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[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2011-06-10 um 1 02 57 Nachmittags 1666.png|frame|.<ref>High Priest: Yes! With stones of varying sizes! The rocks represent the pinnacle of Modern Warfare! And so long as our rocks are heavier and our sticks '''pointier''', the Gods will favor us! (...) Behold! More gifts from the heavens!</ref> Brought to you by ''[[Empire Earth]]''. And ''[[Penny Arcade]]''.]]
One of the standard uses of [[Time Travel]] for an [[Evil Overlord]] is to pluck warriors from various wars throughout history and bring them through to the future (the [[Evil Overlord]]'s present) and assemble them into an unbeatable army. The low manpower of pre-Agricultural Revolution armies compared to modern ones will always be ignored▼
▲One of the standard uses of [[Time Travel]] for an [[Evil Overlord]] is to pluck warriors from various wars throughout history and bring them through to the future (the [[Evil Overlord]]'s present) and assemble them into an unbeatable army.
Occasionally, more heroic entities will use this as a means of recruiting a [[Time Police]] force.
When an army is made up solely of recognised historical figures, that's an [[Archived Army]]. And if a group of dead people are brought together to pass judgement on the living, that's a [[Jury of the Damned]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The Fourth Ninja War arc of ''[[Naruto]]'' features heavy use of a resurrection jutsu that brings back a wide range of ninja that had been previously killed. Everything from past villains the protagonists had faced to legendary ninja who had been dead for decades.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', {{spoiler|Lifemaker summons all previous generations af Cosmo Entelechia upon his/her resurrection.}}
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* Nearly any military force in the ''[[Riverworld]]'' books is this trope, by nature of the series.
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' has an example, but it isn't time-travel related. The fortress of the Greek god Hades is guarded by dead soldiers from all of history: Skeletal Roman legionnaires with spears are joined by undead US Marines with assault rifles.
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* A variation not involving time travel occurs in [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''A Plague of Demons'': extraterrestrials have been harvesting the brains of soldiers from Earth's wars and using them for [[Man in the Machine]] super-tanks. This has gone on for centuries....
* The [[Bangsian Fantasy]] ''Legions of Hell'' by [[C. J. Cherryh]] invokes this. Some of the souls in Hell have joined forces with others from vastly different periods, and if they have enough mental flexibility, they can use weapons and tools from times long after their deaths. This leads to [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] riding in a jeep and carrying an Israeli-made assault rifle, [[Trojan War|Achilles]] piloting a black helicopter with loads of CIA spy gear, [[Ancient Egypt|Hatshepsut]] riding in Marc Antony's red Ferrari convertible (driven by [[Cleopatra|Kleopatra]]) ... while the Viet Cong attack, apparently on orders from the king of Assyria....
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** In the episode "A Good Man Goes to War", {{spoiler|The Doctor himself does this. He recruits the space-spitfires from Churchill's England, space pirates, a Sontaran nurse, a lesbian Victorian detective Silurian, her girlfriend Jenny, and an entire army of Silurians. [[Word of God]] says that he wanted the immortal Captain Jack Harkness by his side as well, but the actor was busy making ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]''. }}
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' does a scaled down version of this when the ship is broken into multiple time frames. In order to remove Seska and the Kazon from engineering (it being the time they took over the ship in that section), Chakotay recruits Icheb and Naomi from the future, Torres and some Maquis from the day they arrived in the Delta Quadrant, Janeway and Kim from before the mission began, Paris from the relative present, and finally the still-Borg Seven of Nine.
* In the Spanish show ''[[El Ministerio Del Tempo]]'' (or ''Ministry of Time'') the Spanish government has secret access to a series of [[Portal to the Past|time portals]] (and apparently every other government has its own sinister secret of some kind). The Ministry of Time is a [[Time Police]] whose agents are recruited from various eras and can be rather colorful. Among them are a [[Proper Lady|prim]] (except when duty requires) female scholar from the eighteen hundreds, a "dead" paramedic from a minor urban disaster, and perhaps most interesting of all, a [[Badass Spaniard|warrior]] from the sixteen hundreds, obsessed with chivalry and honor and [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|all the rest of it]].
** We are given to understand that everything Spanish is [[Patriotic Fervor|really cool]] including Spanish time travel. It is really kind of fun [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|even for a foreigner]] as long as he has a proper sense of humor about that sort of thing.
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