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In the immortal lines of W.B. Yeats’s great poem, “The Second Coming”:“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

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"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
The alien, "Emporer Guillotine," from the planet Gargoyle, has a army of thugs called, (of course) "the gargoyle gang," as well as an endless supply of immense hostile creatures that are routinely loosed upon the Earth to smash buildings, make loud noises, panic the populace, etc.
When a saboteur blows up a controversial government research lab, two experimental animals are loosed in a small community in Washington State.
He is loosed by a nuclear explosion.
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