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[[caption-width:640: Yeah, he's a whiny bitch. But maybe we shouldn't have said that to his face.]]
This is a character who wants to destroy everything and everybody; but in contrast to the OmnicidalManiac, the audience is supposed to feel some sympathy for him and/or his motives while accepting that he's got to be stopped. In rare cases, the character is even ''likeable'', just... not all there in the head. In truly unusual cases the audience might even agree with him.

Maybe he's the result of BreakTheCutie; maybe we are laughing with him when he asks "WhosLaughingNow?" to his tormentors (who, let's be fair, are most likely [[AssholeVictim assholes]]); or maybe the world really is a WorldHalfEmpty and when we see him lashing out against everything we can't help but find him pitiful. The WellIntentionedExtremist can become this when his motives are explored; in fact, a common twist is to present a terrifying world-destroying villain and then pull a [[TheReveal Reveal]] that swings the sympathy of the audience (or at least the other characters) around in his favor. This may even allow ThePowerOfLove to cause a HeelFaceTurn or at the very least a crucial hesitation on the part of the villain... who then [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dies]], of course, because, y'know, we ''like'' the world.

When it's all in the fans' heads, this is DracoInLeatherPants. For the kinds of destruction this character tries to cause, see TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, ApocalypseHow, and SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum.

Contrast JerkassWoobie, where TheWoobie is not omnicidal but more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Compare with WhosLaughingNow.
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* Vincent from the ''CowboyBebop'' [[TheMovie movie]], gone self-destructively homicidal from psychosis and the inability to separate his hallucinations from reality after becoming an unwilling participant in a SuperSoldier program that caused him to permanently hallucinate. His {{leitmotif}} "is it real?" just hammers it home.
* Lucy from ''ElfenLied''. ''Oh, so very, very much''. We even get to see in full detail how Lucy's painful childhood turned her into such a deranged PersonOfMassDestruction.
** EVERY diclonius counts. The very definition of a diclonious fits this trope -- innocent girls, usually very young, that can kill everyone within range with only a thought.
* [[spoiler:Hayate Yagami]] at the end of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'''s second season, though it required a massive BreakTheCutie moment created by other parties to push her past the "world that hurt me must die" breaking point, [[spoiler:and when she regained her senses, she chastised her ArtifactOfDoom for thinking that that's what she really wanted and put a stop to things]].
* ''{{Trigun}}'' features Legato Bluesummers, the very embodiment of this trope and to an arguably lesser extent, his boss Millions Knives.
* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''{{Narutaru}}'' is an intelligent, modest young girl who is [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by abuse from both [[CompleteMonster unbelievably sadistic bullies]] ''and'' overly demanding, repressive parents. Eventually, she, along with her [[{{Mon}} Shadow Dragon]], Oni, attempts to make everything she doesn't like disappear... by way of going on a horrific, murderous rampage.
** A similar thing happens to [[spoiler: the main character Shiina, but with someone else doing the destroying, right at the end of the manga.]]
* Elaine and Diana, the two [[TykeBomb unbelievably powerful]] psychic sisters, in the anime ''{{Genocyber}}'', who both go through some truly [[NightmareFuelUnleaded nightmarish]] shit, before transforming into the eponymous AnthropomorphicPersonification of destruction, Genocyber. Or, [[MindScrew maybe not]]...
* Gaara from ''{{Naruto}}'' starts out as this, basically being the male equivalent of [[ElfenLied Lucy]]. He gets better though...
** It now appears as if [[spoiler:the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's escape]] plan is to turn [[spoiler:Naruto]] into one of these.
** And Pain/Nagato likes to paint himself as one of these. Frankly, most fans are not buying it; his past was definitely ''bad'', but not bad enough to justify the [[MoralEventHorizon crap he's pulled.]]
*** Neither does Naruto, who can't forgive him [[spoiler:but doesn't kill him for reasons entirely unrelated to Nagato's backstory]].
* Lelouch from ''CodeGeass'' is a major subversion to this trope, because after he realizes what has actually been going on, [[spoiler:he decides that the only way to make everything right is to get the ''world'' to destroy ''him'']].
* [[spoiler:Takano Miyo]] from ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. ...Ironically, though, she's aiming at the wrong target in order to [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Guess Tokyo's a little too big to take down single-handedly.
* Yuuhi from ''{{The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer}}'', with one heck of a FreudianExcuse to match: His father, a detective, was killed by his colleague. After the funeral his mom simply left, and his grandfather literally beat into him the idea "Make no enemies - they'll stab you in the front; make no friends - they'll stab you in the back.". Sami's reasoning is that [[spoiler:she wants to own the world by destroying it so that it doesn't go on without her [[IllGirl when she dies]]]].
* Valgaav from ''TheSlayers TRY''. A tormented half-demon dragon who believes that all the cosmic forces in his world are caught in an endless, senseless war that only causes suffering, and wants to erase everything from existence to end this. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually seem to be wrong, as The Lord Of Nightmares who created Both sides of the conflict, seems to have done so mainly to watch them fight for its own amusement, a fact the Lord of Good and Lord of Evil equivalents from another dimension that combined with him are all too familar with...]]
* Darcia from ''WolfsRain'', who after the loss of his lover Hamona turns insane, and decides to ruin the paradise the protagonists are trying to create. In a sense, he doesn't want to destroy the current world, [[JustBeforeTheEnd as the Earth is dying anyway]], but prevent the next.
* [[spoiler:Rau le Creuset]] from ''GundamSEED''. He's a dying man at the age of twenty-eight, as he was [[spoiler:born with the telomeres of the thirty-something Al de Flaga, his genetic "father"]], and is in constant pain that can only be subdued by daily drug cocktails (the dose is shown to double ''twice'' over the course of the series). His dealings with people, hatred of his flawed body and the people who ensured he was born that way, [[spoiler:and his emotional pain at being a clone and thus seeing himself as having no "identity" of his own]] eventually became a bitterness towards humanity in general. And in a very literal bid to ''make the pain stop,'' he tried (and nearly succeeded) to wipe Earth of human life.
** Once again, depending on your point of view, after he [[spoiler:crosses the MoralEventHorizon by killing Flay in cold blood]], he might lose the Woobie and retain the [[CompleteMonster Destroyer Of Worlds]].
** And an example from ''{{Gundam SEED Destiny}}'', [[spoiler:Stella]] - she stomps through city and wilderness alike in a giant robot slaughtering innocent bystanders by the thousands, [[spoiler:because she's driven by a child's irrational terror and has been told that if she doesn't fight, scary things will kill her and everyone she cares about.]]
* At the end of ''FushigiYuugi'', Yuu Watase attempts to turn Nakago into one of these with a MotiveRant explaining how [[spoiler:when he was a young boy his entire tribe was wiped out, he witnessed his mother being gang-raped, his power awakened in an effort to defend his mother from said gang-rape and accidentally blew her up in the process, resulting in his being sent to the Kutou emperor, who raped him repeatedly. As a result he wants revenge on ''existence itself'' for giving him such a horrible life]]. But since Nakago had been portrayed as a CompleteMonster until this point, many fans simply regarded it as a KarmaHoudini moment instead.
* Rokudo Mukuro from ''{{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}!'' 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.
* Black [=WarGreymon=] from ''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.
* From ''{{Kurohime}}'': Possibly Rei who, along with his brother [[ThemeNaming Zero]] was forced to work for the man who killed their mother [[hottip:*:Kurohime witnesses her beloved Zero turn into [[TheHeartless a heartless]] shinigami, and risks her life (and the entire future) to go back in time to save him. When she gets to the past she discovers that Zero has a younger brother, Rei, whose quiet and bitter personality matches shinigami!Zero. Now she has to stop Rei, who has a shinigami curse, ''and'' Zero from becoming [=WDOWs=] while keeping her identity hidden. One unanswered mystery is that Rei has never been mentioned before... if the real Zero died, did Rei pull a {{Psycho}} and take on his brother's personality?]] and very nearly a young fortune teller who can show you the future with her magic bullets, but only if your will is strong enough to connect with the ''right'' bullet. Kurohime uses her own magic bullets to show the fortune teller's mother what will happen if she continues to abuse her daughter ("All I see is death... This world should die... starting with you!"), which appears to reform her. For his part, Rei (a potential {{shinigami}}) shows his affection to the fortune teller by offering to kill her mother.
* Russia of ''{{Axis Powers Hetalia}}'' is more of a Woobie Conquerer of Worlds, insisting that "[[{{TakeOverTheWorld}} all will become one with Russia]]". This trope is also played totally straight with him during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which he [[{{GoMadFromTheRevelation}} snaps]] and [[{{FreakOut}} starts to mow down his own people]] on the grounds that, basically, "they're not ''really'' Russians if they don't love me".
* [[BigBad Lucia]] from ''RaveMaster''. He's portrayed as virtually every JerkAss like trope on this site for most of his appearances, even condradicing any mildly humane moment shortly afterward. Until the ending when he starts [[BerserkerTears crying]] while fighting Haru because, as it turns out, the universe ''litterally'' exists to screw him over. [[http://www.onemanga.com/Rave/292/15/ He even lists all the massive wrongs done to him that no one ever did anything about, or even commended rather than tried to stop.]]
** By the way, he's figured the best way to handle the situation is to blow the world up.
* Diva from Blood+ somewhat counts, although the destroyer of worlds part only comes about simply because she ''exists.'' [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Chevaliers may love their 'queens']] but it seems Amshel loves power more. Diva just goes along because she's become embittered to the world due to her imprisonment as a child. Things would likely have turned out very differently if Nathan had simply abducted her and made her a star singer without the whole taking over the world and making everyone into Chiropterans aspect of Amshel's and James'. YMMV after the literal [[RapeTheDog dog raping, however.]]
* [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]], the guy in the picture, [[spoiler:is actually a subversion of this: Although he is the guy who ends up bringing on TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, eventually he realizes his mistake and brings it back - although whether others will follow suit is not addressed.]]

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* The [[MarvelUniverse Scarlet Witch]] undergoes a fluctuating life where the good (a family with the Avengers, marriage to her One True Wuv, having her longed-for kids) is outweighed by the bad (her father is a supervillain, her husband gets mindwiped and divorces her, her kids aren't real), along with a number of possessions, kidnappings, and multiple forced amnesia inflicted by her most trusted friends. Then she rewrites the universe. Then she ''does it AGAIN.''
* Caliginous in ''HeroSquared'' has decided that life is nothing but pain, misery, cruelty and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible. 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, psychologically tormented and suffering woman.

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* J.D. (Christian Slater) in ''{{Heathers}}''.
* Azrael in ''{{Dogma}}'': [[spoiler:"Human, have you ever been to hell? I'd rather not exist than endure that experience a second longer, and if I have to drag down everyone else with me... so be it"]].
* Nero the Romulan, from the new ''Film/StarTrek'', 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 Earth]].
* Davy Jones from PiratesOfTheCaribbean doesn't seem to want to destroy ''everything''- just everything that crosses his path. He's like this because his one true love [[spoiler: the goddess Calypso]] betrayed him (presumably for another man, though it's never elaborated on) centuries ago. Jones's agony was unbearable, so he cut out his own heart to end it. When that failed, he adopted a different tactic- find relief by sharing his pain with everyone else he meets.
* {{Carrie}} is certainly a {{Woobie}}, even if she doesn't quite destroy ''worlds.'' [[spoiler: Just most of her high school.]]
* [[TragicVillain Oswald Cobblepot]] in ''BatmanReturns'': Disfigured since birth, his aristocratic parents attempted to drown him in the sewers. He was found by a traveling circus, and was raised in the freak show as "The Penguin." While the public views him with sympathy, he has become a warped sociopath, plotting to murder all the first born sons of Gotham City. When the goddamn Batman foils him, he straps rockets to his hundreds (thousands?) of pet penguins, intending to use them in a suicide bombing to kill all of Gotham. And yet, you still can't help but pity him at death.
* Jean Grey in X-men: The Last Stand.

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* [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein's Monster]] (in the book, that is, not the movies) is the Ur-example. All of his rage against man, and against Victor Frankenstein in particular, would be gone if just ''one'' person would bother to associate with him. But HumansAreBastards, [[DownerEnding so]]...
* The Wintersmith in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel of the same name wants to win Tiffany's heart by saving people from their constant fear of death... forever.
** Also in ''Guards, Guards'' 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".
* ''{{Dragonlance}}'': Raistlin Majere has a life that progressively increases in Suck, until he decides that he's going to take vengeance by becoming a '''[[AGodAmI GOD]]'''. And he does it, too. Of course, [[spoiler:after he finds out that his godhood will destroy all of creation, leaving only himself in an empty universe, he... does exactly the same thing. SoYeah]].
** More specifically, that was an alternate-future Raistlin who was pretty much totally insane at that point. When main-timeline Raistlin realizes the consequences of his actions he ''does'' repent, and sacrifices himself to save both the world and (to him, more important) his own soul.
* In the ''{{Malazan Book of the Fallen}}'' by Steven Erikson, the Crippled God is in constant pain after being forcibly summoned and having subsequently crashed into the planet like a meteor. The Crippled God now tries to share his pain with everyone else. Several characters have speculated whether or not his followers' twisted faith won't let him heal or is it that his pain twists the followers' minds [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity (even more)]].
* In AlanDeanFoster's ''HumanxCommonwealth'' series, Flinx's "sister" Mahnahmi is given this treatment in a big way. Considering how messed up she is and what she's suffered in her life, it's hardly surprising that she's become nihilistic, but for some reason she insists on taking Flinx and everything he loves with her, even while he's busy saving the galaxy.
* Ineluki the Storm King, the BigBad of TadWilliams' ''MemorySorrowAndThorn''. It is said that he was the brightest light the [[TheFairFolk Sithi]] had ever known and had things been different, he might have led them out of their exile and into a new golden age. Instead, he went [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow down dark paths]], sacrificing [[SelfMadeOrphan his family]], [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope his soul]], and ultimately [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique his life]] to defend his people against the depredations of [[HumansAreBastards humanity]]. Even after death his hatred sustained him, turning him into a [[TheUndead dark spirit]] that seeks now to return ''everything'' to Unbeing in revenge for his suffering. In the end, this turns out to be the key to his defeat.
-->''That was the truth behind this terrible, burning thing. No creature in all the cosmos deserved what had happened to the Storm King.''
* In ''TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Summer Knight,'' [[spoiler:Aurora, the Lady of the Summer Court (generally the nicer of the two courts... Supposedly.)]] thinks it would be better to cause the end of the world than continue the harmful battles between the Faerie Courts.
* [[TheDragon Galadan Wolflord]] from ''TheFionavarTapestry'' turned rather genocidal towards mortals after one stole his girlfriend- but when said mortal wound up getting her killed, he went crazy and decided the only way to end his pain was to destroy the universe. The only time in the trilogy he shows genuine emotion is when he finds some of the heroes apparently "desecrating" his shrine to her [[spoiler:and the very end, when the heroes spare him and he realizes that there is some good in the world- and in himself]].
* The Lazar from the ''DeathGateCycle'' have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]]- they are undead beings caught forever in a state of hellish agony between life and death, and the only way they can have any release at all is by delivering others into the same torment. The only real exceptions are Jonathon (who's a straight {{Woobie}} mixed with MessianicArchetype), and, ironically, Kleitus, leader of most of the Lazar. He was enough of a MagnificentBastard in life to keep his head following reanimation (though admittedly he's a bit more AxeCrazy now), and plans to use the other Lazar as his tools to purge the universe of sentient life, so he'll be left ruling an empire of the dead.
* The Chandrian, specifically Lanre, of The Name of the Wind; Lanre went insane when his love died, and in the unsuccessful attempt to bring her back made himself immortal. With suicide now not an option, he decided to kill the rest of the world instead.
* In Richard Tierney's [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu Mythos]] novel ''The Drums of Chaos'' ''Jesus'' is a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie Destroyer of Worlds]]. His sacrificial death on the cross is intended to open a gateway for the Great Old Ones to come to destroy the world and end everyone's suffering. One of the two heroes of the novel, John Taggart, also used to be a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie Destroyer of Worlds]], but changed his mind. Since the world of the [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu Mythos]] is a [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack World]], especially in Tierney's version, where it crosses over with George Orwell's [[NineteenEightyFour Nineteen Eighty Four]], it is not clear who is in the right, so it is very much an example of [[GreyandGrayMorality Grey and Gray Morality]].

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* Adam Monroe on [[{{Series/Heroes}} Heroes]] is arguably an example, as his path of destruction is fueled by his heartbreak over [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Yaeko]].
** That and living through over three hundred years of man's inhumanity to man and seeing mankind never learn from their mistakes, repeating the same stupid actions over and over again. Think about it, the guy's lived through more horrible shit than anyone on earth. That would make ''anyone'' crazy.
* Dr. K in ''PowerRangersRPM''. She unleashed a possibly alien computer virus that is suspected to have nuked the planet, and is confirmed to have wiped out all of humanity outside of one city. Her motive? Escape from a top-secret government think-tank where she was being more or less imprisoned.
** In her defense, the guards caught her before she could set up a firewall. So she ''[[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds unintentionally]]'' killed most of humanity in an attempt to escape unjust imprisonment.
* Several episodes of the new ''DoctorWho'' series have shown how easily the Doctor could become one of these due to all he's endured throughout the centuries, in particular his [[FateWorseThanDeath treatment]] of the eponymous villains in "The Family of Blood". It's also heavily implied that the end of the Time War, in which he personally killed billions and almost annihilated two ancient civilisations, was the result of his despair over all the destruction the war had caused.

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* The subject of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKCccyZvtIo Everything Burns]] by Anastacia & Ben Moody. The song could probably describe ninety percent of the people on this page.

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* {{Medea}}. OlderThanFeudalism, and if you count the myth that came before it, OlderThanDirt.
* The titular character in {{Stephen Sondheim}}'s ''SweeneyTodd'', after being sent to prison for fifteen years on a trumped-up charge, returning home to find his wife dead ([[spoiler: well not really]]) and his daughter adopted by the man responsible for his suffering, and failing in his big attempt at revenge, finally goes AxCrazy and becomes this at the end of Act One.

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* Belkt, the BigBad of ''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 (as well as AliensAndMonsters) 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:CloningBlues 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]].
*Duminuss from [[SuperRobotWars Super Robot Wars Reversal]], an artificial being (unsure of what she actually is, as she is only seen as a trippy eye glyph with a feminine/shota voice... and several HumongousMecha) whose only wish is to know her purpose. Her creator shunned her, and then she killed it. [[spoiler:Actually, her creator, Dark Brain, didn't die. He just implanted that memory into her just for the lulz and left her.]] She shifts dimensions and invades the EXCELLENCE team labs searching for a time machine, to ask her creator her purpose. She constructs 3 children, who are loyal and fight for her. Then Duminuss is destroyed, and her children kill themselves to bring her back. Then the heroes kill her again. She explodes, crying over how she'll die without ever knowing what was her true purpose. Unfortunately, [[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Original Generation Gaiden]] threw this out of the window and made her an unrepentant JerkAss...
* [[spoiler:Sirus, aka Dark Emperor Griffon,]] from ''DarkCloud 2''. [[spoiler:Originally a member of the Moon Tribe (aka anthropomorphic bunny) who loved nothing more than the flowers in the palace gardens, he was accused of trespassing. Alexandra [[RescueRomance interceded for him]] and made him Garden Keeper. But then invading armies searching for the [[CosmicKeystone Atlamillia]] utterly ''annihilated'' the kingdom, leaving it a blasted wasteland, and killed Alexandra]]. [[LoveMakesYouCrazy His grief was so great]] he swore [[OmnicidalManiac vengeance on all of mankind]], and started systematically ''erasing it from existence'' via TimeTravel, acquiring the MacGuffin for himself so he could reduce the world to nothingness. Regardless, the player and the protagonists are made to feel sorry for him by means of flashback scenes scattered throughout [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Moonflower Palace]].
* In ''{{Fable}} II'', 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 [[DeadLittleSister murders your sister]], along with countless others, including [[spoiler:your wife and kids, if you have a family, and even [[AndYourLittleDogToo your canine companion]].]]
* ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.'s]]'' Alma is a dead straight example of this trope. [[spoiler:Having been driven insane by her own psychic powers as a child, experimented on and locked up since she was eight years old, medicated into a coma and locked away in a shield vault for most of her life, forcibly impregnanted and then having both of her children taken away, then killed once the project was terminated, all by her ''own father'', and ''then'' repeatedly shot at by ''one of her own children'' while trying to embrace him]], it's no surprise that the second she gets loose, people ''die''. ''F.E.A.R. 2'' continues her rampage as she tries to get revenge on everyone who ruined her life, and kills anyone who happens to get in her way.
** Except for Becket, who she, um, [[spoiler:[[StalkerWithACrush "covets."]]]]
** In [[spoiler:The Point Man's]] defense, being embraced by Alma tends to be ''a death sentence''.
* Practically every villain of the ''FinalFantasy'' series from VII onward and arguably the villains from many of the previous games and spin-off lines.
** [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]], thanks to the revelation that he is the product of a MadScientist's experiment and compounded by the effect of falling into the Lifestream and being exposed to the voices of all souls not currently alive, warping his mind even more. His crossing of the MoralEventHorizon keeps him from truly being a [[TheWoobie Woobie]], but then again, he is the premiere DracoInLeatherPants of the ''FinalFantasy'' series.
*** In FFVII, a much more straight example of this trope is [[spoiler: Dyne]].
** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FinalFantasyVIII= Final Fantasy VIII]] has [[spoiler: Ultimecia. Since she is supposedly Rinoa in a future where Squall isn't there to protect her from those who persecute the sorceresses, she begins to despise humanity and eventually goes so far as to merge all time periods into one singular moment in time where only she can exist.]]
** Kuja in ''FinalFantasyIX,'' after learning that [[spoiler:his lifespan is limited and will soon run out]], throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum and decides to [[spoiler:[[TimeTravel travels back to the BEGINNING OF TIME]] to destroy the Original Crystal and thus the entire universe.]]
** Seymour in ''FinalFantasyX''. He was subject to FantasticRacism due to being born a HalfHumanHybrid, had to watch his mother perform a HeroicSacrifice to save those people while his father nodded approvingly, all before the age of 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]]? His idea of [[spoiler:destroying Spira to save it from further pain]] actually sounds half-sane. He was waaaay too far gone to TakeAThirdOption.
*** Ditto Shuyin in the sequel. Of course, given that he was literally subjected to ''a thousand years of '''non-stop''''' MindRape until the start of the game, it's [[TheWoobie kinda understandable]].
** It's implied that [[CharacterDerailment this affects]] [[FinalFantasyVI Kefka Palazzo]] in [[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia: Final Fantasy]] during his, surprisingly [[AlasPoorVillain touching]], final scene in which Terra speculates that the reason why Kefka became an AxCrazy NietzscheWannabe was because of his "broken heart".
* [[spoiler:Sephiran/Lehran]] tries to call the judgment of a goddess down upon Tellius in ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', all because he thought it would be the only way for him to finally be put out of his misery and that humanity was completely irredeemable after witnessing 850 years of slavery, tragedy, and war.
* ''[[http://altogether.insani.org/2008/2.html Crimsoness]]'' casts one of these as the PlayerCharacter.
* Durandal, an AI from the ''{{Marathon}}'' trilogy, was deliberately threatened by his creator in order to drive him to rampancy (as part of an attempt to safely study rampancy), made to open and close doors for hundreds of years in order to stifle his creative development and slow his rampancy, and was probably about to be experimented on more when he entered the "anger" stage of rampancy, secretly contacted hostile aliens and drew them to Tau Ceti to enslave or kill every single human on the colony or in the ship. Though he becomes less of a {{woobie}} later, when he turns into a BadAss {{Chessmaster}}.
** Lets be fair to the bastard. He brought the Phor as a distraction so he could get loose. Once that was done, he started working on stopping them, freeing their slaves (admittedly to work for him), and helping the Security Officer do that which he does so well. The extermination of those on Tau Ceti IV was not intentional.
* The King of Planet FM from ''{{Mega Man Star Force}}''. [[spoiler:Everybody, including his family wanted to kill him to overtake his throne. As a result, he stopped trusting people. He destroyed Planet AM and almost Earth, because he thought that the people there would want to kill him as well.]]
** Jack and Queentia from Star Force 3 also fit this trope like a glove. [[spoiler:They were once the prince and princess of a small, but prosperous country, which was attacked by neighbor nations for their advanced EM technology. And it just went downhill from there...]]
** [[spoiler:You could probably also say this for Burai/Rogue also in the 3rd game. After the first time you fight him on your way to fight Jack Corvus, he may have shared his backstory saying something along the lines of "Go ahead and save him. Later on he will betray you.".]]
* Strega of ''{{Persona 3}}'' is a trio of this, all of them being artificially [[BlessedWithSuck implanted with the powers of Persona by the Kirijo Group and being forced to take drugs that shorten their lifespan in order to control their powers]]. The leader Takaya later [[spoiler:embraces [[EldritchAbomination Nyx]] coming to destroy life, proclaiming that his fight against [=SEES=] is him fighting for his way of life.]]
** [[YourMileageMayVary For some]], this status is lost when [[spoiler:they murder Shinjiro because he tried to keep them from murdering an elementary-school student]]. Bad luck is bad luck, but [[MoralEventHorizon some things cannot be justified]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Ryoji]]. The herald of a goddess of death... who never asked for any of it, but who cannot resist because he was literally created for the job.
* The ''ShadowHearts'' series has a few, but [[spoiler:Masaji Kato]] from Covenant wins the cake. Having the woman you love being executed for treason? Bad, really bad. Managing to clone her, doing your best for making her clone remember everything so that you'd be finally happy together, only to have killed her again, and this time permanently, just as she starts to love you too? OUCH. No wonder he snapped after this and tried to create a new world by destroying the current one... Even the protagonists feel sympathy for him as the final battle starts.
* Alessa Gillespie from ''SilentHill'' is another textbook example. She was [[spoiler:burned to the point of near death but kept alive in excruciating pain, force-fed experimental hallucinogenics, and forcibly impregnated with ''God''. This was all done by her mother]]. Claudia from the third game and Walter from the fourth certainly count as well, wanting to summon a CosmicHorror they view as divine ("God" and "Mother" respectively) to cleanse the world of pain and loneliness.
* The Ur-Quan of ''StarControl''. [[spoiler:After spending thousands of years psychically enslaved by evil toads who forced them to exterminate whole species of their friends, only finally clearing their minds long enough to revolt by putting themselves through unspeakable agony, anyone would be in a bad mood]]. The ''nice'' ones want to forcibly subjugate all sentient life in the galaxy. [[OmnicidalManiac The rest want to eliminate it altogether]].
* The main antagonist in ''Super PaperMario'', Count Bleck, who wanted to use the Chaos Heart to undo and redo all reality because he was heartbroken by his one true love. [[spoiler:Except it actually turns out it's without the "redo" part. He's ''that'' messed up by the loss of his love.]]
* [[spoiler:Kohaku]] of ''{{Tsukihime}}'' has become so emotionally broken that she thinks of herself as a doll and has no idea how she really feels about anything. Oh, and she's plotting the deaths of [[spoiler:Akiha and SHIKI, is implied or perhaps stated to be involved in Makihasa's death and may view Shiki as a target as well, though she doesn't succeed there in any path. It's okay if everyone dies except Hisui, pretty much]]. Oh, and she's indirectly behind all the [[SerialKiller serial killing]] going on in the Far Side routes.
* Depending on how charitable you feel, the darker Forsaken from ''WorldOfWarcraft'' fall into this trope: their penchant for obscenely lethal plagues, doomsday weapons, and tendency to respond to any threat violently are a direct result of having once been decent, devout humans and elves before having been infected by the Plague of Undeath, killed, resurrected into undeath, corrupted by the Lich King and forced to massacre friends and family, and finally breaking free of his control only to be rejected by their faith and persecuted and hunted down by any remaining friends, family, and acquaintances. No wonder so many of them snap ''with apocalyptic fury''.
** Sargeras, the creator of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]] was so traumatized by the evil of some of the demons he fought against as the pantheon's chosen warrior that he decided that an universe where such things were allowed to happen was flawed, its attempts at Order pointless, and should be remade.
** Despite the fact that he wants to destroy the world because he doesn't like how mortals are using magic, Malygos can count because, let's face it, [[TraumaCongaLine his life sucked before he ultimatly snapped.]]
* Nessiah of ''YggdraUnion'' [[spoiler:has spent the past thousand-odd years living in misery, unable to age or die, as a punishment for being a pacifist in Asgard's time of war. He has spent his life since then [[RageAgainstTheHeavens trying to get revenge]] or just to free himself, and makes a nice mess of the mortal world he lives in doing so]].
* [[spoiler:King Valentine]] in ''Odin Sphere'' throws a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum in the final book by [[spoiler:using the Cauldron to turn Leventhan into a really pissed-off Sheng Long, which ends up destroying him along with pretty much the rest of existence]]. Granted, he got broken pretty hard before and during the story, beginning with [[spoiler:being forced to kill his own daughter because she had an affair with the king of an enemy country]], then dying horribly, along with most of his kingdom, after being betrayed [[spoiler:by his own son]], enduring endless torturer in the netherworld, and escaping it only to be spitefully denied the complete destruction he was so desperately seeking [[spoiler:by the dude who started the whole thing by shagging his daughter, no less]].
* [[spoiler:Vayne]] in ''ManaKhemia'' after he [[IAmWho discovered the truth]] and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation failed to take it well]]. [[spoiler:Faced with the problem of honestly thinking the best thing for the world would be if [[DrivenToSuicide he were to disappear]] while at the same time ''desperately'' not wanting to face the lonliness he lived with before coming to [[WizardingSchool Al Revis]], he decides to take the school and everybody in it with him.]]
* [[spoiler:Xion]] in ''[[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days]]'', since her whole existence is pretty much a TraumaCongaLine.
* [[spoiler:Sakura]] in ''FateStayNight'' eventually decides ([[spoiler:with the help of the devil that is possessing her]]) that since her life sucks so much, she's just going to [[spoiler:absorb Shirou and Tohsaka, kill everyone she doesn't like and then give birth to the devil]]. Well, the last part probably wasn't too high on the agenda but she didn't really care if it happened or not.
**She never actually [[spoiler:decided to absorb Shirou and Rin until the very end of the final battle, when Rin decides to tell her how little she actually cares (which in itself is a total lie).]] Prior to that, she [[spoiler:actually passes up several opportunities to kill them, and even comes to warn them and asks Rin to run away with Shirou.]] She still fits this trope, though, because she certainly did seem to be intending to [[spoiler:release Angra Mainyu (with prompting from Zouken).]]
* In ''{{Xenogears}}'', we don't know for sure how many times [[spoiler:Fei and Elly reincarnated Themselves]], but for 10,000 years the scenario has been mostly the same for [[spoiler:they find each other, fall in love, and when they seem to be about to have a little [[HappilyMarried marital bliss]] they die an ghorrible and painful death]]. If you had the painful experiment he was subject for in his childhood, [[spoiler:Feis end up with a multiple personality disorder, with TWO of his personalities wanting to destroy the world: one is able to exist independantly and jump from body to body, and the other one is a PersonOfMassDestruction]]. And that's not all: [[spoiler:Krelian, a friend of Fei in a prevous life is another woobie ready to destroy the world if it allows him to be "reunited with God"]]. With that many {{Physical God}}s and {{Magnificent Bastard}}s in the same planet, you can guess that ''Xenogears'' world is not [[WorldHalfEmpty the most pleasant place to be]].
* [[spoiler:Professor Gerald]] from ''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, basically ''all that was important to him'' in rapid succesion,]] its hard not to feel a bit sorry for him.
* Elpizo from the ''MegaManZero'' series exhibits traits of this trope, first being sentenced to death for discovering records about a past [[MassHypnosis catastrophe]] in the ruined library ''he was ordered to examine''. He escapes this fate, only to get lots of people killed while leading a failed assault on his former rulers; this drives him to obsession and megalomania, and he decides he wants to [[KillAllHumans re-enact the aforementioned catastrophe]].
* [[spoiler:Oersted]] of ''LiveALive''.
*Kerrigan from StarCraft Killed her mom (and a whole mess of other folks) by way of psychic accident accident, watched a kitten die of cancer, was forced to choose between killing her mentally ill father or her sadistic headmaster (she just broke his gun), was forced to decapitate a rebel leader (and steal his head), was experimented on, and was betrayed by her father figure. Then she got [[BodyHorror infested]] by a HordeOfAlienLocusts. Is it any wonder she's a little crazy? Look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn't be.
* I'd say Kalas of BatenKaitos just barely avoided becoming this. Just barely.
* The only reason [[SonicTheHedgehog Emerl]] doesn't end up as one of these is because [[spoiler: Sonic [[ShootTheDog shoots]] [[PlayerPunch the]] [[TearJerker dog]] before it can happen]].
* Yggdrasil of ''TalesOfSymphonia''. 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.
* Ratchet, of [[RatchetAndClank the Ratchet and Clank series]] - he's a walking [[ApocalypseHow class 1]] at the very least, though he manages to avoid wallowing in his existential angst and/or loneliness pretty well by [[ReluctantMadScientist keeping busy]].

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* Before she [[PowerOfLove mellowed out a bit,]] Galatea fit this trope in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' She explains her position [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080722.html thusly.]]
* [[ElGoonishShive Dan Shive]] admitted that Lord Tedd has a FreudianExcuse lurking[[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-02-25 in the shadows.]] [[KudzuPlot Not]] [[BrotherChuck that]] [[TheChrisCarterEffect it]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot matters.]]
* Back in 2000, the webcomic ''{{Fluble}}'' actually had a [[http://techhouse.brown.edu/cgi-bin/fluble/vault.pl?date=20000208 storyline]] about a space monstrosity named Woobie, who wanted to destroy the world because he felt unloved.
* ''DarthsAndDroids'' seems to be casting Jengo Fett in this role.
* Sandra Eastlake from ''{{Zebra Girl}}''. After trying for two years to come to terms with accidentally being transformed (through no fault of her own) into an obviously non-human demon who cannot eat or even taste food properly, cannot type properly (her fingers are razor-sharp foot-long claws), cannot sound normal (her voice sounds like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJCYr7Skf_g the modulated noise of a cat being strangled]]), cannot interact within normal society or even hold a normal job, surviving multiple attempts on her and her friends' lives, being rendered incapable of intimate contact due to her bodily fluids being ''acid'', and becoming her town's very own urban monster legend, she is finally pushed over the edge by a wizard who goes out of his way to ''provoke her into becoming completely evil so that he can successfully poison her with an evil-killing toxin''. When even that fails, he simply drags her to Hell while the whole town stands by and does nothing, because he happened to look more human than she does. She finally snaps when [[spoiler:''after they both arrive in hell'', he transforms into a demon and threatens to spend the rest of eternity torturing her.]] By that point she '''literally''' has nothing left to lose.
** And as icing on the cake, consider that the only reason said wizard even knew about her in the first place is because ''she contacted '''him''' to ask for help''.
* Tavor from 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 erase the city representing its last hope from existence.
* What, noone's mentioned [[SluggyFreelance Oasis]]? All she wants is her one true love to return that love and untill he does, she'll slaughter everything in her path.
* And then there's LastBlood, where 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 his best friend Sullivan's popularity, and the latter being chosen by his LoveInterest. This earned him the qualification of [[http://lastblood.keenspot.com/main/2007/11/15/page-99-whiny-little-bitch/ whiny little bitch]], which the fans made his official nick, shorted up as [=WLB=]]].

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* In ''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 re-start human civilization.]]

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* Butters from ''SouthPark'' tries really hard to do this in the form of Professor Chaos, but fails since he is just too adorable and inherently innocent to [[PokeThePoodle do anything really destructive or dangerous.]]
* Terra from ''TeenTitans'', in stark contrast to the unsympathetic bitch from the original comics.
* A chunk of the ''PhineasAndFerb'' fandom views MadScientist Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz as ineffectually trying to fulfill this trope due to the [[TheUnfavorite way]] [[ButtMonkey he's]] [[ChewToy treated]] in the series.
** Heck, he once built a brainwashing machine just to force people to come to his birthday party.
*YourMileageMayVary, depending on your views of him, but some fans view Tai Lung of KungFuPanda fame to be this. He was denied the Dragon Scroll and was turned on by his father-figure, so he went on a rampage in the Valley of Peace, destroying anything and anyone in his path, until he was eventually stopped by [[TheDumbledore Master Oogway]].
*Demona of {{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.
** Made all the worse by the fact that, since she's immortal, she's CursedWithAwesome, since she'll outlive everyone and thing she's ever cared about at all. Besides which, 5 words: "The access code is... Alone."

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