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When the bad guys aren't satisfied with killing one or two people at a time, and couldn't care less about Evil Is Stylish, they may hit upon the "creative" solution of applying industrial efficiency to their vile practices. Rather than spend time crafting personalized tortures for their victims, they will automate their evildoing to an efficient and loveless routine that is all the more creepy for it's impersonal detachment. It may not involve machines (though those can be used to amp up the metaphor), but a systemic approach much like a Technician Versus Performer... of evil! Examples:

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  • When the bad guys aren't satisfied with killing one or two people at a time, and couldn't care less about Evil Is Stylish, they may hit upon the "creative" solution of applying industrial efficiency to their vile practices. Rather than spend time crafting personalized tortures for their victims, they will automate their evildoing to an efficient and loveless routine that is all the more creepy for it's impersonal detachment. It may not involve machines (though those can be used to amp up the metaphor), but a systemic approach much like a Technician Versus Performer... of evil! Examples:
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  • When the bad guys aren't satisfied with killing one or two people at a time, and couldn't care less about Evil Is Stylish, they may hit upon the "creative" solution of applying industrial efficiency to their vile practices. Rather than spend time crafting personalized tortures for their victims, they will automate their evildoing to an efficient and loveless routine that is all the more creepy for it's impersonal detachment. It may not involve machines (though those can be used to amp up the metaphor), but a systemic approach much like a Technician Versus Performer... of evil! Why should vampires spend hours hunting a juicy bloodbag when they can just breed and slowly exsanguinate people in an assembly line? Or for that matter, the repressive police state may just build an all purpose Agony Beam rather than bother with psych evaluations to put political prisoners in tailor made torture chambers. A werewolf may decide that rather than wait for college students to wander into his forest to hunt, he could just kidnap people off the street and release them for sport. As with Real Life automation, one of the "benefits" of this approach is a potentially vast scale of application. While even the single murder of an undeveloped Innocent Bystander can be tragic thanks to the Rule of Empathy, mechanizing/serializing it and putting it on a national or even global level gives a sense of extra dehumanization and elevates the horror to near incomprehensible levels. And it's precisely because A Million Is a Statistic that using this trope can be risky; the flippant treatment of human life and lack of "anchoring" individuals can alienate audiences. It's not even a case of Show, Don't Tell, unless the threat or horror is represented as tangibly real it can't be conveyed even by dialog. Add Horror Hunger, Powered by a Forsaken Child or And I Must Scream with this trope for extra (evil) fuel economy. Since the execution of this idea requires order and discipline, the perpetrators will usually be Lawful Evil unless they are an uncharacteristically well organized Neutral or Chaotic Evil, or they represent Blue and Orange Morality. Less vile examples may be Obliviously Evil or an example of Humans Are Cthulhu. Compare Ludd Was Right, where technology and science are considered bad in and of themselves. Examples:
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