History Main / AttackOfTheTownFestival

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "The City of Frownsville", Lou Gubrious unleashes his machine onto Townsville during the sixth annual happiness carnival.

See also HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday for the holiday variant. Not to be confused with AFeteWorseThanDeath, where the festival is ''itself'' the threat.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' had a town continue a festival despite the moon dropping on them. Not that running would help anything, but seeing a guard not leave his post, just looking at the moon, really gives a "this is the end" feeling.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' opened with a festival. The winner of its contest caused quite a bit of trouble...

** The festival in 65,000,000 B.C. was attacked by reptites, though.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' had a town continue a festival despite the moon dropping on them. Not that running would help anything, but seeing a guard not leave his post, just looking at the moon, really gives a "this is the end" feeling.

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'' takes place during a carnival in the town of Monte d'Or, complete with a mysterious masked villain who performs new "dark miracles" every night.

** In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', when Sonic goes back to [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Spagonia]], there is some type of celebration happening.
* This happens at the beginning of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', where the Star Festival in Toad Town is brutally interrupted by Bowser and his flying Airships.
** Also happens in the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 sequel]].

* When you think about it Pearl Harbor was about at the beginning of the Christmas season. Which did not soften the recipients' [[ThisMeansWar expected reaction]].

* In ''Anime/AfroSamurai: Resurrection'', Afro battles the new Number Two during the town festival. At the same time, the BigBad sends a bunch of assassins to ambush him. [[KillEmAll Everyone but Afro, the DJ, and the Number Two dies.]] [[spoiler: Then Afro kills the other two.]]

* Averted in UsefulNotes/WW1. Both the German and English armies decided to exchange presents between the trenches at Christmas.

* A big contributing factor to the 2019-nCov spread in China was the coincidence of the outbreak with the Chinese New Year holidays, where millions of Chinese visit family and/or travel abroad. Comparisons to Chernobyl abounded, though [[ObstructiveBureaucrat not]] for this reason.
** The virus must love the trope, because the outbreak in Iran happened in the holy city of Qom in the leadup to the Iranian legislative elections and just a few days more before Persian New Year. Then the outbreak in Italy happened during Carnival, forcing Venice to shorten it.
*** It does, as it spreads more easily in crowds due to the close contact among people, hence the relentless "social distancing" warnings from public health agencies. Cases have frequently spiked after major events, such as the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Platinum Jubilee]].

* In ''Anime/AfroSamurai: Resurrecton'', Afro battles the new Number Two during the town festival. At the same time, the BigBad sends a bunch of assassins to ambush him. [[KillEmAll Everyone but Afro, the DJ, and the Number Two dies.]] [[spoiler: Then Afro kills the other two.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' kicks off by Bowser's fleet attacking the local town's Mushroom Festival.

* In ''Literature/{{Scorpions}}'', ScaryScorpions threaten Laughlin, Nevada's annual offroad enthusiast event, which the [[MayorPain mayor]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat refuses to postpone]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "The City of Frownsville", Lou Gubrious unleashes his machine onto Townsville during the sixth annual happiness carnival.

** Happens ''once again'' in TheMovie, this time when a friendship-themed festival in Canterlot is crashed by the forces of the Storm King, who is looking to steal alicorn magic to empower his magic staff so he can TakeOverTheWorld.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pel%C3%A9e Mont Pelée]] was about to erupt. The local government, which was facing an election, tried to keep everyone from panicking. The town of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique Saint-Pierre]] was not only the largest city in Martinique at the time, but its population swelled to several times its size as people migrated from the countryside to vote in elections. This contributed to the death toll of 30121 people.

* ''Manga/Toriko'': The 50th Cooking Festival becomes a warzone due to the Gourmet Corp. invading.

* In John Carpenter's ''Film/TheFog'', the target town is holding its bicentennial celebration - which happens to be the anniversary of a revenge-worthy event, resulting in the FogOfDoom.

A common plot in AttackOfTheKillerWhatever movies. The town that is under attack happens to be holding a festival. Generally this is accompanied by [[SuitWithVestedInterests an official that]] [[WhatAnIdiot refuses to cancel the town festival for economic reasons]]. This in turn puts the public at risk and the hero of the story now has a whole town to protect from the fearsome people-eating whatever.

->''"By the way, the festival was supposed to occur on the day ''the world ends up ending''. And it's the '''[[ColonyDrop Moon]]''' Festival, go figure. Yay, irony! ''(as {{Creator/Shigeru Miyamoto}})'' Miyamoto like irony."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/JesuOtaku''''s LetsPlay of ''[[{{VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask}} The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]''

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