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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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* 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.


==[[Universal Century]] [[Gundam]]==
*[[One Year War]]
**One Week War - [[Principality of Zeon]] forces launch a surprise attack on [[Earth Federation]] garrisons and civilians in [[O'Neill cylinder|O'Neill cylinder colonies]] at [[Universal Century Locations|Side 1]] ([[Lagrange point]] 5), [[Universal Century Locations|Side 2]] (L4), and [[Universal Century Locations|Side 4]] (L5) with nuclear weapons and nerve gas. In the first day of fighting, over 2.8 billion people are killed.
**Battle of Loum - Zeon forces attack [[Universal Century Locations|Side 5]], but are met in a major space battle with the Earth Federation Space Force's fleet. The resulting battle claims another 2.5 billion civilians and kills over 500 million combatants.⏎
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==[[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.
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*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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