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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Small Talent for War", [[spoiler:all life on Earth is destroyed by the alien race that [[{{Panspermia}} seeded life on the planet]] two million years ago as humanity's talent for war is too small for their needs]].

* From ''Series/{{V|2009}}'' (both 2009 and [[Series/{{V1983}} predecessor]]): "We are of peace, always". More BlatantLies were never spoken.

* ''Manga/DragonBallZ'': The first antagonists are from a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} of HumanAliens known as Saiyans. Apparently, being violent and evil became the general modus operandi of their (at this point, near-extinct) species and [[TheHero Goku]], who is also a Saiyan, is one of the few exceptions (and even then, only because of ChildhoodBrainDamage as well as a later {{retcon}} that his WhiteSheep mother Gine passed on her altruism to him)[[labelnote:*]] ''VideoGame/DragonBallLegends'' also details Saiyans used to be good but were overrun by the most violent and cruel of their species [[/labelnote]]. Frieza, a HumanoidAlien, is one of the first arc villains and one of the most evil characters in the series and an ArchEnemy to Goku. What few other members of Frieza's species shown (mostly his family) are evil. Most other aliens in the fracnhise, especially the ones from the Frieza Force's army are bad as well with only the Namekians being notably peaceful, though they have their bad eggs too like Piccolo Daimaou and Lord Slug.

* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': The Baam/Brahmins were once a peaceful nation comprised of literal AngelicAliens until one day, their King was assassinated while attending important matters with the humans. Not bothering to conduct a proper investigation, the Prince of the Baam, Richter, instantly blamed the humans and threatened to KillEmAll as {{Revenge}}, starting with the main character's father. His desire for {{Revenge}} is so great that he sentences many of his own people to {{Execution}} for showing sympathy to them, including his own sister. [[spoiler: When Richter finds out that the humans had nothing to do with it and the true assassin was a fellow Baam, he commits suicide to atone for the large swathes of innocent lives he took.]]

* ''Anime/Daltanious'':
** The Zaal Empire are GalacticConquerors that ravage planets and leave social hierarchies to keep people fighting between themselves. They also reduced the Earthern population en masse after they invaded it in 1995, turning our main character, Kento, into a WarOrphan.

* ''Manga/DragonBallZ'': The first antagonists are from a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} of HumanAliens known as Saiyans. Apparently, being violent and evil is the modus operandi of their (at this point, near-extinct) species and [[TheHero Goku]], who is also a Saiyan, is one of the few exceptions (and even then, only because of ChildhoodBrainDamage). Frieza, a HumanoidAlien, is one of the first arc villains and one of the most evil characters in the series and an ArchEnemy to Goku. What few other members of Frieza's species shown (mostly his family) are evil.

** The symbiotes from ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' are parasitic organisms that cling to people who are [[AxCrazy violently insane]] and then drive them even more insane before killing them. Spidey's villain, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, is a rare symbiote in that it actually cares for its hosts. Most Klyntar, symbiotes, are entirely sane and actually heroic, once the symbiote is cleansed of its insanity. However, the 'Poisons', are a very different story.

* Averted by most Xenosophonts in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', but one race, known as the "Jesters" had a truly sick sense of humor that made murder and genocide legal so long as it was part of a joke. At one point, they found a pre-industrial species and posed as gods, then directed an asteroid at their planet and brought a few "chosen ones" off-world just before impact, and chucked them out the airlock. Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy, after that incident their [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.s]] decided they were fed up with their creators' "jokes" and exterminated them.

** [[EvilUncle Emperor Zambajil]] is a DirtyCoward who sentenced his own [[MadeASlave cousin to slavery]][[note]]Zambajil is the son of the Emperor and his concubine, while Gohl is the son of the Emperor's younger brother and his wife[[/note]] so that he could have the throne for himself. He seeks to increase the number of slaves in the Boazanian Empire by forcibly conquering other planets and taking their citizens captive, while subjecting them to harsh treatment. [[spoiler: When the slaves rebel, Zambajil [[BlatantLies pins the blame]] for the Earthern invasion on his [[WarriorPrince nephew]]...the very same nephew he ordered to invade the Earth in the first place. And even though said nephew showed nothing but respect and admiration for him, Zambajil arranged multiple assassination attempts on his life because he was the [[PrincelingRivalry rightful heir to throne]]. ]]

** Said nephew's [[LadyAndKnight right]] [[SexySecretary hand]] is a {{sadist}} who [[MadScientist performs experiments]] on animals to [[MakerOfMonsters turn them into Beast Fighters]] and [[OjouLaugh laughs]] at the thought of [[WouldHurtAChild killing children]]. [[spoiler: And even ''she'' is [[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]] at Heinel's bloodlust, and [[SubvertedTrope later tries to convince him to abandon the war]].]]

* ''Literature/AllTomorrows'': the first intelligent alien life humanity encountered, the Qu, definitely fit this. The Qu conquered and annihilated half of the human race, and bio-engineered the survivors into thousands of (usually non-sapient) subspecies... then they left, leaving their genetic abominations behind, causing 90% of them to go extinct without supervision or care (the survivors of ''that'' eventually re-developed sapience and formed their own civilizations). However, the next intelligent aliens the various human descendants met were friendly, or at least reasonable enough that coexistence was possible.

** [[EvilUncle Emperor Zambajil]] is a DirtyCoward who sentenced his own [[MadeASlave brother to slavery]] so that he could have the throne for himself. He seeks to increase the number of slaves in the Boazanian Empire by forcibly conquering other planets and taking their citizens captive, while subjecting them to harsh treatment. [[spoiler: When the slaves rebel, Zambajil [[BlatantLies pins the blame]] for the Earthern invasion on his [[WarriorPrince nephew]]...the very same nephew he ordered to invade the Earth in the first place. And even though said nephew showed nothing but respect and admiration for him, Zambajil arranged multiple assassination attempts on his life because he was the [[PrincelingRivalry rightful heir to throne]]. ]]

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'' has [[spoiler:Nuwa/Joka. She has been playing God with this little planet of ours for ''millions'' of years, modifying genomes of species, altering face of the world, causing rise and fall of major dynasties and in short controlling the history of the entire planet in order to evolve it into a perfect replica of her lost home planet. When something goes wrong in her plan, she life wipes the entire planet, destroying the planet's surface and starts afresh. She has repeated this rinse and repeat tactics quite a few times, by the time the story begins. Oh,and she does all this in spirit form, cut off from her physical body and much of her power! This trope is otherwise subverted by the other four Ancestors, who despite coming from the same planet and race as Joka found her plans abhorrent, sealed her body and then merged with wildlife and Earth]].

** Foremost on the list are the Daleks; super-intelligent, genetically engineered, AlwaysChaoticEvil [[ANaziByAnyOtherName space Nazis]] designed to feel no other emotion than hate (though they sometimes display fear and others). They are utterly fanatical about their own [[FantasticRacism inherent superiority]], to the point where civil wars have broken out amongst them if factions start displaying minor differences, and to where they have chosen death when "contaminated" by foreign DNA. Their goal is nothing less than to [[CatchPhrase exterminate]] [[OmnicidalManiac every living thing in the universe]] (and, once, the multiverse) other than themselves, and they often tend to find themselves dealing with Earth.

* The Martians from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' by Creator/HGWells, although it's a somewhat complex example. The author notes that Mars is a dying world, and that the Martians are only carrying warfare sunward so that their species can survive (in the epilogue, it is implied that after the invasion failed they settled for colonizing Venus instead). He also compares them with Imperialists of the 19th century, making the Martians something of a ThisLoserIsYou to his [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire primarily British]] readers.

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', episodes dealing with aliens sometimes take this approach. One episode ("Corner of the Eye") featured aliens that wanted to steal the Earth's atmosphere and even looked like literal devils. But there were just as many episodes with nice aliens who wound up in conflict with humans due to misunderstandings or because HumansAreBastards.

** The most icon of D&D's evil aliens are the Illithids. They can only reproduce by turning humanoids into more Illithids and consume brains to live, and they are not particularly nice to each other either. Only the most evil of humanoids dare to trade or ally with them. Perhaps worst of all is the sometimes-canon implication that they actually [[HumansWillBePsychicInTheFuture evolved from humans in the far future]] and have been messing with time travel...

** The most icon of D&D's evil aliens are the Ilithids. They can only reproduce by turning humanoids into more Ilithids and consume brains to live, and they are not particularly nice to each other either. Only the most evil of humanoids dare to trade or ally with them.

When man looks up at the stars, the sense of wonder, and emptiness, can be as overwhelming as the questions they inspire. Is there life out there? Is it intelligent? Are they friendly? In fiction, the short answers are: "Yes", "Yes" and "''Hell no!''" Why? Because Aliens Are Bastards.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' Without a shred of doubt this is the elusive [[spoiler:Scrin's]] defining trait. They [[spoiler:invade Earth in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars C&C3]]]] for one thing, and one thing '''only''': The [[GreenRocks coveted green crystals]] they call "Ichor", though commonly known to the native Earth's people as "Tiberium", and [[spoiler:they waste no effort in kill whatever/whoever gets in their ways, leaving a bloody rampage across the entire planet in their harvesting of said mineral.]]

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' Without a shred of doubt this is the elusive [[spoiler:Scrin's]] defining trait. They [[spoiler:invade Earth in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars]]]] for one thing, and one thing '''only''': The [[GreenRocks coveted green crystals]] they call "Ichor", though commonly known to the native Earth's people as "Tiberium", and [[spoiler:they waste no effort in kill whatever/whoever gets in their ways, leaving a bloody rampage across the entire planet in their harvesting of said mineral.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries]]'' Without a shred of doubt this is the elusive [[spoiler:Scrin's]] defining trait. They [[spoiler:invade Earth in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars]]]] for one thing, and one thing '''only''': The [[GreenRocks coveted green crystals]] they call "Ichor", though commonly known to the native Earth's people as "Tiberium", and [[spoiler:they waste no effort in kill whatever/whoever gets in their ways, leaving a bloody rampage across the entire planet in their harvesting of said mineral.]]