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{{quote|''There are forces in [[The Multiverse]] far beyond anything you've ever dealt with. [[Eldritch Abomination|Ancient, mindless evils that fill in the cracks and eat dimensions just for a snack]]. Monstrous [[God of Evil|deities]] and [[The Empire|empires]] spanning [[Dimension Lord|Universe after Universe]] have risen and fallen in the span of forever! But there is still one individual, one being that they are all horrified of! When I saw him coming near my universe, I fled. [[Evil Laugh|Muhahahhahahha]]. Weep for your Universe, [[Atop the Fourth Wall
|'''Doctor Linksano''', ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', Tandy Computer Whiz Kids: Fit To Win Review}}
Sometimes an [[Evil Overlord]], [[Galactic Conqueror]], [[Dimension Lord]], [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|demon lord, archdevil]], [[Physical God|Physical]] [[God of Evil]] or [[Eldritch Abomination]] decides there's only one evil goal big enough to suits him - bring [[The Multiverse]] to its knees. Not only our Earth, but every dimension, every alternate reality, every single planet and life form in the whole multiverse. He may want to conquer it. Or he might want to destroy it. In both cases [[Authority Equals Asskicking|he's the]] [[Sliding Scale of Villain Threat|ultimate threat]], more powerful than anyone else our heroes has ever met. He can destroy planets, blow up entire cities with one finger, erase whole dimensions. To [[The Worf Effect|show how strong he is]] he can even kill the [[Guardian of the Multiverse]], very first person that will oppose him. And when he says [[A God Am I]], he's being modest. Fighting with him is usually our hero's greatest task ever. To defeat him there's usually a gathering of the greatest army of heroes that multiverse has ever seen. If he comes back after being defeated he will most likely be a [[Villain Decay|shadow of his old self]].
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** In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Vamdemon decided that conquering the Digital World wasn't enough, he also wanted to conquer the Real World.
** ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'': The D-Reaper attempted to delete Earth in accordance with its purpose once it was accidentally brought over into it.
** The real king of this trope is Millenniumon who, as revealed [[Digimon Adventure: Anode Cathode Tamer
** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'': Baguramon is probably the closest in the franchise to rival Millenimumon in this aspect, and is probably second in power to Milleniumon as well.
* Yubel in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''.
* {{spoiler|Byakuran}} of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''.
* The titular character of ''[[Noein]]'' who snapped after looking through countless universes to find one that didn't end in tragedy. After failing to do so he decided it would be better to tear down the multiverse and return everything to the void.
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* The Anti-Monitor from [[DC Comics]] ''[[Crisis
** Infamous ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'' gave us Monarch, who gathered an army of supervillains from the whole multiverse to fight its protectors, the Monitors. At the same time one of the Monitors, Solomon, plotted with Darkseid to conquer the multiverse. It's hard to say which one was worse.
** Monarch was actually introduced much earlier in the (not very well-received) [[Crisis Crossover]] ''Armageddon 2001'', but he had nothing to do with the Multiverse (or the current Monarch, either).
** [[Darkseid]], while normally a [[Galactic Conqueror]], ascends to a
* In a [[Fantastic Four]] storyline, the Marquis of Death traveled through Alternate Earths, destroying them, killing everything, or any sort of villainy he felt like. All [[For the Evulz|for fun]].
* Another Marvel villain, Abraxas, wants to conquer the whole multiverse, but is kept in check by Galactus - as long as Galactus lives, Abraxas can't even exist. Also yet another Marvel villain, the Beyonder. Marvel loves this trope too.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Marvel Zombies]]'', after their [[Zombie Apocalypse]] conquered their own universe, started looking for a way to spread it across the whole multiverse, and tried to attack both the [[Marvel Universe]] and the [[Ultimate Universe]]. It's hard to say if they are Multiversal Conquerors, or if it's [[The Virus]] that controls them.
** {{spoiler|The "Marvel Zombies Return" mini subverted that: the zombies are struck between two Earths - when they conquer one, they end up being sent to the second's past in an endless circle.}}
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* And another Marvel villain, or rather bunch of those - [[Eldritch Abomination|Many-Angeled Ones]] of Cancerverse, beings that killed Death and conquered their Universe, and wanted to do the same to other Universes, starting with main [[Marvel Universe]]. [[Doctor Strange|Shuma Gorath]] is probably the most well known, and is the ruler of over a hundred universes.
* Another one - [[Doctor Strange]]'s [[Arch Enemy]] Dormammu, [[Eldritch Abomination]] and [[God-Emperor]] of the [[Eldritch Location|Dark Dimension.]]
== Literature ==
* Possibly [[
** They don't seem ''that'' ambitious, at least on Earth, possibly because it's the reserved playground of Cthulhu et al. They're universally widespread, but don't seem interested in outright conquest unless it brings them extremely good payoff.
* The "Black Hats" from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]''. They don't openly rule, but they have agents on many worlds who assassinate anyone else trying to develop interdimensional travel.
** Also a bit of a subversion. [[Leaning
* Arguably the ''[[
* Appears in ''[[
* In the Tramorea saga, this is what the Dark God {{spoiler|actually a Sufficiently Advanced human}} Tubilok aims to do.
* In the ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover]]'' book, ''Witches' Brew,'' Rydall of Marnhull claims to be one of these, planning to make Landover his next conquest. {{spoiler|Turns out he's actually a local nobleman, working with the titular witch to overthrow Ben}}.
== Live-Action TV ==
* The [[Legion of Doom|Dai-Shocker]] organization and its leader {{spoiler|Tsukasa Kadoya}} from ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''.
* Davros fills this role in the series 4 finale of ''[[
** In the Eighth Doctor [[Doctor Who Magazine
* The Kromaggs in ''[[Sliders]]''.
* Gorm conquerer of a 1000 realms in ''Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* [[God-Emperor|Josh]] from ''[[Chaos]]'' is an extremely rare ''heroic''
** No, the Omni-bunny is an multiversal-omniversal which can not be beaten no matter what. You can't affect other fiction.
* The ''[[Champions]]'' verse had Tyrannon, an immensely powerful dimensional lord who seeks to conquer all dimensions. His being manifests in 888 bodies at once, of varying levels of power; his primary or "true" form, which resembles a gigantic tree and cannot move, lives at the heart of Thulkos, his native dimension. When he conquers one dimension completely, he merges it with his home dimension and forces its inhabitants to worship him and commit sacrifice. Doing so increases his power and his hunger.
* In ''[[Magic:
** She inherited this from Yawgmoth, who built the ''old'' Phyrexia and set off to conquer every plane he didn't destroy. [[Dystopia Justifies the Means|For]] [[Body Horror|their]] [[Assimilation Plot|own]] [[Complete Monster|good]], of course.
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== Videogames ==
* The Guardian from ''[[Ultima Underworld]] II'' is capable of spanning multiple planes of reality at once and aims to conquer each one.
* Dark Brain from ''[[
* Several of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' villains.
** This is actually what Xemnas becomes when he absorbs the titular [[MacGuffin]] in [[Kingdom Hearts]] II, given the multiversal nature of the Disney worlds in the series mythos.
* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'': Most [[Final Fantasy]] [[Big Bad
* Count Bleck from ''[[
* Tyrant Overlord Baal from the ''[[Nippon Ichi]]''-verse. Most high-level [[Dimension Lord|Overlords]] can and will conquer any netherworlds they'll get their hands on, but Baal is the most well-known, showing up as a [[Bonus Boss]] is almost all of the [[Nippon Ichi]] games.
** Overlord Zenon from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' used to act this way in his youth, but seems to have settled down by the beginning of the game and is content with ruling only Veldime -- {{spoiler|or so everyone thinks up until it's revealed he's a fake and the real Overlord Zenon tries to go right back to destroying everything once released.}}
* The Combine of ''[[Half Life]] 2'' and its episodes fit the bill as parallel-universe conquerors, having already taken over an unknown number of realities and adopting their lifeforms for use as highly-specialized weapons or slave labor, and stripping the realities of their resources until it's nothing more than a lethal rock. They're also capable of quick travel between these universes, but it's rather limited. The Xen and Race-X aliens (and arguably even humanity) of the original Half-Life games may be parallel-universe warmongers on a smaller scale.
* [[Original Generation|99]], the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
* YHVH is implied to be this in [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne]]. Untold billions of Earths rise and fall at his command only to rise again, all to create a perfect society that will never question his rule.
== Webcomics ==
* Smiling Man from ''[[
* Evil Overlords United from ''[[Crossover Wars]]''.
* Lord English from [[
== Web Originals ==
* In ''[[
** It was recently revealed that {{spoiler|[[Atop the Fourth Wall
** Ano now, as seen at page quote, Lord Vyce. {{spoiler|Of course, it's revealed by none other than Vyce himself that he only does this to protect the multiverse from something [[Eldritch Abomination|worse.]] And he takes out ''[[Silent Hill|Pyramid Head]]'' with a single stab from his weapon, in between beating Linkara [[Curb Stomp Battle|senseless]] with his bare hands.}}
*** Vyce may be a subversion: {{spoiler|In a later episode, Linkara says that he did some checking and discovered that Vyce would only conquer a couple of planets before moving on to the next parallel world. Vyce makes the point that conquering an entire universe would cost a lot of time and resources that he didn't have, but Linkara still uses it to mock him for not being as awesome as he claims to be.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* Towards the end of ''[[Spider
* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Unicron is a [[Planet Eater]] who wants to eat ''everything''. One planet at a time, one timeline at a time, one universal stream of branching timelines at a time, in sequence. When he says he wants to be completely alone, ''he damn well isn't beating around the bush''. Even if he's destroyed in any one universe, he just gets shunted to another to start over again thanks to mucking about with different flows of time across the multiverse. Oh, sure, there are a ''few'' permanent methods of dealing with him, like trapping him in a physical form to slow him down, [[Transformers Cybertron|but if they go horribly wrong, well...]]
** One Comic has another Multiversal constant state that he has so far consumed some 47% of the known Multiverse. Yeah. Not mucking about.
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