The Purge: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Claymore]]'', {{spoiler|The Northern Campaign was essentially a purge of the more rebellious Claymores. The Seven who survived are, as of the present storyline, hiding to conceal the fact that they survived}}.

* Happens quite a few time in ''[[Gundam]]'':

** In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' we get to see one of these after OZ overthrows the Alliance, culminating with their leader ''being kicked out the back of a cargo jet AND shot in head on his way down for good measure''.

** In ''[[Gundam AGE]]'', the second generation ends with {{spoiler|a Purge is undertaken by ''the main character'', taking out any government officials who were collaborating with Vagan}}.

* ''[[The Godfather]]'' has the famous baptism scene, where Michael takes power by wiping out the other Dons (and Moe Green) during a baptism. This and the above [[Star Wars]] examples are [[Trope Codifier|particularly well-known]].

** This was later parodied in a similar scene in the spoof movie ''Mafia!'' that featured death by fart (no, really).

* ''[[Infernal Affairs]] II'' has the killing of the four Ngai family capos half-way through.

* In ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]'', the villain, a South African drug smuggler and diplomat orders the deaths of the LAPD detectives investigating his illegal operations. Most of them are brutally killed in their homes with Riggs and Murtaugh the only survivors.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has the Usurpation, wherein the Dragon-Blooded and the Sidereals conspired the overthrow the Solars (who'd gone a bit nuts by this point) and their Lunar mates. The Solars were wiped out pretty much down to the man, and their Exaltations gathered up and stuck in a mystical cage. The Lunars who weren't killed fled to the Wyld. The Dragon-Blooded set themselves up as rulers, and named the Solars and Lunars "Anathema" in their state religion. And the Sidereals wiped themselves from living memory, ruling from Heaven behind the scenes.

* The Right of Annulment in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is a special directive given by [[The Church|the Chantry]] to [[Mage Killer|the Templars]] to initiate The Purge of all mages in Ferelden, starting with the very Circle of Magi. Depending on how you play the "Broken Circle" quest, the directive is given or called back. It's happened seventeen times in nine centuries over the course of the history of the Chantry.

** {{spoiler|Regardless of your actions, the Right of Annulment is ''always'' invoked for an eighteen time, and many mages of the Kirkwall Circle die}}, in the end of ''[[Dragon Age II]]''.

* This happened in the backstory of ''[[Jade Empire]]'': {{spoiler|to steal the power of the Water Dragon, Emperor Sun Hai and his brothers launched a genocidal assault against the Spirit Monks of Dirge. The player character is revealed to be the last survivor of the attack.}}

* In [[Final Fantasy XIII]] we have a purge called... The Purge. After discovering a Fal'Cie from Pulse in some ruins, the Sanctum government decides to send everyone that was "near" that Fal'Cie to Pulse because of the irrational fear of everything coming from that planet. Several facilities were constructed for the purged population to live happily there, and a military division known as PSICOM took over and oversaw the removal of the population. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the Sanctum government neither expected nor intended for any of the Purged population to survive - when the population being shipped out began to violently resist, PSICOM used that as an excuse to simply massacre everyone.

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