History Main / PersonOfMassDestruction

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* ''Pinball/{{Raven}}'' is a OneWomanArmy fighting a horde of {{Mooks}} in a southeast Asian jungle.
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* Creator/AlanMoore takes this concept to it's logical and terrifying conclusion in the climax of his ComicBook/Miracleman storyline with Johnny, Kid Miracleman, Bates killing London. Not destroying, mind you. '''Killing'''. As in murdering every individual in the London metro area in original and sadistic ways.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has [[BigBad The Phantom]] (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Detective Bobby Fulbright('s imposter)]]). In the very beginning of the game, he bombs an '''''entire courtroom''''' just to destroy a tiny piece of evidence against him. And it's one of his past crimes that ultimately caused the "Dark Age of the Law" (an InUniverse-DarknessInducedAudienceApathy era where defense attorneys, prosecutors, etc., are more distrusted than ever, and everyone pulls increasingly filthy tricks (devaluing the system further) simply because no one cares anymore). Essentially, while not directly destroying much physically, the man practically killed the entire justice system singlehandedly.

* The term is used in reference to ComicBook/TheUltimates in the first issue of ''Ultimates 2'', after ComicBook/CaptainAmerica single-handedly frees hostages in the Middle East; the world is worried that the US government might start using the Ultimates in politically-motivated conflicts. Gee, ya think?

A Person of Mass Destruction is a character with powers, abilities, or skills capable of causing damage on the level of a WeaponOfMassDestruction. As a SpeculativeFiction trope, it is frequently used as a metaphor for real-world technology--often [[AtomicHate nuclear weapons]]. The source of their destructive powers varies; they may have won the SuperpowerLottery, have knowledge of ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow or be a PhysicalGod. What gives them their destructive potential is less important than the fact that they have it.

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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''...too many to list, but let's specify the notable ones:

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* {{Satan}} in ''Literature/TheBible'' is said to be so large that he can wipe 1/3 of the stars out of the sky with his tail, yet is still ''infinitely'' less powerful than God himself.

* The Hekatonkheires in Myth/ClassicalMythology were the [[ElementalEmbodiment embodiments]] of natural disasters, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms. Their primary tactic during the Titanomachy was continuously throwing ''entire mountains''.

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* All psykers (psychic humans) in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' have the potential to be this, not so much because of their abilities themselves but because they are incredibly vulnerable to DemonicPossession (which is bad), and are correspondingly treated with paranoid caution (at best) by the unbelievably repressive Imperium.
** The most powerful psykers (class Alpha Plus) can (depending on the type of power they have), mind-control entire cities, incinerate armies or snap a battle titan (the series' HumongousMecha) in half with a mere thought. To make matters worse, the minds of current humans aren't built to handle Beta-and-above levels of psionic power, causing most psykers of such power levels to usually be batshit insane, not to mention very short lived, as their presence attracts daemons like flies to honey, usually resulting in them exploding apart in a gory fashion while [[LegionsOfHell reality tears asunder and daemonic legions march forth to slaughter all life on the world]]. One of the very few and most notable exceptions is the GodEmperor of Mankind, who is beyond superhuman in both body and mind.

* Considering ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has rules for playing as a minor god, this should not come as a surprise. However the bar for Person of Mass Destruction is low; anyone in MDC body armor and packing an energy weapon is as durable as many modern armored fighting vehicles. Annihilating a rural village is well within the means of low-level player characters, unless said village pulls SuperweaponSurprise with a supernatural protector or someone hiding a suit of power armor in their shed.
** Given that in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' creatures wandering the SAFER parts of the world are generally somewhat challenging for a party of low-level player characters, intelligent players will consider what it means for there to be an apparently undefended, unmolested village in the middle of nowhere in particular...
* The flexible, comic-book-based rules system of ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' and its parabolic power progression make it easy to create a starting character with the ability to take on an army or wipe out a city. Omega, the BigBad of the Freedom City setting, is a threat on a cosmic level and could personally blow through a mountain in seconds.
** Duplication and a reasonable smattering of other powers can provide you with a starting character that ''is'' an army and can wipe out a city by personally dismantling it piece by piece.
*** That's nothing. It is possible to make a PL 4 (most starting characters are PL 10) character with an 8-point (out of 150 for the average starting character) power which ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom completely destroys a planet]]''.

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** It is implied that Klaus Wulfenbach started alone - he now rules most of Europa.

* Many of the humanoids housed by the Wiki/SCPFoundation (and that may or may not include the ''researchers''), particularly the ones with the object class Keter.
** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076]] ("Abel") is the prime example.
*** He can survive sustained fire from multiple .50 cal machine gun, several direct anti-personnel rocket strikes, having an incendiary grenade placed ''inside his chest'', being crushed by nearly 14 metric tonnes of steel, and fight through entire squads of heavily-trained close-combat experts. And then tears through several meters of heavily reinforced metal before [[LightningBruiser covering nearly seventy meters in three seconds]] to escape.
*** He can swat bullets out of the air with a metal bar, summon an endless armory of indestructible weapons, and, as shown above, survive basically anything short of a [[NukeEm tactical nuclear warhead]].
*** His entire containment zone is built several miles underwater as a last ditch to kill [[ResurrectiveImmortality his latest body]] if nothing else succeeds, and ''he doesn't die for over an hour'' even then. And he is utterly AxCrazy, having the time of his life as he gleefully slaughters everything in his path, knowing eventually he'll get to do it all over again. Although he ''is'' shown to sometimes show twisted VillainRespect towards tough opponents, and be upset if they die.
*** At one point his coffin activated under unknown circumstances, and the key to his vault vanished, leading to a three-year manhunt with an untold amount of casualties before he was finally put down.
* Tennyo, of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. What, the whole 'antimatter in her body' thing doesn't bother you? What about the 'neutron star blast' thing she did in her combat final? Or the death-blow that dissolved Killbot and ''disintegrated his soul''? Or the thing she did when defending herself from over a hundred bad guys that ripped a hole in space-time? Or when she ''ate'' the demonically-tainted Weres that attacked the school? Or...
** Or what we found out in "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy": the part of her that is not Billie Wilson is older than [[TimeAbyss the Earth itself]] and has destroyed entire interplanetary civilizations. And that's not even counting [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ the stuff Sara is holding back]] from Billie...
* Explored and deconstructed in Sam Hughes' Literature/FineStructure science fiction series. Here's a relevant quote discussing why superhumans make terrible weapons of mass destruction:
-->Because they're weapons, the superhumans, but they're not weapons of mass destruction. They're in one place, at one time. And you can't send a human into a city and tell him to kill ten thousand people. He'd have to do it personally, hand to hand, in twos and threes, hurling cars, taking heads, pulling down buildings on crowds. He'd have no choice but to look into the eyes of at least one in every ten of his victims, and, if he wasn't hopelessly deranged to begin with, he'd be driven there by the end. If he didn't simply resign. Either way, he'd be out of your control. And that is much more important.
-->It's more humane, in a way. Walking up to your enemy and pushing your finger through his heart and out the other side is much more ''costly'' than doing the same from fifty yards away with a gun, or from the other side of the river with a mortar, or from another hemisphere with an intercontinental ballistic missile. Psychologically, that is.
-->It makes you think.

* Parodied with Kotomaru in ''WebAnimation/GirlChanInParadise'' when he unleashes his secret power. Kenstar and Yusuke react with shock, while Green Guy comments that last time this happened, he destroyed a ''WHOOOOOOOOOOOLE'' kitchen.

* The Watterson family in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' frequently cause massive property damage, some good examples being "The Skull" (when Gumball and Darwin cause $20,000 of damage to the boy's shower room) and "Christmas" (when Gumball, Darwin, and Anais similarly cause thousands of dollars of damage at the local mall). In one episode, Richard got a job, and this was apparently so against the natural order that just driving around making deliveries unwound the fabric of the universe.

* ''Videogame/Doom2016'': The Doom Slayer himself likely qualifies. Presented as-is, without the backstory, he's already someone who can and will personally kill thousands of demons, one by one, even if he has to do it with his bare damn hands (and he ''can''). He's someone that recovers and strengthens with every demon he has killed, has more than enough strength to kill a HumanoidAbomination of a zombie with one hand while naked, too agile for most demons to even touch and skilled enough with any weapon that he can outperform entire armies. [[spoiler:With the story taken into account, he ''definitely'' qualifies; his killcount is in the tens of millions at ''least'', he's been rampaging for millennia without stopping, and even without his armor he confronted a gigantic demon the size of a city and ''won'', leaving its corpse there to revisit when he's back in Hell. Humanity simply doesn't have enough armament, both regular and Mass Destruction combined, to match the damage an unbound Doomguy can inflict]].

** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076]] ("Abel") is the prime example. He can survive multiple .50 cal rounds to the head, several direct anti-personnel rocket strikes, and ''then'' fight through entire squads of heavily-trained close-combat experts. And then tears through several meters of heavily reinforced metal before [[LightningBruiser covering nearly seventy meters in three seconds]] to escape. His entire containment zone is built several miles underwater as a last ditch to kill [[ResurrectiveImmortality his latest body]] if nothing else succeeds, and ''often that isn't enough''. And he is utterly AxCrazy, having the time of his life as he gleefully slaughters everything in his path, knowing eventually he'll get to do it all over again. Although he ''is'' shown to sometimes show twisted VillainRespect towards tough opponents, and be upset if they die.

** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-076 SCP-076]] ("Abel") is the prime example.

* In Neal Stephenson's novel ''Literature/SnowCrash'', one antisocial character, Raven, connected himself through a DeadManSwitch to a literal nuclear bomb and claimed individual sovereignty. The Aesop appears to be about the elasticity of sovereignty rather than the perils of nukes. Mind you, Raven is a very obvious parody of the type of badass characters often found in CyberPunk fiction. The main character, [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Hiro Protagonist]], hangs a big lampshade on him.

** Then we get to the Buu Saga, by which time not only has every heroic character become so much stronger, Goku almost shakes the planet in two merely by TRANSFORMING into a Super Saiyan 3, and Buu begins to tear holes in the fabric of reality merely by screaming. Buu could also produce an energy ball capable of destroying the Earth ten times over within ''seconds'', and goes on rampages blowing up planets [[FromASingleCell and then reforming again]].

** Wizards who specialize in Evocation spells can dole out large amount of hurt in big wide areas at higher levels.

* The flexible, comic-book-based rules system of ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' and its [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal parabolic power progression]] make it easy to create a starting character with the ability to take on an army or wipe out a city. Omega, the BigBad of the Freedom City setting, is a threat on a cosmic level and could personally blow through a mountain in seconds.

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk is one of the earliest examples. Like Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, he was [[ILoveNuclearPower created by a bomb]], and some adaptations literally compare him to the atomic weapon that spawned him; for example, the shockwaves he creates from smashing things are compared to the blast wave of a nuke.

* The alien robot ComicBook/{{Neutro}}.

** In ''Film/{{Logan}}'', Transigen Security Chief Donald Pierce pointedly reminds an aged Wolverine that the HSA considers the brain of an elderly Professor X, whom the former X-Man has been caring for, to be a weapon of mass destruction.

* ''Fanfic/RyuugisTheGamesWePlay'': Bianca can blow up buildings even with portals only the size of a finger. If she ever cut loose, she could easily level a city. By the time of the Arc family spar, Jaune can call down city-wrecking earthquakes and tsunamis.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Viltrumites are an army of conquering {{Flying Brick}}s.

* Since her transition from character to walking PlotDevice, the ComicBook/ScarletWitch has become one of these. The ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' storyline infamously changed her powers from simple [[WindsOfDestinyChange probability manipulation]] to RealityWarper power on a scale that would make Franklin Richards below blush, and all to fulfill the latest ExecutiveMeddling demands to kill off mutants (resulting in the mutant population being reduced to "The 198", which was eventually undone). Despite not being used for such heavy-handed meddling since then, Wanda's extreme power has hung over her head like a Sword of Damocles, and more tragically over the head of one of her children.

** The most recent definition of an "[[RandomPowerRanking Omega]]" Mutant is any mutant that could potentially be a Person of Mass Destruction. ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, a mutant who can move entire cities with his mind, is considered one under this definition. The most commonly brought up example of this is Jean in Phoenix mode, so we're talking off the charts. Expect widespread control of matter or natural forces down to the sub-atomic levels, full on RealityWarper status, a [[ComboPlatterPowers grab bag of powers that]] would make ComicBook/Superman jealous, or god help you, ''all of the above.'' However, [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum for one reason or another]] few can use this power to its fullest whenever they want and with no drawbacks.

** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': En Sabah Nur is so powerful that, when he wakes up from his 5500-year-long slumber in Egypt, the energy release can be felt in ''Germany''. He single-handedly razes the city of Cairo to the ground with his MindOverMatter powers, potentially massacring millions of its inhabitants.

** Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi [[spoiler: can summon and speak to Sea Kings, some of the most powerful and intelligent creatures in the sea. And these aren't your run-of-the-mill Sea Kings that the heroes punch out on occasion, these are [[{{Kaiju}} Sea Kings so big they could effortlessly swallow a battleship whole]]. This ability also makes her the ancient weapon Poseidon. So all she needs to do is call out and [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140925235059/onepiece/images/a/aa/Shirahoshi_Summons_Sea_Kings_as_a_Child.png these guys]] will show up and eat up whatever she might want them to. Good thing she's kind of a peaceful girl.]]

** ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' provides the most infamous example of Cap's Power Incontinence, as having him armor blasted off by the Parasite caused him to self-detonate, releasing enough radioactive fallout to sterilize several Midwestern states.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Little Franklin Richards, the son of title heroes Reed and Sue Richards, is one of the most classical examples of this in the Marvel Universe. At his full potential he is easily one of the most powerful beings in the universe, with RealityWarper power on a scale wide than ''any'' [[ComicBook/XMen Phoenix]] host. A psychic PowerLimiter was placed on him to keep him from, well, rewriting reality in his sleep, so at any given point he has PsychicPowers that vary in scope depending on the era (or alternate future version.) Without it, he's created entire realities. ''Every'' other Marvel character on this list takes this kid ''very'' seriously. And unsurprisingly, ComicBook/DoctorDoom has more than once tried to make a {{Tykebomb}} out of Franklin.

** While she doesn't appear him ''Red Hood and the Outlaws'', Starfire's [[CainAndAbel evil sister]] Blackfire has also reached these levels. Luckily for the universe her last appearance in ''R.E.B.E.L.S.'' saw her reforming into ALighterShadeOfBlack thanks to the influence of her new lover, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Vril Dox]].