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* After Frieza single-handedly exterminated the saiyan race in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', he came up with a fake story about their home planet being destroyed by meteors that even his henchmen who were there stuck with, probably to avoid [[Genocide Backfire]] from the few surviving saiyans left. It didn't work, of course. He was none too secretive about his other genocides, however, which just went to show how afraid of the saiyans he was.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'' Princess Euphemia is accidentally [[Brainwashed]] into wanting to kill all Japanese people, and the Brittanian military follows her orders to slaughter them. While the genocide is eventually called off, the Brittanians seem to consider the Japanese "a dangerous, belligerent race" because they dared to fight back when faced with annihilation.
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* ''[[The Conversion Bureau]]'' has ponykind forcing mankind to "convert" en masse into ponies. If they don't, they're killed. That this is genocide is ignored by both the ponies and the ''authors'', who see it as the best possible thing that can be done.
** The fact that the authors gleefully ignore this and in fact treat it as a good thing (sometimes going so far as to vehemently defend it) is actually frightening.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* If you consider allowing a race you could have effortlessly saved to die because of a non-interference policy to count as genocide, Captains Picard, Janeway, and Archer from ''[[Star Trek]]'' all committed Type A, in this case calling it ''principle'' (they justify it as not interfering with evolution).
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has the Daleks, whose goal is to implement Type C on anything that isn't them. ''' ''EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!'' '''
** It is also worth pointing out that the Doctor has tried repeatedly to use a Type A justification on this race, while only once ever indicating the slightest remorse, and that preventing him from carrying it out the only time it might have actually worked.
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* While people are getting slaughtered by the thousand in Equatorial Kundu on [[The West Wing]], C.J. Cregg is not allowed by the White House legal counsel to say the word "genocide" in front of the press.
* In ''[[The Event]]'', when the only possible refuge left for the aliens is Earth and its resources clearly won't suffice for both them and the humans, [[Necessarily Evil|Sophia]] concludes that "we need to make room". One of her henchmen, who had until recently acted as [[The Mole]] inside U.S. government and [[Becoming the Mask|gradually grew to sympathize with the humans]], immediately calls her out on it: "You mean GENOCIDE!"
* When the human fleet of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
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* In ''[[StarCraft]]'', Mengsk crosses a [[Moral Event Horizon]] by having the entire civilian population of the planet Tarsonis slaughtered by the alien Zerg so that he can crown himself emperor. In [[StarCraft]] II, he starts out as a [[Villain with Good Publicity]] who have managed to erase all traces of his crime. His loyal lackeys all shut up about it (or did he have them all assassinated?), and in the public social life of the empire it's out of line to point out that the Zerg invasion of Tarsonis was convenient for Mengsk's powergrab. To imply that the emperor was actually behind the attack is surely out of the question. Of course, there is one single exception to this dreadfully polite silence: Our hero, the main character, the "Traitor & Terrorist" Jim Raynor. {{spoiler|Oh, and the genocide ''really'' backfires on Mengsk once the hero's forces have taken over the television network so the truth can no longer be suppressed.}}
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]] had a planned-but-deleted zone called Genocide City, which was renamed to Cyber City, then replaced by the third act of Metropolis Zone after the Japanese developers bothered to look up what the word meant.
* In the US version of ''Captain Commando'', the [[Big Bad]] [[Dub Name Change|Genocide was renamed Scumocide]].
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* From ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' we get: Familicide. An Epic-level Necromantic spell that leaves nobody to come after you to get revenge if they are blood-relatives of your target. Oh, and coincidently leaves whole villeges, towns, countries and, possibly, continents depopulated as a niggling and lesser-known side-effect, if the family in question is numerous enough. {{spoiler|Oops, Vaarsuvius. Maybe destroying a Gate's whole line of defence in a fit of rage was not such a good idea, eh?}}
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