History Quotes / PlanetLooters

"Perhaps the aliens want hosts for their young, or food for a dying world," said Zarkendorf. "An ancient race could be trying to steal our organs to replace their own decaying flesh."\\

"Any race with the technology to cross interstellar distances would hardly need crude manual labor," said [=TuMok=].\\

->''"Hello, citizens of''- (On-screen: Novalis) ''My race, the blarg, have a small problem. [[GaiasLament Our planet has become so polluted]], [[OverpopulationCrisis overpopulated]], and [[DeathWorld poisonous]], that we are no longer able to dwell here, but I, Chairman Drek, have a solution. [[ GenesisEffect We are constructing a pristine new world using the choices of planetary components available]]. So, what does this mean to you, you might ask? Using highly sophisticated technology, which you couldn't possibly understand, we will be extracting a large portion of your planet and adding it to our new one. [[ApocalypseWow Unfortunately, this change in mass will cause your planet to spin out of control and drift into the sun where it will explode into a flaming ball of gas]], but, of course, sacrifices must be made. [[FauxAffablyEvil Thank you for your cooperation]]."''

->'''King Cold''': What a pretty little blue pearl it is. What was it called? "[[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch E-arth?]]"
->'''Freeza''': Actually, it's pronounced "Earth," [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment Daddy-daddy-daddy-daddy.]] ''(sparks shoot out of the cybernetics in his head)''
->'''King Cold''': Really? But there's an "A" in it! I'll just keep calling it "E-arth."
->'''Freeza''': It doesn't really matter, anyway. Soon, it will have a new name: ''"Vacant Lot."''
-->--''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->''"Just look at this planet. Clean air, fresh water... There is a wealth of natural resources to be found here. But all of you who live in this world take that wealth for granted. Regrettable, but at any rate... Our Mechanizing Occupation Project is now under way... and your people have unfortunately been identified as...obstacles. Our most sincere condolences, and I'm sorry you had to come all this way... but I'm afraid... you must be destroyed!"''

'''Brainiac:''' Only their knowledge was important. [[AIIsACrapshoot It is what I was programmed to collect and protect.]]\\

->'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' Say you succeed. You absorb all the information on Earth and destroy it. [[AndThenWhat Then what]]?\\

'''Lex Luthor:''' And then?\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', "Divided We Fall"


->The aliens came
-->from a far distant world
->In a large yellow ship
-->that blinked as it twirled.
->It rounded the moon,
-->and entered our sky.
->We knew they had come
-->but we didn't know why.

->Bright the next morning,
-->with noisy commotion,
->The ship slowly moved
-->out over the ocean.
->It lowered a tube
-->and drained the whole sea
->For transport back home
-->to their galaxy.

->The tube then sucked up
-->the clouds and the air,
->Causing no small amount
-->of Earthling despair.
->With nothing to breathe,
-->we started to die.
->"Help us! Please stop!"
-->was the public outcry.

->A hatch opened up
-->and the aliens said,
->"We're sorry to learn
-->that you will soon be dead,
->But though you may find
-->this slightly macabre,
->We prefer your extinction
-->to the loss of our job."
--->-- '''Calvin''''s poem, ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

->"Furthermore, it is illogical for an extraterrestrial species to [[MarsNeedsWomen abduct human females]]," added [=TuMok=].\\

"Then they are hostages! The women will be held for ransom until we accede to the alien demands. That's it -- they've come to [[MarsNeedsWater steal our water!]]"\\

"THEN THEY'RE DOING IT [[ForTheEvulz BECAUSE THEY'RE MEAN AND NASTY!]]" roared Zarkendorf.
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

->'''Ax:''' <Don't you know? Don't you know whom you're fighting?>
->'''Rachel:''' We know [[PuppeteerParasite they take over people's minds]].
->'''Ax:''' <Yes. And that is one of their great crimes. But the Yeerks are more than that. Yeerks are [[HostileTerraforming killers of worlds]]. Murderers of all life. Hated and feared throughout the galaxy. They are a plague that spreads from world to world, leaving nothing but desolation and slavery and misery in their wake.>
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #4: The Message''

->''"The Borg is the ultimate user. [[OutsideContextProblem They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced.]] They're not interested in political conquest, wealth or power as you know it. They're simply interested in your ship, its technology. They've identified it as something they can consume."''
-->-- '''Q''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Q Who"

->“The land was gone. I couldn’t believe it. Whole stretches of the earth were all rent up, as though torn by some monstrous beast. Ash covered the land where the orchards had been, and even the air was choked with an oily rain. I grabbed a passing indigent, picking through the filth like a stray dog.
->‘What in Hells’ name happened here?’ I asked, aghast.
->‘The queen came to take what was owed her,” said the man, looking dazed. His flesh was spare and cracked, like leather. I was suddenly aware of the bones poking up under his skin.
->‘Debts? The orchards? The crop? Blast it, man, what did she come for? Why wreak such destruction across the whole land?’
->‘No,’ gaped the man, ‘That’s what she came for.’
->‘What?’ I said, with sudden realization.
->‘Everything,’ said the man.I released him and he stumbled back to picking through the dirt. I covered my face with my scarf. The black rain fell. I didn’t stay long.”
-->--''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons''

-> "These beings, these masters, they’re colonists. They overtake worlds, they just consume them and then they move on to the next. And they’ve been here before, as sort of a trial run. [[PhlebotinumKilledtheDinosaurs It was the dinosaurs]], but the atmosphere wasn’t conducive, right? So they waited it out, and they waited it out. And now, you know, with the ozone, the pollution, the carbon monoxide, polluted waters…[[GlobalWarming well we practically terraformed it for them.]] 'Cause now they’re coming back, and it’s perfect. See the first wave (of Kaiju), that was just the hounds, categories I through IV, it was nothing! They’re sole purpose was to aim for the populated areas and take out the vermin, [[HumansAreInsects us!]] The second wave, that is the exterminators, [[KillAllHumans and they will finish the job!]] And then, [[AlienInvasion the new tenants will take possession.]]"
-->-- '''Newton Geiszler, explaining the Precursors, creators of the Kaiju''', ''Film/PacificRim''