History Main / WhereIWasBornAndRazed

->'''{{Lobo}}:''' Hah! That's rich. '''I'm''' the last Czarnian. ''[Aside]'' I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A.

** You mention Eva and not Johan? ''She'' only did it ''once''.

** Correction: he wanted to become a "perfect ''opposite''". Coming to Earth as an adult instead of a child, destroying his homeworld on purpose instead of it being a natural catastrophe, and as a perfect finisher, [[spoiler: being ''dead'' as opposed to Superman being alive.]]

* In the original ''SecretOfMana'', the hero is ostracized by his fellow villagers after his retrieval of the magical sword causes their town to become vulnerable to monster attacks. Oops.

* In the short story "Basilisk" in the collection ''Deathbird Stories'' by HarlanEllison, a former POW returns home with [[EyeScream damage to his eyes]] and is [[WhatTheHellHero condemned by almost the entire populace]] for having cracked under torture. Then the god Ares decides to [[EyeBeams heal his injuries]]. [[AGodAmI Penance ensues.]]

* Arguably, [[spoiler: Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]] does this in ASongOfIceAndFire, selfishly [[kicking off the devastating 'War of the Five Kings' because he was still bitter over being rejected by his childhood crush.]]

* [[DefiedTrope Delibertely defied]] in StarWars. The selebration of Emperor's death includes Gungans and humans celebrating at Naboo to show that the Emperor '''didn't''' destroy it like Alderaan (as [[{{Fanon}} many speculated]]

* Nocturn, the warlord Ehlek's lieutenant in ''{{Bionicle}}'' got sent to The Pit for "breaking" his island in a fit of rage. When the author Greg Farshtey got asked why he did this, he answered: "People break things when they get angry. Nocturn happened to break his island." Apparently he hit a weak spot ForMassiveDamage.

* ''{{Bionicle}}'' gives us [[DumbMuscle Nocturn]], who smashed his entire home island by hitting in "just the right spot."

* ''The Curse Of Millhaven'' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - admittedly, she only razes part of it, but in the other verses the protagonist kills enough people to populate a small town.

* ''Wildfire'' by Sonata Arctica, a power metal band from Finland, is about a young man who does this.

* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in ''StarWars'' with regards to Naboo. In the Special Edition of Episode IV, a selebration is shown on Naboo, the intent is to show that Palpatine '''did not''' destroyed it, and neither did he exterminate Gungans.

* TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} has Night Haunter, the Primarch of the NightLords, spend his youth as a bloody-handed vigilante cleaning up the streets of his adopted home planet by fear. On his eventual return, and seeing how the populace has slipped back into depravity, he uses his fleet to [[EarthShatteringKaboom annihilate the entire planet]].

* ''My Little Town'' by is a poignant memoir, but if you squint and look sideways at the final verse, it can take on some unintended meaning:

* ''My Little Town'' by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel is a poignant memoir, but if you squint and look sideways at the final verse, it can take on some unintended meaning:

* ''Tobacco Road'', written by John Loudermilk, and first performed by The Nashville Teens. It has been covered by The Animals, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Lovin' Spoonful, and the Blues Magoos, among others.

* ''Tobacco Road'', written by John Loudermilk, and first performed by The Nashville Teens. It has been covered by The Animals, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Lovin' Spoonful, the Blues Magoos, and Music/DavidLeeRoth, among others.

* ''Tobacco Road'', written by John Loudermilk, and first performed by The Nashville Teens. It has been covered by The Animals, JeffersonAirplane, The Lovin' Spoonful, the Blues Magoos, and Music/DavidLeeRoth, among others.

* In the Music/VoltAire song "Bomb New Jersey", the singer is trying to arrange the nuclear destruction of his home state.
* The song "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" by {{Coldplay}}:

* In the BigFinishDoctorWho adventure "Orbis", [[spoiler:The Doctor manages to destroy the world that has been his adopted home for the past six hundred years, and its inhabitants whom he was trying to protect. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops.]]]]

* In ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman's old foe Brainiac got a new origin: instead of a mad scientist from the planet Colu, he was an intelligent supercomputer from Krypton. When Jor-El shared his fears that the planet was going to explode, Brainiac probably could have done something about it -- but he lied and said Jor-El was wrong, while secretly plotting his own escape. Being the last holder of knowledge about a whole world appealed to him. In fact, he liked the idea so much he started doing it to ''other'' worlds too.

* [[http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Cybomec_%28Consto%29 Clandish Consto]] in ''StationeryVoyagers'' sought revenge on a girl who got him expelled from grade school YEARS ago, murdered every teacher that ever verbally abused him that was still living, poisoned his own landlord, murdered his landlord's wife, joined an invading enemy army, and hijacked an entire space center. And all in his own hometown! He then proceeds to threaten the world of that army he initially joined, and eventually becomes such a threat to the universe, that the Angel of Death [[PlaceBeyondTime traps him in the Haragad Cavity]] until the end of time so he can't learn sorcery. [[SubvertedTrope So much for]] [[JokerImmunity the "I'm back" celebration]].