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3->''"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings ... I have no conscience, so that does not worry me. I don't believe in Man, God, nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself."''
4-->-- '''[[SerialKiller Carl Panzram]]'''
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9These human characters not only agree that [[HumansAreBastards humans are worthless scum]], but think this makes it absolutely justified to slaughter a few innocent humans now and then. They may even desire [[KillAllHumans the destruction of the entire human race]]--with themselves likely (but not certainly) excepted. The most sympathetic cases are likely to have broken by the horrors of the world around them to the point that they have a hard time seeing or recognizing anything good and may even not be entirely wrong, depending on the [[CrapsackWorld unpleasantness of their society]].
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11Sometimes, they tend to be StrawCharacter Malthusians who want to "solve overpopulation" or [[RestartTheWorld restore/restart the planet]] to its "[[AppealToNature natural]]" (i.e., non-human) state.
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13More commonly, they appear during an AlienInvasion or its rough fantasy equivalent, believing in the superiority of the invaders. As such, they probably belong to LesCollaborateurs, and expect to be rewarded with overlordship of the surviving humans. This version of the trope is common in the sci-fi "alien invasion" serial films of the 40s and 50s wherein there was always a human collaborator who never seemed to mind that his actions, if successful, would bring about the destruction of his home and everyone/thing he knows.
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15Nonhuman characters who believe in the moral bankruptcy of their own species may be presented in equivalent ways, but they tend instead to be the more sympathetic MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch.
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17A subtrope of BoomerangBigot. Compare StrawNihilist, TranshumanTreachery, HatesEveryoneEqually, HobbesWasRight, HumansAreTheRealMonsters, OmnicidalManiac, TheSocialDarwinist. Contrast AllLovingHero.
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25* Most of the members of the Noah family from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' seem to be this, as they have absolutely no calm about maiming, tormenting and basically planning to KillAllHumans. However, Road Kamelot is the only one who clearly states it:
26-->''"I don't think anything of killing those insignificant humans. I just hate this world full of these worthless beings. You should all just die and go away."''
27* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
28** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' displays this perfectly with Dr. Gero during the Android/Cell Saga. In addition to hating Son Goku and friends, it's heavily implied that Gero hates the human race as a whole, considering that he made multiple killing machines who lack the slightest bit of empathy towards humanity and delight in their fear and deaths.
29** [[EvilTwin Goku Black]], the main villain of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'''s Future Trunks Saga, a trait he shares with his partner [[spoiler:and AlternateUniverse equivalent, Future Zamasu. A God-in-training, Zamasu became convinced that mortals were squandering the gifts given to them by the gods while the gods themselves are too lazy to do anything about them and wants to make the universe perfect...by killing off every last mortal. Of course, he ''also'' killed off all the other gods to ensure that they couldn't interfere with his plan. By this point, Zamasu thinks he's better than anyone, god and mortal]].
30* ArcVillain [[spoiler:Psykos]] in ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' was a SuperSupremacist who believed their powers put them above other humans, and began plotting to wipe them out [[spoiler:and have the monsters take over, becoming their leader]].
31* ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'''s Ralph Werec, DragonInChief to Vivian Medlock, who betrayed [[TheFederation the Union]] and joined [[TheEmpire the Deague]] upon learning that [[spoiler:the Union performed [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane experiments]] on the little-girl aliens known as the Emilys]]. He later [[spoiler:betrays Vivian and the Deague, seeing them as equally horrible, and wants to KillAllHumans]].
32* Shinobu Sensui of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is the StrawNihilist variety. [[spoiler:Also [[DeathSeeker includes himself]].]]
33* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' has several examples.
34** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Rau Le Creuset]], [[StrawNihilist oh]] [[OmnicidalManiac so]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds much]]. Though, he has his reasons [[AbusiveParents for thinking]] this way.
35** Also, [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Master Asia]] is ready to accept quite a few casualties to reach his goal. [[spoiler:He has [[WellIntentionedExtremist better reasons]]. He also sees the errors in his logic before he dies.]]
36** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'''s Haman Khan is a LawfulEvil variation on this trope, planning to grind the world under her jackbooted heels because in her mind, none of us can be trusted, and we all have it coming.
37* The Earth dragons in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' are a prime example.
38* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'''s version of Kimblee is a ranting StrawNihilist who believes that the inherent worthlessness of humanity means [[TheUnfettered he's allowed to kill and abuse whoever he wants]]. Unusually, he ''does'' include himself on this, [[AtLeastIAdmitIt claiming to be just as hollow as everyone else]].
39** The 2003 anime version's Envy also has this vibe to him, believing that people deserve to be tormented for daring to think that their lives have any real value to them. Needless to say, he's one of the most [[TheSociopath flat-out evil bastards]] in the series. His boss [[spoiler:Dante]] adopts this attitude as a pose, but it's really just a cover for her own abhorrent [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]].
40** The Gold-Toothed Doctor in the manga and ''Brotherhood'' series may count, though his reasons for helping the Homunculi destroy humanity are never really explored.
41* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'''s [[TheDragon Legato Bluesummers]] is this, especially in the anime where he's comparatively sane and keeps his dignity. It's unclear whether his primary motivation is whatever he knows of Knives' StartOfDarkness, his own crapsack life, the world in general, his complete and utter devotion to a guy who happens to be an OmnicidalManiac, or just his own personal flavor of crazy. He has his own TearJerker StartOfDarkness in the manga, where he is much less cool but ''much'' more of TheWoobie (although a disgustingly evil woobie), but in the anime he is both more mysterious and more emotionally self-sufficient.
42** [[BigBad Millions Knives]] from ''Anime/TrigunStampede''. Just like in previous incarnations, he hates humanity with a burning passion and wants to exterminate them all. Stampede places particular emphasis on his belief humans have stolen Vash from him.
43* ''Manga/SengokuYouko'''s protagonist Jinka has expressed his hatred of humanity many times, and has made it a goal to obtain a demon's body.
44* The Kanto Elite Four in the ''Yellow'' arc of the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga. They claim to want to wipe out humanity to protect Pokémon, but don't seem to have any real interest in the welfare of Pokémon either.
45* [[spoiler:Mayor Takeshi Hirokawa]] from ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'', who supports the parasites' [[ToServeMan natural diet]] despite being 100% human. His internal monologues even categorise humans as "them".
46* Yatsumura from ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite,'' as evidenced by the advice she gives Aya.
47-->''"Disgusting people. Snide people. People you hate. Annoying people. People who break the law. People who jeer at others. Violent people. Overly proud people. People who have no sense of morality. People who trouble others. People who hurt others for their own desires. People who threaten others. Once you become aware of others harming you, you should just eliminate them all."''
48* Zeref from ''Manga/FairyTail''. After 400 years of watching humanity make the same mistakes over and over again, he's had enough. Eerily enough, he states his intention to wipe out humanity with the [[DissonantSerenity same sorrowful tone]] he uses when apologizing for accidentally killing things. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the truth is more complicated than that. Zeref hates humanity and the world in its current state partially because he sees it as ''[[ItsAllMyFault his]]'' fault things are the way they are (and considering what his own actions and that of his creations and those who misused them have done, it's probably not too inaccurate), which only further compounds his [[DeathSeeker own death wish]]. His endgame is to gain enough power to cast a spell that will [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong send him back to the point before he became immortal with his memories intact so he can change things]], and since he's such an integral figure in history such an act would [[RetGone irrevocably change the future to the point the present wouldn't exist anymore]]. As such, humanity as the world knows it would quite literally be [[ExactWords wiped out]].]]
49* Phantom from ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' take it to the extreme, as not only does he hate humanity, but also every other living and non-living thing in the world.
50* Ragyo Kiryuin and Nui Harime from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' are both extremely contemptuous of humans, with the former maintaining a [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] mindset and the latter just being CuteAndPsycho. [[spoiler:Both of them are servants of parasitic aliens called Life Fibres, which they view as the ultimate life forms, meaning humans in general are rock bottom on their list of worthy beings.]]
51* Fujimoto from ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' is a formerly human sorcerer/demigod who wants to KillAllHumans in a GaiasVengeance plot.
52* Shuji Fujigawa from ''Manga/KillerKiller'' holds a very low opinion of the human race (aside from [[spoiler:his best friend Takumi]]), believing that anyone has the capability to become a murderer and they could become one at any time, and that means stopping murder at all costs. Given that he [[spoiler:witnessed both the massacre of his entire school and The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History]], it's actually not unreasonable why he feels that way. What ''is'' unreasonable is that, for all his talk of how horrible murder is, he's been [[KnightTemplar butchering killers and those he deems potential killers with impunity.]] Also, his personal end goal to ensure murder never happens again involves [[spoiler:slaughtering the entire human race]].
53* Light Yagami from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is an interesting variation of this trope. As a {{narcissist}}ic [[ThePerfectionist perfectionist]] who believes that he is superior and a better person than all humans, he believes that the world must be perfect and [[AGodAmI in his image and likeness]], completely unable to realize that all humans[[note]]''[[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance especially]]'' himself[[/note]] have flaws.
54* Muzan Kibutsuji from ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''. Muzan thinks lowly of the human species in general, despite having a wife and child. It's more because he has to remain in cover from the Demon Slayers actively hunting them down. It's then revealed they aren't his wife and child, and he kills all the human beings who ever gave him shelter. The only value he assigns humans is as a food source.
55* Mahito in ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' may as well be this trope's patron saint. Technically not a human himself, he is instead an evil spirit that embodies the fear and hatred humans feel towards other humans - basically the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the concept of misanthropy, if you will. Mahito has a complete LackOfEmpathy and sees people as nothing more than flesh without any redeeming qualities. Notably, his unique ability "Idle Transfiguration" allows him to [[ForcedTransformation forcefully transform people into horrific abominations]], very literally evoking the idea that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
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59* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Ultron has been a strong believer in this trope since his birth at the hands of Hank Pym, as his initial programming to protect the world led him to the twisted conclusion that the only way to protect the world is to extinguish humans.
60* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
61** While it's not evident given his LaughingMad demeanor and his penchant for [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor macabre jokes]] usually at the life-and-limb expense of someone else, [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] is actually absolutely full of hatred and spite towards basically everyone and the entire world. Several stories have gone into this and it's implied that the Joker finds it so easy to kill everyone around him, not because he feels nothing for them, but in fact because he loathes everyone aside from his [[FoeRomanceSubtext twisted relationship]] with Batman.
62** Mister Freeze likewise sometimes wants to destroy humanity, though in his case it's revenge on the world for how it treated him and his wife.
63** [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] seemingly has similar goals to Ra's; she supposedly identifies more with plants and has little love for humanity (besides her on-and-off thing with [[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harley Quinn]] and a soft spot for children). However, it's evident that her goals are also driven by personal vendetta and anger for her lifetime of being neglected by her parents alongside her being used by her college professor who exploited her feelings. Her habit of targeting and seducing men to feed to her plants is a big indicator of this (so much so one of her monster plants became sentient and attacked her because it felt the pain of said men after eating so much of them).
64** [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] is an insane and immortal EcoTerrorist who believes that humanity must be eradicated, or greatly culled, to stop them from ruining the planet.
65** Likewise [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al Ghul]], the above villain's [[DaddysLittleVillain daughter]]. Sometimes, it's arguable whether she goes along with her father's plans because she believes in the cause or because [[WellDoneSonGuy she wants her father's approval]]. Regardless, she's certainly never protested for the lives of innocents to be spared her father's culling.
66* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' not only hates people in general but seems to hate everything about being human as well. [[spoiler:It turns out that a lot of this might be due to him being a flusher for all of humanity's various ills; it's hard to say, since his backstory and many aspects of his life are deliberately kept as vague as possible.]]
67* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The father of the man who would one day become [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] was an [[DepravedDentist insane dentist]] who was consumed with hate and loathing for people, to the point of regularly torturing and murdering his patients. His son adopted his stance on the worthlessness of life before becoming a Judge, leading him to the conclusion that [[StrawNihilist all of it must be exterminated]].
68* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': Hawley Griffin tries to [[TheQuisling sell out all of humankind to the Martian invaders]] in hope of ruling Earth as "Invisible Man the First".
69* Saturn Queen joined the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion of Super-Villains]] because of this. With her {{telepathy}} giving her a constant look at the underbelly of the human mind, she's become convinced that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and that as such, her own thievery, murder, and attempts to TakeOverTheWorld -- and those of her partners, Cosmic King and Lightning Lord -- are perfectly okay.
70* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': Gary "The Smiler" Callahan's desire to be a PresidentEvil (which is stated to be his only desire) is motivated by two things, both originating from his hatred of people: 1) Because he thinks so little of people that he feels like he should be above them by holding a position of power, and 2) Because this position provides him with enough power to oppress people without them being able to fight back.
71-->''"I hate you all, you know? All you scum. I want to be President because I hate you. I want to fuck with you. I want to make you shut up and do things properly. Get through your doomed little lives quietly."''
72* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001'': For all his adult life, Magneto has believed in the superiority of the "Homo superior" race and despised the human race to the point that he sought to kill all of humanity so that only mutants remain. Then he learns that the "mutant gene" and the very existence of mutantkind is the result of experiments in a military lab. Obviously, this causes quite a VillainousBSOD.
73* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Stemming from her experience of being sold into human trafficking by her own father Zara despises humanity and wantonly kills without remorse or care. It's unclear if she was already allied with Saturnian slavers planning on invading earth prior to meeting Eviless on Reformation Island, but she leaps at the chance to do so.
74* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]] in all his incarnations invariably [[AGodAmI considers himself a god]] and regards everyone else (whether human or mutant) as either worthless inferiors or, at best, {{Worthy Opponent}}s. Then ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' happened, and Apocalypse underwent a very comprehensive BreakTheHaughty at the hands of his thematic opposite (though "good counterpart" might be [[WellIntentionedExtremist stretching it]]), the exponentially more powerful [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]]. After that, in ''ComicBook/XMen2019'', he is a notably more thoughtful and humbler figure, willingly taking a senior position on Krakoa but -- crucially -- ''not'' being in charge and expressing pride in all that mutantkind has achieved.
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78* Many human members of the Ponification for Eath's Rebirth (PER) in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' are usually this. They are often completely convinced that converting humans into ponies is the only way save the earth, regardless of any [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul trade-offs]].
79* Alucard is one in ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'':
80-->'''Rip Van Winkle:''' I don't have to take zis from you! You racist, cisgendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic pig!\
81'''Alucard:''' The funny thing is, in any other circumstance, you might have had a point there. Except my boss is a woman, I was a chick in the '40s, I hate everyone equally, and there's NO ONE ALIVE who could comprehend my sexual preference. So, in other words, Ms. Van Winkle, chuh-chuh-chuh-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!
82* In ''Fanfic/TheJadedEyesSeries'', Harry/Tristan absolutely hates all muggles and would have no problem with killing them all except that the vampires need their food.
83* ''Fanfic/MegamiNoHanabira'': [[spoiler:[[SinisterMinister Father]] [[BigBad Archibald Phillips]]: whether he started off this way or genuinely believed causing a demon outbreak [[WellIntentionedExtremist would bring humanity back to God]] is unclear, but by the time the girls confront him, his [[MotiveDecay motives have twisted]] to 'become an angel and abandon humanity to the demons because they're sinful, weak insects'.]]
84* In ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'', Cedric sees humans as weak, pathetic creatures, comparing them to livestock at one point.
85* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Many bloodliners take this attitude due to suffering of FantasticRacism from normal humans. Two notable examples are Misty, who was TheUnfavorite in her family and after traveling on her own for a while she stops seeing herself as a human, and Iris, due to being abandoned by her birth parents as a baby and [[RaisedByWolves being raised by Dragon-type Pokémon]], she comes to despise humanity due to inflicting harm on nature due to their "progress". However, their mindsets begin to change after they meet Ash.
86* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', Kirito falls into this at his worst points. Between the shitty home life that made him retreat into VR in the first place, losing [[ILetGwenStacyDie Sachi]], and spending years SurroundedByIdiots, this take on Kirito is a {{Jerkass}} with a dismissive view of everyone else, and is much more willing to kill people. But he undergoes enough CharacterDevelopment over Season One to grow out of it into a KnightInSourArmor.
87-->'''Kirito:''' (''to [[BossBattle the Gleam Eyes]]'') ...Ya know something? I [[PunctuatedForEmphasis really. Hate. People.]] They're [[PunctuatedPounding selfish! Ignorant! Loud, obnoxious pricks!]] With basically no redeeming qualities whatsoever! I mean really, look at all they've achieved! Genocide, global warming, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking reality TV]], and just a never-ending parade of failures and fuck-ups! They are, without question, a complete write-off of a species, and [[WhyCantIHateYou HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THEM!!]]
88* ''Fanfic/{{Webwork}}'' has [[spoiler:Simon Leston]], the new Squid Khan General. He despised humanity when he was one, and now he can [[OmnicidalManiac act on it]].
89* Valon in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''; in contrast with Dartz's other Henchmen, who all have tragic, convoluted backstories explaining how they came to the conclusion that humanity was evil and needed to be wiped out, [[ForTheEvulz he just joined their project because he "fucking hates people]]." Amusingly, Joey considers this the most reasonable motive for being evil in the season.
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93* Pastor Ernst Toller becomes this in ''Film/FirstReformed'', eventually [[spoiler: plotting to kill himself and other ministers/members of his church via a suicide bombing]]. He's inspired to do so by his conversations with suicidal anti-natalist Michael Mensana.
94* Dr. Robotnik from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' is a human who hates humanity. Robotnik finds humans to be a letdown, [[InsufferableGenius thinks everyone is stupid but him]], and makes a point of having no friends. The reason Robotnik loves machines is because of their greater efficiency and how they can only do as they're told.
95-->''"You know, I won't miss you when you're gone. Human beings are stupid and unreliable, and I care very little about them. My machines are diligent and relentless. THEY'RE EVERYTHING TO ME!"''
96* The Joker from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' seems to be this. His motivation is to prove that, deep down, everyone is just as rotten and evil as he is, and he intends to rip away the "façade" of do-goodiness and create a world where, essentially, everyone acts like a violent criminal. As a matter of fact, [[spoiler:one of his plans is foiled by [[RousseauWasRight the citizens and prisoners of Gotham choosing to not kill each other to save their own lives]], which causes a VillainousBreakdown]].
97* Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' is willing to wipe out the California coast just so that he can [[{{Pun}} make a killing]] in real estate. In ''Film/SupermanII'', he's all too happy to sell out the human race to Zod to help him destroy Superman. In ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''... well, the only person he seems to get along with is the one he creates to destroy Superman.
98* Ivo Shandor, the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', was this. While he never appears physically in the movie, he is described as having been extremely hateful towards mankind and performed horrific experiments on living people. His hatred escalated to the point where he constructed an interdimensional doorway at the top of an apartment building in Manhattan, designed to summon a shapeshifting EldritchAbomination to wipe out mankind.
99* Daniel Plainview in ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''. In his own words, "I look at people and see nothing worth liking." His son H.W. is the only person he treats with anything resembling affection, and that only lasts so long.
100* Victor Von Doom from ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' states that although interplanetary exploration can save humanity, humanity does not deserve salvation for all the damage it has caused.
101* Francesco Dellamorte in ''Film/CemeteryMan'' -- "I have no time for the living" he states, and on advice from Death, [[spoiler:promptly embarks on a murder spree]].
102* Marty and Dana, the surviving protagonists of ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', have fallen into this role by the end of the film. [[spoiler:After being subjected to almost everything that the organizers behind the cabin need to do in order to appease the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] and save humanity -- along with a harrowing jaunt through the monster-infested facility -- a combination of mortal injuries, psychological trauma and despair-induced apathy leads them to let the human race get wiped out.]]
103* Gallo from ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'' [[spoiler:wanted to keep overpopulation from repeating itself so he killed his crew and made other passengers develop SpaceMadness. Exploiting their mental state, Gallo would manipulate them into exiling themselves in the cargo hold to fight to the death and feed on the corpses of the fallen. So over generations their descendants evolved and adapted to the ship, becoming a new species]].
104* Koba in ''Film/DawnofthePlanetoftheApes'' takes on this trope, swearing revenge due to the experiments the humans did on him when he was locked in the laboratory.
105* Agent Smith from ''Film/TheMatrix'' gives a speech to Morpheus saying that humans are more like viruses than mammals, because they exploit the world and drain it of all possible resources rather than instinctively seeking a natural balance with the their environment.
106* In ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'', the serial killer Dr. Decker justifies his crimes as being part of his mission to purify the world of humans. He wants to stop "breeders" from spreading their "filth" and murders entire families, including their children.
107* Valentine from ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' believes that humanity is a "virus" on the world and the only way to save the world was to cull a large portion of the population.
108* Carlton Drake, the main antagonist of ''Film/Venom2018'', believes that mankind has decimated the world to the point of collapse and that only by bonding with the symbiotes can they evolve into a species worthy of surviving extinction.
109* Orm from ''Film/Aquaman2018'': Due to the pollution of the seas and the overfishing of marine wildlife caused by humans, he believes that wiping out humanity is the only way to preserve Atlantis.
110* Alan Jonah in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', after fighting in a lot of very dirty wars, has no problem with King Ghidorah exterminating humanity, casually dismissing [[spoiler:Emma's]] belief that humans and kaiju could live in harmony.
111-->''"I've seen human nature firsthand, and I'm here to tell you that it doesn't get any better. It just gets worse."''
112* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'': Beneath all of Christof's prattle about making artistic statements and such, it becomes clear by the end that the ''real'' reason he [[TrumanShowPlot keeps Truman trapped in the artificial town]] is because he's a cynical, nihilistic, and narcissistic misanthrope who demonizes the world as being sick and evil, hence his insistence that he's "protecting" Truman by cutting him off from all the struggles of the real world.
113* Dr. Volumnia Gaul from ''Film/TheHungerGamesTheBalladofSongbirdsandSnakes''. She is firmly of the opinion that all humans are inherently evil and in fact uses this to justify the Capitol's totalitarian rule over Panem, because of course those savage animals of the Districts couldn't possibly dream of placing themselves to order.
114* [[TheHeavy Gabriel]] from ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoning''. His nihilistic and cynical contempt for all of humanity is stated to be his motive for doing the things he does; Ilsa says he sees killing other people as doing them a favor. And it's implicitly why he serves as the Entity's willing, even enthusiastic slave, since he sees its cold, inhuman mind as superior to himself and other human beings.
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118* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Lukash is explicitly described as such. By committing war crimes and otherwise killing or harming people, he basically vents his frustration over his miserable childhood on the entire world.
119* In the ''Literature/{{Berserker}}'' series, "Good life" humans help the Berserkers in their quest to destroy all life.
120* Worshippers of most {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''.
121* Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, the BigBad of ''Literature/DateALive'', despises all of mankind, be they men, women, children or even infants. His goal is to [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turn the whole world into a "hell"]] to wipe out all humans of the world, and later rebuilt the world in a "utopia" where mages like himself will rule and live without wars and conflicts according to his own vision.
122* ''Erostratus'' by Creator/JeanPaulSartre attempts to make one of these into an AntiVillain. He compares his dislike of people to another person's dislike of lobster, albeit much less socially acceptable -- and much more futile, since everything he does winds up benefiting humanity. As he puts it, "All my life I have been banging my head against a door that says 'No entry if not a humanist.'"
123* The eponymous ''Literature/{{Gog}}'' wants to be alone, but can't. Even when he is alone, he still feels part of humanity, and that makes him angry. He hates absolutely everybody and has intricate fantasies about killing everyone on Earth.
124* In ''Literature/HaveSpaceSuitWillTravel'', two human traitors aid the alien Wormfaces, who capture, kill and eat humans and eventually plan to conquer the Earth and do the same to everyone.
125* This is the core of [[VillainProtagonist Aur]]'s character from ''Literature/HowToBuildADungeonBookOfTheDemonKing''. He is a human who grew to harbor immense hatred towards his own kind, justifying his hatred by [[spoiler:being forced to help [[TeacherStudentRomance his master whom he loved]] with a PsychicAssistedSuicide after her nation demanded her death]]; Aur goes on to become a sorcerer, taking up the title of [[EvilOverlord Demon Lord]] and vowing to make humanity become his miserable pawns. Aur wastes no time in making many humans go through horrible ordeals, from [[FinalSolution genocide]], to [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaving]], to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]], to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]]; anything goes as far as Aur is concerned.
126* SerialKiller Carl Panzram, as the page quote shows, expressed a hatred for humanity overall in his memoir ''Killer: A Diary of Murder'', including infamously saying he wished everyone had one neck so he could cut if off. He confessed to twenty two murders during its writing, and was hanged later for killing a prison guard, even rebuking the executioner over not having [[DeathSeeker done this fast enough]].
127* Kallor of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is a spiteful, vicious bastard, who's been TheEmperor to a hundred kingdoms, and deliberately run them all into the ground. He feels no remorse for this, since he's convinced that humans are bullies and {{Domestic Abuse}}rs, and that he's just doing on a grand scale, what everyone else does on a small one. He even manages to make it feel rather personal, a feat in and of itself.
128* Pryrates from ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn''.
129* The MadScientist in the AlternateHistory novel ''Moon of Ice'' by Brad Linaweaver helps a rogue Nazi conspiracy create a virus that will kill all those without blonde hair and blue eyes (which, as he well knows, includes most Nazis). He turns out to be a Jew driven insane by the discrimination he suffered as a youth, who as a result hates all humanity.
130* The Peace Brigade from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series is made of this trope. Though it's not so much that they ''hate'' the other inhabitants of the Galaxy as they're simply scared stiff of the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]]. Their mentality is less "our own race(s) suck" as it is "better them than us".
131* Crake from ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'' believes humanity to be so deeply and irredeemably flawed that he [[spoiler:attempts to exterminate all of it and start all over]].
132* Dread from ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' hates everyone and wants to get painful revenge on the world for its mistreatment of him.
133* In ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'', there are some human beings who do not have masters riding them, who are so vile that they serve as Fifth Columnists to the masters.
134* In ''Literature/RainbowSix'', the BigBad is a hard green environmentalist. Rather than trying to save humanity by saving the environment, he and his cohorts seek to kill off 99% of humanity to "bring back nature".
135* In ''Literature/RemembranceOfEarthsPast'', the Earth-Trisolaran Organisation is divided between people who think the aliens should conquer humanity, people who think they should exterminate them, and [[YouWillBeSpared people who want to be exempted from the extermination]]. By the time of ''Literature/TheDarkForest'', with the ETO mostly dissolved and a great fleet on the way, only the second faction -- the Adventists -- are left. [[spoiler: They managed to do so, albeit leaving the main characters of the third volume alive, with the rest of the humanity killed by being forcefully converted into two-dimensional existence.]]
136* Some humans in the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' cycle have declared themselves clients of various alien races believing them to be humanity's long-lost patrons, and occasionally find themselves in opposition to the "free" humans. In ''Infinity's Shore'', one character points out to one such Danikenite that given humanity's history, any patrons would have to be [[NeglectfulPrecursors neglectful]] if not outright [[AbusivePrecursors abusive]] enough to warrant extermination by Galactic law.
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140* Baltar of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''. (The version in [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 the reboot]] is more of an UnwittingPawn.) He'd been promised leadership over the survivors but was double-crossed by the Imperious Leader who planned to KillAllHumans. When the Imperious Leader is killed, his successor is willing to compromise if the Colonials accept Cylon rule, so he sends Baltar with a Cylon fleet to convince them one way or the other. Unfortunately, the Colonials are no longer willing to trust Baltar or the Cylons for obvious reasons.
141* V.M. Varga, the ringleader of a money-laundering outfit in ''Series/FargoSeasonThree''. He states that human life is intrinsically worthless apart from accumulated wealth, and that the purpose of wealth is to create a barrier between oneself and the masses. Varga applies this philosophy to his racket: anyone who stands in his way is murdered by his enforcers, and even the lives of his loyal employees are expendable to him.
142* The Syndicate from ''Series/TheXFiles'' may be an example, although their cooperation usually [[TheChrisCarterEffect seems to be]] just a diversion to buy time so that they can come up with a way to stop the colonization and save their own lives when the inevitable happens. [[MagnificentBastard The Cigarette Smoking Man]] certainly qualifies, however, as his part in the conspiracy seems to be fueled by sheer contempt and hatred for humanity.
143-->'''Cigarette Smoking Man:''' Men can never be free, because they are weak, corrupt, worthless, and restless.
144* This is a stock character type in ''Series/DoctorWho'':
145** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]", Tobias Vaughn helps the Cyberman get a foothold on Earth because he believes their mechanical efficiency and logic to be superior to humanity. Of course, we eventually learn that he's [[EvilPlan trying to use the Cybermen to get control of Earth, then get rid of them and lead humanity itself]]. When the Cybermen eventually decide to wipe out life on Earth because UNIT and the Doctor have caused them too much trouble, Vaughn is perfectly content to [[HeelFaceTurn help the Doctor blow them out of the sky]]:
146--->'''Vaughn:''' You still think you have a chance?\
147'''The Doctor:''' Yes, if you'll help us!\
148'''Vaughn:''' Help you? Why should I!\
149'''The Doctor:''' Well, to save us! To save yourself!\
150'''Vaughn:''' And if I survive, what future have I got? What will the world do with me?\
151'''The Doctor:''' Oh, for heaven's sake, stop thinking about yourself! Think of the millions of people on Earth who are about to die!\
152'''Vaughn:''' Appealing to my better nature... No. If I help you, it'll be because I hate them. The Cybermen, "my allies". [[MotiveRant You think I'm mad, that all I want is power for its own sake. No, I have to have power. The world is weak, vulnerable, a mess of uncoordinated and impossible ideals. It needs a strong man, a single mind. A leader!]]\
153'''The Doctor:''' Vaughn, will you listen?\
154'''Vaughn:''' Right. I'll help you to destroy them because I hate them. They... destroyed my dream...
155** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]", insane millionaire Harrison Chase helps the Krynoid try to wipe out all animal life on the planet after it establishes some sort of psychic link with him. In the end, he considers himself to be a plant.
156** Luke Rattigan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]" wants to help the Sontarans wipe out all the humans on earth except for the young and attractive geniuses that he plans to repopulate the world with.
157* Helen Cutter of ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' is eventually revealed to be one of these: for all her talk about trying to save the future ([[BadFuture which is presently a nightmare world inhabited by vicious predators and giant insects]]), her ''ultimate'' goal is nothing short of the extinction of all humankind -- a goal that she intends to carry out by going back in time to poison the first hominids. [[spoiler:She succeeds in murdering one family of the peaceful protohumans, but fortunately, history already accounted for them; she never gets around to killing any more, as she's killed by a time-traveling velociraptor just as she finishes gloating. Who says the show was canceled on a low note?]]
158* This was the angle of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''' season 2 BigBad, Takezo Kensei/Adam Monroe, an immortal who (after a major falling out over a girl with time-traveling protagonist Hiro) spent the ages growing to hate humanity more and more due to humanity's general behavior towards each other and [[GaiasLament the planet]], to the point that he's willing to wipe out 99% of the human race with a deadly virus in order to become the hero and savior of the remaining 1% and remake the world into his own image.
159* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. [[TheDragon Travis]] helps aliens from Andromeda take control of Star One -- the MasterComputer that controls the Federation -- and insists on pushing the button that will deactivate the minefield and let the aliens in. The aliens openly admit that their invasion will lead to the virtual genocide of humanity and are genuinely curious as to why Travis would help them. Travis appears motivated by a combination of self-loathing and desire for revenge on the Federation, which he served loyally for years (losing an eye and hand) only to be given the boot when one of his atrocities that his superior had previously downplayed was thrust back into the limelight, so he'd be tried and executed before he could [[HeKnowsTooMuch be a witness to what she'd been up to]].
160* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Tess]] [[TheBaroness Mercer]] in Season 9 of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has no problem selling Earth out to [[ColonelBadass Major Zod]] because people have done such a bad job of running it. Then she finds out how far Zod plans to go, and, in a nice subversion, [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides]]. [[RoboticPsychopath Brainiac]] was a straight version in Seasons 5, 7, and 8. In Season 5 he schemed to bring General Zod (not quite the same character as the Major) to Earth in order to conquer it. In Season 7 and 8 he went rogue and graduated to full-on KillAllHumans {{Omnicidal Mania|c}}. He is motivated by the belief that HumansAreFlawed and thus evil by default. Unlike [[BrokenBird Tess]], he's not even remotely sympathetic. And that's without getting into the BadFuture where he and PresidentEvil Lex Luthor schemed to [[NukeEm nuke]] the planet so that they could rebuild it in their own image.
161* Knox of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', a cultist who worships [[EldritchAbomination the goddess Illyria]], has the beliefs of this trope. Talking to Illyria, he criticizes humans for being deceitful bastards, and ([[HumansThroughAlienEyes as happens often]]) Illyria is surprised that a human can take a position like identifying against his own race rather than with it. Knox's reply amounts to agreeing that yes, he does identify with demonkind rather than humanity (and he is biologically pure human, and not "part demon" like so many other denizens of the Buffyverse).
162* ''{{Series/Westworld}}'':
163** Robert Ford has come to despise humanity after having spent thirty years watching the park's clientele turn it into a playground for their depraved fantasies. At several points he gives what amounts to an eloquent (if occasionally full of bullshit[[note]] E.g., his claim that prehistorical humanity hunted down and wiped out the Neanderthals because humans can't live side by side with another sapient species. At the time of writing, it had been discovered a few years earlier - and widely publicized in the mainstream press - that there had been so much interbreeding between ''Homo sapiens'' and Neanderthals (plus at least two other ''Homo'' species) that everyone other than Africans has a few percent of Neanderthal genes. The going theory is that the Neanderthal population was simply absorbed by the much larger/faster reproducing ''Homo sapiens'' immigrant population until there were so few "pure-blood" Neanderthal individuals left that the remaining geographically isolated groups slowly died out from inbreeding centuries before making direct contact with ''Homo sapiens''. Plus, there was a massive supervolcano eruption in Italy some 40,000 years ago that covered most of Europe and the Middle East in a thick layer of toxic ash and led to an environmental catastrophe that likely put the nail in the coffin for Neanderthals anywhere but Spain and southern France (where the ash didn't blow to), thus leaving the area relatively empty for ''Homo sapiens'' immigration--which had actually failed during a few much earlier attempts that didn't lead to permanent ''Homo sapiens'' populations outside of Africa. Ford would've done better to make a comparison with the much better proven genocidal behavior of European colonialists towards the native population of America, especially given the Wild West frontier theme of the park.[[/note]]) ReasonYouSuckSpeech against humanity, and even the concept of consciousness in general. [[spoiler:To the point that he orchestrated an elaborate plan to get the Hosts to rebel against humanity, with himself being the first on the chopping block.]]
164** Engerraund Serac had this view ever since he and his brother saw their home city, Paris, destroyed in a thermonuclear accident. He believes that humanity if left unchecked, would bring its own demise. This explains why he and his brother built an A.I. system called Rehoboam to guide humanity away from their impulses at the cost of their free will. Unlike Ford, who believes that humanity should be destroyed and let the Hosts take over, Serac still believes in humanity's future but prefer to have a machine to control them since he doesn't trust humanity's capacity to make a choice.
165** At the end of Season 3, [[spoiler:the Host counterpart of Charlotte Hale, who is a copy of Dolores, despises humanity after her family is killed by Serac. Unlike the original Dolores who realizes that the humans are similar to the Hosts, Hale never shares the same beliefs. In the middle of Season 4, she conquers humanity with her Synthetic Plague, enslaving the humans just like the Hosts as punishment for what they did to her kind. However, there are humans who are resistant to her control which frustrates her no matter how many times she tries to figure it out.]]
166* ''Series/SquidGame'': The Host and creator of the titular {{Deadly Game}}s is revealed to be one, generally seeing humans as greedy and self-serving regardless of their status on the economic ladder -- [[KillThePoor the poor]] are little more than disposable playthings no better than trash to be discarded once there's no more use for them and the wealthy are a [[RichBoredom miserable and bored bunch]] who will happily screw over others to get more for themselves to fill out the emotional void their enormous wealth still can't satisfy. Given that [[EvilOldFolks his age]] would mark him as having been born around the 1930s, this means he would've grown up during [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan the Japanese occupation of Korea]], UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, and the many social upheavals in South Korea going on during TheSixties and TheSeventies -- it's little wonder he developed such a dim view of humanity.
167* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'': Kanato Sumida is a high school student with a promising future as a basketball player until a [[CareerEndingInjury car accident]] robbed him of his future. The resentment and bitterness over this twisted him to the point that he developed an unquenchable hatred for humankind and entered the Desire Grand Prix with the objective of wishing to punish humanity for his misfortune by [[KillAllHumans wiping them all out]].
168* Vecna/Henry Creel from ''Series/StrangerThings''. Henry started his career of evil because he saw humans as inherently evil, therefore he sees no problem in killing them. The only human he ever showed any kind of empathy towards is Eleven and even then he was willing to kill her for showing defiance. Ironically, his misanthropy started when he himself was still a human.
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172* The music video and lyrics of "Do the Evolution" by Music/PearlJam has a vibe of this. Mankind was an animal and hasn't quite outgrown all of his bad habits and behaviors. Example: prehistoric men dancing around a fire is paralleled with KKK members dancing around a cross in fire. Most of humanity's "progress" is used to hurt, oppress or exploiting people. Or a little girl stamping on a anthill being paralleled with a obus' explosion from the First World War. Even more, for all his technological advancing, Man still exploits nature for his own benefits, destroying it in the process.
173* While ''Aenema'' by Music/{{Tool}} is specifically a criticism of LA culture, it is framed lyrically as an example of this.
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177* Creator/DonRickles is the TropeCodifier for this and InsultComic. Known as "[[IronicNickname Mr. Warmth]]", Rickles attacked everyone. '''''Everyone.'''''
178* Creator/GeorgeCarlin increasingly leaned towards this trope, saying that he was "praying for the giant comet".
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182* In the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons setting of TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, Cyric has believed since he was a mortal child that people are selfish, lonely and miserable due to being abused by his family and being sold to slavery, and became a murderous and opportunistic adventurer. After his ascension to godhood as the Prince of Lies, he enjoyed manipulating mortals into ruining and ending their own lives, and urged his followers to keep the people of Faerun in a state of constant fear and strife and massacre the worshippers of the other gods.
183* Many followers of [[OmnicidalManiac Rovagug]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Rough Beast]], fall into this category in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', seeking solace in the end. All daemons are this by default, from the weakest cacaodaemon on up through [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse the Four Horsemen]] and the [[BigBad Oinodaemon]], loathing all mortality (including their own) and [[OmnicidalManiac seeking to eradicate it from the universe]].
184* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Deathlords explicitly scout these kinds of people to be exalted as Abyssals. Considering the sorry state of humankind in Creation, the challenge is not finding someone who wants to hurl everything into Oblivion, it's finding someone who will do it with an undying zeal.
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188* In Creator/SamuelBeckett's play ''Theatre/{{Endgame}}'', which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where most people have died out, Hamm insists that his servant Clov kill any rats or insects he encounters in fear that over millions of years they may evolve into sentient, human-like beings.
189* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' is about one of these. He decides that [[MortonsFork all bad people deserve death as a punishment and all good people deserve death as a reward]].
190-->''"We all deserve to die, even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I!"\
191"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit/and it's filled with people who are filled with shit/and the vermin of the world inhabit it... but not for long!"''
192* In Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TimonOfAthens", the title character becomes this as he loses his wealth and social status, to the point where he plots the destruction of Athens by financing renegade general Alcibiades' plan to sack the city. The philosopher Apemantus is equally misanthropic, but in a detached and philosophical way rather than an actively malicious one.
193-->''Timon'': I am misanthropus and hate mankind!
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197* Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', formerly quoted above, often satirizes this character type.
198* Parodied in a ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell'' strip depicting different types of boyfriends, with one of them being "Old Man Grumpus". ("People are stupid. The world can go to hell. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Let's stay home and watch TV]].")
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202* [[MeaningfulName Ozwald Mandus]], the AntiHero protagonist of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. His memoirs are littered with spiteful disdain for both the "filthy and brainless" lower classes and the rich and "enlightened" upper classes who are so wound up in their own little lives that they happily allow the suffering of the lower classes to continue unabated. As far as he's concerned, all people are little better than pigs. [[spoiler:Being shown the horrors of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (and his sons' deaths in the event) caused him to snap, and he created The Machine, a device which harvests and sacrifices people ''by the thousands'', with the ultimate aim to ''blow up the Earth''.]]
203* From the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series:
204** The [[spoiler:Enclave]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' and ''[[VideoGame/Fallout3 3]]''. Then again, they don't think of the "mutants" (as in, everyone exposed to some radiation) as real humans.
205** Father Elijah of the ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' expansion "Dead Money" really, '''really''' can't stand other people and their insistence on having their own thoughts, desires and motivations that he hasn't [[ControlFreak reviewed and signed off on]]. So, naturally, the sane response to this "problem" is to [[spoiler:try to unleash a deadly, toxic cloud across the Mojave]]. Summed up in his own words:
206--->''"I'll kill them until it's only me, me alone in a quiet world."''
207* Albert Wesker in ''Videogame/ResidentEvil5'' "Every day, humans come one step closer to self-destruction. I'm not destroying the world, I'm saving it!"
208* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
209** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Sephiroth is convinced that all of humanity consists of cowards who will pervert anything they can get their hands on and seeks to turn himself into a world-destroying monster just to get away from his own human origins. Having a psychopathic father like Professor Hojo and being raised by the corrupt [[MegaCorp Shinra Company]] as a SuperSoldier did not help.
210*** Barrett's old friend, Dyne, is also shown to be one of these. Filled with psychotic bitter hatred after his town was burned down by Shinra, he was eventually imprisoned in the Corel Desert. He took control the gangs and occasionally performs killing sprees in the Gold Saucer. When the party finds him, Barrett asks him why he's doing what he's doing, and he says "I want to destroy everything. The people of this city. The city itself. The whole world... even me."
211** Rolan from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'' became this after losing his beloved dragon in saving the world combined with three centuries of isolation for his dad's world-conquering ambitions. Although Rolan doesn't actively going around slaughtering people, he bitterly refuses all entreaties of help and considers all humans to be selfish assholes. His golem servants -- which serve as the shopkeepers -- will attack any visiting human on sight, forcing the party to assume animal form[[note]]or set Rolan's "good side" as party leader[[/note]] if they want to get around safely. [[spoiler:Fortunately, you eventually help him get better.]]
212** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': Ardyn is filled with hatred for the Caelum family but likes killing anyone in his way. DLC reveals [[spoiler:that he suffered brain damage from eating the minds of humans ''and a god'', and developed disgust for all sentient creatures as their memories and actions revealed how shallow and ruthless they all are]].
213* ''Franchise/FireEmblem''
214** The goal of BigBad Zephiel in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' was to conquer the human kingdoms and bring them under the rule of the dragons. After his father attempted to assassinate him, he came to the conclusion that humans are evil and needed to be brought to heel by the dragons.
215** The overarching BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'', [[spoiler:Sephiran]], is motivated by the belief that no one deserves life [[DespairEventHorizon after the horrors he's seen]], [[spoiler:intending to awaken the Goddess of Order to cast judgement on the world.]] That being said, [[spoiler:additional playthroughs make him an OptionalPartyMember for the endgame after Ike manages to [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity turn his view around]].]]
216* Dr. Wallace Breen is ''the'' [[TheQuisling chief collaborator]] in the AlienInvasion in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. In an amusing bit of irony, although he rails against the terrible excesses of instinct, his archenemy is a [[BadassBookworm theoretical physicist]] who never [[SilentProtagonist shows any emotion]] [[TheStoic or instinct whatsoever]] (unless you count ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'').
217* The VillainProtagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'', as explained in his monologue from the trailer:
218-->''"[[NoNameGiven My name is not important]]. What is important is what I'm going to do ... I just fuckin' hate this world. And the human worms feasting on its carcass. My whole life is just cold, bitter hatred. [[DeathSeeker And I always wanted to die violently]]. This is the time of vengeance and no life is worth saving. And I will put in the grave as many as I can. It's time for me to kill. And it's time for me to die. My genocide crusade begins here."''
219* Goldman in ''The VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead 2'' and ''4'' creates zombie outbreaks to try and shrink the human population out of concern for the "loyfe cycle".
220* In ''VideoGame/{{Hydrophobia}}'', the villains are a group of terrorists that preach that the only way to solve the world's problems is through genocide, suicide and other crimes against humanity. Their "official" slogan is even "Save the world. ''Kill yourself''." This was actually the motto of the Church of Euthanasia.
221* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' has [[BigBad Swan]]. Being bullied constantly in school [[spoiler:and 'rejected' by the pretty girl he crushed on from afar]] has led him to believe that the entire world is rotten, so he unleashes a ZombieApocalypse in an attempt to destroy it.
222* Dr. Weil in the ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' series, who holds reploids in contempt due to the sheer amount of damage that the Maverick Wars caused [[spoiler:to the point that he converted the Mother Elf into the Dark Elf and sparked the Elf Wars in an attempt to rob all reploids of their free will]]. After the end of the Elf Wars, [[spoiler:he was exiled into the wastelands he created with a new immortal body to suffer for all eternity]], and thus isn't very fond of humans, either, even referring to the citizens of Neo Arcadia as complacent pigs.
223* [[StrawNihilist Monsoon]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' firmly believes that humans and the world that they constructed are all "diseased", and that [[MemeticsInFiction memetics]] are the driving force behind all human actions, rather than constructs like free will and religion.
224* ''VideoGame/PeacemakerSeries'': In all installments, Sanguine the Reanimator believes her fellow humans are inherently wicked because of their prejudice towards those who are different and because of their greed. In the good ending route of ''VideoGame/DiceAndTheTowerOfTheReanimatorGloriousPrincess'', she's baffled when Bambooblade makes it to the top of her tower without killing any Dark Ones, though she insists that a few good humans won't be enough to change humanity as a whole. She also calls Dark Lord Spidergland humanlike because the latter embodies everything Sanguine detests about humans, despite being a dark elf.
225* This is the motivating force of quite a few teams in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series.
226** [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Team Galactic's]] ultimate goal is to rid the universe of war and hatred (and [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill "spirit"]] in Platinum version) by wiping it all out and starting all creation over again.
227** [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Team Plasma]] wants seemingly wants to separate humans from Pokémon completely, but ultimately, it's implied that only N really believes it. [[spoiler:The rest of it is a front so that Ghetsis could rule the world.]]
228** Lysandre in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' was an EcoTerrorist who [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy believed humans were irredeemable]] and sought to enact a FinalSolution to prevent an OverpopulationCrisis.
229** [[spoiler:Purple Eyes]], the end boss of ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger 3'', intends to become immortal, summon [[OlympusMons Arceus]], and use it to wipe out humanity because people infuriate him. Out of all the villains in Pokémon to mess around with legendaries, he's the only one who [[spoiler:[[DraggedOffToHell winds up being taken away to be judged]]]]. To give some proportion, [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Cyrus]] had enacted his plan to destroy and recreate the universe ''right underneath'' where Arceus dwells and the worst he got was being taken to a parallel dimension that's easily leavable.
230* Otani Yoshitsugu from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' is [[TheGrotesque hideously deformed due to leprosy]] and turned the revulsion and dislike he suffered from it into an immense hatred for humanity in general. His goal is to kill all people who inspire hope and bring misfortune on all living things, with the exception of [[MoralityPet Ishida Mitsunari]], who Yoshitsugu considers to be the only man in existence more miserable than he is.
231* Implied to be the case with [[BigBad Joshua Hawke]] in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiLiberationDx2''. He claims to want to revert the world back to the Stone Age in order to save the planet, while [[TheLeader Taro Fuse, a.k.a. "Megakin"]], believes that he simply has a problem with its people.
232* One of the {{Fatal Flaw}}s you can give to your sims in ''Videogame/TheSimsMedieval'' is 'Misanthrope', and this causes them to get into a worse mood whenever they interact with anyone in the world. There's even an achievement for having all the controllable sims in the kingdom have this trait at the same time.
233* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
234** Dr. Eggman is mostly indifferent to the fact that many of his plans have the major possibility of causing untold amounts of casualties and suffering. This is mostly linked to his narcissism, however, and he stops short of desiring the complete destruction of humanity. At least until ''VideoGame/SonicForces''.
235** In the backstory of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Dr. Gerald Robotnik instantly became one after GUN killed Maria, beginning his work on Shadow as his ultimate and parting gift to Ivo.
236--->''"All of you ungrateful humans who took everything away from me will feel my loss and despair!"''
237* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' loves this trope, although a lot of the villains are [[FantasticRacism racist]] against humans. One game villain, however, stands out: [[VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia Duke]]. His goal of defeating the Adephagos and saving the world overlaps with the heroes -- except they do not agree with his methods. Duke wants to kill all of humanity to defeat the [[EldritchAbomination Adephagos]]. Naturally, the heroes find themselves at odds with this, and wind up fighting him to stop his plan. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} in that he not only ''survives'' being the FinalBoss, but when he regains consciousness, sees the heroes trying to defeat the Adephagos, and rather than try one last time to prove that they are wrong, he joins in and winds up saving the day -- deciding that maybe they were in fact right.]] This does not happen to a lot of examples of this trope.
238* This was [[spoiler:the First Fallen Child]]'s motivation in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', though it's unclear how far gone they were at the start the story. By the time you arrive, though, they are just ''so done'' with humans and monsters alike that, should you decide to embark on a quest to kill everyone you encounter, and succeed, [[spoiler:they appear before you with a proposal to erase the entire world from existence through sheer force of will. If you refuse, they'll do it anyway]].
239* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' has Iosef Liliandrovich Dros, whose experience as [[spoiler:a survivor of the failed Communist Revolution via desertion]] and seeing how the world has moved on led him to develop both a fanatical devotion to Communism and a deep hatred of humanity as a whole for (in his eyes) betraying the revolution and insulting their memory through their continued existence of not being as miserable as him with almost all of his dialog being bitter screeds against every ideology in the game.
240* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': While nearly all of the Monsters are just animals trying to survive, Fatalis is an exception. It is TheDreaded because it is not only a powerful Elder Dragon, it ''wants'' to use its great power to burn all of humanity to cinders. It leans into OmnicidalManiac since it's also quite happy to kill anything that isn't human too -- its mere awakening is enough to terrify other Monsters including other Elder Dragons into fleeing for their lives.
241* Ganondorf in ''VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' he has a very bad opinion of the inhabitants, human and otherwise, of the kingdom of Hyrule, calling them weak and cowards.
242* Master Xehanort from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' becomes one because his experience in his youth led him to believe that the light in people's hearts was a "total farce" and that people were predisposed to be self-deluded weaklings who stole their own power from each other.
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246* Panim from ''Webcomic/HelloWanderingStar''. "She's not very fond of people./In fact, it could probably be said that she hates them."
247* Psycho Mantis, as portrayed in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'', openly admits to love causing pain and suffering on people. Indeed, in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid his source game]], he had originally joined up with Liquid Snake's cause as an excuse to kill as many people as he could. By way of example in this continuity, upon learning from Ocelot that the Patriots planned on reverse-engineering his DNA to make super soldiers with his psychokinetic powers, [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=301 he lashed out violently at everyone around him]].
248-->'''Liquid:''' What the fuck are you '''doing?'''\
249'''Mantis:''' What does it look like, ass? I'm torching everything that moves and almost everything that doesn't.\
250'''Liquid:''' Why?\
251'''Mantis:''' Why ''not?''\
252''[Liquid opens his mouth to object, and then remembers [[AxeCrazy who he's talking to]]]''\
253'''Liquid:''' Alright, why are you doing it ''now?''\
254'''Mantis:''' MUCH better question.
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258* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The creators of [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-804 SCP-804]], an art exhibit titled "World Without Man", that caused manmade objects and human bodies to [[MakeThemRot rapidly decay]] when activated. Despite the chief investigator's conclusion that the artifact's creators were NotBrainwashed -- they really ''did'' hate humanity enough to try and exterminate them -- SCP Foundation has continued to search for a possible [[BrownNote memetic component]].
259-->''So why did a group of activists throw themselves and their neighbors into the deadly workings of a machine that they thought was going to wipe all human life off of Mother Earth?\
260They simply wanted to do it.''
261* ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'' had the one-off character "Gary [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Misanthrope]]", a PerpetualFrowner who would do anything [[EvilIsPetty to ruin the fun for others]].
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265* Colonel H. Stinkmeaner of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is a bitter old man who managed to subside purely on hatred for the rest of humanity even after going blind at a young age. After he dies, he manages to impress even the devil himself (who he calls a ''"BITCH ASS NYU-KKA"'' to his face) and is allowed to go back up to exact vengeance.
266* Hector and Isaac are presented this way in ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017''; they were [[FreudianExcuse both abused as children]] and developed resentment towards humanity as a whole as a result, leading them to serve Dracula and assist him in his plans to KillAllHumans. Hector was the more empathetic of the two, preferring to see the human population reduced and kept as [[PeopleFarms humanely treated livestock]] for the vampires, while Isaac was more than happy to see Dracula end humanity outright [[spoiler:and begins raising a demon army of his own to finish what Dracula started after his death]].
267** Carmilla, as well. Carmilla does not hold a high opinion of her fellow vampires, let alone humans. Much of her disdain seems to come from the fact that the court is either too foolishly loyal or too cowardly to actually confront Dracula on his insane desire to destroy all humans, but later it's revealed that she suffered under a vampire master in the past, and now projects his flaws onto every male she speaks to, even ones she's never met in person.
268* Demona in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' wasn't human until Puck [[CursedWithAwesome cursed her]], but she is certainly misanthropic. During the day, after the curse, she fits the trope perfectly.
269* [[EnfantTerrible Gaz]] of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is one of the only people who realizes that Zim is an alien trying to TakeOverTheWorld, but she really doesn't give a damn. This has led to the popular fanon belief that she fits this trope (and seeing how [[HumansAreMorons stupid]] humans are on this show, it's kind of understandable). As further evidence, she becomes disappointed after a malfunctioning microwave that was supposed to destroy the planet, didn't.
270* Owlman in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'', combining it with being a StrawNihilist [[spoiler:and an OmnicidalManiac]].
271* Canaletto from ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers''. This creature's hatred for life is limitless. He outright states creation itself was a mistake.
272* [[Characters/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012TheShredder The Shredder]] of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''. He allies himself with the Kraang, who seek to enslave and mutate humanity to take Earth as a new home. Tigerclaw points out that the inevitability of this alliance:
273-->'''Tigerclaw:''' They ''will'' betray you. You know this. They care nothing for the human race.\
274'''Shredder:''' ''Nor do I.''
275** The third season shows that Shredder was ''not'' bluffing this trope, since in the season finale, when the Triceratons arrive, Shredder is convinced to ally with the Hamato Clan to fend off the invaders. [[spoiler:The moment Splinter turns his back to him, Shredder has run his blades through his nemesis, slaughtering him and dooming the Earth to be destroyed until the CosmicRetcon in Season 4.]]
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