Tropes on Parade

[ECSNorway]

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Actually, the anime version of the Lensman Arms race could be termed the 'Villain of the Season', as evidenced in Sailor Moon, where each season had a new tougher enemy, with nastier, more devestating battles, yet...
...there were no consequences for the average person.

ee smith's Lensman/Skylark books also had this - they detonate galaxies and Earth is always fine.

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So, sort of a combo of Sorting Algorithm of Evil and a partial Invisible To Normals?--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.