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{{quote|''"Have fun stormin' da castle!"''
|'''Miracle Max''', ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''}}
There are really only a few good ways to end an action movie. You've got your car chase, your [[Showdown At High Noon|mano-a-mano showdown]], your [[Battle Royale With Cheese|mano-a-mano-a-mano-a-mano-a-mano showdown]],<ref>That means that there are a lot of hands involved, not men.</ref> and your grand, sweeping [[Final Battle]]. These are all well and good, but sometimes the Big Bad isn't gracious enough to come to you. In that case, you'd better go to them.
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In a variant, instead of directly attacking the castle with massive forces, a small party will sneak in (through the sewers, disguised as delivering supplies, etc.) and attempt to take the castle from within.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Fan Works ==
* As of the beginning of the ''[[Bleach]]'' fic ''[[Winter War]]'', Seireitei has [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|been occupied by Aizen's forces for some time]]. Naturally, once things get underway, retaking the city is one of the heroes' first priorities. At the same time, a smaller group is sent into Hueco Mundo.
* At the climax of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Rings of Dualty]]'''s first act, Hyrule Castle is infiltrated by not just one faction, but two, one being {{spoiler|the [[The Chosen One|(more) usually-heroic]] main character}}. It goes pretty well thanks to [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|lazy guards]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|a distraction]].
* ''[[Jewel of Darkness]]'': The Jump City arc ends with [[The Starscream]] leading the Titans to Midnight's lair, allowing them to catch her off guard. When the battle is over, {{spoiler|Slade appears to drag the badly-wounded Midnight away}} and the base [[Collapsing Lair|self-destructs]].
* Clan Gully and their comrades had to attack {{spoiler|Khamja's base}} in Grazton to {{spoiler|save Baron Beltorey and Cid}} during the Grazton Arc of ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]''.
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** ''Attack Of The Clones'': The Jedi Knights storm the Geonosian arena.
** ''Revenge Of The Sith'': The ''Invisible Hand'', though this one's at the beginning. Inverted later on when the 501st storm the Jedi Temple.
* Used realistically in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. The orcs storm castles on three different occasions. The orcs only ever get as far as they do because they vastly outnumber the defenders, occasionally have superior equipment to break down barriers, and soak up a huge amount of casualties just to achieve victory. Even then, they only manage one victory and lose twice ( {{spoiler|Osgiliath, Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith, respectively}}). In another instance, Frodo and Sam are the ones actually doing the storming, but all the fighting is done by the diversionary force led by [[Supporting Leader|Aragorn]].
* Most of the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] films end this way. To be more specific, ''[[Dr. No]]'', ''[[Thunderball]]'', ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'', ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'', ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'', ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', ''[[Octopussy]]'', ''[[The Living Daylights]]'', ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', and ''[[Die Another Day]]'' all end with James Bond willingly gearing up and assaulting a known enemy base that very definitely contains the major villain.
** ''[[Moonraker]]'' ends with an assault on Drax's space station by U.S. Marine astronauts with laser weapons. Bond was already inside the station when it occurred.
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* In [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', Aslan, Lucy, and Susan {{spoiler|after his resurrection}} do not go to aid Peter and the army, but storm the White Witch's castle, to restore to life [[Taken for Granite|the statues inside]]. (Aslan suggested Peter have a plan to storm the castle in case the Witch decided to fall back to her castle instead of committing to an open battle after killing him.)
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' novel ''[[Blood Angels|Deus Sanguinius]]'', Rafen gets on the outside of a shuttle going to the spaceship to inflitrate it. He is the only loyal Blood Angel left, and the ship, which should have been a refuge, is enemy ground.
* In ''[[
{{quote|[[The Mole|Two Fire Herb]]: "We must [[Romanovs and Revolutions|storm the Winter Palace!]]"
[[Chinese Girl|Lotus Blossom]]: "Excuse me, Two Fire Herb, but it is June."
[[Jerkass|Two Fire Herb]]: "Then we can storm the Summer Palace!" }}
* Torquilstone in ''[[Ivanhoe]]''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* Happens in pretty much every ''[[Redwall]]'' book where the villain builds or steals themselves a looming castle fortress from which to rule the landscape. Examples include Terramort (''Mariel of Redwall''), Marshank (''Martin the Warrior'') and Castle Floret (''The Bellmaker'') Most of the other books have assorted villains trying to storm either Redwall Abbey or Salamandastron. Subversions include the Kingdom of Malkaniss, an underground fortress, and Kotir, which was flooded and destroyed with siege weaponry instead of stormed.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': ''Proven Guilty'' ends with Harry, Murphy, Charity and Thomas storming Queen Mab's castle in Faerie {{spoiler|to get Molly back}}. Subverted in that {{spoiler|while they have to deal with some forces, they arrive to find that ''something'' has already been through and wiped out most of Mab's army...}}
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]:''
* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'', in the mission named... "[[Storming the Castle]]". You launch a one-man assault on the heavily-fortified Observatory that serves as the base of the Nerd faction, breaking through several lines of defense, including a tripod-mounted, double-barreled, electrically-powered Spud Cannon, and finally blast in the heavily-armored gates to bust into the core and take out their leader, Earnest. Considering that the system was, apparently, designed to withstand an assault from the entire football team (the Jocks faction is the natural enemies of the Nerds), this is quite impressive.
** Its ability to stand up to such an assault is later proven when you assist in its defense from the Jocks after putting indecent pictures of the head cheerleader all over town.
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** Mario has to storm the Chateaus at the end of each world in Something. They even get an Elemental [[Theme Naming]].
** Luigi gets to storm DDDark Castle <ref>a World 5 secret level</ref> in Something Else. Luigi even gets to fight a Dark Matter-possessed Dedede at the end.
* ''[[Rockman 6: Unique Harassment]]''
** Dust Man's level is called Oedo Castle. Mega Man infiltrates a Japanese castle in order to destroy Dust Man. This level is an homage to the ''[[Ganbare Goemon]]'' castle levels, complete with Transformed Oedo Castle as the stage's OST.
** Spark Man's level, Rock Escape, takes place in a dilapidated castle, which uses [[Mega Man 10|Blade Man]]'s tileset in the first half. To drive home the point of this level being a Ape Escape homage, Crumbling Castle is used as the stage's OST.
== Webcomics ==
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* During the Battle of Actium, Julius Caesar wisely recognized this trope, so he avoided it on purpose by building a castle around a castle. His enemies tried to storm his siege wall multiple times and failed, eventually surrendering.
* During the Battle of Chapultepec, Mexican forces were made to defend the military school, which was based on the Chapultepec castle, against the American invaders.
* In the winter of 1944 the US Army made the only opposed crossing of the Vosges Mountains. This area was border country between the French and whomever ruled Bavaria and had centuries of whatever type of fortification was traditional including medieval castles (belonging to either King or to a local baron with ideas about independence). This was also a natural hazard for armies being [[Cliffs of Insanity|craggy]] and [[The Lost Woods|forested]] and in general real [[Brothers Grimm]] country. Beyond that there was the Rhine and then Bavaria which was more of the same kind of thing but at least the German Army was shot when they got there (sort of). One subversion of course is that if a real castle was actually defended it was of course [[Combat Pragmatist|flattened.]] However often it was a bit of work getting artillery there and in the meantime even old-fashioned castles could be an obstacle to infantry. In any event the whole mountainous labyrinth was one big castle to storm.
* Subversion: Most castles are not stormed. They are usually taken by a trick move or inside job. Failing that they are Macgyvered into submission. Or simply blockaded. A commander that actually tries to storm a castle before considering other options deserves exactly what he gets(his men get worse but don't deserve it of course).
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