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[[Doomed Hometown|Hometown isn't doomed?]] Doom it yourself! Whether it's an accident, revenge or [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|just plain anger]], heroes sometimes display disturbing tendencies toward destroying their own hometowns, countries, [[Earthshattering Kaboom|planets]] or even universes. Bonus point if they [[Self Made Orphan|simultaneously kill their parents]].

 

 

This is more frequent with villains. Sometimes it's to demonstrate how disturbed he is, other times it's a [[Start of Darkness]] event for him. Or maybe he just [[Invoked Trope|really liked the sound]] of being the [[Last of His Kind]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'', a mutated Tetsuo destroys most of his home city of Neo-Tokyo.

* This was the beginning of Sara's [[Disproportionate Retribution]] in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''. At least her own home was an accident. Others were not.

* {{spoiler|Alice}} in ''[[King of Thorn (Manga)|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--their goal is both to save Joshua, and unfreeze the children in the orphanage.

* At the end of ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|Addams Family Values]]'', {{spoiler|Debbie reveals this is what she did to her parents, because they didn't buy her the right Barbie doll for Christmas.}} The Addams, naturally, are quite understanding.

* The prequel comics and novel to 2007's ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]]'' movie all reveal, despite otherwise being separate continuities, that it was [[The Cape|Optimus Prime]], of all people, who launched the All Spark into space to keep it from Megatron's hands, dooming Cybertron to a slow, lingering death. In the movie itself, Optimus states that he's willing to sacrifice his own life to destroy the All Spark, if need be. Some characters think it's noble. Others think it's disturbing...

* A variant occurs in ''[[Pokémon the First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]'', when Mewtwo destroys the laboratory he was created in.

* In [[Thor (Film)|Thor]] when Loki found out that he was in fact a {{spoiler|Frost Giant he decides to destroy Jotunheim the world where he was born.}}

* The [[Pyromaniac]] and her girlfriend in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' go back to the orphanage that abused them in order to [[Kill It With Fire]]. And watch.

* [[http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Cybomec_<!-- 28Consto29 Clandish Consto]] in ''StationeryVoyagers'' sought revenge on a girl who got him expelled from grade school YEARS ago, murdered every teacher that ever verbally abused him that was still living, poisoned his own landlord, murdered his landlord's wife, joined an invading enemy army, and hijacked an entire space center. And all in his own hometown! He then proceeds to threaten the world of that army he initially joined, and eventually becomes such a threat to the universe, that the Angel of Death [[PlaceBeyondTime traps him in the Haragad Cavity]] until the end of time so he can't learn sorcery. [[SubvertedTrope So much for]] [[JokerImmunity the "I'm back" celebration]]. -->

* In the ''[[Black Company|Annals of the Black Company]]'', the man known as "Erin NoFather, an unlanded priest of the god Vancer from Slinger, in the kingdom of Vye" eventually became the [[Big Bad|Dominator]]. Of course, by that time he'd made sure to wipe the town of Slinger off the face of the earth, and kill everyone who had lived there while he was growing up, to prevent any of his enemies learning his [[I Know Your True Name|true name]]. Later he [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|laid waste to all of Vye]].

 

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== Role Playing Games ==

* Ben Linus from ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' told the main characters that he had lived on the island his entire life. {{spoiler|In reality, he was brought there as a young boy by his father, who worked for the Dharma Initiative. He began consorting with the Hostiles and eventually participated in gassing the Initiative members.}}

* The first Volume of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' was about a Petrelli family plot to have Peter nuke [[Big Applesauce|New York City]], their home. In an alternate future, Sylar nukes Costa Verde, his new town, in a rage after his son is killed.

* [[Angel]], soon after becoming a vampire, killed everyone in his village, including his parents and sister.

* In a ''heroic'' example, [[Buffy]], over the years, has destroyed her high school gym, her next high school, and finally, her home town of Sunnydale.

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