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* ''[[Terminator]]'': in the future [[Robot War|humans vs the robots]].
* ''[[Independence Day]]'': the aliens, in keeping with their [[Horde of Alien Locusts]], have no issues wiping out entire cities full of people. {{spoiler|Humanity has no issues returning the favor for the alien mother ship.}}
** The US President actually does probe for peace even after they destroy every major city on Earth, with an alien that had just slaughtered a team of scientists no less; the response was a [[Mind Rape]] that would have killed him if the alien wasn't shot, and it showed him that their entire civilization is based upon this, moving from one world to another, wiping out the natives, using up all the resources, and then moving on to the next planet to repeat.
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* ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|Starship Troopers]]'' by [[Robert Heinlein]]: The war between the Terran Federation and the [[Bug War|Bugs (Arachnids)]].
** [[Adaptation Distillation|Retained in the adaptations]], though they turned the Bugs into [[Organic Technology|non-technological]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|alien locusts]], as opposed to the tool-using [[Hive Mind]] in the book that even had allies.
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* ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'': the humans and elves vs the armies of Mordor. The closing section of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' talks quite pleasantly about the goblins being hunted into extinction in the Misty Mountains, without any hint that anyone ''could'' have a problem with this.
* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''Sky Pirates!'' revealed that the Timelords had a couple of wars like this in the distant past, where the opponents were just so utterly different each side regarded the other as an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to be utterly eliminated. [[Captain Obvious|The Timelords won]].
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** 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.
** [[Our Elves Are Different|Eldar]] will usually avert this trope, since they tend to work more subtly, [[The Chessmaster|through subtly manipulating the galactic stage]] to keep themselves as far out of harm's way as they can manage. Played with, with the [[Evil Counterpart|Dark Eldar]], who [[Complete Monster|legitimately enjoy murder]] but actually prefer to abduct populations and capture their enemies. One of the taglines for their army list was "[[Fate Worse Than Death|Pray they don't take you alive]]."
** Tyranids exist to eat, breed and absorb the best characteristics of every species that they can get their claws on—only characteristics that facilitate those three imperatives, of course.
** The Necrons serve beings that wish to annihilate everything related to the Warp. The Warp is sustained in part by the emotions of living beings. Nothing more needs to be said.
* ''[[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.
* Frequent in ''3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars''. Because it's [[Omnicidal Maniac|us]] [[Bug War|or them]].
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