Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-1705775-20160828213916

in modern writing few writers make any race (alien or not) "purely evil" - that's a trait left from older fiction.. yes, it exists but so do things like "Depraved Bisexuals".. it was accepted at the time but not so much now.. since we list historical media as well as moden media we have to include some of these things but it still doesn't mean the wiki as a whole supports the idea race has anything to do with evil - fiction or otherwise..

even Gremlins, a "universally evil" species, had an exception - Gizmo.

besides we use the term "Hostile Species" rather than "evil".. a species or culture can be hostile, it doesn't mean they are "evil" - just that they are dangerous to other life forms.

people often use Daleks as an example of "totally evil" races, recent Doctor Who has erased that argument and even Daleks can now have choices between good and evil.. the vast majority of Daleks are evil but some rebel against that cultural mindset.

many races written as "purely evil" are races not fully explored in-universe and when the protagonists start to explore the race more they see the "monsters" are not too different from themselves (xenomorphs are an exception because they were built as bio-weapons, it's all they know.. parasitic races are much harder to see as "good" but if we're truly picky they aren't "evil" either.. they just happen to pose extreme danger to us by the means they reproduce / survive).