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[[File:saucers-over-irs 765.jpg|link=Earth vs. the Flying Saucers|frame|[[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]]]
So, you've got your villain, and his evil army. You've assured they're [[Moral Event Horizon|evil]], but you're not sure whether the audience finds him [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|threatening]]. Or, you're trying to reverse years of [[Villain Decay]]. One way or another, you need to give your baddie some serious villain cred. So what do you do?
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* ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' saw Waspington, DC (Washington's Earth-C counterpart) attacked on several occasions by villains.
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* Like its canon namesake, ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' features a Nod invasion of GDI-held DC, centered around the (unsuccessful) attack on the Pentagon. Unlike in canon, the fic stretches this into a fifteen-chapter epic involving massive-scale urban warfare, thousands of tanks, and super-commandos on each side—including ''Renegade'''s Havoc.
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* Inverted in ''The [[War of the Worlds]]'' (1953), where Washington is the only major capital not to be attacked by the Martians.
* The most famous scene in ''[[Independence Day]]'' has the aliens destroying the White House.
* ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' starts with a spaceship landing on the National Mall. Not an invasion, but no one told the National Guard.
* ''[[Invasion U.S.A.]]'' (the one on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', not the one with [[Chuck Norris]]) has "[[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|The Enemy]]" raid D.C. near the end to try to decapitate the United States' leadership; they're driven back, but not before killing the Senator character in the film.
* In ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'', Washington DC suffers [[Monumental Damage]], including the classic "tipping the Monument over" gag. Hilariously, they filmed what appears to be an actual tenement whose front wall had been demolished in one of the less salubrious parts of town, making the residents appear to be living in a dollhouse when the invasion ends.
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** And, of course, {{spoiler|the Enclave return en masse shortly after you find the Purifier.}} While you may have encountered the odd soldier or Eye-Bot, this is when you'll be ducking for cover.
* Pulling off one of these is the ultimate goal of the Confederate player in the ''[[Civil War Generals]]'' series.
* ''[[Ace Combat: Assault Horizon]]'' culminates in DC, where the [[Big Bad]] tries to nuke the White House.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[The War of 1812]]. The British famously burned down the White House, the Capitol, and Treasury among other public buildings (in retaliation to the Americans burning ''civilian'' buildings in [[Toronto|York]]) as part of the Chesapeake campaign. The overall campaign was a failure, however, due to the British failure to take Baltimore's Fort McHenry (later memorialized in song with [[Ear Worm/Music/National Anthems|The Star Spangled Banner]].
* In [[The American Civil War]], the Confederacy ''wanted'' to do this, but the closest they got was [[General Failure|General Jubal Early]], whose army reached the outskirts of Washington before being repelled at the Battle of Fort Stevens, where [[Abraham Lincoln]] watched the fighting with his top-hat on and was famously told ''"Get down, you fool!"''
* DC traffic, bad enough at the best of times, is routinely disrupted by rallies on the National Mall, conferences attended by multiple heads of state, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|a thriving tourism industry]].
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