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"MY HATRED WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR!"
— Dune, HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
"This is our destiny! People knew where they were headed when they chose to walk this path! (...) Justice and faith! Ignorance and escapism! They never learn! They never listen! We have reached the end of that path! There is no way to prevent it now! Mankind vanquished, at last! Just as they deserve!"
—Rau Le Creuset; Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Film
"I'm going to use this box's power to cause a Big Bang and destroy everything! Wouldn't it be awesome to die with the universe and return everything to rubble?"
Live-Action TV
We like to talk big, vampires do. "I'm going to destroy the world." It's just tough-guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United... and you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Good-bye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester-bloody-Square."
— Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Podcasts
"We changed our entire plane into something new altogether. A single, being, fueled by… discontentment. Searching for something bigger than this existence, regardless of the cost. You call us the Hunger. That’s not entirely inaccurate. ‘Cause we are… hungry. But it would be more accurate to simply call us Dissatisfaction. But soon, you will call us… Ascendant."
—John, The Adventure Zone: Balance, "The Stolen Century: Chapter Four"
Tabletop Games
The matter of the universe must be broken down until no atom remains, and then the patterns beneath the matter burnt away until no axiom is left! While there is existence there is pain, and while I have my pain I will unmake until there is no existence to torment me!
— Dholtchei, Bastard Prince of the Warp, Warhammer 40,000
Video Games
YOU DON'T APPRECIATE ME! NOBODY APPRECIATES ME!!! I HATE EVERYTHING! I'M GOING TO RUN AWAY!!! ...NO! I'M GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD!!! AAAAAAHHHH!!!
— Lumpy Space Princess, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!
If only I could show you the places I have seen, you might understand the things I say. I have been to the Desolate Lands, wandered by those souls who still see the lands of the living but wear the cloak of the dead. Blind to their own ends, they cry, passing through one another like shadows in the dying light of day. I have travelled to where souls rot in torment, pierced with the jagged shards of life and vision, clinging to memory — regrets of the flesh. I saw that this prison was of their own making, and that the key was in unknowing, in release... and still, I travelled on.
And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die. Where the mirrored and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of grey, mirrored glass... and I lowered myself within...and lay among them... and I almost did not return.
And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace. Enlightenment. Truth. Only then I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy - these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them. This "Life", this... Afterthought - a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great, dead sea, not even the cause, but merely an effect, sending these souls upwards, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters! The effect of what?!
I do not know. Nor do I care.
'Have you ever spoken with the dead? Called to them from this side? Called them from their silent rest? Do you know what it is that they feel? Pain. Pain, when torn into this wakefulness, this reminder of the chaos from which they had escaped. Pain... for having to live. There will be no more pain. There will be no more chaos. And so I go to Arcanum to be an end to it, and then I will join the souls of the dead, when it is done.
And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die. Where the mirrored and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of grey, mirrored glass... and I lowered myself within...and lay among them... and I almost did not return.
And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace. Enlightenment. Truth. Only then I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy - these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them. This "Life", this... Afterthought - a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great, dead sea, not even the cause, but merely an effect, sending these souls upwards, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters! The effect of what?!
I do not know. Nor do I care.
'Have you ever spoken with the dead? Called to them from this side? Called them from their silent rest? Do you know what it is that they feel? Pain. Pain, when torn into this wakefulness, this reminder of the chaos from which they had escaped. Pain... for having to live. There will be no more pain. There will be no more chaos. And so I go to Arcanum to be an end to it, and then I will join the souls of the dead, when it is done.
— Kerghan, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
What comedy! Zidane, isn't it hilarious!? I'll die just like the Black Mages I so despise! I single-handedly brought chaos unto Gaia, but in the end, I'm nothing but a worthless doll! ... ...I won't let it happen. I won't... I won't let this world exist without me!
—Kuja, Final Fantasy IX
Fandaniel: [M]y heart's desire is to lay this half-broken world to waste, leaving nary a speck of dust behind!
Alisaie: What!? Why would you want such a thing!?
Fandaniel: (suddenly angry) Because I want wretched creatures who ask such meaningless questions to die! You! And you! And you! I want you all to die! And I want to die too! Oh yes, I want to die and take everyone with me in a paroxysm of agony and suffering!
Alisaie: What!? Why would you want such a thing!?
Fandaniel: (suddenly angry) Because I want wretched creatures who ask such meaningless questions to die! You! And you! And you! I want you all to die! And I want to die too! Oh yes, I want to die and take everyone with me in a paroxysm of agony and suffering!
—Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
Huepow: Why are you doing this?
Ghadius: Why? I've run out of patience with this pathetic world that rejects nightmares and relies only on happy dreams. I should think that would be more than reason enough.
Huepow: How can you be so selfish? If Nahatomb is brought back, you'll be destroyed along with everything else!
Ghadius: I don't care. The world has already rejected me. Now it is simply my turn to reject the world.
Ghadius: Why? I've run out of patience with this pathetic world that rejects nightmares and relies only on happy dreams. I should think that would be more than reason enough.
Huepow: How can you be so selfish? If Nahatomb is brought back, you'll be destroyed along with everything else!
Ghadius: I don't care. The world has already rejected me. Now it is simply my turn to reject the world.
You have waylaid all his other plans. Now, as a petulant child, he will destroy the game board rather than admit defeat. Be ready for anything. He still believes himself a god, and gods do not fall gracefully.
— Solas, on the Elder One, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Very well: I give you my death - and yours as well! The unstoppable annihilation of every! Single! Last! Thing! Pleased? Satisfied?! Are you now full up with death?!
— Ballas at the climax of The New War, Warframe
My body... my mind... everything! I'll sacrifice it all to destroy you and cast this world into eternal night!
— Ganondorf, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
And when you cannot choose? What then? In that desperate moment, who will be there to soothe you? The self is all that exists... As such, the only cure for despair is total oblivion! That is the face of the world. I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! THIS ROTTEN WORLD... I LOATHE IT!!!
Web Animation
Is reality falling apart again!? I forgot me being alive is ending the world! And you know what? I'm gonna keep forgetting! Yeah, I was destined to die a long time ago, but I didn't, so now the world's falling apart! That smoke stack went, next a rift in the earth is gonna open up! And I'm not gonna stop, either; I'm taking all of you with me! It's gonna get all Langoliers up in this bitch! *gunshots* Oooh, so close! Yeah, you better kill me! You better fucking kill me! If you don't, your whole world's gonna collapse! Sucks to be you and everything you care about!
— A thankfully mistaken Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind
"'So long as this world turns, you shall walk its face.' That was the curse cast upon her. But, if Salem can divide humanity beyond repair and bring all four Relics back together, she believes that maybe her curse will be broken; the gods will rule against us, and destroy Remnant once and for all."
Webcomics
"If I cannot have my birthright. Then none will. Let It be the end of this age."
—Snadhya'rune Vel'Sharen, Drowtales, "End of an Age"
"Do not mourn the dead. When the taint of this world has been stripped from it - it shall be forged anew and they shall be freed from suffering. Their death is a blessing."
— Jagganoth, Kill Six Billion Demons
Western Animation
"This entire catastrophe has been nothing more than history's longest suicide note."
— Alucard to Dracula, Castlevania (2017)
Rejoice, Etheria, for your end has finally come! You have chosen darkness, and so into darkness you shall be plunged! The world will end in fire! And when the ashes scatter, at last there will... be... PEACE! ... Cry, Etheria! Cry for Prime's mercy! There will be no comfort for you! All the universe will be consumed in undying flame!
—Horde Prime, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Andrias: (chuckles) It seems the Core has activated its Final Gambit.
Hop Pop: Its WHAT?!
Andrias: When our civilization was at its peak, the moon became home to some of the Core's pet projects. Among them, a plan to eradicate all life as we know it by ramming the moon into Amphibia's surface.
(everyone gasps in shock)
Anne: Excuse me?! Why?!
Marcy: Fear. I've been in that thing's head. I know that more than anything, it's afraid of being destroyed. Of being irrelevant. It will do whatever it takes to defeat us and claim the Stones as its own. If that means destroying an entire civilization, then so be it.
Sasha: So what you're saying is, this thing's a giant sore loser?!
Andrias: Hmmm, more or less.
Hop Pop: Its WHAT?!
Andrias: When our civilization was at its peak, the moon became home to some of the Core's pet projects. Among them, a plan to eradicate all life as we know it by ramming the moon into Amphibia's surface.
(everyone gasps in shock)
Anne: Excuse me?! Why?!
Marcy: Fear. I've been in that thing's head. I know that more than anything, it's afraid of being destroyed. Of being irrelevant. It will do whatever it takes to defeat us and claim the Stones as its own. If that means destroying an entire civilization, then so be it.
Sasha: So what you're saying is, this thing's a giant sore loser?!
Andrias: Hmmm, more or less.
