People of Mass Destruction in western animation TV.
- Flame Princess from Adventure Time. Not only is she an Apocalypse Maiden if she ever kisses someone, but she caused a massive forest fire as a baby after her father left her in the woods to perish.
- The Watterson family in The Amazing World of Gumball frequently cause massive property damage, some good examples being "The Skull" (when Gumball and Darwin indirectly cause $20,000 of damage to the boy's shower room) and "Christmas" (when Gumball, Darwin, and Anais similarly cause thousands of dollars of damage at the local mall). During "The Job", Richard got a job, and this was apparently so against the natural order that just driving around making deliveries unwound the fabric of the universe. An episode later in that season, "The Finale", stated that they had caused $800,000 in damages to the town.
- Hector even moreso, by merit of being an easily-excited giant.
- Hayley from American Dad! turns into one of these whenever she gets dumped.
- Roger to an even greater extent, it's revealed in one episode that the secret behind how most of his gags work (generally involving him being multiple characters in multiple places at once, even within the same room) is that he's just really, really, really fast. Time appears to slow to a crawl around him when he runs, meaning that if he wanted to he could personally zip around and kill every single organism on the planet with nothing being even remotely quick enough to stop him. Thankfully his addiction to silly antics keeps him mostly occupied and limits his casualties to probably just a few unfortunate individuals each week, in a more serious work Roger would be a truly terrifying villain to behold.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Aang (and any Avatar actually) when in the Avatar State. In the Season 1 finale, he single-handedly wiped out the Fire Nation fleet sent to destroy a whole nation. There were attempts to use this power as Weapon of Mass Destruction - all of which, as you can guess, didn't end well.
- Sequel series The Legend of Korra has The Red Lotus. They are all extremely competent benders but P'Li and Ghazan take the trope. P'Li's combustion power can level opponents, and she's capable of blowing up cars, people and even shot down a dragon. Ghazan's lava bending allows him to turn the battlefield into a death hazard and put his team on the higher ground. He's also responsible for the single handed large scale destruction of the group destroying a wall of Ba Sing Se and later bringing down an air temple. Bolin, another lavabender on Ghazan's skill level, is also this in theory, but rarely uses it, being a far more heroic figure.
- The titular character from Ben 10 has the ability to shapeshift into different alien species. That might not seem like much at first... except for the fact several aliens in this setting possess super-powers, some of them already strong enough to take on entire groups of enemies (noteworthy mentions include several aliens with Super-Strength, at least two with Super-Speed, various Elemental Powers, a giant and a Reality Warper), and he can switch at will between more than One million of them, effectively giving him the universe's most powerful Multiform Balance. This ends up a plotpoint in Ben 10: Omniverse, where one of the villains, Proctor Servantis, wishes to kill Ben because he feels like it's too dangerous to have so much power in the hand of an immature child.
- An episode of Birdman (1967) featured Nitron the human bomb, a radioactive super powered villain.
- While not one on a large scale (unless part of a Humongous Mecha) Dee-Dee from Dexter's Laboratory was considered one by her brother, as she was typically the cause of failure for his inventions - typically with Stuff Blowing Up.
- Cosmo of The Fairly OddParents! was responsible for sinking Atlantis, setting off the volcano that destroyed Pompeii, and instantaneously transfiguring the shining utopia of Xanadu into the disgusting rathole of Pittsburgh.
- Final Space: The heroes are trying to stop the Titans, ancient cosmic horrors trapped in Another Dimension, from being loosed upon the universe. Capable of walking through space and large enough to physically grasp an entire planet in one hand, Titans can shatter entire planets around them at will or even by accident.
- Invincible repeatedly shows Viltrumites as this. Viltrumites are winners of the Super Power Lottery, unfortunately they're also a race that believes in conquering the rest of the galaxy, Social Darwinism, and The Right of a Superior Species. The result is horrifyingly devastating whenever they encounter any resistance to their takeovers or simply get irked enough; Omni Man commits a planet-wide genocide by himself in the show's second episode, and the second season shows this is a very real risk for any planet that doesn't roll over for them and accept their rule.
- Justice League:
- An episode of Justice League Unlimited featured a guy with (basically) a black hole in his gut.
- There's also Captain Atom, who's pretty much a walking nuclear fallout contained in a suit.
- Above everyone else is Ivo's Android (Amazo in the comics) who has enough power to make Dr. Manhattan look like an amateur. It can easily destroy the universe with a simple thought. Fortunately, by the time its ever-growing power reached that point, it had gone from villain to
True Neutral.
- In the finale of Kim Possible, the sidekick Ron Stoppable became one of these when he finally got control of his Mystical Monkey Powers. He managed to defeat two powerful giant aliens and hurl them effortlessly into the sky and caused them to crash head on into their crashing spaceship. Needless to say, enemy and ally alike were impressed, shocked, and a little nervous.
- On a technicality, he was already one due to his destructive clumsiness. The only difference now is he can voluntarily control the chaos he causes.
- Superman X in the Legion of Super Heroes's second season. A clone of Superman, X was created for the sole purpose of destroying the Warlord Imperiex. He's just as powerful as the original Superman but with different powers and none of his heroic or moral personality. At first.
- Miraculous Ladybug:
- Plagg is largely a force for good, but he isn't called the Kwami of Destruction for show. In the hands of the heroes he empowers, his Cataclysm technique can destroy anything with a touch. If he tries to use it on his own? He can down nearby buildings and even cause mass extinctions by accident. Just ask the dinosaurs.
- When Cat Noir is akumatized into Cat Blanc, it removes the limits on his abilities, enabling him to wield Plagg's full destructive power. He comes within a hair's breadth of unleashing a galaxy-busting Cataclysm.
- All the major villains from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and even a few good guys count to a degree, but there are some that really stand out:
- Discord can seemingly do anything with his chaos magic and a mere snap of his fingers (or in one case, tail), has Princess Celestia on edge when he's escaped, and has Ponyville reduced to a chaotic reality-less mess within an afternoon of being released. The only reason the two Princesses or the main cast were even able to take him down at all was because they were able to catch him off-guard and outsmart him. Thankfully for everyone involved he's not interested in outright destruction or death but prefers total chaos.
- King Sombra demonstrates the ability to warp an entire kingdom with his Black Magic in a matter of only seconds. And not even two Alicorns can prevent him from just making the whole place vanish through space and time as a contingency. Furthermore, he's also an Implacable Man against virtually everything except for The Power of Love. And even worse: It's heavily implied that uninterrupted control of said kingdom and its special Amplifier Artifact would inevitably set him on the path to doing similar things to the rest of Equestria as well — which is reinforced by his Bad Future sequence in the Season 5 finale (including one moment where he generates an almost-mountain-sized wall of Dark Is Evil crystals to defend himself against Princess Celestia's troops).
- Lord Tirek starts out frail but can suck the magic out of any pony just by getting close to them, leaving them in a lifeless daze and adding their power to his. At first it's only unicorns and one at a time, but he quickly gains in power and is able to drain entire crowds of ponies at a time. It takes Twilight Sparkle rocking the combined magic of hers and the three other alicorn princesses just to fight Tirek to a standstill by the time they lock horns, and their battle breaks the landscape.
- Princess Celestia may not seem like this trope at first, given how she almost constantly loses against the Big Bad that she faces and doesn't get too many opportunities to show off her power. However, it is implied later on in the series that this is because she actually holds back her power tremendously out of fear of the damage her unchecked power may cause. This is later confirmed in the episode "The Royal Problem", where Celestia's hypothetical Superpowered Evil Side, Daybreaker (which is Celestia using all of her power without caring who gets hurt, and arrogantly believing herself to not need anyone's help and also has none of the self-restraint and desire for balance that Celestia has) starts to blaze around and create massive pillars, spirals, blasts, bursts and explosions of searing/ burning hot fire and light. She even demonstrates the ability to shoot a fiery Breath Weapon and can literally turn herself into a LIVING SUN by coating herself in a ginormous omidirectional firestorm that incinerates everything and everyone around her.. She overpowers Nightmare Moon quite easily whereas Celestia spent her fight with her just running away, further proving that she rarely uses her true power out of fear of turning into Daybreaker. Equestria is quite lucky that Celestia is firmly on the good side, otherwise it would probably have been burnt to a crisp by now.
- The My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games movie gives us Midnight Sparkle, who manages to tear through entire dimensions in a frantic attempt to reach Equestria For Science!.
- Rick and Morty: Given Rick Sanchez's near god-like intelligence, incredible technology and science that doesn't seem bound to any actual scientific laws, total indifference to the pain or suffering of almost anything else, and that he usually "solves" problems that are too difficult by just traveling to another dimension, is it really shocking when it becomes clear that Rick has been responsible (even if only indirectly) for the total destruction of countless worlds and dimensions?
- Les Sisters: The titular sisters, Wendy and Marine, normally end up causing large amounts of property damage. In some episodes, they even manage to cause property damage to their entire neighborhood.
- Spliced: Two-Legs Joe can create tornadoes and earthquakes, destroy buildings and cities, sink islands, create and destroy black holes, and even alter the orbits of celestial bodies just by stomping his feet.
- Peri and Entree have destroyed the island multiple times, though through just plain recklessness rather than any actual superpowers.
- Whenever SpongeBob SquarePants gets behind the wheel of a boat, it's practically a guarantee that he'll cause massive amounts of property damage. In fact, at the end of the episode "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", it's outright stated that he would have passed his latest boating exam... if there was a "destroy the city" part of it.
- Steven Universe:
- Lapis Lazuli's power over water is so extensive that, even with her gem cracked, she can move all of Earth's oceans at once. Turns out she's from a caste designed for Hostile Terraforming, and even among that caste she's on a "Won the biggest Superpower Lottery of all time" tier of power. In one episode of Sequel Series Steven Universe: Future Lapis Lazuli accompanies Steven to confront a pair of rogue Lapis gems who are continuing to destroy planets just because it's what they've always done. At first Lapis Lazuli tries to work with Steven to convince them to stop peacefully, but as they continually mock her she eventually loses her temper. As soon as she gets serious, she overpowers the other two so easily that all they can do is cling to each other in fear until Lapis Lazuli regains control of her temper and decides not to go through with attacking them any longer. One of the rogue gems calls it a "Ridiculous show of strength" even though it's just a fraction of what Lapis did when she harnessed the oceans of Earth for her purposes.
- The title character himself, Steven, is shown to completely overpower every opponent in the penultimate episode of Steven Universe: Future while corrupted and the size of a kaiju. With a single roar he almost wipes out everybody present and even manages to overpower the Diamonds and the previously mentioned Lapis (who immediately lost all ability to hold Steven down at that point). The Cluster then shows up, and Steven struggles with it for possibly a minute before simply tossing it aside like it was nothing. Ultimately, Garnet's strategy is not to fight Steven head on, but appeal to Steven's humanity and for everyone to try and reach him emotionally.
- Teen Titans
- Trigon is capable of effortlessly laying waste to the Earth in a matter of seconds.
- Raven has near-Reality Warper—enough to vanquish her father Trigon, mentioned above.
- Teen Titans Go!, Raven and Trigon again, only Raven is even more powerful in this version as she has no restrictions on her powers.
