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* '''Played for Laughs''': The Trope-Xs are a race of LaughablyEvil SmugSnakes who constantly boast of their alleged superiority and try to wipe out "lesser" species for hilariously petty reasons.
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* '''Played for Laughs''': The Trope-Xs are a race of LaughablyEvil SmugSnakes [[SmugSnake Smug Snakes]] who constantly boast of their alleged superiority and try to wipe out "lesser" species for hilariously petty reasons.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The Trope-Xs are actively involved in the setting's story as antagonists.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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** The Trope-Xs attempted to sterilize the entire Earth billions of years ago, and once they discover there's teeming life there, their primary mission is to wipe it out.
** The Trope-Xs are actively involved in the setting's story as
** The Trope-Xs attempted to sterilize the entire Earth billions of years ago, and once they discover there's teeming life there, their primary mission is to wipe it out.
** The Trope-Xs operate under BlueAndOrangeMorality that leads them to often be damaging, but they're not intentionally malicious and are even sometimes helpful.
** The Trope-Xs are mainly malevolent, but there are a reasonable number of neutral or even benevolent ones around too.
** The Trope-Xs are mainly malevolent, but there are a reasonable number of neutral or even benevolent ones around too.
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* '''Averted''': No precursors, abusive or otherwise, exist in this setting.
* '''Enforced''': "Okay, we need a jerkass who can really give the heroes a hard time. What's the best way to do this? Let's make them an ancient race of jerkasses, give then advanced technology, and set them loose on an unsuspecting setting."
* '''Enforced''': "Okay, we need a jerkass who can really give the heroes a hard time. What's the best way to do this? Let's make them an ancient race of jerkasses, give then advanced technology, and set them loose on an unsuspecting setting."
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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
** No precursors, abusive or otherwise, exist in this setting.
** The precursors aren't particularly malevolent.
*'''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
** "Okay, we need a jerkass who can really give the heroes a hard time. What's the best way to do this? Let's make them an ancient race of jerkasses, give then advanced technology, and set them loose on an unsuspecting setting.""
** "So the heroes have found their creators, they understand their own origins, everything is meaningful now, yada, yada, BORING! What's a new conflict we can introduce?" "What if the creators are evil?"
** No precursors, abusive or otherwise, exist in this setting.
** The precursors aren't particularly malevolent.
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** "Okay, we need a jerkass who can really give the heroes a hard time. What's the best way to do this? Let's make them an ancient race of jerkasses, give then advanced technology, and set them loose on an unsuspecting setting.
** "So the heroes have found their creators, they understand their own origins, everything is meaningful now, yada, yada, BORING! What's a new conflict we can introduce?" "What if the creators are evil?"
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* '''Defied''': TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system in order to give them a taste of their own medicine.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system in order to give them a taste of their own medicine.
** The Trope-Xs were a violent race that caused problems for Earth, but they actively try to make amends with humanity, reasoning that [[GenreSavvy trying to wipe out a "lesser" species might end badly for them.]]
** TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system in order to give them a taste of their own medicine.
** The Trope-Xs were a violent race that caused problems for Earth, but they actively try to make amends with humanity, reasoning that [[GenreSavvy trying to wipe out a "lesser" species might end badly for them.]]
* '''Implied''': Nothing is actually said about the precursors, but some of the aliens that humans encounter seem just a little too murderous to be natural creatures.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The Trope-Xs are a race of LaughablyEvil SmugSnakes who constantly boast of their alleged superiority and try to wipe out "lesser" species for hilariously petty reasons.
* '''Played for Drama''': The realization that humanity's creators are evil drives people to existential despair.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The Trope-Xs are a race of LaughablyEvil SmugSnakes who constantly boast of their alleged superiority and try to wipe out "lesser" species for hilariously petty reasons.
* '''Played for Drama''': The realization that humanity's creators are evil drives people to existential despair.
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* '''Exploited''': A villain wishing to bring a country to its knees searches for weapons of mass destruction left behind by an ancient, malevolent culture in archaeological sites and museums.
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* '''Exploited''': A villain {{Villain}} wishing to bring a country to its knees searches for weapons of mass destruction left behind by an ancient, malevolent culture in archaeological sites and museums.
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** [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Benovolent Descendants]]. That's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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** [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Benovolent Descendants]]. That's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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** [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Benovolent Descendants]]. That's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* '''Discussed''': "Usually finding this growing artifact amid the ruins of a younger civilization would mean that an older,
more immoral culture probably left it there to cause their collapse, right?"
more immoral culture probably left it there to cause their collapse, right?"
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* '''Discussed''': "Usually finding this growing artifact amid the ruins of a younger civilization would mean that an older,
older, more immoral culture probably left it there to cause their collapse, right?"
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* '''Exaggerated''': The Trope-Xs created a bomb that would destroy the planet after they would leave it.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The Trope-Xs created a bomb that would destroy are actively involved in the planet after they would leave it.setting's story as antagonists.
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* '''Straight''': The Trope-Xs created monsters that cause trouble in the modern day, left doomsday weapons without any protected, and are generally responsible for the world's current state.
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* '''Straight''': The Trope-Xs created monsters that cause trouble in the modern day, left doomsday weapons without any protected, protection, and are generally responsible for the world's current state.
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** Abusive Descendants: The Trope-Y resent their ancestor species and goes to war with them.
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* '''Invoked''': A powerful, ancient civilization with access to doomsday weapons know that the primitives consider them [[AbusivePrecursor abusive precursors]] yet have no compunction to change their behavior as they see the difference in power as a moral license to bully those weaker than them.
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* '''Invoked''': A powerful, ancient civilization with access to doomsday weapons know that the primitives consider them [[AbusivePrecursor [[AbusivePrecursors abusive precursors]] yet have no compunction to change their behavior as they see the difference in power as a moral license to bully those weaker than them.
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* '''Invoked''': A powerful, ancient civilization with access to doomsday weapons know that the primitives consider them [[AbusivePrecursor Abusive Precursors]] yet have no compunction to change their behavior as they see the difference in power as a moral license to bully those weaker than them.
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* '''Invoked''': A powerful, ancient civilization with access to doomsday weapons know that the primitives consider them [[AbusivePrecursor Abusive Precursors]] abusive precursors]] yet have no compunction to change their behavior as they see the difference in power as a moral license to bully those weaker than them.
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* '''Defied''': TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system so that they can use the weapons tip annihilate them.
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* '''Discussed''': ???
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* '''Defied''': TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system so that they can use the weapons tip annihilate them.in order to give them a taste of their own medicine.
* '''Discussed''':???
"Usually finding this growing artifact amid the ruins of a younger civilization would mean that an older,
more immoral culture probably left it there to cause their collapse, right?"
* '''Conversed''':???"I would sure hate to have been created by those sick bastards just for their amusement."
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more immoral culture probably left it there to cause their collapse, right?"
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Back to AbusivePrecursors.
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Back to AbusivePrecursors.[[AbusivePrecursors your true masters]], you insignificant microbe.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
A powerful, ancient civilization with access to doomsday weapons know that the primitives consider them [[AbusivePrecursor Abusive Precursors]] yet have no compunction to change their behavior as they see the difference in power as a moral license to bully those weaker than them.
* '''Exploited''':???
A villain wishing to bring a country to its knees searches for weapons of mass destruction left behind by an ancient, malevolent culture in archaeological sites and museums.
* '''Defied''':???TheFederation discovers inactive, doomsday weapons left behind by a race of omnicidal aliens... and hatches a plan to lure the aliens in question to an uninhabited star system so that they can use the weapons tip annihilate them.
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* '''Defied''':
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
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* '''Parodied''': ???
The Trope-Xs unleash an onslaught of pranks onto an unsuspecting civilization such as retooling their partucle accelerators into producing tons of bubble gum, turning all of their airbags into whoopie cushions, and replacing all of their monuments with statues of [[GagPenis their particular equipment]].
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The Trope-Xs abuses a primitive civilization for the sole purpose of toughening them up for what's to come. Turns out it's all a pretense to [[KickTheDog brutally crush their hopes and dreams]]... or is it AllAccordingToPlan?
* '''Averted''':???No precursors, abusive or otherwise, exist in this setting.
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
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** The Trope-Xs created the monsters and/or doomsday weapons to destroy the "lesser races" [[Sadist for their amusement]].
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** The Trope-Xs created the monsters and/or doomsday weapons to destroy the "lesser races" [[Sadist for their amusement]].amusement.
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** The Trope-Xs created the monsters and/or doomsday weapons to destroy the "lesser races" [[Sadist for their amusement]].
** The Trope-Xs left those monsters and/or doomsday weapons to punish the "lesser races" for [[TheDarkTimes their rebellion long ago]].
** The Trope-Xs left those monsters and/or doomsday weapons to punish the "lesser races" for [[TheDarkTimes their rebellion long ago]].
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* '''Enforced''': ???"Okay, we need a jerkass who can really give the heroes a hard time. What's the best way to do this? Let's make them an ancient race of jerkasses, give then advanced technology, and set them loose on an unsuspecting setting."
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* '''Downplayed''': NeglectfulPrecursors, where the precursors are indirectly responsible for the world's problems, but not malicious.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** NeglectfulPrecursors, where the precursors are indirectly responsible for the world's problems, but notmalicious.malicious.
** AbusiveParents.
** NeglectfulPrecursors, where the precursors are indirectly responsible for the world's problems, but not
** AbusiveParents.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "If they despised us so much, [[FridgeLogic why didn't they just wipe us out themselves]]?"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "If they despised "It's almost like the Trope-Xs made us so much, [[FridgeLogic why didn't they just wipe specifically for the express purpose of making us out themselves]]?"suffer."
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"If they despised us so much, [[FridgeLogic why didn't they just wipe us out themselves]]?"
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* '''Exaggerated''': Every single member of the
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* '''Exaggerated''': Every single member of The Trope-Xs created a bomb that would destroy the planet after they would leave it.
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'''Basic Trope''': Precursors that are deliberately responsible for the problems of the world.
* '''Straight''': The Trope-Xs created monsters that cause trouble in the modern day, left doomsday weapons without any protected, and are generally responsible for the world's current state.
* '''Exaggerated''': Every single member of the
* '''Downplayed''': NeglectfulPrecursors, where the precursors are indirectly responsible for the world's problems, but not malicious.
* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''': BenevolentPrecursors
* '''Subverted''': It turns out that the Trope-Xs sincerely thought that their evil deeds were the lesser evil.
* '''Double Subverted''': "The lesser evil" would be a less malicious race taking over.
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'''Basic Trope''': Precursors that are deliberately responsible for the problems of the world.
* '''Straight''': The Trope-Xs created monsters that cause trouble in the modern day, left doomsday weapons without any protected, and are generally responsible for the world's current state.
* '''Exaggerated''': Every single member of the
* '''Downplayed''': NeglectfulPrecursors, where the precursors are indirectly responsible for the world's problems, but not malicious.
* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''': BenevolentPrecursors
* '''Subverted''': It turns out that the Trope-Xs sincerely thought that their evil deeds were the lesser evil.
* '''Double Subverted''': "The lesser evil" would be a less malicious race taking over.
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