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See also the equally though less expansively genocidal [[Feeling Oppressed By Their Existence]] and [[Kill All Humans]], and the even more extreme [[Omnicidal Maniac]].
 
If this xenophobia is a result of cultural influences, it may be possible to knock some sense into them and make peace. If they're instinct-driven, it's probably them or us. Such aliens may bear a resemblance to (or, as in the case of the [[Doctor Who (TV)|Daleks]], be explicitly based on) [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Contrast [[Intrigued By Humanity]], or [[The Xenophile]]. Compare and contrast the [[Master Race]], who may want to kill other races/species but would rather conquer them.
 
Since there are no actual aliens that we know of, only hypothetical ones, '''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''. Unless it's someone who wants to wipe out all aliens (if they exist).
 
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''"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.''<br />
''On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|the obliteration of all other life forms]].''|[[Douglas Adams]], ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Franchise)/Life, The Universe And Everything|Life The Universe And Everything]]''}}
** The reason for this is that the story is [[Recycled Script|recycled]] from an old ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' script Douglas Adams wrote. The Krikkiters were [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] of the Daleks.
* The Pitar in [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s [[Humanx Commonwealth]] novels appeared nearly human, and even held out a cautious hand of friendship at first...but this concealed a species-wide psychosis that drove them to attempt to wipe out humans, thranx, and anyone else they could find.
* From the works of [[Michael Moorcock]]: John Daker, [[Summon Everyman Hero|called to an alternate earth to be the champion of humanity]] against their dreaded foes, the [[Our Elves Are Better|Eldren]], discovered that these ''humans'' were Absolute Xenophobes, doing their best to exterminate a peaceful culture who had never done one damn thing to deserve it. He defected to the Eldren and tried to defeat humanity and strike a peace...but the humans fought to the death, every last man, woman, and child. For his "crime" against his own species, the Cosmic Balance sentenced Daker to be reincarnated again and again across a million worlds as [[The Elric Saga|the Eternal Champion]].
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* The Yevetha from [[The Black Fleet Crisis]] trilogy ([[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]). They consider all other life to be vermin and their ambassadors scrub themselves clean with painful showers after any contact with other races.
* Despite having not yet even formally ventured into space, the Fenachrone from the [[Skylark Series]] have spent several generations planning to conquer the universe and exterminate any sapients they may find. (They're also almost inconceivably overconfident.)
* In the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], one has the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_celestial_bodies:Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies#Yekub |Yekubians]], who literally slaughtered every other intelligent race in ''their entire galaxy'' before heading towards ours.
* Three words: [[Harry Potter|Delores Jane Umbridge]]. The woman cannot stand anything that is not unarguably 100% wizard from a pure wizarding family.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Daleks would like nothing more than to exterminate all non-Dalek life, and even remake the universe itself to serve Dalek purposes alone. They were created by Davros as a means of ending a [[Forever War|centuries-long]], hopelessly stalemated war between the Kaleds (his people) and the Thals. Davros programmed them to "survive" by any means necessary, having decided, based on the endless war, that the only way for any one species to survive is by completely subjugating all others.
{{quote| ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S12 E4 Genesis of the Daleks|All inferior creatures are to be considered the enemy of the Daleks and destroyed!]]''}}
** The Daleks hate each other and themselves almost as much as everyone else. They have been known to start civil wars over trivial differences, one commits suicide in the new series when it discovers that it has been tainted with foreign DNA, and a new faction can't stand its own existence because they were created by the emperor using human cells, making them even nuttier than usual. Even the Cult of Skaro, specifically intended by the Daleks to be individuals and consider new ideas, turned on their leader when he favored becoming less "Dalek" in order to ensure the survival of their race.
** Probably the most extreme example from the humans is the Last Human, Lady Cassandra. She removed bits of herself that she saw as being similiar to aliens or altered (inbred) humans. In the end, she became just a single sheet of skin with a face. To current era humans, she would be [[Rubber Forehead Alien|much]], ''[[Human Alien|much]]'' more alien than many of the aliens.
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** The [[Ciaphas Cain (Literature)|Ciaphas Cain]] novels, specifically ''For the Emperor!'', examine this in more detail. The Imperium and the Tau do not like each other, but are not continuously at war. Cain actually allies with a Tau squad when their interests align, but they split up as soon as it's convenient.
*** This is also due to him being practical. After all, wouldn't you prefer those plasma guns and rail rifles to be pointed at the genestealers, rather than you?
* The Rigelian Protectorate in the ''[[Starfire]]'' universe. Their worlds were [[Nuke'Em|sterilization bombed]] to [[Guilt -Free Extermination War|end the threat]], after it was concluded that [[I Did What I Had to Do|co-existence was impossible]].
* The Army of the Expeditionary Force in ''3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars'' seeks to destroy all non-terran life in the universe. [[Omnicidal Maniac|This includes non-sentient life]].
** In case that's not blunt enough, let's be clear that their policy makes the Imperium of Man look like it cherishes and respects all life by comparison. Let's give an example of space gerbils just sort of harmlessly gerbiling around on their homeworld. Faced with this, the top ranks of the Imperium of Man would decide that these could never conceivably be enough of a threat to justify the resources it would take to destroy them. The top ranks of the Army of the Expeditionary Force would decide that they could never conceivably be enough of a threat to justify blowing up their entire star system, and they should be genocided the old fashioned way.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Star Control|The Ur-Quan Masters]]'', the titular Ur-Quan are divided into two factions: Kohr-Ah and Kzer-Za. The Kohr-Ah want to wipe out all other sentient life in the universe. The Kzer-Za will settle for enslaving or confining all other sentient life in the universe. Similar to the Ryall, it basically comes down to a species-wide [[Freudian Excuse]] - eons ago, they were all enslaved by a race of evil creatures with mind-control powers, and after finally casting off their shackles (in a thoroughly horrible way, at that - turns out, the evil aliens couldn't maintain control of a being in ''absolute agony''), they basically decided that they couldn't risk it happening again. So they went to war with all other sentient life. The intervening generations have ''not'' mitigated their trauma - [[Genetic Memory]] means that it effectively happened to all of them.
* In the first ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] 2'' expansion, the Drengin undergo a similar (and reference-riffic) split: Their largest and most powerful clan, called the [[Shout -Out|Korath]] clan, decided to exterminate all non-Drengin life, while the rest of the Drengin simply wanted to enslave the galaxy.
* The Ascalonians of Guild Wars. Whose attitudes were that charr were strange and must be culled, and then that the other human nations were weird and must be culled. Pretty much anything or anyone that wasn't from Ascalon needed to die. They did love their cleansing.
* The Glomdoring Commune of ''[[Lusternia]]'' subscribe to this notion. It's their ultimate goal to seed [[The Lost Woods|the Glomdoring]] throughout the rest of the known world, while forcibly converting the other civilizations to their [[Dirty Communists|own viewpoint]] as they do. Resistance results in death.
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== Webcomics ==
* The cultural dogma of the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Ob'enn]] from ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' calls for [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050508.html "the eventual extermination of all non-Ob'enn"]. They do, however, recognize the usefulness of trading with other species and "borrowing" their expertise, where appropriate, until such time that they can get to exterminating.
** The dark-matter Pa'anuri. They have one name for baryonic-matter entities (which would include us, Earth, our Sun, and all observable (to us) matter in the universe), which is "ANNOYING". Using [[Warp Whistle|teraports]] (since they create gravitic tunnels in space; sort of like having a blind man drilling holes through your house) angers them, and if a species develops to the point of being able to teraport, they [[Apocalypse How|blow up that specie's sun]]. After drawing an extremely costly war against the [[Higher -Tech Species|Gatekeepers]], the Pa'anuri moved shop to the Andromeda galaxy, where they began routinely destroying any civilization that invented the ''radio''. The first baryonic space-farers from the Milky Way who went there found several radio shells... All of which are thirty years wide, and then scrambled by a supernova shell. By Earth standards, we would barely have invented the tank by the time our sun would have been blown up.
* The Kvrk-Chk of [[Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]] have two categories of lifeform: "Other Kvrk-Chk" and "food". With these two categories forming a VERY disturbing Venn diagram....
** Part of this comes from their world being an EXTREMELY hostile environment, where most non-Kvrk-Chk species would die instantly just from atmospheric pressure or the toxic atmosphere, or the wide variety of scavengers and predators. Due to how hostile and aggressive their environment is, they literally have to eat their food alive just so the scavengers and decomposers of their world don't rot their food before it reaches their mouth. As part of their culture, a visiting Kvrk-Chk offers the master of the house one of it's own severed limbs as food. Oh, and they consider "Awake and Screaming" a flavor, and sentient lifeforms "chatty food".
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