Basic Trope: A villain who wants to take over or destroy The Multiverse.
- Straight: Master Destruction wants to conquer or destroy the mulitverse.
- Exaggerated: Master Destruction becomes an omnipotent god that rules over every universe in existence in every conceivable timeline, at all times in the infinite past and infinite future.
- Downplayed:
- Master Destruction has been to other dimensions, but conquering them isn't his top priority.
- Master Destruction starts out ruling in one dimension, but loses control of his holdings there and flees to conquer another dimension. He ends up ruling multiple dimensions, just not at the same time.
- Master Destruction essentially extorts tribute from multiple dimensions. He knows that even he cannot hope to control every aspect of them but they don't dare defy him and harvesting the cream of the crop is enough to keep him on top.
- Justified:
- Master Destruction already rules his home universe, and conquering others is the next step.
- Master Destruction believes that all our decisions didn't matter, because in another Universe our counterpart will do the exact opposite, so the only decision that matters is to destroy the Multiverse.
- Master Destruction finds out that he can drain power from Universe's destruction, so more he destroys, the more powerful he becomes.
- Master Destruction has a god complex, and wants to conquer the multiverse to validate this.
- Master Destruction is a Knight Templar, who feels being ruler of creation itself will ensure peace and stability for everyone.
- Since multiversal travel is possible, any universe not under Master Destruction's control is a potential threat. He's simply striking first.
- Inverted:
- Master Destruction is the Guardian of the Multiverse. The "Destruction" part comes in when someone trying to play this straight ends up meeting him.
- Alternatively, Master Destruction is the ruler of a Llynstan, Fork street 5, apartment 3, bedroom. Well, an eighth of it.
- Subverted: While it seems Master Destruction wants to destroy the Multiverse, he really does what's necessary to save it.
- Double Subverted: ...Or that's what he wants The Hero to believe.
- Parodied: Master Destruction wants to rid the multiverse of... brussel sprouts
- Zig Zagged: Master Destruction alternates between trying to destroy the multiverse and protect it, due to Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- Averted: Master Destruction wants to destroy only one Universe and dosen't know or dosen't care about Multiverse.
- Enforced: “We need a epic story. How about heroes teaming up against new villain, Master Destruction, who wants to take over the Multiverse?”
- Lampshaded: “I am Master Destruction! I conquered entire Universes, one after another! And soon there will be no Universe not under my rule!”
- Invoked: “One of my duties as Guardian of the Multiverse is to search for all who wish to conquer it and stop them, before they become a serious threat.”
- Exploited: Master Destruction is a nasty enemy to fight, but the heroes can reliably depend on him to help put down any Omnicidal Maniacs. After all, as they frequently point out, if the Multiverse is destroyed, what's he going to conquer?
- Defied: Alice, who travels through alternate universes, meets Master Destruction before he tries to destroy the multiverse. She then gets him therapy.
- Discussed: “With infinite amount of universes, it was only the matter of time before some nutjob gets an idea to conquer them all.”
- Conversed: “Super Troper Team is my favorite comic- heroes from two worlds join forces to fight Master Destruction, who wants to destroy The Multiverse”
- Implied: While Master Destruction is currently focused on one universe, when he learns of or sees the existence of other universes, he seems interested in them.
- Deconstructed:
- Master Destruction has a tragic backstory where it's found he's been driven insane by the knowledge of all parallel universes, and the only way to end his suffering is to eliminate them all. He then realizes that in an infinite number of alternate realities, there should be one where he succeeded in destroying the multiverse. The fact that the multiverse is still around proves that he will never destroy the multiverse ever, and so he's Driven to Suicide.
- Master Destruction didn't actually choose this role, but found it as the natural result of becoming addicted to war-he lives in incredible fear of the day he wins, because he'll lose the purpose of his existence.
- Master Destruction's goal is impossible by nature because the very action of conquering a universe creates at least one new universe where he failed.
- Reconstructed:
- He recovers, and decides that maybe this is the reality where he destroys the multiverse.
- No fear, Master Destruction, there will be plenty of uprisings and new Multiversal Conquerors to fight. Perhaps the battles to maintain dominance will be even more thrilling than those to establish it.
- Master Destruction understands that his goal is a moving target, and seeks to control the very means by which universes are created to prevent new universes not under his control from being born.
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