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* Mr. Freeze from ''[[Batman]]'' is a villain whose body has been altered in such a way he must be refrigerated to stay alive. Naturally, he would like to change Gotham's weather so he can walk around safely without all his life support gear (Type 2) but in many versions of the story he also is angry over the fate of his wife (Type 4).

* {{spoiler|Superboy of Earth-Prime, Superman of Earth-2, and Alexander Luthor of Earth-3}} in ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' - especially the first one.

* In ''[[Hero Squared]]'', Captain Victory hurt his girlfriend, so she became a supervillain and destroyed the ''entire universe''. He managed to escape to another universe and found his non-superpowered equivalent; she followed. Caliginous has decided that life is nothing but pain, misery, cruelty and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible.

** Her arch-nemesis [[The Cape|Captain Valor]] just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self Milo manages to recognize that beneath it all she's a broken, lonely, [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|psychologically tormented and suffering woman]].

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* In ''[[Law Abiding Citizen]]'', Clyde Shelton seeks revenge not only on the man who destroyed his family, but on the entire system that failed to convict him.

* In the 2007 ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]'' film, Grendel was made somewhat more sympathetic with the inclusion of a justification for his attacks: somehow the acoustics of the mead hall meant that the revelry within was painfully loud for his sensitive exposed eardrum.

* Grace in ''[[Dogville]]'' can be interpreted like this (type 4). Or as a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]. Or a ''whole'' lot of other ways.

* Kadaj from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: Advent Children'' wants to absorb all the people infected by geostigma into the Lifestream {{spoiler|to join his "mother", Jenova. While he is a Remnant of Sephiroth, his amnesia made it appear that he sees that the end of all life on the planet as a GOOD thing}}.

* While 'Dark Alessa' from the ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' movie qualifies as [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], her original, 39-year-old, now soulless body ends the film by {{spoiler|finally getting her revenge on the cult who burned her alive by killing them all, with the exception of her mother, Dahlia.}}

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== Literature ==

* In ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', the Grinch wants to remove the holiday from society because he finds the mindless joy, celebration, and materialism annoying (Type 3) and also because the singing hurts his ears (Type 2). In [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|the live action film version]], it's revealed that it's really a case of Type 4 - the Grinch subconsciously desires revenge for being ostracized as a child because of his odd appearance.

* [[The Dragon|Ishamael]] has elements of this- he teamed up with [[Big Bad|the Dark One]] because he came to the conclusion that the endless repetion of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' made life pointless misery, and he decided to end it by simply breaking the Wheel (which would also have the effect of destroying the universe).

* ''[[Larry Niven|World of Ptavvs]]'' demonstrates this in its most basic form, with the last survivor of a telepathic alien race stranded on Earth and surrounded by humans, their unshielded minds boring into his. In fury, he blasts a powerful command: "STOP THINKING AT ME!" [[Empty Shell|Quite a number of people do]], and everyone else in the world is left dazed. This isn't a matter of lack of control, by the way--he views all non-telepaths much the way most humans view cattle, and if they must be sacrificed for his comfort, well, it's not like they're ''people'' like him.

* The Wintersmith in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel of the same name wants to win Tiffany's heart by saving people from their constant fear of death... forever.

** Also in ''Guards, Guards'' when Vimes sees Sybil Ramkin's room the narration says something about how anyone witnessing it might be filled with a "diffuse compassion and decide that the best thing for everyone would be to wipe out the human race and start over again with amoebas".

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' book ''Summer Knight,'' {{spoiler|Aurora, the Lady of the Summer Court}} thinks it would be better to [[Apocalypse How|plunge the world into a new ice age]] than continue the harmful battles between the Faerie Courts.

** Debatable example: {{spoiler|Aurora claimed to be doing it for the sake of mortal humans who get caught up in the battles, she just failed to consider the consequences of totally disrupting the cycle of the seasons on earth.}}

* 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 Punishment|cursed with eternal life]], and he joins the side of some [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] 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.

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== Music ==

* "[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/soundgarden/blow+up+the+outside+world_20128135.html Blow Up The Outside World]" by [[Soundgarden]].

* Also, the video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU Black Hole Sun]".

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Exalted]]'' features the Neverborn, an example of Type 5. Once, they were Primordials, the creators of the universe, but as they designed it, they didn't believe the cycle of death would ever need to incorporate something as grand as themselves. So when they ended up getting killed, they found they couldn't pass into Lethe, eventually undergoing the cosmic equivalent of sepsis without ever being able to die from it. So they plotted to feed Creation into Oblivion, mainly so it'd stop the pain.

** A few of their chosen soldiers, the Deathlords, are a mixture of Type 2 and Type 4. The Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils, the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible, and Walker in Darkness all consider themselves priests of Oblivion, dedicated in bringing the peace of nonexistence to a suffering world. The others just want to [[Take Over the World]] to varying degrees.

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* Due to the fact that he wants to destroy the world because he doesn't like how mortals are using magic, Malygos from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' can count because, let's face it, [[Trauma Conga Line|his life sucked before he ultimately snapped.]]

** To clarify: He was betrayed by his best friend Neltharion (aka Deathwing, who had been corrupted by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Old Gods]]), who then went on to wipe out almost all the other blue dragons, coming very ''very'' close to making Malygos the [[Last of His Kind]]. He later ''supposedly'' regained his sanity (after being exposed to some volatile magical energies from another planet). Um, yeah.

* Purge from ''[[Space Channel 5]]'' Part 2 could be considered this if you take the time to read the profiles for some of the Rhythm Robots and his own profile.

* Wander, the player character in ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', needs to kill sixteen Colossi in order to revive Mono. Not because the Colossi were hurting anyone, mind; that's just what the ominous voices in the temple demand of him before they will help him.

* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura|Arcanum]]'', {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac|Kerghan]], first of the necromancers}}, plans to kill every living thing in existance before allowing himself to die, because {{spoiler|he died once already and discovered that the afterlife is a state of eternal peace, whereas life is pain and misery. He brought himself back from the dead in order to carry out his plan, claiming that people only fear death because they do not know the eternal bliss that lies beyond. Also, because living necromancers can summon the spirits of the dead back from the afterlife, so he himself cannot be certain that his eternal peace will not be disturbed by the living.}}

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