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* It's [[Lobo]]'s own fault he's the [[Last of His Kind]] in both [[The DCU]] (where he killed all the other Czarnians on a lark) and The [[DCAU]] (where he [[Unusual Euphemism|fragged]] the rest of the planet for his high school science project).
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* Liz Sherman in ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]''.
* Cletus Kasady, better known as Carnage of [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] fame got his start along the path of villainy by burning down the [[Orphanage of Fear]] he was raised in.
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* ''Tobacco Road'', written by John Loudermilk, and first performed by The Nashville Teens. It has been covered by The Animals, [[Jefferson Airplane]], The Lovin' Spoonful, the Blues Magoos, and David Lee Roth, among others.
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with the help and the grace from above.
Save some money, get rich and old,
bring it back to Tobacco Road.
But it's home, the only life I ever known.
Only you know how I loathe Tobacco Road.
Bring that dynamite and a crane,
blow it up, start all over again.
Build a town, be proud to show.
Give it the name Tobacco Road }}
* ''My Little Town'' by Simon and Garfunkel is a poignant memoir, but if you squint and look sideways at the final verse, it can take on some unintended meaning:
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I never meant nothing, I was just my father's son
Saving my money, dreaming of glory
Twitching like a finger on the trigger of a gun
Leaving nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town... }}
* ''The Curse Of Millhaven'' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - admittedly, she only razes part of it, but in the other verses the protagonist kills enough people to populate a small town.
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That was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen
Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued
All cause of wee little girl with a can of gasoline
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
La la la la La la la lie
Well the rich man, and the poor man, they all got to die }}
* ''Wildfire'' by Sonata Arctica, a power metal band from Finland, is about a young man who does this.
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I never liked the look of this town
Burn it down now
I'll run, they'll know what I've done
I'll fetch my gear and take my leave from this mountain }}
* In the [[Voltaire (band)|Voltaire]] song "Bomb New Jersey", the singer is trying to arrange the nuclear destruction of his home state.
* The song "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" by [[Coldplay]]:
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I'm gonna put it six feet underground
You said, I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall
Stand here beside my baby and the crumbling walls
Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire
Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires
Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn
And do back the things it did to you in return }}
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