People of Mass Destruction in fanfiction.
Crossover
- Thor, Loki and the Hulk all qualify as this in Child of the Storm, at their lowest — at their best, they're solidly in the Physical God weightclass, while Tony is speculated (accurately, based on the Prometheus armour) to simply require the right armour to reach this level. Others mentioned include Magneto, the Juggernaut, the Abomination and Count Nefaria.
- And Wanda Maximoff, who seems to have a penchant for laser guided meteor strikes. And according to Fitzsimmons, she's done scarier things than that.
- If Harry Dresden wasn't already this, his use of his Death Curse - he got better - to launch Gravemoss well over five hundred miles from Paris to the North Sea would put him into this range.
- Harry and Diana are briefly jacked up to this territory at the end of chapter 59. A blast from Harry, one he explicitly intended to be small, vaporised a supercharged werewolf capable of standing up to an Asgardian and basically destroyed a mountain on the other side of the valley. A large blast is visible from space, is mistaken for a nuke by NASA and launches its target a reverse engineered and remote controlled version of the Destroyer from the Rockies to a potato field seventy miles east of Moscow. And both the narration and Word of God have hinted that he was only scratching the surface...
- Even more impressively, said target survives intact, and Diana proves her credentials by ripping it in half with her bare hands.
- By the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, Harry's solidly into this territory. Jean Grey and Maddie Pryor, meanwhile, leave him in the dust.
- The fic also deconstructs this trope, noting that being able to cause mass destruction is great if you're in the middle of nowhere and facing an equally powerful opponent who's coming at you head-on. If you're surrounded by civilians, faced with an enemy who has no problem taking hostages, and your usual MO is basically "blow up everything in sight, then blow up the rubble just to make sure," then it's much more of a problem.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls:
- The reason why Captain Celestia refuses to ever use even just her Shikai in a populated area. Apparently, the last time she did so was so bad she swore off doing so again. Details are sparse, but it involves the death of Captain Platinum's husband.
- Princess Celestia is revealed to be this, able to cast extremely powerful magic spells that can decimate her surroundings. The drawback is that these spells take quite a bit of time to prepare and cast, stating that someone like Tirek could drain her magic before it's completed or Discord could snap his fingers and turn it on her (which he apparently has done in the past).
- Hollow King Tirek and Quincy King Sombra are this without a doubt. Sombra's Schrift "The Absolute" grants him total mastery of space and one way he can manipulate it is to create arrows capable of punching through even the strongest materials. Tirek without releasing his zanpakuto is strong enough to unleash swings capable of destroying skyscrapers while his Ceros are described as akin to solar flares, and just one shot was almost enough to blast through Shining Armor's Bastion power.
- Fate of the Clans: Full Heroic Spirits are much moreso than Holy Grail Servants. If Alaya sends out a group of full-powered copies, called Grand Servants, they can cause enough collateral damage to wipe out entire continents even without using a destructive Noble Phantasm. It was originally intended to have Grand Servants battle the Beasts. They cause mass destruction to cover up what actually happened as much as possible.
- The Secret Return of Alex Mack has Charlie "Pyre" McGee, all of eight years old and already handing Nigh-Invulnerable bad guys their rears. When escaping from government experimentation, she boils off an entire lake and scorches large furrows into the dry bed. She kills "Gojira" handily, and suicide-nukes a Grey Goo outbreak in an epicly Tear Jerker Dying Moment of Awesome.
- The author explicitly refers to Pyre as this trope. Pyre's sheer Story-Breaker Power is part of why she was killed off.
- The trope's name is called directly by General Ross in The Last Son, when referring to Superman managing to subdue the Hulk in a physical fight.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, numerous powerful Heroes, such as All Might and Firestorm, can accomplish feats like changing the weather with a punch or turning all of Mt. Fuji into a pillar of salt. Izuku, a Kryptonian, isn't this during the story, but it's his fear of becoming one that contributes to his refusal to become a Hero at the story's outset.
- Even on a normal day, Ragna in BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant is undoubtedly the most destructive of his team and perhaps the strongest student in all of Beacon Academy, given that he can stall the strength of Goliaths, smash craters into battle arenas, and toss Death Stalkers around, but this trope reaches its apex when he becomes the Black Beast, as he lays waste to everything around him. His second time becoming this, he smashed a massive hole into Amity Colosseum that briefly destabilized the entire structure and began a rampage across the city of Vale, even summoning Creatures of Grimm to aid in the annihilation. Chapter 68 shows that his roars alone are powerful enough to reduce buildings to gravel and smoke.
- Both Ragna and Jin qualify in the BlazBlue/Fairy Tail crossover, Bonds Beyond the Boundary. Jubei explicitly stopped their fight because them going at it was bound to tear the entire city asunder. Ragna's fight with Ikaruga also shakes the entire Heaven's tower.
- In the crossover Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton, Asuka is Kryptonian. Ergo, she's the most powerful woman in the world. She can very easily level whole cities. At one point she lifted a skyscraper and dropped it on the head of a giant Eldritch Abomination.
- The other Superwomen of Eva are no different at all. Misato as the Hulk is treated as a weapon of mass destruction waiting to go off if someone looks at her funny, and even a Badass Normal like Batgirl is seen as a harbinger of doom by Japan's criminal underground of which Gendo is boss.
- Nearly every Anchor in The Infinite Loops is capable of this, as well as many older regular Loopers. How willing they are to actually use these abilities varies of course.
- While Naruto can certainly do this in True Warriors Never Die
(having created a lake in Hueco Mundo when he and Harribel fought), Gaara reigns supreme. Apparently, several hundred years prior Barragan's forces pressed him hard enough that Gaara (who'd become an arrancar) was forced to use his Resureccion, which turned all of Hueco Mundo into the desert it is today. - There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
- The Celestials were this on a cosmic scale. When Azmuth brings them up, he mentions that they left ruined solar systems in their wake.
- Iron Man's Hulkbuster armor, based on its design and blueprints, is stated to have enough raw firepower to singlehandedly wipe NATO off the map.
- Anodites who have mastered their powers are apparently among the higher tiers of cosmic beings, particularly because their durability is high enough that, at least according to Vilgax, actually killing one would require an Infinity Stone.
- Ms. Bustier, having a decent knowledge on the supernatural and other entities, mentions that even minor deities carry enough mystical power in them to reduce entire continents to rubble. It's also confirmed that major deities from different pantheons have enough mythical power to be classified as planet killers. Even the tiny and cute Kwamis, without their Miraculous to act as a Power Limiter, would be beyond what even Supergirl could hope to survive channeling. Canonically Plagg did wipe out the dinosaurs and destroy Atlantis, after all.
- My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: The Slayer usually fits this trope when it comes to declaring war on demons or villains. During the Steel Sabers Arc, the Slayer successfully reduced I-Island to a blood covered wasteland or a blazing inferno. The only reason it wasn't sunk to Davy Jones' locker was because there were hostages to rescue, and support items for him to take.
- Volcano fits this after he single-handedly destroyed Eusha City and almost killed Endeavor had All Might not intervened. It's heavily implied he managed to kill multiple heroes during that clusterfuck.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Minerva McGonagall (and others, centaur prophets included) is firmly convinced that Harry is this, just because his modus operandi is absolutely insane in wizarding terms. To be fair, she's probably right, considering that within a few hours of getting introduced to Diagon Alley, he'd already figured out a way to break the wizarding economy in twain. This gets even worse later: There turns out to be a prophecy that Potter will snuff out all the stars in the universe.
- Jurassic What If...?: The Ultimasaurus is far more destructive than any of the canon hybrids ever were. Upon escaping its paddock, it wipes out 95% of Isla Nublar's entire security detail and turns Jurassic World's Main Street into a lifeless bloodbath, all inside of just two hours. And post-incident reports suggest that it's afterwards managed to kill over 80% of all human, dinosaur and animal life on Isla Nublar.
- Underestimated, Izuku makes it clear that Momo is the most dangerous person in Class 1A. The rest of the class don't individually reach an S Class threat (able to wipe out a prefecture in 24 hours or less). Momo could make an equivalent payload to the Tsar Bomb seven times before she exhausted her reserves and as Izuku explained, with ideal placements, you'd only need ten to wipe out all life on Earth.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Oddly, Rites of Ascension has Celestia feeling this way; she actively avoids battles as she is a one trick pony in that regard. The one trick is called "Sol Invictus", which is responsible for the formation of the Glass Desert. And the death of over one hundred thousand combatants. Notably, despite this, it's Luna who's more feared. Then again, Luna is able to leave survivors. In fact, part of the political intrigue comes from Celestia not being able to put enough fear into some ponies as a royal force of nature.
- Seeking Power, an AU work predating the first episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, features a treaty called the Alicorn Accord. The pertinent details are that Celestia isn't allowed to take the field of battle, but ancient dragons would be able to come to Equestria's aid should they be needed. Much to Twilight's annoyance, she was added to the list of 'ponies who count as war crimes should they show up at a battle'.
- In Savage Skies, The Order of Celestial Knights were formed for this purpose. They represent Equestria's aim to be a stable nation without being a threat, capable of single handedly taking out an entire army while being unable to be used as an invasion force.
- The Dark Side of the Mirror Verse:
- Mirror Celestia and Luna were this before their Heel–Face Turn, as Equestria (as in the comics) is currently suffering a famine and drought due to the amount of destruction they've caused and all the Pegasi Cities were destroyed by them.
- Mirror Twilight becomes this after becoming Nightmare Spotlight. She's capable of tearing a large part of Canterlot out of the ground by sheer power alone.
- Naruto is already a Person of Mass Destruction, but in The Best Laid Plans, this gets taken to the extreme by giving Naruto a nuclear rasengan.
- The Kyuushingai in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox are this, individually. Just one member alone is said to be able to take on a whole squadron of fighters, while all nine together could conceivably destroy an entire city in less than an hour.
- Shinji in Shinji And Warhammer 40 K, due in part to the ever-increasing scale of the battles with the Angels, usually ends up destroying much of Tokyo-3 in his efforts to save it, to his considerable chagrin. Other cities and nations like him, but don't want him visiting since they can't afford the repairs. It gets to the point that after a leave of absence, the fact that surprise reinforcements cause so much devastation tips off the defenders that he's returned. There's also a time when whatever ability lets him sync with an Eva get flipped inside out, briefly giving him the power to "crack the planet in half," but he spends a whole story arc trying to fix it.
- Advice and Trust: Shinji, Asuka and Rei are capable of massive property damage or even ending humanity (and Rei not even needs a giant robot to achieve that). Sometimes Asuka states that they're the most dangerous people in the world.
- In Thousand Shinji, Shinji, Asuka and Rei gain powers while their bodies evolve to fight their enemies. Before the end of the story they're capable to level whole cities or even exterminate the human race.
- In Children of an Elder God, Shinji, Asuka and Rei — and to a lesser extent, Touji and Hikari- pilot Humongous Mecha and wield powers stolen from Eldritch Abominations. "Mass Destruction" doesn't even come close to describe the kind of devastation that they can cause.
- The Second Try: Shinji wiped out all of humanity and almost annihilated it a second time. Asuka can crush an army single-handedly and easily. And Rei is an alien goddess.
- Any of the main characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide is perfectly able of leveling cities –or worse- using their giant mechas.
- In Last Child of Krypton, Shinji and Asuka are massively powerful super-heroes. They're capable of picking up Mount Everest with their bare hands and putting it in the Gobi Desert.
- In Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88), Misato nicknames Shinji "Godzilla" after he destroys half a city in a simulated battle.
Others
- Legendarily Popular includes several candidates, since Legendary Pokemon are drawn to Ash like a magnet, but Psyduck deserves special mention, after it learns self-hypnosis, Sleep Talk, and a wide selection of the most powerful moves that exist.Dracozolt: Just, um, don't tell him to use Sleep Talk if he's asleep and you like the building he's standing in.
- The Unexpected Results series (a Trinity Blood fan fic) has Johanna Sinclair, a character with time manipulation abilities that can trigger what is referred to as 'temporal whiplash', with the effect varying according to the age of the victim. In the case of a human it'll have a similar effect to an electric shock and usually knocks them out. When used on a vampire the result is akin to a bomb going off and it is theorized that using it against anything older than a vampire (i.e. a Crusnik) would be like setting off a nuke. This puts her in the rather difficult position of being theoretically capable of taking out the Big Bad but not without a hell of a lot of collateral damage.
- Long Fen Zao in The Odyssey. Otherwise known as the Last Shogun, survivor of no less than two apocalypses, tutor of the current Empress. The man is an essence ten Dragon-Blood, which in Exalted terms means he's basically Armageddon on two legs.
- Deep Sleep, a Heroes fanfic, has Peter and Sylar battle (fully utilizing their powers) and inadvertently shattering continents, leaving the west half of the Americas a smoking wasteland, killing millions, and bringing about a very Bad Future.
- Yachiru and Hitsugaya in Uninvited Guests. Between the two of them, they completely destroy Las Noches and defeat all espada in a couple of hours; though Hitsugaya was in berserk mode most of the time and Yachiru technically did it by accident. Or did she..?
- Paul in With Strings Attached, who could (if he wanted to, which he doesn't) either systematically and tirelessly dismantle everything in his path, or periodically reduce circular chunks of it to molten glass.
- Probably the others as well. John rejected many of the things the Kansael told him he can do and implied that he's unbeatable in the ocean; George at the very least could wreak havoc as a dragon; and Ringo apparently has a huge amount of power behind him that he's never tapped into. Luckily, they're Actual Pacifists, and besides, their experiences on Earth taught them what the really important things in life are, so it's easy for them to reject the seductive call of power. Which really isn't that seductive, given how much Suck it came with.
- Atticus in Project Chimera - The Attic Hypothesis can produce more energy than a lightning strike to an area the size of a dime in a fraction of a second at peak condition. And this is the stage of the story where he's a weakling.
- In the Daria Expanded Universe series Legion of Lawndale Heroes, persons who fit this trope are classified as 'Class Five' beings. These are the people who have powers that could outright flatten a city... for starters. Quinn Morgendorffer is a perfect example: with her electrical powers, she once caused a line of nuclear detonations.
- Also, in the same Expanded Universe, the Corps of Ringbearers are the same. The Defender Rings are incredibly useful and dangerous — from creating a fluid that can dissolve anything not protected by a Force Field, to giving the user the ability to transmute materials into a set number of materials and will-based telekinesis... which one wearer used to cause the core of a planet to achieve stellar ignition and become a short-lived star.
- The Games We Play: Bianca can blow up buildings even with portals only the size of a finger. If she ever cut loose, she could easily level a city. By the time of the Arc family spar, Jaune can call down city-wrecking earthquakes and tsunamis.
- The God Squad itself, when they truly apply themselves, are almost all pretty much this. Special mention to Lord Tydal, who not only managed to take out 4 different armies but also faced off with Person Of Mass Destruction himself Tirek when he was at full strength; Tirek admits that had Tydal been willing to use his full power he could have easily defeated him... but doing so would have destroyed the planet, if not the solar system, due to just how much magic Tydal is forced to keep locked away.
- Supergirl fanfic Hellsister Trilogy offers many examples from the main character to baddies such like Mordru or Darkseid, but Berserker, the son of Supergirl's evil doppelganger Satan Girl and Mordru stands out. As powerful as a Pre-Crisis Kryptonian, plus vast magic powers plus fighting training supplied by Darkseid.A 3-dimensional hologram sprang into being just over their heads. It picked out a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy, then drew in on several planets in distant but related solar systems. From each planet, in turn, images of carnage, wreckage, destruction emerged. Kara and Dev gazed at them. True, they weren’t strangers to sights such as these. But, still...
From one, a moving image sprang forth. A rapidly-moving figure, tearing through the machinery and soldiers of a well-equipped army. Just one man against a horde, and within minutes, that man had won. - Promotion to Queen, Malty makes clear that anyone who isn't a Legendary Hero or on par with them is worthless in a battle that involves them. Her power grows to such an extent that she breaks Stiltvelt in only three days with less than twenty forces who predominantly acted as clean up. Her advisor, Jacob Cromwell, doesn't truly comprehend how powerful she is until Malty dismisses an army of level 100 soldiers (the normal level cap) as worthless when questioning why Medea took them.
- With This Ring makes it clear that without the Green Lantern Corps' rule against killing, any Lantern can be this. A moderately competent and motivated Lantern can beat a warship, and weapons like beam singularity projectors can break planets.
