History Main / DeathfromAbove

** Likewise in the opening of the TV spy movie ''Blue Ice'', Creator/MichaelCaine is attending the funeral of a friend killed by a chunk of ice that fell off an aircraft.
** And yet again in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', when a construction worker is found dead outside a port-a-potty, and the fecal residue found in the injury -- a hole in his head -- is justified early on as contamination from the scene. Turns out, he was the victim of a very, very unlucky (and timely) defrosting of "blue ice" that fell from a leaky airplane stall.

** KillSat, when it's coming from a satellite instead of a starship.

* The SwordOfDamocles, certain varieties and the trope namer.

* ''Literature/TheNanoFlower'': The Kinetic-Energy Harpoon (although not used on-page) is described as a "poor man's nuke"[[note]]Just a big lump of metal with an ablative heat-shield, although you do have to factor in how much it costs to get it into space and then bring it down again[[/note]], they were apparently used in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Slamdown War]]. That resulted in a massive campaign to get a defensive system in orbit, designed specifically to stop them from ever being used again.

* "The Nano Flower": The Kinetic-Energy Harpoon is mentioned, although not used on-page. It's described as a "poor man's nuke"[[note]]just a big lump of metal with an ablative heat-shield, although you do have to factor in how much it costs to get it into space and then bring it down again[[/note]], they were apparently used in the Slamdown War. That resulted in massive campaign to get a defensive system in orbit, designed specifically to stop them ever being used again.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': Comicbook/{{Storm}}'s snow storm super games. Or, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA this video]] would say, '''MAKE IT RAIN!'''

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", the V9-Gamma survivors are forced to take shelter from a meteor storm in a large cavern after the funeral of the woman [[DrivenToSuicide who committed suicide]]. The rescue ship ''Galaxy 6'' arrives as soon as the storm is over.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' [[Franchise/GreenLantern Bleez]] asked one of her teammates [[spoiler:to use their flagship's enormous laser cannon to blast her and her brainwashed friend from space.]]
** In ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s telescopic vision warned her that a meteorite was about to collide with Earth, which would kill all living beings. She wanted to solve the situation by ''pushing Earth out of the way'', but Linda assured her that the Justice League would deal with it.

** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': After taking over a KillSat, ComicBook/LexLuthor sent a high-intensity laser probe into the Earth's atmosphere, scrambling the weather, threatening with completely unbalancing the entire Earth's ecology, and almost creating a hurricane which would engulf the planet.
** ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'' reveals that Kryptonians deployed this kind of weapon during their last pre-unification War: the city of Kandor tried to end the conflict by dropping mountain-sized flaming disintegrating fireballs on the city of Erkol, which retaliated by launching an robot-aircraft armed with a massive sun-powered beam which turned Kryptonopolis into a blackened hole within minutes.
--->"The robot-craft as powered by the Sun -- and used sunlight as its weapon... Swiftly, its beam swept across Kryptonopolis, leaving blackened devastation in its wake... When its mission was finished, nothing was left standing in Kryptonopolis... and no one was left living!"

** ''ComicBook/TheSuperRevengeOfLexLuthor'': A pirate gang are gunning Superman down when one missile drops on them and smashes their vessel into half. Said missile was sent by Lex Luthor, who didn't appreciate their attempt to steal him from the "pleasure" of killing Superman personally.