History Main / PlanetDestroyer

** Next up on the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil is [[Characters/DragonBallFrieza Frieza]], who is by far the most prolific planet buster in DBZ. He infamously destroyed Planet Vegeta thirty years before the events of the series, and in the present day he runs a galactic organization which specializes in either destroying planets or selling them to the highest bidder. Like Vegeta above, his snap response to any fight he's losing is to destroy the planet, though unlike Vegeta he is capable of surviving a planet's destruction. He destroys Planet Namek over the course of the Frieza Saga, and comes very close to destroying Earth as well.

* ''Franchise/Superman'': Solaris the Tyrant Sun is an artificial sun capable of exerting a gravitational pull strong enough to pull planets out of their natural alignments and into its own orbit, as well as, you know, just reducing them to smoldering cinders outright.

* ''JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': PlanetaryParasite Gog will destroy any planet he is uprooted from after he has been allowed to take root for more than seven days. He also went on a planet-destroying spree prior to arriving on Earth, at least if Tommy Tomorrow and the Planeteers are to be believed.

** ''AvengersVsXMen'': Both ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and ComicBook/HopeSummers (in a spinoff what-if tale only) acquire the power of the Phoenix Force, causing them to succumb to WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity and making them planetary threats equal to the original Dark Phoenix below.

** Dr. Willow/Wheelo from ''DragonBallZTheWorldsStrongest'' is a NoNonsenseNemesis with an ultimate attack, the Planet Geyser, that is capable of destroying a planet.

** Vegeta is the first example of this seen in the series, destroying Planet Arlia six episodes in to show the audience how strong he is. Later when he reaches Earth and fights Goku he attempts destroying Earth in a mad rage with his Gallic Gun attack, though Goku is able to overpower it. Even after becoming a good guy (more or less), he is dangerously prone to firing planet-destroying energy blasts in battle if it looks like he might be losing.
** Next up on the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil is Frieza, who is by far the most prolific planet buster in DBZ. He infamously destroyed Planet Vegeta thirty years before the events of the series, and in the present day he runs a galactic organization which specializes in either destroying planets or selling them to the highest bidder. Like Vegeta above, his snap response to any fight he's losing is to destroy the planet, though unlike Vegeta he is capable of surviving a planet's destruction. He destroys Planet Namek over the course of the Frieza Saga, and comes very close to destroying Earth as well.
** Having the genes of Vegeta and Frieza, Cell is just as prone to planet-destroying bouts of rage as they are. When he finally meets his match in Super Saiyan 2 Gohan he attempts a planet-destroying TakingYouWithMe attack, and when he regenerates from that and comes back he is intent on destroying Earth. He even boasts of his intent to travel the galaxy destroying planet after planet after he is done with Earth.

** Frieza's brother Coola from the movies is just as much of a planet buster as he is, and every bit as trigger happy about it. He can also charge their shared planet-destroying Supernova technique much faster than his brother.
** Android 13's S.S. Deadly Bomber technique is capable of destroying half a planet, and when he becomes Super Android 13 it's more than capable of finishing the job.
** Broly is perhaps the most extreme pre-''Super'' example, as he destroys an entire ''galaxy'' literally in the first few seconds of his film. Later in the film he destroys Planet Shamo effortlessly, solely to taunt the Shamoians (and show the audience how powerful and AxCrazy he is).

* Planets themselves. Gravitational interactions among themselves on still forming stellar systems[[note]]Or old ones, where the central star is so evolved that it has lost a significant amount of its mass, messing with planetary orbits[[/note]] can cause a huge mess, where planets are either thrown out of the system or collide either with the star or among themselves[[note]]Some teories suggest that in the early Solar System Jupiter migrated inwards and causing an early population of planets that had formed close to the Sun to collide into themselves, with Earth and the other inner planets being formed with the debris[[/note]].

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is probably the most prolific planet destroy of Marvel, as he literally travels the universe consuming planets to survive.

* ''Film/StarWars'': The Death Star from the original trilogy was one of these, if not a terribly efficient version. It was capable of destroying an entire planet, but required a significant charge time (sorry, "ignition sequence") and close range to get the job done.

{{Reality Warper}}s and {{Physical God}}s come in different levels of power, but one way to indicate that a being or artifact is SeriousBusiness is to make it clear that they could effortlessly [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy one or more planets]] without breaking a sweat.

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* ''Film/StarWars'': The Death Star from the original trilogy was one of these, if not a terribly efficient version. It was capable of destroying an entire planet, but required a significant charge time[[note]]sorry, "ignition sequence"[[/note]] and close range to get the job done.

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* Parodied in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' with the ''accidental'' destruction of a planet.

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->"I've destroyed whole planets. So what chance have ''you'' got?"
-->--'''Dark Phoenix''', ''Videogame/MarvelVsCapcom3''

* ''Videogame/ChronoTrigger'': The main antagonist of Chrono Trigger, Lavos, is an enemy that the player characters [[OutsideContextVillain only learn about]] after accidentally winding up in a BadFuture where [[AfterTheEnd Lavos has already destroyed the world]]. [[spoiler:It's revealed later that Lavos is an alien EldritchAbomination that traveled through space for aeons before crash landing on the Earth, whereupon is slumbered for millions of years until it had absorbed enough knowledge, energy and culture from the planet and its native creatures. After [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they stopped being useful]], Lavos destroyed the planet and spawned new offspring like him that would leave the Earth after it [[EarthShatteringKaboom exploded and continue the cycle on other worlds]].

* ''Film/StarWars'': The Death Star from the original trilogy was one of these, if not a terribly efficient version. It was capable of destroying an entire planet, but required a significant charge time and close range to get the job done.
* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Starkiller Base]], which as the name implies is essentially an upgraded Death Star, capable of destroying many planets from anywhere.

* ''Anime/DragonballZ'':
** Frieza was shown destroying planet Vegeta and planet Earth easily.
** Kid Buu easily destroyed earth with one blast.

* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Galactus]] depends upon his ability to drain the life from a planet to survive.
* ''Comicbook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'': The Dark Phoenix entity consumes a star, causing it to go supernova and destroying all life in its native star system.
* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'': During the "Heart of the Monster" storyline, Hulk and his wife/enemy [[Comicbook/BettyRoss Red She-Hulk]] are transported to the Dark Dimension, on a planet ruled by the RealityWarper Umar. Due to the high levels of radiation, magic, and rage powering the two as they fight, Bruce and Betty destroy the entire Dark Dimension over and over again ''by accident'', forcing a bored and annoyed Umar to continuously rebuild it with a snap of her fingers until a portal finally appears for them to escape to another realm.
* ''Comicbook/ChaosWar'': Amatsu-Mikaboshi, aka the Chaos King, absorbs the pantheons of many alien worlds, and then destroys those worlds in his quest to [[OmnicidalManiac return the world to nothingness]]. He succeeds in absorbing 98% of the known ''multiverse''. Later in the story, Hercules is given power to rival him, and sacrifices it to undo all of the damage across the multiverse that Mikaboshi had done.
* ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGuantlet'': When the Celestials, Galactus, and various cosmic entities confront the nigh-omnipotent Thanos, the Celestials make their opening salvo by ''throwing entire planets at Thanos'', which he swats aside effortlessly.
* Shuma-Gorath is an EldritchAbomination who has conquered thousands of ''universes''. Due to some rather vague rules, he's unable to directly enter the Marvel universe without making some sort of avatar or lesser form. But it's speculated that if the true Shuma-Gorath ever entered the universe, his mere presence would cause entire galaxies to explode.

* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Starkiller Base]], which can destroy many planets from anywhere. The Death Star was a subversion because it required significant charge time to destroy one planet at close range.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Infinity Stones grant the power to destroy all life on a planet with a single strike against the ground.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]] revolves around the titular device, a massive tubular weapon that sustains itself by destroying planet after planet. It has already consumed several entire solar systems before the Enterprise arrives on the scene.

{{Reality Warper}}s and {{Physical God}}s come in different levels of power, but one way to indicate that a being or artifact is SeriousBusiness is to make it clear that they could effortlessly [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy one or more planets]] without breaking a sweat. In order for this to apply, either in-universe evidence or WordOfGod must exist to show beyond a doubt that it is the case. It often uses a SacrificialPlanet and/or overlaps with ApocalypseWow. Characters this applies to are always at least 5 on the SuperWeight scale, but this does not always apply to characters that are a 5 or higher.

-->--'''Dark Phoenix''', ''Videogame/MarvelVsCapcom3FateOfTwoWorlds''

* [[spoiler:Ouroboros]] from VideoGame/BravelyDefault [[spoiler:holds planets as hostages to prevent the main characters from attacking him. Not only does it take no effort for him to destroy planets, which he does several times, but he actually ''[[PlanetEater feeds]] on them.'']]

** Speaking of which, Kirby ''[[KillerRabbit himself]]'' is a Planet Destroyer. One sub game in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' has him cracking Popstar in half merely for a contest. The manga takes UpToEleven by having him destroy it '''completely''' with a punch. Further, in Milky Way Wishes, he ends up obliterating Nova - a wish-granting clock deity bigger than Popstar - by smashing Marx into it. Keep in mind that [[GooGooGodlike he's probably not even a teen yet]].

* Smoke from ''VideoGame/MortalKombatThree'' is normally just another powerful fighter, but in his [[FinishingMove Fatality]], he throws four or so bombs on the floor... which destroys the whole planet easily? It's incredibly strange and he never demonstrates this ability elsewhere, possibly because the explosion likely kills him with the planet.

* The ''Narada'' spaceship from ''Film/StarTrek2009'' is able to fire red matter into the core of any planet, which will cause it to collapse in on itself within minutes. The climax of the film deals with the ''Enterprise'' crew trying to prevent the ''Narada'' from destroying Earth. [[spoiler: Having witnessed the destruction of Deuteragonist Spock's home planet of Vulcan, they know what's at stake.

** Many of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that plague Popstar are more than capable of taking out planets. For instance, Galacta Knight had been noted to casually obliterate planets when in bad mood which is why he had to be sealed away, while Dark Matter and Queen Sectonia both literally tried to [[PlanetEater CONSUME Popstar]] with the former having his sights set on other planets too. And some Kirby villains set their sights higher than that. [[spoiler: Star Dream]] set out to destroy all organic life in '''EXISTENCE''' which would inevitably meant that quite a few planets would have went bye-bye had Kirby not stopped it.
** Speaking of which, Kirby ''[[KillerRabbit himself]]'' is a Planet Destroyer. One sub game in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' has him cracking Popstar in half merely for contest. The manga takes UpToEleven by having him destroy it '''completely''' with a punch. And in Milky Way Wishes, he ends up obliterating Nova, a wish-granting clock deity bigger than Popstar, by smashing Marx into it. Keep in mind that [[GooGooGodlike he's probably not even a teen yet]].

* Averted in ''Franchise/Metroid'', but only so much. The main character has been responsible for the destruction of ''four'' separate planets despite having no natural ability to do so, just happening to be standing by the right LoadBearingBoss at the right time.

* Parrallax in ''Film/GreenLantern'' had casually covered and consumed all life from at least one planet.

* The ExcusePlot for ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' is that the King of All Cosmos got extremely drunk one night and broke all the stars.

{{Reality Warper}}s and {{Physical God}}s come in different levels of power, but one way to indicate that a being or artifact is SeriousBusiness is to make it clear that they could effortlessly destroy one or more planets without breaking a sweat. In order for this to apply, either in-universe evidence or WordOfGod must exist to show beyond a doubt that it is the case. It often uses a SacrificialPlanet and/or overlaps with ApocalypseWow. Characters this applies to are always at least 5 on the SuperWeight scale, but this does not always apply to characters that are a 5 or higher.

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* Parodied in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' with the ''accidental'' destruction of a planet.