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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).
{{quote| "By sixteen, Lobo had murdered half the population of his home planet. By seventeen, he [[Omnicidal Maniac|stopped screwing around]]."}}
* 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.
{{quote| Gonna leave, get a job<br />
with the help and the grace from above.<br />
Save some money, get rich and old,<br />
bring it back to Tobacco Road.<br />
But it's home, the only life I ever known.<br />
Only you know how I loathe Tobacco Road.<br />
Bring that dynamite and a crane,<br />
blow it up, start all over again.<br />
Build a town, be proud to show.<br />
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:
{{quote| In my little town<br />
I never meant nothing, I was just my father's son<br />
Saving my money, dreaming of glory<br />
Twitching like a finger on the trigger of a gun<br />
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.
{{quote| And the fire of '91 that razed the Bella Vista slum<br />
That was the biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen<br />
Insurance companies ruined, land lords getting sued<br />
All cause of wee little girl with a can of gasoline<br />
Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing<br />
La la la la La la la lie<br />
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.
{{quote| Burn, honey burn, let the fire eat away<br />
I never liked the look of this town<br />
Burn it down now<br />
I'll run, they'll know what I've done<br />
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]]:
{{quote| You said, I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down<br />
I'm gonna put it six feet underground<br />
You said, I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall<br />
Stand here beside my baby and the crumbling walls<br />
Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire<br />
Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires<br />
Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn<br />
And do back the things it did to you in return }}