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Line 5: \|''[[Independence Day]]''}} '''Planet ~~looters~~Looters''' are a race of aliens that have run out of something, and must steal it from others. Frequently, from us here on Earth. This is a bit peculiar in that their demonstrated level of technology makes one wonder why they'd target Earth when it would be far easier to find an uninhabited planet and strip-mine that. To [[Hand Wave]] that problem, they often need some particular resource which is supposedly rare except on Earth. Water is apparently one of them. Countless aliens have needlessly lost their lives in futile attempts to steal Earth's water. For some reason they overlook comets, dwarf planets and moons in the outer solar system which are not only made of mostly water in convenient prepackaged frozen form but don't have anyone out there to stop them from simply flying away with it. Line 81: ** The [[Human Aliens\|Aschen]] are worse about this. They're strong enough to fight off the Goa'uld and often use it as a pretext to begin the covert process of turning populated worlds into giant farming fields with a fraction of the original population via the use of sterility viruses. This also serves to eliminate any potential competitor. * The Wraith, in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', are constantly trying to get to Earth—because all the Hives are awake now, and the carefully-managed and tiny populations of humanoid life in the Pegasus galaxy are too scattered. A single world filled with six billion people, and hundreds if not thousands of other worlds also heavily populated with humans, Jaffa, and others, just makes it all the more appetizing. * Emperor Gruumm from ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''. {{spoiler\|It's eventually revealed that his agenda is to use the resources of the planets he conquers to construct a new body for Omni, the true [[Big Bad]].}} == Radio Series == Line 117: == Web Comics == * ''[[PS238]]'' examines and [[~~Lampshades~~lampshade]]s this trope (along with [[Alien Invasion]]); Herschel [http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/02282007/ explicitly points out] that the only reason why any aliens would choose to invade a world would be if the planet contained ''something'' that can't be found anywhere else. Raw materials are far more efficiently gained by mining asteroids, planetoids, moons, and other celestial bodies without an atmosphere, high gravity and a local population. The Earth is invaded by a species of planet looters later, however: {{spoiler\|The aliens, for whatever reason, cannot breed on their own and unleash a bio-plague on the planet intended to rewrite all human DNA and turn all following generations of humans into their species.}} * Subverted in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''. Upon finally getting their [[Wave Motion Gun\|ultimate weapon]] working on Earth, the [[Space Pirates\|Pirates of Ipecac]] are anxious to start pillaging.. and are nonplussed to realize Earth doesn't have much worth stealing. They decide to look around for ''something'' to swipe, and failing that, to just shoot the place up anyway (although Earth did have a resource they needed for their ultimate weapon: ''caramel'').