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* ''ComicBook/FantasticFourLifeStory: In the final issue, [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] gives up on conquering the world and decides to destroy it, with his Doombot army ravaging cities wantonly and then self-destructing just to cause more damage.

* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': The BigBad, Dracula wants to KillAllHumans because he holds the lot of them responsible for the death of his wife Lisa Tepes, who was burnt at the stake by the CorruptChurch who accused her of witchcraft. To this end, he sends hordes of vampires upon countless villages to wipe them off the face of the Earth. This causes discontentment among his ranks, with one of his generals Godbrand questioning what will happen when all the humans are dead and the vampires have nothing to eat, even pointing out in private that Dracula himself hasn't eaten in a while. It becomes apparent towards the end of the season that Dracula wants to wipe out both humans and vampires, taking his rage and grief at the loss of his wife out on both species before he ultimately dies. His son Alucard even lampshades this to his face, calling his selfish and pointless genocide "history's longest suicide note".

* While the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' version of Robotnik never ''quite'' resorted to this, he did have it intended as his backup plan. Apparently if things ever got to the point that Sonic had successfully usurped all power from him, he had a phrase activated mechanism that would reprogram all his forces to just obliterate ''everything'' on the planet in an ultimate IfICantHaveYou. At one point, Snively unknowingly quotes the phrase and sets this off prematurely, though Robotnik arrives in time to deactivate it before it does much more damage than mess up his lair.

* In the final book of ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'', [[spoiler:Even though he made sure that humanity can survive 30 years without Captain Underpants, Tippy Tinkletrousers becomes enraged by being defeated by the present and future versions of the Cap and sets his timed FantasticNuke off. Not only was he huge due to the usage of a Goosy-Grow, he activated a special procedure which would destroy ''the entire galaxy''. [[HeroicSacrifice Sulu and Crackers, however,]] activate his time machine to just before the Big Bang occurred which turns out to be how it started.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'': This ultimately proved to be the whole point of [[spoiler: Storious']] plan. His pride as a writer was crushed after finding out that everything is predetermined by the GreatBigBookOfEverything and humans don't create, only pull stuff from the great beyond into reality. He became saltier than the Dead sea, so it was only a step towards deciding to bring about the end of all existence, because nothing is original and thus nothing matters anyways.

* [[spoiler:H.G. Wells]] tries to destroy the world in ''Series/{{Warehouse13}}'', because she sees it as beyond saving; thanks to the pain of [[spoiler:living with her daughter's death for 150ish years.]]

** There is also Caira Xasten, a Ur-Priest (cleric who stole their powers from the gods) in the 3.5 Elder Evils sourcebook. She plans on casting the Apocalypse from the Sky spell, which deals massive damage in a ten mile radius, in a densely populated city (the example given is Waterdeep, 2 million citizens) because it will attract [[UndeadAbomination Atropus]], [[ThatsNoMoon the World]] [[GeniusLoci Born Dead]], who's modus operandi is causing a zombie apocalypse on whatever planet it orbits. Why? Because her husband was killed by a falling meteor, an event so fabulously unlikely that, she argued, only the gods could be responsible for it. They took away her beloved, so she'll take away their beloved, or at least what they need to exist: Mortals. Nevermind that there are over 50 gods, any of which could be responsible, and several billion people living on Toril.

* An interesting variation occurs in ''VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries'', where a ghost ''cannot'' [[GhostlyGoals move on]] and decides destroying the entire system is the only way to end their existence without going insane. At one point they stop, and ask the heroes if they have any option, anything that can do what they want without destroying everything. The heroine is actually speechless at this; and the ghost continues what they were doing. Possibly VillainHasAPoint since it takes an unforeseen DeusExMachina to fix it.
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' has a rather sympathetic example of this trope: The Origin, the ArtificialHuman trapped within the [[DeusEstMachina Master Unit: Amaterasu]], the machine that Observes and controlls the entire spacetime continuum. After countless [[GroundhogDayLoop time loops]], The Origin came to the realization that no matter how many times she restarted the timeline in order to get a different outcome, she was still doomed to be killed by Ragna, TheHero she dreamed into existence to save her from her imprisonment within the Amaterasu Unit, with no possible way of being able to prevent said outcome. This realization, along with the horrible machinizations of [[SatanicArchetype Yuuki Terumi]], pushed her over the DespairEventHorizon and gave birth to Hades Izanami, in essence an incarnation of The Origin's growing suicidal urges set on killing her the only way a capital-G God ''can'' be killed: By killing ''everything,'' all the way down to a metaphysical level.

* This is what the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 Shredder]]'s plan in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' boils down to; after discovering TheMultiverse and that there are Ninja Turtles ''everywhere'' who in turn constantly defeat their Shredders, he decides to go straight to the source ([[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the Mirage comics universe]]) and destroy all reality. Even after being explicitly told that he would die as well, he [[RevengeBeforeReason decides]] that it's WorthIt.
** Ditto for the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 Shredder]], although he limits himself to just Earth. [[spoiler:After teaming up with the Turtles to save the planet from total destruction, he sees a perfect opportunity to kill Splinter and just can't resist, even if it means dooming everybody including himself. He then declares that he doesn't care if he dies now, he got to kill Splinter and that's good enough for him. Fortunately the Turtles, April, and Casey were able to escape via TimeTravel, setting up the next arc where they track down {{MacGuffin}}s across the galaxy needed to prevent the destruction of Earth before it happens.]]

* Azrael, the mastermind behind the plot of ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', fits the bill. Being trapped in Hell forever is a pretty compelling motive for wanting to undo existence. He also claims that since he didn't fight on either side during Lucifer's rebellion, he should not have to suffer the same fate as those who ''did'' fight God.

->''"Pull the switch, and let's '''end''' this!"''
-->-- '''Catra''', ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' - This is the end goal of [[spoiler:Gendo and SEELE, although the details for both differ. Gendo wants to be an immortal god with Yui by his side forever, while SEELE wants all of humanity merged into one being instead. Neither side gets what they want thanks to Rei and Shinji.]]
** [[spoiler: Shinji does this as well after reaching his DespairEvenHorizon, but is able to snap out of it, although he has still turned humanity into LCL, though it's indicated most of them will be able to regain a physical form.]]
** In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies, [[spoiler: Gendo's at this again, and nearly succeeds. He overthrows SEELE and kills off all the other branches of NERV before merging with Evangelion 13 and triggering the final Impact.]]

* While the ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics' version of Robotnik never ''quite'' resorted to this, he did have it intended as his backup plan. Apparently if things ever got to the point that Sonic had successfully usurped all power from him, he had a phrase activated mechanism that would reprogram all his forces to just obliterate ''everything'' on the planet in an ultimate IfICantHaveYou. At one point, Snively unknowingly quotes the phrase and sets this off prematurely, though Robotnik arrives in time to deactivate it before it does much more damage than mess up his lair.

-->-- '''Catra''', ''WesternAnimation/{{SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower}}''

->''"Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. I'd rather'' not exist ''than go back to that... and if I have to drag down everyone else with me... so be it."''
-->-- '''Azrael''', ''Film/{{Dogma}}''

*** ''Endwalker'' gives a near literal example in the form of [[spoiler:Meteion, a creation of the aforementioned Fandaniel]]. [[spoiler:Hundreds of copies of her were sent out into the cosmos to ask the people of other worlds what they believe the meaning of life was. But rather than get a concrete answer, every single planet the Meteia visited were either dead before they arrived, in the process of dying as they arrived, or spiraled into despair (and subsequently, death) ''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom because]]'' they arrived. As both a hive mind and a creature that heavily resonates with emotions, the weight of despair from thousands of dying civilizations drove her over the DespairEventHorizon, and due to Fandaniel not properly cultivating emotional maturity within her, swiftly came to the conclusion that ''life has no meaning and existence is suffering'' and thus plans to kill every single living thing in the universe so she can trap the aether that powered them to prevent anyone or anything from ever being born again purely so no one will have to feel the pain she feels.]]

* This is what the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 Shredder]]'s plan in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' boils down to; after discovering TheMultiverse and that there are Ninja Turtles ''everywhere'', he decides to go straight to the source ([[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the Mirage comics universe]]) and destroy all reality. Even after being explicitly told that he would die as well, he [[RevengeBeforeReason decides]] that it's WorthIt.

* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'': This turns out to be the core motivation of [[spoiler:John, who is the MouthOfSauran for the EldritchAbomination that's been chasing our heroes for over a century. He takes MaddenIntoMisanthropy to a whole new level; after coming to see life and existence as cruel and pointless, he not only decides his existence should end, but that ''all'' of it should end, for everyone--and he managed to convince every single living creature and every single ''thing'' on his plane of this point. This allowed their plane to become the Hunger, a sentient, malicious plane of existence that exists only to feed, grow, and [[OmnicidalManiac eventually devour all of existence in every universe]].]]

* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' [[spoiler:ends with Marty and Dana, the ''protagonists'', throwing one, having been so traumatized by the tortures they've been subjected to that they decide humanity deserves to die if it needs to keep practicing such cruel rituals to survive.]]

** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The Enclave]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' was made up of the remnants of the pre-War United States federal government and their descendants who sought to restore America to its former glory. The problem arose from the fact that they only considered ''themselves'' [[MasterRace American while seeing the common wastelanders as mutants]]. Their arbitrarily, absurdly broad definition of who is a "mutant" seemed to serve more as an excuse to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone else in the world]] with a genocide virus. Their oil rig had fewer than a thousand people in it, so the Enclave lacked the numbers to [[TangledFamilyTree maintain enough genetic diversity to survive]]. Much of the point of the game is that, indeed, the Enclave is so consumed by HonorBeforeReason that they don't ''care'' if humankind dies out. They would rather no one survive than their United States die, denying the fact that it already has. In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' they've moved past this delusion, with the exception of their [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] PresidentEvil.

* In ''Film/EvacuateEarth'', humanity has to, of course, evacuate Earth, which, along with the rest of the solar system, is about to be destroyed by a rogue neutron star. Terrorist attacks, from both [[ApocalypseCult Apocalpyse Cults]] and people who are bitter about not being selected to go on TheArk to escape the coming apocalypse, are cited as a danger to those trying to evacuate the planet.

* In ''Film/EvacuateEarth'', humanity has to, of course, evacuate Earth, which, along with the rest of the solar system, is about to be destroyed by a rogue neutron star. Terrorist attacks, from both ApocalypseCults and people who are bitter about not being selected to go on TheArk to escape the coming apocalypse, are cited as a danger to those trying to evacuate the planet.

* This was a major plot point in Marvel's ComicBook/SecretWarsII, where the Beyonder threatened to destroy all reality because he couldn't find a meaning to existence.

** [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand Fecto Forgo]] is a clearer, third-type example; when Kirby saves Elfilin from him after his boss fight, Forgo tries to make Popstar [[ColonyDrop crash]] into the new world.

* This is [[spoiler:the ultimate fate of the universe]] in Creator/HarlanEllison's ''The Region Between'', [[spoiler:destroyed by the same insane God that made it, who kills himself in the process.]]

** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Horde Prime, after slowly suffering a VillainousBreakdown from the Rebellions [[WhyWontYouDie continued resistance]], completely snaps after his "little brother" Hordak regains his memories and destroys his physical body. While he survives by hijacking Hordak's body Horde Prime loses the last of his composure and decides to set off the [[FantasticNuke Heart of Etheria]] to cleanse the universe in holy fire, uncaring that he himself will also die so long as the Rebellion dies with him.]]

** At the end of season 3, [[spoiler:Catra sets off a portal she knows will destroy the world and reality itself. This is after betraying her own friends and lying to her leader. And Catra's doing it because [[SanitySlippage she's been gradually losing her sanity]], and [[EvilIsPetty she just wants to deny Adora a victory]] at ''something,'' even if that means TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. While Adora does manage to stop the destruction, it requires a HeroicSacrifice from Queen Angella]]. When all is said and done, Adora decides that the tantrum-thrower has crossed the MoralEventHorizon, and [[BeyondRedemption gives up trying to redeem them]].