->'''Bethany''': Look, asshole - I don't know if anyone explained the rules to you, but if you succeed, everything gets blinked out of existence - even you.\\
'''Azrael''': Human, have you ever been to Hell? [...] I'd rather not exist than go back to that. And if everyone has to go down with me, so be it.
-->-- ''{{Dogma}}''

->Well damn it... if that's how it is... ''I'm just gonna blow up the planet!''
-->--'''Laharl''', ''{{Disgaea}} 2''

For some villains, [[TakeOverTheWorld Global Domination is no good.]] Ditto on the universe or TheMultiverse. Nope. It all has to go. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Everything has to be destroyed, every speck of life killed, every mote of light extinguished]]. No, this isn't [[AGodAmI reshaping reality into their own image]], however that trick works. This is the need for oblivion and taking everyone else down first.

Possibly, the villain has a reason for this. Maybe they're some kind of CosmicHorror version of ThePunishment, and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds destroying reality is the only way to end their own pain.]] (Or their ego is too big to just kill themselves. No, they have to be ''dramatic'' about it.)

But more often then not, they're a NietzscheWannabe; and just wanna show everyone who is boss. What's mystifying is when these type seem to genuinely like existing and interacting with the world. What exactly are they going to ''do'' should they succeed? [[{{ptitlem1lh0v8n}} And then what?]] Where, as TheTick puts it, would they put all their stuff? In this case, they often exist only for the Heroes to have someone to stop.

If any villains have TakeOverTheWorld as their goal, they logically should ''not'' want this to succeed. Can result in EvilVersusEvil and EvilerThanThou...if logic is involved.

Related to the OmnicidalManiac, who does this kind of thing; many of that trope's example plans on sticking around afterwards, however.
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* In ''TheSlayers'', the ultimate goal of the Mazoku is to return all existence to Chaos, including themselves. It was most explicitly pointed out by Hellmaster Fibrizo:
-->'''Hellmaster:''' "I want to be destroyed. I want to be destroyed! Destruction? Yes... Destruction is the ultimate wish of any Mazoku. [...] But this destruction shall consume all things! It shall consume the entire world! [...] All the world! Let all the world be destroyed with me!"
** In ''Slayers Try'', this is also the goal of the otherdimensional [[spoiler: [[LostUniverse Vorfeed and Dark Star Dugradigdu]]]], supreme Shinzoku and Mazoku of their universe. After realizing how pointless their existence of warfare and endless, cyclic confrontation was, they [[spoiler:merged as one entity]] and went on to destroy the universes created by Lord of the Nightmares as a cosmic TakeThat [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to their creator]]. Lucky for them, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Valgaav]] proved the perfect conduit for them in [[TheSlayers Ceipheed/Shabranigdu]]'s universe...
* Folken in ''VisionOfEscaflowne'' the movie. He wants to extinguish all the misery and suffering from the world by wiping everybody from existence, himself included. His nihilism very briefly appeals to the protagonist who suffers from a bad case of teenager's angst, but pretty soon common sense wins.
* [[ImmortalRain Yuca]] wants to stop [[WhoWantsToLiveForever reincarnating]]. The only solution he's found is to wipe out the entire human race.
* This is the end goal of ''RaveMaster'' villain Hardner, who tries to summon the [[EldritchAbomination Eldtritch]] [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] Endless to wipe out his own painful memories.
*At the end of ''DigimonAdventure,'' when Apocalymon had his claw-things and the humanoid figure we ''thought'' was actually him destroyed, he threw a hissy and decided to nuketify the Human World and Digital World in one shot. The heroes defeated him by [[spoiler: standing around going "[[OhCrap Oh noes]]!" until their {{Transformation Trinket}}s spontaneously formed a force field in a classic example of DeusExMachina, containing the blast]].

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* In Kurt Busiek's ''{{Astro City}}'', Infidel narrates that he once destroyed the universe in a "fit of pique." After discovering even that wouldn't kill Samaritan (and Samaritan realizing the same for Infidel), they collaborated to put everything back together. Once that was done, they decided to [[GoKartingWithBowser have lunch together once a year]].
* Peter David's ''CaptainMarvel'' (the one with Rick Jones, the latter one) has gone full on looney tunes, mainly because he knows everything. With the assistance of the personification of Entropy (Marvel Comics loves their personifications) all of reality is ended. 'Cept Rick, Entropy and the Cap. Rick convinces Entropy to become his 'dad', Infinity and the universe is rebooted.
*''{{Lucifer}}'' played with this. When informed that he can either take his father's position or let every universe in reality fall apart, unable to get over his daddy issues Lucifer begins an extremely arduous quest to fix the problem some other way.
* ''FinalCrisis'': Once Darkseid is [[spoiler: fatally poisoned by the radion bullet]], he decides to take the rest of the universe with him, hastening the decay of space-time that his rebirth had already started.
* Several {{X-Men}} What Ifs were written between Jean Grey's death and [[NeverLiveItDown resurrection]] in the '80s that showed [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Phoenix going Dark again]] and doing this, had she survived her final battle. Presumably the editors [[ExecutiveMeddling really, really wanted to keep her dead...]]until they didn't.

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* Azrael, the mastermind behind the plot of ''{{Dogma}}'' fits the bill. Being trapped in Hell forever is a pretty compelling motive for wanting to undo existence.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* In J.R.R. Tolkien's ''{{Silmarillion}}'', Morgoth's ultimate motivation is to destroy everything, simply because he wasn't allowed his own way during the creation.
* In Stephen Donaldson's ''{{Chronicles of Thomas Covenant}}'', Lord Foul wants to destroy the entire fantasy world, because he's [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned inside it]] and, if it's destroyed, he gets to leave.
* In ''[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, The Universe, and Everything]]'', the people of the planet Krikkit live on a planet surrounded by a totally opaque dust cloud, so for centuries, they know nothing of the universe beyond their planet and the star they orbit. When a spaceship crash-lands on the planet, they use it to take an exploratory trip, curious of where it came from, and see the universe for the first time. Their immediate reaction? "It'll have to go."
* In ''TheFionavarTapestry'', this is the motivation not so much of the BigBad as of his {{Dragon}}. The reason? Long ago, he couldn't get the woman he considered his One True Love (she went with a mere human instead, who became Fionavar's first wizard) and swore an oath that he would end the world that had witnessed his rejection; how and whether he's planning to survive at all if and when he succeeds isn't clear, but towards the end of the trilogy he gets the chance to try. [[spoiler:He fails, though only through the timely arrival of the one character who can stop what he's just unleashed -- and in the process learns to his own surprise that he's not yet beyond redemption himself.]]
* In ''The Courts of Chaos'' (book 5 in the BookOfAmber), a giant tries to convince Corwin to stop trying to save the multiverse. Corwin, of course, refuses to give up.
* Utuk'ku, the Norn Queen in ''MemorySorrowAndThorn'', is the oldest living being in the world, and wants to drag as much of the world as possible with her into death.

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* In ''DoctorWho'' "The Underwater Menace" (most of the episodes are lost, but it's widely considered one of the worst ever) Professor Zaroff, embittered because his wife died in a crash (at least in the original script), has the goal of making a hole in the seabed under the Atlantic so the erupting lava would boil away the ocean, destroying the Earth. Only the Earth would be destroyed, not the universe, but it still pretty much counts.
** And Davros--why else breed a race of genetically engineered nihilists?
** The BigBad of the new series fourth season ([[spoiler:Davros, back from being rendered DeaderThanDead again]]) tries to blow up TheMultiverse.
--->''THIS! Is my ultimate victory, Doctor! THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!''
*** He was going to leave a handful of planets for his master race to inhabit, however.
*** This raises one big [[FridgeLogic question]]: with nothing left to destroy, what were they actually going to do with their time having destroyed everything everywhere?
*** He actually explains his vision of a universe dominated by Daleks in the classic story "Genesis of the Daleks":
---->[The Daleks] are conditioned simply to survive. They can survive only by becoming the dominant species. When all other life forms are suppressed, when the Daleks are the supreme rulers of the universe, ''then'' you will have peace. Wars will end. They are the power not of evil, but of good!
*** On the other hand, he later said that if he had the power to wipe out all other life, he would do it simply because he could, so the above quote should definitely be taken with a grain of salt.
* [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]] goes here after Tara's death results in a HeroicBSOD, after Giles tricks her into feeling the pain of everyone in the world. It was supposed to fill her [[EmotionBomb with compassion]], and it [[ItGotWorse did]]. Fortunately Xander manages to stop her.

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* In the new cosmology of DungeonsAndDragons, the Primordials, the original creators of the world, wish to destroy reality in order to start all over again. The Gods, both good and evil, oppose them, with the help of Epic-level adventurers...
** Though they are not really out to kill themselves and everyone with it, they more want to return the world to its original state as component matter in the Elemental Chaos so they can build the world anew and destroy it over and over again to act out their roles as amoral sentient forces of nature. But because many beings like existing or like the beings they made, they tend to oppose them.
*Tharizdun from 3.5 and earlier fits this trope to a strong degree, except his exact reasons for wanting to annihilate all existence aren't ever explored.

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* In ''MakaiKingdom'', this is Alexander's stated goal. He is the God of Destruction, after all. In a neat exploration of this, in one bad ending he ''succeeds'', and is subjected to a horrifying FateWorseThanDeath, existing forever in an empty universe.
* The destruction of the multiverse is Count Bleck's goal in ''[[PaperMario Super Paper Mario]]'', in vengeance for [[spoiler:his lover's apparent death.]] He finds an ArtifactOfDoom and a TomeOfEldritchLore created by a downright evil branch of the {{Precursors}} just for this goal.
* Kuja in ''FinalFantasyIX'', on discovering his imminent mortality, decides to take everyone else with him.
** [[spoiler:Neo-]]Exdeath from ''FinalFantasyV'' wishes to draw everything into the Void, and then disappear himself. This isn't out of anger like Kuja; it's just what he does.
** And in ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'', [[spoiler:Chaos]] decides to tear apart the combined realities that make up the battlefield for the Conflict of the Gods, and then disappear himself. Its due in part to just being ''sick'' of the endless cycles of conflict, death, and rebirth, and in part because of the recent absolute death of [[spoiler:Cosmos, his opposite number]] hitting him harder than he thought it would.
** Sort of what NietzscheWannabe [[spoiler:Kefka]] wanted to do in ''FinalFantasyVI'', although it was never clear whether he intended to destroy himself afterwards.
** Implicit in [[FinalFantasyX Seymour's]] plans: He views death as a wonderful release from the suffering of life, hence everything deserves the so-called mercy of dying, himself included given how much he has suffered.
* [[spoiler:The 'bad' ending of the Demon Path from]] ''SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' ends like this. [[spoiler:Revya kills both Haephnes and Drazil and erases both their worlds from existence, killing everything on them and him/herself with it.]] Any last words as they lament the destruction of everything with their dying breaths? Oh yes:
-->'''[[spoiler:Revya:]]''' It doesn't matter. It was ''[[ForTheEvulz fun]]''. *CriticalExistenceFailure*
* ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: Majora's Mask''. The titular mask contains the spirit of a rogue shaman trickster who apparently thought it'd be a hilarious prank to destroy the world by making the moon collide with it. Even the moon doesn't like this idea!
* Ghadius from ''Klonoa: Door to Phantomile'' attempts to destroy the world as revenge for being [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] 3000 years ago. He doesn't care that his plan would destroy him along with the rest of Phantomile.
** The King of Sorrow from the sequal appears to be attempting the same thing, as by linking the Kingdom of Sorrow to Lunatea is implied to cause some degree of destruction.
* ''{{Diablo}}'': According to the ''Diablo I'' manual, the minions of Baal, the Lord of Destruction, seek the undoing of the universe.
* In ''GodOfWar: Chains of Olympus'', BigBad [[spoiler:Persephone hires the Titan Atlas to use the kidnapped sun god Helios' powers to destroy the pillar that holds the world up, causing it, Olympus, and the underworld to crash down on top of each other and kill everyone. It's a form of suicide-revenge; she's tired of living in a loveless marriage to Hades, and wants to get back at her husband and Zeus for trapping her in it, believing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to be a fitting way of solving both problems. Verily, hell ''truly'' hath no fury like a woman scorned...]]
* ''LiveALive'', [[spoiler: the Armageddon Ending, triggered as a ''menu command'']].
* ''{{Mother 3}}'', (mega end of the game spoilers) [[spoiler: As a result of his time-traveling, immortal body, and countless years of life, Porky has grown supremely impossibly, crushingly ''bored'' with all of creation. So he plans to have the Needles sealing away the Dark Dragon pulled to destroy what little there is left of the world, and live alone forever, just him and the Dragon.]]
* The 'Bad Ending' of ''{{Disgaea}} 3''. [[spoiler:Mao personally kills the last shred of truth left in his heart, unleashes his full, uncontrollable dark power as 'The Strongest Overlord'... and after Aurum kills his childhood friend Raspberyl, he proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] him (with a genuine curb!), and then explodes. Annihilating everything. Netherworld, [[FluffyCloudHeaven Celestia]], Human World, EVERYTHING. Leaving only himself, floating immortally in the midst of nothing...]]
* Elvin Atombender in ''Impossible Mission'', who plans to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the planet]].

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* In ''SluggyFreelance'' everyone ''thinks'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010730 Zorgon Gola]] is one of these. Creating this public image was [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010816 actually part of his]] XanatosGambit.
** Note that not only does he have a PunnyName, his Gambit would have worked ''brilliantly''. Then the SpannerInTheWorks main characters show up, and through their actions, destroy the Punyverse. How do they do it? By stealing the [[CombiningMecha crotch of]] [[HumongousMecha Gofotron]], letting a [[KillerRabbit small puppy]] detonate every sun in the Punyverse.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* In ''TheTick'', oblivion is the goal of the entire [[PlanetOfSteves Hey]] species, due to being ScaryDogmaticAliens who literally worship nothing.
* Parodied in ''EarthwormJim''. Evil the Cat wants to destroy all of creation. When someone asked him what he would do afterwards: "Gloat, I suppose."
* In ''{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'', this turns out to be the plan of the Highbreed; they're going to die out within a generation due to inbreeding and subsequent genetic problems, so dammit, they're going to take every other species down with them.

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