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[[File:Spider 7B 9090.jpg|link=Xiaolin Showdown|frame|When [[Chewing the Scenery]] goes too far.]]

 

 

 

The alien horde approaches. They don't necessarily want to give us a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]], or be [[The Virus]] and transform us, or what all... they're just into adding biomass by whatever means necessary and as fast as possible.

 

Compare [[To Serve Man]] and the slightly less extreme (as in, they ''are'' intelligent and only want inorganic resources) [[Planet Looters]], and do not confuse them with [[Insectoid Aliens]], who may or may not be this trope. '''Horde of Alien Locusts''' is a common way to set up a [[Guilt-Free Extermination War]], since it's a fight between a group that wants to eat everything and the groups that don't want to be eaten. Not necessarily related to [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]. Related to [[The Swarm]]

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* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', demons' bodies are built out of "legion", much like humans with cells, but they have the power to rebuild themselves to [[Good Thing You Can Heal|regenerate wounds]]. However, when {{spoiler|Aion}} corrupts the legion, they are {{spoiler|released into Earth's atmosphere and begin to eat away at humans. Aion's plan is to "rebuild" the world by using the legion in this way to destroy all life as we know it. He also}} says that those with a "strong will" can control the legion, which for them turns the legion into something more like [[The Virus]].

* The Vajra from ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. Subverted in that {{spoiler|it turns out that they're not out to destroy the Frontier fleet, but rather on a misunderstood rescue mission since they see Ranka and (to an extent Sheryl) as one of their own owing to the fact that she can communicate via fold waves through her singing.}} {{spoiler|The whole image of a Horde of Alien Locusts was conjured by the conspirators from the Frontier and Galaxy fleets to hide their true goals, to take over the Vajra [[Subspace Ansible|fold communication]] network and use it to control the galaxy}}.

* The ''[[Space Ghost]]'' comic miniseries has Zorak as the leader of a planet-ravaging horde of man-sized alien mantis'.

 

* A fanfiction example in Brian Randall's [http://florestica.com/brandall/poe/index.htm Process of Elimination]. Aforementioned horde is original flavor, and pretty imaginative. It's a Ranma 1/2 fiction.

** Well, ''[[Ranma ½]]'', ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', and a dozen other anime series.

* The Nesk in ''[[Animorphs]]'' in ''In The Time of Dinosaurs''.

 

* The [[Stargate Verse]] has Replicators, which are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] (at least, until the Asurans of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' start getting called by the same name. While they ''work'' exactly like the Replicators, their goal isn't "tear stuff up to make more.")

* ''[[Lexx]]'' had Mantrid's drones, little helper robots that he ''deliberately'' turned into a locust horde after he became fused with a member of an alien race that wanted to destroy all humans. Lexx being [[Crapsack World|what it is]], ''he succeeds'' in turning the overwhelming majority of the universe's matter into drones. {{spoiler|So many that he was [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: using ''almost all the universe's matter'' against the Lexx made gravity a problem and resulted in a Big Crunch (or "Big Collapse," as Kai called it.)}} After the Mantrid arc is over, the opening narration is removed because it calls the Lexx the most powerful weapon in the two universes - and ''there aren't two universes anymore.''

* The titular ''[[BIOMETAL|Bio Metals]]'' are said to be this in the game's intro.

* The [[Dom Z]] from ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]''.

 

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