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* Subverted in the ''[[New Jedi Order]]''. {{spoiler|Onimi}}, the real [[Big Bad]], has a lengthy [[Motive Rant]] in which he describes to a captive Jaina Solo how horrible his life has been and how he's going to ''kill every living thing in the galaxy'' so he can ''become a god'', all to get back at the gods he believes in, because he thinks they ruined his life (oh, and he also thinks Jaina is the avatar of one of these gods). The subversion comes because contrary to what {{spoiler|Onimi}} thinks, rather than making him sympathetic, this rant just makes him come off as very, ''very'' [[Ax Crazy|insane]].
* One of many stories in [[The Name of the Wind]] is about legendary hero Lanre, who decides after the death of his wife that the world isn't worth living in any longer. For anyone.
* Prince Gaynor the Damned of the ''[[Corum]]'' series by Michael Moorcock. Long ago, he was [[The PunishmentCurse|cursed with eternal life]], and he joins the side of some [[Eldritch Abomination]]s who are trying to plunge the world into an eternal winterland where everything will die—hence, he will finally achieve the death he yearns for.
* The northern dragon in The Pilgrim's Regress is heard praying for God to destroy all the other creatures in the world so that he won't have to guard his nest.
* In ''[[The Keys to The Kingdom]]'', [[The Man Behind the Man]] is a Type 5 kept alive by a [[Cosmic Keystone]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Willow Rosenberg, in Season 6 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. She attempted to destroy the world out of grief in the sixth season finale after her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] over {{spoiler|the death of Tara}} ended with a magical overload that briefly attuned her to the thoughts and feelings of everyone else on the planet. Overwhelmed by the world's collective pain, she decided that "your suffering has to end" and turned her newfound power towards bringing about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. She was finally stopped by the [[The Power of Love]].
** Perhaps as a controversial [[Alternative Character Interpretation|interpretation]]: Glorificus, Season five's [[Big Bad]]. {{spoiler|Sure she almost wrecked most of the known universe by destroying the barriers between dimensions,}} but she didn't do it to be evil, [[You Can't Go Home Again|she just wanted to go home]].
*** Well, she was a Hell God of Chaos and Destruction, so while the destruction of our mortal plane wasn't her goal per se, she was well aware of what would happen and really really didn't care. That's [[Evil Is Sexy|pretty]] [[Chaotic Evil|evil]]
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