History Main / WouldbeRudeToSayGenocide

* If you consider allowing a race you could have effortlessly saved to die because of [[AlienNonInterferenceClause a non-interference policy]] to count as genocide, Janeway and Archer from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' both committed genocide, in this case calling it ''principle'' (they justify it as not interfering with [[GoalOrientedEvolution evolution]]). Notably Averted by Picard in "Pen Pals" who was initially unwilling to interfere but after hearing the plea of the species in question agreed to "bend" the rules and classify it as a request for help.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has the far-right, misogynist regime of the [[KnightTemplar Confederation]] carrying out a "soft" genocide on the LadyLand Azania. While not physically exterminating the Amazons after conquering their country, they systematically destroy their culture and re-educate or enslave the survivors, and they also deprive them of the advanced technology they need to reproduce in the absence of men, thereby ensuring their extinction as a people. This is presented as freeing them from horrible oppression, as they are returned from their wayward, Godless way of life to [[StayInTheKitchen woman's proper place in the world as wife and mother]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads at the start of the Hundred Year War in an ambush. In Fire Nation schools however, it's taught that the Air Nomads had a formal military that the Fire Nation defeated in a more honorable combat.

* ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'': People "are completed" on an industrial scale. [[spoiler:And "completed" actually equals harvested for their organs. The main characters are clones who have been created specifically for this task.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': when the Pevensies become rulers of Narnia at the end of ''The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'', it's casually mentioned that in establishing their golden age, they "stamped out" the apparently AlwaysChaoticEvil species that had followed the White Witch. According to the author, the original inhabitants of Telmar were so evil that [[CrystalDragonJesus Aslan]] turned them all into non-sapient animals, effectively ending their lives as people. The narrative voice of the Narnia series [[LemonyNarrator always makes his opinions clear]], and here they seem entirely in line with the opinions of his heroes.
** In the second book [[BigBad Miraz]] forces the remnants of "old Narnia" into hiding, which is pretty much what it sounds like.
*** Somewhat notably, a hag and a werewolf appear in the second book (as minor villains) AFTER [[BigBad Miraz]] forces all remnants of Narnia into hiding. Make of that what you will.
** The White Witch is revealed to have killed EVERYONE on her (original) world ([[FantasticNuke with a single word no less]]) [[ValuesDissonance but it's ok, it was in self-defense, she had just lost all of her soldiers]]. She is the BigBad of he first book, though, so it's not like she's portrayed as in the right.
* In Charlie Jane Anders' ''The City In The Middle Of The Night'', every member of a nomadic civilization is killed [[spoiler: except two people. Aliens killed the nomads because they stole natural resources and hurt their babies. The author makes the aliens sympathetic and [[UnfortunateImplications justifies the genocide.]]]]
* In ''Literature/DateALive'' Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott uses a manner of speaking very different from what he really wants. He uses the word "rewrite" when he really meant "cataclysm", "destruction", "death", "annihilation", "genocide", "war", and other depraved things that humanity can invoke on the world. He often says that in order to make a mind game with people who are listening to this.
* In Creator/HarryHarrison's ''Literature/{{Deathworld}}'', their world has gotten really too death-y, so they decide to emigrate. There is a nice planet with a nice plateau BUT the plateau is inhabited. The Deathworlders suggest simply eliminating this population. 'Oh no' says the hero, 'that would be wrong'. Instead, they lead this war-like race off the plateau to rich farmlands where they can cut a swathe through the native population, enjoy their luxuries, get seduced by the lifestyle, and never return to the plateau. This wholesale slaughter is 'oh well you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs'.
* ''Literature/EndersGame''. Throughout the book ChildSoldiers are being trained to fight in case an alien race known as the Buggers invade like they'd done twice before, the last time being 70 years prior. [[spoiler: It turns out in the end that the ChildSoldiers were actually being trained to launch an invasion against the ''Buggers'', resulting in the extermination of their species via EarthShatteringKaboom while tricking the children into thinking they were only playing a game. The Buggers themselves, thought to be AlwaysChaoticEvil by most Earthlings and portrayed as such in propaganda, were actually peaceful, having ended their hostilities against mankind generations ago. And the initial hostilities were an honest misunderstanding. They didn't mean to start a war, they were just saying "hello" by introducing their drone-soldiers to our territory and having them fight a bit. Drone-soldiers killing each other is roughly analogous to a hand-shake because each individual drone has no mind of its own. They had no idea that ALL of our drone-soldiers were actually individual Queens. How insane is that, an entire race of Queens and nothing but Queens? Who could possibly have predicted such a form of intelligent life existed? They became passive when they realized this, in the sense of only now fighting a defensive war. They made no further attacks and merely tried their best to not be wiped out by the vengeful hand of humans, who they were trying desperately to communicate their apology to. (It nearly worked.)]]

* R. A. Salvatore's novels about [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] feature the massacre of entire groups as a social institution for the dark elves of Menzoberranzan, although usually conducted on a smaller scale then genocidal: Killing a group of people is a crime, but only members of that group can make the official complaint. Thus: If you successfully kill everyone, so no one is left to protest, no crime can be said to have been committed. Ironically, this institution is also a part of how they maintain social order: If one of the royal houses falls out of favor with their evil Goddess, then other houses will use this system to gang up on them.

* In the ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' volume ''Mansions of the Silence'', Lucifer annihilates billions of souls as a side effect of saving the life of one single person. (That one person was someone he owed a favor, his billions of victims were not.) Of all the people who witness this tragedy, only Bergelmir says anything about this action being immoral, and even he is quite polite about it. Even so, everyone else simply ignores him as they would a person who's being generally rude, impolite, and socially inappropriate. Those present know that annoying Lucifer is really not the best course of action if your plans involve seeing another day, so they're probably staying quiet out of simple self-preservation. But in any case, elsewhere in the comic, it is mentioned that it's impossible to destroy a soul -- it simply unravels and then rewinds itself over millennia. And considering that the Mansions of Silence are in some ways worse than Hell, it could just as well be said that Lucifer granted their inhabitants a break from their usual torment.

* In the ''Comicbook/StrontiumDog'' arc "The FinalSolution", [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The New Church]] publicly claims that they're moving the mutant population in New Britain to new homes in another dimension where they can live in peace away from normal human beings. What they're really doing, however, is rounding up mutants from their ghettos and dumping them in a dimensional wasteland to be stranded and killed by an EldritchAbomination, but they know that nobody would make much fuss if they make it sound like a peaceful relocation program.

* In ''FanFic/WeaverNine'', the PRT has a blanket kill order on every and all members of the Society. Given that very few of them have committed crimes worthy of a death sentence, and the fact quite a few of them are innocents who joined the Society in gratitude after the Society rescued them from slavery, unjust imprisonment, torture, or other terrible fates... it reeks of Genocide.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'' Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott uses a manner of speaking very different from what he really wants. He uses the word "rewrite" when he really meant "cataclysm", "destruction", "death", "annihilation", "genocide", "war", and other depraved things that humanity can invoke on the world. He often says that in order to make a mind game with people who are listening to this.

* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has the Lintillas, hundreds of billions of clones of one particularly attractive and talented lady created by a faulty cloning machine at a Brantisvogan escort agency. As halting the cloning process would kill the current incomplete clone (and thus be murder), various legal experts tried to get the definition of murder changed in order to make it legal. As it turns out, they managed to get murder renamed (to 'revoked') but failed to achieve anything else (such as legally changing the spelling; 'revoked' is still spelt M-U-R-D-E-R-E-D).

* In ''Videogame/Halo2'', after the changing of the guard, the remaining High Prophets initiate an Order 66-style genocide of the Elites, disguised as a Brute uprising.

** Another example from the series is the krogan genophage. With only 1 of 1000 infants surviving birth, the species is slowly, but surely dying out. While some people, like Maelon, regret it and see it as what it really was, most people, especially salarians and turians, try to downplay and justify it. This is a (potential) major point of conflict with Mordin, who goes ''out of his way'' to beat about it. As of the third game, he too realizes it was a mistake. "

* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, the extermination of the vast majority of the quarian species during the Geth War is successively downplayed from one title to the next. With dialogue in the first game stating directly that "the geth killed billions and drove [them] from [their] homeworld," the tie-in novels written by the lead writer of the first game and part of the second having the third-person narrator directly describe the geth's actions as "genocide in which less than a single percent of the [quarian] population survived", the second game limiting its description to "the geth drove [them] from [their] homeworld," and the third presenting it as a conflict in which the geth "won their freedom."

*** Somewhat notably, a hag and a werewolf appear in the second book (as minor villains) AFTER [[BigBad Miraz]] forces all remnants of Narnia into hiding. Make of that what you will
** The White witch is revealed to have killed EVERYONE on her (original) world (with a single word no less) [[ValuesDissonance but it's ok, it was in self-defense, she had just lost all of her soldiers]].

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': During the assault on a Peacekeeper mountain fortress in District 2, Gale comes up with the idea of causing a landslide to trap them inside; he even wanted to bomb the railway leading out of it to ensure there are no survivors (they decide to leave the railway open). When told that there were District 2 civilians inside, he said that he felt they deserved to die as well. The rebels go through with the plan, and hundreds (if not thousands) die as a result of Gale's actions.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has the far-right, misogynist regime of the [[KnightTemplar Confederation]] carrying out a "soft" genocide on the LadyLand Azania. While not physically exterminating the Amazons after conquering their country, they systematically destroy their culture and re-educate or enslave the survivors, and they also deprive them of the advanced technology they need to reproduce in the absence of men, thereby ensuring their extinction as a people. This is presented as freeing them from horrible oppression, as they are returned from their wayward, Godless way of life to woman's proper place in the world as wife and mother.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': In [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 Dr. Bright's proposal]], it's revealed that the early Foundation committed genocide on the faeries and hid all records of their existence. The document for '''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/taboo a certain other anomaly that must not be named]]'''[[note]]SCP-4000, an anomalous forest that causes severe harm to those who give it a name (a property shared with its inhabitants).[[/note]] reveal that [[spoiler:some of the faeries survived, and the previous account was a lie. The faeries used to be allies to the Foundation but were betrayed, with many being killed and all having their names somehow stolen]]. Note, however, that the setting has no certain continuity and either or both of these accounts might be untrue.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', Mengsk crosses a MoralEventHorizon by having the entire civilian population of the planet Tarsonis slaughtered by the alien Zerg so that he can crown himself emperor. In ''Star Craft II'', he starts out as a VillainWithGoodPublicity who has managed to erase all traces of his crime. His loyal lackeys all shut up about it (or did he have them all assassinated?), and in the public social life of the empire, it's out of line to point out that the Zerg invasion of Tarsonis was convenient for Mengsk's power grab. To imply that the emperor was actually behind the attack is surely out of the question. Of course, there is one single exception to this dreadfully polite silence: Our hero, the main character, the "Traitor & Terrorist" Jim Raynor. [[spoiler:Oh, and the genocide ''really'' backfires on Mengsk once the hero's forces have taken over the television network so the truth can no longer be suppressed.]]