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I kill conversation as I walk into the room<br />

I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban<br />

I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man''|'''[[The Police]]''', "Demolition Man"}}

** There's also the kings of [[The Empire|Ancient Belka]], who sacrificed their bodies to become living weapons of mass destruction [[Warrior Prince|that could lead their people to war as symbols of power]]. Considering how the few still existing come in [[Mysterious Waif]] form, they're quite sought after by those planning acts of terrorism.

* [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] Madoka has so much magical talent that if she became a Puella Magi, she would be capable of destroying the most powerful witch in a single blast. And then she {{spoiler|becomes an ultimate witch who really ''can and does'' remove all life from the world. Part of the plot of the story is centered around when she would actually make her wish.}}

* Mewtwo of the first ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' movie, despite not being human, is definitely a Person of Mass Destruction. This is made all the more apparent by the fact that in some translations his birthplace is listed as [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Mile Island]]. His power is so great the he was able to create an unnaturally huge hurricane that would've eventually wiped out all life on the planet, aside from those on his island in the eye of the storm ''just by thinking about it'', then dissipated the storm just as easily after his [[Heel Face Turn]]. Note that he was in no way focusing his full power on the storm at any time, and in fact kept expanding it even while controlling hundreds of individual pokeballs, taking on his ancestor Mew in a psychic battle (in which Mewtwo had the upper hand), completely dominating the mind of at least one human, ''and'' psychically suppressing the abilities of every other Pokemon on the island. Afterwards, he then telekinetically lifted every single person and pokemon on the island- easily over a hundred individuals weighing several tons in total, and again without any noticeable strain- erased their memories of the entire thing, and teleported them - again, en masse - to a port several miles away. It's a good thing he wanted to "prove himself" before his purge- had he been more efficient, he probably could have easily wiped out humanity in an afternoon at most.

** To further put this in perspective, a similar storm was generated in the second movie, but only after the three legendary birds had been fighting all-out for some time. Each of these three combatants, by the way, are implied to be so powerful that they are able to change the climate of wherever they are ''just by existing''- and Mewtwo equaled their combined power without even trying!

* Ifurita of ''[[El Hazard]]'' is one. However, she's far more level headed and self-controlled than most examples.

* Ryoko from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fits here, at least in her original OVA form, since she is listed as destroying several planets in her past. An honourable mention should also go out to {{spoiler|Tenchi himself, as when his godself manifested in OVA 3, he nearly destroyed ALL THAT EXISTS.}} Give him his due, he doesn't mess about.

* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', in absolute SPADES. Consider that planet-destruction was a normal occurrence by the Saiyan Saga (Piccolo with the moon, Vegeta with Planet Arlia), and that every heroic character becomes infinitely stronger after that... Even [[The Woobie|Krillin]] could probably destroy a planet with a click of his fingers by the end of the Namek Saga, and by comparison to Frieza he's so weak as to not even be a consideration. Perfect Cell claimed to be able to destroy the entire solar system in a single blast with his energy, before Gohan stopped him.

*** [[Big Bad|Father]] takes the trope up to the next level; he is so powerful that he is able to ABSORB GOD, and create a sun in the palm of his hand.

* All the minus in [[Medaka Box]] certainly count {{spoiler|with the exception, apparently, of Shiranui}}: Kumagawa can revert everything to nothingness([[The End of the World as We Know It|including the FRIGGIN' WORLD]]), Shibuki can open long gone scars(and that includes damages doing to structures of buildings..[[Fridge Horror|Just guess what happens when she goes to a recently rebuilt or reformed one and uses her power...]]), Mukae has the power to corrode things with her bare hands(even the air!!) and she uses it to melt away an ''entire school building'', and last but not least, Gagamaru, who can move any kind of injuries he would suffer to another random person...Luckily, he was never hit by something like a falling plane or an explosion of some sort.Or, at least that we know it.

* Chise from [[Saikano]] is often treated as (and almost certainly was written, in a sense, to represent) a human nuke. {{spoiler|By the end of the story, there's only one human left alive ( possibly two, but that depends upon whether you agree to classify her as a human by this point). Not directly by her fault, but she's very well aware that ultimately, she did it.}}

* The [[Magic: The Gathering]] Expy card game series [[Duel Masters]] is full of creatures like that. To name a few:

** [http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Bolshack_Dragon Bolshack Dragon](the cities who have messed up with him are probably fated to become ruins).

** The Giant class from Nature realm([http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Earthstomp_Giant Earthstomp Giant], for an example, causes such damage to the environment while fighting that his battle comrades wonder ''if he is really on their side'')

** Also used at the end of ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', when {{spoiler|Superman is one of the few survivors of an atomic bomb that takes out a good chunk of the DCU's superhero population. He then sets off towards the UN, fully aware that they're the ones who called in the strike. The UN's collective reaction: "Oh, ''fuck''."}}

* In the [[Marvel Universe]], [[wikipedia:Black Bolt|Black Bolt]] of the Inhumans, whose voice is so powerful that a shout could awaken volcanoes and cause earthquakes on the ''other'' side of the planet. His birth cries devastated a city. He fears his own powers so much that he's taken a lifelong vow of silence...but when he declares war, he ''really declares "War."''

* [[Black Adam]], when pissed off, is quite literally a one-man war. He managed to get a good portion of the DCU united against him just to stop him. In the process of his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], he annihilated ''an entire fucking country''. He also managed to hold off the JLA, the JSA, the Teen Titans, and the Great Ten all at once, not to mention single-handedly killing off the [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] that were sent to kill him in the first place.

* In ''[[Supreme Power]]'', Marvel's [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] and [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Justice League of America]], when Mark Milton aka Hyperion (Superman- [[Expy]]) learns that his whole life has been controlled by the United States government, the head of the project discusses what an angry high-powered [[Flying Brick]] could do. To adequately describe the casualty rate that Mark can inflict from THE ATTACK ALONE (not factoring in all the deaths from various infrastructure failures that result from the attack and cut-off supply lines making aid impossible) one researcher uses the term "Mega-deaths". At one point, he is traced by the Richter Scale vibrations he causes with his attacks! They are very graphic in the images as well.

* ''[[X-Men]]'' favorite Gambit always seemed to have an okay power, nothing too special, then he met one of his alternate universe counterparts New Sun, and, well, let's just say that is a VERY apt name.

* Marvel's ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'' was kicked off when Nitro, previously a C-List villain whose power was to "explode", detonated with the force of a low yield nuke. This leveled a small town and brought the attention and ire of the general public down on the heads of superheroes everywhere. (Amazingly enough, at no point in the ''Civil War'' storyline did anyone ever utter the line "It's all Nitro's fault".)

** Unless you count the Wolverine Civil War tie in dedicated to him trying to hunt down Nitro. But the actual main comic itself, yup.

** Unfortunately, the scarab is one of many, seeded throughout the universe to aid their masters, the Reach, in conquering or destroying planets - and on most of those worlds, they easily managed to overwhelm their hosts. Jaime managed to escape that fate because his scarab was malfunctioning, but it's still dangerous, even so.

* Justin in [[Kira Is Justice (Fanfic)|Kira Is Justice]].

** Well, what is the Sun but a giant hydrogen bomb?

** Even more so, {{spoiler|Paul's son Leto II and his distant descendant Miles Teg. Either of those is more than a match for a small army of opponents.}}

* Some Adept-level mages in the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' books have power of this magnitude - Vanyel is said to be capable of destroying a fair-sized city, and indeed does go kaboom in a fairly spectacular manner in his final [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Occasionally, even "ordinary" Heralds can get fairly destructive, especially Lavan Firestorm who essentially outdoes Vanyel's feat with [[Psychic Powers|mind-magic]] alone.

** In the Mage Wars prequels, the combined detonation of the accumulated magical power of two opposing Mage Lords set off the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Cataclysm]] whose effects are still felt thousands of years later. (The large, almost perfectly circular inland sea on Valdemar's border? The equally circular, considerably larger grassland some kingdoms to the south? Those were the least important.)

* The Archive from ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. Even putting aside that she knows the nuclear launch codes for every country on the planet, Ivy's [[Little Miss Badass|ten years old]] and capable of holding off 8 fallen angels at once, with almost no resources, without breaking a sweat. But what else do you expect from the repository of all human knowledge?

** The Wardens of the White Council are an entire military force composed of PMDs. In ''Turn Coat'', Harry sees a handful of Wardens go all-out to fight a bunch of nasties, and he's left completely dumbstruck.

* In something of a subversion, [[Harry Potter]] is harassed by his non-magical relatives who walk a fine line between their own perceived power over him and his ability (and their knowledge of his ability) to cause them magical damage.

* The enslaved gods in the first book of the [[Inheritance Trilogy]], who are used as [[Attack Animal|AttackAnimals]] by their mortal masters, the Arameri family. Although these gods are 'hobbled' and less powerful than before their enslavement, they're still collectively responsible for deadly epidemics, 'disappearing' the inhabitants of cities, and turning a few mountains into craters. They are especially deadly because they're pissed about their enslavement; [[Be Careful What You Say|they will follow any instructions strictly to the letter]], and will use any loophole to try and kill their masters. Their most powerful member, [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|Nahadoth]], {{spoiler|uses a badly-worded command to sink a continent in a fit of pique. He was trying for the whole planet.}} The gods' mortal owners, who have used these gods to set themselves up as rulers of the world, tend to avoid using him for this reason.

* Dragon riders from the [[Inheritance Cycle]]. There are limits (those being your own ingenuity with magic and whether or not a particular spell exerts more energy than your body possesses), but otherwise there is literally ''nothing that they cannot do''. The dragons they are partnered with are unable to mold magic beyond freak happenstance, but wield far greater power than their riders. Also: Riders can more or less meld their mind with their dragon's and use their resources for magic, which is the difference between moving a [[Badass Abnormal|Sedan]] and moving an [[Up to Eleven|aircraft carrier]]. In the third book, it is revealed that {{spoiler|utilizing the magical core of a dead dragon, an [[Applied Phlebotinum|Eldunari]] (or multiple dead dragons, a la [[Big Bad|Galbatorix]])}}, the aircraft carrier can be bumped up to ''[[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure|Texas]]'', depending on {{spoiler|how many Eldunari one has and how saturated with magic they are}}.

* Jaenelle as Witch in The [[Black Jewels]] Trilogy by Anne Bishop. Even as a child she had immense power; upon reaching her mature strength, she is estimated to be six to six thousand times more powerful than the most powerful male in the history of the Blood (who once erased an entire culture from existence when his Berserk Button was pushed) and she states that she is so powerful that if she unleashed herself, she would destroy ALL of the Blood; human, nonhuman, and dead.

* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Percy Freakin' Jackson]]. Not only is he capable of destroying entire armies by himself, he also once caused a volcanic eruption that resulted in one million people being evacuated and the literal father of all monsters being released from his prison beneath the volcano. He's so powerful that the [[Big Bad]] singles him out in the sequel series, [[The Heroes of Olympus]], as the key for a blood sacrifice to bring on the gods' downfall.

* From [[The Stormlight Archive]], Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar. Not only does he kill quite a few people, Szeth tends to destroy the environment he kills them in nicely. Dalinar also kills hundreds of enemies every battle scene in which he appears. Really, anybody with a [[Soul Cutting Blade|Shardblade]] and/or [[Powered Armor|Shardplate]] counts as this, at least potentially, Szeth is particularly dangerous because in addition to having a Shardblade he's also a [[Magic Knight]] with [[Gravity Master]] powers.

* The Sith [[The Emperor|Emperor]], as described in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], is supposedly more powerful than Palpatine ever was. The only thing matching his power is his madness and obsession with immortality. To show off, his guards are never present during audiences, even with other powerful Sith lords (who are allowed to keep their weapons). Furthermore, he always sits facing ''away'' from the door. He has [[Black Eyes of Evil]] and [[Voice of the Legion]]. He attained immortality by absorbing the life-force of everything alive on his homeworld, including insects and plants. It was he who corrupted Revan and Malak, turning them to the Dark Side to use them as vanguard for his invasion of the [[The Federation|Republic]]. As powerful as he is, even Revan can't match the Emperor.

* In ''[[Shadow Ops]]'', anyone capable of using one of [[The Dark Arts|the rare prohibited forms of magic]] (Black magic, necromancy, gate magic, or sentient elemental creation) is automatically one of these - which is why they're illegal to begin with. Necromancy and sentient elemental creation allows for their user to essentially create an entire army instantly. Someone who can use gate magic can pretty much move anywhere they want instantly and has access to a weapon that [[Portal Cut|can effortlessly slice through any material]]. [[Black Magic]] is control of entropy, and the person who can use it can near-instantly decay ''anything'' - living, dead, organic, mechanical, it doesn't matter. Scylla, the only user of this power, demonstrates it quite spectacularly when she uses it to literally destroy the entire defensive perimeter of a military base, killing hundreds of people, with about as much effort as crushing insects.

* Jesus Himself in the [[Left Behind]] book series, as [[The Bible|His Word alone]] can kill many people en masse.

*** {{spoiler|The writer note that she is basically the Phoenix from X-men, sans-psychic powers.}}

* All psykers (psychic humans) in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' have the potential to be this, not so much because of their abilities themselves but because they are incredibly vulnerable to [[Demonic Possession]] (which is bad), and are correspondingly treated with paranoid caution (at best) by the unbelievably repressive Imperium.

** The most powerful psykers (class Alpha Plus) can (depending on the type of power they have), mind-control entire cities, incinerate armies or snap a battle titan (the series' [[Humongous Mecha]]) in half with a mere thought. To make matters worse, the minds of current humans aren't built to handle Beta-and-above levels of psionic power, causing most psykers of such power levels to usually be batshit insane, not to mention very short lived, as their presence attracts daemons like flies to honey, usually resulting in them exploding apart in a gory fashion while [[Legions of Hell|reality tears asunder and daemonic legions march forth to slaughter all life on the world]]. One of the very few and most notable exceptions is the [[God-Emperor]] of Mankind, who is beyond superhuman in both body and mind.

** Given that in ''[[Rifts]]'' creatures wandering the SAFER parts of the world are generally somewhat challenging for a party of low-level player characters, intelligent players will consider what it means for there to be an apparently undefended, unmolested village in the middle of nowhere in particular...

* ''In Dark Ages: Mage'' (a historical setting for ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'')... to be honest, the time needed for this is exactly the amount of time one needs for standard character creation, if we count being able to be an orbital bomber enough for this. <ref>An Order of Hermes character investing in the elemental manipulation(/creation/anything) path of their magic can easily achieve the ability to 1) fly 2) manipulate air (meaning a personal pressurised airpocket around the mage) 3) manipulate forces like gravity (potentially meaning no g-forces) 4) BURN (village/town wide if necessary), from great distances if necessary... and that's just level 3 of a very parabolic 1-5 scale. And by the default character creation rules level 3 is something you can just simply just pick for your character without gimping them in other aspects, or taking any flaws.</ref> So you can destroy towns with fire from the air needing only some simple item like a coin as a focus object (so not even clothes necessary) with a character out of creation. Oh, and the best part of this... that's all in medieval times. (Yes, orbital bombardment in a medieval setting.)<br /><br />Most ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' games can make madly powerful characters compared to sane things in their setting - usually ones that are one-trick wonders - but in ''Mage'' it won't even be a one-trick wonder. Sure you're human, but then again you can be a human foreseeing the future, living several thousand years, avoiding all situations where being a 'fragile human' could be a problem, just by knowing about them in advance and manipulating things like change, destiny, minds, natural forces and so on, to just achieve what you wished.

* The whole point of ''[[Exalted]]'' is that you ''play as'' one of these. Exalted are very, VERY powerful - but no more mentally stable than the average person. In fact, due to the Great Curse, they're quite prone to become unhinged and abuse their power. It's a game mechanic. When an experienced Exalt starts to look even a little bit angry, ''run''.

* The [[Wild Talents]] game system actually details in its power generation tutorial how to build a power with unlimited range that halts nuclear fusion. Not terribly useful on its own, unless you spend the extra points to change the duration to permanent. For someone of a heroic bent, a power like this could be useful against a crazed dictator who has just launched his entire nuclear arsenal against the world. For someone a little more unhinged? ''Turn off the sun.'' '''FOREVER'''. Or, until the Game Master reveals your opposite number exists who has the power to restart nuclear fusion.

** And while we're speaking of the FFs, ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Ashe, who chooses at the end not to become one (being a one woman army helped by five one sidekick armies is ''reasonably'' sufficient to restore her throne)}}, and of course ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': Yuna's pilgrimmage is basically a quest to become a nun of mass destruction.

* They [[Badass Normal|don't have any superpowers]] as such, and if you have them dead to rights are as easy to kill as any other human being--but the deliberate unleashing of a Silencer from the ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games is viewed not unlike the use of a small tactical nuke. When ''one'' [[Turned Against Their Masters|goes rogue]], it doesn't take the bad guys long, once they figure out where he's gone, to imagine exactly how much trouble they're in.

* [[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]] has the Greybeards, who, much like Black Bolt above, have taken a vow of silence because their voices are too powerful. Only one of them can talk to you without making the ground shake. Luckily for others, they [[All Powerful Bystander|stay on their monastery at the world's tallest mountain, not getting involved with Skyrim's problems]]

* The [[Freak Angels]], are a bunch of powerful psychics. While individually they are capable of great destructive force (they can telekinetically tear a man apart), their powers increase greatly when working in concert. A few of them at a time can demolish buildings, cause explosions, and tear through small armies. {{spoiler|All twelve of them can strike the Earth with enough force to cause catastrophic earthquakes, tidal waves and geomagnetic disturbances}}.

* From the Union series, Tank born Shadow Agents, depending on the Country/Colony of origin, have a kill switch installed, resulting in [[The Berserker]]. To quote a passage from the story:

* Being a pilot in [[Pilots]] requires a mindset that is more or less directly antithetical to militarism or aggression, and you can't coerce them because that breaks the mental state required to [[Teleporters and Transporters|switch]]. However, the [[Teleporters and Transporters|mechanics of]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|the power]] can be quite destructive--there are several cases of accidental pushback or too-small switch spheres that cause many deaths--and it gets even worse with the ADPs. X is discovered when he creates pushback that is initially mistaken for a major earthquake, [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|by accident]].

** There's also Captain Atom, who's pretty much a walking nuclear fallout contained in a suit.

* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Aang]] (and any Avatar actually) when in his [[Physical God]] mode. In season one final he single-handly wiped out Fire Nation fleet sent to destroy '''a whole nation'''. There were attempts to use this power as [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] - all of which, as you can guess, [[Curb Stomp Battle|didn’t end well.]]

** It's rare, but a few HIV-positive individuals have been brought up on criminal charges for ''deliberately'' passing their condition on to others without their knowledge (which, [[Ripped from the Headlines|naturally]], is featured in an episode of ''[[Law and Order]]''). Those who did so with numerous partners may qualify as PMD.