Can a planet destroy itself?

More often we have heard countless of familiar sci-fi scenario whereby the inhabitants of a dying planet faces world ending catastrophe most notable the superman origin. My question is can a planet blow itself up by any natural or artificial means? I thought of an angry super volcano but that seems like a severe outbreak of acne on the face on the planet and isn't life threatening or perhaps this is an understatement from me. The planet must be able to support the evolution of indigenous intelligent life. Immigrant aliens on a terraformed world do not count.

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