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The alien horde approaches. Snow queen hans christian andersen. They don't necessarily enjoy giving us a, or be and transform us, or what all. They're simply driven into adding biomass by whatever means necessary and as fast as possible.Because the only purpose they have in life, the be-all and end-all of their existence, is, the conversion of all organic matter in the universe into more of them. They don't do diplomacy, because you don't bargain with lunch. This is, of course, always cause for a.Most Locust Hordes use, or are,. However, can also become a Horde the (in)famous ' scenario.Compare and the slightly less extreme (as in, they are intelligent and only want inorganic resources), and do not directly confuse them with and, who may or may not be this trope.
The Horde of Alien Locusts is a common way to set up a or, since it's a fight between a group that wants to eat everything and the groups that don't want to be eaten. Not necessarily related to. The Garuda come across this way to the, though their true end goal is not known.
What is known is that they react with hostility to the lances that are their, and attack anything that uses the power-source that most Sidonian technology runs on. The Vajra from are space-adapted monster bugs that attack without explanation. It ultimately turns out they're not out to destroy the Frontier fleet, but rather on a misunderstood rescue mission since they see Ranka as one of their own because she can communicate via fold waves through her singing. The whole image of a was conjured by the conspirators from the Frontier and Galaxy fleets to hide their true goals, to take over the Vajra network and use it to control the galaxy. has this for the Human Race of Earth, who kill entire planets of people that have colonized elsewhere so they can harvest them for their organs. The Org of Plasm featured in 's short-lived title (italics and caps in the original) was a world-sized organism that had to feed to remain healthy.
Worst of all is Sewer, though, where a classic shield bug kick saves up to a minute over fighting the shield bugs.
Its natives, the Plasmoids, used organic spacefleets to conquer other worlds and mulch their ecosystems into 'gore for the Org.' . An issue of features her fighting a dimension-hopping sorcerer. He intends to maroon her on an alternate Earth where a descends upon the planet (in about five minutes.) and picks it clean in minutes. The version of Galactus combines this trope with. And this later becomes even worse when himself comes to the Ultimate Universe, and merges with his alternate selves.
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The creatures in are apparently after Earth's water; they set up massive machines to drain the ocean and seem to be powering their devices, and even their own bodies, with it. The invading aliens in are a mix of these. President Whitmore even explicitly compares them to locusts after a brief telepathic connection to one. Gives more specifics about what they're after: they want to dig to the planet's center at harvest the molten core. The beginning of the movie shows the end result of one of their invasions,. The Boglodites in move from planet to planet to consume everything on it.
The flying Bioraptors of 1999's have apparently driven all life on the rest of the planet to extinction, to the point that they start killing off and eating each other en masse by the end.: A disgraced former scientist speculates that the aliens operate like this, having wiped out all native life and billions of years ago and are now trying to do the same to Earth. The Magog from, who eat galaxies. An earthbound variant is the man-of-bugs from 'What's My Line' on.:.: The Racnoss ate entire planets, and were dangerous enough that the Fledgling Empires, including the Time Lords, went to war against them in the early history of the universe. The Doctor winds up killing the newborn Racnoss that the Empress reawakens because they're 'born starving' and thus cannot be reasoned with. has a massive swarm of stingray-like creatures, who reduced the titular planet to a desert, and have the ability to generate wormholes to go to a new planet by flying around the planet again and again.:. Mantrid's drones, little helper robots that he deliberately turned into a locust horde after he became fused with a member of an alien race that wanted to destroy all humans. Lexx being, he succeeds in turning the overwhelming majority of the universe's matter into drones.
So many that he was: using almost all the universe's matter against the Lexx made gravity a problem and resulted in a Big Crunch (or 'Big Collapse,' as Kai called it.) After the Mantrid arc is over, the opening narration is removed because it calls the Lexx the most powerful weapon in the two universes - and there aren't two universes anymore. The Lyekka aliens in the final season, a group of very hungry plants with a mother ship roughly twice the size of Earth's moon that would attach to a planet and strip it of all bio-matter to feed their insatiable hunger. This again being Lexx the aliens are only destroyed after eating a large number of worlds, killing billions and nearly eating the Earth (though it still blows up). The alien bug in the Alien episode of escapes at the end of the episode. There dosen't really seem to be too much of a problem seeing as there's only one.
Until the narrator notes that. An episode of had one that was like this (maybe not a pure example of the Trope, seeing as the swarm did the bidding of someone else, namely ). In the plot of the episode, a female monster called Mamamite planted millions of her eggs around Angel Grove assuring Astronema they'd hatch into a swarm of creatures who acted like this; however, Astronema urged her to speed up the process, and she did her best with a drill-like device. The heroes were able to defeat her rather easily, but her spawn hatched nonetheless, resulting in a somewhat accurate version of this Trope, which could also that called itself Termitus. Eventually, it was defeated by the Megazord.
has the Replicators, which are: they consume technology and matter to make more of themselves. Somewhat confusingly, the Asurans of are usually referred to as Replicators as well, despite not sharing anything with the original Replicators beyond having a similar construction design.
Indeed, their goal is not to create more of themselves: they're more like a fully-functioning, entirely mechanical civilization. has the Tribbles, cute, fuzzy animals that are 'born pregnant,' multiplying exponentially until they consume all available food sources and space.: The Tyranid Hive Fleets have been encroaching on the 40k galaxy for centuries. If they take a world, they kill and devour every living thing (taking useful traits from the creatures to improve their hordes of bio-engineered monsters), eat the soil, drink the oceans and suck up the atmosphere. They also use in the form of the -esque Genestealers to destabilize potential opposition. The 5th edition rulebook (p. 166) says that they have consumed a dozen galaxies prior to coming to the one we know and love, and their current campaign of destruction is merely the next course. Largely inspired by the Xenomorphs from Alien.
It's increasingly implied that the Tyranids are running from. also has the Rak'Gol, eight-limbed alien monsters who can take on Space Marines in melee, and come in huge hordes. They are among the most dangerous creatures found in the game. The Planet Eaters from, as their name implies. The Savage Swarm aren't aliens, but they are with insatiable appeties. The RPG Nightbane had Shadow Mantis/Locust which rather unsurprisingly are exactly this, except they eat inorganic material as well and are mostly wiped out nowadays. 2nd Edition contains a good number of these such as:.
The Horde, which are an elemental (and, ironically) race of insects which vary in size and shape from horde to horde, with all members of a particular horde being identical (i.e., sometimes they will appear as 20 ft. Tall golden mantids other times they may appear as foot-long black beetles). They attack and consume anything that is not from their particular horde, even other hordes. The Witchlight Marauders.
A sequential bioweapon made by the Orcs during the Unhuman Wars with the intention of via consumption and ultraviolence. After they kill every living thing on the planet they then turn on themselves. The, which are like the Witchlight Marauders except that they're tiny metal spiders with death rays and buzz saws. has the Srizaku, or Hungry Children, which are Locust Hosts. In simple terms, this makes them demonic locust swarms that devour anything organic, with a fondness for human flesh, and are capable of reducing entire cities to picked-clean bones lying scattered amidst ruins.
Fortunately, they're extremely rare because they are, obviously, not very good at being subtle.: This is (sort of) the Reapers' way of doing things, although they don't use natural resources, just sentient life forms. In the games, the are the mechanical version: being rogue terraforming robots, their only purpose is to, and to ' everything in sight. They fit here from moonlighting as technological locusts as well. X3: Terran Conflict even calls them the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known due to their exponential rate of expansion and processing power. The from have a fairly similar approach, including the — although they were through Xel'Naga modifications, after previously being a race of docile, harmless worms. Though they infest and consume the resources of planets, their goal under the was actually the achievement of physical purity by genetically assimilating the Protoss.
The sequel gives more background information on the Overmind, which infested Sarah Kerrigan to eventually relinquish control of the Zerg swarm to her. This would thereby prevent an from using them as an army for universal genocide.
Smoke's ending in has him fusing with his fellow Sektor and Cyrax and doing the Nanomachine version of this. The Flood from the series are somewhere between Alien Locusts and. The Frythans in even gain one of their primary resources, mostly by killing enemies, and it's required to breed more. The Vortex and Foe of, though with the Vortex it's more explicit. One of the dreams of Mantis from is to 'Mush terrans into a milky white paste and dance over the earth drunk on their liquefied corpses.' . The Strogg from the series.
On a couple of occasions, you get to see the. gave us the Metal Heads, who are a horde of alien locust/mammal/reptile things varying from small but rapid scorpion-things to colossal juggernauts that are. While it isn't absolutely clear what their long-term goals are (or, for that matter, even if they have long-term goals), their rapacious swarming over everything within areas not heavily shielded and devoid of a handy puts them squarely within this trope. Locusts and Silicoids from each embody this in a different way.
Silicoids, also known as 'Swarms' are scilicon-based space-bugs who live in asteroid-belt and are mainly pests - a Swarmer Hive will send out a Silicoid Queen every 10 turns, aimed at a nearby planet with an asteroid-field, and establish a new Hive there if it isn't killed on the way. That Hive will send out a new Queen 10 turns later, and so on. Attacking either a Hive or a Queen gets you a fight with a swarm of angry Drones, so you better hope you remembered to bring point-defense systems. The Locusts, meanwhile, are not actual bugs but robots, and as such consume inorganic material, but they otherwise follow the trope to a tee (they're not because they're utterly mindless and attack in bug-like swarms). The Locust Hiveworld will move slowly and deliberately across the map, draining the resources out of every planet it comes across (rendering them functionally useless), and - once it has gathered enough resources in this way - it will spawn a second Hiveworld.
Left to its own devices, the Hiveworlds will turn every last bit of resources in the galaxy into more of themselves. Most players would rather face the than the Locusts. The Von Neummans are an intelligent example: while they are certainly resource-hungry robots, they react to someone blasting them apart by sending an 'Berserker' to eradicate the colony (presumably so that they can mop up the pieces later), and if that fails, they send a, because at that point, the potential resources from the planet just isn't worth the threat of the base on it.
They even create their own homeworld in some games. The Eaters from are mindless aliens that eat everything organic to grow stronger, starting from their own planet.
This time, though,. The aparoids from qualify due to the fact that when you fight the queen at the end, she insists that the entire universe and everything in it would be consumed by them. The Mycons of certainly qualify for this trope. Though they are a bit slower than other examples of this trope, they see it as their long-term goal to They turn out to be a terraforming biotech whose programming has drifted from its original purpose over thousands of years.
Nice job breaking it, Precursors. Also the robotic Slylandro Probes, which are a more urgent problem, and are also the result of faulty programming. has the Qiraji, insectoid monsters under the control of. Aylee's species from - aliens with the ability to alter their form to adapt to different environments and to emulate beings around them - view it as their holy duty to consume all other life and destroy worlds to spread themselves across the universe. From a more naturalistic point of view, this is probably just a rationalisation they've come up with for their nature as macroscopic equivalents of bacteria that infect and kill entire planets. The Kvrk Chk from.
They consider all sentient races as food, including themselves. With shells as tough as battleship hull, and enduring unimaginable hazards on their homeworld, the only thing that makes them listen is the use of.: Episode 10 introduces The Lord Commanders hive ships; thousands of small robots that act like a swarm of bees.
In, one episode shows a swarm of over-sized ants. Said ants almost destroyed an entire rainforest within a few days.
The Parasprites in. They start off eating every edible thing that they could get their teeth on, until Twilight casts a spell to. The give off this particular vibe as well, what with their less-than-subtle similarities with to. The only difference being that they instead of ponies themselves.: The Gems exist in a gray area between intelligent locusts and: they come after planets to raid mineral resources , but primarily use those resources to, thus adding to their (equivalent to) biomass. Their native culture has a monolithic focus on expansion, but this is still clearly a cultural trait which some have chosen to reject, even if this seemingly means losing all means to reproduce.
In we have the Insecticons, a literal swarm of alien locusts (and weevils and stag beetles). Unlike most Transformers, they don't live simply on energon. Instead they eat everything—including, in the comics, meat.
In the episode 'Dangerous Minds', Jack Spicer accidentally a horde of. According to the ancient legends, 'The spiders are neither good nor evil. They are merely. They consume vegetation, animals, buildings, even the earth itself. Until there is nothing left to eat.'
Springtales are tiny insect-like creatures abundant in moist environments- They have an antennae, three pairs of legs, a segmented body and piercing-sucking mouth parts concealed within the head- Springtails come in a range of different sizes from 0.2mm to 10mm but are usually 1-2mm in length- Colours range from white, black, purple, red, orange, grey, yellow and can be multi-coloured- Springtales are closely identified as hexapods and not as insects because of their internal mouthparts, compared to insects who have external mouthparts.
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