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* Lord Slug wanted to freeze the Earth because of this in the fourth ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie. "[[De Terraforming]]" was discussed in the [[Dragon Ball Abridged]] movie version.▼
== [[
* The first issue of ''[[Sillage]]/Wake'' involves an alien who intends to terraform a jungle planet to suit his species, although in this case he's unaware that there's one sentient being (the human girl Navis) and lots of semi-sentient animals already living there.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''The Arrival''. Aliens are causing global warming in order to kill off humans and make the planet more comfortable for their kind.
* ''[[They Live!]]'' used a similar premise, with aliens "turning our world into theirs".
* ''[[Battle for Terra]]'' - The humans sends a machine that can convert the air on Terra to be human breathable in seven days. This would leave the air unbreathable for the Terrians.
* ''[[The Trollenberg Terror]]'' is about aliens' native air slowly enveloping a mountain and later the surrounding area.
* In ''[[Man of Steel]]'', Zod and his people attempt to "Kryptoform" Earth.
* The Genesis Device from ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]''. In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]'' the Klingons expressed concern that it would be used for hostile terraforming, and with good reason -- it is very easily deployed as a weapon and it works on a timescale that is virtually instantaneous compared to typical terraforming efforts (thus can't be stopped).
== [[Literature]] ==
* In
* ''[[Last and First Men]]'', the Fifth Men escape a dying earth by terraforming Venus. Halfway through the process they discover that Venus is inhabited and oxygen is lethal to the natives, they keep at it anyways.
* ''[[War Against the Chtorr]]'' features this prominently.
* A specialty of the Yuuzhan Vong in the ''[[New Jedi Order]]''.
* This is the long-term plan of the alien invaders in ''[[The Tripods]]'' series.
* The ''[[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]'' book ''Dark Mirror'' mentioned that one of the earliest missions of the [[Mirror Universe]] Captain Picard had been the "prejudicial terraforming" of the Ferengii home planet, which "cleansed" the planet of all life.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Quatermass]] II'' an alien vanguard takes over selected humans so they can build a chemical plant to make an atmosphere that will support their kind of life, and kill off all terrestrial life.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Star Trek:
▲* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "Home Soil" featured a Federation terraforming project that was doing this by accident.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode, "Scorched Earth", an alien vessel was terraforming a planet inhabited by [[Human Alien
▲* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'': Sisko used a specialized warhead to poison the atmosphere in such a manner that it would be uninhabitable for human life, but functional for Cardassian in an attempt to force Eddington to surrender. Though the Maquis did pretty much the same thing (except rendering it uninhabitable to Cardassian life but safe to human) to multiple Cardassian colonies.
▲* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode, "Scorched Earth", an alien vessel was terraforming a planet inhabited by [[Human Alien|Human Aliens]] into something hostile to their form of life. Unlike most of the civilizations SG-1 encounters, the aliens need a very specific environment to survive, meaning they can't easily be moved to another world. Eventually it's resolved when {{spoiler|it turns out the terraforming ship has information about said aliens' home planet}}.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Sontaran Strategem". Weakened by their eternal war with another race of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]], the Sontarans hatched an uncharacteristically circuitous plan to bathe the earth in gas which is poisonous to native life but nutritious to themselves, so that they can use it to spawn more soldiers.
* The ''[[Andromeda]]'' episode "Point of the Spear", the Pyreans (aliens that live in Venus-like environments) tried to forcibly pyroform a Commonwealth world. A large battle breaks out, and to prove that the Commonwealth is not one to be messed with, Dylan orders the planet's destruction via [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Nova Bomb]].
* One episode of the new ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' had this with a new model of car that would poison the atmosphere for
▲== [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] ==
▲* Lord Slug wanted to freeze the Earth because of this in the fourth ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie. "[[De Terraforming]]" was discussed in the [[Dragon Ball Abridged]] movie version.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Metagaming's MicroGame 12 ''Invasion of the Air-Eaters''. An alien race invades and uses Atmosphere Converters to change Earth's air to sulfur dioxide, which they can breathe it but we can't.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
*
** Orks are described as "an invasive ecosystem by themselves", and shed spores to generate new creatures, which will grow to be squigs,
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Command
* ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' in its released form contains hints of this - most notably, the Combine drain the Earth's oceans and use Xen species such as Headcrabs and Leeches as biological weapons. The original beta however went much further - a key location in the game was the "[http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Air_Exchange Air Exchange]", which replaced the air with noxious gases breathable by the Combine, and which meant that all human characters in the game had to wear gas masks.
* In ''[[Star Control II]]'', Mycon Deep Children reshape planets they collide with, stimulating their volcanic activity to the point where it's comfortable for Mycons - obviously, since they enjoy temperatures above 600 Kelvins, it's less than comfortable for pretty much everyone else. Mycons don't seem to care.
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* All ''K-D Labs'' RTS games employ combat terraforming to some extent. All sides in Perimeter and two sides in Maelstrom can terraform the battlefield to create passages and so on. Both sides in Perimeter 2 (Exosus being waterborn, Comeback being landlubbers) and Hai-Genti in Maelstrom instead make parts of land inhabitable only for themselves.
* In ''[[Lost Planet]]: Extreme Condition'' [[Mega Corp|NEVEC]] is planning to terraform E.D.N. III in a way that would instantly thaw out the planet and kill the native [[Bug War|Akrids]] ''and'' the rebelling colonists. Fortunately Wayne discovers an alternative that won't fry the colonists and by ''Lost Planet 2'', ten years later, most of the frozen wastes of E.D.N. III have been replaced by deserts and jungles, and several new Akrid species are coming out of hibernation.
* In ''[[Stars!]]'' races with [http://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Claim_Adjuster Claim Adjuster] trait can undo enemy terraforming
* In ''Haegemonia: The Solon Legacy'', high-level spies can reverse-terraform enemy planets. It's not permanent (the enemy can simply terraform it back if they have the tech) but as planet quality is the primary factor in maximum planet population, killing off a few hundred million colonists or at least inciting revolution due to massive overpopulation with [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards|a single spy]] can really wreck someone's day.
* ''[[Age of Wonders]]'' from the first game on has various "Path of X" unit abilities, turning terrain into the type preferred by the unit. This usually benefit only this unit tye (e.g. Frost Queen has Path of Frost and Snow Concealment), as well as cities of this unit's race, and conversely removes terrain advantageous to the others.
== [[Web
* ''[[White Noise]]'' had this happen in the backstory. The aliens who [[Apocalypse How|killed off everyone on Earth's surface]] then attempted to terraform the planet to suit them, resulting in a clouds of toxic Murk that roam the surface.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Superfriends]]'' (
** In the 1978 version, the Legion of Doom allied themselves with Venusians, who needed them to increase the temperature of Earth and the vegetation so their invasion could succeed. Naturally, this is [[Artistic License]] in hindsight, as Venus is now known to have ''no'' vegetation at all.
* In ''[[Transformers Generation 2]]'', the Cybertronian Empire's modus operandi was to kill all the inhabitants of each planet and then mechaform the planet itself to make replicas of Cybertron.
* In ''[[Justice League]]'', the Imperiex attempted to do this in the series premier, and for [[Book Ends]], the denizens of Apokolips attempted it in the series finale.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Some scientists worry that terraforming Mars might kill
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