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** In parent series ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' Jareth actually destroyed a (thankfully just dream)world, when he got pushed too far in the ''Such Stuff...'' arc. (His mother manipulated his SuperpoweredEvilSide into killing his best friend... and no it wasn't a redeeming point that she was aiming at his LoveInterest either.)

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** In parent series ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' Jareth actually destroyed a (thankfully just dream)world, when he got pushed too far in the ''Such Stuff...'' arc. (His mother manipulated his SuperpoweredEvilSide into killing his best friend... and no it wasn't a redeeming point that she was aiming at his LoveInterest {{Love Interest|s}} either.)
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* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[ForcedTransformation polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.

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* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into slaughters the Keidran's tribe and sacrifices their corpses with BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[ForcedTransformation polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without and throw the Order into a fuss. genocidal crusade. And the icing on the cake? The Order's patron god of [ERROR] ''loves'' this turn of events, possibly even orchestrating them, so he sits back and lets Trace slide further into madness. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.exterminating an entire species.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Prakhuta's nihilism was born of years of torture, being experimented on and suffering, only for his own people to torture him further once he'd escaped in an attempt to drive the ghosts out of him, and then mark him as a pariah and cast him out. He's now busy helping his people's equivalent of a god of evil tear a hole in reality to escape her prison and return "oblivion" to the world.
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* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' seems to be casting Jengo Fett in this role.
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* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020417c pitying Spark Man was not wise]].



* Kimiko of ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', [[http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html as shown in the Hob arc]].



* Before she [[PowerOfLove mellowed out a bit,]] Galatea fit this trope in ''[[Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.]]'' She explains her position [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/268 thusly.]]
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* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.

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* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.
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* [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] during the Rooftop arc in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor''. That cafe scene with Sarah establishes TheWoobie factor... right before he snaps and backslides into a full-on BastardBoyfriend StalkerWithACrush.

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* [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] during the Rooftop arc in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor''. That cafe scene with Sarah establishes TheWoobie factor... right before he snaps and backslides into a full-on BastardBoyfriend DomesticAbuser StalkerWithACrush.

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* Before she [[PowerOfLove mellowed out a bit,]] Galatea fit this trope in ''[[Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.]]'' She explains her position [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/268 thusly.]]
* Back in 2000, the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Fluble}}'' actually had a [[http://techhouse.brown.edu/cgi-bin/fluble/vault.pl?date=20000208 storyline]] about a space monstrosity named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Woobie]], who wanted to destroy the world because he felt unloved.

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* Before she [[PowerOfLove mellowed out a bit,]] Galatea fit In ''151 Hidden Depths'', [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1405524/050-diglett/ Diglett]] becomes this trope in ''[[Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.]]'' She explains her position [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/268 thusly.]]
* Back in 2000,
after evolving into [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1407376/051-dugtrio/ Dugtrio]]. [[PintsizedPowerhouse Being small]] led him to be rejected from joining the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Fluble}}'' actually had Pokemon Police Force so he proves he's a [[http://techhouse.brown.edu/cgi-bin/fluble/vault.pl?date=20000208 storyline]] about a space monstrosity named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Woobie]], who wanted force to destroy the world because he felt unloved.be reckoned with by destroying cities.
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020417c pitying Spark Man was not wise]].



* Kimiko of ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', [[http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html as shown in the Hob arc]].



* Sandra Eastlake from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl''. After trying for two years to come to terms with accidentally being transformed (through no fault of her own) into an obviously non-human demon who cannot eat or even taste food properly, type properly (her fingers are razor-sharp, foot-long claws), interact within normal society, or even hold a normal job, surviving multiple attempts on her and her friends' lives, being rendered incapable of intimate contact due to her bodily fluids being ''acid'', and becoming her town's very own urban monster legend, she is finally pushed over the edge by a wizard who goes out of his way to ''provoke her into becoming completely evil so that he can successfully poison her with an evil-killing toxin''. When even that fails, he simply drags her to Hell while the whole town stands by and does nothing, because he happened to look more human than she does. She finally snaps when, [[spoiler:''after they both arrive in hell'', he transforms into a demon and threatens to spend the rest of eternity torturing her]]. By that point, she has nothing left to lose. And as icing on the cake, consider that the only reason said wizard even knew about her in the first place is because ''she contacted '''him''' to ask for help''.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'''s Oasis. All she wants is for her one true love to return her love, and until he does, she'll slaughter everything in her path. She ''knows'' that she was essentially brainwashed by Steve Hereti into loving Torg, but can't help it anyway. This, coupled with her not knowing exactly what she is, is slowly driving her insane(er).
* Kimiko of ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', [[http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html as shown in the Hob arc]].
* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.
-->'''[[spoiler:Black Mana!]]Trace''': Are you the one harming Flora? No matter... I'll kill you all and sort it out later.
* Tavor from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''. After losing his family and kingdom to invaders, he decides to take his pain out on the rest of the world by trying to erase the city representing its last hope from existence.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Redcloak once you've read his backstory in ''StartOfDarkness''. [[spoiler:Entire family and village, except his brother, massacred by the supposedly LawfulGood Sapphire Guard. Teamed up with Xykon, who took over Redcloak's own team and demoted him to number 2 after Redcloak himself turned him into a Lich. Forced to kill his brother by Xykon as a twisted loyalty test]]. In the main comic, lost an eye to one of the Sapphire Guard and was forbidden by Xykon (again) from healing it. He remains in service to a potentially world-destroying evil plan which is the only part of his old life that remains.
** [[spoiler:Darth V]] also qualifies, having snapped after being unable to [[spoiler:trance for months]] due to severe guilt, then having [[spoiler:his/her family threatened with a horrible death]]. The fallout of [[spoiler:his/her [[DisproportionateRetribution casting of]] [[MoralEventHorizon "Familicide"]] on the dragon making these threats, killing everyone even remotely related to her,]] has indeed pushed this a lot closer to a literal "Destroyer of Worlds" example -- [[spoiler:one of [[SealedEvilInACan the Gates sealing away]] [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] was defended by a man with dragon blood, and his family]].
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020417c pitying Spark Man was not wise]].

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* Sandra Eastlake from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl''. After trying for two years to come to terms with accidentally being transformed (through no fault of her own) into an obviously non-human demon Back in 2000, the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Fluble}}'' actually had a [[http://techhouse.brown.edu/cgi-bin/fluble/vault.pl?date=20000208 storyline]] about a space monstrosity named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Woobie]], who cannot eat or even taste food properly, type properly (her fingers are razor-sharp, foot-long claws), interact within normal society, or even hold a normal job, surviving multiple attempts on her and her friends' lives, being rendered incapable of intimate contact due wanted to her bodily fluids being ''acid'', and becoming her town's very own urban monster legend, she is finally pushed over destroy the edge by a wizard who goes out of his way to ''provoke her into becoming completely evil so that he can successfully poison her with an evil-killing toxin''. When even that fails, he simply drags her to Hell while the whole town stands by and does nothing, world because he happened to look more human than she does. She finally felt unloved.
* [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] during the Rooftop arc in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor''. That cafe scene with Sarah establishes TheWoobie factor... right before he
snaps when, [[spoiler:''after they both arrive in hell'', he transforms and backslides into a demon and threatens to spend the rest of eternity torturing her]]. By that point, she has nothing left to lose. And as icing on the cake, consider that the only reason said wizard even knew about her in the first place is because ''she contacted '''him''' to ask for help''.
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'''s Oasis. All she wants is for her one true love to return her love, and until he does, she'll slaughter everything in her path. She ''knows'' that she was essentially brainwashed by Steve Hereti into loving Torg, but can't help it anyway. This, coupled with her not knowing exactly what she is, is slowly driving her insane(er).
* Kimiko of ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', [[http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html as shown in the Hob arc]].
* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.
-->'''[[spoiler:Black Mana!]]Trace''': Are you the one harming Flora? No matter... I'll kill you all and sort it out later.
* Tavor from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''. After losing his family and kingdom to invaders, he decides to take his pain out on the rest of the world by trying to erase the city representing its last hope from existence.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Redcloak once you've read his backstory in ''StartOfDarkness''. [[spoiler:Entire family and village, except his brother, massacred by the supposedly LawfulGood Sapphire Guard. Teamed up with Xykon, who took over Redcloak's own team and demoted him to number 2 after Redcloak himself turned him into a Lich. Forced to kill his brother by Xykon as a twisted loyalty test]]. In the main comic, lost an eye to one of the Sapphire Guard and was forbidden by Xykon (again) from healing it. He remains in service to a potentially world-destroying evil plan which is the only part of his old life that remains.
** [[spoiler:Darth V]] also qualifies, having snapped after being unable to [[spoiler:trance for months]] due to severe guilt, then having [[spoiler:his/her family threatened with a horrible death]]. The fallout of [[spoiler:his/her [[DisproportionateRetribution casting of]] [[MoralEventHorizon "Familicide"]] on the dragon making these threats, killing everyone even remotely related to her,]] has indeed pushed this a lot closer to a literal "Destroyer of Worlds" example -- [[spoiler:one of [[SealedEvilInACan the Gates sealing away]] [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] was defended by a man with dragon blood, and his family]].
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020417c pitying Spark Man was not wise]].
full-on BastardBoyfriend StalkerWithACrush.



* The golem girls in ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' played this role once. They were tortured until their wills were completely broken, then they were turned into a weapon. They ended up rampaging and destroying most of the world. Since then, civilizations have been rebuilt, and they have had their free will returned.
* In ''151 Hidden Depths'', [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1405524/050-diglett/ Diglett]] becomes this after evolving into [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1407376/051-dugtrio/ Dugtrio]]. [[PintsizedPowerhouse Being small]] led him to be rejected from joining the Pokemon Police Force so he proves he's a force to be reckoned with by destroying cities.
* [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] during the Rooftop arc in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor''. That cafe scene with Sarah establishes TheWoobie factor . . . right before he snaps and backslides into a full-on BastardBoyfriend StalkerWithACrush.

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* The golem girls in ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' played Before she [[PowerOfLove mellowed out a bit,]] Galatea fit this role once. They were tortured until their wills were completely broken, then they were trope in ''[[Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob.]]'' She explains her position [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/268 thusly.]]
* Tavor from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''. After losing his family and kingdom to invaders, he decides to take his pain out on the rest of the world by trying to erase the city representing its last hope from existence.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Redcloak once you've read his backstory in ''StartOfDarkness''. [[spoiler:Entire family and village, except his brother, massacred by the supposedly LawfulGood Sapphire Guard. Teamed up with Xykon, who took over Redcloak's own team and demoted him to number 2 after Redcloak himself
turned him into a weapon. They ended up rampaging and destroying most Lich. Forced to kill his brother by Xykon as a twisted loyalty test]]. In the main comic, lost an eye to one of the world. Since then, civilizations have been rebuilt, Sapphire Guard and they have had their free will returned.
* In ''151 Hidden Depths'', [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1405524/050-diglett/ Diglett]] becomes this
was forbidden by Xykon (again) from healing it. He remains in service to a potentially world-destroying evil plan which is the only part of his old life that remains.
** [[spoiler:Darth V]] also qualifies, having snapped
after evolving into [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1407376/051-dugtrio/ Dugtrio]]. [[PintsizedPowerhouse Being small]] led him being unable to be rejected from joining the Pokemon Police Force so he proves he's a force [[spoiler:trance for months]] due to be reckoned severe guilt, then having [[spoiler:his/her family threatened with by destroying cities.
* [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Erik]] during
a horrible death]]. The fallout of [[spoiler:his/her [[DisproportionateRetribution casting of]] [[MoralEventHorizon "Familicide"]] on the Rooftop arc in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor''. That cafe scene dragon making these threats, killing everyone even remotely related to her,]] has indeed pushed this a lot closer to a literal "Destroyer of Worlds" example -- [[spoiler:one of [[SealedEvilInACan the Gates sealing away]] [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] was defended by a man with Sarah establishes TheWoobie factor . . . right before he snaps dragon blood, and backslides into a full-on BastardBoyfriend StalkerWithACrush.his family]].



* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'''s Oasis. All she wants is for her one true love to return her love, and until he does, she'll slaughter everything in her path. She ''knows'' that she was essentially brainwashed by Steve Hereti into loving Torg, but can't help it anyway. This, coupled with her not knowing exactly what she is, is slowly driving her insane(er).



* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': "Sleipnope", the powerful entity that has its mind set on killing every single member of the crew, is made of several beings undergoing a FateWorseThanDeath. While its "main" voice is uttering AndYourLittleDogToo threats to the crew's mages (the only ones that can hear them), other voices can be heard calling for help.

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* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': "Sleipnope", the powerful entity that has its mind set on killing every single member of the crew, is made of several beings undergoing a FateWorseThanDeath. While its "main" voice is uttering AndYourLittleDogToo threats to the crew's mages (the only ones that can hear them), other voices can be heard calling for help.help.
* Trace Legacy from ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. A few weeks after he settles down with his new wife, a Keidran thief shoots her with a poison arrow. In his grief, he throws himself into BlackMagic research to try and resurrect her. The spell backfires, nearly killing him and destroying his sanity. He then sacks a Keidran village and takes over the Order, [[BalefulPolymorph polymorphing]] his old boss into a Keidran so he can kill her without a fuss. The Goddess of Neutrality has to wipe his brain to keep him from committing genocide.
-->'''[[spoiler:Black Mana!]]Trace''': Are you the one harming Flora? No matter... I'll kill you all and sort it out later.
* The golem girls in ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' played this role once. They were tortured until their wills were completely broken, then they were turned into a weapon. They ended up rampaging and destroying most of the world. Since then, civilizations have been rebuilt, and they have had their free will returned.
* Sandra Eastlake from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl''. After trying for two years to come to terms with accidentally being transformed (through no fault of her own) into an obviously non-human demon who cannot eat or even taste food properly, type properly (her fingers are razor-sharp, foot-long claws), interact within normal society, or even hold a normal job, surviving multiple attempts on her and her friends' lives, being rendered incapable of intimate contact due to her bodily fluids being ''acid'', and becoming her town's very own urban monster legend, she is finally pushed over the edge by a wizard who goes out of his way to ''provoke her into becoming completely evil so that he can successfully poison her with an evil-killing toxin''. When even that fails, he simply drags her to Hell while the whole town stands by and does nothing, because he happened to look more human than she does. She finally snaps when, [[spoiler:''after they both arrive in hell'', he transforms into a demon and threatens to spend the rest of eternity torturing her]]. By that point, she has nothing left to lose. And as icing on the cake, consider that the only reason said wizard even knew about her in the first place is because ''she contacted '''him''' to ask for help''.

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