History Main / ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil

* Sir Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Director of Deus Ex Machina Industries]], in ''LightNovel/DateALive'' plays with this. His desire is to make the whole world upside down, in order to fill the world with pure chaos, destruction, panic and fear for his "fun" and "self-satisfaction".

** [[BigBad Queen Bansheera]]'s ultimate goal in ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' is to wreck Mariner Bay to rebuild her palace, and to open the [[{{Hellmouth}} Tomb of Forever]], releasing all the deceased demons and monsters from the [[SpiritWorld Shadow World]] to destroy everything on Earth.

* Particularly ambitious ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villains may strive for some version of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Bill Cipher's ultimate plan is to [[spoiler:merge the Nightmare Realm with reality so he and his buddies can escape and cause havoc, or as he puts it, "teach your realm how to party!"]]

** Androids 17 and 18 in the BadFuture of ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' had similar motivations, as they destroyed civilization, performing mass murder and robberies indiscriminately purely because they were bored. In the mainstream timeline ForWantOfANail kicks in and they're much less destructive, not going out of their way to hurt anyone but still doing whatever they please [[BloodKnight and planning to kill Goku just because]].

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', when Harry visits one of the [[HornyDevils White Court]]'s [[VampiresOwnNightClubs nightclubs]], he muses that this would be their ultimate goal if they ever had the chance:

{{Evil Overlord}}s want to TakeOverTheWorld, and {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s want to destroy the world, but these villains just want to ''change'' the world. Rather than conquer it, blow it up, or kill everyone on it, they are much more content to simply turn it into the most horrible and messed up place possible -- their own personal playground, in other words. Villains who intend on this goal are likely doing it ForTheEvulz.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}} +100'', Beauregard Salt was an OmnicidalManiac who was [[TheImmune rendered immune]] to the HatePlague because he was ''already'' a [[SerialKiller murderous psychopath]], and he was elated to live in a world where everyone sees things the way he does. Not wanting his fun to end, he formed a clan of [[SanityHasAdvantages intelligent]] [[EliteZombie infected]] and taught his followers PragmaticVillainy with the intent of wiping out baseline humanity to keep his VillainWorld intact [[VillainousLegacy even long after his death]].

-->''"At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions. They should be made to run naked in the desert until..."

-->"And the answer, man," said the judge. "If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind, would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?"''

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* Lord Kuruku in ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'' wants to, [[spoiler:and almost does]], turn every living thing into "Living Puppets" to be his slaves, building material, rocket skateboards, etc.

--->First, I will tell you the two words I hate the most. They are 'justice' and 'peace'. Let me just say that I do '''not''' plan to bind you all into slavery or anything like that. Not at all. In fact, I want you to do anything you want. I'm going to abolish every law enforcement agency. You can steal, destroy, injure, and murder! No one will stop you! Evil shall be unfettered! Those who brandish the sword of justice shall be exterminated by my demons! This will be a glorious world of terror and hate!
** Androids 17 & 18 in the BadFuture of ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' had similar motivations, as they destroyed civilization, performing mass murder and robberies indiscriminately purely because they were bored. In the mainstream timeline ForWantOfANail kicks in and they're much less destructive, not going out of their way to hurt anyone but still doing whatever they please [[BloodKnight and planning to kill Goku just because]].

* The Major in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' wants a world of perpetual warfare. "Gentlemen... [[WarForFunAndProfit I love war.]]"
* This is essentially the BigBad [[DiabolicalMastermind Friday Monday]]'s goal in ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'', since he basically sees all humans as evil deep inside and actively tries to bring out their "true natures".
* Tendou Jigoku at the end of ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'' intends to, upon gaining complete immortality, kill most of the humans on the planet, but leave enough alive for them to repopulate. And then start killing again, leading to an endless cycle of slaughter.

* ''ComicBook/AWalkThroughHell'': Implied to be Carnahan's ultimate plan for humanity and the world, as he considers himself to be a "guide" for humanity. Such a goal is already well on the way toward completion, seeing as how human society as depicted in the comic is increasingly jaded, cruel and morally bankrupt.
* Bruno Manheim's sect of [[ReligionOfEvil The Church of Crime]] in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' planned to turn Gotham City into new [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokolips]].

* ComicBook/TheJoker's basic goal in ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', and indeed a lot of his storylines.
* This is the plot of ''{{ComicBook/Wanted}}'', with the twist that it already happened.

* The ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' GameMod ''Brotherhood of Shadow'' has this as the motive of Daemon Drexel, the former captain of the smuggling ship ''Orion.'' A former Republic officer who later served Revan's Sith forces, he was disillusioned with both. He decided that a better option would be to steal a derelict warship (the ''Orion'') and turn pirate, siding with the criminal underworld as a force to try and make a place in the galaxy where those who refused to bow to any authority would be able to indulge their desires.
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* The probable TropeCodifier in modern fiction is ''Film/TheTestamentOfDrMabuse'', in which Dr. Mabuse wants simply to reduce the world to a lawless and chaotic "Empire of Crime".
* This seems to be the goal of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' version of ComicBook/TheJoker. He wants to drive everyone in Gotham City as crazy as himself by plunging it into absolute chaos.
* This is the stated goal of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' version of ComicBook/{{Bane}}. He cuts off Gotham from the mainland, imprisons the entire police force and holds the city hostage with a nuke to prevent outside invasion - all in order to create an anarchist society. {{Subverted}} in that the society was never intended to last, and he was going to detonate the nuke all along.

--> '''Kruger:''' [[spoiler:Elysium is about to receive its first proper president!]]
* After Lord Naritsugu in ''Film/ThirteenAssassins'' sees the carnage of war, he admits he would like to turn the lands into a never ending battlefield of strife.
* In ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' Mean Mr. Mustard turns Heartland into a mustard-themed wasteland full of evildoers.

* The cult in Creator/HPLovecraft's "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu" seems to have aspects of this:

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', when Harry visits one of the [[HornyDevils White Court's]] [[VampiresOwnNightClubs nightclubs]], he muses that this would be their ultimate goal if they ever had the chance:
-->The music, the light, the sweat, the smoke, the booze, the drugs--it all combined into a wet, desperate miasma that was full of needs that could never be sated.\\

I felt a shudder run through me. This was the world as created by the White Court. This is what they would make of it, if they were given the chance. Planet Zero.
* The creature in Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}'' does this with the town of Derry. IT seems to encourage violent and sadistic tendencies in some of the townsfolk, especially the local BarbaricBully, while messing with the adults heads so that they are [[AdultsAreUseless basically useless]]. This helps isolate the town's children, his preferred prey.
* Satan seeks to do this to the world in ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' in order to get RevengeByProxy against its Creator.
* Two of the possible {{Bad Future}}s that [[GodOfEvil the Dark One]] shows that might happen if it wins are like this in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''; the first is close to a literal HellOnEarth, while the second is more subtle, with humanity altered to all be completely devoid of conscience or empathy (just like the Dark One itself), but also rendered completely unaware that anything is wrong. The third possibility is [[OmnicidalManiac void]][[note]]though Rand speculates that the Dark One would ultimately be unable to go through with destroying the world for good, since it likes torturing people too much[[/note]]. Of course, in ''none'' of these visions do the bulk of the Dark One's human followers [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness actually get what they want]].

* Presumably the Beast's motive on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' for blocking out the sun. His [[WellIntentionedExtremist boss]], on the other hand, was just using the chaos created as a distraction. Amusingly, the forces of evil get bored of their playground rather quickly, with one of them noting (while bowling with human heads) that evil's just not as much fun without a challenge.

* Several villains in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' want to open the Hellmouth for reasons somewhere between this and worship of the True Demons sealed inside.
** Also, the reason Sunnydale was deliberately built on top of the Hellmouth - the founder (who's still the Mayor [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a century later]]) made a lot of [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] to get to where he is, and providing demons with an all-you-can-eat buffet is part of his payment.

** In ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'', [[spoiler: the ultimate goal of [[BigBad N-Daguva-Zeba]] is to unleash an "ultimate darkness" that would make humanity become as violent and bloodthirsty as he and the other Grongi are.]]

-->'''Isaac''': I'm simply creating a world free of conflict. The screams of humans will replace the birds chirping at dawn. Doesn't that sound nice?

** The true plan of the [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Jakanja]] in ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' involves them doing this by [[spoiler:invoking the Evil Will, a SentientCosmicForce which seeks to destroy the universe and create a new one in its place filled with darkness and negativity.]]

* ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'': The ElseWorlds setting Crime City is one where all the heroes from Freedom City are instead criminals who've taken over and made everything pro-criminal. Though there's some weird FridgeLogic involved in things like apparently it still has things like criminal trials where lawyers uses dishonest means to get their clients off instead of simply having the outcome predetermined or not arresting supervillains in the first place.
* The followers of Chaos in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', who want to turn the whole world into another Realm of Chaos, a very messed up ChaoticEvil EldritchLocation.
** In ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the Chaos Gods sparked the Horus Heresy to turn the materium into a tortured hellscape so that they could laugh and feast upon the agony of all sentient life. [[CrapsackWorld They succeeded]].

* At the end of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'''s early trailer, it's revealed that our resident {{Troll}} BigBad, [[CardCarryingVillain Yuuki Terumi]], now with the pesky time loops out of the way, intends to erase the distinction between Omnicidal Mania and Evil Playground Architecture. In other words, he wants to kill everyone--but not the old-fashioned personal way where he does all the killing himself. No; he wants to make the world a place where everyone kills each other for his amusement. That's ''his'' kind of playground.
* ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2'': [[MadScientist Towa's]] ultimate plan is to merge the Demon Realm with the main universe; she knows this will result in chaos, and delights in it.

* [[spoiler:Dimentio]] of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''. He wants to create a perfect world under his rule. What his idea of "perfect" could be is anyone's guess, but given his AxCrazy personality, it would likely not be a paradise for anyone but himself.
* In [[AlternateContinuity Hero Mode]] of ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZBudokaiTenkaichi Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi]]'', the BigBad used the Dragon Balls to make the world a hellhole, purely for his own amusement. At one point, your character meets the Androids, who like the world as a hellhole and in fact are looking for the Dragon Balls so they can make it even ''worse''.

--> '''Dr. Nefarious''': With the clock under my control, I'll be able to wrong all the rights in the universe. Every villain who has ever stumbled will get a do-over. Every protagonist's triumph will be reversed! Until finally, a new present is created, in which the Heroes, ALWAYS '''LOSE'''! *EvilLaugh*
* ''Franchise/SilentHill''[='s=] cult fits the bill; they're convinced that the only way to create a Goddess of Good who will vanquish Evil [[FaustianRebellion is if people teach her (hands-on) what Evil actually is]], through constant acts of murder and mutilation unconstrained by any order. They call it [[InfernalParadise Paradise]].
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Edel Bernal]] from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'' doesn't really have a plan other than to turn the world into the most chaotic and war-ridden place he can to be his personal playground.
** Similarly, the Shadow Mirror faction of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2'' are trying to create a world of perpetual warfare, believing it will lead to greater technological and evolutionary progress for mankind.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'', King P[[spoiler:orky Minch]], wants to use his [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Pigmask Army]] to turn the Nowhere Islands into a world of debauchery and dirtiness, and for people to embrace his philosophy that HumansAreBastards. And then blow it up.
* Shao Kahn of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' wants nothing more than absorb all Realms into his multiversal, hellish empire. In his Arcade Ladder ending in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', he achieves this by conquering time and space and entertains himself by hosting unending Mortal Kombat tournaments with himself as the obviously undefeated champion.

* Some of M. Bison's winquotes in ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' games such as ''Super Street Fighter IV'' claim things like "When I control this planet, I shall purge it of all hope!"
* The Dragon Lord from ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' has his own reason for wanting to become a god, and that's so he can, in his words, "bring havoc and ruin to the world and usher in a new age of darkness", and entertain himself by slaughtering people as sacrifices to himself.

** The BigBad of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima (otherwise known as her robotic persona Monokuma), succeeded in doing this. Kickstarting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Tragedy]] leaves the entire world spiraling down a path of constant warring and hatred, where people kill and destroy without reason and all law and societal structure has collapsed, all in the name of despair. The only real government in the world is the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Ultimate Despair]], the orchestrators of the Tragedy. In Monokuma/Junko's words, it isn't a philosophy, set of ideals, or even instincts that motivate her: the pursuit of despair, even her own, [[ForTheEvulz is the only thing that can stimulate her anymore]]]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', Satan just wants to corrupt everyone. [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-15 As when he tries to grow more stripper poles.]]

* When [[RealityWarper Discord]] is unleashed in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', he turns the world into a chaotic mess of inverted gravity, roads of soap, and cotton candy clouds raining chocolate milk. Then he claims those are only his ''first changes'', and if the stained glass image of him [[HellOnEarth throwing ponies into the flames is anything to go by...]]
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Some of Dr. Claw's more subtle plans concern this. In "The Infiltration," he has an impersonator take Inspector Gadget's place at a law-enforcement conference. The goal: Keep MAD ahead of the police's plans for a full year and "make the world safe for crime."
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. Negaduck's plan in the "Just-Us Justice Ducks" two-parter is turning Saint Canard into a playground for evil for his gang, [[LegionOfDoom The Fearsome Five,]] giving one fourth of the city to each of his minions while [[LeonineContract he keeps the loot.]] Negaduck has already turned his home dimension, [[AlternateUniverse The Negaverse,]] into his own playground.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''; Bill Cipher's ultimate plan is to [[spoiler: merge the Nightmare Realm with reality so he and his buddies can escape and cause havoc, or as he puts it "teach your realm how to party!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': Dark Kat's ultimate goal is to turn Megakat City into Dark Kat City, his "capitol of crime", "where lawlessness is the law of the land!"
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Harley prefers Gotham city plunged into chaos rather than any person ruling it. She refuses to try to rule in the anarchic wasteland when given the chance and encourages the [[{{Mooks}} goons]] of the various villains battling for power to do evil for their own sake rather than a boss.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Bought and Scold", [[SpoiledBrat Princess Morebucks]] has her dad buy Townsville from the Mayor for her and immediately declares that "crime is legal" and the only felony is to prevent other people from committing crimes. She does this purely to spite the Powerpuff Girls and put them out of business, but the effect is this trope nevertheless. It's undone in the end when the Girls give Morebucks a taste of her own medicine and rob her home blind, since she never thought making crime legal would mean crime would be committed against ''her''.

** Androids 17 & 18 in the BadFuture of ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' had similar motivations, as they [[ChaoticEvil destroyed civilization, performing mass murder and robberies indiscriminately]] purely because they were bored. In the mainstream timeline ForWantOfANail kicks in and they're more on the ChaoticNeutral side of the spectrum, not going out of their way to hurt anyone but still doing whatever they please [[BloodKnight and planning to kill Goku just because]].

** Toward the end of Season 2, the vampire Spike decides to help Buffy stop the OmnicidalManiac Angelus from releasing a demon that will destroy the world because he believes the world is already a playground of evil for vampires with humans being "little happy meals on legs", and thus destroying the human world would mean destroying the world for vampires too.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Harley prefers Gotham city plunged into chaos rather than any person ruling it. She refuses to try to rule in the anarchic wasteland when given the chance and encourages the [[Mooks goons]] of the various villains battling for power to do evil for their own sake rather than a boss.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': King Piccolo [[EasilyConqueredWorld overthrows the world's government]] entirely for the purpose of making Earth a chaotic mess:
-->First, I will tell you the two words I hate the most. They are 'justice' and 'peace'. Let me just say that I do '''not''' plan to bind you all into slavery or anything like that. Not at all. In fact, I want you to do anything you want. I'm going to abolish every law enforcement agency. You can steal, destroy, injure, and murder! No one will stop you! Evil shall be unfettered! Those who brandish the sword of justice shall be exterminated by my demons! This will be a glorious world of terror and hate!

** In ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'', [[spoiler: the ultimate goal of [[BigBad Daguva]] is to unleash an "ultimate darkness" that would make humanity become as violent and bloodthirsty as he and the other Grongi are.]]

* Nearly every ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' or ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villain who doesn't want to cause an EarthShatteringKaboom, though [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce exceptions]] exist.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has Darth Jadus, possibly the most frighteningly lucid of all of the Sith Empire's ruling council. His ultimate goal is to unify the Empire by striking fear and terror into the hearts of every citizen. [[spoiler:He goes so far as to fake his own death to accomplish this, something unheard of in the immensely prideful Sith culture. Though he's still stricken by the universal Sith megalomania.]]

** In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', [[spoiler:Junko's plan within the Neo World Program is to upload herself into the bodies of the dead students, take down the [[LaResistance Future Foundation]] from the inside, and then go from there, with her consciousness infecting people all around the world to spread despair with glee, making sure The Tragedy never ends]].

* Presumably The Beast's motive on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' for blocking out the sun. His [[WellIntentionedExtremist boss]], on the other hand, was just using the chaos created as a distraction. Amusingly, the forces of evil get bored of their playground rather quickly, with one of them noting (while bowling with human heads) that evil's just not as much fun without a challenge.

* The probable TropeCodifier in modern fiction is ''Film/TheTestamentOfDoctorMabuse'', in which Dr. Mabuse wants simply to reduce the world to a lawless and chaotic "Empire of Crime".

* The followers of Chaos in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', especially [[AntiChrist Archaon]], who want to turn the whole world into another Realm of Chaos, a very messed up ChaoticEvil EldritchLocation.