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'''The Brain:''' [[Once an Episode|The same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to take over the world!]]|''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''}}
 
What's the goal most every villain has in mind? Why of course, it's World Domination[[Tradesnark|®]]! [[Ambition Is Evil|Ambitious]], [[Pragmatic Villainy|more logical]] and sometimes [[Easily-Conquered World|easier]] than [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|destroying the world]], as [[Evil Plan|Evil Plans]] go. They want to be in charge of everything and everyone. This could be just to [[Pride|feed their massive egos,]] or else they've got somewhat [[Dark Messiah|twisted ideals]] that they want everyone else to adhere to. Either way, it puts them in direct conflict with the heroes, whether professional or "[[Heroic Neutral|I just want everything to go back to normal]]" types. Usually said villain [[And Your Little Dog, Too|fixates on the hero or someone/thing close to them]] as being part of their master plan. See [[Evil Plan]]. For a villain who has finally acquired [[A God Am I|godlike power]], and did not [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]], then this is the next logical goal and use for said power. If it involves destroying the world to rule it, it's because [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]. Or [[Despotism Justifies the Means|they are just dicks]].
 
Villains who want this will occasionally [[Evil Versus Evil|combat other villains]] who want to destroy the world, and sometimes, just sometimes, [[Eviler Than Thou|team up with the heroes to do it.]] After all, you [[Evil Versus Oblivion|can't conquer the world if it's destroyed]], right? Whether or not the villain attempts to stab the heroes in the back the instant the world is safe, or they nod and civilly go back to their Secret Lairs in a gentleman's agreement to face each other tomorrow depends on the villain.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The ''Mazinger trilogy'':
** ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': According his Backstory revealed in one of the manga versions, Dr. Hell was abused and belittled by everyone when he was a child until his mind snapped and he decided he wanted to make all pay: he would purge the world off idiots and force everybody to bow down to him. During the rise of Hitler, he realized if he took over the world he COULD do just that. Over ten years after the World War II he finally found the means [[Lost Technology|as he researched several ancient ruins]].
** ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'': The Mykene were an ancient civilization had been forced to survive underground for millennia. [[Big Bad]] and [[Physical God]] Emperor of Darkness and [[The Dragon]] Ankoku Daishogun wanted to return to the surface world and let their people walk freely over earth and enjoy sunlight, fresh air and clean water, and they thought take over the world was the only way to achieve that.
** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': Planet Vega had become unstable due to the overexploitation of ores of vegatron, a highly radioactive material. King Vega needed to find another world to settle his people on, and so he began conquering other worlds. That expansionist campaign finally led them to Earth.
* Tadase's goal in ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' (or at least his [[Ghost in Thethe Machine|would-be self]]'s goal) is pretty clearly spelled out as World Domination.
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'s'' [[All There in the Manual|Japanese official website]] listed profiles for most of the major characters--pretty standard stuff, including height, weight, and each character's "likes" and "dislikes". Most of it isn't too much of a surprise, like Ahiru's love for ballet and dislike of food with chicken in it... but then you get to [[Scary Shiny Glasses|Autor]]'s profile. What he likes? "World Domination". Apparently ''that's'' the reason he's so obsessed with {{spoiler|Drosselmeyer's [[Reality Warper|story-spinning]] powers}}!
* Il Palazzo of ''[[Excel Saga (Mangamanga)|Excel Saga]]'' wants to take over the world, which he believes has become corrupt. He decides a more reasonable goal is to start with just Japan, and the best way to take over Japan is to [[Take Over the City|start with one city]].
* After {{spoiler|Chao Lingshen}} is revealed as the [[Big Bad]] of the Mahora Festival in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', we finally get a peek at her character bio. Listed under her Likes? World Domination.
** Now that she's out of the way, Haruna has stepped in. Lately, she overtly proclaimed herself "future mistress of [[Magic World|this world]]".
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': "Everyone will become one with Russia." Alternately, The Awesome [[Memetic Badass|Prussia]] [[Memetic Mutation|will seize your vital regions.]]
* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Lelouch vi Britannia eventually wants to conquer the whole world, rather than just destroy the Britannian Empire, as was his original plan. In subversion {{spoiler|he doesn't actually want to keep it for himself.}}
* Light Yagami in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' wants to be the god of the world, which effectively is the same thing.
* Cleo in ''[[Glass Fleet]]'' wants to take over the galaxy. Luckily, the Big Bad, Vetti Sforza, has already conquered most of it. Cleo decides that taking down Vetti is the quickest way of doing it. {{spoiler|Things don't go exactly as planned...}}
* [[The Protagonist|Jio's]] goal in ''[[Six Six Six666 Satan]]'', by collecting all the O-Parts to rule the world.
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'s'' [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Byakuran}} actually ''has'' taken over the world {{spoiler|millions of times over. Being able to share his consciousness across parallel universes, he has become supreme ruler of all but one.}}
* ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''
** Piccolo Daimao's goal is to conquer the world. And he does. [[Easily-Conquered World|Easily]].
** Pilaf, the Red Ribbon Army, Vegeta, Frieza and his relatives, and Babidi, who all had plans for world/universal domination at one point or another. Specifically, Frieza was in the business of conquering and selling planets.
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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': This is one of Greed's stated goals {{spoiler|though in the end Ling calls him out on his bluff and Greed grudgingly admits that deep down his true desire was to have friends}}. In the first anime, Bradley seemed to have this as his intention, which makes sense, him being a Hitler-expy and all.
** He is actually holding the title "Führer"!
* When 4Kids was dubbing the ''[[Pokémon (Filmfilm)|Pokémon]]'' movies, they had a habit of changing the villains' motives to this, because [[Viewers are Morons|kids wouldn't understand their original motives]].
** This is now Team Rocket's goal. {{spoiler|Since they've become competent and now have frikken jet-packs, they might actually have a shot.}}
* Pain of ''[[Naruto]]'' originally claims this to be the goal of Akatsuki. As a small mercenary force of exceptional skill they would build a strong reputation and slow supplant the established villages; then they would use the captured Bijuu to start small wars, promptly ending them, to gain complete dominance of the market. At that point, they would crush the weakened nations reliant on their services and become the sole world power.
** {{spoiler|Turns out [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|Pein]] was right all along; except the real Akatsuki boss, Tobi plans to use a [[Mass Hypnosis]] plan instead of the fake, economic scheme.}}
* Kuroda from ''[[Neko De-de Gomen (Manga)!|Neko De Gomen]]''.
* This is the goal of all of the evil organizations in [[Hajimete no Aku]]. Their methods and reasons are generally more benign than most of the other examples on this page.
* In ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'', the British Library apparently wants to take control of the world's information networks, so they can get the world to doublethink itself into believing that they ''already'' rule the world.
* [[Shinryaku! Ika Musume|Ika Musume's]] ultimate goal is to take over the world in order to punish humans for polluting the oceans and harming the ocean life. Thus far, her invasion has stalled at the beach house where she first made landfall.
* The Evil Organization Florsheim from ''[[Tentai Senshi Sunred]]'' has this as their objective B. It will follow objective A; the defeat of their mortal enemy Sunred. So far, they're stuck at objective A. [[Harmless Villain|And probably will be for some time]].
* This is the goal of Rider, aka [[Alexander the Great]], in ''[[Fate /Zero]]''. Which is to be expected, given that it was his goal in [[Real Life]]. An unusual case in that he is a hero rather than a villain.
* Poseidon in ''[[Saint Seiya (Manga)|Saint Seiya]]''. Cue his [[Enemy Mine|one-time help]] against Hades, who wants to destroy the world.
 
 
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== Fan Fic ==
* This is the ultimate goal of [[Mad Scientist|Dr.]] [[Stupid Evil|Brainstorm]] in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]''.
 
 
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* ''[[The Blood Waters of Dr. Z]]'': Dr Z wants to take over the world. Dr Z wants to take over the universe -- by turning himself into a humanoid catfish and mutating all sea life.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Senator Palpatine, AKA <s> Rapmaster</s> Darth Sidious, didn't just take over a world, he took over an entire ''galaxy''. Beat that!
* M. Bison himself in ''[[Street Fighter (Filmfilm)|Street Fighter]]''. [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|Of course]]!
* ''[[G.I. Joe: theThe Rise of Cobra]]'': the goal of Cobra is to -- you guessed it!
* In ''[[The Shadow]]'' the villain is a descendant of Genghis Khan. He says that his ancestor conquered half the world and he's here to "finish the job".
* Recurring villain goal in the ''[[Scanners]]'' movies:
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** Commander Forrester in ''Scanners 2'' {{spoiler|advocates the creation of a "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|New Order]]" to "cure" the cities of crime, which really means that he'll be in control of everything. He tries to build an army of scanners to keep the rest of society in line, and uses their abilities to get himself into successively higher public offices, going from police commander to police chief and planning to run for mayor next}}.
** In ''Scanners 3'' Helena hatches such a scheme after {{spoiler|discovering that scanners abilities work through camera and television signals. Her first step is to mind control thousands of people through a widely televised public broadcast of her, but she doesn't seem to think much further ahead than this}}.
* Clu in ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' wants to escape from the Grid into [[Real Life]] and bring his army with him. How he plans to take over the world with a few thousand troops and no real weapons (or, at least, something that would work in the real world) is never explained, although some fans claim he can program more troops once outside. One thing's for sure though, if Clu escapes he will stop at nothing to make our world open and available to all of them. [[Memetic Mutation|Yes!]] '''[[Memetic Mutation|TO ALL OF THEM!!!!!]]'''
* Drax's [[Evil Plan]] in ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'' is to wipe out humanity and replace it with a "master race" under his rule.
 
 
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* On ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', the Spellman family cat Salem is actually a former warlock who's being punished for plotting to rule the world. In one episode he is denied parole (and a return to his human form) when he lets it slip to the interviewer that he still dreams of overlordship.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In "Tomb of the Cybermen", Kleig, a human helping the Cybermen for power, goes on a rant about how the world is a disorganized mess of conflicting ideals, and only his superior intellect could bring it together to solve all its problems. A few seasons later, in "The Invasion", Tobias Vaughn, also helping the Cybermen, would make almost word-for-word the same rant.
** In the new series Series 3 finale, The Master takes over the world. [[Reset Button|It gets undone]]. He does however seem to [[For the Evulz|enjoy it]], [[CrowningAwesome Music of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|playing music]], [[Foe Yay|torturing his prisoners]] and [[Ax Crazy|planning to take over the universe for all time]]. In The End of Time, {{spoiler|the Master takes over the world again. Once again, [[Reset Button|it gets undone]].}}
** It's probably worth noting that in the new series, at least, when an episode takes place on Earth, chances are good the [[Monster of the Week|Alien of the Week]] is trying to take over the world or some variant on that theme. Recurring villains the Cybermen are also proponents of [[Take Over the World|Taking Over The World]]. Notable exceptions to this rule, however, are the [[Omnicidal Maniac|Daleks]] and the {{spoiler|Time Lords}}.
* The ultimate goal of every single villain in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' is the conquest of the Milky Way galaxy. Every. Single. One.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' makes Rita's motivations clear the moment her <s>can</s> [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|space dumpster is unsealed.]] ''"After 10,000 years I'm free! '''It's time to conquer Earth!'''"'' Same goes for the motivation of every other [[Power Rangers]] villain ''ever''.<ref> Its even the goal of villains that already rule entire galaxies, sometimes ''several galaxies''. Earth is just that special, possibly because nobody has taken it over yet.</ref>
** To be fair, some villains have slight differences in objective. For example, in [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]], [[Big Bad]] Mesagog wants to return the world to being reptiles. This even gets [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Tommy: "Why can't you just want to take over the world like all the other freaks?"
* This is [[Big Bad]] Herrick's ultimate plan in season 1 of ''[[Being Human (TV)|Being Human]]''.
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' is [[Genre Savvy]] about this being a standard [[Evil Plan]].
* ''[[Star Trek]]'': Khan Noonien Singh wakes up after a 270-year nap and decides to take over the galaxy.
* Warren Mears in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. He mostly fails because he's less like [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|Lex Luthor]], and more like [[Ax Crazy|Max Cady]].
** Apparently the goal of [[Affably Evil|The Mayor]], though he never got past the "[[Scaled Up|become giant demon snake]]" stage of his plan. Presumably this would give him the power to do so.
** The Master also showed interest in ruling the world, as did Adam, and the First wanted to possess every human being on the planet, so it probably applies as well. The only [[Big Bad]] with no ambitions of this kind was Glory who just wanted to go home at the cost of the apocalypse.
* On ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' this was Illyria's plan when she first reemerged. She went to revive her demonic army to conquer the earth, and found she'd been dead so long they had all crumbled to dust. She was so damn depressed she pretty much just gave up on it after that.
** And one season before that, rogue [[Powers That Be|Power that...]] [[Buffy-Speak|Am]], Jasmine, nearly ''succeeded'' as she was able to brainwash everyone who saw or heard her, even via electronic media, into loving her. She was ultimately only defeated by epic [[Glamour Failure]] {{spoiler|and Connor turning into a full-blown [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] who punched through the back of her head}}.
* Unsurprisingly, this is Hitler's goal in ''[[Danger 5 (TV)|Danger 5]]''. He is also depicted as being in charge of Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito - the show being a parody of pulp and exploitation fiction, he's pretty similar to the stereotypical megalomaniacal supervillain.
* Tons of Showa era ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' villains had this as this as their plan. Not so much in the Heisei era, where the villains plans are usually more complex. The only villains whose end goal plan is conquering the world is Smart Brain from ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'', whose plan entails a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
 
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== Videogames ==
* Gary from ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]''. His goal is ostensibly to "take over the school", but nobody seems to have figured out what that actually means, least of all Gary.
{{quote| '''Gary:'''"I keep imagining myself in charge of a large empire."}}
* At the end of the first half of ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'', {{spoiler|Kefka conquers the world. The goal of the second half is to dethrone him, preferably ''before'' he gets bored of nuking the survivors with the [[Light Is Not Good|Light Of Judgment]] and really gets cracking on the stated goal of [[Omnicidal Maniac|"building a monument to nonexistence."]]}}.
* This is the raison d'etre for the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'', [[The Emperor]]. ''Why'' he wants to rule everything is never gone into in the game itself.
* The Combine from ''[[Half Life]]'' do this on a regular basis. When they were introduced in Half-Life 2, it became the reason the Vortigaunts invaded Black Mesa in the first game, as they were fleeing their conquered homeworld. Taking over Earth actually was an afternoons work for the Combine.
* This is the (repeatedly) stated goal of Murray, the mighty demonic skull in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series. Exactly ''how'' he is planning to do this, being a talking disembodied skull with a superiority complex, is slightly less apparent.
* Parodied in the ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]]'' series with Tiax, an utterly unhinged gnome priest of Cyric, who claims his destiny is to rule the world. Appearing as a recruitable NPC in the first game, the sequel places him in an asylum from where Tiax claims that he ''already has'' taken over the world and now rules it all from inside his <s>little padded cell</s> throne room.
* This is the ultimate goal in ''[[Evil Genius]]'', a [[Real Time Strategy]] game where players take control of a wannabe overlord and set off to conquer the world with various criminal means.
* Beautifully mocked by ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''. When the [[Bonus Boss]] Orobas appears he begins to spout off about his plans for world domination. At that point, however, Anastasia - who by this point has seen a half-dozen different enemies say much the same things - steps forward and asks, "[[And Then What?|And then what?]]" When Orobas asks what she means, she demands to know what he's going to do with the world once he conquers it. Orobas stammers for a bit, and then mutters that he'll have to think about it... at which point Anastasia tells the party to just beat him down.
* Ocelot in [[Metal Gear Solid]] 4 is trying to take over the world {{spoiler|to trick the heroes to into helping him freeing the world from its real secret rulers}}.
* Most strategy video games have this as an explicit or implicit victory condition.
** Almost all [[Four X|4X]] games give you victory when you conquer the world or the galaxy.
** This is the explicit goal of most of the villainous factions (Nod, the Soviets, the Imperial Japanese, CABAL, etc.) in the various ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' series. The good factions on the other hand (GDI, the Allies) more often than not strive for a return to status quo, seeing the defeat of their enemy as a way of preventing this trope, not to practice it themselves. Because their endings are usually canon this leaves the door open for another rematch in a sequel.
** The campaigns from ''[[Warhammer 40000|Dawn of War]]'': Dark Crusade and Soulstorm fulfill this. They end only when the player faction rules the planet or, in the latter, the solar system.
** ''[[Syndicate (Video Game)|Syndicate]]'' ended with your [[Mega Corp]] conquering the entire world. In the sequel, they control the planet uncontested until the game starts.
* Purple Tentacle in ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'' wants to do this, after drinking some sludge-contaminated water. In fact, he ''succeeds'', as the human sent 200 years into the future, Laverne, can attest to. The objective is to travel to ''yesterday'' and prevent the water from being contaminated in the first place, as he's nigh unstoppable otherwise (somehow).
* ''[[Threads of Fate]]'' has a main character example in Princess Mint. While Rue, the other main character, seeks to revive his sister, Princess Mint has but one goal in mind: World Domination, baby!
* Kira "The Maiden who wants to take over the world" Daidohji of ''[[Arcana Heart (Video Game)|Arcana Heart]]'' has this as her goal even though she hasn't hit puberty yet. She's naturally against [[Big Bad|Mildred's]] plan, which would destroy the world that she's trying to conquer.
* Your goal in ''[[Overlord]]''. Why? Because you're [[Evil Overlord|THE OVERLORD]]!!
* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'s'' own [[Big Bad]], Dr. Weil. He ''succeeds'', too[[Crapsack World|...well, conquering what's left of it, anyway.]] [[Complete Monster|This guy]] ruling the last gasp of humanity is NOT a very good thing...
** Dr. Wily of the [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|original series]], though he wasn't as good at it.
* Subverted in ''[[Arc the Lad (Video Game)|Arc the Lad]]'': the [[Big Bad]] became the world's master {{spoiler|the spirits called him "The Ancient King of Humans" in Arc 2}} long before the game started: what he wanted was not control over mankind, but control over [[Up to Eleven|the whole planet's ecosystem]], and he almost succeeded {{spoiler|more than once, leaving the world crippled each time the heroes managed to seal him}}
* ''[[Street Fighter]]'': This is the goal of M. Bison.
** [[That Guy With theThe Glasses|OF COURSE!]]
* The goal of ''Demon's Crest'' is to destroy Phalanax, the demon who conquered the world. There's a catch: your character is Firebrand, a Red Arremer from ''[[Ghosts N'n Goblins (Video Gameseries)|Ghosts N Goblins]]'', and he wants to kill Phalanax because ''he'' intends to conquer the world.
* Malladus from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'', apparently, {{spoiler|until his revival is about to be undone and he decides that an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] is good to go as well.}} At least [[Magnificent Bastard|Ganon(dorf)]] was modest enough to limit himself to just Hyrule...
* In [[Paradox Interactive]] games like the ''[[Europa Universalis]]'' series or the ''[[Hearts of Iron]]'' series it's a challenge to take over the world before the time limit is reached. This is called a 'World Conquest' or WC in the community and is a common [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] if attempted with a small, weak country.
* [[Big Bad|Bowser]], the main villain of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series games is constantly known for his tendency to take over the entire Mushroom Kingdom besides kidnapping Peach, but there are actually occasions where Bowser will actually expand his plans for world domination by actually [[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|taking over]] [[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|outer space!]]
* This is the stated objective of the various Campaign modes in ''[[Rise of Nations]]'':
** World: Take over the entire world in a free-for-all between every sizable nation on Earth from the beginning of history up to the future.
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** New World: Take over the New World as either [[America Takes Over the World|the Americans]], a European colonizer, or one of the Native nations.
** Cold War: Take over the entire world as either the Americans or the Soviets.
* The goal of Metal Command in ''[[Shatterhand (Video Game)|Shatterhand]]''.
* The whole point of [[Psycho Walui]]. Oh no, it's not enough just to conquer kingdoms of worth, you must have it ALL! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ynn8FG2h0 Even bathrooms!]
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Perils of Akumos (Video Game)|The Perils of Akumos]]'' plans to use his evil spiders to dictate terms to earth's government.
* In the old [[Might and Magic]] 'verse, this was surprisingly uncommon, with most would-be evil overlords aiming for ''continental'' domination instead. Kastore's faction of Terrans is an exception (they might have been able to pull it off, too, if they hadn't been hampered by lacking a key component to repairing the Heavenly Forge and the fact that the world blow up only a few years after they began phase one).
* [[Big Bad|Bruno]] from ''[[Solatorobo]]'' plans on reawakening and controlling an evil power to take over the world.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[MAGISAMAG ISA]] -- The main antagonists in this comic are demons. [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119592 Their agenda is to bring hell on earth and turn planet earth into a giant prison]... all for the lulz.
* Tony of ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', being the [[Mad Scientist]] that he is, does [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/020104.html set out] to accomplish this goal for one story like because, according to him, [[Card-Carrying Villain|that's what evil people are supposed to do.]] He manages to succeed in the end, even defeating a challenger to his reign, but relents when he starts to discover just how much work is involved.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [[Deconstructed Trope]] the trope in a short-lived sub-comic ''Raw Lemons and Baked Pizza''. After having it up to here with Dr. Wily, Mega Man finally spells out just what taking over the world will require. Namely, having to sort out the already noticeable mess of differences between various nations, having to deal with the various uprisings, learning ever language known to man just to communicate with them, getting people to accept his rule in the first place and the insane amounts of stress that would be implied. It ends on a nice humorous note as Dr. Wily, having clearly gone too insane to recover, laments that he already had a custom gold world-domination crown made.
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* ''Evil, INC'' is also an example -- When Evil Atom gives some perspective interns to Evil, INC his personal tryout, a lady proclaims "One day I will rule the world!" to which Evil Atom gives the "Whoa, think about that! You'll be responsible for ''everything''. Try again." The young lass replies "One day I will rent the world!"
* ''[[Dr. Nonami]]'': Mechano's goal is world conquest. So far it's not going very well.
* [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world/ Deconstructed] by ''[[Bug (Webcomicwebcomic)|Bug]]''.
* ''Nukees'': This has been the stated goal of Gav since the beginning, but especially since Ma'at told him it was his destiny. As of August 2010, he seems to have succeeded, albeit in a way no one could have expected.
* ''Xykon'' of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''.
* According to [[Card-Carrying Villain|Rhea,]] in [http://worldpeace.emilymarthasorensen.com/worldpeace117.html To Prevent World Peace], "Born mages have a manifest destiny . . ." (To destroy all magical girls and take over the world, presumably.)
** Also, the main character was going to take over the world [[Utopia Justifies the Means|for its own good.]] Because only magical girls could be trusted to be totally pure dictators, right?
* Raichan in ''[[Vinigortonio (Webcomic)|Vinigortonio]]'' needs to destroy one of the main character's building in order to conquer the world. Or at least so he says. {{spoiler|It turns out he needs to destroy it to get to the only known source of [[Unobtainium Raichanium]].}}
 
 
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"The world is a ''mess'', and I just need to rule it!" }}
* ''[[Doctor Steel]]'': Dr. Steel for World Emperor!. Toward a Utopian Playland!
* ''[[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With theThe Glasses]]'':
** This Trope is a running joke for the Nostalgia Critic in his reviews. When the antagonist of any film is revealed to have this goal in mind the review will be interrupted by M. Bison as he was played by Raul Julia in [[Street Fighter (Filmfilm)|the movie adaptation of]] ''[[Street Fighter]]''. The joke goes like this:
{{quote| '''Nostalgia Critic:''' His goal is to - you guessed it - take over the world.<br />
'''M. Bison:''' Of course!<br />
The line is completely out of context (it was actually in response to Sagat saying "Guile? Alive?"), but deliberately so as part of the Critic's motif of using clips and bytes in response to himself. }}
** Other members of the team such as Paw Dugan and Linkara have adopted this gag for their own videos as well, effectively making it a [[Running Gag]] for the entire website.
** In the website's second-year anniversary epic [[Kickassia]], this is the Nostalgia Critic's plan, starting with the invasion of Molassia. {{spoiler|When he gets Molassia, he soons forgets this, becoming [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]}}. Receives an epic lampshading when the Critic actually dresses up as <s>M.</s> [[Fan Nickname|N. Bison]] when launching his attack {{spoiler|and subsequently taking over the place.}} Rollo T even tries to get him to recreate the clip in an interview, asking him if his plan is this as he's leaving (to get him to turn around and say it, as per the clip.)<br />This backfires; N. Bison only gives the line after being asked if he gets a lot of pussy with that outfit. Somewhat [[Rule of Funny|misplaced deliberately]] in the ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and Thethe Cobbler]]'' review. Zigzag is trying to take over ''the Golden City'', not the world. But Doug couldn't fit an Of Course in there if he had actually mentioned ''that''.
* ''[[Dimension Heroes]]'': The Dark Overlords from the web fiction serial managed to take over an entire dimension.
* ''[[Agamemnon Tiberius Vacuum]]'': Agamemnon's hobby is "collecting the universe" and he wishes to add the Earth to his collection.
* ''[[Greek Ninja]]'': The villain's intentions are to control the world {{spoiler|to bring back the reign of the Olympians}}.
* The basic goal of the ''[[New Villain Order (Web Video)|New Villain Order]]''
* Every [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'' has this as a motivation, although for three different reasons: [[Casting a Shadow|The Master of Darkness]] wants to [[Dark World|cover the entire world with darkness]]; the [[Eldritch Abomination|Prince of Shadows and Illusions]] just [[Omnicidal Maniac|wants to kill everyone]]. The [[No Name Given|mysterious]] [[Evil Sorcerer|mage]]'s motivations are never made clear.
* ''[[SkippysSkippy's List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'' has examples:
{{quote| 203. "To conquer the earth with [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|an army of flying monkeys]]" is a bad long term goal to give the re-enlistment NCO.}}
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'': Skeletor was always trying to take over Greyskull, and with that, the universe.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' actually opens with Aku taking over the world. The entire thrust of the series was Jack trying to go back in time to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|stop it from happening.]]
* Most of the villains (especially the recurring ones) in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. To quote Shego:
{{quote| '''Shego''': Every villain needs an evil plot. Take Drakken. His plot? Yeah, always 'taking over the world.' ''Always''.}}
* The Brain of ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' and ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''. Every episode ended this way, and every episode began with some inane plot to take over the world.
** It's refutable whether [[Anti-Hero|Brain]] is truly a villain, since he honestly believes the world would be better off with him in charge- he said as much in ''Megalomaniacs Anonymous''. Also notable is the lack of any regularly-appearing nemesis to thwart his schemes (unless you count [[Bumbling Sidekick|Pinky]]); they generally crash & burn on their own.
** On the other hand is Snowball, Brains archrival from the latter series, who has all of the ambition and none of the morals or good intent.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': The Fire Nation.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode of the ''[[Spider-Man: theThe Animated Series]]'': When the Kingpin announces he is planning to take over the world, Spidey retorts that he [[You Watch Too Much X|sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.]]
* On the very last episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', Mojo Jojo manages to take over the world by stealing The Key To The World. At first he surprises everyone by creating the perfect utopia, but then [[Victory Is Boring|gets bored with it and resumes trying to destroy everything]]. Most of the episode consisted of every single villain than has ever appeared on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' (yes, even the Villains of the Week) fighting to the get the Key to the World. The girls, of course, try to stop them, but once they get the key they become mad with power and start planning what they would do if each of them ruled the world and start fighting for the key themselves.
* Also [[Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': A [[Wonderful Life]] episode ("Shredderville") shows an [[Alternate Universe]] where [[Big Bad]] Shredder succeeded in taking over the world, only to find the actual job of ruling so difficult and boring that he begs the Turtles to relieve him of this responsibility.
* The generally-assumed goal of the Legion of Doom on ''Challenge of the [[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'', albeit it got a bit problematic in the execution. As has been pointed out elsewhere, when you've snagged literally ''all the money in the world'', exactly what do you spend it on?
* On ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', most villains want to do it. According to Norm the Genie, [[Humans Are Bastards|most (or all) of humanity wants to]]. In fact, Crocker and Vicky succeeded in 2 of the movies, albeit Vicky only in a [[Bad Future]].
* While it's never explicitly stated that Lydia, the [[Evil Sorcerer|villain]] of ''[[Barbie and Thethe Diamond Castle]]'', wants to take over the world, the heroines bent on stopping her treat her actual goal, ruling the birthplace of all music (and keeping all the music for herself) as the same thing.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''
** Parodied: Dr. Doofenshmirtz restricts all his evil schemes to the Tri-State Area for no obvious reason. The first episode even has him seemingly about to announce that he's going to take over the world, only to switch maps and finish with "Tri-State Area!" It's later revealed that [[One Degree of Separation|he used to date Phineas's mother]], who encouraged his set more realistic goals than "take over the world", so he scaled back to "the ''entire Tri-State Area!''".
** Lampshaded in "The Beak", when Dr. Doofenshmirtz makes a public announcement that he already ''has'' taken over the Tri-State area. The idea was that if he claimed this with enough conviction, [[Bavarian Fire Drill|people would believe him, and treat him like their new]] [[Evil Overlord]]. [[Idiot Ball|Only Major Monogram and Carl were fooled]].
* ''[[The Incredible Crash Dummies]]'': Junkman's plan, after he's picked up lunch.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' [[Big Bad]] Vlad only hinted that he had potential desires for the world as his current evil plans focused more on personal vendettas, but then Season Three came where it's revealed he wants it. Only one has ever succeeded in dominating the planet: [[Ax Crazy|Dark Danny]] in an [[Bad Future|alternate future]], though arguably that can be a case of [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|destroying the planet]]. Pariah Dark gets special mention as well, since he took over the Ghost Zone (and Amity Park) before he was turned into [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] again.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': This is Zim's goal right from the start, along with [[Destroy All Humans!|destroying all humans.]]
* ''[[Re Boot]]'': In The Medusa Bug", the chaotic villianess Hexadecimal fabricates a viral bug that gradually converts all of Mainframe and its occupants to [[Taken for Granite|stone]]. The only character that manages to avoid this fate is Bob, the Guardian, who eventually convinces Hexadecimal that while she may have perfect control over their world, life would be awfully dull with everyone frozen. And, really, the last thing Hex would want is predictability, so she terminates the bug and the system returns to normal.
** The primary villain of the series, Megabyte, tries repeatedly to take over Mainframe, but never succeeds (though he does come close.)
** [[The Bad Guy Wins|Actually Megabyte does succeed.]] It's just that by the time he does take over the city is in ruins and [[Victory Is Boring|there is nothing left]] [[Pyrrhic Victory|for him to rule.]]
* In ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', to spread her empire over the whole Atmos is Master Cyclonis' number one goal (and seeing as she is the latest in a royal family, the ambition seems to run [[In the Blood]]). She's demonstrated some pretty impressive schemes to do so, but has always failed so far on behalf of [[You Meddling Kids|those meddling Storm Hawks]] and her [[Surrounded Byby Idiots|bumbling minions]].
* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this in the episode that introduced the villian Moliatry.
{{quote| '''Darkwing:''' It's probably just another 'take-over-the-world' plot. We should be back by dinner.}}
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* In ''[[Futurama]]'' it is implied that the United States has taken over the world sometime in the past and simply adopted the name "Earth". The "Earthican" Flag looks like the American flag just with the stars replaced with Earth. And when Nixon is running for president of "Earth" in the year 3000 at first they say he can't run because "no body can be president twice" implying the government of Earth is a continuation of the American government.
** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Mom wants to take over the world, and uses mind control chips planted in every robot (which encompasses virtually all known technology in the future) to get it. This leads to the memorable line, "Go conquer Earth, you bastards!" This is inspired by the fact that Farnsworth dumped her, leading to the next one: "Hell hath no fury like the [[Killer Robot|vast robot armies]] of a [[Woman Scorned]]!"
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'': The goal of every main villian. Three of the four actually ''do'' rule the earth for a few hours before they're stopped by the heroes of the show. {{spoiler|[[Unpopular Popular Character|Jack]] [[Harmless Villain|Spicer]] rules the longest, for entire decades.}}
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', while [[Big Bad|Slade]] [[Hidden Agenda Villain|rarely elaborates on his goals]] beyond what he's immediately after but this seems to be the desired end result, judging from "Aftershock II". Later, new [[Big Bad]] [[God of Evil|Trigon]] ''does'' take over the world- as a stepping stone to conquering ''the entire physical universe''.
* Dolf in ''[[Alfred J Kwak]]''. Because of an innate fear of [[Pride|being perceived as weak by others]], when he's still a child Dolf decides that one day he will simply rule over everyone and everything. Moreover, when he stages his coup he outright declares that he simply wants power for its own sake. A dream he has in the final episode reveals that despite many years having passed he still harbours this desire.
 
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