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'''Lobo:''' Hah! That's rich. '''I'm''' the last Czarnian. ''[Aside]'' I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler: Bill Cipher was apparently born in the flat second dimension (hence his triangular state), but he thought it was boring, so he 'liberated' it, the same way he's planning on [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 'liberating' Gravity Falls]]. However, ambiguously canon material implies he's ultimately regretful of what he did, even if [[NeverMyFault he'd never admit to the fact he alone is responsible for his own despair]]]].

->'''Preserver:''' There is one other being I need for my collection. The last Czarnian.
->'''Lobo:''' Hah! That's rich. '''I'm''' the last Czarnian. ''[Aside]'' I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A.

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* In Series/{{Arrow}}, when the League of Assassins [[spoiler: gets a new Ra's al Ghul]], he has to destroy his city of provenance. [[spoiler: This is logically problematic for Ollie, who's been trying to ''save'' his city since the first episode of season one]].
* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', the ship suffers its accident because Rimmer hasn't fixed the drive-plate properly.

** As of the revival, the Doctor was only able to end the Last Great Time War by destroying both sides - including the other Time Lords and his home planet Gallifrey. Despite this, the Daleks, TheMaster, and Davros have managed to survive.
** He also destroyed Gallifrey in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''The Ancestor Cell'', and, to be fair, it was for a good reason and they were being assholes anyway. He developed TraumaInducedAmnesia as a result. Then [[spoiler:it turned out that the amnesia was in part due to the fact Gallifrey had been kind of stored in his head. How's that for a "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy brain the size of a planet]]"?]]
** "The Day of the Doctor" depicts the last day of the Time War when the Doctor destroyed Gallifrey. [[spoiler:After meeting the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, the three decide to embark on a radical plan to change their own personal timeline, faking the destruction of Gallifrey by shunting the planet into another universe.]]
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall]]", [[spoiler:Gallifrey is destroyed again. This time, for a change, it's the Master who claims the credit.]]
* Ben Linus from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' told the main characters that he had lived on the island his entire life. [[spoiler:In reality, he was brought there as a young boy by his father, who worked for the Dharma Initiative. He began consorting with the Hostiles and eventually participated in gassing the Initiative members.]]

* Series/{{Angel}}, soon after becoming a vampire, killed everyone in his village, including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents and sister.]]
* In a ''heroic'' example, Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer has, over the years, destroyed her high school gym (it was filled with vampires), her next high school (blown up stopping a giant demon-snake made of Mayor), and finally, her home town of Sunnydale (built on a gateway to Hell, caved in when the good guys destroyed it).
* In a minor example, Parker from ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' blew up her foster parents' house after they hit her and took away her favorite toy. No word yet on whether they were in it at the time.

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* [[DefiedTrope Deliberately defied]] in ''Film/StarWars: Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. The celebration of Emperor's death includes Gungans and humans celebrating at Naboo to show that the Emperor '''didn't''' [[Film/ANewHope destroy it like Alderaan]] (as [[{{Fanon}} many speculated]]).

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Gul'dan was cast out of his village for being weak and deformed. When he discovered and embraced Fel magic, he return to his village and killed everyone in it.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear''

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* Invoked in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''. [[EvilTwin Satan Girl]] intends to destroy Rokyn, a planet settled by the last surviving Kryptonians, so no one can challenge her again.

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* Captain Hero in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' tossed his home planet Zebulon into its sun in the episode "Little Orphan Hero," which was basically a parody of Superman's backstory.

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* [[spoiler:Van Grants]] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. Granted, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild he didn't mean to.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': [[spoiler: The Lone Wanderer can sabotage Vault 101 to make it uninhabitable, forcing all the residents outside. Or nuke Megaton, the first major town visited after leaving the Vault, and where James and his infant child stopped by on their way to the Vault. Also, he/she can sabotage Project Purity, located in the building that he/she was born in, effectively turning it from the waters of life to the waters of death.]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. [[spoiler:An early sidequest allows you to side with the Powder Gangers and massacre everyone in Goodsprings. Technically, Goodsprings isn't the Courier's hometown, but it's close enough.]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', this happens to the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado through slightly different flavors in both the Chaos and Neutral paths. [[spoiler:In Chaos, by destroying the angels who have replaced the kingdom's rulers and blasting [[HellGate Naraku]] open, Mikado descends into anarchy. In Neutral, you ''have to order the entire kingdom's evacuation'' for events to unfold. Let's just say that the original settlers could have chosen the site for their castle ''much'' better.]]

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': Bishop the ChaoticEvil SocialDarwinist ranger grew up in an poor swamp village much like the {{Player Character}}'s. [[spoiler:He later burned it to the ground, along with his Luskan kidnappers and handlers, in an attempt to burn his past and those that bound him in one fell swoop.]]

** [[spoiler:Durkon]] might do it by ''accident,'' given a prophecy that he knows nothing about. [[spoiler:Since he's become a vampire possessed by an evil spirit who is infiltrating the Dwarven homeland to try to bring about the end of the world, this has become a much more immediate threat.]]

* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Malware]]]] does it at the end of his story arc in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' (like we needed more confirmation that he was a bastard). [[spoiler:It's fixed after his defeat.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler: Bill Cipher was apparently born in the flat second dimension (hence his triangular state), but he thought it was boring, so he 'liberated' it, the same way he's planning on [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 'liberating' Gravity Falls]]. However, ambiguously canon material implies he's ultimately regretful of what he did, even if [[NeverMyFault he'd never admit to the fact he alone is responsible for his own despair]].]]

--> ''[[SadClown Says he happy, he's a liar.]]''

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Uchiha Itachi massacred his entire family and clan in their private section of the village of Konoha. [[spoiler:Zigzagged; while Itachi did kill his clan, it was actually a mission assigned to him by the village. The clan was planning a coup and Itachi wiping them out seemingly on his own let the village save face]].
** [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Uchiha Sasuke]] briefly intended to invoke this trope after learning the truth about the above situation.

--> ''Saw his own dimension burn''
--> ''Misses home and can't return''

* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman's old foe ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} got a new origin: instead of a mad scientist from the planet Colu, he was an intelligent supercomputer from Krypton. When Jor-El shared his fears that the planet was going to explode, Brainiac probably could have done something about it -- but he lied and said Jor-El was wrong, while secretly plotting his own escape. Being the last holder of knowledge about a whole world appealed to him. In fact, he liked the idea so much he started doing it to ''[[PlanetLooters other]]'' worlds too.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler: Bill Cipher was apparently born in the flat second dimension (hence his triangular state), but he thought it was boring, so he 'liberated' it, the same way he's planning on [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 'liberating' Gravity Falls.]]]]

It doesn't count if only the house is destroyed, in attempts to kill the hero or [[AndYourLittleDogToo just to spite him]]. It also doesn't count if a broader war is involved, unless the character's actions directly created that war.

This is more frequent with villains, especially the more vile and over-the-top ones. Sometimes it's to demonstrate how disturbed he is, other times it's a StartOfDarkness event for him. Or maybe he just [[InvokedTrope really liked the sound]] of being the LastOfHisKind.

* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''. The casualties number over 400 by the time she's stopped.

* Nocturn, the warlord Ehlek's lieutenant in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' got sent to The Pit for "breaking" his island in a fit of rage. When the author Greg Farshtey got asked why he did this, he answered: "People break things when they get angry. Nocturn happened to break his island."

** 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 [[BigDamnVillains rape-stopping and life-saving]] and electing-not-to-murder and tacit-acceptance-of-[[MadLove lifelong-fealty]].

* ''Carrie''. The casualties number over 400 by the time she's stopped.

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* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', Bandos slew the god Jododu Otoku in order to ascend to godhood himself. Since Jododu was protecting his planet from spacial debris, his untimely death resulted in it being destroyed and all life on it being exterminated save for Bandos, to his satisfaction.

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bring it back to Tobacco Road.\\

Only you know how I loathe Tobacco Road.\\
Bring that dynamite and a crane,\\
blow it up, start all over again.\\
Build a town, be proud to show.\\
Give it the name Tobacco Road

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', Gallaxhar reveals that he destroyed his home planet, although his reasons for doing so are [[TheUnreveal constantly interrupted]]. Maybe he should have waited until he was out of his cloning machine to give his BackStory...

** Psycho Mantis from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' destroyed his home village during what can only be described as a psychic temper tantrum.
*** [[spoiler: Discovering your father blamed you for your mother dying in childbirth, generally hates you, and harbours the secret desire to ''kill'' you, would make the resulting trauma amount to a bit more than a tantrum.]]

This is more frequent with villains, especially the more [[CompleteMonster vile]] and [[CardCarryingVillain over-the-top]] ones. Sometimes it's to demonstrate how disturbed he is, other times it's a StartOfDarkness event for him. Or maybe he just [[InvokedTrope really liked the sound]] of being the LastOfHisKind.

This is more frequent with villains. Sometimes it's to demonstrate how disturbed he is, other times it's a StartOfDarkness event for him. Or maybe he just [[InvokedTrope really liked the sound]] of being the LastOfHisKind.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'''s Amuro Ray accidentally blows a hole in the wall of Side 7 shortly after he [[FallingIntoTheCockpit gets on the Gundam]].

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* 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).

* [[{{Superman}} Bizarro]] did this as well in the classic story ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', destroying the Bizarro world due to him thinking he needed to do so to become a better duplicate of Superman. He then [[spoiler: killed himself, for exactly the same reason.]]

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* In ''{{Carrie}}'', the main character kills everyone at her prom, the two kids who had humiliated her, and [[spoiler:her mother]] after prom night goes horribly, horribly wrong for her. They wanted to have her destroy the town, but didn't have the budget. In the remake, the damage is more severe.