Planet Destroyer

Planets are nothing to Galactus, eater of worlds.

"I've destroyed whole planets. So what chance have you got?"

— Dark Phoenix, Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Reality Warpers and Physical Gods come in different levels of power, but one way to indicate that a being or artifact is serious business is to make it clear that they could effortlessly destroy one or more planets without breaking a sweat.

In order for this to apply, either in-universe evidence or Word of God must exist to show beyond a doubt that it is the case. It often uses a Sacrificial Planet and/or overlaps with Apocalypse Wow. Characters this applies to are always at least 5 on the Super Weight scale, but this does not always apply to characters that are a 5 or higher.

Supertrope to Planet Eater (because beings who eats planets for breakfast would necessarily be strong enough to destroy them), and almost always considered a Superweapon by those on the planet if it's not a living being.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Bleach: Yhwach, after absorbing the Soul King, is powerful enough to destroy the three worlds of the Human world, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo, and would have succeeded if not for the combined efforts of Ichigo, Aizen, and Uryu, with the latter firing a special arrow to nullify Yhwach’s power.
• Dragon Ball: All the Big Bad arc villains are Planet Destroyers, as are several of the movie villains:
  • Vegeta is the first example of this seen in the series, destroying Planet Arlia six episodes in to show the audience how strong he is. Later when he reaches Earth and fights Goku he attempts destroying Earth in a mad rage with his Gallic Gun attack, though Goku is able to overpower it. Even after becoming a good guy (more or less), he is dangerously prone to firing planet-destroying energy blasts in battle if it looks like he might be losing.
  • Next up on the Sorting Algorithm of Evil is Frieza, who is by far the most prolific planet buster in DBZ. He infamously destroyed Planet Vegeta thirty years before the events of the series, and in the present day he runs a galactic organization which specializes in either destroying planets or selling them to the highest bidder. Like Vegeta above, his snap response to any fight he's losing is to destroy the planet, though unlike Vegeta he is capable of surviving a planet's destruction. He destroys Planet Namek over the course of the Frieza Saga, and comes very close to destroying Earth as well.
  • Having the genes of Vegeta and Frieza, Cell is just as prone to planet-destroying bouts of rage as they are. When he finally meets his match in Super Saiyan 2 Gohan he first attempts to launch a planet-destroying Kamehameha before it's countered by Gohan, then attempts a planet-destroying Taking You with Me attack before being relocated by Goku, and when he regenerates from that (much to his own happy surprise) and comes back he is intent on destroying not simply Earth, but the whole solar system. He even boasts of his intent to travel the galaxy destroying planet after planet after he's done.
  • In his original form of Kid Buu, Majin Buu went on a planet-destroying spree of destruction five million years before the events of the series. And befitting his status as the final Big Bad of DBZ, he is the only villain who successfully destroys Earth, with a single blast no less (though this is undone and Earth restored via a wish from the Dragon Balls. It helps that his finishing move is called "Planet Burst."
  • Dr. Willow/Wheelo from Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest is a No-Nonsense Nemesis with an ultimate attack, the Planet Geyser, that is capable of destroying a planet.
  • Turles from Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might provides a more imaginative take on this trope than most DBZ villains: unlike them, he does not destroy planets directly, but instead plants the seeds of the planet-draining Tree of Might on them. The healthier a planet, the stronger the Power-Up Food the Tree produces is, but in every case the planet is left a lifeless wasteland.
  • Frieza's brother Coola from the movies is just as much of a planet buster as he is, and every bit as trigger happy about it. He can also charge their shared planet-destroying Supernova technique much faster than his brother.
  • Android 13's S.S. Deadly Bomber technique is capable of destroying half a planet, and when he becomes Super Android 13 it's more than capable of finishing the job.
  • Broly is perhaps the most extreme pre-Super example, as he destroys an entire galaxy literally in the first few seconds of his film. Later in the film he destroys Planet Shamo effortlessly, solely to taunt the Shamoians (and show the audience how powerful and Ax-Crazy he is).
  • Much like Majin Buu, Bojack of the ninth movie went on a galaxy-wide planet destroying spree thousands of years before the events of the story, with the four Kais united to stop his rampage by making him a Sealed Evil in a Can. Unlike Buu, Bojack did not get to destroy any planets in the present day before meeting his defeat.
  • Beerus the God of Destruction, once destroyed a planet with a finger tap.
  • His twin brother, Champa has also destroyed planets as collateral damage during a sibling quarrel.
  • This is the job of a local God of Destruction, essentially. They are supposed to destroy planets that doesn't harbor important lifeforms. They could theoretically be capable of destroying their own universe, though their Angels can stop them from going that far.
• EDENS ZERO
  • Dr. Müller leads a project to build a Doomsday Device in order to destroy a planet inhabited by robots.
  • When Demon King Ziggy mysteriously comes Back from the Dead now evil, he shows off by using his Gravity Master Ether Gear to make an entire planet crumble apart.
• The Will of the Book of Darkness (also known as Reinforce) from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's has destroyed countless planets over the course of her very long life completely against her will. It's part of the reason why the fandom considers her to be the strongest character in the entire Lyrical Nanoha franchise.
• Naruto:
  • The Ten-Tails is a Eldritch Abomination that’s powerful enough to create powerful storms, destroy continents, and has the power to destroy the entire planet.
  • Obito Uchiha, as the Jinchuriki of the Ten-Tails can use the Truth Seeking Orbs to create the Sword of Nunoboko which was stated to shape and destroy the entire planet.
  • The Otsutsuki clan is filled with planet destroyers and creators:
    • Kaguya Otsutsuki can create an Expansive Truth Seeking Orb that’s capable of destroying her own entire dimension, which has a sun and a moon, making her possibly solar system level in destruction and the strongest character in the entire series.
    • Toneri Otsutsuki with the Tenseigan and later several byakugans has enough power to throw the moon at the earth to destroy both and he can also cut the moon in half.
    • Kinshiki according to the boruto movie databook can split planets in half.
    • Momoshiki is Kinshiki's superior and much later absorbs his power to boost himself even further and in the novelizations has an entire dimension with red shift nebula present.
• Aiwarn from Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure accidentally petrified the citizens of Planet Rainbow into stone.
• In YuYu Hakusho, It was stated by Genkai that S-Class, and Upper S-Class beings have enough power to destroy planets.

Comic Books

• Chaos War: Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Chaos King, absorbs the pantheons of many alien worlds and then destroys them in his quest to return the world to nothingness. He succeeds in absorbing 98% of the known multiverse. Later in the story, Hercules is given the power to rival him and sacrifices it to undo all of the damage across the multiverse that Mikaboshi had done.
• Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Anti-Monitor destroys an infinite number of universes in a short amount of time, indicating that just one planet would be nothing to it. Marv Wolfman, the writer of COIE, later stated that actually "only" about 3,000 universes were destroyed. Which stll means that just one planet would be nothing to the Anti-Monitor.
• Doctor Strange: Shuma-Gorath is an Eldritch Abomination who has conquered thousands of universes. Due to some rather vague rules, he's unable to directly enter the Marvel universe without making some sort of avatar or lesser form. But it's speculated that if the true Shuma-Gorath ever entered the universe, his mere presence would cause entire galaxies to explode.
• Fantastic Four: Galactus is probably the most prolific planet destroyer of Marvel, as he literally travels the universe consuming planets to survive. It's actually been surprisingly inconsistent over the years just how thoroughly he destroys these planets (after all, in most stories, he gets stopped before he can pull it off), but usually it means leeching away their ability to support life, rather than outright tearing them apart.
• The Incredible Hulk: During the "Heart of the Monster" storyline in The Incredible Hulks, Hulk and his wife/enemy Red She-Hulk are transported to the Dark Dimension, on a planet ruled by the Reality Warper Umar. Due to the high levels of radiation, magic, and rage powering the two as they fight, Bruce and Betty destroy the entire Dark Dimension over and over again by accident, forcing a bored and annoyed Umar to continuously rebuild it with a snap of her fingers until a portal finally appears for them to escape to another realm.
• The Infinity Gauntlet: When the Celestials, Galactus, and various cosmic entities confront the nigh-omnipotent Thanos, the Celestials make their opening salvo by throwing entire planets at Thanos, which he swats aside effortlessly.
• Justice Society of America: Gog will destroy any planet he is uprooted from after he has been allowed to take root for more than seven days. He also went on a planet-destroying spree prior to arriving on Earth, at least if Tommy Tomorrow and the Planeteers are to be believed.
• The Mighty Thor:
  • The primordial symbiote All-Black feasted on entire planets while bonded to Black Galactus and Ego the Necroworld. All-Black also rips Ego apart after bonding to King Loki. In their rematch in King Thor both Thor and Gorr the God-Butcher are shown smashing and slicing though planets and stars, and Gorr uses it in an attempt to consume the remnants of the universe.
• Mighty Avengers: After Blue Marvel saved her life, Spectrum underwent a substantial power boost. Already one of Earth's elite superheroes, secretly became reclassified as a "Planet-Buster" hero with enough power to destroy an Earth-sized planet without any effort. During the Incursions, this was a source of conflict because while she certainly had enough power to destroy other Earths before they collided with her own, she wrestled with the question of which was worse.
• Teen Titans: A frequent enemy of the Titans is Trigon the Terrible who is also the father of Raven, he has been shown to be powerful enough to easily destroy planets with his death stare, he has boasted several times about how many planets he has decimated.
• Secret Wars (1984): In the first issue, the Beyonder destroys an entire galaxy to demonstrate his power.
• Superman:
  • Superman's power levels have gone up and down through the decades, but his mightiest versions are powerful enough to destroy planets. In "Kryptonite Nevermore", the Sandman Superman declines to fight Superman when a vision shows their battle would tear Earth apart. In "Who Took the Super out of Superman?", the villains intend to blow Earth up by turning Superman into a ticking bomb and then triggering a Super-Power Meltdown.
  • Supergirl is another planet-buster, being powerful enough to throw away a planet with one hand (Action Comics #345), kick the Moon out of and back into orbit (Superman Family #205) or headbutt a moon-sized space station out of course ("Those Emerald Eyes Are Shining"). In Red Daughter of Krypton it's told that her berserker fury might burn the planet to ashes.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes: At least five of their members (Superboy, Supergirl, Valor/Mon-El, Andromeda and Ultra boy) are bona fide world-breakers. In "The Dominator War", Brainiac 5 states that Supergirl, Mon-El and Ultra Boy's full assault "can literally— literally— tear [the Dominator homeworld] in half".
  • "The Death Of Ferro Lad" introduced the Sun-Eater, a humongous tentacled blob which feeds on stars.
  • And then there is Starbreaker, who is the adult form of the Sun-Eater species and literally consumes entire stars.
  • "Supergirl's Greatest Challenge" introduces Positive Man, an eldritch abomination which roams the cosmos destroying inhabited worlds by merely passing through them.
  • Mano who is a member of the Fatal Five (enemies of the Legion of Superheroes) destroyed his home planet and everyone on it with his antimatter touch.
  • Brainiac's villain shtick is bottling up cities and destroying the worlds they're on, which morphed to harvesting worlds for information and then destroying them in "Superman: Brainiac". Notably, one storyline had him convert Pluto into a spaceship.
  • Alien overlord Mongul is on a par with Superman strength-wise, and in "War World" he seizes a mobile star-sized weapon-satellite... which is destroyed by Superman and Supergirl.
  • "Godship" in "Bizarrogirl" is a giant planet-eater that almost succeedds in devoring Bizarro World whole.
  • Satanis and Syrene are extremely powerful sorcerers per se, but in Two for the Death of One they fight over the Runestone of Merlin, a source of ultimate magic. After absorbing its power, Syrene becomes gigantic and tries to swallow Earth whole.
  • Doomslayer from "Reign of Doomsday" is a sapient clone of Doomsday determined to destroy the planet Earth and everyone on it so that all knowledge of how to create Doomsday clones is lost. Ironically, the original Doomsday averts this, being driven by its Enemy to All Living Things mindset to kill everyone on a planet but usually not bothering with destroying planets themselves.
  • "H'el on Earth": H'el is an amalgam of Kryptonian and non-Kryptonian DNA, so he already has frightful strength close to if not at Planet Destroying power, but his real threat comes from his scheme to prevent Planet Krypton's destruction. Ironically, this attempt at being a Planet Savior would have made him a multi-Planet Destroyer if he'd been able to carry it out, as the required energy would have destroyed not just Earth but the entire solar system.
  • "DC One Million": Solaris the Tyrant Sun is an artificial sun capable of exerting a gravitational pull strong enough to pull planets out of their natural alignments and into its own orbit, as well as, you know, just reducing them to smoldering cinders outright.
  • "Our Worlds at War": Imperiex. A being of such inconceivable might that its Mooks can fight Superman and Mongul evenly, Imperiex considers its mission to "correct" imperfections in the fabric of the universe, which in practice apparently means destroying countless planets, entire galaxies, and eventually the universe itself if it had its way. Almerac, Daxam, Karma, and Kalanor were among the more important planets Imperiex destroyed before it was finally stopped.
  • In "The Great Darkness Saga", one Daxamite child devastates the prison-world of Takron-Galtos just because he wanted to play tag with a Legionnaire.
  • "The Immortal Superman": In the far-flung future, Earth is a toxic, lifeless planet; so two robots are deployed by the "Galactic Sanitation Dept." to carry the dead world off and tear it apart safely.
  • In "The Girl with the X-Ray Mind", Supergirl mentions she and Superman destroyed a hostile living world which they called "the porcupine planet".
  • In "The Last Days of Superman", Supergirl has to divert the trajectory of a planetoid which will collide with Earth in the future. Kara solves the problem by pushing the planetoid into the path of an uninhabited planet, so destroying two worlds at once.
• Venom: Knull — the Big Bad of Venom (Donny Cates), Silver Surfer: Black, and King in Black — is a primordial dark god powerful enough to snuff out stars and destroy planets, though he prefers smothering them in living abyss.
• X-Men:
  • Avengers vs. X-Men: Both Cyclops and Hope Summers (in a spinoff what-if tale only) acquire the power of the Phoenix Force, causing them to succumb to With Great Power Comes Great Insanity and making them planetary threats equal to the original Dark Phoenix.
  • The Dark Phoenix Saga: The Dark Phoenix entity consumes a star, causing it to go supernova and destroying all life in its native star system.
  • Obscure 90's villain Siena Blaze could harness a planet's electromagnetic energy spectrum, but lacking the control of Magneto she caused localized ecological disasters every time she used her powers. It was often speculated that if she ever really cut loose she could accidentally destroy Earth's magnetic field entirely.
  • The Shi'ar emperor and Third Summers Brother Vulcan is an omega mutant of Planet Destroyer proportions, laying waste to dozens of Kree worlds during the War of Kings.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): The Adjudicator from the storyline Judgment In Infinity, is an ancient humanoid abomination who is powerful enough to blast planets into oblivion or wish them out of existence.
  • Wonder Woman (2006): When Zeus regains the power he lost by being usurped back in Wonder Woman (1987) he uses it to go on a genocidal killing spree through the stars. Destroying all life on planets he where he decides too much of the population is "warlike" on his way back to earth where he intends to destroy most life and subjugate the rest, in a bid to depower or at least annoy Ares and prevent himself from being usurped again. Zeus cheats by using the power of those Olympians still loyal to him rather than relying on just his own strength.
  • The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): The Titan is a near mindless mad thing bent on revenge against life itself, which is eventually revealed to be a twisted combination of souls from a dead world and one of the Manhunters, and destroyed worlds before getting to earth and intends to do the same there.

Fan Works

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this MonsterVerse fanfiction, Ghidorah is a mild example. It's revealed that before Ghidorah came to Earth looking to wipe out all life as we know it, it destroyed an untold number of inhabited and intelligent planets, covering the skies in perpetual storms.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl has the full power of a Pre-Crisis Kryptonian, with no morals holding her back. At the beginning of the story she knocks a moon off course as a mere test of strength.
• In Kara of Rokyn, Hal Jordan points out at some point he could easily push or wreck a planet using his ring's power.
• In Worm crossover The Last Daughter, Taylor is a full-blooded Kryptonian. During the final battle with Scion, she discovers he has merged his real body with an empty Earth from a parallel universe, so in order to destroy him Taylor rams through the planet, shattering its core.
• M'Nagaleh from The Vampire of Steel is powerful enough of an Eldritch Abomination to burn Earth to cinders in seconds.

Films — Live-Action

• Godzilla: The original Showa portrayal of King Ghidorah was feared for wiping out entire planets. In the same sense as the original Ghidorah, Desghidorah scours planets clean of life. King Ghidorah's AniGoji incarnation has destroyed numerous worlds including the Exif homeworld, and is implied to be a Planet Eater.
• Parallax in Green Lantern (2011) had casually covered and consumed all life from at least one planet.
• In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Infinity Stones grant the power to destroy all life on a planet with a single strike against the ground. Big Bad Ronan the Accuser covets this power to destroy the planet Xandar, and comes very close to pulling it off.
• The Narada spaceship from Star Trek (2009) is able to fire red matter into the core of any planet, which will cause it to collapse in on itself within minutes. The climax of the film deals with the Enterprise crew trying to prevent the Narada from destroying Earth. Having witnessed the destruction of Spock's home planet of Vulcan, they know what's at stake.
• Star Wars:
  • The Death Star from the original trilogy was one of these, if not a terribly inefficient version. It was capable of destroying an entire planet, but required a significant charge time (sorry, "ignition sequence") and close range to get the job done.
  • The Force Awakens has Starkiller Base, which as the name implies is essentially an upgraded Death Star, capable of draining the energy of an entire star and using it to destroy many planets from anywhere.
  • The Final Order from The Rise of Skywalker is a fleet of Star Destroyers that can all do this. Instead of being instantaneous, destruction is slow and agonizing.

Literature

• Aurora Cycle: The Starslayer turned Syldra's sun into a black hole a year before the events of the trilogy, destroying the planet and killing ten billion Syldrathi. He did this using the powers he gained from the Eshvaren as a Trigger.
• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, the Vogons see the destruction of Earth as just another day at work. Later, it is revealed that Magrathea was actually a business dedicated to building custom planets, still demonstrating the power necessary for this to apply.
• Division by Zero: Kohana Outtaike is a a naïve 15-year-old girl... and a cosmic weapon called a Summoner with universe-destroying powers.
• Temple (Matthew Reilly): The Supernova is absolutely massive and powerful enough to actually destroy the world.

Live-Action TV

• Babylon 5: The Shadow/Vorlon conflict eventually escalates to both sides destroying planets allied with the other.
• Doctor Who:
  • In "Pyramids of Mars", the Osirans imprisoned one of their own, Sutekh the Destroyer, for doing this sort of thing. A brief trip to an alternate 1980 reveals him to have reduced Earth to "a burnt cinder, circling a dead sun."
  • "Remembrance of the Daleks" notes the Daleks' ability to "crack this planet open like an egg." In the same story, the Doctor uses the Hand of Omega, a "remote stellar manipulator," to blow up Skaro.
  • "Battlefield" introduces the Destroyer of Worlds, a hulking horned demon who feeds on planets.
• The Magneshielder in Genseishin Justiriser is a weapon used by the Hades Army for destroying planets. It works by first embedding itself in the side of a planet and then combining with another device called a Sonic Crusher, which causes it to shoot out a shockwave that annihilates everything on the planet's surface, before drilling to the core of the planet and causing it to implode in on itself in order to render the world totally devoid of life.
• Heroes: With boosting from enough of his fellow posthumans Season 4 Big Bad Samuel Sullivan was one of these. By itself his power was simply Dishing Out Dirt, but amped up enough he was capable of literally cracking a planet in two. This was, of course, the token Bad Future of the season the titular Heroes were rushing to prevent.
• Evolt in Kamen Rider Build turns out to be one of these, having wiped out life on a Once-Green Mars and destroyed an untold number of planets before that. It eventually turns out he's really part of the Blood Tribe, an entire alien clan of these, who ironically had their own planet destroyed when their king (Evolt's even badder brother) got out of control with his hedonism.
• Metal Heroes:
  • Space Sheriff Sharivan: The Space Crime Syndicate Madou destroyed Sharivan's home planet of Iga in the past.
  • Space Sheriff Shaider: The Fuuma have destroyed many planets, including Annie's homeworld, for reasons that extend from paying tribute to their God-Emperor to just For the Evulz. The start of the series even has them destroying a bunch of planets just to show they mean business.
  • Jikuu Senshi Spielban: The Waller Empire have rendered a number of planets uninhabitable by stealing their water supplies. This include's Spielban and Diana's home planet of Clin, which is actually a future Earth. When the Waller Empire is defeated in the present, this gets undone.
  • Blue SWAT: After the Space Mafia's invasion of Earth receives multiple setbacks, Queen decides to just smash a meteor into Earth to destroy the planet and be done with it.
  • Juukou B-Fighter features a notable instance where the villains invoke this, but it isn't their end goal. Gaohm seeks to harness the power of Saint Papilia, a guardian spirit who appears to restore life on Earth whenever it's been devastated. His plan to get her to appear naturally revolves around destroying Earth with the Jamahl Hole.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: The episode "The Doomsday Machine" revolves around the titular device, a massive tubular weapon that sustains itself by destroying planet after planet. It has already consumed several entire solar systems before the Enterprise arrives on the scene.
• The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Scorpion" introduces Species 8472, capable of destroying a planet by combining the firepower of nine bio-ships.
• The Xindi of Star Trek: Enterprise build their own version of the Death Star to destroy Earth after being told that humanity will destroy them in the future. (It's a lie.)
• A good number of Super Sentai villains have destroyed planets. In fact, a villain being a planet destroyer is usually a sign they mean business.
  • Denshi Sentai Denziman: The Vader Clan destroyed Planet Denzi in the past. They try to do this to Earth as well, only to be met with a Five-Man Band recruited by survivors of Planet Denzi to defend the planet.
  • Choudenshi Bioman: Bio Hunter Silva was built by the Anti-Bio Union to destroy anything with Bio Particles, something that eventually led to him destroying his own homeworld to finish the job.
  • Dengeki Sentai Changeman: The Gozma are a group of alien invaders who've destroyed many planets. The ones they don't destroy are the homeworlds of some of their members, which Star King Bazeu keeps around in order to force their champions to serve him. Though in reality, Bazoo devours these worlds and would have done the same to those of his own followers if he hadn't been stopped.
  • Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman: The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have destroyed a confirmed 999 planets. They need to destroy 1000 to complete a ritual to give Galactic Empress Meadow eternal life, and it just so happens that Earth is the thousandth.
  • The Bowzock of Gekisou Sentai Carranger are a comedic example, they have blown up planets throughout the universe like fireworks (such as this series' mentor Dappu's homeworld of Hazard) and are shown to treat their destruction akin to fun games without the usual genocidal malice since they're all idiotic bikers rather than galactic conquerors, even their schemes to destroy Earth are much wackier and lighter than the usual Sentai fare. Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus is a more straightforward example as he's the true mastermind behind their schemes.
  • The Jakanja in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger have destroyed multiple planets in their search for a way to invoke "It." Sandaaru in particular is noted as having destroyed at least one planet, Astrum, to obtain the Raging Arrow medal for Jakanja's plans. Wendinu also apparently single-handedly destroyed a planet while in her berserker state.
  • Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: Several Space Criminals Alienizer have rapsheets that include the destruction of multiple planets. Their benefactor, Agent Abrella, also apparently caused the destruction of an entire galaxy through his arms dealing.
  • The Space Empire Zangyack are the rulers of most of the universe in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and they didn't get their without destroying a few planets. Several of their highest-ranked Action Commanders are even capable of destroying entire planets on their own.
  • Deboth in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, who's destroyed enough planets to earn himself the moniker "the planetary illness."
• Wonder Woman (1975): In "Judgment From Outer Space", Andros is a self described "judge, jury, and if need be, executioner" of the Earth.

Tabletop Games

• GURPS Spaceships presents a very different type of planet killer: Make a Mile-Long Ship piloted entirely by AIs, put a bunch of Ramscoop on the front, and have it slowly build up speed as it cruises through interstellar space. By the time it's reached the target system, it'll be so big and so fast that it'll do catastrophic damage to anything it hits, enough to destroy a planet.
• In Warhammer 40,000, Abaddon the Despoiler's flagship during his 12th Black Crusade was one of these, named, appropriately enough, the Planet Killer. Its main weapon and namesake, the Armageddon Gun, is a massive septuple-barreled forward-facing energy weapon half the length of the ship itself capable of destroying any planet, as well as anything in front of said planet. That said, Abaddon generally prefers his main flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, in favor of the Planet Killer, likely because it's slow to turn and takes a long time to charge up it's main weapon.

Video Games

• Asura's Wrath: Basically all the major players are at this level, but to give specific examples...
  • Asura himself hits this point by the end of his battle with Wyzen in his Six-Armed Vajra form, where he proceeds to punch his now planet-sized opponent's finger so much it causes Wyzen to explode.
  • By default, this makes Augus, Yasha, and Deus on a similar level since they all prove themselves equal to or even superior to Six-Armed Vajra Asura.
  • The Brahmastra is this at full power. In fact, the Seven Deities goal is to make it so powerful that it will actually be able to kill the next entry on this list without destroying Gaea...
  • The most powerful Gohma, Gohma Vlitra, is this by default, with only the fact that it's inside the planet Gaea keeping it from showing it off in full.
  • By the end of the game, however, this title is definitely earned by Chakravartin and Asura the Destructor, the former of whom casually fires a laser bigger than planet Gaea and the latter directly blows up multiple planets thrown at him by Chakravartin during the lead-up to the final battle.
• Ouroboros from Bravely Default holds planets as hostages to prevent the main characters from attacking him. Not only does it take no effort for him to destroy planets, which he does several times, but he actually feeds on them.
• Final Fantasy VII has Jenova, a powerful celestial being traveling from planet to planet and destroying each one that she gets to. Her attempt to destroy Gaia is thwarted, however, when the Cetra who inhabited the planet sealed her away. Millennia later she then passes this trait onto her “son”, Sephiroth, who attempts to destroy Gaia by summoning a meteor so that he can absorb the planet’s power and continue with his “mother” on this planet-destroying journey through the cosmos. Sephiroth also fakes a larger-scale version of this ability during his boss fight (at least in the overseas versions) by destroying the whole solar system as an attack, but Word of God claims that this is only an illusion. In reality Sephiroth had the ability to become a planet-destroyer like his mother, but never succeeded due to Cloud’s group defeating him and then Gaia’s Life Stream itself stopping his meteor.
• The Excuse Plot for Katamari Damacy is that the King of All Cosmos got extremely drunk one night and broke all the stars.
• Kirby:
  • Many of the Eldritch Abominations that plague Popstar are more than capable of taking out planets. For instance, Galacta Knight has been noted to casually obliterate planets when in a bad mood (hence why he had to be sealed away); meanwhile, Dark Matter and Queen Sectonia both literally tried to CONSUME Popstar with the former having his sights set on other planets too. And some Kirby villains set their sights higher than that. Star Dream set out to destroy all organic life in EXISTENCE which would also mean that quite a few planets would have inevitably gone bye-bye had Kirby not stopped it.
  • Speaking of which, Kirby himself is a Planet Destroyer. One sub game in Kirby Super Star has him cracking Popstar in half merely for a contest. The manga has him destroy it completely with a punch. Further, in Milky Way Wishes, he ends up obliterating Nova - a wish-granting clock deity bigger than Popstar - by smashing Marx into it. Keep in mind that he's probably not even a teen yet.
• Averted in Metroid, but only so much. The main character has been responsible for the destruction of four separate planets despite having no natural ability to do so, just happening to be standing by the right Load-Bearing Boss at the right time.
• Smoke from Mortal Kombat 3 is normally just another powerful fighter, but in his Fatality, he throws four or so bombs on the floor... which destroys the whole planet easily? It's incredibly strange and he never demonstrates this ability elsewhere, possibly because the explosion likely kills him with the planet.
• In the space stage of Spore, a wealthy and powerful player can use the Planet Buster to destroy planets. Downplayed because planet busters are one-shot each and have to be bought after each use.
• Chrono Trigger: The main antagonist of Chrono Trigger, Lavos, is an enemy that the player characters only learn about after accidentally winding up in a Bad Future where Lavos has already destroyed the world. It's revealed later that Lavos is an alien Eldritch Abomination that traveled through space for aeons before crash landing on the Earth, whereupon is slumbered for millions of years until it had absorbed enough knowledge, energy and culture from the planet and its native creatures. After they stopped being useful, Lavos destroyed the planet and spawned new offspring like him that would leave the Earth after it exploded and continue the cycle on other worlds.
• In Starsector, the Hegemony is the only nation in the Persean Sector that still (legally) possesses Planet Killer weapons. One of these was used to destroy the moon Opis, the capital of the original Askonian polity. Another devastated the planet of Hanan Pacha during the Second AI War.
• In Terraria Calamity, the lore for the Astral Meteor points towards Noxus as the reason why the source planets for the infection were blasted to pieces.
• Stellaris has Colossus ships, equipped with Planet Killer weapons. Several flavors of planet killers are present: World Crackers, Neutron Sweep, Divine Enforcer, and Nanobot diffuser. Pacifists would instead opt for a Cruel Mercy: The Global Pacifier, which encases a planet in an impenetrable shield that only lets light through, trapping the population on that world. Do not expect to be very popular if you start building one: the rest of the galaxy will, to say the least, be very suspicious if you start building a device whose sole purpose is eliminating entire planets as a threat.
• Disgaea has a number of planet-busting demons among its roster:
  • Laharl in Disgaea 2 does this as a Rage Quit if he's beaten before the story allows it. Initially Laharl is supposed to beat the group in Chapter 11, and then get beaten himself once he shatters the seal that Rozalin presents as proof of her heritage, unleashing her Superpowered Evil Side. He also blows up Veldime in the very first chapter if the "Pick a Fight With an Overlord" bill is passed in the Dark Assembly, regardless of victory or defeat in the ensuing battle.
  • Disgaea 5 brings us three: Player character Red Magnus crushes entire planets in his hand as part of his "Super Damage Lord" attack, and Usalia's Prinnical Meteor has her enlarge her Prinny mount before hurling it into the planet, which then explodes. On the other end, Demon Emperor Void Dark is seen casually blowing up a Sacrificial Netherworld in one scene. Things go even further for the Final Boss: Void's malice possesses his recently revived sister, Liezerota, and threatens to go up to a Class X4 Apocalypse How with its "Wormhole" skill, which is seen erasing a whole galaxy.
  • Outside of specific demons, many of the weapon and class skills also show the wielder as capable of turning planets and other celestial bodies into dust. The "Galaxy Comet" bow skill in Disgaea 4 has the entire solar system get dusted with a single arrow, and the "Big Bang" fist skill from 5 has its user punch a black hole into existence, which eats the entire system before detonating.

Webcomics

• Homestuck:
  • If the anyone from the Black Army kills the White King and takes his scepter, they can use it to begin a meteor strike that will destroy the chess-theme planet called the Battlefield in twenty-four hours. The only way to stop it is to destroy the Black King's scepter in that time, which will cause the players to win the game as a whole. Additionally, the force known as Skaia can teleport a select number of these meteors to another planet for the twenty-four hours, so any planet it chooses to send the meteors to will also be destroyed. This way, Skaia is a sort of indirect Planet Destroyer.
  • The Black Queen's ring gives her the power to release the "Red Miles," a wave of destructive red energy that demonstrate the ability to send entire moons hurdling into the orbit of their planet.
  • First Guardians are all The Omnipotent, and as such can release radioactive energy so powerful they can reduce entire planets to desert and tear through a moon in seconds.
  • Clockwork Majyyks are used on few occasion in the comic, but one notable instance shows two users simultaneously destroy a small planet each.
  • The warrior queen of Alternia, Her Imperious Condescension, has psychic powers so strong that she can singlehandedly send planets hurling through space to collide into other rogue planets, reducing them to nothing but ruins. In addition, she can use her Clockwork Majyyks and Bifurcated Powers to create an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
  • The Denizen Typheus, a powerful boss of the in-universe video game Sburb, is capable of incinerating his home planet in seconds if given the command, and in an offshoot timeline, he goes through with it.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: "Boxhunt" features a bomb that could lay waste to the planet (a similar one wiped out the dinosaurs, long ago). "The Return of Princess Voluptua" sees Ribflavin threaten Earth with a giant globe of antimatter that could blow up the planet. In "The Island and the Idol," the Butterfly of Iron threatens to detonate the sun, which would wipe out the entire solar system.
  Bob: "What?! No!! The solar system... That has Earth and everything, right?"
• Drive (Dave Kellett): The Drive works by "pinching" space. If that space happens to be occupied by something, it gets crushed. The bigger the ring, the bigger the pinch. A scout ship causes tremors; a dreadnought can squeeze off continental shelves.

Western Animation

• Ben 10: The tick monster in "The Big Tick" moves from planet to planet, mutating and ultimately destroying each one by rooting into and feeding off the core.
• Final Space:
  • Mooncake is described as a planet-killing superweapon, and his lasers are certainly capable of widespread destruction. But he's never destroyed a planet on screen, and dislikes killing enough that he most likely wouldn't want to. Barring a number of timelines mentioned by Nightfall, where grief over Gary's death drove him to unleash the titans in a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
  • All but one of the Titans responsible for creating the universe went insane at some point and started doing this for fun, which is why they were locked away in the show's namesake dimension. At the end of season one, one of them gets an arm through the breach just long enough to destroy the Earth.
• The Monitor from Fantomcat, an intergalactic space villain, is one of these.
• In Il Était Une Fois... Space, the androids of Yama use a type of ship that combines six of them into a larger vessel, that has enough firepower to destroy a planet. It's tested on what looks as a barren, Moon-like, world and it's used in the penultimate episode of the series to forcer the surrender of Cassiopeia threatening to destroy such planet, after having annihilated most of its fleet
• Invader Zim has the "Planet Jackers," who seize entire planets to use as fuel for their homeworld's dying star. There's also the Irken TAK, who in her sole appearance attempts to gain favor with her leaders by hollowing out the Earth so that they can use it as a snack bowl.
• Wander over Yonder harbors a few of these, most significantly Knight of Cerebus Lord Dominator, whose ship is powered by magma that it violently extracts from the center of planets with a giant drill (and who in fact has no grander ambition than just wrecking every planet in her path). On a lesser scale, Emperor Awesome prides himself on throwing parties so wild they actually destroy the planets they're on. While Lord Hater and Commander Peepers have been known to indulge in this themselves, whether to make a point or just to let off steam, their overall goals are a lot more professional and they're horrified when they find out that Dominator's endgame entails total galactic destruction.

Real Life

• Planets themselves. Gravitational interactions either among themselves or the protoplanetary disk on still forming stellar systems^note Or old ones, where the central star is so evolved that it has lost a significant amount of its mass, messing with planetary orbits can cause a huge mess, where planets are either thrown out of the system or collide either with the star or among themselves^note Some theories suggest that in the early Solar System Jupiter migrated inwards before retreating to its current orbit, causing an early population of planets that had formed close to the Sun to collide into themselves with Earth and the other inner planets being formed from the debris that did not fall into the Sun.
• Stars, either by consuming them as they expand during their late evolutionary stages or in the case of those planets orbiting very close to them stripping and vaporizing them.
• The Teller-Ulam continent killer nuke was the closest mankind could think up for an Earth Killer device, being able to wreck an entire continent and leave everywhere else irradiated for centuries, if not millenia. A few of those simultaneously would've been a collective Planet Killer.

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