History Main / EnemyToAllLivingThings

** Tthe First Evil's minions, the nightmarish Harbingers, have the ability to render their surroundings sterile, such as trees and animals.

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** In the 3rd edition version of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', Celestials, oddly enough. Since evil permeates the fabric of Ravenloft, the aura of pure goodness that they radiate is destructive to the fabric of reality. It gradually begins twisting and warping nearby land, plants and living creatures, and not in a good way.

* Elven vampires in the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting are hated and feared by woodland animals, who flee from them in terror, a cruel fate for someone who was so loved by them in life. Even worse, they are cursed with the Black Thumb, which kills plants on contact. However, while small plants die instantly, larger ones take a few hours, and trees take about a week, the vampire feeling the pain they suffer as they die. Unfortunately, touching a tree is a requirement for their [[TeleportSpam tree-stepping]] ability, [[MortonsFork which they must use to avoid death]] if [[ContractualBossImmunity reduced to zero hit points.]]

** In the 3rd edition version of ''TabletopGame/Ravenloft'', Celestials, oddly enough. Since evil permeates the fabric of Ravenloft, the aura of pure goodness that they radiate is destructive to the fabric of reality. It gradually begins twisting and warping nearby land, plants and living creatures, and not in a good way.

* Blight from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has a radioactive body.

* Blight from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.

* The Oppressor, a Lord of Order from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', wants to cleans Earth of all life because life is, ultimately, chaotic and messy and by his very nature he want to put an end to anything that is "chaotic and messy".

** Sargeras is the ultimate EnemyToAllLivingThings as the [[EvilOverlord leader]] of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]]. "Lesser beings quake and flee in his presence".

** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Megatron has a hate for organics, but where he really displays being an EnemyToAllLivingThings is that fact that series implies that the war he started left Cybertron unfit even for Transformers to inhabit. Recap, he left a planet unfit to support machines.

* In ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', [[spoiler: Victor]]'s (and later [[spoiler: Kazuki]]'s) energy drain ability causes him to constantly absorb the life force of everyone and everything around him and [[PowerIncontinence can never be shut off]].
** Victor relates it to breathing, implying that to be denied their energy sustenance would kill them. Which explains the so-called "logic" behind Kazuki's big plan to stop Victor. So, now that we know WHY he did it, we just have to figure how its freakin possible. And what made him think he'd be able to do it.

** This was carried over into [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings the movie adaptations]]: In ''Fellowship'' a Nazgûl draws near to where Frodo and his friends are hiding, searching for them, and its presence causes every bug and creature nearby to run off in a panic.

* In ''Series/KamenRider555'', Kitazaki turns living creatures to ash by touching them - [[BlessedWithSuck whether he wants to or not]].

* In the ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, this is a common expression of Sith evil, for example in ''The Jedi Academy Trilogy'' when Kyp Durron at first uses an 'unpleasantness field' to drive away annoying flies, and later in full-on evil mode the very plants wither where he steps.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Decay rapidly unmakes things she touches, and can turn metal and stone to crubmling dust and can put people into critical condition just by being near them.

* Darth Nihilus from ''[[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Knights of the Old Republic 2]]'' feeds on living things through the force.

* ''Series/TheNanny'': C.C. Babcock, to such a degree that [[EvilDetectingDog even her dog Chester doesn't care for her]].

** In "Yetta's Lettas", [[DidYouJustHaveSex after having sex with]] [[spoiler:Niles]], [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she's seen singing and dancing with animals like a Disney princess]].

* [[spoiler:Black Mage Zeref]] of ''Manga/FairyTail'', though he's only like this if he ''doesn't'' want to kill anybody. He can only control his power if he's a murderous sociopath.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'', Kitazaki turns living creatures to ash by touching them - [[BlessedWithSuck whether he wants to or not]].

** Hana extracts water from plants to lethal effect. Now, animals are [[{{squick}} largely made of water]]. Ew. Then there's the whole [[PeoplePuppets Bloodbending thing]]...

** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Megatron has a hate for organics, but where he really displays being an EnemyToAllLivingThings is that fact that series implies that the war he started left Cybertron unfit even for Transformers to inhabit. Recap, he left a planet unfit to support MACHINES.

* As part of his general campaign of frightfulness against the Roman Empire, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun ''claimed'' that everywhere his horse trod, the grass would never grow again. [[CaptainObvious Since he rode all over Europe and the grass seems to be doing quite well nowadays, it is possible that he was lying about this.]]
* Some diseases may count. Consider lung tuberculosis. In some cases, the bearer may be unaware of their condition and live with it for ''years'', spreading deadly spores. Some people and animals are so vulnerable to this disease, they may die within months, and this is a horrible death. Check yourself and your neighbors with chest photofluorography at least once per year, in order to get medical care while the condition is still reversible.

* In the ''MagicTheGathering'' novels, Phage the Untouchable is this trope cranked into overdrive. She destroys every living and once-living thing that comes in contact with her, including things like cotton Among other things, this means she can only sleep on bare rock and wear silk, and has to eat with a special fork that keeps food from touching her lips and thus rotting before she can taste it.

* Phage the Untouchable, from ''MagicTheGathering''.

** [[BiggerBad Sargeras]] is the ultimate EnemyToAllLivingThings as the [[EvilOverlord leader]] of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]]. "Lesser beings quake and flee in his presence".

** This only applies to magic used by DragonRiders, other magic users command spirits to do their work, though [[DemonicPossession Shades]] (magic-users who lose control and are possessed by the spirits) qualify, they have no loyalty towards anything and are likely to indiscriminately murder nearly anyone the come across.

* According to a Brazilian soccer aphorism, goalkeeper is such an accursed occupation that, wherever one steps, the grass stops growing.
** Probably because the part of the field right in front of the goal where the goalkeeper stands and moves back and forth for most of the game gets trampled by him a lot more than anywhere else on the field.