History Main / WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

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[[caption-width-right:330:[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia]], [[BreakTheCutie cutie break YOU]].]]
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'''Important Note:''' This trope is no longer considered YMMV because not all examples here need to be sympathetic to the audience.

'''Important Note:''' This trope is no longer considered YMMV because not all examples here need to be sympathetic to the audience. Please use the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15391212720A38366900 Woobie cleanup thread]] to propose characters before writing their entries. Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds entries not approved by the thread will be deleted. Also do not remove entries that have been approved.

'''Important Note:''' This trope is no longer considered YMMV because not all examples here need to be sympathetic to the audience. Please use the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15391212720A38366900 Woobie cleanup thread]] to propose characters before writing their entries. Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds entries not approved by the thread will be deleted.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/{{Film}}

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/Film

!!Note: This trope is no longer considered YMMV, because not all examples here need to be sympathetic to the audience.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/{{Film}}

[[caption-width-right:330:[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia]], [[BreakTheCuite cuite break YOU]].]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/AnimatedFilms

A character who is a Woobie Destroyer of Worlds can be very high up on the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and/or SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness while being very low on the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness. Rather than hatred, the audience feels pity for this villain and wants to see them stopped so they don't cause any more destruction or loss of life. If the Woobie Destroyer of Worlds has to be killed to stop his destruction spree, it makes for prime AlasPoorVillain material especially if he [[DyingAsYourself regains his sanity as he's dying]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/OtherMedia

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/ProfessionalWrestling

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/{{Theatre}}

This is a character with {{omnicidal|Maniac}} and/or AxCrazy tendencies, or well, a character who wants to destroy everyone in the story, and is suddenly in a position to do so (on a small or large scale); but in contrast to other characters, he/she has some plausible, outright tragic reason to do so. In some cases, the other characters outright sympathize with this one (whether or not the audience does too is out of the equation here), all the while accepting that they must be stopped. Sometimes, the character is even portrayed as ''likeable'', just... not with the right mindset.

For actual world-destroying tropes, see WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth.

A character who is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds can be very high up on the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and/or SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness while being very low on the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness. Rather than hatred, the audience feels pity for this villain and wants to see them stopped so they don't cause any more destruction or loss of life. If the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds has to be killed to stop his destruction spree, it makes for prime AlasPoorVillain material especially if he [[DyingAsYourself regains his sanity as he's dying]].

[[caption-width-right:330:[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia]], [[BreakTheCutie cutie break]] ''[[BreakTheCutie you.]]'']]

A character who is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds can be very high up on the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and/or SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness while being very low on the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness. Rather than hatred, the audience feels pity for this villain and wants to see them stopped so they don't cause anymore destruction or loss of life. If the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds has to be killed to stop his destruction spree, it makes for prime AlasPoorVillain material especially if he [[DyingAsYourself regains his sanity as he's dying]].

[[[caption-width-right:330:[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia]], [[BreakTheCutie cutie break]] ''[[BreakTheCutie you.]]''.]]

[-[[caption-width-right:330:[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia]], [[BreakTheCutie cutie break]] ''[[BreakTheCutie you.]]''.]

[-[[caption-width-right:330:[[BreakTheCutie Break this cutie]] and he might break your neck.]]-]

May overlap with DeathSeeker, if they want to die, but intend to [[TakingYouWithMe make sure]] that [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum everyone else goes first]]. Likely to be a DracoInLeatherPants for some of the audience.

This is a character with {{omnicidal|Maniac}} and/or AxCrazy tendencies who wants to destroy everything and everyone in the story, and is suddenly in a position to do so (on a small or large scale); but in contrast to other characters, he/she has some plausible, outright tragic reason to do so. In some cases, the other characters outright sympathize with this one (whether or not the audience does too is out of the equation here), all the while accepting that they must be stopped. Sometimes, the character is even portrayed as ''likeable'', just... not with the right mindset.

This trope is less about the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat and more about how much a character has been broken -- physically, mentally, and emotionally -- before they finally snap and blame the whole world for all the crap they has been through. Of course, they must crack and pose a sudden threat of ''some'' sort, to the characters and/or the setting. And [[TheDogBitesBack some of them]] ''do'' [[SpannerInTheWorks get their]] [[WhosLaughingNow finger on the nuke trigger]]. In a few extreme cases, [[PersonOfMassDestruction they themselves are the nuke]].

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/{{General}}

This is a character with {{omnicidal|Maniac} and/or AxCrazy tendencies who wants to destroy everything and everyone in the story, and is suddenly in a position to do so (on a small or large scale); but in contrast to other characters, he/she has some plausible, outright tragic reason to do so. In some cases, the other characters outright sympathize with this one (whether or not the audience does too is out of the equation here), all the while accepting that they must be stopped. Sometimes, the character is even portrayed as ''likeable'', just... not with the right mindset.