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* The diclonii from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' are a borderline example; through their spreading of [[The Virus]] that propagate their species and their powerful psychic abilities, they're a very real danger for humanity (especially due to the [[Masquerade]])... However, most are ''already'' shamelessly homicidal due to maltreatment, and the [[Government Conspiracy]] treating the few diclonii they don't cull as lab rats do not improve matters.
** Lucy also gets steadily less borderline as time goes by in the manga, and eventually ''disappears'' by the end of it all, where her vectors become so numerous and massive, she can [[The End of the World as We Know It|wipe out all of humanity]] from a single location.
* The Contractors from ''[[Darker
** The most straight-up example is Havoc, whose powers consisted of spontaneously generating vacuums for [[Explosive Decompression|explosive results]] and a [[Power At a Price|renumeration]] of [[Eats Babies|drinking the blood of children]]. There was pretty much no way she ''couldn't'' use her powers to murder tons of people.
* 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.}}
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* Considering ''[[Rifts]]'' has rules for playing as a minor god, this should not come as a surprise. However the bar for Person of Mass Destruction is low; anyone in MDC body armor and packing an energy weapon is as durable as many modern armored fighting vehicles. Annihilating a rural village is well within the means of low-level player characters, unless said village pulls [[Superweapon Surprise]] with a supernatural protector or someone hiding a suit of power armor in their shed.
** 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...
* The flexible, comic-book-based rules system of ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' and its [[
** 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]]''.
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