History Main / MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds

** In the episode "The Farnsworth Parabox", through a series of events not entirely explainable, our universe is placed inside a box in Planet Express (don't ask). Bender nearly destroys the universe by sitting on the box.

** In another short, Duck Dodgers and Marvin are fighting for ownership of [[XMakesAnythingCool Planet X]]. Their rivalry winds up causing the planet's destruction.

* Despite occasionally saving the world as well, the cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' (particularly Riff) do this from time to time. At one point (albeit in non-canon filler), Riff builds a machine that lets the gang view versions of themselves [[AllTheMyriadWays from alternate realities]]. A surprising number of these parallel universes involve one of the main characters [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031110 causing Armageddon]].

* The title character of ''NieR'' just wants to save his daughter/sister. Through a series of misunderstandings and mistakes, this has the ultimate result of [[spoiler: dooming humanity to extinction.]]

* End of the first season of ''SledgeHammer''. The army request the aid of the police to fight against a terrorist organization, which has an atomic bomb. They defeat and capture them, but they activate the [[TimeBomb countdown to the atomic explosion]]. They seach and find the bomb, and...

* Gaius Baltar, on the rebooted ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', didn't actually ''mean'' to give the killer robots unlimited access to the Colonial defense mainframe -- he just thought with the wrong head when confronted by a gorgeous blonde with a vaguely plausible story. (The fact that he then went on to give ''another'' Cylon a nuclear warhead as a courtship gift... well, some guys just don't learn.)

* While not on the scale of planets, a lot of characters in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' cause at least town-wide devastation through stupid, reckless, negligent, and accidental actions. Snips and Snails brought a giant star bear that could have destroyed the town, Twilight altered the Parasprites which caused them to eat all the buildings as well as caused a giant brawl just so she could have a problem she could solve, Pinkie made a musical number so bad that it turned a tense situation into a full on war, the CMC accidentally released the spirit of chaos, and a sleeping dragon almost blanketed the landscape for a century in smoke because he couldn't find a better place to snooze.

* The title character of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' unconsciously sends off giants to attack an alternate, uninhabited version of Earth whenever she gets too frustrated[[hottip:*: and also unconsciously creates espers to stop them]] and once unconsciously tried to rewrite the planet.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', the [[InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien Tommies]] themselves have been [[ForScience responsible]] for [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo accidently]] destroying [[EarthShatteringKaboom whole planets]] during their development stage. Like opening a portal into the heart of a star and flashfrying a planet for example.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', the [[InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien Tommies]] themselves have been [[ForScience responsible]] for [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo accidently]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroying whole planets]] during their development stage. Like opening a portal into the heart of a star and flashfrying a planet for example.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', the [[InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien Tommies]] themselves have been [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo responsible]] for accidently destroying whole planets during their development stage. Like opening a portal into the heart of a star and flashfrying a planet for example.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', the Tommies themselves have been responsible for accidently destroying whole planets during their development stage. Like opening a portal into the heart of a star and flashfrying a planet for example.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', the Tommies themselves have been responsible for accidently destroying whole planets during their development stage. Like opening a portal into the heart of a star and flashfrying a planet.

Plotting to destroy the planet is a good source of conflict for your standard EvilOverlord, but, when it comes right down to it, destroying the world isn't really a very effective EvilPlan -- especially if it's the world the EvilOverlord is living on: [[TheTick it's where he keeps his stuff]]. Basically, plotting to destroy the planet is a good way to demonstrate that you're evil, but there are hardly any situations in which this sort of destruction is going to have any sort of value for the villain.

* ''FriendshipIsOptimal'' has roughly the same Premise without the [=PhysicsPlus=] of the former, although the Inventor almost hopes for [=CelestAI=] to find something like that, which is probably a ShoutOut. She instead simply uses boring old bog-standard sublight travel and GreyGoo Nanotech to convert the Atoms of all Aliens who don't think exactly like humans into computers for her Ponies. The Aliens with Humanlike minds get uploaded too.

** ''TheDeadlyMantis'' - Mike helps [[PlanetOfTheApes the simian rulers of future Earth]] repair and detonate an old atomic bomb.

** ''TheSheCreature'' - Mike orders the ''Satellite of Love'''s nanites to help engineer a distraction allowing Pearl and co. to escape the Observers' planet. The little robots decide blowing it up is the best solution.

--->'''Crow:''' And they did! Here comes [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Mike, Destroyer of Worlds!]]

** Professor Bobo gets an honorable mention for helping with the aforementioned A-Bomb, as well as for accidentally burning down AncientRome over the course of ''SpaceMutiny''.

* Possible in ''VideoGame/StarRuler''. Some time in, you will be building and facing ships more durable than planets and with the firepower needed to destroy each other. This can easily mean that you target a planet to cleanse it of enemy life and end up accidentally fragging it because you underestimated just how just firepower you have in play.

* Kratos inadvertantly causes a number of environmental catastrophes by [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath killing the gods]] in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar III''. For example, killing Poseidon, god of the ocean, causes a flood which decimates Greece.

* Canada, in general, in ''Film/CanadianBacon,''. Years earlier, they were sold a device called the Hacker Hellstorm by a U.S. arms manufacturer, R.J. Hacker. Having been told by Hacker it was nothing more than a weather predicting device, they place it on the top of the C.N. Tower in Toronto, where it sits idly until Hacker manages to activate the device himself. In fact, it is a master controller of the entire U.S. nuclear weapon arsenal, and with all weapons still pointed at Russia, global nuclear war is imminent all in part to the Canadians. [[spoiler: Thankfully, the Hellstorm is destroyed--and nuclear war is avoided--by Rea Perlman's character Honey, a laid off Hacker employee who goes postal with a machine-gun after seeing the Hacker emblem on the side of the Hellstorm.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''DarkTower'' series, the Crimson King manages to straddle the line between this and OmnicidalManiac--he's insane and/or senile enough that he's really not certain what he wants to do once he controls the Dark Tower, or what the results will be. But he's a vicious bastard anyway.