his way into 1980s Los Angeles and proceeds to live it up.
* In the ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]'' movie, Koopa zips over to our universe with an army of Goombas armed with [[Evolutionary Levels|Devo guns]] to chimpify some locals and take back "their" world.
* General Zod and his minions Ursa and Non in Superman II.
* Shiwan Khan in [[The Shadow]].
* Gargamel in ''[[The Smurfs (Filmfilm)|The Smurfs]]''.
 
 
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** To elaborate and oversimplify, the [[Satan|Lone Power]] comes to New York and tries to turn it evil. When they try to stop It, It {{spoiler|puts out the Sun.}}
*** It helps that they have the canonical copy of reality in book form as their weapon.
* [[Older Than Radio]] in that it occurs in Chapter 8 of the early [[Time Travel]] children's novel ''[[TheFive StoryChildren of the Amuletand (Literature)It|The Story of the Amulet]]'' by [[E. Nesbit]]: a queen from ancient Babylon (who doesn't have magical powers, though they do exist in the novel) ends up in "modern" (1900s) London.
* A lift of this occurs in the [[Narnia]] prequel, ''The Magician's Nephew'' when the wicked Jadis (a.k.a. the White Witch) invades London (of roughly the same time period as ''The Story of the Amulet''). Or at least she tries. Magic is inherent to a dimension here, and so she had no power in our world - but did have [[Super Strength]]. She threatens to invade our world in ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'', but that's a clear bluff.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s modern fantasies usually involve some version of this, with the monster usually being one of the [[The Fair Folk|Unseleighe Sidhe]] (Dark Court Elves). Most representative of this trope is ''Mad Maudlin'', in which Aerune, self-styled Lord of Death and Pain, tries to open a Nexus to [[Magical Land|Underhill]] in Central Park and a Sidhe driven mad by the presence of cold iron turns into a literal [[wikipedia:Bloody Mary (folklore)|Bloody Mary]], murdering people left and right.
* The climax of ''Blood & Iron'' by Elizabeth Bear.
* [[The Fair Folk]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]] II: The Globe'' and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Auditors]] in ''The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch''. Both set to slow down human progress so that we can't create a colony ship before the world becomes a giant snowball again.
* A large part of the series ''[[Everworld]]'': Loki's dream is to use Senna's powers to transport himself and the other gods back to this world to escape from Ka Anor. Given gods like Huitzilopoctli, who eats ''thousands of human hearts in a sitting,'' [[Nightmare Fuel]] may ensue.
** Of course, this is {{spoiler|inverted with Senna's ''own'' plan---to conquer Everworld by bringing modern humans there with guns and other weapons}}.
* Bluebeard (Caster) form ''[[Fate Zero|Fate/Zero]]'', so much so that the supervisor temperately put the war on hold and offered a reward of an extra command seal to who ever killed him. Then he summoned a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|giant monster]] [[The Worm That Walks|made of slugs]] and the JSDF called in some F-15Js'. {{spoiler|One got eaten by supersonic tentacles, the other gets hijacked by an epic hero summoned from beyond the grave, and proceeds to have an aerial dogfight against another epic hero flying a magitech airplane.}} Somehow [[The Masquerade]] survived.
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]],'' Jadis comes to England around 1900 and wreaks havoc trying to [[Take Over the World]]. This is one of the few examples where the Narnia books have any adventurous incidents of any kind taking place in the world of Earth. Once she discovers Narnia, her attention mostly remains there.
* Queen Redd arrives on Earth in [[Seeing Redd]], the sequel to [[The Looking Glass Wars]].
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* ''[[Charmed]]'' has an example in the [[Evil Counterpart|"Evil Enchantress" clone of Paige]] from the S4 episode, appropriately titled "Paige from the Past."
* Subverted on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].'' One would ''assume'' this is why [[Physical God|Glory]] came to this world from her original Hell dimension, but actually she's been exiled and just wants to return home. Though, this ''would'' probably [[Endofthe World As We Know It|destroy this and many other worlds]] in the process...
* In the last two seasons of [[Stargate SG -1]], Ba'al takes to hiding on earth as a businessman. He seems to develop quite a fondness for Earth culture, especially in [[Stargate: Continuum|Continuum]] where he contacts the President of the United States via a cell phone he had brought with him.
 
 
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