History Main / EvilVersusOblivion

** Galactus vs Unicron (NecessaryEvil who only feeds for existing and Omnigenocidal incarnation of hatred that hates all life) had Galactus overcome the Chaos Bringer.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', ''you'' are playing for the oblivion side. Kratos destroys another part of the world with each god he slays in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII GOWIII]]''. The gods are fighting to preserve the world. By the end of the game, civilization, the order of nature including the afterlife, and nearly all if not all of the entire human race is gone. Even the "evilness" of the gods is questionable. They could be [[JerkAssGods major jerks]] to humans, but only became truly evil after being infected with the evils from Pandora's Box.

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming, Part 2]]", Angelus is planning to perform a ritual that will bring about the end of the world. Spike sides with the heroes to stop him, and tells Buffy that under the big talk of wanting to end the world because they're evil, a lot of vampires like the Earth just as it is -- millions of people running around helpless like "Happy Meals with legs", and a comparative small handful of people who hunt and kill them. Angelus is just one of the few vampires insane, fanatical and (most importantly) dickish enough to actually ''do'' it, which Spike doesn't want.
* In ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', this is subverted at first with Lex Luthor, who went and took the time to travel the Multiverse killing as many Supermen as he could while whole universes were getting destroyed. However eventually played straight when all the Infinite Earths cease to exist and it's just him and the Paragons, where he finally joins forces to fight with them in restoring the universe.

*** From the same setting, there's the [[EvilVersusEvil Blood]] [[ForeverWar War]]. While how much this trope factors into the overall motivations behind it is debateable, the result boils down to this. The LawfulEvil devils eternally battle the ChaoticEvil demons for reasons long since forgotten by anyone (unless it's 4e, where Asmodeus nicked a shard of the Heart of the Abyss, and the demons are mad about that), but if the demons ever won, they would eventually overtake the whole of the multiverse through weight of sheer numbers and consume everything, which the devils don't want because it's a bit hard to rule the shredded remnants of a cosmos crawling with demons. 'Course, this goes both ways, as the constant demon attacks are preventing the devils from amassing enough power to challenge the Upper Planes, and at least if the demons gain the upper hand, they're usually too chaotic to take advantage of the opportunity and blow it with infighting. So it's generally in everyone's best interest for ''nobody'' to win. Even Asmodeus, since the constant pressure from demons keeps his devil subordinates from backstabbing each other and him too hard.

** On a larger scale, the gods verse the Primordials themselves. The Primordials are ancient beings even more powerful than the gods who created the universe, but if they had their way, it wouldn't exist long enough for life to begin as they constantly destroyed and remade it (think of a kid who smashes his sandcastle as soon as he's finished with it, only to immediately start again, ad nauseam). The Primordials aren't all inherently evil, but they are all inherently destructive; compared to the gods, who even the most evil and chaotic among them prefer a somewhat stable universe to influence; this leads to both good and evil gods uniting to overthrow and imprison the Primordials, and makes them all loathe to ever fight each other, lest the Primordials rise again.

* In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2'', the VillainProtagonist PlayerCharacter Cryptosporidium-137 is a member of a race of [[TheGreys Grey aliens]] called the Furons who came to Earth to harvest the brainstems of humans, which, thanks to some [[MarsNeedsWomen Furon sailors impregnating human women]] back in prehistoric times, contain trace amounts of pure Furon DNA that can be used to save his species from CloneDegeneration. This requires killing countless thousands of people, hence why the Furons sent Crypto, a psychopath who sees killing PunyHumans and blowing stuff up as perks of the job, to do it. The villains are [[spoiler:the Blisk, a race of [[GiantEnemyCrab lobster-like aliens]] originally from Mars who the Furons committed genocide against, but whose last survivors escaped to Earth (causing TheTunguskaEvent in the process), disguised themselves as humans, and took over Russia. By 1969, the year the game takes place, they plan to use their shadow control of the USSR to cause WorldWarIII in an act of HostileTerraforming to make Earth more hospitable to them, at the expense of all native life on Earth, humans included.]] Needless to say, Crypto has reason to find common cause with humans to prevent that from ever happening. After all, you can't harvest human brain stems if there are no humans left alive.

** The VillainTeamUp in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' begins to fracture along these lines, dividing the group between the characters who want to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]], those that just [[OmnicidalManiac want to see it go boom]], and those who don't care one way or the other. And that's not even including the ones that [[GoodAllAlong aren't really evil to begin with]].
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', ''you'' are playing for the oblivion side. Kratos destroys another part of the world with each god he slays in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII GOWIII]]''. The gods are fighting to preserve the world. By the end of the game civilization, the order of nature including the afterlife, and nearly all if not all of the entire human race is gone. Even the "evilness" of the gods is questionable. They could be [[JerkAssGods major jerks]] to humans, but only became truly evil after being infected with the evils from Pandora's Box.

* And again in ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' when Evil Lyn becomes a supporting TokenEvilTeammate to Teela's team. With magic gone ''her'' magic is gone too, and eventually the very planet itself will die, and she can't have that. [[spoiler:Though she does lighten up a bit and even comes to like them somewhat, particularly [[OddFriendship Orko]].]]

*** This is especially true of the Marauders. They may be insane in an "I reject your reality and substitute my own" sense, but they tend to have a ''significant'' edge over mages when it comes to detecting Nephandi who try to infiltrate their circles (when their wavelengths align enough that they can organize, that is). And when this happens, the Nephandus tends to have ''a very bad time''.