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== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'', the war between the Thals and the Kaleds would only end with one destroying the other. The Thals "won" by destroying the Kaled bunker thanks to information leaked to them by Kaled scientist Davros - who then turned his creation, the Daleks, on the Thals, thus destroying them as well.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the war between the Thals and the Kaleds would only end with one destroying the other. The Thals "won" by destroying the Kaled bunker thanks to information leaked to them by Kaled scientist Davros - who then turned his creation, the Daleks, on the Thals, thus destroying them as well.

** The Daleks themselves are utterly convinced that every single non-Dalek lifeform in the universe must be exterminated; they are also genetically engineered to feel "no emotion but hate", and once engaged in a mutual civil war of annihilation when Davros made a new breed with only trivial, aesthetic differences between them. The Doctor himself varies on the issue; on rare occasions he will try diplomacy or some more peaceful tactic, but on plenty of others he's more than ready to literally [[Kill'Em All]], and is horrified when [[Joker Immunity]] kicks in and a handful, or even a lone, Dalek survives.

*** As was said in the new series episode where the Cult of Skaro first encountered the Cybermen: "THIS IS NOT WAR! THIS IS PEST CON-TROL!"

** The Last Great Time War seems to be this as well, from what little we know of it. The Time Lords and Daleks seemed to be out to simply destroy each other, and at some point the Doctor decided that both sides had to be destroyed.

* The humans on ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', for the most part, believe this since the Cylons wiped out 99.99999% in the pilot. They will frequently torture and kill captured Cylons because they're "[[Ridiculously Human Robots|just machines]]" and don't really feel pain. People who object are typically just written off as incredibly naive or crazy. {{spoiler|During the series, however, this attitude decreases to the point where the humans and some rebel Cylons form an alliance against the rest of the Cylons}}.

* The humans on ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', for the most part, believe this since the Cylons wiped out 99.99999% in the pilot. They will frequently torture and kill captured Cylons because they're "[[Ridiculously-Human Robots|just machines]]" and don't really feel pain. People who object are typically just written off as incredibly naive or crazy. {{spoiler|During the series, however, this attitude decreases to the point where the humans and some rebel Cylons form an alliance against the rest of the Cylons}}.

* ''[[Stargate Verse]]'':

** ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'': the replicators will consume anything and everything to replicate, and the only way to stop them for good is to wipe them out, so the war with them inevitably becomes this. A different type of replicators appear in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', and this applies to them as well.

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* 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.

* The Human-Locust War in ''[[Gears of War]]'' is one of these. The Locust want to exterminate humanity so they can have the surface of Sera, and the humans want to exterminate the Locust in self-defense. The Lambent also get in on this when they show up, making it a [[Melee a Trois|three-way]] [[Guilt Free Extermination War]].

* The Human-Locust War in ''[[Gears of War]]'' is one of these. The Locust want to exterminate humanity so they can have the surface of Sera, and the humans want to exterminate the Locust in self-defense. The Lambent also get in on this when they show up, making it a [[Melee a Trois|three-way]] [[Guilt-Free Extermination War]].

* The war against the Kreegan in [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III: Armageddon's Blade becomes this after Erathia drops out. The remaining anti-Kreegan forces are well aware that the 'Devils' are a severe threat to the world (even if they aren't aware of the full scope of the threat), and finishing the war to the bitter end is really the only long-term option, while the Kreegans built the titular Armageddon's Blade to burn the world. Even before Erathia dropped out, the problems the nobles had with a campaign of extermination wasn't the extermination, but rather the cost in troops and gold.

* In ''[[Wing Commander (Video Game)|Wing Commander]]'', the war between the Kilrathi and humans was this for the Kilrathi from the start, and for the humans it became so after [[I Surrender, Suckers|faking a desire for peace to build up a massive fleet that was used to completely sterilize several planets]], with Earth on the list for the same treatment before being interrupted as shown in the novel ''[[Wing Commander (Literature)|Fleet Action]]''.

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