Conqueror From the Future: Difference between revisions

* 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-Strength Masquerade]] earlier than "scheduled" and thus prevent a tragedy, and b) she's arguably not even a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], because she specifically ''avoids'' going to moral extremes [[Genre Savvy|to avoid becoming one]]: She doesn't lie, and [[Technical Pacifist|doesn't kill]]: her army of robot minions are equipped with [[The Nudifier|disarmament beams]].

* Also from the DCU, Xotar the Weapons Master, a criminal from the 120th century who fought the [[Justice League of America]]. His first attempt (the JLA's second ever appearance, in ''[[The Brave and Thethe Bold]]'' #29) actually addressed the history problem: Xotar had found a fragmentary old historical document mentioning that had travelled to 1960 to defeat the Justice League. The story ends with the document being written, revealing that with all the missing portions in place it is an account of his ''unsuccessful attempt'' to defeat the Justice League.

* In ''[[Star Trek First Contact|Star Trek: First Contact]]'', [[The Virus|the Borg]], realizing that they're having a lot of trouble assimilating [[The Federation]], travel back in time to prevent the Federation from being formed (and assimilate the Earth in its more vulnerable past). It initially succeeds, as a new timeline is created where the Earth is populated by Borg drones, but the Enterprise was protected from the changes due to being in the wake of the Borg ship's "temporal vortex". The Enterprise follows them into the past and sets history right.

* 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]]''

* This is the goal of the Architects of the Flesh from the 2056 juncture in ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]''. Because of the way that the setting works, the Buro are not doing this just to satisfy a megalomaniacal urge, but because changes in previous junctures on the part of their enemies can lead to their downfall in a critical shift, just like what happened to the Four Monarchs.

* According to the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' book "Lords of Madness," the mindflayer empire was crumbling at about the same time that the universe was ending. So in one last attempt to save themselves, they traveled billions of years into the past, where the games we play take place. And since they conquered the universe once, they'll probably be able to do it again. They even use their time to study "lesser" civilizations, in an effort to improve their own.

* [[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]: After the events of ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', {{spoiler|Dalton, who's already pretty ticked off after Magus stole the queen's favor, and after Crono thwarted his takeover of Surviving Village in Antiquity, lands in the Dimensional Vortex, and he somehow gets into the present, and raises an army in Porre and conquers the entire kingdom of Guardia. Which, by the way, lasted for about 1000 years and is inhabited by player characters Crono, Marle, and Lucca (and the former two are possibly killed, but this is debated)}}

* This is the plan of Spectre in the first ''[[Ape Escape (Video Game)|Ape Escape]]'', travel back to various points in history (from the dinosaurs onwards) to try and make monkeys (or chimps, or whatever primate they were supposed to be) the dominant species, not humans.

* The time colonists from ''[[Dresden Codak (Webcomic)|Dresden Codak]]'', who are sort of a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of the ''Enterprise'' crew from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]''.

* 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-Effect-Proof Memory|so she remembers the "true" history of our world]], and thus manages to gather the heroes to take down Shendu and his siblings and [[Set Right What Once Was Wrong|restore history]].

* In the ''[[Mega Man (Animationanimation)|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 FriendsSuperfriends]]'' cartoon, the [[Legion of Doom]] subvert this by attempting to conquer the future... Conqueror(s) from the Past? Bwah-ha-ha!!!

* The ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (AnimationTV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon: in a reversal of the basic setup of "31st-century heroes summon 21st-century Superman to help", the second season has a 41st-century Superman clone summon the 31st-century heroes to help against the warlord Imperiex. Both the Superman clone and Imperiex remain in the 31st century (their past) for the rest of the season. (Note that this only applies to the cartoon Imperiex, not the comic character he was based on.)

* In the ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]'' three-parter "The Savage Time", Vandal Savage sends a laptop computer and a complete history of World War II to his 1930s-era self, so that he may use the advanced technology and foreknowledge of history to take over the Nazi war machine, defeat the Allies, and conquer the world.

* Parodied in ''[[Dave the Barbarian (Animation)|Dave the Barbarian]]'', where a nerd that works in a zipper factory gains access to a time-travelling zipper and then makes himself ruler of Udragoth through supplying the citizenry with video games.