History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / Film

* In a perfect example of BreakTheCutie, Alessa Gillespie from ''Film/SilentHill'' was burned alive by the cult she was a member of, but survived by her own power and remained wrapped in bandages for 30 years, unable to move anything but her eyes (and her lips, but only enough to kind of smile, but not enough to form words). She does the only logical thing and splits her soul into 3 parts so she can kill everyone in the cult (excluding [[spoiler:Rose, her good half, Sharon, and her mother).]]

* [[TokenGoodTeammate Glen Ray]] from [[ChildsPlay Seed of Chucky]] briefly fell into this when [[DespairEventHorizon he saw his father, Chucky, murdering his mother, Tiffany]]. Despite being the kindest living doll that had the [[FaceOfAThug face of a demon, but the mind of an angel]], seeing his father murdering his mother hit him hard because of his love to life. It's no wonder why he snapped and killed Chucky for doing this. He's not like his sister, Glenda (who's just like Chucky), his love to his mother broke him down and seeing his father do such a thing eventually made him turn against him. He slices off Chucky's arms and legs and as he's doing this [[WellDoneSonGuy he asks his father if he's proud of who he is]] and then decapitates and kills him.

* '''The Moorwen'''!!! In ''Film/OutLander'', its species is destroyed for being less intelligent than man, and its only offspring is killed off brutally. You should give it a hug...if you believe you won't get torn apart.

* John Harrison/[[spoiler: Khan Noonien Singh]] in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. He may be a bit of an asshole, as well as a ruthless killing machine, not to mention [[spoiler:an EvilOverlord at one point]], but [[spoiler:he's been frozen for 250 years, then turned into a killing machine by the Federation, then tried saving his crew only for Admiral Marcus to take them away from him once again]]. It's a bit hard not to feel sorry for him.
-->'''Harrison:''' My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there ''anything'' you would not do for your family?
* Elsa from ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'' is forced to hide her powers (which she has no clue how to control), isolate herself from everyone, including her sister whom she loves more than anything, and repress all emotion to stop her powers from acting up. She tries ''so hard'' to be a good person and be TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask, and wants so badly to reconnect with her sister, but can't, out of fear of hurting her like she did when she was younger. And it all completely backfires, makes her powers reveal themselves at the worst possible moment, prompting Elsa to go on a self-imposed exile in a frozen wasteland. How does she respond? By singing a ([[CrowningMusicOfAwesome gorgeous]]) IAmBecomingSong about how she no longer cares what anyone will say about her powers, finally allowing herself to free and discovering the full extent of her abilities. Which, unfortunately, is accidentally encompassing the entire kingdom in an EndlessWinter. When Elsa finds out what she's done, she's devastated. *sniff* Poor girl...

* Andrew Detmer in ''Film/{{Chronicle}}''.

* The. [[TwentyMillionMilesToEarth Ymir.]] Just-just watch the film. Nothing else needs to be said.

* Ramon from ''Alligator'' counts as this to an extent.

* Elsa from ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'' is forced to hide her powers (which she has no clue how to control), isolate herself from everyone, including her sister whom she loves more than anything, and repress all emotion to stop her powers from acting up. She tries ''so hard'' to be a good person and be TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask, and wants so badly to reconnect with her sister, but can't, out of fear of hurting her like she did when she was younger. And it all completely backfires, makes her powers reveal themselves at the worst possible moment, prompting Elsa to go on a self-imposed exile in a frozen wasteland. How does she respond? By singing a ([[CrowningMusicOfAwesome gorgeous]]) IAmBecomingSong about how she no longer cares what anyone will say about her powers, finally allowing herself to free and discovering the full extent of her abilities. Which, unfortunately, is accidentally encompassing the entire kingdom in an EternalWinter. When Elsa finds out what she's done, she's devastated. *sniff* Poor girl...

!!Films -- Animated:

* [[spoiler:Aggie]] in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''. She was [[spoiler:executed as a child after being accused of being a witch. Her spirit becomes angrier with each passing year, ultimately releasing her rage in the film's climax]].
* Waternoose from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.
* The eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' ''claims'' to be this. But he's actually quite lacking in the ''woobie'' part [[spoiler: and even more so in the ''destroyer of worlds'' part.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Stinky Pete, the prospector, spent his whole life on a dime store shelf, watching every other toy be bought by kids. This agonizing experience caused him to become bitter and willing to manipulate or outright force his "friends" Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye into going along with what he wants, whether they like it or not. Ironically, when he winds up being taken home at last by a little girl who defaces all her toys by drawing on them with crayons, he considers this the worst fate imaginable. However, according to the producers, it was stated that he accepted that fate and thus, averts the worst fate imaginable.
** Big Baby in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is also this. He's the scariest villain ever- until this:
-->(Looking at tag saying "My heart belongs to Daisy") *sob* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Mama?]]
** Lotso in the same movie also has a Woobie-ish backstory, but it's made pretty clear by his actions both prior to and during the movie that he abandoned the 'Woobie' part long ago.
* While Shen of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' isn't this in the actual film, information revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual the supplementary material]] shows that he was originally intended to be one.
* Bowler Hat Guy (aka [[spoiler:Michael 'Goob' Yagoobian]]) in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''.
* The Toad from ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''. He was once Prince Charles' favorite pet. Then someone brought in a rat and flushed the Toad down the toilet so Charlie could focus all his attention on the replacement pet. This became his motivation for attempting to wipe out the Sewer-London. Seriously, we can't blame him for what he is now.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Pitch Black, AKA the Boogeyman [[spoiler:(as especially revealed in the prequel novels), believes that the fear he embodies is necessary, and that the approach the Guardian takes is foolish. But, since he hasn't been believed in for centuries, thanks to them, he tried to destroy everything they represent, just showing that his bitterness has destroyed any decency he once had. Averted with Jack Frost, who remains happy and joyous, making kids happy despite having no one believe in him]].
* IceQueen Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' is more of an angry loner than anything due to years and years of having to control her emotions and powers, only to have it amount to nothing. [[spoiler:And the "Destroyer of Worlds" part is unintentional.]]

!!Films -- Live-Action:

* In ''Chronicle'', Andrew is bullied and made fun of constantly through the movie, in addition to a sick mother and an abusive father. [[spoiler: After he gets his superpowers, he begins to snap, and starts to get involved in crime to save his mother's life, stealing medicines and such. By the end of the movie, during the climax, he nearly destroys the city.]]

* In ''Film/Chronicle'', Andrew is bullied and made fun of constantly through the movie, in addition to a sick mother and an abusive father. [[spoiler: After he gets his superpowers, he begins to snap, and starts to get involved in crime to save his mother's life, stealing medicines and such. By the end of the movie, during the climax, he nearly destroys the city.]]

* J.D. (ChristianSlater) in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. For starters, his father is [[AbusiveParents a sociopathic bastard who doesn't care for him]] (when asked if he even likes his father, he responds that he "[hasn't] given the matter much thought"), and his mother killed herself in front of his eyes to get away from her husband. His entire life was spent moving around from town to town and school to school wherever his father's demolition job took him, where, it is implied, he saw the same scenario of clique groups bullying other students at every high school he's attended. He starts out by murdering {{Jerk Jock}}s and {{Alpha Bitch}}es and making their deaths appear as suicides (also implied as something he's done before), but he ultimately resorts [[spoiler:to trying to blow up the entire school. He explains his intentions are such because he believes that nobody loves him, and that "the only place different social types can genuinely get along with each other is in heaven", somehow seeing the school as a representation of society itself.]]

* Michael 'Goob' Yagoobian in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''.

* ''{{Carrie}}'' is certainly a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, even if she doesn't quite want to destroy ''worlds''... just most of her high school. Her rampage luckily ends before she gets the chance to do anything more.
** In the 1976 film maybe. In the book and the remakes, she wants to kill everyone at her school, everyone in her town, and everybody else. Fortunately, she dies before she can commit anything more than demolishing her school, giving her mom a heart attack that kills her, killing two horrible bullies in a car crash, electrocuting several people, and setting her town on fire.

* The. Ymir. Just-just watch the film. Nothing else needs to be said.

* Sadako in ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' and her counterpart, Samara, in the US remake, ''Film/TheRing'', considering that both were mistreated and murdered.

* Eli in ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', a vampire who is trapped not just physically in a 12 year old body but apparently emotionally as well, forced to kill to survive, whose only friend is an equally screwed up boy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', Pitch Black, AKA the Boogeyman [[spoiler:(as especially revealed in the prequel comic), believes that the fear he embodies is necessary, and that the approach the Guardian takes is foolish. But, since he hasn't been believed in for centuries, thanks to them, he tried to destroy everything they represent, just showing that his bitterness has destroyed any decency he once had. Averted with Jack Frost, who remains happy and joyous, making kids happy despite having no one believe in him]].

* Sadako in ''{{Ringu}}'' and her counterpart, Samara, in the US remake, ''Film/TheRing'', considering that both were mistreated and murdered.

* Eli in ''LetTheRightOneIn'', a vampire who is trapped not just physically in a 12 year old body but apparently emotionally as well, forced to kill to survive, whose only friend is an equally screwed up boy.

* Waternoose from MonstersInc

* The eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' ''claims'' to be this. But he's actually quite lacking in the ''woobie'' part [[spoiler: and even more so in the ''destroyer of worlds'' part.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Stinky Pete, the prospector, spent his whole life on a dime store shelf, watching every other toy be bought by kids. This agonizing experience caused him to become bitter and willing to manipulate or outright force his "friends" Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye into going along with what he wants, whether they like it or not. Ironically, when he winds up being taken home at last by a little girl who defaces all her toys by drawing on them with crayons, he considers this the worst fate imaginable. However, according to the producers, it was stated that he accepted that fate and thus, averts the worst fate imaginable.
** Big Baby in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is also this. He's the scariest villain ever- until this:
-->(Looking at tag saying "My heart belongs to Daisy") *sob* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Mama?]]
** Lotso in the same movie also has a Woobie-ish backstory, but it's made pretty clear by his actions both prior to and during the movie that he abandoned the 'Woobie' part long ago.
* While Shen of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' isn't this in the actual film, information revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual the supplementary material]] shows that he was originally intended to be one.
* Michael 'Goob' Yagoobian in ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''.
* The Toad from ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''. He was once Prince Charles' favorite pet. Then someone brought in a rat and flushed the Toad down the toilet so Charlie could focus all his attention on the replacement pet. This became his motivation for attempting to wipe out the Sewer-London. Seriously, we can't blame him for what he is now.
* In ''RiseOfTheGuardians'', Pitch Black, AKA the Boogeyman [[spoiler:(as especially revealed in the prequel comic), believes that the fear he embodies is necessary, and that the approach the Guardian takes is foolish. But, since he hasn't been believed in for centuries, thanks to them, he tried to destroy everything they represent, just showing that his bitterness has destroyed any decency he once had. Averted with Jack Frost, who remains happy and joyous, making kids happy despite having no one believe in him]].

* In ''RiseOfTheGuardians'', Pitch Black, AKA the Boogeyman [[spoiler:(as especially revealed in the prequel comic), believes that the fear he embodies is necessary, and that the approach the Guardian takes is foolish. But, since he hasn't been believed in for centuries, thanks to them, he tried to destroy everything they represent, just showing that his bitterness has destroyed any decency he once had. Averted with Jack Frost, who remains happy and joyous, making kids happy despite having no one believe in him]].

** In the 1976 film maybe. In the books and the remakes, she wants to kill everyone at her school, everyone in her town, and everybody else. Fortunately, she dies before she can commit anything more than demolishing her school, giving her mom a heart attack that kills her, killing two horrible bullies in a car crash, electrocuting several people, and setting her town on fire.

* [[Film/{{Manhunter}} Francis]] [[RedDragon Dolarhyde]]: actually lampshaded by Will Graham; he says that he feels a lot of sympathy for the child he once was, but thinks someone should put a bullet in the adult Francis' brain.