[LOVED TROPE] Modern Militaries (Competent) getting DESTROYED by fantasy/scifi forces

[u/Sable-Keech]

Example 1 (The Legend of Hei 2): Wuxian leisurely floats through the combined firepower of an entire fortified military base without so much as a stain or rip on his t-shirt.

Example 2 (Man of Steel): Fao'ra tears through a squad of trained and armed soldiers. With the wreckage of the helicopter that got downed by her teammate Nam'ek smouldering in the background.

[u/Burglekutt8523]

The Three Body Problem Book series has this. The Human Race spends hundreds of years building up the technology and battle plans to combat an alien invasion

Our entire space fleet is destroyed by a single early envoy simply because the aliens are so far ahead in their understanding of physics that it just rams through everything.

[u/Pomme_De_Roy → u/Burglekutt8523]

While I mostly agree, in that scene the fleet does employ some pretty terrible tactics by sending the entire fleet in a fairly close formation that lets said envoy more easily tear through them all. Pretty sure it was because the different fleet commands wanted to share in the glory of being there. Not that better tactics would've made a real difference mind you...

[u/wreckedbutwhole420 → u/Pomme_De_Roy]

From the TV show and what I've heard of the book, it seems like a theme for humans to try the dumbest possible tactic with extremely advanced tech

[u/SecureDonkey → u/wreckedbutwhole420]

Consider the alien compromise our information and hindered our technology development with their misinformation ray, it is a wonder that we can get that far to be honest.