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* Black [=WarGreymon=] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' wanted to destroy the Digital World because he thought that was the only way for him to understand his purpose in his artificial life and soothe his pain.
** In [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the original]], the final villain, [[spoiler:Apocalypmon, was formed from the combined essences of every Digimon that inadvertently destroyed itself while trying to [[EvolutionaryLevels "digivolve" to a higher form]]. Somehow surviving in a miserable place outside of normal time and space, it sought to escape in order to make everyone else just as unhappy.]]

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction, San's backstory reveals that [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Ghidorah]] ''used'' to be this before it became the OmnicidalManiac. At first, Ghidorah inflicted mass destruction again and again because it was desperate to make [[TerribleTerrible the Old Noise]] ("'''Kill Them All'''") stop screaming in its heads, most likely wiping out entire species and worlds that were in no way culpable in Ghidorah's predicament to that end.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Alan Jonah]] is the fourth type. Having fought in some of the world's worst combat arenas for the British Army and MI6 for decades in his backstory (and having [[spoiler:[[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost his daughter]] when she was gruesomely murdered while he was away on duty]]), he believes that [[MisanthropeSupreme humanity are the real monsters above all else]] and he seeks to "[[RestartTheWorld level the global playing field]]" by unleashing the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]]. And unlike his partner [[spoiler:Emma Russell]], who genuinely believes the Titans can [[FertileFeet reverse the manmade ecological destruction]] and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans strike a coexistence with humanity]], Jonah doesn't really give a damn about what happens afterward so long as civilization as we know it is gone and there's that many fewer humans in the world, to the point that he's fine with [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] causing mass extinction and potentially wiping out '''all''' life on Earth.

* Rokudo Mukuro from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' wants to cleanse the world of mafia (and then everything else) in blood due to his ''tragic backstory''. Also because he hates humanity. Either way.

* ''VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi'' gives us [[spoiler: Sakaki, whose motivation stems from Type 4: His fiancee was murdered, and he received no cooperation from the authorities to find and punish the murderer--Nemuru Kushinada, who had to carry out the old laws on dealing with Kamibito who lost their self-control.]] This caused him to develop a grudge against the entire city of Jougamachi, and he ultimately [[spoiler: attempts to flood the village at the end of the anime.]]
** It happens under slightly different circumstances in the Visual Novel: Up to that point, he was just [[spoiler: investigating the truth behind his fiancee's death.]] But what finally pushed him to it was [[spoiler: learning that Kaori, the woman whom he had fallen in love with, had been taken away to become a "White Wolf Kannon", which he interpreted as a human sacrifice. Convinced that it was Jougamachi's laws that had taken away the women he loved, he planted bombs to blow up the dam and wipe away the city for good.]]
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', one of Enel's priests wants to stop suffering in the world and stop the fighting. How? By killing everyone.

* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', anime Legato Bluesummers just hates humanity, including himself, and is loyal to [[BigBad Knives]], therefore genocide. The manga version has a back story: child sex slave, whose response to discovering his psychic powers was to attempt to kill everyone he had ever met, instead of just his immediate tormentors. The delay this involved allowed them to figure him out and start raping him to death. Then Knives killed the building and everything in it. Except Legato.
** First time was an accident. Second time, after the kid pledged his loyalty so touchingly, was on purpose. Legato honestly was better treated by ''Knives'' than by anyone else he'd ever known. Because Knives didn't-kill-him, and asked him his name, and let him follow. Therefore, Legato wants to KillAllHumans.
* The King of the Night in ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' just wants to die but Eucliwood won't let him so by God he will kill every last person on Earth if he has to convince her to finally kill him.
* Genkaku from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' in reality he wants to save everyone from the burden of living by erasing them. This stems from a very skewed take on Buddhism: he was revealed to have been beaten and raped by a group of bullies who hung around the temple when he was younger; when the Great Tokyo Earthquake happens and these are trapped under the rubble he has an illumination of sorts and decides that it is best not to exist than to live in pain. He proceeds to butcher them all. Complete with a moment of DissonantSerenity as he explains all this while covered in blood.
* The motives of [[spoiler:King Joseph of Gallia]] in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' can be explained as such. For a long time, he was overshadowed by his immensely talented brother and was intensely jealous of him. He thought he would feel better if he got his brother out of his way, but it did not work and he ended up becoming devoid of any feelings. And then he thought perhaps destroying the world would fill the void in his heart...
* [[spoiler:Ashtaroth]] in ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami''. He can't bear the fact that [[spoiler: as a demon, he'll be despised by the mortal world more often than not just for that, even though demons [[DarkIsNotEvil are not innately evil,]] but [[OrderVersusChaos innately chaotic and exist precisely to keep the Chaos side of the cosmic balance vibrant]]. So he sets up a scheme that [[XanatosGambit can end in two ways, equally viable to him]]--either he gets to be [[GodhoodSeeker the sole god of a rewritten creation]], or [[SuicideByCop he forces God and Satan to obliterate him]].]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[spoiler:Zeref]] decides on this course of action after observing the world for the last seven years and seeing that it is still a place filled with strife. His own powers making him an EnemyToAllLivingThings and a WalkingWasteland don't help. In his own words, "If the world continues to reject me, then I will reject this world." He's [[SuicideByCop forcing a situation]] where his enemies will be forced to kill him or be killed. [[DeathSeeker Either]] [[OmnicidalManiac outcome]] is fine by him.
* ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' gives us Motoko Maeda, who reacts to the death of her children at the hands of the vampires by [[spoiler: ''burning down the entire village,'' just to get revenge on her father-in-law, whom she blames. She also ''sells out the vampire mother of her best friend'' to the vampire-hunters, despite the fact that said best friend's mother had never attacked anyone and never would because she's angry that nobody in ''her'' family came back to her!]]

* This is [[spoiler:Tougo's]] goal at the end of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'', though she is a hero instead of a villain. [[spoiler:After learning the AwfulTruth about the Earth, she considers it best to kill everyone instead of letting more girls suffer by becoming {{Magical Girl}}s and holding off the inevitable demise of the planet.]] On a more personal note, she especially wants to stop [[spoiler:herself and her friends from becoming vegetables]].

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', this is revealed to be the motivation of [[spoiler:Zeke towards the Eldians]]. He sees their heritage as a curse that has doomed them to be miserable and believes the best solution is [[spoiler:using the Founding Titan to sterilize the entire population. "Euthanizing" the entire race ensures the Titans will cease to exist]] and the long-standing hatred of others towards the [[spoiler:Eldians]] will finally end.
** By the end of the series, this has also become [[spoiler:Eren Yeager's]] motivation. Only rather than [[spoiler:"Euthanizing" the Eldian population, he's decided to carry out the Rumbling to exterminate all of humanity ''except'' the Eldians of Paradis, seeing this as the only way both his people's long suffering and the threats of extermination against them can be ended. He manages to wipe out about 80% of the world population before he's finally stopped, which was just how he intended it.]]

* Azrael in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', a formerly pacifist angel who was cast into {{Hell}} for refusing to fight in the war between God and Satan, tries to end the universe via a cosmic RealityBreakingParadox to end his suffering.
** Once Azrael's been defeated, his former UnwittingPawn Bartleby snaps, realizing that God has always favored man above angels like himself and [[RageAgainstTheHeavens striking back]] by attempting to fulfill Azrael's plan. Even his AxCrazy partner Loki turns on him, protesting that this isn't what he wanted. [[spoiler: It doesn't go well for Loki]].
* Nero the Romulan, from ''Film/StarTrek2009'', REALLY wants Spock to understand his pain...[[spoiler:by destroying his homeworld, as Romulus was destroyed]] in Nero's original timeline. And after Spock, the rest of the Federation is to get the same treatment, [[spoiler:starting with Spock's mother's homeworld, Earth]].
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': "We all deserve to die - even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I - For lives of the wicked should be made brief - for the rest of us death will be a relief..."
* In ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'', Clyde Shelton seeks revenge not only on the man who destroyed his family but on the entire system that failed to adequately punish him. He even goes as far as to describe his murder spree "biblical" (probably in the [[TakingYouWithMe Samson]] kind of way).
* In the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'' film, Grendel was made somewhat more sympathetic with the inclusion of a justification for his attacks: somehow the acoustics of the mead hall meant that the revelry within was painfully loud for his sensitive exposed eardrum.
* Grace in ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' can be interpreted like this (type 4). Or as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Or a ''whole'' lot of other ways.
* Kadaj from ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' wants to absorb all the people infected by geostigma into the Lifestream [[spoiler:to join his "mother", Jenova. While he is a Remnant of Sephiroth, his amnesia made it appear that he sees that the end of all life on the planet as a GOOD thing]].
* While 'Dark Alessa' from the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie qualifies as WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, her original, 39-year-old, now soulless body ends the film by [[spoiler:finally getting her revenge on the cult who burned her alive by killing them all, with the exception of her mother, Dahlia.]]

** Erik “Kilmonger” Stevens/N’Jadaka ultimately boils down to this in ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]''. Most of the film depicts him spouting his anti-white, black supremacist ideals as justification for his murderous ride to try to take the throne of Wakanda, and once he gets in power he declares the start of a race war in which Wakanda will arm the black people around the world with vibranium weapons, ostensibly to help the oppressed blacks overthrow the whites’ systematic racism. However, his argument gets picked apart by how he has no intention of helping other minorities oppressed by whites and how Wakanda is just one country going against the rest of the world that is catching up to their technology. Further showing how he has no regard for even the future of Wakanda is how he [[spoiler:burns the garden of the Heart-Shaped Herb to destroy any chance of future superhuman Black Panthers]]. When T’Challa calls him out on this and points out he’s no better than the white imperialists who took part in the African slave trade, Kilmonger finally snaps and shows his true colors: [[spoiler:he’s still a traumatized, grieving boy not over the death of his father, and now wants the world to suffer like he has using the country that not only orphaned him, but shunned him all his life.]]

-->'''Wayne''': You're gonna destroy millions of lives.
-->'''Ducard''': Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome. Loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.
-->'''Wayne''': Gotham isn't beyond saving. Give me more time. There are good people here.
-->'''Ducard''': You're defending a city so corrupt, we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure. When I found you in that jail, you were lost. But I believed in you. I took away your fear, and I showed you a path. You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world.
-->'''Wayne''': I'll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Gotham.
-->'''Ducard''': No one can save Gotham. When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.
-->'''Wayne''': You attacked Gotham before?
-->'''Ducard''': Of course. Over the ages our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham we tried a new one, economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens, such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself, and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job.
* Erik “Kilmonger” Stevens/N’Jadaka ultimately boils down to this in ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]''. Most of the film depicts him spouting his anti-white, black supremacist ideals as justification for his murderous ride to try to take the throne of Wakanda, and once he gets in power he declares the start of a race war in which Wakanda will arm the black people around the world with vibranium weapons, ostensibly to help the oppressed blacks overthrow the whites’ systematic racism. However, his argument gets picked apart by how he has no intention of helping other minorities oppressed by whites and how Wakanda is just one country going against the rest of the world that is catching up to their technology. Further showing how he has no regard for even the future of Wakanda is how he [[spoiler:burns the garden of the Heart-Shaped Herb to destroy any chance of future superhuman Black Panthers]]. When T’Challa calls him out on this and points out he’s no better than the white imperialists who took part in the African slave trade, Kilmonger finally snaps and shows his true colors: [[spoiler:he’s still a traumatized, grieving boy not over the death of his father, and now wants the world to suffer like he has using the country that not only orphaned him, but shunned him all his life.]]
-->'''T’Challa''': You will destroy the world, Wakanda included!
-->'''N’Jadaka''': (''on the verge of tears'') ''The world took everything away from me!'' Everything I ever loved! But I'ma make sure we're even!

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', the leader of Team Flare, Lysandre sees [[OverpopulationCrisis competition over limited resources as a fundamental problem of the world]]. It causes fighting and suffering and divides people into the haves and the have-nots. His solution to this problem is [[spoiler: [[EcoTerrorist to drastically reduce the population of the world]] [[FinalSolution by killing everyone not in Team Flare with the Ultimate Weapon]]. Even Pokemon are not safe from this mass slaughter, he laments, because the magnificent and innocent beasts are condemned to be used by evil humans for their own selfish ends and, for the greater good, are best eliminated as well.]]

* PlayedWith for the ''[[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne protagonist]]'' in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': ''The End of Evangelion''; after [[EmotionlessGirl Rei Ayanami]] hijacks the apocalypse from [[MagnificentBastard Gendo]] and [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]], she decides to leave it up to [[HurtingHero Shinji Ikari]] whether or not to implement TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Shinji, having just crossed his DespairEventHorizon [[TraumaCongaLine many]] [[FreakOut times]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation over]], seriously considers doing this. [[spoiler: He doesn't go through with it. [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe]].]] Even so, the following quote borders terrifyingly close to playing this trope straight:

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' this is revealed to be the motivation of [[spoiler:Zeke towards the Eldians]]. He sees their heritage as a curse that has doomed them to be miserable and believes the best solution is [[spoiler:using the Founding Titan to sterilize the entire population. "Euthanizing" the entire race ensures the Titans will cease to exist]] and the long-standing hatred of others towards the [[spoiler:Eldians]] will finally end.

** Kuja in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX,'' after learning that his lifespan is limited and will soon run out, throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, and decides to destroy the Crystal, the source of all things, to destroy the entire universe. And why? Because he thinks it's unfair that life will go on and people will continue to exist after he's dead.

* [[spoiler:Professor Gerald]] from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' initially seems to be a genocidal MadScientist, but once we learn that [[spoiler:the cause of his insanity was losing his home, his research and his granddaughter, ''all that was important to him'' in rapid succession,]] it's hard not to feel a bit sorry for him.

--->'''Shinji Ikari''': "Nobody wants me, so ''[[DespairEventHorizon they can all just die]]''."

* PlayedWith for the ''[[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne protagonist]]'' in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': ''The End of Evangelion''; after [[EmotionlessGirl Rei Ayanami]] hijacks the apocalypse from [[MagnificentBastard Gendo]] and [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]], she decides to leave it up to [[HurtingHero Shinji Ikari]] whether or not to implement TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Shinji, having just crossed his DespairEventHorizon [[TraumaCongaLine many]] [[FreakOut times]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation over]], seriously considers doing this. [[spoiler: He doesn't go through with it. [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe]].]]

* In "Literature/ColdSnap", the villain is an EvilGenius who has spent most of his life stewing in perceived slights and has concluded that the human race is a failed experiment that should be wiped out, for which purpose he has summoned a prehistoric elemental being to create an eternal ice age. When asked if he expects the Cold to spare him, he says that he fully expects to be wiped out too and doesn't care.

* [[BigBad Cyrus]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' believes that living beings are doomed to suffer because of their incomplete spirits. Emotions, free will, and knowledge all cause suffering by their very nature, weighing living things down and making their lives meaningless. His solution to this is to create a WorldOfSilence in which spirit simply does not exist, and destroy the current incomplete world in the process. [[spoiler:After you defeat him, you learn a few things about him which explains why he thinks this way. His parents were [[AbusiveParents neglectful at best]], and he struggled to get along with his peers as a child. His grandfather realized that he needed help, but was too afraid of intruding to give it to him, meaning that Cyrus' underlying issues only got worse. A [[AlternateUniverse version of]] Cyrus himself will wonder if things could have been different when encountered in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''.]]
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', the leader of Team Flare, [[spoiler: Lysandre]] sees competition over limited resources as a fundamental problem of the world. It causes fighting and suffering and divides people into the haves and the have-nots. His solution to this problem is [[spoiler: to drastically reduce the population of the world by killing everyone not in Team Flare with the Ultimate Weapon. Even Pokemon are not safe from this mass slaughter, he laments, because the magnificent and innocent beasts are condemned to be used by evil humans for their own selfish ends and, for the greater good, are best eliminated as well.]]
** To put the cherry on top of this insanity, we learn from defeated members of Team Flare that, in order to be on the team, they have to pay exorbitant dues to their leader and buy the expensive team outfits themselves, sometimes putting themselves in massive debt to do so. So he's simply perpetuating the gap between the haves and have-nots that he's purportedly against.

** The [[GreaterScopeVillain Ascians]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have a vested interest in the destruction of Eorzea in the service of their GodOfEvil, Zodiark. While most Ascians are simply OmnicidalManiac[=s=], there are a few whose motivations aren't as simplistic: [[spoiler:As revealed in ''Shadowbringers'', the "unsundered" Ascians -- Lahabrea, Elidibus, and Emet-Selch -- are among the sole survivors of an ancient and "unsundered" world that was home to a race of BenevolentPrecursors whose mastery of magic was so great, it bordered on RealityWarping. Unfortunately, RealityWarpingIsNotAToy, as the ancients learned when they lost control of their powers and inadvertedly created monsters capable of destroying the world. This would lead to the summoning of the primal gods, Zodiark and Hydaelyn, whose battle resulted in the world being "sundered" and creating TheMultiverse. The unsundered Ascians' goal is to rebuild their shattered world...which, unfortunately, entails the destruction of the multiverse to "rejoin" their world, and the deaths of everyone living in it.]]

* The Evil Queen in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' convinces other fairy tale villains to go along with her plans to cast [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the dark curse]] by telling them that it will create a world where they can finally win and get ''their'' [[HappilyEverAfter happy endings.]]

* Os-Gabella in ''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'', the jaw-droppingly awesome dark fantasy mod of [[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Civilization 4]]. She's hoping the destruction of Erebus will finally allow her to escape her pretty sucky everlasting life.

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AlasPoorVillain may still apply, despite their [[JerkassWoobie jerkass tendencies]], but only because [[AfterActionVillainAnalysis Explaining The Villain Explains the Conflict]].

* Belkt, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/AnotherCenturysEpisode 3'', is this due to an immense quadruple-whammy. Not only was he born into a CrapsackWorld where everyone is trying to kill each other (as well as AliensAndMonsters) with HumongousMecha [[AfterTheEnd after]] barely surviving TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt as well as being considered nothing more than an expendable tool to his superiors in TheFederation, but he's also got a bad case of [[spoiler:CloningBlues coupled with [[FreudianExcuse the fact that he thought his "father" didn't care about him either]]]]. So not only does he decide to wipe out his ''own'' Earth, but also the Earth of an AlternateUniverse [[spoiler:where his "father" was originally from and his "base" (i.e., the boy he was cloned from) is living a somewhat less screwed-up life as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent]] via [[EarthShatteringKaboom smashing them into each other]].

# The villain finds some aspect of the heroes' society so fundamentally incompatible with their own beliefs, etc., that [[KnightTemplar they declare war]] on all "normal" society.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', "Ragnarok and Roll", a wealthy young man tries to do this because he got dumped by his girlfriend.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Damien Darhk, the BigBad of Season 4, aims to destroy the world in nuclear holocaust while using the magical power created from the death of billions to reshape the world in his image. When his EvilPlan is foiled, he suffers a VillainousBreakdown and decides to let the nuclear holocaust happen anyway.

* In ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'', Sweeney tells Mrs. Lovett that ''everyone deserves to die'' because most people are miserable and would welcome death -- and if they don't, it means that [[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld they're one of the ones making life miserable for everyone else]] (and therefore deserve death as punishment).

* In ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'', Sweeney tells Mrs. Lovett that ''everyone deserves to die'' because most people are miserable and would welcome death -- and if they don't, it means that [[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld they're one of the ones making life miserable for everyone else]].

* Wander, the player character in ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', needs to kill sixteen Colossi in order to revive Mono. Not because the Colossi were hurting anyone, mind; that's just what the ominous voices in the temple demand of him before they will help him.

* [[BigBad Cyrus]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' believes that living beings are doomed to suffer because of their incomplete spirits. Emotions, free will and knowledge all cause suffering by their very nature, weighing living things down and making their lives meaningless. His solution to this is to create a new world in which spirit simply does not exist, and destroy the current incomplete world in the process. [[spoiler:After you defeat him, you learn a few things about him which explains why he thinks this way. His parents were neglectful at best, and he struggled to get along with his peers as a child. His grandfather realised that he needed help, but was too afraid of intruding to give it to him, meaning that Cyrus's underlying issues only got worse. Cyrus himself will wonder if things could have been different when encountered in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''.]]