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* In Jacqueline Carey's ''The Sundering'', the [[Anti-Villain]] Satoris wipes out a desert tribe that sent a child to destroy him. Unusual in that the child had already been dispatched by that point; however, he had nothing in particular against Satoris until his village was destroyed, and it's strongly implied that he could have been talked out of his quest if that atrocity hadn't been committed.
* It's implied that Garoth Ursuul of [[The Night Angel Trilogy]] commits genocide often enough that he actually has a ''list of rules'', among them is "You will always miss one." This is never shown to actually come back to haunt any Ursuuls in the book, however.
* Happens lots of times in [[David Weber|David Weber's]] [[Empire From the Ashes]], as the [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal]] Achuultani, themselves a last remnant from a campaign of genocide by a hostile power in their own galaxy, have ''nearly'' wiped out humanity several times. We now have [[That's No Moon|planetoid dreadnoughts]] whose ''[[Misapplied Phlebotinum|star drives]]'' can [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|cause supernovae]] when used too close to a star, and each has combat capability equivalent to [[Zerg Rush|hundreds of thousands]] of Achuultani ships. Oh yes, and [[Shame If Something Happened|we know where they live]].
* Implied at the end of [[Out of the Dark]], again by [[David Weber]]. The Shongairi announced themselves to Earth with a series of [[Colony Drop|Colony Drops]] on Earth capitals, and when controlling Earth proved to be impossible tried to exterminate mankind with a biological weapon. They failed, and at the end Humans knows how to replicate Shongairi technology and where they live.
* A small-scale version of this is the core plot of [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s first [[Heralds of Valdemar|Vows & Honor]] short story ''Sword-Sworn''. A large force of bandits, with the aid of a wizard to strike down the sentries, ambushed the Shin'a'in clan Tale'sedrin on the way back from a horse fair and killed every one of them... save the skinny teenager they did [[Not Quite Dead|not bother making sure of]] after strangling and gang-raping her.
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== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[
** He did deliberately avoid committing genocide in ''Genesis of the Daleks'', giving as his reason that while the Daleks are indeed evil, omnicidal Space Nazis, a lot of good has come out of people banding together to fight them. That decision sure came back to bite him in the ass.
** After the Doctor supposedly wiped out the Daleks and Time Lords when the Time Lords were prepared to destroy time itself, one more Time Lord managed to escape the War some time before. {{spoiler|Not only is he his (other) arch-enemy, but the rest of the Time Lords use him to escape.}}
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** Not to mention what happens when you read a ''cursed'' scroll of genocide: Instead of wiping out the desired species, it summons a number of them instead. Genocide backfire indeed.
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]: Prophecies'', the White Mantle ritually identifies the Chosen and then [[Human Sacrifice|sacrifices them to their gods]]; discovering this is what drives the [[Player Character]] to turn on the Mantle. Then the [[Player Character]] is revealed to also be Chosen...
* The Lombaxes and Cragamites in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]] Future: Tools of Destruction''. The Lombaxes sealed the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] Cragamites in [[Another Dimension]], save for one Cragamite child they took pity on. This lone Cragamite, Emperor Percival Tachyon, then raised an army and wiped out the Lombaxes [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|for daring to pity him]]. But he missed Ratchet, who proceeds to trap him in [[Another Dimension]] with the rest of his mad race.
* Played with in the ''[[Metroid]]'' series. ''Metroid 2: Return of Samus'' has Samus tasked with exterminating the Metroids on their home planet of SR388; the game ends with Samus sparing a single hatchling, which has imprinted on her. ''Super Metroid'' starts off with scientists studying the larval Metroid making the discovery that the Metroids have abilities that could be used for the good of galactic civilization, right before the Space Pirates massacre the researchers and abduct the larva so they can build another Metroid army; the next time Samus encounters the larva, it's grown to horrendous proportions and almost kills Samus before it recognizes her. Then, during the final battle, it performs a [[Tear Jerker|truly heartbreaking]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]], saving Samus from Mother Brain's onslaught and giving her the unstoppable Hyper Beam weapon. (Then ''Metroid Fusion'' reveals that the Metroids on SR388 were keeping an even more dangerous threat in check, which is [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|another trope entirely...]])
** Samus herself is portrayed as the sole survivor of a Space Pirate attack on the mining colony of K-2L. Who would have thought that cute, 3-year-old girl would come back to bite them in the ass so hard.
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* In ''[[Dragon Quest II (Video Game)|Dragon Quest II]]'', Hargon kills everyone in Moonbrook, but [[Baleful Polymorph|turns the princess into a dog]] rather than kill her.
** In ''[[Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IV]]'', the Hero's village is destroyed, but he's hidden away at the time.
* In ''[[Supreme Commander (Video Game)|Supreme Commander]]'' a paranoid Earth Empire commander waged war with the [[Higher
* A variant occurs in ''[[God of War (Video Game)|God of War]] II''. While Kratos is off on his quest to find the Sisters of Fate, Zeus decides to wipe out his beloved Sparta. One soldier (whom you met in the beginning of the game) survives the attempt and tries to seek out the Sisters himself. {{spoiler|You end up fighting and killing the poor guy, but not before he tells you what happened to Sparta.}} This only serves to make Kratos ''[[Up to Eleven|even more pissed]]'' and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|hellbent on taking revenge on Zeus.]]
* In the first ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'' game, this is how the Taiidan Empire meets its end. After the main race perfect hyperspace technology, the Emperor (who is indisputably insane) decides to invoke a long forgotten, thousands-of-years-old treaty that the race had forgotten, which was that they were not allowed to develop any hyperspace technology. This results in the near-genocide of said race, and in addition to causing the survivors to get royally pissed off and begin a war against them, also results in a massive rebellion popping up due to public outrage of an essentially unprovoked attack on a fledgling race that had just started interstellar travel. By the end of the game, the main race is assaulting the Taiidan homeworld with the aid of the rebels, and destroys the defense fleet as well as the Emperor's flagship, then goes down and destroys the cloning facilities that housed replacements, destroying the Empire entirely except for a few remnants with little power.
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