History Main / ApocalypseMaiden

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'''s [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP 231-7]] is a pregnant young woman recovered along with six others and a document entitled "Seven Brides, Seven Seals" from a "satanic sex cult". The first gave birth shortly afterward; the resulting abomination killed an undisclosed number (the CensorBox is at least three digits) of people before being put down by Foundation personnel. Attempts to remove the fetus, or the death of the mother, had similar results in the next five but with the scale of the event and number of casualties increasing exponentially. SCP 231-7 giving birth is expected to cause a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt class XK End-of-the-World scenario]]. The containment procedures which have prevented this so far are...[[NothingIsScarier best left unmentioned]]. Other than to say that they're worse than you think they are, and have caused numerous suicides among staff despite regular psychological examinations, short tours of duty, and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia class A amnestics]] available on request. An EasterEgg message on the page reveals that the Foundation — or people manipulating it — doesn't want to find a better solution. They ''want'' the unborn Apocalypse right where it already is.

* ComicBook/CaptainAtom in ''Captain Atom: Armageddon'' discovers that ''he'' is going to destroy the Wildstorm universe if he stays there, and that he also can't leave, ''and'' that if he dies, the destruction will happen instantly. In the end, [[DeusExMachina Nikola cures him]] and sends him home. Then ''she'' destroys the universe, then remakes it.

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* In Chapter 7 of ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', Catie visits a dark alternate reality where the air itself is toxic to outsiders. Visitors must wear special masks to breathe, but the natives live just fine without them. Sadly, due to Catie being part of the goddess Virtua, her mere presence is enough to kick-start the environment, turning everything lush and green, but altering the atmosphere to the point where the natives can no longer breathe, and most of them end up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath. The “apocalypse” she causes is more like a WorldHealingWave, but it sure isn’t seen that way by the one survivor, who swears revenge and [[CreateYourOwnVillain becomes Catie’s arch-nemesis]].
* VideoGame/FosteringApocalypse: Barrett is a demon child known as the [[PlanetEater World Eater]] summoned by an ApocalypseCult to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt but has the heart of a nice and innocent CheerfulChild. The hippies you find midway are the "nip it in the bud" antagonists and the villains want her to fullfil her destiny. Del is the main character who protects her.

* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'', the main villain Celia Fortner seeks to revive Dracula.
** Oddly, this is a twisted example. Celia's cult, unlike Graham's from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'', worships ''God'', and they fear for the Light [[BalanceOfGoodAndEvil if there is no Darkness]]. Hence, they wish for a new Dark Lord only to cover their own asses.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' plays with this. To Sylvarant, Colette is the [[TheMessiah Messianic]] BarrierMaiden. But to Tethe'alla she is this trope. Finding that out is what makes the main party decide to ScrewDestiny and TakeAThirdOption. Helps that the BigBad is behind the whole corrupt system, giving them a target to beat up.

* The reason why Richter's after Marta in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld''. He should have been more concerned with Emil.
* The [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Score]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' has Luke fon Fabre ultimately be this. The prophesied destruction of Akzeriuth is supposed to kick off a series of events that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The plot kicked off because Van decided to make the world end on ''his'' terms and thus created the replica of the original Luke fon Fabre to take the original's place. This instead ends up kicking off events that result in ''preventing'' the end of the world and the choice to ScrewDestiny by the main party.
* Estelle in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''. As a Child of the Full Moon she naturally disrupts the [[{{Mana}} Aer flow]] of the planet, making her very existence a huge contributor to the decay of both the world and the seal on an ancient EldritchAbomination.
* Shirley from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia''. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Great job taking away all her reasons for ''NOT'' wanting to destroy humanity, Senel]].

** ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment'' has four of them: Tatsuya Suou, Lisa Silverman, Eikichi Mishina and Jun Kashihara. If any of these four remember the previous reality, then [[BigBad Nyarlathotep]] will be able to start making rumors come true again, which makes the definition of "reality" rather tenuous at best. Should all of them remember, reality will entirely reset to its previous state, in which planet Earth no longer exists. The game starts when the first of these four remembers, and he spends the rest of the game trying to stop the others from doing so. Eventually, Tatsuya manages to let go of his memories, and reality is set back to normal.

** ''VideoGame/Persona4'''s GreaterScopeVillain created three of these as part of her plan. Her three "champions" were each given a powerful Shadow that would release the fog from the TV world to bring despair (Taro Namatame and Kunino-Sagiri), emptiness (Tohru Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri), or hope (Yu Narukami and Marie) in the event of their respective victory.

* A few examples from ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':

* Sakura Matou in the Heaven's Feel path of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Rose Walker is a variation; she is a "vortex", whose existence causes the barriers between different people's dreams to break down, which drives them mad in the short term, and since dreams have the power to literally shape reality, she would ultimately destroy the world. The damage she could do is so serious that stopping a vortex is the only situation where Morpheus is allowed to actually kill a mortal. He states that the last time he didn't stop such a vortex, it brought about the end of an entire planet.

* 'Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': There's [[TomatoInTheMirror Twilight herself]] in Dark World. The true BigBad is Twilight's [[FutureMeScaresMe potential future self]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Paradox]], who's trapped Discord in a GroundhogDayLoop for several hundred million years, with her goal being for Twilight to become her and then continue the loop, [[OmnicidalManiac destroying Dark World]] in the process. Twilight, quite naturally, rebels upon realizing this.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''; there are the two male versions of this; TheChosenMany [[MessianicArchetype Naruto]] and [[DarkMessiah Nagato]] who were destined to bring a new golden age to the world...or bring it into complete and utter ruin; the latter took the second road at least until before he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath died]] while the former still remains the saviour...for now.

* Played with in ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer''. The ApocalypseMaiden ''wants'' to cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and the [[AntiHero protagonist]] is helping her to accomplish that goal. At least, that was his cover for almost the entire series. He had been plotting to ''stop'' her since Day 1.
* Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. The Outer Senshi misunderstand her job thinking it is a bad thing (And confuse her with Mistress 9 who's possessing her and is TheAntiChrist) and try to prevent her from awakening. They fail and she explains her job is to serve as a reset button in the event that the bad guys win, allowing Sailor Moon to restore the world into its proper form. She doesn't get to destroy the world in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] (she defeats the BigBad with Sailor Moon's help, then is reborn as a baby), but does in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]]; Sailor Moon restores it moments later.
* One of the main characters of ''Manga/BlueSeed'' gets this status near the end of the series...
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', BigBad Fate Averruncus wants to erase Mundus Magicus and put its inhabitants into a LotusEaterMachine to keep them from disappearing when Mundus Magicus collapses on its own. And it turns out that he needs Asuna's AntiMagic abilities to do it. But in the end, Fate and his group are defeated, and Asuna channels her powers through a WorldHealingWave instead.
* A major theme in ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'', the reason most of the gods are trying to kill Loki is simply BecauseDestinySaysSo that he will destroy the world.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'': Libra is an entity that has the power to destroy both worlds and she carries fragments of Apocalymon's data in her. Libra is the codename Homoestasis gave to Meicoomon, and it is shown throughout the movie that she is the cause of the infections and distortions. Meicoomon doesn't evolve like other Digimon, but ''mutates'' into stronger and more dangerous forms to increase her power. The highest point of her mutation happens when she fuses with Ofanimon: Falldown Mode, Raguelmon (Meicoomon's Ultimate/[[DubNameChange Mega]] level) takes a completely new form, the true ApocalypseMaiden: Ordinemon.
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Juri Katou unwillingly becomes this for the BigBad after suffering from a ''massive'' BreakTheCutie moment.
* ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'' has a male example played at its straightest, Yuujin Oozora, or YJ-14, for being both TheHero's [[HoYay most treasured friend]], and the BigBad's creation that is made to serve his goal, resetting and controlling the world by turning all humanity into data. Not that he's willing to do those, of course. As a programmed android, he just can't resist his creator's wish that wants to gain control of him back, after long enough letting the main character has him as a friend. While he does complete his job as ApocalypseMaiden, TheHero still wants to bring him back and restore the world. TheHero's determination interests the BigBad, and which then gives him a chance, by going through SadisticChoice.
* The ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', Pacifica Cassul. 99% of the world wants to kill her because she's destined to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, while some feel oddly compelled to protect her. Resultantly, we've got both 'villains' who are really just scared people who are afraid to see their world collapse around their ears, or obeying orders from up on high...and REAL villains who are manipulating events for their own advantage, with complete disregard for the number of lives involved. It turns out that the apocalypse she's set to bring isn't so bad after all...
* ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'' has Balder who, like his basis in Myth/NorseMythology, will bring on the end of the world unless Loki kills him with mistletoe. The heroine, Yui, gets a preview of what his unleashed power would look like when he goes {{Yandere}} for her halfway through the series. When it comes time to do the deed, Loki cannot, because he loves Balder, so Balder's power is unleashed and the other gods must work together to save the world from him -- and hopefully save their friend as well.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', more specifically the second season (NEXT), may have fallen into this. When the team is facing the BigBad, Lina wonders if she should fight it because a) she doesn't think she can possibly win and b) the only way she can win is with a DangerousForbiddenTechnique called Giga Slave that has a high chance of wiping out all existence. At this point, some of the members have to warn her that under certain circumstances, they may have to fight her. Turns out that the [[TheManBehindTheMan true]] BigBad wants her to use the technique and tries to force her into it, because the ultimate goal of demons is to return the universe to empty blackness.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': Cosmo turns out to have been implanted with an audio and visual tracking device allowing the BigBad to see every single move she makes, thus leading them right to the good guys the whole time, basically dooming their every effort. [[TheWoobie Cosmo angsts about this considerably]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Shadow]] just outright wants to kill her and even just removing the transmitter would blind and deafen her permanently, and everyone else rallies to her side deciding to [[TakeAThirdOption defeat the Big Bad]] even ''with'' the transmitter. She still dies, in an HeroicSacrifice.
* Hayate Yagami of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', the latest master of the [[ArtifactOfDoom Book of Darkness]], a rather hazardous title considering how all previous masters died blowing up their worlds after the book possessed them and [[OmnicidalManiac went omnicidal]]. Much discussions about the cruelty of fate were had.
* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied'' definitely fits this, [[EnemyWithin inner demon]] style. Eventually, her Lucy/Kaede and Nyu personalities [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg Kouta to kill her]] now that her homicidal Diclonius instincts personality has finally taken over and started [[OneManArmy killing humans everywhere on the world at rates rivaling WMDs]] in an attempt to [[ApocalypseHow wipe out humanity]] to conquer the world for her species.
* In the second season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', Yin/"Izanami" ends up as one of these. Although the GainaxEnding and MindScrew make it hard to say for sure exactly what happened, it appears that she was possessed by an EldritchAbomination but managed to suppress it for a while; when it woke up, she causes Contractors to commit suicide and attempts to reach [[EldritchLocation Hell's Gate]]. When she meets her counterpart "Izanagi" (Shion), she can cause the Gate to open, which, whatever it does, can't possibly be good given what we've seen of the place and some very apocalyptic-sounding prophecies from Amber. Hei spends most of the season trying to find her and [[ShootTheDog kill her]] to prevent this. He ends up basically exorcising her instead.
* In a rather weird example, ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' can bring about the end of the world on a whim, and she does not know it. Everyone tries to keep her pretty happy and/or occupied, so her subconscious doesn't act on such things. Although Kyon tends to push this when he gets annoyed at her.
* In ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'', Ruriko Ikusawa is briefly turned into this by the enemy when she becomes BrainwashedAndCrazy by the BigBad. Shun Ukiya manages to talk her out of it, though.
* Mayo Sakaki from the 3rd ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' OVA. She very nearly destroys the entire Universe of the Four Gods just to get a fairy-tale ending with Tamahome. Little does she know it's a sort of BatmanGambit deployed by Miaka to save the Universe of the Four Gods!
* In Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', Kamui and his best friend Fuuma are "twin stars" - one destined to save the earth, the other destined to destroy it. Kamui chose to save the world, so Fuuma got stuck with the role of destroying it, along with gaining a evil personality change to go with his FaceHeelTurn.
** To clarify, Fuuma is destined to fill the empty seat left when Kamui picks his side. If Kamui were to join the Dragons of the Earth, Fuuma would go to the Dragons of the Heaven. But Kamui chooses to join the Heavens, so Fuuma goes to the Earth. Either way, destiny is skewed toward the Dragons of the Earth winning. Meaning that there will be a catastrophe that wipes out mankind, but other life goes on. The only version where this really means that Fuuma is a SlasherSmile maniac is the animated movie, though. Otherwise, he's still as BlackAndGrayMorality as everyone else in the series.
%%* The main character, Juliet Fiamatta Ars Di Capulet in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''.
* In ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', it is revealed that Little Neese, the girl that spends most of the first part of the show sleeping in the arms of several of the older characters, or as an [[ShrinkingViolet extremely shy]] [[MysticalWaif teenage priestess]] in the second is one of the three key objects for a ritual that will destroy the entire continent. As there's no place where she would be safe from being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer ''and'' she has known her condition as an ApocalypseMaiden ever since she was young, she rather takes her chance and tries [[StormingTheCastle to take him down before he finds her]].
* Brief in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', whose ''penis'' is the key to Hell!
* Played straight with Chise from ''Manga/{{Saikano}}''.
* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** In ''Anime/MacrossZero'', Sara Nome is the priestess of Mayan Island; this means that she has the power to control the Bird-Human, an ancient Protoculture biomecha designed to destroy humanity if their warlike tendencies are deemed to be uncontrollable.
** ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' has Sheryl and then Ranka engineered to affect the Vajra with their singing and keep them off the BigBad until she can use Ranka to pull off an AssimilationPlot for the entire galaxy. Also, Ranka's pet Ai-kun counts to some extent since the cute little critter is eventually revealed to be a larval Vajra which takes Ranka back to the Vajra homeworld for use by the BigBad.
* Miharu from ''Anime/{{Gasaraki}}'' seems to be one. In the end, the ''real'' one is Yuushiro's little sister Misuzu.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Luffy actually became this in the Fishman Island arc (or at least was believed to be one), where the fortune teller Madame Shirley predicts a boy with a Straw Hat who will spell doom for Fishman Island.
** And near the end of that arc, we have Shirahoshi, who is said to have a power able to destroy the whole ''world'' and is mostly unaware of it. Past uses of this power back up this claim pretty well.
** Robin is also a potential ApocalypseMaiden, as she could allow the recreation of an ancient WeaponOfMassDestruction because she's the only one who can read Poneglyphs it may be written on. It's part of the reason the World Government considers her very existence a crime. [[{{Hypocrite}} Even though they're trying to make that same weapon themselves.]]
* From Hiro Mashima's works:
** ''Manga/FairyTail'' gives us Mavis Vermillion, seemingly the series' BigGood, in a huge plot twist revealed in the final arc of the series. At first it seems she's a CuteGhostGirl, being the deceased founder of Fairy Tail who was so powerful that she somehow transcended ''death itself''. It later turns out that as a result of an extremely dangerous spell she learned from the series' BigBad, Zeref, Mavis got slapped with the [[FateWorseThanDeath Curse of Contradictions]], which damns the condemned to an [[CompleteImmortality immortal]] life of loneliness via an InstantDeathRadius that kills anyone they ever come to care about. It wasn't until ''after'' she fell in love with Zeref, wanting to give EternalLove a shot to give them both a chance at happiness in their incredibly lonely and miserable existences that Mavis seemingly dies (except [[OnlyMostlyDead not really]]), and Fairy Tail's Second Master, Precht, discovers that deep inside of Mavis lies [[MacGuffin Fairy Heart]], a.k.a. Lumen Histoire, a potential source of infinite magic (and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation loses his mind]] as a result). Which Zeref then wishes to use to power a universal ResetButton to RetGone the current universe and stop himself (and by extension, Mavis as well) from ever getting cursed in the first place. Oops.
** In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', the female lead, Elie, possesses Etherion inside her body, a power capable of destroying the entire world if unleashed, but it's also the only thing that can stop the Endless and save it.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': ''The title character'', for the exact same reasons that she's the MacGuffinSuperPerson. [[GenreDeconstruction It's that kind of show]].
* Mana/Inori in ''Anime/GuiltyCrown''.
* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' movie, we have none other than ''Belldandy'' herself. With a good chunk of her memories gone, her heart in great turmoil due to believing that DarkMagicalGirl Morgan has won Keiichi over ''and'' TheVirus invading her body, the AntiVillain Celestine uses her to hack into Yggrasil's system and try resetting both Yggrasil and the Earth to wipe away all suffering...
* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has the Children of Misfortune, who all turn out to be tragic subversions. The Jury, beings who have done their best to pre-plan every event in every world to create the best 'stories,' created the Baskervilles to act as their enforcers against [[YouCantFightFate any possible]] [[SpannerInTheWorks. Since the Children of Misfortune were abnormal and unpredictable beings born at the whim of [[SentientCosmicForce the Core]] and naturally ImmuneToFate, they were the main targets. Due to situations suspicious in hindsight, these Children were often born as close family members of the Baskervilles, but this did not save them from being [[HumanSacrifice ritualistically executed]] in [[SarcasmMode celebration]] every time a Baskerville heir came of age. To be fair, the Baskervilles had been raised on the belief that the Children of Misfortune were too dangerous to be allowed to live for ''centuries'', and the Jury fed into the Baskervilles' own self-importance by glorifying their job as critical to the survival of the world. To be unfair, killing one of these Children caused a series of events that nearly ended the world for real.
* In ''Anime/ThisUglyYetBeautifulWorld'', Hikari is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Extinction turned into an amnesiac human girl.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Yuya, Yugo and Yuto cross this trope with AntiAntichrist. These characters were ''supposed'' to become violent, dangerous duelists who wanted only destruction, but all turned out to be decent people. Thus, the person who set them up as AntiChrist in the first place has begun forcing them to carry out his apocalypse plan [[SuperpoweredEvilSide via possession]]. The fourth counterpart, Yuri, is a straight AntiChrist, and if he manages to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb the other three]] [[GodhoodSeeker he'll become a god]] [[ApocalypseHow and destroy the multiverse]]. As long as these characters exist, it's only a matter of time before the apocalypse gets kicked off.
* During the Chapter Black saga of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Kazuma Kuwabara's [[LaserBlade Spirit Sword]] [[EvolvingWeapon evolves]] into the ''Dimension'' Sword, which, as its name implies, can destroy dimensional barriers. The bad guys thus kidnap him in order to use his power to destroy the barrier between the Human and Demon Worlds. Obviously, Kuwabara would never cooperate with them; they will just have [[ImAHumanitarian Gourmet]] eat him whole to [[PowerCopying get his power]].
* The Maidens of Choosing in ''Anime/FenaPiratePrincess'' who must choose whether the world will end or continue each generation. [[spoiler: The titular character is revealed to be the current Maiden and ultimately chooses to let the world continue]].

* Murakumo Units in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'' are this. As [[spoiler:Penny brings up to Noel in Chapter 40, the intended purpose of their creation is to usher in the end of all of Remnant]].
* [[Manga/LuckyStar Kagami Hiiragi]] in ''Fanfic/StarsAbove''. Her body contains a [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Demon]] that can potentially destroy the Multiverse. She's also a BarrierMaiden...it's complicated.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' we have [[TomatoInTheMirror Twilight herself]] in Dark World. The true BigBad is Twilight's [[FutureMeScaresMe potential future self]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nightmare Paradox]], who's trapped Discord in a GroundhogDayLoop for several hundred million years, with her goal being for Twilight to become her and then continue the loop, [[OmnicidalManiac destroying Dark World]] in the process. Twilight, quite naturally, rebels upon realizing this.
* In ''Fanfic/AnExtendedPerformance'', Princess Celestia fears that her younger sister Princess Luna may be this: if she isn't stopped, she will freeze the entire world with the TheNightThatNeverEnds. The problems are that Nightmare Moon is hideously ''powerful'', and Luna is the pony whom Celestia loves most of all in existence.
* Shinji in ''Re-Take'' when revealed to be an angel. Much like Kaworu in the canon series, his existence leaves the possibility for the Third Impact to occur in the alternate timeline he's in so he makes a HeroicSacrifice to prevent it.
* In the universe of ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', it turns out the Alicorns are this in a sense: [[GodOfEvil Grogar]] was imprisoned by [[GodOfGood Harmony]] and while she naturally is not going to willingly release him, Alicorn Magic will work just as well to break his seal and other than Harmony seems to be the only thing that can. Given Grogar one of the [[PhysicalGod three most powerful beings]] in the entire story (matched only by Harmony and [[BigBad Bagan]]), this would be ''very'' bad. Especially if, as shown in Empress Flurry Heart's BadFuture, [[EvilVersusEvil he and Bagan go to war with one another]] as Chrysalis predicts they will.
* Elsa and her alternate universe counterpart Iris from ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'' are unknowingly half-god through their parents. They were destined from birth to bring the end of the world through an ice age, however their parents loved them too much to allow them to fulfil their destinies.
* In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/19844/sustenance-of-hatred Sustenance of Hatred]], [[HumansAreCthulhu ALL humans]] have the potential to become this in the fic's Equestria as a result of a force of darkness known as [[SentientCosmicForce The Siphon]], which induces a SuperPoweredEvilSide can turn them into [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Beasts Of The Apocalypse]] if they lose control of it. The protagonist, Jonas, becomes an Apocalypse Maiden as a result.
* In ''TheRoadToBeAPokemonMaster'', ''Serena'' of all people is this. Lugia warns Ash about her, telling him that she can become his greatest enemy, and Ho-Oh reveals that she's destined to destroy the world, and Ash is the only one who can stop her.

* Another example might be ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3''. It turns out that everyone involved (except [[TheChessmaster Arkham]], who's orchestrating it all) is required to open the gates of hell, meaning that if any of them had died before then, hell can stay closed forever. Of course, it was prophesied that the Sons of Sparda would save the day, so it may be a subversion. (odd in that the demons seem have it out for them)

* The ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series has Alessa Gillespie. She was born with psychic powers in an EldritchLocation, with Dahlia, the leader of the local [[ReligionOfEvil cult]], for a [[AbusiveParents mother]]. Dahlia's plan was to release/summon the cult's God, which would probably be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and doing so would involve [[Mystical Pregnancy impregnating]] a girl with the God's [[FetusTerrible fetus]]. After several attempts on random kidnapped girls failed, Dahlia decided to use her own daughter, and the ritual actually succeeded. However, Alessa [[VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins somehow]] split off a piece of her soul, which went on to manifest as a baby in the local graveyard, where it was found by a young married couple who were subject to the LawOfInverseFertility and believed that BabiesMakeEverythingBetter. Dahlia had her severely burned daughter imprisoned in a secret room in the basement of the town hospital and got started on a spell that would draw the other piece of Alessa's soul back to the town so they could make her whole again and complete the birthing ritual. Meanwhile, the fetus in Alessa is feeding on her hatred and anger. Eventually, it's up to the adoptive father of the soul's missing piece to navigate the GambitPileUp and save the day.
** Heather, the protagonist of [[VideoGame SilentHill3]] turns out to be the reincarnation of Alessa, who somehow still has the God's fetus inside of her. One of the villains, Claudia, is Alessa's grown up EvilFormerFriend who never lost faith in the Order's teachings, and is now a full-fledged fanatic. Claudia wants Heather to give birth to God, because she genuinely believes that that God will usher in a paradise where everyone will always be happy. Of course, God [[ObviouslyEvil feeds on hatred]], so the best way to approach it would be to kill Heather's loving father and set her down a path of revenge. Another villain, Vincent, is worried that the "paradise" wouldn't be as enjoyable as the world he's always known, so he manipulates Heather into fighting Claudia's AmbiguouslyHuman father for an artifact that could prevent the birth of God.

* Heather, the protagonist of [[VideoGame SilentHill3]] turns out to be the reincarnation of Alessa, who somehow still has the God's fetus inside of her. One of the villains, Claudia, is Alessa's grown up EvilFormerFriend who never lost faith in the Order's teachings, and is now a full-fledged fanatic. Claudia wants Heather to give birth to God, because she genuinely believes that that God will usher in a paradise where everyone will always be happy. Of course, God [[ObviouslyEvil feeds on hatred]], so the best way to approach it would be to kill Heather's loving father and set her down a path of revenge. Another villain, Vincent, is worried that the "paradise" wouldn't be as enjoyable as the world he's always known, so he manipulates Heather into fighting Claudia's AmbiguouslyHuman father for an artifact that could prevent the birth of God.

* The''Franchise/SilentHill'' series has Alessa Gillespie. She was born with psychic powers in an EldritchLocation, with Dahlia, the leader of the local [[ReligionOfEvil cult]], for a [[AbusiveParents mother]]. Dahlia's plan was to release/summon the cult's God, which would probably be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and doing so would involve [[Mystical Pregnancy impregnating]] a girl with the God's [[FetusTerrible fetus]]. After several attempts on random kidnapped girls failed, Dahlia decided to use her own daughter, and the ritual actually succeeded. However, Alessa [[VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins somehow]] split off a piece of her soul, which went on to manifest as a baby in the local graveyard, where it was found by a young married couple who were subject to the LawOfInverseFertility and believed that BabiesMakeEverythingBetter.

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', the Apocalpse Maiden is the protagonist, Heather, whose memories and RealityWarper powers as Alessa are awakening and threatening to destroy the world by giving birth to the cult's twisted version of "God". The heroes consider the possibility that the only way to save the world might be to kill her; one of them simply can't bring himself to do it, while another mistakenly thinks he's found [[TakeAThirdOption a third option]] that'll solve the problem. In the end, the villain saves them the trouble by gruesomely taking on the role herself, and then getting consumed by the creation an imperfect "God" that can be defeated.

** ''ComicBook/TheImmortalHulk'' expands the mythos by revealing that gamma radiation is backed by the omnicidal antithesis to the all-loving One Above All. Its ultimate goal is to possess gamma mutates like the Hulk, hijack the multiversal reincarnation cycle, and extinguish all light and life forever.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk can turn into this as of Comicbook/WorldWarHulk, where it's revealed that if gets angry enough, his strength becomes too much for him to control and will devastate entire countries simply through his footsteps and his voice destroys entire cities.

* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'''s Shun is something of a divine embodiment of death and ending, just as Hajime is life and beginning. However, he often doesn't want to play his part and bring about the end of the world. In some [[UniversalAdaptorCast settings]], such as ''Theater/TsukinoEmpire'', he finds a way around it -- in that case, summoning another world's Hajime to that world in order to restore balance so that the world could live.

* ''Anime/KamigamiNoAsobi'' has Balder who, like his basis in UsefulNotes/NorseMythology, will bring on the end of the world unless Loki kills him with mistletoe. The heroine, Yui, gets a preview of what his unleashed power would look like when he goes {{Yandere}} for her halfway through the series. When it comes time to do the deed, Loki cannot, because he loves Balder, so Balder's power is unleashed and the other gods must work together to save the world from him -- and hopefully save their friend as well.

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' is the obvious example - there, the main character, who is also the eponymous character, basically lives this trope. 99% of the world wants to kill her because she's destined to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, while the remaining percent wants to protect her because it's not HER fault. Resultantly, we've got both 'villains' who are really just scared people who are afraid to see their world collapse around their ears, or obeying orders from up on high...and REAL villains who are manipulating events for their own advantage, with complete disregard for the number of lives involved. Not to mention some of the 1% that help her are [[OmnicidalManiac pretty crazy]].
** Unlike the other series, the TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in this series is a GOOD thing.

* The main character, Juliet Fiamatta Asto Capulet in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''.

* This is essentially what happened to ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin in ''ComicBook/{{Magik}}''.

->''"Did you know there's an entire chapter devoted to you in the ''Darkhold''? That's the book of the damned. 'The Scarlet Witch is not born, she is forged. ''[...]'' It's your destiny to destroy the world."''

->''"Did you know there's an entire chapter devoted to you in the ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Darkhold]]''? That's the book of the damned. ‘The ComicBook/ScarletWitch is not born, she is forged.’ … It's your destiny to destroy the world."''

* The Maidens of Choosing in ''Anime/FenaPiratePrincess'' who must choose whether the world will end or continue each generation. [[spoiler: the titular character is revealed to be the current Maiden and ultimately chooses to let the world continue]].

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry become this in the sequel, due to the fact that his protection is in fact embers of the Phoenix Force - embers that can build into an inferno if one isn't careful. As a result, his fate is carefully balanced between saviour and destroyer.

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