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12->''"Why should the world exist without me? That wouldn't be fair. If I die, we all die!"''
13-->-- '''Kuja''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''
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15This is a villain who poses a [[SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness credible threat]] to [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat an entire community]], is miserable, and blames it on everyone else. They rationally want to "Put Them All Out of Their Misery".
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17This character is not necessarily an OmnicidalManiac, a nihilist who wants to destroy everything for the sake of destruction, nor a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who was mistreated, snaps, and lashes out on the world. This person is simply trying to cure an ailment, and are willing to go to any length to do it. While Put Them All Out Of My Misery villains are usually at least slightly sympathetic in the sense that at least their motive is understandable, [[SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness they come off as jerks]] for [[ItsAllAboutMe putting their own misery ahead of others' safety]].
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19There might be many reasons this villain believes he must cause trouble for others to heal himself:
20# GoodHurtsEvil, so the villain seeks to destroy good first, in self-defense.
21# The villain desires to alter some aspect of the physical world which they view as harmful to themself, and if others are harmed by the change, it's not their problem.
22# The villain finds some aspect of the heroes' society so fundamentally incompatible with their own beliefs, etc., that they deem it [[ItIsBeyondSaving Beyond Saving]] and [[KnightTemplar declare war]] on all "normal" society.
23# The villain experienced injustice and plans to rid the world of the society that caused it. Almost like UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, but there's no Utopia to replace the destroyed society.
24# The villain [[ICannotSelfTerminate is indestructible, but wants to commit suicide]], believing that they will succeed in suicide if they destroy the whole world or can force a SuicideByCop by someone who can get the job done if they stay on the right side of the MoralEventHorizon, and perhaps also that they are doing the murdered victims a favor by granting them the "gift" of death they are trying to get for themselves. After all, WhoWantsToLiveForever See also SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum which is the game plan for a villain exhibiting this type of the trope.
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26On the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness, this character is often a CardCarryingVillain who is aware of the possible negative consequences of their intended actions but just does not care. Selfish and dispassionate, they may go about their plans for destruction with little more emotion than the heroes might when making a shopping list. Occasionally, the character is closer to a NonMaliciousMonster who doesn't really comprehend that their plans to alter the Earth's climate would cause not just inconvenience for others, but catastrophe.
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28Compare ''and'' contrast WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, which is somewhat of the inverse of this trope yet may also overlap with it in certain cases. Note: Both this trope and that one can fall anywhere on the [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat scale of villain threat]]. It's the scope of the story that defines the threat: They may be up against everyone in the town the story takes place in, or the entire world. Not the same as WellIntentionedExtremist or UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. While the villain may wish to destroy humanity for what they regard as noble or important ends, this fellow is ultimately driven by pure misanthropy and his own misery. The key to this trope is that they [[MotiveRant rationalize]] their actions due to self-pity, or contempt for the setting that they view as harmful.
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30AlasPoorVillain may still apply, despite their [[JerkassWoobie jerkass tendencies]], but only because [[AfterActionVillainAnalysis Explaining the Villain Explains the Conflict]].
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32MotiveRant, CryForTheDevil, and/or StrawmanHasAPoint may apply. If AnIcePerson wishes to freeze the entire planet simply to [[HealThyself heal himself]], FridgeLogic [[{{Pun}} may ensue]]. If hatred of an antagonist is their ''only'' motivation, see BestServedCold.
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34For putting an ''actual wounded character'' "Out Of Its Misery", see MercyKill. Which this character may think they're doing.
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41* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', this is revealed to be the motivation of [[spoiler:Zeke towards the Eldians]]. He sees their heritage as a curse that has doomed them to be miserable and believes the best solution is [[spoiler:using the Founding Titan to sterilize the entire population. "Euthanizing" the entire race ensures the Titans will cease to exist]] and the long-standing hatred of others towards the [[spoiler:Eldians]] will finally end.
42** By the end of the series, this has also become [[spoiler:Eren Yeager's]] motivation. Only rather than [[spoiler:"Euthanizing" the Eldian population, he's decided to carry out the Rumbling to exterminate all of humanity ''except'' the Eldians of Paradis, seeing this as the only way both his people's long suffering and the threats of extermination against them can be ended. He manages to wipe out about 80% of the world population before he's finally stopped, which was just how he intended it.]]
43* Genkaku from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' in reality he wants to save everyone from the burden of living by erasing them. This stems from a very skewed take on Buddhism: he was revealed to have been beaten and raped by a group of bullies who hung around the temple when he was younger; when the Great Tokyo Earthquake happens and these are trapped under the rubble he has an illumination of sorts and decides that it is best not to exist than to live in pain. He proceeds to butcher them all. Complete with a moment of DissonantSerenity as he explains all this while covered in blood.
44* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', due to their abusive upbringing and circumstances behind the siblings' transformation into demons, both of them display this regarding different targets. While Daki hates her colleagues who are more beautiful and successful than her and kills them once they decide to leave or they manage to draw her ire, Gyutaro hates those who had more privileged upbringing than them (read:almost everyone else) and decided to kill them so as to exact revenge upon the world.
45* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''
46** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', the final villain, [[spoiler:Apocalypmon, was formed from the combined essences of every Digimon that inadvertently destroyed itself while trying to [[EvolutionaryLevels "digivolve" to a higher form]]. Somehow surviving in a miserable place outside of normal time and space, it sought to escape in order to make everyone else just as unhappy.]]
47** Black [=WarGreymon=] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' wanted to destroy the Digital World because he thought that was the only way for him to understand his purpose in his artificial life and soothe his pain.
48* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[spoiler:Zeref]] decides on this course of action after observing the world for the last seven years and seeing that it is still a place filled with strife. His own powers making him an EnemyToAllLivingThings and a WalkingWasteland don't help. In his own words, "If the world continues to reject me, then I will reject this world." He's [[SuicideByCop forcing a situation]] where his enemies will be forced to kill him or be killed. [[DeathSeeker Either]] [[OmnicidalManiac outcome]] is fine by him.
49* The motives of [[spoiler:King Joseph of Gallia]] in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' can be explained as such. For a long time, he was overshadowed by his immensely talented brother and was intensely jealous of him. He thought he would feel better if he got his brother out of his way, but it did not work and he ended up becoming devoid of any feelings. And then he thought perhaps destroying the world would fill the void in his heart...
50* Kadaj from ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' wants to absorb all the people infected by geostigma into the Lifestream [[spoiler:to join his "mother", Jenova. While he is a Remnant of Sephiroth, his amnesia made it appear that he sees that the end of all life on the planet as a GOOD thing]].
51* [[spoiler:Ashtaroth]] in ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami''. He can't bear the fact that [[spoiler: as a demon, he'll be despised by the mortal world more often than not just for that, even though demons [[DarkIsNotEvil are not innately evil,]] but [[OrderVersusChaos innately chaotic and exist precisely to keep the Chaos side of the cosmic balance vibrant]]. So he sets up a scheme that [[XanatosGambit can end in two ways, equally viable to him]]--either he gets to be [[GodhoodSeeker the sole god of a rewritten creation]], or [[SuicideByCop he forces God and Satan to obliterate him]].]]
52* The King of the Night in ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'' just wants to die but Eucliwood won't let him so by God he will kill every last person on Earth if he has to convince her to finally kill him.
53* From ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'': Dark Zero [[spoiler: who is really "Rei", the older brother of the real Zero]] wants to wipe out humanity because of the numerous sins he's seen them commit, and experienced on his own. Considering what his [[DarkAndTroubledPast childhood]] was like, this is hardly surprising.
54* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' [[spoiler:has [[BigBad Rau Le Creuset]], a [[CloneAngst defective clone]] of the vain and self-centered [[AGodAmI Al Da Flaga]]. Created to be Al's successor, Rau was intended to carry on his genetic father's legacy due to Al disowning his own wife and son. But when Al attempted to discard Rau due to having a genetic defect -- shortened telomeres on his chromosomes which indicated Rau's finite, shortened lifespan -- Rau killed the man he was cloned after, setting fire to Al's mansion so that he would burn to death. Rau's experiences of {{Dehumanization}} at the hands of Al, and his dying, decaying body forged Rau's StrawNihilist beliefs, until they -- coupled with his experiences of the increasing conflict between Naturals and Coordinators -- convinced him that HumansAreBastards and as a whole never change from their hateful ways. This led him to become an OmnicidalManiac, [[PlayingBothSides deciding to escalate the war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT]] until [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt humanity exterminated itself]] in the conflict. Being a DeathSeeker himself, Rau hoped to die [[TakingYouWithMe on the terms that humanity be rendered extinct as well]].]]
55* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': When Sasuke discovers his clan was killed to prevent them from staging a coup against the Leaf Village, he decides they can only be properly avenged by killing not just those responsible, but also everyone who benefited from their deaths (which is to say the entire Leaf Village).
56* PlayedWith for the ''[[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne protagonist]]'' in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': ''The End of Evangelion''. After [[EmotionlessGirl Rei Ayanami]] hijacks the apocalypse from [[MagnificentBastard Gendo]] and [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]], she decides to leave it up to Shinji Ikari whether or not to implement TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Shinji, having just crossed his DespairEventHorizon [[TraumaCongaLine many]] [[FreakOut times]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation over]], seriously considers doing this. [[spoiler: He doesn't go through with it. [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe]].]] Even so, the following quote borders terrifyingly close to playing this trope straight:
57-->'''Shinji Ikari''': "Nobody wants me, so ''[[DespairEventHorizon they can all just die]]''."
58* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
59** One of Enel's priests wants to stop suffering in the world and stop the fighting. How? By killing everyone.
60** After Trafalgar Law became the SoleSurvivor of Flevance, which [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure had its population annihilated due to the misinformed belief that Amber Lead Syndrome was contagious]], [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu he coerced Doflamingo to let him join his crew]] so that he could destroy "as many people, houses and cities as possible" before he died in the three years he had left to live.
61* ''VisualNovel/OokamiKakushi'' gives us [[spoiler: Sakaki, whose motivation stems from Type 4: His fiancee was murdered, and he received no cooperation from the authorities to find and punish the murderer--Nemuru Kushinada, who had to carry out the old laws on dealing with Kamibito who lost their self-control.]] This caused him to develop a grudge against the entire city of Jougamachi, and he ultimately [[spoiler: attempts to flood the village at the end of the anime.]]
62** It happens under slightly different circumstances in the Visual Novel: Up to that point, he was just [[spoiler: investigating the truth behind his fiancee's death.]] But what finally pushed him to it was [[spoiler: learning that Kaori, the woman whom he had fallen in love with, had been taken away to become a "White Wolf Kannon", which he interpreted as a human sacrifice. Convinced that it was Jougamachi's laws that had taken away the women he loved, he planted bombs to blow up the dam and wipe away the city for good.]]
63* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica,'' all of the [[EldritchAbomination Witches]] embody a kind of despair ([[spoiler:[[WasOnceAMan related to their human lives]]]]) and force it onto people, [[DrivenToSuicide usually driving them to suicide]]. However [[FinalBoss Walpurgisnacht]], who has a motif of theater and shows, attacks whole cities directly; [[AllThereInTheManual according to extra materials]], she desires to destroy all life in order to make the world into one giant "stage."
64-->'''Episode 10's Production Notes:''' ''If everything is a play, no unhappy things will exist. It may be a tragedy, but it'll all be part of the script.''
65** This may extend to other Witches too. [[LivingShadow Elsa Maria]]'s [[EldritchLocation Labyrinth]] has Catholic iconography, and her official description says that "she continually prays for all of creation and drags all life equally into her shadow." There's also the [[BadFuture potentially]] most powerful Witch of all, [[ApocalypseHow Kriemhild Gretchen]] (aka [[spoiler:[[AllLovingHero Madoka]] herself]]), who wants to draw all of humanity into her own personal "heaven" and can only be defeated by [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil eliminating all pain from the world]].
66* Rokudo Mukuro from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' wants to cleanse the world of mafia (and then everything else) in blood due to his ''tragic backstory''. Also because he hates humanity. Either way.
67* ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' gives us Motoko Maeda, who reacts to the death of her children at the hands of the vampires by [[spoiler:''burning down the entire village,'' just to get revenge on her father-in-law, whom she blames. She also ''sells out the vampire mother of her best friend'' to the vampire-hunters, despite the fact that said best friend's mother had never attacked anyone and never would because she's angry that nobody in ''her'' family came back to her!]]
68* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', anime Legato Bluesummers just hates humanity, including himself, and is loyal to [[BigBad Knives]], therefore genocide. The manga version has a back story: child sex slave, whose response to discovering his psychic powers was to attempt to kill everyone he had ever met, instead of just his immediate tormentors. The delay this involved allowed them to figure him out and start raping him to death. Then Knives killed the building and everything in it. Except Legato.
69** First time was an accident. Second time, after the kid pledged his loyalty so touchingly, was on purpose. Legato honestly was better treated by ''Knives'' than by anyone else he'd ever known. Because Knives didn't-kill-him, and asked him his name, and let him follow. Therefore, Legato wants to KillAllHumans.
70* This is [[spoiler:Tougo's]] goal at the end of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'', though she is a hero instead of a villain. [[spoiler:After learning the AwfulTruth about the Earth, she considers it best to kill everyone instead of letting more girls suffer by becoming {{Magical Girl}}s and holding off the inevitable demise of the planet.]] On a more personal note, she especially wants to stop [[spoiler:herself and her friends from becoming vegetables]].
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74* Mr. Freeze from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' is a villain whose body has been altered in such a way he must be refrigerated to stay alive. Naturally, he would like to change Gotham's weather so he can walk around safely without all his life support gear (Type 2) but in many versions of the story, he also is angry over the fate of his wife (Type 4).
75* [[spoiler:Superboy of Earth-Prime, Superman of Earth-2, and Alexander Luthor of Earth-3]] in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' - especially the first one.
76* In ''ComicBook/HeroSquared'', Captain Valor hurt his girlfriend, so she became a supervillain and destroyed the ''entire universe''. He managed to escape to another universe and found his non-superpowered equivalent; she followed. Caliginous has decided that life is nothing but pain, misery, cruelty, and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible.
77** Her arch-nemesis [[TheCape Captain Valor]] just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self Milo manages to recognize that beneath it all she's a broken, lonely, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds psychologically tormented and suffering woman]].
78* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': During the Imposters Saga, Surge and Kit discover that rather than having volunteered to work for [[BigBadWannabe Dr. Starline]] as they'd [[FalseMemories believed]], they'd been chosen at random by him to act as the key components in his master plan against Eggman and Sonic. This causes Surge to [[FreakOut snap]], and she decides to wipe out all the heroes and villains alike to "punish" them for, in her view, perpetuating the cycle of good vs evil that Starline was so obsessed with taking control of that he was driven to experiment on the two of them.
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82* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] forced to wait for the bus in the rain against his wishes to go to school he has no desire to attend once expressed a similar sentiment:
83-->'''Calvin:''' ''(angrily)'' I'm sick of everyone telling me what to do all the time! I hate my life! I hate everything! I wish I was ''dead!'' ''(taken aback by what he said)'' ...Well, no, not really. ''(angrily again)'' I wish everyone ''else'' was dead.
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87* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': In this ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction, San's backstory reveals that [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah Ghidorah]] ''used'' to be this [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil during its slip into evil]], before it became the OmnicidalManiac. At first, Ghidorah inflicted mass destruction again and again because it was desperate to make [[TerribleTicking the Old Noise]] stop screaming in its heads ("'''Kill Them All'''"), and it's implied that Ghidorah likely wiped out entire species and worlds that were in no way culpable in Ghidorah's predicament to that end.
88* ''Fanfic/BesidesTheWillOfEvil'': Reiziger's ultimate goal is to force a complete CessationOfExistence upon the whole universe, himself included.
89-->'''Nordeshang:''' Yes, the Herd Lord's true darkness is that, in his hunger, he wishes for nonbeing. He desires death, and not even the death that brings new life in the next world- he desires ultimate nonexistence, which is the only true, real evil. He only values things insofar as he can wipe them out. And yet, if he wiped out everything else in the universe, he would still exist, so there would still be some being, and so there would still be good. So even the Herd Lord, for all his power, could never wipe away life and goodness.
90* ''Fanfic/CatraAndGlimmerQueensOfTheHorde'': When he believes that Entrapta has been killed, Hordak decides that he's going to destroy the world [[spoiler:rather than letting Horde Prime have it]].
91* ''Fanfic/ConfrontationAck1308'': After [[spoiler:Skidmark]] dies, Squealer wants all of Brockton Bay to ''burn'', starting with the ones who killed them before going on to eliminate every cape in the city.
92* ''Fanfic/DaringDoAndTheJourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'': After his scheme to conquer the world is foiled, David decides to destroy the planet instead, ranting that "If I can't have it, no one can!"
93* In ''Fanfic/{{The Games We Play|TheGamerRWBY}}'', this is revealed to be [[spoiler:why Malkuth turned evil. Feeling the combined negative emotions of mankind causes him physical pain. After centuries of futile attempts to fix the problem, he's decided that the best way to deal with the problem is to wipe out mankind.]]
94* In ''Fanfic/NobodysHero'', this is why Ai turned evil and wants to kill all humans. Soulburner bitterly notes while they understand why Ai wants revenge for [[spoiler:Yusaku's death after he was shot by a tank]], they aren't as sympathetic to how he blames everyone and tries to kill them all. [[spoiler:This was revealed to be opposite to [[SuicideByCop Ai's original plan]] since [[ICannotSelfTerminate he cannot self-terminate]], but grief and two years of self-isolation is not good for one's mental health.]]
95* This is what Hokuto's plan ultimately boils down to in ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Acts III and IV''. He views all life, human and monster alike, as a plague that needs to be wiped out, and thinks the only way to achieve true peace is by resurrecting [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]] and allowing him to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
96* There always is Mic Microphone's and The Living Tombstone's [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic PMV video]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2a2JYcurt0 September]]".
97-->''I just remembered\
98what happened in September.\
99[[spoiler:[[TheKillerInMe I'm the one who killed them all]],]]\
100[[spoiler: I survived after the fall!]]''
101* ''Fanfic/AStormOfChaosADoctorWhoovesAdventure'': [[spoiler:The Master]] intends to kill everyone in order to escape their own misery -- namely [[spoiler:the constant drumming inside their head]]. And they would have succeeded if not for [[spoiler:Borusa]] pulling a VillainousRescue, given how letting them destroy the universe would have [[EvilVersusOblivion destroyed them as well]].
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105* ''Film/BatmanBegins'': [[KnightTemplar Henri Ducard]] comes across as a case of either type 3 or type 4 (or maybe both) with the type 3 component being evident from his KnightTemplar attitude, and the type 4 component being apparent from his earlier talk (if he means it) about how [[FreudianExcuse his wife was taken from him and he "learned the hard way that there are those in the world without decency, who must be fought without pity."]] The sign of Put Them All Out Of My Misery itself is in his conversation with Bruce Wayne about the prospect of destroying Gotham.
106-->'''Wayne''': You're gonna destroy millions of lives.\
107'''Ducard''': Only a cynical man would call what these people have "lives," Wayne. Crime. Despair. This is not how man was supposed to live. The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome. Loaded trade ships with plague rats. Burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.\
108'''Wayne''': Gotham isn't beyond saving. Give me more time. There are good people here.\
109'''Ducard''': You're defending a city so corrupt, we have infiltrated every level of its infrastructure. When I found you in that jail, you were lost. But I believed in you. I took away your fear, and I showed you a path. You were my greatest student. It should be you standing by my side, saving the world.\
110'''Wayne''': I'll be standing where I belong. Between you and the people of Gotham.\
111'''Ducard''': No one can save Gotham. When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural. Tomorrow the world will watch in horror as its greatest city destroys itself. The movement back to harmony will be unstoppable this time.\
112'''Wayne''': You attacked Gotham before?\
113'''Ducard''': Of course. Over the ages our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham we tried a new one, economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens, such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal. Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself, and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job.
114* In the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'' film, Grendel was made somewhat more sympathetic with the inclusion of a justification for his attacks: somehow the acoustics of the mead hall meant that the revelry within was painfully loud for his sensitive exposed eardrum.
115* Azrael in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', a formerly pacifist angel who was cast into {{Hell}} for refusing to fight in the war between God and Satan, tries to end the universe via a cosmic RealityBreakingParadox to end his suffering.
116** Once Azrael's been defeated, his former UnwittingPawn Bartleby snaps, realizing that God has always favored man above angels like himself and [[RageAgainstTheHeavens striking back]] by attempting to fulfill Azrael's plan. Even his AxCrazy partner Loki turns on him, protesting that this isn't what he wanted. [[spoiler: It doesn't go well for Loki]].
117* Grace in ''Film/{{Dogville}}'' can be interpreted like this (type 4). Or as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Or a ''whole'' lot of other ways.
118* ''Film/{{Glorious}}'': Ghat is trying to get Wes to help him save the universe, but Wes is not just very reluctant to "satisfy" Ghat's physical form, he doesn't think the universe is worth saving because he hates his life and thinks all people are SecretlySelfish. [[spoiler:He tries to summon [[TheOldGods Ghat's father]] to end all reality, although Ghat stops him.]]
119* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Alan Jonah]] is the fourth type. Having fought in some of the world's worst combat arenas for the British Army and [=MI6=] for decades in his backstory (and having [[spoiler:[[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost his daughter]] when she was gruesomely murdered while he was away on duty]] in the {{novelization}}), he believes that [[MisanthropeSupreme humanity are the real monsters above all else]], and seeks to "[[RestartTheWorld level the global playing field]]" by unleashing the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]]. Unlike his partner [[spoiler:Emma Russell]], who genuinely believes the Titans can [[FertileFeet reverse the manmade ecological destruction]] and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans strike a coexistence with humanity]], Jonah doesn't really give a damn about what happens afterward so long as civilization as we know it is gone and there's that many fewer humans in the world, to the point that he's fine with [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] causing mass extinction and potentially wiping out '''all''' life on Earth.
120* Remy (Creator/MichaelRapaport), the AntiVillain of ''Film/HigherLearning'' turns to neo-Nazism not because he is inherently malicious, but because he has come to believe that [[AngryWhiteMan white Aryans are the truly persecuted group in modern America]] -- schemed against by [[GreedyJew Jews]], deprived of jobs by Asians, and bullied by [[ScaryBlackMan gangs of blacks]]. He even comes to hate all non-Nazi Aryans, believing them to be [[CategoryTraitor unwilling to defend their own people]]. [[spoiler: So at a multicultural festival he shoots two people, one of whom is a black girl who dies [[BloodFromTheMouth vomiting up blood]]. He commits suicide soon after, though it is not clear whether that is out of remorse or because of this trope.]]
121* In ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'', Clyde Shelton seeks revenge not only on the man who destroyed his family but on the entire system that failed to adequately punish him. He even goes as far as to describe his murder spree "biblical" (probably in the [[TakingYouWithMe Samson]] kind of way).
122* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
123** In ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', [[spoiler:Sinister Strange]] tried to find an alternate universe where he was happy with [[spoiler:Christine]] but could never find one. After his abuse of the multiverse destroyed his world, [[spoiler:Sinister]] concluded that no version of himself would ever be happy and this would inevitabley lead to them destroying their world, so he might as well just kill them personally.
124--->'''[[spoiler:Sinister Strange]]''': You ever had a dream that you are falling as if pushed off a tall building? That was probably me.
125** Erik “Kilmonger” Stevens/N’Jadaka ultimately boils down to this in ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]''. Most of the film depicts him spouting his anti-white, black supremacist ideals as justification for his murderous ride to try to take the throne of Wakanda, and once he gets in power he declares the start of a race war in which Wakanda will arm the black people around the world with vibranium weapons, ostensibly to help the oppressed blacks overthrow the whites’ systematic racism. However, his argument gets picked apart by how he has no intention of helping other minorities oppressed by whites and how Wakanda is just one country going against the rest of the world that is catching up to their technology. Further showing how he has no regard for even the future of Wakanda is how he [[spoiler:burns the garden of the Heart-Shaped Herb to destroy any chance of future superhuman Black Panthers]]. When T’Challa calls him out on this and points out he’s no better than the white imperialists who took part in the African slave trade, Kilmonger finally snaps and shows his true colors: [[spoiler:he’s still a traumatized, grieving boy who hasn't gotten over the death of his father, and now wants the world to suffer like he has using the country that not only orphaned him, but shunned him all his life.]]
126--->'''T’Challa''': You will destroy the world, Wakanda included!\
127'''N’Jadaka''': (''on the verge of tears'') ''The world took everything away from me!'' Everything I ever loved! But I'ma make sure we're even!
128** Ava Starr/Ghost from ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' is a downplayed version of this, being significantly more sympathetic than most examples, but she's so determined to stop the her terminal phasing-through-objects condition that she's willing to commit any number of violence and destruction to get there. She even contemplated going after Scott Lang's ten year old daughter, but [[MoralityPet Bill Foster]] shuts her down, refusing to continue helping her if she stoops to that level.
129* While 'Dark Alessa' from the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie qualifies as WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, her original, 39-year-old, now soulless body ends the film by [[spoiler:finally getting her revenge on the cult who burned her alive by killing them all, with the exception of her mother, Dahlia.]]
130* Nero the Romulan, from ''Film/StarTrek2009'', REALLY wants Spock to understand his pain...[[spoiler:by destroying his homeworld, as Romulus was destroyed]] in Nero's original timeline. And after Spock, the rest of the Federation is to get the same treatment, [[spoiler:starting with Spock's mother's homeworld, Earth]].
131* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': "We all deserve to die - even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I - For lives of the wicked should be made brief - for the rest of us death will be a relief..."
132* ''Film/{{Tenet}}:'' has this on two levels.
133** The {{Greater Scope Villain}}s [[spoiler:are from the future, and believe that killing ''us'' will save ''them'' by preventing a vaguely-described climate disaster]].
134** The villain [[spoiler:is helping them in exchange for wealth and power. He knows the consequences of their plan, but is SecretlyDying, and does not care what happens after he dies]].
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138* In ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy'', some of the stone eaters like Steel want to crash the moon into the earth because that would be the only way to kill themselves (Type 5), though other stone eaters like Hoa are happy to be alive and would rather fix the world. Steel convinces Nassun to help him in this endeavor, which she agrees to because she has her own grievances with the world (Type 4) and equally wants things to be at peace by ending it all.
139* [[BigBad Lord Foul]] in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' is a type 2. He's a CosmicEntity trapped within physical reality and linear time, and he wants to return to his natural state. Problem is, the Arch of Time is in his way, and to get out, he needs to destroy it. Destroying the Arch would, be extension, destroy the world. Being a GodOfEvil even before his imprisonment, Foul's not too fussed about the whole "destroying the world" part of the plan.
140* In ''Literature/ColdSnap'', the villain is an EvilGenius who has spent most of his life stewing in perceived slights and has concluded that the human race is a failed experiment that should be wiped out, for which purpose he has summoned a prehistoric elemental being to create an eternal ice age. When asked if he expects the Cold to spare him, he says that he fully expects to be wiped out too and doesn't care.
141* Prince Gaynor the Damned of the ''Literature/{{Corum}}'' series by Michael Moorcock. Long ago, he was [[ThePunishment cursed with eternal life]], and he joins the side of some {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who are trying to plunge the world into an eternal winterland where everything will die--hence, he will finally achieve the death he yearns for.
142* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
143** In ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', the Wintersmith wants to win Tiffany's heart by saving people from their constant fear of death... forever.
144** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'' when Vimes sees Sybil Ramkin's room the narration says something about how anyone witnessing it might be filled with a "diffuse compassion and decide that the best thing for everyone would be to wipe out the human race and start over again with amoebas".
145* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/SummerKnight,'' [[spoiler:Aurora, the Lady of the Summer Court]] thinks it would be better to [[ApocalypseHow plunge the world into a new ice age]] than continue the harmful battles between the Faerie Courts.
146** Debatable example: [[spoiler:Aurora claimed to be doing it for the sake of mortal humans who get caught up in the battles, she just failed to consider the consequences of disrupting the cycle of the seasons on earth.]]
147* In ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch wants to remove the holiday from society because he finds the mindless joy, celebration, and materialism annoying (Type 3) and also because the singing hurts his ears (Type 2). In [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the live-action]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheGrinch2018 2018]] versions, it's revealed that it's really a case of Type 4 - in the former, the Grinch subconsciously desires revenge for being ostracized as a child because of his odd appearance, while in the latter, his lonely childhood at the local orphanage was always contrasted by the togetherness of every Who in town but him.
148* In ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'', TheManBehindTheMan is a Type 5 kept alive by a CosmicKeystone.
149* ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' has this in the {{Backstory}}, when the Empress Jadis wiped out all other life on her homeworld so she wouldn't lose the throne, then preserved herself in suspended animation in the hopes that some dimensional travellers would wake her up and provide a way to escape her dying world.
150* One of many stories in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' is about legendary hero Lanre, who decides after the death of his wife that the world isn't worth living in any longer. For anyone.
151* Subverted in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''. [[spoiler:Onimi]], the real BigBad, has a lengthy MotiveRant in which he describes to a captive Jaina Solo how horrible his life has been and how he's going to ''kill every living thing in the galaxy'' so he can ''become a god'', all to get back at the gods he believes in, because he thinks they ruined his life (oh, and he also thinks Jaina is the avatar of one of these gods). The subversion comes because contrary to what [[spoiler:Onimi]] thinks, rather than making him sympathetic, this rant just makes him come off as very, ''very'' [[AxCrazy insane]].
152* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': The true motivation of [[spoiler:Adam the Ogre and the Meta-Gang. He puts on the pretense of looking for a cure, but actually believes his PsychoSerum is incurable, so is trying to infect and kill as many people as possible before dying]].
153* The northern dragon in ''Literature/ThePilgrimsRegress'' by Creator/CSLewis is heard praying for God to destroy all the other creatures in the world so that he won't have to guard his nest.
154* Subverted in the fifth ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novel: a cosmic being is captured by a madman and its attempts to escape will eventually destroy the world. Clothahump assumes this is a grandiose suicide. [[spoiler:It's not; Braglob is just too stupid and crazy to realize what'll happen.]]
155* [[TheDragon Ishamael]] has elements of this- he teamed up with [[BigBad the Dark One]] because he came to the conclusion that the endless repetition of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' made life pointless misery, and he decided to end it by simply breaking the Wheel (which would also have the effect of destroying the universe). [[spoiler: He's also a DeathSeeker, but knows his cosmos runs on reincarnation, meaning that if he wants to kill himself, dragging the rest of reality down with him is the best way to make sure it sticks]].
156** [[spoiler:[[DestructiveSavior The Dragon Reborn]]]] had a moment where he held the [[AmplifierArtifact Chodean Kal access key]] and enough [[GeometricMagic Saidin]] to end the world, and very nearly did.
157* ''Literature/WorldOfPtavvs'' demonstrates this in its most basic form, with the last survivor of a telepathic alien race stranded on Earth and surrounded by humans, their unshielded minds boring into his. In fury, he blasts a powerful command: "STOP THINKING AT ME!" [[EmptyShell Quite a number of people do]], and everyone else in the world is left dazed. This isn't a matter of lack of control, by the way--he views all non-telepaths much the way most humans view cattle, and if they must be sacrificed for his comfort, well, it's not like they're ''people'' like him. And the whole mess is solved by a FingerPokeOfDoom. From one of the cattle.
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161* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Damien Darhk, the BigBad of Season 4, aims to destroy the world in nuclear holocaust while using the magical power created from the death of billions to reshape the world in his image. When his EvilPlan is foiled with his wife dead and daughter missing, he suffers a VillainousBreakdown and decides to let the nuclear holocaust happen anyway.
162* A minor villain in the short-lived ''Series/BirdsOfPrey2002'' had the ability to mimic the abilities of other metahumans. Unfortunately, he was also an anti-meta bigot who had horrifying migraines whenever another metahuman was around. His motivation was thus a combination of Types II and III, in that his physical and emotional pain was caused by the presence of metahumans (to the point that he commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] in the end) and that he considered metas to be an abomination.
163* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
164** Season 5's [[PhysicalGod Glory]], though she's much less sympathetic than the above. Buffy is rather stunned when she learns that Glory just wants the Key to return to her home dimension, which ostensibly would be better for everyone. She's then informed that the process will also open the gateway between ''every'' dimension, quite probably causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Glory just doesn't care.
165-->'''Glory:''' You're just a mortal. You couldn't understand my pain.\
166'''Buffy:''' Then I'll just have to settle for causing it. ''([[CarryABigStick smacks her with a magical war hammer]])''
167** Season 6 gives us [[spoiler:Willow Rosenberg]]. She attempted to destroy the world out of grief in the sixth season finale after her RoaringRampageOfRevenge over [[spoiler:the death of Tara]] ended with a magical overload that briefly attuned her to the thoughts and feelings of everyone else on the planet. Overwhelmed by the world's collective pain, she decided that "your suffering has to end" and turned her newfound power towards bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She was finally stopped by [[ThePowerOfLove The Power of]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship (Platonic) Love]].
168* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' has Kanato Sumida aka. Kamen Rider [=DaPaan=], who is horribly embittered after suffering a CareerEndingInjury, and loathes wealthy, happy people like Neon, to the point that his wish in the Desire Grand Prix is the [[MisanthropeSupreme destruction of all humanity]].
169* The Evil Queen in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' convinces other fairy tale villains (a Blind Witch, an Ogre and an Evil Gnome) to go along with her plans to cast [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the dark curse]] by telling them that it will create a world where they can finally win and get ''their'' [[HappilyEverAfter happy endings.]]
170** In season 6, the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Agrabah]] plotline actually reveals Jafar to be this. He doesn't want to ''rule'' Agrabah; he hates the city so much for how it had treated him in the past that he wants to wipe it off the map. He threatens to destroy Agrabah unless Jasmine marries him... then uses the ring she gives him [[ILied to destroy Agrabah anyway]].
171* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Survivors," a disguised nearly omnipotent being is found on a planet amid the ruins of a devastated colony. It eventually emerges that when the colony, including his human wife, was obliterated by hostile aliens named the Husnock, he annihilated the entire Husnock species with a single thought. He is now living in isolation with an illusory recreation of his wife as self-imposed punishment.
172--> '''Kevin:''' I saw her broken body. I went insane. My hatred exploded, and in an instant of grief I destroyed the Husnock. [...] No, no, no, no. You don't understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill just one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand. I killed them all. All Husnock, everywhere. Are eleven thousand people worth fifty billion? Is the love of a woman worth the destruction of an entire species?
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176* "[[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/soundgarden/blow+up+the+outside+world_20128135.html Blow Up The Outside World]]" by Music/{{Soundgarden}}.
177** Also, the video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU Black Hole Sun]]".
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181* Adam's first wife Myth/{{Lilith}} (referenced in certain non-canonical [[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} Jewish]] sources) was essentially a PsychoPrototype for Eve and got booted from Eden for [[StrawFeminist refusing to be subservient to Adam.]] God decreed that for every day that she was gone, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a hundred of her children]] would die. In retaliation, she is said to [[ChildEater kill and eat human babies.]]
182* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Lamia has a similar setup. Hera killed the children that she had with Zeus, and as a result, she goes around killing any children that she can find. In some versions, she specifically targets pregnant women.
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186* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' features the Neverborn, an example of Type 5. Once, they were Primordials, the creators of the universe, but as they designed it, they didn't believe the cycle of death would ever need to incorporate something as grand as themselves. So when they ended up getting killed, they found they couldn't pass into Lethe, eventually undergoing the cosmic equivalent of sepsis without ever being able to die from it. So they plotted to feed Creation into Oblivion, mainly so it'd stop the pain.
187** A few of their chosen soldiers, the Deathlords, are a mixture of Type 2 and Type 4. The Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils, the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible, and Walker in Darkness all consider themselves priests of Oblivion, dedicated to bringing the peace of nonexistence to a suffering world. The others just want to TakeOverTheWorld to varying degrees.
188* The Daemons of ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' are this without being at all sympathetic. Formed from the souls of particularly evil mortals they despise all life and find their own a torment- but they all want to be the last thing alive in the universe before they kill themselves.
189* This is Meredoth's approach to virtually all other life in ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', leading to things like the time he killed everyone in his small kingdom in a necromancy experiment. [[FreudianExcuse Despite its origins in an abusive childhood]], it's [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse not played particularly sympathetically]]; even overlooking that he's a ''Darklord'', a title that amounts to "person who is so awful the Dark Powers opted to cram them in an IronicHell forever", even Azalin Rex - ''another Darklord'' - [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks Meredoth is an asshole who has no business running a domain]].
190* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Scourged are a Chaos Space Marine chapter whose battle cry is "The lies! The lies!". Before falling, they used to be the Seekers of Truth, a Chapter essentially devoted to the Inquisition's service, particularly the extraction of confessions and the execution of Imperial citizens, mostly innocent. Their Chapter Master would regularly pray that the Emperor would grant them the ability to tell truth from lies, and that prayer was answered... by Tzeentch. Soon the Seekers could not only hear every lie spoken to them, but even those spoken across the entire galaxy. HearingVoices all the time did little to help their sanity (that, and the fact that the basis of the Imperial Creed was written by the traitor Primarch Lorgar...).
191* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' offers this as an explanation for why the Wyrm is trying to corrupt Gaia's creation. Once, it served as a source of endings, a clean conclusion to all things in the world in time. But the Weaver, the embodiment of order and definition, went a little crazy after trying to figure out why the Wyrm kept breaking her stuff and giving the raw materials to the Wyld, the furnace of creation; so, she wrapped it up in her webs, far too tightly. After experiencing the cosmic equivalent of gangrene, the Wyrm is trying to rot creation just enough that it can break free and let the pain stop already.
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195* [[Creator/EugeneONeill Eugene O'Neill's]] ''The Iceman Cometh'' features a rare "realistic" example of this trope. The action takes place in a small bar and boarding house where numerous people drink their days away, all while claiming that they're going to get their acts together and make something of their lives soon. They eagerly await their friend Theodore "Hickey" Hickman to celebrate a party, but when Hickey arrives, he instead repeatedly and even fervently tells them to stop wasting their time and try to achieve their dreams instead. The majority of the characters do so, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption only to fail miserably]] and come back worse than ever. Hickey, though, is delighted by this and reveals that this was his goal all along--to make everyone realize that [[CrapsackWorld the world is horrible]] and [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids there's no]] ''[[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids point]]'' [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids in trying to achieve anything.]] The bar patrons are stunned by his newfound nihilism, and Hickey reveals the truth: [[spoiler:despite his constantly cheating on his wife and drinking heavily, she always forgave him because she couldn't live without him and genuinely believed that he would someday improve. Hickey couldn't bear her faith in him and so ''murdered her'', then deliberately set out to destroy other people's illusions about life to justify his own selfish deeds: by proving that people were better off without their false hopes, he could be forgiven and even celebrated for killing her. [[DownerEnding It doesn't work]]]].
196* In ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'', Sweeney tells Mrs. Lovett that ''everyone deserves to die'' because ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: those who are wicked and should die for their evil, and all other people, who Todd believes are all as miserable as he is and deserve the "mercy" of being put out of their supposed misery.
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200* Belkt, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/AnotherCenturysEpisode 3'', is this due to an immense quadruple-whammy. Not only was he born into a CrapsackWorld where everyone is trying to kill each other with HumongousMecha [[AfterTheEnd after]] barely surviving TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt as well as being considered nothing more than an expendable tool to his superiors in TheFederation, but he's also got a bad case of [[spoiler:CloneAngst coupled with [[FreudianExcuse the fact that he thought his "father" didn't care about him either]]]]. So not only does he decide to wipe out his ''own'' Earth, but also the Earth of an AlternateUniverse [[spoiler:where his "father" was originally from and his "base" (i.e., the boy he was cloned from) is living a somewhat less screwed-up life as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent]] via [[EarthShatteringKaboom smashing them into each other]].
201* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Kerghan]], first of the necromancers]], plans to kill every living thing in existence before allowing himself to die, because [[spoiler:he died once already and discovered that the afterlife is a state of eternal peace, whereas life is pain and misery. He brought himself back from the dead in order to carry out his plan, claiming that people only fear death because they do not know the eternal bliss that lies beyond. Also, because living necromancers can summon the spirits of the dead back from the afterlife, so he himself cannot be certain that his eternal peace will not be disturbed by the living]].
202* 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 [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum come and fight him or allow the world to end]]. It's implied he doesn't care much what happens, at least until you defeat him and he starts praying to the Old Gods for help.
203* The ''entire monster species'' in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' is motivated by this. They're waging a war of galactic extermination against humans, but that's because [[spoiler:the Patterson tech used by humans has been reducing their home dimension to a barren lifeless void. To them, the complete extermination of humanity is the only way to stop the destruction of their own dimension and collapsing the human dimension is the only way to ensure that there will never be another species to repeat their actions]].
204* In ''VideoGame/FableII'', Lord Lucien became obsessed with the power of [[LostTechnology Old Kingdom technology]] after the death of his wife and daughter, which eventually drives him to reconstruct an Old Kingdom device known as The Spire, with ''slave labor'', and use it to ''[[AGodAmI reshape the world to his liking]].'' Oh, and along the way he murders your sister, along with countless others, including [[spoiler:your wife and kids, if you have a family, and [[AndYourLittleDogToo your canine companion]]]].
205* Os-Gabella in ''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'', the jaw-droppingly awesome dark fantasy mod of ''[[VideoGame/{{Civilization}} Civilization IV]]''. She's hoping the destruction of Erebus will finally allow her to escape her pretty sucky everlasting life.
206* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Mr. House really hates the Brotherhood of Steel. He says this trope word-by-word when he orders you to destroy them.
207--> '''Mr. House:''' Your next assignment is to locate and destroy remnants of the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel. The NCR nearly did the job at HELIOS One a few years ago, but there seem to have been survivors, unfortunately. Given the Brotherhood's fanatical views on technology, they can be counted on to oppose my regime. Please - put them out of ''my'' misery.
208* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has a few:
209** Kuja in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', after learning that his lifespan is limited and will soon run out, throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, and decides to destroy the Crystal, the source of all things, to destroy the entire universe. And why? Because he thinks it's unfair that life will go on and people will continue to exist after he's dead.
210** [[spoiler:Seymour]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. His backstory transforms him from an OmnicidalManiac to a WellIntentionedExtremist. He was subject to FantasticRacism due to being born a HalfHumanHybrid, then was ForcedToWatch his mother perform a HeroicSacrifice to save those people while his father nodded approvingly when he was twelve. Is it any wonder that he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From The Revelation]] that the church that encouraged all of this was in fact TheNecrocracy dedicated to [[MedievalStasis keeping things this way forever]]? From that perspective, destroying Spira to put an end to its pain is simply the obvious conclusion of the state religion's position that ''death is peace!'' It's hard to TakeAThirdOption if your entire existence is based on denying such a thing is possible.
211** The [[GreaterScopeVillain Ascians]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have a vested interest in the destruction of Eorzea in the service of their GodOfEvil, Zodiark. While most Ascians are simply OmnicidalManiac[=s=], there are a few whose motivations aren't as simplistic: [[spoiler:As revealed in ''Shadowbringers'', the "unsundered" Ascians -- Lahabrea, Elidibus, and Emet-Selch -- are among the sole survivors of an ancient and "unsundered" world that was home to a race of BenevolentPrecursors whose mastery of magic was so great, it bordered on RealityWarping. Unfortunately, RealityWarpingIsNotAToy, as the ancients learned when they lost control of their powers and inadvertedly created monsters capable of destroying the world. This would lead to the summoning of the primal gods, Zodiark and Hydaelyn, whose battle resulted in the world being "sundered" and creating TheMultiverse. The unsundered Ascians' goal is to rebuild their shattered world...which, unfortunately, entails the destruction of the multiverse to "rejoin" their world, and the deaths of everyone living in it. And all of it, the Sundering, Zodiark and all? As Endwalker revealed, it was in response to Meteion, a creation of one of the Ancients, who has gone haywire and taken Omnicidal Mania to a universal scale: when she and her other sisters sought the meaning of life among the stars, only to find every world they encountered dead, dying, or driven to die by their very presence, she came to the conclusion that to live was to suffer: better to [[MercyKill kill 'em all]] and prevent any more life from ever coming into existence.]]
212* [[GreaterScopeVillain Zero]], the HiveQueen of the [[EldritchAbomination Dark Matter race]] from ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'', is said to be [[EvilCannotComprehendGood unable to feel any sort of positive emotions whatsoever.]] So its endeavors and incarnations over the series are all attempts to annihilate everyone that feels happiness, or at least subject them to the same eternal misery it has to suffer through.
213* ''VideoGame/LaPucelle'': After a lifetime of witch hunts from humans and demons Noir came to the conclusion that [[WorldOfJerkass everyone is a jerk]]. But he's not trying to murder them out of revenge ([[BadBoss having already dealt with those that wronged him]]). [[spoiler:He had an epiphany about the nature of individualism; how there are literally an infinite number of conflicting viewpoints, and everyone has the potential to torture and murder each other over what they believe in. No matter how much brainwashing you stuff into the throats of your minions, they will always see things in a slightly different tint than you, and they will always have a petty motivation for conflict, so instrumentality is tossed out the window]]. He thinks that if he's the only person in all of existence, then suffering ends and he's happy. [[TheMultiverse Unfortunately for him]], [[CurbStompBattle that's not how the Disgaea universe works]].
214* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Mako "Roadhog" Rutledge isn't an apocalyptic threat (despite his "one-man apocalypse" boasting), but his grievance with the world has shades of this trope. Mako has fought and sacrificed for his homeland and seen it deteriorate into a savage wasteland for his trouble, which has led him to conclude that the world is a harsh, cruel, and uncaring place that deserves the kind of turmoil people like [[MadBomber Junkrat]] and himself bring into it.
215** Ramattra mixes this with WellIntentionedExtremeist and a dash of FantasticRacism . After years of watching his felllw Omnics be oppressed and killed, Ramattra has grown cynical and hateful towards humans and deems violent revolution to be the only solution left.
216--> '''Ramattra:''' Suffer as I have suffered!
217* ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures'': The Brahe clan has, over the course of generations, discovered that their world goes through an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth, each time getting [[CrapsackWorld more horrific]]. By destroying the seeds by which it reforms itself, they hope to end the cycle and send everything to oblivion. Tycho Brahe (the most recent one, anyway) has an alternative plan: [[spoiler:[[EndOfTheWorldSpecial to seed its rebirth with a perfectly good individual]] -- his niece, Anne-Claire. Also, the player character of the first two episodes is his backup]].
218* Takaya in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', like Kuja, is doomed to die young and plans to take the rest of the world with him. Both he and [[spoiler:Ikutsuki]] believe that the world is too corrupt to be allowed to continue on.
219* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
220** [[BigBad Cyrus]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' believes that living beings are doomed to suffer because of their incomplete spirits. Emotions, free will, and knowledge all cause suffering by their very nature, weighing living things down and making their lives meaningless. His solution to this is to create a WorldOfSilence in which spirit simply does not exist, and [[InTheirOwnImage destroy the current incomplete world in the process]]. [[spoiler:After you defeat him, you learn a few things about him which explains why he thinks this way. His parents were [[AbusiveParents neglectful at best]], and he struggled to get along with his peers as a child. His grandfather realized that he needed help, but was too afraid of intruding to give it to him, meaning that Cyrus' underlying issues only got worse. A [[AlternateUniverse version of]] Cyrus himself will wonder if things could have been different when encountered in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon''.]]
221** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', the leader of Team Flare, Lysandre sees [[OverpopulationCrisis competition over limited resources as a fundamental problem of the world]]. It causes fighting and suffering and divides people into the haves and the have-nots. His solution to this problem is [[spoiler: [[EcoTerrorist to drastically reduce the population of the world]] [[FinalSolution by killing everyone not in Team Flare with the Ultimate Weapon]]. Even Pokémon are not safe from this mass slaughter, he laments, because the magnificent and innocent beasts are condemned to be used by evil humans for their own selfish ends and, for the greater good, are best eliminated as well.]]
222*** To put the cherry on top of this insanity, we learn from defeated members of Team Flare that, in order to be on the team, they have to pay exorbitant dues to their leader and buy the expensive team outfits themselves, sometimes putting themselves in massive debt to do so. So he's [[KillThePoor simply perpetuating the gap between the haves and have-nots]] that he's purportedly against.
223* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' essentially decided that since most people are selfish dicks who are more interested in short-term profit than actually trying to fix anything, [[TheCaligula awful people]] keep ending up in positions of power, the exceptions to the former keep getting killed by the latter for being inconvenient, and [[spoiler:the only reason the entire continent hasn't disintegrated into sand yet is through a HeroicSacrifice every few years by someone who has no real choice in the matter]], the world doesn't ''deserve'' to be saved, especially if doing so would require [[spoiler:him or [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his nephew]] to die]]. Cue RefusalOfTheCall and deliberately sabotaging the timeline to make the apocalypse as hard to prevent as possible.
224* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction''. Morte ''wants'' [[TheHero Kyrie]] to do this by showing how crappy the world is with the ferals' supremacy, hoping that he'll want to destroy it with his Destruct powers. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
225* Otani Yoshitsugu from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' is more a case of "Put them all in as much misery as me". His goal is to spread the same pain throughout the world as he suffers due to his leprosy.
226* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', the White are incredibly ancient spirits of despair and decided the whole OrderVersusChaos ForeverWar was entirely pointless, to the degree the world simply didn't deserve saving. By proxy, since Neutral endings are mere islands of stability between the larger conflicts, it also has to go. They created a machine whose destruction would trigger an ApocalypseHow and do everything in their power to convince you that reality is so horrible nothing short of a MercyKill can "save" it. ''And they can succeed.''
227* ''Franchise/SilentHill'': Claudia from the third game and Walter from the fourth certainly count, wanting to summon a CosmicHorror they view as divine ("God" and "Mother" respectively) to cleanse the world of pain and loneliness.
228* [[spoiler:Professor Gerald]] from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' initially seems to be a genocidal MadScientist, but once we learn that [[spoiler:the cause of his insanity was losing his home, his research and his granddaughter, ''all that was important to him'' in rapid succession]], it's hard not to feel a bit sorry for him.
229** Shadow follows the same mold. Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, was his only friend. Seeing her killed by a group of humans changed him. 50 years later, he followed Eggman's plot for world domination, while fulfilling Gerald's goal of destroying it, believing that Maria also wants this. [[spoiler:It's not until the plan is set in motion when he remembers that the granddaughter's dying wish to him was actually to ''save'' the world, not to destroy it. Shadow became a [[HeelFaceTurn hero, or anti-hero in this case]], since then.]]
230* Purge from ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' Part 2 could be considered this if you take the time to read the profiles for some of the Rhythm Robots and his own profile.
231* Count Bleck, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', follows the instructions of a dark prophecy which he believes will [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 obliterate "all worlds"]]. [[spoiler:He does this because his father cursed his lover, [[TheLostLenore Timpani]], to wander across dimensions until her dying breath. After searching to no avail, Bleck concluded that [[DespairEventHorizon the universe was meaningless without her in it]]. He was unaware that Timpani had been saved at the last second by Merlon, who transferred her soul into a Pixl to create Mario's ally [[FairyCompanion Tippi]].]]
232* Yggdrasill of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. [[spoiler:He spends 4,000 years trying to bring back his dead sister while trying to fulfill her last wish of a world without discrimination. Unfortunately, he ends up deciding that the best way to accomplish that is by creating a world of lifeless beings.]]
233* The Delphi Organization from ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' believe that doctors are ruining the world by creating an inequality in society where the poor die and the rich get treatment. They believe the world would be better off without medicine and create a disease, GUILT, which will attack anyone without discrimination.
234* 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 [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum ending the unjust world]].
235* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe:
236** Sargeras the Fallen Titan became depressed and then [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] after fighting the endless evil forces of the universe for long enough, becoming convinced the universe was inherently flawed and would need to be destroyed so that it could be built anew.
237** Malygos from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' wants to destroy the world because he doesn't like how mortals are using magic. [[TraumaCongaLine His life sucked before he ultimately snapped.]] He was betrayed by his best friend Neltharion (aka Deathwing, who had been corrupted by the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]]), who then went on to wipe out almost all the other blue dragons, coming very ''very'' close to making Malygos the LastOfHisKind. He later ''supposedly'' regained his sanity (after being exposed to some volatile magical energies from another planet). Um, yeah.
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241* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': [[spoiler:The BigBad, Junko Enoshima, drives everyone in the world into despair, using Hope's Peak Academy as the origin point, because she herself feels misery from life being predictable and wants to make others feel the same thing she feels. The issue with this is that she also has no moral or social restraints, so she's fine with doing ''anything'', no matter how detestable, to sate her desires.]]
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245* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': A disturbingly large portion of the multiverse is constantly angsting over the death of God and how they're all broken pieces of the divine flesh, and their children by rape are stealing their powers and using them to act like Jokers. The Parliament in particular is bioengineering an all-devourer to consume the multiverse and bring it back to a single surviving being.
246* ''Webcomic/ChoppingBlock'': In one version of Butch R. Mann's psychopathy, he both sees himself as TheEveryman and deeply hates himself. He repeatedly chickens out of suicide, so he instead kills other people to metaphorically kill himself over and over again. If he could, he would kill everyone in the world, but he would then go even crazier with no one left to kill. (Given how wildly Butch's personality varies from strip to strip, this often doesn't apply at all.)
247* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Ni'bai Val'Sharen's family was wiped out by traitors during ThePurge of the former Queen's loyalists. To get revenge, she enacts a plot that risks destroying the entire world by [[spoiler:empowering a PsychopathicManchild into a PhysicalGod]]. While the actual end of the world is not quite her intent, she ''does'' intend to wipe out all of the clans and has absolutely no concern for the collateral damage.
248* Tavor from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': After losing his family and kingdom to invaders, he decides to take his pain out on the rest of the world by trying to destroy the city/empire that abandoned them to the invaders, even if the city represents the world's last hope for justice and peace.
249* ''Last Blood'': it is revealed, by the end of book 1, that (Warning: major spoiler) [[spoiler:Francis, the schaemiac (a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire turned zombie-like by decades of blood starvation]]) who launched the ZombieApocalypse,]] did it all out of spite and jealousy for [[spoiler:his best friend Sullivan's popularity, and the latter being chosen by his LoveInterest.]]
250* Parodied in ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' by the Blue Behemoth, [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/01/22/pie-a-la-murder/ who is driven to omnicide because he can't finish his pie]].
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254* In ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'', BigBad [[spoiler: Lear Dunham]]'s entire EvilPlan can arguably be traced back to his [[spoiler: despair after the passing of his wife. Whether the pain of his loss unhinged him somewhat or whether it drove him to become the humanitarian {{Determinator}} he was prior to losing hope, there is no denying that losing the love of his life had some part in Lear's motive to restart human civilization.]]
255* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': This seems to be Dr. Horrible's motivation for becoming a villain: he wants to topple the system and bring about some kind of vaguely defined social change. Or at least that was originally it; this desire becomes more and more of an afterthought as the plot progresses.
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259* Duke Nukem, the radioactive villain from ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}}'' (and not the action hero by the same name) wants to spread radiation because he draws strength from it and actually weakens when not getting a regular dose; he wants to turn the world into a radioactive paradise where he and his kind can live and thrive. Compare to the other eco-villains who are mostly motivated by greed or [[ForTheEvulz evulz]].
260* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', the murder of Dracula's (human) wife by the Church spurs the vampire lord to launch a campaign of genocide against humanity. It's strongly hinted that he's not looking to survive the conflict either way, and he's definitely not all that fussed about how the other vampires will fare should he succeed.
261* PlayedForLaughs in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'':
262-->'''Bender:''' I'm so embarrassed. I wish everyone else was dead.
263** Also played with in another episode where Bender launches a campaign against technology. Upon meeting up with the Planet Express Crew, his greeting wasn't meant to imply this trope, but Bender quickly realizes why [[ComedicSociopathy they might think it was.]]
264--->'''Bender''': I've come to free you from your complicated lives! ...the "complicated" part, not the "lives" part.
265* Demona of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has suffered a great deal at the hands of humanity across her centuries-long life, and this ultimately leads her to an attitude of genocidal insanity towards that species. She's never ''entirely'' unsympathetic, though, due to her tragic (almost Shakespeareanly-so) backstory. True, a lot of it was indirectly her own fault, but that just winds up making her ''more'' pitiable. In any event, she thinks she can end her pain only by wiping out the human race, making her a definite example of this trope.
266** Made all the worse by the fact that, since she's immortal, she's CursedWithAwesome, since she'll [[WhoWantsToLiveForever outlive everyone and thing]] she's ever cared about at all. Besides which, five words: "The access code is... Alone."
267** And that's not all. She repeatedly tries to kill any gargoyle who tries to stop her, even her ex-husband and her father.
268** As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly obvious that Demona has no one but herself to blame for her many problems. For instance, she told a group of Viking warriors to attack the ancient castle where she, the other gargoyles, and the humans who shared the space with them lived during the day, as the gargoyles would be stone then. Not only did she sell out the humans (because she felt that the gargoyles had been there "first" and thus should be isolationist), but she ''didn't tell her clan'', instead choosing to hide away from the carnage. Similarly, she brutally attacked a young farmer while stealing food from him when she could have easily fled, leading to the creation of a tribe called Hunters dedicated to attacking her kind, and later betrayed Macbeth, her longtime ally and closest thing to a human friend, simply because she overheard one of Macbeth's ''advisors'' (that is, not even the man himself) suggesting a betrayal of the gargoyles; Macbeth didn't immediately shout this idea down (even though he would clearly never betray Demona), which was enough to "prove" that he was, in her opinion, a villain. The problem is that Demona [[NeverMyFault absolutely refuses to accept any responsibility for her own mistakes]], instead blaming humans at every turn. By the end of the second season, it's painfully clear that her desire to exterminate the human race is really a desperate attempt to justify her own horrible deeds and get past her guilt and shame.
269* Toxzon, the villain from the 6th ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'' movie, is a type 2. He wants to contaminate the world because he needs a toxic environment to survive without his mask and containment suit.
270* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Hawkmoth's M.O. is to select somebody who's been through hell lately, transforming them into an Akuma with thematic superpowers and goading them to take revenge upon whoever or whatever is responsible for their suffering. And all he asks in return for his "assistance" is that they seize the heroes' Miraculouses and give them to him...
271* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', "Ragnarok and Roll", a wealthy young man initiates the apocalypse because he got dumped by his girlfriend.
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