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** Nami and Nojiko's original hometown was destroyed in a fight between Marines and pirates, which left the two orphaned and adopted by a Navy soldier named Bell-mere. Downplayed since this happened when both were very young (Nami was too little to remember at all), they both consider Cocoyashi Village where they were raised their home.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', it is common on [[DeathWorld Remnant]] for [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] to destroy towns and villages that exist outside the protective confines of the Kingdoms. Huntsmen exist to protect the people from the Grimm, but they can't match the sheer amount of Grimm that exist. Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie want to become Huntsmen, having survived an attack on Ren's home village Kuroyuri during their childhood. By Volume 4, they eventually defeat the Grimm that caused Kuroyuri's destruction. Later, in the Atlas Arc, their childhood experiences drive their behaviour towards the threat the BigBad Salem poses to Atlas; they take different paths to each other, triggering [[HeroicSelfDeprication imposter syndrome]] in Ren and an identity crisis for Nora.

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[[caption-width-right:319:[-Now where is the convenient survivor of this flashback?-][[labelnote:Note]]It's not who you think it is.[[/labelnote]]]]

* In Creator/ProZD's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_01Z497SFa8 RPGs with tons of characters]]," Gunther was the only other survivor when his brother Lysanderoth killed everyone in their village, for which Gunther swore revenge. Immediately subverted, as the player finds Gunther boring and leaves him out of his party. To add insult to injury, at least one of the characters he ''does'' bring along doesn't even know who Lysanderoth is.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': ''StartOfDarkness'' shows that Redcloak's village and all of its inhabitants (except for him and his brother) were destroyed by the Sapphire Guard shortly after his initiation as a cleric.
** A variant: ''Origins of the [=PCs=]'' reveals that Durkon was sent away from the dwarven lands due to a prophecy that said it would get destroyed if he ever returned. Durkon does not know this, and a second prophecy has confirmed that he (or at least [[spoiler:his body]]) ''would'' get to come home one day. Uh-oh...

-->-- '''Mark Kermode,''' reviewing ''Film/{{Pompeii}}''

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', both [[VillainProtagonist Megamind's]] and Metro Man's planets (and to a much lesser extent, possibly their home solar system) are sucked in by a black hole.

* Creator/DreamWorks:

* The player character in ''Literature/ProphecyApprovedCompanion'' recognises when this trope is about to activate, and uses glitches to protect the overpowered tutorial healer character, Qube, so that he doesn't have to pay for healing potions. He also lies to Qube that the rest of the village survived, which looks like it'll bite him in the end.

[[caption-width-right:319:[-Now where is the convenient survivor of this flashback?-] ]]

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' has one straight example involving the slaughter of the titular character's village by goblins, which set him on the path of becoming the living bane for the entire race, but interestingly enough it has several other {{defied|Trope}} examples. The gods have a habit of trying to give a DarkAndTroubledPast to adventurers they view as having potential for interesting "stories", mainly through having their hometowns slaughtered by goblins, but Goblin Slayer's status as ImmuneToFate has resulted in him preventing such circumstances from occuring, which has lead to divinely intended cases of dark and brooding people instead growing up happy and well-adjusted, along with preventing seasoned adventurers from experiencing a MyGreatestFailure by losing ''their'' hometowns due to being unable to make it in time.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', Copy Rezo destroys Sairaag, Syphiel's hometown. In ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Next'', Lina Inverse destroys Xoana, Martina's hometown.
* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'' opens with the massacre of the protagonist's village by a gunslinger in black, and once she comes to terms with that she sets out on a journey to save the world.

* In the remade ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', all twelve planets occupied by humans are razed by the enemy Cylons, using nuclear weapons. It is the catalyst that begins the events in the series.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "The Grid", Scott Bowman discovers that almost everyone in his hometown of Halford, Washington has been taken over by a computer.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s RidiculouslyHumanRobot Data was created in a colony on the planet of Omicron Theta on which all life was mysteriously and utterly annihilated (right down to the level of ''soil bacteria'') by a space entity that resembles a giant snowflake. After the disaster, Data was found by the crew of the USS Tripoli when they came to investigate. He was deactivated during the attack so the creature didn't count him as alive, and is effectively the sole survivor of the entire colony. Several later episodes see them either dealing with the return of this creature, or tracking it down.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'':
** [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] was sent alongside [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her cousin]] to Earth moments before her homeplanet Krypton was destroyed, making them and the Fort Rozz prisoners the only surviving Kryptonians. [[spoiler:In Season 3, it is revealed that select Kryptonians, including Kara's parents, were able to relocate to an asteroid, where they established a new Kryptonian settlement called Argo City.]]
** [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El]]'s homeplanet, Daxam, was devastated during Krypton's destruction, which affected its moons, causing gravity to fluctuate and solar storms to ravage the planet. While not destroyed, the planet was made uninhabitable.
* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': Though not completely destroyed, much of the protagonists' home village Emond's Field is burned and many residents killed in the pilot by attacking Trollocs.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': It is common on [[DeathWorld Remnant]] for [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] to destroy towns and villages that exist outside the protective confines of the Kingdoms. Huntsmen exist to protect the people from the Grimm, but they can't match the sheer amount of Grimm that exist. Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie want to become Huntsmen, having survived an attack on Ren's home village Kuroyuri during their childhood. By Volume 4, they eventually defeat the Grimm that caused Kuroyuri's destruction. Later, in the Atlas Arc, their childhood experiences drive their behaviour towards the threat the BigBad Salem poses to Atlas; they take different paths to each other, triggering [[HeroicSelfDeprication imposter syndrome]] in Ren and an identity crisis for Nora.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': It is common on [[DeathWorld Remnant]] for [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] to destroy towns and villages that exist outside the protective confines of the Kingdoms. Huntsmen exist to protect the people from the Grimm, but they can't match the sheer amount of Grimm that exist. Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie want to become Huntsmen, since they survived an attack on Ren's home village Kuroyuri during their childhood. In Volume 4, they confront the Grimm that did it in the ruins of Kuroyuri. Later, in the Atlas Arc, their childhood experience drive their behaviour towards the threat the BigBad Salem poses to Atlas; they take different paths to each other, triggering [[HeroicSelfDeprication imposter syndrome]] in Ren and an identity crisis for Nora.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': It is common on [[DeathWorld Remnant]] for [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] to destroy towns and villages that exist outside the protective confines of the Kingdoms. Huntsmen exist to protect the people from the Grimm, but they cannot match the sheer amount of Grimm that exist. Ren and Nora want to become Huntsmen because they are the only survivors of an attack on Ren's home village when they were children. In Volume 4, they confront the Grimm that did it in the ruins of the village that started their journey. In the Atlas Arc, their experience as children drive their behaviour towards the threat the BigBad poses to Atlas; they end up taking different paths to each other, triggering [[HeroicSelfDeprication imposter sydrome]] in Ren and an identity crisis for Nora.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': It is common on [[DeathWorld Remnant]] for [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] to destroy towns and villages that exist outside the protective confines of the Kingdoms. Huntsmen exist to protect the people from the Grimm, but they cannot match the sheer amount of Grimm that exist. Ren and Nora want to become Huntsmen because they are the only survivors of an attack on Ren's home village when they were children. In Volume 4, they confront the Grimm that did it in the ruins of the village that started their journey. In the Atlas Arc, their experience as children drive their behaviour towards the threat the BigBad poses to Atlas; they end up taking different paths to each other, triggering an ImposterSyndrome panic in Ren and an identity crisis for Nora.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** This is a fairly common occurrence on [[DeathWorld Remnant]]. Since the Creatures of Grimm seem to exist just to wipe out humanity, villages and cities outside the Four Kingdoms (and inside them is by no means a guarantee of safety either) tend to be frequent targets, and you have the various [[BanditClan Bandit Clans]] that roam around out there. In the main cast, however, we have Lie Ren whose home village of Kuroyuri was destoryed by Grimm years ago. [[spoiler:Years later when the group is travelling throughout Anima and try to seek help for Qrow's wounds, they eventually reach Kuroyuri with Ren initially reluctant to return until the very same Grimm that caused the town's destruction reappears and Ren finally kills it for good.]]
** Four Volumes later when [[BigBad Salem]] and her forces reach Weiss' home, the Kingdom of Atlas, her forces manage to breach the capital city's defenses and attack. [[spoiler:Despite the Grimm invasion being temporarily stopped, Ironwood becomes the [[ArcVillain]] of the Volume from that point and threatens to destroy Mantle himself. By the end of the Volume, Weiss' loses not just her hometown, but her entire home kingdom.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': This is a fairly common occurrence on [[DeathWorld Remnant]]. Since the Creatures of Grimm seem to exist just to wipe out humanity, villages and cities outside the Four Kingdoms (and inside them is by no means a guarantee of safety either) tend to be frequent targets, and you have the various [[BanditClan Bandit Clans]] that roam around out there. In the main cast, however, we have [[spoiler: Lie Ren]] whose home village of [[spoiler: Kuroyuri]] was destoryed by Grimm years ago.

* In ''Manga/{{Aposimz}}'' Etherow's White Diamond Beam village got wiped out by Rebedoa soldiers in the first chapter, with Biko abducted and him being the only survivor.

* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'' -- the destruction of Recca's hometown and the wholesale slaughter of the Hokage clan is what causes Recca to be [[spoiler: sent forward in time to the modern day]].

*** Hohenheim: "Pinako, where is my house? I can't seem to find it."

*** In [[Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer the movie]], [[spoiler:the ELS homeworld was destroyed in a supernova. This is why they are spreading out through space, looking for a new home.]]

* Possibly the most famous is the destruction of Luke's home in ''Franchise/StarWars'', killing his aunt and uncle but freeing him to leave the planet. Notice that he [[AngstWhatAngst never mentions them ever again]], and instead [[TellMeAboutMyFather obsesses over his father]] who ''didn't'' raise him.

* In Chapter 2 of ''Fanfic/TheEggTeam'', Honeycomb Village is introduced, and after a short amount of time, destroyed. This is the hometown of Teddy, who ends up being forced into working for Eggman as a result of this event, kickstarting his adventure with Luna and Kit