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* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': Viridi, Goddess of Nature, planned to use the Reset Bombs to wipe out humanity without damaging the rest of the life on Earth.

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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': Pucci's aim is to complete the goal of DIO which is to achieve heaven. In order to do that, he must use [[spoiler:Made In Heaven]] to completely reset the universe. [[spoiler:And in the process, he manages to slaughter the entire main cast save for Emporio.]]
* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', this is the duty of Sailor Saturn. If the world can't be saved, then she brings down her Silence Glaive to destroy it, at which point Queen Serenity or Sailor Moon uses the Silver Crystal to restore the world. She did this to the Silver Millennium after the Dark Kingdom's victory, allowing the Sailor Senshi to reincarnate in modern Earth.

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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': Enrico Pucci's aim is to complete the goal of DIO DIO, which is to achieve heaven. In order to do that, he must use [[spoiler:Made uses [[spoiler:[[TimeMaster Made In Heaven]] to accelerate time and completely reset the universe. [[spoiler:And And in the process, he manages to slaughter the entire main cast save for Emporio.]]
Emporio. This results in the creation of a universe where humanity has [[PrescienceIsPredictable fully-engraved knowledge of their own fate]], but as Emporio successfully kills Pucci before the process is completed, Pucci's universe is completely undone and he becomes RetGone, while Emporio arrives in a newly-restored world where he meets all of his friends, now revived as new people]].
* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/SailorMoon'', this is the duty of Sailor Saturn. If the world can't be saved, then she brings down her Silence Glaive to destroy it, at which point Queen Serenity or Sailor Moon uses the Silver Crystal to restore the world. She did this to the Silver Millennium after the Dark Kingdom's victory, allowing the Sailor Senshi to reincarnate in modern Earth.



* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' [[spoiler:ends with]] a technological version of this. Snake Plissken is once again forced into a mission for the government as he was in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', but this time [[spoiler:he becomes convinced that both [[EvilStatesOfAmerica the US government]] (which has seemingly absorbed the worst of both the American left and right wing, and which is holding a DoomsdayDevice that will destroy all technology [[SwordOfDamocles over the head of the rest of the world]]) and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized the enemies of it]] are too corrupt and flawed to be worth backing or working with. He winds up using the superweapon himself to destroy all the advanced technology all over the world in the hope that when people rebuild the world, maybe they'll get it right]].

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* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' [[spoiler:ends with]] has a technological version of this. Snake Plissken is once again forced into a mission for the government as he was in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', but this time [[spoiler:he becomes convinced that both [[EvilStatesOfAmerica the US government]] (which has seemingly absorbed the worst of both the American left and right wing, and which is holding a DoomsdayDevice that will destroy all technology [[SwordOfDamocles over the head of the rest of the world]]) and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized the enemies of it]] are too corrupt and flawed to be worth backing or working with. He winds up using the superweapon himself to destroy all the advanced technology all over the world in the hope that when people rebuild the world, maybe they'll get it right]].



* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': This is Master Xehanort's true plan in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''; to completely destroy all worlds and rebuild them from scratch so as to achieve true balance. Despite this, he still wants be a leader, and was still mostly interested in uncovering the secrets of light and darkness.



* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'': The BigBad of the ''Octo Expansion'' DLC is [[spoiler:a renegade {{AI|IsACrapShoot}} who wants to exterminate the current species on Earth for finding them a disappointment, then replace them with a self-engineered race that it will deem to be worthy successors]].



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* ''Webcomic/NoMoreHeroes3AlternateStruggles'': Paradox Bandit's goal is to do this to the world of Masters of Explosion with FU's help in such a way that he will never be in danger of being discarded or deconstructed (or challenged or changed in any fashion) ever again.



* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': Obake wants to do this to San Fransokyo, not for any well-meaning reasons, but just because he wants to be remembered forever.



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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': Pucci's aim is to complete the goal of DIO which is to achieve heaven. In order to do that, he must use [[spoiler:Made In Heaven]] to completely reset the universe. [[spoiler:And in the process, he manages to slaughter the entire main cast save for Emporio.]]
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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The [[FromCamouflageToCriminal British Army colonel turned]] eco-terrorist leader [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]], is so bitter and disillusioned with the human race and the world that we've created, that he wants to set as many {{Kaiju}} loose on the world as possible to decimate humanity and ostensibly restore balance to nature. Except he ''doesn't'' really care about the latter part to begin with, as unlike his partner, he's perfectly happy to let King Ghidorah kill ''everything'' on Earth.

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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The [[FromCamouflageToCriminal British Army colonel turned]] eco-terrorist leader [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Alan Jonah]], is so bitter and disillusioned with the human race and the world that we've created, that he wants to set as many {{Kaiju}} loose on the world as possible to decimate humanity and ostensibly restore balance to nature. Except he ''doesn't'' really care about the latter part to begin with, as unlike his partner, he's perfectly happy to let King Ghidorah kill ''everything'' on Earth.
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* ''Anime/HarlockSpacePirate'': In the 2014 CGI ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' movie reboot, this is the true motivation of Harlock. Although he's led his crew to believe that resetting the "Genesis Clock" would simply rejuvenate the dying worlds in the setting somehow, it's revealed his plan is to simply destroy everything and everyone to start over.

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