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** In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', [[Big Bad|Chairman]] [[Dark Messiah|Durandal]] and [[The Dragon|Rey]] [[Manipulative Bastard|Za Burrell]] are interesting variants of this. They're both convinced the world is cold, terrible place, but are terrified of ending up like Rau. Instead, they become a pair of [[Well Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]], out to inject meaning into the world [[Utopia Justifies the Means|no matter what the cost]].

* ''[[Immortality Syndrome]]'' turns its sufferers into this in the [[Powerpuff Girls]] [[Dark Fic]] of the same name and its sequels. It's [[Who Wants to Live Forever]] cranked [[Up to Eleven]], caused by [[Came Back Wrong|coming back wrong]] and remembering how you died -- [[The Nothing After Death|and what came after]].

* Zé do Caixão, or "Coffin Joe" as he is called in the English subtitles, [[Anti Hero]] ''(HERO?)'' of a series of Brazilian horror movies.

* The Inner Party from ''[[Nineteen Eighty Four]]'' is an entire social caste of Nietzsche Wannabes, and they happen to rule everything. Ingsoc is pretty much the Nietzsche Wannabe of political systems, being built to completely corrupt [[The Power of Love]] (Ingsoc's actual ideology is also known as the "Obliteration of the Self", which from the name can be easily seen as Nihilism incarnate). The Inner Party is completely amoral (nothing was illegal, since there are no longer any laws) but if they notice a single sign of individuality and love, called "thoughtcrime", they capture the thoughtcriminals but instead of killing them, they torture them and make them literally live their worst nightmares, but all of this is not to interrogate them, but to traumatize them and drop them into [[Despair Event Horizon]]. They leave the majority in immutable poverty, the superpowers in perpetual war and the entire world in [[Despair Event Horizon]]. You cannot reason with them or express love on them, ever. Why? Simply because their only motivation is "pure power".

** Adam in particular. He believes he is better, that humankind is worthless and life is pointless. However he also adds a dash of [[Dark Messiah]] as he seeks to change the pointlessness of life but forcing mankind to experience a terrible cataclysm and taking the survivors as his followers to build a better world. So he's a fusion of this trope and [[Knight Templar]]/[[Well Intentioned Extremist]]

* The operatic version of ''[[Woyzeck]]'' has [[Morally Ambiguous Doctorate|The Doctor]], who gives us this little gem.

** Only because he [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|totally cracked]] when he realized he would [[Who Wants to Live Forever|live on]] after Nigredo and Rubedo die. ''I'm practicing so that when they die, I won't cry'', anyone?

* Kefka from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|evolved]] from a [[Monster Clown]] with nihilistic tendencies into a fully fledged [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] upon {{spoiler|[[One Winged Angel|becoming the most powerful physical being on the planet]] halfway through the game}}.

* The backstory of Dark Matter, a (thankfully [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu|defeatable]]) [[Eldritch Abomination]] that serves as the perennial antagonist of the ''[[Kirby]]'' games, makes it clear that its actions are meant to turn the universe into a place where no one can be happy, so that everyone can share in its sorrow and loneliness. Guess it's kind of hard to make friends when you're a sentient force of pure [[Black Magic]].

** From the 6th game, there's the [[Big Bad]] Zephiel, who started out as a [[Well Done Son Guy]], trying to appease his father and is generally a nice boy. But his father is such a [[Jerkass]] that attempted his life so many times, Zephiel finally snapped, killed his father, starts to conclude that humans are evil, since they also bring out the emotions that made his father jealous to him. Thus, he began a campaign of conquering Elibe, and when he does, he planned to surrender the land and the human race to the Dragon race. Of course he failed in the end.

* ''[[Mega Man Zero (Video Game)|Mega Man Zero]]'': Dr. Weil, shortly after explaining his particularly horrific [[And I Must Scream|origin for his]] [[Who Wants to Live Forever|immortality]] to Zero, undergoes an immense rant about how justice and freedom are worthless ideals, and then as his opening quote even dismisses ideals themselves as being meaningless or a lie.

* In ''[[Eight Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Lich von Vampire believes that all life exists to die. The cultists and Black Mage also seem to have a nihilistic philosophy. Possibly played for laughs, seeing as his point of argument was people building their homes where glaciers "would come screaming through" ''hundreds of thousands'' of years later.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|Jadesprite}}, after her [[Unwanted Resurection]], starts taking this view. Jade ends up [[Get a Hold of Yourself Man|calling her out on this.]]