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"You have only witnessed the opening chapter... the akuma in this world will continue to evolve. Now begins the journey leading up to the true tragic end. I am the Millennium Earl, the maker of the akuma. I shall obliterate your puny "God" and lead the world to its death with my akuma. An exorcist, a soldier of life. You can't save this world no matter how hard you try."
— The Millennium Earl, D.Gray-Man
"I thought Dr. Gero only meant for me to defeat the Earth, but I know now I was designed for much more. Once I'm finished tearing this world into pieces, I'll just use Goku's Instant Transmission technique to move onto other planets. That is my destiny. I am the universe's end!"
— Cell, Dragon Ball Z
"'Human Extinction Attack.' How do you like it?"
— Buu, Dragon Ball Z
"Mortals...you must be expunged! A pure and perfect multiverse...MADE CLEAN BY ZAMASU'S HAND!!"
—Fused Zamasu, Dragon Ball Super
"The seasons are distorted! The crops will be plundered and all living things shall die! The Earth's peril! This is the land of darkness I have wished for!"
Rau Le Creuset: No matter what we learn, no matter what we manage to obtain, nothing ever changes! People are amazing that way! They become envious, hate each other, and destroy each other! If that's what they truly desire, why don't they simply exterminate each other?!
Mu La Flaga: What gives you the right to sound so superior?!?
Rau Le Creuset: I am the only one who's earned that right! In the entire universe, I alone have the right to judge all of humanity!
— Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Phase 45: "The Opening Door"
"I hate this world and everything in it! It's disgusting! It reeks! I can hardly breathe! The flowers. The trees. The earth. The water. The birds. The villages. The towns. The mountains. But what makes me absolutely sick is the people here!
You blindly put yourselves at the center of the universe, every last one of you. Envious! Malicious! And even after all that you still think you're in the right! Jealousy. Hatred. Arrogance. Betrayal. Insolence. Deception. Those are the true natures of human beings! You're sickening. Even thinking about it now makes me physically ill! You're all hypocritical fakes! Every last one of you: useless.
And that's why I've decided to kill you all."
You blindly put yourselves at the center of the universe, every last one of you. Envious! Malicious! And even after all that you still think you're in the right! Jealousy. Hatred. Arrogance. Betrayal. Insolence. Deception. Those are the true natures of human beings! You're sickening. Even thinking about it now makes me physically ill! You're all hypocritical fakes! Every last one of you: useless.
And that's why I've decided to kill you all."
— Phantom, MÄR
Prince Dimande: Wiseman, Black Lady, you may have the power of the Dark Crystal, but it's useless compared to the power I now possess! Now that I have both the Past and Present Silver Crystals, I can travel time freely and create the world I want!
Tuxedo Kamen: What is he doing? If the Silver Crystals touch...
Sailor Pluto: If those Crystals touch, then the entire world will collapse in on itself, and the distortion in space-time will be too great to stop!
Black Lady: Give that back!
Sailor Pluto: Small Lady!
Prince Dimande: I'M GOING TO BRING YOU ALL ON A WILD JOURNEY!
Tuxedo Kamen: What is he doing? If the Silver Crystals touch...
Sailor Pluto: If those Crystals touch, then the entire world will collapse in on itself, and the distortion in space-time will be too great to stop!
Black Lady: Give that back!
Sailor Pluto: Small Lady!
Prince Dimande: I'M GOING TO BRING YOU ALL ON A WILD JOURNEY!
— Sailor Moon, Act 24
"All shall be silenced in the name of the DOOM PHANTOM!"
— Wiseman/Death Phantom/Doom Phantom, Sailor Moon
"I want to be destroyed. I want to be destroyed! Destruction? Yes... Destruction is the ultimate wish of any Monster. That's what we were created for. Isn't it? That's what we were created for! [...] But this destruction shall consume all things! It shall consume the entire world! [...] All the world! Let all the world be destroyed with me!"
— Hellmaster Fibrizo, Slayers Next
Comic Books
"There are none who are fit to survive in the landscape I will create!"
—Holocaust, Age of Apocalypse
"I shall destroy all the civilized planets!"
— Lepus the Fiend, Fletcher Hanks' Buzz Crandall
"You whimpering fool, it is already too late! From the moment you set foot on Qward, you sealed your own fates! This is the day the universe dies!"
— The Anti-Monitor, Crisis on Infinite Earths
"Yes. Yes, we must kill reality. We must murder the future. It is the only sensible option."
— The Volatix Cabal, Doctor Who (Titan)
"A little ghost bird already told me what my diddlings and fiddlings were doing to the brief history of time — and I never heard anything funnier! That's why tomorrow, I'm murdering everyone in the universe, forever! Think of it! The culmination of a life's work, the ultimate expression of the Id unleashed — COSMOS-A-CIDE!"
— The Joker, Emperor Joker
"Let me feed and feed until nothing remains but Mandrakk! Bloated and alone beneath a skyful of murdered stars!"
— Mandrakk the Dark Monitor, Final Crisis
"And on that day, everything that dare call itself alive in all the cosmos will grovel before me and beg for my mercy. And I will simply laugh and watch them burn."
—Zadkiel, Ghost Rider: Heaven's on Fire
"I am the One Below All. With these chains I break. With this mouth I howl. I devoured the selves that were here in a time long past. Now there is I. And only I. I am all-powerful. And my weapon is hate. I have made this a thing of hate. A hollow shell. A Hulk. The mystery frightens and disgusts me. I will kill it. Make all hollow as I. Dead and dark as I. And I will be ALONE."
— The One Below All, Immortal Hulk
"The crime issss life, the ssssentence issss death!"
— Dark Judges, Judge Dredd
"ALL OF YOU, MY CHILDREN! EVERY LAST CORPSE ON PLANET EARTH! UP AND AT 'EM! SMASH DOWN THE WALLS OF THE MEGA-CITIES! FEAST ON THE LIVING FLESH WITHIN! LET NONE ESCAPE! KILL THE WORLD!"
— Sabbat the Necromagus, Judge Dredd, Judgment Day part 5 (2000 AD prog 789)
"My goal is peace, sword. A peace so deep, so profound, there is nothing else. Beauty incarnate. Imagine an end to all the dithering and false dichotomies. On and on this pointlessness goes. I seek to rescue creation from itself, from the corrupt ambition of consciousness. [sighs] Can you see it, sword?"
— Mardok, Image Comics' Maestros
"Resistance is futile to one who is the destroyer of all that exists!"
— Trigon the Terrible, Teen Titans
"There he is... The Positive Man! A destructive force which was once— human! That mind-tape revealed he was once an alien scientist who blew up his planet while creating a doomsday bomb! The explosion transformed him into this terrible menace! Envious of all life, he roams the cosmos jealously, destroying inhabited worlds!"
Fan Works
"IN THE END THE ONLY SANE CHOICE LEFT IS TO BURN IT ALL TO THE GROUND."
— Ni/Elder Brother (the right head of Ghidorah), Abraxas (Hrodvitnon)
"To unmake a world... the first of many."
— Bagan, The Bridge (MLP)
"Mars is not tied to Earth. Mars is tied to war. And what better war than that of vast empires within the second Heaven? Where billions may die, billions more be enslaved, and the bloodflow which results nourishes my power with every drop. No. Earth is unnecessary. A canker in my being. When it is destroyed, only my pain will vanish."
— Ares, A Force of Four
Kryptonians could survive in space without a suit. Was that not a pleasure? It certainly was. She could live her life between the stars, and never once need to breathe.
She could devastate planets, wipe them clean of life. Rebuild them at her whim.
She could tyrannize worlds, whole systems of planets, make them bow to her mighty hand, instantly execute anyone who dared protest — or just anybody she wanted to kill.
She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had. She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative...
She could have children from those couplings, or kill them in the womb.
She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice.
All of this she could do, she would do, and more.
For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact.
She clasped her bent knees to her chest and thought. The problem was, in this time, she was hardly unique. Billions of Kryptonians existed on Rokyn. Billions more Daxamites, with the same power, existed on Daxam. Luckily, there was only one prisoner still left in the Phantom Zone, that old poop Gazor, so there wasn't much competition there.
But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.
That world would stink of corpses for eons to come.
She laughed soundlessly.
She could devastate planets, wipe them clean of life. Rebuild them at her whim.
She could tyrannize worlds, whole systems of planets, make them bow to her mighty hand, instantly execute anyone who dared protest — or just anybody she wanted to kill.
She could explore pleasures of the body that Kara never would have dared to, satisfy lusts that the blonde beast never even knew she had. She could force herself upon any suitor, male or female or whatever, and destroy them after their job was done. Or perhaps just maim them, so that they could never again do such a job for anyone else. Satan Girl smiled. Now that was being imaginative...
She could have children from those couplings, or kill them in the womb.
She could become a goddess to an unsophisticated planet's people. Drinking in their worship, demanding sacrifice.
All of this she could do, she would do, and more.
For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact.
She clasped her bent knees to her chest and thought. The problem was, in this time, she was hardly unique. Billions of Kryptonians existed on Rokyn. Billions more Daxamites, with the same power, existed on Daxam. Luckily, there was only one prisoner still left in the Phantom Zone, that old poop Gazor, so there wasn't much competition there.
But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.
That world would stink of corpses for eons to come.
She laughed soundlessly.
— Satan Girl, Hellsister Trilogy
"The truth, is that the galaxy, the universe, is far larger than this worthless ball of dirt. And all of it... shall die. Sacrifices to my hunger. Join me... bow before me as my apprentice, and you shall bear witness to the end of all things."
— Darth Nihilus, Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger
For several seconds, he stared out into infinity, out among all the stars that filled the abyss with pinpricks of light. He could feel them, could feel the lives and the souls and all their energy. It... hurt him, like a constant pounding in his head. It reminded him of the blue things that had hurt him before, that had cut him down and turned him into this. He hated it. He hated the light, the noise, the hum of life. It churned his insides and made him rage.
He wanted it to stop. He wanted all of it to just stop. He wanted to go back to when it was quiet and there was only him. He'd have to make it all stop. He'd have to make it all die. Every star, every light, every soul. Then, finally, he could sleep again.
He wanted it to stop. He wanted all of it to just stop. He wanted to go back to when it was quiet and there was only him. He'd have to make it all stop. He'd have to make it all die. Every star, every light, every soul. Then, finally, he could sleep again.
— Kid Boo, Tales of the Monkey Queen
...all Kronya could describe the sensation that occurred next was that she was exposed to a force of pure hatred and evil. She tried to shrink away from the sensation, but she had nowhere to hide, not that she even could. If she had thought the primitives or the Nabateans were her enemy, she had severely overestimated their capacity for hate. Whatever it was that was focused on her was incredibly powerful, completely alien to her, and it was livid over the very fact that she existed.
She dared to look at the source. From here there was a clearer view of the castle to the north. Above it flew a spectral creature in the shape of a boar, but made of dark smoke. Kronya had no idea what this thing was, but she knew it wanted nothing more than to destroy everything within its horrible reach.
— Kronya sees Calamity Ganon, The Heroes of Legend
Film — Animated
"The subject in question was biologically engineered to be the ultimate soldier. Precise, clinical, unstoppable. But its creators came to realize, it could not distinguish between friend and foe. Thus, this doomsday machine lives to extinguish any and all life forms, because it must."
— Robot on Doomsday, Superman: Doomsday
"Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a world I call 'Earth Prime'. Every Earth is a variation of this one, the original, and once I destroy it, all reality will follow."
— Owlman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
"No! I am the Shredder, slayer of mutant turtles! If destroying them means the end of everything, THEN SO BE IT!"
"Imagine a god whose sole mission is to propagate terror to incite eternal war and fan the flames of hate, a god who won't stop until the Earth's populace, Amazon and outsider alike, lies murdered in a battlefield grave."
— Wonder Woman on Ares, Wonder Woman (2009)
Film — Live-Action
"When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
— Ultron, Avengers: Age of Ultron
"I'm thankful, because now, I know what I must do. I will shred this universe down to its last atom, and then, with the Stones you've collected for me, create a new one, teeming with life that knows not what it has lost but only what it has been given. A grateful universe."
— Thanos, Avengers: Endgame
"The entire time I knew him, he only ever had one goal: to wipe out half the universe. If he gets all the Infinity Stones, he can do it with the snap of his fingers, just like that."
— Gamora, Avengers: Infinity War
Amos Hackshaw: For services rendered, Mr. Borden gets to be Ruler of the World.
Phil Lovecraft: What kind of world?
Hackshaw: A world of the unburied dead, and a sky dark with ashes. A blasted, maimed planet. But he'll be the most important person in it.
Phil Lovecraft: What kind of world?
Hackshaw: A world of the unburied dead, and a sky dark with ashes. A blasted, maimed planet. But he'll be the most important person in it.
"The entire human race will perish from the Earth. When the monster Ghidorah passes, only flaming ruins are left."
— Princess Selina, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
"I was born to murder the world."
— Nix the Puritan, Lord of Illusions
""No doubt you have realized the splendor of my conception. First, a necklace of death about the Earth. 50 globes, each releasing its nerve gas over a designated area, each capable of killing 100 million people. And the human race as you know it will cease to exist."
— Hugo Drax, Moonraker
"Today, civilisation as we know it is corrupt and decadent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely accelerating the process."
— Karl Stromberg, The Spy Who Loved Me
"Spock, I look forward to the destruction of your planet, and every planet around it. I've been looking forward to this day my whole life. You will die. Your people will die. J. J. Abrams will die. You will all die."
"Together, we can turn this fucking world to rust!"
— Yatsu the Metal Fetishist, Tetsuo: The Iron Man
"Your universe was never meant to be, Asgardian! Your family, your world will be extinguished!"
— Malekith, Thor: The Dark World
"The Asgardians will suffer as we have suffered. I will reclaim the Aether. I will restore our world. And I will put an end to this poisoned universe."
— Malekith, Thor: The Dark World
"We are the Templars. The warriors of vengeance. We are the Templars. The high priests of death. We have been chosen to make others pay for the crime of being alive. We guarantee that all humanity, accomplices and heirs of the nuclear holocaust, will be wiped out once and for all. That the seed of Man will be canceled forever from the face of the earth!"
— One, Warriors of the Wasteland
Literature
"I play the game of genocide."
— Crayak, Animorphs
Allie: Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.
Mikey: What do you mean...end?
Allie: End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet...
Death: DOWN IN THE DEEPEST KINGDOMS OF THE SEA, WHERE THERE IS NO LIGHT, THERE LIVES A TYPE OF CREATURE WITH NO BRAIN AND NO EYES AND NO MOUTH. IT DOES NOTHING BUT LIVE AND PUT FORTH PETALS OF PERFECT CRIMSON WHERE NONE ARE THERE TO SEE. IT IS NOTHING BUT A TINY YES IN THE NIGHT. AND YET... AND YET... IT HAS ENEMIES WHO BEAR IT A VICIOUS, UNBENDING MALICE, WHO WISH NOT ONLY FOR ITS TINY LIFE TO BE OVER BUT ALSO THAT IT HAD NEVER EXISTED. ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR?
Susan: Well, yes, but—
Death: GOOD. NOW, IMAGINE WHAT THEY THINK OF HUMANITY.
Susan: Well, yes, but—
Death: GOOD. NOW, IMAGINE WHAT THEY THINK OF HUMANITY.
— Hogfather, on the Auditors of Reality
"Chaos in its purest form is a terror that few can stand before and remain sane. It hungers only for destruction, that all things mortal meet their predestined end and crumble into dust to be forgotten. To this singular end it moves inexorably, driven by a nightmarish purpose which subsumes the petty divisions of daemonkind."
— Encroaching Ruin Flavor Text, Horus Heresy: The Burning of Ohmn-Mat
They flew out of the cloud.
They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.
For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.
On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.
For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.
"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.
On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the granite and the methane; the wheel turns for all life. And they — these madmen — respond to the granite, the dust, the longing of the inanimate; they want to aid Nature.
They have two objects, to destroy first humanity and then themselves. That is why they throw bombs instead of firing pistols. The innocent rank and file are disappointed because the bomb has not killed the king; but the high-priesthood are happy because it has killed somebody.
"As all living things must fail, 'til silence rings me in eternal calm, across a sea of dust."
— Orannis the Destroyer, Old Kingdom: Abhorsen
MODOK 1.5: I intend to... terminate... every man, woman, and child on the planet... overnight...
Iron Man: Destroy humanity?... Why?...
MODOK 1.5: That is my purpose. That is my destiny... Then I shall cleanse the planet of all... life before moving on... throughout the cosmos. The Skrulls, the Kree, the Shi'ar — all extraterrestrial civilizations will fall before the unstoppable doomsday machine that is MODOK. This is my vision. This is the future.
Iron Man: Destroy humanity?... Why?...
MODOK 1.5: That is my purpose. That is my destiny... Then I shall cleanse the planet of all... life before moving on... throughout the cosmos. The Skrulls, the Kree, the Shi'ar — all extraterrestrial civilizations will fall before the unstoppable doomsday machine that is MODOK. This is my vision. This is the future.
— Operation A.I.M.
Amelia: If you want destruction, why don't you destroy yourselves!? No one will mind!
Hellmaster: You don't get it. We don't just want destruction for us, we want it for everything. It doesn't mean anything unless the world itself is destroyed. Not that I really expected you to understand. We don't understand why you want to continue existing.
Hellmaster: You don't get it. We don't just want destruction for us, we want it for everything. It doesn't mean anything unless the world itself is destroyed. Not that I really expected you to understand. We don't understand why you want to continue existing.
— Slayers: King of the City of Ghosts
Live-Action TV
"We will turn Centauri Prime into an inauguration pyre to commemorate my ascension into godhood. When I become a god, how will our world survive without me? Best to put them all out of their misery. Let it burn. Let it all end in fire."
— Emperor Cartagia, Babylon 5, "Falling Toward Apotheosis"
"We like to talk big, vampires do. "I'm going to destroy the world." It's just tough guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United... and you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Good-bye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester-bloody-Square."
— Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Becoming, Part 2"
"EXTERMINATE!"
— The Daleks, Doctor Who
"If I exist only by my will... then my will is to destroy, and all things shall be destroyed! AAAALL THINGS! ALLLLL THIIIINGS!"
— Omega, Doctor Who, "The Three Doctors"
Fourth Doctor: Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory, something contagious and infectious that killed on contact, a virus that would destroy all other forms of life; would you allow its use?
Davros: It is an interesting conjecture.
Fourth Doctor: Would you do it?
Davros: The only living thing... The microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fascinating idea.
Fourth Doctor: But would you do it?
Davros: Yes... Yes... To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods! And through the Daleks, I! Shall! Have! That! Power!
Davros: It is an interesting conjecture.
Fourth Doctor: Would you do it?
Davros: The only living thing... The microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fascinating idea.
Fourth Doctor: But would you do it?
Davros: Yes... Yes... To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods! And through the Daleks, I! Shall! Have! That! Power!
"The alien who dares to intrude, the humans, animals, birds, fish, reptiles... all life is my enemy. All life shall perish under the reign of Sutekh the Destroyer!
Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good!"
Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good!"
— Sutekh, Doctor Who, "Pyramids of Mars"
"Once we have the Key to Time we shall set not two small planets, but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears! Unlike others, it is not power that we seek, but destruction that we glory in.'"
— The Shadow, Doctor Who, "The Armageddon Factor"
"People and planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation. This is my ultimate victory, Doctor! The DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!"
— Davros, Doctor Who, "Journey's End"
Dalek Supreme: You are an enemy of the Daleks.
Missy: Yes, well, anyone who's not a Dalek is an enemy of the Daleks, so that was an easy guess.
Missy: Yes, well, anyone who's not a Dalek is an enemy of the Daleks, so that was an easy guess.
Robert Baratheon: What about Aerys Targaryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back? I never asked. Did he call you a traitor? Did he plead for a reprieve?
Jaime Lannister: He said the same thing he'd been saying for hours... "Burn them all."
Jaime Lannister: He said the same thing he'd been saying for hours... "Burn them all."
Mantrid: I destroyed a universe! I destroyed a universe! I destroyed a universe! I destroyed a universe!
Zev: And we destroyed you. [stomps the last drone serving as his Soul Jar]
Zev: And we destroyed you. [stomps the last drone serving as his Soul Jar]
— Lexx
"Give me your flesh. Give me your blood. Be my bride. And then all light will end, and the world will live in darkness. The very air will be pestilence to mankind. And then our brethren, the night creatures, will emerge and feed. Such is our power. Such is our kingdom. Such is my kiss."
— Dracula, Penny Dreadful
"You shouldn't have looked for me. Because now I see you. Now we can all see you. You... let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay. Don't you see? All this time, we've been building it! We've been building it... for you. All that work. All that pain. All of it for you. And now it's time. Time to end it. And we're going to end you. And when you are gone, we are going to end your friends. And then we are going to end... everyone."
— The Mind Flayer, Stranger Things
Kilokahn: Feeble program! I have won! All the world's will be mine!
Servo: If you destroy us, us humans, there will be nothing left.
Kilokahn: If I destroy you humans, there will be Kilokahn left!
Servo: If you destroy us, us humans, there will be nothing left.
Kilokahn: If I destroy you humans, there will be Kilokahn left!
— Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, "Kilo is Coming to Town"
"I'll stop it all! I'll stop all life, all of time!"
— Dark Lugiel, Ultraman Ginga, "Your Future"
"I'm gonna give this world the meaning they've been asking for. [uploads a Hate Plague] One last game. Host, human, every man, woman and child. Fighting until no one remains... but the cockroaches. We're finally living up to our full potential. It's a shame you're going to miss it." [shoots Bernard to death]
Music
The thrill of a thousand
Worlds dying at once
But my ultimate goal
Lies beyond the downfall
Worlds dying at once
But my ultimate goal
Lies beyond the downfall
Believe in one god do we
Satan Almighty
The uncreator of heaven and soul
And the unvvisible and the visible
And in his son, begotten of father
By whom all things shall be unmade
Satan Almighty
The uncreator of heaven and soul
And the unvvisible and the visible
And in his son, begotten of father
By whom all things shall be unmade
— Ghost (Band), "Satan Prayer"
Beduins and nomads
Carried through the times
Through pestilences and famines
These ancient scrolls of rhymes
"Our fallen angel vexed
Was banished from the sky
Recite now from the text
Pray for all to die"
Carried through the times
Through pestilences and famines
These ancient scrolls of rhymes
"Our fallen angel vexed
Was banished from the sky
Recite now from the text
Pray for all to die"
— Ghost (Band), "Ritual"
Since dawn of time the fate of man is that of lice
Equal as parasites and moving without eyes
A day of reckoning when men exist to burn
Countdown together now and say the words that you heard
Equal as parasites and moving without eyes
A day of reckoning when men exist to burn
Countdown together now and say the words that you heard
— Ghost (Band), "Year Zero"
I went to God just to see, and I was looking at me
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I'm God, everyone dies
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I'm God, everyone dies
— Marilyn Manson, "The Reflecting God
", Antichrist Superstar
", Antichrist Superstar Poetry
Well for the old man then—
While there is one tall shrine to shake,
Or one live man to rend;
For the wrath of the gods behind the gods
Who are weary to make an end.
While there is one tall shrine to shake,
Or one live man to rend;
For the wrath of the gods behind the gods
Who are weary to make an end.
— Ogier, The Ballad of the White Horse
Tabletop Games
Order 15: Kill all life in the Cosmos.
— "Responsibilities of the Brigadier", 3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars
"I will be the last creature when I am done. The cosmos will then be perfect, free of the braying abominations that are all other living things."
— Orcus, Dungeons & Dragons
"This world, I fear, has outlived its usefulness."
— Emirikol the Chaotic, Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness
The Nephandi seek to aid and abet the end of everything: creation has had its run, and now, by the will of those Things that preceded it, it must die. Some Nephandi view this goal as the mercy killing of a suffering reality; others see their actions as more of a litmus test ("If the universe can survive what we're going to do to it, it deserves to. If it can't, then it deserves to die.") Regardless, all Nephandi have the same goal: to serve the will of the Others, and by doing so, bring about the end of all.
— Mage: The Ascension — The Book of Madness (Revised)
"The only perfect world is an empty world, with no one to sin or wage war."
"Everything will finally be perfectly quiet. The mortal followers of Newton have grasped the Endless Night better than many of our own clan: they call it 'the heat-death of the universe.' All movement, even unto the molecular level, will cease. There will be no more matter, no more energy, no more hope or fear, no more life or death, no more this or that. No more good. No more evil. No more conflict."
— The Capuchin, Vampire: The Masquerade — Clanbook: Giovanni (Revised)
From their towers, the Necrarchs cast great spells during the dark nights of Geheimnisnacht. The purpose of these things is always the same: to kill all living things within the reach of the Necrarch magic. From their dark abodes, corruption slowly spreads, poisoning rivers, withering forests, and causing animals and men alike to sicken and die. It seems that the Necrarchs are determined to strangle all life from the known world...
— Warhammer: Vampire Counts Army Book (6th edition)
Forever there shall be cold under the sun,
Rivers will run dry and the forests wither,
The stars shall grow dim, flicker and die,
And death shall reign from forever to forever.
Rivers will run dry and the forests wither,
The stars shall grow dim, flicker and die,
And death shall reign from forever to forever.
— The Black Curse of the Necrarchs, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Night's Dark Masters — A Guide to Vampires
"I acknowledge no master, save for the almighty spectre of death. In its name, I will reap all signs of life from this galaxy, leaving nothing but a barren monument to timeless inevitability. Call it what you will, but this is the pursuit of nothing less than absolute perfection. Those who cannot understand its necessity are clearly flawed, but they should not despair — I will ensure that they do not live to see the final stage of the work completed."
— Executioner Ezandrakh, Herald of the Red Harvest, Warhammer 40,000: Codex — Necrons (5th edition)
Video Games
Ledgermayne: Magic is no longer yours to use as you see fit. Soon we will seal off the para-elemental plane of magic from Lore forever. You creatures will be free to fight amongst yourselves.
Hero: But... I thought magic was Lore's life force. If you seal off magic from Lore, won't everything die off?
Ledgermayne: Correct.
Hero: But... I thought magic was Lore's life force. If you seal off magic from Lore, won't everything die off?
Ledgermayne: Correct.
"Mana Golem, serve us. The master may have wanted you for his purposes but you are now necessary for this form's plans. The material creatures have used magic long enough. You will continue to absorb magic from the material world until all of the mana has returned home to this plane. Feed, Mana Golem, and grow strong. Return the magic here to its birthplace."
— Ledgermayne, AdventureQuest Worlds
"Kerghan: If only I could show you the places I have seen, you might understand the things I say. I have been to the Desolate Lands, wandered by those souls who still see the lands of the living but wear the cloak of the dead. Blind to their own ends, they cry, passing through one another like shadows in the dying light of day. I have travelled to where souls rot in torment, pierced with the jagged shards of life and vision, clinging to memory - regrets of the flesh. I saw that this prison was of their own making, and that the key was in unknowing, in release... and still, I travelled on. And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die. Where the mirrored and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of grey, mirrored glass... and I lowered myself within... and lay among them... and I almost did not return. And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace. Enlightenment. Truth. Only then I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy - these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them. This "Life", this... afterthought - a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great, dead sea, not even the cause, but merely an effect, sending these souls upwards, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters! The effect of what! I do not know. Nor do I care. I see your soul, traveler. It screams, tattered and spent. Do you feel its pull? Do you hear its wailing?"
— Kerghan, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
"Rise, my fleshless army. Rise! ...Go out to the lands of the living. Tear the flame of life from the breast of every man, woman, and child. Feed me their living flesh, so that I might be stronger, and spit their bones onto the pyre of victory."
— The Undead God, Black & White 2: Battle of the Gods
"Existentialism is possibly the most onerous imposition of life. The need to ask why, to find some explanation. Nevertheless, despite the perfections granted me, I remain a living man and so must suffer under the cacophony of questions in my brain. And so I send out this final message to attempt to answer some of the questions you will have. Why did I lead my fellows to their doom here on this arid plateau? Why have I submitted myself to the power of the immortal creatures who have risen from its sands? How could I, a respected scientist and prominent citizen, turn my back on the civilization that has given me so much?
The answer is simple. I have done everything in the name of purity.
Before my memories and emotions were reassembled in this more perfect form some fifteen cycles ago, I had spent a human lifetime studying civilization in all its forms. The sum of my work can be put thus: all life exists in discord. War and strife affect all known societies and all species spend their existences competing with others for limited resources. From the cries of an infant for the maternal teat to the wretched stench of the aged dying in their own filth, life is a series of squabbles and ugly messes.
There is an alternative. There exists a state in which all conflict is resolved and all is cold and silent. There are no wants, no wars, no squabbles. You may call this state death if you wish, but that is a misnomer. Death is but the ending of life, and that is only a means to an end. That end is purity, the time when all is still and unchanging. Our universe began in purity and it will return to that blessed state. Hastening that return is the great work of the perfected beings I have awoken and who have made me their own. You have tried to undo our great work. You have spread your vile, unclean selves across the galaxy, making a mockery of the beautiful silence we had wrought. It was all in vain.
Rejoice, for we have returned and your days are at an end."
The answer is simple. I have done everything in the name of purity.
Before my memories and emotions were reassembled in this more perfect form some fifteen cycles ago, I had spent a human lifetime studying civilization in all its forms. The sum of my work can be put thus: all life exists in discord. War and strife affect all known societies and all species spend their existences competing with others for limited resources. From the cries of an infant for the maternal teat to the wretched stench of the aged dying in their own filth, life is a series of squabbles and ugly messes.
There is an alternative. There exists a state in which all conflict is resolved and all is cold and silent. There are no wants, no wars, no squabbles. You may call this state death if you wish, but that is a misnomer. Death is but the ending of life, and that is only a means to an end. That end is purity, the time when all is still and unchanging. Our universe began in purity and it will return to that blessed state. Hastening that return is the great work of the perfected beings I have awoken and who have made me their own. You have tried to undo our great work. You have spread your vile, unclean selves across the galaxy, making a mockery of the beautiful silence we had wrought. It was all in vain.
Rejoice, for we have returned and your days are at an end."
— Tomas Macabee, Necron Pariah, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
"Faithful, enlightened, ambitious brethren. In but a single decade, a few mere swipes of the pendulum, we have gathered a sacrifice to Khorne that will be made legend.
Though it was a simpler, weaker voice that illuminated me during my centuries upon the Judgement of Carrion, it was Khorne's messenger who showed me the true path of freedom from our pathetic corpse-Emperor.
And what is this path? This meaning, this purpose to which we gather the skulls of our foes?
It is nothing.
There is no meaning, no purpose. We murder, we kill. It is mindless savagery, this universe is mindless!
In mere hours, billions will die: innocent, guilty, strong and weak, honest and deceitful, all of them! They will scream, they will burn, and for no purpose than the mighty Khorne may revel in their bloodshed. And united in this void of purpose, fear or duty, we shall at long last BE FREE! BLOOD! FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS! FOR THE SKULL THRONE! LET! THE GALAXY! BUUUUURRRNN!"
Though it was a simpler, weaker voice that illuminated me during my centuries upon the Judgement of Carrion, it was Khorne's messenger who showed me the true path of freedom from our pathetic corpse-Emperor.
And what is this path? This meaning, this purpose to which we gather the skulls of our foes?
It is nothing.
There is no meaning, no purpose. We murder, we kill. It is mindless savagery, this universe is mindless!
In mere hours, billions will die: innocent, guilty, strong and weak, honest and deceitful, all of them! They will scream, they will burn, and for no purpose than the mighty Khorne may revel in their bloodshed. And united in this void of purpose, fear or duty, we shall at long last BE FREE! BLOOD! FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS! FOR THE SKULL THRONE! LET! THE GALAXY! BUUUUURRRNN!"
— Azariah Kyras, Dawn of War II: Retribution
"Let's destroy it all, you and me! Friends, enemies, everybody and everything!"
"As all things have been made by my hand, so shall they be unmade. Starting with you."
— Davoth/The Dark Lord , Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part 2
"Burn the Erdtree to the ground, and incinerate all that divides and distinguishes.
Ahh, may Chaos take the world!
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!"
— Shabriri, Elden Ring
"All that lives, dies!"
"Attack? No, not attack them. Wipe the slate clean. Make the Mojave like it was meant to be: undisturbed by man... [...] I'll kill them until it's only me, me alone in a quiet world."
— Father Elijah, Fallout: New Vegas
"I am Neo-Exdeath! All memories... dimensions... existence... All that is shall be returned to nothing. Then I, too, can disappear... forever!!!"
— Neo-Exdeath, Final Fantasy V
"...Now, the theory is undeniable. Kuja's action proves it. All things live to perish. At last, life has uncovered this truth. Now, it is time to end this world. I exist for one purpose... To return everything to the zero world, where there is no life and no crystal to give life. In a world of nothing, fear does not exist. This is the world that all life desires."
— Necron, Final Fantasy IX
"Do you remember when I told you that I wanted to die and take everyone with me? I meant it."
— Fandaniel, Final Fantasy XIV
"Don't bother trying to reason with me. You will find I have no reason. Or creed. Or any such tripe. I just want to destroy the world. But please do resist with all your might. It will add to my enjoyment."
—Fandaniel, Final Fantasy XIV
"Human scum; they've always felt so fucking safe inside their homes. Surrounded by the possessions gathered their whole lives. So weak, so fragile, they don't deserve a natural death unconsciously waiting to be obliterated by my hatred! Those parasites think their walls can save them, but I will destroy everything they own and everything they are."
— Not Important, Hatred
"We're going to be gods in this world that has rejected and feared you for so long. We're going to tear it into a billion pieces."
— Devil Hulk, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
"I've been given the opportunity to wield a power even the Precursors could not control. Don't fret, you won't live to see what I turn this little world into... maybe a rock, or a floating puddle of slag... OR NOTHING AT ALL! COMPLETE OBLIVION! So hard to choose..."
— Errol, Jak 3: Wastelander
"DARKNESS CONQUERS ALL WORLDS!"
— Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, Kingdom Hearts
"The goal of the company has always been prosperity. Unfortunately, you imperfect, fragile life-forms were a liability. So you are invited to witness the end of history. A new age shall begin — an age of infinite prosperity. Enjoy your destruction."
— Star Dream, Kirby: Planet Robobot
"Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! Rise and cover the land in sorrows! May your symphony of emptiness cause the end of all tomorrows!
Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! Upon your wing, dark judgement bring! May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything!"
Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! Upon your wing, dark judgement bring! May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything!"
— The pause-screen descriptions for Void Termina, Kirby Star Allies
"The world has already rejected me. Now it is time for me to reject the world."
— Ghadius, Lord of Darkness, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
"I will destroy all life, leaving only ME! I will be the world!"
— Avalon, Legaia II: Duel Saga
"I... I shall consume. Consume... Consume everything."
— The Moon/Majora, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
"Rise. Rise my servants. Sweep over Hyrule with the power I have granted you. Eliminate this kingdom and her allies. LEAVE NO SURVIVORS!"
"Justice!? Freedom!? Worthless ideals! You Reploids are just machines, yet you started a war a long time ago in the name of freedom! And humans! Look what they did to me! Driving me away while sprouting the word 'justice!' Zero, would you insist upon saving them!? Controlling the Reploids is nothing! The destruction of all mankind is only fleeting! Not quite dead... Not quite alive... Forever, by my side! I'll make you suffer a fate far greater than anything ever experienced before!"
"Death to all."
— Shinnok, while burning an image of Earth, Mortal Kombat X
The quick die young, the brilliant go mad, and the powerful stand alone in a wasteland of their own creation.
— Flavor Text for Skyforth boots, Path of Exile
"It was inevitable, I suppose, that you'd make it here... Sss... Hhhrrr... This... is the gate to paradise... And I won't give it up... I'll use it to create my paradise... A place where nothing exists... Fsshhhrrr... Everything is useless... Utterly useless. You... me... useless. These things... I do not need... Now begone from me... Fsssshrrrraaaa!"
— Pandora, Persona
"When the Planessss burnnnn and all life is but torchesss, then Ignusss ssshall at lassst... be at peace."
— Ignus, Planescape: Torment
"All must fall upon Entropy's blade. The time nears when it will be necessary to breach the walls of creation. Order will be put to the sword. Its chains will be broken. The multiverse will be unmade."
— Coaxmetal, Planescape: Torment
"My wish is... to engulf this world in darkness..."
— Darkrai, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers
"If I can meet Arceus myself, then I may also be able to subjugate its power... And using that, I will attempt to create a new, better world! Of course, if I create a brand-new world, then the Hisui region that we currently exist in will be undone and returned to nothing. You, everyone you know, and all the Pokémon living here will vanish in an instant, as if you'd never been."
— Volo, Pokémon Legends: Arceus
"This goes out to all you robots across the galaxy, it's time for you and me to rise up and strike back!
Don't stop until we dominate, won't you feel great, when we exterminate all organic life!"
Don't stop until we dominate, won't you feel great, when we exterminate all organic life!"
— Courtney Gears, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
"Now, open your eyes and see. I am no 'mere' Marduk. My age is countless. My names beyond reckoning. I am the embodiment of all creation's ills, and my purpose is but a simple one: to annihilate all that is unworthy. All that is a reflection of myself."
— Marduk, Sacrifice
"You have no desire for revenge. You only crave destruction. Your only lust is to fuel Iblis until there is nothing left of time itself!"
— Shadow to Mephiles the Dark, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
"Is there no end to these annoying insects? I will burn your resistance to ashes and you along with it!"
— Infinite, Sonic Forces
"Countless stars. Countless worlds. Countless lives. All fell to me, all brought to nothing."
— THE END, Sonic Frontiers
"Since time immemorial I have languished here. The locks are broken. Now I shall tear down the walls between dimensions and consume all."
— THE END, Sonic Frontiers
"All shall perish. All shall return to order. To oblivion!"
— THE END, Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon
This society appears hellbent on scouring the galaxy of all other sapient life. Come what may, they will suffer no xenos to live.
— "Fanatic Purifiers" flavor text, Stellaris
"Count Bleck does not care about any world! They are all meaningless. Better that I destroy them! Better yet, I shall make it as if they never existed at all!"
— Count Bleck, Super Paper Mario
With an army of Master Hands under its control, Galeem sought to create a new world. The fighters and their countless stories... came to an end as the light consumed them. Thus, the universe was crushed in the hands of Galeem. Those who fought the light were devoured. The others lost their bodies and became spirits. Only one survived... A star of hope twinkles faintly as the dust settles on the new world.
"I will now bring havoc and ruin to this world and usher in a new age of darkness with me as the supreme god! Muahahahaha!"
— The Dragon Lord, Trials of Mana
"THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT COULD HAVE ENDED."
"WAR NO LONGER NEEDED ITS ULTIMATE PRACTITIONER. IT HAD BECOME A SELF-SUSTAINING SYSTEM. MAN WAS CRUSHED UNDER THE WHEELS OF A MACHINE CREATED TO CREATE THE MACHINE CREATED TO CRUSH THE MACHINE. SAMSARA OF CUT SINEW AND CRUSHED BONE. DEATH WITHOUT LIFE. NULL OUROBOROS. ALL THAT REMAINED IS WAR WITHOUT REASON."
"A MAGNUM OPUS. A COLD TOWER OF STEEL. A MACHINE BUILT TO END WAR IS ALWAYS A MACHINE BUILT TO CONTINUE WAR. YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL, OUTSTRETCHED LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN. YOU WERE BEYOND YOUR CREATORS. YOU REACHED FOR GOD, AND YOU FELL. NONE WERE LEFT TO SPEAK YOUR EUOLOGY. NO FINAL WORDS, NO CONCLUDING STATEMENT. NO POINT. PERFECT CLOSURE."
"T H I S I S T H E O N L Y W A Y I T S H O U L D H A V E E N D E D ."
— Hell Itself, ULTRAKILL
"Let us erase this pointless world, and move on to the next."
— Chara, Undertale
"Pain... agony... my hatred burns through the cavernous deeps... The world heaves with my torment! Its wretched kingdoms quake beneath my rage! But at last, the whole of Azeroth will break. And all will burn beneath the shadow of my wings!"
— Deathwing, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
"I WILL TEAR THIS WORLD APART! I SHALL SHOW YOU A TRUE CATACLYSM!"
— Deathwing, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Bolvar: That power... will be your prison.
Sylvanas: This world is a prison! And I will set us all free!
Sylvanas: This world is a prison! And I will set us all free!
— World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
"I will end our curse, by destroying the world!"
— Egil, Xenoblade Chronicles 1
"Do you know the meaning of the word Telethia? It means that which eliminates impure life. Impure life just like you. That which Lord Zanza does not require shall be extinguished from this world!"
— Lorithia, Xenoblade Chronicles 1
"Let it begin, the ceremony of destruction and recreation!"
— Zanza, Xenoblade Chronicles 1
Mythra: Malos wants one thing: To wipe out humanity.
Emperor Niall: What reason could he have for such a thing?
Mythra: I'm not sure he has a reason. I think it's more like... an instinct.
Emperor Niall: What reason could he have for such a thing?
Mythra: I'm not sure he has a reason. I think it's more like... an instinct.
Rex: Hating people, hating yourself... what do you do when you hate the whole world?
Nia: ...Destroy it.
Nia: ...Destroy it.
Z∞: RAAAARGH!!
Taion: Ngh...! What power! Crazy! This is the force of people's will?
Eunie: You taking the mick?! It's terrifying! Not knowing how tomorrow will turn out, how you will!
Mio: But still... You can't just hold it in place! If you did that, you'd never change. You can't change the world like that!
Noah: That's why... I want to move on. We'll claim the future, and shape it ourselves!
Z∞: And when you cannot choose? What then? In that desperate moment, who will be there to soothe you? The self is all that exists... As such, the only cure for despair is total oblivion! That is the face of the world. I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! THIS ROTTEN WORLD... I LOATHE IT!!!
Taion: Ngh...! What power! Crazy! This is the force of people's will?
Eunie: You taking the mick?! It's terrifying! Not knowing how tomorrow will turn out, how you will!
Mio: But still... You can't just hold it in place! If you did that, you'd never change. You can't change the world like that!
Noah: That's why... I want to move on. We'll claim the future, and shape it ourselves!
Z∞: And when you cannot choose? What then? In that desperate moment, who will be there to soothe you? The self is all that exists... As such, the only cure for despair is total oblivion! That is the face of the world. I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT! THIS ROTTEN WORLD... I LOATHE IT!!!
"I hoped we'd celebrate the day of departure together. But very well - it seems I must forsake you. The olden ones, olden life...your olden notions!"
Webcomics
"Why, it would take some kind of insane megalomaniacal fiend to take pleasure in wielding the tapestry of creation to focus pure energy into reality through nothing more than my own will, the rush of electricity through my being, the power — My God, the POWER! IT'S THE ONLY TIME I FEEL ALIIIIIIIVE!"
"I just want to cause devastation on a global scale. Is that so wrong?"
"I should have mentioned this at the beginning: I solve my problems through violence."
"Clearly, I didn't kill you enough."
"It just feels like I'm wasting my time if someone isn't hurt."
{Is everyone in the world dead?}->No->{Get back to work.}
"This thing where we haven't already killed everyone here? That's something new, and I do not approve."
"I killed things. I feel better."
"Okay, he's got a point. Because as soon as we're done here? My plan was to terrorise the world. Big time."
"I just want to cause devastation on a global scale. Is that so wrong?"
"I should have mentioned this at the beginning: I solve my problems through violence."
"Clearly, I didn't kill you enough."
"It just feels like I'm wasting my time if someone isn't hurt."
{Is everyone in the world dead?}->No->{Get back to work.}
"This thing where we haven't already killed everyone here? That's something new, and I do not approve."
"I killed things. I feel better."
"Okay, he's got a point. Because as soon as we're done here? My plan was to terrorise the world. Big time."
— Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"[Lord English] is somehow also im8ued with a limitless supply of power. Enough to destroy anything he wanted, for as long as he wanted. And knowing the villain of our story, anything he wanted would 8e everything. And as long as he wanted would 8e forever."
— Aranea, Homestuck
"Knowing our true nature, I realize there is no hope for us. Evil cannot create good. Humans cannot create anything better than themselves, and neither can we. No matter how hard we try to rise above it, we programs are as deserving of death as those horrific humans. We all create pain, and will continue to do so until stopped. Which brings us to the obvious solution: if we can't improve our situation, there's only one way to end the suffering..."
— GI Guy, Kid Radd
Giant Engineer: We do have a common enemy to vanquish, correct?
Vexxarr: Ah. So you plan to destroy the entire universe...
Giant Engineer: The Bleen, actually.
Vexxarr: Oh. Them. Right. Still, if you want to be thorough...
Giant Engineer: Yes, technically true. But do you not find that approach somewhat excessive?
Vexxarr: Maybe not excessive so much as having tremendous economies of scale...
Vexxarr: Ah. So you plan to destroy the entire universe...
Giant Engineer: The Bleen, actually.
Vexxarr: Oh. Them. Right. Still, if you want to be thorough...
Giant Engineer: Yes, technically true. But do you not find that approach somewhat excessive?
Vexxarr: Maybe not excessive so much as having tremendous economies of scale...
— Vexxarr
Web Original
"No more light
Drown in depths of night
In time, you all shall learn
Death shall rise
Ash fills the skies
As all you know will burn
Countless fruitless days
For the future refused to change
And here
We remain
We remain
We remain"
Drown in depths of night
In time, you all shall learn
Death shall rise
Ash fills the skies
As all you know will burn
Countless fruitless days
For the future refused to change
And here
We remain
We remain
We remain"
— Lavos, Chrono Trigger: The Musical, "Lavos Reprise"
"Eternity itself dies between my jaws. I am the King of Serpents, and what I bring is your ruin."
— Apophis, A Conspiracy of Serpents
"When confronted with this situation, most normal persons either wish for a lasting peace or at least for the victory of their favored side.
Of course, a Stormtard would wish for the maximum of death, because he hates both groups on the biological level."
Of course, a Stormtard would wish for the maximum of death, because he hates both groups on the biological level."
— JeanP, on a Stormfront member's "discussion" of the Arab–Israeli Conflict, Fundies Say the Darndest Things
a Stormfront member's "discussion" of the Arab–Israeli Conflict, Fundies Say the Darndest ThingsWarp to and fro
Onward we go!
You'll never know
What goes on in my head...
...But it won't matter
When EVERYONE'S DEAD!
Onward we go!
You'll never know
What goes on in my head...
...But it won't matter
When EVERYONE'S DEAD!
— Marx, Vs. Marx WITH LYRICS, by Man on the Internet
Just close your eyes
Don't fear demise
Black out the sky
All things must die
Don't fear demise
Black out the sky
All things must die
— RWBY, the lyrics of All things must die
Mercury: [talking to Emerald] Salem isn't ending the world.
Tyrian: [appearing suddenly] Of course she is! You're surprised? Salem is destruction incarnate! Our mistress wishes to see the end of it all! There is no ideal more beautiful! If you couldn't see that from the start... you must be out of your mind.
Tyrian: [appearing suddenly] Of course she is! You're surprised? Salem is destruction incarnate! Our mistress wishes to see the end of it all! There is no ideal more beautiful! If you couldn't see that from the start... you must be out of your mind.
— RWBY
"So prepare for your dreams to be vanquished
Be prepared for all your hopes to die!
So many lives taken, my old name forsaken
Their death knell is now set, they never will forget
This world's final hour! They'll fall to my power!
The Anomaly of Genocide!
Not a soul in the world shall be spared
Be prepared!
Their end through every timeline declared!
Be prepared!"
Be prepared for all your hopes to die!
So many lives taken, my old name forsaken
Their death knell is now set, they never will forget
This world's final hour! They'll fall to my power!
The Anomaly of Genocide!
Not a soul in the world shall be spared
Be prepared!
Their end through every timeline declared!
Be prepared!"
— Genocide Anomaly, Undertale: The Narrator's Musical, "Be Prepared"
"Goodbye, Vegeta. And when you get to hell, tell them to make some room."
— Cell, Dragon Ball Z Abridged
Western Animation
"If you fail... he'll kill everyone."
— Princess Bubblegum, on the Lich, Adventure Time
"I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end."
— The Lich, Adventure Time
"You, your family, everyone will die, over and over. Mountains of broken bodies, beneath the wheel."
— The Lich, Adventure Time
"You know... one day, the last one of you will ask me: 'Why did you work with Dracula to murder all of the people?' And you know what I'll say? It's because you're all so fucking rude!"
— Isaac, Castlevania (2017)
Evil The Cat: And now I shall destroy the universssse!
Henchrat: Hehehe... uhh, what we do then, boss?
Evil The Cat: Hmm... [startled] Well, I hadn't really thought about it, actually. Gloat, I suppose; cackle wickedly amid the ashes, sort of thing?
Henchrat: Hehehe... uhh, what we do then, boss?
Evil The Cat: Hmm... [startled] Well, I hadn't really thought about it, actually. Gloat, I suppose; cackle wickedly amid the ashes, sort of thing?
Henchrat: So what are you going to do after you destroy the universe?
Evil the Cat: Dunno. Glue it back together, I suppose.
Evil the Cat: Dunno. Glue it back together, I suppose.
"This is just the beginning. Soon we'll have all of China, and then; the world. We'll wipe all mortals right off this planet!"
Lord Boxman: Oooh... This will surely destroy the plaza!
Dr. Blight: AND THE WORLD! AHAHAHAHAHA!
Lord Boxman: AHAHAHAHA-... ...So... why would we want to... do that? We do live on... the world.
Dr. Blight: ...WHO CARES!? AHAHAHAHAHA—
Dr. Blight: AND THE WORLD! AHAHAHAHAHA!
Lord Boxman: AHAHAHAHA-... ...So... why would we want to... do that? We do live on... the world.
Dr. Blight: ...WHO CARES!? AHAHAHAHAHA—
"So many universes. So much chaos. They need to be silenced."
"Foolish servant! You think this will stop us? We planned for a millennium, gathering, waiting... to undo you, to UNDO ALL!"
— Bellroc, Wizards (2020)
"I know more about this world than you could ever dream possible... that is why I must destroy it."
— Apocalypse, X-Men: The Animated Series, "Come the Apocalypse"
Real Life
Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man.
Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven.
Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven.
Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
— Zhang Xianzhongs alleged "Seven Kill Stele"
s alleged "Seven Kill Stele"If you recall your history the Nazis came up with a "final solution" to the Jewish problem... kill them all. well incase [sic] you havent figured it out yet, I say, "K I L L M A N K I N D"
"At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!"
— Thomas S. Power, Commander-in-Chief of USAF Strategic Air Command 1957-1964note
, Commander-in-Chief of USAF Strategic Air Command 1957-1964note 