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The Ancient Roman legions made up one of the most Badass Armies known to history. However, as powerful, disciplined, and successful as they were, they weren't invincible; on multiple occasions, they were defeated in battle, and sometimes an entire legion was destroyed in a single dramatic battle, or else simply disappeared while on campaign with none returning to tell what happened. Of course, people are free to speculate on what happened to those legionaries who went missing in action. That is where this trope comes into play. There are usually two distinct ways this trope plays out: The story follows another Roman legion which has been sent to find out what happened to the lost legion and (if possible) recover its Eagle Standards. This one tends to appear more often in Historical Fiction. The story follows the lost legion itself and / or its descendants (assuming it leaves any behind). While also somewhat common in Historical Fiction, the idea of a Roman legion displaced in space, time, or dimension has been used so often in Science Fiction and Fantasy as to be regarded as cliche. Does not always end happily. Many stories that use this plot are inspired by any of three particular cases of actual "lost legions" in Roman history: Marcus Licinius Crassus' defeat at the Battle of Carrhae, the destruction of three legions in the Teutoberg Forest, or the mysterious case of the Ninth Legion. |
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The sequel also includes a portrayal of the Teutoburg ambush. | |
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Alix #6 : Les Légions perdues ("The Lost Legions") occurs during the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey. | |
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Originally, the X-Men and New Mutants member Magma came from a lost Roman colony in the Amazon rain forest, but this was later retconned as a magical deception. And later retconned back. Maybe. | |
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The Eagle (2011), film adaptation of The Eagle of the Ninth. See Literature. | |
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In The Return the fate of a Lost Roman Legion is given as the reason Succubae speak a Latin derived language. Apparently the Legion tried to attack a group of Succubae and (the survivors) got Turned instead. | |
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King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame: In the prologue of the second game (that comes with pre-ordering or can be purchased as Downloadable Content), Roman commander Sulla travels to the netherworld and recruits the lost 9th legion albeit in a Power at a Price fashon: His mortal soldiers must be possessed in order for them to fight for him. You get forced to do so even if you say no repeatedly. In the main campaign, you have to fight against these "undying" units; until you seal the three gateways to the netherworld, the entire armies you kill of them just keep re-appearing on the campaign map. | |
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Centurion, also about the Ninth. | |
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The Last Legion, which combines the trope with Arthurian Legend. | |
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Doc Savage: In Land of Long Juju, the light-skinned nature of the royal family of an African nation is explained by them being the descendants of a lost Roman legion that invaded central Africa and interbred with the local tribes. In The Forgotten Realm, the Ninth Hispana founded a city called Novum Eboracum ("New York") in the African Congo, which survived until at least the 1930s. |
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In Sensation Comics #39, Wonder Woman visits a newly discovered island that is home to a lost Roman colony founded by a son of Nero, and still ruled by his descendant, that has its own legions. | |
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Have appeared in a few episodes of Twilight Histories: The titular legion from "Legions of Agincourt" initially appears to be one of these in reality, it has been transported to the fields of Agincourt by a future version of the Twilight Histories corporation. A variation occurs in "Mongol America". A group of shipwrecked Mongols wash-up on the west coast of North America. They make their way to the Great Plains in hopes of establishing a new khanate. |
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William Forstchen's The Lost Regiment series focuses on a variation of the theme: a Union regiment from the American Civil War that travels through a portal to an alien world, where they encounter both an alien race that feeds on humans and multiple societies set up by previous groups of humans that were stranded there. Among their eventual allies are the descendants of a lost Roman legion. | |
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The Alerans from Codex Alera are descended from a lost Roman legion that fell into Another Dimension where a lot of other creatures fell, which include but are not limited to saber-tooth tigers, 8ft tall wolfmen, empathic yetis, magical spirits, and basically the Zerg. Sufficient time has passed that the Alerans have forgotten they came from another world, or that their ancestors never had the Elemental Powers the Alerans now take for granted. The series actually started as part of a bet between Jim Butcher and an unnamed person on an internet chat board back in the late 90s, early 2000s. Butcher felt a good author can turn even the worst idea into a story, while the fan claimed some ideas are just unwritable. To prove a point, Butcher let the person choose two horrible cliches that he (Butcher) would write a story based on. The fan chose the Lost Roman Legion...crossed with Pokémon. The rest is history. | |
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In Ranks of Bronze, the defeated and enslaved remnants of Crassus' legions are bought by an alien guild to fight wars against low-tech planets on their behalf due to a sort of twisted Prime Directive that requires them to use equivalent-tech weapons against undeveloped planets. | |
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The Eagle of the Ninth deals with the aforementioned Ninth Legion, going with the theory it was wiped out in Scotland. | |
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The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane uses the defeat at Carrhae to take the protagonists into Parthia. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, the Imperial Legion is heavily based on the Roman Legions. The 10th Legion is said to have been completely wiped out during Emperor Uriel Septim V's failed invasion of Akavir, along with Uriel V himself. Of course, considering they were covering the retreat of the rest of the Imperial forces, no one really knows for sure. | |
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The Videssos Cycle features one of these as the driving force in the plot, as evidenced by the title of the first novel, The Misplaced Legion. Bonus points for including a misplaced Gaul prisoner along with the legion. | |
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The Heroes of Olympus (and broader Camp Half-Blood Series): Frank Zhang is descended from Roman Legionaries who reached China and established themselves in a city called 'Li Jien'. More specifically, the Romans he's descended from were the ones captured at the Battle of Carrhae, who were then put to work by the Parthians... who were then attacked from the other direction by the Chinese. The entire Roman demigod camp is the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, directed by Jupiter to continue Rome's legacy even after its fall. |
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Homaged in Warhammer 40,000, where two of the twenty original Space Marine Legions have been struck from all records, "order origination unknown." The designers admitted they liked the idea of legions being declared in damnatio memoriae, and also wanted to give fans some Canon Fodder to play with. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Eaters of Light", the Doctor and Bill go to find out what really happened to the Legio IX. It turns out that most of the Legion was slaughtered by an alien creature that came out of a time rift, and the survivors volunteered to go through the rift and prevent the rest of the aliens coming through and devastating Earth. | |
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A Legion For Westeros has the IX Spanish Legion showing up in Westeros and meeting King Robert while he's hunting in the Kingswood. | |
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One of the featured historical battles in Rome: Total War is the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where the player-controlled Roman legion has to escape a barbarian trap, or be slaughtered. The sequel also includes a portrayal of the Teutoburg ambush. |
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The Sandman (1989): The issue "Exiles" concerns people becoming trapped in "soft places" where the world is not quite real; one such group is a lost Legion having suffered this fate. | |
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A Savage Sword of Conan story had Conan trying to figure out what happened to a missing Aquilonian legion (and the large amount of gold they had with them). Long story short, they killed each other out of greed. Not strictly an example of this trope, but Aquilonians are basically Hyborian Romans. | |
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In one of the Sister Fidelma stories (set in the seventh century) by Peter Tremayne, a distant relative of one of the officers who vanished with Legio IX Hispana asks Fidelma to help him find out what happened to the legion and recover the Eagle Standards. This man produces an apparent historical document which leads him and Fidelma to Canterbury where they find some eagle standards and further documents claiming the lost officer to whom the man is related died a hero. Unfortunately for him, Fidelma is a professional investigator and easily proves that the documents and eagles are very poorly made modern forgeries | |
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The remains of one are seen briefly in The Mummy Returns, perhaps as a nod to Nero's expeditions into sub-Saharan Africa. | |
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In The Graveyard Game, one of The Company Novels by Kage Baker, it is revealed that like virtually every other historical mysterious disappearance in the setting the Ninth Legion went missing because the Company Stole It to "Protect" It. | |
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In the first book of the How to Train Your Dragon series, a gigantic sea-dragon, called the Green Death, washes up on the Isle of Berk and soon reveals his intention to eat the Vikings of Berk. As a piece of backstory, it is mentioned that the dragon's last meal was a whole Roman legion which he had caught camping on a clifftop, and which he has spent centuries to digest. As author Cressida Cowell has said that the "Barbaric Archipelago" which is the setting of the series is somewhat inspired by the Hebrides off the Scottish coast, the legion which got devoured by the Green Death might as well be the Ninth Spanish Legion. | |
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