History Main / CausedTheBigBang

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E27TheGriffinFamilyHistory The Griffin Family History]]", when Peter starts telling the history of his family, he starts at the beginning of the universe, which was the result of one of God's farts that he [[FartsOnFire set on fire]].

* In her "Circle" DVD, Creator/EddieIzzard states that she prefers the idea of a bumbling idiot GodOfChaos to the perfect, all-powerful God of the Abrahamic relgions, and tells an alternate version of the creation story in which Chaos lives in a caravan in deep space and crated the universe completely by accident when his oven exploded while he was trying to bake a flan.

Part of the HistoricalInJoke or BeenThereShapedHistory. Compare BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy, PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs. Tends to involve a StableTimeLoop. Subtrope of RealEventFictionalCause. Can be considered a subtrope of CreationMyth - well, except that this is usually in-universe reality rather than myth.

-->-- ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'', "Everything's Coming Up Lucifer"

* Imperiex of the Franchise/{{DCU}}, a hive minded mechanical entity, saw its purpose as being the "hollowing" of the universe, destroying the flawed creation and remaking it in a new Big Bang. Ironically, [[spoiler: the flaw it detected in the universe was itself, and a massive cooperative effort managed to throw him into the past where he in fact became the Big Bang in the first place, via a StableTimeLoop, a fact which Imperiex realizes the moment before it dies]]. Also, it is stated that the reason there is a multiverse is that a scientist decided to view the Big Bang and disrupted it that way.

** At the end of the ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars II}}'' series, the energy of the Beyonder is shunted out of our universe and becomes a Big Bang, thus creating a new universe.

** One ComicBook/DoctorStrange comic has Strange and his ArchEnemy Baron Mordo act as the "good angel" and "bad angel", respectively, to a sorcerer from the future who is traveling back in time, becoming ever more powerful with each passing second. Mordo convinces him to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, but Strange convinces him to create the Garden of Eden for a protohuman and his mate. Finally, at the very beginning of existence, the sorcerer concludes that life has the right to exist and sets off the Big Bang before [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending beyond the physical universe]].
* ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' gets in on this. Unicron (at this point a "dark god", not yet his robotic self) destroyed the entire universe, even "the stuff of space itself", and then went to sleep in the void. But he hadn't been thorough enough, and the tiny leftovers coalesced and another universe (the current one) was off and running.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': Lucifer claims that the "Big Bang" was his parents having sex. His mother seems to support that suggestion.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "The Omega Directive", it's speculated that a natural particle of the Omega molecule created the universe with the Big Bang, and even the coldly logical Seven of Nine has what she can only compare to a religious experience on seeing it stabilize for a mere 3.2 seconds.

** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E27TheGriffinFamilyHistory The Griffin Family History]]". When Peter starts telling the history of his family, he starts at the beginning of the universe, which was the result of one of God's farts that he [[FartsOnFire set on fire.]]

* ComicBook/TheTransformers gets in on this. Unicron (at this point a "dark god", not yet his robotic self) destroyed the entire universe, even "the stuff of space itself", and then went to sleep in the void. But he hadn't been thorough enough, and the tiny leftovers coalesced and another universe (the current one) was off and running.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Big Bang was caused when Chuck and Amara, i.e. {{God}} and [[TheAntiGod the Darkness]], separated in two and creating the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil upon which the universe is built.

* In ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', the entirety of the TheMultiverse is destroyed by the Anti-Monitor. The only way to undo the damage is to travel back to the Dawn of Time and jumpstart a ''new'' universe, one that [[CloseEnoughTimeline more or less recreates the world as they knew it]]. All Series/{{Arrowverse}} episodes that air after ''Crisis'' are set in the universe that the heroes created and dubbed "Earth-Prime".

** In ''ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom'', the primordial god Knull credits the Celestials with causing the Big Bang; though in the 2014 ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' comic it's revealed that Norrin Radd was in-part responsible as well.

* ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'': Evidence arises that two universes (one of them 'ours') will pass "through" each other, incidentally wiping each other back to a blank slate. Several member of on of the Cities decide to use energy from the engines to throw themselves outside of the universe into the Void just before contact, along with a package of explosives in at least one, and possibly all, of the space suits. Then the explosives will be detonated, either on a timer or by manually pressing a button, depending on preference. The new universe(s) will be seeded with constants based on those embodied by the astronaut(s).

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', it's revealed that the first thing ever heard in the universe was "One. Two. One, two, three, four." and then the big bang happened, thanks to "Music with Rocks In", as the main theme of the book is that [[spoiler:the music is alive, and wants to be played, no matter the cost to the player]]. This is in contradiction to earlier books, but Discworld is famously loose with its origin stories.