Destroy
Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Make it
Make it verb - Succeed in a big way; get to the top.
Both terms in one sentence
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Always Save the Girl: The CR-5 capos make it very clear they will literally destroy the earth itself to save Gian in the spin-off, If It's for Gian, We Would Destroy the World.
Source: Visual Novel / Lucky Dog 1 -
He's trying to destroy the world, which seems to make it a Subverted Trope, but he's Just Following Orders, as it's the natural course of the world to be destroyed, making it Double Subverted.
Source: Manga / Sands of Destruction -
Most likely one of them will be destroyed and the other will barely make it, but there are no anti-air defenses around the target, so you can just let your Kirov destroy it at its leisure.
Source: Sequence Breaking
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