History Main / BurnTheOrphanage

* From ''{{Cracked}}'' magazine:

* In ''LookingForGroup'', [[http://lfgcomic.com/page/4 Richard says]] "that orphanage [[LameExcuse attacked me]]." Later made into a [[TheMerch t-shirt]] with flames in the background.

* ''DragonAge'' contains a side quest where you have to hunt down a criminal inside an orphanage. Once inside, you find a site that more closely resembles an slaughterhouse.
* In ''Hulk vs Wolverine'', Sabertooth says that after he and Lady Deathstrike get done sadistically killing Wolverine, they're going to drop the Hulk on an orphanage for shits and giggles.
* ''{{TabletopGame/Champions}}''. The supervillainess Bora was raised in an orphanage. On the day she left it, she used her super powers to destroy it with a blast of wind, completely uncaring about the children inside.

* In ''DaisyOwl'', Steve accidentally presses a self-destruction button in the orphanage.
* From ''{{Cracked}}'':
--> If they ever make a sequel [of ''{{Volcano}}''], they should save a city from a glacier by burning down an orphanage.
* ''AnsemRetort'' does this ''in the first strip''.
* In LookingForGroup, [[http://lfgcomic.com/page/4 Richard says]] "that orphanage [[LameExcuse attacked me]]." Later made into a [[TheMerch t-shirt]] with flames in the background.
* Not [[HanlonsRazor as much evil, as dangerously incompetent]], but the management of the Shalebridge Cradle orphanage in ''{{Thief}}: Deadly Shadows'' allowed a fire to spread through it, forcing them to relocate the surviving children. Of course, they were the same people who [[OrphanageOfFear semi-converted it into an asylum]]...
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': In "Space Savers", King Radical claims that he's stealing a warhead so he can fire it at an orphanage. However, given that we later learn that this is something of a non-standard warhead, it's possible that Radical's plan was [[VillainWithGoodPublicity ultimately benign]].
** Yeah, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p75 it was]]. But since he left the warhead with McNinja, he had to demolish it a mundane, non-radical way off-screen.
* Lynx, evil panther-man villain of ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', burned down an orphanage (in flashback), in case you didn't already hate him enough.
* Lothar Hex in ''ExterminatusNow'' tells a story about him hiding in an orphanage once. He blinded all the children so they couldn't recognize him and killed the youngest one to scare the others into silence.
* This ''MegaTokyo'' strip during the Playstation 2 shortage in its early days.
* In a flashback in ''{{Hellbound}}'', TheDitz struggles in her bonds as she's being [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] and accidentally throws firebrands into an orphanage or children hospital.
* If it counts, the eponymous pirates of the AbneyPark song "Airship Pirates" shoot down a ship with "a crew of nuns and orphans".

* Terumi burned down the orphanage that housed Ragna, Jin, and Saya in ''{{BlazBlue}}'s'' backstory.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': On the "Lungfishopolis" level, you rampage across a tiny town in a parody of AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever movies as terrified citizens scream around. Several of their lines refer to the orphanage, which you apparently keep just missing while destroying the generic-looking buildings.
** A slightly later line reveals that the building you destroyed ''really was'' the orphanage. The ''[[KickTheDog puppy]]'' orphanage. How could you?
* Black Mage discussed burning down an orphanage early in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'', after White Mage was horrified that he burned down the retirement home.
** When he tries to prove that Black Magic isn't inherently evil, she gives him the scenario of an orphange being on fire. Before she can even finish asking what he'd do, he gleefully starts describing the spells he'd use to pick off the survivors.
* More of a burn the temple, but this is what happened to [[spoiler:Anji]] from ''RurouniKenshin'' [[BreakTheCutie that made him into a]] WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds; the temple where he has looking after orphans was burned down, and all the orphans killed.
* In ''MSSaga'' the orphanage in which our main hero Tristan grew up in was burned down, pushing him onwards to seek justice.
* In ''JadeEmpire'', you can find an orphanage that, rather than being burned, was FLOODED... with all the children still locked inside... clawing at the door to get out while the waters inexorably rose... all while the manager was off somewhere drinking. Several of the children have lingered as ghosts - one desiring revenge over the manager, the other merely wanting to find peace and move on. You can track down the manager for them, and find that he's been [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reduced to a human wreck by guilt]]. He's terrified of returning to the orphanage, but you can drag him back there anyway, and once faced with the anger and pain of the children's spirits, he'll accept his fate... whatever that may be.

* Milder variation: In ''TheMuppetChristmasCarol'', the ghostly Marley brothers (Jacob and [[IncrediblyLamePun Robert]], played by StatlerAndWaldorf) reminisce about the year they shut down the orphanage on Christmas, leaving the kids in the snow with their [[CrossesTheLineTwice frostbitten teddy bears]].
* Referenced in ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' (the movie), when Zurg threatens to hit "The Planet of Widows and Orphans" with his mind-control ray.

* Lynx, evil panther-man villain of ''ChronoCross'', burned down an orphanage (in flashback), in case you didn't already hate him enough.

* Milder variation: In ''TheMuppetChristmas Carol'', the ghostly Marley brothers (Jacob and [[IncrediblyLamePun Robert]], played by StatlerAndWaldorf) reminisce about the year they shut down the orphanage on Christmas, leaving the kids in the snow with their [[CrossesTheLineTwice frostbitten teddy bears]].

* ''{{Psychonauts}}'': On the "Lungfishopolis" level, you rampage across a tiny town in a parody of AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever movies as terrified citizens scream around. Several of their lines refer to the orphanage, which you apparently keep just missing while destroying the generic-looking buildings.

* Milder variation: In ''The {{Muppet}} Christmas Carol'', the ghostly Marley brothers (Jacob and [[IncrediblyLamePun Robert]], played by StatlerAndWaldorf) reminisce about the year they shut down the orphanage on Christmas, leaving the kids in the snow with their [[CrossesTheLineTwice frostbitten teddy bears]].

* Black Mage discussed burning down an orphanage early in ''EightBitTheatre'', after White Mage was horrified that he burned down the retirement home.

* The young [[CompleteMonster Johan]] in ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', of course.

* Black Mage discussed burning down an orphanage early in ''8BitTheatre'', after White Mage was horrified that he burned down the retirement home.

* If it counts, the titular pirates of the AbneyPark song "Airship Pirates" shoot down a ship with "a crew of nuns and orphans".

* Black Mage discussed burning down an orphanage early in ''{{8-bit Theatre}}'', after White Mage was horrified that he burned down the retirement home.

** Yeah, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p75 it was]].

* ''{{Psychonauts}}'': On the "Lungfishopolis" level, you rampage across a tiny town in a parody of AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever movies as terrified citizens scream around. Several of their lines refer to the orphanage, which you apparently keep just missing while destroying the generic-looking buildings.

->- If they ever make a sequel [of ''{{Volcano}}''], they should save a city from a glacier by burning down an orphanage.

* ''{{The Adventures of Dr McNinja}}'': In "Space Savers", King Radical claims that he's stealing a warhead so he can fire it at an orphanage. However, given that we later learn that this is something of a non-standard warhead, it's possible that Radical's plan was [[VillainWithGoodPublicity ultimately benign]].

* In ''{{Psychonauts}}'' Goggolor steps on a puppy orphanage.

* The young [[CompleteMonster Johan]] in {{Monster}}, of course.

* ''{{The Adventures of Dr McNinja}}'': In "Space Savers", King Radical claims that he's stealing a warhead so he can blow up an orphanage with it.

This is very very rarely positive, the only way it can is if it's an Orphanage of Fear, but then again, the management of the latter usually makes it so some orphans are unable to escape the fire.

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