Won the War, Lost the Peace: Difference between revisions

 

* The Navy of [[One Piece]] experience this after winning the Paramount War against Whitebeard;

* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[Maken-ki!]]. In episode 9, the boys declare that the swimming pool should be coed, while the girls want segregated pools at the previously all girls school. So they decide it by having a water calvary battle. In the end, the boys do win, but then the girls make one of the boys [[It Makes Sense in Context|turn them invisible]], so while they can hear the girls playing in the water, the guys can't see any of them.

 

== Film ==

* In the movie ''[[Black Rain]]'', [[By-The-Book Cop|Japanese detective]] Masahiro Matsumoto tells American [[Cowboy Cop]] Nick Conklin that this happened to the US after [[World War II]].

* ''[[Charlie Wilson's War]]'' suggests that this is what happened in Afghanistan (see below):

* This is what The Clone Wars turned out to be for the Republic and Jedi in ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. In spite of many victories, it was all Palpatine's [[Xanatos Gambit|plan]] to kill off as many Jedi as possible and corrupt Anakin, it also allowed Palpatine more popularity, allowing him to begin [[The Purge]] and become Emperor.