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'''Conflict casualties''' occur in great numbers in many [[science-fiction]] books, films and comics - often at higher rates than in real-life conflicts and sometimes higher than the current human population of the [[Earth]]. Such high figures can be seen in part as a reaction to the much higher population growth that occurred throughout the twentieth century, though ideas of one-upmanship among [[author]]s cannot be discounted either.

The following are estimated numbers of casualties in various science fiction worlds.

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==Star Trek==
* The [[Dominion War]] - over 800 million Cardassians were killed by Jem'Hadar forces when the Female Shapeshifter ordered the death of the entire Cardassian race.  Another seven million Cardassians had already died in combat throughout the entire conflict.
* Wolf 359 - Nearly 11,000 people died when attempting to defend the Federation against a Borg incursion.⏎
* World War III - Approximately 600 million people had died in this conflict, which had taken place sometime in the mid 21st century.  About ten years after the war, Zefran Cochrane discovered warp drive.  His first warp flight attracted the attention of the [[Vulcan]]s, who made first contact soon afterwards.  Within a century, not only had Earth recovered from the war, but had a unified world government and finally solved many problems that had dogged humans for centuries.
* The [[Xindi]] Attack - The Xindi attack of 2253 had killed about six million people.  These people died when a prototype Xindi weapon destroyed a section of land from Florida to South America.
* Yesterday's Enterprise Klingon War - Over 40 billion had died by the mid 2360's in this alternate timeline where the Enterprise-C disappeared during the defense of Narenda III and the Klingons went to war with the Federation.  The Enterprise-C traveled twenty years into the future.  The survivors took the Enterprise-C back in time to the Narenda III battle, as a result this timeline never happened.

==Star Wars==
* The [[Yuuzhan Vong]] Invasion - It was estimated that about 360 trillion individuals died during the invasion.  That would be approximately 60,000 Earth type worlds with populations of six billion each.
* The Destruction of [[Alderaan]] - The first [[Death Star]] attacked and destroyed the planet Alderaan.  This resulted in the deaths of billions of innocent people on the surface of the planet.
* Liftoff of the [[Lusankya]] - When the Lusankya, which had been buried on Coruscant, lifted off from the surface of the planet, it devastated over 100 square kilometers of cityscape.  Millions of people were killed as a result.
* The destruction of [[Byss]] by the [[Galaxy Gun]] and [[List of Star Wars planets#Carida|Carida]] by the [[Sun Crusher]] killed all the inhabitants of those worlds, many millions at the very least.
* The [[Battle of Endor]]
** 250,000 people on board the Executor were killed when the ship's bridge was destroyed.  The ship careened out of control, and crashed into the Death Star.  Despite the lethal temperament of [[Darth Vader]], serving on the ship was seen as an honor and a fast track to promotion.  Many of the best and brightest of the Imperial Navy's officers and crew were on the Executor, and died as a result.⏎
** Thousands of people on several Calamari crusiers died when the second Death Star fired on the ships - which completely destroyed the ships.
** Many independent contractors that were working on the second Death Star even as the battle raged on outside were killed when the Death Star's reactor core exploded.

==Babylon 5==
* The [[Minbari War]]
** Approximately 250,000 people died during the course of the war.
** The Battle of the Line - At the end of the war, a large number of Earth ships made a final stand at Earth.  25,000 people fought in the battle.  Only a little over 200 people were left by the time the Minbari stopped fighting.
* The Battle for Earth
** 20,000 civilians died when Earth Alliance starships fired on the transports they were on in violation of the rules of war and the Earth Alliance Constitution.  This was the impetus that finally provoked John Sheridan to take the war back to President Clark, and to a large number of Earth Alliance forces to defect and oppose Clark.⏎
* Bombing of Narn - When the Centauri bombed the Narn homeworld using mass drivers, it resulted in massive devastation to the Narn homeworld, and the deaths of over 5 million Narn.
* [[Drafa Plague]] - The [[Markab]] species became virtually extinct after the second outbreak of the plague occurred in 2259.
* The Shadow War
** After [[John Sheridan (Babylon 5)|Captain Sheridan]] went to Za'ha'dum, the [[Vorlon]]s and the Shadows began destroying the planets that the other had bases or influence on.  These attacks destroyed a number of planets, and killed millions of innocent beings.  It led to Sheridan assembling the younger races into a fleet, and forcing the two older races to leave the galaxy forever.

==[[Judge Dredd]]==
* The Atomic Wars - High casualties, the destruction of many cities and countries as we know them and the reshaping of the Earth's surface.
* The Robot Wars - Millions of robots kill their owners.
* [[Block Mania]] and [[The Apocalypse War]] - by the end half of the population of [[Mega City One]] - somewhere in the region of 400 million citizens - and the entire population of East Meg One are dead.
* Necropolis - not as high as some previous conflicts, but still huge amounts of deaths.
* Judgement Day - billions are killed.
* Total War - terrorists blow up a number of [[City Block|City Blocks]], killing 4,000,000 citizens in the process.

==[[Fallout]]==
* The Great War of [[October 23]] [[2077]] and following nuclear winter reduces the population of the [[United States]] from 400 million to less than a million; It can be deduced that in China and elsewhere the death count is equally horrifying.
* In [[Fallout 2]], the Enclave devises a toxic agent to kill the remaining population of the world.