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May be the subject of a [[Genocide Dilemma]]. This is [[Planet of Hats]] when evil is the hat. For evil professions like pirates and hitmen, see [[Villain by Default]]. When a fictional character (whether human or a member of another fictional race) ''wrongly and unreasonably'' believes that a fictional race in his/her world is this trope, it's a case of [[Fantastic Racism]].

 

 

Be careful when writing these: may lead to [[Unfortunate Implications]].

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* The youma from ''[[Claymore]]'', who live entirely to eat humans.And the awakened beings, whose nature is also to feed on humans, but are far more dangerous.

** Though, by the end of the manga, {{spoiler|we find out that the Diclonus are descendants of the Oni from ancient times (with Lucy being the only true genetic descendant), and that their need to kill humans stems from their demonic ancestors genetically encoding them to want to seek revenge on their destroyers.}}

*** But, {{spoiler|the man who believed that turned out to not be a Diclonius at all, bringing that whole origin into question.}} It was {{spoiler|suggested that Lucy was just the result of a genetic mutation in her mother.}}

** The more recent books have subverted this with ShadowClan being nothing more than a rival Clan, and most opposition come from WindClan instead.

** Also subverted with ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', where ThunderClan faces the most opposition from RiverClan, and never had to deal with ShadowClan. It seems that different Clans end up being seen as "evil" depending on the political atmosphere (''ThunderClan'' was actually branded as evil for a while early in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' after their {{spoiler|1=unprovoked raid on WindClan camp}}).

* Played straight in the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' with the Cavewights (though it is established that they weren't always evil), and subverted with the ur-viles. Despite their name, the latter are less evil than they are alien and inscrutable, and are allied with the [[Big Bad]] only to advance their own ends. {{spoiler|In the second and third series, they apparently decide that helping the heroes advances said ends better. Unfortunately, as they either can't or won't speak English, we're not entirely sure what those ends ''are''...}}

* There are probably more examples in ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' than anyone would care to mention here, but just in the newest arc (which started only a few weeks ago) there is a race of Big Bads (who can't really die) who have genetically grown really bad mooks at their disposal, in almost unlimited quantities.

* [[The Heartless]] in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' are a sort of "souless evil" who seem to attack everyone on sight and have no personality.

** Ditto the Nobodies, though this is disputed out-of- and in-universe.

** Interestingly, status as "good" or "evil" is based only on choices made during random events; your civilization can embark on massive campaigns of galactic genocide and still be considered "good".

* The Grox race from ''[[Spore]]'' are a race of cyborgs and almost always conduct raids on random races, making them being viewed as the galaxy's ultimate evil. {{spoiler|This is actually a subversion, as the Grox are only reacting to the threat posed by oxygen-breathing life forms that gain the power of space flight, and inevitably use terraforming to spread their deadly (to Grox) oxygenated atmospheres to other planets. You can even ally with them, if you both prove yourself willing to spare Grox-inhabited worlds your terraforming AND prove your own race to be a powerful ally against other oxygen-breathing races, mostly by making a complete mockery of intergalactic law, blowing up their planets with wild abandon, and exhibiting the ability to survive in spite of the entire rest of the galaxy declaring war on you.}}

** The Quintessons are almost always this.

** The spawn of [[Omnicidal Maniac|Unicron]] are almost always every bit as evil as their master. {{spoiler|The Minicons from ''Armada'' were an exception, though they were created for the sole purpose of giving the Autobots and Decepticons something to fight over.}}

** Demona herself is one of very few evil gargoyles, the race as a whole is supposedly [[Always Lawful Good]], having a near biological drive to protect and safeguard the places that they live and those places' inhabitants. It is, however, up to the individual gargoyle clans how they choose to interpret these drives, ranging anywhere from "Stay the hell away from my caves, filthy human scum" to "Here I come to save the daaaaay!"

* The above fable of the Frog and the Scorpion is parodied in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/In_My_Nature here.]