History Main / SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum

->"Well damn it... if that's how it is... ''I'm just gonna blow up the planet!''"
--> -- '''Laharl''', ''{{Disgaea 2}}''

If any villains have TakeOverTheWorld as their goal, they logically should ''not'' want this to succeed. Can result in EvilVersusEvil and EvilerThanThou...if logic is involved.

* ''KamenRiderDecade'' has 10 worlds merging with each other to the eventual point of their destruction.

Related to the OmnicidalManiac, who does this kind of thing; many of that trope's examples plan on sticking around afterwards, however. See also: ApocalypseHow, Class Z.

* Kuja in ''FinalFantasyIX'', on discovering his imminent mortality, decides to take everyone else with him. This one is a true example of the "temper tantrum" part of the trope and probably the MostTriumphantExample from a ''Final Fantasy'' game--Kuja's motivation for destroying existence is that he decides if he doesn't get to live, why should anyone else? He's so selfish and arrogant he doesn't think it's ''fair'' that life will continue after he's dead.

The third variety is the final resort, they wanted to TakeOverTheWorld but now you've beaten (or even possibly mortally injured) them they're [[TakingYouWithMe taking everything with them.]] They don't mind dying anymore. (In lesser extents, they just settle for an EarthShatteringKaboom, especially if they can breathe in space and hold out a small hope of survival.)

* Spider-Carnage in SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries wants to kill himself, [[OmnicidalManiac the planet]], and the entire ''multiverse'' becaue he [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds cannot cope with his own pain]]. He ultimately just [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]], sparing the multiverse.

* The [[AssimilationPlot Human Instrumentality Project]] in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is often interpreted as this.

* Slightly more realistic example: [[spoiler: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Rau Le Creuset]]]] the BigBad of GundamSeed, is a dying [[spoiler: [[CloningBlues clone]] of a man he hated]]. Sick, angry at the world, and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he turns DeathSeeker and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac take everything]] with him before he goes.

But more often then not, they're a NietzscheWannabe; and just wanna show everyone who is boss. What's mystifying is when these type seem to genuinely like existing and interacting with the world. What exactly are they going to ''do'' should they succeed? [[{{ptitlem1lh0v8n}} And then what?]] Where, as TheTick puts it, would they put all their stuff? In this case, they often [[VillainsActHeroesReact exist only for the Heroes to have someone to stop.]]

** In ''The End of Time'', this is [[spoiler: Rassilon's grand plan to end the Time War: the Time Lords [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to a higher plane of existence]], the Vortex is destroyed, and the Daleks, along with the rest of the universe, get wiped out completely. Luckily, the Master is [[SpannerInTheWorks disinclined]] [[HeroicSacrifice to cooperate with this request]].]]

->'''Bethany''': "Look, asshole - I don't know if anyone explained the rules to you, but if you succeed, everything gets blinked out of existence - even you."\\
'''Azrael''': "Human, have you ever been to Hell? [...] I'd rather not exist than go back to that. And if everyone has to go down with me, so be it."
--> -- ''{{Dogma}}''

->"Why should the world exist without me? That wouldn't be fair. If I die, we all die!"
--> -- '''Kuja''', ''FinalFantasyIX''

* Kuja in ''FinalFantasyIX'', on discovering his imminent mortality, decides to take everyone else with him.
*** Kuja should be mentioned for actually ''suceeding'' at doing this, it takes [[{{giantspacefleafromnowhere}} Necron's]] [[{{Deusexmachina}} appearance]] for the universe to not end.

** And in ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'', [[spoiler:Chaos]] decides to tear apart the combined realities that make up the battlefield for the Conflict of the Gods, and then disappear himself. Its due in part to just being ''sick'' of the endless cycles of conflict, death, and rebirth, and in part because of the recent absolute death of [[spoiler:Cosmos, his opposite number]] hitting him harder than he thought it would.
** Sort of what NietzscheWannabe [[spoiler:Kefka]] wanted to do in ''FinalFantasyVI'', although it was never clear whether he intended to destroy himself afterwards.
** Implicit in [[FinalFantasyX Seymour's]] plans: He views death as a wonderful release from the suffering of life, hence everything deserves the so-called mercy of dying, himself included given how much he has suffered.
*** True, but given that all of Spira believes the souls of the dead live on in the Farplane, and especially later since Seymour [[spoiler: knows for a fact that death is not the end because he himself is an unsent soul]], his intentions to destroy Spira may not be out of a desire to end all life but to free it into a more peaceful, but still real, existence. He doesn't seem to think he'll be ''ending'' everyone, just transitioning them, whether they like it or not, into a better and eternal life. It's arguable that he had no right to do this against everyone's will, but he certainly can't be accused of wanting everyone and himself to just stop ''existing,'' unless he himself is ignoring [[spoiler: his own existence as proof that that's not what will happen if he succeeds]]. Of course, that's not to say his plan was well thought out, because killing everyone in a terrible apocalyptic fashion would have a good chance of causing them to become fiends rather than causing them to willingly go to the Farplane, which apparently is more likely to happen if the person has resigned and welcome death.
*** Summary: Death is weird in Spira.

->"At the end of the dream... even Chaos tears ''itself'' apart!"
--> -- '''Chaos''', ''[=~Dissidia: Final Fantasy~=]''

** Kuja should be mentioned for actually ''suceeding'' at doing this, it takes [[{{giantspacefleafromnowhere}} Necron's]] [[{{Deusexmachina}} appearance]] for the universe to not end.

** Kuja should be mentioned for actually ''suceeding'' at doing this, it takes [[{{Giantspacefleafromnowhere}}Necron's]] [[{{Deusexmachina}} appearance]] for the universe to not end.

** [[spoiler: not so much a DeusEXMachina as the kids crests had pulled something similar to help them defeat VenoMyotismon and both te crests and digivices had previously been used as weapons against evil throughout the series]]
** Also. technically, this is basically the goal of all virus type digimon once they achieve their upper digivolutions, it's what they're programmed for.

* In ''MakaiKingdom'', this is Alexander's stated goal. He is the God of Destruction, after all. In a neat exploration of this, in one bad ending he ''succeeds'', and is subjected to a horrifying FateWorseThanDeath, existing forever in an empty universe.

* The [[OmnicidalManiac Deathlords]] of {{Exalted}} all have the canonical aim of 'being the last person there to blow out the candle of creation', in direct service of their [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn Masters]]. This also presumably extends to any [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor loyalist]] [[DarkisNotEvil Abyssal Exalted]].

Related to the OmnicidalManiac, who does this kind of thing; many of that trope's examples plan on sticking around afterwards, however.