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1* The subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHH4lucGNcc Everything Burns]] by Anastacia & Ben Moody. The song could probably describe ninety percent of the characters with this trope. Rule of thumb, if you can't use this song as the character's theme song, don't put them here.
2* The plot of Music/MarilynManson's concept album ''Music/AntiChristSuperstar''.
3* ''The Last Man'' from Music/{{Fireaxe}}'s 4-hour metal epic ''Music/FoodForTheGods''. The [[NietzscheWannabe narrator]] laments the nature of man and how all we ever do is suffer. He then uses an unnamed DoomsdayDevice to destroy the entire human race and all life on Earth. [[SerialEscalation Then things start going bad]].
4* Upon discovering that [[spoiler:his sister has died before he could find her again]], ''[[Music/SoundHorizon Moira]]'''s Elefseus finally snaps from a lifetime of trauma and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against everything that ever played a part in his suffering, up to and including [[RageAgainstTheHeavens fate itself]].
5* The female protagonist of Music/CarrieUnderwood 's "Blown Away". She apparently has supernatural powers and uses them to create a destructive tornado to kill her father in his sleep who was described as a "mean old mister" that apparently killed her mother.
6* Many of Music/TheMegas' interpretation of the [[VideoGame/MegaMan Robot Masters]] count, as they are given their own backstories and motivations for wanting to help Wily. However, Air Man in particular stands out. He laments that his power only causes him to push others away, and decides...
7-->'''Air Man''': If I can't walk among them, then I will walk the world alone.
8** Bubble Man as well, as he wants only to prove to his brothers and to himself that he's not as weak and useless as they all say he is.
9** Very special mention goes to Crash Man. He doesn't even want to help Wily, he actually wants the bastard dead, and would happily help Mega Man make that happen. Unfortunately, as the title of his song indicates, his programming forces him to fight Mega Man. At the end of the song, he summons enough willpower to break his programming for just a moment, either killing himself or allowing Mega Man to kill him.
10** Needle Man, much like his predecessor Air Man, also has a power that causes him to unintentionally hurt everyone around him. He feels himself succumbing to the same rage that previously consumed Air Man, but doesn't want to become like that. After a conversation with some kind of inner voice, he realizes that he can't change himself and that his path is inevitable, so he decides that his only way out is to let Mega Man kill him.
11* The narrator in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zBG2TEjn4&list=FLM2CFpnQLwo2DUJ6zebbNmA&index=3&feature=plpp_video Paint It Black]]" from ''Music/AftermathAlbum'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} who lost their love and wants to "see the sun blotted out from the sky."
12* Blutengel's Lucifer is definitely an example
13-->She's in love with the devil
14-->She's in love with Lucifer
15-->This is her revenge for all the years of pain and tears
16* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5DcBy0s1g People = Shit]]".
17* This is the subject of several of Music/CoheedAndCambria's {{Murder Ballad}}s-[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt literally.]]
18* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mnwtyc65EU Burn]]" by Music/NineInchNails.
19* "[[http://youtu.be/OHDpPnVHp0M Army of Tears"]] by Cathy Davey.
20* Every single character in the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Mothy?from=Main.Mothy Evillous Chronicles]], although the most prominent is the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Clockwork]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Doll]]. Just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNEjuXrfds listen to her main song]]. And if that doesn't make you want to hug her, here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuun25DHVM prequel]]. [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Maybe it's]] [[AbusiveParents a family]] [[WellDoneSonGuy trait]]?
21* "It's Getting Dangerous" by Music/ThinLizzy. (Hasn't had destroyed the world yet, but it's probably on his agenda.)
22-->The power's at his fingertips
23-->Vengeance is on his lips
24-->But the power he fought to control
25-->Now has got him in its grips
26* Music/BlackSabbath examples:
27** "Iron Man" from ''Music/ParanoidAlbum'' is about a person who travelled time to save the world but, upon returning, is turned to steel and rejected and ignored by everyone he rescued. This leads him to [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal turn vengeful]] and start killing "the people he once saved", [[CruelTwistEnding thus]] [[TomatoInTheMirror becoming]] the OmnicidalManiac he'd tried to destroy.
28** Mentioned in the title track to ''Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'':
29--->The people who have crippled you, you want to see them burn\
30The gates of life have closed on you and there's just no return\
31You're wishing that the hands of doom could take your mind away\
32And you don't care if you don't see again the light of day.
33* A fanboy with a pregnant girlfriend writes to his idol, the only person he identifies with, of his troubles with his family and loneliness in his personal life, but doesn't hear back. It's quickly apparent he identifies too much, the silence provoking outrage and confusion, [[LoonyFan then tragedy]]. The fan's name? [[Music/{{Eminem}} Stan]] -- and it's his little brother that proves to fit the trope.
34* In Music/TheMechanisms' RockOpera ''High Noon Over Camelot'', [[AdaptationalHeroism Mordred]] starts as an AllLovingHero whose only major character flaw is being too quick to forgive, and the only person who sees the [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Saxons]] as people. When his plans for peace between the people of Camelot and the Saxons fall apart bloodily and violently, Mordred decides the world isn't worth saving, kills Lancelot and Guinevere, hijacks the SpaceStation Fort Galfridian from Arthur, and steers it into the sun.
35* Music/CannibalCorpse's "Bound and Burned" involves an unnamed person killing someone responsible in their abuse during youth.

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