History Main / EcocidalAntagonist

* ''TommyZoom'': The villain is literally named Polluto and his shtick is to pollute on purpose for [[ForTheEvulz no apparent reason]], such as by [[IntentionalMessMaking littering]] or by driving a car that spews more exhaust fumes than most cars.

* ''WesternAnimation/TommyZoom'': The villain is literally named Polluto and his shtick is to pollute on purpose for [[ForTheEvulz no apparent reason]], such as by [[IntentionalMessMaking littering]] or by driving a car that spews more exhaust fumes than most cars.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'': In the level that introduces Lisa's capabilities, the villain of said level is Mr. Burns, who's using large buzz saw blade-wielding machines to cut down massive trees... so he can make each one into a single toothpick.

* {{Literature/Animorphs}}: Yeerks typically wreck the environments of the planets they conquer, according to Ax.

Exactly how this villain is styled can vary from one story to the next, but this behavior is commonly seen from the CorruptCorporateExecutive, particularly if he's part of an [[ToxicInc industry that naturally takes a toll on the environment]]. Sometimes, an executive or director's willingness to damage and pollute the environment is enough to turn their usually more redeemable subordinates or close ones against their boss, due to having better standards or guilt for their contributions. In fantasy settings, he may represent unchecked industrialization or may even take the form of a MuckMonster or another ElementalEmbodiment of poison or decay.

-->''Did I mention it's heated? / No credit needed! / Here's your new key!'

Starky Smerkins of DummyMania! is a huge polluter with his air balloons and blimps, factories and fireworks and is hated by the community.

** The Fire Nation broadly operates on an anti-environmentalist agenda, most exemplified by their willingness to burn down and destroy large forested areas for unexplained reasons, and create factories that pollute even their own localized waterways and towns. They are also responsible for multiple beneficial species going extinct, and their final plan's goal is [[spoiler: the mass destruction of habitable land across the earth kingdom]].

Supertrope to EvilPoacher. See also ToxicInc, for a company that doesn't seem to do anything except create pollution, WickedWastefulness if for villains who are wasteful with resources, and CruellaToAnimals, for somebody who eats or wears animal products, or uses animals for scientific research, purely because they enjoy hurting them. Compare to GreenwashedVillainy for when these kinds of villains attempt to ''appear'' eco-friendly for pragmatic reasons, even if their ulterior motives show otherwise. Compare with BadPeopleAbuseAnimals, which often overlaps with this trope. Contrast with the NatureLover, as well as the antithesis of this character type, the EcoTerrorist, who is pro-environment but also takes it to similarly harmful extremes. The LastFertileRegion is frequently in danger from these types.

** In the first game, Clanker's Cavern is a dirty sewer with an area filled with toxic waste and Rusty Bucket Bay is a grubby harbor with water so polluted that it drains Banjo and Kazooie's air twice as fast.

* ''Franchies/GIJoe'': The 1991 Eco-Warriors subline (released to compete with ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'') featured COBRA characters who were deliberately spreading pollution and causing environmental disasters as part of COBRA's main goal of world domination. The action figures came with small water guns that were described as shooting various types of toxic waste.

Supertrope to EvilPoacher. See also ToxicInc, for a company that doesn't seem to do anything except create pollution and CruellaToAnimals, for somebody who eats or wears animal products, or uses animals for scientific research, purely because they enjoy hurting them. Compare to GreenwashedVillainy for when these kinds of villains attempt to ''appear'' eco-friendly for pragmatic reasons, even if their ulterior motives show otherwise. Compare with BadPeopleAbuseAnimals, which often overlaps with this trope. Contrast with the NatureLover, as well as the antithesis of this character type, the EcoTerrorist, who is pro-environment but also takes it to similarly harmful extremes. The LastFertileRegion is frequently in danger from these types.

** [[CruellaToAnimals Dr Blight]] represented scientific advancement at the cost of the biosphere and environment, but also indulged in "pollution for its own sake" in some episodes. At the start of one, her reaction to learning that the local air quality is great is "Yuk, let's try and fix that."

** [[CruellaToAnimals Dr Blight]] was scientific advancement at the cost of the biosphere and environment.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Looten Plunder]] was an EvilPoacher (among other things). Like Greedly and Sludge, his main aim was money, but he was far worse than the other two in that he also represented unchecked, short-sighted capitalism that sought maximum short-term profit, long-term consequences be damned.

-->-- '''Hexxus''', ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', "Toxic Love"

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ravage DeFlora]] from "War of the Wendigo" is the manager of Scrooge's logging operations in Northern Ontario. He's not too bad at first, but when his timber plant is [[GaiasVengeance attacked by the animals in an effort to stop him]], he switches from anti-environmentalist into straight-up ecocidal. Ravage retaliates by stoking the furnaces with dioxin and pumping acid into the drain pipes to kill the animals clogging them (and destroying the forest as collateral). Even this is not enough, and he ultimately becomes a [[VillainousBreakdown raving lunatic]] trying to burn down every tree and animal in sight with a flamethrower.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ravage DeFlora]] from "War of the Wendigo" is the manager of Scrooge's logging operations in Northern Ontario. He's not too bad at first, but when his timber plant is [[GaiasVengeance attacked by the animals in an effort to stop him]], he switches from anti-environmentalist into straight-up ecocidal. Ravage retaliates by stoking the furnaces with dioxin and pumping acid into the drain pipes to kill the animals clogging them. Even this is not enough, and he ultimately becomes a [[VillainousBreakdown raving lunatic]] trying to burn down every tree and animal in sight with a flamethrower.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ravage DeFlora]] from "War of the Wendigo" is the manager of Scrooge's logging operations in Northern Ontario. He's not too bad at first, but when his timber plant is [[GaiasVengeance attacked by the animals to stop him]], he crosses from anti-environmentalist over into ecocidal. Ravage retaliates by stoking the furnaces with dioxin and pumping acid into the drain pipes to kill the animals clogging them. Even this is not enough, and he ultimately becomes a [[VillainousBreakdown raving lunatic]] trying to burn down every tree and animal in sight with a flamethrower.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ravage DeFlora]] from "War of the Wendigo" is the manager of Scrooge's logging operations in Northern Ontario. He's not too bad at first, but when his timber plant is [[GaiasVengeance attacked by the animals to stop him]], he flips from anti-environmentalist to ecocidal. Ravage retaliates by stoking the furnaces with dioxin and pumping acid into the drain pipes to kill the animals clogging them. Even this is not enough, and he ultimately becomes a [[VillainousBreakdown raving lunatic]] trying to burn down every tree and animal in sight with a flamethrower.