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Those Were Only Their Scouts

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Those Were Only Their Scouts	comment	Heroes and villains are at war. The villain unleashes his greatest Weapon of Mass Destruction, perhaps in an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. In the case of fantasy setting, it may be a huge monster. The first reaction of the heroes is to attack all at once; they get easily defeated and the weapon is still undamaged. It's Time for Plan B. Send an Attack Pattern Alpha, ignore the losses and go on, take advantage of good luck, use That One Attack that may only be used once... and finally, after a difficult and painful battle, the heroes destroy the terrible weapon. They are battle-weary, they are injured and with Clothing Damage, but victorious. ...hey, wait, what's that thing coming in the horizon? Another of those weapons? No, it's worse: it's a dozen of such weapons. Oh, Crap!. It was so difficult to destroy a single one, can the heroes repeat the same thing again... and against a dozen of those things, at the same time? No, they can't. It's clearly the moment to retreat and escape, or to completely change the way to fight the war. This trope helps to prevent The Worf Effect. Even if it was difficult, the heroes did defeat the big weapon. And when the dozen weapons show up, it's very clear that the hero has no chance and must flee, so clear that the watcher will not think ill about him for doing that (as he would if the hero escaped when the first lone weapon showed up). This is the inverse of the Conservation of Ninjutsu. It also averts No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup, as the villains do the exact thing any military force would do: produce the weapon in industrial numbers, not head to the battle with a single one. Often used on the first installment of a work to allow a victory against a foe, and then hammer the heroes (and the audience) with a warning that the Evil Overlord will not be overthrown today. This puts the last fight in perspective, as what was a relatively easy fight takes on nightmarish proportions if you consider that those troops were not even intended to be fighters in the first place, yet they gave the heroes some difficulty. May be justified in Real Life as scouts typically don't carry heavy weapons and favor lightly-armored fast vehicles over heavy and slow ones. Not to mention that quantity has a quality of its own. Used in basically every Sorting Algorithm of Evil work (Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors, etc). If said at the end of a work, a very common Sequel Hook. See also Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond. Examples
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: The Lich, the undead sorcerer and Big Bad who tormented the Land of Ooo for the first few seasons? Heâ€™s just one of numerous horrors birthed by GOLB, the Anthropomorphic Personification of chaos, and is indicated to be a fairly weak and minor one at that, akin to a scholar or priest. When GOLB finally manages to manifest in the real world himself in the Grand Finale, he immediately unleashes a legion of his monstrosities and followers, the majority of whom completely dwarf the Lich in size and power.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_14f2c680	comment	Done on both sides in The Truce at Bakura: the Ssi-ruuk invasion force attacking Bakura is a scouting force of five cruisers and multiple picket ships (plus some ships carrying the ground troops), sent in to consecrate an Imperial fringe world to use as base for when they'll invade the Empire taking advantage of Palpatine's recent death and suffered moderate losses as they overpowered the Imperial garrison and its outdated ships, while the Rebel force sent to help Bakura's garrison is a single small Quasar-Fire bulk cruiser-carrier with its fighters, a corvette and five gunships, that is still outgunned by what the Empire has left. The Ssi-Ruuk, the Rebels and the Imperial garrison realize this, though they don't quite understand what keeps the other side from sending in more ships (the Rebels sent in everything they could spare while they reorganized after their costly victory at Endor, while the Ssi-Ruuk believe that their souls would be Barred from the Afterlife if they die too far from a consecrated planet and won't risk too many of their people before consecrating Bakura). Sourcebook sources expand on the aftermath: after the Ssi-Ruuk are driven away, the Rebel Alliance sends their own scouts to their homeworld to either negotiate a truce or prepare a proper counterattack... Only to find that the Empire's own scouts, led by Grand Admiral Thrawn in person, had already wrecked everything and made very clear where the Ssi-Ruuk's place on the pecking order was, so when they were attacked by the remnants of the fleet that had been routed at Bakura they just blast their way out and leave.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_150c3efe	comment	At the end of the first part of The Armageddon Inheritance, the second book in David Weber's "Empire from the Ashes" series, there is an Apocalyptic space-battle on the fringes of Earth's solar system between human beings and a race of alien Omnicidal Maniacs. Hundreds of thousands of humans die, and Terran civilization is nearly wiped out, but eventually the good guys win. And its only then, in the last pages of the book, that it is discovered that the invasion fleet humanity nearly lost to was only a scouting force, and the real invasion fleet (with a thousand times the number of battleships than the fleet that just attacked Earth) is still coming.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld: The powerful fleet that destroyed Kharak seems geared for being the final enemy, but prisoners quickly point out it's just a small and unimportant frontier force.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4: After Nero defeats the demon Bael, Bael boasts that he is just the first of many and his brothers will avenge him. Nero looks at the nearby Hellgate's portal and sees an army of demons that look just like Bael approaching from the other side. Nero closes the portal in time, then later on, Dante kills Bael's brothers and destroys the Hellgate.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Celestials once decreed that a planet's population was to be destroyed. Thor disagreed, and exhausted himself beating on the Celestial who towered over the world with a downturned thumb and stoic expression. Through it all, the Celestial made no attempt to fight back, and Thor's attacks were laughably ineffective. Already frustrated at his failure to kill his opponent, he then realized that this one was merely the judge and jury of the Celestials-not the executioner. Cue the arrival of the executioner-ten times bigger, stronger, and angry.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: In X-Men Vol 2 #188, this is done with the Children of the Vault, when they attack the X-Mansion. Their leader, Sangre, points out how stupid it would be to send all their forces to obliterate what they see as a minor nuisance. The handful the X-Men are facing are just scouts. The bulk of the Children are hiding out in Ecuador.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	Endless Sky has two separate and very different takes on this: When you first likely to encounter the Korath Raiders, they look like rare and powerful vessels as they are large ships only encountered raiding alone, spawning rarely and more powerful than any human ship, and capable of escaping larger human fleets with jump drives. Then you actually reach Korath space and it not only turns out they have tons of Raiders, they have also many even larger ships that lack jump drives (and, as such, can't reach human space). The Pug invasion plays out with them being much weaker than their real capability, as you find out if you ask the Quarg about them (or, later on, provoke them into bringing out one of their ships meant for fighting more advanced civilizations) — but the 'rules' the invaders operate under has them deliberately hold back in war to be reasonably beatable by whoever they are fighting, so while you effectively only fought their 'scouts', once you beat them they acknowledge their defeat and withdraw rather than follow on with a full-on invasion. Or so, at least, is the apparent situation. There are hints they only invade to push humanity in a specific direction, with losing part of the plan.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1cc09117	comment	The first Menos Grande seen in Bleach is the first really challenging fight that Ichigo faces. He couldn't even beat it on his own at the time and he and Ishida worked together just to make it retreat. Much later, Ichigo is disturbed when he learns that Gillian-class Menos like the one he fought are mere foot soldiers in Hueco Mundo. After Hitsugaya's group wins against the first group of Arrancars — although Grimmjow is winning against Ichigo until he's forced to withdraw —, Hitsugaya points out that the ones they killed are most likely not the elites. In another scene, Aizen confirms this by saying those were the weakest of the Arrancar. Played with when Ichigo tries to take down Ulquiorra and is saved by Grimmjow: Ichigo thinks that he must be the top Espada, and if he can kill him then there's nothing to worry about. Ulquiorra, while holding Ichigo's blade in one hand reveals that he is only number 4. Although, it later turns out that he hid his full strength from Aizen, meaning he's probably the strongest after all.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny: One of the major enemy factions is the Cabal, a powerful army that is engaged on multiple fronts throughout the Sol system, who over the course of the game face many setbacks, assassinations, and defeats. Then you obtain information that those armies are "scout legions," and that they've called for reinforcements from the greater Cabal Empire. In Destiny 2, the Red Legion shows up at the start of the game, blitzes the Last City, defeats the Guardians, and captures the Traveler. The only reason the heroes have any chance is because Ghaul is obsessed with proving himself worthy to the Traveler, rather than just destroying everyone outright and being done with it. The Shadowkeep storyline begins when the Hive discover one of the Eldritch Starships that make up the Darkness. Itâ€™s easily one of the most powerful and dangerous enemies the Guardians have faced so far... and itâ€™s not even alive. Itâ€™s a derelict, non-functional scout drone that was critically damaged during the Collapse, but itâ€™s still a nightmarishly powerful threat. The rest of the thousands-strong Darkness fleet is currently heading towards Earth, having realized that Traveler isnâ€™t dead after it awoke to stop Ghaul.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_1eaa5fe5	comment	Rogue Planet goes even further, with the planet Zonama Sekot. The Corrupt Corporate Executive investigating the planet finds evidence of severe orbital bombardment done in ways neither he or his underling recognize, lacking all the signs of weapons they do know. Later it's clarified that a group of "Far Outsiders" appeared on the planet and attacked for reasons no-one could ever figure out, until the planet itself drove them off. However, later stories in the New Jedi Order series make it clear this was the earliest wave of Vong scouts to reach the Galaxy.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_231df7d2	comment	In the miniseries V (1983), the Visitors refer to the fleet of fifty enormous spaceships now parked over Earth's major cities as just a small expeditionary fleet. Several human characters express shock that this is what they consider a "small" fleet.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_2acb12c5	comment	X-Universe: In the backstory, the incredibly advanced Ancient Ones fought a titanic war against beings known as the Outsiders, who are thought to come from another universe and who appeared in massive, solar system-sized constructs that began altering physics around them and eating up resources like nothing ever seen. The Ancient Ones managed to barely destroy one of these things, which took two million years, which prompted the rest to retreat. The Ancient Ones theorize that those massive things were Outsider scout ships or probes, possibly even non-combative in nature. They're not sure why the Outsiders backed off, and are concerned should they ever make another appearance.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the episode "Savage Time", the Justice League appears in an alternate World War II, where the immortal villain Vandal Savage had sent knowledge of advanced technology back in time to give himself the opportunity to assume control of the Nazi war machine. Among other things, this allows him to build a near-indestructible war machine bristling with weapons and tall as a building. Normal tanks have no chance against it, and even the Justice League has a hard time destroying it. When several more show up, the League retreats with the rest of the army.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_31a48e8e	comment	The Outer Limits (1963): In "The Invisible Enemy", astronauts battle a powerful Sand-Beast. At the end, the two survivors manage to kill it, but then several more Sand-Beasts emerge. The survivors promptly pack up and leave.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3583b777	comment	In Maximillian Roivas' chapter of Eternal Darkness, he fights and barely defeats a Lesser Guardian in his chapter, but while hunting his foe, he finds that there's an entire city of Lesser Guardians and other creatures in service of the Ancient that serves as the main antagonist. Realizing that he doesn't stand a chance alone, he tries to warn the world... and ends up in an insane asylum.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: At the start of Dragon Ball Z, Raditz arrives on Earth, effortlessly outclasses Goku and Piccolo, and then reveals that there are two more Saiyans, both stronger than him. After it takes the combined efforts of Piccolo and Goku, some help from Gohan, and even a Heroic Sacrifice from Goku to kill him, he uses his last moments to radio them, predicting that they will arrive in a year. Later, after arriving on Namek, they realize that the Saiyan trio were only a small fraction of an entire army, and 6 of Frieza's subordinates were stronger than Vegeta when he reached Earth. In the sixth DBZ movie, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Goku and Vegeta just barely managed to overpower and defeat one Metal Cooler, but are then promptly attacked by a thousand more of them. And as mentioned, Conservation of Ninjutsu is not in effect, and they are handily curb-stomped.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3ba81aa2	comment	Early in Toriko, Toriko has to get past a pack of Troll Kongs—giant, four-armed, monster apes. The first one Toriko encounters is just a scout, and while it's no match for our hero, it barfs on Toriko, leaving our hero smelling like the much weaker, far less dangerous Troll Kong, which means Toriko can't intimidate the rest of the pack.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3ce9aeb0	comment	Subverted in the climax of Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet, when Doraemon and co., with their allies on the animal planet, manage to take down the first wave of Nimuge invaders, including shooting down several units from the Nimuge's Flying Saucer fleet. The Nimuge commander decides to retaliate by bringing out a tank to wipe out the whole forest, and the ensuing Curb-Stomp Battle quickly goes in favour of the villains... just as scouts suddenly announce the arrival of a far larger saucer unit in the horizon. When all hope seems lost, the incoming saucer fleet instead proceeds to extinguish the fire in the forest before dropping reinforcements to help combat the Nimuge, saving everyone in the process. Turns out the second saucer fleet comes from the Galactic Federation and is on the side of good, and they've been investigating the Nimuge for years.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3d7e2b22	comment	Sword of Paladin: At the earliest point when the player encounters a Golden Lady and one of her Miasma-corrupted partners, they'll find that she's far beyond what the party can handle, to the point where the the game has special dialogue for winning this early. Several Einherjar NPCs state that they had to flee from a losing battle with these mysterious foes. The final chapter reveals that the Golden Ladies and Miasma warriors are nothing more than the mass-produced mooks of Anguis, the source of the Miasma. The Golden Ladies start spawning en-masse in every surface dungeon as roaming encounters, showing that the initial stationary Golden Ladies were merely their advance force.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, for the past 100 years, humanity has been besieged by the eponymous titans, almost mindless human-eating giants that can drive humanity to extinction if the Walls are breached. The greatest threats among those titans are the Armored Titan and the Colossus Titan, who broke down Wall Maria, killing many people in the initial invasion and forcing the government to sacrifice a fourth of those who remained to prevent humanity from starving. However, it's said that even the Armored and Colossus Titans are mere "flunkies" in the grand scheme of things. It turns out that the nation of Marley, a superpower that uses Titans to fight its wars, is behind the attacks. Even after the protagonists take back Wall Maria and kill all the Titans on the Island of Paradis, they'll still have to deal with Marley.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	Vector Prime, first volume of the New Jedi Order, involves an attack on the Galaxy Far Far Away by an alien force called the Praetorite Vong, who wreak havoc on some remote systems in the Outer Rim before the heroes get wise to their tricks and soundly defeat them. Subsequent books reveal that the Praetorite are simply one minor (but ambitious) faction of the Yuuzhan Vong who started the invasion earlier and with shoddy preparations in order to grab some glory ahead of everyone else (and their leader was a high-ranking bureaucrat playing general). The actual Vong warrior caste, debuting in the next book, are much more dangerous.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_40ef1034	comment	In The Seven Deadly Sins, Red Demons and Grey Demons, which had previously been depicted as among the most powerful enemies shown so far, are seen as mere expendable grunts by the rest of demonkind.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_42329cd	comment	Happens in Sonic Chronicles. The first Marauder that Sonic encounters is only a scout. Sonic expects an easy fight, only for the scout to turn out to be a difficult boss (well, difficult for a first level boss).
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_44909764	comment	Purple Days: The horrifying truth of the First War for Dawn.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_459ca4de	comment	Galaxy Angel: In the second installment, Moonlit Lovers, after Tact and the Moon Angel Wing defeat Nefuria (who destroyed several systems with her supercarrier, the O-Gaub), Noah makes it clear that she was just one of the Valfask, and they have to be on the lookout for a much larger invasion. Sure enough, Eternal Lovers has the heroes take the fight into Valfask territory, first to free the EDEN civilization and later defeating their emperor.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_467c89f7	comment	In Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the human military thinks they will defeat the Zentraedi because they don't realize just how massive the alien armada is. And even then, the only reason they were surviving against the scouts was because the scouts were probing humanity's defenses to learn more about them, rather than just stomping them out of existence. The Macross Beam that humanity is so proud of on the eponymous ship? Half the Zentraedi warships have one. They just weren't using them. Further, the mighty fleet consisting of over 5 million warships they barely manage to defeat was the 114th fleet: there are many others of comparable size out there, and could show up any time. One of the final lines of the film adaptation Macross: Do You Remember Love? is a grim statement by Exsedol that, even though our heroes barely managed to defeat Boddole Zer's and Lap Lamiz's fleets, there are thousands of other Zentraedi/Meltrandi fleets that are just as powerful still waiting. However, later series don't make as big a deal about it; while it's implied that encounters and wars with roving Zentraedi fleets are very common occurrences as humanity expand throughout the galaxy, Zentraedi disunity has been allowing humanity to take them on one by one, with exposure to human culture resulting in entire Zentraedi fleets willingly assimilating into human societynote In the Macross II alternate continuity, Earth itself has been attacked by five more major Zentraedi fleets; one in 2036, two in 2037 (one Meltrandi and one Zentraedi, which fortunately for Earth got in each other's way), another in 2054, and a fifth in 2082.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_4883211	comment	In Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword, an army of mages has a hard time defending the world of Mel'in from an army of small Eldritch Abominations called the Goat-legs. In the sequels, the main army of the critters arrives, and the magical orders are neither unified nor in control now and thus cannot oppose them.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_4a291e3d	comment	Demonbane has this early in the story. After using Demonbane's immense power to destroy one of Black Lodge's destroyer robots, the heroes are feeling pretty good about their chances against the organization. Then the organization's leader, Master Therion, shows up and takes on Demonbane without his own Humongous Mecha, and completely trashes it without even trying. This serves as a chilling reminder to everyone of exactly what they're up against and how tough a battle this will be.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_4d0a4499	comment	Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters: The protagonists spend the entire film struggling to put down Godzilla once and for all and retake the Earth after twenty-thousand years. After suffering heavy casualties and struggles, they just barely manage to kill Godzilla. The possibility of there being more Godzillas out there is raised but optimistically brushed off because if they can kill one Godzilla, they can kill them again. Then it turns out they only killed Godzilla's kid, and the real Godzilla wakes up, having grown much, much bigger and stronger over the millennia.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_4dccc4bc	comment	In Thor: The Dark World, Asgard is attacked by the Dark Elves. Heimdall manages to get into the invading Elf fighter, and disable it. When a dozen fighters appear, he leaves.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_4dd54482	comment	In the two-part Season Two finale of Ben 10: Alien Force, Azmuth and Paradox inform Ben and the others of the impending Highbreed invasion, with Ben recalling they barely destroyed one of their warships in the series premiere. Azmuth points that it wasn't a warship, but a cruiser; no force on the planet could defeat an actual Highbreed warship, and thousands were coming. Ben and the others are naturally put off.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: A series of corrupted ayakashi try to kill the ayakashi medium. Not only were they all sent by the Gogyosen, the human enemies of the medium's first life, Shadow Mei concludes they weren't meant to succeed. They were actually just test subjects for a Curse meant to kill the ayakashi medium while preventing any future reincarnations.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_5889b359	comment	Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: The Blade Breakers are taking on the All-Starz in America. Tyson and Ray easily take down two gimmicky bladers. Then Max's mom reveals that those two bladers were some of their weakest, and the purpose of the battle was to gather data.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_5b8afa32	comment	GaoGaiGar: Throughtout the first 30 episodes, 3G is constanstly dealing with the Zonders/Zondarians who are coming up with deadly trap after deadly trap. This includes trapping GaoGaiGar in dimension warping space so that it would be destroyed by it's own space warping device, trapping it in a giant constant explosion, using soundwaves to drain the literal life blood out of the 3G Braves, Leveling an entire city with gravity to the point that only Goldymarg could stand, dropping nuke level railgun shells, hacking into 3G's computer to lock them down, turning the 3G headquarters into mindless zombies, having the 3G Braves almost be killed trying to stop the 4 Zondarian and being forced to use a power up against their boss Pasdar/EI-01(Who is said to resemble Satan) which at the end temporarily kills the 3G Braves, Gai and Galeon. And all that was coming from the grunts who only focused on a single city. The Primevals are revealed to be far, far worse. Within 1 episode, 3 Primeveals appear and completely destroy 3G Base in an instant, with the cast seemingly dead and GaoGaiGar left to fight them alone. And unlike previous battles were GaoGaiGar pulls through, it gets absolutely curbstomped [[Note/The 3 Primevals are as large as Pasdar which GaoGaiGar was only as big as his hand]]. It was revealed that the Primevals victory came so eaily due to 3G showing their hand during the first 30 episodes. To give an idea of the level of threat compared to the first 30 episodes, the next fight involves a Primeval that is attempting to destabalize Earth's magnetic field. The result in the Sun's solar wind decimating the atmosphere and life being fried by UV Rays. Other attempts include: Having the Great wall of China act as a Zonder designed to extend into space and destroy 3G's Orbit Base using Earth's magma, all while creating an army of mini Zonder Robo's. Having the Machine Primevals invade Orbit base on foot, almost have 3G under their control via brainwashing darts and turn Orbit Base into Zonder Metal Plant and Gai and J struggling to fight them on foot. To make matters worse, it was revealed that even the Primevals were in an uncombined form. The combined Primeval was so powerful and large, even King J-Der, who was as large as a primeval was like GaoGaiGar to Pasdar, only about as large it's hand. King J-der up until this point was a powerhouse, oneshotting most Primevals and yet it couldn't lay a scratch on the combined Primeval. And then we learn that even the combined Primeval wasn't even the true form. The real form is the Z-Master who is as large as Jupiter. It took going into Z-Masters body fighting through it's defence Gradius style to get to the Heart Primveal with which King J-Der had to opt to self destruct in order to destroy it. And after thinking it's all over, Mikoto is revealed to have been carrying an evolving, dormant Zonder Metal spores in her body. This causes her to become a new form of Zonder, a Zonuda which in an instant sublimates all matter into machinery in an instant,something even the Primevals and Z-Master needed time to do. It was so lethal, Goldion Hammer which atomizes anything it comes into contact with was affected by it the matter sublimation. Even after Gai defeats it, Mikoto's Zonuda form still continues to matter sublimate GaoGaiGar and Gai's Cyborg body, begging Gai to kill her in order to stop her.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_69085a0	comment	Macross: In Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the human military thinks they will defeat the Zentraedi because they don't realize just how massive the alien armada is. And even then, the only reason they were surviving against the scouts was because the scouts were probing humanity's defenses to learn more about them, rather than just stomping them out of existence. The Macross Beam that humanity is so proud of on the eponymous ship? Half the Zentraedi warships have one. They just weren't using them. Further, the mighty fleet consisting of over 5 million warships they barely manage to defeat was the 114th fleet: there are many others of comparable size out there, and could show up any time. One of the final lines of the film adaptation Macross: Do You Remember Love? is a grim statement by Exsedol that, even though our heroes barely managed to defeat Boddole Zer's and Lap Lamiz's fleets, there are thousands of other Zentraedi/Meltrandi fleets that are just as powerful still waiting. However, later series don't make as big a deal about it; while it's implied that encounters and wars with roving Zentraedi fleets are very common occurrences as humanity expand throughout the galaxy, Zentraedi disunity has been allowing humanity to take them on one by one, with exposure to human culture resulting in entire Zentraedi fleets willingly assimilating into human societynote In the Macross II alternate continuity, Earth itself has been attacked by five more major Zentraedi fleets; one in 2036, two in 2037 (one Meltrandi and one Zentraedi, which fortunately for Earth got in each other's way), another in 2054, and a fifth in 2082. Double Subverted in Macross II: the initial Marduk force is immediately identified as a scouting force, but when the Marduk later attack in force the hundreds of thousands of the first wave are mistaken for the whole force. Both are Justified: the initial Marduk squadron is initially mistaken for Zentraedi until they get a good look at them, and by Zentraedi standards less than a hundred ships is a scouting party, and by the time the Marduk attack in force they've been identified as not Zentraedi, and by non-Zentraedi standards hundreds of thousands of ships are an enormous number. In Macross 7, the 7th Colonization Fleet has a fair amount of trouble with the enemy Varauta fleet's attacks, but they eventually decide to get serious and start blasting the Varauta with Macross Beams. Then it's revealed that the Varauta soldiers are just mind-controlled pawns of the Protodeviln, just one of whom could annihilate the entire Colonization Fleet without much effort... or at least, they could if Basara would stop getting in their faces and singing at them. In the later series, humanity itself has assumed the trope. The alien antagonists don't challenge the entire UN Spacey: just isolated migrant fleets or individual clusters of star systems at most: In The Movie version of Macross Frontier, when the Vajra face the reinforcements to the Macross Frontier fleet, they flee the battlefield to avoid annihilation by massed Wave-Motion Gun fire. To add insult to injury, these are actually the upper tier of scouts: the reinforcements come from the Strategic Military Service Private Military Contractor company, that by New United Nations law has to use reduced-capability fighters and a cap on their ships' firepower, indicating that a real military fleet from the New United Nations Spacy has more numerous ships and fighters of even higher capabilities. In Macross Delta, a plot point is that reinforcements from the NUN Spacy could crush the Kingdom of Wind with ease, but as they're a single planet facing an entire cluster and there's multiple larger threats around Earth Central just doesn't see fit to send in an actual fleet, only sending in a small force from the Galaxy Patrol when the Windermereans temporarily overrun the Brisingr Cluster and before Xaos (the PMC company that supported the Cluster worlds and has a full Macross ship) received additional funding. For the same reason, the Windermereans have to complete their plan to brainwash the entire galaxy before Earth Central catches wind of it and sends in a full fleet, as they know perfectly they couldn't have conquered the Cluster without the brainwashing Var Syndrome bioweapon let alone the actual NUN Spacy.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In The Avengers (2012), Loki manages to successfully summon the Chitauri to attack New York. The Avengers, now united in purpose stand together, joined by a slightly late arriving Bruce Banner, who helps defeat a behemoth no-one else could even dent. And a watching Loki just says "send the rest." And even those are still a fraction of the army on the other side of the portal. In Thor: The Dark World, Asgard is attacked by the Dark Elves. Heimdall manages to get into the invading Elf fighter, and disable it. When a dozen fighters appear, he leaves.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_6a94b164	comment	Same for the Orks. Not only are there a lot more of them living on their own worlds and only rarely going to knock some humies around, they are actually a degenerate form with a degenerate technology, the original being the Krorks, a species which gave the Eldar Empire at its peak a lot of trouble. The War of the Beast had them merely approaching this level again, and the Imperium as a whole was nearly destroyed by it.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_710af47f	comment	Event Horizon: Storm of Magic: Applies to the Company's colonies in relation to the lands they're located in. At one point, Fred boasts to the Small Council that their little colony has a higher GDP and industrial output than the rest of the Seven Kingdoms combined.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect ends with an epic battle against the Reaper known as Sovereign, and his fleet of geth cruisers, which are only narrowly defeated by the combined efforts of the Citadel defense fleet and the Systems Alliance Fifth Fleet. However, Sovereign is only a vanguard, left behind by the Reapers to secure their return. There are more where he came from, and they're coming back one way or another...
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7668653a	comment	At the end of Mass Effect 2, a fleet of THOUSANDS of Reapers is headed towards the galaxy, ready to invade. Just ONE nearly wiped out the Citadel Fleet in the previous game.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7668653b	comment	And in the trailer for Mass Effect 3, at least eight of them are attacking London. Who knows how many others are on the planet?
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_76be1b1	comment	Ultron Unlimited After destroying a whole country, Ultron fights against all of the Avengers (except those he had captured). After a long fight, they manage to destroy Ultron-7. Then, suddenly, Ultron-8 shows up. Iron Man is not sure if they can keep fighting... which disappoints Ultron-23. 23? How many of them are there? That's a very good question, says Ultron-647.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_77677ed1	comment	In the backstory to Sword of the Stars Earth was attacked by a Hiver fleet that nearly wiped out the human race but for the launching of Earth's entire nuclear arsenal. But later, as stated in the intro, it turned out that fleet was "only a small nesting fleet, we had yet to see the full power of the swarm." Fortunately, the Hiver Imperium was fighting a Succession Crisis at the time and SolForce made an alliance with the Princess who ended up winning the crown jewels.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7832b74c	comment	This occurs every season in Steven Universe. Homeworld sends some of their forces to Earth, and the Crystal Gems pull out all the stops to fight them and barely manage to handle the threats... only to discover that said forces weren't even there for them, but rather some unrelated task (checking on the Cluster, locating a missing soldier, collecting specimens for a People Zoo). The rulers of Homeworld aren't aware that they even exist until the final season, leaving you with the feeling that the Crystal Gems have only survived all of their recent encounters with Homeworld because they barely register as a blip on the galactic empire's radar. When Homeworld's rulers come themselves, the Crystal Gems only get out of it by proving that the murder the Diamonds are trying to avenge never happened.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect Mass Effect ends with an epic battle against the Reaper known as Sovereign, and his fleet of geth cruisers, which are only narrowly defeated by the combined efforts of the Citadel defense fleet and the Systems Alliance Fifth Fleet. However, Sovereign is only a vanguard, left behind by the Reapers to secure their return. There are more where he came from, and they're coming back one way or another... At the end of Mass Effect 2, a fleet of THOUSANDS of Reapers is headed towards the galaxy, ready to invade. Just ONE nearly wiped out the Citadel Fleet in the previous game. And in the trailer for Mass Effect 3, at least eight of them are attacking London. Who knows how many others are on the planet? The third game also reveals that there is no possible way the combined forces of the galaxy (geth included) can hope to defeat the Reaper armada, despite reverse-engineering some of their tech. The entire galaxy falls in a few months with negligible Reaper losses. The only way to stop them is with the Crucible. Sovereign's strength comes largely from his alliance with the Geth, and it's their fleet that does most of the damage. Then the second game reveals that they were actually a fairly minor Renegade Splinter Faction, and their full strength is much greater. It's subverted in the third game, where most of their real fleet is destroyed in a war offscreen; depending on player choice, the substantial force that remains will be either rendered helpless and annihilated before the final battle or join in against the Reapers.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7da2ca56	comment	In the Formic Wars novels, the Formics invade with an enormous and powerful starship, which also turns out to be The Mothership to several landers and hundreds of fighters. The invasion is barely stopped with millions dead. Then a girl analyzes astronomical data collected by satellites and realizes it was only a scout ship sent in advance of the real mothership, which is in the process of being cannibalized to build an armada for the real invasion. Of course, since it's a prequel to Ender's Game, the outcome is already known.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7dad8347	comment	The first few battles against the Shivans in FreeSpace are completely one-sided, with the Shivan ships being Nigh-Invulnerable, extremely maneuverable, and heavy-hitting in damage. A few upgrades later, the player can fight these monstrosities evenly, and even manages, with a huge amount of effort, to capture what they think is a Shivan command ship. Then it turns out that those were outdated Shivan scouts, and the "command ship" was among the weakest deployed Shivan warships... the actual muscle of the Shivan armada soon arrives and pretty much steamrolls the Terran and Vasudan fleets, no matter what countermeasures they come up with. Also invoked by the tagline of the second game: "The Shivans are back, and they're wondering what happened to their scouting party." And occurs, after the player spends a minor campaign arc hunting down and weakening a juggernaut-class vessel which outguns everything before seen, so that its closest counterpart on your side, the one-of-a-kind superdestroyer Colossus, can go toe-to-toe with it and destroy it. Then it turns out there are more. A three-digit number more.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: In The Return of the King, the Dark Lord Sauron sends out a massive army to conquer Gondor, which lays siege to their capital city of Minas Tirith. Gondor and its allies fight off the invading army at great cost, and many of the human leaders are casualties at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. As the battle is raging, Denethor, Steward of Gondor, looks into his palantÃr and sees the full extent of Sauron's military might—of which the army at his gate is but a fraction. Realizing this is a war Gondor can't possibly win, he falls into suicidal despair. After the battle, Gandalf even agrees that defeating Sauron through strength of arms was never an option. But he doesn't despair, because his (and Aragorn's) plan all along was to have Frodo destroy the One Ring, the source of Sauron's power. So all the battles are intended to distract Sauron long enough for Frodo to complete his quest.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek This is the Starfleet fear during later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation: what if instead of one cube, the Borg send millions? Used in one episode of Star Trek: Voyager: the ship managed to defeat a Borg scout without much damage, so Janeway suggests they start an offensive against the Borg. Chakotay reminds her that the outcome would be different had they encountered a larger ship. They try to take on a damaged sphere anyway with a method that should keep them invisible to the Borg, and a meticulously worked-out plan that will let them steal the Applied Phlebotinum they need and get away in just a few minutes. ...and the Borg Queen reveals to Seven of Nine not only does she know exactly where they are, she could Curb Stomp them any time she wished and will only keep holding back if Seven of Nine rejoins her.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_853e51bb	comment	In Haruhi-chan, after Asakura is defeated, she suggests this of herself, saying that there are three other members of the Radical Four like her, but all of them are stronger than she is.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime: In "Crossfire", Airachnid, now wanted by Megatron, controls an Insecticon to get her revenge. The Insecticon really got Meg's on the ropes, but after he defeated it, she realizes that it was only a scout, as she found an entire nest of Insecticons.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_87cf8985	comment	Played quite straight in a scenario outline in the 4th edition Champions supplement Mystic Masters. The Big Bad is a dimensional conqueror with the ability to split his awareness between thousands of different bodies of varying power levels, and one of his opening gambits is to test the PCs' defenses with a single one of his weakest ones — any damage he manages to inflict is a welcome bonus, but mostly the intent is to find out what this new set of prospective enemies may be capable of. (The scenario explicitly hangs a lampshade on the possibility of the players potentially going "huh, was that all?" after this encounter.)
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_8aa7c509	comment	The final season Star vs. the Forces of Evil focuses on Mina trying to rebuild the Solarian Soldier program so she can use it to invade Mewni and overthrow Eclipsa. In the first part of the finale, a Humongous Mecha armor appears and proceeds to tear through most of Star's allies until it's barely defeated by Eclipsa with the use of the Total Annihilation Spell: a spell developed originally by Eclipsa's mother with the intention of using it to wipe out all Monsters from Mewni. Cue Marco arriving and informing them whoever they spent the entire episode fighting wasn't Mina — it was just some random mook. The real Mina had succeed in rebuilding the program and is due to arrive in a few minutes with an army of similar suited soldiers.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_8aad83bb	comment	In the first episode of Ronin Warriors, the heroes work together and managed to beat the enemy only to learn it was a foot soldier in the evil overlord's army. He wasn't quite a regular mook, as he was empowered by borrowing one of the leader's weapon, but the original owner certainly puts it to better use.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_8cb4a772	comment	The Inpelaizer was one of the toughest foes in Ultraman Mebius when it was first introduced. Turns out it's only a Mook in Alien Empera's army.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X: Remember that giant alien warfleet that was shown obliterating Earth as a side effect of its battle against another in the beginning of the game? A portion of which you're fighting on the new planet you're stranded on? Yeah, that wasn't a real army. It was a bunch of criminals. The heroes are rather disturbed to learn that the force that destroyed Earth and nearly drove humanity to extinction is nothing more than a "run-of-the-mill crime syndicate".
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_90f18253	comment	Battletech: During the Clan Invasion, the Clans that invaded the Inner Sphere and basically curb-stomped their way through a fifth of it were only four of seventeen total Clans, and on top of it three of the invaders had heavily bid down their total forces to be selected for an Invasion Corridor. And then it turns out Those were just the backwater garrisons, of the Successor States, who kept their best and most numerous forces on their borders with each other as opposed to the Peripherry powers that wouldn't dare openly attacking them anyway, and the invasion grinds into a brutal slog that pits the superior technology and individual skill of the Clans against the vast industrial capacity and tactical cunning of the Sphere, bringing in nine of the Clans and the beginnings of a united front amongst the Inner Sphere. In the end, the Inner Sphere first stall the Clan Invasion in a trial of possession in the form of the Battle of Tukayyid, which forced the Clans to pause their invasion for 15 years, before which the Inner Sphere itself, united as the Second Star League, sent it's own forces to Clan space, annihilating Clan Smoke Jaguar and then engaging the rest of the Clans in The Great Refusal, which ended in a Spheroid victory and a permanent end to any further Clan invasions of the Inner Sphere. A common joke amongst the fandom is that if you spot four Atlases wearing Lyran colours, you've run into a Steiner Scout Lance. While not exactly true in-story, The Lyran Commonwealth was the largest and richest Successor State for much of the Inner Sphere's history, and tended to win engagements through We Have Reserves and overwhelming force.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_92ac8bc0	comment	Xenonauts: That alien fleet that's been steadily making life ever more of a nightmare for humanity, with you Xenonauts desperately doing all you can to try to counter? Just a pet project of the High Praetor, who's apparently merely a low-ranking elder of the alien empire allowed to run around with a sliver of their true strength.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_985ddbb1	comment	Super Robot Wars Alpha, which revised and retold the story of the Aerogaters attacking Earth's fleet ends with with a similar feeling. The Balmarians are in control of most of the alien forces fought, and those that aren't still pose a threat to Earth. In a twist though, when the Balmarians resume their attempts to conquer Earth they lack much of their additional manpower and they've been losing fleets offscreen, to say nothing of the meteor storms devastating their home planet. In a way, the "scouts" wound up posing the greatest threat to the Earth Sphere.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_9cefc9f8	comment	In Macross Delta, a plot point is that reinforcements from the NUN Spacy could crush the Kingdom of Wind with ease, but as they're a single planet facing an entire cluster and there's multiple larger threats around Earth Central just doesn't see fit to send in an actual fleet, only sending in a small force from the Galaxy Patrol when the Windermereans temporarily overrun the Brisingr Cluster and before Xaos (the PMC company that supported the Cluster worlds and has a full Macross ship) received additional funding. For the same reason, the Windermereans have to complete their plan to brainwash the entire galaxy before Earth Central catches wind of it and sends in a full fleet, as they know perfectly they couldn't have conquered the Cluster without the brainwashing Var Syndrome bioweapon let alone the actual NUN Spacy.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece has an indirect example, as it doesn't involve any fighting or the main characters being involved. After Luffy's defeat of Crocodile, his bounty more than tripled to being 100,000,000 berries; however, that increase was soon followed by a scene in which Shanks, one of the Four Emperors, the most powerful pirates in the One Piece world, sends a message to another one of said Emperors, Whitebeard. The messenger is revealed to have a bounty just below Luffy's, but it's noted that he was only recently accepted into Shanks's crew, and no one in Whitebeard's crew knows or really cares who he is. The scene serves to show that, despite his boost in infamy, Luffy still has a long way to go before he really matters to the truly powerful pirates in the setting. Somewhat more traditionally, the Straw Hats defeat some of Baroque Works' Officer Agents, who are given code names and ranked by strength. However, it turns out that Mr. 3, whom the Straw Hats defeated on Little Garden, is actually weaker than Mr. 4, and was only given a higher rank because of his intelligence. As a result, the scene demonstrates that Mr. 0, Mr. 1, Mr. 2 and Mr. 4, as well as their partners, are stronger than most of the Straw Hats' previous opponents in the arc. Played very straight during the Sabaody arc when it takes the full might of the Straw Hats crew to take down Bartolomew Kuma... Before it's revealed that it wasn't actually Kuma himself, but one of 'many' Pacifistas, mechanical clones of Kuma created by the governement to hunt down pirates. Oh and also, an admiral is here.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_a183d57f	comment	Played with in an episode of Futurama, where the Omicronians are invading (to bring back their favorite 20th-century TV show). A massive fleet is gathered and is told to attack the alien mothership. Many are killed, but, eventually, the heroes manage to blow it up. Everyone celebrates, until an ever bigger ship appears and starts blasting everything else to dust. Not only was that first target not the mothership, it was the Hubble Space Telescope (inexplicably well-armed).
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_a81a8107	comment	The heroes manage to defeat the Balmarian fleet by the end of Shin Super Robot Wars. At the end of the Space Route, Char Aznable sends a message to Londo Bell, whom he expects to be in a festive mood, yet unjustified by what Char is convinced has been a horrific mistake for mankind. He reckons they got lucky with this victory, and points out that Balmar is sure to send a second, or third fleet to Earth, without any shortage of firepower. Just how far will Londo Bell's efforts last, he muses, ostentatiously checking himself and claiming sarcastically that sour grapes weren't the intent of the message. Since Char is worried about mankind too, in his fashion, he has chosen to accompany the aliens returning to their own worlds. Therefore, he is entrusting Londo Bell with all the alien technology he has been able to amass, telling them to put it to good use for humanity. According to Master Asia, he had to use the power of the Devil Gundam just on this fleet, and with the coming of the other fleets, he has to return to his home planet, Dug, to get aide from the Dug Interstellar Republic. Super Robot Wars Alpha, which revised and retold the story of the Aerogaters attacking Earth's fleet ends with with a similar feeling. The Balmarians are in control of most of the alien forces fought, and those that aren't still pose a threat to Earth. In a twist though, when the Balmarians resume their attempts to conquer Earth they lack much of their additional manpower and they've been losing fleets offscreen, to say nothing of the meteor storms devastating their home planet. In a way, the "scouts" wound up posing the greatest threat to the Earth Sphere.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_aabf6d1d	comment	Darkest Dungeon: Fitting for a Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Story, the final boss is a redundant organ that happens to be in charge of the villainous forces surrounding your tiny hamlet, and you get a glimpse of its true, horrifying master before you commit suicide: the core of Earth itself.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: The United Earth Directorate sent a fleet to subjugate the Koprulu Sector in Brood War, which took the combined power of the Terran Dominion, Protoss, and Kerrigan's Zerg Swarm to defeat. Said fleet, however, was a single expeditionary force that relied heavily on repurposing local manufacturing to keep themselves supplied, and nowhere near the full weight the UED could bring to bear materially or technologically.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b373c87e	comment	In Zulu the British cheer when they have driven back the Zulus the first time. Boer scout Brandorff informs them that the Zulus deliberately sent men to get killed to find out the British soldiers' range.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b3b15bc1	comment	X-Men: The Animated Series: In "Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape", Wolverine, Beast, Sabretooth, Maverick, and Silverfox investigate the Weapon X facility, but they trigger the security system and a superpowered robot called Talos is activated to deal with them. It takes a lot of effort to destroy it and everybody except Beast is knocked out. Just as Beast is catching his breath, the security system summons another Talos and it is implied there is whole room full of them. Beast is left with no choice but to escape with everyone and blow up the building to prevent Talos from following them.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b45bcd92	comment	In the sixth DBZ movie, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Goku and Vegeta just barely managed to overpower and defeat one Metal Cooler, but are then promptly attacked by a thousand more of them. And as mentioned, Conservation of Ninjutsu is not in effect, and they are handily curb-stomped.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b54f6590	comment	How the climax of Magnificent Warriors ends; the Kaal militia, despite being outnumbered and armed with crude weapons, managed to take down a larger and stronger Japanese army armed with cannons and trucks using guerilla tactics, bows and arrows, and assorted improvised weaponry. The Japanese commander who's the Sole Survivor of the first unit then reveals there's a second invasion force on the way, far larger than the first and have tanks in them. Ultimately the Kaal citizens simply burns their whole town to the ground while allowing the Commander to return to his army and report that they destroyed themselves and the first invading force in a kamikaze attack.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b5a03cec	comment	Robotech, owing to being a Frankenslation of Super Dimension Fortress Macross and two other series, inherits the Zentraedi example, but the original material in the unfinished Sentinel series provides one of the most chilling examples during the Invid's attack on Tirol's capital, where the fixed defenses and the Bioroid manage to stalemate a horde... Of Invid Scouts, before they're reinforced by six hundred Shock Troopers. Even worse, this entire force are all the vanguard sent in to probe the defenses, the actual first wave hasn't arrived yet.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b8ec1fed	comment	The Beginning After the End: During the Class Trip to Widow's Crypt, Arthur discovers the slaughtered remains of a team of soldiers led by the Lance Alea Triscan, who as a Lance is supposed to be among the strongest mages in Dicathen. Before she dies, Alea imparts onto Arthur a vision of what killed her and her team, that of a black-horned demon. As Arthur finds out once the war starts, this demon is a Vritra Retainer named Uto, meaning he is only among the lower end of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil. Despite this placement on the hierarchy, when he and Arthur do clash, he is able to stymie Arthur (who at this point has trained with the Asuras for years and has now succeeded Alea as a Lance) and his draconic bond Sylvie and even manages to shatter the Asuran-made sword Arthur has been wielding since his youth. The only reason Arthur and Sylvie make it out of the encounter alive is because Uto is finished off by the Scythe Seris Vritra (the Scythes are higher up in the hierarchy than the Retainers and thus are far more powerful), who has taken an interest in Arthur to let him live. After deeming his alliance with the Dicathian Resistance as a failure, Kezess sends an lone Asura to the Djinn sanctuary they are taking refuge in to exterminate them all. The Asura in question, Taci, is merely a boy by Asuran standards, having trained alongside Arthur during his time in Epheotus and who has volunteered to carry out the deed as a rite of passage. Despite being young for an Asura, he is able to overpower the remaining Lances (who are only able to be there because Aldir - who had been ordered to kill off the Lances separately - disobeyed Kezess by sending them to the sanctuary to intercept Taci), in the process blinding Mica in her left eye, cutting off Varay's left arm, and forcing Aya to overexert her mana core to create illusions strong enough to trick him into thinking he killed them, causing her to die in the process (to say nothing of all the other casualties he caused during his rampage). He is only ultimately stopped by Arthur (who has Came Back Strong thanks to his endeavors in the Relictombs and Alacrya and has just killed off the top Scythe and crippled another in a Single-Stroke Battle), and he ends up having to take Taci back into the Relictombs just so that their fight won't bring the sanctuary crashing down on everyone. As Arthur somberly notes in the aftermath, if an Asura as lowly as Taci could cause that much devastation, then the war against the Asuras is going to be an extremely difficult one for him and his allies.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, Gajeel and Levy are attacked by Yomazu and Kawazu and have a very difficult time fighting them. Gajeel has a major Oh, Crap! moment when Yomazu reveals they are merely the advance scouts of Grimoire Heart. Gajeel orders Levy to run and warn the others of Grimoire Heart's arrival.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ba4f9669	comment	The war film, My Way has a battle between a Japanese platoon, whose units consist conscripts and trucks loaded with napalm drums which they've rigged to perform kamikaze attacks, against a Russian unit which is smaller in numbers, but comes with tanks. The Japanese managed to win, albeit sacrificing most of their weaponry and vehicles and sustaining heavy casualties. The Japanese platoon (whatever that's left) begins to cheer... only to see a second Russian tank column, even bigger than the first, coming from the horizon.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 The absolutely massive Tyranid fleets that have ravaged several sections of the Imperium are said to only be the scouting fleets of the main force. The same applies to the Necrons, whose true war machines are still in storage on their hibernating Tomb Worlds. Same for the Orks. Not only are there a lot more of them living on their own worlds and only rarely going to knock some humies around, they are actually a degenerate form with a degenerate technology, the original being the Krorks, a species which gave the Eldar Empire at its peak a lot of trouble. The War of the Beast had them merely approaching this level again, and the Imperium as a whole was nearly destroyed by it. The Imperium are this to the Tau. The Tau drastically underestimate the true might of the Imperium, thinking that the Imperium's losses against them in battle are ones that would take the Imperium decades to recover from. In truth, the forces the Imperium sends against the Tau are relatively insignificant — the Tau survive in large part because the Imperium has other bigger proverbial fish to fry.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_be59a7e9	comment	Servants of Remnant: In "Released to Remnant", Artoria Pendragon battles a Goliath Grimm and destroys it after a bit of struggle. While she is catching her breath, a herd of Goliaths approach her, so she decides to escape.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers (2012), Loki manages to successfully summon the Chitauri to attack New York. The Avengers, now united in purpose stand together, joined by a slightly late arriving Bruce Banner, who helps defeat a behemoth no-one else could even dent. And a watching Loki just says "send the rest." And even those are still a fraction of the army on the other side of the portal.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_cb802e97	comment	In Macross 7, the 7th Colonization Fleet has a fair amount of trouble with the enemy Varauta fleet's attacks, but they eventually decide to get serious and start blasting the Varauta with Macross Beams. Then it's revealed that the Varauta soldiers are just mind-controlled pawns of the Protodeviln, just one of whom could annihilate the entire Colonization Fleet without much effort... or at least, they could if Basara would stop getting in their faces and singing at them.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ce06dda3	comment	In Aesop's Fables, a lion is hit by an arrow, and runs away from the man who shot him. A fox, seeing this, makes fun of him, and the Lion retorts, "Yes, I'm retreating. If he's sending a messenger like this, just think how tough the man himself must be!"
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_cf3e7a82	comment	In one issue of Superman, Superman has been training for weeks and had to team up with the son of one his enemies to fight Imperiex. After a hard battle, Superman wins the battle and thinks Imperiex is through and goes home. Sometime later we find out that "Imperiex" was just a probe and that Imperiex Prime was a gigantic version of the thing Superman fought.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_d00adba4	comment	In Super Minion, the weapon thinks itself to be an apex predator after it discovers human.exe and begins easily overcoming (or faking failure against) every test the humans throw at it. This overconfidence vanishes remarkably quickly after its escape shows it a triggered tiger it stood no chance against, human soldiers killing that tiger without much difficulty, and a fight between a superhero and a supervillain, all in the span of under 24 hours.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_d0a5a846	comment	And then we learn that even the combined Primeval wasn't even the true form. The real form is the Z-Master who is as large as Jupiter. It took going into Z-Masters body fighting through it's defence Gradius style to get to the Heart Primveal with which King J-Der had to opt to self destruct in order to destroy it.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_d3e3e38a	comment	Season 3 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reveals that the Horde the Rebellion has been struggling to push back for all this time is nothing but a pale imitation formed by a defective clone soldier who landed on Etheria by pure accident. The actual Horde is an intergalactic empire whom the clone is trying to establish contact with. Said forces immediately conquer the planet in the fifth season.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_d7503952	comment	In GEAR Fighter Dendoh the Galfer initially attack with Rasenjoh, a ship so large that its name, meaning "spiral city", is more an affectionate nickname than a proper descriptor, and its immense complement of mechas. This is already a terrifying threat... And then, in the final arc, it's revealed that the Galfer have thousands of Rasenjoh... And they're all converging on Earth.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris the Prethoryn Swarm is preceded by a vanguard that attempts to establish a foothold in the galaxy before the main force arrives.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e3876b26	comment	Digimon Frontier: The team finally faces off with the dark angel Big Bad Cherubimon. He throws off their best attacks easily, and after giving each member of the team the opportunity to throw The Worf Barrage at him so he can laugh it off, he smashes everyone with a single attack. Kouichi, The Atoner, gets his Digimon forms back, redesigned and stronger, and manages to defeat Cherubimon... only for the voice of Cherubimon to taunt him. That was just a much-weaker projection the real Cherubimon whipped up in order to try and talk Kouichi back to The Dark Side. The real thing will be waiting for them when they reach his lair.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e5d6d1d9	comment	Furi: YOU, the Stranger/Rider, are just one mass-produced scout of the invading aliens, and despite that such a combat monster that Earth's best can't stop you.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e6267766	comment	Two examples from Star Wars Legends: Done on both sides in The Truce at Bakura: the Ssi-ruuk invasion force attacking Bakura is a scouting force of five cruisers and multiple picket ships (plus some ships carrying the ground troops), sent in to consecrate an Imperial fringe world to use as base for when they'll invade the Empire taking advantage of Palpatine's recent death and suffered moderate losses as they overpowered the Imperial garrison and its outdated ships, while the Rebel force sent to help Bakura's garrison is a single small Quasar-Fire bulk cruiser-carrier with its fighters, a corvette and five gunships, that is still outgunned by what the Empire has left. The Ssi-Ruuk, the Rebels and the Imperial garrison realize this, though they don't quite understand what keeps the other side from sending in more ships (the Rebels sent in everything they could spare while they reorganized after their costly victory at Endor, while the Ssi-Ruuk believe that their souls would be Barred from the Afterlife if they die too far from a consecrated planet and won't risk too many of their people before consecrating Bakura). Sourcebook sources expand on the aftermath: after the Ssi-Ruuk are driven away, the Rebel Alliance sends their own scouts to their homeworld to either negotiate a truce or prepare a proper counterattack... Only to find that the Empire's own scouts, led by Grand Admiral Thrawn in person, had already wrecked everything and made very clear where the Ssi-Ruuk's place on the pecking order was, so when they were attacked by the remnants of the fleet that had been routed at Bakura they just blast their way out and leave. Vector Prime, first volume of the New Jedi Order, involves an attack on the Galaxy Far Far Away by an alien force called the Praetorite Vong, who wreak havoc on some remote systems in the Outer Rim before the heroes get wise to their tricks and soundly defeat them. Subsequent books reveal that the Praetorite are simply one minor (but ambitious) faction of the Yuuzhan Vong who started the invasion earlier and with shoddy preparations in order to grab some glory ahead of everyone else (and their leader was a high-ranking bureaucrat playing general). The actual Vong warrior caste, debuting in the next book, are much more dangerous. Rogue Planet goes even further, with the planet Zonama Sekot. The Corrupt Corporate Executive investigating the planet finds evidence of severe orbital bombardment done in ways neither he or his underling recognize, lacking all the signs of weapons they do know. Later it's clarified that a group of "Far Outsiders" appeared on the planet and attacked for reasons no-one could ever figure out, until the planet itself drove them off. However, later stories in the New Jedi Order series make it clear this was the earliest wave of Vong scouts to reach the Galaxy.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge: A group of Cloud Gremlins take control of a storm cloud and attempt to invade the weather factory of Cloudsdale. Since the storm cloud is protected by dark magic, it takes a bit of teamwork from Rainbow Dash and Rodan to destroy it. Before they can celebrate, a cloud about 5 times bigger than the first carrying the main Cloud Gremlin force arrives, and the first group even mentions they were just the scouts.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures plays with it due Genre Savvyness on both sides: When he first encounters the Evronians, Paperinik knows from the start he's just dealing with scouts and commandos sent to soften up Earth, and isn't surprised in the slightest when he finds proof of both that and that the Evronians are too busy due a number of rebellions in their empire and Xadhoom being out for them to just attack in force, just what the Evronian invasion force can bring to bear the one time they decide to get serious, or that the Evronian main force is centered around a Planet Spaceship. The only time he's surprised is when a second planet spaceship shows up... And the crew, under the mistaken impression he's an ally, reveals there's multiple Evronian Empires, all centered around a planet spaceship, and that every time the population of one grows too much they turn a planet into a spaceship and divide their population by half to prevent overpopulation and a civil war. When the Evronians first encounter Paperinik they initially assume he's just one of many exceptional individuals that, if they joined forces, could beat back the invasion, as they have past experiences of this, and send in a termination squad to kill him and verify if there's others. They eventually realize there's no other Paperinik, but still keep a prudent course of action and feign peaceful intentions with the US government to try and soften Earth's defenses and trying to kill Paperinik with relatively small forces for various reasons, including that humanity's warlike nature and large number of nuclear weapons would cause disproportionate losses compared to the gains, they realize that killing Paperinik with a horde of warriors would turn him into a martyr for Earth's resistance and, if word got out in their empire, he could become a symbol for the rebellions (and he does when four rebel leaders discover his existence and how he's fighting against the common enemy) and, as revealed in the Paperinik New Era stories, Super Goof.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e7afca1f	comment	In Infinite Space, the Lugovalian fleet that invades the Small Magellanic Cloud is only the vanguard fleet. And it's still enough to easily conquer the entire galaxy. Then the fact that that the remains of the fleet plus some reinforcement still poses massive problem for the 2nd galaxy, while the main fleet 10 times larger is coming, forces the main character to stage an assassination of the Lugovalian Emperor to end the war.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Chapter 12 of Fire Emblem: Awakening, Chrom and his allies manage to fight off an invasion force from the empire of Valm, and are painfully aware that this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their enemy's strength, making them a far greater threat than the Kingdom of Plegia.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_eb0dd02a	comment	AI War: Fleet Command: Inverted in direction, but played entirely straight otherwise, with the AI. Compared to whatever massive threat it's fighting off-galaxy, you're basically just an infestation in a backwater mine, and the local forces little more than a skeleton crew making sure no funny business happens. The reinforcements thrown at you when you start growing are all the AI can bother with, being extremely busy out there. You and others can grow out of control enough that the AI decides to send a bit of the big stuff, but even then the gigantic, hyperdestructive, fleet-chewing Extragalactic vessels are used sparingly, and immediately thrown back outside when they stop being justified.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_eb9e3429	comment	The attack of the Army of Anubis in The Mummy Returns. The Medji think they've defeated the armynote which they are rather surprised at since it's supposed to be invincible, only to the realize that the REAL army is swarming over the dunes like a monstrous black shadow.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ec28245c	comment	At the start of Dragon Ball Z, Raditz arrives on Earth, effortlessly outclasses Goku and Piccolo, and then reveals that there are two more Saiyans, both stronger than him. After it takes the combined efforts of Piccolo and Goku, some help from Gohan, and even a Heroic Sacrifice from Goku to kill him, he uses his last moments to radio them, predicting that they will arrive in a year. Later, after arriving on Namek, they realize that the Saiyan trio were only a small fraction of an entire army, and 6 of Frieza's subordinates were stronger than Vegeta when he reached Earth.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ed2a7866	comment	At the start of the War of the Underworld arc of Sword Art Online, Alice, an Integrity Knight, repels a Dark Territory invasion in her home village of Rulid, but is painfully aware that this is only a fraction of the massive invasion force that is about to attack the human realm.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ef076a36	comment	Used in one episode of Star Trek: Voyager: the ship managed to defeat a Borg scout without much damage, so Janeway suggests they start an offensive against the Borg. Chakotay reminds her that the outcome would be different had they encountered a larger ship.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_f8956ef3	comment	In YuYu Hakusho, Yusuke is horrified when Koenma tells him that Younger Toguro, who at the time was the toughest opponent he had ever fought, was "only" an upper B-class demon, with B-class being the third highest ranking, and that if Sensui opens a portal to the Demon World, even the demons who are otherwise too powerful to enter the world will be able to invade.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_fa661c5b	comment	A downplayed example in Independence Day: Resurgence. In the first film, humanity barely survives the alien onslaught and manages to destroy the alien fleet at great cost. Come the sequel 20 years later, a new, much larger, alien armada is on the way to put down the upstart humans, possibly implying that the first one was just a small flotilla by the alien standards.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_fb6d726d	comment	The Combined Army that appears in Infinity is explicitly a scouting mission and the EI's actual forces are yet to arrive. Given that the Combined Army that has been seen nearly brought the Human Sphere to its knees, this prospect deeply worries the human command structures...although not enough to make them stop running black ops against each other.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_fcfa999b	comment	The first enemy robot in FLCL was only part of the hand of a robot. They meet the full version in the next episode.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_fd8ef85e	comment	The intro to Left 4 Dead features this exchange:
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Those Were Only Their Scouts / int_ff9ab17f	comment	This is the Starfleet fear during later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation: what if instead of one cube, the Borg send millions?
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