History Main / VanHelsingHateCrimes

** Mages are fairly common in the setting, working for cities and noble families and running [[TeachingTheGiftOfMagic schools]], but not in Valdemar. In the third book of the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', few Herald-Mages remain and the last of them, Vanyel Ashkevron, is highly paranoid of mages who aren't Heralds or Tayledras. When Karse cracks down on mages and they flee into Valdemar, Vanyel wants the refugees hurried right out of the country. He contrives harsh, sanity-breaking measures to keep mages out, and while experiencing them himself muses that he could almost feel sorry for an innocent mage. ''[[NoSympathy Almost]]''. This leads to quite a lot of trouble for sympathetic foreign mages, or for Valdemarans manifesting the Mage-Gift.

** The British [[CreatureHunterOrganization Men of Letters]] in Season 12. Between killing friendly monsters, killing a human psychic girl, who [[PowerIncontinence was unaware that she was killing others by using her abilities to call for help]] that the Winchesters saved from her religious abusive family, on the grounds that she's a monster, and really having no issue with ColdBloodedTorture, killing [[spoiler: or brainwashing]] hunters or even their own members for slightest sign of disobedience, the British Men of Letters are arguably [[HeWhoFightsMonsters far worse than the so-called monsters they kill]]. Their leadership is corrupt to the core, Mr. Arthur Ketch (their assassin) is TheSociopath (and outright stated as such) and an amoral hitman with no real belief in their ideology and only in it to satisfy his killer urges, and their code includes killing everything that is a monster (no matter if good or evil) and [[spoiler: their operatives are ChildSoldiers raised and indoctrinated in the code and then made to kill their friends to see if they're obedient, and at one point they kill another hunter Sam and Dean worked with because she killed one of their operatives even though they know that the death was an ''accident''. This haunts Mick Davies and eventually causes him to switch sides to the Winchesters only to get killed as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He Has Outlived His Usefulness]].]] For all their anti-monster propaganda, [[spoiler: the leadership has a backroom DealWithTheDevil with Crowley himself.]] It only gets worse from there. [[spoiler: Sam, in the Season 12 two-part finale, concludes that the British branch has crossed the MoralEventHorizon and leads a raid on their compound, killing all those present and cutting ties with the organization after the British Men of Letters start killing all the hunters.]] Needless to say, the American branch that Sam and Dean are a remnant of were very different, lacked the extremism and really had the best intentions at heart.

* ''SecretInvasion2023'': After being attacked by a RenegadeSplinterFaction of Skrulls who are trying to eliminate humanity so they can take Earth as their new homeworld, President Ritson goes on television and declares that ''all'' extraterrestrials are to leave the planet or be hunted down. Not only does this ignore that there were Skrulls who had been actively aiding SHIELD for decades, some [[spoiler:like Talos]] gave their lives trying to protect him and others from the hostile faction. His message also sparks a wave of vigilante attacks on both Skrulls and innocent humans who were either mistakenly targeted or killed by opportunists looking to use the anti-Skrull hysteria as an excuse. And that doesn't even touch on how this policy will effect other extraterrestrials on Earth, like New Asgard.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': under the orders of Old George, the Forever Knights are out to hunt down every alien on Earth, regardless of whether they're good or bad. Understandably, it's a lot harder to find the bad ones, so the good ones get targeted. Argit was the only real bad guy they ever harassed. This lasted for one episode; Ben made it very clear that there would be lethal consequences for persisting, and they took his threat seriously. What's really strange is that Old George's command isn't even internally consistent. He has a very specific beef with an all-powerful alien, one to whom the target aliens were in no way related. Indeed, he is shown to not care that his subordinates have failed, which brings to mind the question of why he directed the resources of his organization to a meaningless task when his stated aim is to prevent the rise of one far worse.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': In the episode "The Hunter", Hunter Cain is an EVO-hating extremist who wants to kill every EVO on the planet. Later on, after a timeskip, Providence itself becomes this, catching and putting RestrainingBolt collars on every EVO, no matter their alignment or intelligence.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler:Emperor Belos]] intends [[FinalSolution a particularly grand scale example]]: [[spoiler:a witch hunter from the 17th century, he has orchestrated a whole religion with the end goal to use a draining spell to kill all life in the Boiling Isles, seeing such an act as saving humanity from evil. Despite the fact that the various witches and demons run the whole morality spectrum, and the Isles actually were better [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters before he showed up]].]]

* In ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'', it is revealed that the [[MenInBlack Guys in White]] are perfectly willing to abduct and experiment on all supernatural beings whether or not they are doing anything wrong, including [[WouldHurtAChild the girls]] from Toys/MonsterHigh.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', Lady was introduced as a demon hunter who believed all demons are evil. Dante helps convince her that not all demons are evil, and that not all humans are good.

** Others (the every-drink-ever machine) get put in the break room. Under ''heavy'' observation, in case someone orders a cup of [[TooDumbToLive antimatter]].

-->-- ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer''

*** The Vigil of Stendarr is an organization formed in the wake of the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion Crisis]], devoted to Stendarr, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divine]] of Mercy and Justice. They are dedicated to wiping out any supernatural threats to Nirn, including vampires, werewolves, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]], worshipers of Daedra, etc. However, they make no distinction between friendly/non-malevolent individuals of these types and the ones who are actual threats. They are even known to accost Daedra worshipers when found, demanding that they hand over any Daedric artifacts they may possess, even if the artifact in question comes from one of the more benevolent Daedric Princes.

* The Van Helsings (especially Eric) in ''Series/YoungDracula'' towards Vlad. While Vlad is doing his best to be a non-evil vampire, Eric Van Helsing believes that the only good vampire is a staked vampire. In his defence, the actions of the other vampires in the series indicate that the Slayers have probably never encountered a non-evil vampire.

** In ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX'', he still kills Adept bosses, but mostly because said bosses are saddled with UriahGambit (such as the first boss who is a death-row inmate who's promised a reduced sentence if he kills Copen), or genuine villain (such a MadBomber), and he's a lot less vindictive against said Adepts as well. [[spoiler:Turns out this is an AlternateTimeline where he has been fighting for a century against Asimov's tyranny where Adepts are enslaved to become human hunters, in turn tempering Copen to become more compassionate with Adepts than he is in the mainline games.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': After ComicBook/{{Artemis}} returns as a demon hunter she is determined to kill [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Jason Blood]] even after Diana, while holding the Lasso of Truth meaning Temi ''knows'' she can't be lying, says that Artemis is wrong about Jason being a soulless monster even fighting Diana and [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]] and endangering passerbys to try and get at him.

* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': Cemetery Wind, a Black Ops Task-Force from the CIA that was initially tasked by the U.S. Government with the mission of hunting down any remaining Decepticons [[Film/Transformers/DarkOfTheMoon following the events of Chicago]]. However, at some point, Harold Attinger the leader of the task force began ordering his men to start targeting the Autobots purely out of him FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and wanting to create his own army of mindless Transformer drones loyal to the United States in order to fight in wars, all the while his superiors in Washington are demanding him to report back on how he's hunting "The enemy Decepticons".

Van Helsing Hate Crimes are what happen when a medium that includes monsters and/or monster hunters calls attention to the fact that, in that [[TheVerse 'verse]] at least, [[SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness not all monsters are, well]]...[[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster monsters]]. Some of them are [[DarkIsNotEvil perfectly decent folks]] just [[MonstersAnonymous trying to fit in]] who happen to get lumped in with the one or two bad apples, like {{Dracula}}. Of course, this will result in the monster hunters either learning AnAesop or turning out to be [[HeWhoFightsMonsters those who fight monsters in the truest Nietzschean sense]], sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters becoming even worse than the actual monsters]]. If there are both good and bad monsters within this universe, expect these hunters to be ''far'' more competent at [[TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw attacking the good ones]].

* The backdrop of ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' involves the war between the Light Clan, and the demons, also known as the Dark Clan. The problem is... whether a lifeform is a "demon" depends on [[FantasticRacism the amount of demonic blood in their ancestry]] and whether those demonic power manifest or not, without much regard of whether that character is ''actually'' good or evil. As a result, members of the Light Clan often just kill whoever demon in sight to fulfill their BargainWithHeaven, despite none the several demons shown in the series so far can be said as evil in any sense.

** Izuna, the amateur exorcist, also had a bit of this going when she first met the Sorcerer Kitsune [[TheRival Tamamo]] and the Snow Maiden [[AnIcePerson Yukime]]. But these two are ''far'' beyond her level and handily humiliated her before Nube set her straight. Unlike Yang Kailen, though, Izuna is a lot more open minded (she keeps and breeds her own Tube Foxes) and gets over herself.

* Discussed in an episode of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. Panty and Stocking's "job" is to kill Ghosts, creatures mostly borne out of the spite of dead and living humans, which are almost always sadistic and destructive. ''Almost'', we find, since one particular Ghost happens to be not only harmless, but a beloved member of the human community. When he is found dead, the public demands that the culprit be prosecuted, and the prime suspects are Panty and Stocking. Although they did not do it, nobody believes them, since even they openly admit that they usually attack Ghosts on sight (although the Ghosts they kill are always causing some sort of trouble). [[spoiler: In the end, this is subverted: the actual culprit was the Ghost's wife, and the whole "hate crime" story was fed and spun out of control by the Daemon sisters, who sought to frame the heroines and get them the death penalty.]]

* In ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'', the whole plot was kick-started when a new religion speaking out against Witches, a group of women who are able to wield supernatural powers, started wide scale witch hunts, killing countless innocent witches. In answer to this, [[BigBadDuumvirate North and South]], two of the most powerful witches--who are without a doubt sadistic warmongerers who enjoy carnage--and their followers started their own genocide against humanity, killing almost 2/3 of all humans on ''Earth''. The world scale organization humans formed to combat these witches {{subvert|edTrope}}s this trope by having made it their mission to ''limit'' witch deaths, instead capturing them alive and draining their magic, which has proven to be the reason so many of the humanity-hating ones are insane in the first place. They even employ and protect witches who are willing to fight for humanity and are, in fact, the only organization that treats humans and witches as equals.

* ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'' does this a lot in the second season. Every witch encountered by Robin thus far has gone power mad and evil...but then she begins encountering witches who engage in moral shades of gray and, finally, witches who are guilty of nothing but being picked out by her organization. And ''they're'' the humane ones; it's implied organizations outside of Japan kill witches flat-out [[spoiler:and the only reason her organization keeps witches around is to produce the magic suppressor "Orbo" from their bodies]]. In one episode, it's implied that the organization systematically destroyed the career, marriage, and finances of a potential witch who had never even used his powers. Destitute, he's forced to use his power to defend himself from some thugs and is taken in, put through some kind of magic lie-detector, and given the choice to admit he is evil and join them or die for using his powers.

* In ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', Billy Butcher and his group of humans intend to kill all superheroes because they're mostly [[VillainWithGoodPublicity villains with good publicity]]. At some point Hughie asks Billy what about the ones who are genuinely good people, to which Billy simply responds ''"Fuck them"''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Cilia}}'', in which the title character made the mistake of falling in love and living with a human. She is a cilophyte, [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent human from the waist up and octopus on the other end]]. Other than eating live fish, there's not a shred of moral failing to her. Yet, explain that to the [[TorchesAndPitchforks fisherman village]] who tortured and mutilated her beyond the possibility for recovery, leaving her alive solely so her husband would be forced to end her. A wonder that they refrained from [[IAmAHumanitarian selling her as sushi]], but this being a horror comic, it was more than sufficient for Cilia's [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu next-of-kin]] to get [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge abyssal on their asses.]]
* TheJerseyDevil incident in ''ComicBook/HackSlash''. Cassie and Vlad track it down and kill it, learning afterward that it was actually harmless, and put up a fearsome façade to keep people away so they didn't disturb its mother, who isn't so harmless. This is also brought up in another story, where the duo go after a violent vigilante (thinking he is a slasher) even though he has only been butchering unrepentant criminals, and has showed no interest in harming innocents.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'', after losing the Anti-Venom symbiote, Eddie Brock expands his kill-list from just Venom and starts hunting down all symbiote-wearers in order to prevent the coming of what the Toxin symbiote called the Spawning. This includes anti-heroes like Shriek and outright heroes like Hybrid, the latter of whom he expresses regret for killing but does so anyways. He continues his crusade even after [[HunterOfHisOwnKind bonding to the Toxin symbiote]], and is called out on his hypocrisy by Agent Venom.

* ''[[Fanfic/TranscendenceAU Gravity Falls Trancendence AU]]'': Due to their connection to Dipper/Alcor, the Pines family got on the receiving end of this quite a few times.
* In ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'', it is revealed that the [[MenInBlack Guys in White]] are perfectly willing to abduct and experiment all supernatural beings whether or not they are doing anything wrong, including [[WouldHurtAChild the girls]] from Toys/MonsterHigh.

* The Paladins in ''Film/{{Jumper}}'', who justify their crusade by claiming that only God should have that kind of power. Granted, most Jumpers shown are jerks who have little real interest in using their powers for anything but their own benefit, but they are never shown using their powers to do anything more criminal than stealing money.
* Played with in ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'': Kaulder is actually a pretty chill guy, only going after witches he knows have broken the law, and turns them over to [[TheMagocracy the Witch Council]] to be fairly tried. This doesn't stop the magical community from spinning wild stories about his psychotic cruelty (apparently he's known as a FauxAffablyEvil SerialKiller who would walk up to a witch, talk and then ''suddenly'' cut off their heads and puts them in a BagOfHolding as CreepySouvenir) and giving him such [[TheDreaded a fearsome reputation]] that him walking in to a witch bar clears the entire place out before he even makes it to the counter.
* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', the eponymous organization seems to only accept candidates who are an aversion of this trope, which makes sense as most aliens on Earth are not bad and are simply supervised by the Men in Black. When James Edwards (Jay) went into the final round, they were given target practice. All the other candidates, who seemed to view all the cut-out alien targets as basically monsters, shot only aliens and refused to shoot any human targets; they were all rejected. Edwards did not shoot any of the aliens, for example because one was simply clearly working out while another was blowing its nose, and shot only the target of the little human girl at the end, because she was carrying a book on quantum mechanics down a street filled with scary-looking aliens in the middle of the night and therefore appeared out of place and highly suspicious.

* Zombie comedy ''Film/WastingAway'' explores this by being set from the zombies' point of view--the four leads don't realize they've been zombified, look perfectly normal to each other and think that it's ''everyone else'' who's acting weird (their undead brainwaves run slower, so normal humans move and talk in an incomprehensibly fast manner).

** ''Literature/HowlOfTheWerewolf'' has one of the most prominent examples with Van Ricten, a werebeast hunter who's sworn to rid the land of lycanthropes, regardless of their alignment. Which proves problematic, because your character was an unlucky adventurer suffering from lycanthropy and trying to find and kill the werewolf lord responsible for your predicament. While Ricten proves to be a useful ally when you're attacked by hostile werebeasts, the moment you accidentally reveal your lycanthropy to him, he ''will'' try to kill you, nevermind you're both sharing the same goal.

* In ''Literature/AnnoDracula'', UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is a vampire hunter, and is seen in exactly the same way as the real Ripper was (that is, most people think he's a monster, but a handful don't see the women he kills as really being people). The sequels also occasionally reference it, most notably a sociopathic CaptainErsatz [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] in ''Literature/JohnnyAlucard'', who turns out to be [[spoiler:being manipulated by an actually evil vampire posing as her Watcher-counterpart]].

%%* The issue... comes up, shall we say, in Liz Williams ''Snake Agent'' (her first ''Literature/DetectiveInspectorChen'' novel).

*** It's worth mentioning that there are several types of vampires in the Dresdenverse: the Black Court are unholy abominations against life itself, the Red Court are demons in human suits, and the White Court are {{Emotion Eater}}s. Most of his contacts are in the White Court, since they're [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman much more human]] than the other types of vampires (and at least can see the value in occasionally helping him to be the good guy).

* The Palatine Guard of Creator/MegCabot's ''Insatiable'' series see nothing wrong with [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torturing]] a captive vampire, especially since nothing short of outright killing one would leave any evidence. Alaric Wulf, one such Guard, repeatedly makes the argument that since the BigBad who gravely injured his partner is a vampire, he is fully justified in summarily killing any and all vampires he meets, and any human who dares harbor one. In the first book, during the climactic battle against the BigBad and his minions, the Palatine Guard repeatedly shoot the vampire protagonist Lucien in the back (he survives because he is just that badass). For some reason all this inspires the female protagonist Meena to join the Palatine Guard.

** In the ''second'' book; a bunch of KnightTemplar Christians kidnapped her on the day of a full moon, shoved her into a room painted with silver, pointed a camera at her, and then hijacked all the local airwaves. Their goal was to show that werewolves and the like were monsters and needed to be exterminated. Problem was that Kitty, instead of attacking everything, curled up in the corner and whimpered as she was in so much pain. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain So instead of seeing a blood thirsty beast the world saw a woman kidnapped, forced to undergo a transformation she had no control over, and then tortured by a bunch of religious extremists.]] The ringleader, a ''United States senator'', as a desperate last move grabbed a guy and forced his arm through the bars for Kitty to maul. She wasn't tempted.

* In the ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'' novels, pretty much every monster race is considered a threat to humanity to be hunted down and killed for a bounty on sight. To be fair, most of them are. But the government steps on the rights of those who have proven themselves civilized whenever it suits them to. Most notably, every time a major war breaks out, someone in the DOD revokes the PUFF exemption of Earl Harbinger (a 100 year old werewolf, and one of the few who has genuine control of his actions at full moon) so that they can force him to earn a new one by serving a tour of duty in a special forces unit, despite having no genuine grounds to do so.

* The titular ''Literature/NightHuntress'' is convinced that all vampires are bloodsucking demons. After she learns that not all of them are evil, she realizes that some of the vampires she killed may just have been looking for a snack and a one night stand, and killing them may not have been self-defense.

* ''Literature/RedMoonRisingMoore'': Poachers hunt moon-runners (wulves who Change outside the compounds) without regards for who they are as people. There were also the ''Werewulf Jaegers'', an extension of the SS that hunted werewolves and put them in separate concentration camps during the holocaust.

* In ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' the Veiðimaðr are all over this one. Some of them have gone to prison when their would be victims called the cops on the strangers in town with too many guns and explosives and not enough permits. Others specifically prefer to let the TheMenInBlack hand the names and addresses of supernatural baddies who merit death; not because they're nonhuman but because they've committed violent felonies. The werewolves think of the hunters as TheDreaded.

* ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'': Happens in ''Quincy Morris, Vampire'', which follows the story of the man who killed [[Creator/BramStoker Dracula]] when he rose as a vampire himself. Trying to convince Van Helsing that he only drank animal blood wasn't very effective. In story, his type of vampire is compared to a hunting dog vs Dracula's vicious wolf.

** As the series progressed, ''Series/{{Angel}}'' became like a Gothic version of ''Star Trek'' in a lot of ways, in the sense that ''demon'' was a catchall word which described a ''lot'' of different species; and though plenty of them were evil, in some cases, the word ''demon'' didn't rightfully imply anything negative about them at all. In the case of characters like Lorne and (later) Illyria, the value-neutral term ''extraterrestrial'' would have been a lot more appropriate.
*** Illyria probably is 'evil', or was originally. Or at least was Cthulhu, completely uncaring about lesser species and seeing them, at best, as pawns, if she saw them at all. It's just she doesn't understand the new world at all, and is without (most of) her powers and followers. Even all of her enemies are dead. She's only 'good' because the other people willing to explain things to her insist she behave in a certain way.

* This happens--sorta kinda--in "Clarimonde", the 1998 TV adaptation of ''Literature/TheDeadLeman''. The title character [[spoiler:is an old witch who keeps herself alive and beautiful by having sex with the Catholic priests. She does not rape or hurt the men, but in the end she is killed.]]

* In the Creator/{{Netflix}} adaptation of ''Series/OctoberFaction'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Presidio is doing this; although there are legitimately bad warlocks/werewolves/etc who hurt innocents, most are just regular people trying to live their lives]]. Interestingly, the series also takes the tack of making this stack with human hate crimes. In a flashback, [[spoiler: the [[AntiVillain Anti-Villain's]] husband, who is black, explains that he faces just as much danger for the color his skin as for his species, pointing out that his ancestors weren't just targeted for being warlocks, they were ''lynched'', and tells her she needs to understand this because it also applies to their future children.]]

* The Hunters on ''Series/TeenWolf'' seem to go this route more often then not. Although in theory they have a Code that restricts them to hunting only werewolves that harm humans, most of them seem to have little problem with ignoring it and killing any werewolves they find. They have actually developed such a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous attitude]] towards their mission that they are even willing to torture and kill ordinary humans if it suits their goals, whether those humans actually have anything to do with werewolves or not. Combined with how well-equipped they are and the way that they generally outgun their victims by a wide margin, this creates the impression that they are thrill-killers rather than protectors of humanity.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' has this in spades. There are plenty of nasty bugaboos running around in the Weird West. Most of them are pure unadultered evil, but some just want to get on with their lives, and some have volunteered or been strongarmed into becoming [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]] or monster-hunters. You can even play an undead MIB if you want to.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': The setting comes flat out and says that there are no AlwaysChaoticEvil races (well, ''maybe'' the daelkyr). An orc or goblin is about as likely to be a respectable merchant as a bloodthirsty savage, and the elves are xenophobic semi-necromancers (which, again, doesn't ''automatically'' mean "evil"). FantasticRacism is still a thing, of course, but it's no longer a justified trope. Dragons are also no longer ColorCodedForYourConvenience - the usual chromatic and metallic colored subspecies of dragon still exist but don't determine their alignment.

* Rudolph van Richten, ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'''s greatest monster-hunting expert, could have gone down this path, but chose not to let hatred rule his life. His books on ghosts, werebeasts, witches and Vistani address the possibility that a "monster" may be inoffensive and/or unwilling; other ''Ravenloft'' monsters are so irredeemably evil and destructive that the hate crimes are justified in their case.

** It is not as much as being a correct response, but the sheer cost of a possible mistake. Missing a single Chaos worshiper or a Genestealer hybrid can cause entire planets or even star systems to be overrun. When the safety of billions depend on your decision, you are not allowed to take any chances.
** It's also a question of sheer scale; there are far more planets in the Imperium than there are Inquisitors, it's often easier and cheaper to depopulate and resettle an area than to face whatever might be getting established there, and the local authorities usually don't have the clearance to know that the things the Inquisition fights are even possible. The Imperium prides itself on counting the lives of planets, not men, and frankly they can't even keep track of that since they're conquered and lost so frequently.

*** In ''Vigil'', the Compacts and Conspiracies range from new media visionaries who wish to study and expose the paranormal, to fundamentalist Christians who want to "redeem" monsters, to [[ChurchMilitant Church Militants]] who view monsters as demons, to debauched aristocrats who kill monsters because it's ''fun''. Then again, it says a lot that hunter society has a term for cells that work with monsters towards a greater goal. That term is "cancer cell."

*** The Queen of Storms and her followers, a faction of [[DarkMagicalGirl Twilight Princesses]] who are forced to follow this trope by doctrine. Their ideal is that [[TheDarkSide the Darkness]] must be destroyed no matter what, meaning they will just as easily kill AlwaysChaoticEvil [[TheHeartless Darkspawns]] and [[HumanoidAbomination Mnemosyne]] who actively try to harm people as they will kill people slightly corrupted by it against their will and who could still could be saved. Showing mercy to anything tainted or consumed by Darkness will cause them to lose access to part of their power, which they can then only restore by hurting themselves to near the point of unconsciousness.

* In the second play in Music/{{Tsukipro}}'s ''SQS'' series, the villain, essentially a curse turned human, is going around massacring villages of humans [[ForTheEvulz for entertainment]]. In response to this, the humans blame all {{yokai}}, including the main characters. They escape for a time, and defeat the villain, but in the end, [[spoiler: Shiki, Shuten Douji, lets the angry mob kill him to generate the magic needed to send Tsubasa and Eichi [[TrappedInAnotherWorld back to the human world]]. So they return, and the last thing the audience sees of the other world is [[BolivianArmyEnding Shiki standing at the humans rush onto him]].]]

** In ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX'', he still kills Adept bosses, but mostly because said bosses are saddled with UriahGambit (such as the first boss who is a death-row inmate who's promised reduced sentence if he kills Copen), or genuine villain (such a MadBomber), and he's a lot less vindictive against said Adepts as well. [[spoiler:Turns out this is an AlternateTimeline where he has been fighting for a century against Asimov's tyranny where Adepts are enslaved to become human hunters, in turn tempering Copen to become more compassionate with Adepts than he is in the mainline games.]]

** The second and third game make it clear that the geth have been on the receiving end of this from the quarians for over three hundred years. Legion reveals that despite desperately wanting to make peace with their Creators, they cannot understand why whenever they try to stop fighting, the quarians respond by ''immediately'' opening fire, forcing the geth to once again defend themselves.

* Shades of this appear in later ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' games; the Maverick Hunters dutifully destroy any Reploid that goes "Maverick", according to their standards... which would be fine, if those standards were limited to those Reploids actively infected with TheVirus or deliberately causing grievous harm to humanity and/or Reploidkind. Unfortunately, it seems to encompass ''any'' form of resistance against the natural order of things, including otherwise non-hostile acts like exiling themselves to their own space colony (''VideoGame/MegaManX4''), or merely having traits that could potentially cause problems with controlling them (''VideoGame/MegaManX6''). In fact, [[AllThereInTheManual it's revealed in]] ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' that the Maverick Hunter commander in charge during ''X4'' retired in disgrace for ''mis''applying the label of "Maverick" on Repliforce, and thus causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Reploids.
** The Repliforce incident was something of a BrokenAesop with regard to this. Repliforce, standing accused of destroying a city, not only refuses to come in for questioning to help clear their names, but also spouts some nonsensical self-entitled military philosophy as justification (Colonel himself acts like being asked to disarm before coming in for questioning [[SkewedPriorities is a bigger disgrace than the city-destroying accusations]]), instead of raising more legitimate concerns like fear of being scapegoated. Adding to their actions during the course of the game (launching a coup, occupying several cities, Storm Owl terrorizing the skies in a space fortress, and Jet Stingray destroying a city... the last one being exactly what they were framed for and causing them to be declared Maverick in the first place, not to mention Magma Dragoon also betraying the Maverick Hunters [[BloodKnight solely to fight X or Zero]]), painting Repliforce as unfortunate victims of an unfair government just seems like whitewashing.

** A DLC quest in [[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt the third game]], "Skellige's Most Wanted", can be resolved peacefully by Geralt's {{Defi|edTrope}}ance of this trope. A werewolf, a troll, a godling and [[spoiler:the doppler who issued the quest]] will ambush Geralt to try to murder him, and Geralt can talk them down by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCo8KAn9FY recalling all the times he spared or helped monsters in other quests]]. [[spoiler:Though the werewolf will still attack.]]

** The Scarlet Crusade, a band of zealots who are determined to wipe out all undead. However their zealotry is so extreme that any living being not of their order are considered to be potential carriers of the plague and must be eliminated to halt the Scourge's growth.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', Arcueid accuses the Church of this, saying that the simple fact that she's a vampire is considered enough to warrant her death in their eyes, regardless of anything else. For their part, the one agent of the Church met in the game acknowledges that Arcueid is not (currently) evil and doesn't even drink blood, but considers her enough of a ''potential'' threat that she feels justified in trying to kill her anyway. Then again, Arcueid is something of an anomaly in being a human-friendly vampire; pretty much every other vampire mentioned is evil, or at least uncaring about human life. In fact, most of the reason the Church doesn't pick fights with Arcueid more often is because they know [[PersonOfMassDestruction how powerful she is]], and are aware that only the most elite of their elite agents would even have a prayer of surviving against her.

* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' brings this up a lot, especially when it comes to the difference between Hellsing and their Catholic counterparts [[KnightTemplar Iscariot]]. They do the same things (on occasion), but for very different reasons.

* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', "Creatures" (anything is more innately powerful than the "normal" anthropomorphic Beings--demons, dragons, [[EmotionEater 'cubi]], etc) have not only a well-deserved reputation of being AlwaysChaoticEvil [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]] (in the sense of devouring other sapient beings), but also a culture that encourages it, to the extent that Beings officially sponsor and train adventurers who have a reputation for not always being as discriminating as they could be. While it is true that the exact innocence of the Creatures being killed can be highly debatable, a lot of Creature protestations being based in MoralMyopia and the adventures [[VillainHasAPoint do have legitimate reasons to go after Creatures in general]], there is at least one reported case of a totally innocent 'Cubi being killed just for her race: [[spoiler:Mink's mother]].

* ''Webcomic/ParanormalMysterySquad'' gets into this a few times. Stephanie in particular sees all Cryptids that ways and, despite threats from the PETA (a group that's trying to protect the monsters), kills many of them without remorse. Things gets get complicated though when [[spoiler:her sister Katie, is turned into a werewolf during an investigation and their newest member J.C turns out to be a damphyr.]] Thus she has to start reeling in her prejudice and learning not all monsters are out to hurt humanity and she needs to focus on the ones that ''are'' a threat. Oh yeah and Steph's the "old friend" mentioned in the ''Eerie Cuties'' example above.

** Even the Global Occult Coalition is implied to not be as bad as the Foundation makes them out to be. It's sometimes heavily implied the whole "kill every SCP they come across" is just the Foundation's ''opinion'' of them and they have deeper goals and interests. In fact, their policy towards the anomalous may actually be closer to "join us or die", as unlike the Foundation, the GOC is much more willing to employ anomalous humans and make use of {{Magitek}} to fight against anomalies.
* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', there's the ongoing conflict between Carmilla and the Reverend Darren Englund and his student posse. So far, he's been behind at least two attempts on her life. (To be fair, Sara is generally depicted as one of the good guys right now, but it's easy to see why even characters rather less fanatic than Englund might worry that there could be a FaceHeelTurn looming in her future--and as she's a budding cosmic entity, that would be decidedly bad news.) Even better, there's a [[SuperheroSchool Whateley]] student named Nightbane. She's an Exemplar blonde and good religious girl whose powers are ideally suited to fighting creatures of the night. She's the bad guy, since she's trying very hard to kill Carmilla.

** Meanwhile, Humanity First, the Knights of Purity, elements within the MCO and their sympathizers within the police will commit hate crimes against vulnerable mutants if they think they can get away with it.

* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': [[https://youtu.be/Tc8Ubesn9GA This video]] discusses the debate among several groups in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' about whether players can assume evil-aligned races to be expendable, consequence free. Ultimately, he suggests that the dungeonmaster interferes before the argument gets too heated, or [[RuleZero make a rule up front]] determining whether this assumption is in play.

** Probably to keep them out of his way, mostly, it's not like he needed their help. So either he's being a somewhat nice guy (to fellow humans at least) and keeping them out of harm's way, or he knows they'd just get in his way, slow him down and pretty much be problems at best.

* Happens a lot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. The species was almost wiped out by humans. In particular, there are the Hunters (Gillecomgain and the Canmores) and the Quarrymen (a modern hate-group spawned from the former). The Hunt began because of Demona, who actually is evil, but neither group bothers to distinguish her from all the perfectly normal, decent gargoyles who just want to be left alone. And the massacres had already driven gargoyles to the brink of extinction long before Demona's lifetime.

* Hoss Delgado from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is a spectral exterminator, hunting down the supernatural. While sometimes his targets are truly evil, sometimes he targets the (mostly) benign Grim Reaper, or other fairly harmless, kind-hearted supernatural being. He targets anything, really; at one point, he mentions he killed a [[AmoralAttorney bunch of lawyers]] because [[EvilLawyerJoke he thinks they're not human]]. That said, by the end of the series, [[spoiler:Hoss has hooked up with Eris, Goddess of Chaos.]] ItMakesSenseInContext--or rather, it makes ''exactly'' as much sense as one would expect it to.

** An interesting variation of this trope occurs. While many of the supernatural entities the Ghostbusters came across were as evil and dangerous as one might typically expect and had to be busted in one way or another, sometimes the ghosts, vampires or other beings were, in fact, the ones who needed the Ghostbusters' help. Whether it was a family of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires suburban spirits hiring the Ghostbusters to get rid of the malign demons that infested their house]], ghosts who were causing trouble for the living but only needed the Ghostbusters' assistance to complete their UnfinishedBusiness to be able to rest in peace, or a clan of vampires that fed on synthetic blood needing help with some overzealous vampire hunters who wanted to kill them even when they weren't a threat, the Ghostbusters could just as easily be helping the supernatural as fighting it.

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->''"To you, these monsters are just evil beings to be vanquished.\\
I'm the one standing there when they die... \\
and become the men they once were."''
-->-- '''Gabriel Van Helsing''', ''Film/VanHelsing''

* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', "Creatures" (anything is more innately powerful than the "normal" anthropomorphic Beings--demons, dragons, [[EmotionEater 'cubi]], etc) have not only a well-deserved reputation of being AlwaysChaoticEvil [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]] (in the sense of devouring other sapient beings), but also a culture that encourages it, to the extent that Beings officially sponser and train adventurers who have a reputation for not always being as discriminating as they could be. While it is true that the exact innocence of the Creatures being killed can be highly debatable, a lot of Creature protestations being based in MoralMyopia and the adventures [[VillainHasAPoint do have legitimate reasons to go after Creatures in general]], there is at least one reported case of a totally innocent 'Cubi being killed just for her race: [[spoiler:Mink's mother]].

* The ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' series includes a tribe of wolf shapeshifters whose magic is intended to help them protect humanity from vampires. Their relationship with the Cullen family, who have vowed to consume only animal blood, is tense, especially in Breaking Dawn[[spoiler:, where Jacob narrowly averts open warfare, then later almost starts the war himself. Then once Jacob imprints with Renesmee, he and the other werewolves stand back and allow humans to be slaughtered by several visiting vampires just because said vampires are willing to protect Renesmee from the Vampire Council.]].

* Once it's clear that demons are infiltrating human society in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', humans start military actions against them. The problem is that they don't know about, and later don't believe in, Devilmen--humans who bonded with demons and retained their good nature--killing them alongside real demons. They're also willing to kill anyone even suspected of being a demon (defined as [[WitchHunt "anyone who is unsatisfied with society"]]) and those accused of helping them. The big irony is that [[spoiler:the ringleader and instigator of the hunt, Ryo Asuka, is himself the king of all demons, {{Satan}}, who was trying to tear down human society so demons may rule again]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': This is quite common. The Mewmans have been at the monsters' throats for generations, even though they are mostly harmless. There was once a great war where the Mewmans and monsters where they fought over territory, which the Mewmans won, and they've been bossing the monsters around for decades.