History Main / DetonationMoon

* Another example of a different moon, the UNS of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' accidentally broke Io while strip mining it. The nickel-iron core popped out and crashed into Jupiter, hence the saying "not for all the nickels in Jupiter".

* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' Jupiter and its' moons are the center of the United Nations of Sol's military-industrial complex. [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-02-29 Io]] got a bit overmined.

[[JustForPun Punning]] on the 1950 SF classic ''Film/DestinationMoon''.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2''. [[spoiler:The Bakunawa has a mining laser designed to shatter stellar bodies, absorbing energy from the debris to power the ship for lengthy space travel. Both Merga and Brevon's forces take turns declaring their intention to use this on the moon, bringing ruin to Avalice below as they flee to the stars. Merga even fires it several times, but never close enough to work. Stopping Bakunawa from blowing the moon up, thereby making this a DefiedTrope, is thus the focus of the final act.]]

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has this as a background event, where the [[http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/moon-is-junk.jpg damage to the moon]] in which a gate research accident that occurred 75 years before the series started, killed the bulk of humanity and drove most of the rest to colonize the Solar System. Earth itself is largely a wasteland now, meaning NoEndorHolocaust is largely averted here: The initial shockwave devastated the portion of Earth facing the moon, and debris continues to rain down on the damaged landscape. Meteor showers are treated like a weather event by the survivors who live in underground cities. The surface can't even be mapped due to the constant creation of new impact craters.

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', Makoto Nanaya's Astral Finish ends with her uppercutting her opponent into the sky. The force of the punch makes him hit the moon and ''shatter it''.

* Part of the backstory of how the Skerneen got punched out of their galatic dominance in the ''VideoGame/{{Deadlock}}'' series is that they attempted to frighten the Humans into submission by blowing up part of the moon and leaving Earth with a new ring system. This backfired horribly for them as it instead [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant infuriated Humans into a berserker frenzy]] and led to a fierce counterattack, turning the tide of the war against them alongside the other known space-capable species and ultimately pushing them back.

* Deserves special mention in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', cause while most examples on the video-game list are just creative licensing to show power, in City of Heroes BigBad Lord Recluse actually does it. [[spoiler:No-name villain Darrin Wade kills BigGood Statesman]] then flies to the moon to become a god, Lord Recluse's retort: He launches one of his nuclear warheads at the moon then takes a rocket up there to finish the job himself. Scary part is he has more of those warheads and nothing left to lose...

* The Moon in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is always a crescent, with the overly long horns nearly touching each other. It's as if someone's taken out a large chunk of it, because it ''is''; Koro-sensei blew up 70% of the moon in the beginning, making it a permanent crescent. [[spoiler:Later, it's revealed that he didn't actually blow up the moon (it was a lab rat experiment gone wrong), [[SilentScapegoat but he decided to take the blame and appropriate it for himself anyway]] to hide the truth behind his origins.]] In the epilogue, the crescent Moon collapses due to gravity and becomes closer to Earth, eventually reforming into its regular size and shape prior to the explosion.
* ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' had this happen to the Earth in the middle of a war between Earth and Mars. A gate on the Moon that allowed travel to Mars (sparking a colonization effort that later declared independence with then led to a war) exploded, destroying half the moon and sending large numbers of shards raining down on Earth, killing millions and drastically altering the landscape, as well as leaving a ring of asteroids in Earth's orbit. This event is known in the show as Heaven's Fall.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has this as a background event, where the [[http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/moon-is-junk.jpg damage to the moon]] in which a gate research accident that occured 75 years before the series started, killed the bulk of humanity and drove most of the rest to colonize the Solar System. Earth itself is largely a wasteland now, meaning NoEndorHolocaust is largely averted here: The initial shockwave devastated the portion of Earth facing the moon and debris continues to rain down on the damaged landscape. Meteor showers are treated like a weather event by the survivors who live in underground cities. The surface can't even be mapped due to the constant creation of new impact craters.

** Master Roshi blows up the moon in ''Manga/DragonBall'' to stop Great Ape Goku's rampage, since the Great Ape form is powered by the moon. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets yelled at afterwards]], but Kami restores it some years later on the condition that Goku has his tail (which causes him to transform into a Great Ape when he looks at the full moon) removed.
** Likewise, Piccolo destroys the moon in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' to stop Gohan rampaging as a Great Ape. However it's shown to have been restored once more in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

* This happens some times in ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', it being a gag manga with no realism at all. Usually it's Arale who destroys the Moon with her SuperStrength, by chucking boulders at it. Afterwards we see the Moon all patched up, like a broken vase.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Anti-Spiral uses the moon to attempt to destroy the earth, causing the Gurren Brigade to attempt to destroy the moon. Notable in that the otherwise VERY soft sci-fi makes it abundantly clear that the approach of the moon and it's removal would have a negative effect on the planet ([[spoiler:In the end, the descent can be stopped and [[ThatsNoMoon the moon is revealed to be a giant spacecraft named "Cathedral Terra"]]. The spacecraft is repossessed by the heroes and the real moon is pulled out of a PocketDimension to avoid damage to the Earth]]).

* ''Animation/LingLongIncarnation'': In the backstory a sudden shift of the moons alignment caused a ripple effect that devistated the world just as a massive evacuation was underway, destroying civilization and preventing the exodus to the stars.

* ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'': In the final arc, [[spoiler:Kaworu blows up a chunk of the Moon in order to try to destroy an EldritchAbomination.]] Many people wonders whether humankind is definitely and inescapably screwed or it is not as bad as it looks. Fortunately it looks like the debris is floating away Earth.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', one of the moons of the Klingon homeworld (Praxis) has apparently blown up; interestingly, in this timeline this seems to have happened 30 years ''before'' the event in the Prime universe, where it was a major plot point in ''Film/StarTrekVI'' and was the event that paved the way for the end of formal hostilities between the Federation and the Klingon Empire in the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]-era.

--> '''Sherman:''' Oh no! I done blowed up the wrong one!

* In one of Creator/StephenBaxter's more nonsensical stories, the US government executes "operation Sunday Punch" to use an oversized nuclear bomb to blow a huge chunk out of the moon, in order to intimidate the other nations of the world. [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 It doesn't]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough end well]].

** In ''Persepolis Rising'', one of the strongholds the ''Heart of the Tempest'' destroys while single-handedly conquering Sol is the asteroid Pallas, the third-largest in the Asteroid Belt, and home to 1000's of Belters.

* This was [[StarterVillain Dr. Diaper]]'s plan in the very first ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants''; the Captain, George and Harold destroy his laser device before he can go through with it. [[spoiler:The BadFuture in book 9 is the result of Diaper being able to make it happen and the other subsequent villains completing their plans, as Mr. Krupp never got brainwashed into believing he was Captain Underpants.]]

* The TV series of ''Series/TheExpanse'' portrays the destruction of Phoebe as a last-minute attempt to keep Earth from getting the Protomolecule, as in both Mars and Earth had marines en route when the missiles were launched. Deimos is destroyed shortly afterwards as reprisal.

-->'''NASA Engineer''': We have the technology. The time is now. Science can wait no longer. Children are our future. America can, should, must and will blow up the moon!
* Inverted in ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' where the Moon gets blasted into space but survives more or less intact, but the Earth suffers devastating effects from the loss of their tide-control device. In a later episode it's revealed that the Earth survived, but humanity screwed the environment anyway.
* The ABC Family dramady, ''Three Moons Over Milford'', in which the moon was shattered into three pieces by an asteroid, leaving people uncertain about the future of life on Earth.

* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' Deimos was accidentally eaten by [=MarsCo=]'s orbital construction Geomats, the computers had labelled it "flotsam" and no one caught it until it was too late. They constructed a [=BlueSky=] station in memoriam of the small moon in the wake of the PR disaster, but many still wonder if it was really an accident. Earth's moon, on the other hand was the site of an observation base keeping an eye on the new ecosystem developing on the planet that had been nuked to sterilization a few centuries earlier, then one of the expeditions brought something back and the entire rock is covered with what looks like crystallized blood.

* Deserves special mention in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', cause while most examples on the video-game list are just creative licensing to show power, in City of Heroes BigBad Lord Recluse actually does it. [[spoiler:No-name villain, Darrin Wade, kills BigGood, Statesman,]] then flies to the moon to become a god, Lord Recluse's retort: He launches one of his nuclear war-heads at the moon then takes a rocket up there to finish the job himself. Scary part is he has more of those warheads and nothing left to lose...

* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', the six Moons bombarding the planet with meteors plays an important role in the game's backstory. More ridiculously, there's an LimitBreak that allows you to smash one of them into the enemy... naturally, this is ignored once the battle's over.

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', [[spoiler:Super Sonic and Sage team up to defeat [[BigBad The End]], which takes the form of a giant purple moon. WordOfGod is that its AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder, and the purple moon is merely what [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou we, the player, percieve it as]], while Sonic and Sage each percieve it as something else entirely. While Sonic is able to damage it significantly, it takes an HeroicSacrifice from Sage to completely destroy it.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TouhouSoccer'', one of Youmu Konpaku's better shots has her completely ignore the ball, fly up into the air, and to one side of the moon. She then slices the Japanese characters for her shot into the moon, and then SLICE IT IN HALF. Explosion and everything. She then apparently remembers the ball, and comes down and whacks the ball with her sword. The soccer ball, to its credit, handles a slash that cleaved the moon in two very well, as it may well be MadeOfIndestructium .

* In ''WebAnimation/HololiveHoloNoGraffiti'', the episode "[[https://youtu.be/ExRYtdoeUrY Fly Me to the Moon]]" starts off with Botan Shishiron throwing Watame Tsunomaki through the office window and onto the street, with Watame sailing for 88m. Next up is Noel Shirogane, who throws Marine Houshou through the wall into the next building, but only scoring 80m. The last contestants are Aname Kanata spinning Haachama with enough force to throw her through the ceiling, through the stratosphere, into the moon and out the other side, with Haachama no worse for wear. The final distance is 384,400 km.

* Frank J. Fleming of the blog IMAO, advocates the United States [[http://www.imao.us/index.php/a-realistic-plan-for-world-peaceakanuke-the-moon/ Nuking the Moon]] to convince other coutries that the U.S. is crazy and not to be messed with.
* ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'' has the Moon blown up in order to have the broken pieces rain down upon the Earth and make in uninhabitable.

--> '''Eggman:''' I've come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog's a bitch-ass motherfucker. He pissed on my fucking wife. That's right, he took his hedgehog-fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was "THIS BIG," and I said "that's disgusting," so I'm making a callout post on my Twitter.com: Shadow the Hedgehog, you've got a small dick. It's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like! ''BWSHHH!!'' That's right, baby. All points, no quills, no pillows — look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife, so guess what, I'm gonna fuck the Earth. That's right, this is what you get: MY SUPER LASER PISS!! Except I'm not gonna piss on the Earth, I'm gonna go higher! I'M PISSING ON THE '''''MOON'''''! How do you like that, Obama?! ''I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!'' You have twenty-three hours before the piss [[TrillingRs DRRRRROPLLLLLETS]] hit the fucking Earth! Now get out of my fucking sight before I piss on you too!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': During the [[GrandFinale Grand Finale]], [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Core]] intends to use Amphibia's moon to [[ColonyDrop crash into the planet's surface and wipe out all life on it]], to prevent this, Anne Boonchuy [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] by absorbing the powers of the [[ArtifactOfPower Calamity Gems]] to become all-powerfull and destroying Amphibia's moon, ending The Core in the process.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Lazlo, Raj, and Clam mistake Lumpus' giant telescope for a canon and think he wants to blow up the moon. They throw a protest against this and try to convince him not too.

* [[https://www.popsci.com/what-would-happen-if-moon-suddenly-disappeared#page-3 Here's]] an article on what might happen if the moon were destroyed. Bottom line: the problem of falling debris wouldn't be nearly as bad as getting hit by an object from deep space, but long term effects on the environment from the loss of tides and the loss of moonlight could be pretty terrible. Also, we might get rings.

* Some planets may eventually lose their moons billions of years from now. Because it is orbiting the Red Planet faster than that planet can spin, the Martian moon Phobos may eventually collide with Mars, and it is widely believed that it will not be the first moon Mars has lost this way; and even though the Moon is actually moving away from the Earth until it slows down so much that it it literally stuck above one side of our planet permanently,[[note]]Actually not; this process is expected not to happen until much before the Sun had gone red giant and died[[/note]] the dying and expanding Sun will eventually cause the Moon to spiral back toward Earth, causing it to shatter and collide with our own planet[[note]]Actually the Moon will be disrupted by Earth's tidal forces, forming a short-lived ring system before the Sun destroys our planet[[/note]] (ironically, this was also how our Moon was born).

** Two of Uranus's irregular moons, Cupid and Belinda, are expected to collide with each other between one thousand and one million years from now. No one is entirely sure what the collision's results will be, but one hypotheses is that one or both moons will shatter and create a new ring system.
* The impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole-Aitken_basin South Pole-Aitken basin]], the largest confirmed lunar crater and one of the largest known in the Solar System, is thought to have been the one of a body moving at a very oblique angle and relatively low velocity. Had it hit at a higher speed and angle, it's thought it could [[http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/July98/spa.html have shattered]] the Moon.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog:

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has this as a background event, where the [[http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/moon-is-junk.jpg damage to the moon]] in a gate research accident 75 years before the series starts killed the bulk of humanity and drove most of the rest to colonize the Solar System. Earth itself is largely a wasteland now, meaning NoEndorHolocaust is largely averted here: The initial shockwave devastated the portion of Earth facing the moon and debris continues to rain down on the damaged landscape. Meteor showers are treated like a weather event by the survivors who live in underground cities. The surface can't even be mapped due to the constant creation of new impact craters.

* The ''Anime/SonicX'' adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' also shows the moon getting blown up, though while the games never explain how the moon presumably gets fixed, in ''Sonic X'' Eggman fixes it himself, dubbing it the [[PunnyName "Eggmoon"]]. [[spoiler: He then uses the repaired moon to try and block out the sun.]]

* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'': Strongly implied it happened since the protagonists claim that there's no Moon in the sky [[spoiler: and the planet [[EarthAllAlong turns out to be Earth]]]]. Later expanded material would depict how it happened during WorldWarIII.

** A tie-in comic shows that the BigBad of the movie was responsible. [[spoiler: While being a brainwashed operative of Section 31, he came up with the plan of placing a bomb on the moon to destroy it, thus weakening the Klingon empire.]]

* In TV-movie catastrophic flick ''Impact'', a [[HollywoodScience piece of brown dwarf]] hits the Moon and gets stuck in it. The main characters then make a flight to the Moon in order to polarize it so it ''expulses'' the piece of dwarf. [[spoiler: Doing so they break the Moon into two pieces, though [[ArtisticLicenseSpace it becomes somehow stable in its orbit and doesn't have any negative effects on our planet]].]]

* In ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' the primary event that destroys the Earth at the end of Season One is [[spoiler: when Vanya destroys the moon during her solo concert.]]

* Deserves special mention in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', cause while most examples on the video-game list are just creative licensing to show power, in City of Heroes BigBad Lord Recluse actually does it. [[spoiler: No-name villain, Darrin Wade, kills BigGood, Statesman,]] then flies to the moon to become a god, Lord Recluse's retort: He launches one of his nuclear war-heads at the moon then takes a rocket up there to finish the job himself. Scary part is he has more of those warheads and nothing left to lose...
* In Lost Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', [[spoiler: Oni Punches Mantra Asura so hard the moon splits in half, and they start blowing up more of it as they start fighting more.]]

* In ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' Black Ops 3 map Der Eisendrach Easter Egg mission [[spoiler: ends with Origins gang detonating the Moon with Element 115 missles to destory Griffon Station, the moon base for Group 935.]]

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', [[spoiler: Super Sonic and Sage team up to defeat [[BigBad The End]], which takes the form of a giant purple moon. WordOfGod is that its AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder, and the purple moon is merely what [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou we, the player, percieve it as]], while Sonic and Sage each percieve it as something else entirely. While Sonic is able to damage it significantly, it takes an HeroicSacrifice from Sage to completely destroy it.]]

* A version of this happens in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' after destroying the final boss, although it technically isn't a moon, [[spoiler: It's the unborn god of destruction.]] First it's shown collapsing in on itself into nothingness, followed by a [[{{Delayed Explosion}} brief pause]], followed by a [[{{Earth Shattering Kaboom}} massive explosion that engulfs the tree that literally created life.]] Did we mention how big the tree was?

* The now-defunct [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080416072758/http://stu.wccnet.org/~bwells/gdt200/cabum1.html Citizens' Association to Blow Up the Moon.]] [[spoiler: CABUM]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/ColourMySeries Colour My Dreams]]'', [[spoiler: you need to do this after solving a puzzle to get past the endless hallway]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': During the [[GrandFinale Grand Finale]], [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Core]] intends to use Amphibia's moon to [[ColonyDrop crash into the planet's surface and wipe out all life on it]], to prevent this, Anne Boonchuy [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] by absorbing the powers of the [[ArtifactOfPower Calamity Gems]] to become all-powerfull and destroying Amphibia's moon, ending The Core in the process.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': The planet that the Maximals and Predacons land on has two moons. At the end of season 1, [[spoiler: one of them turns out to be an alien KillSat, which Optimus Primal ends up destroying by HeroicSacrifice]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': During the [[GrandFinale Grand Finale]], [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Core]] intends to use Amphibia's moon to [[ColonyDrop crash into the planet's surface and wipe out all life on it]], to prevent this, Anne Boonchuy [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] by absorbing the powers of the [[ArtifactOfPower Calamity Gems]] to become all-powerfull and destroy Amphibia's moon, ending The Core in the process.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant's moon is mysteriously half-shattered, leaking a dense field of debris. One of humanity's theories is a fairy tale called ''[[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant The Gift of the Moon]]'' that claims it's really the sun, which humanity accidentally broke. After building a new fake sun made of glass, the weakened original sun was relegated to lighting the night sky as the moon. [[spoiler: The reality is ancient humanity is destroyed when [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Salem]] rebels against the gods. Abandoning Remnant and [[CompleteImmortality Salem]], the God of Darkness smashes the moon as a warning against disrespecting gods while the God of Light resurrects Salem's dead lover, [[ResurrectiveImmortality Ozma]], to guide a reborn humanity to redemption. Salem's [[NeverMyFault refusal to acknowledge]] the moon's warning and Ozma's [[GuiltComplex inability to ignore it]] has locked them into a ForeverWar for the fate of humanity.]]

* In the WebVideo/RealTimeFandub of VideoGame/SonicAdventure2, just like in the original game, Eggman blows up the moon, but unlike the game, however, it's immediately preceded by a drunken tirade against Shadow the Hedgehog, seen below.

* In the WebVideo/RealTimeFandub of VideoGame/SonicAdventure2, Eggman blows up the moon, just like in the original game. Unlike the game, however, this was immediately preceded by a drunken tirade against Shadow The Hedgehog, seen below.
--> '''Eggman:''' I've come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog's a bitch-ass motherfucker, he pissed on my fucking wife.\\
That's right, he took his hedgehog-fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was "THIS BIG," and I said "that's disgusting," so I'm making a callout post on my Twitter.com:\\
Shadow the Hedgehog, you've got a small dick. It's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like.\\
''BWSHHH''\\
That's right, baby. All points, no quills, no pillows — look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong.\\
He fucked my wife, so guess what, I'm gonna fuck the Earth. That's right, this is what you get: MY SUPER LASER PISS!!\\
Except I'm not gonna piss on the Earth, I'm gonna go higher; I'M PISSING ON THE '''''MOON'''''! How do you like that, Obama?! ''I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!''\\
You have twenty-three hours before the piss D R O P L E T S hit the fucking Earth, now get outta my fucking sight, before I piss on you too!

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', [[spoiler: Super Sonic and Sage team up to defeat [[BigBad The End]], whose true form resembles a giant purple moon. While Sonic is able to damage it significantly, it takes an HeroicSacrifice from Sage to completely destroy it.]]

-->-- ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe''

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* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'': Ming pokes the moon out of orbit so it is sent on a collision course with Earth.

* The 2002 remake of ''[[Film/TheTimeMachine2002 The Time Machine]]'' features a sub-plot about colonizing the moon in the 2030s which goes horribly wrong and ends up with the moon being blown to pieces. Some genius decided that using nuclear weapons to dig caverns beneath the surface was a good idea. It causes a bit of an [[ApocalypseHow armageddon]]. The moon's still there but much [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/timemachine/images/3/32/Timemachine02_moonboom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111007233838 closer to earth and totally fractured]]. Bits and pieces have settled into orbit or hit the Earth. When the time traveller later emerges in 802701, the smaller chunks of the moon have been pulled apart and stretched into a mini asteroid belt.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant's moon is mysteriously half-shattered, leaking a dense field of debris. One of humanity's theories is a fairy tale called ''[[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant The Gift of the Moon]]'' that claims it's really the sun, which humanity accidentally broke. After building a new fake sun made of glass, the weakened original sun was relegated to lighting the night sky as the moon. [[spoiler: The reality is ancient humanity is destroyed when [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Salem]] rebels against the gods. Abandoning Remnant and [[CompleteImmortality Salem]], the God of Darkness smashes the moon as a warning against disrespecting gods while the God of Light resurrects Salem's dead lover, [[ResurrectiveImmortality Ozma]], to guide a reborn humanity to redemption. Salem's [[NeverMyFault refusal to acknowledge]] the moon's warning and Ozma's [[GuiltComplex inability to ignore it]] has locked them into a ForeverWar for the fate of humanity.]]

* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Eggman blows up half of the moon with the [[KillSat Eclipse Cannon]] to show the world he's not messing around when he announces he's conquering the world. The laser blows off part of the moon, revealing a molten core and apparently having no influence on the planet's oceans. It's still broken in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', where the plot continues dealing with said KillSat, but otherwise appears perfectly fine in every subsequent game (including one where the final battle happens on the surface). WordOfGod claims that the Moon is still broken; it's just always facing the other way when we see it (the moon's rotation doesn't work like that in real life, but [[GiganticMoon this was a pretty big moon]], so maybe this one does).

* In the Hugo-award winning series, The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, the fate of the moon is a prominent plot point.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E05CupidsErrantArrow Cupid's Errant Arrow]]", the ''Cerritos'' and ''Vancouver'' are assigned to deliberately implode an unstable moon that is going to crash into its parent planet and kill everyone on it.

* In the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Zhao kidnaps and then {{kill|the god}}s [[CosmicKeystone the moon spirit]] to rob [[MakingASplash the waterbenders]] of their power. It's not clear if the moon was ''physically'' destroyed/wiped from existence, but at the very least he got it to stop reflecting light. Somewhat averts NoEndorHolocaust in that they make it clear the moon's death would be disastrous to the whole world. As it stands, however, [[spoiler:all it did was force a HeroicSacrifice to fix the moon and create one ''very'' pissed off ocean spirit kaiju.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', the planet the Maximals and Predacons land on has two moons. At the end of season 1, [[spoiler: one of them turns out to be an alien KillSat, which Optimus Primal ends up destroying by HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler: The revelation that the planet only has one natural moon tips off Dinobot that they hadn't come to the wrong place after all, [[EarthAllAlong the planet was Earth]].]]

* Aliens destroyed the moon in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' and repaired it with their armpit cheese.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/HaredevilHare", Marvin the Martian attempts to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] from the Moon, but ends up blowing the Moon in half instead, leaving only a crumbling crescent.
* Non-explosive version: in the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "Billy Boy", the titular [[ExtremeOmnivore billy goat]] ends up ''eating'' the entire moon.
* Coop once blew up part of the moon in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop", which caused major climate change (a subversion of NoEndorHolocaust). When asked if he was concerned about this, he replied, [[BystanderSyndrome "What does that have to do with bubblegum ice cream?"]] Kiva made him fix it in the credits. The episode basically told you from the start [[BrickJoke what was going to happen]]: in Kiva's time, the moon has a lot less mass.
* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'' opens with a shot of the [[spoiler:Shadoen fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Starfire the Terrible", Starfire [[ItMakesSenseInContext dedicates her life to killing Robin to make him feel better.]] After she got the hang of villainy, she decides to step up her game by rigging the moon to explode. Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy, still unconvinced that Starfire is even capable of evil, laugh at her seemingly ridiculous claim. Cut to the surface of the moon where sticks of dynamite are embedded everywhere and all connected to a countdown device that looks suspiciously like a toaster. Once the timer reaches zero...it pops out toast...[[DoubleSubversion then blows up the moon]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode, "[[Recap/TUFFPuppyS1E5ToastOfTUFFShareALair Toast of T.U.F.F.]]", Verminious Snaptrap plans to blow up the moon because [[CheesyMoon he thinks it's made of cheese]], which he can't eat due to having a severe cheese allergy ([[IronicAllergy which is ironic because he is a rat]]). Ollie tries to talk him out of it, saying that the Moon is not in fact, made of cheese, but Snaptrap says that [[BlatantLies he's really blowing up the moon to get rid of the werewolves]].

* In ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'', Professor Sherman Klump dreams that he [[TooDumbToLive accidentally planted a nuclear weapon on the Moon]] instead of [[Film/{{Armageddon}} on an asteroid heading for Earth.]]

* The moon in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is always a crescent, with the overly long horns nearly touching each other. It's as if someone's taken out a large chunk of it, because it ''is''; Koro-sensei blew up 70% of the moon in the beginning, making it a permanent crescent. [[spoiler:In the epilogue, the crescent Moon collapses due to gravity and becomes closer to Earth, eventually reforming into the visible size and shape prior to the explosion.]]

* ''[[Radio/QuietPlease1947 Quiet, Please]]'': The scientist in "If I Should Wake Before I Die", who is a very ForScience kind of guy, shoots a nuclear bomb at the moon as an experiment. He winds up accidentally destroying the moon.

* ''Radio/QuietPlease'': The scientist in "If I Should Wake Before I Die", who is a very ForScience kind of guy, shoots a nuclear bomb at the moon as an experiment. He winds up accidentally destroying the moon.

* The moon in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is always a crescent, with the overly long horns nearly touching each other. It's as if someone's taken out a large chunk of it, because it ''is''; Koro-sensei blew up 70% of the moon in the beginning, making it a permanent crescent.
** [[spoiler:In the epilogue, the crescent Moon collapses due to gravity and becomes closer to Earth, eventually reforming into the size and shape prior to the explosion.]]