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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"''...a kind of giant space-going shark, a moving appetite, a vast, fast, terrible eating-machine which saw its purpose to be turning everything edible in the universe into shark shit.''"|'''[[Spider Robinson]]''', ''[[
{{quote|"''You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. ... I admire its ''purity''. A survivor ... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.''"|'''Ash''', ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]''}}
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Most Locust Hordes use, or ''are'', [[Organic Technology]]. However, [[Nanomachines]] can also become a Horde -- the (in)famous "[[Grey Goo]]" scenario.
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
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* Greenfly, in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''[[Revelation Space]]'' 'verse, fall under the green goo variety.
* The Primes from [[Peter F Hamilton|Peter F Hamilton's]] ''[[Commonwealth Saga (Literature)|Commonwealth Saga]]''.
* As one might guess from the page quote, ''[[
* The Vermicious Knids in ''[[Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator]]'' are said by Willy Wonka to have caused the extinction of life on the Moon, Venus, Mars and many other planets. They are unable, however, to survive the friction caused by entering Earth's atmosphere.
* The Slaver Sunflowers. from [[Larry Niven]]'s [[Known Space]], are a vegetable version. They exist to turn all other life into fertilizer for themselves.
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* ''[[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.''
** ''[[Lexx]]'' also had the Lyekka aliens in the final season, a group of very hungry plants with a mother ship roughly twice the size of Earth's moon that would attach to a planet and strip it of all bio-matter to feed their insatiable hunger. This again being Lexx the aliens are only destroyed after eating a large number of worlds, killing billions and nearly eating the Earth (though it still blows up).
* The Stingray creatures in the ''[[
** Also, the Rachnoss, a reborn-from-near-extinction species that the Doctor murders in their crib in "The Runaway Bride", mainly because there is no way to talk them out of their instinct to consume the Earth and other planets, at least not while they are still children.
** In a way, this trope also fits the Daleks, except for them it's not so much instinct and hunger, but a deliberate choice. (Well, insofar as a species genetically designed to hate everything else has a "choice".) Their modus operandi is to exterminate other species, and then use their biomass and resources to make more Daleks, in order to exterminate more.
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