History Main / IndustrializedEvil

* ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'' is a dramatisation of the Wannsee Conference where the FinalSolution was planned. It's largely a discussion of logistics, money and technology, with the only objections based around largely practical concerns, and the use of euphemisms such as "storage problem". Most notable when Eichmann reads out an account of a mass killing by gas chamber as if he's describing the test of a new piece of factory machinery, right down to a projected estimate of Jews killed per year with the new system. One of the participants explicitly compares it to a production line.

* The Pie Making Machine in ChickenRun, from the chicken's point of view. Seing how the farm was already a pretty clear allusion to a concentration camp, the implications get even more horrifying.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the vampire and SinisterMinister [[spoiler:Malack]] drops his AffablyEvil act when he reveals to Durkon that once he inherits the rule of the Empire, he intends to sacrifice a thousand sentients every day to his God of Death. He's thinking of developing some sort of special chamber for maximum efficiency. WordOfGod is that this is a reference to the RealLife meat industry; The Giant is a vegetarian.

* Given the scale of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', this crops up a lot. Most notable are a number of Chaos factions: the Word Bearers enthusiastically work entire planetary populations to death building monuments to the Chaos gods; the Iron Warriors herd captives into sacrificial trucks just to establish the maximum range of the guns of fortresses they're besieging - and that's the ''easy'' way out compared to what their slaves get; the Emperor's Children render down entire cities for combat drugs. Of course, the "good" guys aren't much better - to be a citizen of the Imperium is just to be a tiny, replaceable cog in a galaxy-spanning war machine, and citizens are worked to death, slowly poisoned with industrial toxins, or sacrificed for a minor tactical advantage on an hourly basis, to the point where more than one world has been left to its own devices in the face of an Ork invasion because the mines didn't have enough material left in them to justify committing troops to defend it.

%%* In ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', the Sphere pretty much runs on this.

* The Reapers in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' franchise. AmbiguousRobots MechanicalLifeforms operating on BlueAndOrangeMorality, every fifty thousand years they awaken from their slumber in the dark space between galactic spiral arms to "harvest" all star-faring civilizations. Their process is extremely methodical, with their own [[PortalNetwork Mass Relay]] technology left behind as LostTechnology for ascendant civilizations to find as part of a BatmanGambit to nudge those civilizations into developing along predictable lines. This helps ensure that galactic leadership becomes centralized at the Citadel space station, which is the first thing they take control of in a surprise attack, simultaneously decapitating galactic leadership and giving them access to the records of how those civilizations have been spreading. The Reapers will then sweep away all space-born resistance and prioritize targets based on what can offer the biggest military challenge. Following this, a combination of MassHypnosis and military dominance allows them to round up survivors and render them down into organic liquid that will then be "archived" into new Reaper hulls. When all is [[DeadlyEuphemism harvested]], they retreat to dark space, go back to sleep, and wait for the cycle to begin again, like clockwork.

* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin unsurprisingly]] is focused on traversing the titular machine - a giant, sprawling monster of pipes, gears and pistons, buried beneath the streets of London that was designed to [[spoiler:streamline the butchering of human sacrifices]]. Furthering the trope, [[spoiler:the protagonist first designed the machine as his own answer to the approaching horrors of the twentieth century (that he had seen in a vision), such as the great World Wars.]] He viewed that as an even more terrifying industrialization of inhumanity and became so disgusted with mankind, set out to "make pigs of them all".

* The infamous "merperson farming" in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress.'' It involved making a pool filled with merfolk, then draining it, leaving them (including the children) to suffocate so you could collect their valuable bones. Even the game designer found the practice so sickening that he greatly lowered the value of merfolk bones in the next update.

* In ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', the Sphere pretty much runs on this.

* The process of assimilation employed by the Borg in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

* ''Film/BladeTrinity'': [[spoiler:the vampires' 'final solution', see ''Daybreakers'' above]].

* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' Technomage novels described this as being the ultimate source of Shadow vessels [[spoiler:and Technomages]].

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', ghouls that are captured by the CCG are sent to Cochlea for their imprisonment and eventual execution. Those not kept alive as Informants are either selected for experimentation or marked for termination. And how does one execute a large number of super-human beings that cannot be injured by conventional weapons? Simple! A large number of prisoners are simply loaded into a massive industrial press, and then crushed like trash and flushed into the sewers. The whole matter is handled in a very banal manner, with the Warden stamping papers to mark which prisoners will be part of the next mass disposal. The audience learns all this after [[TheCutie Hinami]] is selected for Disposal, and several groups unite in a desperate bid to rescue her from the prison. As a final triumphant Screw You to the CCG, [[spoiler: Eto creates a {{Kaiju}}-sized armor to smash the machine to pieces]].

* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin unsurprisingly]] is focused on traversing the titular machine - a giant, sprawling monster of pipes, gears and pistons, buried beneath the streets of London that was designed to [[spoiler: streamline the butchering of human sacrifices]]. Furthering the trope, [[spoiler: the protagonist first designed the machine as his own answer to the approaching horrors of the twentieth century (that he had seen in a vision), such as the great World Wars.]] He viewed that as an even more terrifying industrialization of inhumanity and became so disgusted with mankind, set out to "make pigs of them all".

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the vampire and SinisterMinister [[spoiler: Malack]] drops his AffablyEvil act when he reveals to Durkon that once he inherits the rule of the Empire, he intends to sacrifice a thousand sentients every day to his God of Death. He's thinking of developing some sort of special chamber for maximum efficiency. WordOfGod is that this is a reference to the RealLife meat industry; The Giant is a vegetarian.

* The Machines in ''Film/TheMatrix'' famously turned humans into batteries (physics notwithstanding, due to {{executive|Meddling}}s thinking viewers wouldn't understand WetwareCPU).
** Regarding the physics, think about it: where, according to the movie, did you learn those physics?
** And keep in mind that [[spoiler:this was the machines ''being '''merciful''''' to the humans who had treated them like crap]].

* The BigBad of ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters The Gates of Sleep]]'' has a very ingenious way of [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing souls]] to {{Satan}}: she hires impoverished girls to work in an [[NightmarishFactory Edwardian paint shop]] that doubles as a brothel. The girls' souls are corrupted by degrading sex work while they waste away from lead poisoning.

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' is probably the UrExample of this trope. The lower-class workers are enslaved maintaining the [[NoOSHACompliance highly dangerous machines]] that [[UrbanSegregation allow the upper classes to live in luxury]]. At one point, the hero imagines one of the machines as a shrine to the Biblical Moloch, consuming the workers like human sacrifices.

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' is probably the UrExample of this trope. The lower-class workers are enslaved maintaining the [[NoOSHACompliance highly dangerous machines]] that [[TerminallyDependentSociety keep their society going]]. At one point the hero imagines one of the machines as the Biblical Moloch, consuming the workers like human sacrifices.

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' is probably the UrExample of this trope.

->'''Moriarty''': That's what you get Mr. Holmes, when industry marries arms.
->'''Holmes''': My horror at your crimes is matched only by my admiration at the skill it took to achieve them.

Why should vampires spend hours hunting a [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere juicy bloodbag]] when they can just breed and slowly exsanguinate people in PeopleFarms? Or for that matter, the [[{{Dystopia}} repressive police state]] may just build an all purpose AgonyBeam rather than bother with psych evaluations to put political prisoners in [[{{Room 101}} tailor made torture chambers.]] A werewolf may decide that rather than wait for college students to wander into his forest to hunt, he could just kidnap people off the street and [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame release them for sport.]]

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* The Machines in ''Film/TheMatrix'' famously turned humans into batteries (physics notwithstanding, due to {{Executive|Meddling}}s thinking viewers wouldn't understand WetwareCPU).

* In ''Literature/CloudAtlas'', the Archivist uses this trope's very words [[spoiler: to refer to Sonmi-451's description of fabricants being slaughtered and recycled.]]

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', ghouls that are captured by the CCG are sent to Cochlea for their imprisonment and eventual execution. Those not kept alive as Informants are either selected for experimentation or marked for termination. And how does one execute a large number of super-human beings that cannot be injured by conventional weapons? Simple! A large number of prisoners are simply loaded into a massive industrial press, and then crushed like trash and flushed into the sewers.