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See also [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]], [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]], and [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]. Compare [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]]. Contrast [[Always Lawful Good]]. Should not be confused with [[Chaotic Evil]].
'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''.
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* The Wolrog Empire in ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' is composed entirely of [[Neutral Evil]] baddies.
* [[Big Bad|Torquemada]] in ''[[Nemesis the Warlock]]'' claims that all aliens are [[Always Chaotic Evil]], although even he privately acknowledges that this is a lie given to justify the extreme [[Fantastic Racism]] of his regime. The series, in fact, spent much of it's early run subverting the common application of this trope to the more grotesque aliens.
* Subverted in [[DC Comics]] of the early-to-mid [[Silver Age]]. That era almost invariably depicted alien cultures as having made a ''choice'' between [[Good Republic, Evil Empire|Good Republic and Evil Empire]]. Every alien race was assumed capable of both "good" and "evil", and "evil" regimes could always be overthrown, while "good" ones could always be subverted.
* [[Marvel Comics]] has several examples:
** The Skrulls, the most recurring evil race and, in fact, the first one created by Lee and Kirby. The Kree are evil as well, but we usually see them though a pariah that turned to the light side (usually using the name "Captain Marvel"), rather than as a full evil race.
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== Fan Fic ==
* In crossover [[Alternate Universe]] fics, usually with the ''[[Stargate Verse]]'', the Twelve Colonies from ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
* The Muk and bug-type Pokémon in the [[Poke Wars Series]] are portrayed as mindless killing machines.
* In the [[Mass Effect]] fanfic, The Council Era, the dezban race are perceived as being utter savages by the rest of the galaxy. For the vast majority of the species, this became true after the Great War, but an exception is introduced in the dezban bounty hunter Sevalaus Morkaneto, who is both rational-thinking and far less aggressive than most of his brethren.
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** In ''[[The Phantom Menace (Film)|The Phantom Menace]]'', they show up very briefly, and even then, it's just to randomly shoot at podracers.
** In ''[[Attack of the Clones (Film)|Attack of the Clones]]'', they kidnapped and tortured Anakin's mother, killing her when Anakin finally shows up, though Anakin's massacre of them is treated as [[Kick the Dog]] moment [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|nonetheless]].
** In ''[[A New Hope (Film)|A New Hope]]'', they are shown to be [[No
** In the Expanded Universe there is one Tusken Jedi who initially seems to be an exception. Then, after surviving Order 66, he becomes evil anyway when he embraces the Tuskens' ruthless culture. [[Star Wars Legacy|Fast forward a few centuries]], and he's a [[Big Bad]] in his own right. The Tuskens' way of life is [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] incarnate, so it's understandable that good people don't appear among them.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* The orgs of [[Power Rangers Wild Force]]
* Cylons in the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic
** Indeed, the logical impossibility of an [[Always Chaotic Evil]] race is Helo's argument against {{spoiler|the proposed genocide of the Cylons}} in the episode "A Measure of Salvation". He really hammers home the point when talking to his Cylon wife, after she says she "chose to be a person."
{{quote| "You were a person before you put on that uniform, okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you."}}
** The Cylons in the original series were not created by humans, but by an entirely different and now-extinct race. They were more like a weapon that got out of control than a species in their own right, as the newer series's Cylons were.
* In ''[[
** How would you feel if someone told your gods they sucked (meaning ''you'' suck for worshipping them) and made them abandon you?
*** Been [[Hollywood Atheist|told that]] several times. Never had a desire for genocide.
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*** Further subverted by characters like Spike and Harmony - despite being evil, both were capable of caring about human beings (the Summers girls and occasionally the witches for Spike; Cordelia and Fred for Harmony) and being volutarily helpful towards those they liked. Harmony even stopped killing people so that she could advance in a workplace run by the "good guys".
*** This also leads to [[Fridge Brilliance]], as vampires and demons were presented as [[Always Chaotic 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 [[Always Chaotic Evil]]" mantra.
* ''[[
** 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
*** In "[[Doctor Who
*** A story in [[Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|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
{{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?<br />
'''Dalek:''' Exterminate! [[Black Dude Dies First|*Shoots him* ]] }}
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** Also played straight with the Dnyarri, the former psychic slave-masters of the Ur-Quan and the Sentient Milieu, who are confirmed by anyone who knew of them to have been an entire race of [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]. They turned the entire Milieu into an enormous Gulag and casually exterminated those races that didn't perform up to their standards. They were so horrible that, even tens of thousands of years later, both Ur-Quan societies are still centered entirely and insanely around preventing ever being enslaved again. At one point, the Ur-Quan Kzer-Zah can tell you that dying a thousand times would be far preferable [[Fate Worse Than Death|to living under Dnyarri control.]]
** The Umgah, while not as aggressively malevolent as the Ilwrath, are a race of rather cruel [[The Trickster|tricksters]]. Some of their "practical jokes" include tricking the cowardly Spathi into fighting for the Ur-Quan instead of being placed under a protective shield, tricking the Ilwrath into committing genocide on the Pkunk, and inadvertently reviving one of the aforementioned Dnyarri in an effort to start a war within the Hierarchy (this one [[Hoist By His Own Petard|backfires big time]]). They consider all the death and suffering they cause to be [[For the Evulz|hilarious]].
* Originally, the monsters that the title brothers of ''[[Super Mario Bros]].'' fought were just generically evil. (Indeed, Bowser's original title was Daimaou, or "Great Demon King".) However, later games with [[Role Playing Game]] tendencies have [[Monster Town|Monster Towns]] with the implication that the ones who joined Bowser are just jerks (or [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Villains]] who form [[True Companions]]). Bowser himself has gone through considerable [[Villain Decay]], although in most of the RPGs, he's [[Noble Demon|on your side for his own reasons]] (and let's not enter [[Go
* In general, in most old action video games (''[[Metroid]]'', ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda]]''...), the enemy races rarely ever have any good counterparts, at least none that you ever see. In fact, for many of these old games anyone (and [[Everything Trying to Kill You|anything]]) visible aside from the player is evil.
** Even in those games, there are subversions: ''[[Metroid]]'' featured the baby Metroid of the second and third games, ''[[Mega Man (Video Game)|Mega Man]]'' eventually had Proto Man, {{spoiler|and even the very first game in ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' series had a few Moblins go AWOL and ask Link to leave them alone in exchange for a few Rupees. IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY}}.
** In the [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] series, most/all of the enemies were originally good; it is the Zero Virus/Sigma Virus that rewrites their programming, causing them to go maverick (though, since the Reploids do -- at least those uninfected -- have free will, it's possible that some did choose to be evil). Ironically, one of the few good robots that actually gets screen time apart from X is Zero, and he was originally programmed to be evil.
** Also nicely subverted in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', where the [[An Aesop|Aesop]] was that [[Dark Is Not Evil|not everything that looks evil necessarily is]]; the Bulblins certain seem to all be annoying little [[Our Goblins Are Different|goblins]] who kill you just for the heck of it, but you eventually find out that {{spoiler|King Bulblin, the [[Recurring Boss]], is actually quite intelligent. After you beat him at Hyrule Castle, he defers to you as a [[Worthy Opponent]].}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''King Bulblin:''' Enough. [[I Fight for The Strongest Side|I follow the strongest side!]]... That is all I have ever known.}}<br />
{{spoiler|'''Midna:''' Link... He... he spoke.}} }}
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** Cubi, on the other hand -- which [[Our Demons Are Different|are not actually demons in the setting]] -- are quite explicitly stated ''not'' to be this in the comic itself, despite reputation -- the evil ones just get all the press, because torturing or seducing people makes for a more exciting story than helping sick children.
** The fae, on the other hand, seem to be Always [[Chaotic Neutral]].
* Some of the early humor of ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' depended upon this concept, as the comic has its roots entirely in older editions of ''D&D''. For example, when the beholder Bob cheats on [[Hot Skitty
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' has the Bugs, created as a living biological weapon by a race of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] to use as a [[Redshirt Army]] against a race of alien [[Body Snatcher|Body Snatchers]] who are themselves very much [[Always Chaotic Evil]]. And any organization in this universe with "Security" as part of its name is pretty much guaranteed to be evil.
* ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' has the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orc stand-ins]], the Urtts, who [[Word of God]] assures us are all just plain evil, and we shouldn't give any pity to the ones maimed, charred, and dissected by the Heroes. Yes, even their [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-human bastards]].
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* The above fable of the Frog and the Scorpion is parodied in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/In_My_Nature here.]
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', weavils, so far, have been shown to be a race made up of completely [[Jerkass]] creatures who love to torment the citizens of Miseryville.
* Birds in [[Happy Tree Friends]] are usually hostile...particularly the [[Morally
** ''[[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|Everything is out to get the HTF gang.]]''
* The Irken race, from which [[Invader Zim]] hails, is, as far as we know, entirely bent on conquering vast swaths of space. Zim himself may be an exaggeration of the Irken racial personality, but each Invader introduced seems to enjoy large death machines and lots of destructive fire.
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