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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 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 Genesis Device was first featured in ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''. In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'' the Klingons expressed concern that it would be used for
* 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.
* ''[[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
* ''[[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]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Superfriends]]'' (
* 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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