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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.

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* 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.
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==[[Battlestar Galactica (2003)|Battlestar Galactica]]==
*The evacuation of Kobol - while thirteen tribes managed to leave the planet, it can be assumed that the vast majority of Kobol's population, and perhaps the majority of each tribe, were left behind to die.
*In the Cylon War, millions of humans were killed by the Cylons, both soldiers onboard ships of the Colonial Fleet and civilians killed on planets bombed by Cylon rebels.
*In the Cylon Holocaust, twelve planets, each apparently as populated as Earth, were destroyed by the Cylon fleet; estimated casualties would be around 72 billion people, with less than 49,000 known survivors.

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