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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.

** ''[[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|Cosmic Keystones]]s that maintain the barriers between dimensions, which would cause all dimensions to collide, destroying the multiverse. Her intended [[The Dragon|Dragon]] refuses to help on the grounds that she's an unworthy mistress, but eventually decides, for his own reasons, to do the same, making him just as much of an Omnicidal Maniac.

** ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' features a non-Digimon AI that was designed to prevent other programs from exceeding their boundaries ('cause [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]) by deleting them if they surpassed a certain stage of development. It decides all humans and Digimon meet criteria for deletion. Then it gets ''[[Eldritch Abomination|really]]'' [[The Heartless|nasty]].

* [[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 Fromfrom the Dead|rejuvenate with Book of Darkness somewhere else]], repeat.

** Many ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s were omnicidal maniacs. The Dark King in the original series and Max Heart started the trend by trying to destroy the Universe because it was in his nature; Lord Akudaikahn in Splash Star was basically his [[Expy]]; Dune in Heartcatch was defined by his hatred of everything.

* {{spoiler|The second}} Friend in ''[[Twentieth20th Century Boys]]'' is this. {{spoiler|While the first one}} was comitting genocide with a killer virus for several reasons, he really wanted to be ruler of the world and be worshipped by his circle of "Friends" ({{spoiler|all to satisfy his craving for attention and hatred for Kenji}}). {{spoiler|The second one, however}}, flat out intends to wipe out all of humanity. Despite pretending to {{spoiler|be Fukubei (The first one)}}, he really doesn't care one bit about his ideals and doesn't even intend to save those who ''do'' support him. He truly wants to destroy the world and his last trap is an Anti-Proton Bomb.

* Folken in the movie version of ''[[Escaflowne]]'' wants to destroy all of Gaea -- becauseGaea—because he's just so depressed and just wants it all to end, even though he presents himself as a Social Darwninist to his followers.

{{quote|'''[[The Punisher]]''': The [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|human race.]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|You've seen where that leads to.]]}}

* 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 [[Omnicidal Maniac]].}}

* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' trilogy ''[[Star Trek: Millennium]]'', the Grigari (who scare the ''Borg'') worship an offshoot of the Pah-Wraiths, who want to reduce the physical universe -- includinguniverse—including all of history, not just the present -- topresent—to a timeless, spaceless mathematical abstraction. They succeed.

* 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 mold -- butmold—but whoever programmed them to do it probably did.

* Anubis in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. While ''most'' Goa'uld we meet are [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlords]]s, this guy stands out. He doesn't want to conquer the entire galaxy, he wants to ''wipe out all life'' in it. And then repopulate it with lifeforms of his design, but that's an academic distinction to anyone that's not Anubis.

* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'', Dukat, as the avatar of the Pah Wraiths in the series' [[Grand Finale]], gloatingly [[Just Between You and Me|announces his long-term plans]] to Sisko: he and the Pah Wraiths intend to create a universe of fire, purging all life and destroying everything. He thankfully doesn't get any further than bragging about it.

* [[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.

* 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.

* The demons of the Abyss from the ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' settings. They are believed to be the will of the Abyss itself, which is of course endless raw chaos, distilled into sentient and individual form, with the ultimate goal of eradicating everything other than themselves. Assuming they succeed, as [[Chaotic Evil]] they'll then turn on each other, and when they are all destroyed, the multiverse will be silent once again. The exception is [[Magnificent Bastard|Graz'zt]], who as befitting the Dark Prince of Deception, prefers that the world remain around for him to rule.

** The book Elder Evils is full of [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s who would very much like to destroy the world/worlds/universe/multiverse.

** Demons are played differently in ''[[Pathfinder]]''--while—while they love wanton murder and destruction, they ''don't'' want to destroy everything because then they'd have no more fun. Instead, the cessation of all life is the goal of the [[Neutral Evil]] daemons, who know nothing but hatred for everything, themselves included, and derive pleasure from nothing. To compare the two, whereas a demon would rape you to death for its own enjoyment, a daemon would quickly and efficiently kill you just to snuff you out.

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* In the third edition of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', the Necrons were driven by an insatiable need to destroy everything alive and/or sentient (it was an academic difference since nobody could ask them which of the two it was), rendering the universe quiet and uninhabited except for themselves. As of their latest codex this has shifted into turning them into [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Tomb Kings]] [[In Space]], making them no longer an example.

* 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]].}}

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Majoras Mask|Majora's Mask]]'': Clearly, any demon [[Sealed Evil in a Can|trapped inside a mask]] who wants to completely [[EndoftheThe End of the World Asas We Know It|destroy the world]] by [[Colony Drop|crashing the moon into the earth]] can't be sane.

*** [[Final Fantasy II|The Emperor]] just wants to ''rule'' everything, not destroy it--ait—a motivation shared with [[Villainous Breakdown|pre-Disc 4 Kuja]] and those poor, outclassed schmucks [[Final Fantasy VI|Emperor Gestahl]] and [[Final Fantasy VII|the Shinra Corporation execs]].

** It gets even better: [[Birth By Sleep]] reveals that ''that'' [[Omnicidal Maniac]] is just a ''fragment'' of an even worse one. That [[Bigger Bad|Bigger Bad's]] goal? ''[[For Science!|Trigger Armageddon, watch from the first row and see what happens next.]]''

* The Burning Legion in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' games has, as its goal, nothing less than the complete eradication of all life in the universe -- anduniverse—and, according to the [[Backstory]], has already destroyed several ''thousand'' planets by the time it reaches Azeroth.

* 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|Doomsday Devices]]s to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy, believing it will lead them to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]].

* ''[[TropeImpossible Workshop:Mission (video game)|Impossible Mission]]'': Professor Elvin Atombender, a [[Mad Scientist]] who is attempting to hack the world's nuclear missile codes and [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy the planet]].

* 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 Atat the Top|gone insane from being the only human left]] and is trying to destroy the entire multiverse.

* 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|Planet Eaters]]s, taking over all sorts of worlds and/or destroying them to impose eternity upon the universe. Granted, Lucian and Aaron make life much easier for their world by completely erasing Polidori (he's an Immortal, in case you lost track), but if [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|what Dumas said has any weight to it]], there are going to be a lot more on their way...}}

* 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|Robot Wars]]s that they wage against humankind. When a cure was finally made (the Mother Elf) to rid the world of [[The Virus]] that started the war in the first place, Weil Brainwashed it to become his tool for destruction, and initiated the [[World Sundering|Elf Wars]], where, in the span of ''only 4 years'', a large portion of the human and Reploid populations (60 and 90%, respectively) were wiped out. After ''that'' war, [[And I Must Scream|he is sentenced to immortality, where his consciousness was transferred to a self-regenerating armor, and then sent to forever exile on the barren wasteland that he created.]] When he comes back (which his [[What an Idiot!|"executioners"]] ''didn't'' count on) he makes sure that the humans suffer the same way he did, or worse. And when humans start to rebel and flee from his reign of terror, and his [[The Dragon|general]] [[Bastard Understudy|turns on him]], he becomes much worse, setting a [[Colony Drop]] to [[New Eden|Area Zero]], the ''very last hope of restoring the dying Earth, along with the human refugees settling there!'' Only through Zero's efforts was he stopped in time, and even then, {{spoiler|Zero [[Killed Off for Real|makes his last hurrah]], and Weil, whilst defeated, remained alive thanks to his [[And I Must Scream|curse]]. [[Mega Man ZX|And he still continues to plague the world over and over...]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 (video game)||Solaris]] in all his insanity attempts a [[Apocalypse How|class Z]].}}

* The Negativitron from ''[[Little Big PlanetLittleBigPlanet|Little Big Planet 2]]''

* [[StarcraftStarCraft II]] the Dark Voice plans to use the Zerg and the hybrids to wipe out the Terrans and the Protoss, and once they're done with that, the hybrids will kill all the Zerg so they can reshape the galaxy themselves.

* The Xenon in the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' started out as [[Terraform|terraformingterraform]]ing drones. After a badly coded software update, [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|they went haywire]] and now attempt to terraform all biological life out of existence.

* 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 killing -- whichkilling—which is, you know, ''accurate'' -- and—and losing hope of change when attempts at organized societies fall into war.

** 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]] ,<ref>like Australia dropping on him</ref>, and B) his body count keeps climbing. So ever once in a while [[Cosmic Plaything|the universe seems to like to even the score]]. [[Up to Eleven|A lot]].

** 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.

* [[SCP Foundation|SCP-682]] is a strange, seemingly-reptilian "creature" -- the—the term creature can be used only loosely, as it doesn't seem to be alive in the sense we usually think of it -- thatit—that considers all living things disgusting sub-beings that must be destroyed. Well, all of them except [[Creepy Child]] SCP-053, which it was discovered to be oddly fond of. No-one's quite sure why it reacts differently to SCP-053 -- and053—and they're too scared to take advantage of it, as keeping an Omnicidal Maniac prone to fits of [[Unstoppable Rage]] and a toddler that induces [[Unstoppable Rage]], then instantly kills anyone that hurts it in the same room seems like a bad idea. His reasons for this hatred for all life aren't directly stated, but implied to be out of a ''really'' extreme version of [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]. This has become sort of a running gag as the SCP Foundation are so afraid of 682 that they're constantly trying to find some way to kill him, no matter how insane.

* Daemon from ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' initially seemed to just be a supervirus corrupting countless programs to The Way, which turned them into her loyal slaves. However, the climax revealed {{spoiler|that she intended to connect herself to everything, before initiating a program that would destroy herself and everything connected to her, ending all strife and conflict in the peace of oblivion.}} Of course, this is what she is programmed to do; so whether or not she's truly a maniac or just following her programming is up for debate.

* 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]], {{spoiler|the Nibblonians}}. Unlike typical [[Planet Looters]], the Brains actually ''enjoy'' their omnicidal campaign. The Brains are basically Brainiac from the DCAU but they're an ''entire race'', not just one evil AI. Thanks to there being no [[Superman]] to fight them, the Brains come damn close to succeeding.

*** Omnicidal [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|Brainiac]], you might say.

* {{spoiler|Owlman}} in ''[[Justice League: Crisis Onon Two Earths]]'' wants to kill "Everyone who ever existed or will ever exist" and destroy all reality {{spoiler|because he feels it is the only "real choice" one could make, as for every choice one made, all other possibilities played out in another universe.}}

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' has two. First, Dark Laser really wants to blow up the Earth because...well, it's there. A more serious example is [[Big Bad|The Darkness]], a powerful and ancient entity who has destroyed countless worlds, including {{spoiler|Wonder World and Yugopotamia}}.

* ''[[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]].

** 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: