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{{quote|'''Takadox:''' [[Dumb Muscle|He]] was exiled from his home island after he broke something.<br />

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]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

 

* 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.

* 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.]]}}

* 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.

** 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.}}

* [[A God Am I|Eneru]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' destroyed his home island of Birka.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'''s Amuro Ray accidentally blows a hole in the wall of Side 7 shortly after he [[Falling Into the Cockpit|gets on the Gundam]].

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Ed and Al burn down their house to symbolize how they'd never look back during their quest to regain their bodies. However, in the manga, their father guesses that the true reason was to {{spoiler|try to forget the shame of their failings}}.

** Speaking of Hohenheim, in the manga and ''Brotherhood'', {{spoiler|he absorbed half the population of the empire of Xerxes when he became a living Philosopher's Stone. The other half went to [[Evil Twin|Father]].}}

** You mention Eva and not Johan? ''She'' only did it ''once''.

* No one mentioned [[Blood Plus|Diva]] yet? She drank everyone's blood and set the whole mansion on fire. Granted, they {{spoiler|left her trapped in a tower her whole life and treated her as an experiment.}}

* 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]]."}}

* 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.}}

 

 

* In Arestis' Childhood, {{spoiler|[[Enfant Terrible|Arestis]]}}, angry at the High Priestess of the village for {{spoiler|seeing through her cover up of her previous murder}}, takes it out on the village by {{spoiler|convincing the head of a different village to attack it}}. Her parents die in the attack. [[Complete Monster|She doesn't seem to much care]].

 

 

** The novel and the remake play it much more straight. It's shown pretty explicitly that the damage she did was enormous (setting fires, pulling down power lines, blowing open fire hydrants so that the firefighters couldn't do anything, etc). In the novel, the town never really recovers and essentially becomes a ghost town within a few months.

*** They wanted to have her destroy the town in the film but didn't have the budget.

* In ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', Gallaxhar reveals that he destroyed his home planet, although his reasons for doing so are [[The Un-Reveal|constantly interrupted]]. Maybe he should have waited until he was out of his cloning machine to give his [[Backstory]]...

 

 

* ''Carrie''. The casualties number over 400 by the time she's stopped.

* The White Witch from the ''[[Narnia]]'' series is revealed, in the prequel ''The Magician's Nephew'', to have originally been Jadis, Queen of the world of Charn. When [[Cain and Abel|her sister rebelled against her]], and came a bit too close to succeeding, Jadis used the ultimate magic spell, '[[Fantastic Nuke|The Deplorable Word]]', to extinguish all other life on the planet. [[Omnicidal Maniac|ALL of it.]] Then she [[Taken for Granite|petrified herself]], awaiting a time when visitors from another world would intrude on her crumbling sanctuary...

* [http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Cybomec_%28Consto%29 Clandish Consto] in ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' 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 [[Place Beyond Time|traps him in the Haragad Cavity]] until the end of time so he can't learn sorcery. [[Subverted Trope|So much for]] [[Joker Immunity|the "I'm back" celebration]].

* In the short story "Basilisk" in the collection ''Deathbird Stories'' by [[Harlan Ellison]], a former POW returns home with [[Eye Scream|damage to his eyes]] and is [[What the Hell, Hero?|condemned by almost the entire populace]] for having cracked under torture. Then the god Ares decides to [[Eye Beams|heal his injuries]]. [[A God Am I|Penance ensues.]]

I'll run, they'll know what I've done<br />

I'll fetch my gear and take my leave from this mountain }}

* 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 />

== Role Playing Games ==

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

== Television ==

 

** Or at least he believed he did. According to "Justice" Rimmer never worked on the drive-plate at all, and simply took the blame for the incident because he honestly believed that he was important enough to take responsibility. Whether this is really the case is up for debate, largely because even though the ship blew thanks to an ill repaired drive plate, chicken soup machine repairman Rimmer should never have been involved in the repair process whatsoever.

*** This doesn't answer why in season one we see security camera footage of Captain Hollister tearing Rimmer a new one for doing "sloppy work on the drive plate"; interestingly Rimmer does say in a panicked voice that he is sorry and takes full responsibility, just as the drive plate blows and disintegrates the entire crew.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The Doctor was only able to destroy the threat of the Daleks during the "last great Time War" by also destroying the other Time Lords and his home planet Gallifrey. {{spoiler|Despite this, the Daleks and [[The Master]] have managed to survive. One of the surviving Daleks even went back into the Time War and ensured that Davros would survive.}}

** {{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.

* [[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.

* The player character of the [[Play Station]] 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.

** 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.

* Psycho Mantis from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' destroyed his home village during what can only be described as a psychic temper tantrum.

** {{spoiler|Discovering your father blamed you for your mother dying in childbirth, generally hates you, and harbours the secret desire to ''kill'' you, would make the resulting trauma amount to a bit more than a tantrum.}}

* In the original ''[[Secret of Mana]]'', the hero is ostracized by his fellow villagers after his retrieval of the magical sword causes their town to become vulnerable to monster attacks. Oops.

* Bishop from ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' will admit to burning down his hometown if the player's influence score with him is high enough.

* The town of Nordberg from [[Overlord 2]] and the hometown of the [[Villain Protagonist|titular Overlord]] is the first town you conquer, and depending on your (obtuse) karma meter, you'll either wind up enslaving them all or leaving it a smoking pile of ash.

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'': {{spoiler|The Lone Wanderer can sabotage Vault 101 to make it uninhabitable, forcing all the residents outside. Also, he/she can sabotage Project Purity, located in the building that he/she was born in, effectively turning it from the waters of life to the waters of death.}}

** The Lonesome Road DLC reveals {{spoiler|the Courier was unintentionally responsible for destroying The Divide. Twice. With nukes.}}

* [[Dawn of War]] in the back story Gabriel ordered the Exterminatus on his own homeworld Cyrene when he discovered corruption on the recruits.

 

 

* One (and a half) villain in ''[[The Wotch]]'' was ostracized by his village of [[All of the Other Reindeer|reindeer]] because he was a were. No, not a werewolf, [[Gender Bender|a harmless were-girl]]. When he/they came back from a quest for an artifact allowing him/them to control the change, the townsfolk reacted even more violently, leading to an inevitable, [[Misaimed Fandom|but deserved]], massacre.

** Maybe, maybe not. Who can tell with [[Heroic Sociopath|Belkar]]? He was trying to earn roleplaying XP by spinning a tale, so we're not really sure...

** Knowing Belkar he's [[Axe Crazy|already done it]].

== Western Animation ==

 

* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'', Zim was banished to Foodcourtia for single-handedly (almost) destroying the entire Irken civilization