: Re: I kinda want to completely annihilate the hero - what would speak against it? The hero in my story succeeds in destroying the villain, but not without paying a hefty prize. Not only will he

@Samaraweera193

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This could be very effective. You'll need to build towards it, however --prepare the readership in some way to accept it. There are several approaches you could take.

Maybe the hero has always been obsessed with glory, and that has held him back in some way. In that case, overcoming that need for recognition could be a personal triumph.
Conversely, the hero could have always preached that what you do is more important than who knows it. So this ending could be completely in line with the values he has always espoused.
It's a bit meta, but you could build in a narrative of the reader as the hero's witness, the one person who will know and remember what the hero did.
This ending could be suggested and foreshadowed earlier in the book --maybe with a suggestion that someone else might have done something similar. Of course, no one could actually know, but maybe there's a sense that at some crisis in past history, everything turned out far better than it could have by chance, and that made a huge difference in the world.

It's worth noting that this is essentially the ending of the movie listed below (in spoiler tags). You may or may not want to go the same route, but it might be valuable to see how they handled this same dilemma.

Looper

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