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It is the end of all things. Unless there are [[Another Dimension|other dimensions]]; those are safe.
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Literature ==
* [[Douglas Adams]] introduced this trope into various of the many incarnations of ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'':
** In ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Franchise)/Life, The Universe And Everything|Life The Universe And Everything]]'', the Silastic Armorfiends have commissioned Hactar to create a superweapon that will connect to the heart of every star in the universe and cause them to go supernova, effectively killing everything in existence. Hactar initially has second thoughts about it.
** Casually mentioned in ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Franchise)/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' and ''Fit the Seventh'' of [[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Radio)|the radio series]]:
{{quote| Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.}}
* [[Stephen Baxter]]: ''[[Xeelee Sequence (Literature)|The Photino Birds]]'' are deliberately turning every last star in their entire universe into a red dwarf, making it uninhabitable for all other life. In ''[[Manifold Time (Literature)|Manifold Time]]'', {{spoiler|the Blue children instigate a vacuum collapse incident, causing the fabric of space to collapse into a new energy state within a bubble expanding at lightspeed.}}
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* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', New Year's Eve, 2008. May have been a Class X-5, depending on one's definition of "universe".
* ''[[A Beginners Guide to The End of The Universe]]'' {{spoiler|actually takes place ''after'' the heat death of the entire universe.}} The only thing that {{spoiler|thwarts the Big Crunch and the birth of a new universe is that the Everyman, an anthropomorphic representation of the humanity's collective unconscious, somehow intervened at the last moments and created some buildings, air and light that are the only thing left within the void, forming the basis of the [[Ontological Mystery]] the comic begins with.}}
* In ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Black Mage, as a manifest Nexus, has the ''potential'' to destroy the universe. The only thing that stops him doing so is that A) the assorted forces of the universe are smart enough to ''not'' let him die (as his physical being acts as a [[Restraining Bolt]] and it's only when he dies that he gains full access to his power), and B) {{spoiler|Chaos knocks him and the other Light Warriors back to their starting levels, which means he has to start all over again the whole process of getting access to enough of his power to destroy the universe}}. As long as he's still the Universe's [[Cosmic Plaything]], and it doesn't let him get access to enough of his power, he'll probably left at just ''attempting'' to act out his [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Tendencies]]
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': Lord English is stated to cause this in every universe he comes to, and since he can time-travel he can set up the parameters of his summoning personally. He's also the [[Big Bad]].
** {{spoiler|Jack Noir and Spades Slick have both destroyed universes as well. Both were essentially pawns of English}}
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