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* In ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' it's stated that Omega Shenron could have caused this.

** Back on [[Dragonball Z]] anime. Majin Buu flew into a rage and his power ''began to tear the fabric of reality''. Then, Vegeto stopped him by slugging him. Make that what you will.

 

 

* In [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Doom Patrol]]'', this is what will happen if the Anti-God, let free by the Cult of the Unwritten Book, is able to proceed with unmaking the universe. "Nothing. Forever and ever."

* In ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', the spin-off from ''[[The Sandman]]'', all of Creation was nearly unmade when {{spoiler|God left creation. Since His name is on everything in Heaven, Earth and everywhere else, and it holds it all together, everything started to slowly break down. It was averted when God left His job as supreme deity to his half-angel granddaughter. Chances are her universe -- the third at the time -- would have survived anyway, not being entangled with God's crappy handiwork.}}

 

 

* In ''[[Dogma]]'', if the [[Word of God]] is to be proven wrong all of creation will cease to exist.

* This is the goal of the ''[[Warlock (film)|Warlock]]'', and he comes [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Damned]] close.

 

* All of [[Spider Robinson]]'s time-travel stories are fueled by the premise that a genuine temporal paradox will result in the complete annihilation of space-time from beginning to end, not only destroying everything, but causing it never to have existed at all.

* In "[[The Keys to The Kingdom]]" series by Garth Nix, if the House is destroyed by Nothing, reality will cease to exist (including all the Secondary Realms). {{spoiler|This does end up happening, but [[Unexplained Recovery|it gets better]], since Arthur is able to recreate the Realms from the Atlas.}}

* It's hinted that [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] has the power to do this (but not the mental sickness required to, at least not yet).

 

* Unsurprisingly, ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a few examples of this extreme:

** In the finale of the 2008 series, Davros comes within a hair's breadth of destroying all matter in [[The Multiverse|the entire multiverse]] save for himself and his group of Daleks.

** The {{spoiler|TARDIS explosion from series 5 is listed under Class X-5, but comes damn close. It comes within a ''single planet'' and a few minutes of being Class Z.}}

** The {{spoiler|denial of a fixed point in history at the end of series six creates a temporal explosion threatening to collapse and kill all of reality, spreading outward from the point that was broken}}. This is soon approaching a Z-2.

** In ''The Big Bang'' it reaches Class Z-3 - all realities never existed. Creation never existed. Nothing ever existed. The above statements ignore Earth and the moon and sun.

*** Note it's easy to miss that it's a Z-3 and not a Z-2, since its status is only confirmed in a single, blink and you miss it line of dialogue from a {{spoiler|Cyberman}} in the previous episode. "All universes will be [[Catch Phrase|deleted]]."

** It should be noted that only ''Doctor Who'' ever produced examples which can even remotely qualify for '''[[Up to Eleven|above vanilla Class Z]].'''

 

* Actually happens in [[Food for the Gods]]. [[Satan]] leads an army of the damned into Heaven, and starts utterly laying waste to everything in sight. God responds by going completely insane with rage and obliterating all of creation.

 

 

* This is the fate of Creation if the ''[[Nobilis]]'' lose their Valde Bellum. ''Retroactively'', no less.

* [[Exalted|The Abyssal Exalted]] were created by [[Eldritch Abomination|the Neverborn]] with the express intent of throwing Creation into Oblivion, freeing the Neverborn from their fetters to existence by ''getting rid of existence.''

** The Believers of the Source believe in a concept like Nirvana, where every being (mortals and gods alike) are being tested. Pass the tests, you [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]. Once everyone passes every test, the multiverse will end.

 

* The fourth or fifth endings of ''[[Drakengard]]'' if not for the intervention of the heroes.

* The second [[Tasty Planet]] game has the Goo devour progressively bigger things, eventually getting to planets, stars, entire galaxies, and eventually the fabric of space-time itself.

** In ''[[Sonic Generations]]'', Time Eater wants to destroy time from at least 1991, resulting as if nothing ever existed, over what is certainly [[Disproportionate Retribution|a personal grudge against Sonic]]. The game is set during this process of complete time-erasure.

* [[Live a Live]]. {{spoiler|You are the one who can end everything by simply choosing the Armageddon option. It disintegrates everything, in every place, in every time period, all at once (even though just destroying the Prehisoric chapter should have been enough), so you ''know'' it's horrible.}}

 

 

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|messing around with the fourth wall]] is supposed to be ''even worse'' than class Z, according to Karkat:

{{quote|{{color|grey|CG: BUT SUFFICE TO SAY THERE ARE JUST SOME THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO SCREW WITH.}}

** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005558 It's true] from [[Author Avatar|the author's end]] too.

** It's eventually revealed ''something'' is killing the [[Eldritch Abomination|Horrorterrors]]. According to Rose, this threatens the perpetuation of reality itself.

 

 

* In ''[[Transformers]]'', this is Unicron's ultimate goal. Given that his overall method is to [[Planet Eater|eat the entire multiverse one planet at a time]], its taking him quite a while, but, impressively, he's already devoured about 22.5% of known universes that way.

* This is the goal of {{spoiler|Owlman}} in ''[[Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths]]'', once he learns of the existence of the multiverse. It is quite awesome, but ultimately foiled by [[Batman]].