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* Mostly inverted in ''[[Saikano]]'', as Chise protects her and Shuji's home town from complete destruction until the very end of the story, when {{spoiler|[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|she exterminates all of humanity.]]}}
* {{spoiler|Alice}} in ''[[King of Thorn]]'' burnt her house down when she was a child after her family had died of the Medusa virus, along with the creature that the virus had spawned from her in the process.
* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Joshua [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|goes insane]] when Aion gives him Chrono's horns, which allows him to [[Terrible Ticking|hear the thoughts of everyone around him]]. He "stops the noise" by freezing everyone in the orphanage he lives in to stone. Also doubles as a [[Doomed Hometown]] for Chrono and Rosette--theirRosette—their goal is both to save Joshua, and unfreeze the children in the orphanage.
** Also, in the manga Aion's plans are reveal to be {{spoiler|a plot to destroy Pandaemonium (the demon's home) and "remake" the world. He succeeds in destroying [[Fan Nickname|Pandy]] and killing all of the demons but himself, Chrono and Shader, but Chrono and Rosette stop him before he destroys all of humanity.}}
* In [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]], a flashback shows Saffron City Gym Leader Sabrina destroying her house with her psychic powers as a child.
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* The player character of the [[PlayStation]] game ''[[Summoner]]''. Arguably, twice. Before the game, when he was still a young boy, the player character used his summoning powers to defend his hometown, which was swiftly destroyed when the demon he summoned broke free of his control. The second time involves the "tutorial" level of the game, where the character's new hometown is destroyed by the invading forces of the enemy nation, in a war touched off because the [[Big Bad|emperor]] of said enemy nation received a prophecy that the Summoner would come and slay him, so the emperor decided to kill the Summoner first. {{spoiler|This, of course, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the emperor turns out to only be a [[The Dragon|mid-game boss]].}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', after Cecil and Kain are tricked into burning down the village of Mist, young Rydia summons Titan in an attempt at a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] but mainly succeeds only in finishing the job.
** It doesn't end there, interestingly--atinterestingly—at least in the DS version. {{spoiler|Scenes from much, much later in the game strongly imply that [[Death by Childbirth|orphan Cecil]] was himself born in Mist, meaning his first action in the game is to unwittingly and unwillingly destroy the place of his birth--at the command of Cagnazzo, who is himself at the command of Golbez/Theodor, Cecil's older brother, who spent his childhood in Mist as well}}.
** At least in the SNES version(not the Bowlderized "FFII", though maybe even there), Mist wasn't actually destroyed: you can return via airship.
*** You can return to Mist in ''every single version'' of FFIV. Problem is, the only version that shows any damage to the town after the traumatic event is the DS version, where you can see the damage to some of the houses.
**** If you talk with the inhabitants there, they will reference the horrible disaster that killed all of the summoners. Maybe Mist had two significant populations: the world's only summoners, and the world's best carpenters.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has a creative variant in the Nibelheim burning. Sephiroth was born (and experimented on by [[Guinea Pig Family|his very own]] [[Mad Scientist|Father]]) in the Village of Nibelheim (which coincidentally happens to be the Protagonist's [[Doomed Hometown]]), but later taken to and raised at the resident [[Mega Corp]]'s HQ. When he returns to his birthplace many years later, he has no idea about his connection to Nibelheim, but once he finds it out, he [[Go Mad From the Revelation|doesn't take the news too well... ]]
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' {{spoiler|Fang and Vanille}} do this to their hometown of {{spoiler|Oerba, when they turned into Ragnarok at the orders of the fal'Cie; and all the other Pulse societies went with it.}}
* Psycho Mantis from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' destroyed his home village during what can only be described as a psychic temper tantrum.
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== Western Animation ==
 
* In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', Superman's old foe Brainiac got a new origin: instead of a mad scientist from the planet Colu, he was an intelligent supercomputer from Krypton. When Jor-El shared his fears that the planet was going to explode, Brainiac probably could have done something about it -- butit—but he lied and said Jor-El was wrong, while secretly plotting his own escape. Being the last holder of knowledge about a whole world appealed to him. In fact, he liked the idea so much he started doing it to ''other'' worlds too.
* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'', Zim was banished to Foodcourtia for single-handedly (almost) destroying the entire Irken civilization
 
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