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*** This also leads to [[Fridge Brilliance]], as vampires and demons were presented as Exclusively Evil, but became more and more grey as the series went on. The clincher? They were presented to Buffy this way through the Watchers council, a conspiracy that was slowly revealed to be corrupt and full of [[Knight Templar]] tendencies at the same time that complexities began showing up in the initial "demons are Exclusively Evil" mantra.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a few of these, although they usually have a [[Justified Trope|reason]]. For example:
** The Daleks: mutated aliens in travel machines who are only capable of hate and negative emotions due to being bred that way by [[Mad Scientist]] Davros. They simply are made to believe Daleks are a supreme race and, [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E12 The Pandorica Opens|unless events outside of their control are threatening reality with oblivion]], everyone else deserves to die. [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|They're]] [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Nazis]] (in the serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E04 Genesis of the Daleks|Genesis of the Daleks]]", we learn that Davros "removed the brain cells of the conscience" from the proto-Daleks—a feat that would be, to put it mildly, challenging). In fact, the Daleks are so evil that [[Doctor Who/Recap/
*** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S4/E09 The Evil of the Daleks|The Evil of the Daleks]]", a sub-species of "Good Daleks" is created by the Doctor infecting them with the "Human Factor"; that is, human emotions and a sense of conscience. This results in a full-scale civil war between the two factions which allegedly destroyed the entire species. Terry Nation, the Daleks' creator, had planned to license them out to a US network for their own show, and expected that they would not be available for ''Doctor Who'' for the foreseeable future ([[wikipedia:The Evil of the Daleks|the idea went nowhere]]). When the Daleks eventually returned five years later, some dialogue was filmed explaining that the "Good Daleks" had been wiped out, but this was edited out, leaving their canon fate ambiguous.
*** A story in [[Doctor Who Magazine]]'s Eighth Doctor comics, "Children of the Revolution", was all about the Doctor and Izzy meeting the Human Factor Daleks, who survived and were hiding peacefully in the oceans of a planet about to be colonized by humans. {{spoiler|The story ends up with the entire Dalek colony sacrificing themselves to stop the Big Bad, though.}}
*** The Daleks' evil was hammered home '''really hard''' in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
{{quote|'''Solomon:''' Daleks, ain't we the same? Underneath, ain't we all kin? See, I've just discovered, this past day, that God's universe is a thousand times the size I thought it was. And that scares me. Oh, yeah, terrifies me right down to the bone. [[Hope Spot|*Hopeful music starts playing*]] But surely it's got to give me hope, hope that maybe, together, we can make a better tomorrow. So, I beg you, now, if you have any compassion in your hearts, then you'll meet with us, and stop this fightin'. Well... what do you say?
'''Dalek:''' Exterminate! [[Black Dude Dies First|*Shoots him*]] }}
** The Cybermen: the originals had lost all their emotions due to replacing almost all their body parts with machinery, and couldn't see ''why'' someone wouldn't want to "Become like us". The new series' version is closer to the Daleks, but still have the desire to convert instead of just killing everyone.
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