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** Reinforce (in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'') fits most, being literally a tool that fulfills its masters wish to destroy everything. Power-wise, Reinforce might just be the most powerful character in the franchise, easily fending off Fate's Plasma Smasher and Nanoha's Excelion Buster ''at the same time'', breaking through Nanoha's shield without much effort and casting a [[Wave Motion Gun|Starlight Breaker]] that leaves a ''city-sized explosion''.
* In ''[[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.}}
* ''[[The Record of a Fallen Vampire]]'' has Strauss, the vampire immune to the sun who also has an almost godly amount of magic, and Adelheid, the Moonlight of Corrosion.
* Ryner Lute of ''[[The Legend of the Legendary Heroes]]''. He has the power to blow people up, cause things to implode, and completely disintegrate things in a matter of seconds, simply by thinking about it. And yet, people ''intentionally'' try to piss him off and provoke him. Real smart, huh?
* Chise of ''[[Saikano]]'' is a particularly cruel example of the horrible repercussions after she is turned into a super weapon, though it varies on the version, anime or manga. In both cases {{spoiler|everyone dies. ''[[Kill'Em All|Everyone]]''.}}
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* Victor of ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' is significantly smaller in radius than most Persons of Mass Destruction, but more deadly: thanks to his [[Power Incontinence|always-on energy absorption powers]], he would likely kill every human being within a kilometer or two if he stayed in one place for more than an hour. {{spoiler|Main character Kazuki is immune, but only because he's turning into a Victor-alike himself.}}
* Lina Inverse from ''[[Slayers]]'' routinely hurls spells that blow up cities. Her most powerful spell has the potential to unmake creation. In fact, In the first episode of the new series, ''Slayers Revolution'', {{spoiler|Lina is arrested "On suspicion of being Lina Inverse"}}. There is perhaps only one person in the world that she fears: her elder sister Luna, who is stated to have taken down a [[Our Dragons Are Different|Plasma Dragon]] with a mundane kitchen knife. And she possesses an [[Infinity+1 Sword]]. [[Word of God]] says Luna is equal in power to Xelloss, who is really freaking powerful<ref>Now that Chaos Dragon and Hellmaster are dead, he's the fifth most powerful demon in the world.</ref>.
* Ranma's final opponent in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* [[Naruto]] and his fellow jinchuuriki all have very nasty [[Sealed Evil in a Can|demons sealed inside]] of them. [[Super-Powered Evil Side|It is a bad idea]] to piss them off. But of course, they get the [[Bullying a Dragon]] treatment.
** They really get to show off their power later on in the manga, {{spoiler|causing blasts that vapourize entire mountain ranges with ease.}}
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** In the "[[War of Kings]]" storyline he and the Inhumans do go to war against the Shi'ar and their evil emperor Vulcan (aka Gabriel Summers), who is also a Person of Mass Destruction and a [[Complete Monster]] to boot. What happens when two of these forces collide? {{spoiler|Both are apparently dead by the end of the story.}}
* In the ''[[House of M]]'' storyline in the [[Marvel Universe]], Scarlet Witch ends up becoming one of these, and is somewhat obedient, at first.
* The term is used in reference to [[The Ultimates]] in the first issue of ''Ultimates 2'', after [[Captain America (comics)]] single-handedly frees hostages in the Middle East; the world is worried that the US government might start using the Ultimates in politically-motivated conflicts. Gee, ya think?
* [[X-Men|Jean Grey]], in any incarnation when she takes on the codename Phoenix. In the original [[Dark Phoenix Saga]], Jean destroyed a star, snuffing out the billions of lives on an orbiting planet. In the end of that story, she realized [[What Have I Become?|what she would become]] and chose the more tragic option of committing suicide.
** Don't forget "Here Comes Tomorrow", which ends with Jean being able to alter the Universe according to her desire, noting that this is "Phoenix Work" meaning it's something she'll be doing more than once.
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* Justin in ''[[Kira Is Justice]]''.
* Yachiru and {{spoiler|Hitsugaya}} in ''[[Uninvited Guests]]''. Between the two of them, they {{spoiler|completely destroy Las Noches and defeat all espada in a couple of hours; though Hitsugaya was in berserk mode most of the time and Yachiru technically did it by accident. Or did she..?}}
* Paul in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', who could (if he wanted to, which he doesn't) either systematically and tirelessly dismantle everything in his path, or periodically reduce circular chunks of it to molten glass.
** Probably the others as well. John rejected many of the things the Kansael told him he can do and implied that he's unbeatable in the ocean; George at the very least could wreak havoc as a dragon; and Ringo apparently has a huge amount of power behind him that he's never tapped into. Luckily, they're [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]], and besides, their experiences on Earth taught them what the ''really'' important things in life are, so it's easy for them to reject the seductive call of power. Which really isn't that seductive, given how much [[Blessed with Suck|Suck]] it came with.
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* Retired Drop Commando Alicia DeVries in David Weber's ''Path of the Fury}}'' (revised/expanded in ''[[In Fury Born]]'') is practically a PMD with her standard commando loadout of cyborgish enhancements. Then she gets inhabited by the last surviving Greek Fury, Tisiphone. Said Greek Goddess soon learns to interface with computers and other technology through Alicia's built in radio interface and no security system can stop her, especially since she can also dip into other humans' brains for information. Next Alicia/Tisiphone steal one of the elite AI fighter ships, which are their own special kind of POMD when combined with a "normal" enhanced human specially selected and trained to interface with those ships. The tripartite human/goddess/computer fusion becomes the unstoppable force to smash the people who murdered Alicia's family and the entire populations of several colony worlds.
* 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.
* In ''[[Night Watch]]'' an exceptionally strong curse can turn the victim into one of these. Usually cursed ones die from a fallen brick or mugger's knife, but when the curse runs out of control, it can result in things like a random gas explosion, sudden outbreak of mutated flu or an unprovoked nuclear attack. On a related note, Others beyond categories are these by default, wielding incredibly destructive powers, including the aforementioned curses.
** The novel ''Day Watch'' appears to be about Zabulon attempting to resurrect a powerful ancient Other named [[Norse Mythology|Fafnir]], whose favorite form is a dragon. However, even someone as powerful as Fafnir, while doing a lot of damage and killing a lot of people, would eventually be stopped by modern human technology. As one character puts it, in a fight between helicopter gunships and a dragon, he'd bet on the gunships. They may not kill Fafnir, but they'd stop him. Worst case, [[Nuke'Em]] works just as well on the Others as it does on everything else.
*** Also, enchanted weapons (such as submachineguns) work very well against the Others, mostly because it takes more time to cast a spell then to pull the trigger. Which is not to say anything about enchanted remote-controlled guns, which completely surprise the Others because they can't detect them (i.e. machines have no malice, and the operator is too far away).
* [[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.
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** Duplication and a reasonable smattering of other powers can provide you with a starting character that ''is'' an army and can wipe out a city by personally dismantling it piece by piece.
*** That's nothing. It is possible to make a PL 4 (most starting characters are PL 10) character with an 8-point (out of 150 for the average starting character) power which ''[[Earthshattering Kaboom|completely destroys a planet]]''.
* While not as extreme as some of the others on this page, the mages in ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' essentially become one of these when they reach mastery of virtually any Arcanum. The archmasters are more direct examples, to the point where they essentially have a non-aggression pact to prevent themselves from destroying the world, and instead conduct their affairs through a series of proxies, a la the Cold War.
* ''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 air pocket 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''.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', it's stated that anyone who can use hyperresonance would be able to use the ability to destroy everything, right down to the atmosphere itself. It's because of this reason that {{spoiler|Asch}}, the only character who can actually control it, never uses it: it's just too powerful.
* On the subject of ''[[Tales (series)]]'' games, ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Estelle}}, whose powers consume so much aer that they could indirectly lead to the destruction of the world. They're also ''lethal'' to the Entelexeia.
* ''[[Splosion Man]]'' is practically a [[Trope Namer]].
* Utsuho Reiuji of ''[[Touhou]]'' gained the power to manipulate nuclear fusion, making her a living, breathing <s>atomic bomb</s> ''star'' and, if she were to ever fully harness her power, she would be almost completely unstoppable. Initially she [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|somehow]] got the idea to [[Take Over the World|take over Gensoukyou]]/[[Kill It with Fire|burn it to the ground]], but now she [[Mundane Utility|brings free electricity]] to its denizens.
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** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' had Kuja who had a [[Taking You with Me]] so epic he managed to destroy a planet single-handedly. He then upped the ante and nearly destroyed a second one.
*** Also from ''FFIX'' anyone who can use summon magic. While {{spoiler|Queen Brahne was wielding Dagger's summons}} she was able to conquer an entire continent. Given how it compares to when your characters use the same summons this is also an example of [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]
** In ''Compilation of [[Final Fantasy VII]]'', anyone who ranks SOLDIER First Class or the equivalent, or higher.
*** Sephiroth, who (pre-madness), was apparently capable of casually slicing up the Junon Cannon like a carrot stick... one-handed.
*** Zack (who decimated an entire division of the Shinra army), as well as Genesis and Angeal in ''[[Crisis Core]]''.
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* In the backstory of the ''[[Warcraft]]'' series, the Guardians of Tirisfal were an order of these. Each Guardian was a powerful mage who, upon growing old, transferred all their magic to their successor. Things go downhill when Medivh, the last one, gets possessed by the demon they were supposed to fight.
** Technically speaking, the Player Character in the offshoot [[World of Warcraft]] is one of these. In terms of storyline, the average level 85 (at the point of levelling to 85, in an obvious case of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]) has, at that point, {{spoiler|foiled several large invasion attempts from Ragnaros and the Qiraji Empire, handed the Black Dragonflight a major defeat, and Toppled Naxxramas (though after the second [[Expansion Pack]] the character does this section in Wrath Of The Lich king)in Vanilla alone.}} In The Burning Crusade, the PC then proceeds to hold back a Demonic Invasion, kill off [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] Illidan Stormrage, {{spoiler|newly [[Ax Crazy]] Kael'thas Sunstrider, and prevents [[The Dragon|Kil'Jaedan]] from being summoned to Azeroth.}} In Wrath Of The Lich King you proceed to systematically destroy Scourge Strongholds until the titular [[Fallen Hero|Lich King]] {{spoiler|has NO defences against the NPC led army storming his fortress}}, handing ANOTHER defeat to {{spoiler|the Black Dragonflight}}, and killing {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy|Malygos]]}}, before finally entering Cataclysm content, in which you hand the first defeats to [[Omnicidal Maniac|Deathwing]], preventing a new Troll Empire from rising, and in the latest patch (4.2) foiling another invasion by Ragnaros and his armies from the Elemental Plains. May also tie in with the PC being an in-universe [[Memetic Badass]].
* Yuriko Omega in ''[[Command
** She can be considered a weaponized version of [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Haruhi]].
* Jak, in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak II]]'', was injected with Dark Eco in order to be used against the Metal Heads. Since he proceeded to rack up a hecatomb of Metal Head and Krimzon Guard kills, one can only assume the Baron was [[Gone Horribly Right|too successful for his own good]].
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== Web Comics ==
* Noor and all the outsiders really in ''[[Project 0]]''. Probably the reason for the [[Fantastic Racism]].
* Black Mage in ''[[
{{quote|'''Thief''': The Thief's Almanac didn't say anything about atomic detonations either...}}
** It is explained early on that Black Mage is actually a nexus of magical energy in human form, which may explain his vast power.
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* Jack Noir of ''[[Homestuck]]'' becomes one {{spoiler|after taking the Black Queen's ring. Shows off his power by devastating two planets.}}
** And after his fourth and final prototyping, {{spoiler|he enters the Trolls' session and obliterates fourteen more planets. But first he kills the amassed army of robo-Aradias.}}
** {{spoiler|Jade Harley}} in the newer updates. She has all the powers of {{spoiler|a First Guardian}} ''and'' {{spoiler|a God Tier Witch of Space}}. She can shrink entire planets down to the size of tennis balls, and {{spoiler|punches a hole through the Fourth Wall with a ship that she's levitating herself. A ship that she's moving to 'almost the speed of light'}}.
** John drilled a hole into the centre of a ''planet'' using his wind powers, so he could be pretty damn destructive if he wanted to. He also has [[Infinity+1 Sword|one awesome hammer]].
** While we're on the subject of God Tiers, {{spoiler|Vriska Serket}}, to the point where according to [[The Omniscient|Doc Scratch]], she actually had a decent chance against Jack.
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