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Say the Big Bad is about to Take Over the World, but you have something they need. What would you ask for in return for your help? And you can think big; after all, they do have the entire world to offer, no need to feel constrained to beg to be spared. Or maybe you are the Big Bad, and some wannabe villain has some vital piece of Applied Phlebotinum you need to see your evil plan through, but not the means by which to carry it out himself. What could you offer him to get what you want, and even play to their ego so they won't think to stab you in the back and take your hard-earned godhood for themselves? And even if you already have everything you need to carry out your secretive Evil Plans such as Corporate Conspiracy and Government Conspiracy, nothing says you care quite like promising your most faithful minion a good-sized piece of the planet theirs's about to help you conquer. Whatever the case might be, there is one thing every would-be world dominator needs to ensure that their plan is foolproof and no untoward betrayals go off in the last five minutes of their doomsday clock: Australia. That's right, Australia. Australia isn't a global powerhouse, but is still an enormous piece of real estate, so the Big Bad can make it look like an impressive gift while keeping their mitts on the more important countries like the US, the UK, Russia, China, etc. Australia's dreaded military will also provide the Big Bad more firepower, and an opportunity to own them as Mooks and possibly turning them into Private Military Contractors. Also, it has 25% of the uranium in the world, plenty of gold to mine and sell for profit, and is the largest exporter of beef by... quite a large margin. There are also a lot of reasons it's the perfect base of operations for a junior supervillain, though this may itself be a good reason the Big Bad should rethink giving it to said ambitious subordinate. Even then, these villains would masquerade their intentions in order to lure unwitting citizens and visitors into their Propaganda Machine and Peace & Love Incorporated. It doesn't actually need to be Australia. Any big chunk of territory will do, as long as it makes the junior supervillain a powerful ruler, often while leaving the senior one a much more powerful ruler. See also Throw-Away Country. |
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In Narbonic's arc Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit, Madblood offers Helen her choice of world continents as consolation prize for breaking a date. | |
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The Sequel, Ward, does this often with Goddess. She did it to her minions on Earth Shin after conquering it, and she tries to offer the control of territory to Breakthrough and the other prisoners even after "Aligning" them. | |
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In Real Life Comics, Tony offers Mae Zimbabwe when he eventually takes over the world. Mae accepts because she likes the sound of the name. | |
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In No One Lives Forever, "the continent of Australia" is listed as one of H.A.R.M.'s ludicrous demands after threatening to unleash near-undetectable human time bombs to heavily populated areas. | |
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns didn't get Australia for his birthday, but Smithers arranged for its citizens to spell out his name in candles. He didn't even look. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, Diego Brando gets the entire island of Manhattan in exchange for handing over his corpse part to Valentine. | |
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In The Shadow, the villain's toady Farley Claymore turns out to be the one local not under mind-control, declaring instead that "There's a new world order coming, and I'm gonna be a king!" Shiwan Khan somehow catches wind of it, and as the culmination of the plan approaches, it becomes clear that this was not cleared beforehand when he takes a moment to violently shut him down over daring to think himself a "king in my kingdom"; Claymore bargains down position by position until Khan lets him go at "...your choice, of course." | |
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Dragon Ball: In the Piccolo Daimao arc, the titular embodiment of evil apparently offered the Pilaf gang half the world as a reward for freeing him, loaning their airship and telling him about the Dragon Balls. Daimao never intended to let them have it though, and he ejects them off their airship once he can execute his plan of world domination. This qualifies as the trope since it's highly unlikely the Pilaf Gang would have had any actual power, since the gulf of villainy between them and Daimao is large enough to fit Mr. Satan's ego and Goku's appetite with room to spare. In the beginning of the Android Arc, King Cold offers Future Trunks a place as his son (shortly after Trunks killed his actual son Frieza), with the promise of planets far more wondrous than Earth. Trunks of course declines out of disinterest before killing him as well. |
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In Flash Gordon, Ming offers Flash a Shiny New Earth if he'll switch sides, or at least an Unshiny Old Earth that's been decimated by disasters. Presumably Ming would keep the rest of the solar system for himself. Or he just wanted Flash as Ming's viceroy on Earth, just like all the other princes rule the moons of Mongo in Ming's name. Ming would be the overall ruler and Flash Gordon would have to obey Ming. The decimated Earth would be re-populated by Ming and Dale's offspring. | |
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In LEGO Marvel Superheroes: Avengers Reassembled, Baron Von Strucker joined along Ultron's world domination schemes because he was promised Australia in case of success. | |
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In Xiaolin Showdown after Wuya takes over the world during Raymondo's Face–Heel Turn, she tells him he can have anything: "Toys, money, Canada". | |
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In Supernatural, Dick Roman, leader of the Leviathans, promises Crowley free range for demons in Canada if he helps stop the Winchesters. | |
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Subverted in Superman: The Animated Series. Darkseid has captured and brainwashed Superman into thinking he's his adopted son who grew up on Apokolips. After a successful battle, he then offers Superman the planet Earth to conquer and rule for himself as per this trope. Superman has no memory of having been there and so doesn't realise how Darkseid is using him. | |
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In Fans!, when the Order of the Dragon decides it's time to Take Over the World, they take a continent each. Keith, who's been giving the other members of the Order the willies, gets assigned Australia. | |
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In Spider-Man: The Animated Series The Kingpin once again assembles the Insidious Six as part of a scheme to Take Over the World. While fighting Spidey Rhino claims he's going to be the new "King of New Jersey", causing Spidey to snark that if the Kingpin is getting the world and he is only giving him New Jersey, Rhino needs a better agent. | |
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In the director's cut of Superman II, Luthor ups the ante by telling Zod the Fortress of Solitude's location in exchange for Cuba. | |
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Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain: "Don't ask me why I needed Scranton and Sheboygan." | |
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Sheeva's arcade ending in Mortal Kombat 9 involves the Shokan taking control of Australia with the permission of world leaders. While this is a possibly reference to Lex Luthor in Superman II, it's also a Take That! to the Australian censor board, who banned the game. | |
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Even Gilligan's Island did this one, with Mr and Mrs Howell discussing buying an island in the Pacific, and deciding on Australia. | |
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In Angel Moxie, the Sealed Evil in a Can offers Tristan France if she just helps free her. Tristan Accepts. Evil betrays Tristan. Tristan is not pleased. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, if Urdnot Wreav is in command of the krogan during the final battle, he agrees to help humanity... so long as he gets Australia in the bargain. He then says he's just kidding. For now. Australia must look downright hospitable when your home is a radioactive Death World filled with gigantic thresher maws. Judging by this board, it seems the natives' response to that request would be, "We welcome our sharktoad cousins. You are welcome to stick around as long as you can survive." |
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Discussed in BioShock. Andrew Ryan, upon discovering that you've been working with Atlas, wonders if he coaxed you to his faction by offering you "a piece of my plundered city." | |
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Empire's Golgoth conquers Australia first. It's a good starting point, after all. | |
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While trying to convince a Nazi officer he wants to defect in Hogan's Heroes, Colonel Hogan says that he sees how the war is going and all he wants at the end of it is to own Cleveland. | |
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In The Patriot (2000), Tavington asks General Cornwallis for the state of Ohio in return for winning battles in South Carolina. | |
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In the novel Soon I Will Be Invincible, Doctor Impossible contemplates offering Egypt to a fellow villain, the Pharaoh. | |
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In the season finale of BBC drama/comedy Being Human the bad guy (head vampire) says he would have given one of the main characters (the one that's also a vampire) South America if he had joined him. | |
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In Lexx, the insipid U.S. President tries to buy off the equally dim (and illiterate) Stanley by anointing him King of Newfoundland ("a beautiful island paradise of wine, women and constant song") via some scribbled lines and a signature on Presidential letterhead. Later, Xev is tempted with "her own beautiful island full of gardens and antiques" (England), by the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. | |
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Rome has the second triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavian and Lepidus (the latter treated as a Butt-Monkey by the series) arguing over how to divide the Roman world they've just conquered between them. There's tension between Mark Antony and Octavian over who will govern the East with all its riches and who will govern the capital Rome and the West, but when Lepidus asks what he gets, Mark Antony and Octavian offhandedly toss him Africa, after which he is never heard from in the series again. | |
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Kim Possible: In one episode, Drakken attempts to get Shego to help him in his latest schemes by offering her Greenland. It doesn't work when she points out that Greenland isn't green and demands Iceland instead. Drakken is quite upset by having to give up the green one to her. Another example, when Drakken is trying to bribe Ron for their last morsel of food: |
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BattleTech: When one Successor State conquers some planets from one of its neighbors, it's not unusual for high-ranking officers who particularly distinguished themselves to be rewarded by being named baron of one of the conquered planets. | |
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In Sparkgate: Agatha and the Grasp of the Serpent God, Rhadamanthys promises Agatha a planet of her own to rule if she builds weapons for him, and Daniel the opportunity to be governor of the planet the Abydonians are resettled on. | |
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In the graphic novel version of Wanted; Mr. Rictus has a chip on his shoulder because he was slighted, given Australia when the Legion of Doom divvied up the globe. To add to the unfairness, another villain was in fact given two entire continents: North and South America. | |
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In Good Omens, Adam plans to give Australia to Dog, since it's got lots of wide-open space for him to run around in. Played with, however, as he also gives away the rest of the "important" countries, because to Adam the only really important place in the world is his hometown, Lower Tadfield. | |
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Evil Genius 2: Red Ivan got awarded his own country "Ivania" for his services as a henchman in the first Evil Genius. The Forces of Justice overthrowing him motivates him to become an Evil Genius himself. | |
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In Code Geass, the Brittanian Knight of One (the highest of the Knights of the Round Table) is given control of an entire nation in exchange for their service in world domination. Suzaku wants Japan, so he intends to become the Knight of One to claim Japan as his. Then it's revealed that the Emperor's ultimate plan is to brainwash all of humanity into becoming a hive mind, making the Knight's fiefdom moot. | |
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This trope is discussed during the finale of Spoiler Warning's playthrough of Mass Effect 2 when one of the commenters points out that villains always seem to want to give away Australia as a bribe. | |
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In the backstory of Overwatch, after the Omnic Crisis, the Omnics were given the Australian Outback as reparations, which led to the natives instigating an uprising that turned the outback into a full-on wasteland. | |
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In Cats & Dogs, Mr. Tinkles secures the support of the world's mouse population by promising them a massive quantity of cheese and the continent of Australia, which he has convinced them is a bastion of the dairy industry. | |
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Subverted in Superman: The Movie, where Lex Luthor vetoes his henchman's proposed "Otisburg" on the new west coast. | |
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Danger Mouse: In "The Great Bone Idol," Baron Greenback offers to give Australia to Count Duckula in exchange for finding said idol, with which Greenback could control all the dogs in the world. | |
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In Stargate: Continuum Baal plans to divide up Earth amongst the System Lords, giving half of Australia to Camulus and the other half to the Free Jaffa Nation. | |
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Invader Zim has promised the moon to his insane Robot Buddy GIR after he has devastated the world, according to the episode "Tak the Hideous New Girl". | |
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In season 2 of Harley Quinn (2019), the Riddler demands Doctor Psycho let him rule Scandinavia because he is aesthetically pleased by it. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: The Trope Namer: the titular Mad Scientist daydreams that he is going to give Penny, the girl of his dreams, Australia to console her after he takes over the world. Australia also plays a part in the fanfic sequel. |
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Inverted in Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten when Dr. Superior plans to take over every continent except Australia, as he likes koalas. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood", the Doctor suggests that Australia be given to the Silurians as a new homeland, which pissed off some Australian fans. | |
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Blake's 7. Servalan tries to convince Vila to surrender the Liberator by offering him a planetary governorship. "Earth, if you like." Vila looks like he's actually contemplating it, before Dayna reminds him of Servalan's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Though this trope only applies because Servalan rules an empire spanning hundreds of planets, even if Earth Is the Center of the Universe. | |
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In Deus Ex, the main villain, Bob Page, is more generous: he offers JC Denton Europe as his own personal fiefdom, if he will just stop his attempt to bring down his plans. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2's Yuri Revenge expansion, the intro shows President Dugan trying to talk Yuri out of his ambitions by offering him the Soviet Union to rule. For someone that wants to Take Over the World, that ends up as a Comically Small Bribe. | |
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In the Grand Finale to Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fire Lord Ozai gives the entire Fire Nation to his daughter Azula before declaring himself the new "Phoenix King" of the entire world. This still counts because, with Ozai as a world-spanning overlord, Fire Lord Azula would remain subordinate to him. | |
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In Secret Invasion, Thunderbolts member Moonstone offers information to the Skrulls in exchange for South America. | |
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The villain in Wild Wild West proposes dividing the United States and giving the territories back to the previous European owners, setting aside the northwest part of the country for himself. | |
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In Escape from L.A., Map-To-The-Stars Eddie mentions wanting a small territory of his own (Wisconsin) as his reward for turning Snake over to Cuervo. | |
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A new updated version of Monopoly is called "Monopoly: Here and Now, the World Edition." Alongside being updated for inflation and advances in technology, the Atlantic City streets are scrapped and major world cities are used. This leads to conversations such as, "I'll trade you London for Barcelona." "How much do you want for Tokyo?" "Would anybody like to buy Rome?" | |
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In Queen of All Oni, Jade, after her Face–Heel Turn, jokingly says that the ultimate goal of the Shadow Hand (her recreation of the Dark Hand) is to take over Australia (Jade is smart enough to realize that world domination never ends well for those who try it) and gets mad at the Enforcers when they take her seriously. Bit of continuity fridge brilliance when one considers that the Book of Ages, one of the most powerful magical artifacts in the series, is hidden in the Australian outback. |
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In the House of M Hulk tie-in, The Hulk takes over Australia and declared himself President. | |
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In the novel version of How to Succeed in Evil, the eternally clueless Dr. Loeb offers his "evil efficiency consultant", Edwin Windsor, the continent of Australia. Edwin is insulted. | |
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In one Fantastic Four storyline, Evil Sorcerer Nicholas Scratch attempts to summon Eldritch Abomination Shuma-Gorath, who will proceed to conquer the entire universe, in exchange for "my life and Barbados". Surprisingly modest ambition. | |
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In the fourth Artemis Fowl book, Opal's henchmen stick around because she promised them Barbados. | |
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In Katawa Shoujo, during a game of RISK with student council president Shizune, she offers to let you have Australia - if you promise to join the council. "Take Australia!" "totally ruling Australia" |
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An early episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has Sabrina encountering Newt, one of Salem's co-conspirators in his scheme for world domination. Newt notes that he was promised Denmark. | |
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