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[[File:Image change 802.jpg|frame| Yeah, but continents have horrible resale value.]]
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** The uranium was needed just long enough for Exeter's race to relocate to Earth, presumably killing all humans in the process. (Although to his credit, Exeter tried to convince his boss that the humans should stay untouched.)
** The uranium was needed just long enough for Exeter's race to relocate to Earth, presumably killing all humans in the process. (Although to his credit, Exeter tried to convince his boss that the humans should stay untouched.)
* The plot of ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' revolves around [[The Federation]] trying to loot a planet of its [[Fountain of Youth]] [[Phlebotinum]]. Whether you side with the villains or the heroes on this issue is YMMV.
* The plot of ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' revolves around [[The Federation]] trying to loot a planet of its [[Fountain of Youth]] [[Phlebotinum]]. Whether you side with the villains or the heroes on this issue is YMMV.
* [[Inverted Trope]] in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' and ''[[Dueling Movies|Delgo]]'', where [[Humans Are Bastards|militant Earthlings]] are looting an alien planet for literal [[Unobtanium]] and a place to live, respectively, after making their own planet a [[Crapsack World]]. Diplomacy was attempted in ''Avatar'', but by the time the film starts it's broken down.
* [[Inverted Trope]] in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' and ''[[Dueling Movies|Delgo]]'', where [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|militant Earthlings]] are looting an alien planet for literal [[Unobtanium]] and a place to live, respectively, after making their own planet a [[Crapsack World]]. Diplomacy was attempted in ''Avatar'', but by the time the film starts it's broken down.
* In ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'', the invaders are theorized by scientists in-universe to require liquid water, which is why they are invading Earth. Their exact motivations are unknown, because the aliens don't talk much, [[Kill All Humans|except with their guns]].
* In ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]'', the invaders are theorized by scientists in-universe to require liquid water, which is why they are invading Earth. Their exact motivations are unknown, because the aliens don't talk much, [[Kill All Humans|except with their guns]].
* In ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]: Dark of the Moon'', the reason why Megatron and {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn|Sentinel Prime]] want to pull Cybertron into Earth's atmosphere is to use its inhabitants as slave labor in its reconstruction}}. [[Fridge Logic|This would probably destroy Earth]], [[Fridge Brilliance|but why would the Decepticons care?]]
* In ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]: Dark of the Moon'', the reason why Megatron and {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn|Sentinel Prime]] want to pull Cybertron into Earth's atmosphere is to use its inhabitants as slave labor in its reconstruction}}. [[Fridge Logic|This would probably destroy Earth]], [[Fridge Brilliance|but why would the Decepticons care?]]
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* Subverted in [[Dougal Dixon]]'s ''Man After Man'': {{spoiler|the invaders in the end are ''descendants'', which recolonized the Earth after stripping other planets off their resources}}. Guess what happens afterwards.
* Subverted in [[Dougal Dixon]]'s ''Man After Man'': {{spoiler|the invaders in the end are ''descendants'', which recolonized the Earth after stripping other planets off their resources}}. Guess what happens afterwards.
* [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[Anathem]]'': The Geometers/Cousins, in a roundabout way. Their actual goals are way too complicated to cram into a small example.
* [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[Anathem]]'': The Geometers/Cousins, in a roundabout way. Their actual goals are way too complicated to cram into a small example.
* [[Elliot S! Maggin]]'s novel ''[[Superman]]: [[Last Son of Krypton]]'' includes a scene in which [[Lex Luthor]] explains why so many aliens want to conquer the Earth. If you take over Earth you get six billion Earthlings to use as soldiers—so you can then conquer all the ''other'' planets in the Galaxy because [[Humans Are Bastards]].
* [[Elliot S! Maggin]]'s novel ''[[Superman]]: [[Last Son of Krypton]]'' includes a scene in which [[Lex Luthor]] explains why so many aliens want to conquer the Earth. If you take over Earth you get six billion Earthlings to use as soldiers—so you can then conquer all the ''other'' planets in the Galaxy because [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]].
* The free worlds of the galaxy are menaced by hordes of these in Olaf Stapledon's ''Starmaker,'' a novel that was written in 1936, [[Those Wacky Nazis|so you can probably guess who the "United Empires" were a metaphor for...]] This use of the trope made rather more sense than most, since the Empires were motivated by a desire to spread their deeply unpleasant militaristic culture, not plundering resources as such.
* The free worlds of the galaxy are menaced by hordes of these in Olaf Stapledon's ''Starmaker,'' a novel that was written in 1936, [[Those Wacky Nazis|so you can probably guess who the "United Empires" were a metaphor for...]] This use of the trope made rather more sense than most, since the Empires were motivated by a desire to spread their deeply unpleasant militaristic culture, not plundering resources as such.
* ''[http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-business-model The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model]'', a short story by Charlie Jane Anders, offers an interesting and unusual, yet chillingly ''extreme'', example.
* ''[http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-business-model The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model]'', a short story by Charlie Jane Anders, offers an interesting and unusual, yet chillingly ''extreme'', example.
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