History Main / DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

* in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' this is is your goal. At the beginning of the game you look out across a blissful land ruled by good and just rulers, with no trials or tribulations, bar a few aching facial muscles from smiling too much. It's your goal to turn these joyous lands into terrible lands ruled by fear and anthrax.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', this is what Legate Lanius hopes to make if Caesar dies and the Legion wins the battle for Hoover Dam. He essentially wishes to make a land of constant warfare where [[TheSocialDarwinist the weak will be broken by violence and the strong thrive]] in constant battle. While Caesar planned to establish order (as unforgiving as it is) Lanius only hopes to put the world to the sword.

** Kaido's own involvement is basically an extension of being DeathSeeker. He wants to transform Wano into a lawless paradise and wage war on the rest of the world in hopes of finding something to kill him.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': It's eventually revealed that this is [[spoiler:Orochi]]'s goal. [[spoiler:His grandfather tried to poison rivals in order to take the throne of Wano for the Kurozumi clan. He was found out and forced to commit seppuku, but the people of Wano persecuted the ''entire'' clan. When Orochi eventually managed to claim the throne with Kaido's help, he dedicated his rule to making the entire country suffer as much as possible for what they did to his family.]]
** Kaido, himself. How his DeathSeeker tendencies translates into an actual plan: transforming Wano into a lawless paradise and waging war on the rest of the world in hopes of finding something to kill him.

-->--'''O'Brien''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''

* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': The sub-ideology of National Socialism known as the "Burgundian System" is described by one of the developers as the people who want more gas chambers than houses. Created by SS head Heinrich Himmler (who now rules a de facto independent state in northeastern France) and supported by Reinhard Heydrich, the Burgundian System claims that [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the German Reich]] grew [[EvilerThanThou too soft and tolerant]] after [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory its victory in World War II]]. As such, its adherents seek to rebuild society on the principles of [[TheSpartanWay enforced spartanism]], military discipline in all facets of life, and expansion of the FinalSolution to all non-German people, including Western Europeans tolerated by orthodox Nazis. Even taking National Socialism's post-victory expansion and evolution into account, the Burgundian System stands out as its vilest school of thought. [[spoiler:Heinrich Himmler himself takes this one step further: [[OmnicidalManiac his goal is to obliterate the Earth with nuclear fire]], [[InTheirOwnImage leaving the surviving Aryans to rebuild civilization on the ruins of the old world]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/PredatorConcreteJungle'', it's implied that the Borgia family [[spoiler:or more specifically, Isabella Borgia, who is the MOTHER AI that runs Neonopolis]] deliberately allowed the city to descend into a lawless hell-hole overrun by openly warring criminal gangs, in order to attract [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Predators]] to the city and take their technology [[spoiler:and their blood]].

The third, final, and most despicable trope in the unholy trinity of villainous objectives, Dystopia Justifies the Means is where the goal of the BigBad is nothing less than the deliberate creation of a {{Dystopia}}, a land, planet, universe or multiverse of perpetual misery and suffering, or some other form of evil. The result can be a CrapsackWorld, VillainWorld, HellOnEarth, or some combination thereof.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The villainous [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Apex Cybernetics]] corporation want to create a world where all the Alpha {{Kaiju}} (even, and ''especially'', the good ones) are gone, and where Apex have [[TakeOverTheWorld global corporate hegemony]] and are considered heroes for murdering Godzilla, [[spoiler:even though they secretly caused all of Godzilla's attacks as an EngineeredHeroics]].

** Malfeas, the former ruler of Primordials, still has concept of Rulership at his core, but now he is intending to be a lot more secure. His rage and hatred are aimed both inwards at himself and outwards at everybody else, resulting in an environment of unstable landscapes of jagged brass washed over by acidic rains, and this is what Creation has to look forward to if he reasserts himself upon it.

* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': The purpose of Kim Jong Il's "9/11 times 2356" is turn every country in the world into a Third World country, through global terrorist attacks that will create worldwide chaos. [[note]]In point of fact, this would amount to roughly 7 billion deaths, which was just about the entire population of Earth at the time, making Kim both a dystopian and an OmnicidalManiac at the same time.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:Of course, this was all just a part of Madara and Obito Uchiha's true plan, which is to trap the world in an endless illusion while enslaving them in the process. What they didn't know was that this was ''also'' a part of Black Zetsu's plan to use all the world's chakra to bring back Kaguya Otsutsuki and turn all the humans into White Zetsu soldiers completely loyal to her.]]

* ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', who wishes to create a "[[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil world without rules]]" (or, as Alfred puts it, "watch the world burn"). He believes that, deep down, everyone is just as rotten and evil as he is, and he intends to rip away the "façade" of do-goodiness and create a world where, essentially, everyone acts like a violent criminal.

* ''Fanfic/YourMoveInstigatorDrawYourWeaponAndHoldYourTongue'': Danzo claims that his ultimate goal is to "unite the shinobi world"... by conquering it. To this end, he's exploited the [[ForWantOfANail ongoing Third Shinobi War]] and Hiruzen's HeadInTheSandManagement to become TheManBehindTheMan, flooding Konoha with {{propaganda|Machine}} "justifying" their attempts to destroy all the ''other'' hidden villages. He also lowered the age of deployment for ChildSoldiers to force "[[WeHaveReserves less valuable]]" children like Sakura out to fight at the tender age of ''five'', with only clan heirs being spared from being sent out. Later in the story, it's revealed that [[spoiler:aside from Team 14, said clan heirs are practically the only children ''left'' in Konoha, as the vast majority have been killed in action or DrivenToSuicide]].

* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': The sub-ideology of National Socialism known as the "Burgundian System" is described by one of the developers as the people who want more gas chambers than houses. Created by SS head Heinrich Himmler (who now rules a de facto independent state in northeastern France) and supported by Reinhard Heydrich, the Burgundian System claims that [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the German Reich]] grew [[EvilerThanThou too soft and tolerant]] after [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory its victory in World War II]]. As such, its adherents seek to rebuild society on the principles of [[TheSpartanWay enforced spartanism]], military discipline in all facets of life, and expansion of the FinalSolution to all non-German people, including Western Europeans tolerated by orthodox Nazis. Even taking National Socialism's post-victory expansion and evolution into account, the Burgundian System stands out as its vilest school of thought. [[spoiler:Heinrich Himmler himself takes this one step further: his goal is to obliterate the Earth with nuclear fire, leaving the surviving Aryans to rebuild civilization on the ruins of the old world]].

This trope can occasionally overlap with UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. Perhaps they are [[InfernalParadise esoteric utopians]] who wish to make a world that is [[ItsAllAboutMe great for them or their kind,]] but nightmarish for everyone else -- {{Blood Knight}}s who want a ForeverWar, vampires who desire TheNightThatNeverEnds, bigots who want to rule as a MasterRace and relegate the rest to second-class citizens or worse etc. Other times, they see themselves as genuinely wanting the best for everybody, but they operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality or are ObliviouslyEvil, so the society they want to create will be terrible but they will be too stubborn to admit it or delusional to even see it -- the SocialDarwinist, BombThrowingAnarchist, and the TotalitarianUtilitarian represent different flavours of such thinking.

* The Party of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. [[spoiler:O'Brien]] tells Winston that the Party seeks power "entirely for its own sake", that "the object of power is power". This sounds like just DespotismJustifiesTheMeans, not Dystopia, until they get onto ''how'' one man asserts power over another: "By making him suffer." To that end, they created artificial food shortages and regularly bombed their own citizens to keep up the illusion of a ForeverWar while [[{{doublethink}} brainwashing them to accept it]].

SubTrope of ChangeVsStatusQuo.