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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.▼
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* 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.
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* ''[[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 "
* 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 Next Generation]]'' episode "Home Soil" featured a Federation terraforming project that was doing this by accident.
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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]] ==
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* ''[[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]]'' (1973–74). The inhabitants of the planet Solar Terrarium are moving the Earth closer to the Sun so it will become hotter and more comfortable for them. They are unconcerned that the increased heat and resulting climate change will kill most of the humans living here.
** 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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