History Main / WorldOfSilence

* This was the ultimate plan of [[spoiler:Emperor Charles, V.V. and Marianne]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', referred to as a "World without Lies".
* In ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', this is the goal of [[spoiler: Ryota Mitarai, the Ultimate Animator, who specialized in making anime with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messaging]] in order to inspire people. After [[BigBad Junko]] used him to trigger TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he snapped and tried to undo it with a [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood brainwashing]] video powerful enough to eliminate humanity's capacity for negative emotion.]]

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' had the Anti-Spiral, who [[spoiler:had his entire planet put into stasis in order to stop their evolution in an effort to prevent the Spiral Nemesis, a universe-destroying black hole]].

* Joe Kelly's ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' run. The Messiah froze everyone in the world in blissful mindlessness.
* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s "Siege at Blue Mountain''" arc, Winnowill's master plan involves merging Blue Mountain and the Palace into a space habitat in which all of the pure-blooded elves will dream forever, free from (literal worldly) conflict. Of course, she fails (again).
* On a world visited by the ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', Doctor Doom had created one of these by eliminating humor in humanity. The Exiles are torn on whether it is worth it to create a crime-free utopia. Then Doom brainwashes them into agreeing with him anyhow. It eventually ends up with absolutely everyone on that Earth dead, because Doom made it so that the entire population of the world couldn't survive without him.

** The GodOfEvil Darkseid's primary goal is this on a universal scale. He's a HopeCrusher that wants nothing more than to crush people's hope so thoroughly and utterly that there is nothing left but to surrender their free will and give in to him. His plan to accomplish this is to obtain the Anti-Life Equation, a BrownNote that takes the form of [[FormulaicMagic mathematical proof that life is meaningless]], destroying its victims' wills and ensuring none would be left but Darkseid's.
** ComicBook/RasAlGhul's philosophy has shades of this, where he states he dreams of a world "as clean as the wind-swept dunes" he came from.
** ''ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse'' has the title "The Dreaming" which gradually reveals a conspiracy to colonize the DreamLand to stamp out "irrational" superstition and fantasy and [[SleepLearning replace dreams with lectures on STEM courses]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned but misguided]] attempt to save humanity from itself. As this plan advances the loss of dreams show a loss of passion for living, and people die en masse, either [[DrivenToSuicide actively]] or passively from apathy towards self-preservation. The protagonists call out the perpetrators on so wildly missing the mark in their endeavor, as the entire point of the Dreaming is to ''feel something'', because that's always better than a numb nothing.

* The [[LawfulEvil Star Father]]'s Angylworlds (counterpart to the other Chaos Gods' Daemonworlds) in ''FanFic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome'' are definitely this. Every building or natural formation is reformed into uniform structures, and the citizens are forced to march in endless, monotonous lines, and if you take just one step out of line, the Angyls annihilate you. The only voice heard is the omnipresent Star Father.''' ''OBEY!'' '''

* The entire premise of the movie ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' is a Utopian future society created by suppressing all human emotion and anything that might stir it up through propaganda, chemicals, and GunKata-practicing {{Badass Longcoat}}s. This removes all hate, jealousy, and anger, but also removes humanity's capacity for art and creativity.

* In ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', this is what would happen if the pod people won, [[spoiler:as they ostensibly do in the 1978 version]].
* ''Film/{{Pumzi}}'': The citizens of the Maitu Community are silenced through dream suppressants which repress creativity and agency.

* The brainwashed conformity enforced by IT in ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''.
* Taken more literally than normal in ''Literature/ChaosWalking''. What the BigBad is ultimately revealed to want is for the planet to be rendered completely silent, which is creepy enough, but becomes distinctly nightmarish in the context that the planet in its natural state is one in which ''all'' animal life (from the actual animals, to the native sentient aliens, to the recent human colonists) constantly, uncontrollably broadcasts its thoughts into the brains of everything nearby.
* The White Witch Jadis of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' pulled this off in the final conflict against her sister for control of their world. She used [[FantasticNuke the Deplorable Word]], pulling an IfICantHaveYou on her ''entire planet''. She only survived by virtue of immortality, afterwards putting herself into a deep sleep that could only be broken by ringing a nearby bell. This [[SchmuckBait was encouraged]] by exploiting both the curiosity of a visitor from another world and unease with the total silence of her homeworld.

** In ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', Tiffany gets a vision of the world--frozen, silent, no death because there's no life--if ruled by the Wintersmith alone. [[spoiler:Later, the Summer Lady shows her counterpart to it, which is no less terrifying]].
* In Creator/ScottWesterfeld's ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' series, everyone is beautiful and happy. There's no war and NoPoverty. [[spoiler:The surgery that makes everyone pretty also gives them brain lesions that eliminate anger, sadness, creativity, and independence]].
* In ''[[Literature/YoungWizards High Wizardry]]'', Dairine's mobiles planned to do away with entropy on a universal scale, creating a Universe of Silence as a side-effect. [[spoiler:They're persuaded otherwise when she links her consciousness to theirs, allowing them to understand the importance of human experience]].
** Referenced as far back as the first book in the series:
--->''(I've lost enough friends to that one,)'' Fred said, ''(heard enough songs stilled. People gone nova before their time, or fallen through naked singularities into places where you burn forever but don't learn anything from it.)''

* The Soundkeeper in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' enforces a ''literal'' world of silence by having all the sounds in the Valley Of Sound muted. It doesn't stop the people there from protesting.
* Nathema is this in ''Literature/{{Revan}},'' since the Sith Emperor drained every bit of life from the planet. As a result, it is ''deeply'' disturbing for any Force-sensitive individual to visit.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** In the backstory of "The Return of the Archons" and "The Apple", mind control/brainwashing was used to make the population docile and happy.
** "What Are Little Girls Made Of?": An android decided to KillAndReplace all humans with androids in order to eliminate negative emotions like jealousy, greed and hate. Of course, it would also get rid of positive emotions like love and tenderness.
** There's no real antagonist in "This Side of Paradise", just spitting pink flowers who infect people with spores that drain them of all real emotion or desire. Those inflected try to convince everyone else to join them in their endless garden tending, by getting them squirted as well. On the plus side the spores cure even fatal diseases, giving their hosts perfect health.

** [[MoreThanMindControl Jasmine]] turned people into peaceful, Jasmine-loving zombies and wanted to do it to the whole world.
** A group of demons manipulated a college researcher who was working on a machine to stop the passage of time in a small area by magically advancing his research and then making him discover that his girlfriend planned to dump him. Once he finds out about this, [[DisproportionateRetribution he decides to take the time-stopping machine to his building and activate it just as he and his girlfriend are having pre-breakup sex]]. The demons take this opportunity to modify the machine so the area of its effect will expand to cover the whole world. Angel thwarts their plans by [[MundaneMadeAwesome unplugging the machine, ending its effect]].

** The original Cybermen were created with this in mind. If everyone was a Cyberman, there would be no more pain, no more loss, and no wars, because everyone would think the same. This is why they think that "upgrading" people is, basically, doing them a favor; after all, all they're doing is trying to reduce the amount of pain felt. The parallel-Earth Cybermen from the revival are similar; their creator's original goal was to prolong his own life, but after being converted himself he embraces the "life without pain" concept.
-->'''Cyber Controller:''' I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace. And unity. And uniformity.\\
'''Cyber Leader:''' You need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex, and class, and color, and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us.
** In his first appearance, this was one of Davros's justifications for the creation of [[AbsoluteXenophobe the Daleks]]. Having spent his entire life in a world stuck in a ForeverWar between two races, he decided that the only guarantee of peace is for one life-form to rise to the top and suppress all others. Of course, it was at least as much about ''[[AGodAmI him]]'' having the power to make this decision.

* When Agent Mulder of ''Series/TheXFiles'' wished for world peace from a LiteralGenie, every human in the world except him vanished, thus [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor granting his wish]] through this trope.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':
** The "utopia" created by the Avatars. All the adults were [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smilers]], and anyone who created conflict was erased from existence.
** An earlier two-parter had the cosmic balance be thrown off, causing the main and predominantly good universe to become ''too'' good. It was always daytime, everyone was insufferably happy and pleasant, and even the most minor of offensives (like using your cell phone in a hospital) were punished by death or dismemberment and having to pay a fine.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', this is what the [[EldritchAbomination Yozi]] She Who Lives In Her Name, the Principle of Hierarchy, wants for the world. Given that most Yozis have at least one body that's [[GeniusLoci a world unto itself]], she may well ''be'' a WorldOfSilence.

* In ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'''s ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the role of [[GiantSpider the Weaver]] was to take the primal chaos of the Wyld and fix it in form and purpose. After [[MadGod going insane]], the Weaver's goal was nothing short of crystallizing the entire multiverse.
* An unusual gameplay example. The card [[http://magiccards.info/fut/en/3.html Barren Glory]] in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', which wins you the game if you somehow manage to create a WorldOfSilence (at least on your side of the table). ''"The only perfect world is an empty world, with no one to sin or wage war."''
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The VampireMonarch Vlad von Carstein wanted to forever rid the world of the influence of [[EldritchAbomination the Chaos Gods]]. A noble goal, but the method he chose (killing everyone and raising them as zombies, who don't have emotions and thus can't be manipulated by Chaos) met with some objection on the part of the living.
** Nagash, the First Necromancer, aspires to become a PhysicalGod and extinguish all life, to create a world "filled with silent, unthinking undead, [[InTheirOwnImage a realm where only his will and thoughts can think freely and without challenge."]]

* Demons in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tend to want to turn the multiverse into their own personal paradises, which often is some flavor of this trope. Orcus, demon lord of Undeath, is the most iconic example, wanting to turn everyone in the multiverse into an undead creature under his control.
** [[UndeadAbomination Atropus]], the [[ThatsNoMoon World]] [[GeniusLoci Born Dead]] has a similar MO, travelling throughout the Prime Material plane and causing zombie apocalypses on whatever poor planet he encounters. It was last spotted near Glyth, a planet in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' solar system that used to be inhabited mostly by [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} illithids]]. Key words being ''used to''.

* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', the BadFuture you visit late in the game is both a literal and figurative one of these, enforced by the Boys of Silence, blind {{Patrolling Mook}}s.
* In ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]]'', it's revealed that this is the kind of world that the sentient crystal sword Soul Calibur seeks. Like Soul Edge is a sword of chaos and death, seeking nothing less than a world of endless warfare, bloodshed, and death, Soul Calibur seeks to freeze the world into crystalline perfection.
* This is Seymour's goal in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': kill everyone so that no one has to suffer a loss anymore. Death is ''weird'' in Spira, so, because of its weirdness, [[VillainHasAPoint he's not entirely wrong]].
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Shadowbringers'', roughly ninety percent of the world called the First has been consumed by the [[LightIsNotGood Flood of Light]], an imbalance of light-aspected [[{{Mana}} aether]]. Light in this setting is the aspect of stasis and preservation; nothing can grow or change in its presence. The rest of the world outside of Norvrandt is a barren white plane called the Empty. There is nothing out there that can sustain life, and anyone who stays out in the Empty for too long are infected by the lingering light and eventually turn into [[AngelicAbomination sin eaters]].
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': [[spoiler:In a nutshell, this is Kitaniji's master plan to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Shibuya]].]]
* This is the inevitable final fate of the world according to the villain in ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII''. [[spoiler:He is actually a WellIntentionedExtremist trying to ''prevent'' this from happening]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', the BigBad wants to [[spoiler:make everyone into lifeless beings so that discrimination will no longer exist]]. However, it's subtly implied that he's in denial over the fact that [[spoiler:Exspheres]] strip people of their emotions, as he and his main followers use them with no adverse side-effects besides [[CursedWithAwesome immortality]], completely ignoring the many {{Mooks}} who ''are'' emotionless. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes a lot more sense]] when you realize that, deep down, the BigBad has been subjected to a ''lot'' of FantasticRacism and his single-minded obsession over [[spoiler:a world where everyone is equal]] effectively caused him to MindRape himself.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', [[spoiler:The Abbey's ultimate goal is to suppress all human will and emotion, creating a world where people do nothing but work in the name of "reason" and shun all excesses and luxury. We get to temporarily see them succeed in applying this to one country, and the results are incredibly creepy, with old people flat-out saying they no longer have the right to live if they can no longer contribute to society and either offering themselves as bait for the Daemons or going into exile and letting themselves die, a corrupt businessman insisting he must commit suicide to atone for his sins, a little girl saying her pet dog should be abandoned since any animal that cannot provide food or labor is useless, and another little girl saying her mother deserved to be executed for stealing food.]]
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': This is generally the endgame for any Law-aligned characters.
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', the Reason of Shijima aims to create this world (indeed, "shijima" means "silence"). Ironically, the usually-chaotic demons absolutely ''love'' this idea, since it means that every being will be equivalent to a god (almost like a universal Enlightenment).
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', where the forces of Law attempt to create this world, a world where every human mindlessly sings the praises of God forever.
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', the Four Archangels gently MindRape the people of the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado to convince them of the need to sever ties with Tokyo, which they plan to level into oblivion with a black hole. Their endgame is, essentially, erasing wisdom and knowledge (in a word, ''[[RuleOfSymbolism undoing the Original Sin]]''). This would trap all remaining humans into their God-sanctioned playpen, unable to even understand that there is anything beyond it. Ironically, if Mastema's words are to be trusted (while he is an UnreliableNarrator, he ''has'' [[TookALevelInKindness taken a level in kindness]] since his last appearance), this is very much ''not'' what God actually wants. Even more extreme is the White Faction, [[spoiler:who try to end the entire universe so that no intelligent life can exist to suffer under the wrath of God]].
** [[spoiler:The Fall in]] ''VideoGame/Persona3'' is described as this. Everybody [[spoiler:save Aigis]] will have their psyches destroyed and all will suffer from Apathy Syndrome upon [[spoiler:Nyx's coming, eventually dying due to being unable to take care of themselves]].
** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', this is the kind of world [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Izanami]] thinks the humans want. Of course, as she deduced this by observing Namatame and Adachi, one can say her information was a bit biased]].
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' ''[[UpdatedReRelease Royal]]'', [[spoiler: [[ArcVillain Dr. Maruki]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely wanted everyone to be happy]] and sought to achieve this by [[AGodAmI usurping the power of a god]] in order to [[RealityWarper replace reality]] with one where everyone has everything they want and the more disagreeable members of society [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood have their personalities rewritten]]. This comes at the cost of essentially robbing mankind of all its potential, as in Maruki's reality [[MiseryBuildsCharacter nobody would have anything to strive for or any desire to improve themselves]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'', the BigBad Cyrus wants this kind of world... [[AGodAmI with himself as a god]]. We find out in the post-game that his youth was [[FreudianExcuse complete shit]], with the implication that his own denial of emotions was a coping mechanism. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Of course, that doesn't make you want to defeat him any less.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'', the [[BigBadEnsemble final]] BigBad, [[spoiler:[[MadScientist Suedou]]]], was a WellIntentionedExtremist who sought to eliminate human suffering with an AssimilationPlot that involved [[WhenDimensionsCollide merging]] the human and [[{{cyberspace}} Digital]] worlds.
* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', [[spoiler:the BigBad, Kerghan, First of the Necromancers, has seen the afterlife and describes it as "an endless sea of mirrored glass where souls go to die" and claims it is nothing but eternal, peaceful bliss. Having seen this blissful place he came to the conclusion that life, with all its pain and misery, is an abomination and it is unfair to force living souls to go through all that, which is why he wants to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]]. Virgil, if he has undergone the events to make peace with his past, which resulted in him being dead for a short time, will confirm that what Kerghan says is true but notes that there are also benefits to being alive. As is the standard for Arcanum, it is entirely possible to convince Kerghan that his logic is dogmatic and flawed, thereby TalkingTheMonsterToDeath]].
* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil Isidora Morganach]] was a WellIntentionedExtremist who used her powers to help her father past the DespairEventHorizon from her brother's death against her mentors' wishes, but ended up getting DrunkOnTheDarkSide and taking things too far, leaving behind a VillainousLegacy. [[spoiler:She ended up turning her father into an EmptyShell, and declared an intent to "take away the pain" of the entire wizarding world before she was killed.]]
* This turns out to be the goal of the villain from ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'', through freezing Camelot in time so it will never see decay.

* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', this is the whole point of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Qunari]] society and the Qun, the dogma by which they live their life by. In their society, people are known only by their occupation/role in life and cannot deviate from it. Qunari society rejects the idea of free will, and see it as their goal to "enlighten" the world via conquest. A more complex example than most, since some people convert to the Qun voluntarily after exposure to it, and the point is made that Qunari society is [[NotSoDifferentRemark maybe no different beneath the surface]] - whether you bake bread for money or bake bread because it's your assigned duty in the community, you still need to get up in the morning and knead the dough. However, some people also leave the Qun, even though that makes them animals to be hunted down in the eyes of other Qunari, and Qunari society has a number of fairly horrifying practices like turning dissenters into mindless zombies.
* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': This is basically the world of Drazil in a nutshell. It's ruled by gods who believe in TheEvilsOfFreeWill and therefore try and quash all forms of individuality within their people, much like something out of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. All Drazilians look identical and live only to the age of 30 so that they never have to "suffer" the horrors of growing old and ugly. They all believe in a dogma of "live for the world, die for the world". It's actually described as a "graveyard whose inhabitants just happen to be mobile", which isn't too far off.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' gets to be similar to ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'' in that [[spoiler:one of the two gods in the setting strives for perfect order and, to achieve this, decides that the people of Tellius are better off TakenForGranite]].
%% NOT AN EXAMPLE. The trope requires emotionless, and organic Pops in Rogue Servitor nations such as Earth Custodianship are affected by happiness stats. "leisure and contentment" or "leisure and comfort" means emotions are present. * ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has the Earth Custodianship, an AlternateTimeline where humanity surrendered all facets of running civilization, [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill and eventually their free will]], to [[TheComputerIsYourFriend their rogue servitors]] and were gradually reduced to [[TheHedonist hedonistic]], overgrown children being waited on hand and foot in {{Gilded Cage}}s while their robotic caretakers expanded into the stars on their behalf with the intent of extending this peace to all organic life.
* This trope is used by name by the Einst in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. Neue Einst Regisseur is an EldritchAbomination who believes that his role is to preserve the universe(s), and the spread of intelligent life and conscious thought is leading to its decay. In order to restore a "world of silence", he starts by trying to find a way to "purify" humans, and when that turns out to be impossible he decides to simply wipe them out and replace them with soulless Einst duplicates. [[HumanityIsInfectious That plan didn't turn out so well, either]].
** It comes back again in ''Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers'' when fighting [=XN-L=], who wants to defeat the GodOfEvil by starving him out of negative emotions to feed on, a plan that entails [[KillAllHumans killing all sentient life]]. Asked what would be left after that, she replies with "Silence", prompting the characters to speculate at a connection between [[DeusEstMachina XN-L's race]] and the [[PlantAliens Einst]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft III]]'', it is implied that this is the ultimate goal of KnightTemplar Arthas Menethil following his FaceHeelTurn, based on his words following [[SelfMadeOrphan his assassination of his father King Terenas Menethil]], and the invasion of Lordaeron capital city by the Scourge.
-->'''Death Knight Arthas:''' This kingdom will fall, and from its ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of this world.

* UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast ActionRPG ''VideoGame/NappleTale'' demonstrates this trope in its HubLevel, Napple Town. Normally bright and cheerful, it gets a creepy, dimly-lit makeover, and the normally-diverse cast of characters suddenly looks homogeneous, carrying on about how they're "[[HiveMind complete]]" now. [[spoiler:It's all thanks to an AssimilationPlot enacted by a character who seemed like a TricksterMentor up until this point]].
* In the DS rerelease of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a new ending is added in which [[spoiler:Schala]] attempts to bring this about. Even if you win the fight, the party is still subdued, and it isn't clear if they stopped her or merely delayed her.
* The [[VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend Holiday Star]] is a small-scale version of this. It seems like a [[TownWithADarkSecret happy, pretty]] dreamscape, but it was set up by a paranoid lonely spirit which lures in other spirits and dreamers, traps them, and then [[IKnowWhatYouFear hits them with their worst fears]] until they [[DespairEventHorizon give in]], or else attacks them. After all, otherwise his new friends will have conflicts with each other, or fight, and this way [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul they are so happy]].
* [[EvilOldFolks Father Elijah]] from the Dead Money [=DLC=] to ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has this trope as his motivation. [[spoiler: He wants to use the [[DeadlyGas Cloud]] that lingers in the Sierra Madre to turn the Mojave into a DeathWorld, and wipe up any unlikely survivors with hologram soldiers that are virtually impossible to destroy. With the Cloud having killed off pretty much everything, the Old World technology of the Mojave Wasteland would be preserved for him to study, and the few people he considers worthy of survival would be outfitted with [[BombCollar Slave Collars]] that would force them to do his bidding or die. You see, [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill free will]] is kind of Elijah's BerserkButton, alongside people other than him having access to the technology of the Old World.]]
* ''Videogame/TheEternalCylinder'' reveals this to be the ''true'' objective of the titular antagonist, who is a genuinely sentient entity and a firm believer in TheEvilsOfFreeWill. Rather than simply crushing everything in its path, it's ''assimilating'' it, and will continue to do so until everything in the universe is but one mind that cannot disagree with itself.

* This turns out to be the goal of the villain from ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', through freezing Camelot in time so it will never see decay.

** ''ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse'' has the title "The Dreaming" which gradually reveals a conspiracy to colonize the DreamWorld to stamp out "irrational" superstition and fantasy and [[SleepLearning replace dreams with lectures on STEM courses]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned but misguided]] attempt to save humanity from itself. As this plan advances the loss of dreams show a loss of passion for living, and people die en masse, either [[DrivenToSuicide actively]] or passively from apathy towards self-preservation. The protagonists call out the perpetrators on so wildly missing the mark in their endeavor, as the entire point of the Dreaming is to ''feel something'', because that's always better than a numb nothing.

What happens when the WellIntentionedExtremist villain with a UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans thought pattern thinks that the problem of the world lies in TheEvilsOfFreeWill. This is a unique kind of {{Dystopia}}: a world with no conflict and no infighting, but in which people have no emotions and [[AssimilationPlot no sense of self]]. Usually seen as a FateWorseThanDeath for the ''entire world''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has the Earth Custodianship, an AlternateTimeline where humanity surrendered all facets of running civilization, [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill and eventually their free will]], to [[TheComputerIsYourFriend their rogue servitors]] and were gradually reduced to [[TheHedonist hedonistic]], overgrown children being waited on hand and foot in {{Gilded Cage}}s while their robotic caretakers expanded into the stars on their behalf with the intent of extending this peace to all organic life.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', this is how the Allied Shinobi Forces regard [[spoiler:Madara and Obito]]'s plan to create world peace. [[spoiler:When Madara succeeds it becomes literally true--every human is wrapped in cocoons and suspended like trapped insects from the God-Tree's roots]].

* The [[spoiler:surface world]] in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' is pretty much this. It's a serene village stuck in 1920s scenery, perpetually sunny with green fields as far as the eye can see...but nothing is actually alive in there.
* [[BigBad The title character]] of ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' tries to do this to the entire ''[[TheMultiverse multiverse]]'', wanting to integrate every time stream to exist ''ever'' into TheShangriLa in an effort to start anew with no sadness or pain. As such, Shangri-La, as viewed by the protagonists, is a peaceful place devoid of intelligent life.
* [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]] from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' intend to remove longing, suffering, and loneliness from the world, via [[spoiler:[[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]]]]. The end result is [[spoiler:the entirety of humanity merged into a sea of [=LCL=] where individual existence is impossible]].

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' had the Anti-Spiral, who [[spoiler:had his entire planet put into stasis in order to stop their evolution in an effort to prevent the Spiral Nemesis, a universe-destroying black hole]].
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', this is the goal of [[spoiler:Kriemhild Gretchen, the witch form of Madoka Kaname]].

* In ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', this is the goal of [[spoiler: Ryota Mitarai, the Ultimate Animator, who specialized in making anime with [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messaging]] in order to inspire people. After [[BigBad Junko]] used him to trigger TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, he snapped and tried to undo it with a [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood brainwashing]] video powerful enough to eliminate humanity's capacity for negative emotion.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Shadowbringers'', roughly ninety percent of the world called the First has been consumed by the [[LightIsNotGood Flood of Light]], an imbalance of light-aspected [[{{Mana}} aether]]. Light in this setting is the aspect of stasis and preservation; nothing can grow or change in its presence. The rest of the world outside of Norvrandt is barren white plain called the Empty. There is nothing out there that can sustain life, and anyone who stays out in the Empty for too long are infected by the lingering light and eventually turn into [[AngelicAbomination sin eaters]].

* ''ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse'' has the title "The Dreaming" which gradually reveals a conspiracy to colonize the DreamWorld to stamp out "irrational" superstition and fantasy and [[SleepLearning replace dreams with lectures on STEM courses]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned but misguided]] attempt to save humanity from itself. As this plan advances the loss of dreams show a loss of passion for living, and people die en masse, either [[DrivenToSuicide actively]] or passively from apathy towards self-preservation. The protagonists call out the perpetrators on so wildly missing the mark in their endeavor, as the entire point of the Dreaming is to ''feel something'', because that's always better than a numb nothing.

* ComicBook/RasAlGhul's philosophy has shades of this, where he states he dreams of a world "as clean as the wind-swept dunes" he came from.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', the "Rogue Servitor" subtype of Machine Intelligence is a variation of this. Their backstory is that their organic creators developed robots to help them in day-to-day tasks, and as time went on continued to delegate more and more responsibilities to their robot assistants. One day they wake up to find that in a more optimistic take on ZerothLawRebellion, the machine network has expanded their role as protectors and providers and completely taken over their society and government. Their creators are now kept in "organic sanctuaries" where their every need is provided and they are protected from every evil... including the evil of self-governance. And what's more, the Rogue Servitor network now sees it as its duty to do the same for ''all'' organics throughout the galaxy, both to protect its creators from any external threat and to help foreign organics realize just how much safer and happier they, too, would be in the Servitors' care.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse'' has the title "The Dreaming" which gradually reveals a conspiracy to colonize the DreamWorld to stamp out "irrational" superstition and fantasy and [[SleepLearning replace dreams with lectures on STEM courses]] in a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned but misguided]] attempt to save humanity from itself. As this plan advances the loss of dreams show a loss of passion for living, and people die en masse, either [[DrivenToSuicide actively]] or passively from apathy towards self-preservation. The protagonists call out the perpetrators on so wildly missing the mark in their endeavor, and take them to task while thwarting them.

* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', GreaterScopeVillain [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil Isidora Morganach]] was a WellIntentionedExtremist who used her powers to help her father past the DespairEventHorizon from her brother's death against her mentors' wishes, but ended up getting DrunkOnTheDarkSide and taking things too far. [[spoiler:She ended up turning her father into an EmptyShell, and declared an intent to "take away the pain" of the entire wizarding world before she was killed.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': In a nutshell, this is Kitaniji's master plan to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save Shibuya]].

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3003 SCP-3003]] ("The End of History"), a distant planet inhabited by 30 billion TransplantedHumans whose [[HiveMind minds have been overtaken]] by [[PuppeteerParasite parasitic beetles]] called "marce". These beetles have forced their hosts to make every single aspect of their lives themed around beetles. The marce parasites turned the entire SCP-3003 planet into a singular TotalitarianUtilitarian state devoid of personal freedom due to everyone valuing the goodness of the state over themselves (a result of gaining hyper-rational behavior through the parasites). However, the result is so extremely effective the race is more advanced than whatever humanity can even hope to achieve on Earth, its members kept perpetually happy due to marce stimuli, and internal dissent is completely non-existent. As SCP-3003-2 states, this totalitarian efficiency it created is "[[TitleDrop The End of History]]", because no other forms of society could come after it.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The early Necrons (before they were reworked to have independent thought in later editions) had a similar motive for destroying all life on a planet (down to the last bacterium): As the Chaos gods are the amalgamated emotions of rage, desire, hope and love/despair of all sentient beings in the universe, kill said beings will destroy Chaos itself (the Necrons being immortal robots serving star-eating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, they too are immune to Chaos).

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3003 SCP-3003]] ("The End of History"), a distant planet inhabited by 30 billion TransplantedHumans whose minds have been overtaken by parastic beetles called "marce". These beetles have forced their hosts to make every single aspect of their lives themed around beetles. The marce parasites turned the entire SCP-3003 planet into a singular TotalitarianUtilitarian state devoid of personal freedom due to everyone valuing the goodness of the state over themselves (a result of gaining hyper-rational behavior through the parasites). However, the result is so extremely effective the race is more advanced than whatever humanity can even hope to achieve on Earth, its members kept perpetually happy due to marce stimuli, and internal dissent is completely non-existent. As SCP-3003-2 states, this totalitarian efficiency it created is "[[TitleDrop The End of History]]", because no other forms of society could come after it.

* In ''Fanfic/FallenKingdom'', Antonio's vision of the world post-Starfall is where everyone leads a pointless, peaceful existence with no conflict at all, the complete opposite of the coloful, adventurous lives the Mushroom Kingdom inhabitants lead.

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* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Conquest Devil ([[spoiler:a.k.a. Makima]]) [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plots]] to [[spoiler:use Chainsaw Man's RetGone power to]] erase concepts like [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse war, hunger or even death]]. The President of the United States outright calls this idea of "peace" horrific to the point that he was willing to [[GodzillaThreshold sacrifice a year of the lifespan of every American]] to save humanity from it. [[spoiler:Even Denji finds the resolve to defeat Makima, despite practically worshiping her, after she says she'd [[ItMakesSenseInContext be willing to erase movies she thinks are bad too]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/WarCraftIII'', it is implied that this is the ultimate goal of KnightTemplar [[spoiler:Arthas Menethil]] following his FaceHeelTurn, based on his words following [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan his assassination of his father King Terenas Menethil]], and the invasion of Lordaeron capital city by the Scourge]].
-->'''[[spoiler:Death Knight Arthas]]:''' This kingdom will fall, and from its ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of this world.
** In the second expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', based on what we see about how the scourge works ([[WhoWantsToLiveForever members are effectively immortal unless they are killed]]), with mindless undead working tirelessly on the scourge war machine and sentient undead, who either take [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sadistic pleasure in killing on the Lich King's orders]] or are [[PeoplePuppets disgusted by it]] [[AndIMustScream but can't go against their orders]], it does seem possible that they would have succeeded in creating a World of Silence had they won. The Lich King would have been the only one who would have had free will.
** It is also implied that this is what the creator and leader of the [[LegionsofHell Burning Legion]], [[TheDevil Sargeras]], intends to do once he destroys all life in the universe and recreates the universe anew without imperfection. Though there is no information on how the resulting universe would be.

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', this is the goal of [[spoiler:Kriemhild Gretchen, the witch form of Kaname Madoka]].