History Main / FinalSolution

* ''{{ComicBook/Maus}}'': The book traces the history of the author's father's Holocaust experiences, and he, of course survives. However, when the author talks to his therapist, he says that he can admire his father for surviving and therapist asks him if that means that [[ArmorPiercingQuestion the people who didn't survive are less worthy of admiration because of circumstances outside their control.]]

* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' presents a rare heroic example, at least within the logic of the story. A great deal of writing goes into explaining why goblins are savages whose extermination is both moral and rational, mainly by taking genocidal rhetoric used in real life and simply making it true. For starters: the whole race is inherently violent and evil, down to the children; they breed rapidly, meaning they can quickly overrun communities if swift action isn't taken (and governments often don't take the threat goblins pose seriously enough to do it themselves); they breed by kidnapping and raping women from the civilized "prayer" races; any goblin that surrenders and begs for mercy is lying to get the drop on you; and so on and so forth, therefore the only option is to wipe them out wherever they're found, no GenocideDilemma here. The only moral nuance that goblins ever receive is an acknowledgement that the prayer races' efforts to destroy them is a major factor in their own hatred of civilization.

* We see an example in ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' that is not only a rare heroic example but an EXTREMELY JUSTIFIED ONE. The end goal of the titular character is to completely exterminate the goblin race without so much as a second thought, even going so far as to mercilessly slaughter goblin children to accomplish this. While there are some morality problems with this world view, the fact that goblins are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Chaotic Evil]] in this setting who RapePillageAndBurn everything they come across with sadistic glee that are actually starting to become a serious problem in the countryside through sheer numbers and the fact that nobody else wants to deal with them makes it very hard to argue against hunting them to extinction.

* The Ishvalan Extermination Campaign in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. What started out as a relatively normal war soon escalated into a bloody massacre, designed to wipe out the indigenous population of Ishval. While it severely reduced the Ishvalans' numbers, they weren't completely wiped out: small populations survive in the ruins of the ancient city of Xerxes and as refugees throughout Amestris, where they are below second-class citizens but not targeted for death after their leader's surrender. [[spoiler:Though for the BigBad, the genocide was actually a complete success. Wiping out the Ishvalans was incidental to his plans; [[HumanSacrifice he just needed a large number of people to die in the precise geographical location of Ishval. Ishvalans or his own soldiers, it made no difference who provided the human souls]].]] The majority of adult characters are veterans of the campaign.

** A "Buster Call" is an order to do this, normally only issuable by an Admiral or higher. So far it's been called three times.

*** [[spoiler: During the Egghead Arc, Saint Saturn orders one to Egghead to kill Vegapunk for his research, Kuma [[EvilIsPetty for merely being a Buccaneer]] , and the Straw Hats for awakening the Nika fruit.]]

** The massacre of Ohara. The only way to silence the scholars of Ohara from revealing the truth of the Void Century was to kill them all. This also extends to every man, woman, and child who lived on the island who ''wasn't'' a scholar. [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure Just in case.]] Or at least, that was Vice Admiral Sakazuki's interpretation of his orders. While some of his comrades were outraged, his superiors found this quite acceptable.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'': [[BigBad Darth Krayt]] orders the extermination of the Mon Calamari species [[DisproportionateRetribution in retaliation for their senator helping the Galactic Alliance steal a prototype Star Destroyer]]. He begins with a live broadcast of his Stormtroopers and Sith minions slaughtering the ruling Mon Calamari council, declares that they will slaughter ten percent of the population immediately and that the remainder will be worked to death in labour camps. After [[spoiler:Krayt's "death"]], [[TheDragon Darth Wyyrlok]] decides to speed things up via the Final Protocol: an artificial plague so deadly that it wipes out all life on the Mon Calamari homeworld within days.

* ''Fanfic/MetalGearGreen'': Madam President enlists all the African Warlords and offers them a deal: In exchange for all the weapons and equipment they want, they are to destroy Outer Heaven and kill ''everyone'' who is a citizen of Outer Heaven. Five years in, and the results are more lost ground, massive armory depletions, CriticalStaffingShortage issues, and not only a very strong MSF, but a severely weakened HPSC.

* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': The forces of "Good" wiped out multiple cultures and species. Druids, bards, the Nathauan and other "evil" beings (many of whom were not that at all).

* ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'': [[spoiler:[[TheComputerIsYourFriend Zein]] plans to turn [[Series/KamenRiderExAid Kamen Rider Chronicle]] into a '''''humanity self-destruction game''''' so that unsuspected Ride Players get tricked into being sacrificed by the villains so that Zein can finally force its [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans malice-free utopia]] upon the world. Zein views [[HumansAreBastards humanity's capacity for malice as problematic]], so it comes into the conclusion that [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves it's also in their nature to slaughter one another]]]].

Compare this trope with AMillionIsAStatistic, InferredHolocaust, {{Dehumanization}}, GuiltFreeExterminationWar, and TheGreatExterminator.

* ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'': This is Zein's '''actual''' master plan with [[DeadlyGame Kamen Rider Chronicle]] -- by using the game as means of propaganda marketing, it plans to conscript a cannon fodder of Ride Players against the Outsiders [[spoiler:knowing the fact that players getting a game over is already an instant death sentence]] which in essence sending the entire human race into their own self-destruction to ensure its [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans malice-free utopia]] comes to fruition. Zein apparently likes the idea of humanity [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves capable of dooming itself into extinction]].

** Later in ''WesternAnimation/Vindicators2'', it would reveal that event was just fabricated, as Doom-Nomitron was never on Dorian 5, the only reason the planet was wiped out was because the team couldn’t distinguish between the aliens that called them, and the enemies that are attacking them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'', Vindicators 3: The Return of World Ender, as Rick, Morty, and the Vindicators entered the second trial of Drunk Rick’s puzzle trap, their next riddle was to pick the location, the Vindicators would never discuss about. As Croku-Bot was determined that the location was Dorian-5, until he answered wrong and was killed. As Morty questions what happened on Dorian 5, Supernova refuses to explain, until Alan Rails points out how they wiped out a whole planet. Supernova elaborates that Doom-Nomitron was a shape shifter, and blended in with the planet’s population, so the only option was to kill the whole planet. Until Morty figures out the riddle himself that, the location was just Israel. A place Rick rants about while being drunk.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders''
** The AI war between [[StupidEvil Ark]] and [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Zein]] would escalate into that of extermination of Riders on their respective sides in order to maintain the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil within the unified ''Franchise/KamenRider'' universe. Ark seeks to eliminate the heroic Riders, specifically those associated with Zein in order to [[EvilEvolves sustain its existence]]. Zein, on the other hand, is supposedly a BenevolentAI with a [[DarkMessiah messiah]] complex that seeks to learn humanity's positive qualities, [[spoiler:but its authoritarian tendencies would start to unravel in later episodes]] of the anthology, to the point it would target [[spoiler:former villains that have redeemed themselves]]. So much that Zein would immediately go full on BewareTheSuperman in its methods of dealing with the villains and the way it beaten [[Series/KamenRiderDrive Tenjuro Banno]] within an inch of his life is anything but heroic, further justifying its goal of establishing a utopia without evil and conflict.
** Zein's '''actual''' master plan with [[DeadlyGame Kamen Rider Chronicle]] -- by using the game as means of propaganda marketing, it plans to conscript a cannon fodder of Ride Players against the Outsiders [[spoiler:knowing the fact that players getting a game over is already an instant death sentence]] which in essence sending the entire human race into their own self-destruction. Zein apparently likes the idea of humanity [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves capable of dooming itself into extinction]].

** Vaarsuvius's partner and children are threatened by a vengeful dragon. Fueled by demonic ''and'' devilish magic, Vaarsuvius finds a solution to the problem: [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius kills not only this dragon but also any dragon that is in any way related to it -- a quarter of the Black Dragon population -- to stop the CycleOfRevenge. [[AmbiguousGender Vaarsuvius]] later learns that this included ''human'' descendants too and has a HeroicBSOD upon the realization of the extent of the genocide.]]