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1	->'''Preserver:''' There is one other being I need for my collection. The last Czarnian.\
2	'''Lobo:''' Hah! That's rich. '''I'm''' the last Czarnian. ''[aside]'' I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A.
3	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''
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5	[[DoomedHometown Hometown isn't doomed?]] Doom it yourself! Whether it's an accident, revenge or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge just plain anger]], heroes sometimes display disturbing tendencies toward destroying their own hometowns, countries, [[EarthShatteringKaboom planets]] or even universes. Bonus point if they [[SelfMadeOrphan simultaneously kill their parents]].
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7	It doesn't count if only the house is destroyed, in attempts to kill the hero or [[AndYourLittleDogToo just to spite them]]. It also doesn't count if a broader war is involved, unless the character's actions directly created that war.
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9	This is more frequent with villains, especially the more vile and over-the-top ones. Sometimes it's to demonstrate how disturbed they are, other times it's a StartOfDarkness event for them. Or maybe they just [[InvokedTrope really liked the sound]] of being the LastOfHisKind.
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11	This trope sometimes overlaps with DestroyTheAbusiveHome, though the character is generally portrayed sympathetically if this is the case.
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13	See also TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, GenocideFromTheInside, MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds, WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility. Compare LetThePastBurn.
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16	!!Examples:
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20	* In ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', a mutated Tetsuo destroys most of his home city of Neo-Tokyo.
21	* This was the beginning of Sara's DisproportionateRetribution in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''. At least her own home was an accident. Others were not.
22	* Mostly inverted in ''Manga/{{Saikano}}'', as Chise protects her and Shuji's home town from complete destruction until the very end of the story, when [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds she exterminates all of humanity.]]]]
23	* [[spoiler:Alice]] in ''Manga/KingOfThorn'' burnt her house down when she was a child after her family had died of the Medusa virus, along with the creature that the virus had spawned from her in the process.
24	* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Joshua [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity goes insane]] when Aion gives him Chrono's horns, which allows him to [[TerribleTicking hear the thoughts of everyone around him]]. He "stops the noise" by freezing everyone in the orphanage he lives in to stone. Also doubles as a DoomedHometown for Chrono and Rosette--their goal is both to save Joshua, and unfreeze the children in the orphanage.
25	** Also, in the manga Aion's plans are reveal to be [[spoiler:a plot to destroy Pandaemonium (the demon's home) and "remake" the world. He succeeds in destroying Pandy and killing all of the demons but himself, Chrono and Shader, but Chrono and Rosette stop him before he destroys all of humanity.]]
26	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
27	** A flashback shows Saffron City Gym Leader Sabrina destroying her house with her psychic powers as a child.
28	** Practically every animated adaptation of [[OlympusMons Mewtwo]]'s backstory includes the image of it wreathed in flames in the remains of the Pokémon Mansion/whatever lab is used to create it, and possibly atop the corpses of those who'd been working there. There's a reason this guy is TheDreaded.
29	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Skypiea Antagonist, Enel, destroyed his home sky island of Birka before traveling to Skypeia and using his army of followers and his powerful [[ShockAndAwe lightning Logia Devil Fruit]] to overthrow Gan Fall and take over as "God". In Skypiea, "God" is merely the title given to the ruler of the land and doesn't mean they are an actual Deity. Despite this, Enel does refer to himself as a God thanks to his Devil fruit, which is so powerful [[AGodAmI it has given him delusions of Godhood]].
30	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
31	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'''s Amuro Ray accidentally blows a hole in the wall of Side 7 shortly after he [[FallingIntoTheCockpit gets on the Gundam]].
32	** The same effect (technically) happens to [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Kamille]]. The same also, being something of a remake, happens to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Kira]] (again being a remake, having done the same thing as Amuro among other things to damage his colony beyond repair) and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn]][[spoiler: , through in Shinn's case it has a lot more to do with being bitter at ORB (for the death of his familly) than anything]].
33	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
34	** Ed and Al burn down their house to symbolize how they'd never look back during their quest to regain their bodies. However, their father guesses that the true reason was to [[spoiler:try to forget the shame of their failings]].
35	** Speaking of Hohenheim, [[spoiler:he absorbed half the population of the empire of Xerxes when he became a living Philosopher's Stone. The other half went to [[EvilTwin Father]].]]
36	* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'':
37	** Eva Heinemann does this to the Heinemann family mansion after realizing that [[spoiler:she cannot enjoy the life of a normal human being; then again, [[IceQueen she isn't normal anyway]]]].
38	** Johan is another example
39	* When Diva was finally "freed" in ''Anime/BloodPlus'', she drank everyone's blood and set the whole mansion on fire. Though[[spoiler:, given how she had lived her entire life up to that point locked up and used as a science experiment,]] this type of retribution is fairly justified.
40	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Itachi Uchiha massacred his entire family and clan in their private section of the village of Konoha. [[spoiler:Zigzagged; while Itachi did kill his clan, it was actually a mission assigned to him by the village. The clan was planning a coup and Itachi wiping them out seemingly on his own let the village save face]].
41	** [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Sasuke Uchiha]] briefly intended to invoke this trope after learning the truth about the above situation.
42	* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' [[spoiler: Ranka's song lured Vajra to the 117th fleet where she lived with her family, leading to the destruction of said fleet, the death of her mother and [[LongLostSibling the disappearance of her brother]].]]
43	** Later on [[spoiler: Grace lured the Vajra to ''Galaxy'' to get rid of those not involved in conspiracy]]
44	** And [[spoiler:Ranka's song also inadvertently lured the Vajra to ''Frontier'', her new home.]]
45	* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'':
46	** Knives blew up the ship where he was born and brought up as part of his first attempt to kill off the human race; in the anime, he manipulates and kills off the entire crew beforehand.
47	** [[TheDragon Legato Bluesummers]] seems to have almost gotten himself killed as a child out of his determination to do this, instead of using his nascent mind-control powers to ''get the fuck away and run like hell''. That Knives appears to have turned up and killed the whole town for kicks at the last moment is icing on the cake of rape-stopping and life-saving and electing-not-to-murder and tacit-acceptance-of-[[MadLove lifelong-fealty]].
48	* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Hiei was a male fire demon that was born among a female race of ice demons. Males can only be born to ice demons if they were sired by an outside male, which is forbidden. According to the ice demons' beliefs, males bring destruction, so the elders had him thrown off a cliff. This is what caused him to want to destroy the ice demons, but it was subverted in the end. Why? Because when he finally found them, he realized that the ice demons had very pitiful lives, so decided that [[CruelMercy leaving them alive was a worse punishment]]. No wonder Hiei has a lot of social problems.
49	** [[spoiler:Yukina]] of all people is searching for [[spoiler: her brother]] in an attempt to invoke the trope, believing he'll raze the place to the ground, and once asked Hiei to find him and give him the message [[spoiler: not knowing that Hiei is said brother and had already opted for CruelMercy]].
50	* ''Anime/HellGirl'': Ai Enma does this to her village after the events which led to her death.
51	* The universe of ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'' centers around the development of psychic powers, particularly telekinetic, in humans. This power, called PK, is capable of doing many things, some of which we aren't even aware of yet. There's one thing most know for certain, however; that it is very dangerous. Those that contract a certain mental disease, called Hashimoto-Appelbaum Syndrome, have difficulty relating to their fellow humans and can lose control of their power. As you can imagine, this could lead to some pretty horrific circumstances. [[spoiler: Shun, one of the main characters of the series, contracts the syndrome. His family is the first to die, before he completely annihilates his entire village and warps the rest of the landscape. Then, he strands himself in the middle of nowhere in some creepy, nightmare inducing, PK-altered landscape to record his experience before the Earth swallows him whole. Oh, and he was only fourteen.]]
52	** And that's not even the worst of it. Boy K, [[spoiler: a boy that lived long before Shun, had sociopathic thoughts and ideas, but behaved normally enough, so the community overlooked it. As it turns out, that was a terrible thing to do, because eventually something in him snapped. After brutally TEARING his teacher apart in the middle of a class lesson, he goes on a PK rampage, nearly wiping out the entire village, including his classmates, mere children, in scenes that were too graphic to show.]]
53	* Happens in ''Manga/FushigiYuugiByakkoIbun'', when [[spoiler: Neiran ''snaps'' as the BreakTheCutie process she's been subjected to all her life gets to her, uses her ShapeShifter powers for the first time, and after [[TheDogBitesBack murdering her abusive family]] she destroys her village.]]
54	* ''Literature/TorturePrincessFremdTorturchen'': Elisabeth Le Fanu was fed demon flesh as a child by her EvilUncle, which cured her IncurableCoughOfDeath but caused her to be wracked with pain that she could only address by torturing people--which in turn generated mana for her due to the demon flesh. She went on to brutally slaughter her entire hometown, transforming her into a partly demonic being capable of conjuring torture and execution implements, the eponymous "Torture Princess".
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58	* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The pyrokinetic Liz Sherman accidentally killed her entire family and many of her neighbours as a child through PowerIncontinence.
59	* ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'': It's Lobo's own fault he's the LastOfHisKind in both Franchise/TheDCU (where he killed all the other Czarnians on a lark) and the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse (where he [[UnusualEuphemism fragged]] the rest of the planet for his high school science project).
60	-->"By sixteen, Lobo had murdered half the population of his home planet. By seventeen, he [[OmnicidalManiac stopped screwing around]]."
61	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Step one on Korvac's plan to attain godhood and turn the universe into a utopia? Blow up the entire solar system out of spite, and use the energy as fuel.
62	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Cletus Kasady, better known as ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, got his start along the path of villainy by burning down the OrphanageOfFear he was raised in.
63	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ComicBook/{{Bizarro}} did this as well in the classic story ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', destroying the BizarroWorld due to him thinking he needed to do so to become a better duplicate of ComicBook/{{Superman}}. He then [[spoiler: killed himself, for exactly the same reason.]]
64	* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'': Thanos didn't decide to return to his homeworld Titan to destroy it until after he had already become an OmnicidalManiac with a long track record of destroying other civilizations to please [[TheGrimReaper the mysterious woman in his head]]. He let his father survive however so he could [[CruelMercy continue witnessing his son's evil]].
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68	* Invoked in the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''. [[EvilTwin Satan Girl]] intends to destroy Rokyn, a planet settled by the last surviving Kryptonians, so no one can challenge her again.
69	* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' FanFic ''FanFic/LowLight'' [[spoiler: L does this to Wammy's House after his FaceHeelTurn.]]
70	* In ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', Blackjack is forced to permanently seal her home Stable (the FO:E equivalent of a Vault) and flood it with [[DeadlyGas chlorine gas]] to prevent a deadly plague from spreading from it into the Wasteland.
71	* The events of ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E24TheEndingOfTheEndPart1 The Ending Of The End]]'' hits much differently in the fanfic ''Fanfic/HowILostMyMother''.
72	* In ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'', the villain Shadow Corrupter was revealed to have destroyed his home village Weeping Wood Hollow when he first got his powers. This turns out to be an act of revenge, since just before he was made part of a [[HumanSacrifice sacrificial ritual]] by the cultist townspeople in an effort to revive the Corrupted Shadow.
73	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheLastGreatTimeWar'', [[spoiler: the War Doctor is shown destroying Gallifrey.]]
74	* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': As revealed in Act III, Luna Cii's [[CainAndAbel evil sister]] Falla did ''not'' take it well when she discovered that Luna was being appointed queen of their kingdom over her. After throwing a temper tantrum over it and a brutal fight with Luna that cost her an eye, Falla snapped and cast [[FantasticNuke The Ender spell]] to completely destroy the kingdom and the entire chronofly species save Luna and Falla herself, declaring that if she can't be queen, ''nobody'' will be.
75	* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Descant, the middle of the Seven Brothers of Orre, casually admitted to Hunter J that he torched and blew up his childhood home. Considering [[EvilMatriarch how his mother]] [[AbusiveParents raised him]], it must have been his way to get some InUniverseCatharsis.
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79	* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', Gallaxhar reveals that he destroyed his home planet, although his reasons for doing so are [[JackhammeredConversation repeatedly interrupted]] by the cloning machine he was walking in and out of.
80	* A variant occurs in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', when Mewtwo destroys the laboratory he was created in.
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84	* In ''Film/{{Carrie\|1976}}'', the main character kills everyone at her prom, the two kids who had humiliated her, and [[spoiler:her mother]] after prom night goes horribly, horribly wrong for her. They wanted to have her destroy the town, but didn't have the budget. [[Film/Carrie2013 In the remake]], the damage is more severe.
85	* At the end of ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'', [[spoiler: Debbie reveals this is what she did to her parents, because they didn't buy her the right Barbie doll for Christmas.]] The Addams, naturally, are quite understanding.
86	* The prequel comics and novel to 2007's ''Film/{{Transformers\|2007}}'' movie all reveal, despite otherwise being separate continuities, that it was [[TheCape Optimus Prime]], of all people, who launched the [=AllSpark=] into space to keep it from Megatron's hands, dooming Cybertron to a slow, lingering death. In the movie itself, Optimus states that he's willing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the [=AllSpark=], if need be. Some characters think it's noble. Others think it's disturbing...
87	** In [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon the third film]], Bumblebee is the one who [[spoiler:destroys the Space Bridge control, resulting in Cybertron's destruction]].
88	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
89	** ''Film/{{Thor}}'': When Loki finds out that [[spoiler:he is in fact a Frost Giant, he decides to destroy Jotunheim, the world where he was born.]] He also personally [[spoiler:kills his biological father, the Jotun king, after tricking him into trying to kill the sleeping Odin]].
90	** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': [[spoiler:Upon running out of solutions to stop Hela, Thor decides to unleash Ragnarok on his own world, by ordering Loki to revive [[AlwaysABiggerFish the fire demon Surtur]]. Surtur grows giant, fights Hela in an epic battle and shatters Asgard, rendering Asgardians homeless.]]
91	* [[DefiedTrope Deliberately defied]] in ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Star Wars: Return of the Jedi]]''. The celebration of Emperor's death includes Gungans and humans celebrating at Naboo to show that the Emperor '''didn't''' [[Film/ANewHope destroy it like Alderaan]] (as [[{{Fanon}} many speculated]]).
92	** The comics revealed that he did plan on doing it. Before his death he created Operation: Cinder, in which the imperials would activate [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Control Machines]] that would create storms all over Naboo.
93	* In the backstory of ''Film/LeftForDead'', Mary and her gang of whores went on a killing spree in which they murdered every man, woman and child in the town of Amnesty. Some of this is seen in flashback.
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97	* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': ''A Court of Frost and Starlight'' reveals that Cassian burned down the Illyrian village where he grew up to avenge his mother.
98	* [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] destroyed his own empire after his cousin carried out a coup while Elric was traveling overseas. He then destroyed the entire world, eventually, although it was pretty terminally afflicted by Chaos already.
99	* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}''. Unlike the movie adaptation, which didn't have the budget for the full ending, Carrie moves into the town itself after killing her classmates and leaving the survivors to burn to death inside the school. She destroys fire hydrants to prevent anyone from putting out the fires she started, blows up gas stations, and kills several adult citizens who come outside to see what's going on, and by the time she dies, the death toll is well over 400. This also results in Chamberlain becoming a DyingTown as the death of most of their teenage children leads to many citizens just drifting away.
100	* The White Witch from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is revealed, in the prequel ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', to have originally been Jadis, Queen of the world of Charn. When [[CainAndAbel her sister rebelled against her]], and came a bit too close to succeeding, Jadis used the ultimate magic spell, '[[FantasticNuke The Deplorable Word]]', to extinguish all other life on the planet. [[OmnicidalManiac ALL of it.]] Then she [[TakenForGranite petrified herself]], awaiting a time when visitors from another world would intrude on her crumbling sanctuary...
101	* The {{Pyromaniac}} and her girlfriend in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' go back to the orphanage that abused them in order to KillItWithFire. And watch.
102	* In the short story "Basilisk" in the collection ''Deathbird Stories'' by Creator/HarlanEllison, a former POW returns home with [[EyeScream damage to his eyes]] and is [[WhatTheHellHero condemned by almost the entire populace]] for having cracked under torture. Then the god Ares decides to [[EyeBeams heal his injuries]]. [[AGodAmI Penance ensues.]]
103	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]] spent a good chunk of his life as a glorified hostage in [[spoiler:Winterfell]]. He would later conquer it in the name of his birth family [[spoiler:though Ramsay Bolton was the one who actually razed it to the ground.]] He eventually regrets it after realizing that [[spoiler:he truly thought of the Starks as his ''real'' family.]]
104	* In the ''[[Literature/TheBlackCompany Annals of the Black Company]]'', the man known as "Erin [=NoFather=], an unlanded priest of the god Vancer from Slinger, in the kingdom of Vye" eventually became the [[BigBad Dominator]]. Of course, by that time he'd made sure to wipe the town of Slinger off the face of the earth, and kill everyone who had lived there while he was growing up, to prevent any of his enemies learning his [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]]. Later he [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill laid waste to all of Vye]].
105	* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': Pre-story Zarracka summoned an emperor class fire ghoul [[spoiler: in a desperate bid for hero-style praise and attention]] that almost trashed Britannia's capital. In the main narrative she is vital in Baalaria's victory over said capital.
106	* [[HumanoidAbomination Randall Flagg]], [[Creator/StephenKing Stephen King's]] oft reappearing villain, apparently hates his home country of [[Literature/TheEyesofTheDragon Delain]] so much, he goes back every few hundred years and destroys it again.
107	* In the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', High King Kallor first built an empire on the continent of Jacuruku, then razed it to the ground so thoroughly, the remaining earth had to be put into a parallel realm and given thousands of years time so it could heal. And all of that just to spite those people who hated him and called a god from another dimension to drop on his head.
108	* In ''Literature/PosterGirl'' Alexander, after becoming a rebel and helping them to overthrow the tyrannical Delegation, helped the rebels burn down his family home, to further distance himself from his regime supporting family.
109	* In ''Literature/SonOfTheBlackSword'', this is revealed to have happened to [[spoiler: Ashok's real mother]]. And the casteless quarter where he grew up. And all the house servants who ''might'' have seen him. And the household guards. He goes into an UnstoppableRage when he finds out.
110	* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', Esme was exiled from her tribe because she was unable to use her magic to make [[MagicalAccessory Threadstones]]. Years later, after finding out that her power is different (and [[PowerOfTheVoid much more sinister]]) than she'd thought, she returned to her tribe and killed every single one of them. Now, she keeps them all as her [[PeoplePuppets puppets]].
111	* In ''Literature/TheAnnalsOfTheChosen'' the Chosen learn that the Wizard Lord of the Galbek Hills had grown up in an isolated village called Stoneslope where he was often mocked and belittled. When they finally make their way to its location, they discover the Wizard Lord had used his powers to wipe out the village.
112	* In ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'', Essun attacks her hometown after she's nearly killed while trying to leave it, killing a few people before controlling herself but also dooming the town by destroying their underground water supply, which really isn't good during [[AfterTheEnd a Season.]]
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116	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'', soon after becoming a vampire, killed everyone in his village, including [[SelfMadeOrphan his parents and sister.]]
117	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. When the League of Assassins gets a new Ras Al Ghul, he has to destroy his city or hometown of provenance in a [[ThatManIsDead symbolic casting off of ties]]. This is problematic for Oliver Queen when he's offered the position in Season 4, given that he's been trying to ''save'' his city since start of the series.
118	* In a ''heroic'' example, ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has, over the years, destroyed her high school gym (it was filled with vampires), her next high school (blown up stopping a giant demon-snake made of Mayor), and finally, her home town of Sunnydale (built on a gateway to Hell, caved in when the good guys destroyed it).
119	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
120	** Davros arranged the apparent extermination of his own species for the sake of the Daleks. They turned on him about five minutes later.
121	** As of the revival, the Doctor was only able to end the Last Great Time War by destroying both sides — including the other Time Lords and his home planet Gallifrey. Despite this, the Daleks, TheMaster, and Davros have managed to survive.
122	** He also destroyed Gallifrey in the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Ancestor Cell'', and, to be fair, it was for a good reason and they were being assholes anyway. He developed TraumaInducedAmnesia as a result. Then [[spoiler:it turned out that the amnesia was in part due to the fact Gallifrey had been kind of stored in his head. How's that for a "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy brain the size of a planet]]"?]]
123	** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]] depicts the last day of the Time War when the Doctor destroyed Gallifrey. [[spoiler:After meeting the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, the three decide to embark on a radical plan to change their own personal timeline, faking the destruction of Gallifrey by shunting the planet into another universe.]]
124	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]], [[spoiler:Gallifrey is destroyed again. This time, for a change, it's the Master who claims the credit.]]
125	* The first Volume of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' was about a Petrelli family plot to have Peter nuke [[BigApplesauce New York City]], their home. In an alternate future, Sylar nukes Costa Verde, his new town, in a rage after his son is killed.
126	* In a minor example, Parker from ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' blew up her foster parents' house after they hit her and took away her favorite toy. No word yet on whether they were in it at the time.
127	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Waldreg is an inn keeper from Tirharad, native to the Southlands. All of his life, he secretly hoped that Sauron would return to lift up the Southlanders from muck and filth and hid a secret ArtifactOfDoom belonging to Sauron. When the occasion comes in the form of Adar, he joins forces with him and is secretly charged with carrying on Adar's plan of provoking Orodruin's eruption. Waldreg obeys without question and uses the ArtifactOfDoom to unlock an ancient mechanism that triggers the destruction of a series of dams, which sends a vast torrent of water streaming down into the Southlands and ultimately deep into Mount Orodruin itself, destroying in the process his own home.
128	* Ben Linus from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' told the main characters that he had lived on the island his entire life. [[spoiler:In reality, he was brought there as a young boy by his father, who worked for the Dharma Initiative. He began consorting with the Hostiles and eventually participated in gassing the Initiative members.]]
129	* In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM,'' [[spoiler: Dr. K. is revealed to have created Venjix, just to keep her government 'caretakers' busy so she and her friends could escape. She didn't ''mean'' to, but...[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Doc K ended the world]].]]
130	* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', the ship suffers its accident because Rimmer hasn't fixed the drive-plate properly.
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134	* ''Tobacco Road'', written by John Loudermilk, and first performed by The Nashville Teens. It has been covered by The Animals, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Lovin' Spoonful, the Blues Magoos and Music/DavidLeeRoth, among others.
135	-->Gonna leave, get a job\
136	with the help and the grace from above.\
137	Save some money, get rich and old,\
138	Bring it back to Tobacco Road.\
139	Bring dynamite and a crane,\
140	Blow it up, start all over again.\
141	Build a town, be proud to show.\
142	Give it the name Tobacco Road.\
143	But it's home, the only life I ever known.\
144	Only you know how I loathe Tobacco Road.
145	* ''My Little Town'' by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel is a poignant memoir, but if you squint and look sideways at the final verse, it can take on some unintended meaning:
146	-->In my little town\
147	I never meant nothing, I was just my father's son\
148	Saving my money, dreaming of glory\
149	Twitching like a finger on the trigger of a gun\
150	Leaving nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town...
151	* ''The Curse Of Millhaven'' by Music/NickCave & The Bad Seeds - admittedly, she only razes part of it, but in the other verses the protagonist kills enough people to populate a small town.
152	-->And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum\
153	That was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen\
154	Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued\
155	All cause of wee little girl with a can of gasoline\
156	Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing\
157	La la la la La la la lie\
158	Well the rich man, and the poor man, they all got to die
159	* ''Wildfire'' by Music/SonataArctica, a power metal band from Finland, is about a young man who does this.
160	-->Burn, honey burn, let the fire eat away\
161	I never liked the look of this town\
162	Burn it down now\
163	I'll run, they'll know what I've done\
164	I'll fetch my gear and take my leave from this mountain
165	* In the Music/{{Voltaire}} song "Bomb New Jersey", the singer is trying to arrange the nuclear destruction of his home state.
166	* The song "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" by Music/{{Coldplay}}:
167	-->You said, I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down\
168	I'm gonna put it six feet underground\
169	You said, I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall\
170	Stand here beside my baby and the crumbling walls\
171	Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire\
172	Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires\
173	Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn\
174	And do back the things it did to you in return
175	* Music/{{Nirvana}} imagine a blacklisted actress doing this in "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle".
176	* In the Music/SoundHorizon album ''Elysion's'' song Sacrifice, the singer of the song burns her village after her younger sister who was raped by the villagers and had gotten pregnant was burnt to death.
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180	* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho adventure "Orbis", [[spoiler:The Doctor manages to destroy the world that has been his adopted home for the past six hundred years, and its inhabitants whom he was trying to protect. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops.]]]]
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184	* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' Meta-4 universe, Neutronik's cloning of himself eventually caused a world war and a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt nuclear apocalypse]].
185	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has several examples of the "planetary destruction" variety:
186	** Perturabo, primarch of the Literature/IronWarriors, vented centuries of bitterness and frustration on his home planet Olympia after an uprising, almost wiping out the civilian population. Later, he had all life on the surface wiped out after a two-year siege by loyalist Space Marines
187	** The Night Haunter, the primarch of the Literature/NightLords, spend his youth as a bloody-handed vigilante cleaning up the streets of his adopted home planet Nostramo by fear. On his eventual return, and seeing how the populace has slipped back into depravity, he uses his fleet to [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihilate the entire planet]].
188	** Angron, primarch of the World Eaters, suffered as a gladiator-slave on the planet Nuceria. When he returned during the Horus Heresy, he and the Literature/WordBearers took revenge by killing the entire population.
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191	[[folder:Toys]]
192	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''
193	** Nocturn, the warlord Ehlek's lieutenant, got sent to The Pit for "breaking" his island in a fit of rage. When the author Greg Farshtey got asked why he did this, he answered: "People break things when they get angry. Nocturn happened to break his island."
194	** The Shadowed One, the leader of the Dark Hunters, is heavily implied to have caused a civil war in his homeland alongside his co-founder Ancient due to the two hiring themselves out as incredibly effective (and traitorous) mercenaries to the main powers. Said civil war was apparently so bad it more or less wiped said homeland out, which caused them to go off and find a new base of operations. They found one on Odina, where they enslaved and killed the native population after forcing them to build the Dark Hunter fortress.
195	** The island of Zakaz, which is where the Piraka come from, was once a beautiful and lush place before the tampering of the Brotherhood of Makuta gave the native Skakdi a bunch of dangerous superpowers and the ill-temperament to use them, upon which a CivilWar broke out that reduced it to a barely-livable quarantine zone. One of the Piraka, Reidak, notably lived in one of the few settlements that ''avoided'' the war, only to end up in an argument with a local officer that escalated into a full-on conflict that wiped the settlement out.
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199	* The player character of the Platform/PlayStation2 game ''VideoGame/{{Summoner}}''. Arguably, twice. Before the game, when he was still a young boy, the player character used his summoning powers to defend his hometown, which was swiftly destroyed when the demon he summoned broke free of his control. The second time involves the "tutorial" level of the game, where the character's new hometown is destroyed by the invading forces of the enemy nation, in a war touched off because the [[BigBad emperor]] of said enemy nation received a prophecy that the Summoner would come and slay him, so the emperor decided to kill the Summoner first. [[spoiler: This, of course, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the emperor turns out to only be a [[TheDragon mid-game boss]].]]
200	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
201	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', [[spoiler:the returned-from-Hell Emperor Mateus raises the castle of Pandemonium where Castle Palamecia stood, utterly destroying his former seat of power]].
202	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', after Cecil and Kain are tricked into burning down the village of Mist, young Rydia summons Titan in an attempt at a RoaringRampageOfRevenge but mainly succeeds only in finishing the job.
203	** It doesn't end there, interestingly--at least in the DS version. [[spoiler: Scenes from much, much later in the game strongly imply that [[DeathByChildbirth orphan Cecil]] was himself born in Mist, meaning his first action in the game is to unwittingly and unwillingly destroy the place of his birth--at the command of Cagnazzo, who is himself at the command of Golbez/Theodor, Cecil's older brother, who spent his childhood in Mist as well]].
204	*** At least in the SNES version(not the Bowlderized ''FFII'', though maybe even there), Mist wasn't actually destroyed: you can return via airship.
205	*** You can return to Mist in ''every single version'' of ''FFIV''. Problem is, the only version that shows any damage to the town after the traumatic event is the DS version, where you can see the damage to some of the houses.
206	*** If you talk with the inhabitants there, they will reference the horrible disaster that killed all of the summoners. Maybe Mist had two significant populations: the world's only summoners, and the world's best carpenters.
207	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has a creative variant in the Nibelheim burning. Sephiroth was born (and experimented on by [[GuineaPigFamily his very own]] [[MadScientist Father]]) in the Village of Nibelheim (which coincidentally happens to be the Protagonist's DoomedHometown), but later taken to and raised at the resident MegaCorp's HQ. When he returns to his birthplace many years later, he has no idea about his connection to Nibelheim, but once he finds it out, he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation doesn't take the news too well... ]]
208	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' [[spoiler: Fang and Vanille]] do this to their hometown of [[spoiler: Oerba, when they turned into Ragnarok at the orders of the fal'Cie; and all the other Pulse societies went with it.]]
209	*** [[spoiler:The fal'Cie's plot is for the heroes to do this to Cocoon, killing everyone within. The heroes go through with it...and then avert the "killing everyone within" part.]]
210	* Jak and co. do this to their homeworld by accident at the start of ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' by opening portal and releasing a horde of [[AnimalisticAbomination Metal Heads]] including their leader into the world. That is enough to turn relatively lively locales into deadly wasteland where only toughest survive, with the rest living in citadels ruled either by tyrants, mafia, or at the very least living by the 'survival of the fittest' mantra.
211	* In ''VideoGame/SteambotChronicles'', [[spoiler:if you opt to follow the villain storyline and join the Bloody Mantis, Vanilla can drop a massive firebomb on Happy Garland, the largest city in the game world, and burn it to the ground.]]
212	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear''
213	** Psycho Mantis from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' destroyed his home village during what can be described as a psychic temper tantrum. Though [[spoiler:[[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead discovering through mind reading]] that his father [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild blamed him for his mother dying in childbirth]], generally hated him, and harbored the secret desire to ''kill'' him]] makes his trauma and anger certainly justified.
214	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' Laughing Octopus [[spoiler: was forced to participate in the massacre that killed everyone else in her hometown by personally torturing her entire family to death.]]
215	* From the backstory of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', Leona [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity went loopy and murdered her entire village]] when TheDragon [[MoreThanMindControl awakened her Orochi powers.]]
216	* In the original ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', the hero is ostracized by his fellow villagers after his retrieval of the magical sword causes their town to become vulnerable to monster attacks. Oops.
217	* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', [[spoiler: Fei's [[SplitPersonality alternate personality]] "Id"]] is responsible for the destruction of [[spoiler: Lahan]].
218	* Bishop from ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' will admit to burning down his hometown if the player's influence score with him is high enough. He actually tried to warn them ahead of time (it was a trap for his Luskan 'allies'), but they didn't take him seriously enough to do anything about it.
219	* [[spoiler:Van Grants]] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. Granted, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild he didn't mean to]].
220	* In ''VideoGame/OverlordII'', the [[VillainProtagonist titular Overlord's]] hometown of Nordberg is the first town you conquer; you'll either wind up enslaving them all or leaving the entire village as a smouldering heap of wreckage. Players aren't likely to feel sympathy for them, as the Nordberg residents were A.) [[TooDumbToLive idiots]], B.) [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer treated the young overlord as a pariah]] and C.) the only sympathetic villager and the Player's childhood friend Kelda joins you because she wants to watch Nordberg burn for what they did.
221	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': [[spoiler: The Lone Wanderer can sabotage Vault 101 to make it uninhabitable, forcing all the residents outside. Or nuke Megaton, the first major town visited after leaving the Vault, and where James and his infant child stopped by on their way to the Vault. Also, he/she can sabotage Project Purity, located in the building that he/she was born in, effectively turning it from the waters of life to the waters of death]].
222	* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. [[spoiler:An early sidequest allows you to side with the Powder Gangers and massacre everyone in Goodsprings. Technically, Goodsprings isn't the Courier's hometown, but it's close enough]].
223	** The Lonesome Road DLC reveals [[spoiler: the Courier was unintentionally responsible for destroying The Divide. Twice. With nukes.]]
224	** Dead Money DLC allows you [[spoiler: to join the forces with Father Elijah and dooming entire Mojave by releasing The Cloud from Sierra Madre into it. This gives you NonStandardGameOver]].
225	** In the bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'', the Vault Dweller is [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie converted into a Super Mutant]], who joins the other Mutants in massacreing Vault 13.
226	* ''VideoGame/{{Breath of Fire\|I}}'': Cerl, one of the Dark Dragon Generals, uses the Time Key to [[TimeStandsStill freeze her old hometown]]. When she was younger, they kicked her out due to FantasticRacism; the only person she spares is her childhood friend Alan, who never agreed to the exile but was powerless to stop it.
227	* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', in the back story Gabriel ordered the Exterminatus on his own homeworld Cyrene when he discovered corruption among the recruits.
228	* Should you choose to follow the Demon Path in ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' your first act of evil is to, of course, kill everyone in your village.
229	* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', this happens to the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado through slightly different flavors in both the Chaos and Neutral paths. [[spoiler:In Chaos, by destroying the angels who have replaced the kingdom's rulers and blasting [[HellGate Naraku]] open, Mikado descends into anarchy. In Neutral, you ''have to order the entire kingdom's evacuation'' for events to unfold. Let's just say that the original settlers could have chosen the site for their castle ''much'' better]].
230	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Jack's loyalty mission is to help her find some small amount of closure on her traumatic childhood, by destroying the abandoned Cerberus facility on Pragia where she was tortured and experimented on.
231	* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': Bishop the ChaoticEvil SocialDarwinist ranger grew up in an poor swamp village much like the {{Player Character}}'s. [[spoiler:He later burned it to the ground, along with his Luskan kidnappers and handlers, in an attempt to burn his past and those that bound him in one fell swoop]].
232	* Depending on your choices, it's very possible for your heroes to wind up destroying part of their hometown before ''VideoGame/TheYawhg'' ever arrives.
233	* ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' begins with Kyrie suddenly getting a massive case of PowerIncontinence (for powers that he didn't even know he had - or even knew could ''exist'') and turning his home village to sand. You can later revisit it and find [[spoiler:his uncle's apron]], the only thing not sandified.
234	* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', Vorazun is the one to voice the option to destroy her homeplanet, Shakuras, rather than let it fall to the Zerg. Artanis initially wanted to refuse the idea, but he went along with it, and they detonated the planet with over a billion Zerg on top.
235	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Gul'dan was cast out of his village for being weak and deformed. When he discovered and embraced Fel magic, he returned to his village and killed everyone in it.
236	-->'''Gul'dan''': No one living has heard of the village of my birth... and no one... ever... will...
237	* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', [[WarGod Bandos]] slew the god Jododu Otoku in order to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascend to godhood]] [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt himself]]. Since Jododu was [[BarrierMaiden protecting]] his planet from [[ColonyDrop spacial debris]], his untimely death resulted in it being destroyed and all life on it being exterminated save for Bandos, to [[OmnicidalManiac his satisfaction]].
238	* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has Count Bleck, who is implied to have destroyed his entire home dimension and race after his father’s ParentalMarriageVeto.
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241	[[folder:Webcomics]]
242	* One (and a half) villain in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' was ostracized by his village of [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer reindeer]] because he was a were. No, not a werewolf, [[GenderBender a harmless were-girl]]. When he/they came back from a quest for an artifact allowing him/them to control the change, the townsfolk reacted even more violently, leading to an inevitable, [[MisaimedFandom but deserved]], massacre.
243	** The Uricarn Demon killed all the other members of his species. He comments that he probably should have thought it through a bit more, since he didn't discriminate by gender. Cue daydreaming about the time Anne fought him after transforming into a ''very'' accurate and ''very'' female Uricarn demon.
244	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
245	** Resident HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar Bitterleaf claims he intends to do this to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0125.html his Halfling village]] in order to earn roleplaying XP.
246	** [[spoiler:Durkon]] might do it by ''accident,'' given a prophecy that he knows nothing about. [[spoiler:Since he's become a vampire possessed by an evil spirit who is infiltrating the Dwarven homeland to try to bring about the end of the world, this has become a much more immediate threat]].
247	* Kirkman's Peak, the Sokolov Academy, and the van Kolyma family compound in ''Webcomic/BadMoonRising'' suffer this fate.
248	* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', [[spoiler:Darth Vader's destruction of the planet Naboo]] is revealed to be this when [[spoiler:Vader tells Luke that "he" is actually Padme, Luke's mother and the former queen of Naboo]].
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252	* In [[http://qntm.org/?structure Fine Structure]] ([[http://qntm.org/?power Power of Two]] being the first in the arc) the Powers gain their power when they're hit by a very painful lightning bolt that makes them go berserk for about fifteen seconds. One of their superpowers is speed, so a lot of people can die. Also, that website started as a howto on [[http://qntm.org/?geocide destroying the Earth]].
253	* ''Literature/RejectionAndRevenge'': UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden gets his hands on some warheads: one of his targets: Riyadh!
254	* ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'': [[VideoGame/Castlevania64 Malus]]'s 8th birthday culminates in him burning down the village in which he was born. After [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his own parents beforehand]].
255	* ''WebAnimation/WhereWasMyHero'': The first target of [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Miles "Tails" Prower]]'s rampage is his hometown.
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259	* In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
260	** Superman's old foe ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} got a new origin: instead of a mad scientist from the planet Colu, he was an intelligent supercomputer from Krypton. When Jor-El shared his fears that the planet was going to explode, Brainiac lied and said Jor-El was wrong while secretly plotting his own escape, because Brainiac realized that if Krypton's council discovered the planet was doomed, they would have put him to work trying to evacuate everyone, a futile gesture [[ItsAllAboutMe that would have doomed Brainiac as well]]. Being the last holder of knowledge about a whole world appealed to him. In fact, he liked the idea so much he started doing it to ''[[PlanetLooters other]]'' worlds too.
261	** Also providing the page quote is Lobo, who blew up his home planet and wiped out his entire race for his high school science project ([[CrossesTheLineTwice which he gave himself an A for]]). In this case it was PlayedForLaughs.
262	* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Zim was banished to [=Foodcourtia=] for single-handedly (almost) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxA3vdC_Ja4 destroying the entire Irken civilization]] in a HumongousMecha.
263	-->'''HumongousMecha Tech''': But, sir, we're... Still on our own planet!
264	-->'''Zim''': SILENCE!
265	* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Malware]]]] does it at the end of his story arc in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' (like we needed more confirmation that he was a bastard). [[spoiler:It's fixed after his defeat]].
266	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler: Bill Cipher was apparently born in the flat second dimension (hence his triangular state), but he thought it was boring, so he 'liberated' it, the same way he's planning on [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 'liberating' Gravity Falls]]. However, ambiguously canon material implies he's ultimately regretful of what he did, even if [[NeverMyFault he'd never admit to the fact he alone is responsible for his own despair]]]].
267	--> ''Saw his own dimension burn.''
268	--> ''Misses home and can't return.''
269	--> ''[[SadClown Says he happy, he's a liar]].''
270	--> ''[[NeverMyFault Blame the arson for the fire]].''
271	* Captain Hero in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' tossed his home planet Zebulon into its sun in the episode "Little Orphan Hero," which was basically a parody of Superman's backstory.
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