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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I will destroy everything! I will create a monument to non-existence!"''
|'''Kefka Palazzo''' at the very height of his madness, ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''}}
{{quote|''"''This'' is my ultimate victory, [[Doctor Who|Doctor]]! [[Large Ham|THE DESTRUCTION]]. [[
▲{{quote|''"I will destroy everything! I will create a monument to non-existence!"''|'''Kefka Palazzo''' at the very height of his madness, ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''}}
|'''[[Mad Scientist|Davros]]''', ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E13 Journeys End|Journey's End]]''}}
Who caused the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]? ''This guy''. Destroying continents, wiping out civilizations, exterminating whole planets: When this character turns up, entire ''galaxies'' or ''universes'' may die, if not reality
▲{{quote|''"''This'' is my ultimate victory, [[Doctor Who|Doctor]]! [[Large Ham|THE DESTRUCTION]]. [[This Is Sparta|OF REALITY]]. [[Chewing the Scenery|ITSELF!]]"''|'''[[Mad Scientist|Davros]]''', ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E13 Journeys End|Journey's End]]''}}
Put simply, the Omnicidal Maniac is a villain whose main plan and motive is "destroy the world". He actively seeks the destruction of whatever world the setting is based in, does it as an end unto itself, has the ability to do so, and is both aware of what he's doing and fully motivated to do so. Most Omnicidal Maniacs will aim for at least Planetary/Total Extinction on the [[Apocalypse How]] scale, but it may vary from setting to
▲Who caused the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]? ''This guy''. Destroying continents, wiping out civilizations, exterminating whole planets: When this character turns up, entire ''galaxies'' or ''universes'' may die, if not reality itself -- the Omnicidal Maniac has made his entrance and where he goes, the survival rate of everything nearby quickly drops towards zero.
Contrast the [[Person of Mass Destruction]] (who doesn't ''want'' to use their powers to destroy the world), [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]] (who causes damage of this scale largely by accident, through ignorance, or for comedic, non-serious reasons intended to elicit laughter), and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] (whose tragic, crapsack lives made them see red and lay the blame on all their woes upon the world). Omnicidal Maniacs are ''not'' amusing and have [[Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth|clearly-defined reasons for wanting to destroy everything nearby]], which they do with a great deal of malice. The Omnicidal Maniac differs from the [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]] and [[Put Them All Out of My Misery]] in that the Maniac has "destroy world" as motive and "I go down with it" as unfortunate side-effect (or isn't planning to go down with the world at all if they happen to have the power or means to survive the destruction they wrought), while the latter two has "I die/I am miserable" as motive and "world goes with me" as insurance.
▲Put simply, the Omnicidal Maniac is a villain whose main plan and motive is "destroy the world". He actively seeks the destruction of whatever world the setting is based in, does it as an end unto itself, has the ability to do so, and is both aware of what he's doing and fully motivated to do so. Most Omnicidal Maniacs will aim for at least Planetary/Total Extinction on the [[Apocalypse How]] scale, but it may vary from setting to setting -- in a [[Medieval European Fantasy]] setting, the known world may just be a kingdom or two, while in a [[Space Opera]], [[Serial Escalation|expect the whole known galaxy or the universe or even the Multiverse]]) to be his goal. Despite the name, being completely insane is not actually a requirement, but having a [[Freudian Excuse]] doesn't make the Omnicidal Maniac any less of a menace.
▲Contrast the [[Person of Mass Destruction]] (who doesn't ''want'' to use their powers to destroy the world), [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]] (who causes damage of this scale largely by accident, through ignorance, or for comedic, non-serious reasons intended to elicit laughter), and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] (whose tragic, crapsack lives made them see red and lay the blame on all their woes upon the world). Omnicidal Maniacs are ''not'' amusing and have [[Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth|clearly-defined reasons for wanting to destroy everything nearby]], which they do with a great deal of malice. The Omnicidal Maniac differs from the [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]] and [[Put Them All Out of My Misery]] in that the Maniac has "destroy world" as motive and "I go down with it" as unfortunate side-effect (or isn't planning to go down with the world at all if they happen to have the power or means to survive the destruction they wrought), while the latter two has "I die/I am miserable" as motive and "world goes with me" as insurance.
The logical extreme of the less destructive [[Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence]], [[Kill All Humans]], and [[Absolute Xenophobe]]. Compare [[Planet Eater]], [[Planet Looters]] and [[Horde of Alien Locusts]], whose world-destroying is more of a side-effect of their own desire to stay alive. Fighting against this villain (or scores of them) means [[Evil Only Has to Win Once]] to destroy everything.
The [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], the [[Psycho for Hire]] or the [[A God Am I]] mentality are very popular amongst this character archetype.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Anyone of importance in ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'' [[Earthshattering Kaboom|can blow up planets]]. However, only Majin Buu seems intent on undoing all of creation merely out of malice, spite and boredom. And inability to get ice cream. And that was before he got rid of his conscience.
** Cell planned on becoming one of these after the Cell Games, but was killed before he could get started.
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* Valgaav, both [[The Dragon]] and [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Slayers|Slayers TRY]]'' wanted the destruction of everything ''before'' merging with Darkstar, believing that oblivion was what the world deserved. Afterwards, the knowledge he gained about the nature of the universe drove him to become a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] merged with Darkstar's godlike power, intending to destroy the entire world and then remake it without strife or conflict.
** In the novel canon, ''all'' Mazoku are [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilistic]] Omnicidal Maniacs; in the anime this is most visible with Hellmaster Fibrizo:
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** Subverted with Xelloss, who pays lip-service to the Mazoku "blow up everything" mentality but clearly enjoys life way too much for him to mean any of it. He attempts to excuse his saving the world from Duragnigdu by saying that [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|destroying the world is his job, not Dark Star's]]. Riiiiight. We believe you.
*** At that time he wasn't acting for his own benefit, but working as the envoy of the entire Mazoku race, so presumably the surviving Mazoku Lords agreed on his logic there, as well. Plus that he was promised that the power released from the killed Dark Star would be granted to the local Dark Lord, Ruby-Eye Shabranigadu. It's left unclear whether that bargain was held or not, but if it was, then Xelloss definitely hastened the homemade Apocalypse by getting rid of the foreign product.
**** That deal about getting some of Dark Star's energy was never intended to be fulfilled, probably by both sides - nothing shows this more than the fact that Xelloss betrayed the Overworlders shortly after the deal even got mentioned.
**** Given that most Mazoku fight damn hard to stay alive, it's entirely possible that Fibrizo was simply nuts, and paying lip-service to the cause of universal destruction is the normal attitude of "sane" Mazoku.
* Rau Le Creuset of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit]] [[Gundam Seed]]'' isn't perhaps the most obvious, as his goals merely encompass the extinction of humanity, Natural and Coordinator alike. However, given the much smaller scale (the action never extends past Mars due to limited space travel), it's quite omnicidal in context. His motivation for this is that he's going to die prematurely due to being [[Cloning Blues|a flawed clone]], and concludes that [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|everybody else should have to die prematurely too]].
** [[SD Gundam Force]] gives us the leader of the Dark Axis, General Zeong. His sole motivation is to become powerful enough to fire a beam that would basically wipe out all dimensions.
* ''[[Digimon]]'' seems to have at least one per season:
** ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'s'' got Apocalymon. The name says it all. When he was defeated, he tried to unleash a blast that would eradicate the human world and the Digital World.
** ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]:'' [[Big Bad]] ([[Disc One Final Boss|or so we think at the time]]) Arukenimon's main plan is to destroy the [[Cosmic Keystone
** ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' features a non-Digimon AI that was designed to prevent other programs from exceeding their boundaries ('cause [[
** ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'s'' Lucemon is more of a digital [[Evilutionary Biologist]]. The data that makes up Digital World's matter (and population) is easily manipulated, and it ''all'' had to be absorbed and used to release him [[Sealed Evil in a Can|from the Dark Area.]] He planned to use it to rebuild the world as he saw fit.
** ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', aka ''Digimon Data Squad,'' has Yggdrasil/King Drasil, the computer that runs the Digital World. When the previous arc's [[Big Bad]]'s plan backfires and both worlds are going to collide, he decides that the human world must go. When the Digimon fight against him and his minions to protect it, guess what he ''then'' decides? He, too, plans on restarting the Digital World after destroying the old one.
** ''[[Digimon Fusion Kai]]'' had Bagramon, who had a rather simple goal: destroy ''everything''. But what do you expect from a Digimon called "the Sage of Death" by his peers? He was even willing [[Cain and Abel| to kill and absorb his own brother to gain power.]]
* The [[Big Bad|Millennium Earl]] in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' is very open about this, explicitly taunting the hero in his first real appearance.
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* [[Enemy Without|The berserked defense program]] of the Book of Darkness in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Its existence is as thus: Appear when [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Book of Darkness]] fills all [[Number of the Beast|666 pages]], [[The End of the World as We Know It|destroy every world and dimension in its path]], get temporarily killed either from a really powerful weapon or from having burned out its considerable amount of magic, [[Back
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has several, Queen Metaria the [[Big Bad]] of the Classic season, Wiseman/Death Phantom the [[Big Bad]] of the R season, the entire Death Busters organization of the S season and Sailor Galaxia of the Stars season. Sailor Galaxia, in particular, is notable for omniciding at least a half-dozen, and probably much more, habitable planets, before coming to Earth - by the [[Grand Finale]] she pretty much wipes out all life in the Milky Way galaxy in both the manga and the anime. Chaos, who directly controls her and is hinted (or outright stated in the manga) to be the [[Ultimate Evil]] behind the rest of them, is one too.
* Ralph Werec in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' went back in time via [[Subspace or Hyperspace]] and saw the [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|cost]] of the research that went into the [[Black Box]] that powered the series' [[Humongous Mecha]]. His sanity didn't make it out intact, and he decides to destroy his entire race in retaliation, never mind that nobody knows anything about it.
* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Gooyan, the [[Not So Harmless]] [[Man Behind the Man]].}}
** Many ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' [[Big Bad
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', of all series, had one. The Lord of Terror aka The Ultimate Destruction Program, a bodiless entity whose one goal is to destroy the universe and recreate it in its own twisted image. Given the highly idealistic nature of the series, it failed (though it was a close call) and was {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]] when it was tricked into possessing a floppy disk which Skuld erased using a magnet}}.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', the Mage of Beginnings and his minions, {{spoiler|the three incarnations of Averruncus}}, want to destroy Magicus Mundus (a pocket dimension planet the size of and dimensionally anchored to {{spoiler|Mars}}). {{spoiler|It's ultimately subverted, as Mundus Magicus is collapsing on it's own, and the [[Big Bad]] thinks that the only way to save everyone is to move all the inhabitants into a [[Lotus Eater Machine]].}}
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** Mag Mel entered the picture with this in mind. His ultimate plan is to destroy the Earth in such a way as to set off a chain reaction to destroy the entire universe.
* Dewey Novak in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' tries to do this by making the Scub Coral exceed to Limit of Questions (the in-universe theory that only a certain amount of intelligent life can exist in a given space, exceeding this limit causes the collapse of the universe)
* {{spoiler|The second}} Friend in ''[[
* Folken in the movie version of ''[[Escaflowne]]'' wants to destroy all of
* ''[[Monster]]'' has more realistic version of this in [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert]], while his motives are left somewhat vague, his actions certainly suggest that his ultimate goal is the complete destruction of human society by manipulating everyone he comes across into killing themselves or each other.
== Comic Books ==
* Imperiex of the [[DCU]], a hive minded mechanical entity, saw its purpose as being the "hollowing" of the universe, destroying the flawed creation and remaking it in a new Big Bang. Ironically, {{spoiler|the flaw is detected in the universe was itself, and a massive cooperative effort managed to throw him into the past where he in fact became the Big Bang in the first place, via a [[Stable Time Loop]], a fact which Imperiex realizes the moment before it dies}}.
* DC Comics' [[Crisis Crossover|''Crisis'' crossovers]] has the following:
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* Ujo Daja is a dark sorcerer from the Frazettaverse. He planned to free the Oblivion God "Mirahan" by sacrificing a half-breed human/demon and begin the end of everything. When confronted by his former teacher Dreovid, he says it's better to have "cool darkness than searing light". {{spoiler|In the end it was revealed that Ujo was the half-breed and son of Mirahan. The Oblivion God swapped his throne of netherhell with Ujo and we watch him rest in peace.}}
* John "Grimjack" Gaunt walks away from Heaven to save his friends. [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|The consequences were that he was denied any afterlife and was doomed to be reborn remembering his memories for all eternity]]. His soul was bound to the pan dimensional city known as Cynosure. Cynosure was build to harvest the good and evil energies of an entombed supreme being (firstborn of the multiverse) until it was ready to repeat the process of birthing the multiverse in an unending cycle. Grimjack's latest incarnation travels back in time to warn himself of the doom and to [[Death Seeker|break it]] he has to end the multiverse by destroying Cynosure. {{spoiler|Future Grimjack succeeds in manipulating present John in freeing the Supreme being from his sleep. In Grimjack's second incarnation we see the Supreme being walking around in mortal form giving the demons the chance to end his life and let the multiverse die in entropy. They fail. We never see if future Grimjack succeeds because the series ended with the death of the second incarnation.}}
** The demons created to build Cynosure prefer entropy. They did not see the point of constant rebirths so they betrayed their maker.
* The Cult Of The Unwritten Book from ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' seek to summon [[Names to Run Away From Very Fast|The Anti-God]] and reverse creation by "reading" [[Mac Guffin Guy|The Word Made Flesh]].
** In a very different way, [[Nightmare Fuel|The Candlemaker]] also qualifies.
* Doomsday from the [[DCU]]. The name says it all. He's also one of the most primitive examples, he's little more than a frightened but sadistic alien man-child who wants to kill everything that might be a threat to him. And he thinks ''everything'' is a threat.
* Maelstrom from the Marvel universe. He's the champion of Oblivion and constantly schemes to destroy everything.
* Amodeus Q. Termineus from the Marvel universe sought the shattered fragments of the Nexus of all Realities. With them in possession he could destroy the Multiverse.
* The Cult of Entropy seeks to speed up the destruction of the Marvel Universe/Multiverse.
* According to [[Depending on the Writer|some versions]] of the character (particularly the [[Darker and Edgier|MAX universe]]), if [[The Punisher]] were given enough time and ammo he would literally kill every person on earth.
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* ''[[Lady Death]]'', the headliner (more or less) of [[Chaos! Comics]]. Short version, she rules Hell, and is under a curse with the conditions that she cannot live on Earth (her home) if any other living being is there. Her goal is thus simple - kill every living being.
** Same can be said of [[Evil-Ernie]], who might as well be considered [[The Dragon]] to Lady Death. He's in love with her, and he's undead (not a living being) so he trying to fulfil her goal so they can be together.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* ''[[Thirty Hs]]'' is an extreme example, where {{spoiler|Harry and a name-mangled Dumbledore}} plan to kill everyone in the universe, then [[Up to Eleven|bring them all back to life, then kill everyone again]] (unless they starve to death in-between). For no apparent reason except that [[God Mode Sue|they can]].
** Is it even possible to spoil a [[Random Events Plot|"plot"]] like Thirty Hs? {{spoiler|GROINSAWS}}
* ''[[
* There's {{spoiler|the S'Muz}} from ''[[Time Lords and Terror]]'', an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that desires to consume all the life energy in not only the universe, but the ''multiverse''.
* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2846526/1/Sonic_X_Combine_Wars Sonic X:Combine Wars]'', the final story in a series by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/478240/Kojiokida2 Kojiokida2], {{spoiler|Mephiles}} turns out to be trying to destroy all of existence.
* {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination|Entropy]]}} from the ''[[Pony POV Series]]'' is one, but an interesting version. {{spoiler|She's not actually evil, at least that's not ''why'' she does it. She's ''literally'' the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the end of the universe, and a natural force of the universe. It's pretty much her ''job'' to be an
== Film ==
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** Although the sequels did have him wanting to destroy the Matrix, and most likely the machines, the original film did briefly imply that Smith hated the Matrix as much, if not even moreso, as he hates humans, and that he also hates the matrix just as much as the Redpills hate it, so it is very likely that he did have plans during even the original film to eliminate the Matrix, and Neo defeating him only gave him the capability to act upon this desire.
* Although the Earth and Federation have faced plenty of [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Earth Shattering Kabooms]] through the ''[[Star Trek]]'' movies, the villain closest to being an Omnicidal Maniac is Nero from the 2009 film: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|driven insane by grief]] over the destruction of his homeworld, he has no plans for [[Galactic Conqueror|galactic conquest]] or delusions of [[A God Am I|godhood]]. His only remaining purpose in life is to {{spoiler|destroy each and every planet in the Federation}}.
* Thanos in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] is a ''semi-''Omnicidal Maniac. Convinced that the sapient population of the Universe will inevitably exhaust its resources, he is collecting the Infinity Stones with the explicit goal of killing exactly ''half'' of the population of the Universe. (He was doing this before he thought to collect the stones, only on a retail basis, one planet at a time. With the stones he can do the entire Universe at once.) The "maniac" part includes enough crazy that he thinks a) the survivors will thank him, b) that the freed resources will be equitably distributed between the survivors with no hoarding or extortion, and c) the populations will not just continue to grow until they've reached the same point again sometime in the future.
== Literature ==
* In [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''Q-Squared'', Trelane becomes an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to wipe out all of creation. But he wants to practice, so he starts by smooshing a "mere" three adjacent universes together into a chaotic orgy of violence and death. While [[Magnificent Bastard|playing the harpsichord.]]
* The {{spoiler|clone of Victor Helios (Doctor Frankenstein)}} from [[Dean Koontz]] ''Lost Souls'' wants to {{spoiler|feed all humanity to some nanite colonies he created.}} After all of humanity is dead he will die himself to reverse Genesis.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* Michael Swanwick's two parallel novels ''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]'' and ''Jack Faust'' are both devoted to showing how an initially fairly sympathetic character can turn into one of these. In both books, it roughly boils down to living in a [[Crapsack World]] and being cruelly manipulated by a covert [[Evil Mentor]].
* In ''[[Runemarks]]'', {{spoiler|the Whisperer seeks to start the End of Everything so that it can create a new world where it is in supreme control of everything, a desire stemming from being used as, essentially, a Magic 8-Ball by the Norse gods.}}
* The eponymous machines of [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'' series will stop at nothing less than the total eradication of all life. Note that this was what they were ''programmed'' to do (though this was supposed to be targeted only at a certain enemy star empire), so they don't exactly fit the
* In David Eddings' [[The Redemption of Althalus]], the god of destruction, Daeva, wants to undo all creation. Interestingly, Daeva was originally a good god, or at least neutral, and had the job of destroying things that were no longer necessary so that creation wouldn't become overpopulated. However, only destroying things meant that Daeva felt nothing but emptiness, whereas his brother Deiwos and sister Dweia got to feel the joy and love of creation respectively. Daeva tried to find a friend in Ghend but if anything, Ghend's company was what finally tipped him over the edge into [[If I Can't Have You|destroying everything so everyone would feel the same nothingness that he feels]], as well as breaking the power of Deiwos and Dweia.
* The [[Big Bad|Storm King]] of [[Tad Williams]]' ''
* Hactar, from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Life, The Universe And Everything|Life The Universe And Everything]]'', is an ancient, sentient computer that was ordered to design the "Ultimate Weapon", and pulverized for disobeying that command (it couldn't conceive of any possible scenario where destroying the universe would be a preferable option). Set adrift as an interstellar cloud of still barely-functioning dust, Hactar spends the next several billion years [[The Chessmaster|manipulating another planet's inhabitants]] into reaching the same xenophobic cultural state as its creators, and then reinventing and triggering the same superweapon in order to put an end to all of existence. Hactar explains its motives as mostly simply fulfilling its original function, but partly to take revenge on the universe for the [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|eons of suffering]] it has endured as a result of its original decision.
* The Xul from the ''Heritage''/''Legacy''/''Inheritance'' trilogies by Ian S. Douglas. They wipe out every race that is more advanced than the bronze age because they could be a threat.
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* Early ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villains were always talking about conquering or destroying the world, the same villain going from one to the other and back frequently. From season five onward, villains are more certain about what it is they're after.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has plenty of these, with the trope perfected in Sutekh from "Pyramids of Mars", who wants to destroy all life in the universe.
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** The Doctor Who New Series "perfected trope" can be found in Fourth Season episode "Journey's End", where Old Series villain {{spoiler|Davros}} has {{spoiler|taken Dalek xenophobia to its extreme by creating a "Reality Bomb" which will annihilate reality}}.
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** In the old series, Davros never quite attempted this, but conversations between him and the Doctor suggested he would if he had the power - simply because he ''could''. {{spoiler|Which pretty much sums up why he'd want to destroy all of reality in Series 4 - because he can. Should be noted that though the Daleks will survive, he takes it for granted that they eventually will kill him too once the bomb has done it's job.}}
*** More than just suggested; in the episode where Davros was introduced, the Doctor asked him, "If you created a virus that, if released, would destroy all other life in the universe, would you release it?" After talking a bit about the incredible power he would hold, Davros concluded that if he created such a virus, yes, he ''would'' release it.
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** The latest of these appears to be {{spoiler|the religion known as the Silence}}, who not only wanted to kill everything, but make it so that nothing had ever existed. Why is currently unknown.
*** The season finale suggested that they may have the opposite motive, attempting to kill the Doctor in the hope of ''averting'' a prophecy rather than bringing it about. Then again, they may be attempting to kill everyone, [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|believing the prophecy to be worse than that]].
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** The {{spoiler|Time Lords themselves}} become this, desiring to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]] by destroying time itself.
* Anubis in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. While ''most'' Goa'uld we meet are [[Evil Overlord
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
** Angelus and Drusilla in the season two finale. This actually forces Spike (who was years away from his chip, and even further away from turning good for real) to work with Buffy to stop them.
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* The Cylon Cavil in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' is practically one of these. He's tried to kill off all of humanity (with an over 99.9% success rate) and most of his own race (five out of eight models, [[Cain and Abel|succeeding with at least one of them]]).
* The Bio-Vizier Mantrid in ''[[Lexx]]'' went from a garden-variety psychopath to a complete nihilist who {{spoiler|managed to destroy the 'Light' Universe with his Drone Arms, which would obliterate a planet and use the materials to make new Drone Arms. They were capable of moving faster than light (considerably so), and he was eventually tricked (AFTER they had '''consumed''' the 'Light' universe) into bringing them too close together, where their collective gravity ended up collapsing into a 'Big Crunch', the opposite of a Big Bang. Of course, the so-called "Heroes" were shunted into the 'Dark' universe by the forces of the collapse.}}
* In ''[[Star Trek:
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Millennium]]'' novels, Weyoun becomes host to a Pah-Wraith after the creation of the red wormhole. The Pah-Wraiths' eventual goal is to have the blue and the red wormholes open in immediate proximity to one another, resulting in an epic battle between the Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths. However, the merging of the wormholes will result in a Warp 10 shockwave that will obliterate everything in its path. Given that Warp 10 means "simultaneously everywhere in the universe", the shockwave will result in the end of everything. Luckily, {{spoiler|the Prophets win the battle and restore everything to the way it was}}.
* [[Robotic Psychopath|Brainiac]] in ''[[Smallville]]'' is a [[Misanthrope Supreme]] who believes that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]] and thusly, [[Kill All Humans|need to die]]. Originally created to serve as [[The Dragon]] to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|General Zod]], Brainiac goes rogue after the General's defeat and sets out to kill everybody on earth through any means necessary. He implies that once earth is dead he intends to repeat the process on the next planet he arrives on.
* The Thirdspace Aliens from ''[[Babylon 5]]'', evil, psychotic, telepathic creatures powerful enough to frighten the damn Vorlons, are described as "anti-life itself" hellbent on destroying everything in both their universe AND our universe.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', there are the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807071654/http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Wrath_effect Wrath effect spells], which pretty much destroy everyone, allies included. Most of these are [[Light Is Not Good|White]], and some White aligned antagonists in the storyline have exhibited this type of tendencies.
* In [[Gamma World]], the Cryptic Alliance (Basically a massive semi-secret organization) known as the Red Death wants to do this. In earlier editions it was implied {{spoiler|that the organization was formed by hideously evil aliens to further divide the inhabitants of Earth so that they could come in and take over}}. In later editions, it is implied that it formed because of people snapping due to [[Crapsack World|the crapsack nature]] of the post-apocalyptic Earth. Oh, and as a final note, in all editions [[Oh Crap|it's said to be nigh impossible to wipe out.]] [[As Long as There Is Evil|For, no matter how many of their cells you destroy, a new one will always spring up]]
* The Excrucians in ''[[Nobilis]]'', for reasons best known to themselves.
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** The Neverborn are the ghosts of fundamental entities who cannot be separated from existence, whose death messed up the cycle of reincarnation and created the Underworld and who want to destroy the universe, apparently so that they can finally finish dying.
** Large factions of [[The Fair Folk]] want to destroy the universe, either because the mere existence of a world with rules and logic limits and disgusts them, or because it is dramatically appropriate for a scary monster and they like looking like scary monsters (or rapturously beautiful Whore-Madonnas or both).
* The demons of the Abyss from the ''[[Dungeons
** While in 3rd and earlier editions this might be an example of [[Chaotic Stupid]], in 4th it's their defining characteristic.
*** And then there's Tharizdun from the ''[[Greyhawk]]'' setting whose goal is the destruction of all existence finishing with himself. It took the combined efforts of all the other gods, good and evil, just to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|imprison him.]] His credentials grew in 4th Edition, where he actually ''created'' the Abyss by throwing a shard of pure [[Black Magic]] into the Elemental Chaos.
*** Thanatos, supreme Immortal of Entropy, supposedly has similar plans for the [[Mystara]] cosmology, although given his [[Smug Snake|egotism]] and [[Hypocrite|cowardice]], it's questionable whether he'd ultimately include ''himself'' on the To-Be-Annihilated list.
** The book Elder Evils is full of [[Eldritch Abomination
** Demons are played differently in ''[[Pathfinder]]''
*** The Asuras are a minor type of [[Lawful Evil]] fiends who want to destroy all of divine creation as they are "errors" of the gods, while the [[Eldritch Abomination|Qlippoth]] want to eradicate [[Kill All Humans|all sentient live]] so no sinful souls arrive in the Abyss to form Demons, so the Qlippoth can reclaim it for them again.
*** Then there is Rovagug, a major deity motivated only by destruction who
*** And finally, there are the [[Chaotic Neutral|not actually evil]] Proteans, [[Blue and Orange Morality|who want to destroy everything so they can build it anew.]]
* In the [[New World of Darkness]], while many beings are malevolent and highly destructive, the most noteworthy are from ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'': the Scelesti (mages who serve the abhorrent [[Cosmic Horror|Abyss]], and seek to allow its anti-reality to seep into this world in order to bring it to an end) and the Cult of the Doomsday Clock (a group of mages who believe that the best way to free the souls of humanity is to destroy all of time and history, using their evil clocks, and by becoming living time paradoxes. They also (unknowingly) serve the Abyss).
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* One ''[[Paranoia]]'' mission involves a NPC who's decided that pretty much everyone else is a traitor (okay, [[City of Spies|he's right about this part]]) and needs to be killed, to the point that he would consider destroying all of Alpha Complex (minus him and a hundred-odd loyalists in a bunker) a viable option. Naturally, the PCs encounter [[Lost Technology|an Old Reckoning bomb]] capable of doing exactly that, and have to figure out a way to keep it away from him.
* {{spoiler|1=Mr. LeThuy}} from [[Over the Edge]]. He's a nihilist secretly amassing a cult using his charisma. Over time, the members turn into perfect clones of {{spoiler|1=Mr. LeThuy}}, body, mind and soul. They want a universe where everyone is either dead or another clone, at which point they will destroy the universe.
* In the third edition of ''[[Warhammer
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* This is the true nature of the Army of the Expeditionary Force, from the aptly named ''3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars''.
== Video Games ==
* In what may very well be the ''only'' JRPG example of a hero deconstructing this trope, ''[[Tales of Graces]]'' sees [[spoiler:[[Big Bad|Lambda]] attempt to invoke this because [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]]. What {{spoiler|he}} ''doesn't'' count on, however, is [[The Hero|Asbel]] being smarter than he looks. Asbel ''annihilates'' the cliche by pointing out how the destruction of all life accomplishes nothing, doesn't solve any of the issues that people have and doesn't even benefit the one who enacts it in any way (as they will ''literally'' be the only being left alive... and even then, [[Taking You with Me|not all the time]]). This complete obliteration of {{spoiler|Lambda's}} goal is what inspires {{spoiler|him}} to {{spoiler|accept Asbel's offer of ''[[Talking the Monster to Death|letting the world live]]'' and allowing Asbel to show him that [[Humans Are Special]].}}
* ''[[Armored Core]]: for Answer'' has Old King. {{spoiler|And you when siding with him.}}
* The main villains of [[Bayonetta]] are this, as they all want to ressurect [[God Is Evil|Jubileus]], who wants to end the current state of existence.
* [[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]: The goal of the Chaos beings, who invade the realm from another dimension. Also, it is possible {{spoiler|for the player to defeat the Chaos God, take his place, and do it by himself.}}
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda
** "I...I shall consume. Consume... Consume everything."
** In the ''[[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games|Oracle]]'' games, {{spoiler|Ganon was resurrected into this instead of his usual intelligent self due to an improper sacrifice of his evil surrogate mothers}}.
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** [[Final Fantasy IX|Kuja]] doesn't like the idea of the universe outliving him.
** [[Final Fantasy X|Seymour]] thinks that life is nothing but suffering, and that the only way of escaping [[Eldritch Abomination|Sin]], the cause of it is that everyone should die.
** [[Final Fantasy X
** {{spoiler|[[Final Fantasy XI|Kam'lanaut and Eald'narche]]}} trying to "Open the Gates to Paradise". Which would just have the side effect of killing every non-avatar and {{spoiler|non-Zilart}} on Vana'diel. Promathia {{spoiler|wants to release the Emptiness on Vana'diel killing everything so he can finally die.}}
** [[Final Fantasy XIII|Galeth]] wants to destroy all life on Cocoon and Orphan, the fal'Cie who rules over it. Orphan himself just wants to destroy everything.
** [[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Chaos]] ([[Final Fantasy I|again]]) chooses to destroy the world [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|and himself]], after finding that a world {{spoiler|without Cosmos}} was a much emptier existence than he thought it would be.
*** Now that we think about it, [[Same Story, Different Names|does Square Enix actually know any other kind of villain]]?
*** [[Final Fantasy II|The Emperor]] just wants to ''rule'' everything, not destroy
*** Sephiroth didn't want to destroy the world, only to become a god. He clearly does not fit the onmicidal maniac. (Contrast to, say, Zemus, who wanted to mass genocide so his own people could take a world for their own.)
**** [[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia]] actually has the "take over the world" villains conspiring against the "destroy the world" villains on their team.
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**** And then [[Dragon Quest IX]] gives us {{spoiler|Corvus. Holy shit, Corvus.}}
* Another Squeenix example: the [[Big Bad]] of the first [[Kingdom Hearts]] game wants [[The Heartless]] to destroy everything, since he believes darkness is the natural state of things. He first tries to accomplish this by {{spoiler|gathering the seven Princesses and opening the Final Keyhole}}, and then by {{spoiler|opening the Door to Darkness and unleashing hordes of them.}}
** It gets even better: [[Birth By Sleep]] reveals that ''that''
* Deathborn of [[F-Zero]] wants to become a galaxy destroying god.Why? [[For the Evulz]]
* Utsuho Reiuji from [[Touhou]] became one after gaining her powers (whether this is because she was tricked into godmodding or simply curious of what god-flesh tastes like is up for discussion). Thankfully, the heroines were able to confront her before she had a strong handle of her new powers.
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* The Destroyer from ''[[Romancing SaGa 3]]''.
* According to {{spoiler|Kessler, The Beast}} from ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]''.
* The Burning Legion in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' games has, as its goal, nothing less than the complete eradication of all life in the
** Occasionally overlapping with the Burning Legion are the Voidwalkers, who are creatures of pure entropy who exist only to devour the physical world. One of their leaders, Dimensius, is responsible for destroying the Ethereals' homeworld. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Players naturally get to punch him out]].
** Apparently the Twilight's Hammer cult is composed entirely of such maniacs. The ultimate goal of the cult is to bring about the end of Azeroth by any means necessary.
* The Time Devourer from ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' is apparently Lavos (or one of his spawn) after being removed from time and getting pissed about how unfair life is. After all, he was just doing what he was meant to do. What right do cattle have to persecute or kill the farmer? So it's now going to eat all of time.
* Marduk the plane-consuming demon from ''[[Sacrifice]]'', whose mere presence on a plane of existence leads to its eventual decay and, ultimately, its complete destruction.
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* [[Marvel vs. Capcom]] has the final bosses [[Generic Doomsday Villain|Onslaught]], [[Eldritch Abomination|Ab]][[Original Generation|yss]] and [[Planet Eater|Galactus]]
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', [[Big Bad]] Count Bleck doesn't just want to destroy the world, he wants to destroy the ''multiverse''.
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* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Live a Live]]'', [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Demon King Odio]], is a great example. This holds true to various degrees in all of the chapters of the game, especially the medieval chapter, which doubles as his {{spoiler|[[Start of Darkness]]}}.
* Mortimer McMire from the ''[[Commander Keen]]'' games. In the first game trilogy he attempts to destroy Earth because he considers the human race [[Too Dumb to Live]]. After that fails he decides to blow up the whole galaxy instead. And then it turns out that the galaxy destroying scheme was [[Kansas City Shuffle|there to distract the hero]], and his true goal is nothing less than the destruction of the entire universe! Sadly the next game was never made.
* The Void from the ''[[
* ''[[Mastermind World Conqueror]]'' puts you in the role of [[Diabolical Mastermind|The Mastermind]], whose goal is to destroy the earth. He borders along [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]] due to the fact that he equates destroying as conquering.
* The Covenant in the ''[[Halo]]'' series are a doomsday cult led by omnicidal maniacs, the Prophets. They [[Earthshattering Kaboom|glass every planet they take]] after plundering it for Forerunner artifacts, and try to activate the eponymous [[Doomsday Device
** {{spoiler|Turns out the prophets knew the halo array's true purpose; though whether they accepted the truth (Mercy), denied it (regret), or used it to their own purposes (truth) varied from prophet from prophet, and it's still debated among the portion of the fanbase that reads the books. }}
* ''[[
* The [[Cosmic Horror]] that is the W'rkncacnter in the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series.
* In ''[[Pokémon]] Diamond'', ''Pearl'' and ''Platinum'', [[Big Bad|Team Galactic Boss Cyrus]] wants to use the time-and-space bending powers of [[Olympus Mons|Dialga and Palkia]] to destroy the current world and build a new one [[A God Am I|in his image]].
** Of course, "in his image" here means "without any emotion whatsoever". [[Fridge Logic|All things considered, such a world would be effectively destroyed.]] After all, without emotion, who would ''care'' enough about the world to successfully maintain it?
*** Emotion and Willpower are two different things, and
** ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' has Gyarados, a flying sea serpent that once it is enraged, it will burn ''everything'' down in sight until the city's destroyed.
** ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' gives us Hydreigon, a Dark/Dragon hydra that destroys and devours everything in sight.
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** The long-term plan of the Thalmor is to erase Talos, then the idea of Men, then the Mundus itself from existence in some plot to return to pre-creation "divinity".
* {{spoiler|Porky}} in ''[[Mother 3]]''. He wants to destroy the entire world, {{spoiler|because he's gone even more insane as a result of the [[Time Abyss]] he went through, and that still nobody loves him.}} Slightly different from the usual in that {{spoiler|the world HAS already been destroyed - perhaps even by Porky - and that these people are the last remaining survivors.}}
* Requiem from ''[[City of Heroes]]'' plans to turn Earth into a homeworld for the Nictus. While that may not be enough to qualify him as an Omnicidal Maniac, you discover an alternate dimension where Requiem's plans have succeeded, and he's [[Lonely
* You know you're living in what amounts to a [[Crapsack World|crapsack universe]] when these are the kinds of guys in charge. Such is the cosmos in ''[[Boktai|Lunar Knights]]'', with {{spoiler|the Immortals running around with their [[Planet Eater
* The first ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game gave us Gol and Maia, who wanted to unleash [[Psycho Serum|Dark]] [[Green Rocks|Eco]] upon the world. The third game's [[Big Bad]] also fits this trope, teaming up with [[Eldritch Abomination|the Dark Makers]] to wipe out the ''universe''.
* Dr. Weil/[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dr. Vile]] of the ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' series. This is the ''only'' kind of [[Big Bad]] you could find in the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest period]] in ''Mega Man'' history. He starts off as an ambitious scientist, [[Fantastic Racism|who sees Reploids]] [[Just a Machine|as mere tools instead of actual sentient beings]], and was getting tired of the constant [[Robot War
* From ''[[Persona 3]]'', both {{spoiler|Shuji Ikutsuki}} and Takaya express an interest in destroying all life. {{spoiler|The former seems to be under the impression that he will be spared and given the chance to remake the world in his image after Nyx destroys it, while the latter is already dying and just wants to see everything else go first.}}
* [[Zone of the Enders]] has Nohman, who fancies himself as an agent of the universe's natural will towards its own destruction. Although he does seem to enjoy it just a little too much.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''-At the moment, pretty much all you can do in Adventure mode is wipe out all the world's sentient life (The only reason its not ''all'' life is because animals seem to respawn). For extra fun, people often try to kill everyone with a [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] or two.
* Dark Star/Dark Bowser in the final stages of ''[[
** ''Soon this kingdom will vanish along with all who dwell within. And you, too, will sleep eternally in the dark power's embrace!''
* Both the Primagen and Oblivion in the ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]'' series.
* The Darkspawn in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' were pretty much born to destroy the world of Thedas and everybody on it. The only reason they haven't is because they are also perfectly fine with attacking each other if there are no other victims. They are also compelled to seek out the Old Gods, an endeavor that usually takes centuries. Sadly, the Old Gods become tainted by the Darkspawn and become insane Archdemons that are also Omnicidal. The Archdemons are able to unite the Darkspawn and launch campaigns to wipe out Thedas known as Blights.
* {{spoiler|Kerghan}} from ''[[Arcanum:
** The scary part? {{spoiler|Kerghan is ''right''.}}
* Darth Nihilus of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II: The Sith Lords''. At some point in the past, he began consuming the lives of others for his nourishment by draining them through the Force. By the time the player character encounters him, he has become, essentially, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of hunger, has already consumed all life on several inhabited planets, and, if left unchecked, will soon do the same to the entire galaxy...and beyond.
** His master, {{spoiler|Darth Traya}}, sought to kill the Force itself. {{spoiler|In defiance of the trope, it turned out, once she realized that the Force does ''not'' equal life and that people would do just as well without it and the Jedi/Sith that depended on it.}}
* Shadow from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise was this when he first appeared in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]''. So was Gerald Robotnik.
** {{spoiler|[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
** [[Mad God|Chaos]] intends to do this in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' once he reached his [[One-Winged Angel|Perfect form]], he also wiped out an entire civilization in the past, and would have likely continued had he [[Sealed Evil in a Can|not been sealed away by Tikal.]]
* Hot Coldman from ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'' pretty much turned into one when {{spoiler|he activated Peace Walker to not only launch a nuke at Cuba [originally Mother Base, but it was changed by one of his men], but also to transmit the false data to NORAD, and made it quite clear that, even though he hopes that they don't launch due to his feeling that this will prove that humanity is weak willed, he did not care either way.}}
* [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Heiss}} from ''[[Radiant Historia]]''. After seeing history full of warfare, suffering, and sacrifices (which only seem to delay the inevitable destruction) through the Black Chronicle, {{spoiler|he}} decides that people do not deserve to exist and tries to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* {{spoiler|[[Blood Ravens]] Chapter Master and [[Big Bad]] Azariah Kyras}} in ''[[Dawn of War]]'' plans to slaughter ALL life in the galaxy in the name of Khorne.
* Nemo becomes one after Artina's death in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]''.
* In [[Sands of Destruction]], there is a Committee whose goal it is to Destroy the World.
* The Negativitron from ''[[
* Ledgermayne from ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' counts as both an Omnicidal Maniac and a [[Complete Monster]], precisely, because it wants to end all life on Lore by sealing off all magic from it, knows said motivation of its own, and doesn't care if all life dies off if it succeeds.
** {{spoiler|Noxus also counts as one in the same game as well. The fact that he created Vordred with Sally's help was his first step towards turning all life on Lore undead. And that's not all - his attack on Shadowfall was also part of his plan to cause the end of the world by turning everyone undead.}}
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* After [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|breaking his way out of Hell]] during the events of ''[[Sengoku Basara]] 3'', this becomes [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s new shtick. It should be noted that this is only a slight step-up in nastiness from how he was when alive.
* In [[Fate/stay night]], [[Ultimate Evil|Angra]] [[The Corruption|Mainyu]] is a perfect Omnicidal Maniac, who took on the Servant form of Avenger in the third war. What's that, {{spoiler|Avenger died}} and got absorbed into the {{spoiler|omnipotent, wish-granting holy grail, giving him access to an unlimited source of miracles and magic, and the ability to swallow the planet in [[The Corruption|Black Mud]] whenever the Grail is used to perform a miracle}}? Well...fuck.
* Overlord Zenon from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' used to be an Omnicidal Maniac in his past, but has settled down with merely being an [[Evil Overlord]] ruling Veldime in his old age. {{spoiler|Only he turns out to be a fake. When Laharl ends up unwittingly unleashing the true Zenon from [[Sealed Evil in a Can|her can]], she immediately tries to go on an all-killing rampage until Adell and Rozalin manage to trap her again.}}
* [[
* [[Big Bad|Regulos]] in ''[[Rift]]'' is...well, imagine the bastard child of [[Transformers|Unicron]] and [[SCP Foundation|682]] on steroids: He'd basically like nothing better than to grind the universe to dust and lap it up. {{spoiler|In [[Bad Future|Terminus]], ''he's strongly implied to [[The Bad Guy Wins|succeed]]'', although [[Player Character|some Defiant Ascended]] [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|go back in time and prevent it]].}}
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series has a few notable examples, but the most obvious one has to be the Toaster in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas|New Vegas]]'', who also happens to be a [[Harmless Villain]] due to being, well, a toaster (which he himself claims is also his excuse for becoming so murderously insane in the first place). A far more serious example, and far more lethal, is {{spoiler|Father Elijah}}.
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* [[Big Bad|Shao Kahn]] from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'': Wants to merge all realms into Outworld and bring about Armageddon.
** Onaga and Shinnok also follow this trope.
* The [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Thalmor]] in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' are attempting to kill off everyone else in Tamriel because they believe it will allow them to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|become gods]].
* The Xenon in the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' started out as [[
* In ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'', Arfoire seeks to destroy the entire world by spreading [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|piracy throughout the entire world.]] From there, she can get her godhood back.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Kid Radd]]'', the [[Pixel Art Comic]] masquerading as a [[Sprite Comic]], a character attempts to destroy the entire Internet and the video game escapee characters that inhabit it after realizing that their kind was created entirely for
** He also intended to destroy every computer hooked up to the internet, believing that it would destroy society (Not being sure whether humans were directly dependant on computers, or indirectly. However, what really takes the cake is {{spoiler|The Seer}} who doesn't just want to destroy Earth, but realizes that with all the stars and planets out there, there HAS to be life on some of them. So that when he's done with Earth he will travel to one of those and kill everything there.
* {{spoiler|The Snarl}} from ''[[Order of the Stick]]''.
** Though recent events have opened up ''all kinds'' of questions about this.
** Also, [[Big Bad|Xykon]] freely admits he might fall into this himself if he gets bored enough, though at the moment he's just a [[Complete Monster|particularly]] [[Evil Overlord]].
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
** Considering how {{spoiler|when he died, he became the King of Hell and every single high powered magician and wizard alive immediately got the [[Oh Crap]] signal from the universe about how the end of all reality was coming}}, the universe has been incredibly careful since to make sure that he ''never'' gets in that position again. Considering that this means keeping him alive (as his physical body acts as a [[Restraining Bolt]]), this means A) [[Iron Butt Monkey|he has survived a lot of things that he probably shouldn't have]]
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
** Zorgon Gola from "A Very Big Bang" [https://web.archive.org/web/20090116020645/http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010730 appears] to be an Omnicidal Maniac, but this is actually part of a [[Batman Gambit]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090116020253/http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010816 to make himself] a mere [[Galactic Conqueror]]. Unfortunately, Gola didn't count on the actions of three [[Spanner in the Works|Spanners In The Works]] ([[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|our heroes]]) causing his [[Batman Gambit|Gambit]] to ''actually'' destroy the Punyverse.
** Aylee's species are a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]], but they take it so far as to destroy entire planets after consuming everything on them and before spreading out further on the remains, and at least one of their leaders, Leono, sees it as their species' religious duty (as opposed to just a way of feeding and multiplying) to do so. In his belief, the universe has spiralled out of the control of its Creator from the start, and She has sent this species to consume it.
* {{spoiler|The Pa'anuri}} from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''... [[Ultimate Evil|Possibly]]. 'Attempted destruction of all baryonic matter in the Milky Way' certainly qualifies them for the trope, motivated by {{spoiler|baryonic matter people using transportation lethal to them.}}
* As of the most recent updates, ''[[Homestuck]]'' has ''three'' of these. The [[Big Bad]] Jack Noir is {{spoiler|thanks to the prototyping of Becquerel the First Guardian of Earth}} a [[Physical God]] who has already wiped out several worlds including two versions of his ''own homeworld'' and shows no signs of stopping. {{spoiler|Eridan Ampora}} is a former [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] who harbors dreams of genocide according to [[Word of God]] {{spoiler|and he wants to join Jack}}. Finally there's {{spoiler|Gamzee Makara}}, a sweetheart stoner turned [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath who wants to kill everyone for the sheer hell of it and is apparently more than powerful enough to do it.
* ''[[A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe]]'' has the {{spoiler|personified SINGULARITY, which has, in fact, already destroyed the entire universe--except that the [[Physical God]] protagonist has unconsciously created a house, light and air for himself in the resulting void, thus stymieing the natural cycle of destruction, leading the SINGULARITY to send minions to kill him in hopes of eventually destroying the impudent remains of reality.}}
* Misty Snow/Mother Hydra in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] saga ''[[Shadowgirls]]'' is a power-hungry sadist who doesn't care that raising her consort Dagon will unleash the imprisoned [[Eldritch Abomination|Old Ones]] and destroy all reality.
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== Web Original ==
* [[SCP Foundation|SCP-682]] is a strange, seemingly-reptilian "creature"
** Hmm... It might be because SCP-682 knows, somehow, that 053 can kill him, and thus resists her abilities to avoid death. He is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], and has survived countless assassination attempts because of his knowledge of their abilities.
** It could also mean that 053 is somehow vastly different from other living things in our universe. Enough so that 682 doesn't feel homicidal towards her. Humans, on the other hand, do feel that way.
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* O'Malley, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', is an over-the-top parody of this trope. His goal is to take over the universe and "''crush every living soul into dust''. Um, except for you Vic. You can be assistant crusher."
** Alternatively... "I will eat their hearts and crap out their souls! They will taste oblivion! Which tastes like Red Bull. Which is disgusting!"
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Fine Structure]]'', Oul, is an example.
== Western Animation ==
* Unicron from ''[[Transformers]]'', particularly in ''Energon''. He wants to ''eat the multiverse'', one planet at a time, one timeline at a time, one universe at a time. Not because he's hungry, like Galactus whom he resembles, but because existence is somehow offensive to him. Megatron/Galvatron may be considered an accessory to the crime(s).
** Anyone who willingly works with Unicron also counts. This list includes:
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** This is Megatron's actual goal when the last part of ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' rolls around. He wants to use the black hole and the Cyber Planet Keys to destroy the universe so he can rebuild it in his own image. Somehow.
** Unicron, curiously, actually succeeded on at least on occasion. Then slept through the Big Bang that recreated it. He was not amused. He has also stepped up his game of late - said black hole is apparently replicating across realities and growing.
* Daemon from ''[[
* The Brains from ''[[Futurama]]''. These unbelievably powerful, [[Mind Rape|mindraping]] giant brains appeared in this universe milliseconds after it came into being. Their one goal is to gather all of the information in the universe, then ''destroy'' it so that no new information will ever appear. The only real opposition against them comes from the [[Precursors]],
** Lucky for humanity, Fry was immune to their mind powers. Then he made them leave the Earth for [[Rouge Angles of Satin|''no good raisin!!'']]
** Later on, the Brains build the Infosphere to store all the information in the universe. Naturally, they plan on destroying the universe once they finish learning everything. Fortunately, Fry and {{spoiler|the Nibblonians}} manage to stop them again.
* [[Danny Phantom]] becomes this in an alternate future, pretty much. Most fans certainly see it that way. Fortunately, this is averted... hopefully. It's made pretty clear that even though the exact circumstances of the change were averted, it's still possible.
* ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'': an alternate-universe Peter Parker, already unbalanced due to questioning his identity and losing his Aunt May in that world's version of [[The Clone Saga]], is possessed by a world-hopping Carnage symbiote. Spider-Carnage decides that life is meaningless and attempts to wipe out the multiverse, forcing Madame Web and the Beyonder to assemble an entire team of alternate Spideys to stop him.
* The Heys from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''. Played with the usual tongue-in-cheekness of the series, but their motivations are purely omnicidal.
* [[Darkseid]] from the ''[[DCAU]]'' has the ultimate goal of obtaining the anti-life equation and using it to undo the current existence, so he can rebuild it in a manner more to his liking. Unfortunately it tends to be overshadowed by his 'torment Superman' schemes.
** Brainiac, also from the [[DCAU]], acts to destroy all of creation, but this is due to his programming rather than any genuine malicious wish to do so.
*** Omnicidal [[
* {{spoiler|Owlman}} in ''[[Justice League: Crisis
* ''[[The Fairly
** {{spoiler|The Darkness is more a person (well, consciousness) of mass destruction. It just wants somebody to love it, but everyone keeps attacking it, so it defends itself, and is better at defending itself than the planet it was trying to defend itself from is at hurting it}}
* Dr. Blight from ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' talks about wanting to actively destroy the planet in some episodes but her goals change from episode to episode.
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** Or [[For Science!]] for that matter.
* Trigon of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had the explicit goal of destroying "the world of mortals", though he did plan on remaking it in his own image afterwards. As this would mean a ''literal'' [[Hell on Earth]], it doesn't make him any less evil than the others on this list.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Ragnarok and Roll" had one guy who wanted to destroy the world because he felt it was a bad place. Fot that, he summoned a magical [[Artifact of Doom]] - using [[The Lord of the Rings|The Ring Inscription]].
* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' crossover movie ''[[Turtles Forever]]'', the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2k3 Shredder]], after being freed from his confinement in an asteroid, decides that in order to destroy all the turtles in the universe, {{spoiler|he must destroy reality itself, and sets out to do just that}}.
** {{spoiler|1=Utrom Shredder wasn't so into the destruction of reality at first. He just realized that the Ninja Turtles would persist in every reality so winning in one really meant nothing in the grand scheme of things. What he wanted to do was eliminate the TMNTs from existence, by destroying them on Turtle Prime (the original Mirage comic). Reality was shattering but only after he had left the 2003 dimension (which he didn't know was happening). Once he saw that the destruction of the 1984 Turtles would in fact break reality fully, ''that's'' when he threw down the gauntlet and decided reality would have to end if it meant he could win.}}
* US [[President Evil]] [[Lex Luthor]] goes this route in ''[[Superman/Batman: Public Enemies]]'', after injecting himself with a Kryptonite/steroid cocktail that increases his strength but at the same time causes him to go insane. When the US Military is unable to stop the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Kryptonite meteor]], Lex chooses to allow the meteor to collide, believing that he will be heralded the savior of the few survivors remaining.
* Killface of ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' begins the first episode filming his statement to the world that he intends to use the Anihilatrix, a giant engine, to fly the Earth directly into the sun. No motive is given. Fortunately for the Earth, he used all his money building the machine, and does not have enough money to actually broadcast his message or get the Anihilatrix working.
** And when he did get it working {{spoiler|it only moved the earth a few feet. And cured global warming.}}
* In the ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' cartoon, Evil the Cat aspires to destroy the universe.
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Evil: [[For the Evulz|Especially the good parts!]]. }}
* Ultron in the ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'', albeit with the twist that his first body has been programmed so it cannot harm the Wasp. {{spoiler|He gets a new body and can bypass this later.}} He nearly nukes the entire world. The robot is likely one of the [[Nightmare Fuel|scariest]] villains to emerge from the show thus far.
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* While she might not have been doing it ''intentionally'', [[Mad God|Nightmare Moon]] from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] would have done this according to [[Word of God]] had her [[The Night That Never Ends|desire for endless night]] worked out.
* In ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', there was the short-lived superpowered galvanized NegaDuck (not to be confused with the [[Name's the Same|similarly-named]] [[Evil Counterpart]] to Darkwing who later appeared, the one with the yellow-red-black uniform).
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== Real life ==
* Terrifyingly, [[wikipedia:Zhang Xianzhong|Zhang Xianzhong]] may have been a real life example, back in the 1640s. He amassed a rebellion to conquer the Sichuan region of China, and proceeded to order his soldiers to kill everyone who objected to his rule. Then, kill the inhabitants of the outlying villages. Then kill the wives of officers who had objected to the previous order. Then large groups of random civilians. Finally, he just ordered them to kill each other in front of his [[Nightmare Fuel|throne made of the severed ears and feet of his enemies]], while a few of his last loyal servants carved a massive stone which "explained" his actions:
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Man has nothing with which to repay Heaven.
[[Madness Mantra|Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.]] }}
** It came to be called the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Seven Kill Stele]], and even after the Manchus put Zhang to death, everyone was so terrified of it, they refused to touch it, even to destroy it, until the 1970s. Of course, the accuracy of this legend can be doubted on the ground that it was treated like it was diseased well into the twentieth century, and back then was actually surrounded by murderous lunatics. So it's more likely that people who lived to tell the tale remembered parts of a [[Madness Mantra|chant]], rather than came close enough to read the stone. And indeed missionaries in 1934 examined the stone presumed to be ''that one'', and found the text starting in a similar way, but with different ending:
{{quote|Heaven gives everything to men; men give nothing back to heaven.
* "Kill them all, God will recognize his own" ("Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt emus." in the original latin) Arnaud Amaury, Papal Legate. He gave this order to his troops when facing the Cathar (a Christian religious movement the Pope considered heretical) held city of Béziers.▼
The gods are not without intelligence; examine yourselves and repent!}}
** What isn't folklore, however, are census figures (Chinese officials liked to get taxes, after all). The last known number for Sichuan (in 1578, more than 60 years before Zhang) gave a population of 3,102,073 — and in 1661 there were only 16,096 adult males registered, mostly in far corners. There weren't any epidemics known, except this insanity, and the chroniclers claimed population was about 3 3/4 millions before it started. This guy outdid even Pol Pot. The place was overrun by wild dogs and tigers, had such a fell reputation that it could be repopulated only by forcibly moving people there, and even that took about seventy years.
▲* "Kill them all, God will recognize his own" ("Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt emus." in the original
* While they don't want to wipe out humanity right away (well, hopefully at least most of them don't), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Euthanasia the Church of Euthanasia] is a religious organization founded in 1995 who believe the Earth will be much better off without humans living on it, and push for some way for mankind to dramatically reduce its own population. The only rule members have is "thou shalt not procreate" (as in, remain celibate), and they also encourage suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy. Oddly enough, the U.S. government does indeed recognize them as a non-profit and tax exempt organization.
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