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Vichy Earth

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Vichy Earth	comment	Somewhere between the friendly aliens and the aliens who want to wipe us out completely, there's a group whose intentions are definitely hostile, but not (immediately) genocidal. They land on Earth, knock down our pathetic defenses, and decide things would be better if they ran our lives for us. Maybe they need slaves, maybe they think we don't know how to govern ourselves, maybe they're setting the stage for a far more worrisome and sometimes tasty (tasty for them, that is) plan. Whatever the reason, Terra Firma has become a client of some extraterrestrial power: a Vichy Planet administered by local collaborators. Best case scenario, the aliens are just doing it for our own good and intend to make sure the new government works out for us. Worst case scenario, we all go into the meatgrinder. The name is inspired by the French State (established after the fall of France's Third Republic) during World War II. During the Battle of France, with Paris occupied, the French National Assembly voted extraordinary power to Marshall Philippe PÃ©tain, the hero of Verdun, who agreed to armistices with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and became chief of the newly formed 'French State' which succeeded the Third Republic. Initially northern France was occupied by Germany, some parts along the Alps (and later Corsica as well) were occupied by Italy, and southern France remained under direct French control, an area known as 'la Zone libre', "the Free Zone". PÃ©tain made the spa town of Vichy the seat of government and de facto capital and presided over a two-year (1940-42) era of close co-operation with and aid to Germany until Germany assumed direct control over the 'Zone libre' so it could fortify southern France against an allied invasion. Though it called itself the French State, the allies dubbed it "Vichy France" or "The Vichy RÃ©gime" and the very name 'Vichy' became something of a byword for pragmatic, if somewhat shamefaced, collaboration with the enemy. French military and political elements that wished to continue the fight against the Axis and resist its new French client took the form of La RÃ©sistance, "Free France/Fighting France". This trope provides a sharp contrast to any series where humanity freely cruises the stars and calls many of the shots, and will generally focus on how humanity is affected by the change in power and how people feel about and react to it. Often, in the more worse case scenario, Earth would become a totalitarian Dystopia emulating occupied Europe during World War II, where humans are being enslaved or/before being killed; expect La RÃ©sistance and (less often) the aliens being actually allegories for Nazis especially if this condition is depicted. Les Collaborateurs will sometimes help them, usually in a bid to get some of their old power back. See also Villain World and Humans Are Not the Dominant Species. Examples
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Vichy Earth / int_12557dc4	comment	The goal of Lelouch and the Paladins in Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron was to prevent this from happening when they return to Earth with Voltron in tow. Unfortunately, Charles zi Britannia sells out humanity to the Galra, and Zarkonâ€™s arrival forces the Paladins, along with what few allies they were able to pick up, to flee from Earth.
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Vichy Earth / int_179462bd	comment	It sorta happens in Magic User's Club — the Bell conquers the planet, and Earth goes on, mostly because its military forces were thrashed. But the hand of the conqueror is very light — apparently content to just observe.
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Vichy Earth / int_1ee88521	comment	Wild ARMs 5 takes place on a Vichy Filgaea, in which humans live beneath Human Aliens called Veruni. Though it's also somewhat subverted as the Veruni are actually the descendants of human Precursors who left the planet in the past and evolved to their spaceborne lifestyle.
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Vichy Earth / int_1f30cee7	comment	In the My Teacher Is an Alien series, aliens contemplate occupying Earth because they consider them a possible threat to the rest of the galaxy. Of course, they're also considering blowing us up. Let's hope for Vichy Earth.
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Vichy Earth / int_231df7d2	comment	V (1983): The Visitors in the original 2 miniseries and TV series; their counterparts in the 2009 remake are obviously but slowly setting the stage for this.
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Vichy Earth / int_23b6a4e1	comment	Colony is set in alien-occupied Los Angeles featuring characters who have to choose/have chosen between La RÃ©sistance or Les Collaborateurs.
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Vichy Earth / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!" This also happens in one of the non-Canonical Halloween specials when Kang and Kodos are democratically elected into presidents of the United States.
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Vichy Earth / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the animated Justice League, the Thanagarians take over Earth for its own good. Or so they say. They're actually planning to destroy the whole planet as part of their plans to attack another civilization. It's actually a bit of a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because they do after all want to destroy Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass. It should be noted that without it they actually did lose the war, and were conquered because of it.
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Vichy Earth / int_2fa6ab16	comment	The lyrics to the Conehead Love in the credits of Coneheads say "Eisenhower, Nixon, Truman. None of them were really human". Meaning America has been ruled by at least three alien presidents.
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Vichy Earth / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): "The Deprogrammers" is a very dark, slavery-themed version. In "Star Crossed", the Hing won control over large areas of Earth after they invaded in 2050.
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Vichy Earth / int_31aedabc	comment	Cthulhu's Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, is a Cthulhu Mythos anthology of short stories on what existence on Earth would be like when the Old Ones return. Some think that serving the new masters is the answer, but whether this leads to their survival, let alone humanity's, is doubtful. If so it's only for Cthulhu's petty amusement.
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Vichy Earth / int_3be307d1	comment	In Tenchi Muyo!, Earth is a colony of the Jurai Empire. They mostly leave it alone and very few people besides the protagonists and the government know that aliens exist.
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Vichy Earth / int_3d22c68b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, the Earth Federation Congress in Dakar surrenders to the invading forces of Neo-Zeon and hands over Side 3 to their rule, and later the Earth Federation permits Neo-Zeon to drop a colony on Dublin to terrorize the Earth's populace into submission.
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Vichy Earth / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: The second season finale left it somewhat ambiguous as to whether or not this is the case with the Galactic Federation's assimilation of Earth, but the ARG tumblr shows that it very much is, with blatant misinformation about humans being given by the G-Fed as fact, and their casual steamrolling over human rights so long as they can derive profit or entertainment from their new subjects. The third season premiere sees everyone, including the Smith family, affected by the changes, being paid in and fed with pills. Jerry takes a liking on the simple basis that he has a job, while others including Mr. Goldenfold go into hiding as part of a resistance. All of this is reversed by episode's end after Rick, who has escaped from imprisonment, wrecks the Federation's economy, forcing them to leave the planet. In Season 6's "Juricksic Mort", it's revealed that some of the dinosaurs survived and became ultraterrestrials colonizing the universe, before returning home and establishing another one of these. Unlike the Gromflomites ruling the Galactic Federation, the dinosaurs were truly benevolent (although displayed Condescending Compassion) and proceeded to fix all the world's problems practically overnight. However, humanity quickly realized that Victory Is Boring and wanted them gone as a result.
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Vichy Earth / int_41963414	comment	David Gerrold's The War Against the Chtorr series. It's not clear what the Chtorrans ultimately have in mind for the human race, but it appears to be assimilation.
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Vichy Earth / int_42c1d7f7	comment	The Occupation Saga starts six years after 21st century Earth was invaded by the Shil'vati, a mostly female race of seven-foot purple humanoids. The Shil'vati basically destroyed Earth's militaries and don't tolerate active resistance, but they otherwise allow self-rule and did a lot to solve societal problems like homelessness and global warming: as the main character narrates, they're "running the planet better than humanity ever had."
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Vichy Earth / int_4e13bb6f	comment	This seems particularly evident in the rhetoric of the character of Maya in the Harlock movie Arcadia of My Youth, who was a Voice of the Resistance focusing on encouraging the defeated Earthlings. E.g. "The sun which set yesterday will rise again this morning. And we believe that the sun will rise again tomorrow." On the other hand in the same movie, Earth's remaining leaders were preparing to join the invaders in exterminating one of the other Battle Thrall races that had outlived its usefulness; being asked to participate is one of the main reasons Harlock is driven to rebel in this story.
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Vichy Earth / int_4f6620a5	comment	Earth: Final Conflict is also built on the Trope.
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Vichy Earth / int_62ed972a	comment	In the backstory of Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers, aliens visit Earth in the 1930s and decides to launch a diplomatic invasion, by forging a political and economic alliance with humans while manipulating mankind to fall under their control. But then their operations are exposed, leading to the aliens sending their Flying Saucer armada to take over earth directly.
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Vichy Earth / int_633bef5e	comment	In The Space Trilogy, Earth has been occupied by hostile Energy Beings for the entirety of its existence. They've done all they can to pervert the populace with endless wars, miserable lusts, and the invention of death itself.
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Vichy Earth / int_68b8bdfe	comment	This is how you lose a game of X-COM: UFO Defense or its revival, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. As the campaign progresses and alien infiltrators put pressure on Earth's governments, or panic spreads if you're unable to thwart alien terror attacks, nations will drop out of the XCOM Project and sign secret nonaggression pacts with the alien invaders, denying you both funding and places to engage and salvage UFOs. If half of these nations give up, XCOM is disbanded, and Earth's governments try to become Les Collaborateurs in a futile bid to avoid humanity's subjugation. Should you lose in the games in the original continuity, the aliens subvert the trope, killing off most of humanity, poisoning the air and water, and enslaving the survivors, who they move off-world. The game over cutscene of the first game in the Firaxis continuity plays this trope straight (see below). XCOM 2 is set in an Alternate Timeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing Enemy Unknown (which you probably did on your first playthrough), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are Gilded Cages full of security checkpoints and Half-Human Hybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows, operating out of a mobile base, launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
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Vichy Earth / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: Much of the Mytharc is based around a small group of well-placed government officials, industrialists, and other powerful individuals making up a conspiracy to become the puppet rulers of an alien-conquered Earth. Chris Carter even explicitly calls them the Vichy government to the alien Third Reich in the hidden commentary track of the movie's soundtrack.
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Vichy Earth / int_6a989b15	comment	In The Tripods books and TV series, an alien race has subverted human civilisation from within, and then installed themselves as rulers. From the age of 14 people are fitted with mind-controlling "caps", which make people cooperative, docile and serene. Caps also remove all drive, creativity and rebellion. Finally, caps cause people to instinctively worship their Tripod conquerors. Ultimately, the alien invaders plan to "terraform" Earth to change the atmosphere to one they can breathe... but humans cannot.
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Vichy Earth / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: In "Unrealized Reality", John Crichton encounters a series of possible realities while learning to navigate wormholes. In one of these realities the Scarrans invaded Earth centuries ago, turned it into a colony and used humans as breeding stock. Crichton and his father are now Human-Scarran hybrids living in a world where their freedoms are severely limited and off-world travel is forbidden.
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Vichy Earth / int_6f9cf03	comment	In Genma Wars, the Earth has been taken over by an interdimensional race of demons known as the Genma that destroyed human civilization and left their representative in place to rule it in their name while they moved on to conquer other worlds. This is a particularly bleak example, since humanity is in no way capable of forming La RÃ©sistance due to being thrown back to the Stone Age and the Genma having phenomenal reality-warping powers and an mutant army to enforce their regime against the powerless humans. Meanwhile, the local overlord resents being charged with overseeing this insignificant blue planet that he turns into The Caligula.
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Vichy Earth / int_70814599	comment	The Aschen from Stargate SG-1. In this case Earth was supposedly invited to join an advanced alien confederation. The whole genocide and sterilization plot was secret from everybody except for the highest Aschen and some collaborating human leaders. In Stargate: Continuum, this is Ba'al's plan for Earth in the new timeline he has created, as opposed to the typical Goa'uld plan to bomb a planet into the stone age and then rule over the survivors as gods. Ba'al realizes the potential of the Tau'ri and their industry and wants to make use of it. However, his System Lord vassals are confused why he doesn't just attack the planet from orbit and be done with it. Eventually, Ba'al is betrayed and killed by his queen Qetesh, who then commands the rest of the Goa'uld to go with their usual plan and wipe out the Tau'ri.
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Vichy Earth / int_71e42e05	comment	Most historical monuments and landmarks, including some the humans did not know existed, were destroyed. The Ur-Quan also destroyed Buenos Aires as punishment for having opposed them in the first place.
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Vichy Earth / int_738eb11d	comment	In The Ganymede Takeover by Philip K. Dick and Ray Nelson, Earth has been conquered by worm-like aliens from one of Jupiter's moons. They administer the planet via human collaborators—some willing, others former Resisters who've been reconditioned by disturbed psychiatric genius Rudolph Balkani. Unfortunately when Balkani and some other collaborators commit suicide the Ganymedeans wrongly assume the La RÃ©sistance have completely infiltrated the collaborationist regime and, as direct rule would be too costly, decide to withdraw from Earth and sterilise it entirely.
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Vichy Earth / int_73d7930f	comment	Another non-Earth version in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where the Cardassian occupation of Bajor produced many Bajoran Quislings who helped the Cardassians in exchange for continuing to live in comfort. It's cleverly turned on its head when the Dominion War starts. Bajor has little choice but to try and remain neutral at the start, signing a non-aggression treaty with the Dominion. Deep Space Nine itself is taken over by the Cardassians as Star Fleet retreats from the sector, and former Bajoran resistance fighter Kira keeps her old job, justifying herself by saying she needs to keep things running smoothly so the Cardassians won't start brutalizing the station's residents. It's not long until an outspoken member of the Bajoran clergy publicly hangs herself in protest of the situation ("Evil must be opposed!"). Kira comes to the bitter realization that she is now a collaborator herself, working side by side with the enemy while her friends and allies among the Klingons and the Federation wage war to defend the entire region from Dominion rule. This increasingly becomes the situation with the Cardassians themselves, under the control of the Dominion. It becomes obvious when Damar is replaced by a more pliant Cardassian puppet ruler. Toyed with in "The Search Pt. II". Although the tenets of Star Trek forbid the Federation from ever submitting, a holodeck simulation depicts what would happen if Starfleet brokered a deal with the Dominion in exchange for technology. In effect, this was a big ol' Reset Button, but it did foreshadow Section 31 and other seedy elements within the Federation.
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Vichy Earth / int_7832b74c	comment	The Steven Universe fanfic "The Oracle Of Settlement B 1 C 7" takes place in an alternate universe where the Diamonds chose to spare Earth's ecosystem and humanity came under Pink Diamond's rule. Now humans live in semi-primitive settlements across the world, and humans of old, who nearly depleted Earth's resources for their own gain, are used as a cautionary tale. Humans are also implanted with "organic regulators" at birth, which prevent them from getting sick and give them enhanced healing, thanks to being powered by Pink Diamond's healing tears. While some humans like Ronaldo and Peedee believe the Gems to be secretly malevolent, and over the course of the story the protagonist Connie discovers not all aspects of Gem society are as morally sound as they present themselves, Pink Diamond genuinely cares for humanity, making this a more benevolent example of this trope.
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Vichy Earth / int_7f39a041	comment	Gintama is set in an Alternate History where aliens did the Gunboat Diplomacy in the late Edo period instead of the Americans. The invading aliens, after a period of bloody war that it's generally agreed humanity lost, mellowed out and managed to push the technology of the entire world forward a few centuries: Japan around the 19th century now has machines, skyscrapers, and Shonen Jump manga, which the ex-samurai protagonist loves to read.
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Vichy Earth / int_7f48827f	comment	An episode of Ultraman 80 has a group of friendly aliens called the Fantas who arrived on earth, with intentions of inviting humans to join their plans for creating a space utopia. But it turns out later that the Fantas aliens are actually androids - the real aliens are a legit peaceful technologically-advanced race, only to be overthrown by their androids before taking over Planet Fantas, and begins their plans for galactic conquest starting with Earth.
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Vichy Earth / int_86b52b7b	comment	A possible example of this trope, but with robots instead of aliens, is the movie I, Robot. It's discovered near the end of the movie that the robotic super-computer wants to control the world, whether we like it or not. It's all for our own protection, of course.
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Vichy Earth / int_889ea24c	comment	"The Evitable Conflict" is a discussion between Susan Calvin and Stephen Byerley (who, interestingly, may just have been a robot) about several small, but inexplicable, errors in the production and construction quotas from the Three Laws-Compliant A.I.s tasked with running the world economy (to maximize efficiency). It seems that all the errors are connected to a Covert Group who sees the control given to the A.I.s as creating a Vichy Earth where humans are enslaved to machines. The machines should be able to predict and compensate for the discrepancies these small acts of sabotage produce, but they aren't. Calvin postulates that the machines are creating an illusion of these men sabotaging themselves and their own companies so that they'll be demoted/go out of business and stop being a threat. The motive? The A.I.s do want a Vichy Earth... after all, they have all the data, the processing power, and no personal agendas, politics, or desire for power to get in the way of running things equitably and efficiently for all humanity.
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Vichy Earth / int_8c96b29e	comment	The Earth in Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, which was adapted as the "The New Generation" arc of Robotech, was ruled via local governments who would be left alone in exchange for restricted HBT/Protoculture, no resistance against them, and handing over survivors from liberation campaigns. In its different approach to this trope, the general quality of lifestyles for both collaborationist and neutral settlements is questionable as Inbit's focus on their attempt to evolve their species and hands-off approach on governance lead to many rural and a few urban settlements to be extorted by bandits on motorcycles while the settlements with more security tend to live comfortably.
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Vichy Earth / int_8d8157e0	comment	In Lexx, nearly all of humanity in the Light Universe has been reduced to slaves and eventually food serving His Divine Shadow the last survivor of the Insect Civilization. This is a notable example, because usually the plan get foiled or the damage undone somehow. Not in Lexx. The main cast doesn't find out about the Cleansing till after it's complete.
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Vichy Earth / int_8fda7950	comment	Known Space: Again, not Earth, but in the Man-Kzin Wars series, the planet Wunderland is conquered and enslaved by the Kzin.
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Vichy Earth / int_91ecd68a	comment	A Study in Emerald plays with a similar concept: The Old Ones rose and took over the European monarchies at some point in the past. Life goes on...even if the Old Ones tend to munch on the occasional mind now and again (something treated with a shrug in the story).
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Vichy Earth / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: In the Bad Future Batman sees in dreams in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder's Justice League, the Earth has been conquered by Darkseid's forces. He has subjugated Superman with the Anti-Life Equation, turning him against humanity and bringing about a Reign of Terror with an army of human soldiers Putting on the Reich. Batman and a few others left formed La RÃ©sistance to this, and they are hopelessly outgunned.
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Vichy Earth / int_969f9b98	comment	This is what takes places in Blue Comet SPT Layzner's second half. Long story short: Eiji and company fail to get anyone to listen to them, and Earth is conquered by the Gradosians. Throughout the Le Caine/Ru-Kain 1999 arc, they brutally occupy the planet, complete with "collaborators" who sell out their race for privileges. (Though there's at least one Fake Defector in the last group.)
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Vichy Earth / int_9983eff5	comment	Captive State: Aliens known only as the Legislators have conquered Earth and are forcing the humans to mine for resources.
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Vichy Earth / int_9f02efb1	comment	The Muramites in EverQuest do this to worlds they conquer. Collaborators from conquered worlds are given a place in the Muramite Legions and everyone else is enslaved.
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Vichy Earth / int_a0b1e0ae	comment	In They Live!, Earth is the aliens' Third World, using us for cheap labor while keeping people docile and unquestioning with subliminal messages.
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Vichy Earth / int_a183d57f	comment	Has happened numerous times in Futurama, since Earth is a third-rate power whose defense is led by a moron.
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Vichy Earth / int_a2294028	comment	Ultraseven features the Ghos aliens, who in the last episode offer to let the people of Earth live under the surface of Mars as slaves in exchange for surrender and the destruction of major world cities.
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Vichy Earth / int_a58ab35	comment	The Arume treat humanity in this fashion in the manga and anime Blue Drop, although their main reason not to destroy earth completely might be their attraction to its women.
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Vichy Earth / int_b0e508bf	comment	In Stargate: Continuum, this is Ba'al's plan for Earth in the new timeline he has created, as opposed to the typical Goa'uld plan to bomb a planet into the stone age and then rule over the survivors as gods. Ba'al realizes the potential of the Tau'ri and their industry and wants to make use of it. However, his System Lord vassals are confused why he doesn't just attack the planet from orbit and be done with it. Eventually, Ba'al is betrayed and killed by his queen Qetesh, who then commands the rest of the Goa'uld to go with their usual plan and wipe out the Tau'ri.
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Vichy Earth / int_b1ff9a0e	comment	In the JauntTrooper universe, aliens successfully foment World War III so that they can step in and assume dominion over the ruins. The human survivors are divided between La RÃ©sistance and Les Collaborateurs.
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Vichy Earth / int_b2bd761b	comment	In Troy Rising, not long after the Solar System is added to the galactic Portal Network, a Horvath warship arrives through the gate, wipes out three major human cities (Mexico City, Shanghai, Cairo) plus the ISS, and demands that all platinum-group metals be turned over to them. The ship then remains in geosynchronous orbit for years, enforcing Horvath control over Earth. Since alien tech is so much more advanced than human tech, they are able to turn any human piece of electronics into a listening device. Thus, humans have learned to always say nice things about their "benevolent Horvath protectors", except in specially-shielded rooms. After Tyler Vernon discovers that the Glatun go absolutely crazy for maple syrup, he uses his newfound wealth to start working on a way to free Earth from Horvath control.
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Vichy Earth / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series Ultraseven features the Ghos aliens, who in the last episode offer to let the people of Earth live under the surface of Mars as slaves in exchange for surrender and the destruction of major world cities. An episode of Ultraman 80 has a group of friendly aliens called the Fantas who arrived on earth, with intentions of inviting humans to join their plans for creating a space utopia. But it turns out later that the Fantas aliens are actually androids - the real aliens are a legit peaceful technologically-advanced race, only to be overthrown by their androids before taking over Planet Fantas, and begins their plans for galactic conquest starting with Earth.
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Vichy Earth / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Sometimes done by the Irkens in Invader Zim, if they don't just level the lifeforms and make another Parking Structure Planet. The residents of the Conveyor Belt Planet have all been put to work stamping boxes; the Vorts seem to mostly be put in prisons and forced to make weapons. (Some suggest that this is why Irken tech tends to not work too well.) In this apparently-canonical end of the series, Zim manages to take over the Earth...and no one but Dib seems to mind. Huh.
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Vichy Earth / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010): This is the goal of the Reach. In Impulse's timeline, they've been successful in enslaving the population.
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Vichy Earth / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who has many examples. 1964's "The Dalek Invasion of Earth": In the 22nd Centry the Daleks have wiped out 9/10ths of the population with a plague, leaving the strongest as slaves. The Dalek Supreme rules the planet from his unlikely capital in Bedfordshire. While there are only a small number of Daleks overseeing proceedings, the population is kept under control by the Robomen who are unwillingly made to do their bidding via intrusive cranial cybernetics. 1972's "Day of the Daleks": This time, instead of Robomen, the Daleks have installed an apparently efficient system of willing human 'quislings'. It seems the Daleks have learned to keep people in order via more subtle methods than just sticking a radio receiver in their brains. Their collaborators are provided with sharp tailoring, cushy lodgings, blonde female staff and plenty of fruit and nuts. To do their really dirty work, they're employing the Ogrons, a race of interstellar mercenaries. The Daleks themselves remain largely hidden behind the scenes. 1978's "The Invasion of Time": Gallifrey gets invaded. The President puts in place a curfew, ejects a lot of revered Time Lords due to their political pasts and deactivates the planet's most vital defence systems, all at the behest of the invaders. 2007's "Last of the Time Lords": The Master has conquered contemporary Earth. He's in a politically advantageous position as Prime Minister of the UK, and the human population has been enslaved in order to build a fleet with which he can conquer the universe, of course. Resistance is minimal thanks to the Master's mind-control satellites; fortunately Martha demonstrates there is more than one way to resist.
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Vichy Earth / int_c4a9bbdb	comment	The aliens in Terra Invicta want to conquer, not destroy, Earth, to use humans as another class of slave mooks. The Protectorate and Servants factions support this as well, in different ways: The Servants are a Cult that is completely on board with the aliens' plan, no hesitation. As the Servants subvert national governments and bring more countries under their control, they become increasingly militarized. The Servants find the initial terms of the human surrender insulting, and successfully negotiate better ones. The Protectorate wants to arrange a dignified conditional surrender that better preserves Earth's society, population, and culture, believing that a war with the aliens is unwinnable. Unlike the Servants, there's no fanaticism involved; it's just cynical appeasement. Ironically, if the Protectorate win then they accept the initial surrender terms that the alien-worshipping cultists deemed too humiliating.
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Vichy Earth / int_c7102a17	comment	This is the intention of the aliens in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. They explain that they have the power to conquer Earth by force, but that would mean ruling a devastated planet and its resentful population. Instead they try to make peaceful First Contact in order to negotiate terms. When things don't go well, the aliens try to intimidate mankind with increasing demonstrations of force.
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Vichy Earth / int_d461f757	comment	It's not Earth, but the Cylon occupation of New Caprica in Battlestar Galactica (2003) was ostensibly for the purposes of bringing human and Cylon together in peace.
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Vichy Earth / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 is set in an Alternate Timeline that assumes you got curb-stomped while playing Enemy Unknown (which you probably did on your first playthrough), and takes place twenty years after that conflict. XCOM was quickly overwhelmed, leading Earth's governments to surrender to the aliens, who established the ADVENT Administration to rule the planet. ADVENT has rebuilt Earth's major cities into shining, futuristic metropolises, and their gene therapy clinics have eradicated disease. But these cities are Gilded Cages full of security checkpoints and Half-Human Hybrid soldiers that ruthlessly quash protests and make dissidents disappear, and not all of the people who visit the gene therapy clinics come out of them. Now XCOM is the group fighting from the shadows, operating out of a mobile base, launching ambushes on ADVENT patrols, working to undermine the alien regime and scrounge up the resources to liberate the planet.
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Vichy Earth / int_d7765410	comment	It's actually a bit of a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because they do after all want to destroy Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.
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Vichy Earth / int_d7e4b70e	comment	In Gantz, only days after Katastrophe, Japanese leaders are shown on TV making peace with the same aliens that destroyed every major cities and slaughtered millions, while the journalist calls Gantz troops a threat for peace.
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Vichy Earth / int_dad45086	comment	This is the state of Earth in CS Friedman's novel The Madness Season.
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Vichy Earth / int_e18ab4ea	comment	In Strife, a meteor strike and consequent virus has caused the rise of a fanatical Order, who rule Earth and who obey a mysterious creature called The Entity.
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Vichy Earth / int_e5d5d23c	comment	In the Doom novels, the aliens that attack Earth use this as a ploy to gain control over most of Earth's armed forces — however, this is only in preparation for their attempted genocide.
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Vichy Earth / int_e68decb8	comment	The Ur-Quan subjugation of Earth in Star Control 2 fits this trope to a T. Earth is put under a "slave shield" to prevent anyone from entering or leaving the planet, a force is stationed on the moon to make sure that the planet is following the Ur-Quan's orders, and the planet must keep a space station for repairing and resupplying Hierarchy vessels. The planet itself, however, is mostly left to its own devices. With a Nigh-Invulnerable force field around it, the Ur-Quan neither know nor care what its inhabitants do. The Spathi captain Fwiffo does mention being reduced to "pre-atomic savagery". Most historical monuments and landmarks, including some the humans did not know existed, were destroyed. The Ur-Quan also destroyed Buenos Aires as punishment for having opposed them in the first place. Ironically, if you manage to ally with the Spathi, they study Earth's slave shield and intentionally duplicate it on their own world. The Spathi really only want to be safe. Fortunately for the humans, Fwiffo wasn't an expert in these matters. In the end, when the shield is taken down, spaceships launch from Earth to meet you at the Starbase, implying that they've retained a fairly high level of civilization.
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Vichy Earth / int_e84e2d54	comment	Robot Series: "The Evitable Conflict" is a discussion between Susan Calvin and Stephen Byerley (who, interestingly, may just have been a robot) about several small, but inexplicable, errors in the production and construction quotas from the Three Laws-Compliant A.I.s tasked with running the world economy (to maximize efficiency). It seems that all the errors are connected to a Covert Group who sees the control given to the A.I.s as creating a Vichy Earth where humans are enslaved to machines. The machines should be able to predict and compensate for the discrepancies these small acts of sabotage produce, but they aren't. Calvin postulates that the machines are creating an illusion of these men sabotaging themselves and their own companies so that they'll be demoted/go out of business and stop being a threat. The motive? The A.I.s do want a Vichy Earth... after all, they have all the data, the processing power, and no personal agendas, politics, or desire for power to get in the way of running things equitably and efficiently for all humanity. This was in fact an early manifestation of the Zeroth Law (allowing some humans to come to harm/harm themselves for the greater benefit of humanity as a whole) that Asimov would formally develop through R. Giskard in The Robots of Dawn. Byerley is horrified by the implication, of both the A.I.s being able to overrule the 1st Law by letting these men harm themselves and by a world run by A.I.s. However, Calvin insists that such a development is not unlikely given the nature of the giant AI brains and that a world ruled by such Machines would be a world of peace and an end to the struggles of humanity. The Caves of Steel and its sequels are about the former Earth colonies who make Earth their vassal. While not violent, it is estimated that if this state continues, constant revolts and suppression will wipe out Earth's people within a century.
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Vichy Earth / int_ea53c8ea	comment	The Course of Empire by Eric Flint & K. D. Wentworth takes place after the alien Jao have succeeded in this, and has a rare sympathetic portrayal of Les Collaborateurs.
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Vichy Earth / int_f35bc73c	comment	The Oankali of Lilith's Brood sort of qualify. They show up right after the humans get done blowing themselves up in a nuclear war, and save the survivors, intending to crossbreed with them in order to create a new species. The catch: This will leave humans, as such, extinct.
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Vichy Earth / int_f74b5f80	comment	This happens to Narn and the other Narn planets in the middle of season 2 (June 2259 or thereabouts) of Babylon 5. After bombarding the homeworld from orbit, the Centauri dissolved the Kha'Ri (Narn's governing body) and established an occupation government staffed with collaborators (though generally not Quislings). They put a price on G'Kar's head and appoint a new ambassador to Babylon 5, with whom G'Kar has some serious disagreements. By the middle of Season 4 (June 2261), the Centauri discovered they had more serious trouble back home and, thanks to a deal between G'Kar and Londo, the Centauri left. The story expands in Season Two with the assassination of EarthGov President Santiago, whose death is staged to looked like a random ship explosion. This paves the way for Vice-President Clark and other reactionaries in the cabinet to implement their hardline isolationist policies. Sheridan suspects that Clark and his War Hawks are unwitting pawns of an alien consortium which seeks to destabilize Earth, but has only a short time to prove it before mankind is embroiled in another costly (and, most probably, terminal) war.
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Rebel Planet / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
The High Crusade / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
The Tripods / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
The War Against the Chtorr / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Troy Rising / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Unfettered	seeAlso	Vichy Earth
Worldwar / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Xeelee Sequence / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
DasAuto	seeAlso	Vichy Earth
LeijiVerse	seeAlso	Vichy Earth
Lukebn	seeAlso	Vichy Earth
SpectreAgent	seeAlso	Vichy Earth
Cannon God Exaxxion (Manga) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Captain Harlock (Manga) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Gantz (Manga) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Discord Plays Stellaris (Roleplay) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Colony / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Ultraseven / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
V (1983) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Giant Guardian Generation (Tabletop Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Half-Life 2 (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Piratez (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Star Control (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
X-COM (Video Game) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Stellaris Invicta (Web Video) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Home (2015) / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Young Justice - Original Series / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Genma Wars / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth

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