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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': [[BigBad Dr. X]] plots to "test" humanity to create what he called [[MasterRace Neo-Humanity]]. His so-called tests were effectively to [[EvilutionaryBioligist to kill off those were not the most physically capable humans]] and leave on the strongest, most athletic. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist His ultimate goal]] was to take these most physically capable and inject them with his DNA, turning them into clones of himself while controlling their everything thought and emotion, making him the most literal example of this trope.

** After being taken over by Brainiac, Luthor asks what the plan is [[AndThenWhat after]] analyzing and destroying all worlds. When it turns out he doesn't have one, Luthor suggests they do this, and Brainiac acquiesces. As a result, Superman's IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight appeal fails miserably.

->''"Yes... I, Grodus, will build a new world! A perfect, ideal world, made by me, about me, and FOR me!"''

** This turns out to be the overarching scheme of {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}: He will discover the Anti-Life equation and use it [[OmnicidalManiac to destroy reality itself]], before commandeering the re-creation process and rebuilding it in his image and create a universe of perfect order and obedience.

* In Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}'s UK book ''Sonic In the Fourth Dimension'', a band of imaginary beings, the Mythos creatures, were facing FantasticRacism. They attempted this in order to finally live in the "real" universe and have a place to call home. [[spoiler: Instead, a compromise was agreed upon, and they could freely half of Fourth Dimension that they were just being persecuted in before, as the dimension is basically an infinite stretch of floors, corridors and offices.]]

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Regardless of all of their {{Motive Rant}}s about justice, it's clear that this is the endgame of each version of Zamasu; by [[KillAllHumans wiping out all mortals]], they'll [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans create]] ''[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans their]]'' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans own vision of paradise]]. It's especially blatant with [[spoiler:Goku Black and Future Zamasu; they constantly go on about how they're doing the gods' justice and making a new world "by gods, for gods," and since they're the only ones left, it basically translates to their new world being "by us, for us."]] In the [[Manga/DragonBallSuper manga]], [[spoiler:Fusion Zamasu]] takes it even further when he completely drops the "justice" angle and declares his intent to slaughter ''everyone'' across every timeline who ''isn't'' a version of himself, god and mortal alike. [[spoiler:Infinite Zamasu takes this to extremes; by becoming one with the Future Trunks timeline, he succeeded in creating a multiverse where only Zamasu exists...because [[GeniusLoci he]] ''[[GeniusLoci is]]'' [[GeniusLoci the multiverse]].]]

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos was already mad enough to think killing off half the universe so the other half would thrive without killing the whole from overpopulation was a swell idea, but at least he left it at that. However, when he realizes people are trying to ''undo'' things and there is a remote chance they might succeed at it, he cracks ''just'' a little more. As a result, he decides he's going to just push the reset button on everything so no one has anything to mourn, and what life comes after can be steered away from what he thought would be disaster, showered in enough resources to thrive... and he'd make sure they'd be ''thankful'' for it this time.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Regardless of all of their {{Motive Rant}}s about justice, it's clear that this is the endgame of each version of Zamasu; by [[KillAllHumans wiping out all mortals]], they'll [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans create]] ''[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans their]]'' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans own vision of paradise]]. It's especially blatant with [[spoiler:Goku Black and Future Zamasu; they constantly go on about how they're doing the gods' justice and making a new world "by gods, for gods," and since they're the only ones left, it basically translates to their new world being "by us, for us."]] In the [[Manga/DragonBallSuper manga]], [[spoiler:Fusion Zamasu]] takes it even further when he completely drops the "justice" angle and declares his intent to slaughter ''everyone'' across every timeline who ''isn't'' a version of himself, god and mortal alike.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In the episode "Time and Punishment", Gosalyn hitches a ride with a TimeMachine into a BadFuture where her disappearance caused Darkwing to become increasingly extreme in his fight against crime, not only destroying all the bad guys but turning all of Saint Canard into a totalitarian nightmare where AllCrimesAreEqual. When he obtains the time machine, he contemplates going back to the start of history and issuing the death penalty from the get go, or even going to the Paleozoic period to drill respect for the law into the new land-based lifeforms.

Compare EndOfTheWorldSpecial for when it is the protagonists who remake the world in their own image.

* Film/AvengersEndgame: Thanos was already mad enough to think killing off half the universe so the other half would thrive without killing the whole from overpopulation was a swell idea, but at least he left it at that. However, when he realizes people are trying to ''undo'' things and there is a remote chance they might succeed at it, he cracks ''just'' a little more. As a result, he decides he's going to just push the reset button on everything so no one has anything to mourn, and what life comes after can be steered away from what he thought would be disaster, showered in enough resources to thrive... and he'd make sure they'd be ''thankful'' for it this time.

* Film/AvengersEndgame: Thanos was already mad enough to think killing off half the universe so the other half would thrive without killing the whole from overpopulation, but at least he left it at that. However, when he realizes people are trying to ''undo'' things and there is a remote chance they might succeed at it, he cracks ''just'' a little more. As a result, he decides he's going to just push the reset button on everything so no one has anything to mourn, and what life comes after can be steered away from what he thought would be disaster.

'''Eggman''': "Of course! When it's complete, the Resistance will be erased. The world will be nothing but ashes, from which a glorious Eggman Empire will rise!
''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'': The Erazor Djinn's ultimate plan, once he's acquired the [[MacGuffin seven World Rings]], is to remake the world of the Literature/ArabianNights in his image, and then move on to Sonic's world and repeat the process. He even states as such during the final boss.

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-->--'''Grodus''', ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''

* ''VideoGame/SonicBoom: Rise of Lyric'': [[BigBad Lyric's]] EvilPlan is to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy all organic life on the planet]] and rebuild it, feeling he can't trust anything non-robotic after he was forced to convert himself into a {{cyborg}} to stay alive after contracting a fatal disease:
-->'''Lyric''': Technology is the only thing you can trust. Which is why I'm going to rid this world of all organic lifeforms - and rebuild it, piece by robotic piece.

* ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'': The Erazor Djinn's ultimate plan, once he's acquired the [[MacGuffin seven World Rings]], is to remake the world of the Literature/ArabianNights in his image, and then move on to Sonic's world and repeat the process. He even states as such during the final boss.
-->'''Erazor''': I will remake this world and this reality in my own image!

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', [[spoiler:this seems to be the goal of Kriemhild Gretchen, the enormously powerful Witch that Madoka will become if she falls into despair. The implications are horrifying enough to overlap with OmnicidalManiac, because her desire is essentially to swallow up the Universe into the chaotic Labyrinth that exists within herself, which she believes to be a paradise because it is free of suffering. Thankfully, she is destroyed by the protagonist's wish, which triggers the destruction and reconstruction of the Universe, but in a way more akin to an EndOfTheWorldSpecial]].

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}} ]]'': The Dark Voice, who turns out to be named Amon, the true BigBad of the series, is a fallen Xel'Naga that believes that the Endless Cycle is filled with torment and suffering and aims to bring an end to it. While this might make him sound like a DarkMessiah, and his worshippers believe in this, a protoss that entered his mind claims that his intentions are anything but noble. He only seeks to kill everything in the universe, even his own followers, and reshape it into his own image

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}]]'': The Dark Voice, who turns out to be named Amon, the true BigBad of the series, is a fallen Xel'Naga that believes that the Endless Cycle is filled with torment and suffering and aims to bring an end to it. While this might make him sound like a DarkMessiah, and his worshippers believe in this, a protoss that entered his mind claims that his intentions are anything but noble. He only seeks to kill everything in the universe, even his own followers, and reshape it into his own image

* The Dark Voice from ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' seems to fit this pretty well.

** ''[[VideoGame/Starcraft]]'': Amon, the BigBad, is a fallen Xel'Naga that believes that the Endless Cycle is filled with torment and suffering and aims to bring an end to it. While this might make him sound like a DarkMessiah, and his worshippers believe in this, a protoss that entered his mind claims that his intentions are anything but noble. He only seeks to kill everything in the universe, even his own followers, and reshape it into his own image.

* This is the plan of the the BigBad Pucci in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 6; to reset the universe and create a world where everybody knows their own destiny (also, the Joestars won't exist, but that more AvengingTheVillain).