Put Them All Out of My Misery: Difference between revisions

* The King of the Night in ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'' just wants to die but Eucliwood won't let him so by God he will kill every last person on Earth if he has to to convince her to finally kill him.

* Genkaku from ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' appears to be a [[Complete Monster]], complete with [[Slasher Smile]] and taking delight in torturing and killing but in reality he wants to save everyone from the burden of living by erasing them. This stems from a very skewed take on Buddhism: he was revealed to have been beaten and raped by a group of bullies who hung around the temple when he was younger; when the Great Tokyo Earthquake happens and these are trapped under the rubble he has an illumination of sorts and decides that it is best not to exist then to live in pain. He proceeds to butcher them all. Complete with a moment of [[Dissonant Serenity]] as he explains all this while covered in blood.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[Hero Squared]]'', Captain Victory hurt his girlfriend, so she became a supervillain and destroyed the ''entire universe''. He managed to escape to another universe and found his non-superpowered equivalent; she followed. Caliginous has decided that life is nothing but pain, misery, cruelty and death, and should be ended in preferably the most all-encompassing fashion possible.

** Her arch-nemesis [[The Cape (trope)|Captain Valor]] just sees her as an evil megalomaniac, but his alternative self Milo manages to recognize that beneath it all she's a broken, lonely, [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|psychologically tormented and suffering woman]].

 

== Film ==

* Subverted in the ''[[New Jedi Order]]''. {{spoiler|Onimi}}, the real [[Big Bad]], has a lengthy [[Motive Rant]] in which he describes to a captive Jaina Solo how horrible his life has been and how he's going to ''kill every living thing in the galaxy'' so he can ''become a god'', all to get back at the gods he believes in, because he thinks they ruined his life (oh, and he also thinks Jaina is the avatar of one of these gods). The subversion comes because contrary to what {{spoiler|Onimi}} thinks, rather than making him sympathetic, this rant just makes him come off as very, ''very'' [[Ax Crazy|insane]].

* One of many stories in [[The Name of the Wind]] is about legendary hero Lanre, who decides after the death of his wife that the world isn't worth living in any longer. For anyone.

* The northern dragon in The Pilgrim's Regress is heard praying for God to destroy all the other creatures in the world so that he won't have to guard his nest.

* In ''[[The Keys to The Kingdom]]'', [[The Man Behind the Man]] is a Type 5 kept alive by a [[Cosmic Keystone]].

* Subverted in the fifth ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novel: a cosmic being is captured by a madman and its attempts to escape will eventually destroy the world. Clothahump assumes this is a grandiose suicide. {{spoiler|It's not; Braglob is just too stupid and crazy to realize what'll happen.}}

 

** Perhaps as a controversial [[Alternative Character Interpretation|interpretation]]: Glorificus, Season five's [[Big Bad]]. {{spoiler|Sure she almost wrecked most of the known universe by destroying the barriers between dimensions,}} but she didn't do it to be evil, [[You Can't Go Home Again|she just wanted to go home]].

*** Well, she was a Hell God of Chaos and Destruction, so while the destruction of our mortal plane wasn't her goal per se, she was well aware of what would happen and really really didn't care. That's [[Evil Is Sexy|pretty]] [[Chaotic Evil|evil]]

* A minor villain in the short-lived ''[[Birds of Prey (TV series)|Birds of Prey]]'' series had the ability to mimic the abilities of other metahumans. Unfortunately, he was also an anti-meta bigot who had horrifying migraines whenever another metahuman was around. His motivation was thus a combination of Types II and III, in that his physical and emotional pain was caused by the presence of metahumans (to the point that he commits [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]] in the end) and that he considered metas to be an abomination.

* The Evil Queen in ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' convinces other fairy tale villains to go along with her plans to cast [[The End of the World as We Know It|the dark curse]] by telling them that it will create a world where they can finally win and get ''their'' [[Happily Ever After|happy endings.]]

 

== Music ==

* Also, the video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU Black Hole Sun]".

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Exalted]]'' features the Neverborn, an example of Type 5. Once, they were Primordials, the creators of the universe, but as they designed it, they didn't believe the cycle of death would ever need to incorporate something as grand as themselves. So when they ended up getting killed, they found they couldn't pass into Lethe, eventually undergoing the cosmic equivalent of sepsis without ever being able to die from it. So they plotted to feed Creation into Oblivion, mainly so it'd stop the pain.

** A few of their chosen soldiers, the Deathlords, are a mixture of Type 2 and Type 4. The Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils, the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible, and Walker in Darkness all consider themselves priests of Oblivion, dedicated in bringing the peace of nonexistence to a suffering world. The others just want to [[Take Over the World]] to varying degrees.

 

== Video Games ==

* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura|Arcanum]]'', {{spoiler|[[Omnicidal Maniac|Kerghan]], first of the necromancers}}, plans to kill every living thing in existance before allowing himself to die, because {{spoiler|he died once already and discovered that the afterlife is a state of eternal peace, whereas life is pain and misery. He brought himself back from the dead in order to carry out his plan, claiming that people only fear death because they do not know the eternal bliss that lies beyond. Also, because living necromancers can summon the spirits of the dead back from the afterlife, so he himself cannot be certain that his eternal peace will not be disturbed by the living.}}

* Takaya in ''[[Persona 3]]'', like Kuja, is doomed to die young and plans to take the rest of the world with him. Both he and {{spoiler|Ikutsuki}} believe that the world is too corrupt to be allowed to continue on.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Parodied in ''[[Wonderella]]'' by the Blue Behemoth, [http://nonadventures.com/2011/01/22/pie-a-la-murder/ who is driven to omnicide because he can't finish his pie].

* In one version of [[Chopping Block|Butch R. Mann's]] psychopathy, he both sees himself as [[The Everyman]], and deeply hates himself. He repeatedly chickens out of suicide, so he instead kills other people to metaphorically kill himself over and over again. If he could, he would kill everyone in the world, but he would then go even crazier with no one left to kill. (Of course, given how wildly Butch's personality varies from strip to strip, this often doesn't apply at all.)

 

== Web Original ==

* This seems to be [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible's]] motivation for becoming a villain: he wants to topple the system and bring about some kind of vaguely defined social change. Or at least that was originally it; this desire becomes more and more of an afterthought as the plot progresses.

* In ''[[Broken Saints]]'', [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Lear Dunham}}'s entire [[Evil Plan]] can arguably be traced back to his {{spoiler|despair after the passing of his wife. Whether the pain of his loss unhinged him somewhat or whether it drove him to become the humanitarian [[Determinator]] he was prior to losing hope, there is no denying that losing the love of his life had some part in Lear's motive to re-start human civilization.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Toxzon, the villain from the 6th ''[[Max Steel]]'' movie, is a type 2. He wants to contaminate the world because he needs a toxic environment to survive without his mask and containment suit.

* Duke Nukem, the radioactive villain from ''[[Captain Planet]]'' (and not the action hero by the same name) wants to spread radiation because he draws strength from it and actually weakens when not getting a regular dose; he wants to turn the world into a radioactive paradise where he and his kind can live and thrive. Compare to the other eco-villains who are mostly motivated by greed or [[For the Evulz|evulz]].

 

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