Omnicidal Maniac: Difference between revisions

* 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:

** 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 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.

** ''[[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.

* The [[Big Bad|Millennium Earl]] in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' is very open about this, explicitly taunting the hero in his first real appearance.

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

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

 

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

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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}}.

** 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.

** 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]].

** 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|Evil Overlords]], 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.

* {{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 40000]]'', 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|Tomb Kings]] [[In Space]], making them no longer an example.

* This is the true nature of the Army of the Expeditionary Force, from the aptly named ''3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars''.

 

* 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.

* [[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''.

** 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.

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.

* 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).

 

 

== 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:

[[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.