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* ''[[Bleach]]'': The five-year long (real time) "Winter War" between the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 and Sosuke Aizen's army of Arrancar, finally ending at the climax of the Deicide arc.
** The second half of the series is building up towards another [[War Arc]], between the Shinigami and the Vandenreich.
* The ongoing conflict between the Exorcists of the Black Order and the Millennium Earl's Akuma make up a good portion of the [[Myth Arc]] for ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]''.
* The Arachnophobia arc in ''[[Soul Eater]]''.
* The war between the Kingdom of Midland and the Tudor Empire is the second plot of the Golden Age Arc in ''[[Berserk]].''
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* [[Babylon 5]] featured the Narn-Centauri war, the Shadow war, and the Earth Civil War.
* A few [[Star Trek]] series mustered some of these into their runs.
** Season 3 of [[Star Trek: Enterprise]] has the eponymous Enterprise racing to stop the Xindi from launching an attack on Earth.
** [[Deep Space Nine]] famously featured the two-year war between the Federation and the Dominion, but it also had the Klingon-Cardassian war and the second Klingon-Federation war (before both sides discovered they'd been played like cheap fiddles).
** The [[Star Trek: Voyager]] writers wanted to make "Year of Hell" a season-long arc, but the executives said no, and it was instead made into a two-parter.
 
== Videogames ==
 
* [[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]] has the conflict with [[The Dragon|Saren]] and the geth in the first game. Notable battles include Saren's attack on Eden Prime (the prologue), the geth besieging the human planet-colony of Feros, the brawl on Saren's headquarters at [[Wham! Episode|Virmire]], a side-quest that has [[The Hero]] attacking several bases to prevent the geth from launching an invasion, and [[Big Badass Battle Sequence|the Battle of the Citadel]] as the finale.
** The second game, notably, avoids this from the main plotline, but the possibility of a second war between the geth and quarians is addressed several times. Additionally, the [[Enemy Civil War]] between the [[True Neutral]] geth and the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] heretic geth is brought to light, but we never see the actual fighting take place, and we can end it for good during the [[Sixth Ranger]]'s loyalty mission.
** In the Arrival DLC, [[Big Good|Admiral Hackett]] outright states that war between the humans and batarians could erupt, following the destruction of a batarian-occupied system. If true, then [[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]] would feature the intergalactic war against the Reapers and their Husks, the conflict with the batarians, and the quarians retaking their homeworld from the geth, all going on ''at the same time''.
*** The developers have repeatedly said that Mass Effect 3 is the start of World War II IN SPACE!...
* [[Halo]] has the Human-Covenant war as its [[Myth Arc]], with the Covenant Civil War as a late side-effect carrying over to the finale.
* A major plotline in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]'' is the conflict between the Imperial Legion and the Stormcloak rebellion led by Ulfric Stormcloak. The player is free to help the Empire quell the rebellion or the Stormcloaks fight off the Legion and have Skyrim become an independent nation.
* [[Fallout: New Vegas]] centers around a war between the [[The Federation|New California Republic]] and [[The Horde|Caesar's Legion]], with [[The Chessmaster|Mr. House]] serving as a potential third party. You're given the opportunity to support any three of those. That or decide to [[Dark Horse Victory|oppose all three and rule Vegas yourself]].
 
== Web Original ==
 
* ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'' has the "war" between the ''vastly'' incompetent or undesirable Reds and Blues, but we barely see any sort of firefights between them (Battle Creek flag zealots notwithstanding), and it's actually just a training scenario used by [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]]; the last detail is kept secret from the Reds and Blues themselves.
 
== Web Comics ==
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is about stopping a war that's already going on, sort of making it a [[Myth Arc|series-long]] War Arc.
* The [[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]] spent the near-entirety of the fifth season battling the forces of the [[Brotherhood of Evil]], ending just before the final episode.
 
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