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[[Sink the Life Boats]] is the subtrope dealing with killing enemies who were alive after being left [[Kick Them While They Are Down|defeated]] and [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian|helpless]].

 

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** Minbari policy during the Earth-Minbari War was to destroy any and all combatants, regardless of their ability to fight back or if they surrender.

*** They did leave many core colonies untouched as they made a beeline for Earth. However, it's likely they would've gone back to mop up every surviving human after Earth was no more.

{{quote| '''Imperious Leader:''' There can be no survivors. [[Kill All Humans|So long as one human remains alive]], the Alliance is threatened.}}

* In ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', upon having the Cardassians rebel, the female [[Shape Shifter]] gives the order to kill every last one of them. Her only response to being told "That's going to take some time." is "Then I suggest you begin at once." Fortunately, our heroes manage to prevent it being completed (in part because most of the guards at Dominion HQ were sent out to kill Cardassians), but over eight hundred million are still killed during the attempted genocide.

* Every game that requires the player to eliminate all enemies to advance to the next level/unlock a new area/complete a mission falls into this trope. (Aversions fall under [[Instant Win Condition]].)

* ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert''

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', [[Monster Clown|Kefka]] gives an order to this effect in one of Terra's flashbacks during a ''training exercise'' (for [[Tyke Bomb|her]], not the helpless [[Red Shirt|troops]] being cut down, but it still comes off as unnecessarily callous).

* The player character in the ''[[Free Space]]'' expansion pack ''Silent Threat'' gets to do this in the first two missions, in order to protect a fragile alliance with an alien race after a friendly fire incident (the second mission: one ship was scripted to escape the first mission, so you went to its destination and killed everything there).

 

== Other ==

* The [[Evil Overlord List]] suggests that when one does this, it must be done ''[[Genocide Backfire|properly]]''.

 

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