History Main / DestroyerDeity

* TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}:
** Amoth City-Smiter, Sub-Director of Tumbled Ruins, is one of the few gods to benefit from the Age of Sorrows, his domain of ruins and destruction increasing well, indeed. His vote in the Celestial Bureaucracy is so assumed - to destroy property - that he doesn't even show up to planning meetings, his vote already cast. He exists in contrast to Wun Ja, Goddess of the Shining Metropolis, who seeks the benefit of and increase in number of civilizations in Creation.

* The God of Darkness from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is responsible for natural disasters such as floods and famine, was the creator of [[AnimalisticAbomination the creatures of Grimm]], and was responsible for [[spoiler:the destruction of the original race of humanity when Salem led them in rebellion]]. [[DarkIsNotEvil However]], he aided his brother in the creation of humanity and imparted on them the gift of choice ([[spoiler:along with the ability to perform magic in the case of the aforementioned original human race]]).

** [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse7 Beerus]], the main villain ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', who can destroy planets without breaking a sweat. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality While not exactly evil]], [[JerkassGods he isn't a nice person either]], and he's the God of Destruction, so it's his job to destroy worlds so it makes sense he doesn't see anything morally wrong with his actions. It's actually established that old planets have to be destroyed so new planets can be born; the problem with Beerus is that he acts independently of the Supreme Kais, the Gods of Creation (even worse now that there's only two of them left, and he is more powerful than any/all of them combined, so they can't really try to stop him), chooses what planets he will destroy at his leisure, and [[DisproportionateRetribution he can, has and will destroy even important planets without a second thought if he's irritated enough, and he's rather temperamental]]. It's revealed there's one God of Destruction in each of the 12 universes, and ''Super'' introduces his twin brother Champa, the God of Destruction of Universe 6.

* ''VideoGame/{{Freespace}}'': The [[EnigmaticAliens Shivans]] were named after the Hindu god due to the [[OmnicidalManiac indiscriminate destruction]] they bring, but the FanSequel ''VideoGame/BluePlanet'' reveals them to be the physical emanations of a SentientCosmicForce of destruction. They exist for the sole purpose of [[CivilizationDestroyer exterminating advanced species]]... but [[NecessarilyEvil only those species that are themselves destroyers who threaten the existence of other life.]] The full scope of their 'duties' isn't clear yet (and possibly [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow unknowable]]), but destruction permeates every perceivable aspect of their existence:

** Lorkhan, the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] of Mundus, the mortal plane, is theorized to be one in some accounts to note:

* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': While his fellow [[GodOfHumanOrigin Demiurges]]' BossSubtitles all end with "God of the Seven-Part World", Jagganoth's titles end with "[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Destroyer of the Seven-Part World]]". Jagganoth's many titles include "Red-Eyed Heir" (an InUniverse way of calling him {{Satan}}'s Successor), [[TheScourgeOfGod God's Monster]], [[GodEating the God-Eater]], and "the annihilator of falsehood".[[note]]The latter seems like ArsonMurderAndJaywalking until you remember that the CreationMyth of the setting states that existence itself is a lie told by TheCreator YISUN. By definition, then, the "annihilator of falsehood" is the annihilator of creation.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Jagganoth's job in the GroundhogDayLoop that the setting is seemingly stuck in is to battle and kill [[TheHero The Successor]], leading to the death of Creation and the resetting of the loop. Having fought this battle an uncountable number of times and never failed, and being one of the few beings in creation with enough RippleEffectProofMemory to realize what's happening to everyone, Jagganoth is more than tired of this job at this point [[OmnicidalManiac and wants to destroy both the loop and all of existence along with it to free himself and everyone else from their fate]].]]

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** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' shows a BadFuture that introduces one called the Breaker-Apart. [[spoiler:It's the Hulk after being possessed by The-One-Below-All. The Breaker-Apart takes the Hulk's potential to become bigger and stronger to its logical extreme, being a CosmicEntity capable of destroying anything. At the end of the story it's revealed that [[PrimeTimeline Hulk Prime]] was one of these all along, as the TopGod The-One-Above-All created him to serve as a counterbalance to himself being a force for creation, while cryptically telling him YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre.]]
* The dragon Barbatos from ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' was once tasked with destroying unstable worlds in order for them to be recycled and reused by the Forger of Worlds to make new, stable ones. Unfortunately, Barbatos' lust for destruction turned him into a conqueror, and it led him to kill the Forger. He then took it a step further by beginning a conquest to drag the entire multiverse into the Dark Multiverse where it would twist and corrupt everything it touches.

* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' had Rose Tatoo, the incarnation of murder.
* Fenrir, Abonsam, and Bet from ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' are gods associated with ending the world in their own respective mythologies, and thus orchestrate a plan to end the universe after Yahweh abandons it. They try and trick a mentally ill man named Charlie to spill family blood (in his case being his wife and daughter) and water Yggdrasil with it, poisoning the world tree and unravelling reality at a faster rate. Fenrir would later assist in the war on the Silver City in an effort to prevent Elaine from replacing God, God himself stating that he is only doing all of this because he is a "god of entropy" and [[ForTheEvulz that is simply what entropy gods do]].

* The fifth novel of the Moribito series has a girl named Asra who is a member of an oppressed minority group called the Tal in a kingdom known as Rota. The girl herself is not the deity, obviously, but a vessel for a cruel and destructive god named Talhamaya who is worshipped by her people. This god comes into the human world whenever the spirit world's century-long spring begins.

* ''Literature/{{Abhorsen}}'': Orannis the Destroyer is one of the Nine Bright Shiners, seven of whom created the universe while the eighth stood back and watched. Guess what the ninth wants to do?

* Jame, heroine of the Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath, is an avatar of Regonereth—the Third Face of God, That-Which-Destroys. The Kencyr God also has creative and preservative aspects, but Regonereth is pure destruction.

** The Destroyer in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" is a demon that seeks to devour the world.
** Sutekh from The Pyramids of Mars was also known as ''The Destroyer'' and was certainly powerful enough to be a god (and was worshipped as one) but was actually an [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien ancient alien]].

** There are many grim reapers who take souls. However, Death himself is one of the Four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse and says that it's his job to [[BeyondTheImpossible reap God himself]]. [[spoiler:Though it might not necessarily be him personally, since it turns out that being Death is a GodJob and he gets replaced by one of his Reapers, Billy, after Dean kills Death first.]]
** A more literal example is The Darkness, aka God's "sister" Amara. They're both primordial entities, but she embodies Chaos and Destruction and tries to unmake reality by [[RealityBreakingParadox killing God]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} has Angra Mainyu (aka Ahriman), the evil twin of Ahura Mazda (aka Ormazd) who is equal in power to his good brother, however he is the embodiment of everything evil in the cosmos including death and destruction. Angra Mainyu's ultimate goal is the [[OmnicidalManiac malicious destruction of the entire universe]].
* Myth/ClassicalMythology has Typhon, the DraconicAbomination offspring of [[MotherNature Gaia]] and [[{{Hell}} Tartarus]] who combines this trope with GaiasVengeance. There's also the titan of fire Perses, though little else is known about him so it could be a confusion with a different character.

* In UsefulNotes/{{Islam}}ic texts, the angel Israfil (a.k.a. Raphael) is described as "the herald of the apocalypse" whose horn sound (the musical instrument) signifies, well, the apocalypse.
* In Literature/TheBible, {{God}} is both the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, which means He's both TheMaker ''and'' this. Then again, as a monotheistic deity, He kinda already fills any and all godly roles by default.
* The Fierce Deities of Mahayana and Vajrarayan UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} are Buddhas who take the form of angry monsters to destroy the enemies (both human and non-human) of Dharma, although like Shiva they are not evil -- quite the opposite. Some scholars believe they are actually a Hindu influence over Buddhism as, among other things, they are very Shiva-like and have multiple arms.

* ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'': The Devourer Wurm is believed to be a primal spirit of destruction that tears asunder everything civilised. The Circle Orboros hope to keep it from rendering humanity extinct [[WellIntentionedExtremist through the violent destruction of civilisation]], thereby ending its wrath.

*** ''Warhammer 40000'' has the [[SpaceElves Eldar]] worship Khaine as a God of War and Destruction, as Khaine is responsible for slaying the single greatest hero the Eldar had and was responsible for torturing another of their gods. In the present, he is revered as their god of war and ruin by the Aspect Warriors, Eldar warriors who have lost control of their hunger for war. He also crosses over with PhysicalGod by having broken into countless millions of pieces, which can only be activated by a sacrifice, to become a fragment of his utter potential as a force of complete fiery decimation as the Avatar of Khaine.

* ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'': Accanax presides over Destroc, the magic of destruction. He's a very good match for it in personality -- sullen and violent by turns, he is interested in creating little besides monsters, sometimes spawning a dozen species of horrors one at a time to scatter on the edges of civilization. He is one of the likeliest Verb gods to manifest in the Tree itself; when he does so he appears as a dark thundercloud in whose shadow happen terrible things.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

** [[EvilGod Alduin]] is a colossal black [[DraconicAbomination dragon]] and BeastOfTheApocalypse. He is destined to "eat the world" at the end of [[EternalRecurrence every cycle of time]], resetting it for a new world to take form. However, he isn't the BigBad in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' because of this. Rather, it's because he has decided to shirk his "destroy the world" responsibility and would rather TakeOverTheWorld instead.

* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Asura becomes this by the end of the game, "Asura the Destructor". He's gigantic enough to crush planets and blast stars to nothing. He's also the rare example of a completely ''benevolent'' destroyer god, [[spoiler:which serves him up as a nice contrast to [[TheMaker Chakravartin]], who despite his title is very much GodIsEvil.]]
* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': Malthael, once the Archangel of Wisdom, seeks to be this in the expansion ''Reaper of Souls''. And it's your job to stop him.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'': [[CosmicEntity Dark Gaia]] is an EldritchAbomination that clashes with [[spoiler:Light Gaia]] at the center of the Earth, tasked with destroying the planet and killing all its inhabitants every millions of years or so [[spoiler:so Light Gaia could restore the planet to make way for new life to spawn]]. When Eggman cracks open the planet to unleash Dark Gaia and harness its power, it incorrectly thinks that the time of destruction is at hand and upon being restored at the climax of the game sets out to start its job, forcing Sonic [[spoiler:and Chip/Light Gaia]] to take it down.
** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': [[MakingASplash Chaos]] is called the "God of Destruction". While it's not very likely that it was born this trope, it certainly earned its title after [[spoiler:genociding the Echidnas and flooding Station Square]].
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagicVIIIDayOfTheDestroyer'': The titular entity is more of a PhysicalGod-slash-SufficientlyAdvancedAlien but he does have godlike powers and his sole purpose in the world is to destroy it. It's up to the PlayerParty to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch him out]]. [[spoiler:Except you never do, even if stopping his plan seems to lead to his death. He ''would'' crush you, but he invokes DoubleThink as a way to let you go unmolested, give you the means to undo his plan, and hint at what you need to do with those means, while still being able to tell himself that he isn't doing anything that could stop his plan. Turns out he feels really bad about being forced to destroy your world needlessly, but his failsafes keep him from stopping.]]

* ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' and ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'': The Undreaming is revealed to be this in the latter game. [[spoiler:Just like the universe was brought into existence by the ''Dreaming'' of a CreatorDeity named Lux, the First Dreamer, the Undreaming is the DarkIsNotEvil counterpart to Lux that continuously destroys parts of the Dreaming in order to make space for new stuff. The game's villains have actually imprisoned the Undreaming to harness its destructive powers, and the heroes' main goal turns out to be to free it, restoring the Balance between it and Lux.]]
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Very little is said of [[TheGhost Armok]], but they seem to be [[TheMaker creator]] and destroyer alike of the Dwarf Fortress worlds. And perhaps a representation of the player.
* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Pokémon Y]]'': Yveltal, the mascot [[OlympusMons Legendary Pokémon]], is the embodiment of destruction, contrasting Xerneas, embodiment of life.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' reveals that [[spoiler: [[CardCarryingVillain Yuuki Terumi]] is this... when he's wearing Hakumen's armor. His body, the armor, became a dormant shell free of evil which would later be occupied by Jin Kisaragi, becoming Hakumen. His will, or mind, became the entity that would later be known as Yuuki Terumi. When mind and body reunite, [[SatanicArchetype Susanoo-no-Mikoto]] is reborn. His personality changes completely, becoming a ruthless killing machine that seeks to destroy everything in sight. He hates humans because they are creations of his sister Amaterasu, who he also hates with a burning passion. Destroying what Amaterasu creates is the only thing that gives his existence meaning, as well as sustains his life.]]
* Among ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'''s pantheon of Twelve is Rhalgr the Destroyer, breaker of worlds, who is the patron deity of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud warrior nation]] of Ala Mhigo.
* ''VideoGame/DaikaijuDaikessenVersus'': Ascha'Vovina is a [[XenomorphXerox Gigeresque]] six-armed DraconicAbomination that was used as a BioweaponBeast by an evil god of war, who sicced it on countless civilizations until it was worshiped and feared as a BeastOfTheApocalypse.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': The final boss is Malroth, god of destruction, although it's mostly an InformedAttribute because he [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere doesn't appear at all before the final battle, and at best is mentioned on an item]]. ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2'' expands on this, where he's an amnesiac GodInHumanForm who is very good at smashing things. This Malroth averts GodOfEvil; he's not just a god of killing and despoiling, but harvesting, forestry, mining, foraging, and the hunt. All forms of breaking things to make something new.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' has the FinalBoss, [[spoiler: Void Termina, whose BossSubtitles label him as "The Destroyer of Worlds". Indeed, he was summoned into this world via [[ApocalypseCult the Cult of the Jamba Heart]] because its high priest [[SinisterMinister Hyness]] wanted revenge on those who cast him to the edge of the universe, even after he helped save them from "a nightmare of galactic proportions". Interestingly, Void Termina wasn't initially aware of his purpose after being summoned, only regaining his sentience after his inner essence (which looks ''[[WhamShot exactly like Kirby]]'') was awakened.]]
** However, there are some hints in "[[BossRush The Ultimate Choice]]" sub-game that there's more to him than this trope. [[spoiler: Void Soul, the TrueFinalBoss of Soul Melter difficulty, mentions that Void Termina is filled with positive or negative energy depending on how he was summoned. His mission to destroy the universe was [[TheCorruptible brought upon by the hatred and evil Hyness had during his ritual]], and [[AllThereInTheManual the pause screen description]] mentions that there's a possibility that Void Termina can be reincarnated as a friend.]]
** And this is further compounded by Soul Melter EX, the secret HarderThanHard difficulty. [[spoiler: This time, the TrueFinalBoss is simply named "Void", and his pause screen description mentions the possibility that instead of being an OmnicidalManiac, there's the chance that [[DefeatMeansFriendship he'll instead dream of food, napping, and friends reuniting]]. And that seems to be the case upon defeating him, [[GoOutWithASmile where he has a cheerful, Kirby-esque smile before dying]].]]

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': K'Z'K is initially introduced as a demon who took over the world and caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in an alternative future that a time traveler has come to stop. Then he tries to do the same in the past, and there's talk about prophecies of him doing so. But later, a demon cultist of K'Z'K states that he ''is'' The End -- all a prophecy can say about his causing the end of the world can relevantly say is ''when'' and ''how''. Finally, it's revealed that [[spoiler:K'Z'K is not an ordinary if really powerful demon, but one of the pillars of creation, the counterpart of the Creator created at the very beginning: Kozoaku, the Destroyer. He's been causing the end of the world -- extinction events -- repeatedly since forever while the Creator and its lesser allies try to stop him, including by trapping him in the form of a demon.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has [[EldritchAbomination The Snarl]], a monster that was accidentally created when the gods first made the world, and sealed away in another dimension after it devoured a pantheon before it could destroy everything. It almost broke out again a century or so before the comic begins, but a group of heroes locked it away with magical gates, which the main villains seek to control in order to blackmail the gods into giving into their demands, unaware that the gods are prepared to outright destroy the world themselves and start anew rather than risk the Snarl ending everything forever, though they seek a way to [[TakeAThirdOption to seal the Snarl permanently.]] [[spoiler: In fact, they already ''have'' destroyed and remade the world before, ''millions'' of times before...]]

* The [[InteractiveComic MSPA forum adventure]] ''Roleplay/{{Alanna}}'':

** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' shows a BadFuture that introduces one called the Breaker-Apart. [[spoiler:It's the Hulk after being possessed by The-One-Below-All. The Breaker-Apart takes the Hulk's potential to become bigger and stronger to its logical extreme, being a CosmicEntity capable of destroying anything.]]

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'':

** Destruction of the Endless, in this case a CompositeCharacter with the Phoenix Force - however, the flip side to that is that She is responsible for Creation, too. Fire to cleanse and burn away that which doesn't work, and Life to bring, which She usually does through hosts. Just... [[SuperpoweredEvilSide don't make them angry.]]
** ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is also mentioned, and his herald, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, makes a brief cameo in Book 1.
** The threat of Surtur's emergence is a key plot point in the second book. [[spoiler:Additionally, he's the ''original'' Dark Phoenix]].
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':