History Main / PersonOfMassDestruction

* The chemical engineer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. Thomas Midgley Jr.]] had, according to Creator/BillBryson "an instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny", in that he invented leaded gasoline ''and'' chlorofluorocarbon compounds ([=CFCs=]). Although it was certainly not his intention, he could possibly have had a greater negative impact on the environment than any other individual human in history.

The reaction to a [=PoMD=] is often [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer fear, anger, and hate]], which may cross over into [[BullyingADragon outright abuse]]. Despite this, their chances of being either a Hero or a {{Villain}} are about the same, and depend on whether they believe WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility or MightMakesRight. A person of mass destruction is more likely than normal to undergo SuperpowerMeltdown at some point, channeling the fear of losing control of a conventional weapon of mass destruction, as with an EmptyQuiver situation.

** The Olympians themselves were no slouches, as shown when Athena repeated the mountain-throwing trick on Typhon, throwing Mount Etna at him so hard the mightiest enemy of the gods was literally ''buried under it'' with no way to get out. [[UpToEleven Zeus was even stronger]].

* Being a pilot in ''Literature/{{Pilots}}'' requires a mindset that is more or less directly antithetical to militarism or aggression, and you can't coerce them because that breaks the mental state required to [[TeleportersAndTransporters switch]]. However, the [[TeleportersAndTransporters mechanics of]] [[StuffBlowingUp the power]] can be quite destructive--there are several cases of accidental pushback or too-small switch spheres that cause many deaths--and it gets even worse with the [=ADPs=]. X is discovered when he creates pushback that is initially mistaken for a major earthquake, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength by accident]].

Compare with HumanWeapon, for when someone is literally treated as a weapon. See also DestructiveSaviour and WalkingDisasterArea.

* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' there is Quantum, who can [[RealityWarper manipulate matter and energy on the quantum level]]. His death (he literally exploded after being mortally wounded while battling an alien invasion fleet) vaporized Triton. You know... the largest of Neptune's moons?

* UsefulNotes/SimoHayha was most likely the largest OneManArmy in history with about ''seven hundred kills''.

* Many people like to imagine themselves as one.

* While it's easy to conclude the Nazis [[{{Understatement}} weren't nice people]], the one who personally killed the most people was Otto Moll, who slayed at least ''ten thousand people.''

** {{Satan}} in 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 most prolific serial killer in history might have been Thug Behram. He personally killed at least 125 people, but it may have been as much as ''931''.

** She's actually a very downplayed example as she only caused the deaths of three people.

* Vasily Blokhin, member of the NKVD personally killed more people than anyone in history. His total was around '''20,000''', including 7,000 Polish prisoners in the Katyn massacre.

* While it's easy to conclude the Nazis [[Understatement weren't nice people]], the one who personally killed the most people was Otto Moll, who slayed at least ''ten thousand people.''

* The Mastermind/[[spoiler: Junko Enoshima]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}''. You kinda earn the title when you're almost single-handedly responsible for an event literally called ''The biggest, most awful, most tragic event in human history.''

* ''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.
* Quite a lot of people in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} are like this.
** For ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' you have Arcueid, who has to use 70% of her power to stop herself from going into an UnstoppableRage and even with the remaining 30% can apparently use her Marble Phantasm to pull the moon from 1000 years into the future into the sky for one night. See also: Zelretch, Aozaki Aoko, some of the Dead Apostles and even Shiki if he had the time to actually prep himself before his brain burned out. Example, killing the ''world'' around the entire school area in order to partially depower Arcueid and make her somewhat more vulnerable in Ciel's True End. Imagine if the 'point of death' of the entire world happened to be nearby him.
*** ''All'' of the Aristoteles, or [[UltimateLifeForm Ultimate Ones]], are prime examples this, taking it to apocalyptic levels. Type-Jupiter alone flattened the entire continent of North America in the backstory of ''Literature/AngelNotes'', and Type-Mercury is considered the strongest being on Earth in terms of raw power, which is an impressive feat, given it has to share space with all the other Nasuverse examples above and below. The most notable example is probably Archetype-Earth (who, by the way, is Arcueid at full power), though, on the basis that most of the Nasuverse's stories take place on Earth. Since she's the Ultimate One of the Earth, she has total control of it (with the exception of humans and anything created by them, and she can still affect those, just not directly), so she can do just about anything with a mere thought. Swallowing cities into the earth? Done. Melting the ice caps? Done. Tilting the Earth of its axis? Done. Tearing the Earth in two? ''Done''. The kicker is that if an Aristotele comes up against something that is somehow stronger than it, their patron planet will just pump more raw power into it until the Aristotele is stronger anyway.
** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has, surprisingly, [[spoiler:Dark Sakura]] because she has more magical energy than she could ever possibly use no matter what and can summon up apparently infinite giant freaky monster things if she has time. Is also the avatar of all the evils in the World.
*** Any Servant with an anti-fortress/city phantasm counts, as their phantasm is specifically designed to annihilate a fully-defended castle in one shot. Heck, even an anti-army phantasm probably would count (though on the low end of the scale, being designed to kill hundreds of {{Muggles}} rather than wiping castles and [[EldritchAbomination supernatural]] [[LightNovel/FateZero horrors]] completely off the face of the earth.) Also, Gilgamesh can canonically pierce through Gaeia's Ultimate [[MentalWorld Reality Marble]] which manifests all over the planet, the results of which would no doubt be catastrophic.

* The Mastermind/[[spoiler: Junko Enoshima]] from ''{{VisualNovel/Danganronpa}}''. You kinda earn the title when you're almost single-handedly responsible for an event literally called ''The biggest, most awful, most tragic event in human history.''

* From the Union series, Tank born Shadow Agents, depending on the Country/Colony of origin, have a kill switch installed, resulting in TheBerserker. To quote a passage from the story:
-->We popped the Kill Switch on a Schatten once, just to see what it could do. It tore through nearly half the Londinium ground forces before it died of blood loss. [[OhCrap It took three days.]] We never made that mistake again.
* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' there is Quantum, a who can [[RealityWarper manipulate matter and energy on the quantum level]]. His death (he literally exploded after being mortally wounded while battling an alien invasion fleet) vaporized Triton. You know... the largest of Neptune's moons?
* 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 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...

* The Knights of Grabacr from ''Literature/{{Lambda}}'' are each capable of singlehandedly wiping out entire armies. Their leader, [[LadyOfWar Lady]] [[BilingualBonus Weiss]][[Franchise/LyricalNanoha teufel]], does this on a ''regular basis''.

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* [[KillItWithFire Flame Princess]] from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime.'' Not only is she an ApocalypseMaiden if she ever kisses someone, but she caused a massive forest fire as a baby after [[ArchnemesisDad her father left her in the woods to perish]].
* The Watterson family in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' frequently cause massive property damage, some good examples being "The Skull" (when Gumball and Darwin indirectly 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.
** Hector even moreso, by merit of being an easily-excited [[OurGiantsAreBigger giant.]]
* Hayley from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' turns into one of these [[BerserkButton whenever she]] [[NotGoodWithRejection gets dumped]].
** Roger to an even greater extent, it's revealed in one episode that the secret behind how most of his gags work (generally involving him being multiple characters in multiple places at once, even within the same room) is that [[SuperSpeed he's just really, really, really fast.]] Time appears to slow to a crawl around him when he runs, meaning that [[FridgeHorror if he wanted to he could personally zip around and kill every single organism on the planet with nothing being even remotely quick enough to stop him]]. Thankfully his addiction to silly antics keeps him mostly occupied and limits his casualties to probably just a few unfortunate individuals each week, in a more serious work Roger would be a truly terrifying villain to behold.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Aang (and any Avatar actually) when in the [[PhysicalGod Avatar State]]. In season one final he single-handedly wiped out the Fire Nation fleet sent to destroy '''a whole nation'''. There were attempts to use this power as WeaponOfMassDestruction - all of which, as you can guess, [[CurbStompBattle didn't end well.]]
** Sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has [[BadassCrew The Red Lotus]]. They are all extremely competent benders but P'Li and Ghazan take the trope. P'Li's combustion power can level opponents, and she's capable of blowing up cars, people and even shot down a dragon. Ghazan's lava bending allows him to turn the battlefield into a death hazard and put his team on the higher ground. He's also responsible for the single handed large scale destruction of the group [[spoiler:destroying a wall of Ba Sing Se]] and later [[spoiler:bringing down an air temple.]]
* The titular character from ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' has the ability to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshift]] into different alien species. That might not seem like much at first... except for the fact several aliens in this setting possess super-powers, some of them already [[OneManArmy strong enough to take on entire groups of enemies]] (noteworthy mentions include several aliens with SuperStrength, at least two with SuperSpeed, various ElementalPowers, a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] and a ''[[RealityWarping Reality Warper]]''), and he can switch at will between more than ''One million'' of them, effectively giving him the universe's most powerful MultiformBalance. This ends up a plotpoint in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', where one of the villains, Proctor Servantis, wishes to [[spoiler:kill Ben because he feels like it's too dangerous to have so much power in the hand of an immature child.]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'' featured Nitron the human bomb, a radioactive super powered villain.
* While not one on a large scale (unless part of a HumongousMecha) Dee-Dee from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' was considered one by her brother, as she was typically the cause of failure for his inventions - typically with StuffBlowingUp.
* Cosmo of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' was responsible for sinking Atlantis, setting off the volcano that destroyed Pompeii, and instantaneously transfiguring the shining utopia of Xanadu into the disgusting rathole of [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Pittsburgh.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
** An episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'' featured a guy with (basically) a black hole in his gut.
** There's also Captain Atom, who's pretty much a walking nuclear fallout contained in a suit.
** Above everyone else is Ivo's Android (Amazo in the comics) who has enough power to make Dr. Manhattan look like an amateur. It can easily destroy the universe with a simple thought. Fortunately, by the time its ever-growing power reached that point, it had gone from villain to TrueNeutral.
* In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', the sidekick Ron Stoppable became one of these when he finally got control of his Mystical Monkey Powers. [[spoiler:He managed to defeat two powerful giant aliens and hurl them effortlessly into the sky and caused them to crash head on into their crashing spaceship. Needless to say, enemy and ally alike were impressed, shocked, and a little nervous]].
** On a technicality, he was already one due to his [[SpannerInTheWorks destructive]] [[TheKlutz clumsiness]]. The only difference now is he can voluntarily control the chaos he causes.
* Superman X in the WesternAnimation/{{Legion of Super Heroes}}'s second season. A clone of Superman, X was created for the sole purpose of destroying the Warlord Imperiex. He's just as powerful as the original Superman but with different powers and none of his heroic or moral personality. [[spoiler: At first.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LesSisters'': The titular sisters, Wendy and Marine, normally end up causing large amounts of property damage. In some episodes, they even manage to cause property damage to their entire neighborhood.
* All the major villains from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and even a few ''good guys'' count to a degree, but there are some that really stand out:
** [[RealityWarper Discord]] can seemingly do ''anything'' with his chaos magic and a mere snap of his fingers (or in one case, ''tail''), has Princess Celestia [[NotSoStoic on edge]] when he's escaped, and has Ponyville reduced to a chaotic reality-less mess within an afternoon of being released. The only reason the two Princesses or the [[FanNickname Mane Six]] were even able to take him down at all was because they were able to catch him off-guard and outsmart him. Thankfully for everyone involved he's not interested in outright destruction or death but prefers total chaos.
** [[SorcerousOverlord King Sombra]] demonstrates the ability to warp an entire kingdom with his BlackMagic in a matter of only seconds. And not even '''''two Alicorns''''' can prevent him from just making the whole place vanish through space and time as a contingency. Furthermore, he's also an ImplacableMan against virtually everything except for ThePowerOfLove. And even worse: It's heavily implied that uninterrupted control of said kingdom and its special AmplifierArtifact would inevitably set him on the path to doing similar things to the rest of Equestria as well -- which is reinforced by his BadFuture sequence in the Season 5 finale (including one moment where he generates an almost-'''''mountain'''''-sized wall of DarkIsEvil crystals to defend himself against Princess Celestia's troops).
** [[EscapedFromHell Lord Tirek]] starts out frail but can suck the [[ManaDrain magic]] out of any pony just by getting close to them, leaving them in a lifeless daze and adding their power to his. At first it's only unicorns and one at a time, but he quickly gains in power and is able to drain entire crowds of ponies at a time. It takes Twilight Sparkle rocking the combined magic of hers and ''the three other alicorn princesses'' just to fight Tirek to a standstill by the time they lock horns, and their battle breaks the landscape.
** The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' movie gives us [[spoiler:[[RealityBleed Midnight Sparkle]]]], who manages to [[spoiler:tear through entire '''''dimensions''''' in a frantic attempt to reach Equestria ForScience.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Given Rick Sanchez's near god-like intelligence, incredible technology and science that doesn't seem bound to any actual scientific laws, total indifference to the pain or suffering of almost anything else, and that he usually "solves" problems that are too difficult by just traveling to another dimension, is it really shocking when it becomes clear that Rick has been responsible (even if only indirectly) for the total destruction of countless worlds and dimensions?
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'': Two-Legs Joe can create tornadoes and earthquakes, destroy buildings and cities, sink islands, create and destroy black holes, and even alter the orbits of celestial bodies just by stomping his feet.
** Peri and Entree have destroyed the island multiple times, though through just plain recklessness rather than any actual superpowers.
* Whenever WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants [[DrivesLikeCrazy gets behind the wheel of a boat]], it's practically a guarantee that he'll cause massive amounts of property damage. In fact, at the end of the episode "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," it's outright stated that he ''would'' have passed his latest boating exam... if there was a "destroy the city" part of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Lapis Lazuli's [[MakingASplash power over water]] is so extensive that, even with her gem cracked, she can move ''all of Earth's oceans at once''. Turns out she's from a [[HiveCasteSystem caste]] design for HostileTerraforming.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''
** [[GodOfEvil Trigon]] is capable of effortlessly laying waste to the Earth in a matter of seconds.
** Raven has near-RealityWarper--enough to vanquish [[ArchNemesisDad her father]] Trigon, mentioned above.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', Raven and Trigon again, only Raven is even more powerful in this version as she has no restrictions on her powers.
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* ''Webcomic/{{XRS}}'' Although much of it's capabilities are unknown/untested what is clear is that in the right (or wrong) hands the XRS is capable of causing tremendous damage to any person,object, or environment it is targeting.
* Noor and all the outsiders really in ''Webcomic/{{Project 0}}''. Probably the reason for the FantasticRacism.
* Black Mage in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''. The [[KameHameHadoken Hadoken's]] effects were explicitly referred to as similar to a nuclear explosion when it was first used.
-->'''Thief''': The Thief's Almanac didn't say anything about atomic detonations either...
** It is explained early on that Black Mage is actually a nexus of magical energy in human form, which may explain his vast power.
** It probably helps that the Hadoken is literally fueled by ThePowerOfLove as well. As in, it drains some love from the universe, enough to up the divorce rate slightly with each blast. Good thing it usually has a once-per-day limit.
* Riff from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' tends to view Aylee this way, thinking her species' instincts could make her try to take over the world. This belief turns out to be more justified than he knows in the sense that we eventually find out that the normal pattern of behaviour for someone of her species would be to [[spoiler:breed a whole HordeOfAlienLocusts to consume everything on the planet and then bury into the centre of it and explode.]]
** Riff himself is one, given his abilities to build highly weaponizable technology. His Dimensional Flux Agitator turns out to have the potential to destroy ''the entire universe'' if used carelessly.
* Given the things that the most powerful [[MadScientist Sparks]] in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' are capable of creating with minimal resources, they probably qualify.
** Agatha once converted a travelling circus into a mechanised army capable of destroying a whole regiment of Baron Wulfenbach's troops, and regularly builds death rays with little time and effort (one was capable of blowing a huge hole in a wall of Castle Heterodyne, one of its other turrets, and a distant mountain; she constructed it in her sleep).
** Gilgamesh was able to create an array of electrical conductors which directed energy into a small rod he carries, which allowed him to destroy an army of battle clanks. At one point, he threatens to reduce Britain to molten slag and set the surrounding seas boiling for the next thousand years. And the person he's making that threat to considers it entirely credible.
** It is implied that Klaus Wulfenbach started alone -- he now rules most of Europa.
* One of the main themes in ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}''. Parson doesn't want to be one of these, but he's damn good at it. Incredible resourcefulness + magical compulsion to try and win battles = lots of dead enemies.
* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' has Veled in this role, and if the concept doesn't scare you already... she's the one in CHARGE.
* The Webcomic/FreakAngels are a bunch of powerful psychics. While individually they are capable of great destructive force (they can telekinetically tear a man apart), their powers increase greatly when working in concert. A few of them at a time can demolish buildings, cause explosions, and tear through small armies. [[spoiler:All twelve of them can strike the Earth with enough force to cause catastrophic earthquakes, tidal waves and geomagnetic disturbances]].
* Jack Noir of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' becomes one [[spoiler:after taking the Black Queen's ring. Shows off his power by devastating two planets.]]
** And after his fourth and final prototyping, [[spoiler:he enters the Trolls' session and obliterates fourteen more planets. But first he kills the amassed army of robo-Aradias.]]
*** As of Cascade, [[spoiler:he has ''killed a universe''.]]
** The God Tiers are mentioned to provide much more power than would actually be needed to win the session (which can be shortened to "You vs. The World, literally"); ANY God Tier is capable of unholy amounts of destruction.
** [[spoiler:Jade Harley]] in the newer updates. She has all the powers of [[spoiler:a First Guardian]] ''and'' [[spoiler:a God Tier Witch of Space]]. She can shrink entire planets down to the size of tennis balls, and [[spoiler:punches a hole through the Fourth Wall with a ship that she's levitating herself. A ship that she's moving to 'almost the speed of light']].
** John drilled a hole into the centre of a ''planet'' using his wind powers, so he could be pretty damn destructive if he wanted to. He also has [[InfinityPlusOneSword one awesome hammer]].
*** Then there was the point in which he teleported an entire planet and generated enough wind to knock over the Homestuck game cartridge.
** While we're on the subject of God Tiers, [[spoiler:Vriska Serket]], to the point where according to [[TheOmniscient Doc Scratch]], she actually had a decent chance against Jack.
** Not actually demonstrated as yet, but mentioned: [[spoiler:God-Tier Dave]] apparently won the SuperpowerLottery in terms of class, as he's a heavy-combat role with an eminently abusable element. [[spoiler:Aradia could freeze Jack in place with her powers over time. Combine that with Dave's badassery, habit of [[MesACrowd having more than one of himself in the same place at the same time]], and an InfinityPlusOneSword, and you have a recipe for ''absolute destruction'']].
** [[BigBad Lord English]] manages to outdo [[BigBadWannabe Jack Noir]] [[spoiler:destroying large portions of ''the afterlife'' and causing massive cracks in reality to appear in the otherwise unchanging empty space between universes.]]
* High-level magic users in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' - such as Vaarsuvius and Xykon - are repeatedly stated to be these.
-->'''Hinjo''': ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0422.html A sorcerer that powerful doesn't engage opponents, he alters the course of entire battles.]]''
* Radd, in ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', can charge his attack to whatever is the maximum value on the system he's in. In the 8-bit game he's from it's 255. In 12-bit games he becomes a GameBreaker. [[spoiler:Outside of the games, his attack could potentially crash the whole Internet.]]
* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'': Seren is a infamous magician of immense power, with a "Spell Booster" predisposition that automatically, drastically boosts any spells she casts unless she's wearing her PowerLimiter. Her nicknames include "The Human Solar Cannon" and "The Bomb Princess".
* In ''Webcomic/BasketsOfGuts'' any powerful battle mage is this, though the protagonist (being an old-school BlackMage) is the most notable example.
* Keres in ''WebComic/FeyWinds'' is a {{golem}} [[spoiler:housing the magic and death-rattle of a dead world]]. She's a borderline {{omnicidal maniac}}, willing to kill anything in her way to get to the gate to her home dimension.
* In ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'', probably anyone with a Rank anywhere near the top would qualify for this. Perhaps all Rankers.[[note]]When you reach the top of the Tower, you're given a rank that's adjusted based on your achievements, largely meaning AsskickingEqualsAuthority.[[/note]] Even Hoaqin with a fraction of his power, when he's exceptionally powerful compared to the people he's dealing with but still not as powerful as a Ranker, is able to eradicate a courtyard full of people with little effort. One example of High Rankers showing power that could serve as a means of mass destruction is [[http://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/tower-of-god/season-2-ep-223/viewer?title_no=95&episode_no=304 the fight between Yuri Jahad and Karaka]], where a huge space is filled with the energies of their respective magical attacks, which would instantly kill a lesser being.
* "Gosh," the Butterfly of Iron in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' is a SpaceMaster whose feats include sending a whole attacking starfleet tumbling out of his way, making a huge alien LivingShip and its passengers seemingly blink out of existence for a moment by "flattening" their constituent de Broglie waves, and threatening to cause the Sun to go nova by altering its gravity. He's an alien race's artificial [[LivingWeapon living]] [[NuclearOption weapon of last resort.]]
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* The ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series has many villains capable of large-scale damage. Firstly, the main BigBad (and occasional AntiHero) Bowser is pretty much a walking, fire-breathing tank capable of being a OneManArmy with enough incentive (though he's pragmatic enough to prefer having his countless minions around whenever possible) -- and that's without any of the {{MacGuffin}}s that have enabled him to become things like a GalacticConqueror, a RealityWarper, etc.! And besides him, we have King Boo, the Shadow Queen, Count Bleck, Dimentio, the Dark Star, etc., all of whom are capable of various {{Apocalypse How}}s.
* While all Vault Hunters qualify to some extent, Gaige from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' takes the cake. If specced in Ordered Chaos her damage output is high enough to kill [[EliteMook Badass]] enemies in one hit, and Close Enough and To The Nth Degree skills means she can kill enemies behind her without even knowing it, outside of "gained XP" pop-up.
** All of the Vault Hunters in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' are referred to as a "Walking Apocalypse" by Professor Nakayama in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt DLC, as by this point they had mowed their way through probably tens of thousands of people.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'', most villains, as well as the heroes, are this. Essentially most of them had enough to destroy planets.
** The members of Organization XIII, all when armed with weapons, could take out huge armies with ease and went about destroying worlds. They all had incredible powers, bordering on the impractical.
** For example, Axel could set a whole battlefield on fire, just by thinking about it.
** Roxas had [[AbsurdCuttingPower two keyblades with infinite sharpness]], could move at the speed of light, and had tremendous magical powers.
** Most of the trained keyblade wielders and masters could turn their respective keyblades to anything they could think about.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', it's stated that anyone who can use hyperresonance would be able to use the ability to destroy everything, right down to the atmosphere itself. It's because of this reason that [[spoiler:Asch]], the only character who can actually control it, never uses it: it's just too powerful.
* On the subject of ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' games, ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' gives us [[spoiler:Estelle]], whose powers consume so much aer that they could indirectly lead to the destruction of the world. They're also ''lethal'' to the Entelexeia.
* Utsuho Reiuji of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' gained the power to manipulate nuclear fusion, making her a living, breathing ''star'' and, if she were to ever fully harness her power, she would be almost completely unstoppable. Initially she [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity somehow]] got the idea to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Gensoukyou]] / [[KillItWithFire burn it to the ground]], but now she [[MundaneUtility brings free electricity]] to its denizens.
** CheerfulChild Flandre Scarlet possesses the ability to OneHitKill ''absolutely anything'' simply by bringing its "eye" into her hand, as well as a [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength lack of comprehension as to the extent of her power]]. She has been basically confined to the basement of the Scarlet Devil Mansion for almost ''five hundred years'' due to fears of the damage she could cause, and aside from her sister Remilia no-one wants to be anywhere near her.
** Yukari Yakumo's ability is the "manipulation of boundaries", which, as stated in ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'', is basically a SemanticSuperpower granting her virtual omnipotence limited only by her own imagination and will, allowing her to do whatever she damn pleases however she likes.
* Justice from the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' series is certainly this. Converted into a magic-infused superbeing known as a Gear and intended as a weapon by "a certain major country," she grows to [[HumansAreBastards resent and hate humankind]] (despite having been one herself before becoming a Gear), turning on them in a fit of spite and malice. As she also possessed the ability to mentally control every other Gear in the world, it was a very impressive fit. She begins in grand fashion by ''disintegrating the islands of Japan.'' The boss of the next game, [[spoiler:her daughter]] Dizzy, takes up the mantle in ''Guilty Gear X'', though is notably much more benevolent, and in fact fearful of her own powers.
** [[AuthorAvatar Sol Badguy]], who Gears were based off of. Gets fed up with his side and kills their Gears.
*** It's worth noting that Sol holds back A LOT in all of his fights. Plus he wears a [[PowerLimiter power limiting headband]] because [[SuperPrototype if he didn't he'd be]] [[FlawedPrototype rampaging country to country]], [[PowerIncontinence destroying the world]].
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' starts with the Empire subjugating Terra, [[spoiler:half-human and half-Esper]], whose powers are so great she annihilated a battallion of MagiTek troopers in seconds. Locke's rescue of her, and Kefka's attempts to recapture her, drive the first 10 hours or so of the plot. Afterwards, the Empire sets its sights on the Espers themselves.
*** Terra's also faster than the world's fastest airship, is treated by the resistance as the one hope of standing up to the Empire, able to open a magically sealed gate that no one, human or esper, could open, is described by the team's knowledgeable wizard guy as "more than magic" or rather, more powerful than it, and, oh yeah, participates in taking out several Gods at the game's ending.
** In ''Compilation of VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', anyone who ranks SOLDIER First Class or the equivalent, or higher.
*** Sephiroth, who (pre-madness), was apparently capable of casually slicing up the Junon Cannon like a carrot stick... one-handed.
*** Zack (who decimated an entire division of the Shinra army), as well as Genesis and Angeal in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''.
*** Cloud becomes one by the time of ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]''.
*** ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' shows Vincent (especially in his Chaos persona) and top level Tsviets like Wiess qualifying as this.
** [=SeeD=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' are implied to be an entire BadassArmy of these. The field exam that Squall goes through at the beginning involves nine [=SeeD=] troops and twelve [=SeeD=] candidates taking on an entire Galbadian army and winning. Ultimately they're ordered to withdraw, not because of their losses (they don't have any), but [[NotInMyContract because their contract expired]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' had Kuja who had a TakingYouWithMe so epic he managed to destroy a planet single-handedly. He then upped the ante and nearly destroyed the entire universe at its point of origin.
*** Also from ''[=FFIX=]'' anyone who can use summon magic. While [[spoiler:Queen Brahne was wielding Dagger's summons]] she was able to conquer an entire continent. Given how it compares to when your characters use the same summons this is also an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has a Person-cum-monster of Mass Destruction as the entire driving point of its world and history, as [[spoiler:Sin is in actuality a summoned Horror surrounding its Summoner, Yu Yevon. Sin is doomed to return until that little sucker is ripped out and dealt with outside of Sin's core, in point of fact.]] Tidus may be considered a Smartbomb of Mass Destruction as his entire reason for existing is to break the cycle of sacrifice and renewal so Sin and that which opposes it can be put to an end, once and for all.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' gives us [[spoiler:Ashe, who chooses at the end not to become one (being a one woman army helped by five one sidekick armies is ''reasonably'' sufficient to restore her throne)]], and of course ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Yuna's pilgrimmage is basically a quest to become a nun of mass destruction.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' there is the L'cie. A group of six L'cie manage to be more than a match for the entire Cocoon military. In fact, a key portion of the plot revolves around the group becoming Persons of Mass Destruction.
* They [[BadassNormal don't have any superpowers]] as such, and if you have them dead to rights are as easy to kill as any other human being--but the deliberate unleashing of a Silencer from the ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' games is viewed not unlike the use of a small tactical nuke. When ''one'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters goes rogue]], it doesn't take the bad guys long, once they figure out where he's gone, to imagine exactly how much trouble they're in.
* Galen "Starkiller" Marek, the main character of ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' is trained to use the Force to its maximum potential, uncaring of supposed limits and truly embodying "size matters not". He can bring down a Star Destroyer by himself, as well as create what are practically Force Shockwaves. He can also super-charge a ship's blaster cannon to cut a Star Destroyer in half. And then there's Luke. If he went Sith, he would've been a definite Person of Mass Destruction. As it is, he's just the Jedi's personal assassin.
* In addition to their horrendously powerful fighting abilities, such as ''deflecting tank shells'', the Valkyria in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' are capable of using the [[spoiler:Valkyria's Flame, a devastating {{suicide attack}} that causes an explosion powerful enough to rival most nuclear bombs.]]
* Fayt, the hero of ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' turned out to literally be able to [[spoiler:just plain delete things out of existence.]] As can the secondary female lead, Maria. [[spoiler:Although she requires a physical catalyst.]]
* In ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' characters who have at least overlord-level strength can and will destroy the world if really ticked off. Though they can only do to when using CutscenePowerToTheMax. Laharl does do it in a BadEnd, [[spoiler:as does Mao]].
** And what if an Overlord was so powerful that she could wipe out [[UpToEleven 99 Overlords and a thousand demon lords]] and has gone omnicidal due to her troubled past, and you get the [[spoiler:True]] Overlord Zenon in a nutshell. She even defeats [[spoiler:Laharl]] with little to no effort, taking a signature Overlord's Wrath in the face and shrugging it off as if it was dust. Even [[SarcasmMode better?]] [[spoiler:She isn't even on her full power due to just waking up.]]
* Pretty much anyone and everyone in the ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'' games who uses the augmentation canisters [[spoiler:or the eponymous ArtifactOfDoom]]. Combine this with the tendency of such people to turn into AxCrazy psychopaths, and you've got a recipe for disaster on your hands.
** Not just canister junkies. In Geneforge 5, one Shaper offhandedly mentions that, with the proper equipment and training, she can control 40+ creations at once, at a distance of several miles, the average of which are 12-foot tall humanoids that can punch through walls.
* In the backstory of the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series, the Guardians of Tirisfal were an order of these. Each Guardian was a powerful mage who, upon growing old, transferred all their magic to their successor. Things go downhill when Medivh, the last one, gets possessed by the demon they were supposed to fight.
* Jak, in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'', was injected with Dark Eco in order to be used against the Metal Heads. Since he proceeded to rack up a hecatomb of Metal Head and Krimzon Guard kills, one can only assume the Baron was [[GoneHorriblyRight too successful for his own good]].
* Alex Mercer in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' is another one of the "possibly an accident" variants, as resulting from a virus. In a CrapsackWorld filled with murderous military fanatics, zombies, and other twisted unholy abominations, he is considered by far '''the''' most dangerous thing out there. And for very good reason. Thanks to the powers granted by the Backlight Virus, Alex is essentially the perfect killing machine. He's [[LightningBruiser incredibly fast and immensely strong]], [[ShapeshifterWeapon can transform his body parts into deadly weapons]], and has incredible [[HealingFactor healing]] [[FromASingleCell powers]] that make him virtually unstoppable. His most dangerous ability, however, is that he can [[TheAssimilator consume anyone he comes across]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting taking on their appearance, voice, and memories, allowing him to flawlessly impersonate them]]. [[ParanoiaFuel He can be the person right next to you and you'd never know until it was too late]]. There's a reason why Blackwatch gave him the codename "Zeus".
* As well as being an all around badass, Solid Snake, now Old Snake as of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', has to deal with some very heavy complications. [[spoiler:Most pressing of which is that due to his unfortunate bout of accelerated aging due to being an artifical human, the [=FoxDie=] virus implanted in him in ''Metal Gear Solid'' has mutated to the point where instead of affecting specific targets it affects anyone and everyone, and Snake must face the prospect of becoming one of the most dangerous biological weapons on Earth in time. By the end of the game Snake makes the decision to kill himself before this happens, but thankfully however this is averted by the end with the timely arrival of Big Boss, who relays the information that a new [=FoxDie=] virus injected into him has eliminated the mutant strain. Snake can at least spend what's left of his life in peace.]]
** On that subject, Big Boss/Naked Snake was considered such an incredible soldier that his post mortem ([[spoiler:or so they thought]]) DNA became a highly prized commodity. So much so that the antagonist of ''Metal Gear Solid'', Liquid Snake, makes it one of his ransom demands. Big Boss may not have caused things to explode by winking at them, but if your genetic material becomes that valuable after you die you might as well be on par with weapons of mass destruction.
** To top this off, Naked Snake's mentor, The Boss, was so feared as a [[OneManArmy one-woman]] NGOSuperpower by the KGB ''and'' CIA due to her high charisma and major assets in all major countries, that both operations agreed to a truce and sabotaged billions of dollars in projects and risked millions of lives just to kill the boss without turning her into a martyr. Assassination attempts include the KGB sabotaging its own spy network (sent one of their only psychic agents on an UriahGambit so he could get killed by The Boss, since he was practically her husband), the CIA sabotaging their one chance at being the first nation to get a human in space (They had the technology but when they heard that The Boss was going to be the test pilot, they started demanding ridiculous requests that would get the pilot killed), the assassination of an innocent and brilliant mind who eventually revolutionized rocket science (ironically, the boss regrets failing to unjustly murder him because his actions inadvertently screwed up her plans), and other marvels of human advancement aborted just to kill one woman. And she survived all of this. Eventually, the KGB sacrifices its own piece of eden (and their secret Tank Mecha testing center) and the CIA sabotage their heist of billions (in 1960s) of untraceable funds, just to ensure that the Boss is marked as a traitor to both countries and executed by her student, Naked Snake. When Snake realizes just how far countries were willing to go to prevent one woman from institutionalizing world peace, he snaps and becomes the next person of mass destruction. His mentor in warfare revealed to be a pacifist is the final straw.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has another example in the form of [[spoiler:Quiet, Venom Snake's sharpshooting ally and love interest. She is revealed in the game's second act as being infected with vocal chord parasites, a deadly biological weapon that can spread like wildfire and kill anyone speaking in the language the parasites are attuned to. Specifically, she is infected with a strain that is activated by speaking English; a strain that had been engineered by Skull Face as part of his plan to TakeOverTheWorld by destroying the English language (as well as holding the world at ransom with nukes only he could control). Since English is the dominant language of most of the world, if she were to speak a word of English, she could cause a pandemic of apocalyptic proportions. In the end, when Snake is gravely wounded in the desert and an evac chopper has trouble finding them in a sandstorm, she is forced to give instructions to the pilot over a walkie-talkie in English and, with her parasites activated, wandered out into the desert to die, taking the parasites with her and averting a global disaster.]]
* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' gives us Choko, and [[spoiler:The BigBad: he was a normal human who ''willingly'' turned himself into an EldritchAbomination and nearly destroyed the biosphere more than once]].
* Kyrie of ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' is ''really'' called the Destruct. Appropriate, because he can literally turn everything in the world into sand (not that he wants to). [[spoiler:And he almost does, before the Power of Love says otherwise.]] Morte is far more keen on destroying the world, and given [[MadBomber the number of bombs she carries and how much she loves to use them]], she almost counts in her own right; if she ever figures out how to activate Kyrie's destructive powers on command, ''she will''. [[spoiler:Luckily for the world, by the time she ''does'' learn the phrase that controls Kyrie's powers, he's managed to change her mind on that whole "destroy the world" thing.]]
* Jack in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is basically the setting's equivalent of Starkiller as the product of Biotics [[PlayingWithSyringes experimentation]] from [[WellIntentionedExtremist Cerberus]]. In her recruitment mission, after releasing her from her cryo-chamber she proceeds to rampage unarmed through the prison station that held her.
* Positron in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' used to be this way for much of the game's history. He suffered an accident during the Rikti Wars that left his massive radioactive powers unstable and forced him to live inside his sealed suit - because not doing so could level an entire city. During the first plot arc of the Top Cow run of the ''City of Heroes'' comic, Lord Recluse drained the powers of all the superheroes and Positron was forced to seal himself within the Phalanx's base because he'd already begun to leak anti-matter. A makeshift attempt to repair his suit in this arc let him function somewhat normally, but he was still a danger to his team until the heroes powers were restored at the end of the arc. He still remained stuck in the suit until the comic's final arc, when an attack by a mutated Hero 1 ruptured his suit and killed him and several of his team mates. The Dark Watcher was able to restore him to life, and resurrection ''finally'' cured him of his instability. This was reflected in the game as well, where Positron now appears without his helmet. Of course, if he were ever to get injured like that again...
* ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'': Alma Wade, an immensely powerful psychic child who [[RealityWarper twists and bends reality to her will]] and is outright said to be "the mother of the apocalypse." A nuclear explosion didn't do much to slow her down, either....
** In the third game, her ''birth pains'' are enough to knock over ''skyscrapers''.
* The player character in ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity: Nova'' by the end of [[spoiler:The Polaris storyline]]. Universe-bending psychic powers sufficient to destroy planets... many of the [=NPCs=] are probably relieved when you [[spoiler:transcend and merge with the universe at the end]].
** Which is peanuts compared to the [[spoiler:Vellos storyline]], where you are a walking demigod for most of the end. [[spoiler:And then you wake up some ''real'' gods.]]
* High level mages in ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}}'' can, with the research to go with their skill, annihilate or simply dominate the minds of armies consisting of hundreds of soldiers. With some preparation time (one turn/month) and the majority of magical gems in your nations treasury, make a second sun to screw up the races who aren't used to heat, plunge the world into eternal night, accelerate time to kill all living beings in a few years and call on armageddon.
* Ghost operatives in ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', an otherwise fairly gritty and realistic sci-fi universe except for the part where human psychics can cloak and commit genocide with their minds. Especially Kerrigan, who had been captured by the Zerg to serve them, instead managed to overpower them and [[spoiler: at one point]] was queen of the ''entire Zerg swarm''. Which also provided her with some biological upgrades, allowing her to survive ''nukes''.
** To really drive home Kerrigan's power, before she was made the Queen of Blades, the scale used to measure psyonic power was rewritten because of her. Before she was the Queen of Blades, Kerrigan was a 10 (out of 10) on the scale. ''[[UpToEleven After, she was a 12!]]''
*** After [[spoiler: becoming the Primal Queen of Blades]] the scanners simply give up and declare Kerrigan to be "Unclassifiable".
** Then there's Nova from the cancelled ''Starcraft: Nova'', whose telepathic and telekinetic powers, as revealed in the prequel book, are of the UpToEleven variety. When she witnesses the deaths of her parents, she unintentionally emits a telekinetic wave that kill everyone around her and shatters the transparent dome atop their house, which is said to have been designed to stop nukes. She can also MindControl anyone to do her bidding and even capable of limited levitation (by telekinetically lifting herself).
** Tassadar becomes one for a short while when he combines the powers of the High Templar with those of the Dark Templar to destroy the Overmind, although it costs him his life. This was previously done by Adun, although he used the power as a distraction.
** Like Ghosts, other sufficiently powerful Protoss can qualify. In the backstory, the result of several Protoss practicing their powers in secret and screwing up killed thousands, and in-game specially trained Templars can rain down plenty of pain through psionic storms that can slaughter entire squadrons in one shot and severely damage structures. It's a little more difficult to know if the more unique units you get to field qualify, as while they do bring plenty of destruction they tend to do it by [[OneManArmy cutting armies up personally]] rather than by massive psionic attacks.
* Omega in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 3'', used by [[BigBad Dr. Weil]] as the instrument for enacting the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Elf Wars]], all but singlehandedly wiped out 60% of humanity, and ''90%'' of all [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots reploids]].
* The Bhaalspawn in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' (both the original and even more so the expansion) are sometimes treated like this, but in this case the characters who do so are somewhat lacking justification for it. A Bhaalspawn can certainly be a OneManArmy like any high-level character, and getting to high enough levels they can approach this kind of power. But many are just ordinary, unpowered (and un-murderous) people.
* The playable characters in ''VideoGame/AlterAILA'' are treated like this. While their abilities (in most cases) are really more like [[OneManArmy One Man Armies]], they're WMD analogues that both the Empire and Rebellion want to control or destroy, and victory in the war will go to whoever gets control of the most {{Super Soldier}}s. [[spoiler: Black]], meanwhile, is the real deal, capable of [[CutscenePowerToTheMax one-shotting]] HumongousMecha. [[spoiler:Jackals are the result of Imperial research into creating these, and the project led to the destruction of the city they were created in. And that's just the Alpha version; the EvilGenius has created a more powerful Jackal as his secret weapon.]] And finally, [[spoiler:Aila is an ArtificialHuman created from LostTechnology, and is powerful beyond human comprehension. [[NotHyperbole This is not a metaphor]].]]
* ''Franchise/BreathOfFire''
** Ryu in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' left a trail of charred corpses in his wake even as a young whelp, the reason the dragon clan never fought back against Myria was that they feared they would become this.
** In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'', when Kaiser is first unleashed it easily devestates an entire village.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia'', Tiki, the daughter of [[PrecursorHeroes Naga]], is stated as having the potential to lay waste to the entire continent if she ever lost her mind; a fate many of her fellow dragons avoided by taking on human forms and becoming the Manakete race. She also became human, though her sheer power still posed a risk to her sanity despite this, and was thus put into a deep sleep by her mother before she passed away. She's eventually awakened some 1000 years later, but frequently forced to sleep until Shield of Seals is repaired, afterwhich she's finally able to live a normal life thanks to it properly containing her power.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'' has Kratos. UnstoppableRage given form. He gave OneManArmy a new meaning by becoming a one-man ''armageddon''. If anything from Greek myth was left alive by the end of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', it's because ''he hadn't killed it yet''.
* Id from ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''. Destroying a village by a momentary outbreak, wiping out an entire army, fighting [[HumongousMecha Gears]] bare handed... In the game's backstory, he wiped an entire ''continent'' off the map.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': The Aegis, Pyra. When last she fought at full power, she destroyed three continents. [[spoiler:That was actually Mythra; she was so horrified at what she did that she sealed away most of her power and created a weaker, gentler personality named Pyra]]. Malos claims that the Aegises were created by the Architect to destroy the world, but Mythra disagrees. She's not able to come up with very good arguments, though, and the fact that the Aegises have access to multiple world-ending superweapons is strong evidence in Malos' favor. It turns out that [[spoiler:Mythra was right. The Aegises were originally [=AIs=] in charge of the SpaceElevator and all its technology, repurposed to manage the Blades that were being used to restore life to the world. Unfortunately, much of the technology they have access to consists of the very weapons that destroyed the world in the first place]].
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** Mehrunes Dagon, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[DestroyerDeity Destruction]], is one of these whenever he [[PhysicalGod manifests in Mundus]], the mortal realm. It helps that he tends to do so in [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever a truly gigantic form]]. Being the ''embodiment'' of destruction, he ultimately [[OmnicidalManiac seeks to destroy all of Mundus]], and in each manifestation to date, has ''at least'' managed to cause city-wide destruction, such as in the backstory when he destroyed Old Mournhold (before being [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu banished]] by [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Almalexia]]) and when he appeared during the 11th hour of the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion Crisis]], wreaking major havoc on the Imperial City (before being banished by [[spoiler:Martin and the avatar of [[TopGod Akatosh]]]].
** From the series' backstory comes Pelinal Whitestrake, the legendary 1st Era hero of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Said to be a [[GodInHumanForm Shezarrine]], Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and [[PaintTheTownRed left so much carnage in his wake]] that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. During one particularly infamous fit of rage, Pelinal ''damaged the very lands themselves'', nearly causing [[OurGodsAreDifferent the Divines]] (who sent him) to abandon the mortal world in disgust. It's implied that Pelinal is [[GodzillaThreshold one of the examples of why the Divines don't directly intervene in mortal affairs on Nirn unless the situation is incredibly dire.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
*** The Greybeards, a group of {{Old Master}}s of the [[LanguageOfMagic Thu'um]], have taken a vow of silence because their [[MakeMeWannaShout voices are too powerful]]. Only one of them can talk to you without making the ground shake. Luckily for others, they [[AllPowerfulBystander stay on their monastery at the world's tallest mountain, not getting involved with outside problems]].
--->'''Arngeir''': ''"Their voices are too powerful for anyone not trained in the way of the voice. Even a whisper could kill you."''
*** The [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]] is considered one, since they capable of taking on ''Dragons'' single-handed.
*** In the ''Dragonborn'' DLC, the first Dragonborn, [[EvilCounterpart Miraak]] is shown to be capable of taking on ''multiple'' Dragons at once.
* The player in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicII'' is constantly accused of being one, having destroyed worlds both accidentally and on purpose.
** Darth Nihilus is a frighteningly literal example. He's more like an EldritchAbomination than a man at this point and when he sees the Force, he goes and devours the entire planet to sate his hunger. An entire planet, Katarr, had all life on it wiped out, except for one person who became his apprentice.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tera}}'', a storyline reveals that during the Divine war the high elves managed to capture a snippet of power from one of the Titans. Such a snippet being essentially infinite power, it required something special; Or rather, ''someone'' special. Said person became "The Core", also known as the power source of the entire high elven civilization and more importantly of their capital city. While it also becomes immortal, it also loses its soul. Later in the game many things happen and the Core becomes wounded. They note the last time they lost control of the Core, an entire continent was devastated.
* On average, the usual Guardian General Demi-God from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is required to be one of these to be a member of them. [[TheRival Yasha]] is shown being able to use a [[Franchise/KamenRider Rider Kick]] strong enough [[spoiler: to deflect the Brahmastra with enough force to make it fizzle out and push the Karma Fortress that holds enough so the laser scrapes off the earth.]] [[OldMaster Augus]] can use a Massive 380,000 kilometer sized blade to literally extend through the Planet of Gaea itself. [[FatBastard Wyzen]] can use his Mantra to make himself as big as Gaea and can poke things to death with a country sized finger, and [[ShockAndAwe Deus]] is here by being stronger then the aforementioned characters.
** And all of those people pale when compared to Asura [[spoiler: once he enters his Berserker form.]] To give you an idea of how powerful he is in that form, try thinking of a walking, talking (well, [[ScreamingWarrior screaming]]), ''nuclear missile silo''. [[spoiler: And don't even get me started on his Destructor form.]]
* ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' has Man-Bot, an ComicBook/IronMan {{Expy}} who was a carefree playboy until struck by an unstable canister of [[SuperSerum Energy X]], causing it to periodically build up inside him and release in an explosive manner. His smart brother tries to get him to put on a [[PoweredArmor powered containment suit]] until he can find a way to cure him, but the playboy refuses. He then "explodes" and accidentally kills his brother. Now he's TheAtoner and wears the armor in order to avoid hurting more people. The armor allows him to channel the energy to power the suit and focus it into a beam of energy. He can still occasionally explode if attacked, but to a much lesser extent than without the suit. Man-Bot is also the key to the [[BigBad Time Master]]'s plan to destroy the Celestial Clock and allow him to remain ageless.
* The player characters in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series may become this, singlehandedly slaughtering and even nuking entire towns, or wiping out what's left of civilization with a waterborne virus.
* Agent 47 of the VideoGame/{{Hitman}} series prefers leaving as little evidence of his assassinations as possible, but he is perfectly capable of clearing out an entire building of armed, trained soldiers if he chooses or is forced to.
* The Boss in the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series. In the [[VideoGame/SaintsRow1 first]] [[VideoGame/SaintsRow2 two]] games, the Boss of the Third Street Saints crushes rival gangs almost single-handedly. In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', the Boss takes on a paramilitary organization, blowing up aircraft carriers ([[AirborneAircraftCarrier airborne and otherwise]]) and even potentially taking over a city-state. In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', the Boss' badassery sees them elected President of the United States, they gain superpowers, and take on an entire alien empire. And in the ''[[VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell Gat out of Hell]]'' expansion, it's revealed that {{Satan}} has chosen the Boss to wed his daughter Jezebel because they have caused more death, destruction and chaos ''than any being in human history.''
* Toyotomi Hideyoshi from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' certainly counts as one. From the anime alone, he can send a wave of arrows flying back to their archers at the wave of a hand, can part the clouds with a fist pump, can block the Fugaku's cannon with one hand before raising a massive amount of earth by ''punching the air above it'' and stopping the ship (which is the size of an island), breaking said ship by punching Motochika into it, and finally ''destroys Odawara Castle with a punch'', the castle that Hideyoshi was actually wishing to ''seize''. Oh yeah, and he '''cleared the Setouchi Sea with a punch'''...and the water only came back half a day later. In the games, he can generate enough energy to make an incredible amount of earth ''erupt into the sky''. There's a reason he's called the Supreme King.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', there's the eponymous Skullgirls. Queen Nancy caused a three-way war to stop simply so the powers in question could unite to stop her, while Marie devastates an entire city, killing thousands -- and it's only incredible self-control that keeps the death toll from reaching ''millions''.
* Yuriko Omega in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' is basically the Japanese schoolgirl version of [[Manga/{{Akira}} Tetsuo]]. She also can be considered a weaponized version of [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]].
** Good news: She still [[Main/PowerLimiter hold her limit]].
** Bad news: If some day she cannot hold her limit, she is [[Main/RealityWarper nigh-unstoppable]].
* Galacta Knight from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series is renowned as the galaxy's greatest warrior, whose power was so overwhelming that he had to be sealed away. When [[spoiler:Star Dream]] summons him in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', it casually mentions that doing so runs the risk of him ''destroying a few nearby planets''.
* Carter of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. A [[ChildMage magical prodigy]] of unprecedented power, she's ended up destroying most of the previous houses she lived in [[PowerIncontinence without even meaning to]], and even now that she's safely [[note]]for lack of a better word[[/note]] quartered at [[WizardingSchool Innsmouth Academy]], the place had to be warded from the inside just to stop her from accidentally blowing the place to bits by mistake. When she finally gets to fight in "Carter Unleashed," she can casually obliterate entire roomfuls of familiars with a single spell... and [[BadassTeacher Montag]] speculates that if misapplied, her powers could lead to ''thaumonuclear devastation.''
* ''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. In ''Videogame/DoomEternal'' the Phobos Base even has a dedicated PA announcement for all personnel to clear the area if "The Slayer has entered the facility". [[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]].
* Potentially the player character in ''Videogame/StreetsOfRogue'', depending upon their traits, items and whatever mutators are active. Infinite ammo or melee durability and either an upgraded Wall Walloper trait or a rocket launcher with Blaster Master will allow anyone to completely destroy every single floor in the city down to the last brick. Even at a lower power level it quickly becomes trivially easy to kill everyone occupying those floors in a relatively short period of time, leading to several hundred casualties per hour being a reasonable benchmark to achieve.
** Out of the vanilla classes [[HumanoidAbomination the Werewolf]] and [[PatientZero Zombie]] best embody this trope, since neither requires gaining any items or levels to wreck the city. The former has the worst base stats of any character but can transform into a howling maelstrom of fury in an instant to shred through absolutely any opponents in mere seconds, this transformation is actually powerful enough that it can realistically solo [[BossInMookClothing the Giant Robot]] with nothing but its claws and some careful dodging. The Zombie is nowhere even close to as powerful in a direct confrontation but infects anyone damaged by it, causing them to revive as another zombie when they die. These other zombies can in turn spread the infection themselves and as you might imagine this makes it very easy to snowball. You can start a floor alone, attack the first few people you see wandering the street or in any nearby buildings and just a few minutes later over a third of the floor can be an undead army that will do all of the heavy lifting for you.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** All psykers (psychic humans) 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.
** Ork Weirdboyz use a form of magic tied to "Orkiness", that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve latent gestalt energy]] generated by every Ork, and used by them every day on an instinctual basis to tell the laws of physics to sit down and shut up. Weirdboyz tap into it more directly than other Orks though, channeling it into power blasts or giant feet falling from the sky. The more Orks around the psyker, the more powerful his magic is. There is a catch, however: if there are too many boyz around, or they get too excited, the poor Weirdboy can't handle the sheer amount of power, which can cause his magic to fizzle... or himself to go nuclear. [[HilarityEnsues Yuks ensue]].
** The Primarchs were created to be the ultimate weapon, and they definitely succeeded at that, for good and for ill. Even without their Legions backing them up, a Primarch is a threat no mortal and only a handful of Space Marines can stand against for long. Magnus, as a psyker ''and'' a Primarch, is one of the most overtly destructive.
** There's also [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legienstrasse Legienstrasse]], the first and last graduate of the Maeorus Assassin Temple. She was heavily modified with xenos DNA so she could absorb biomass through her skin and rapidly mutate any natural weapon she needs in battle (in other words, a female [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]]), and she went rogue. A massive manhunt was launched against her, and in the process she took on Captain Lysander of the Imperial Fists, an Assault Marine Squad, 1st Company Veterans, the Grandmaster of the Culexus Temple and the Grandmaster of the Vindicare Temple. ''[[OhCrap Everybody except Lysander was killed]]''. A second manhunt was called, which succeeded after a grueling fight by Lysander repeatedly smashing her body with a Thunder Hammer until none is left but fine dust.
* 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 ''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. And 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]]''.
* While not as extreme as some of the others on this page, the mages in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' essentially become one of these when they reach mastery of virtually any Arcanum. The archmasters are more direct examples, to the point where they essentially have a non-aggression pact to prevent themselves from destroying the world, and instead conduct their affairs through a series of proxies, a la the Cold War.
* In ''Dark Ages: Mage'' (a historical setting for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'')... to be honest, the time needed for this is exactly the amount of time one needs for standard character creation, if we count being able to be an orbital bomber enough for this. [[note]]An Order of Hermes character investing in the elemental manipulation(/creation/anything) path of their magic can easily achieve the ability to 1) fly 2) manipulate air (meaning a personal pressurised airpocket around the mage) 3) manipulate forces like gravity (potentially meaning no g-forces) 4) BURN (village/town wide if necessary), from great distances if necessary... and that's just level 3 of a very parabolic 1-5 scale. And by the default character creation rules level 3 is something you can just simply just pick for your character without gimping them in other aspects, or taking any flaws.[[/note]] So you can destroy towns with fire from the air needing only some simple item like a coin as a focus object (so not even clothes necessary) with a character out of creation. Oh, and the best part of this... that's all in medieval times. (Yes, orbital bombardment in a medieval setting.)\\
Most ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' games can make madly powerful characters compared to sane things in their setting - usually ones that are one-trick wonders - but in ''Mage'' it won't even be a one-trick wonder. Sure you're human, but then again you can be a human foreseeing the future, living several thousand years, avoiding all situations where being a 'fragile human' could be a problem, just by knowing about them in advance and manipulating things like change, destiny, minds, natural forces and so on, to just achieve what you wished.
** Also, in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', supplemental material from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' makes it clear that [[TheMenInBlack Task Force: VALKYRIE]] considers any werewolves to be a national security nightmare, because they're indistinguishable from humans until they walk into a secure facility and turn into nine-foot-tall killing machines.
** The Arisen of ''TabletopGame/MummyTheCurse'' all start out at the very height of their power, which includes, among other things, the ability to cause a magnitude 6.0 earthquake to devastate a 10-mile region or call down a meteor storm on everything within a mile. Fortunately(?), they get weaker the longer they're up and about.
* The whole point of ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is that you ''play as'' one of these. Exalted are very, VERY powerful - but no more mentally stable than the average person. In fact, due to the Great Curse, they're quite prone to become unhinged and abuse their power. It's a game mechanic. When an experienced Exalt starts to look even a little bit angry, ''run''.
** Don't. You'll only die tired.
** This is also the case for a lot of major [=NPCs=], such as the Deathlords, each of whom is, in their current state, entirely capable of taking on everything in the Underworld except the other Deathlords without backup.
** While all Exalts are good at this, Infernals have access to an entire charm tree built around a FantasticNuke effect. The most terrifying Infernal Shintai Charm, Demon Emperor, basically turns a large area around you into ground zero for anyone you don't specifically declare exempt, unless they [[KneelBeforeZod grovel at your feet]]. Infernal Charms are quite literally as awesome as hell.
** Abyssals are also skilled in this area, but that's less about killing everyone who annoys you and more about blighting large chunks of Creation straight into the Underworld.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' is another one where [=PCs=] tend to be phenomenally powerful but not particularly stable; most Nobles were pretty screwed-up people even before they were given their godlike powers and found themselves serving an inhuman morality code. Oh, and the Earth is ruled by someone who, among other things, has forbidden Nobles to love on punishment of being forced to kill their own loved ones if caught.
** Then there are the Strategists, each of whom has a power that permits them to destroy pretty much anything they like. One canonical use of the World-Breaker's Hand created the [[{{Mordor}} Dead Zone of Libya]], a place where nothing grows, nothing lasts, nothing matters, and while you can break a man by leaving him there for a day or two, nobody takes advantage of this because the trait that makes places memorable is a trait the Dead Zone no longer has.
* In the game ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' you play as the mortal offspring of a god. You start out essentially as a minor superhero, but given enough time you can build yourself up to full god status and can do essentially anything within your purview (for instance, if you're a god of death you can kill essentially anyone up to and including the population of whole nations at will; or if you're a god of strength you can pick up the Willis Tower...and the Empire State building...at the same time...in either hand...and use them as battle clubs...)
* The ''TabletopGame/WildTalents'' game system actually details in its power generation tutorial how to build a power with unlimited range that halts nuclear fusion. Not terribly useful on its own, unless you spend the extra points to change the duration to permanent. For someone of a heroic bent, a power like this could be useful against a crazed dictator who has just launched his entire nuclear arsenal against the world. For someone a little more unhinged? ''Turn off the sun.'' '''FOREVER'''. Or, until the Game Master reveals your opposite number exists who has the power to restart nuclear fusion.
* There is a d20 RPG adaptation of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}''. In this game there are rules for learning the tac-nuke level Dragon Slave and the world-ending Giga Slave, though advice is given to the GM not to hand the latter to the players unless there's a good reason to. If the players are imitating the show they'll distribute the former like candy.
* The Planeswalkers of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' are mages of near-godlike power who can easily become this, depending on their style of magic. Chandra Nalaar, for example, is a pyromancer who caused so much damage as a child that her ''whole village'' was blamed for it. For players who want in on the fun, the game offers board-clearing spells in a number of flavors, especially [[KillItWithFire red]], [[UnholyNuke black]], and [[HolyHandGrenade white]]. Lore-wise they were once [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] able to make and unmake entire worlds. They had to be ''nerfed'' just so they could be represented in card form. To put that in perspective, demons, dragons, gods, and the avatars of entire planes themselves have all been represented as cards. [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]] is one of the most powerful Planeswalkers of them all, since absorbing a conflux of mana from a shattered plane restored him to ''near'' Pre-mending Planeswalker level.
* High level characters in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tend to be this, with some variance for edition and class. Mages tend to do it better, both for [[LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards power-progression]] reasons and because non-spellcasters tend to have to [[OneManArmy do their army-killing a few mooks at a time]] instead of just wiping out every mook in one with a single spell. This is touched upon in the fluff in various ways, with ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' (for example) both mentioning cases of mass invasions being single-handedly thwarted by powerful spellcasters and having a rough variant of MutuallyAssuredDestruction as a reason the various high-level non-player characters don't get actively involved more often for their respective factions, with the [=NPCs=] themselves being the 'nukes'.
** Invoked with the Evocation school of magic; this is the closest equivalent in traditional [=D&D=] magic to "the offensive magic school", and with a few exceptions, Evocation spells universally revolve around pasting wide areas (or at least multiple targets) with different kinds of elemental damage, from iconic spells like fireballs and lightning bolts to more obscure ones, like rains of acid or cones of cold. An Evoker - a wizard specialized in Evocation - is the tabletop game equivalent of a BlackMage, and whilst some fans look down on them as actually one of the ''less'' game-breakingly powerful ways to play a wizard, they do their one trick of "make everybody '''dead'''" ''very'' well.
* Shrouds in ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'' can start riots that span miles, magically spread plagues and pollute water sources, turn food into dust and ash, cause massive accidents, make people age decades in seconds, and make others lose the will to live. They are also ''required'' to meet a daily kill quota.
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* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Vor]][[LawfulEvil lons]] used telepaths for their war with the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Sha]][[ChaoticEvil dows]]. Most of the telepaths were of "regular" "read thoughts, cause headache" kind, and their only combat use was to disrupt the link Shadow battleships had with their pilots. However, (at least) one telepath, [[spoiler: Lyta Alexander]], was upgraded UpToEleven and became the equivalent of a DoomsdayDevice. Thankfully, [[InformedAbility we never learn what exactly they were capable of]].
* [[spoiler:Willow]] of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had become this by the end of Season 6. [[spoiler: In Season 7, she gets stronger and has better control.]]
* The Doctor, from ''Series/DoctorWho'', once killed his entire race. [[spoiler:Although, unknown to the Doctor himself, that later turns out not to be true.]]
** It's important to consider that the Doctor not only has the technological knowledge of the Time Lords, but also constant access to the heart of the TARDIS, which would make him a PhysicalGod and RealityWarper, and which he probably could use even more effectively than [[spoiler: Rose/Bad Wolf]], thanks to his advanced understanding of physics. And using it would only cost him a regeneration, not result in any kind of permanent damage. The only reason he doesn't is that he doesn't trust his own morals.
--> '''The Doctor''': No one is ever meant to have that power. If a Time Lord did that, he'd become a god, a vengeful god.
** In Series 9, a StoryArc teases the arrival of the Hybrid, a creature of Gallifreyan prophecy, said to be the greatest warrior ever known. All prophecies state it will be the ruin of a planet, that it will "burn a billion billion hearts to heal its own". [[spoiler: The season's FinalBoss is willing to torture the Doctor for as long as it takes to learn its identity. In the end, it turns out to be possibly nonexistent; several candidates are suggested, but none are confirmed]]. Moreover, [[spoiler: the most likely candidate, in a Prophecy Twist, is ''the Doctor himself'', who temporarily becomes a [[AntiVillain sympathetic villain]] thanks to being DrivenToMadness by said torture and the death of his beloved companion Clara and risks the universe's safety by trying to undo said death]].
** Of course, the fascinating thing about the Doctor is that unlike just about everyone on this page, he has almost no super-powers. He's ''just that good'' of a GuileHero.
* Crichton of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', for whom the least qualification is strapping himself to a nuclear bomb with a few dozen kinds of dead-man switches in order to crash a peace summit between two galactic superpowers. But his wormhole knowledge is ''so much worse'' for its ability to create wormhole weapons. When it's first seen unlocked, he helps design and build a "displacement engine" which uses a wormhole to siphon matter out of a star and vaporize a Scarran Dreadnought--usually considered to be almost unkillable--in a matter of seconds. Later on in the ''Peacekeeper Wars'' miniseries he unleashes a worse weapon on the Scarran and Peacekeeper fleets to force them to the table and prove that wormhole weapons are too terrible to ever be used. The weapon? A rapidly expanding black hole, which eats most of the fleets, the planet they're orbiting, and if not stopped would possibly destroy the galaxy.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' featured exactly one of these per season:
** Ted Sprague from Season 1 was the posthuman everyone and their mother was worried about, as his power was a nuclear-based WalkingWasteland ability. Despite the fears that he'd use those powers to irradiate New York, as it turned out it wasn't ''Ted'' they had to worry about abusing this ability...
** Maya Herrera of Season 2 was even worse in this regard, as her power combined the Walking Wasteland trope with {{Plaguemaster}}. This was bad enough on its own, but worse because Maya had PowerIncontinence and would start emitting her deadly plague of black tears whenever she got emotional (which was kind of often). She at least had a brother who acted as the opposite half of SiblingYinYang and could hoover up her anthrax tears on command, but unfortunately [[spoiler:Sylar killed him off to have Maya all to himself]].
** Arthur Petrelli of Season 3 was the next step up on the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, as he had ''both'' of the above posthuman abilities, stolen from Maya and his own son Peter respectively. [[spoiler:Fortunately for the world he never got to do anything with them before Sylar killed him]].
** And rounding out the Persons of Mass Destruction in ''Heroes'' was Season 4's Samuel Sullivan, who was by far the most extreme example. By itself his power was simply DishingOutDirt, but unlike the above [=PoMDs=] his ability got stronger in the presence of other evolved humans. At its strongest his power was great enough to ''[[ApocalypseHow literally split the world in two]]'', which was the token BadFuture of the season the heroes were trying to avert.
* The ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise contains several individuals who could be this. One of the most notable ones is Series/KamenRiderKuuga, who actually viewed his growing powers with some worry. During the mid-point of the series when he was dealing with a power up to his basic forms, he unleashed his newly upgraded super move on a monster. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQgvNaDlGU It created a devastating explosion roughly two miles in diameter]]. After that, Kuuga had to work with police to get any monster he needed to unleash that move on to isolated areas so as not to hurt anyone. The truly scary part? He gets at least ''two more upgrades'' before the series is done, with exponential rises in power. It was theorized by some that without the extreme self control Kuuga exercised, he could have devastated the entire world.
** Series/KamenRiderGaim ultimately becomes [[spoiler:a PhysicalGod in control over Helheim, a parasitic alien dimension of plant lifeforms that have in the past completely decimated other planets. However, Kouta Kazuraba is so selfless and heroic that he just takes the potentially world-destroying plantlife away from Earth to give it a new home planet that will prevent the cycle of destruction from recurring.]]
* The titular character of ''Series/{{Merlin}}''. He is the most powerful sorcerer on Earth. He can easily take out towns and cities with the wave of his hand. He can also kill groups of people and take out armies all at once, [[spoiler: like what was seen in the SeriesFinale when Merlin took out the entire Saxon army, plus Morgana, with the wave of his hand.]]
* Most of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'s'' villains fell ''just'' below this threshold, with two notable exceptions: Doomsday a.k.a. [[spoiler:Davis Bloome]] from Season 8 and Darkseid from Season 10. The former is an UltimateLifeForm created by the Kryptonian renegades Zod and Faora the express purpose of wiping out all life on Earth, while the latter is identified by Jor-El as the personification of UltimateEvil in the ''Smallville'' universe. Both cause catastrophic property damage over the course of their screen time.
* The ''Enterprise'' meets one in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Survivors." [[spoiler:Kevin Uxbridge appears to be an eighty-five-year-old human male, but is actually a Douwd who obliterated the entire Husnock species in retaliation for his human wife's death during their attack on his home. In his grief, he exiled himself to live alone on the dead world with a facsimile of his dead wife]].
** Technically, most non-corporeal beings in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' could count, the Q being the most obvious example, being, effectively, gods from a human standpoint.
* Icheb of the''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Child's Play" has been genetically engineered to pass on an infection that will destroy Borg cubes when he is assimilated (this causes problems when Voyager returns the youth to what they assume will be his doting parents). When you think that the average cube has a crew of ten of thousands of drones and can destroy a Federation battlefleet, this is pretty damned impressive.
** Kes becomes one after being in space turns her PsychicPowers UpToEleven.
** One wonders if Icheb is the inspiration for [[spoiler:Future!Janeway's BatmanGambit in Voyager's GrandFinale. Future!Janeway jumps to the past, taking with her one very nasty anti-Borg bug. She suckers the Borg Queen into assimilating her... while she has the bug in her. Future!Janeway thus actually goes one-up on Icheb, killing the Borg Queen, demolishing her Unimatrix, and basically crippling ''the entire Borg Collective'', one of the most fearsome forces in the entire galaxy. [[Awesome/StarTrekVoyager Now that's mass destruction!]]]]
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[spoiler:Castiel]] briefly becomes one at the end of season 6. While he was already quite a powerful supernatural being to start with, he upgraded himself with what essentially amounts to a supernatural nuclear reactor: 40,000,000 souls from a trans-dimensional monster afterlife. He goes mad with power and goes around killing hundreds if not thousands of people around the globe and showing his godly 'benevolence' by performing miracles. It's repeatedly mentioned that he's unstable and might take a large part of the planet with him when he reaches critical point. He's eventually compelled to give up his powers because he's housing far meaner beasties inside him.
** Sam and Dean Winchester, together and apart. Both were raised as tyke bombs, and [[spoiler: genetically engineered by Heaven to be the perfect host for Lucifer and Michael respectively, meaning they were always meant to fight and kill each other with the fate of the planet in the balance]] and it gets worse from there...
*** Sam was [[spoiler:fed demon blood as a baby, which ramped up his natural telekinetic gifts. Every woman he's ever loved dies which makes him rely on his brother more and more; finds out his brother sold his soul to keep him alive so embarks on an insane quest to keep his brother from dying; falls for a demon who lies to him that feeding on demon blood will ramp up his powers enough to save his brother; epically fails to save his brother because it turns out it was all a Xanatos gambit to give him enough juice to open the gates of hell; spends the next year trying to fix his mistake and dies closing them; came back wrong; got better but has been known to go off the deep end where his [[BerserkButton brother]] is concerned which is a problem because as of season 9...]]
*** Dean was [[spoiler:always meant to house the archangel Michael, which means that he physically and emotionally had to be able to deal with being the human embodiement of the highest of the angels. To get there meant being raised as a warrior; losing everyone he cares about; dying multiple times; going to hell; surviving hell for 40 years; breaking the first seal by torturing people in hell after refusing for the first 30 years, and only after continuously being tortured himself; being raised from the dead by angels; taking on the Mark of Cain, yes THAT Cain; and finally refusing to allow the Mark to make him a killing machine and allowing himself to be die, knowing he saved the world and the only family he has left are safe, only to be brought back from the dead because the Mark 'wouldn't let him go'. Now? He's the First Knight of Hell, the demon that all other demons fear and only slightly less powerful than Lucifer himself. As of Season 10 it's heavily implied that Dean may in fact be immortal due to having the Mark and being forced to kill it's original bearer Cain, which means that any hope of removing the Mark and returning it to its rightful owner is gone. Dean is Cain for all intents and purposes with everything that implies.]]
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* The most powerful Channelers in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. Three thousand years before the books start the male channelers going insane resulted in continents being reshaped and set humanity back thousands of years. Lews Therin's suicide alone reared up a large ''volcano''. The less powerful ''damane'' and Aes Sedai of the current age can be compared to bringing tanks into a medieval conflict when on the battlefield. The Asha'man are worse. And then there's the pair of devices that are powerful enough to let a single man and woman working together break the world all on their own, or challenge God.
* In Neal Stephenson's novel ''Literature/SnowCrash'', one antisocial character, Raven, connected himself through a DeadMansSwitch 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.
* Creator/KurtVonnegut's
** 1950 short story "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" is about Professor Arthur Barnhouse who develops the ability to [[MindOverMatter affect physical objects and events through the force of his mind]]. He becomes the first WeaponOfMassDestruction with a conscience.
** One of his short stories is about a type of ice called "Ice-9" that will turn anything with water into it into Ice-9. So if a person touches it, they will turn into Ice-9 because the human body is 70% water. Causes a bit of a problem when [[spoiler: a person who did that to commit suicide then falls into the Pacific Ocean...]]
* In Creator/CharlesSheffield's novel ''Dark As Day'', one character has [[spoiler:a bloodstream full of nanodevices that, if dropped into a gas giant, would cause the planet to collapse and release a burst of energy sufficient to wipe out civilization... and an obsessive fascination with the kind of turbulent weather patterns gas giants are full of.]]
* ''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'' by Creator/StephenKing. The titular pyrokinetic is a prepubsecent girl who can incinerate armored vehicles just by looking at them. It's implied that she has almost infinite potential power.
** Also ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', by the same author. As an adolescent who's only very recently gained any reliable powers, which get stronger as the book goes on, she totals a town. Had she survived, there's no reason to think her powers would not have kept increasing, and she certainly isn't the most emotionally stable person around.
* Melantha Green from Creator/TimothyZahn's ''The Green and the Gray''. It's implied that [[spoiler:her earthquake-causing powers could level New York City if the Green/Grey rivalry ever escalated to full-on war.]]
* Any sufficiently powerful magic user in L.E. Modesitt's ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce'' will have the capability to become one of these, and will usually end up killing large numbers of people no matter how much they wish they didn't have to.
* In Stephen R. Donaldson's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' series Covenant is one of these through his partial control of wild magic. [[spoiler:In the Second Chronicles the BigBad's aim is to force Covenant to surrender not by making him weaker but by making him so powerful he can't use his power without risking all of reality]].
* The Freehold Black Ops in Mike Z. Williamson's ''The Weapon'' fit this trope because of their [[TheSpartanWay Spartan Way]] training. Instead of special powers, it's a matter of being ruthless, creative, and cross-trained to the point of being CrazyPrepared.
* Some Adept-level mages in the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' books have power of this magnitude - Vanyel is said to be capable of destroying a fair-sized city, and indeed does go kaboom in a fairly spectacular manner in his final HeroicSacrifice. Occasionally, even "ordinary" Heralds can get fairly destructive, especially Lavan Firestorm who rivals Vanyel's feat with [[PsychicPowers mind-magic]] alone.
** In the Mage Wars prequels, the [[FantasticNuke combined detonation]] of the accumulated magical power of two opposing Great Mages set off the [[WorldWreckingWave Cataclysm]] whose effects are still felt thousands of years later. The large, almost perfectly circular inland sea on Valdemar's border? The equally circular, considerably larger grassland some kingdoms to the south? Those were merely the physical effects.
* Flinx, of Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'' series, is something of a walking [[PsychicPowers psychic]] time bomb, as he has a tendency to erupt in massive, [[PowerIncontinence uncontrolled]] telekinetic [[SuperPowerMeltdown detonations]] when severely provoked. These are invariably highly destructive to his immediate surroundings, albeit not quite at the city/planet level. He later learns to control the power to some extent by [[ActionBomb deliberately walking into fatal situations in order to force it to trigger]]. That he is ''not'' treated as a superweapon by Commonwealth authorities who know of him is something of an incongruity.
* The canonical example from the early ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' universe would be Ivan Ivanovich Gorachin -- a Russian-born mutant best remembered for having two heads (with separate personalities) and the ability to cause nuclear explosions at will so long as he had targets containing carbon or calcium to work on. (Like, say, humans. Fortunately for the good guys his HeelFaceTurn followed shortly after his introduction.)
* Jame from ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' is already this to a degree, although she tends to be more of the spark that lights the powder-keg. It looks, though, like she's destined to be Nemesis, the avatar of the Destruction aspect of her God, and that's quite some mass destruction indeed.
* Aside from the obligatory demons, vampires and such, the German horror/fantasy/SF pulp series ''Professor Zamorra'' features a recurring species of near-human aliens, the so-called 'Eternals'. (Who did, of course, try to invade Earth at least once before.) Aside from having the obligatory advanced technology, much of their personal power comes from magical crystals known as ''Dhyarras'', which come in distinct numbered power levels; social rank is determined largely by the ability to control the more powerful ones (with failure to do so generally resulting in insanity or death). Crystals of the highest (13th) order, only one of which is technically supposed to exist at a time because it doubles as the symbol of authority of the Dynasty's absolute leader, are explicitly stated to be powerful enough to destroy entire planets.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''
** The Archive. Even putting aside that [[TheOmniscient she knows the nuclear launch codes for every country on the planet]], Ivy's [[LittleMissBadass ten years old]] and capable of holding off 8 fallen angels at once, with almost no resources, without breaking a sweat. But what else do you expect from the repository of all human knowledge?
** Ebenezar [=McCoy=] once pulled a disused Soviet satellite out of orbit and [[ColonyDrop dropped it on someone]], more or less entirely because he was pissed off and that person needed to die anyway. He is also responsible for TheTunguskaEvent, Krakatoa, and the New Madrid earthquake. And those are just the things we know about. And then it turns out he's actually [[spoiler:Blackstaff, meant to be a hitman, and can casually ignore the laws of magic]]. Guess that's where Harry got his tendency to [[DestructiveSavior burn down buildings]]... [[spoiler:[[InTheBlood It must be genetic]].]]
** Harry Dresden himself gets pretty close to this. He's capable of throwing a giant demonic werewolf across a city block with no preparation. When faced with the start of a ZombieApocalypse, he responds by making his own zombie out of something much bigger than people, which stomps on National Guard trucks as an afterthought. When he goes to rescue someone from faerieland and encounters more resistance than he expected, he sets the whole place on fire.
*** Harry's got a tendency to pull off highly destructive and risky magic that can leave even those who are used to dealing with near-godlike beings staring in shock. With access to [[spoiler:soulfire and the power of the Winter Knight]], there's a good chance he's now closer to being a PMD than even he realizes. If he's not a PMD ''now'', it seems almost certain that he will be before it's all said and done.
** The Wardens of the White Council are an entire military force composed of [=PMDs=]. In ''Turn Coat'', Harry sees a handful of Wardens go all-out to fight a bunch of nasties, and he's left completely dumbstruck.
** ''Anyone'' wielding the knife at the climax of the sacrificial rite in ''Changes'' could immediately become this, depending on [[spoiler: how big a family the person they use it on belongs to]].
* In Simon R. Green's ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' series the protagonist at one point seeks out an artifact used by his ancestor, the Darkvoid Device. To Owen's surprise, the Device is not some alien artifact but rather an infant. Placed in suspended animation at the center of the Madness Maze, it had absorbed so much power that the one time it awoke it had created the Darkvoid, a region of space where hundreds of stars had simply been extinguished.
** A ''lot'' of these appear in Green's ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' and ''Literature/SecretHistories'' novels.
* Any of the High Lords from ''Literature/CodexAlera'' will absolutely ''destroy'' you, since they're incredibly powerful crafters with control over all six elements. But especially the First Lord; Gaius Sextus wiped out two cohorts worth of brainwashed SuperSoldiers by himself without slowing down and cast a ''fear spell'' so powerful that it destroyed an entire legion, leaving only one soldier not curled into a ball on the ground, who he promptly cuts down.
** Not to mention his [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe moment, where he ''creates a volcano'' underneath the capital city of Alera.]] It is awesome.
** Also not to mention [[spoiler:our dear GuileHero Gaius Octavian, who combines all that power with a devious little mind that looks at everything sideways and upside-down.]] He once had to get through the gates of Riva, a product of centuries of the strongest furycrafting which added up into something that could take dozens of fireballs without the slightest scorch mark. He pries it apart by using plants to make cracks and pits in the surface, then pushing water in and freezing it. When it finally shatters, the pent-up furies are released and... well, it takes four minutes for the buildings to finish collapsing.
* In the short story by Creator/KurtVonnegut "The Barnhouse Effect," the mild-mannered Professor Barnhouse learns a train of thought that eventually makes him into this trope. At the climax, while under the watchful eyes of a general (who wants this test), by merely concentrating as hard as he can, he single-handedly destroys an entire 1960s navy division, complete with aircraft carriers, jets, etc. Fortunately, he firmly wants peace, so he goes into hiding and methodically destroys all weaponry, leading pretty much all national leaders to start hunting him down to kill him.
* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' ExpandedUniverse trilogy ''The Passing Of The Technomages'', young [[MagicFromTechnology technomage]] [[BaldOfAwesome Galen]] becomes this after learning the spell that creates an unstoppable SphereOfDestruction. While there are limits on the spell, such as range and size, there is no limit on how fast or how many times Galen can cast it, the spell being one of the most primitive. In a fit of rage, Galen casts the spell dozens of times to level an entire city block in a matter of seconds (by destroying building supports) and eliminates 4 powerful warships (by literally taking out their power cores). And after that, he demands to be taken straight to the enemy homeworld to destroy everything there. It is no wonder both sides fear the technomages (Kosh isn't even sure during their encounter who would win in a fight). He becomes even more powerful by the end of the trilogy. By the time of the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'', he is the strongest technomage in existence, simply because only one other technomage has managed to [[spoiler:work in harmony with the tech instead of controlling it]], but he died shortly after.
** Technically, two others were taught by [[spoiler:the Shadows]] these same spells, but [[spoiler:Galen killed them]].
* The enslaved gods in the first book of the ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'', who are used as {{AttackAnimal}}s by their mortal masters, the Arameri family. Although these gods are 'hobbled' and less powerful than before their enslavement, they're still collectively responsible for deadly epidemics, 'disappearing' the inhabitants of cities, and turning a few mountains into craters. They are especially deadly because they're pissed about their enslavement; [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay they will follow any instructions strictly to the letter]], and will use any loophole to try and kill their masters. Their most powerful member, [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Nahadoth]], [[spoiler:uses a badly-worded command to sink a continent in a fit of pique. He was trying for the whole planet.]] The gods' mortal owners, who have used these gods to set themselves up as rulers of the world, tend to avoid using him for this reason.
* Retired Drop Commando Alicia [=DeVries=] in David Weber's ''Path of the Fury'' (revised/expanded in ''Literature/InFuryBorn'') is practically a PMD with her standard commando loadout of cyborgish enhancements. Then she gets inhabited by the last surviving Greek Fury, Tisiphone. Said Greek Goddess soon learns to interface with computers and other technology through Alicia's built in radio interface and no security system can stop her, especially since she can also dip into other humans' brains for information. Next Alicia/Tisiphone steal one of the elite AI fighter ships, which are their own special kind of POMD when combined with a "normal" enhanced human specially selected and trained to interface with those ships. The tripartite human/goddess/computer fusion becomes the unstoppable force to smash the people who murdered Alicia's family and the entire populations of several colony worlds.
* Dragon riders from the Literature/InheritanceCycle. There are limits (those being your own ingenuity with magic and whether or not a particular spell exerts more energy than your body possesses), but otherwise there is literally ''nothing that they cannot do''. The dragons they are partnered with are unable to mold magic beyond freak happenstance, but wield far greater power than their riders. Also: Riders can more or less meld their mind with their dragon's and use their resources for magic, which is the difference between moving a Sedan and moving an [[UpToEleven aircraft carrier]]. In the third book, it is revealed that [[spoiler:utilizing the magical core of a dead dragon, an [[AppliedPhlebotinum Eldunari]] (or multiple dead dragons, a la [[BigBad Galbatorix]])]], the aircraft carrier can be bumped up to ''[[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure Texas]]'', depending on [[spoiler:how many Eldunari one has and how saturated with magic they are]].
* Jaenelle as Witch in the ''Literature/BlackJewels'' trilogy by Anne Bishop. Even as a child she had immense power; upon reaching her mature strength, she is estimated to be six to six thousand times more powerful than the most powerful male in the history of the Blood (who once erased an entire culture from existence when his BerserkButton was pushed) and she states that she is so powerful that if she unleashed herself, she would destroy ALL of the Blood; human, nonhuman, and dead.
* In ''Literature/PsyChangeling'', we have [[MindOverMatter Kaleb]] [[{{Telepathy}} Krychek]], the only known Dual Cardinal ''ever'', stated to be able to make ''the whole planet explode''.
* In ''Literature/NightWatch'' an exceptionally strong curse can turn the victim into one of these. Usually cursed ones die from a fallen brick or mugger's knife, but when the curse runs out of control, it can result in things like a random gas explosion, sudden outbreak of mutated flu or an unprovoked nuclear attack.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Percy Jackson. Not only is he capable of destroying entire armies by himself, he also once caused a volcanic eruption that resulted in one million people being evacuated and the literal father of all monsters being released from his prison beneath the volcano. He's so powerful that the BigBad singles him out in the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', as the key for a blood sacrifice to bring on the gods' downfall.
** Children of the "Big Three", Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, are immensely powerful, and the three of them swore not to have any more several decades before the first book. This is to prevent a prophecy that one of them will possibly destroy Olympus and the gods when they reach sixteen, that and [[spoiler: the fact that one of them MIGHT have caused world war II]] though this is only hinted at and never confirmed.
** Any child of Hephaestus born with the ability to control fire. Every fire user to have ever appeared has ended up causing a catastrophe, and are seen as a bad omen. The one before [[spoiler:Leo]] having caused the great fire of London.
* Declan Hale, in Joe Ducie's ''Literature/TheReminiscentExile'' series, singlehandedly ended a millenia old war that spanned the multiverse, and [[spoiler:destroyed a city of eight million people]].
* From ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar. Not only does he kill quite a few people, Szeth tends to destroy the environment he kills them in nicely. Dalinar also kills hundreds of enemies every battle scene in which he appears. Really, anybody with a [[SoulCuttingBlade Shardblade]] and/or [[PoweredArmor Shardplate]] has the potential to do this. Szeth is particularly dangerous because in addition to having a Shardblade he's also a MagicKnight with GravityMaster powers that no one else understands.
** Vin and other Mistborn from ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' (which shares an author and universe with Stormlight) also count. Allomancers can consume metal for various effects such as manipulating other pieces of metal, super senses, or super strength/durability. Most people have access to only one of these powers, but Mistborn can use all of them. The combination of powers allows two Vin and another mistborn to kill roughly 300 men within a few minutes. The rare metal Atium can enhance this even further, allowing the user to see and react to what others will do a few seconds into the future, making them nearly unstoppable killing machines.
* The Sith [[TheEmperor Emperor]], as described in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, is supposedly more powerful than Palpatine ever was. The only thing matching his power is his madness and obsession with immortality. To show off, his guards are never present during audiences, even with other powerful Sith lords (who are allowed to keep their weapons). Furthermore, he always sits facing ''away'' from the door. He has BlackEyesOfEvil and VoiceOfTheLegion. He attained immortality by absorbing the life-force of everything alive on his homeworld, including insects and plants. It was he who corrupted Revan and Malak, turning them to the Dark Side to use them as vanguard for his invasion of the [[TheFederation Republic]]. As powerful as he is, even Revan can't match the Emperor.
** Luke Skywalker, always, but especially in the ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''. At one point he takes out an entire base of bad guys almost by himself. On a planet where he cannot use the Force. And while greviously injured and ill.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOps'', anyone capable of using one of [[TheDarkArts the rare prohibited forms of magic]] (Black magic, necromancy, gate magic, or sentient elemental creation) is automatically one of these - which is why they're illegal to begin with. Necromancy and sentient elemental creation allows for their user to essentially create an entire army instantly. Someone who can use gate magic can pretty much move anywhere they want instantly and has access to a weapon that [[PortalCut can effortlessly slice through any material]]. BlackMagic is control of entropy, and the person who can use it can near-instantly decay ''anything'' - living, dead, organic, mechanical, it doesn't matter. Scylla, the only user of this power, demonstrates it quite spectacularly when she uses it to literally destroy the entire defensive perimeter of a military base, killing hundreds of people, with about as much effort as crushing insects.
* UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Himself in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series, as [[Literature/TheBible His Word alone]] [[WordsCanBreakMyBones can kill people en masse]].
* In Perry Moore's ''Literature/{{Hero}}'', Justice is a {{Superman}} {{Expy}}, so he easily counts. Good thing he's a good guy. [[spoiler:Except not really. He's the superhero-murdering {{Big Bad}}.]]
* Coin, the title character of ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}''. The ancient plural of "Wizard" was "war". Coin's mere presence is enough to trigger the return of those days. Any powerful Wizard has the potential, but social conditions and limited magic normally prevent them from getting out of hand. [[spoiler: But a Sourcerer takes away the limitations on magic...]]
* John Taylor of the ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series inspires a certain amount of terror in most people because of this: he's seen as extremely dangerous and practically unstoppable. He himself seems to think he has limits, but considering what he's survived going up against so far, it's possible that he just doesn't ''want'' to be a PMD, and so the only reason he isn't one is because he's subconsciously limiting himself.
* A lot of characters in ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' would fall into this, but Sethra Lavode goes above and beyond, falling somewhere between this trope and HumanoidAbomination. She's an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent undead]] sorceress a few hundred thousand years old, wields the [[EmpathicWeapon Great Weapon]] Iceflame, negotiates with gods on equal footing, and her power is considered one of the keystones keeping [[EldritchAbomination the Jenoine]] out of reality. On the less powerful but also much less responsible front, Adron e'Kieron vaporized the entire capitol city, turning the area into a small ocean of elemental chaos.
* Marshal-General Atkins, humanity's last soldier, in ''Literature/TheGoldenOecumene''. In addition to all the weapons he carries (which are powerful enough to, in his words, "[[EarthShatteringKaboom crack the planet in half and fry it like an egg]]"), his body itself is a weapon: his surface skin cells each individually contain an EnergyWeapon and his blood is GreyGoo that consumes all biological matter that isn't him.
* The unnamed protagonist of Spider Robinson's short story "Not Fade Away" is humankind's last and greatest soldier, made obsolete by humanity (and all other life forms) having established Universal peace. When it turns out [[spoiler: not everybody wants Universal peace]] we see that his personal arsenal is quite impressive.
* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Merle Corey (a.k.a. Merlin, son of Corwin, a.k.a. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Merlin, Lord of Chaos]]) is a low-key and intelligent twenty-something computer engineer. But if you push him hard enough, you'll discover that under that exterior is a superhuman sorcerer who's good at improvisation, can call on the two greatest sources of power in the known universe, can kick the ass of most beings even without magic, and as a last ditch option, can summon elemental chaos to utterly obliterate everyone and everything within the target area.
* ''Literature/ThePowerOfFive'': [[spoiler: Scarlett]] definitely gives off this vibe at the end of ''Necropolis'', when [[spoiler: she all but destroys Hong Kong.]] Matt ''can'' become this - when Richard sees [[spoiler: his older, more experienced past incarnation]] in ''Oblivion'', he sees no reason to assume that the kid is incapable of ''parting the seas'' or ''rending apart the sky''.
* Elites in Gavin Smith's ''Age of Scorpio'' have received so much ultratech enhancement that they closely resemble mini-apocalypses. They are introduced with one Elite shredding an entire battleship.
* Icarium Lifestealer from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' may be one of the nicest and most caring people one can come upon in the books. Piss him off, though, and you may say goodbye to your city/country/civilization. And it's not even intentional, as afterwards he will not remember how he just levelled the city in the ruins of which he's now standing and will even be shocked at how someone could possibly bring so much destruction and death. In trying to use him as a weapon the Nameless Ones might have bitten off more than they could chew and characters who encounter Icarium have a hard time reconciling the person they've met with the stories trailing in his wake.
* Literature/SecondApocalypse: Sorcery gives the wielder incredible power, at the expense of the damnation of their soul.
** The mild-mannered Achamian is a Mandate sorcerer who wields the Gnosis, a particularly powerful type of sorcery. When he is captured by another school of sorcerers, he manages to escape and single-handedly slaughter all of the guards and enemy sorcerers in the compound, literally pulling down buildings onto the heads of his enemies and leaving nothing but smoking rubble behind.
** Kellhus is a Dunyain monk, bred and trained since birth for physical and mental perfection. Once he learns the Gnosis, he puts his superhuman intellect to the task and begins inventing whole new areas of sorcery, giving him more power than any human before him.
* DCI Thomas Nightingale of ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' blew up two Tiger tanks with magical fireballs. For reference, the books' protagonist, Peter, can just about blow open a domestic lock, and magic is supposedly much harder to do under physical pressure. He also unzipped a wall and took the roof of a barn in a later book.
* In ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'', ''Every human being in the world'' is one, thanks to the advent of PsychicPowers [[AfterTheEnd 1000 years ago]]. An elaborate system of control is in place to keep people from destroying society and killing hundreds by accident or on a whim. Renegades who fail to follow the social norms are treated with the same degree of seriousness as armed nuclear weapons, and for a good reason.
* All over the place in ''Literature/TheGodsAreBastards'': archmages, dragons, particularly powerful demons or fae... TheEmpire even has an official designation for "person so powerful they should be treated as a walking natural disaster". The story spends a good deal of time focused on other characters as well, analyzing the kind of behavior a smart person would have to adopt in a world where so many others could crush them like a bug.
* In ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheBlackSun'', the protagonist tends this way, even towards the beginning. She may be a fugitive, but she's in no danger of ever losing any fights with ordinary opponents, or even an army with mages of its own — she can annihilate them with no real effort. The danger to her comes from two things: firstly, she still has to eat and sleep, and can't be perpetually on her guard; and secondly, she's being pursued by people who have had much more training than her, even if they lack the raw power.
* ''Literature/{{TheInfected}}'' has surprisingly many, considering how low-powered this superhero series starts. Basically any member of Team Three or Alpha Team. Actually, any Class Five can theoretically wipe out entire companies of infantry. Anyone whose invulnerable could get there eventually.
** Kevin Moore, Less, can vanish anything he can see. It has been theorized he could destroy the entire world, effortlessly.
** Earthling is a terrakinetic who can casually destroy whole villages and cities.
** Foggy is basically Golden Age Superman, and has one of the highest body-counts of any of the Cold War era supersoldiers.
** Tesseract has time/space-warping powers that let him kill hundreds of Infected in the blink of an eye, and make him an unstoppable assassin, as he can stride casually into any locked room and ignore any weapon. He is the only Infected officially capable of defeating an entire First World nation.
** Stillness is a mind-controller with no apparent limits in range, how many people he can control or how subtle or direct his control is.
** Trivia knows everything another human being does. Secrets, blackmail, skills, nuclear launch codes..
** Cellophane is invisible. Very invisible, so much so people can't notice sounds she makes or touch or her moving things. If she slit your throat it could take everyone several minutes to notice. The government plan if she goes rogue is devastate the whole area with weaponry, possibly up to nukes, and pray they got her.
** Gabriel starts out just able to induce certain emotions and sensations in people within his line of sight. Once he starts practicing and meditating, he gets very good at the mind control bit, so much it scares him.
** Mark Steinberg, Stasis, freezes time. There is no limit to how long he can do so, the first time it took him a subjective decade to learn how to turn the effect off, and if he becomes startled or unconscious, he automatically freezes time until he can recover. If he weren't a committed pacifist...
* Mia of ''Literature/TheNevernightChronicles'' during Truedark when her powers are at their greatest. When she was 14, watching her mother be killed during a botched prison rescue results in her destroying the entire prison killing everyone inside.... and nearly following it up on the Grand Cathedral minutes later on the other side of the city.
* In the backstory of Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} entered {{Hell}} only once, but that one visit caused that entire dimension to nearly collapse in a massive earthquake. Even a thousand years later, parts of Hell are still destroyed from the visit and travel between circles is significantly harder because of all the bridges that were destroyed even [[CirclesOfHell eight circles]] away from where Jesus actually entered.
* All of the Endbringers in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' easily qualify. Several characters worry that [[spoiler:Noelle]] does as well.
** Shatterbird can telekinetically control glass with an absolutely massive range, allowing her to create shrapnel out of every single window in an entire city. [[spoiler:She does this to Brockton Bay.]]
** Phir Sē also definitely counts. By exploiting the mechanics of his power, he could create an attack potentially powerful enough to [[spoiler:''shatter the Indian subcontinent.'']]
** The African warlord Moord Nag commands a giant living shadow called Aasdier, who's powered by [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the lives of the people it consumes]]. Using it, she's been able to carve a sizable empire for herself out of Southern Africa. [[spoiler: When asked to help fight Scion, she requests five thousand lives in exchange.]]
** And especially [[spoiler:Scion, as he demonstrates when he obliterates Great Britain pretty much effortlessly. Not just the people on it- the actual ''[[RegionalRedecoration island]]''.]]
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