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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStefonRudel''. In the beginning, the Mars colony is attacked by something named Großraum Centauri, and implied to be destroyed. Nevertheless, said colony turns up again later in a quite good shape.

** [[TheTokyoFireball Tokyo]], in ''Who's Left Behind?'' (''Kayako's Diaries'').

* Mercilessly parodied in Mel Brooks' ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'':

** There's the village from the start of the film that gets shot by flaming arrows ''every time they film a Robin Hood movie.''

* In the first campaign of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', this is the backstory of the half elf twins Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia. Their elven father took them away from their human mother to raise them as elves. When this didn't go so well and they sought to return to their mother's home in Byroden, they found the town and their mother had been destroyed in a dragon attack. [[spoiler: They later spy the dragon responsible ([[ChekhovsGunman Thordak]], [[RedBaron the Cinder King]]) during a jaunt on the Fire Plane, and encounter him again when he leads the Chroma Conclave's [[WhamEpisode attack]] on Tal'dorei.]]
** This also is the backstory for any [[spoiler: Dragonborn]] characters in the Tal'dorei Campaign setting as their homeland [[spoiler: Draconia was razed and literally cast to the ground by the Chroma Conclave]]

* In Raven Child's ''Fanfic/TheSmurfetteVillage'' series, the Smurfette Village is destroyed in the second story by a volcanic eruption, then the Smurf Village is destroyed in the third story by a SyntheticPlague known as "[[MythologyGag The Blue Plague]]."
* In ''Fanfic/IAgainstIMeAgainstYou'', Dodge Junction is this for [[OriginalCharacter Sunny Side]], courtesy of [[HumanoidAbomination the Meta]]
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'': Trisha's original village, Eshkolit is destroyed during the Ishval War and her family is killed with it.
* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Shinji has kryptonian powers because planet Krypton was about to explode (in the rewrite Krypton did not blow up but its inhabitants were dying), and [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Jor-El (Kal-El in the rewrite)]] sent a rocket with a DNA sample to Earth. Yui Ikari found it and used it to alter her unborn child's DNA. So that Shinji is technically kryptonian but his homeworld has disappeared.
* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': Asuka has kryptonian powers due to her biological father's planet exploding. Before Krypton blew up, Jor-El sent [[Franchise/{{Superman}} his son]] to Earth, but due a miscalculation on his part, the baby died when his rocket crashed. Later his DNA got used to impregnate one of the eggs of Kyoko, and thus Asuka was born.
* ''Fanfic/TheKeysOfTheKingdom'': Near the beginning of the story, Earth gets attacked by the Heartless, and eventually falls. Unlike most examples, however, most of the characters were whisked away from the planet either before the attack began or early on into it, with no way back. Consequently, they are not actually aware of what happened.
* It happens systematically and repeatedly in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod''. The main characters live in Tokyo-3, the whole country is destroyed. They move to NERV Germany, and their HomeBase is destroyed. After the War they settle on America, [[spoiler:but Shinji and Asuka can't lead a normal life anymore and leave.]]

* The Sabrina Gaiden sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' features Turquoise Town, where Sabrina was born and raised. Fed up with the citizen's apathetic and lazy attitude, and disgusted that they force her to use her psychic powers for mundane tasks, she begins to terrorize them until someone stands up to her. Even after she leaves, in less than a year [[GhostTown the town is all but abandoned, and by the present time it's been effectively erased from the maps]].

The town the hero first appears in is often his hometown. There is a very high chance said town will be demolished by evil forces, prompting him to go on his quest, although sometimes the town is inaccessible for other reasons (banishment, for example).