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** The true goal of [[spoiler:Zamasu]] and Black Goku is to eliminate all of the mortals from the multiverse. [[spoiler: He succeeds in doing that in Future Trunks' timeline by becoming an omnipresent EldritchAbomination infecting that timeline's multiverse after losing his physical body, (although not before both Zamasus fusing and the Merged Zamasu's intense fight against the Z Fighters) forcing Zen'O to eradicate everything with him just in time, averting a potential Class X-6 Z event.]]
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* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Splat book Elder Evils, this is potentially the worst case for two scenarios:
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** The villain in the Worm that Walks scenario does not intend this scale of destruction, but when its underling makes the mistake of putting a Sphere of Annihilation in a special Bag of Holding, it happens if the heroes cannot stop it.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Splat book Elder Evils, this is potentially the worst case for two scenarios:
** If Pandorym's body and mind reunite, it will continue its original goal of killing every deity in existence, and then obliterate the planes, one at a time.
** The villain in the Worm that Walks scenario does not intend this scale of destruction, but when its underling makes the mistake of putting a Sphere of Annihilation in a special Bag of Holding, it happens if the heroes cannot stop it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'': In the Season 1 finale "Save The Worlds", vortexes into nothingness appeared in 50 dimensions, which include every dimension seen in Season 1 of the show. The vortexes are slowly growing, threatening to pull all 50 of those dimensions into the nothing, followed by the rest of the multiverse. It took the co-operation of the heroes, the villains, and many familiar faces to set things right.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In one WhatIf scenario, Fry destroys almost all reality, leaving himself, Creator/StephenHawking, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Nichelle Nicols]], and Creator/GaryGygax to play ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' for the rest of eternity.
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* The actions of the Final Boss of the Upcoming Kirby: Planet Robobot would have straight up become this, but well... it's a boss that you're not scripted to lose to, so... yeah...
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* The actions In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', [[spoiler:shortly after achieving sentience, Star Dream declares that organic life is uncontrollable and must be deleted. Seeing as how it later demonstrates RealityWarper tendencies and is capable of tearing holes in the Final Boss fabric of the Upcoming Kirby: Planet Robobot would have straight up become this, but well... space-time, it's a boss very likely that you're not scripted to lose to, so... yeah...Star Dream wouldn't stop at just Franchise/{{Kirby}}'s universe.]]
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* This was Seargent Smacka's plan in ''Webcomic/LsEmpire''. He never gets that far, but he does succeed in causing several Class X-4s [[spoiler: which all get undone]].
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* In Creator/LJagiLamplighter's RachelGriffin series, universes are being destroyed. The main characters work out that some characters are in fact refugees from them, magically fit into the universe. [[spoiler:Though Rachel is warned that very few people can be rescued when a universe is destroyed.]]
* In Creator/LarryCorreia's ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'', the Power is being pursued by the Enemy that destroys the universes it attached itself to. Summoners summon the remnants of the survivors of the previous worlds.
* In Creator/LarryCorreia's ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'', the Power is being pursued by the Enemy that destroys the universes it attached itself to. Summoners summon the remnants of the survivors of the previous worlds.
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* This is the main threat in TheNoozles, a preschool-friendly show in which partway through you find out that human activity has damaged the bond between our universe and a universe of cute koala Nazis; this has resulted in the two universes separating off-balance and quickly, and unless something is done the two universes will rip each other apart.
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* Despite UminekoNoNakuKoroNi being mostly a romance-mystery novel, in the final battle between [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Lambdadelta]] and Bernkastel ]], both rapid-fire attacks that shatter entire fragments using the force of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Each fragement is an entire parallel universe. On a (comparitively) lesser scale, [[GreatDetective Willard]] cuts an entire fragement in half with a single sword slice.
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* Despite UminekoNoNakuKoroNi ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' being mostly a romance-mystery novel, in the final battle between [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Lambdadelta]] and Bernkastel ]], both rapid-fire attacks that shatter entire fragments using the force of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Each fragement is an entire parallel universe. On a (comparitively) lesser scale, [[GreatDetective Willard]] cuts an entire fragement in half with a single sword slice.
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* If your team is defeated in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', this is the fate that {{Galactus}} has in mind for the Marvel and Capcom universes.
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* The penultimate goal of [[spoiler:Airy and Ouroboros]] in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault''. After [[spoiler:Airy uses the crystals to physically link the universes]], they'll consume the multiverse as fuel for their ''ultimate'' goal: [[spoiler:breaking into and conquering the Celestial Realm, aka ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the real world]]'']].
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* ''{{Futurama}}'': In one WhatIf scenario, Fry destroys almost all reality, leaving himself, Creator/StephenHawking, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Nichelle Nicols]], and Creator/GaryGygax to play TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons for the rest of eternity.
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* ''{{Futurama}}'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In one WhatIf scenario, Fry destroys almost all reality, leaving himself, Creator/StephenHawking, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Nichelle Nicols]], and Creator/GaryGygax to play TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' for the rest of eternity.
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* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'': This is what happens if the Tower falls: the utter reversion of every single universe, dimension, plane, time, space etc etc. to the chaos from whence they came. The BigBad want to this because he claims he will be able to rule that chaos forever afterwards. The worrying part is that this is starting to happen already at the beginning of the series. Even more scary is that protagonist has to succeed every single time. The antagonist just has to win once. [[spoiler: However it seems that each time it resets, the Gunslinger gets something that might make this cycle the last one where he has to win.]]
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* The [[AdaptationalVillainy snake]] from the animated adaptation of Literature/TheLittlePrince has, as established in the setting, existed before the known universes. Being annoyed by the new presence his goal became to destroy all of the known universes there are, with only him still existing. Later on however he would fall in love with a rose that he would want to keep for himself. He would however still wipe out everything else.
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* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen #108'', the Uncanny X-Men are recruited by forces from the Shi'ar Star Empire to heal the M'Kraan Crystal before all of reality fractures and collapses. It is eventually restored by Jean Grey, who becomes the awesome and terrible Phoenix in the process, and the universes are saved. But in "Gambit and the X-Ternals", part of the AlternateUniverse "Age of Apocalypse", Gambit is told that, since Jean Grey never healed the crystal in the new timeline, all of reality is about to unravel at the seams unless the original timeline is restored.
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* The plot of Jonathan Hickman's ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' is the discovery of a chain-reaction of colliding universes, each one causing the multiverse to contract just a bit more until "everything dies." There are ways to slow the process down, but they are... [[ShootTheDog costly]]. This ultimately leads in ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' with ''all universes'' destroyed, only bits of them surviving to become Battleworld.
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* The plot of Jonathan Hickman's ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'' is the discovery of a chain-reaction of colliding universes, each one causing the multiverse to contract just a bit more until "everything "[[ArcWords everything dies." ]]" There are ways to slow the process down, but they are... [[ShootTheDog costly]]. This ultimately leads in ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' with ''all universes'' destroyed, only bits of them surviving to become Battleworld.
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* The arrival of the [[EldritchAbomination Elder Gods]] in New York in ''Literature/JoeGolemAndTheDrowningCity'' would annihilate not only our entire universe, but according to [[OccultDetective Simon Church]], probably many others, including [[DeaderThanDead Heaven, Hell and other afterlives]].
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* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'': If you lose the game, your universe goes bye-bye. [[spoiler:If you ''win'', someone ''else's'' goes bye-bye. Provided the tournament has a standard ladder form, 2^15 - 1 universes -- ''32,767 whole universes, lifeforms included'' -- are destroyed during the anime's tenure. But hey, it may all be for a good reason... Or not.]]
* The standard effects of a Lost Logia reaching full power and going out of control in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' are multi-dimensional catastrophes that destroy many worlds in the process.
* In ''Anime/{{Noein}}'', the goal of the title BigBad is to destroy all possible parallel universes so that only Shangri'La remains.
* Attempted by Apocalymon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''
* This is the goal for the Shadow Dragons in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''
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* ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' destroyed almost the entire multiverse and squished the surviving few universes into a messy amalgam universe. Prior to this, the Anti-Monitor destroyed, ultimately, infinity minus five universes.
* In ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' there was Krona, a being that attempted the destruction of the core universes of both DC and Marvel, in order to remake the new universe that would emerge in his own image.
* In the Marvel Comics, [[OmnicidalManiac Unicron]] from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has this as part of his background. He ate most of the previous universe and went to sleep, only to have the scraps he left behind form a new universe while he slept. [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Now he wants to make sure it doesn't happen again]].
* The plot of Jonathan Hickman's ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' is the discovery of a chain-reaction of colliding universes, each one causing the multiverse to contract just a bit more until "everything dies." There are ways to slow the process down, but they are... [[ShootTheDog costly]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandmanOverture'', Glory of the First Circle explains to Morpheus that a star has gone mad and become a cancer in the universe. "From across the vastness of the cosmos, impelled by whatever senses drive them, singular creatures are gathering to feast on the coming massacre and the madness. And the madness will spread. The galaxies themselves will shake and vanish. The other realms in their turn with fade and be destroyed. Soon enough, the mind that is the universe will cease to think, and all things will cease to be."
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* In ''Riddle of the Seven Realms'' by Creator/LyndonHardy, [[spoiler:an ancient demon plots to destroy all known worlds by lighting a fire in his home dimension, which will punch a hole into the void and suck in not only the demon realm, but also all other worlds that connect to it via flames. (Presumably, any undiscovered universes that lack the "flame permeates all" rule of wizardry would escape this fate, making it this level and not Class Z.)]]
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* In the 2010 finale of ''Series/DoctorWho'', after [[spoiler: the Silence detonates the TARDIS]], all that remains of every reality is that of Earth in this universe, just a stone's throw from Class Z. Stars are myths ([[spoiler:and our sun is actually the TARDIS burning]]), all that's left of the Daleks is one shadow in time, and as the characters edge closer to the date of [[spoiler:the TARDIS' explosion]], people start vanishing from time. This is reset by [[spoiler: the Doctor creating a second Big Bang with the Pandorica]].
%% We have a word of a Cyberman that every universe is affected. "All universes will be deleted."
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* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', you have to destabilize the dimension to get back to your own. However, this has destabilized two dimensions so after the ending you have to find a way to fix them.
* If your team is defeated in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', this is the fate that {{Galactus}} has in mind for the Marvel and Capcom universes.
* Despite UminekoNoNakuKoroNi being mostly a romance-mystery novel, in the final battle between [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Lambdadelta]] and Bernkastel ]], both rapid-fire attacks that shatter entire fragments using the force of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Each fragement is an entire parallel universe. On a (comparitively) lesser scale, [[GreatDetective Willard]] cuts an entire fragement in half with a single sword slice.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Lord English has destroyed (or at least engineered the destruction of) countless universes, [[spoiler: including the ones the protagonists are from]], and is trying to destroy them all.
** It was revealed that [[spoiler: when Universes A and B were destroyed by Spades Slick and Jack Noir, respectively, they actually destroyed every possible alternate version of those universes, so it was actually two entire ''multiverses'' being destroyed]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}},'' an excess of TimeTravel [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]] results in this.
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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Spider-Carnage, an alternate universe Peter Parker who hit the DespairEventHorizon after his universe's version of ComicBook/TheCloneSaga and was bonded with the Carnage Symbiote, attempts to destroy the multiverse, aching to a Class Z destruction (although it probably wouldn't count that far, since those sent to stop him are alternate Spider-Men, which probably means only the universes containing or related to Spider-Man would be destroyed).
* Similarly, in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' Utrom Shredder destroys his native dimension and begins destroying another, eventually wiping out every universe that contains the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
* Nearly happens twice in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''; first when the Guys in White try to destroy the Ghost Zone, and again in the finale when Earth is threatened by the "Disasteroid". These apocalypses would have been possible because the Ghost Zone and Earth are opposite dimensions and the destruction of one will destroy the other.
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* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'': If you lose the game, your universe goes bye-bye. [[spoiler:If you ''win'', someone ''else's'' goes bye-bye. Provided the tournament has a standard ladder form, 2^15 - 1 universes -- ''32,767 whole universes, lifeforms included'' -- are destroyed during the anime's tenure. But hey, it may all be for a good reason... Or not.]]
* The standard effects of a Lost Logia reaching full power and going out of control in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' are multi-dimensional catastrophes that destroy many worlds in the process.
* In ''Anime/{{Noein}}'', the goal of the title BigBad is to destroy all possible parallel universes so that only Shangri'La remains.
* Attempted by Apocalymon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''
* This is the goal for the Shadow Dragons in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''
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* ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' destroyed almost the entire multiverse and squished the surviving few universes into a messy amalgam universe. Prior to this, the Anti-Monitor destroyed, ultimately, infinity minus five universes.
* In ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' there was Krona, a being that attempted the destruction of the core universes of both DC and Marvel, in order to remake the new universe that would emerge in his own image.
* In the Marvel Comics, [[OmnicidalManiac Unicron]] from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has this as part of his background. He ate most of the previous universe and went to sleep, only to have the scraps he left behind form a new universe while he slept. [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Now he wants to make sure it doesn't happen again]].
* The plot of Jonathan Hickman's ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' is the discovery of a chain-reaction of colliding universes, each one causing the multiverse to contract just a bit more until "everything dies." There are ways to slow the process down, but they are... [[ShootTheDog costly]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandmanOverture'', Glory of the First Circle explains to Morpheus that a star has gone mad and become a cancer in the universe. "From across the vastness of the cosmos, impelled by whatever senses drive them, singular creatures are gathering to feast on the coming massacre and the madness. And the madness will spread. The galaxies themselves will shake and vanish. The other realms in their turn with fade and be destroyed. Soon enough, the mind that is the universe will cease to think, and all things will cease to be."
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* In ''Riddle of the Seven Realms'' by Creator/LyndonHardy, [[spoiler:an ancient demon plots to destroy all known worlds by lighting a fire in his home dimension, which will punch a hole into the void and suck in not only the demon realm, but also all other worlds that connect to it via flames. (Presumably, any undiscovered universes that lack the "flame permeates all" rule of wizardry would escape this fate, making it this level and not Class Z.)]]
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* In the 2010 finale of ''Series/DoctorWho'', after [[spoiler: the Silence detonates the TARDIS]], all that remains of every reality is that of Earth in this universe, just a stone's throw from Class Z. Stars are myths ([[spoiler:and our sun is actually the TARDIS burning]]), all that's left of the Daleks is one shadow in time, and as the characters edge closer to the date of [[spoiler:the TARDIS' explosion]], people start vanishing from time. This is reset by [[spoiler: the Doctor creating a second Big Bang with the Pandorica]].
%% We have a word of a Cyberman that every universe is affected. "All universes will be deleted."
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', you have to destabilize the dimension to get back to your own. However, this has destabilized two dimensions so after the ending you have to find a way to fix them.
* If your team is defeated in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', this is the fate that {{Galactus}} has in mind for the Marvel and Capcom universes.
* Despite UminekoNoNakuKoroNi being mostly a romance-mystery novel, in the final battle between [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Lambdadelta]] and Bernkastel ]], both rapid-fire attacks that shatter entire fragments using the force of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Each fragement is an entire parallel universe. On a (comparitively) lesser scale, [[GreatDetective Willard]] cuts an entire fragement in half with a single sword slice.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Lord English has destroyed (or at least engineered the destruction of) countless universes, [[spoiler: including the ones the protagonists are from]], and is trying to destroy them all.
** It was revealed that [[spoiler: when Universes A and B were destroyed by Spades Slick and Jack Noir, respectively, they actually destroyed every possible alternate version of those universes, so it was actually two entire ''multiverses'' being destroyed]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}},'' an excess of TimeTravel [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]] results in this.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Spider-Carnage, an alternate universe Peter Parker who hit the DespairEventHorizon after his universe's version of ComicBook/TheCloneSaga and was bonded with the Carnage Symbiote, attempts to destroy the multiverse, aching to a Class Z destruction (although it probably wouldn't count that far, since those sent to stop him are alternate Spider-Men, which probably means only the universes containing or related to Spider-Man would be destroyed).
* Similarly, in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' Utrom Shredder destroys his native dimension and begins destroying another, eventually wiping out every universe that contains the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
* Nearly happens twice in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''; first when the Guys in White try to destroy the Ghost Zone, and again in the finale when Earth is threatened by the "Disasteroid". These apocalypses would have been possible because the Ghost Zone and Earth are opposite dimensions and the destruction of one will destroy the other.
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