History PersonOfMassDestruction / AnimeAndManga

** Seems to be requirement to advance to admiral in the Marines: Sakazuki is a [[ConvectionSchmonvection living volcano]], Borsalino can level cities with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[AnIcePerson Kuzan]] can freeze entire islands over, Isshô can summon '''[[GravityMaster meteors]]''' to crash down on the battlefield and finally Ryokugyu can turn a whole city into a life-sucking GardenOfEvil with just a casual stroll.

** Seems to be requirement to advance to admiral in the Marines: Sakazuki is a [[ConvectionSchmonvection living volcano]], Borsalino can level cities with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[AnIcePerson Kuzan]] can freeze entire islands over and finally Isshô can summon '''[[GravityMaster meteors]]''' to crash down on the battlefield.

*** Cioccolata, MadDoctor and PsychoForHire for [[TheMafia Passione]], has the Stand Green Day which releases a flesh-eating mold on an indefinite (theoritically infinite) radius. While pursuing the heroes, he goes on a cataclysmic killing spree, literally massacring everyone on sight while planning to reduce Rome to a smoldering ruin.

[[PersonOfMassDestruction People of Mass Destruction]] in anime and manga.

* From what we've seen of their abilities in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', any First Class Goddess or Demon can probably qualify, especially without their limiters. Furthermore, anyone who obtains a wish can potentially ask for the destruction of the world.
** Their superiors, unsurprisingly, are even more powerful. When Hild, CEO of Hell, arrives, she mentions that normally, just her arrival would have blown away the entire town.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', Cioccolata, MadDoctor and PsychoForHire for [[TheMafia Passione]], has the Stand Green Day which releases a flesh-eating mold on an indefinite (theoritically infinite) radius. While pursuing the heroes, he goes on a cataclysmic killing spree, literally massacring everyone on sight while planning to reduce Rome to a smoldering ruin.
** Pannacotta Fugo's Stand Purple Haze has the power of containing a flesh-eating virus that not even he is immune to, as well as Purple Haze having a bestial mind of its own so its beatdowns are even more deadly than others. And Fugo is ''one of the heroes''. Purple Haze only gets used in one story arc, before Fugo is written out of the story due to the author realizing that there was no way to make fights interesting. WordOfGod intended for Fugo to actually betray the heroes beyond his abrupt departure after the gang betrays the Boss and then be brought back as a foe the remaining team would face; this plot point sees the light of day in Fugo's unique pre- and post-match quotes for ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle''. He also gets his ADayInTheLimelight in the questionably canon novel ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', and [[spoiler:finally gives Purple Haze a power limiter in the form of Purple Haze Distortion's ability to negate its own virus's destructive power.]]

* In ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'', the robot guardians of the titular Castle in the Sky certainly qualify. One of them almost manages to takes out an entire military base [[JustForPun single]]-[[NotHyperbole handed]], if not for Dola's interference and the artillery reprisal from the airship Goliath.

** While [[PlayingWithFire Jogo]] is [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] in [[TheWorfEffect his fight with Gojo]], he comes to demonstrate just how destructive he can really be after he cuts loose during the Shibuya Incident: he melts entire streets to the point that buildings begin to sink, and his [[SuperSpecialAttack Maximum Technique]] has him [[MeteorSummoningAttack summon a meteor]] which levels several blocks once dropped.

** While [[PlayingWithFire Jogo]] is [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] in [[TheWorfEffect his fight with Gojo]], he comes to demonstrate just how destructive he can really be after he cuts loose during the Shibuya Incident: he melts entire streets to the point that buildings begin to sink, and his [[LimitBreak Maximum Technique]] has him [[MeteorSummoningAttack summon a meteor]] which levels several blocks once dropped.

** [[TheDreaded Ryomen Sukuna]] was compared to a walking calamity back in the Heian Period, and in the present he demonstrates that the stories have been watered down. Not only does he non-chalantly curb-stomp Jogo during the Shibuya Incident, shortly afterwards he ''disintegrates'' an entire district by using his Domain to repeatedly slice it apart. ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill All just to kill a single target]]''.

* All of the major-level paopei in ''Manga/SoulHunter'' are capable of some serious destruction, but none match this trope as well as Nataku, the Human Paopei (long story). And then there's ultimate BigBad [[spoiler: Jyoka]], who is so ridiculously powerful that it takes a CombinedEnergyAttack from the ''gods themselves'' to take down.

** Zebra, of the Four Kings. With his MakeMeWannaShout powers and HairTriggerTemper, Zebra can and has caused mass destruction, even eating 26 species into extinction. In a region of monsters surrounding his HellHolePrison, Zebra is stated to be the most dangerous thing there. When word of his release from prison got out, several nations collapsed from the MassOhCrap.

** Every Level 5 Esper, almost by definition (more specifically, the requirement to be labeled Level 5 is the ability to [[OneManArmy destroy an army]]). At one point Accelerator is dropped off of a supersonic bomber as a back-up plan in case bombing with a laser/magma-like blade didn't work. And he doesn't disappoint.
** [[KungFuJesus The Saints]], as all of them can be considered equivalents to the level 5 espers, what with the ability to summon the calamity that destroyed Sodom and Gommorah and all. ''Especially'' so with Acqua of The Back.

* Shiba Tatsuya, from ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', is able to use one of his powers to replicate the effects of a antimatter bomb at will. [[spoiler:It is a magic that can decompose matter into energy. It is directly decomposing matter down into energy and so there is no loss of energy on this reaction, so the energy released from one drop of water, a paltry 50 milligrams of matter, is equivalent to 1000 tons of TNT]].

* Ariel, from ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', is a teacher with hundreds of millions of students who sends one of them, Haruna, to pick up kyo-tofu for her in Ayumu's dimension. She initially shows a bubbly and upbeat personality toward everyone when she's speaking with others, but after Ayumu criticizes her for the first time for not helping in his battle with Kyoko sooner, she says that she is only interested in the kyo-tofu and her student, not saving his life, of which she shows no concern. She initially seems to be only a part of the comedy theme, and playfully teases some of the characters to remind them of her abilities of mass destruction for the first time by smiling and snapping her fingers, causing an inferno to engulf them for just a second. Later on, she demonstrates that she has near-infinite magical power that allows her to traverse dimensions and use her abilities anywhere she pleases, and in fact even rivals the main antagonist of the first season. The only reason she doesn't help more is apparently because she's just indifferent about anyone's well-being except her students.

* ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'' has Gouykouou, whose mere presence on Earth could make it violently explode if he doesn't actively suppress his power. Thankfully, he's the nicest guy anyone will ever meet.
* Ryner Lute of ''LightNovel/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes''. He has the power to blow people up, cause things to implode, and completely disintegrate things in a matter of seconds, simply by thinking about it. And yet, [[BullyingADragon people ''intentionally'' try to piss him off and provoke him]]. Real smart, huh?

* Tomura Shigaraki in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' eventually moves into this trope after mental training to make his [[MakeThemRot decay]] power stronger. He not only can make the decay process so rapid that objects seemingly just disintegrate into powder, [[spoiler:but solid objects in contact with decaying objects will also decay (and this includes living things, like humans), at least up to a certain distance from him. As a result, the full extent of his powers have effects closer to a SphereOfDestruction, making huge, perfectly spherical craters out of the landscape, than what decay powers would normally look like.]]

* In ''LightNovel/IzureShinwaNoRagnarok'', humans possessed by gods waged war against each other and managed to destroy one third of Eurasia.

** Seems to be requirement to advance to [[BadassInCharge admiral]] in the Marines: Sakazuki is a [[ConvectionSchmonvection living volcano]], Borsalino can level cities with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[AnIcePerson Kuzan]] can freeze entire islands over and finally Isshô can summon '''[[GravityMaster meteors]]''' to crash down on the battlefield.

** [[spoiler:Princess Kaguya was the strongest person to have ever lived, and proves it by moving Team 7 to ''entirely different dimensions'' with ease and was even stated to ''destroy dimensions'' and as well as ''recreating'' them after being destroyed. Even with Naruto and Sasuke (and temporarily, Kakashi) having reached Person of Mass Destruction status in their own right, She is still much more powerful than them and was holding back for most of the fight. The only reason Team 7 had a chance at all is that [[UnskilledButStrong Kaguya never bothered to learn even the most rudimentary fighting abilities]], since in the past she'd always overwhelmed her enemies with sheer power. Presumably this is the same reason her sons were able to [[SealedEvilInACan seal her away]] in the past.]]

* The [[PsychicPowers protagonist]] and [[SuperpowerLottery namesake]] of ''Manga/MobPsycho100'', in his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide ???%]] incarnation. ???% can generate psychic approximations of natural disasters [[spoiler: that level much of the surrounding area he walks through, leading public officials to call for evacuations ''and'' government intervention]]. Mob himself is powerful enough to qualify if carrying sufficient emotional charge, but he lacks the destructive impulse common to other characters on this page. ???% has [[TheUnfettered no such qualms]].
** [[BigBad Honorable mention]] goes to [[SuperpowerLottery Tōichirō]] [[PsychopathicManchild Suzuki]], who [[SuperEmpowering shares his psychic power with hundreds of lackeys]], enabling them to decimate a city on his behalf with intent to TakeOverTheWorld. He would have succeeded [[spoiler: had Mob not intervened.]]

* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': The Heroes Association naturally has more than a few, like Tatsumaki, who can lift an entire city's worth of rubble to throw at a metropolis-sized mothership, or Genos, who can incinerate entire city blocks easy. But the epitome is the titular protagonist, Saitama, who ''[[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111128182/3964039-7967148121-39640.png split the goddamn atmosphere]]'' when he actually threw a somewhat serious punch at someone.

** Pannacotta Fugo's Stand Purple Haze has the power of containing a flesh-eating virus that not even he is immune to, as well as Purple Haze having a bestial mind of its own so its beatdowns are even more deadly than others. And Fugo is ''one of the heroes''. Purple Haze only gets used in one story arc, before Fugo is written out of the story due to the author realizing that there was no way to make fights interesting. WordOfGod intended for Fugo to actually betray the heroes beyond his abrupt departure after the gang betrays the Boss and then be brought back as a foe the remaining team would face; this plot point sees the light of day in Fugo's unique pre- and post-match quotes for ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle''. He also gets his ADayInTheLimelight in the questionably canon novel ''LightNovel/PurpleHazeFeedback'', and [[spoiler:finally gives Purple Haze a power limiter in the form of Purple Haze Distortion's ability to negate its own virus's destructive power.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Too many to list, but let's specify the notable ones:

* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': When he goes all out, [[{{Satan}} Sadao Maou]] is so overwhelmingly powerful that even something as simple as a punch can be seen from ''outer space''.

* A running theme in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is keeping the title character from getting bored, since as an immature and easily-fed up RealityWarper, she has the potential to destroy the world as we know it (without consciously intending to) and remake it into something more entertaining. Several factions within the series make it their goal to prevent this, whereas others actually want it to happen.

* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', certain elves play this role as back-line mages; they can cast spells that can destroy a whole army of monsters in one go.

* The Hero from ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. Easily the most powerful being in the world, perfectly capable of wiping out whole armies, cities, and mountains by himself with little to no effort. One of his companions mentions that he's so powerful that he's effectively completely removed from humanity in term of capacities.

* Lina Inverse from ''The LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has a spell that works like a tactical nuke, AND a spell that can undo reality itself. She tends to throw the first around whenever basic attacks fail, and worry about whatever she was supposed to be [[DestructiveSaviour defending later]]. Every now and then someone, from a bandit chieftain to a demon lord, tries to command, manipulate or coerce a person with such powers to work for them; Xellos appears to be the most successful with that, because he does not try to coerce, blackmail or threaten Lina: he is in no way sincerely nice to her.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':

* The Crusniks in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood''. In the backstory (which isn't discussed in the anime, but is AllThereInTheManual), during the Armageddon War [[spoiler:Abel]] single-handedly killed ''seven million'' humans.
* Most S-ranked fighters from ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'' are considered this. [[spoiler:Moroha Haimura also included, but as unofficial. However, his power is so immense that almost anything else his classmates in the Strikers unit do pales in comparison, such as against the fortress metaphysical in Episode 6.]]

** [[EldritchAbomination The Ten-Tails]] is a being that was stated to be the progenitor of everything in the Shinobi World is powerful enough to destroy multiple continents off the map and create natural disasters.