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* 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.

* 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 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: 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 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.

** [[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]]?

*** 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.

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

** {{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]].

* [[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.

* In [[Sands of Destruction]], there is a Committee whose goal it is to Destroy the World.

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