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4->''"Human, have you ever been to Hell? I think not. I'd rather'' not exist ''than go back to that... and if I have to drag down everyone else with me... so be it."''
5-->-- '''Azrael''', ''Film/{{Dogma}}''
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7For some villains, [[TakeOverTheWorld Global Domination]] is no good. You take over the world, AndThenWhat More misery! Ditto on the universe or TheMultiverse. Nope. It all has to go. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Everything has to be destroyed, every speck of life killed, every mote of light extinguished]]. No, this isn't reshaping reality InTheirOwnImage, however that trick works. This is the need for oblivion and taking everyone else down first.
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9Possibly, the villain has a reason for this. Maybe they're some kind of CosmicHorrorStory version of ThePunishment, and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds destroying reality is the only way to end their own pain.]] (Or their ego is too big to just kill themselves. No, they have to be ''dramatic'' about it.) Or they're already dying of some sort of incurable condition and [[{{Narcissist}} have decided that if they're not allowed to continue living, neither is anyone else]], but more often than not, they're a StrawNihilist; and just wanna show everyone who is boss. What's mystifying is when these types seem to genuinely like existing and interacting with the world. What exactly are they going to ''do'' should they succeed? AndThenWhat Where, as WesternAnimation/TheTick puts it, would they put all their stuff? In this case, they often [[VillainsActHeroesReact exist only for the Heroes to have someone to stop.]]
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11The third variety is the final resort, they wanted to TakeOverTheWorld, but now that you've beaten (or even possibly mortally injured) them they're [[TakingYouWithMe taking everything with them.]] They don't mind dying anymore.
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13If any villains have TakeOverTheWorld as their goal, they logically should ''not'' want this to succeed. Can result in EvilVersusOblivion.
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15Related to the OmnicidalManiac, who does this kind of thing; many of that trope's examples plan on sticking around afterwards, however. See also: ApocalypseHow, Class Z, and ApocalypseMaiden, who may not intend or even know that what they're doing will destroy the world.
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17See PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery for a likely motivation behind this kind of behavior.
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23* At the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure,'' when Apocalymon had his claw-things and the humanoid figure we ''thought'' was actually him destroyed, he threw a hissy and decided to nuketify the Human World and Digital World in one shot. The heroes defeated him by [[spoiler: standing around going "Oh noes!" until their {{Transformation Trinket}}s spontaneously formed a force field in a classic example of DeusExMachina, containing the blast]].
24* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
25** ''DBZ'' villains in general are fond of this. Cell tried to self-destruct and take the Earth with him upon realizing he couldn't beat Gohan, and Majin Buu later tries the same thing (although that was a subversion, as it was a trick to buy time).
26** Subverted when Frieza decides to blow up Namek to kill Super Saiyan Goku while declaring he'd rather die by his own hand than a filthy monkey, but as he's doing so he gloats he can survive in the vacuum of space while Goku can't. In fact, Frieza botches the attack because he held back out of fear he'd die in an close-range explosion powerful enough to destroy the whole planet in one instant shot, hence the infamous "five minutes until the planet explodes" that makes up the final RaceAgainstTime.
27** In a filler episode, Super Buu attempts to do this in his fight against [[StoryBreakerPower Vegito]] once he realizes that he is hopelessly outmatched. Unlike other examples in the series, Super Buu was so powerful his tantrum was implied to be capable of destroying all of existence. Luckily, Vegito ends it with just one punch.
28** Even predating Frieza, Vegeta pulled this by attempting to destroy the Earth (without having shown the ability to breathe in space and/or travel without a space pod) because he couldn't accept the idea of a low class warrior landing a hit on him and was willing to die ''so long as Goku did too.''
29* Izaku from ''Manga/EternalSabbath'' is already a murderous psychopath who would kill anyone who bothers him, but after he discovers that he is dying, he begins to lash out at the world even more desperately, and goes out of his way to kill and cause wanton destruction.
30* ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'': [[spoiler:The Exif are revealed to be performing one: they discovered the universe was finite in both space and time, decided that meant life was meaningless, thus they desire to summon Ghidorah and help him destroy the universe, including themselves.]]
31--> '''Metphies''': [[spoiler:We calculated the future beyond linear time, and we discovered a grim conclusion. There is no such thing as eternity. The universe is finite, and eventually, everything will disappear. Therefore, we knew we had to find peace and comfort in the destruction of the universe.]]
32* ''Manga/ImmortalRain'': Yuca wants to stop his cycle of {{reincarnation}}. The only solution he's found is to wipe out the entire human race.
33* Slightly more realistic example: [[spoiler: [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Rau Le Creuset]]]] the BigBad of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'', is a dying [[spoiler:[[CloneDegeneration clone]] of a man he hated]]. Sick, angry at the world, and convinced that HumansAreBastards, he turns DeathSeeker and tries to [[OmnicidalManiac take everything]] with him before he goes.
34* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' - This is the end goal of [[spoiler:Gendo and SEELE, although the details for both differ. Gendo wants to be an immortal god with Yui by his side forever, while SEELE [[AssimilationPlot wants all of humanity merged into one being instead]]. Neither side gets what they want thanks to Rei and Shinji.]]
35** [[spoiler: Shinji is manipulated into doing it for them after reaching the DespairEventHorizon, but is able to come to reality at the last second. Although he has still turned humanity into LCL, it's indicated most of them will be able to regain a physical form.]]
36** In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies, [[spoiler:Gendo is at this again, and nearly succeeds. He overthrows SEELE and kills off all the other branches of NERV before merging with Evangelion 13 and triggering the final Impact.]]
37* ''Anime/OnePiece'' - Kaido, one of the Four Emperors, aspires to start the biggest World War in history for little other reason than boredom and disgust with life. He's annoyed with his own NighInvulnerability and hopes that someone strong enough to kill him will show up.
38* This is the end goal of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' villain Hardner, who tries to summon the [[EldritchAbomination Eldtritch]] [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] Endless to wipe out his own painful memories.
39* Though most of the Big Bads of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' simply want to take over the galaxy, Pharaoh 90 appears to want to completely obliterate the world with The Silence for no other reason than he can.
40** There's an entire subtrope of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' fanfiction as well that takes this route. Typically, someone (usually a rogue band of senshi) decides that destroying the Galaxy Cauldron (where souls are born) will end the recursive nature of war in the galaxy. This would also result in no new souls being born and old souls having no way to be reincarnated, effectively ending existence eventually. In fact, Sailor Cosmos intends to do this in the canon story, and is only persuaded not to do so by Sailor Moon's belief that the beauty of life more than makes up for eternal war.
41* ''Literature/TheSaviorsBookCafeStoryInAnotherWorld'': While Tsukina would rather spend her days running her Book Café in peace, "God" informs her that because the First Savior refuses to learn any magic, her unlimited pool of mana will build and build and eventually, should her emotions run too high, result in an explosion with an enough force to destroy an entire country.
42* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'':
43** The ultimate goal of the Mazoku is to return all existence to Chaos, including themselves. It was most explicitly pointed out by Hellmaster Fibrizo:
44--->'''Hellmaster:''' "I want to be destroyed. I want to be destroyed! Destruction? Yes... Destruction is the ultimate wish of any Mazoku. [...] But this destruction shall consume all things! It shall consume the entire world! [...] All the world! Let all the world be destroyed with me!
45** In ''Slayers Try'', this is also the goal of the otherdimensional [[spoiler:[[Literature/LostUniverse Vorfeed and Dark Star Dugradigdu]]]], supreme Shinzoku and Mazoku of their universe. After realizing how pointless their existence of warfare and endless, cyclic confrontation was, they [[spoiler:merged as one entity]] and went on to destroy their universe as a cosmic TakeThat [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to their creator]]. Lucky for them, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Valgaav]] proved the perfect conduit for them in Ceipheed/Shabranigdu's universe...
46* Folken in the ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' movie. He wants to extinguish all the misery and suffering from the world by wiping everybody from existence, himself included. His nihilism very briefly appeals to the protagonist who suffers from a bad case of teenager's angst, but pretty soon common sense wins.
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50* Creator/PeterDavid's ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'' (the one with Rick Jones, the latter one) has gone full on looney tunes, mainly because he knows everything. With the assistance of the personification of Entropy (Marvel Comics loves their personifications) Captain Marvel ends all of reality. ''Off panel.'' 'Cept Rick, Entropy and the Cap. Rick convinces Entropy to become his "dad", Infinity and the universe is rebooted.
51* Two versions of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} have tried this:
52** Venompool, a version of Wade bonded with the Venom symbiote, decided to do destroy his universe instead of accepting he was a jackass.
53** The Heroes Reborn version of the Swordsman, who turned out to be his reality's Deadpool, tried to nuke Uatu's base and destroy reality upon learning he and his reality were literally the creations of a child. Both he and Venompool would join the Evil Deadpool Corps., led by [[ComicBook/DeadpoolKillstheMarvelUniverse Dreadpool]].
54* ''ComicBook/FantasticFourLifeStory'': In the final issue, [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] gives up on conquering the world and decides to destroy it, with his Doombot army ravaging cities wantonly and then self-destructing just to cause more damage.
55* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'': Once Darkseid is [[spoiler:fatally poisoned by the radion bullet]], he decides to take all of the multiverse with him, hastening the decay of space-time that his rebirth had already started.
56* In ''ComicBook/Flashpoint1999'', boredom with immortality made Vandal Savage try to open a gateway to the end of time and destroy everything on Earth, including himself.
57* ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'': After Ichabod discovers that his love Zoe only existed as a fabrication, he kills TheFerryman and dooms all of reality to destruction out of spite.
58* Surprisingly enough, ''ComicBook/TheJoker'' of all people starts going this way in ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker''; after stealing [[RealityWarper Mr. Mxyzptlk's powers]], and torturing & humiliating all of Earth's superheroes more times than he can count, he quietly, soberly confides to Harley that he can't respect a universe that would let someone as awful as him exist in the first place, and is unmaking it in hopes that whatever rises in its place will be free of such monsters.
59* ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' played with this. When informed that he can either take his father's position or let every universe in reality fall apart, unable to get over his daddy issues Lucifer begins an extremely arduous quest to fix the problem some other way.
60** Fenris is pretty much made of this trope, and Lilith is getting there. She throws a temper tantrum in front of God, demanding him to destroy the universe for putting so much pain in it, while He ponders if he should do just that.
61* This was a major plot point in Marvel's ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'', where the Beyonder threatened to destroy all reality because he couldn't find a meaning to existence.
62* Near the end of Fleetway's ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]], tired of his constant failures to beat Sonic, decides to bring the game to an end by destroying Mobius outright, using a machine to drain the planet's life force and cause complete ecological collapse. When Sonic manages to put a stop to that plan, Robotnik becomes incredibly depressed, to which his right-hand man, Grimer, releases the [[EldritchAbomination Chaos creature]] upon Mobius in the hopes that its rampage will motivate Robotnik to continue conquering Mobius. Instead, Robotnik brings the Chaos Emeralds to his lair for one reason: to bring his enemies and Chaos to him so they would all die together as Chaos absorbed the Emeralds and destroyed the planet. Fortunately, [[YouSeeImDying a dying]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Super Sonic]] arrives at that moment and absorbs all of Chaos' energy to restore himself. As a result of this final failure, by the time of [[Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline the online continuation]], Robotnik has undergone a complete VillainousBreakdown, reduced to little more than a drooling vegetable.
63* While the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' version of Robotnik never ''quite'' resorted to this, he did have it intended as his backup plan. Apparently if things ever got to the point that Sonic had successfully usurped all power from him, he had a phrase activated mechanism that would reprogram all his forces to just obliterate ''everything'' on the planet in an ultimate TakingYouWithMe. At one point, Snively unknowingly quotes the phrase and sets this off prematurely, though Robotnik arrives in time to deactivate it before it does much more damage than mess up his lair.
64** His Eggman counterpart, on the other hand, would eventually devolve to this after the events of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide''. With reality already in flux from his attempts to use the Genesis Wave to reshape to his whim, he attempts to stop Super Sonic from restoring it to its original state, refusing to let him have a reality to go back to if Eggman can't have it his way. His final disruption of Super Sonic's Chaos Control ends up causing a CosmicRetcon on their reality.
65* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', Xenon is so mad at being magically sealed inside an other-dimensional prison by Supergirl than he is more than willing to destroy all of existence out of spite.
66* ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #32 ended with a giant Korvac sitting on Earth in a state of bottomless despair, and holding the Ultimate Nullifier. He thinks of everything that ever was, is and will be, and presses the button.
67* Several ''ComicBook/XMen'' ''ComicBook/WhatIf''s were written between ComicBook/JeanGrey's death and [[NeverLiveItDown resurrection]] in the '80s that showed [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Phoenix going Dark again]] and doing this, had she survived her final battle. Presumably the editors [[ExecutiveMeddling really, really wanted to keep her dead...]] until they didn't. While What If stories ''do'' show Dark Phoenix [[ApocalypseHow destroying the universe]], it's not entirely clear that this would be considered suicidal from Dark Phoenix's standpoint, as [[{{Immortality}} she might very well survive the destruction of the universe]]. Even post-resurrection, an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' had a mission where they had to make sure Jean died, lest Dark Phoenix destroy the universe.
68** This Trope describes M-Day in a nutshell. The Scarlet Witch caused it all in [[RealityWarper one fit of rage and grief]] after she recovered the memories of her children. While the incident in question lasted only a day, the ramifications led to the entire ''ComicBook/{{Decimation}}''
69* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', [[EvilSorcerer Infidel]] mentions that he once [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ destroyed the universe]] in a "fit of pique." After discovering even ''that'' wouldn't kill his ArchEnemy [[TheCape Samaritan]] (and Samaritan realizing the same for Infidel), they collaborated to put everything back together. Once that was done, they decided to [[GoKartingWithBowser have dinner together once a year]] instead of constantly putting reality at risk.
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73* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', this is what the Dark Phoenix tends to build into - rage and hatred build within it, increasing its power, which in turn magnify those emotions, in a ViciousCycle that goes on and on, until the host wants to destroy anything and everything.
74* In the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' fanfic [[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/19769 The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]], [[TopGod Fate]] suffers one of these when he realises he's been outplayed [[spoiler:and that his sister Destiny is dead]]. The effect is described as causing stars to explode and entire dimensional positions to shift.
75* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'':
76** In Act III chapter 50, Luna, after killing Kiria, has gone so insane with grief over Rason's death that she's willing to let the Chrono Displacement spell destroy the world, but Tsukune manages to get through to her and change the spell date to one day, allowing him to go back and save everyone.
77** In Act IV, the extent of Hokuto's plan is to revive Alucard and then just sit back and watch as Alucard destroys the world, because he's firmly convinced that [[StrawNihilist all life, human and monster alike, is an evil and meaningless plague that must be eradicated]].
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81* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' [[spoiler:ends with Marty and Dana, the ''protagonists'', throwing one by refusing to be a part of a HeroicSacrifice, having been so traumatized by the tortures they've been subjected to that they decide humanity deserves to die at the hands of {{Eldrich Abomination}}s if it needs to keep practicing such cruel rituals to appease them in order to survive]].
82* Azrael, the mastermind behind the plot of ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', provides the page quote. His plan is to undo all existence, including himself, so he never has to return to hell, which he was banished to for remaining neutral in the original war between Satan and God. Why he -a demon, not a damned soul- hates hell so much, however, isn't clarified [[OrphanedReference outside a deleted scene]] where he explains that human guilt is what turned hell into a place of eternal torment, especially for former angels like him due to their delicate constitutions. In the released film, we're left to assume he's doing this out of [[EvilIsPetty anger at God and because hell sucks, but only relative to heaven for demons.]] Bartleby ends up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and his plan to get home to Heaven becomes this.
83* In ''Film/EvacuateEarth'', humanity has to, of course, evacuate Earth, which, along with the rest of the solar system, is about to be destroyed by a rogue neutron star. Terrorist attacks, from both [[ApocalypseCult Apocalypse Cults]] and people who are bitter about not being selected to go on TheArk to escape the coming apocalypse, are cited as a danger to those trying to evacuate the planet.
84* ''Film/{{Tenet}}'': This is essentially what the main villain is trying to do. He wants to use Inversion to destroy the entire world because he's dying of cancer and wants to take everyone else down with him.
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88* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': It doesn't actually happen, but ''The Ellimist Chronicles'' reveals that the threat of this is why [[BigGood Ellimist ]] entered into his CosmicChessGame arrangement with [[OmnicidalManiac Crayak]]. Once the two of them [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence have left their physical bodies behind and essentially melded into the fabric of space-time]], they are aware that continuing to openly war with each other will result in their own mutually assured destruction alongside the entire galaxy. Crayak does value his own existence and so would rather not do that, but refuses Ellimist's suggestion of calling a truce and simply observing the evolution of the galaxy from afar, stating bluntly that he would force the fight and destroy himself and everything else if those were the only two options, forcing Ellimist to agree to said cosmic game in order to at least mitigate Crayak's evil and have the chance of eventually defeating him.
89* In the final book of ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'', [[spoiler:even though he made sure that humanity can survive 30 years without Captain Underpants, Tippy Tinkletrousers becomes enraged by being defeated by the present and future versions of the Cap and sets his timed FantasticNuke off. Not only was he huge due to the usage of a Goosy-Grow, he activated a special procedure which would destroy ''the entire galaxy''. [[HeroicSacrifice Sulu and Crackers, however,]] activate his time machine to just before the Big Bang occurred which turns out to be how it started.]]
90* Kastenessen from the ''Last Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who wants to wipe out his people, the ''Elohim''[[note]]who hover somewhere between TheFairFolk and {{physical god}}s[[/note]] in revenge for their inflicting a FateWorseThanDeath on him. Any level of power sufficient to wipe out the ''Elohim'' would almost certainly destroy the world, and so long as he gets his revenge, Kastenessen just doesn't care that this would kill him too. Averted with the ''other'' half of the BigBadDuumvirate and the meta-series' recurring BigBad, [[GodOfEvil Lord Foul]], who ''also'' wants to destroy the world, but would be able to survive it (and indeed, the reason he wants to destroy the world in the first place is so he can escape it).
91* In ''The Courts of Chaos'' (book 5 in the ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber''), a giant tries to convince Corwin to stop trying to save the multiverse. Corwin, of course, refuses to give up.
92** Corwin is an interesting case, because eventually he starts trying to inscribe a new Pattern based partly on his memory of the old one and partly on hints the Jewel of Judgement is giving him. Note that he doesn't know for certain whether the old Pattern still exists or not, and he ''really'' doesn't know what will happen if there are two primal Patterns in the universe at the same time. While he's not ''trying'' to destroy the universe, he realizes there's a distinct possibility of that happening, and decides he's willing to risk it, largely because he's ''just that pissed'' at his brother.
93* In Creator/GuyGavrielKay's ''Literature/TheFionavarTapestry'', this is the motivation not so much of the BigBad as of his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. The reason? Long ago, he couldn't get the woman he considered his One True Love (she went with a mere human instead, who became Fionavar's first wizard) and swore an oath that he would end the world that had witnessed his rejection; how and whether he's planning to survive at all if and when he succeeds isn't clear, but towards the end of the trilogy he gets the chance to try. [[spoiler:He fails, though only through the timely arrival of the one character who can stop what he's just unleashed -- and in the process learns to his own surprise that he's not yet beyond redemption himself.]]
94* Emperor Charless in ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' -- after ruling the Eastern Empire for over a century, the Mage Storms (the 'echo' of the Cataclysm that almost destroyed the world thousands of years ago) roll through. Being Charliss, he's mostly upset at the disruption of his life, and when the echo of the first blast of the Cataclysm is about to blow through, he pours all his power into ''enhancing'' it, thinking the world doesn't deserve to exist after him.
95* Similarly, in Swanwick's ''Literature/TheIronDragonsDaughter'', Jayne and Melanchthon end up trying [[spoiler:unsuccessfully]] to destroy the universe because their lives have sucked so much.
96* The Thrintun in ''Literature/KnownSpace'' had a big slave uprising problem, and were also unfortunately complete sore losers. The moment their slaves started to get the upper hand, they decided to drag every other living thing in the galaxy down with them, sending out a telepathic blast that wiped out almost every intelligent being in the galaxy - including their errant slaves and themselves. It took a billion years for lifeforms that weren't single-celled organisms to evolve back. Worth noting that it wasn't ''just'' bastardry: the Thrintun were so utterly stupid and unimaginative that to them, it seemed like a good idea at the time.[[note]]Thrintun telepathy is instinctive due to them evolving on a planet full of innately-telepathic creatures, so it didn't come with the normal baggage of intelligence.[[/note]]
97* ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'': Jadis chooses to speak the Deplorable Word and kill off every form of life in the Charn universe save herself rather than accepting defeat at the hands of her sister.
98* Utuk'ku, the Norn Queen in ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'', is the oldest living being in the world, and wants to drag as much of the world as possible with her into death.
99* Downplayed in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'': {{Satan}} doesn't want to ''kill'' everyone, but he does want to ''torture'' everyone, and he includes himself in that.
100* This is [[spoiler:the ultimate fate of the universe]] in Creator/HarlanEllison's ''The Region Between'', [[spoiler:destroyed by the same [[MadGod insane God]] who made it, killing himself in the process]].
101* Subversion: The villain in the fifth ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novel harnesses a transcendental creature, and Clothahump assumes he intends to destroy the world with it as a grandiose form of suicide. As it turns out, though, [[spoiler:Braglob did it ForTheEvulz and had no specific plans for the thing at all]].
102* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', this is [[spoiler: Moridin's]] ultimate goal. [[spoiler: He's a nihilist who is one of the few characters to really think through the implications of the EternalRecurrence of the Wheel, but can't conceive of it as anything but a cause for infinite, pointless suffering and misery. He's also a DeathSeeker in his own right, but [=WoT=]'s 'verse features reincarnation as a central element, so if he dies, he'll simply be born again. The solution? Willingly submit himself to [[TheAntiGod the Dark One]], the only being who has the power to destroy him and the world for good, and help him escape his [[SealedEvilInACan can]] so that he ''will'' destroy reality, and Moridin with it]].
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106* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow goes here after Tara's death results in a HeroicBSOD and Giles tricks her into feeling the pain of everyone in the world. It was supposed to fill her [[EmotionBomb with compassion]], and it [[GoneHorriblyRight did]]. Fortunately Xander manages to stop her.
107* ''Series/Charmed1998'': The repeated defeats of the Source of All Evil by the Charmed Ones cause him to lose it more and more. The Source eventually decides to take in the power-draining Hollow, which will doom all of existence, just to beat them.
108* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
109** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace The Underwater Menace]]", Professor Zaroff, embittered because his wife died in a crash (at least in the original script), has the goal of making a hole in the seabed under the Atlantic so the erupting lava would boil away the ocean, destroying the Earth. Only the Earth would be destroyed, not the universe, but it still pretty much counts.
110** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", Omega, having discovered that he can never leave his antimatter realm without destroying what's left of himself, vows to devote his remaining will to destroying "'''[[LargeHam ALLL THIIINGS!]]''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice ALLLLLL THIIIIIINGS!]]'''''"
111** In a sense, Davros himself counts as well, as we get a preview of his plan to destroy not only our universe, but parallel universes too, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]", and an explanation + near-execution of his plan (an energy bomb that would tear apart the forces holding any and all forms of matter together) in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]".
112* ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'': This ultimately proved to be the whole point of [[spoiler: Storious']] plan. His pride as a writer was crushed after finding out that everything is predetermined by the GreatBigBookOfEverything and humans don't create, only pull stuff from the great beyond into reality. He became saltier than the Dead Sea, so it was only a step towards deciding to bring about the end of all existence, because nothing is original and thus nothing matters anyways.
113* ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': When White Woz was denied the future he envisioned, his idea of a temper tantrum was to destroy the world and thus all possible futures. Worse, he tried to do so by exploiting the [[RocksFallEveryoneDies mechanics]] of ''Series/KamenRiderBlade''. A [[SympathyForTheDevil heart]]-to-[[WhyCantIHateYou heart]] conversation has changed a lot though.
114* In the ending of ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', Princess Sailor Moon, in a fit of angsty rage, literally ended all life on Earth, turning the whole into a desert. This was, naturally, complete with shots of her friends and family disappearing in a white light. Just for the emotional kick. Things got better.
115* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Anti!Lazarus from "The Alternative Factor". He [[spoiler:had an identity crisis when he discovered there was an exact duplicate of him in a parallel universe, and became obsessed with destroying the duplicate, knowing full well the chain reaction would destroy himself and his whole reality.]]
116* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
117** [[spoiler:The Darkness throws one in S11. After God tries to seal her back inside the Mark of Cain, she retaliates by draining the life from God, but doing it slowly enough that he'll get to watch all the light in the Universe slowly die with him. Since [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil darkness can only exist if there is light to contrast it with]], this means death for her too, and she knows it, but decides getting revenge on God is worth it.]] Fortunately, Dean talks her out of it.
118** [[spoiler:An alternate universe version of the archangel Michael went on to kill his brother Lucifer and exterminate nearly all life on Earth after God failed to return, [[AGodAmI attempting to reign over the bereft planet]] to stick it to his old man. After possessing Dean Winchester and accurately deducing from his memories [[GodIsEvil God's true motive]], Michael has a greater tantrum than the main Lucifer ever did, now a spiteful StrawNihilist resolving to destroy the multiverse and God Himself.]]
119* [[spoiler:H.G. Wells]] tries to destroy the world in ''Series/Warehouse13'', because she sees it as beyond saving; thanks to the pain of [[spoiler:living with her daughter's death for 150ish years.]]
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123%%* The final act of Music/{{Fireaxe}}'s 4-hour epic ''Music/FoodForTheGods'' revolves around one of these being thrown by literally every being in creation that didn't get into heaven.
124* The Wormboy throws one in Music/MarilynManson's ConceptAlbum ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' when he destroys all of reality.
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128* Surtr from Myth/NorseMythology is destined to engage in one at Ragnarök. At the end of the battle between the gods and frost giants, he will unleash a fire that will engulf the Earth and [[KillTheGod killing all but four of the gods]] in order to get revenge for the gods drowning all but two of the Frost Giants during the world's creation. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu The resulting fire will also kill all the monsters and giants, including Surtr himself]].
129* Main/{{Satan}} in UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}. You'd think he would quit and surrender after losing the battle against Main/{{God}} due to the victorious life, death and resurrection of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]], and thus being fated to be permanently defeated and banished in hell. But no, this devil's response is to simply stop at nothing to ensure as many people as possible share his fate when it's finally his time to go.
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133* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'': This turns out to be the core motivation of [[spoiler:John, who is the MouthOfSauron for the EldritchAbomination that's been chasing our heroes for over a century. He takes MaddenIntoMisanthropy to a whole new level; after coming to see life and existence as cruel and pointless, he not only decides his existence should end, but that ''all'' of it should end, for everyone--and he managed to convince every single living creature and every single ''thing'' on his plane of this point. This allowed their plane to become the Hunger, a sentient, malicious plane of existence that exists only to feed, grow, and [[OmnicidalManiac eventually devour all of existence in every universe]].]]
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137* At the climax of ''Roleplay/TheBalladOfEdgardo'', the titular character is about to throw an infinite-damage unblockable punch that will smash through [[DesignatedHero Militiant Xer0's]] invincible shield and flatten his overly smug face, with nothing [=Xer0=] can do within the game rules to stop him. However, rather than accept his defeat and let the punch be resolved, [=Xer0=] as well as the rest of the player base throw such a colossal hissy-fit in the OOC boards that the mods opt to shut down the ''entire website'' (which presumably hosted other roleplays that had nothing to do with this one) rather than deal with it.
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141* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Malvina Hazen is prepared for one of these to be the end result of her life. As a youth in her sibko, her and her sibkin were attacked by their other sibkin. She suffers recurring nightmares of this, and believes the only way to end the nightmares is to kill and keep killing until they stop, even if that means her and Aleks are the last two people left alive in the Inner Sphere.
142* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Tharizdun from 3.5 and earlier fits this trope to a strong degree, as his ultimate goal is the destruction of the entire universe. Reasons given for this include it being a natural result of his being the god of entropy and destruction to him having gone mad after touching a shard of Pure Evilness (tm), which may or may not have been the only remains of the previous universe.
143** There is also Caira Xasten, a Ur-Priest (cleric who stole their powers from the gods) in the 3.5 Elder Evils sourcebook. She plans on casting the Apocalypse from the Sky spell, which deals massive damage in a ten mile radius, in a densely populated city (the example given is Waterdeep, 2 million citizens) because it will attract [[UndeadAbomination Atropus]], [[ThatsNoMoon the World]] [[GeniusLoci Born Dead]], whose modus operandi is causing a zombie apocalypse on whatever planet it orbits. Why? Because her husband was killed by a falling meteor, an event so fabulously unlikely that, she argued, only the gods could be responsible for it. They took away her beloved, so she'll take away their beloved, or at least what they need to exist: Mortals. Nevermind that there are over 50 gods, any of which could be responsible, and several billion people living on Toril.
144* The [[OmnicidalManiac Deathlords]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' all have the canonical aim of 'being the last person there to blow out the candle of creation', in direct service of their [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn Masters]]. This also presumably extends to any [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor loyalist]] [[DarkisNotEvil Abyssal Exalted]]. Mind you, for the Neverborn, this isn't so much "wiping out the world because it won't have me" as it is "someone, ''please'' just pull the plug" -- they can't die because their souls are bound to Creation, so they're just caught in an endless state of agony.
145* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
146** [[ChaoticEvil Rovagug]] wishes to destroy absolutely everything. He has no allies in the cosmology at all, to the point that if he were to be released, ''every single god'', no matter their enmity or evil -- even the [[LawfulEvil Archdevil Asmodeus]] and the [[ChaoticEvil ascended Demon Princess Lamashtu]] -- would ally with each other to stand against him.
147** The Daemons hate everyone and everything that lives. This includes themselves, they just hate everything that isn't them ''more''. Daemonic victory would involve the extermination of all other beings, following by their slaughter of each other, until the final daemon briefly surveys a multiverse devoid any life -- and kills itself for lack of anything else left to hate. Worse, unlike Rovagug, Daemons are intelligent enough to make themselves ''useful'' in the short term, so they aren't imprisoned or wiped out.
148* In ''TabletopGame/SirenTheDrowning'', this is the whole point of the [[StrawNihilist Current of Acheron]]; they honestly believe the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness is an irredeemable CrapsackWorld, and the only option is to destroy it entirely.
149* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' strongly suggests this is the driving goal of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]]. Once a being that brought the blessed end to all things, it became trapped in the webs of reality and grew constricted to the point it turned gangrenous, going from a merciful end to slow rot and decay. Some part of it, mad as it is, may realize that degrading reality enough will let it free, to either rampage across creation or seek a swift death.
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153* In ''[[VideoGame/AdventureTime Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!]]'', [[spoiler:Lumpy Space Princess decides to destroy the world in a fit of rage after finding out that Finn threw away the home-made ashtray she made him for his birthday. Fortunately, with help from Lady Rainicorn, Finn and Jake put a stop to that.]]
154* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', [[spoiler:Kerghan]] has decided that because being alive is painful (summoned spirits suffer terribly from being forced back into life as well) and the final afterlife is perfect bliss, the logical solution is to end all life. This is not out of spite, however: he thinks he's doing everyone a favor. One of your party member (who will die and get resurrected if you follow his storyline) will even agrees that the afterlife really is better, but would rather have people choose to go there instead of being forced to.
155* An interesting variation occurs in ''VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries'', where a ghost ''cannot'' [[GhostlyGoals move on]] and decides destroying the entire system is the only way to end their existence without going insane. At one point they stop, and ask the heroes if they have any option, anything that can do what they want without destroying everything. The heroine is actually speechless at this and the ghost continues what they were doing. Possibly VillainHasAPoint since it takes an unforeseen DeusExMachina to fix it.
156* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' has a rather sympathetic example of this trope: The Origin, the ArtificialHuman trapped within the [[DeusEstMachina Master Unit: Amaterasu]], the machine that Observes and controls the entire spacetime continuum. After countless [[GroundhogDayLoop time loops]], The Origin came to the realization that no matter how many times she restarted the timeline in order to get a different outcome, she was still doomed to be killed by Ragna, TheHero she dreamed into existence to save her from her imprisonment within the Amaterasu Unit, with no possible way of being able to prevent said outcome. This realization, along with the horrible machinizations of [[SatanicArchetype Yuuki Terumi]], pushed her over the DespairEventHorizon and gave birth to Hades Izanami, in essence an incarnation of The Origin's growing suicidal urges set on killing her the only way a capital-G God ''can'' be killed: By killing ''everything,'' all the way down to a metaphysical level.
157* If you can untangle the MindScrew of a plot, [[spoiler:the Time Devourer]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' is basically undergoing one of these. After the canon ending of [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger the original game]], the resident EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:absorbed Princess Schala]], and the influence of [[spoiler:a conflicted human intelligence]] warped Lavos's simple, mindless hunger into a desire to destroy ''everything'' to wipe the universe clean. [[spoiler:When you fight it as the final boss, it's in the process of absorbing all of time and space, leaving it alone in the abyss. The only way to permanently stop it is to use the titular [[MacGuffin Chrono Cross]] to separate Lavos and Schala]].
158* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'': According to the ''Diablo I'' manual, the minions of Baal, the Lord of Destruction, seek the undoing of the universe.
159* At the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Corypheus]]]] opens a second breach after a ''[[HumiliationConga very]]'' long series of losses to force the Inquisitor to either come and fight him or allow the world to end.
160* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
161** The [[AfterTheEnd setting]] of the entire series takes place after one of these. It's very heavily implied at various points that the [[WorldWarIII Great War]] was the result of China being a SoreLoser after losing the Sino-American War and being on the verge of collapse, so they decided to [[ApocalypseHow take everyone else with them]]. Thankfully the world [[AWorldHalfFull wasn't]] ''totally'' destroyed, but 200 years after the fact, the world's most dominant superpower was reduced to 1% of its former population with the rest of the planet faring even worse.
162** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The Enclave]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' was made up of the remnants of the pre-War United States federal government and their descendants who sought to restore America to its former glory. The problem arose from the fact that they only considered ''themselves'' [[MasterRace American while seeing the common wastelanders as mutants]]. Their arbitrarily, absurdly broad definition of who is a "mutant" seemed to serve more as an excuse to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone else in the world]] with a genocide virus. Their oil rig had fewer than a thousand people in it, so the Enclave arguably lacked the numbers to [[TangledFamilyTree maintain enough genetic diversity to survive]]. Much of the point of the game is that, indeed, the Enclave is so consumed by HonorBeforeReason that they don't ''care'' if humankind dies out. They would rather no one survive than their United States die, denying the fact that it already has. In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' they've moved past this delusion, with the exception of their [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] PresidentEvil.
163* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
164** Xande in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' was an immortal watcher given the "[[BlessedWithSuck gift]]" of Mortality by his master Noah to learn how to live, empathize, and die with mortals. Understandably upset by this course of events, he at first decided he was going to cause a TimeCrash, but ended up falling under the sway of [[EldritchAbomination The Cloud of Darkness]], an avatar of entropy, and decided to instead let it into the mortal world so it could destroy everything.
165** Kuja in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIX'' is a true example of the "temper tantrum" part of the trope and probably the best example from a ''Final Fantasy'' game. Upon discovering he's a mortal and is an ArtificialHuman who's due to expire any day now because he was only a temporary pawn, he decides if he doesn't get to live, why should anyone else? He's so selfish and arrogant he doesn't think it's ''fair'' that life will continue after he's dead.
166** [[spoiler:Neo-]]Exdeath from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' wishes to draw everything into the Void, and then disappear himself. This isn't out of anger like Kuja; it's just what he does.
167** What StrawNihilist Kefka wanted to do in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', although it was never clear whether he intended to destroy himself afterward. ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' implies it's because he's unable to understand the point of life, thus he wants to destroy everything because everything else is meaningless to him.
168** ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'': Implicit in Seymour's EvilPlan--he views death as a wonderful release from the suffering of life, hence everything deserves the so-called mercy of dying. However, given the weird way death works in Spira, it isn't that he wants to destroy everything for the sake of destroying it, Seymour [[WellIntentionedExtremist actually thinks death is a step up from life]]--death didn't much slow down [[spoiler:Auron, Yunalesca and Seymour himself]] when they died, and [[spoiler:Yunalesca has been dead for 1000 years]]. Of course, that's not to say his {{plan}} was well thought out, because killing everyone in an apocalyptic fashion would probably cause them to become Fiends, as they would die painful, horrible deaths.
169** The focus behind the Twist Reveal in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' with the ''Chains of Promathia'' expansion where [[spoiler: it is revealed that all beings on Vana'diel are parts of the Twilight God Promathia, and his belief that destroying all those loose parts of himself are the only way he can die and free himself of the pain of existence.]]
170** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', Chaos decides to tear apart the combined realities that make up the battlefield for the conflict of the Gods, and then disappear himself. Its due in part to just being ''sick'' of the endless cycles of conflict, death, and rebirth, and in part because [[spoiler:Cosmos' death has triggered a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment for him when he realized they used to rule together in peace before the wars began.]]
171** The fal'Cie's plan in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' [[spoiler:is a convoluted plot to use humans to kill the main power source of their floating continent, causing the ship to crash into the mainland, and killing so many people in the process that it rips open the gates of hell and allows the fal'Cie to see their creator god again. The plan's catalyst, Orphan, allows himself to be born solely to get himself killed.]] The only problem is, [[IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing they don't know if it will even work, but go whole-hog on it anyway]].
172** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 The sequel's]] villain Caius wants to ''destroy time'' to end the suffering of a seeress who is continuously reborn over and over again since the beginning of time. Eventually it turns out MotiveDecay has set in long ago and he's just doing this to make ''himself'' feel better. [[spoiler:Too bad TheBadGuyWins, but [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII the third game]] has you correcting this.]]
173** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' continues this tradition with the [[spoiler: Ascian Fandaniel]]. Once the overseers keeping him on task are all dealt with by the Warrior of Light, [[spoiler: Fandaniel]] promptly discards the pretence that he cared about their aim of [[spoiler: restoring the world to its original state]]. Instead he professes a wish to destroy everything and everyone in the world ending with himself.
174---> "Do you remember when I told you that I wanted to die and take everyone with me? I meant it." — [[spoiler:Fandaniel]]
175*** ''Endwalker'' gives a near literal example in the form of [[spoiler:Meteion, a creation of the aforementioned Fandaniel]]. [[spoiler:Hundreds of copies of her were sent out into the cosmos to ask the people of other worlds what they believe the meaning of life was. But rather than get a concrete answer, every single planet the Meteia visited were either dead before they arrived, in the process of dying as they arrived, or spiraled into despair (and subsequently, death) ''[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom because]]'' they arrived. As both a hive mind and a creature that heavily resonates with emotions, the weight of despair from thousands of dying civilizations drove her over the DespairEventHorizon, and due to Fandaniel not properly cultivating emotional maturity within her, swiftly came to the conclusion that ''life has no meaning and existence is suffering'' and thus plans to kill every single living thing in the universe so she can trap the aether that powered them to prevent anyone or anything from ever being born again purely so no one will have to feel the pain she feels and to hopefully make it so she'll never have to feel pain again.]]
176* The BigBad of both ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' [[spoiler:has tried to incite a continent-wide war so it can awaken the Goddess of Order. He believes she is the only person who can finally kill him (he has tried repeatedly to kill himself, to no avail) and free himself from FantasticRacism and self-loathing. He is extremely happy to fight you to the death, hoping he'll lose.]]
177* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''
178** In ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus Chains of Olympus]]'', BigBad [[spoiler:Persephone hires the Titan Atlas to use the kidnapped sun god Helios' powers to destroy the pillar that holds the world up, causing it, Olympus, and the underworld to crash down on top of each other and kill everyone. It's a form of suicide-revenge; she's tired of living in a loveless marriage to Hades, and wants to get back at her husband and Zeus for trapping her in it, believing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to be a fitting way of solving both problems. She doesn't seem terribly happy about it, but she just cannot take it anymore. It's the first hint at just what an [[JerkassGods enormous bunch of dicks]] Kratos is dealing with here]].
179** Kratos himself goes on one starting in [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII the second game]]. Already pissed at the gods for short-changing him at the end of [[VideoGame/GodOfWarI the first one]], Zeus draining his godly power and trying to kill him drives the already-unstable Spartan into psychotic, homicidal madness. He becomes bound and determined to kill Zeus, who's basically acting as the lynchpin of creation, and will mercilessly slaughter the incarnations of the sun, ocean, sky, underworld and any other vital parts of existence if they try to stop him. When the dust clears and Kratos is all tantrumed out, he's left standing amidst [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Armageddon]].
180* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': Living World Season 4 eventually reveals that [[spoiler:Kralkatorrik]] was inflicted with literally maddening pain after absorbing magics that clashed within his body. In his madness and suffering, he became convinced that the only way to make the pain stop was to [[SpacetimeEater consume the Mists]], the very fabric of reality, destroying every world and finally himself.
181* Elvin Atombender in ''VideoGame/ImpossibleMission'' is a MadScientist who plans to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the planet]] by cracking the world's nuclear launch codes.
182%%* Antignarot of ''VideoGame/JaysJourney'' resorts to this, type 2 (and more out of insanity than anything else), when Jay talks him out of trying to TakeOverTheWorld.
183* [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Zero/Zero-Two]] from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series [[TearsOfBlood seems to be]] of the first type, or at least it is universally portrayed as such.
184** [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand Fecto Forgo]] is a clearer, third-type example; when Kirby saves Elfilin from them after they become [[FinalBoss Fecto Elfilis]], Forgo tries to make Popstar [[ColonyDrop crash]] into the new world.]]
185* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}''
186** Ghadius from ''VideoGame/KlonoaDoorToPhantomile'' attempts to destroy the world as revenge for being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] 3000 years ago. He doesn't care that his plan would destroy him along with the rest of Phantomile.
187** The King of Sorrow from the sequel ''[[VideoGame/Klonoa2LunateasVeil Lunatea's Veil]]'' appears to be attempting the same thing, as by linking the Kingdom of Sorrow to Lunatea is implied to cause some degree of destruction.
188* The revamped Aatrox lore in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' makes this his motive. [[FallenHero Once an extremely powerful and heroic Ascended]], he's been trapped in his own sword, and even stealing a body isn't satisfying because it's a crude mockery of his original form, so he hopes that by killing the world, he can finally be allowed to die.
189* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
190** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. The titular mask contains a quite lunatic and uncontrollable spirit that thought it'd be a hilarious prank to destroy the world by making the moon collide with it. Even the moon doesn't like this idea!
191** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': The Demon King Malladus seeks to regain a physical form by possessing Zelda's body. At the end of the game, after he is [[spoiler:forced out of it, and Zelda reclaims it, he [[DevourTheDragon possesses his minion Cole instead]]. Due to Cole's body being a less compatible vessel, he realizes he can't hold onto his new bestial form for long, but declares that he will use what little time he has to destroy the world.]]
192** Previous incarnations of Ganon tried to TakeOverTheWorld, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' Calamity Ganon has lost so much of his previous human self that he merely wants to destroy everything. [[spoiler:Before the final battle against Dark Beast Ganon, Zelda states that Ganon has even given up on a proper resurrection into a physical body just so he can funnel all his remaining power into pure destructive force.]]
193** Although Calamity Ganon turns out to be a small offshoot of Demon King Ganondorf in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', the same trope applies here. [[spoiler:Defeated by Link in the final battle, Ganondorf decides he would rather swallow his Secret Stone and undergo [[TerminalTransformation draconification]] than surrender. He dies ([[DeathOfPersonality well, sort of]]) while cackling madly, gleefully anticipating the destruction of all Hyrule and the "eternal night" his Demon Dragon form will bring.]]
194* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', [[spoiler:if you choose to play as Oersted, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who lost all he held dear while at the same time was demonized by the rest of the world]], you can trigger the Armageddon Ending as a ''menu command'' during any of the inverted boss fights, wherein Oersted just flat out wipes the universe. The same ending also plays if you lose the fight against the final boss]].
195* A plot point in ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX2'': [[spoiler:The BigBad is an all-powerful AI who has spent ages trying to fulfill her directive to revive humans who have gone extinct from her world, as well as longing for her master who left her with said directive. Her constant failure to fulfill her directive and especially her master never returning slowly drove her insane with grief over time, and by the events of the game, she decides to exploit a loophole in her directive which will allow her to bypass said directive, and use her newfound freedom to destroy everything, including herself.]]
196* NOA of ''VideoGame/MetalMax'''': Xeno'' had a humanity-level version of this in the past; after [[AIIsACrapshoot gaining sentience and deciding to destroy human civilization]] in a misguided attempt to stop global pollution, several post-apocalyptic survivors managed to track him down and destroy him for good; unfortunately, in the last instant before he died, NOA sent a message to all of his creations to ''destroy humanity completely.''[[note]]Apparently, his original goal wasn't human extinction, but only to destroy their civilization so to prevent the aforementioned pollution and bring humanity's numbers down to a manageable level; unfortunately, NOA apparently [[DidntThinkThisThrough missed the memo]] that not only would humanity not be very pleased with this, but the apocalyptic war he would have to wage to destroy human civilization would leave Earth in a worse state than it was before.[[/note]] The game itself picks up a good bit after NOA's defeat, where most of humanity in the region has already been wiped out by NOA's creations save for a few survivors who either bunkered down in impenetrable strongholds or had the presence of mind to use [[TankGoodness tanks]] as their primary means of transportation across the wastes.
197* This crops up repeatedly throughout Creator/NipponIchi games, usually with an emphasis on "temper tantrum". Often, it's a NonstandardGameOver that happens if the player decides be be a wise-ass and grind up enough to win the HopelessBossFight.
198** ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'' can end with [[spoiler:Laharl]] destroying the world in a pique, or [[spoiler:Rozalin dead, but Adell possessed, and he not only slaughters his own family, but it's strongly suggested that the rest of reality will soon follow suit]]
199** Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': beating [[spoiler:Feinne]] too early results in [[spoiler:Asagi]] shattering the FourthWall to pieces and pulling the game so far OffTheRails that the game has to start over.
200** Then played very much ''[[PlayedForDrama not]]'' for laughs in the Demon Path. If you win the final battle, [[spoiler:Revya kills both Haephnes and Drazil and erases both their worlds from existence, killing everything on them and him/herself as well.]] Any last words as they watch all creation fall to fathomless emptiness and their own being annihilate itself? Oh yes:
201-->'''[[spoiler:Revya:]]''' It doesn't matter. It was ''[[ForTheEvulz fun]]''. ''(CriticalExistenceFailure)''
202* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
203** Every one of Nyarlathotep's plans in the series. Nyarlathotep is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of humanity's most chaotic and self-destructive urges, so his entire being requires him to destroy humanity even if it would unmake him if he actually succeed. It only hits "temper tantrum" levels at the end of ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'' when he [[spoiler:teleports Ideal-sensei in to stab Maya with [[TheLanceOfLonginus the Spear of Longinus]], fulfilling the rumor-powered prophecy of the end of the world]], after being legitimately beaten by the "rules" between him and Philemon.
204** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Takaya is pretty much this. Similar to Kuja, knowing he's going to die leads him to the conclusion that everyone else should die as well.
205* During the finale of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'', you’re actually [[ViolationOfCommonSense given the option to push Eothas into one]], by convincing him that [[StrawNihilist the world sucks and everybody is a selfish piece of crap]]. Needless to say, doing so leads to a NonStandardGameOver where Eothas has a total mental breakdown and kills the entire planet.
206* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' this is actually [[spoiler:one of the four possible endings]] because the White are convinced that even if you are successful on the [[spoiler:Neutral or Chaos paths]] it will just be a temporary setback for [[spoiler:YHVH. Even should his order be upheld, Blasted and Infernal Tokyo exist to remind you that humans will always long for what was lost, leading to an utterly pointless ViciousCycle of {{Full Circle Revolution}}s]].
207* While the Ten Wise Men from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' seek to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the Universe]] as their primary goal, [[spoiler:Gabriel[=/=]Indalecio figures that if he cannot rule, he will destroy everything. The Crest[=/=]Symbol of Annihilation is set to activate with the expiration of his life force, which is designed to bring about the end of everything by generating sufficient mass-energy to collapse the universe into a Big Crunch.[[note]]Thankfully diverted by countermeasures devised by the Nede Defense Force[[/note]]]]
208* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'':
209** The destruction of the multiverse is Count Bleck's goal in vengeance for [[spoiler:his lover's apparent death]]. He finds an ArtifactOfDoom and a TomeOfEldritchLore just for this goal, and promptly begins to use them to destroy one universe after the other.
210** [[spoiler:Dimentio]] falls back on this plan after his OneWingedAngel form is defeated (his original plan was remaking everything in his own image, his last resort was to leave the Chaos Heart/Void going and take everything out with him).
211* Bishop Vick in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' resented having been turned into a vampire against his will and snapped, starting an ApocalypseCult spreading disease across Los Angeles with the intent of ending the unjust world and forcing the PlayerCharacter to put him down to uphold the {{Masquerade}}.
212* Sargaras in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' franchise is a healthy mix of this and WellIntentionedExtremist. Eons of futilely fighting the immortal demons left him dangling on the DespairEventHorizon. Then when he witnessed a Void corrupted Titan Worldsoul he was so terrified by the possibility of what it would become and what it would do to the universe that he cleaved it in two without a second thought. When the rest of the Titans condemned him for this action and expressed a desire to try to purify such a thing he snapped. A universe devoid of life was infinitely preferable to the treat of a Void Titan arising, and so the Burning Legion was formed to scour the universe.
213* At first, [[spoiler: Ballas]] from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' intended to make himself godlike by [[spoiler: absorbing the sun with Praghasa]], but once the Tenno beats him hard enough he decides to destroy the entirety of the Origin System instead just to spite the Lotus ([[NeverMyFault naturally, blaming it on her for driving him to do so]]).
214* Malos and [[spoiler: Amalthus]] both are throwing these in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2''. Malos because destroying everything is his nature [[spoiler: because he was infected by Amalthus's malice and nihilism when Amalthus awakened him.]] Also as [[spoiler: revenge on the world for what it did to Jin]]. [[spoiler: Amalthus]] throws it after Rex, [[spoiler: Mikhail and Pneuma]] thoroughly ruin all his plans to retain his existing position of power, in a variant of the version where a villain throws a temper tantrum after his plan to TakeOverTheWorld fails.
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218* In ''Film/GodzillaMMD'', [[PlanetEater Otaru Ghidorah]] flees to the moon to attempt a ColonyDrop after being defeated by Godzilla's SuperMode. This would deprive him of a food source in the Earth, but he no longer cares about that, just ensuring Godzilla loses.
219* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] is trying to divide humanity, inciting war and the worst aspects of human behaviour because she wants to destroy [[BigGood Ozpin]], who has faith in the goodness of humanity. She wants to force him and the world to burn. [[spoiler:She was originally cursed with CompleteImmortality, deliberately BarredFromTheAfterlife until she learns the value of life and death. However, the gods used the phrase "for as long as the world turns, you shall walk its face". Because she [[NeverMyFault refuses]] to take the blame for her actions, including turning humanity [[RageAgainstTheHeavens against the gods]], she believes her [[WhoWantsToLiveForever only escape]] is to stop the world turning. She knows the God of Light gave humanity a single chance for redemption by [[ResurrectiveImmortality tasking Ozpin]] to unite humanity in peace and harmony before summoning the gods for [[TheDayOfReckoning Judgement Day]]. If the gods return to see humanity in an irredeemable state, they will destroy the world, which Salem thinks will end her curse.]]
220* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation:'' Although the villain of Season 3 of ''Animation vs Minecraft'', [[spoiler:the genocidal King Orange, is attempting to destroy the Minecraft world from inside, at no point does he ever plan a way out for himself. Given that his motive is losing his son to a faulty ''Minecraft'' simulation, it can be assumed he either didn't care or actively wanted to go down too.]]
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224* In the final chapter of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' Moonless Age, the BigBad, Crown Princess Snadhya'rune's actions provoke half of her city into launching a final revolt against her rule. After getting betrayed by several of even her own fed up underlings, she undergoes a VillainousBreakdown and decides that if ''she'' cannot have her birthright, then ''no one will'', calling for the EndOfAnAge. She proceeds to open up a massive {{Hellgate}}, dooming the entire city to be consumed by demons.
225* In ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'', Quelyn--Beluosus' firstborn sentient "Eve"--[[spoiler:is enraged when his initial plan to make himself a star (and thus, her the powerful daughter of a Sidera) fails and he calls her "superfluous." In response, she gives herself the power of fission, ravaging his surface and then ripping his entire planetary body apart. He barely survives as an orphaned manifest stone.]]
226* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', an alternate-universe version of Minmax is one of these. He finds his way into a pocket universe (along with some of the main characters) and promptly sets in motion a plan to make it so that he, along with the pocket unierse and everyone in it, [[RetGone never existed]]. The reason he seeks out the pocket universe in question is because he does this by manipulating and retroactively destroying the "equation" that defines and creates anything in a given world. A full-scale universe has far too many variables to control for him to ever hope to succeed, but the pocket universe has small enough for it to be feasible. [[spoiler:He's defeated when he's tricked into entering the portal back to his universe, preventing him from ever bringing his plans to fruition.]]
227* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', [[spoiler:Incubus]] is a willing ally to [[OmnicidalManiac Jagganoth]], because it gives him the highest sliver of a chance of outliving the other Demiurges. Incubus is so obsessed with 'winning' the war that they'd rather risk all of reality dying by Jagganoth's reset of the multiverse - and indeed, would gladly let it die if they lost - than continue to live in a multiverse that is barely at peace. They went so far as to [[spoiler:mentor Alison, who has been prophesized to end them, because they expect she'll help kill the other demiurges first]].
228* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' everyone ''thinks'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010730 Zorgon Gola]] is one of these. Creating this public image was [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010816 part of his]] EvilPlan. Note that not only does he have a PunnyName, his plan would have worked ''brilliantly'' if the SpannerInTheWorks main characters din't show up, and through their actions, destroy the Punyverse. How do they do it? By stealing the [[CombiningMecha crotch of]] [[HumongousMecha Gofotron]], letting a [[KillerRabbit small puppy]] detonate every sun in the Punyverse.
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232* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler: After it is cut off from its main host and [[TheDragon Andrias]]' army is defeated, The Core hijacks the moon and attempts a ColonyDrop on Amphibia as a last act of spite towards the heroes for foiling its plans. It takes a HeroicSacrifice on Anne's part to defeat the Core once and for all]].
233* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', this turns out to be the plan of the Highbreed; generations of inbreeding has made them all sterile, meaning they will die out soon. Since they consider themselves the MasterRace and hate the thought of all those "inferior" species outliving them, they've decided to personally make sure that every other species dies out before they do.
234* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': The BigBad, Dracula wants to KillAllHumans because he holds the lot of them responsible for the death of his human wife Lisa Tepes, who was burnt at the stake by the CorruptChurch who accused her of witchcraft. To this end, he sends hordes of vampires upon countless villages to wipe them off the face of the Earth. This causes discontentment among his ranks, with one of his generals Godbrand questioning what will happen when all the humans are dead and the vampires have nothing to eat, even pointing out in private that Dracula himself hasn't eaten in a while. It becomes apparent towards the end of the season that Dracula wants to wipe out both humans and vampires, taking his rage and grief at the loss of his wife out on both species before he ultimately dies. His {{Dhampyr}} son Alucard even lampshades this to his face, calling his selfish and pointless genocide "history's longest suicide note".
235* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'': Evil the Cat's entire point in the series is this, with him intending to destroy the universe whenever he's part of an episode's plot. However, the point of his plan is actually lampshaded by Hench-Rat in the second episode, "The Book of Doom", when he asks what they'll do AFTER the universe's destruction.
236-->'''Evil the Cat:''' (beat) I hadn't really thought about it actually...Gloat, I suppose. Cackle wickedly amid the ashes sorta thing?
237* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "The Big Bang Theory", Bertram decides to travel back in time to RetGone Stewie by killing his ancestor, none other than [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Leonardo da Vinci]], unaware that, as a result of a time paradox, Stewie was the one that caused the Big Bang and that erasing him would destroy the universe, including himself. Even after Brian and Stewie tell him as such, Bertram, after a brief hesitation, promptly declares that getting rid of Stewie is worth the end of the universe and promptly shoots da Vinci dead. However, Stewie preserves events by [[MyOwnGrampa becoming his own ancestor]].
238* Possibly subverted at the end of the first ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' FiveEpisodePilot. Destro directs the M.A.S.S. Device to disintegrate the Earth's core, which will cause the world to explode. Even Cobra Commander thinks it's insane. ''But'', tellingly, Destro uses the ensuing ruckus to run away, while G.I. Joe stops the catastrophe, as he (presumably) knew they would. It was only meant as a distraction, and it was a danged good one.
239* Owlman in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'', after learning that any choice made by anyone merely creates multiple parallel universes where each outcome happens, decides that free will is an illusion and all choices are meaningless... except for one: destroying the entire multiverse.
240-->'''Owlman:''' I choose to make the only possible real choice.
241* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': WordOfGod has confirmed, despite only being faintly implied in the show itself, that [[FallenHero Nightmare Moon]]'s plan to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds would have [[OmnicidalManiac killed every living thing in Equestria]] had it succeeded by [[SugarApocalypse slowly freezing the sun-deprived planet to death]]. If Nightmare Moon was aware of this consequence, this trope may have been her intention (depending on whether a [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]] requires food, oxygen, or warmth to survive). [[WordOfGod Word of]] [[Creator/LaurenFaust Faust]] says that Nightmare Moon, had she succeeded, would have ushered in "an era of evil"; though the death of all other life certainly fits this description, whether or not this precludes Nightmare Moon's suicide is up to you to decide. Later on the series shows [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld none of this was the case]] during a BadFuture segment where Nightmare Moon ''did'' rise to power: her Equestria is gloomy but not a ''terrible'' place to live and very much peaceful and full of life, unlike the other BadFuture segments which range from war-torn to post-apocalyptic, and her followers are more aggressive than Princess Celestia's but hardly "evil" in any sense of the term. All in all, her rule seems to mostly lean on PragmaticEvil and RepressiveButEfficient.
242* An odd, somewhat heroic suicidal cosmic temper tantrum happened in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' short "SpaceMadness", where Ren (as Commander Hoek), having GoneMadFromTheIsolation, plots to take Stimpy (as Cadet Stimpy) with him by having him guard the History Eraser button, knowing he'd want to know WhatDoesThisButtonDo.
243-->'''Ren''': That's just it! We don't know! [=MAYbe=] something bad? '''MAY'''be something good? I guess we'll never know! Because '''you're''' going to guard it! [[TemptingFate You won't]] [[TooDumbToLive touch it]], will you?
244-->(''slow, mad laugh as he leaves Stimpy to his...uh, job'')
245* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'':
246** At the end of season 3, [[spoiler: [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerCatra Catra]] sets off a portal she knows will destroy the world and reality itself. This is after betraying her own friends and lying to her leader. And Catra's doing it because [[SanitySlippage she's been gradually losing her sanity]], and [[EvilIsPetty she just wants to deny Adora a victory]] at ''something,'' even if that means TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. While Adora does manage to stop the destruction, it requires a HeroicSacrifice from Queen Angella]].
247** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler: [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerHordePrime Horde Prime]], after slowly suffering a VillainousBreakdown from the Rebellions [[WhyWontYouDie continued resistance]], completely snaps after his "little brother" Hordak regains his memories and destroys his physical body. While he survives by hijacking Hordak's body, Horde Prime loses the last of his composure and decides to set off the [[FantasticNuke Heart of Etheria]] to cleanse the universe in holy fire, uncaring that he himself will also die so long as the Rebellion dies with him.]]
248* Spider-Carnage in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' wants to kill himself, [[OmnicidalManiac the planet]], and the entire ''multiverse'' because he [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds cannot cope with his own pain]]. He ultimately just [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]], sparing the multiverse. It helps that he's ''completely'' insane.
249* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'', God's equally-omnipotent stepbrother blows up the world out of nowhere because he was angry about being TheUnFavorite.
250* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', oblivion is the goal of the entire [[PlanetOfSteves Hey]] species, due to being ScaryDogmaticAliens who [[StrawNihilist literally worship nothing]].
251* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
252** ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': This is what the [[Characters/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003TheShredder 2003 Shredder]]'s plan in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' boils down to; after discovering TheMultiverse and that there are Ninja Turtles ''everywhere'' who in turn constantly defeat their Shredders, he decides to go straight to the source ([[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the Mirage comics universe]]) and destroy all reality. Even after being explicitly told that he would die as well, he [[RevengeBeforeReason decides]] that it's WorthIt.
253** ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Ditto for the [[Characters/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012TheShredder 2012 Shredder]], although he limits himself to just Earth. [[spoiler:After teaming up with the Turtles to save the planet from total destruction, he sees a perfect opportunity to kill Splinter and just can't resist, even if it means dooming everybody including himself. He then declares that he doesn't care if he dies now, he got to kill Splinter and that's good enough for him. Fortunately the Turtles, April, and Casey were able to escape via TimeTravel, setting up the next arc where they track down {{MacGuffin}}s across the galaxy needed to prevent the destruction of Earth before it happens. Once they manage to SetRightWhatWentWrong and prevent Splinter's death, their Sensei delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Shredder for breaking their alliance and nearly dooming the Earth.]]
254* Honerva's final scheme at the series end of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' was to destroy not only her reality but all realities. Fortunately the Voltron Force stopped her.
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