History Main / WhereIWasBornAndRazed

See also MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility. Compare LetThePastBurn.

* In ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'', Essun attacks her hometown after she's nearly killed while trying to leave it, killing a few people before controlling herself but also destroying their underground water supply, which really isn't good during [[AfterTheEnd a Season.]]

See also MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, ComesGreatResponsibility. Compare LetThePastBurn.

See also MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility.

* [[AGodAmI Eneru]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'' destroyed his home island of Birka.

* In the Music/SoundHorizon album ''Elysion's'' song Sacrifice, the singer of the songs burns her village after her younger sister who had gotten raped by the villagers and gotten pregnant was burnt to death.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has Count Bleck, who is implied to have destroyed his entire home dimension and race after his father’s ParentalMarraigeVeto.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', [[spoiler:the returned-from-Hell Emperor raises the castle of Pandemonium where Castle Palamecia stood, utterly destroying his former seat of power]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', after Cecil and Kain are tricked into burning down the village of Mist, young Rydia summons Titan in an attempt at a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but mainly succeeds only in finishing the job.

** At least in the SNES version(not the Bowlderized ''FFII'', though maybe even there), Mist wasn't actually destroyed: you can return via airship.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has a creative variant in the Nibelheim burning. Sephiroth was born (and experimented on by [[GuineaPigFamily his very own]] [[MadScientist Father]]) in the Village of Nibelheim (which coincidentally happens to be the Protagonist's DoomedHometown), but later taken to and raised at the resident MegaCorp's HQ. When he returns to his birthplace many years later, he has no idea about his connection to Nibelheim, but once he finds it out, he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation doesn't take the news too well... ]]
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' [[spoiler: Fang and Vanille]] do this to their hometown of [[spoiler: Oerba, when they turned into Ragnarok at the orders of the fal'Cie; and all the other Pulse societies went with it.]]
** [[spoiler:The fal'Cie's plot is for the heroes to do this to Cocoon, killing everyone within. The heroes go through with it...and then avert the "killing everyone within" part.]]

See also MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and ComesGreatResponsibility.

* ''Literature/RejectionAndRevenge'': Osama Bin Laden gets his hands on some warheads: one of his targets: Riyadh!

* 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]].

** Also, in the manga Aion's plans are reveal to be [[spoiler:a plot to destroy Pandaemonium (the demon's home) and "remake" the world. He succeeds in destroying [[FanNickname Pandy]] and killing all of the demons but himself, Chrono and Shader, but Chrono and Rosette stop him before he destroys all of humanity.]]

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* It's SelfDemonstrating/{{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).

* SelfDemonstrating/{{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.]]

* The events of ''Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E24TheEndingOfTheEndPart1'' hits much differently in the fanfic ''Fanfic/HowILostMyMother''.

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* [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] was afraid that he may have had Jewish blood in his veins (it's more likely he had ''Czech'' blood in his veins, which knowing his dislike of Slavs, might have been ironic, to say the least), so he had his hometown cleared out, all his personal documents destroyed (as well as ANY records in the town), and then had the entire town shelled for artillery practice.
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* [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] was afraid that he may have had Jewish blood in his veins, so he had his hometown cleared out, all his personal documents destroyed (as well as ANY records in the town), and then had the entire town shelled for artillery practice.

* The {{Pyromaniac}} and her girlfriend in ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' go back to the orphanage that abused them in order to KillItWithFire. And watch.