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* [[SCPFoundation SCP-682]] finds all other forms of life disgusting and abhorrent, thus, it tries to kill anything it comes across. The Foundation has been working on figuring out how to kill it first... [[NighInvulnerability without much success]]. Curiously, the one thing 682 did not attack on sight was SCP-053, completely bewildering the Foundation.

* [[TheSCPFoundation SCP-682]] finds all other forms of life disgusting and abhorrent, thus, it tries to kill anything it comes across. The Foundation has been working on figuring out how to kill it first... [[NighInvulnerability without much success]]. Curiously, the one thing 682 did not attack on sight was SCP-053, completely bewildering the Foundation.

* The Dyson Primes from [[PeterFHamilton Peter F. Hamilton's]] ''Commonwealth Saga'' are like this. Primes exist as sentient, immobile "immotiles", and sub-sentient motile servants that can merge to create new immotiles. Immotliles control vast armies of motiles and battle each other for resources and out of paranoia. You can guess what happened when they started building nukes. Also, the moment one of them (MorningLightMountain) discovers wormhole technology, it exterminates all others and starts building a vast fleet in order to kill off every single living thing in the universe, other than itself. In it's own words: "There is only one Universe and it can only contain one life. Me."

* The Dyson Primes from {{PeterFHamilton}}'s ''Commonwealth Saga'' are like this. Primes exist as sentient, immobile "immotiles", and sub-sentient motile servants that can merge to create new immotiles. Immotliles control vast armies of motiles and battle each other for resources and out of paranoia. You can guess what happened when they started building nukes. Also, the moment one of them (MorningLightMountain) discovers wormhole technology, it exterminates all others and starts building a vast fleet in order to kill off every single living thing in the universe, other than itself. In it's own words: "There is only one Universe and it can only contain one life. Me."

** The categorization of the Imperium as Absolute Xenophobes is also an oversimplification. The page quote does indicate their attitude toward alien races, but there ''are'' valid reasons "why not", such as that they're harmless and destroying them would be a waste of resources, or that they're actually useful if kept at a "safe distance."

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** The categorization of the Imperium as Absolute Xenophobes is also an oversimplification. The page quote does indicate their attitude toward alien races, but there ''are'' valid reasons "why not", such as that they're harmless and destroying them would be a waste of resources, or that they're actually useful if kept at a "safe distance." Rogue Traders are specifically exempt from the regulations regarding interaction and trade with alien races, as well.

** The necrons aren't so bad. Sometimes they just use wierd tortures and spread terror, or set themselves up as gods. The C'tan do have a sense of fun.

* The ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' features the Kalish'chahine, a horrifically warlike alien race who view all other forms of life as food resources. They breed so quickly that their home planets' capacity to keep the population fed, and are capable of digesting pretty much ''any'' carbon-based life.

* [[JudgeDredd The Dark Judges]] reason that all crime is committed by the living, so crime can only be prevented by ''killing every living thing''.

* Several factions of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Most notably, the Imperium of Man in ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'' maintains an official ''policy'' of [[AbsoluteXenophobe Absolute Xenophobia]], but it's far from 100% honored. The necrons for their part, kill all lifeforms, not even limiting themselves to sentient ones.

* The Imperium of Man in ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'' maintains an official ''policy'' of [[AbsoluteXenophobe Absolute Xenophobia]], but it's far from 100% honored.

--> DouglasAdams, ''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, the Universe, and Everything]]''

* The Krikkiters in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', unaware that there was a universe beyond their solar system and now determined to destroy it all.
** [[spoiler: To be fair, they were manipulated into this by the supercomputer Hactar, which had been atomized when it refused to construct a bomb that could destroy the universe. It eventually changed its mind and created Krikkit's xenophobic culture so it could rectify its "mistake".]]

* [[MichaelMoorcock John Daker]], [[SummonEverymanHero called to an alternate earth to be the champion of humanity]] against their dreaded foes the [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldren]], discovered that these ''humans'' were [[AbsoluteXenophobe Absolute Xenophobes]], doing their level 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 [[TheElricSaga the Eternal Champion]].

''They flew out of the cloud.''

''They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.''

''For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.''

''"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.''

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* [[MichaelMoorcock John Daker]], [[SummonEverymanHero called to an alternate earth to be the champion of humanity]] against their dreaded foes the [[OurElvesAreBetter Eldren]], discovered that these ''humans'' were AbsoluteXenophobes, doing their level 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 [[TheElricSaga the Eternal Champion]].

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