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** The Bothans have this as a little-used<ref>exactly three times in their entire recorded history</ref> cultural practice called ''ar'krai''. Every able Bothan is required to volunteer for military service in order to not only slay every last member of the offending group or species, but [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|grind their homeworld to dust]]. They declare ''ar'krai'' against the [[New Jedi Order|Yuuzhan Vong]] after perennial [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] Borsk Fey'lya pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] during the fall of Coruscant.

* In ''[[Last and First Men]]'' the Fifth Men kill off the native Venusians without a second thought. Of course, by then earth was dying and Venus had to be [[Terraforming|terraformed]] to be inhabitable.

* The Martians in ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' have this attitude toward humanity; the humans are too busy being terrified and/or dying to return the sentiment.

* The Martians in ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' have this attitude toward humanity; the humans are too busy being terrified and/or dying to return the sentiment.

** In Garrett P. Serviss's unauthorized sequel ''Edison's Conquest of Mars'' the humans fly to Mars and cheerfully wipe out the Martians who tried invading Earth. Technically it's an accident, but nobody's really bothered by the extermination of a whole species.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]'', nearly every single race has reasons and plans to exterminate every other race.

* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', nearly every single race has reasons and plans to exterminate every other race.

** This is quite literally the Imperium's standard colonization protocol: drop a few [[Badass Army|Imperial Guard]] regiments, exterminate all sentient life on the new planet, ship colonists in.

** The [[The Federation|Tau]] don't automatically exterminate every species they come across, preferring to integrate and "adopt" other species as they discover them. Still, when they do encounter a species that they determine unfit or unable to peacefully coexist, they will ruthlessly exterminate them. Considering [[Crapsack World|the]] [[Sick Sad World|galaxy]] they live in, this proabably happens pretty frequently.

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* ''[[Starfire]]'' by Task Force Games: The Third Interstellar War between the Alliance (Terrans and Khanate of Orion) vs. the fanatically racist and warlike Rigelian Protectorate. The Rigelians were determined to wipe out the Alliance, and the Alliance was forced to destroy the Rigelians completely to eliminate them as a threat.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' deals with this whenever [[The Virus|Ph]][[Zombie Apocalypse|yre]][[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|xi]][[From a Single Cell|ans]] get involved, especially in ''Invasion'' and ''Scars of Mirrodin'' blocks.

* [[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]] has the [[Evil vs. Evil|Blood War]] between the Lawful Evil devils/baatezu and the Chaotic Evil demons/tanar'ri, it's been raging for millenia and is unlikely to end until and unless one or both sides gets totally exterminated. Which is fortunate for everybody else because the fiends could probably wipe out the celestials and everybody else in the multiverse if they weren't so busy fighting each other.

* [[Dungeons & Dragons]] has the [[Evil vs. Evil|Blood War]] between the Lawful Evil devils/baatezu and the Chaotic Evil demons/tanar'ri, it's been raging for millenia and is unlikely to end until and unless one or both sides gets totally exterminated. Which is fortunate for everybody else because the fiends could probably wipe out the celestials and everybody else in the multiverse if they weren't so busy fighting each other.

* Frequent in ''3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars''. Because it's [[Omnicidal Maniac|us]] [[Bug War|or them]].

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** [[Player Character|Shepard]] is personally responsible for wiping out the Collectors. ( {{spoiler|[[Reconstruction]]; they were sentient once, but [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|are now mindless]]}})

** Shepard is forced to choose [[Heel Face Brainwashing]] or destroying the {{spoiler|heretic}} geth. ( {{spoiler|Zig-zagged, [[Played for Drama]]}})

** In general, there's a standing order in [[The Federation|Council Space]] that all [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AIs are to be terminated on sight]]. The exceptions are those which are authorized by controversial research companies such as Synthetic Insights. Knowing that every organic in the galaxy is united to kill them without a second thought, many synthetic creatures (such as the geth) shoot first and ask questions later.

** In general, there's a standing order in [[The Federation|Council Space]] that all [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|AIs are to be terminated on sight]]. The exceptions are those which are authorized by controversial research companies such as Synthetic Insights. Knowing that every organic in the galaxy is united to kill them without a second thought, many synthetic creatures (such as the geth) shoot first and ask questions later.

* The only option (other than Assimilation Plague) in [[Sword of the Stars]] before the second expansion added psychology techs that allow a player to force a planet to surrender after just one or two nukes.

* In ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]] Assault'' the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Aparoids]] are exterminated without a second thought. And in at least some of the possible endings to ''Command'' the Anglar are presumably wiped out as well (considering their homeworld is terraformed in a couple endings).

* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: Tools Of Destruction'', pretty much everyone who brings up the subject considers the Lombaxes the "Saviors of the Universe" for completely wiping out the Cragmites. {{spoiler|Granted, it turns out they actually sent them to another universe, but no one else ''knew'' that.}}

* ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'': the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Zerg]] are a race burdened with a hard-coded biological imperative, instilled by the Xel'Naga, to assimilate and destroy other species. The absolute best that could possibly be done short of true extermination is destroying the Overmind to reduce them to merely ''very'' dangerous animals. {{spoiler|Turned on its head when it turns out the Overmind [[Thanatos Gambit|intentionally got itself killed]] to place Kerrigan as its successor and finally relieve the Zerg of this compulsion, and on top of that they may be the ''only'' thing standing between the other races and an unknown party that will otherwise destroy all life in the galaxy -- the Overmind executed this gambit because otherwise the Zerg would destroy all other life, then be destroyed in turn by this new threat.}}

* ''[[StarCraft]]'': the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Zerg]] are a race burdened with a hard-coded biological imperative, instilled by the Xel'Naga, to assimilate and destroy other species. The absolute best that could possibly be done short of true extermination is destroying the Overmind to reduce them to merely ''very'' dangerous animals. {{spoiler|Turned on its head when it turns out the Overmind [[Thanatos Gambit|intentionally got itself killed]] to place Kerrigan as its successor and finally relieve the Zerg of this compulsion, and on top of that they may be the ''only'' thing standing between the other races and an unknown party that will otherwise destroy all life in the galaxy -- the Overmind executed this gambit because otherwise the Zerg would destroy all other life, then be destroyed in turn by this new threat.}}

* The Human-Covenant war starts out this way in [[Halo]], the covenant goes to far as to [[Apocalypse How|completely destroy]] each Human planet they encounter. That is, until the Elites get {{spoiler|betrayed by the prophets. And it later gets revealed the war was a cover up.}} Played thoroughly straight with [[Zombie Apocalypse|the Flood.]]

* In ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', [[Action Girl|Joanna]] teams up with the [[The Greys|Maians]] in the last two levels to exterminate all the [[The Reptilians|Skedar fanatics]]. This is not remotely depicted as a bad thing, because they have a [[Hive Mind]] and can't be reasoned with.