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* The ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' have accidentally blown up at least ten planets, though it's only ever an indirect result of their actions.

* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime, Sailor Saturn is theoretically capable of destroying the world just by bringing down the tip of her weapon. Thing is: she's a ''[[deuteragonist]]''. So in the anime, she only ever ''starts'' doing this as a threat against certain [[Big Bad]]s, but someone always has to stop her. In the manga, she actually ''does'' destroy the world, just once, at the end of the Death Busters arc. Since this is ''Sailor Moon'' and the main character has "reviving people and/or planets" explicitly as a power, it recovers. The manga also notes that Saturn slumbered during the Silver Millenium until the Talismans carried by Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto awoke her after the Moon Kingdom's destruction, causing her to also destroy the remnants of the Kingdom and allow a new world to be reborn (along with herself and the other Outer Senshi).

* [[The Collector|Jirarudan]] from ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000|Pokémon 2000]]'' nearly wipes out the world's ecosystem by tampering with some very important, very pretty elemental birds. Destruction isn't part of his plan; only the birds are, and he never comes across as evil, only [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense|greedy and blissfully unaware]] of what he kickstarted.

* More of a major territory destroying incident: in Turn 18 of [[Code Geass]] R2, Suzaku {{spoiler|accidentally nukes the Tokyo settlement with FLEIJA when his Geass command overrides his wish to die in battle}}.

== [[Literature]] ==

* In [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Cat's Cradle]]'', Dr. Felix Hoenikker invents Ice-9 to help U.S. Marines turn mud into something they can walk on. The world-destroying potential seems never to have occurred to him. Simply, Ice-9 is virtually unmeltable, unbreakable ice thanks to its super-high melting point that lets it remains frozen even at tropical temperatures (although several scenes show folks cooking Ice-9 over a flame to melt it into drinkable water). And it turns all water it touches-into Ice-9. {{spoiler|And then it falls into the ocean.}}

*** Given that those properties are almost the diametric opposite of Vonnegut's Ice IX, the stuff the science geeks have created is more Ice Point-Nine...

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series, the Crimson King manages to straddle the line between this and [[Omnicidal Maniac]]—he's insane and/or senile enough that he's really not certain what he wants to do once he controls the Dark Tower, or what the results will be. But he's a vicious bastard anyway.

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', this is actually part of the Courier's backstory as detailed in the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC. {{spoiler|The Courier was once responsible for helping the towns of Hopeville and Ashton develop into a thriving community. However, a package s/he delivered from Navarro ends up triggering the dormant nukes hidden underneath the military base of the cities, turning the towns into a devastated hellhole that makes the rest of the wastelands look like paradise and instilling some ideas in [[Foil|Ulysses]], then a Frumentarius of Caesar's Legion, about how one single person can change the fate of a nation...}}

* Over the course of the ''[[Halo]]'' games, the Master Chief has either directly or indirectly destroyed 5 planetoids: the three Halos, the Ark and High Charity.

* In [[Star Ocean 4]], {{spoiler|[[The Hero|Edge]] incidentally causes the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|utter annihilation]] of an alternate universe Earth after [[What an Idiot!|giving an object from the future to a clearly crazy female scientist]], who then proceeds to use it in an experiment that [[Gone Horribly Wrong|goes badly]]. He [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|take it]] [[Understatement|well]].}}

* Possible in ''[[Star Ruler]]''. Some time in, you will be building and facing ships more durable than planets and with the firepower needed to destroy each other. This can easily mean that you target a planet to cleanse it of enemy life and end up accidentally fragging it because you underestimated just how just firepower you have in play.

* The Stickles from ''[[Zap]]'' are a race of mad scientists from Sticklebat 7. The reason they are from Sticklebat 7 is because the first 6 were too [http://www.zapcomic.com/2003/12/20040625/ flammable.]

* ''[[Minus]]'' has the power to alter reality in any way she pleases, frequently leading to mass destruction and catastrophe because she doesn't really comprehend the consequences of her actions. At one point, she unintentionally killed everything on Earth (except Larry) by bringing back to life everything that had ever died.

** The [[Bag of Holding]] is important here, because, in ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'', Ice-9 is not a new arrangement of ice molecules — it's a magic spell, specifically the highest possible ice spell. If cast (when outside the [[Bag of Holding]], anyway), it would ''remove all heat from the universe''. Fortunately, Red Mage appears to operate on [[Vancian Magic]] with the really gnarly spells.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Played with in the [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Lemon Demon] song "The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets".

* [[Big Bad]] Zorc Necrophage is portrayed in this manner in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]''. Oh, sure, he's constantly ''[[Catch Phrase|destroying the world]]'', but he's also the lovably goofy protagonist of his own sitcom called "Zorc and Pals". Not to mention that we never actually see him destroying anything.

** To be fair, he ''did'' destroy Euro-Disneyland... So he can't be ''all'' bad.

** In another episode, the evil bug that crawled up Vicky's butt escaped and started inhabiting other people. It inhabited the president of the United States, and he rigged a detonator to blow up the planet. By the end of the episode, Cosmo presses the button and blows up Pluto.

{{quote|"He said ''THE'' planet. He didn't say which one."}}

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]:'' "Dizzy Eat World!" When the kids are assigned to animate their own cartoons, Dizzy's is a ten-second sequence of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|him eating the Earth.]] The others are all rather dumbstruck.

* I.R. Baboon, the very literal [[Butt Monkey]] from ''[[I Am Weasel]]'', inadvertently blows up the Earth at one point by plugging up a "ground-level volcano". With a giant inflatable cork.

* In a ''[[Justice League]]'' episode, the Green Lantern is put on trial for accidentally blowing up a planet with a stray shot from his ring.

* While not on the scale of planets, a lot of characters in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' cause at least town-wide devastation through stupid, reckless, negligent, and accidental actions. Snips and Snails brought a giant star bear that could have destroyed the town, Twilight altered the Parasprites which caused them to eat all the buildings as well as caused a giant brawl just so she could have a problem she could solve, Pinkie made a musical number so bad that it turned a tense situation into a full on war, the CMC accidentally released the spirit of chaos, and a sleeping dragon almost blanketed the landscape for a century in smoke because he couldn't find a better place to snooze.

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* [[That Troper (Darth Wiki)|That Troper]], Destroyer of Formatting.

 

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