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Sometimes the catastrophe you engineered to bring yourself to power was not all for the [[Utopia Justifies the Means|Greater Good]]. Sometimes, it really was just to get you into power.
Whether it is to eliminate the competition or to dissuade any future rebellion, you find that [[Take Over the World|World Domination]] is hard to achieve without crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]], sometimes just because [[Evil Is Easy]]. Now, the world might turn out to be a better place with you running the show, but just to be
Total global domination is the most common of all villainous goals. But with this trope, the [[Big Bad]] takes it too far.
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the first part of a season finale, ''The Sound of Drums'', ends with The Master taking over the world. His first order of business? "Remove one-tenth of the population."
** Then, in another season's first part of a finale episode, ''The End of Time'', ends with The Master taking over the world... sound familiar? This time he changes everyone on planet Earth into himself, which effectively makes our species extinct.
** His main motivation here was never actually power,
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