History Sandbox / Molokai198

# Deuteragonist/VideoGames: [[BigBad Dr. James Marcus]] splits the roles of antagonist and tritagonist, with his backstory, the mystery of his death, and the reason for his vengeance against Umbrella kickstarting the events of the game and driving the plot. For an Umbrella scientist, he's [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds remarkably sympathetic]], and it's Marcus's actions that cause the events of both the first game and [[ForWantOfANail the rest of the series]]. '''It seems that this character is solely wanting vengeance against a specific organization, which is too calculated, this just seems to be the trope used to mean "sympathetic villain".'''

# Characters/TheRiseOfDarkVulcan: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After just how badly Cirrus and Hilltop screwed them over, you really can't blame them for indirectly invoking RoaringRampageOfRevenge via Vulcan [[note]]And even then, they initially just ask for simple justice until Chrysalis, sensing their SuppressedRage and sympathizing with them, spurs them on. '''Not clear whether the RoaringRampageOfRevenge is on Cirrus and Hilltop alone or ''everyone''.'''

[[folder: Treated as a YMMV making a judgment that the character is sympathetic:]]

[[folder: Character is suffering and is antagonistic, but is more calculated in who and what they threaten: ]]

PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery wick check

[[folder:Character believes that their actions will make them no longer suffer and those specific actions are the best way to stop the suffering: 10 (20%)]]

# BigBadEnsemble: In ''Manga/FairyTail'', the endgame sets up two {{Big Bad}}s in [[EvilVersusEvil opposition with each other]], and both of whom have served as [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villains]] before becoming active: Zeref, an [[CompleteImmortality immortal]] PersonOfMassDestruction and DeathSeeker who wants to put an end to his own evil in a manner that would [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery wipe out all of humanity]]; and Acnologia, a dragon who WasOnceAMan and is fueled by [[BoomerangBigot his hatred of dragons]] and his [[OmnicidalManiac unquenchable thirst for destruction]]. A third candidate would be E.N.D., the master of the dark guild Tartaros and a demon created by Zeref for his own SuicideByCop, with his guild attempting to [[SealedEvilInACan unseal him from a book]] to wreak destruction on mankind. [[spoiler:That is until he's revealed to be Natsu's SuperpoweredEvilSide that wasn't truly sealed to begin with, and is promptly done away with when Lucy figures out how to sever Natsu's connection to the book.]] '''Seems to genuinely believe wiping out humanity is the only way for him to die given his immortality.'''
# DancinInTheRuins: It's not hard to spot this guy (or girl) in an AfterTheEnd setting: he's the one dancing merrily on the grave of civilization. What his particular beef was with society may vary, but in all cases he's overjoyed to have seen it bite the dust. He's not typically the [[OmnicidalManiac one responsible for]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom the big boom]], though he might want to shake the hand of whoever is given the opportunity. Could possibly be considered a slightly less insane version of PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery. '''The idea is that the character's suffering due to society is ended due to the destruction of society, which is like a more mild version of actually causing the apocalypse to end your suffering.'''
# AssimilationPlot: * Personal motive. The character involved may not care about the plan bringing massive change to the world as long as [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery it would help them accomplish a personal objective]]. '''The assimilation is actually benefitting the character here, though only the pothole makes it clear that the benefit is supposed to be making them not suffer in some way.'''
# FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': More than a few of the Darklords have messed-up histories: Meredoth, for example, was raised by AbusiveParents and flesh golems in that order, meaning that [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery he tends to kill any living creature that comes near him]] because [[MisanthropeSupreme he's convinced that anything he doesn't have absolute control over is a threat]]. However, sob stories don't work on the Dark Powers. They ''don't care'' if your [[MoralEventHorizon Act of Ultimate Darkness]] was fueled by a tragic backstory or just you being an asshole. You're getting your IronicHell either way. '''He is suffering from feeling threatened by other creatures and killing them stops him from feeling that fear'''
# Characters/UQHolderTheLifeMakersApostles: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: The reason behind her [[ApocalypseHow plan]]. Justified knowing that her misery is that of everyone else's in all planets and dimensions. '''Seems like she suffers as long as those in other planets or dimensions suffer so destroying them will stop her suffering, though odd how it says this makes it a justified trope, as if in most examples the character doesn't get a concrete benefit and this is unusual in that they do'''
# JerkassWoobie: Contrast WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, where a tragic but less cruel character destroys everything around them because [[DespairEventHorizon they have already been broken]]. The Jerkass Woobie's cruel acts are generally not a result of him being broken and his suffering may even come after he has sinned. Not to be confused with PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, where a sympathetic villain seeks large scale destruction out of a desire to end misery. See also DracoInLeatherPants, where one of these happens accidentally, and KarmicOverkill, where audiences feel that the character ''did'' deserve to be punished for their actions, but the comeuppance they received is still seen as excessive. '''Clearly defines the trope in opposition to WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds as the character being motivated to end their suffering, whereas WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds doesn't expect their suffering to end but is too broken to care.'''
# GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: * ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' has the robot Aya developing human emotions as a key plot point. [[spoiler:Subverted as the crucial twist of the entire series: Aya was not completely robotic and was actually made with a sliver of a living being of pure will. Therefore, she is the only AI that can develop them, because she was not limited by programming in the first place, while other AIs like LANOS and the Manhunters cannot. This puts a damper of her PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery plot to [[GrandfatherParadox unmake all organic life]].]] '''Technically contextless so I have to put it in unsure, though the fact that her plan was due to her lack of human emotions and said emotions interfering with it implies it's more likely to be of rational self-interest than spite.'''
# Literature/TheStoneSky: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Some of the stone eaters like Steel want to crash the moon into the earth because that would be [[ICannotSelfTerminate the only way to kill themselves]], though other stone eaters like Hoa are happy to be alive and would rather fix the world. Steel convinces Nassun to help him in this endeavor, which she agrees to because she has her own grievances with the world and equally wants things to be at peace by ending it all. '''Character believes his actions are the only way to end his suffering, not clear if this is also the case for Nassun but it is true for the character who is the focus of the example.'''
# GoldenEnding: ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': It is increasingly heavily implied that the events of the series [[spoiler:are simply one more iteration of a GroundhogDayLoop where [[BigGood Zoss]] keeps resetting time in a desperate attempt to get the Golden Ending where [[TheChosenOne his chosen heir]] manages to defeat [[BigBadEnsemble the Seven]], free the Multiverse from their tyranny, and restore Throne to its former glory. Unfortunately, beings like Jagganoth and the Throne Knights have RippleEffectProofMemory and the experience of the timeline constantly resetting has understandably driven them over the DespairEventHorizon, convincing them that the only way to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery put an end to their eternally-recurring suffering]] is to destroy everything so thoroughly that Zoss can't reset it anymore.]] '''The characters actually believe that destroying everything is the only way for them to die due to the resets.'''
# Laconic/PutTheAllOutOfMyMisery: A villain wants to end their misery by killing everyone. '''Clearly defined as wanting to end the misery, though "killing everyone" is a bit misleading for making it seem like they have to be an OmnicidalManiac when they can actually be lower on the SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat'''

[[folder:The above, but the character isn't fully selfish and also believes their actions will help others: 2 (4%)]]

# * Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Tougo, at the end of season 1, though she is a hero instead of villain. After learning the AwfulTruth about the Earth, she considers it best to kill everyone instead of letting more girls suffer by becoming {{Magical Girl}}s and holding off the inevitable demise of the planet. On a more personal note she especially wants to stop herself and her friends from becoming vegetables.]] '''Although the character wants to end her own suffering and this will accomplish it, she also believes it is for the best for other girls.'''
# EndOfTheWorldSpecial: * ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures'': The metaplot of the game is that the world goes through a continual cycle of destruction and rebirth, [[CrapsackWorld becoming more horrible and deranged each time]]. The Brahe clan has conceived a plan to stop this cycle by [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery preventing the world from being reborn and therefore sending everything to oblivion]]. Tycho, one of the protagonists, breaks from his clan and instead tries to seed the next rebirth with a perfectly good individual: [[spoiler:his niece Anne-Claire]]. In the end, he succeeds. '''They seem to have the goal both to end their own suffering and stop a world from being born that would be too horrible to be worth living in for others' sakes.'''

[[folder:Character is lashing out against the world for suffering but has no reason to believe they will stop suffering as a result: 19 (38%)]]

# TheAntiNihilist: Instead of angsting all the time about "[[WeAreAsMayflies Life is short]], [[LifeWillKillYou we're all gonna die]] [[YouCantFightFate and you can't stop it forever]], [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery thus we might as well start killing each other right now]]", this type thinks more like "Life is short, we're all gonna die and you can't stop it forever... [[YouAreNotAlone so why not make each others' lives worthwhile and enjoyable?]] [[ForGreatJustice The only thing that matters is letting people know that you care about them, because whatever someone is, has, or can do doesn't mean a damned thing in the end]]." Compassion, love and empathy -- these may be denounced by the pessimists as nothing but fictional lies, but even if they are, to the anti nihilist, [[AWorldHalfFull these are fictions still worth believing in]]. '''The pothole is to a character who kills others because they think people will die anyway and life doesn't matter, but the killing won't stop the killer from suffering in any way.'''
# Characters/WeAreOurAvatarsEscapist: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: After finally resurrecting his family members, Seymour learned they were killed again not long after. At this point, he snapped, and considered everyone alive the cause of his suffering. '''Just motivated by spite and anger at the world, turning against "everyone alive" won't bring back his family'''
# TearJerker/AnimatorVsAnimation: * At first, after witnessing King's backstory, you might expect that everything he's done is in an effort to open some kind of portal into the void to bring his son back. You'd be wrong, [[KilledOffForReal King's son is simply]] ''[[CessationOfExistence gone]]'', there's nothing to bring back and he knows it. What he actually plans to do is [[OmnicidalManiac bring the same fate onto the entire world of Minecraft]] [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery out of revenge]]. '''As clearly stated, this won't bring his son back and is only about revenge.'''
# Characters/KamenRiderZiOAnotherRiders: [[caption-width-right:210:"[[spoiler:[[BornInTheWrongCentury Everything would have been fine if I wasn't born in the Heisei Era.]] [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery That's why... I'll erase Heisei, and there's no need for Reiwa Either.]] [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership I have become the Ruler of this era,]] [[NostalgiaFilter and I decree the current year shall be known as... Showa Year 93!]]]]"]][[/labelnote]] '''Unless destroying the era is necessary to escape it, this seems like just destruction out of spite towards Heisei.'''
# * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Due to their abusive upbringing and circumstances behind the siblings' transformation into demons, both of them display this regarding different targets. While Daki hates her colleagues who are more beautiful and successful than her and kills them once they decide to leave or they manage to draw her ire, Gyutaro hates those who had more privileged upbringing than them (read:almost ''everyone'' else) and decided to kill them so as to exact revenge upon the world.]] '''This is spite/revenge and won't help the characters'''
# VideoGame/TalesOfArise: ** While ThePowerOfHate is an excellent motivator, you have to give it up eventually. Making decisions through a mind clouded with hate will only ruin you in the end, either by blinding you to the obvious or leading to your own destruction. [[spoiler:This is best viewed at the final battle between Vholran and Alphen. Vholran has stewed in his hatred for years, letting it get to the point where he disregards the lives of everyone around him and is willing to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery destroy both Dahna and Rena]] in order to exact his vengeance. Alphen realizes that though the Renans are not innocent, they too are victims of the real threat, and forgiving them for what they've done is the only way for both peoples to ever move forward.]] '''Explicitly said he is doing it for revenge and not to make himself suffer less'''
# TragicVillain/VideoGames: ** If a ''Yakuza'' villain isn't scum of the earth, they're usually have some dramatic reason for their actions. Yoshitaka Mine from ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 3}}'', for example, reveals just before his boss fight that he was a lonely orphan like Kiryu until Daigo befriended him, and his actions throughout the game are a drawn out case of him [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery lashing out at others to satiate his own brokenness]]. When he realizes just what his actions have done, Mine chooses to kill himself and the BigBad to perhaps earn some redemption in Kiryu and Daigo's eyes. '''Just "lashing out", he doesn't seem to get any benefit from it.'''
# Series/BattlestarGalactica2003: * DysfunctionalFamily: The Cylons are painted as this both in-universe, and out, with the Cylons calling either other "brother" or "sister," and the Final Five characterized as the "parents" of the modern humanoid Cylons. Cavil himself refers to each of them as either "mom" or "dad," and his entire character arc can be summed up as "eldest son throws a [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery cosmic temper tantrum]] because he thinks his parents don't love him enough." '''It seems like he is just mad and throwing a tantrum, he doesn't think hurting others would make his parents love him as far as I could tell'''
# Fanfic/NobodysHero: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: This is why Ai turned evil and wants to kill all humans. Soulburner bitterly notes while they understand why Ai wants revenge for [[spoiler:Yusaku's death after he was shot by a tank]], less so when he blames everyone and tries to kill everyone. [[spoiler:This was revealed to be opposite to [[SuicideByCop Ai's original plan]] since [[ICannotSelfTerminate he cannot self terminate]], but grief and two years of self-isolation is not good for one's mental health.]] '''While ICannotSelfTerminate is mentioned this seems to be unrelated to how he fits the trope, which is just about wanting revenge on everyone without getting any benefit.'''
# Sandbox/MemeticBadassWickCheck: ** Dracovish. As soon as the fandom heard of [[GameBreaker the sheer power of its signature move]], fans started portraying it as on the same level as (if not more powerful than) a legendary. Fanon tends to portray it as a weapon of mass destruction who wants to kill everyone [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery for allowing it to exist in the first place]]. '''Killing everyone is just revenge and is not necessary for Dracovish to kill itself.'''
# Characters/NarutoSasukeUchiha: ** Even if his motive is to honor his dead clan, his ''actions'' are increasingly self-centered. The problem begins when he chooses to ditch Konoha to learn under the criminal who attempted to destroy it, showing no regard for his classmates who risked their lives trying to bring him back, and wanting to kill Naruto because he considered acquiring the Mangekyo Sharingan more important than Naruto's life (which probably wouldn't have have worked, as the process requires a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment to awaken the eyes, and Sasuke clearly didn't care enough about Naruto for this to happen). It gets worse after learning the truth about Itachi. He kidnaps (what he thinks is) Killer Bee, dooming a man he barely knows to a slow and painful death just so he can have the Tailed Beast inside him to use against Konoha. During the Kage Summit, he thinks of nothing but revenge against Danzo, killing or attempting to kill all the Samurai, Kage and their bodyguards who get in his way, ditching two teammates when saving them becomes inconvenient, and [[ShootTheHostage stabbing through the remaining one]] (after she'd healed his life-threatening injuries ''twice'' during the arc) when saving her becomes inconvenient as well. Finally, his plan to kill everyone in Konoha for the Uchiha Clan massacre that only a select few are responsible for is best described as [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery forcing his suffering onto everyone else]]. And * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: When Sasuke discovers his clan was killed to prevent them from staging a coup against the Leaf Village, he decides they can only be properly avenged by killing not just those responsible, but also everyone who benefited from their deaths (which is to say the entire Leaf Village). '''He wants revenge, but his actions don't prevent him from suffering in any way.'''
# * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Darhk has a VillainousBreakdown when he finds out that his wife is dead and his EvilPlan is in tatters, while his daughter is missing and possibly dead as well, and decides to destroy the whole world anyway out of pure grief and rage, not caring if anyone survives. '''The motivation is, as said, grief and rage and wanting to punish the world, not a belief that he will get his wife and daughter back'''
# Characters/FearTheWalkingDeadTexas: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: She takes her grief over the loss of her husband out on anybody and everybody who either offers help or gives help to other people. '''Her actions don't reducing her suffering in any way, she's just angry at the world.'''
# Pantheon/ActsOfHatred: * Portfolio: [[EvilSorcerer Mystic]] [[EvilChancellor Strategists]], [[FauxAffablyEvil Feigned Courtesy]], [[TheGrotesque Severe]] [[BandageMummy Leprosy]], [[MindOverMatter Floating Attack Beads]], [[CastingAShadow Darkness]], VillainousFriendship, [[MisanthropeSupreme A Desire to]] [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery Spread Misery]], [[ConsummateLiar Never Speaking the Truth]]. '''The trope here is potholed as a desire to spread misery, which would seem to imply it's about wanting to hurt others when you are hurt out of spite rather than it just being a byproduct of actions motivated to reduce one's suffering. In addition, this character is the god of the trope and it's listed under ActsOfHatred, while as the trope is defined it's not really about hatred, which would be more WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, but about a "rational" but selfish desire to end one's suffering regardless of who else suffers in the process, though some of the subtypes do involve also hating the thing that is causing the suffering and that being part of the motivation, hatred isn't a requirement so it seems odd to put it in that category.'''
# KnightTemplar/FanWorks: ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':
** Hokuto Kaneshiro. He commits all manner of horrible atrocities purely for the endgame of resurrecting [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]] and watching his destroy all life on Earth, simply because [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery he believes that all life is evil, meaningless trash]], and repeatedly declares that all of his actions are for a higher cause. '''Character isn't even shown to be suffering at all, much less feeling the suffering will be ended by his actions. There is a category mentioned on the main page for the trope where the character feels the very existence of the people/society around them is making them suffer, but this is not stated here. Claims to be WellIntentionedExtremist but doesn't seem to actually fall into the "not entirely selfish" category'''.
# AxCrazy/AnimeAndManga: *** It's actually ''even worse'' than that sounds. He rants about how [[EvilFeelsGood killing Danzo felt great]], and he apparently thinks that the people of Konoha laughing and having fun in his memories are mocking the deaths of the Uchiha clan. He wants to kill them all [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery because they aren't as miserable as he is]]. '''Motivated by spite for other people not being miserable, without this making him any less miserable.'''
# Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Ghidorah ''used'' to be this before it fully became an OmnicidalManiac. Before its [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil epoch-spanning slip into becoming the evil monster we know it as]] was complete; it committed mass destruction again and again in an effort to [[spoiler:make [[TerribleTicking the Old Noise]] stop tormenting it]], and Ghidorah implicitly resorted to slaughtering lifeforms that were in no way to blame for [[spoiler:inflicting the Old Noise on it]] to that end. '''The killing has the goal of making the noise that makes it suffer stop.'''
# Yandere/VideoGames: ** In stark contrast to the rare male example [[spoiler:final boss Ramirez, whose personality was reputedly stoic-to-warm, who becomes an [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniac]] committed to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery destroying the world he thought only Galcian was worthy to rule]] after the protagonists beat him.]] '''Just seems to be motivated by spite/revenge against the world for Galcian not being able to rule it.'''
# Characters/FinalFantasyXIVRaidAntagonists: * OmnicidalManiac: Xande after his death, CameBackWrong and sought to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery drag everyone down to death]] with him again when he died once more. '''No evidence this will prevent his death or that it's the only way for him to die permanently.'''

[[folder:The above, but the character isn't fully selfish and also believes their actions will help others: 1 (2%)]]

# * 3BelowS1E7FlyingTheCoop: * {{Metaphorgotten}}: Varvatos intends to kill Birdie and [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery put her out of their misery]]. Before that, he tries to give a PreAsskickingOneliner. '''No mention of Varvatos even suffering himself, this is solely about believing Birdie would be better off dead.'''

[[folder:Character makes others suffer in a way that will end their suffering, but the character could easily accomplish the same without making others suffer so the motive seems to be more spite or something else: 1 (2%)]]

# Analysis/FullmetalAlchemist: Scar's goals were to [[DeathSeeker die]] at the hands of those he wronged (particularly [[spoiler:Winry]]) and to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery take as many with him as he can]]. '''As far as I can tell, killing other people isn't the only way he can die and he does not believe this to be the case either, so this is just a case of someone simultaneously wanting to kill their enemies and to die.'''

[[folder: The above but the character is not purely selfishly motivated and believes it is for the best for others: 1 (2%)]]

# WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/ComicBooks Caliginous in ''ComicBook/HeroSquared'' has decided that [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery life is nothing but pain, misery,]] cruelty, and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible. Her arch-nemesis, [[TheCape Captain Valor]], just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self, Milo, manages to recognize that, beneath it all, she's a broken, lonely, psychologically tormented, and suffering woman. '''The goal, even if it would presumably kill her as well, seems to be to kill everyone else to spare ''them'' of their suffering, it isn't the only way for her to stop suffering. But it's not selfishly motivated in that she genuinely believes everyone else would be better off dead for their own sakes.'''

[[folder:Other: 1 (2%)]]

# Sandbox/MonsterVideoGamesDToF: ** [[BigBad Barclyss]] is the rogue Tren General who is revealed to be behind all the tragedies that [[TheHero Xero]] and his companions has to endure. Starting as a [[FromNobodyToNightmare normal street urchin]] with intellectual potential, Barclyss [[StrawNihilist lost any respect towards human life]] after studying biology books. After he joins the Judgment Faction, he first decimates the peaceful town of Ellea. When Corporal Slash of the Blaze Soldiers is captured by the Judgment Faction and refuses to be subjugated by Barclyss, he then [[CruelMercy spares the Corporal]] so that he can hear all the screams of his men being butchered in the arena. When Xero tries to challenge Barclyss in order to save the Tren Captain Farrell, Barclyss beheads the captain out of spite. It was also revealed that he turned the people that he slayed into his slaves for Judgment Faction. In addition, he was also responsible for the loss of his childhood friend's eye. When the heroes tries to form a pact with another country, Heyama, Barclyss takes a mobile "Aquadome" fortress to Heyama's shores and has it fire on a building complex. After Barclyss confronts the heroes, he then launches a spell towards the duo and throws warning shots out of petty amusement. After Barclyss's army is defeated, he uses a weapon that could [[OmnicidalManiac decimate most of the planet's surface]] by causing a [[EndlessWinter nuclear winter]]. Although claiming to be a victim of his nihilistic grief and saying that survival is merely an option, Barclyss really does all of his atrocities in order to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery slake his sadistic and nihilistic pleasures]]. '''Slaking pleasures seems like the opposite of this trope, there's no evidence he is suffering at all.'''

[[folder:Unsure: 15 (30%)]]

# Recap/RickAndMortyS3E6RestAndRicklaxation: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Toxic Rick doesn't want to become part of Rick again but also hates his own existence, so he decides to turn the whole world just as toxic as he is. '''There is no evidence here turning the world toxic will stop him from becoming part of Rick, end his existence, though it could be that his suffering is caused by being the only toxic thing in a non-toxic world and making the world toxic would make him comfortable with his existence, but that's not stated explicitly here'''
# Characters/MirrorWorld: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:A devoided and insane Zeil opts the best way out of things is to just kill Cheshire to collapse Inoptica and wipe everyone out, allowing him to find a measure of peace.]] '''Not clear what exactly a measure of peace means, if he will survive and be helped in some way or if this is the only way for him to die, or if peace just means he will be satisfied with his revenge.'''
# NightmareFuel/MyHeroAcademia: *** Creepier than that is Toya's reaction. Having spent 3 years in a coma, [[PsychopathicManchild he's mentally still a 13-year old]]. Upon being told he'll never see his family again, and thus never gain the recognition from Endeavor that he so craves, Toya's reaction is a hate-filled 'shut up' to All For One, trying to [[DealWithTheDevil manipulate]] him through a monitor, telling the DiabolicalMastermind that he will '''never''' be trained by any other man but his father before ''burning the whole building down to escape'', endangering or possibly killing all the other orphans there in order to [[ItsAllAboutMe get what he wants]]. Many of those orphans were shown to be excited about Toya joining their family and never did anything but be kind towards his comatose body, but Toya is shown to be running away from the blazing building without so much as a backwards glance at their fate. [[ForScience Garaki]] himself, [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]], notes that Toya was already 'festering away inside' from his obsession with Endeavor, showcasing that there was something ''deeply'' wrong with him even as a young child before he embraced the identity of the villain Dabi. All the murders, manipulations and pain caused by Dabi's actions have '''[[NotBrainwashed no connection]]''' to All For One -- it's all the actions of a disturbed teenager, angry and determined to make the world around him burn to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery spite everybody else]]. '''The pothole "defines" the trope as wanting to hurt others out of spite due to their suffering without necessarily wanting to end that suffering, but the context outside the pothole shows he also had the motivation of needing to burn the building down to escape a place he was presumably suffering in, which would fit into the first category.'''
# Pantheon/DigitalPersonas: * Portfolio: DigitalAbomination, TheHeartless, BigBad, FinalExamBoss, VirtualRealityWarper, WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, TragicVillain, GoMadFromTheIsolation, PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, [[TakingYouWithMe Attempted Last-Ditch Suicide Explosion]]. '''Not clear because this is just a contextless statement that a character in the Pantheon fits the trope.'''
# FinalFantasy/TropesUToZ: ** Kuja in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and Seymour in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' are PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery types, and thus their examples fall under that page. Seymour was ''waaaaay'' too far gone to TakeAThirdOption, however. '''This in in the entry for WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds when listing how every villain is either that trope or PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery, no context given here for why they fit it.'''
# Literature/MercyKill: ** Although there were many factors involved in it, Jaime Lannister's BodyguardBetrayal and murder of King Aerys "The Mad" has a huge wedge of this to it, combined with putting down somebody hell-bent on PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery before he, you know, could deliver on it. Aerys was a mess, and needed help he didn't get long before he hit his nadir. '''Not clear, it just says he fits the trope without elaborating.'''
# Characters/RavenloftDarklordsOfTheEasternSea: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: His general attitude towards sapient life. '''No context whatsoever to his motivations, just that he's targeting all sapient life.'''
# Characters/AcademyOfMerlinGraduatedTomas: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: She was in a great amount of pain, and she was willing to take everyone else down with her. '''Not really clear at all whether her actions would help her pain in any way.'''
# Awesome/GuiltyGearStrive: * With Happy Chaos and I-No finally having merged into a godlike being and Sol de-powered and unconscious, all hope seems to be lost as the now deific I-No begins her own spin on [[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]] for the sake of achieving her "[[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery perfect universe]]", causing every single human to helplessly cry in joy as they witness a giant version of I-No in the process of rewriting reality. Cue ''Ky Kiske'', one of the only people who doesn't get reduced to tears, walking up to I-No, popping [[SuperMode Dragon Install]] and giving her the fight of her life, which ends with Ky impaling her with Rising Force. Sadly, the attempt to kill her falls flat as his Scales of Juno powers are insufficient, but even I-No admitted that Ky momentarily put her on the ropes. '''Not clear if she is suffering in any way from the universe not being perfect, and whether it is solely motivated by wanting to alleviate that suffering or if she genuinely believes that universe would be better for other people i.e WellIntentionedExtremist'''
# Characters/UltraSeriesUltramanBelial: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: When Geed sees his memories, one of the things he realizes is deep down, Belial is filled with as much sorrow as he is rage over his banishment and is ''tired'' from his countless resurrections, but too consumed by his grudge to ever let go and pass on. Belial makes no attempt to dispute the idea, which paints his [[OmnicidalManiac attempted destruction of the universe]] in a [[TakingYouWithMe rather different light..]] '''Unclear if he is consciously choosing to be resurrected even if it means he suffers more out of spite, with his attempted destruction of the universe having the "bonus" effect of killing him but he could easily choose to die otherwise, or if he is resurrected against his will due to his grudge and destroying the universe is the only way he can die for real.'''
# WMG/SonicForces: [[WMG: Tikal is [[https://youtu.be/EcoW61QvM1w?t=806 waiting for Chaos at a Chao Garden]] while Chaos [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery goes apeshit]].]] '''Potholed with no context'''
# Characters/{{Mardek}}: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: He utilizes this logic to justify his career path. '''No context, though it does describe him as using logic as opposed to just being angry.'''
# Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Princess Serenity]]. '''No context'''
# Characters/MCUThanos: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: His 2014 self changes his goal to this once he realizes that the people of the world will not take the destruction he has wrought lying down. '''No context'''
# WMG/DeltaruneWDGasterTheNarrator: [[WMG: If Gaster ends up being the true BigBad or [[GreaterScopeVillain the mastermind behind most of the events of the game]], his motivations would be to try and kill [[DeathSeeker himself]] or [[OmnicidalManiac everything.]]]]
Being rendered a [[RetGone non-entity]] and having pieces of your soul scattered across spacetime (in the form of the Goners,) while (presumably) being [[WhoWantsToLiveForever functionally immortal]] would likely drive one over the DespairEventHorizon mighty quick. Thus, it's probable that Gaster would want to [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery end himself (and/or everyone else.)]] '''Since this is a WMG, the speculation leaves it ambiguous whether the imagined scenario will involve Gaster only being able to kill himself by killing others or being able to kill himself in another way/unable to kill himself no matter what but just wanting to take his suffering out on others'''

Just testing for my TLP can I get it to properly link to ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358/2Days''

'''[[Theatre/{{Tosca}} Baron Vitellio Scarpia]], God of [[ScarpiaUltimatum Sexual Extortion]]'''

''[[Theatre/{{Tosca}} Baron Vitellio Scarpia]], God of [[ScarpiaUltimatum Sexual Extortion]]'''

''[[Theatre/{{Tosca}} Baron Vitellio Scarpia]], God of [[ScarpiaUltimatum Sexual Extortion]]

* Enemies: '''[[Pantheon/RegionalNationalities Napoleon Bonaparte]]''', [[Pantheon/TacticsAndStrategy Thelma Yvonne Dickinson and Louise Elizabeth Sawyer]], [[Pantheon/GenderSexChanges Lady Oscar François de Jarjayes]]

* Enemies: '''[[Pantheon/RegionalNationalities Napoleon Bonaparte]]''', [[Pantheon/TacticsAndStrategy Thelma and Louise]], [[Pantheon/GenderSexChanges Lady Oscar]]
* Lusts After: [[Pantheon/{{Leadership}} Jean d'Arc]], [[Pantheon/MagicArchetypes Aerith Gainsborough]]


'''[[Film/MiracleOn34thStreet Kris Kringle]], God of [[SantaAmbiguity Santa's Ambiguous Existence]]'''

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* Rank: Supposedly Quasideity, claims to be Greater God
* Symbol: A Santa hat underneath the banner for Macy's
* Alignment: NeutralGood
* Portfolio: '''[[SantaAmbiguity May or may not be Santa Claus]]''', [[NapoleonDelusion possibly deluded into thinking he is]], [[FriendToAllChildren gets along well with children]], AlliterativeName, [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice but capable of fighting back if provoked]], [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood which gets turned against him to "prove" he's violent and dangerous]], [[{{Omniglot}} knows the languages of children he talks to who don't speak English]]
* Domains: Christmas, altruism, law, (supposed) mental illness
* Herald: Fred Gailey
* Allies: '''[[Pantheon/{{Celebration}} Santa Claus]]''', All children in the pantheon (especially those who had unfortunately lives like [[Pantheon/ChildArchetypes The Baudelaire Orphans, Seita and Setsuko]], [[Pantheon/PhysicalAttractiveness Edward Scissorhands]], [[Pantheon/{{Commerce}} Scrooge McDuck]]
* Rivals: [[Pantheon/{{Science}} Dexter]]
* Enemies: [[Pantheon/{{Physicians}} Nurse Ratched]]
* Prospective Defense Attorneys: [[Pantheon/LegalProcess Harvey Birdman]], [[Pantheon/LawAndJustice Wright Anything Agency]]
* Conflicting Opinion: [[Pantheon/XmasAndYule Nicholas Saint North]]
* Special Relationship: [[Pantheon/InvestigativeWork Frasier Crane]]
* At first appearing to be an ordinary mall Santa at a Macy's in Manhattan, Kris Kringle got everyone's attention with his insistence that he in fact truly was Santa Claus. Many challenged his claims and believed him to be delusional, especially the psychiatrist Mr. Sawyer, who tried to have him committed. He was saved by a legal trial in which his defense attorney, Fred Gailey, used the defense that he might actually be Santa Claus - which, despite sounding ridiculous to everyone involved, worked.
* After the great publicity his trial garnered, Kris was soon getting letters to Santa Claus from kids all over the country. one such letter claimed to be from a place called the Pantheon, who apparently wanted him to show up and talk to the children there so he could be a Santa for an event there. When he got there, he was ascended as a god due to him perfectly representing someone whose identity as Santa Claus was ambiguous.
* No one in the pantheon can agree on whether he really is Santa either. Kris Kringle finds it ridiculous that there would be any doubt anymore, because unlike his own world the pantheon is filled with people with fantastic abilities and stories, but plenty of deities also come from worlds where there is no Santa Claus and he very idea of him existing is ridiculous, and just because something's possible in one world doesn't mean it's possible in another. Some people have tried to use as evidence against him that there already is a Santa Claus in the pantheon, but Santa himself pointed out that there are many Santas throughout fiction and the identity he takes the form of in the Pantheon is not the only one in existence, so him being there doesn't mean anything. Upon actually meeting the supposed impostor, Santa found the two were naturally very similar, and the children of the pantheon are happy to have two Santas giving presents to them on Christmas!
* As for Nicholas St. North, the other Santa in the Pantheon, Kris Kringle isn't that happy about having a tough and intimidating Santa around when he himself has been accused of being [[InsaneEqualsViolent violent]], and feels that the ideal Santa should be gentle and approachable. However, he does see Nicholas is a good person who truly has the spirit of Christmas in his heart, and thus still ultimately respects him. And it's not like Kringle doesn't have a [[BewareTheNiceOnes backbone]] when the time calls for it either.
* He spends lots of time in the House of Childhood and Adolescence, asking the children what they want and seeming to have an uncanny ability to predict what they want from just a little knowledge of them. He is unfazed by even the scarier children who some people think are evil, which some point to as evidence that he is a more powerful god than he appears to be so he faces no physical threat from them - or it could just mean he sees the good in everyone.
* He pays particular attention to the children who had a horrible life and haven't had much chance to know love and kind gifts. Kris Kringle eventually befriended the Baudelaire Orphans despite their earned distrust of adults in their life and initial thought that this man pretending to be Santa Claus was ridiculous, especially winning them over by getting Klaus books that he likes and Violet access to a far wider variety of tools to [[GadgeteerGenius invent things with]] than the limited things she had to make do with before. They are especially impressed that, in addition to. Just as he can understand the languages of children he talks to, he's also, to the siblings' surprise, capable of understanding Sunny's BabyTalk.
* Similarly, he also greatly sympathized with Seita and Setsuko's story and how going through a war left them with nothing and led to their eventual deaths, and always pays special attention to them and gives them lots of gifts to ensure they will never be deprived like that instead. Seita sometimes says he doesn't deserve Kris's care for him because it was his fault he and his sister died, and Kris Kringle responds that he wants the world to be a good enough place that a child does not feel they ''need'' to be perfect to deserve life and joy.
* Some lawyer deities in the pantheon were not impressed by how Kris Kringle won his case, citing the large amount of [[ArtisticLicenseLaw blatant legal inaccuracies]], and have suggested that the Pantheon should re-litigate the whole matter. Harvey Birdman jumped at the chance to be his defense attorney, saying that he's handled far crazier than Kringle's case. The Wright Everything Agency also showed interest in his case. He was a bit leery of Athena Cykes for her use of analytical psychology, knowing how a psychiatrist tried to use his expertise as a smokescreen to justify institutionalizing him, but due to Athena's ability to sense emotions she can tell he is a genuinely kind person who is certainly not InsaneEqualsViolent and definitely shouldn't be institutionalized - even as her powers aren't enough to tell her whether he is really Santa Claus or not.
* As for the other psychologists and psychiatrists in the pantheon... Kris Kringle has a complicated relationship with Frasier Crane. As he has said before, he greatly admires psychiatry as a field, but doesn't like when people use it as an excuse to pathologize everything, even good, noble qualities like altruism, and mistreat the mentally ill. While Frasier initially reminded him of Mr. Sawyer with his arrogance about his intelligence and psychological skill, leading to Kringle strongly distrusting him, he has become, if not friendly, at least more understanding of Frasier over time as Kris grew to realize Frasier wasn't truly cynical about any good humans can do the way Sawyer is. Though he does have to sometimes sit through Frasier wondering what in his childhood made him identify so strongly with Santa Claus...
* He empathizes deeply with Edward Scissorhands for how, like Kris Kringle himself, he was judged as being violent and someone who should be separated from society [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood despite his kindness and good intentions.]] Edward inspired him to make it a mission to defend those who are misunderstood and made out to be threats or someone who should be locked away, and [[BewareTheNiceOnes you have better not get in his way]]. Kringle is impressed by his sculptures and makes sure to deliver him supplies for Christmas to make bigger and better ones.
* Dexter has a track record for being skeptical of Santa's existence and trying to disprove it, and while he has learned his lesson that some Santas really exist both in his own world and in the Pantheon, he is still scientifically rigorous enough to know that doesn't mean ''all'' Santas are real! Therefore he has sometimes made efforts to try and determine once and for all if Kris is really Santa, though this time he has tried to be less violent and abrasive about it than he used to be when he encountered Santa in his own story. He can still be a bit forceful about it, though, but Kris Kringle seems to have a lot of patience for his antics - after all, however smart he is, Dexter is just a kid and Kris always wants to give children a chance to explore their curiosity and do what he loves. He doesn't see Dexter as the same noxious type of person as the others who have tried to disprove him.
* Nurse Ratched, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of person he hates, and the feeling is mutual. After hearing about how he once struck a person with an umbrella, Ratched quickly decided that it was a mistake not to have institutionalized him, and she has been crusading throughout the Pantheon trying to get everyone else to agree. To her frustration, despite the confusion about his identity he seems to be mostly loved by other members of the Pantheon, and she just doesn't get it - why can't they see that he is clearly insane and violent, just because there is all sorts of ludicrous fantasy nonsense in the Pantheon doesn't mean that that should just be accepted! Don't the violently crazy people constantly threatening the Pantheon prove that everyone shouldn't just accept him? Kris Kringle, for his own part, is very disappointed that even here, he can find people like her that think this way, and has tried to defend himself without getting too angry in a way she would interpret as proving her point (though it's very hard, since she is such a horrible person).
* Scrooge [=McDuck=] has had a complicated relationship with Santa in his world, but eventually reconciled with him. He and Kris Kringle had a conversation about their thoughts on Christmas - Kringle understands and sympathizes with how he would think coal is a practical gift rather than a punishment, and knows there is value in practical things. But in the end, he feels that's not his job or place in the world, his place is to allow children to be children and achieve their wildest dreams, and it's this kind of attitude of wanting to remove the whimsy from society that lead to people wanting to put him in an institution and get rid of him. Allowing yourself to believe in something can be helpful, as he saw with Doris Walker. But Kris Kringle respects him (although he wishes he would stop being as concerned with making money); it's clear he does care about Christmas and making people happy in the end, and in turn has a lot of respect for him and the other Santas in the pantheon.


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'''[[Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy Essun]], Goddess of [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Discrimination Subtext]]''' (Damaya, Syenite)

* Rank: Intermediate Goddess (Greater Goddess when using the Obelisk Gate)
* Symbol: An obelisk in its smaller form.
* Alignment: ChaoticNeutral
* Portfolio: [[DishingOutDirt controls geological activity]] and [[AnIcePerson can freeze the environment around her]] as Required Secondary Powers, [[TraumaCongaLine goes through a lot of horrible things in her life,]] [[OutlivingOnesOffspring outlived two of her children]] ([[OffingTheOffspring one of which she killed herself]] to save from a Fate Worse than Death), [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter multiple identities that are revealed to be the same character]], [[TakenForGranite slowly turning to stone]] [[PowerAtAPrice from use of the Obelisk Gate]], WalkingTheEarth in order to [[IWillFindYou find her daughter]] but [[AbusiveParents had treater her abusively herself]] to hide her powers, [[TheCynic cynical about the world and the ability of people like her to coexist with those without powers]], [[BrokenBird due to her own past]], [[MacGuffinSuperPerson sought out by all sides for the ability to use the Obelisk Gate]], [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed destroyed her own hometown]], [[RockThemeNaming named after a gem]] like all the other Imperial orogenes when she was in the Fulcrum.
* Domains: Discrimination, Earth, motherhood, natural disasters
* Herald: Hoa
* Allies: [[Pantheon/MetalAndMinerals Max Eisenhardt/Magneto]], [[Pantheon/FantasticalBeasts Princess Luna]], [[Pantheon/MagicAndSorcery Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon]], [[Pantheon/GenderRoles Selene]], [[Pantheon/HeroicAttitude Sethe]], [[Pantheon/FieldsOfMagic Edward Elric]], [[Pantheon/ArcsAndEpisodes Joel]]
* Enemies: [[Pantheon/{{Memes}} Moon Man]], [[Pantheon/FamilyAndRelatives Ozai]], [[Pantheon/{{Depravity}} William Stryker]], [[Pantheon/NamingReferences Fenrir Grayback]], [[Pantheon/{{Categorism}} Copen Kamizono]],
* Fears: [[Pantheon/NaturePreservers Gaea]], [[Pantheon/{{Categorism}} Anti-Mage]], [[Pantheon/MagicCasters Tirek]]
* Pities: [[Pantheon/CombatMagic Ultimecia]]
* Conflicting Opinion: [[Pantheon/PersonalAppearance Charles Francis Xavier/Professor X]], [[Pantheon/FormMentalities Remus Lupin]]
* Additional Character Relationships: [[Pantheon/FamilyDysfunctions Medea]], [[Pantheon/EarthAndRock Toph Beifong]], [[Pantheon/MagicMixed Albus Dumbledore]]
* Essun was surprised to find herself in the pantheon after her final confrontation with her daughter Nassun. It turns out that Hoa had figured out a way to bring her back to life without turning her fully into a Stone Eater and thus risking her losing her memories and identity - reviving her as a god in the pantheon instead. She is very surprised to be alive and fascinated to hear about all of the other worlds different gods came from, places where apocalyptic natural disasters aren't a constant.
* Born into a world where the earth itself is angry at its inhabitants and the people living there had to prepare themselves for world-altering disasters called "fifth seasons" where geologic activity caused long-lasting ash clouds in the sky with resulting cold temperatures and starvation every few centuries, Essun had to also deal with being an orogene, a group of people Randomly Gifted with (or sometimes inheriting) powers that allowed them to control geologic activity themselves. Orogenes are seen as agents of the evil Earth itself who are at best to be controlled and treated as less than human and at worst to be killed as soon as one is identified. Initially trained by the Fulcrum of the Sanze empire to user her power for government-sanctioned purposes, her mentor and SuperBreedingProgram partner Alabaster helped her realize that orogenes were still treated as less than human even there, and the two escaped but were later separated when the Guardians of the fulcrum came to capture them again. She made a new life with a family that did not know of her orogeny, but eventually her past caught up to her when her husband, Jija, killed their son Uche in a rage at discovering his powers and kidnapped their daughter, Nassun. With [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a season far more powerful and dangerous than normal]] going on at the same time, she set out to find her daughter, but instead ended up embroiled in a SecretWar where she was sought after for having the power to use the Obelisk Gate, with which she could bring the lost moon back to the Earth to placate it and end the seasons forever.
* She very must distrusts and fears Gaea, knowing how the earth in her world is aggressive and cruel and was responsible for a lot of the suffering in her world. She doubts Gaea's claims to care about protecting the planet from things like pollution - no matter how much life on Gaea gets killed, the planet herself will be fine, so why should she care about something that doesn't affect her?
* Has a complicated relationship with the house of Family and Relatives. She hates people like Ozai who abuse their children, though he has argued that she is no better with how cruel she was to Nassun in training her to control her orogeny, even breaking her hand like the Fulcrum did to Essun herself. Essun insists that it's different, that she had to do that to protect her when revealing her powers would get her killed, but deep down she isn't so sure of that, and regrets what she's done to her daughter. She relates to Medea with how they both killed their own children to supposedly protect them, though Essun never is fully kind to her because she is always suspicious Medea's motives were really just about spite for her husband. However she did get along very well with Sethe, with them having very similar stories of being exploited by others and believing the only way to save their child from this was to kill them.
* Tends to agree with Magneto in his philosophy that people with powers can't peacefully coexist with those who discriminate against them, and is opposed to Professor X as a result, though she has respect for how he tries to do things the idealistic way, anyway; it reminds her of Ykka from her own world. She just thinks the whole thing is horribly deluded in the end. When she found out from them about William Stryker being in the pantheon she was not happy, recognizing in his rhetoric the things she has heard in her own world.
* Despite his attempts to claim he is different from Stryker and would never go as far, Essun is not and will never be convinced Copen Kamizono is any different. If he were really just about attacking individual people with powers who are bad, he wouldn't blame all of them - their humanity and right to not be just a category should be non-negotiable.
* She has a lot of sympathy for Ultimecia for how she felt she was driven to her actions due to being persecuted for her powers, while she herself ultimately wouldn't go as far as threatening the world or dooming it by inaction despite some of the Stone Eaters around her assuming she would, she can understand very well why someone who felt the world's dehumanization of them gave them no other choice would act in the way she did.
* Is very curious about the lunar-related deities due to how her world didn't have a moon and hadn't for many millennia. She ended up striking friendships with Princess Luna, Usage Tsukino, and Selene. Luna in particular loves how Essun really appreciates just how important the moon is given how she's had a history of others not appreciating it.
* She tried starting a conversation with Moon Man once, thinking he was another lunar deity, only to find he despised her for having dark-colored skin. Essun has never encountered that particular kind of bigotry, but his attitude is very familiar given all the discrimination she's faced in her own life, so she hates him and anyone like him.
* She immediately tried to act as a mother and mentor figure to Toph Beifong, seeing as they have similar powers and she reminds Essun of her own daughter who's around the same age. The feeling doesn't seem to be mutual, though - Toph just sees Essun as another controlling parent figure trying to tell her what to do and make her suppress who she is to "protect" herself.
* She and Remus Lupin relate to each other in how he has been discriminated against for being a werewolf, similarly to her, though like Professor X he finds her cynicism off-putting and overly gloomy. When she heard about Fenrir Grayback, she initially was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, knowing that in her world orogenes like Misalem who were remembered as evil and fully embracing the stereotypes of causing destruction with their powers were actually victims of a HistoricalVillainUpgrade, but she's yet to see any sign he's not what everyone says he is. Though she still remains skeptical, she doesn't like him because of him [[StopBeingStereotypical fitting and encouraging the stereotypes]].
* Anti-Mage terrifies her with his power to resist and drain magic and his mission to track down and kill magic users, because he reminds her too much of the Guardians from her own world, who had similar AntiMagic powers and implacability in hunting down and controlling or killing orogenes, and she's suffered a lot of trauma at their hands. She fears Tirek for the same reason, knowing he could easily drain her powers and leave her helpless, though she doesn't have the same visceral hatred for him as she does for Anti-Mage since he's not doing it out of any sort of bigotry.
* She spends a lot of time in the house of Magic and Sorcery, getting a chance to learn how magic works in all of the worlds different members of the Pantheon hail from. She's never had the curiosity and skill of understanding such things that Alabaster did, but for his sake she wants to be able to understand how it works - and for pragmatic reasons, if she has to defend herself. She's even surprised that magic is such a common term in these worlds, because in hers it was an ancient term for the energy that underpinned orogeny that was lost in modern times, which she had to learn to understand to harness the Obelisk Gate. She was quite interested in Edward Elric's claims that his universe's alchemy was a kind of science, and talked to him quite a bit about it, with Essun herself sharing what she knows of how it works in her world. She thinks he's a considerably less frustrating teacher than Alabaster was. She has also talked to Albus Dumbledore about the magic in his world, though she doesn't find him entirely trustworthy with how he always seems to be planning something and acting like a paternalistic teacher.
* Essun has formed a strong bond with Joel, as the two have found they are similar in many ways - both are practical, cynical people who have used their skills to survive an apocalypse, and are protective of their children owing to having lost a child (two, in Essun's case) in the past in a horrific manner. Being cynical about anyone who tries to sell her on making grand sacrifices to save the world when that world has oppressed and used her for her whole life, she is one of the people who completely agrees with Joel about being willing to kill the Fireflies and sabotage the cure to save Ellie, and she'll defend him from anyone who tries to criticize him for it. For her own part, while she was willing to sacrifice her own life to save the world she couldn't, in the end, bear to let her daughter die even if it meant she "won".

* Portfolio: [[EvilSoundsDeep A baritone]], [[TheBadGuysAreCops evil police chief]] [[EvilReactionary trying to suppress revolution]], [[AristocratsAreEvil a baron]], [[VillainousPlanInertia succeeds in getting Cavaradossi killed after his death]], [[ILied lied about his ultimatum]], [[CompleteMonster complete depravity]], [[CardCarryingVillain admits he is evil]] [[HidingBehindReligion though claims to be religious]],

* Enemies: '''[[Pantheon/

--Pantheon entries--

Suggestions:

In the episode "Dexter vs. Santa's Claws", [[Pantheon/{{Science}} Dexter]] doesn't believe in Santa and believes it's just his dad in a costume. He tries to violently confront Santa to prove his point (like trying to rip out his beard) but it turns out this Santa is real. Perhaps Dexter would want to try to prove Kris is not Santa to "prove his smartness" but would be more or less forceful about it.
Nurse Ratched is a cruel head nurse who works in a mental institution. Maybe after hearing about Kris's case and how he strike Sawyer with an umbrella, [[Pantheon/{{Physicians}} Ratched]] would be unsympathetic to Kris and want to have him committed as well.
The Santa [[Pantheon/{{Commerce}} Scrooge]] knows is a version of Santa; he's a polar bear and the show had a running gag where he states he hated Santa and never explained why until is revealed in the episode "How Santa Stole Christmas!" why he hated Santa (which is what WhirlRX said). It's less about a character meeting Kris Kringle (from the movie) or an expy of Kris Kringle. It's more about meeting someone as altruistic as Kris Kringle who doesn't share the same commercialistic mindset as Scrooge was at the time. Scrooge learns his lesson tho and made up with his Santa. He would likely be friends with Kris and sharing him this story and hearing Kris's story. I would recommend looking into the episode itself in other wikis for more information.

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Some relationship ideas I might be looking for (feel free to suggest deities who can fit this):

Notes: He hates commercialization of Christmas, maybe there are some commercialist/capitalist type deities he could oppose? Maybe people who were [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood thought of as violent and evil when they weren't]] for the way people tried to frame him as a violent madman who had to be locked up for his one BewareTheNiceOnes moment? Mr. Sawyer believed there's no such thing as altruism and people only act that way for a pathological reason, maybe characters with similar outlooks he can oppose? Or SecretlySelfish deities who he doesn't like for making genuinely selfless people look bad? (I've seen the god we have for SecretlySelfish and I'm not sure how I could make them interact because even not taking into account hidden selfish motivations he wants to get rid of free will which looks evil from the start, I'm looking more for someone who genuinely seems nice. I mentioned other lawyer deities who much look negatively on him "only getting off through CourtroomAntics and ArtisticLicenseLaw", does anyone have any examples of deities who might hold this view?

[[folder:Character believes that their actions will make them no longer suffer and those specific actions are the best way to stop the suffering]]

[[folder:The above, but the character isn't fully selfish and also believes their actions will help others]]

[[folder:Character is lashing out against the world for suffering but has no reason to believe they will stop suffering as a result]]

[[folder:The above, but the character isn't fully selfish and also believes their actions will help others]]

[[folder:Character makes others suffer in a way that will end their suffering, but the character could easily accomplish the same without making others suffer so the motive seems to be more spite or something else]]

[[folder: The above but the character is not purely selfishly motivated and believes it is for the best for others]]

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# * Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero: * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: [[spoiler:Tougo, at the end of season 1, though she is a hero instead of villain. After learning the AwfulTruth about the Earth, she considers it best to kill everyone instead of letting more girls suffer by becoming {{Magical Girl}}s and holding off the inevitable demise of the planet. On a more personal note she especially wants to stop herself and her friends from becoming vegetables.]] '''Although the character wants to end her own suffering and this will accomplish it, she also believes it is for the best for other girls.'''

# WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds/ComicBooks Caliginous in ''ComicBook/HeroSquared'' has decided that [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery life is nothing but pain, misery,]] cruelty, and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible. Her arch-nemesis, [[TheCape Captain Valor]], just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self, Milo, manages to recognize that, beneath it all, she's a broken, lonely, psychologically tormented, and suffering woman. '''The goal, even if it would presumably kill her as well, seems to be to kill everyone else to spare ''them'' of their suffering, it isn't the only way for her to stop suffering.'''

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# DancinInTheRuins: It's not hard to spot this guy (or girl) in an AfterTheEnd setting: he's the one dancing merrily on the grave of civilization. What his particular beef was with society may vary, but in all cases he's overjoyed to have seen it bite the dust. He's not typically the [[OmnicidalManiac one responsible for]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom the big boom]], though he might want to shake the hand of whoever is given the opportunity. Could possibly be considered a slightly less insane version of PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery. '''The idea is that the character's suffering due to society is ended due to the destruction of society, which is like a more mild version of actually causing the suffering to

[[folder:Character believes that their actions will make them no longer suffer (correct definition)]]

* Scrooge McDuck has had a complicated relationship with Santa in his world, but eventually reconciled with him. He and Kris Kringle had a conversation about their thoughts on Christmas - Kringle understands and sympathizes with how he would think coal is a practical gift rather than a punishment, and knows there is value in practical things. But in the end, he feels that's not his job or place in the world, his place is to allow children to be children and achieve their wildest dreams, and it's this kind of attitude of wanting to remove the whimsy from society that lead to people wanting to put him in an institution and get rid of him. Allowing yourself to believe in something can be helpful, as he saw with Doris Walker. But Kris Kringle respects him (although he wishes he would stop being as concerned with making money); it's clear he does care about Christmas and making people happy in the end, and in turn has a lot of respect for him and the other Santas in the pantheon.