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'''Takadox:''' The island.|''[[Bionicle]]''}}

 

 

It doesn't count if only the house is destroyed, in attempts to kill the hero or [[And Your Little Dog, Too|just to spite him]]. It also doesn't count if a broader war is involved, unless the character's actions directly created that war.

* 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.

* Nocturn, the warlord Ehlek's lieutenant in ''[[Bionicle]]'' got sent to The Pit for "breaking" his island in a fit of rage. When the author Greg Farshtey got asked why he did this, he answered: "People break things when they get angry. Nocturn happened to break his island." Apparently he hit a weak spot [[For Massive Damage]].

** Correction: he wanted to become a "perfect ''opposite''". Coming to Earth as an adult instead of a child, destroying his homeworld on purpose instead of it being a natural catastrophe, and as a perfect finisher, {{spoiler|being ''dead'' as opposed to Superman being alive.}}

 

*** This troper took it to mean that while Rimmer was tasked to fix the drive plate, he had absolutely no idea how to do it right, and was never properly trained. Rimmer thought that, because he's such an arrogant egotistical moron, that he should be able to do a good job regardless. In this instance, it would be Captain Hollister's fault for relying on an incompetent crewman to do work that could (and did) kill the entire crew. {{spoiler|Though him really being Denny the Doughnut-Boy may have something to do with it.}}

*** Hollister's own records stated that if a job was worth doing, it was worth doing well, and if it wasn't worth doing, give it to Rimmer. So clearly, it would be the fault of anyone moronic enough to have assigned a job with potentially lethal consequences, say, repairing a drive plate that could leak fatal doses of radiation, to Arnold Judas Rimmer in the first place.

** {{spoiler|Then the Doctor does it ''again'' in "The End Of Time" as we find out how the Time War really ended. The Doctor really did personally push the button that ended it and all involved, Time Lords, Daleks, and other horrors, and it was mainly to stop the ''Time Lords,'' not the Daleks, as they'd [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|jumped off the slippery slope]]. Now that they'd returned, the Doctor had to foil their attempted resurrection, dooming them and Gallifrey to death in the Time War. The alternative was the destruction of the entire universe by the Time Lords, who wanted to start over as [[Energy Beings]] and the universe's only life forms - the same [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal]] plot (minus the [[Energy Being]] thing) the Daleks had tried in the previous season finale.}}

*** It isn't that he doesn't like Gallifrey, or even Gallifreyans. It's that he doesn't trust the Time Lords (not all Gallifreyans were necessarily Time Lords). He misses Gallifrey and the people, but he knows that if the Time Lords returned, it wouldn't necessarily be a good thing for humans and other species in the universe. We find out how true that is in The End Of Time.

* Captain Hero in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' tossed his home planet Zebulon into its sun in the episode "Little Orphan Hero," which was basically a parody of Superman's backstory.

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