History Main / EarthShatteringKABOOM

* The threat of this trope happening is part of the premise for ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. Koro-sensei already destroyed 70% of the moon, and if Class E can't kill him within a year, he'll do the same to Earth.

* The final storyline of the original ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' manga had an otherworldly prince tether his dying world to Earth and kidnap and brainwash Princess Ayeka so that they could die together. Then, he makes the mistake of kidnapping Sasami as well, dragging everyone in to save the princesses and the world from destruction.

* In ''[[LightNovel/LastAndFirstIdol "Dark Seiyuu"]]'', this happens as a result of Earth's gravity suddenly disappearing.

** He shows what it's capable of in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' when he destroys [[spoiler:Rider's Ionioi Hetairoi, a Reality Marble which should be in theory many times larger than the Earth itself,]] with a single strike.

*** The [[TheEmpire ISS]] ''Enterprise'' in the MirrorUniverse clearly does have the capacity to destroy a planet or at least sterilize its surface.
%%*** The planet killer from the episode "The Doomsday Machine".

** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' Species 8472 could combine the energy from 9 of their ships to create a beam powerful enough to make a planet explode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': King Triton first blows up a globe in Ariel's grotto with his trident, then does the same with the rest of Ariel's human things (it's something he quickly regrets).

* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'': Although the original WaveMotionGun is not in fact a planet-killer, several of the alien races have (and use) this capability.

Think of it as a [[TheTokyoFireball Tokyo Fireball]] on a planetary scale. The full-on Earth-Shattering Kaboom is a ApocalypseHow/ClassX on the ApocalypseHow scale, often represented with an EarthShatteringPoster. SacrificalPlanet is when this happens near the beginning of the story to set up the threat level of the villains. Of course, some villains one-up this by going StarKilling, destroying ''stars'' (and thus entire star systems) instead of just planets.

Think of it as a [[TheTokyoFireball Tokyo Fireball]] on a planetary scale. The full-on Earth-Shattering Kaboom is a ApocalypseHow/ClassX on the ApocalypseHow scale, often represented with an EarthShatteringPoster. Of course, some villains one-up this by going StarKilling, destroying ''stars'' (and thus entire star systems) instead of just planets.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Phobos Rising", the Free Alliance accuses the Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States of developing a triradium-based anti-matter weapon, a DoomsdayDevice with the capability of incinerating Earth. In response, the Coalition accuses the Alliance of developing such a weapon. As this latest escalation of tensions is being communicated to the Alliance base on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}, a giant explosion encompasses Earth. The base's commanding officer Colonel Samantha Elliot comes to the conclusion that the Coalition has been smuggling triradium from Mars, its sole source, and were therefore responsible for destroying Earth. Further evidence of the scale of the destruction comes when Mars is struck by a colossal shockwave. When a drone is launched from the Coalition base, Colonel Elliot orders that all of the Alliance base's missiles be launched in response. However, it turns out that not only was the Coalition not smuggling triradium but the drone was being used to send a distress signal from the Coalition base, which had been devastated by the shockwave. The Coalition base's missiles are automatically launched in response to the incoming Alliance missiles and, in spite of the efforts of Colonel Elliot and her counterpart Colonel Paz, both bases are destroyed. Only Major James Bowen and Major Dara Talif survive the destruction of the Alliance base, which they do by shielding themselves in spacesuits. [[spoiler: In the midst of the devastation, they see a message from the commander-in-chief of the Alliance's military explaining that the giant explosion was caused by the [[DetonationMoon incineration]] of UsefulNotes/TheMoon as a result of an Alliance experiment with a weapon far less advanced than a triradium bomb. The surface of Earth is devastated and the death toll is high but the planet remains intact. The commander-in-chief announces that the Alliance and the Coalition have signed a permanent peace settlement so that they can put aside their differences and focus on rebuilding Earth.]]

--->"You know, [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun you blow up one sun]] and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water!"

** In "Chain Reaction", under orders from a GeneralRipper who [[TenMinuteRetirement replaces Hammond for the episode]], the SGC blows up an uninhabited planet using a naquadah-enhanced nuke to start a [[TitleDrop chain reaction]] in its naquadah veins. In theory, it would have been a strategic superweapon for use against Goa'uld planets, but [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it causes the stargate to lock open temporarily due to the energy release on the far end causing massive radiation to come back to Earth]].
** Probably the saddest example in the series occurs in the final episode "Unending", in which [[spoiler:the Asgard, having exhausted their last hope to fix their genetic degradation, commit mass suicide by blowing up their home planet]].

*** In "The Die Is Cast", it is stated that a fleet of 20 Romulan and Cardassian ships can destroy a planet down to its core within 6 hours (1+5). The opening volley alone destroyed 30% of the surface, [[spoiler:after which the fleet was interrupted by 150 Dominion ships and destroyed.]]

** The Xindi superweapon in season three of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was designed to do this. In fact, it happens in the alt-future episode "Twilight".

** Zodiark's Final Eclipse escalates it to "Existence Shattering Kaboom". It still deals a measly 50.000 damage to every target, when the hardest BonusBoss in the game has FIFTY MILLION HP, in addition to the attack being AwesomeButImpractical.

* It's been hypothesized that Miranda, a moon of Uranus, had been shattered by an impact and its fragments reassembled; thus explaining the patchwork of geological features on the moon.

** The fate of Krypton is perhaps the most famous example in comics, if not all modern media. On an interesting note, the reason for Krypton's demise has changed over the years. Back in the Golden Age, Krypton was destroyed when a giant earthquake ripped the planet apart, based on the (at the time) relayively new theory of Plate Tectonics. In the Silver Age, Krypton's core had too much uranium and other nuclear fuels in it's core, meaning the planet was a ticking time bomb. In the late 80's, the reason leaned more on the quasi-mystical science that comics seem to run on these days, combined with the inhabitants themselves destroying their own planet.

* The ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' count as planet-killing weapons all by themselves - they have blown up at least seven planets ''[[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds entirely by accident]]''.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': This is a major threat for the planet Sakaar in the ''Comicbook/PlanetHulk'' saga. The ChekhovsGun finally goes off in ''ComicBook/SkaarSonOfHulk'', as Galactus devours Sakaar.
* This happens to Earth in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' [[http://www.comics.org/issue/52235/ v4 #38]], shortly after the Moon had been exploded a few issues earlier. Approximately 20 cities are saved and become a ShatteredWorld, but even with the advanced technology of the 30th Century, everyone is not able to get off-planet. (The issue also includes one of the few times Creator/NeilGaiman's [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death]] appeared in a mainstream Creator/DCComics issue (as opposed to Vertigo).)

* In ''The Secret Origin of Comicbook/IronMan'' arc, the Godkiller is revealed - an ancient, five-mile-tall hyperweapon designed to kill [[PhysicalGod Celestials]]. That's ''Celestials'', plural. That it destroys planets is incidental - it simply flies through them without slowing down. At the speed with which its travels - at least in the area of light speed - that leaves a rapidly expanding cloud of planetary debris.

* The TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} fan film ''Film/{{Damnatus}}'' [[spoiler:ends with Inquisitor Lessus ordering an Exterminatus on the planet of Sancta Heroica in a DownerEnding after the heroes [[NiceJobBreakingItHero fuck up their mission]] and die trying to escape. Given this is the [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Verse]] of 40K, this is par for the course]].

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

* A ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' teaser parodies ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' trailer, with the Earth exploding.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Ironically, rather than a "terrible, ghastly noise" (as the book, listed below, describes), the destruction of the Earth in the film version is silent (more like an earth ''imploding'' "zip").

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

* The {{Creator/Larry Niven}} short story "The Hole Man" involves a team of explorers uncovering an ancient alien device on Mars that is powered by a miniature black hole in a containment field. When the black hole is accidentally released, it falls through one of the explorers standing underneath (killing him) and through the surface of the planet, leaving a tiny pinhole. The explorers predict that the black hole will settle in the planet's core and slowly add the planet's material to its mass, with the whole of Mars eventually collapsing into it--but this supposed outcome doesn't occur within the timeframe of the story itself.

** And then there were the [[ComicBook/DarkEmpire World Devastators]]. They were [[Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Star Forges]] in miniature, except taking materials from planets instead of stars and having to chew said planets up to get them. These "merely" rendered the planet an uninhabitable ball of rock significantly smaller than it used to be, rather than an actual kaboom. Notably, in the first ''Videogame/RogueSquadron'' game players could fly against the World Devastators as Wedge Antilles.

* Happens at the end of the ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' pilot ''[[{{Recap/BattlestarGalactica1978SagaOfAStarWorld}} Saga of a Star World]]'' when the tylium set on fire by Apollo and Starbuck reaches the surface of the planet Carillon.

* Most demons of Overlord level or higher in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series and ''Videogame/MakaiKingdom'' ([[CutscenePowerToTheMax about level 1000+ in-game]]) are capable of this and many of the higher level skills have a very bad habit of destroying whatever unlucky planet(s) happens to be nearby.

* In ''Videogame/DoomEternal'', the Doom Slayer learns that the portal to the final Hell Priest he must kill is located in a city within the core of Mars. His answer to the problem is to commandeer the [[WaveMotionGun BFG 10K]] and blast his way in, much to the frustration of [[spoiler:Dr. Hayden]].

* ''Fury3'' deals out, take a guess: ''Three'' of these in the course of one game. Humanity's greatest pilot (The Player) is charged with the destruction of the Bion race that is conquering planet after planet who's resources will allow them to utterly annihilate the human race. The first of these is the enemy's primary base for building weapons of mass destruction, a world plentiful in a hyper-explosive element with which they can annihilate entire worlds. The second, a massive asteroid serves as the Bions' main training grounds and the third, the titular planet Fury, is the Bions' main headquarters and is essentially a planet-sized fortress. Once the player has destroyed enough Bion targets and defeated each world's respective "Guardian", each planet inexplicably explodes with the player escaping each time to fight another day. Astonishingly, even three of these was not enough to stop the Bions from returning in full force in the following sequel ''Hellbender''.

* ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicIVCloudsOfXeen'' starts with Enroth being destroyed when Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost clash. The awesome powers of these blades colliding triggers the Reckoning, a massive explosion that causes a chain reaction of destruction across the entire planet. A lucky fraction of the populace escape through mysterious magical portals that appear out of nowhere leading to the new world of Axeoth.

* ''Videogame/PlanetaryAnnihilation'' features the Metal Planet, a planet-sized ancient superweapon that can be resurrected by rebuilding its catalysts. A single shot from it has enough power to rub a planet off the face of the system it is placed in. The ''Titans'' expand-alone adds the Ragnarok, one of the titular Titans. It's a building that, when its construction is finished, immediately begins digging into the planet's crust and mantle with a laser drill, then fires a missile directly into the core, making it explode.

* The [[http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/110623.html Spark of Thought]] in ''WebComic/DriveDaveKellett''.

* The [[http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/110623.html Spark of Thought]] in ''WebComic/DriveDaveKellet''.

* In Creator/DanSimmons's ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' saga, a team of scientists accidentally created a black hole in the earth's core, which slowly destroyed the planet and forced the Hejira, an exodus to multiple inhabitable planets. Later it was revealed [[spoiler:that the accident was engineered by the A.I. Technocore, in order to spread thefarcaster network, where they resided]].

*** The newly minted planet from ''Star Trek III''' fell apart in just a few weeks. This is eventually chalked up to the fact that Kirk's son couldn't actually get the technology to work, [[ToxicPhlebotinum so he put proto-matter in it.]] Being an unstable substance, the new planet slowly but surely implodes on itself.

* In Creator/FlyingBuffalo's ''TabletopGame/NuclearWar,'' there is a rule that allows an improbable series of events to result in a nuclear chain reaction that not only destroys the Earth but the entire solar system.

* The Showtime series ''Series/OdysseyFive'' started with the world blowing up, and had five astronauts, who had survived because they were on the titular Odyssey space craft at the time, getting sent five years into the past to prevent it.

-->'''Willie:''' You mean ''that's'' how your planet blew up?\\

This is understandably worse than just conquering a world or wiping out the present civilization. Mankind can always rebuild after that. There's usually no [[AfterTheEnd "After"]] for ''this'' End. Destroying a planet is usually reserved for the most {{shocking moments}} in a Sci-Fi or even Fantasy series. Blowing up an entire, inhabited planet is one of the fastest ways to really [[KillEmAll ratchet up the body count]] and cross the MoralEventHorizon.

* The TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} fan film ''Film/{{Damnatus}}'' [[spoiler:ends with Inquisitor Lessus ordering an Exterminatus on the planet of Sancta Heroica in a DownerEnding after the heroes [[NiceJobBreakingItHero fuck up their mission]] and [[KillEmAll die trying to escape]]. Given this is the [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Verse]] of 40K, this is par for the course]].

* ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' ''IV'' starts with Enroth being destroyed when Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost clash. The awesome powers of these blades colliding triggers the Reckoning, a massive explosion that causes a chain reaction of destruction across the entire planet. A lucky fraction of the populace escape through mysterious magical portals that appear out of nowhere leading to the new world of Axeoth.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'', [[spoiler:you find out that the planet you're living on isn't really your home planet. Then just as you're about to set off into the stars to search out your true homeworld, a hostile fleet comes out of nowhere and razes your planet....with most of your civilization still on it.]]
** Worse: [[spoiler:They did it for the sole reason that you broke a treaty that was so old, nobody from ''your'' civilization even remembered it.]] It's also implied that the hostile fleet was merely a ''patrol''.

** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' stories have a species of giant space critters called Sun Eaters, who do just that.

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': This is a major threat for the planet Sakaar in the ''Comicbook/PlanetHulk'' saga. The ChekhovsGun finally goes off in ''Skaar: Son of Hulk'', as Galactus devours Sakaar.
* This happens to Earth in ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes [[http://www.comics.org/issue/52235/ v4 #38]], shortly after the Moon had been exploded a few issues earlier. Approximately 20 cities are saved and become a ShatteredWorld, but even with the advanced technology of the 30th Century, everyone is not able to get off-planet. (The issue also includes one of the few times Creator/NeilGaiman's [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death]] appeared in a mainstream Creator/DCComics issue (as opposed to Vertigo).)

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** In ''The Supergirl from Krypton (2004)'', when Superman and his companions travel to Apokolips to rescue Kara, Batman rigs five hundred Hellspores to blow up unless he inputs the deactivation code. One of them is able to blow a hole down to a planet's core leaving a firepit. Five hundred of them would turn the planet to ashes.

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* The video for Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA "Two Tribes"]].
* Occurs at the end of "Third Stone From The Sun" by The Music/JimiHendrix Experience.

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* The fourth [[UnlockableContent Supergame mode]] in ''Pinball/JudgeDredd'' requires destroying Deadworld, home of the Dark Judges.
* In ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow,'' [[WizardMode Super Payday]] starts with the protagonists accidentally destroying the Earth while fighting off a crisis (either an alien invasion, monster attack, or earthquake).

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''

-->'''[[spoiler:Samuel Hayden]]''': You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars!
-->'''Mission Objective''': Shoot a Hole in Mars.

-->Two weeks later...\\
'''Freddie''': ...and then you blew up the Earth!\\
'''Bob''': Yeah, yeah, yeah... are you ''ever'' gonna let that go?

* [[EldritchAbomination The Snarl]] did this to the first world the gods made in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. And the one after that, and the one after that, and the one after that...
--> '''Thor''': Well, it's like my Dad says: We gods my have a lot of bad qualities-\\
[view zooms out to show millions, if not billions, of gravestones]\\
'''Thor''': -but we sure ain't quitters.

* On Website/DeviantART, there are "Power emoticons" that [[MundaneMadeAwesome take regular emoticons to the EXTREME]]. Many include a view of the Earth (or a part of it) being destroyed.
* The ending of Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG's [[WhatIf alternate ending]], ''December 21, 2010''.

* In the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI5_sQ8O-7Y&list=SP3A5849BDE0581B19 I Like Trains]], by [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TomSka Tom Ska]], there is an [[{{Title Drop}} EarthShattering Kaboom]] when all the turtles explode at once.
* Mike Diva's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM6WbUw7Bs Japanese Donald Trump Commercial]]" ends with UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump flying into space in a HumongousMecha and firing an enormous energy beam to the surface of the Earth until it explodes in a blast of purple.
* ''[[Creator/{{Joshscorcher}} The Fiery Joker]]'' ends off his videos with this.
* In "The Last Denominator" by Matt Page, the Earth explodes.

* In ''Roleplay/VoidOfTheStars'', the Equestrians decided to go and save an innocent planet from Triarian oppression. They ended up ''destroying it instead.''

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* ''[[WebVideo/PoniesTheAnthology Ponies The Anthology III]]'' references the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] in one of its shorts.
* ''WebVideo/TheWhiskeyVault'': In the video which is played for people who have contributed enough bottles to the show to become a "Titan of Whiskey", a fiery whiskey bottle flies through space and destroys the earth, then flies into the sun with show hosts Rex and Daniel riding it.
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
** Parodied in ''Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged [[TheMovie Movie]]'': when Anubis announced his intention to destroy the world, Yami asks him what he could possibly gain from that. As revealed on his [=LiveJournal=], the creator included this because he considered Anubis to be a terrible movie villain with, in his own words, '[[CardCarryingVillain generic motives]]'.
** A running series called "Zorc and Pals" features BigBad Zorc Necrophades and Yami Bakura discussing Zorc's plans to destroy the world. The clip from "Zorc and Pals: The Movie" in the Abridged Movie details what Zorc is going to do after he destroys the world... [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld He's going to Disney World.]] And then he's going to destroy it. However, he found it much too fun, so he destroyed Euro Disney instead.

* As indicated in the quote page, the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] here is the Creator/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 "WesternAnimation/{{Hare-way To The Stars}}". His motive was that Earth was obstructing his view of Venus.
** In the earlier short ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury''. Dodgers (Daffy) and Marvin manage to reduce Planet X to a rock the size of a basketball. They somehow manage to stand on it, very closely.
---> '''Daffy:''' As I was saying, buster, [[NotHyperbole this planet ain't big enough for the two of us]], so... ''(pushes Marvin off the rock)'' ...off you go!
* ''Once Upon a Time, Man'' ("Il était une fois l'homme") was an European educational cartoon about History (as a serious ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}''). The credits were Abridged History, with a pessimistic take on the future of humanity: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNURUGCOQ5I a war that ends in a big kaboom]].
** In the cartoon ''Once Upon a Time... Space'' of the same series there is a type of warship used by the androids of planet Yama, that combine to form one larger star-shaped vessel with enough firepower to destroy a planet. It's tested on a (seemingly) barren, Moon-like planet of their system [[spoiler:and in the penultimate episode of the series it's used to force the surrender of Cassiopeia threatening to destroy that planet.]]

* In [[LightNovel/LastAndFirstIdol "''Dark Seiyuu''"]], this happens as a result of Earth's gravity suddenly disappearing.