If the Empire is part of The Alliance, you can make a good bet for it being the Token Evil Teammate. If The Kingdom is in the same universe, expect the Empire to invade it (at best) or occupy it (at worst) The Kingdom could've been neutral ground, the original head/proposer of The Alliance, or a simple victim of the Empire's bid for dominance. If The Republic is a separate entity alongside The Federation, you'll usually find them taking shots at one another prior to forming a pact against the Empire they could've been longstanding rivals, they might view the other as the Empire, or they might've been pinned against each other by the Empire. If the Empire and The Federation exist in the same universe, the two are usually at war, just recovering from a war, or dangerously close to getting into one (the latter two often coincide). Most depictions of the British Empire, in fact belong to the former, except when it involves the American Revolution. This is the reverse for anything involving the Mongol conquest or the Hunnic conquests, who tend to be led by classic examples of the Barbarian Hero, and are far less benevolent in rule as a result. Alexander from the movie of the same title and Marcus Aurelius from Gladiator are generally the classic examples of these. In Sword and Sandal films set in the Classical World, the Alexandrian Conquest or the Roman Empire are both seen as benevolent, their Emperors ahead of their time as men of action, enlightenment and thought. Or La Résistance may well turn out to be nothing but a treasonous cliqué to overthrow the government or dynasty and replace it with something even more cruel and brutal, or a nationalist or racist separation movement.Įmpires can range from being oppressive to being benevolent in rule. The Empire is usually too strong to defeat militarily (unless the story is set in a war strategy video game), but taking down the leaders while they're instigating their sinister plan is usually enough. There may also be one or more powers that oppose it, often kingdoms or republics, which may or may not band together into The Alliance. They may also be helped by Les Collaborateurs. Of course, there's going to be some kind of Resistance movement within its borders, and small autonomous nations without who may need encouragement by the heroes to become The Alliance. If the Emperor is an elected official and the Empire consists of independent or semi-independent domains, it may actually be The Federation. If The Empire actually is on the good side, it may be The Kingdom. It may be militaristic and imperialistic, or pacifistic and turned inwards. The Empire may be highly civilized, wealthy, organized, and/or vital, or corrupt, bureaucratic, sybarite and/or ossified. If The Empire does not pose itself outright evil, it may represent itself as the Lightbearer of Civilization, Defender of Faith, Domain of Law and Order, The Co-Prosperity Sphere, Central State of Humankind or Legitimate Regent of Humanity. None of these apply to depictions of the British Empire, which was led at the height of its power by a Size 50 Matron otherwise known as Queen Vicky. A theocracy of a Religion of Evil will almost certainly be The Empire. Led by The Emperor, who is usually also an Evil Overlord, Emperor Scientist or God-Emperor or by some kind of theocratic cabal. Taking cues from history, it often resembles the historic Roman, German, Russian/Soviet, or Chinese empires in some way. Amassing The Evil Army, it sets out to conquer all of its neighbors by force of arms. The Evil Counterpart to The Republic, the Foil to The Kingdom, the Shadow Archetype to Hegemonic Empire, and The Rival to The Federation, The Empire wants to be the One World Order. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.
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