Precursor Killers: Difference between revisions

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Often this is a [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] that was somehow stopped with the last actions of the precursors. Compare [[Abusive Precursors]] and [[Turned Against Their Masters]].

== Fan Works ==

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== Video Games ==

* [[Eldritch Abomination|The Reapers]] of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' {{spoiler|and their [[The Man Behind the Man|master]], the Catalyst}} made this their ''profession''.They were the ''original'' Precursors, who became Precursors to all the other Precursor races, [[Abusive Precursors|for the sole purpose of causing the genocide of them once they were advanced enough.]]

** Of course, once the Reapers start dropping, [[Player Character|Shepard]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu|becomes a Precursor Killer himself.]]

** Of course, once the Reapers start dropping, [[Player Character|Shepard]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|becomes a Precursor Killer himself.]]

* The Dark Precursors of ''[[Jak and Daxter]]''.

* The player character gets to meet the wizard who nearly destroyed the Netherese Empire in [[Neverwinter Nights]]: Shadows of Undrentide. The guy who destroyed the rival Illefarn Empire is the main adversary in Neverwinter Nights II.

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* In the ''[[Might and Magic]]'' series, it's [[Discontinuity|revealed]] that the alien Kreegan (which the galaxy's less advanced races mistake for demons) were the ancient enemies of the Precursors. Since the Kreegan are still around, and the Precursors are not, it seems pretty clear what happened (although the good ending of ''M&M VII'' seems to suggest that some surviving Precursors moved to another galaxy or something).

** According to ''M&M VIII'', the Precursors are still around, fighting the Kreegan on other fronts. There are still elements of this trope, though- it was the Kreegans' invasion and sheer numbers that caused the collapse of the old system and the isolation of numerous systems from the Precursors.

* ''[[Assassin's Creed I (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' has an antagonist mentioning his belief that the "artifacts" are left over from "those who came before," but ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'''s ending reveals that {{spoiler|primitive humanity's sheer numbers were enough to overwhelm the precursor race}}. However, it's strongly implied that {{spoiler|the playable characters' bloodline is genetically descended from [[Half Human Hybrid|a human-Precursor hybrid]], and the Facebook game ''Project Legacy'' briefly implies that Giovanni Borgia is part of a hybrid line possibly going as far back as Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. Yeah, ''[[Et Tu Brute|that one]]''}}.

* ''[[Assassin's Creed I (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' has an antagonist mentioning his belief that the "artifacts" are left over from "those who came before," but ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'''s ending reveals that {{spoiler|primitive humanity's sheer numbers were enough to overwhelm the precursor race}}. However, it's strongly implied that {{spoiler|the playable characters' bloodline is genetically descended from [[Half-Human Hybrid|a human-Precursor hybrid]], and the Facebook game ''Project Legacy'' briefly implies that Giovanni Borgia is part of a hybrid line possibly going as far back as Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. Yeah, ''[[Et Tu, Brute?|that one]]''}}.

** It turns out that {{spoiler|a solar flare}} was the true Precursor Killer. {{spoiler|The surviving precursors were too few to repopulate their race, but they worked together with their former slaves/enemies to rebuild the world and took steps to ensure that it would survive the next inevitable solar flare. The existence of hybrids and humanity remembering the precursors as deities show that the precursors and humanity made peace with each other before the former died out.}}

* In ''[[Blue Dragon]]'', {{spoiler|Nene's "pet" Deathroy aka [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Destroy]]}} was the biomechanical living weapon that wiped out the Ancients' civilization.