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[[File:Nibelheim Burns.jpg|link=Final Fantasy VII|frame|Not wasting time, this home town gets destroyed ''before'' the game starts.]]
{{quote|'''No! My beloved peasant village!''': ''The hero's home town, city, slum, or planet will usually be annihilated in a spectacular fashion before the end of the game, and often before the end of the opening scene.''
|'''[[The Grand List of Console RPG Cliches]]'''}}
The town the hero first appears in is often his hometown. There is a very high chance said town will be demolished by evil forces, prompting him to quest, although sometimes the town is inaccessible for other reasons (banishment, for example).
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See also [[Where I Was Born and Razed]], when the character is the doom of their own hometown.
Not to be confused with [[Domed Hometown]], although these are [[
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== Anime
* Freiza does precisely this to the Sayain's home world in Dragonball Z, although it actually takes place before the series proper starts, and is shown in flashbacks. The Bardock special also recounts the events leading up to this Class X [[Apocalypse How]].
* In ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' -one of the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' sequels-, Duke Fleed's planet gets destroyed two years before the beginning of the series, forcing him to flee to Earth.
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* Once upon a time, there was a space colony called [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Side 7]].
** And [[Zeta Gundam|Green Noah 1 (later to be called Gryps 2)]]
** And [[Gundam Seed|Heliopolis]]
** And a Middle Eastern country called [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Krugis]]; bonus points in that in this case, {{spoiler|the protagonist was one of those that [[Where I Was Born and Razed|brought chaos and destruction to the village]] as an unwitting [[Child Soldier]]}}.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a villainous example. Kul Elna, a village of former tomb builders turned tomb robbers, was burned to the ground and had its inhabitants slaughtered as components in the spell that forged the [[MacGuffin|Millennium Items]]. Luckily for one small boy who managed to stay hidden, the sorcerers only needed the lives of the other 99 villagers, which left him as the sole survivor. Flash forward about ten to fifteen years, and Thief King Bakura is out for revenge...
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* Kazuma's hometown was destroyed before the beginning of ''[[Kagerou Nostalgia]]''; the village he's defending in the opening doesn't last long either (although in his defense, it would have been gone even quicker without him).
== Comic Books ==
* Krypton from the ''[[Superman]]'' mythos is the quintessential example of a Doomed Hometown, being a doomed home ''planet''.
** In ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', {{spoiler|it happened to him again, this time with Kansas}}.
** Later to be topped by Power Girl, whose entire ''universe'' was destroyed.
** Lobo subverts this by wiping out the inhabitants of his home planet ''[[Where I Was Born and Razed|all by himself]]''.
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* The home planets of the eponymous seven in ''[[Sovereign Seven]]''.
* [[Green Lantern]] Hal Jordan's home base of Coast City was destroyed, starting a chain of events that turn him into an insane killer/possessed victim of an entity called Parallax.
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', when Deathstroke orders [[Nightwing]]'s city, Bludhaven, destroyed as revenge against the hero.
** However, this really didn't become an impetus for Nightwing's later adventures.
== Films ==
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** In yet another [[DreamWorks]] film, ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'', Panda Village, the birthplace of Po the panda, is burned to the ground by [[Evil Albino|Shen's]] wolves and cannons.
* ''[[Come and See]]'' has Florya's home village, which ends up slaughtered some time after he joins up with the partisans. He's in denial about it at first.
== Literature ==
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* In the ''[[The Demon Princes]]'', the destruction and enslavement of the Mount Pleasant colony is what kicks off Kirth Gersen's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* In Suzzanne Collins' ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' series, Katniss Everdeen's hometown District 12 {{spoiler|is bombed into oblivion under the orders of President Snow as retaliation for the occurences of book two, Catching Fire. The book ends with some one telling her it's gone, so you know it's important. Later on, Katniss visits the District 12 ruins and is noticably guilty over the fact that it's gone, and the bombing of 12 is brought up multiple times throughout the last book.}}
* In the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', first of all Eragon's home is destroyed and Garrow killed, then in Eldest, {{spoiler|the Empire come for Roran which results in the destruction of Carvahall and the villagers all leaving for the Varden}}.
* In ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' series, the Norls are a race of [[Heavyworlder]] humanoids, whose homeworld is rendered near-uninhabitable by a supernova. Unfortunately, their new home is about to suffer the same fate (apparently, even with FTL outrunning a supernova is difficult). Fortunately, the humans find out about this just in time and manage to shield the new planet from the destructive wave using powerful gravity generators.
* In the first book of ''[[Chronicles of the Emerged World]]'', Nihal's home city of Salazar is attacked by [[The Dragon|Dola]] and his army of [[The Usual Adversaries|Fammin]] and her adoptive father Lovin is killed while trying to buy her some time to flee.
* In Jack Campbell's ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'' Captain Tulev's [[Backstory]] was the destruction of his home system. {{spoiler|He offers to draw up the list of highly critical systems because he's unbiased.}}
* In ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'', Kvothe never had a hometown, but his parents and their caravan of traveling performers are slaughtered by the Chandrian. This sets him off on his adventures alone and will eventually lead him to seek out the Chandrian for revenge.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''{{'}}s [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] Data was created in a Colony on the planet of Omnicron Theta on which all life was mysteriously and utterly annihilated (right down to the level of ''soil bacteria'') by a space entity that resembles a giant snowflake. After the disaster, Data was found by the crew of the USS ''Tripoli'' when they came to investigate. He was deactivated during the attack so the creature didn't count him as alive, and is effectively the sole survivor of the entire colony. Several later episodes see them either dealing with the return of this creature, or tracking it down.
** Similarly, Worf was rescued as a child from the wreckage of the Khitomer outpost by a Federation
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the remade ''
** Not only that. The humans original homeworld Kobol was also
** The same thing happened in [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original
* ''[[Smallville]]''.{{context}}
* In ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' the [[Robin Hood|title character]], a.k.a. Robin of Loxley, is a bit miffed when the Sheriff of Nottingham torches the village of Loxley.
* According to ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'
* The Chicago that [[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century|Buck Rogers]] knew was destroyed (along with most of the rest of Earth) in a nuclear war some 500 years before the series proper takes place. A new, if [[Crystal Spires and Togas|somewhat more sterile]] city has been built close to the blackened, mutant-infested ruins.
* In the T.V series ''[[Lost]]'' one of the antagonists, "the man in black" has his village burned down.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' two-parter "Moebius", which is partly an [[Alternate Reality Episode]], where the alternate SG-1 travel to Chulak and inadvertantly let [[Big Bad|Apophis]] find out about Earth, causing him to send a full fleet to attack it. Realizing they have no hope of stopping it, they decide to try to restore the original timeline, which they were initially unwilling to do.
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Toys ==
* The ''[[Bionicle]]'' character Tobduk's time in the Order of Mata Nui began after his home island became the first victims of the Visorak horde. The attack and his survival changed his personality a great deal.
== Video Games ==
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Heroes (TV series)|The Haitian]] is revealed to have come from one of these in 'It Takes a Village'.
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209074041/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=38 this] ''[[Fanboys (webcomic)|Fanboys]]'' strip.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': ''[[Start of Darkness]]'' shows that Redcloak's village and all of its inhabitants (except for him and his brother) were destroyed by the Sapphire Guard shortly after his initiation as a cleric.
** A variant: ''Origins of the PCs'' reveals that Durkon was sent away from the dwarven lands due to a prophecy that said it would get destroyed if he ever returned. Durkon does not know this, and a second prophecy has confirmed that he (or at least {{spoiler|his body}}) ''would'' get to come home one day. Uh-oh...
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** And now, as of the end of Act 5, {{spoiler|two entire doomed home ''universes''.}}
* Beartato from ''[[Nedroid]]'' hails from a doomed home planet according to his [http://nedroid.com/2011/04/secret-origins/ secret origin comic]. Then Reginald happens.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In ''[[Unlikely Eden]]'' this happens twice technically, but the very first installment chronicles the escape of the two protagonists from a hometown in a state of ''current'' dooming.
* Happens to no fewer than ''three'' of the eight heroes in ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'': [[Raised by Humans|Gawain's]] hometown is wiped out by a plague, [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Shadowa's]] is destroyed by [[Dark Is Evil|darkness]], and [[Our Fairies Are Different|Emmy's]] [[Nature Spirit|home forest]] is flattened by a hurricane. All three are implied to have been caused by the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[
== Western Animation ==
* Cybertron, the homeworld of the ''[[Transformers]]'', has been destroyed in at least two continuities, rendered uninhabitable or slowly dying in a couple others, and ravaged by war pretty much across the board. To those who remember its golden age of peace and prosperity, "tragic" is an understatement. Not quite the doomed homeworld Krypton is, but on the flip side that makes it hit closer to home in a lot of ways, everyone dying one by one in a
** What makes it worse is that their home planet is also their God. It talks to them.
** And in the 2007 movie, {{spoiler|the Allspark, which the Autobots are searching for to bring life back to their world, is destroyed in order to kill Megatron, leaving Cybertron doomed to be barren forever. Optimus Prime, upon Bumblebee's suggestion, sends out a signal suggesting Earth as a new home for any Autobots scattered
** The latest entry in the series makes it deader than dead. {{spoiler|apparently being barren isn't just enough, they had to pull it halfway through a wormhole, then force it back in while the wormhole collapsed on itself. Cybertron, at least in this continuity, is pretty much erased from existence.}}
** There was once a security officer named [[Beast Wars|Depth Charge]], in charge of a small colony called Colony Omicron. Then one day, [[Ax Crazy|Proto]][[Implacable Man|form]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|X]] showed up...
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** Subverted with Jet in the sense that he plays the trope to the letter, but isn't the hero. Or even A hero.
* The village in ''[[An American Tail]]'', which is sacked in a cat-Cossack pogrom at the very beginning, in a ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' parody. Surprisingly, this is intended to be [[wikipedia:Shostka|a real town]], which has in fact survived.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Discord]] from ''[[My Little Pony:
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