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* ''[[Kill All Humans|Kill All The Humans]]'': No one's going to miss [[Humans Are Bastards|the little bastards]], right?
* ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Kill Everything]]'': Why stop with just the humans?
* ''[[The End of the World as We Know It|Cause The Apocalypse]]'': Not so much destroying the world or humanity as really screwing up civilization; though the former two may be involved in the bargain.
* ''[[A God Am I|Gain]] '''[[A God Am I|UNLIMITED POWERRRRR!!!!]]''''': Don't just play God, BE God!
* ''[[Immortality|Live Forever]]'': Pursue the quest for eternal life, no matter what [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|foul deeds]] are needed to make it happen.
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== Anime ==
* [[Windaria]] has {{spoiler|Lagado}} who wants to take over Lunaria and while he's not the reason Alan gets involved, he does provide the means.
* [[Naruto]]: Each [[Big Bad]] had their own
** Orochimaru wanted to [[Mega Manning|learn every jutsu]] and [[Immortality Immorality|live forever,]] though he also tried to destroy Konoha and start a war [[For the Evulz]].
** Pain wanted [[Utopia Justifies the Means|a world without war.]]
** Tobi wants to eradicate [[The Evils of Free Will]].
** And Kabuto wants...[[Jerkass Woobie|someone to notice him.]] Via [[Power Parasite]] [[Mega Manning]] and [[War for Fun and Profit]].
* [[Dragon Ball]]
** Emperor Pilaf wanted to [[Take Over the World]] for the usual reasons.
** Frieza wanted to become immortal. After Goku kicks his ass, his goal changes to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroying the world]] for revenge on him.
** Cell wanted to destroy the world ''and'' kill Goku because he was programmed to, but possibly [[For the Evulz]] as well.
** Etc.
* The villains of [[Sailor Moon]] have their own plans but they all want to collect [[MacGuffin|Macguffins]] for power, like energy or heart crystals etc and used the [[Monster of the Week]] format to get them.
* [[Inukami!]] Two (maybe three) major villains with plans ranging from 'erase the nudity taboo so I can walk naked in public without shame' to 'push people beyond the [[Despair Event Horizon]] because I am a [[Emotion Eater]]'
* [[Bleach]]'s [[Big Bad|Sousuke Aizen]] either wants to "[[A God Am I|fill the unbearable vacancy in heaven]]" or create a [[Worthy Opponent]] for himself. Either way, he steals the Hougyoku and plans to use it to create the Royal Key, as the first step toward attacking the Spirit King.
* [[Kekkaishi]] The first [[Big Bad]] wanted to take over Katasumori to restore his [[Ill Girl]] princess back to life.
* [[Cowboy Bebop]] has a number of villains but the recurring one, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Vicious]], wants to take over the Red Dragon Syndicate and settle a long-time score with Spike Spiegel.
* [[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]] features Gargoyle, another [[Take Over the World]] villain. Its a popular goal.
* Two [[Big Bad|BigBads]] with seperate goals in [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], depending on the source. In the first anime, Dante wants to [[Immortality Seeker|live forever]]; in the second, Father wants to [[A God Am I|become a god]] by eating Truth.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Light Yagami wanted a world without crime or evil, and for those pesky cops to stay out of his way. Light being [[The Chessmaster|Light]], [[Gambit Pileup|everything goes just according to keikaku]]. ([[Footnote Fever|TL note]]: [[Gratuitous Japanese|"Keikaku"]] [[Gag Sub|means]] [[Memetic Mutation|plan]]). [[Villain Protagonist|"Evil"]] [[Black and Grey Morality|has a loose value in this series.]]
* [[Cardcaptor Sakura]]: Invoked by Eriol. He pretends to be a shadowy villain with a devious agenda to give Sakura opportunities to transform the Clow Cards.
* [[Wedding Peach]]: The [[Big Bad]] Reindevila and her devil minions are {{spoiler|afarid of angels attacking them}} [[Allergic to Love]] so they try to ruin relationships {{spoiler|The source of angel power}} and find the Saint Something Four, which amplifies love waves {{spoiler|and according to a prophecy, would destroy their world.}}
* [[Astro Boy (anime)|Astro Boy]]: Skunk has them when he appears; usually either revenge on Astro or making money. Tenma's larger scale plan is a world where robots rule the world and are ruled by Astro himself.
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]: A strange example as it there isn't one until [[Dark Magical Girl|Fate]] shows up. Yuno just needed help recovering artifacts scattered by an actident. Eventually its revealed that {{spoiler|Precia wanted the jewel seeds to revive her real daughter and 'go back to way things used to be.}}
* [[Sister Princess]]:[[Designated Villain|For a given value of evil]] {{spoiler|Akio's plan to seperate Wataru from his sister and Promise Island is the only thing resembling an overarching plot in the series and forms the climax.}}
* [[Flame of Recca]]: [[Big Bad]] Mori Kouran wants to capture Yanagi because he thinks her Healing powers will make him immortal. [[The Hero|Recca]] gets involved because [[Lady and Knight|she's his princess and he has to protect her.]]
== Fanfiction ==
* [[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Ultimate Spider Woman]] 'Change With The Light' did this with Jack O'Lantern, Spider-Woman's [[Arch Enemy]] as well. Jack immediately minimizes most of the risk to himself by using [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Phillip Watson as his mind-controlled dupe and making it look like ''Phillip'' is the one pulling the strings. Jack is giving Phillip instructions on what to say and do, and makes sure to delete all his correspondence with Phillip so it can't be traced back to him. The plan works out just as he'd hoped -- the resulting [[Mob War]] decimates two of New York City's crime syndicates, allows him to begin implementing his [[Legion of Doom]] plan to set up a new supervillain crime organization, Phillip is blamed for the whole thing and Jack gets off scot-free, and he manages to give Spider-Woman a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] as the final delicious twist.
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** Kronsteen and Rosa Klebb in ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' wanted to steal a cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them, as well as take revenge on Bond for killing Dr. No. This was also a SPECTRE mission.
** ''[[Goldfinger]]'''s scheme was to nuke Fort Knox to devalue American gold and increase the value of his own.
** Emilio Largo's plan in ''[[Thunderball]]'' was to steal two nuclear missiles and try to get ransom from the U.S. by threatening to launch them. This, too, was a mission from SPECTRE.
** Blofeld's plan in ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'' was to start World War III by destroying American and Russian spacecraft and framing the other. Again, SPECTRE had been hired to do this by a hostile foreign power.
** Blofeld's plan in ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' involves hypnotising a group of 12 unwitting divas and arming them with a virus that causes infertility in the plant and animal life of his choosing, unless the world meets his demands of immunity from past crimes and to be recognised as a Count.
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** ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'' has Elektra King and Renard scheming to raise petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul, destroying every oil pipeline except for hers and giving her a monopoly on Europe's oil.
** ''[[Die Another Day]]'''s [[Big Bad]], Gustav Graves, takes a page from Blofeld's book from ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'' and uses a diamond-powered [[Kill Sat]] that runs on solar energy. He sought to use it to help North Korea take over the South, as well as Japan and presumably elsewhere (he is actually a corrupt North Korean colonel [[Faking the Dead]] and in disguise as a wealthy [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]).
** ''[[Casino Royale]]'' involves one bad guy, criminal banker Le Chiffre, who short-sells successful companies and engineers terrorist attacks in order to sink their stock values and turn a profit. The other bad guys are his superiors and clients who are pissed because he is doing this with their funds and behind their back. Bond screws up Le Chiffre's plan by foiling a terrorist attack and Le Chiffre has to hold and win a multi-million dollar poker tournament to pay his clients back. Bond is there to win it to force Le Chiffre to sell out his clients and superiors to [[MI 6]] in return for sanctuary before the other villains track him down and kill him.
** ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' involves Dominic Greene wanting to hold the revolutionary government-to-be of Bolivia over a barrel by controlling the majority of the {{spoiler|water and not oil}} through a system of planned underground demolitions.
** And while we're at it, ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' is a rehash of ''Thunderball'' with SPECTRE hijacking nuclear weapons and holding the world hostage; ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' spoof is much the same as above, except Le Chiffre is (as in the novel) working for SMERSH instead of terrorists and his double-dealings (which, again like the novel, has nothing to do with Bond) are a side-plot to SMERSH's master plan, which involves murdering spies all over the world (like the [[Real Life]] SMERSH, a Soviet counter-intelligence agency) and to fill the world with a biological agent at the behest of its [[Diabolical Mastermind]] Doctor Noah {{spoiler|aka Jimmy Bond, the ''real'' James Bond's nephew, a.k.a. Woody Allen}}. The agent will kill all men over 4'6" (his height) and make all women beautiful; in other words leaving him as the "big man" who gets all the girls.
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** [[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]] had a take over the world thing
** [[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]] was more about vanity; "Then I'LL be fairest in the land!"
** [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]] was Hook's revenge on the protagonist.
** ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' (the page quote) also had the take over the world thing. A remarkable example as the [[Big Bad]] started out with the traditional elaborate plan then [[State the Simple Solution|pointed out the simple method herself.]]
** etc
* [[Austin Powers|Austin Powers International Man of Mystery]] parodies this trope. Dr.Evil explains various evil plans only for his [[Number Two]] to point that they already have happened. At last he throws up his hands and says, "Let's just do what we always do: hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage."
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* In [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s ''[[Mistborn]]'', we find out at the end of book 2 that {{spoiler|The entire plot of the first and second books were engineered by Ruin in order to get Vin to release him from the Well of Ascension.}} Also, the search for the Lord Rulers' {{spoiler|Atium stockpile}} which took up a good part of book three was {{spoiler|yet another gambit by Ruin}}. Although to be fair, {{spoiler|the Lord Ruler and the Terris prophets [[Gambit Pileup|had planned for this eventuality]]}}.
* No matter how minor the case in [[The Dresden Files]], eventually it will turn out to have ''at least'' one of these behind it.
* [[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]: [[Big Bad]] Gilt wants to corner the communications market by keeping the post office closed. He's Moist's competition through the story.
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* [[Shining Force III]]: The plot to abduct Emperor Domaric in the third game {{spoiler|is a rare villain-on-villain [[Evil Plan]], perpetrated by Domaric himself. When he hears that one of his sons is plotting to have him killed, blame it on the breakaway republic of Aspinia, and use the resulting war to seize the throne and conquer the rest of the continent, Domaric sends his own agents to infiltrate his son's conspiracy and allows himself to be kidnapped. Then, when the empire's armies are geared up to invade, Domaric has his mole "free" him, takes control of said army, and marches on Aspinia - just as he's wanted ever since the country seceded 20 years before. He even corners his son's partner in the whole plan, to force him to use an ancient superweapon to break down Aspinia's walls for him.}}
* [[Tales (series)]] often has [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] s but the plot's have the same narrative purpose
** [[Tales of Symphonia]]: {{spoiler|Mithros wishes to revive his sister and end discrimination, and to do that he splits a world in two and makes them fight over [[Mana]] while his evil army antagonizes the dying one.}} The first part is [[Unwitting Pawn]] and the rest of the game is the heroes unraveling the plan and how to foil it.
** [[Tales of the Abyss]]: The [[Big Bad]] and his minions are more upfront about their goal of ending [[Because Destiny Says So|The Score]] but unraveling the details and creating a counter measure still drives the bulk of the plot
** [[Tales of Legendia]]: Actually has ''three'' [[Big Bad|BigBads]] and each has their own plot to either [[Take Over the World]] or [[Kill'Em All]].
* [[Legend of Dragoon]] likewise has a series of [[Man Behind the Man]] whose plans drive the plot. From Emperor Doel's plan to usurb his homeland to Lloyd's manipulation of that war to collect [[MacGuffin|Macguffins]] to the final [[Big Bad]]'s [[A God Am I]] ambition.
* In the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, Bhaal [[War God|the Lord of Murder]] sired the the Bhaalspawn in order to revive himself. They would kill each other until none remained, at which point his essence that was scattered among them would have accumulated, and his chosen follower, Amelyssan, would have performed rituals that would have [[Back From the Dead|brought him back.]] Neither [[Dragon Ascendant|Amelyssan]] nor [[Spanner in the Works|the last Bhaalspawn]] (the protagonist) complied to these plans, however.
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* Endlessly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] over and over again by the various [[Card-Carrying Villain|Card Carrying Villains]] of ''[[Kim Possible]].''
** In fact, while tutoring another villain, Shego explains how it's the single most important part of being a villain.
* The Robot Devil in an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'': "My ridiculously circuitous plan is one-quarter complete!"
* Parodied ([[Stealth Parody|we hope]]) in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', where Grodd's elaborate evil plan turns out to be "{{spoiler|transforming every man, woman and child on Earth...'''''[[Large Ham|INTO AN APE!!!]]'''''}}" This is appropriately lampshaded, and also [[Coup De Grace|face-shotted]].
* Parodied in ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', in which The Tick has just captured one of the serial robber Idea Men and demands to know "what's the big idea". The idea man explains that [[Captain Obvious|their plan was to steal a lot of money, so they'd get rich and wouldn't have to work any more]]. The Tick is genuinely shocked by this fiendish plan.
* Played every which way with [[Phineas and Ferb]] 's Dr. Doofenshmirtz, whose main goal is to "TAKE OVER THE tri-state area". He's not above the occasional revenge sideplot or a little mind control, but ultimately, he wants to rule. The alternate-universe Doofenshmirtz in the "Across the 2nd Dimension" movie has alt-Doof trying to take over the multiverse's... tri-state area. Some things never change.
* The villain in the first season of ''[[Wakfu]]'' looked for fuel for his [[MacGuffin]], so he can undo a past wrong. In the process, he nearly destroys an entire race, justified by "it will all be undone when I'm successful." In the end, though, it seemed that his [[MacGuffin]] isn't very 'fuel-efficient'.
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