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== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Humans fought a really big war over Imulsion in the [[Backstory]] to ''[[Gears of War]]'', before the scary underground alien invasion.
* "Ragnite" was one of the reasons behind the war in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', with the player's small neutral country caught right in the middle due to its large natural deposits of it.
* Tarydium in the ''[[Unreal]]'' series.
* "Nectar" in ''[[Haze]]''. [[Anvilicious|Not in any way a stand-in for a certain other resource found in South America.]]
* Practically inevitable in the later installments of ''[[Civilization]]'' if you want your faction to prosper, unless you get really lucky with city placement or allies. If you do not have era-appropriate strategic resources, expect to be invaded by other civilizations who do and consider you easy pickings. If you have era-appropriate strategic resources, expect to be invaded by other civilizations who do not have it and desperately want it. Either way, wars are almost certainly going to be fought over it.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' features the miracle substance Mako. Generated from the essences of creatures long-since dead and pumped from the ground, it has allowed the company controlling it to control world politics, and its overuse creates serious consequences for the planet... similar to a certain black substance that the people of Earth have been using for several decades with similar results. This certain black substance is later treated as a viable alternative to mako in ''Advent Children''.
** There's a bit in Shinra's headquarters where they have a set of advertisements for the line of cars that they make (represented during the opening FMV). The video clearly shows the engines of said cars using Mako in a way that is analogous to the use of the... distillates of the aforementioned black substance. (And "The Aforementioned Black Substance" would make a [[A Good Name for a Rock Band|great band name]].)
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