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Hera persecuted Apollo's mother Leto in jealousy of Zeus' attentions. She sent the dragon Python to kill Leto. Apollo killed Python. Then Hera sent the giant Tityos to kill Leto. Apollo threw the giant into Tartarus, where he is tortured daily.

Apollo killed the Cyclops for fashioning Zeus' thunderbolt that killed Apollo's son Asclepius.

Apollo guided the arrow that killed Achilles, who murdered Apollo's son Trolius.

Apollo took the side of Troy during the Trojan War, making enemies of the Greeks.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children to Leto's two. Apollo and Artemis then murdered all of her children. Amphion, their father was also killed by Apollo in some versions, while Niobe turned to stone.

Apollo also killed Coronis, the daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths, for falling in love with someone else when when pregnant with Apollo's child. Her father burned the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in revenge. Apollo then killed him too.

Apollo turned Zephyrus into the wind in revenge after Zephyrus killed Apollo's lover Hyacinthus.

Apollo gave orders for Orestes to kill his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus after she had killed his father.

Apollo killed the Aloadae, giant sons of Poseidon, when they tried to storm Mount Olympus, home of the gods.

Apollo turned Cephissus into a sea monster.

Midas dissented as to who won a musical contest between Apollo and Pan; he felt that Pan had won. In return, Apollo changed Midas' ears to that of a donkey.

Apollo flayed Marsyas the satyr alive for daring to challenge him to a musical contest. Apollo won.

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