History Main / EarthShatteringKABOOM

* In ''Film/RedPlanet'', [[MadBomber Burchenal]] triggers a [[WorldWreckingWave Surface Kaboom]] by [[PlayingWithFire dropping a torch]] on ''[[ChemistryCanDoAnything oxygened-algae]]'' and ''[[KillItWithFire oxygened-bugs]]''.

* ''KamenRiderKuuga'' is said to be able to do this in his Ultimate Form with his Rider Kick...probably why we never see it.

* In ''Series/Heroes'', the third season features a prophetic painting that the Earth is going to explode sometime in the future, which is implied to be the event that Hiro sees destroy Tokyo in the future. Unfortunately, the entire subplot is never fully resolved or adequately explained, due to the protagonists seeming to [[AbortedArc forget about it]].
** However, after the introduction of [[BigBad Samuel]] in the fourth season, who can manipulate earth and gets stronger in proxmity to other evolved humans, it's likely he was the party responsible for causing the catastrophe. As the AlternateFuture prevented in the third season involved turning ''everyone'' into evolved humans, this would have increased his power exponentially.

* In what may be one of the earliest examples of player-controlled planet-cracking power, ''StarFlight'' gives the player 3 Black Eggs, artifacts that can destroy a planet. Of the 3, you only need to use at most 2 in the course of the game, and can beat the game with only ''one'' of them...so which planet would you like to see destroyed today?

* Averted in ''Sonic The Comic''; the Metallix are trying to convert the Miracle Planet to metal to use as their base, using something called the Alpha Device created by Grimer. After dealing with the Metallix, Sonic proposes 'just yanking the thing out', but Porker Lewis states doing so would blow the planet up.

* In ArthurCClarke's ''TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' (both film and book) the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who made TheMonolith invoke its abilities to cause Jupiter to collapse and ignite as a star. It's notable that this is ''not'' for nefarious purposes; instead they want to provide an energy source to the evolving life forms on Europa, who would otherwise have died out as the geothermal vents keeping them warm went cold.
* In ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'', the Daleks planned to detonate a bomb which would remove the Earth's core.

* The JohnCarpenter's ultra low budget film ''Film/DarkStar'' featured a starship crew whose job was to traverse the Galaxy, using "Exponential Thermostellar Bombs" to destroy planets that might someday threaten human colonies. For twenty years. On the ragged edge of terminal boredom.

* During the course of ''ThirtyHs'', Harry kills the fuck out of at least two planets, and Dumblecop kicks another planet in half.

->''"[[WheresTheKaboom Where's the kaboom?]] There was supposed to be an [[TropeNamer Earth-shattering kaboom!]]"''

* As indicated by the page quote, the TropeNamer here is the ChuckJones character Marvin the Martian from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', who says the line after Bugs Bunny steals his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Mod-U-Lator in the short "Hare-way To The Stars". His motive was that Earth was obstructing his view of Venus.

* ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion II'' has the Stellar Converter, a weapon that can vaporize most battleships and blow an undefended planet to bits when used in the post-battle bombardment,[[hottip:*:use during the battle phase doesn't destroy the world, but it still hurts for whatever's targeted]] reducing it to an asteroid belt (which a sufficiently advanced race can actually reconstitute later.) It makes for a great defense when built planetside, but in space it needs one of the largest ship hulls initially, though with further research it can be squeezed into a ''very'' barebones cruiser hull. At the stage of the game where the Stellar Converter becomes available, the usefulness of the weapon is minimal from a purely logical viewpoint. Does this stop players from zapping worlds? [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Not at all.]]

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* StarTrekOnline has Starfleet players fighting a [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Planet Killer]] discovered by the BigBad of the Klingon storyline; it destroys a small planet with its' primary weapon in a cutscene just before the player fights it to give them an idea just what kind of power they're up against.

* In ''SinsOfASolarEmpire'', Siege ships do exactly that, and one of the specialized Capital Ships you can build does it with a bigger bang. Also, the Novalith Cannon superweapon fires an obscenely large nuke at faster than light speed. The explosion takes up a large portion of the gravity well and kills nearly everyone planetside.

** The "planet killer arms race" featured in the StarWars EU, in which every planet-killer has to be somehow bigger and badder than the last, is one of the most-cited reasons why some fans consider several fair-sized chunks of the EU non-canonical and ridiculous. This was only really happening in the nineties, when Bantam had the license. Del Ray, for all their perceived faults, mostly uses this gimmick with the [[NewJediOrder Vong]], who possessed and often were Planet Killers themselves.

* The RevelationSpace universe features many Earth Shattering Kabooms: First, the main antagonists destroy at least three planets during the main trilogy and an unknown but very large number more during the previous one billion years; second, defeating those antagonists releases a rogue terraforming agent, which, it is implied, destroys the whole ''universe'' in several billion years. From the very first novel a group of humans have a cache of 40 weapons, each capable of destroying a planet. And then finally, there are the Nestbuilder Weapons, of which little is seen but [[TakeOurWordForIt much is said]].

* Julian May's ''Magnificat'' the final book of the Literature/GalacticMilieu series ends with the destruction of one a major colony planet, alluded to in the rest of the series as the biggest mass murder of all time.

**** Speceifically, in Ender's Game, the weapon is explicitly stated to be NOT a missile. Circa 3000 years later, by CotM, it's shown to be the payload of a missile or missile-like device.
* David Weber and Steve White's ''The Shiva Option'' features this (in the form of anti-matter warhead barrages from fighter swarms) being used against a genocidal alien race as a regular tactic, once the good guys discovered the aliens communicated by telepathy. Kill anything over several hundred million on-planet, and the psychic hammerblow of the mass deaths cripples anything else in-system. Given that the alien species was a lot of ancient horror cliches come to life (including HumanResources to the point of making conquered races into planetary-scale livestock ranches), I'm inclined to rule it necessary. Especially since an earlier book in the series ended with a Terran Federation ex-President sacrificing his own health to prevent the destruction of a different species' planet where only the world government was at fault.

** And then ratchets it up at the end of ''Literature/'' by [[spoiler: destroying every Earth in every alternate dimension ever.]]

* Possibly the oldest comic book example is in ComicBook/TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil, where it nearly happens a couple of times. Mister Mind tries firing giant shells at America and Russia from a ten-mile Big Bertha, then in another chapter he tries to blow the Earth in half using explosives set up by tiny Americans living underground in case the war went badly for America.

* Possibly the oldest comic book example is in [[ComicBook/TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil]], where it nearly happens a couple of times, Mister Mind tries firing giant shells at America and Russia from a ten-mile Big Bertha, then in another chapter he tries to blow the Earth in half using explosives set up by tiny Americans living underground in case the war went badly for America.

** I think a certain pair of moronic monarchs from ''HeroicAge'' could help you out with that one.