Talk:Genocide Route/@comment-8.3.50.103-20150928053236/@comment-87.213.42.218-20150928091012

Genocide is a better fit, though. It's definition states "systematic elimination of all members of a racial, ethnic, etc group" which is exactly what the player is doing. They're systematically going through every zone while actively seeking out monsters (the group you're genociding) to kill. When they run out of targets in a zone, they move on to the next.

Enter new zone -> Find and kill everything -> Rinse and Repeat

That you end the whole world (assuming this includes it's human inhabitants) doesn't seem very relevant because in the end it's not an action the player controls.

If we do consider that fact though, I would vote for "Total Annihilation" as an even better name for the run as this is exactly what it amounts to in the end.

ULTIMATELY, however: I think CheeseOfficer has the better idea where it's not the wiki's job to come up with definitions or names of things. You want people to quickly find the most relevant information, a (relatively small part of the) community-driven wiki isn't the final authority on such things by a long shot.