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While intentional, the army of Rats, Bats, and Vats is extremely terrible. The colony decided to base itself on free-market principles and made the government a corporation where 1 share = 1 vote leading to a massive imbalance where the rich have even more political power than they do in most...

It's worth noting that often even the armor was painted, sometimes gilded. Medieval cultures in general seemed to like garish color and they took a paintbrush to everything if they couldn't drape it in embroider brightly-dyed cloth (They did that to metal armor too). There's always the caveat...

Technology advancing, particularly communications. Firstly, bear in mind some form of monarchy was basically the most common and successful government for tens of thousands of years. The current crop of governments could very easily be a brief blip historically compared to the incredible run...

Because they're also obsessed with darker and edgier/bleak grimderp. Real is Brown is a meme for a reason but I personally find it's not that real is brown, it's that the current crop of creators think real is bleak and pick a suitably brown-and-grey color palette to match their bleak outlook.

I guess since I gave them a passing mention I should actually post something about the Spengo...

This one will probably be a bit of a stretcher, and doesn't hit the rarified lows of the Spengo, Psychlosm or most YA novels. However as runner-up, I'd nominate humanity in the John Ringo Legacy of the Aldenata series. The Posleen are immune to chemical and biological weapons. Further, they...

Meh, the Martians didn't have any actual ability to build ships, they literally fired their people out of a giant cannon and let the slugs hit the Earth with supplies and Martians inside. There was zero possibility for them to do any recon and research on microbes under those circumstances...

Signs aliens don't appear to be a military of any kind. The Martians did extremely well until they got sucker punched because bacteria didn't even exist on their world and they had no idea that could happen.

Obligatory Starship Troopers reference. The Wersgorix from the High Crusade are a pretty solid example. Overconfident idiots lose their advanced starship to a handful of English soldiers from the Hundred Years War. 'Kay. The English manage to reach the Wesgorix homeworld. Um. The English...