History Main / WhereIWasBornAndRazed

* The player character of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/{{Summoner}}''. Arguably, twice. Before the game, when he was still a young boy, the player character used his summoning powers to defend his hometown, which was swiftly destroyed when the demon he summoned broke free of his control. The second time involves the "tutorial" level of the game, where the character's new hometown is destroyed by the invading forces of the enemy nation, in a war touched off because the [[BigBad emperor]] of said enemy nation received a prophecy that the Summoner would come and slay him, so the emperor decided to kill the Summoner first. [[spoiler: This, of course, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the emperor turns out to only be a [[TheDragon mid-game boss]].]]

* The prequel comics and novel to 2007's ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie all reveal, despite otherwise being separate continuities, that it was [[TheCape Optimus Prime]], of all people, who launched the All Spark into space to keep it from Megatron's hands, dooming Cybertron to a slow, lingering death. In the movie itself, Optimus states that he's willing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the All Spark, if need be. Some characters think it's noble. Others think it's disturbing...
** In the third film, Bumblebee is the one who [[spoiler:destroys the Space Bridge control, resulting in Cybertron's destruction]].

* It's Franchise/{{Lobo}}'s own fault he's the LastOfHisKind in both Franchise/TheDCU (where he killed all the other Czarnians on a lark) and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse (where he [[UnusualEuphemism fragged]] the rest of the planet for his high school science project).

* The pyrokinetic Liz Sherman in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' accidentally killed her entire family and many of her neighbours as a child through PowerIncontinence.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor:'' Step one on Korvac's plan to attain godhood and turn the universe into a utopia? Blow up the entire solar system out of spite, and use the energy as fuel.
* Cletus Kasady, better known as ComicBook/{{Carnage}} of Comicbook/SpiderMan fame got his start along the path of villainy by burning down the OrphanageOfFear he was raised in.
* Bizarro did this as well in the classic story ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', destroying the BizarroWorld due to him thinking he needed to do so to become a better duplicate of Franchise/{{Superman}}. He then [[spoiler: killed himself, for exactly the same reason.]]
* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} didn't decide to return to his homeworld Titan to destroy it until after he had already become an OmnicidalManiac with a long track record of destroying other civilizations to please [[TheGrimReaper the mysterious woman in his head]]. He let his father survive however so he could [[CruelMercy continue witnessing his son's evil]].

* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': ''A Court of Frost and Starlight'' reveals that Cassian burned down the Illyrian village he grew up to avenge his mother.

** Practically every animated adaptation of [[OlympusMons Mewtwo's]] backstory includes the image of it wreathed in flames in the remains of the Pokémon Mansion/whatever lab is used to create it, and possibly atop the corpses of those who'd been working there. There's a reason this guy is TheDreaded.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed and Al burn down their house to symbolize how they'd never look back during their quest to regain their bodies. However, their father guesses that the true reason was to [[spoiler:try to forget the shame of their failings]].

* Eva Heinemann in ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' does this to the Heinemann family mansion after realizing [[spoiler:she cannot enjoy the life of a normal human being, then again, [[IceQueen she isn't normal anyway]]]].

* ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' features a couple of these. Most notably Knives blowing up the ship where he was born and brought up as part of his first attempt to kill off the human race; in the anime he manipulates and kills off the entire crew beforehand.
** Manga [[TheDragon Legato Bluesummers]] seems to have almost gotten himself killed as a child out of his determination to do this, instead of using his nascent mind-control powers to ''get the fuck away and run like hell''. That Knives appears to have turned up and killed the whole town for kicks at the last moment is icing on the cake of rape-stopping and life-saving and electing-not-to-murder and tacit-acceptance-of-[[MadLove lifelong-fealty]].

* [[Anime/HellGirl Ai Enma]] does this to her village after the events which led to her death.

* ''LightNovel/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': Elisabeth Le Fanu was fed demon flesh as a child by her EvilUncle, which cured her IncurableCoughOfDeath but caused her to be wracked with pain that she could only address by torturing people--which in turn generated mana for her due to the demon flesh. She went on to brutally slaughter her entire hometown, transforming her into a partly demonic being capable of conjuring torture and execution implements, the eponymous "Torture Princess".

* It's Lobo's own fault he's the LastOfHisKind in both Franchise/TheDCU (where he killed all the other Czarnians on a lark) and The Franchise/{{DCAU}} (where he [[UnusualEuphemism fragged]] the rest of the planet for his high school science project).

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Waldreg is an inn keeper from Tirharad, native to the Southlands. All of his life, he secretly hoped that Sauron would return to lift up the Southlanders from muck and filth and hid a secret ArtifactOfDoom belonging to Sauron. When the occasion comes in the form of Adar, he joins forces with him and is secretly charged with caring on Adar's plan of provoking Orodruin's eruption. Waldreg obeys without question and uses the ArtifactOfDoom to unlock an ancient mechanism that triggers the destruction of a series of dams, which sends a vast torrent of water streaming down into the Southlands and ultimately deep into Mount Orodruin itself, destroying in the process his own home.