Zerg Rush/Live-Action TV

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Examples of Zerg Rush/Live-Action TV include:

The Magog on Andromeda favoured this tactic. Most of the time not even bothering with weapons other than their claws and paralytic spit.
The Wraith in Stargate Atlantis prefer this kind of tactic. Their tech may have been inferior to the Ancients, but with wave after wave of meat shields at their disposal, it didn't really matter.
The drones in Stargate Universe are somewhat closer to the trope than the Wraith. They use nothing except fighter-sized attack ships controlled by an unarmed command ship, and their sole battle tactic is to attack from every direction until the enemy dies.
This is one of the tactics the The Dominion employs in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They have small, 80-120 meter attack vessels that don't have really as much firepower as their larger Federation/Klingon/Romulan counterparts, however, a massive force could be created of them. Case in point, when the Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order attacked the Changeling homeworld with a 'large' fleet of 23 capital ships (Keldon-class Cruisers, Galor-class Destroyers, D'Driniex-class Battleships), the Dominion retaliated with 150 Attack Ships which completely swarmed and overwhelmed the Cardies and the Romulans.
After an initial attack by a relatively small number of Foot Clan ninja in the first episodes of Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation , The Shredder angrily declared his intention to rally all of his followers in New York City and crush the Turtles with sheer numbers. It likely would have succeeded without the intervention of Venus De Milo, who proceeded to Mind Rape Shredder.
The Daleks did this in "Destiny of the Daleks," draping some of their own number with bombs and sending them off to blow up the Movellans with predictable results: the Doctor blows them up before they arrive.
Kamen Rider Imperer of Kamen Rider Ryuki (a.k.a. Spear in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight) is contracted to an entire herd of gazelle Mirror Monsters instead of the one monster most Riders have a contract with. His Finishing Move involves the herd running at the foe and hitting him (using looped CG footage), building it up to Imperer himself kneeing the villain for the final blow.
A heroic example in Go Go Sentai Boukenger. After their combined mecha fail to defeat Gaja, the seperate all their vehicles and swarm him with all of them at once (combined with a good dose of Heroic Resolve), successfully overwhelming and destroying him.

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