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Be careful. If you hit a bad bump he might destroy the whole world.
—Kaneda, AKIRA
"AAAAGHHHHH!! IT'S THE HUMAN ATOMIC BOMB!!"
— Natsumi when faced with Jack Rakan, Negima! Magister Negi Magi
"I already told you that the only one who can stop me is Hashirama. But he's not in this world anymore. Plus, I should say that it's probably a good thing for you that he is not here, because... if I'm the only one here, the extent to which the maps will need to be redrawn won't be too drastic."
— Uchiha Madara, Naruto
"It may very well be us that meet our end here today... Because that man... HOLDS THE POWER TO DESTROY THE VERY WORLD!!"
— Fleet Admiral Sengoku on Edward Newgate, One Piece
"Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson are to return to the main office immediately. Furthermore, in a conference held the other day, it was decided that Vash the Stampede will be designated as mankind's first official human disaster. From this day forward, no matter what kind of damage he causes, the Bernardelli Insurance Society will be uninvolved."
— Meryl, Trigun
Comic Books
Roddick: So tell me about John Dandy, Major. Can we trust him?
Main: That's like asking if you can trust a hurricane, Ms. Roddick. You point him in the right direction and hope to God that when the shit stops flying, the enemy is in worse shape than you are.
Main: That's like asking if you can trust a hurricane, Ms. Roddick. You point him in the right direction and hope to God that when the shit stops flying, the enemy is in worse shape than you are.
"There ain't many around who can describe what it feels like to get hit by the Hulk... Simple fact bein' there ain't many around who can survive to tell the tale. There ain't no pain at first. It's like he hits ya so damn hard ya leave yer own body. It's when you come back that you feel the pain. An' ya realize yer goin' toe to toe with a walkin' earthquake."
— Wolverine, Wolverine Origins
"I killed a million people when I last used my powers, and I'd have killed a lot more if they hadn't built these walls around me. Uncle Edgar's why Egypt's a desert. Uncle Edgar's why there's half the stars there used to be. I'm not locked up to protect me from the outside world. I'm locked in here to protect the world from me."
— Uncle Edgar, The Magic Order
"How'd she get a Red Lantern Ring? [...] A Kryptonian wearing one of those is an extinction level threat—!"
— Shay Veritas on Supergirl, Red Daughter of Krypton
"The Wars to end wars, the weapons to end wars, these things have failed us. Now we have a man to end wars... By placing our superhuman benefactor in the position of walking nuclear deterrent, it is assumed we have finally guaranteed lasting peace on earth. It is with this last contention that my most serious point of issue lies: I do not believe that we have a man to end wars. I believe that we have made a man to end worlds."
— Prof. Milton Glass, "Superpowers and the Super Powers", Watchmen
Fan Works
152. Due to the incident after OPERATION: PURPLE TEARS, Captain Annette Durand is hereby banned from participating in any Covert Operations. The British government requested our presence thinking it was a Terror attack, and afterwards our counter-intelligence division requested captured materials that they could process without needing to resort to electron microscopes.
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.
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.
As usual, the two armies clashed and Antonio and Morton met hand to hand, burning the forests and shaking the mountains as they exchanged blows. The battlefield was five miles away from the small village Evelina lived in with baby Mario and Luigi, but in a fight of that scale, that meant nothing. Perhaps he had done the deed, perhaps Morton had...either way, the village had been destroyed, razed to the ground by a combination of their blasts and the tremors created by their blows.
"You still don't understand," Saki snapped. "The TSAB has thought this out. It takes immensely powerful, potentially unstable superbeings who could wipe out cities in a flash," she whirled around and pointed at Hayate, "and puts them behind a desk. That is wisdom."
— Unknown Lyrical Nanoha fanfic
Film — Live-Action
Loki: I have an army.
Tony: We have a Hulk.
Tony: We have a Hulk.
"She's not a US citizen, and they don't give out visas to weapons of mass destruction!"
— Tony Stark on Wanda Maximoff, Captain America: Civil War
Literature
Danneth is eighteen and he has the power to eat worlds. The government has no choice but to deal with him. At first, the akropolia supplement the old forces; they did in the Middle East in two weeks what the president was stumbling over after twenty years. Traditional police are obsolete. Two akropolia can maintain order in each city. Armies follow. Soldiers, weapons, technology, they all become meaningless. Danneth can render a nuclear reactor inert from halfway across the world. He can boil submarines in the furthest depths of the ocean. He can bring down planes — or cast a spell that causes the sky to swallow them.
— Akropolis, by Matt Wallace
"Yes, he's extraordinarily gentle for a being who could rearrange the landscape below us and kill every life-form for miles with a single sweep of his wings."
— Dara on Khayzur the peri, The City of Brass
Black had told me there were two people on Calernia against whom it was useless to think in terms of victory, where one could only attempt to limit the damage and lose the least amount of skin possible. One was the Dead King, who he’d charmingly referred to as "the original abomination." The other was the Ranger, whose utter disregard for odds I'd been raised hearing stories about.
"An ostler has a mood and he kicks the dog. A mage has his moods and a town disappears."
— Anduin Lothar, Warcraft: The Last Guardian
"Now, as the fable has it, the power that originally forced the Greater Darkness out had broken some important rules to do so. [...] They're said to have made a weapon which could destroy the universe if used unwisely. So dangerous only the insane would consider even making one, much less using it."
"Well, needless to say, the lawbreaker was caught. [...] In the end [the Isokist] were left with what was apparently an incomplete weapon, but one with some utility."
Sara finally broke in. "So you think Billie is tied in some way to this weapon?"
Gothmog shook his head. "No. I'm afraid your friend is the weapon, somehow activated and given a soul."
"Well, needless to say, the lawbreaker was caught. [...] In the end [the Isokist] were left with what was apparently an incomplete weapon, but one with some utility."
Sara finally broke in. "So you think Billie is tied in some way to this weapon?"
Gothmog shook his head. "No. I'm afraid your friend is the weapon, somehow activated and given a soul."
— Carmilla hearing her father's theory about the true nature of Tennyo's powers, "Tennyo's Easter, part 4", Whateley Universe
One day, way down in the Southern Kingdom, the Hierarch climbed to the top of Mount Whitney, more than fourteen thousand feet up, and from there, he breathed dragon fire. Most of the flames landed in San Francisco. Chinatown, Haight, the Mission, all lost. The Golden Gate Bridge turned to slag and slipped into steel in piles of steam. More than twenty thousand people died.
Not all the Hierarch's flames met their intended targets. Some fell short. Maybe those were just him warming up. Agnes was at school when two bursts hit Fresno. The one that incinerated the Tower District took both the stationary shop and the chicken pie shop. It took both her parents.
Not all the Hierarch's flames met their intended targets. Some fell short. Maybe those were just him warming up. Agnes was at school when two bursts hit Fresno. The one that incinerated the Tower District took both the stationary shop and the chicken pie shop. It took both her parents.
— The Wolf And The Manticore, by Greg Van Eekhout
"I'll credit you this, Ms. Hebert. You manage a great deal of grief and chaos in very short spans of time."
— Quinn Calle, Worm
Garovel: The Monster of the East? The Black Scourge? Those are both him, too.
Hector: Actually... yeah, I've heard of the Black Scourge. When I was little. I thought it was like... a plague or something.
Garovel: Nope. It's a guy.
Hector: Actually... yeah, I've heard of the Black Scourge. When I was little. I thought it was like... a plague or something.
Garovel: Nope. It's a guy.
Dunstan: Wasn't [Lac'Vayce] the one where nearly a million people were killed?
Rezamaar: Yeah. Lamont and Jackson against Jercash, Ivan, and Gunther. The fight leveled the entire city and completely wrecked the local ecosystem. And Lamont and Jackson almost lost. Barely managed to hold on until Sermung arrived and bailed them out. [...] Five of the strongest servants in the world all duking it out in one place. Overra said Lac’Vayce won’t be habitable again for hundreds of years.
Rezamaar: Yeah. Lamont and Jackson against Jercash, Ivan, and Gunther. The fight leveled the entire city and completely wrecked the local ecosystem. And Lamont and Jackson almost lost. Barely managed to hold on until Sermung arrived and bailed them out. [...] Five of the strongest servants in the world all duking it out in one place. Overra said Lac’Vayce won’t be habitable again for hundreds of years.
On last count you'd killed twelve planets, but you still found that first quick slice to the jugular the hardest.
Live-Action TV
Fitz: This whole planet is a wasteland.
Hive: It wasn't always. Thousands of years ago, there were people here. A prospering civilization. They had nine cities, spread across the planet.
Fitz: What happened to them?
Hive: I did.
Hive: It wasn't always. Thousands of years ago, there were people here. A prospering civilization. They had nine cities, spread across the planet.
Fitz: What happened to them?
Hive: I did.
Michael Garibaldi: Something's happened to your abilities. You're not a P5 anymore. Hell, you're not even a P12. You're the strongest telepath that I've ever seen. What did the Vorlons do to you, Lyta? Who... what are you?
Lyta Alexander: I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium-sized weapons... and one or two big ones, the kind of weapons you drop when you're out of the small weapons and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use.
Michael Garibaldi: Someone like that would... be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear device, a... a doomsday weapon.
Lyta Alexander: [eyes start glowing] Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi.
Lyta Alexander: I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium-sized weapons... and one or two big ones, the kind of weapons you drop when you're out of the small weapons and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use.
Michael Garibaldi: Someone like that would... be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear device, a... a doomsday weapon.
Lyta Alexander: [eyes start glowing] Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi.
Doctor: Sonic blaster, fifty first century. Weapon Factories of Villengard?
Jack: You've been to the factories?
Doctor: Once.
Jack: Well, they're gone now, destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot.
Doctor: Like I said: Once.
Jack: You've been to the factories?
Doctor: Once.
Jack: Well, they're gone now, destroyed. The main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot.
Doctor: Like I said: Once.
"You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them. Everything must come to dust. All things, everything dies. The Time War ends."
— Bad Wolf, disintegrating the Daleks, Doctor Who, "The Parting of the Ways"
"[T]here will be no more pain. No doubt. Only absolute rage and unparalleled power."
— Brainiac on Davis Bloome/Doomsday, Smallville, "Legion"
Music
See me rise, the mighty Surt,
Destroyer of the Universe
Bringer of flames and endless hurt
Scorcher of men and Earth
Destroyer of the Universe
Bringer of flames and endless hurt
Scorcher of men and Earth
— Amon Amarth, "Destroyer of the Universe"
Indestructible!
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you're alive
I'm an indestructible master of war
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you're alive
I'm an indestructible master of war
— Disturbed, "Indestructible"
I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man.
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man.
— The Police, "Demolition Man"
Tabletop Games
The will of Lord Quex prevailed, and drawing upon the reservoirs of power within the geomantic web, the Mage-Priest caused the continents to move.
Earthquakes stuck every corner of the globe. Skycastles tumbled in the Mountains of Mourn and a ragged breach appeared in the Great Bastion of Cathay, through which a hundred thousand vengeful Hung Marauders swarmed. The lands about ancient Kavzar were blasted apart before being drowned by the sea. Worst hit of all were the World's Edge Mountains, for beneath this range was to be found the great Underway of the Dwarf Empire. Lava surged up from the world's depths to flood the halls of the Dwarfs, and untold numbers were incinerated in an instant.
Earthquakes stuck every corner of the globe. Skycastles tumbled in the Mountains of Mourn and a ragged breach appeared in the Great Bastion of Cathay, through which a hundred thousand vengeful Hung Marauders swarmed. The lands about ancient Kavzar were blasted apart before being drowned by the sea. Worst hit of all were the World's Edge Mountains, for beneath this range was to be found the great Underway of the Dwarf Empire. Lava surged up from the world's depths to flood the halls of the Dwarfs, and untold numbers were incinerated in an instant.
— Warhammer: Lizardmen Army Book (7th Edition)
Perhaps the most dangerous human in the galaxy is an untrained psyker. If they are not controlled or purged, the erratic and awesome forces they can unwittingly unleash may destroy whole settlements or even worlds. Those cursed with an incredible level of psychic talent are codified by the Black Ships of the Inquisition as Alpha-level — the highest category a human psyker can reach. Alpha-level psykers can turn a man inside out with a glance. A mere flick of a wrist can snap a Battle Titan in two, or a muttered syllable turn an army upon itself in a frenzy of bloodlust. With such godlike power at their disposal, it is small wonder that Alpha-level psykers are among the most dreaded of foes that the Ordo Hereticus of the Inquisition must face.
The true master of Vires can shake the heavens themselves with his awesome might. He can bend the tides, topple mountains, and create raging storms. If he chooses, a blow from his fist can shatter steel and stone, or the raging power of a landslide might strike his town with no more force than a mass of falling feathers. When the Master is angered, lava floes erupt, thunder rains on all sides, and foes fall screaming, embraced by withering flames.
— Mage: The Dark Ages — Core Rulebook (revised)
Video Games
When Huna, whom Pelinal raised from grain-slave to hoplite and loved well, took death from an arrowhead made from the beak of Celethelel the Singer, the Whitestrake went on his first Madness. He wrought destruction from Narlemae all the way to Celediil, and erased those lands from the maps of Elves and Men, and all things in them, and Perrif was forced to make sacrifice to the Gods to keep them from leaving the world in their disgust.
— The Song of Pelinal, Volume Three, The Elder Scrolls
Stokes: Who the fuck is Alma, anyway?
Snake Fist: She's the mother of the apocalypse.
Snake Fist: She's the mother of the apocalypse.
— F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
"Let us bring back a legendary swordsman from a forgotten time. He may end up destroying a planet or two, but such is life."
—Star Dream on Galacta Knight, Kirby: Planet Robobot
"Warning, the Slayer has entered the facility."
— UAC Public Address System, Doom Eternal
Visual Novels
If Ludwig were to purposely unleash his immense power and move as he pleased, the effect of that would be obvious. All the darkness would be torn the regions where it was far to early for morning to come. They would become an emptiness where neither light nor shadow reigned and then vanish. Due to that fact, the world could crumble if he merely let go of all restraint and traveled around the globe. Of course, he had no intention of doing so, but there was no denying that he was an entity capable of such destruction.
— Dies irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~, on Methuselah
Web Original
THAT'S why Hayate has a limiter. Nanoha is a Magical Killsat Girl.
Hayate is a Magical MIRVed ICBM Launch Complex Girl.
Hayate is a Magical MIRVed ICBM Launch Complex Girl.
