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{{quote|''"Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out, structure falls apart...Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter...Across the entire universe, never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become ''dust''. And the dust will become ''atoms'' and the atoms will become... ''nothing''. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of CREATION! ''This'' is my ultimate victory Doctor! '''THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!!!'''"''|'''Davros''' succinctly explains what his Reality Bomb does, ''[[
Omniversal-scale Annihilation. Can take on two forms:
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''The Ultimate End Of All Things'': The Physical Annihilation of everything, everywhere. Period. Only counts for fictional universes that have [[Another Dimension|alternate dimensions]] or some such that would prevent Universal Physical Annihilation from working.
''Cosmic Do-Over'': The Metaphysical Annihilation of everything. It is not "the end of all things", [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|because "after" this happens, nothing ever existed.]] There never was anything to annihilate; you can't have an end to something if you wipe out its ''beginning''. This is the [[Ret
Depending on whether the work treats [[Meta Fiction]] as a type of [[Another Dimension|alternate universe]], this may not be a credible threat since the destruction of all things would have include [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|our own reality]]. There may also be [[Fridge Logic]] if it's likely that an [[Mirror Universe|alternate universe exists]] where [[The Bad Guy Wins|the heroes failed to prevent the apocalypse]]. Both of these issues can be [[Justified]] or [[Lampshaded]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* 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 ''[[
* Near the end of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'', the [[Big Bad|Dark King]] is purportedly destroying multiple planets in his spare time. His goal, as stated throughout the series, is the total destruction of all existence.
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* In [[
* In ''[[Lucifer (
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* 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 (
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* 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).
* In ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'', the demon god Azathoth is dreaming all of existence; when he wakes up, it will end.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* Unsurprisingly, ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|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|Time Lords}} attempt this or Class X-4 to 5 in ''The End of Time'', {{spoiler|from their perspective, a last ditch attempt to survive the Time War, during its last days}}.
** 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.
** It should be noted that ''Doctor Who'' has an example in ''every category'' for this trope. If there's one thing these people know, it is how to kill a lot of people/planets/etc.
** 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]].'''
== [[Music]] ==▼
* Actually happens in [[Food for
▲== Music ==
▲* 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.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* This is the fate of Creation if the ''[[
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* This is the fate of Creation if the ''[[Nobilis (Tabletop Game)|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.''
* This is the presumed goal of the Wyrm in ''[[
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** This is [[God of Evil| Vecna's]] goal in the epic module ''Die Vecna Die''. He threatens to consume all of reality and remake it in his own evil image.
** Overall, this is the goal of [[Mad God| Tharizdun, the Mad God of Destruction]]. He seeks to unmake reality and destroy everything, ending with himself.
* In ''[[Planescape]]'', two factions believe this is the ultimate fate of the multiverse, but neither seriously believes it can be accomplished in their lifetimes or even that of many descendants:
** The Doomguard believes omniversal destruction is imminent, and they try to prevent anyone from stopping it. Some try to hurry it along.
** 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.
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* 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.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
** In ''[[
* [[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 ''[[
** In ''[[
** In Dissidia [[Final Fantasy III
* The bad ending of the Demon path in [[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters|Soul Nomad]] {{spoiler|has the protaganist do this after devouring [[Omnicidal Maniac|Gig]]. Why? [[For the Evulz|Cause it was fun]].}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: A Crack in Time'', this is implied to happen if someone tries to use The Great Clock for time travel. {{spoiler|Nearly happens, too, thanks to Azimuth.}}
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]''. True Demon Path. {{spoiler|All universes in the entire omniverse are obliterated with no chance of recreation by the death of [[God]]'s avatar at the hands of the demonically-powered Hito-Shura. Demons and fiends are all that's left. The [[Final Battle]] [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|between Lucifer and God's now unavoidable]]...}}
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[
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{{color|grey|CG: THERE ARE OUTCOMES THAT ARE EVEN WORSE THAN THE COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF EXISTENCE ITSELF}}
{{color|grey|CG: FORCES MORE DAMAGING TO THE INTEGRITY OF REALITY THAN THOSE CAPABLE OF TURNING IMAGINATION INTO PURE VOID }}
{{color|grey|GC: THEY ARE FORCES WHICH IF HANDLED RECKLESSLY WILL NULLIFY THE BASIC ABILITY OF INTELLIGENT BEINGS IN ALL REAL AND HYPOTHETICAL PLANES OF EXISTENCE [[Parodied Trope|TO GIVE A SHIT.]]}} }}
** [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.
* The threat of such an event
== Web Originals ==▼
* In [[The Book of Stories OCT]], the worst outcome of the Book's Unwriting could be classified as Class X-5 or even Z, though it's not as much destroying as it is making everything nonexistent.▼
* In the game ''[[Ge Ne Sis (Video Game)|Ge Ne Sis]]'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|after too many dimensions are born, they are all destroyed at once, melting together into one. Gelyan plans to delay this by destroying all other dimensions.}}▼
▲* In [[The Book of Stories
▲* In the game ''[[Ge
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* 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
* Attempted by [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Spider-Carnage]] in ''[[Spider
* Done as a joke for an intro to ''[[The Simpsons (
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