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* ''Film/TheBeastmaster''. When Evil Rip Torn attacks Dar's villiage and [[AndYourLittleDogToo kills his dog]], Dar dresses in leather, burns the bodies and goes on a grand quest.

* In Suzzanne Collins' ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series, Katniss Everdeen's hometown District 12 [[spoiler: is bombed into oblivion under the orders of President Snow as retaliation for the occurences of book two, Catching Fire. The book ends with some one telling her it's gone, so you know it's important. Later on, Katniss visits the District 12 ruins and is noticably guilty over the fact that it's gone, and the bombing of 12 is brought up multiple times throughout the last book.]]

* On the [[Literature/TheBible book of Genesis]] (2:4 - 3:24), Adam and Eve (plus all of their progeny) are banished from the Garden of Eden after eating from the Fruit of Knowledge.

* In [[TheElderScrollsNovels The Infernal City]], Annaïg's and Mere-Glim's hometown of Lilmoth undergoes a miniturized ZombieApocalypse.

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* Possibly the most famous is the destruction of Luke's home in ''StarWars'', killing his aunt and uncle but freeing him to leave the planet. Notice that he [[AngstWhatAngst never mentions them ever again]], and instead [[TellMeAboutMyFather obsesses over his father]] who ''didn't'' raise him.

* In ''TheLastStarfighter'', when Alex RefusedTheCall and wants to go back to Earth, he finds the hard way TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive, as an alien assassin comes to his hometown. Centauri implies this trope (as well as Alex's death) will result unless Alex takes part in the war. Alex reluctantly agrees.
* In ''ConanTheBarbarian'', the main villain [[ScaryBlackMan Thulsa]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]] destroys young Conan's village and mercilessly slays his mother before his eyes, leading him to be sold into slavery where he is hardened by forced labor and trained as a champion gladiator. When he eventually wins his freedom, embarks on a career as a warrior, and seeks out Thulsa Doom to [[ItsPersonal take his revenge]], the villain calmly points out to Conan that everything he became is because of Doom himself and Conan actually owes him. (He even fits in a bit of the ButForMeItWasTuesday, too.) Of course Conan is [[YouKilledMyFather anything but grateful]], but still the point stands.

* In the film adaptation of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Allan Quatermain is living in self-imposed exile in a British colony in Africa, and has no interest in accepting the position of League leader. He accepts, however, when agents of the film's primary villain invade the colony, killing some of Quatermain's friends and blowing up the ''pub''.
* ''TitanAE'' , anyone? The main character's [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet home planet]] is [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]].
* Mercilessly parodied in Mel Brooks' ''RobinHoodMenInTights'':

* The Western movie ''[[ClintEastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales]]'' begins with the eponymous hero's house being burned down and his family killed.

* Lemur Island from ''{{Dinosaur}}'', since it was unfotunately located ''very'' close to the meteorite's blast radius.
** Also, the region where Kron, Bruton, Neera, Eema, Baylene, Url, and the rest of the Herd came from. Subverted, however according to [[AllThereIntheManual ''Dinosaur: The Essential Guide'']], which confirms that the Nesting Grounds is actually indeed their original home. The reason why they all do not stay there all the time is because in the winter, the Nesting Grounds actually becomes too cold for the dinosaurs to lay their eggs.
* Barbossa and his men attack Port Royal in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* In ''MonstersVsAliens'', Gallaxhar's planet was destroyed by Gallaxhar himself.
** In another Creator/DreamWorks film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', both [[VillainProtagonist Megamind's]] and Metro Man's planets (and to a much lesser extent, possibly their home solar system) are sucked in by a black hole.
** In yet another Creator/DreamWorks film, ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Po's home village is burned to the ground by [[EvilAlbino Shen's]] wolves and cannons. Po witnessed the event, but was too young to remember it at the time.
* ''ComeAndSee'' has Florya's home village, which ends up slaughtered some time after he joins up with the partisans. He's in denial about it at first.

* The village in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', which is sacked in a cat-Cossack pogrom at the very beginning, in a ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'' parody. Surprisingly, this is intended to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shostka a real town]], which has in fact survived.

* ''AttackOnTitan'' features several, as a direct result of Wall Maria being abandoned at the beginning of the series.

** [[ThoseTwoGuys Reiner and Bertolt]] come from a remote mountain village in Wall Maria, and briefly describe it being destroyed because the Titans reached it before they could receive any warning. [[spoiler: This is part of their [[TheMole cover]] story, leaving it unknown whether their ''true'' home was attacked or not]].
** Jean's hometown, the Trost District, is badly damaged during the battle there, but manages to narrowly avoid this fate thanks to [[spoiler: the discovery of Eren's powers]].
** [[spoiler: Connie's village is found abandoned and destroyed during the breach of Wall Rose. The hints about what happened are chilling to say the very least...]]

* What happened to Lance's hometown in [[http://www.goldcoincomics.com Gold Coin Comics]].

* Not an entire town, but the game ''Peasant's Quest'' on the HomestarRunner website kicks off with Rather Dashing's thatch-roofed cottage being burninated by Trogdor and Rather Dashing swearing revenge.

[[caption-width-right:200:[-Not wasting time, the villain destroys this home town ''before'' the game starts. [[spoiler: Except not really.]] -] ]]

** Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is originally from Nibelheim, which was razed by Sephiroth. (It later got rebuilt and repopulated in an attempt to conceal that it ever ''was'' destroyed, which briefly confused the heroes). Later (chronologically speaking), he and the party are forced to leave Midgar to avoid the authorities. This shortly after Shinra destroys the Sector 7 slums, where AVALANCHE is based. And then the entire city is mostly destroyed later on!

[[caption-width-right:200:[-Not wasting time, the villain destroys this home town ''before'' the game starts.-] ]]

* Manga/{{Naruto}} - Konoha village is almost destroyed by the Nine-Tailed Demon, and then [[spoiler: gets leveled by Pain]] post TimeSkip.

* Elin's hometown in ''Literature/OfFearAndFaith'' is destroyed before the story begins. This has clearly left its mark on poor Elin, as when she tell this to Phenix it's the [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness first time]] we see her without a great big smile on her face.

* Adlehyde in VideoGame/WildARMs1 for Cecilia, the attack on the city by demons kicking off the events of the game (though the player can help rebuild it throughout the rest of the game.) Arctica, meanwhile, is [[spoiler:Jack's]] personal DoomedHometown, getting destroyed in the same manner before the start of the game.

* The tutorial area of GuildWars begins in the player character's Doomed Home Kingdom, before switching to a ruined version (in the main game world) once the tutorial finishes.

* In ''{{Stonekeep}}'', the titular castle that is the childhood home of the protaganist is consumed by a devouring darkness. Drake is saved by a mysterious cloaked figure who teleports them both to safety and returns years later to reclaim the fortress.

* If you pick the colonist background in ''MassEffect'', [[PlayerCharacter Shepard's]] homeworld was Mindoir, a tiny farming colony that is located in the Attican Traverse where the batarians fought against the humans for territory rights. Ironically when Shepard was 16, the batarians razed the planet, killed ''almost'' everyone in the colony except a couple of leftovers who are being dragged in chains for slavery while Shepard was lucky enough to escape from their clutches. An Alliance patrol found him/her but all of Shepard's relatives and friends died from the raid. As the result of that, it motivated Shepard to join the military two years later.
** And, of course, ''MassEffect3'' begins with the Reapers invading ''Earth''.

* This occurs in ''LegendOfDragoon'' to the main character Dart's hometown in an almost stereotypical fashion. Not only is his adopted hometown destroyed in the intro, we later find out that his actual birthplace was also desolated years before the game.

* ''StarControl II'' starts out with Earth under an Ur-Quan slave shield, which only the Ur-Quan [[spoiler: (and also the Chmmr after you get them out, which happens at the end of the game)]] can penetrate.

* Norune Village from DarkCloud suffers this fate, being blown up at the end of the opening cutscene. Happens to every other city the player visits as well.

** In the ending, [[spoiler: the village is rebuilt after freeing the survivors from the enclave, and the Chosen One leads the village]].

* At the end of the first chapter of ''JadeEmpire'', the little town of Two Rivers is destroyed, and almost all of its populace wiped out by Imperial forces.

** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Courier can doom their own starting town of Goodsprings by siding with the Powder Gangers in the first quest. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero They are also responsible]] for inadvertently turning the Divide, implied to be their hometown, into a nuclear hellhole.

** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the Courier can doom their own starting town of Goodsprings by siding with the Powder Gangers in the first quest. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero They are also responsible]] for inadvertently turning the Divide into a nuclear hellhole.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}: Reach:'' Oh, boy... In the Halo universe, the name of the planet Reach stands in the same line as Stalingrad, Nanking, or Hiroshima. The Battle of Reach was the last major battle in the Human-Covenant War in which the humans lost all most of their remaining ships and saw the annihilation of the last major human population outside of Earth. Given that it is a prequel to the main series and has the name of the Planet in it's title [[spoiler:and that the Master Chief is always called the last remaining Spartan in the games of the main series]], the events of the game are pretty much [[KillEmAll forgone conclusion]].

[[caption-width-right:200:[-Not wasting time, this home town gets destroyed ''before'' the game starts.-] ]]

* Freiza does precisely this to Planet Vegeta, the Saiyan home world, in [[Manga/DragonBall Dragonball Z]], although it actually takes place before the series proper starts, and is shown in flashbacks. The Bardock special also recounts the events leading up to this EarthShatteringKaboom.

--->'''Lobo''' ''(in the {{DCAU}}):'' "I'm the last Czarnian. I fragged the rest of the planet for my high school science project. Gave myself an A."