History PlayingWith / OmnicidalManiac

* '''Deconstructed''': Doctor Destructo is suffering from sever depression and wants to bring an end to all the suffering [[CrapsackWorld around him]], but finds killing the entire universe, let alone just a planet, far to difficult for any one man to achieve.

** Doctor Destructo plans on using [[UpToEleven a triple-level fail-safed This Will Really Destroy Reality Bomb to destroy reality]], then recreating a new universe with a big bang to sterilize away whatever might have survived in some corners the bomb missed, before collapsing the new universe onto itself and decaying all matter to a state where no planets, stars or any other celestial bodies will emerge, ensuring nothing will ever exist ever again, even existence and nonexistence.

** Doctor Destructo plans on using a triple-level fail-safed This Will Really Destroy Reality Bomb to destroy reality, then recreating a new universe with a big bang to sterilize away whatever might have survived in some corners the bomb missed, before collapsing the new universe onto itself and decaying all matter to a state where no planets, stars or any other celestial bodies will emerge, ensuring nothing will ever exist ever again, even existence and nonexistence.

** Dr. Destructo wants to destroy the world.
** Dr. Destructo is just AxCrazy.

* '''Downplayed''': Dr. Destructo wants to destroy the world.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** Doctor Destructo plans on using a triple-level fail-safed This Will Really Destroy Reality Bomb to destroy reality, then recreating a new universe with a big bang to sterilize away whatever might have survived in some corners the bomb missed, before collapsing the new universe onto itself and decaying all matter to a state where no planets, stars or any other celestial bodies will emerge, ensuring nothing will ever exist ever again except for some stray particles.

** Doctor Destructo is a NietzscheWannabe who lives in a CrapsackWorld and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds suffered from a severe]] FreudianExcuse, and is using the Reality Bomb [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum to subject the world to]] [[MercyKill euthanasia]] or create a better one [[InTheirOwnImage In His Own Image]]. Or maybe it's all a philosophical experiment to find out if there's an afterlife or the world is AllJustADream; he'll kill himself as well.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Defied''': "Oh please, why would I ever want to destroy the world? That's where I keep all my stuff!".

* '''Deconstructed''': Doctor Destructo is suffering from sever depression and wants to bring an end to all the suffering [[CrapsackWorld around him]], but finds killing the entire universe, let alone just a planet, far to difficult for any one man to achieve.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Doctor Destructo plans on using a triple-level fail-safed This Will Really Destroy Reality Bomb to destroy reality, then recreating a new universe with a big bang to sterilize away whatever might have survived in some corners the bomb missed, before collapsing the new universe onto itself and decaying all matter to a state where no planets, stars or any other celestial bodies will emerge, ensuring nothing will ever exist ever again except for some stray particles.

* '''Justified''': Doctor Destructo is a NietzscheWannabe who lives in a CrapsackWorld and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds suffered from a severe]] FreudianExcuse, and is using the Reality Bomb [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum to subject the world to]] [[MercyKill euthanasia]] or create a better one [[InTheirOwnImage In His Own Image]]. Or maybe it's all a philosophical experiment to find out if there's an afterlife or the world is AllJustADream; he'll kill himself as well.

* '''Parodied''': [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Doctor Destructo has no concept of the scale of destruction he is about to unleash]]. When the hero asks him 'why would you want to destroy the world?', he gets flummoxed.

* '''Played For Drama''': This trope, practically by definition, is PlayedForDrama. It's very hard to conceive of a situation where destruction of the world would not entail drama.

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** Doctor Destructo is the absolute personification of nothingness or some other EldritchAbomination, and wants to wipe out reality because [[ItsWhatIDo it's who he is.]]

** Type 2 variety of MugglePower taken UpToEleven

** Doctor Destructo wants to prevent reality [[RetGone from coming into being.]]

** WoobieDestoyerOfWorlds.

* '''Justified''': Doctor Destructo is a NietzscheWannabe who lives in a CrapsackWorld and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds suffered from a severe]] FreudianExcuse, and is using the Reality Bomb [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum to subject the world to]] [[MercyKill euthanasia]] or create a better one [[InTheirOwnImage In His Own Image]]. Or maybe it's all a philosophical experiment to find out if there's an afterlife or the world is AllJustADream; he'll kill himself as well.

* '''Played For Drama''': Doctor Destructo has spent years having all his plans for World Domination thwarted again and again. He's practically broke, he has numerous health problems from broken bones, he has cancer due to exposure to radiation and mutagens, and nobody loves him. He sits in his basement choosing between the detonator for his Reality Bomb... or a pistol with one round in the chamber.

* '''Justified''': Doctor Destructo has a clear reason for wanting to destroy the world. Maybe it's a FreudianExcuse. Maybe the Reality Bomb will create a better world from the ashes of the old one. Maybe it's the only way for him to find out if the world is AllJustADream; he'll kill himself as well.

* '''Straight''': Doctor Destructo plans on using his newly created Reality Bomb to destroy reality as we know it.

'''Basic Trope''': A villain who plans on destroying all life.
* '''Straight''': A villain who plans on destroying all life via his Reality Bomb.
* '''Exaggerated''': A villain who plans on destroying all life via his Reality Bomb, then bringing everything back to life, killing it again, burning the corpses, and rewriting the laws of physics so that life can never again emerge.
* '''Justified''': The villain is able to clearly communicate why he wants to destroy all life.
** Alternatively, it's the only way to find out if the world is all just a dream; he'll kill himself as well.
* '''Inverted''': The villain wants to stop anything from dying ever again.
* '''Subverted''': The villain's plan to destroy existence is a RedHerring meant to obfuscate his real plan, or simply a blackmail attempt he has no plan of following through whether he gets what he wants or no.

* '''Parodied''': [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds The villain has no idea what kind of destruction he is about to unleash]] and gets flummoxed when someone tries to ask him why he's doing it or what he's planning to do next.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The villain wants to prevent anything from ever dying again...and succeeds. But by doing so, the planet runs out of resources and the people all starve, but can't die, so this becomes something similar to AndIMustScream, and everyone commits suicide.
* '''Averted''': The villain doesn't want to destroy reality, or obviously has no way to do so.
* '''Enforced''': "Enough with the Take Over The World plots. Can we have something else that's an adequate threat for our GodModeSue [[BoringInvincibleHero protagonist]]?"

* '''Defied''': The heroes identify warning signs of omnicidal mania and deal with anyone who hints at following such a path.