History PlayingWith / WhereIWasBornandRazed

* '''Downplayed''': Hector kills a large number of people in Redvale, including several family members, and is banished by the survivors.
** Hector's powers force the town to evacuate - nobody died but they all lost their home.

'''Basic Trope''': Somebody [[DoomedHometown Dooms their own Hometown]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': Hector [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Did Not Know His Own Strength]] and kept inflicting AmusingInjuries on everyone around him. Eventually, everyone moved away... including his own parents. Who didn't bother telling him first.
* '''Played For Drama''':

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'''Basic Trope''': Somebody {{Doom|edHometown}}s their own [[DoomedHometown Hometown]].

** Hector's family and friends are abusive to him, so he promptly [[DestroyTheAbusiveHo,e blows up his hometown]].

** Hector's hometown is being overrun by zombies, so [[ShootTheDog he has no choice but to blow it up]].

* '''Deconstructed''': The soul-crushing guilt drives Hector into being a very careful person, anxious about exercising his potentially world-destroying powers. This leads to his initial RefusalOfTheCall, and later situations when he hesitates to act and suffers as a result.
* '''Reconstructed''': Hector and his EvilCounterpart both discovered their powers in the same traumatic way. While it caused his rival to MaddenIntoMisanthropy, it spurred Hector to find a way to control his powers.

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* '''Inverted''': Hector's power produces a hugely powerful explosion outside a certain radius, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers protecting anything inside it]] - the HiddenElfVillage in which he lives is saved, but left in the middle of [[{{Mordor}} an endless, blasted wasteland.]]

* '''Parodied''': Hector's powers go out of control, leaving him forever repenting his crime: breaking a window in his house.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Hector's awakening, which happens as TheEmpire is invading, destroys Redvale. Hector then wanders the Earth out of guilt. One day he finds himself at his DoomedHometown, only to find that it was never destroyed. But then Hector figures out that it's just a magical simulacrum, and destroys it ("again"). But few years later, he hear of an underground city said to be build by the people of Redvale, who managed to escape deep underground as TheEmpire invaded...

** Hector is part of a nomadic tribe wandering the desert. A recent sandstorm has uncovered a strange glowing green staff. Hector digs it up and grabs it, setting off a WorldHealingWave that turns the surrounding desert into fertile grassland. His tribe decide that, while their nomadic tradition is still very important to them, it would be wise to set up a home town in this newly-formed area.

* '''Exaggerated''': Hector wipes Redvale completely off the map, along with [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]], [[CainAndAbel siblings]], {{Unlucky Childhood Friend}}s, neighbors and acquaintances. He also takes out most of the surrounding countryside, including a nearby village and a large chunk of forest, and wakes up in a smoking crater.

* '''Inverted''':
** Hector protects his HiddenElfVillage by destroying anything he sees as a threat ''outside'' of it.
** Hector's powerful forcefield protected his village from an EarthShatteringKaboom.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Hector has incredibly destructive powers and completely lost control of them, wrecking everything around him in the process.

* '''Inverted''': Hector protects his HiddenElfVillage by destroying anything he sees as a threat ''outside'' of it.

* '''Double Subverted''': While the empire invading didn't ''help'', it was Hector's attempts to fight them off -- and his losing control in the process -- that led to Redvale's demise.

* '''Invoked''': Hector's townsfolk want him to leave and never come back, so they brainwash him into thinking he destroyed the place.

* '''Played For Drama''': Hector was fully aware of what he was doing the whole time, but completely unable to stop his SuperPoweredEvilSide from burning Redvale to the ground. His inability to stop himself or save anyone causes him no end of SurvivorGuilt and {{Angst}}.

'''Basic Trope''': Somebody destroys their own DoomedHometown.
* '''Straight''': Losing control of his awakening powers, Hector destroys his hometown of Redvale.
* '''Exaggerated''': Hector wipes Redvale completely off the map, along with [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents]], [[CainAndAbel siblings]], {{Unlucky Childhood Friend}}s, neighbors and acquaintances. He also takes out most of the surrounding countryside, including a nearby village and a large chunk of forest.
* '''Downplayed''': Hector wipes several blocks in Redvale. Unfortunately, those are his neighborhood.

* '''Deconstructed''': The soul-crushing guilt drives Hector into AntiHero-dom and, ultimately, WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
* '''Reconstructed''': The soul-crushing guilt drives Hector into being a very careful person. He's prudent when exercising his potentially world-destroying power.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Hector's awakening, which happens as TheEmpire is invading, destroys Redvale. Hector then wander the Earth out of guilt. One day he finds himself at his DoomedHometown, only to find that it was never destroyed. But then Hector figures out that it's just a magical simulacrum, and destroys it ("again"). But few years later, he hear of an underground city said to be build by the people of Redvale, who managed to escape deep underground as TheEmpire invaded...

* '''Enforced''': "We need to give [[TheHero Hector]] to WalkTheEarth. How about we make him destroy his own [[DoomedHometown hometown]] by accident?"

* '''Invoked''': Hector dislikes his hometown and its inhabitants, and thus, destroys it.
* '''Exploited''': TheEmpire didn't actually have the power to destroy Redvale, so they piss Hector off to make him do their job. It's just a few {{Mooks}} lost, after all.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': [[StockQuote "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."]] Cue SkywardScream.
* '''Invoked''': ???