History Main / PlanetDestroyer

** This is the job of a local God of Destruction, essentially. They are supposed to destroy planets that doesn't harbor important lifeforms. [[UpToEleven They could theoretically be capable]] [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 of destroying their own universe]], though their Angels can stop them from going that far.

** Speaking of which, Kirby ''[[KillerRabbit himself]]'' is a Planet Destroyer. One sub game in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' has him [[MegatonPunch 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]].

** In his original form of Kid Buu, Majin Buu went on a planet-destroying spree of destruction five million years before the events of the series. And befitting his status as the final BigBad of DBZ, he is the only villain who ''successfully'' destroys Earth, with a single blast no less (though this is undone and Earth restored via a wish from the Dragon Balls.

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]'', the [[AncientAstronauts Osirans]], imprisoned one of their own, Sutekh the Destroyer, for doing this sort of thing. A brief trip to an [[AlternateTimeline alternate 1980]] reveals him to have reduced Earth to "a burnt cinder, circling a dead sun."

** ''Recap/[[DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]'' introduces the Destroyer of Worlds, a hulking horned demon who feeds on planets.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Planets are nothing to Galactus, eater of worlds.]]

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is probably the most prolific planet destroyer of Marvel, as he literally travels the universe consuming planets to survive. It's actually been surprisingly inconsistent over the years just how thoroughly he destroys these planets (after all, in most stories, he gets ''stopped'' before he can pull it off), but usually it means leeching away their ability to support life, rather than outright tearing them apart.

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

* Planets themselves. Gravitational interactions either among themselves or the protoplanetary disk 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 before retreating to its current orbit, 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 from the debris that did not fall into the Sun[[/note]].

* After ComicBook/BlueMarvel saved her life, ComicBook/MonicaRambeau underwent a substantial power boost. Already one of Earth's elite superheroes, secretly became reclassified as a "Planet-Buster" hero with enough power to destroy an Earth-sized planet without any effort. During the Incursions, this was a source of conflict because while she certainly had enough power to destroy other Earths before they collided with her own, she wrestled with the question of which was worse.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has Colossy ships, equipped with Planet Killer weapons. Several flavors of planet killers are present: [[EarthShatteringKaboom World Crackers]], [[DepopulationBomb Neutron Sweep]], [[MindControlDevice Divine Enforcer]], and [[YouWillBeAssimilated Nanobot diffuser]]. Pacifists would instead opt for a CruelMercy: The [[TheWallAroundTheWorld Global Pacifier]], which encases a planet in an impenetrable shield that only lets light through, trapping the population on that world.

* ComicBook/TeenTitans: A frequent enemy of the Titans is Trigon the Terrible who is also the father of Rave, he has been shown to be powerful enough to easily destroy planets with his death stare, he has boasted several times about how many planets he has decimated.

** [[ComicBook/DCOneMillion 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.
** As Superman's planet busters go, none surpasses [[ComicBook/OurWorldsatWar Imperiex]]. A being of such inconceivable might that its ''{{Mooks}}'' can fight Superman and Mongul evenly, Imperiex considers its mission to "correct" imperfections in the fabric of the universe, which in practice apparently means destroying countless planets, entire ''galaxies'', and eventually the universe itself if it had its way. [[ComicBook/ActionComics Almerac]], [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Daxam]], [[ComicBook/OmegaMen Karma]], and [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Kalanor]] were among the more important planets Imperiex destroyed before it was finally stopped.

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

* ComicBook/TeenTitans A frequent enemy of the Titans is Trigon the Terrible who is also the father of Rave, he has been shown to be powerful enough to easily destroy planets with his death stare, he has boasted several times about how many planets he has decimated.

*** And then there is Starbreaker, who is the ''adult form'' of the Sun-Eater species and literally consumes entire stars.

** [[ComicBook/HelOnEarth H'el]] is an amalgam of Kryptonian and non-Kryptonian DNA, so he already has frightful strength close to if not at Planet Destroying power, but his real threat comes from his scheme to prevent Planet Krypton's destruction. Ironically, this attempt at being a Planet Savior would have made him a multi-Planet Destroyer if he'd been able to carry it out, as the required energy would have destroyed not just Earth but the entire solar system.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': The original Showa portrayal of [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] was feared for wiping out entire planets. In the same sense as the original Ghidorah, Desghidorah scours planets clean of life. King Ghidorah's [[Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater AniGoji]] has destroyed numerous worlds including the [[HumanAlien Exif]] homeworld, and is implied to be a PlanetEater.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' harbors a few of these, most significantly KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator, whose ship is powered by magma that it violently extracts from the center of planets with a giant drill (and who [[spoiler:in fact has no grander ambition than [[OmnicidalManiac just wrecking every planet in her path]]]]). On a lesser scale, [[LifeOfTheParty Emperor Awesome]] prides himself on throwing parties so wild they destroy the planets they're on. While [[VillainProtagonist Lord Hater and Commander Peepers]] have been known to indulge in this themselves, whether to make a point or just to let off steam, their overall goals are [[GalacticConqueror a lot more professional]] and they're [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]] when they find out [[spoiler:that Dominator's endgame entails total galactic destruction.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' harbors a few of these, most significantly KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator, whose ship is powered by magma that it violently extracts from the center of planets with a giant drill (and who [[spoiler:in fact has no grander ambition than [[OmnicidalManiac just wrecking every planet in her path]]]]). On a lesser scale, [[LifeOfTheParty Emperor Awesome]] prides himself on throwing parties so wild they destroy the planets they're on. While [[VillainProtagonist Lord Hater and Commander Peepers]] have been known to indulge in this themselves, whether to make a point or just to let off steam, their overall goals are [[GalacticConqueror a lot more professional]] and they're [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]] when they find out [[spoiler:Dominator's endgame.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' harbors a few of these, most significantly KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator, whose ship is powered by magma that it violently extracts from the center of planets with a giant drill (and who [[spoiler:in fact has no grander ambition than [[OmnicidalManiac just wrecking every planet in her path]]]]). On a lesser scale, [[LifeOfTheParty Emperor Awesome]] prides himself on throwing parties so wild they destroy the planets they're on. While [[VillainProtagonist Lord Hater and Commander Peepers]] have been known to indulge in this themselves, whether to make a point or just to let off steam, their overall goals are [[GalacticConqueror a lot more professional]] and they're [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]] when they find out [[spoiler:Dominator's]] endgame.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' harbors a few of these, most significantly KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator, whose ship is powered by magma that it violently extracts from the center of planets with a giant drill (and who [[spoiler:in fact has no grander ambition than [[OmnicidalManiac just wrecking every planet in her path]]]]). On a lesser scale, [[LifeOfTheParty Emperor Awesome]] prides himself on throwing parties so wild they destroy the planets they're on. While [[VillainProtagonist Lord Hater and Commander Peepers]] have been known to indulge in this themselves, whether to make a point or just to let off steam, their overall goals are [[GalacticConqueror a lot more professional]] and they're [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]] to discover [[spoiler:Dominator's]] endgame.