History Main / EarthShatteringKABOOM

Contrast GenesisEffect, where planets are created instead of destroyed. See also OrbitalBombardment, which may overlap.

* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', Asura does this to Wyzen, after Wyzen becomes as big as the earth, with his bare fists. It's also hinted that Gohma Vlitra [[spoiler:even before going OneWingedAngel]] could do this, and Augus stabs through the planet with ''[[RuleOfCool a sword]]'' at the end of your fight with him. By extension, this would also put Yasha, Deus, and the [[WaveMotionGun Brahmastra]] in this category

* Should you fail to destroy [[spoiler:Jubileus' body]] at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', such fate will befall the Earth.
** Another possible kaboom occurs right before it, if [[spoiler:Jubileus' soul hits one of the planets on it's path to the Sun. Should the planet in question be Earth, well..]].

* ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' episode two, appropriately called "The Earth Explodes" has the bad guys from the first episode position a planet-destroyer ship over the Earth. At GameOver, ''or'' if the hero is foolish enough to push the BigRedButton, it activates rather spectacularly. The fifth episode repeats this, with a ''galaxy'' destroyer.
** "IT SLICES! IT DICES! It causes a 100,000 light year-diameter quantum explosion! THE OMEGAMATIC. Available from Vitacorp. Assembly required."

* As noted in the Real Life folder of the ShatteredWorld, a now discredited theory for the origin of the asteroid belt is that it's what remains of a planet between UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} and UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} often known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(hypothetical_planet) Phaeton]]. More outlandish variants of such theory include that the planet would have blown apart in a nuclear exchange between its inhabitants, someone else would have detonated it, or that Phaeton itself would have gone nuclear, exploding as a result.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' two-parter "The Main Man", Lobo claims he's [[LastOfHisKind the last Czarnian]] because his high school science project blew up the planet. In addition, the first episode depicts the destruction of Krypton.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':

** In ''[[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] VS ComicBook/{{Superman}} (2011)'', [[spoiler:Goku and Superman destroy the Earth when Goku's Dragon Punch takes on Superman's Infinite Mass Punch. Superman wins.]]

* In the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' match between [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] and ComicBook/{{Superman}}, [[spoiler:Goku and Superman destroy the Earth when Goku's Dragon Punch takes on Superman's Infinite Mass Punch]]. [[spoiler:Superman wins.]]

** Astronomers call the orbiting debris cloud from such collisions "synestias" and [[ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03872-x have found evidence of them in protoplanetary discs ]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series: At the end of ''VideoGame/WarcraftII: Beyond The Dark Portal'', the orcish warlock Ner'zhul opens up too many portals at once and ends up ripping the orcish homeworld to pieces - the remnants are [[ShatteredWorld still reasonably habitable]], though, and are featured in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' and the Burning Crusade expansion to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

*** Azeroth never actually had an Earth Shattering Kaboom. The planet is still in one piece. It just had 2 very close calls.

** ''Once Upon a Time... Man'' ("Il était une fois... l'Homme") is 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]].

* Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Literature/{{Temple}}'' has the Supernova - a nuke capable of vaporising one-third of the Earth's mass and knocking the rest out of its orbit around the Sun. [[spoiler:There's 3 of them.]]

* Creator/RobertWestall's ''Literature/UrnBurial'' has this happen to the home planet of the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in the backstory; blown up with superweapons by the alien whose grave the human hero finds while herding sheep.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/BloodAngels'' stories, the planet Orilan is Exterminatus'd to sterilize it of corruptive daemonic taint. [[spoiler:Shenlong]] follows when the Blood Angels find its people fallen too far from the God-Emperor's light.
** And in the Literature/CiaphasCain novel ''Caves of Ice'', a bomb that was placed in a mine that was flooded with millions of gallons of highly volatile promethium resulted in a gigaton range explosion that obliterated a mountain range and caused a shockwave that could be felt from ''orbit''. Despite that, they're still not certain whether or not the explosion destroyed the Necron tomb hidden below the mine.

* In the third book of the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' series, the [[PleasurePlanet theme-world]] Fantasia is destroyed by concentrated fire from four Taysan warships, in order to obliterate the source of a drug the Empire fears could corrupt its civilisation.

* ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hybrid-hive-eat-shard-worm-mgln-complete.55056/ Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard]]'': One of Taylor's experiments, combining telekinesis with Flechette's dimensional power, inadvertently starts a runaway conversion of matter to antimatter. Fortunately, Taylor does all her testing on uninhabited alternate Earths.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpoBISQmu8M Nintendo Power]] will blow up your head, your house, and even the planet itself!

* 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 cannot kill him within a year, he will do the same to Earth. [[spoiler:It later turns out it was not him, but a dying anti-matter mouse that devastated the moon, and his anti-matter organs have a low chance of actually destroying Earth]].

* ''Franchise/DragonBall''

* Gilgamesh from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ea]], which at low power can match and surpass [[SwordBeam Excalibur]]. It is classified as an ANTI-WORLD noble phantasm, the most powerful in existence.
** He shows what it's capable of in ''Literature/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.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has [[spoiler:planets being ''thrown'' at the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann.]] And that's ''nothing'' compared to the FinalBattle: [[spoiler:GALAXIES THEMSELVES BECOME WEAPONS!]]

* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'': The main characters cause one of these during the theme song. With this series being [[GagSeries what it is,]] they reappear back on Earth with nothing wrong immediately after.
* ''Anime/{{Shelter|2016}}'': The final shot of a young Rin in the spaceship shows the Earth and the other object colliding via a reflection in the spaceship's window.

* In ''AudioPlay/BlakesSeven'' audio drama "Warship", the dwarf planet Megiddo is a bomb. All of it. When the Federation builds a defence system, [[SpaceMines they don't go about it by halves]]. (On another note, [[spoiler:the kaboom is so big that its shockwave wipes out a good part of the alien and Federation fleets, making for a much shorter war.]])

** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s origin stories like ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959'', ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' and ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'' usually show Krypton's explosion in via flashbacks.

*** In issue #867, after raiding another world, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} shoots a missile at the star which it orbits. The sun blows up and the shockwave obliterates the planet.

** ComicBook/SuperboyPrime destroys several planets during a rampage in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''.

** "ComicBook/SupermanVsMuhammadAli": Rat'Lar coerces the titular characters to fight a boxing match against each other and a second one against his own champion, under threat of commanding his fleet to fire all their missiles at Earth if they don't comply.

* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} of the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', a gargantuan being who [[PlanetEater eats planets]]. While there is some [[DependingOnTheWriter debate]] over what ''actually'' happens if Galactus succeeds in eating, the zombies who ''ate'' his dimensional double definitely created massive rubble. Sometimes the planet dies, going from Earth-like to Mars-like, that's it. Some authors say he "consumes the life force" of life-sustaining planets, turning Earth-like worlds into sterile rocks, others say he "eats" the planets leaving an asteroid belt-like ring of planet crumbs or something. They're pretty explicit about what Ultimate Galactus would do to a planet. Intelligent life would be wiped out by psychic attack and death cultists. A flesh-eating supervirus would reduce all (multicellular?) life to sludge. Then robotlike nodes would descend to the planet, crack open the crust and charge themselves up by siphoning off geothermal heat. Maybe there was more to it, but the end result is that Galactus would be recharged ("fed") for a voyage to the next planet in its path and the world would be stripped of all its current life and unable to support anything like that for a long time, if ever.

* 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/TheSandman1989 Death]] appeared in a mainstream Creator/DCComics issue (as opposed to Vertigo).)

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': It happened to living planet Mogo. He got better, though.

* [[http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/05/25/this_modern_world This strip]] from ''ComicStrip/ThisModernWorld''.

* In Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''Film/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. The novel shows that the destruction of Jupiter's current climate is an apocalyptic event for the strange gasbag creatures that live there, but the Monolith's creators decide that fostering a potential civilization on Europa is worth the sacrifice of an environment in which intelligent life is unlikely to ever develop.

* In ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' (the first sequel), a group of mutants (who captured Taylor, his girl and the guy who came to rescue him) [[CargoCult worships a powerful nuke]], that when detonated would destroy Earth. Then the apes attack, and while Taylor is falling dead, he triggers the bomb... one DownerEnding, especially due to the InsignificantLittleBluePlanet speech that follows.
** Parodied in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in Season 8. The Satellite of Love was orbiting a Planet of the Apes-like Earth...when Mike Nelson gives advice that starts the bomb that a cult worships. Predictable results...and Mike was [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds only beginning]].

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005''. 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").
** Played straight in the teaser trailer.

** In ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', [[spoiler:a Celestial's Emergence from a planet it's incubating in results in the planet's destruction. Arishem shows Sersi what Tiamut's birth would look like: Tiamut rises through the crust for a couple of seconds, and then Earth breaks into a dozen fiery pieces.]]

* The beginning of ''Film/MenInBlackII'' shows Sarleena destroying planets she passed by. Even more amazing when the viewers find out that the ship is [[spoiler:only a foot tall]]

* ''Film/{{Soldier}}'' gives us the DX-57 bomb, colloquially known as a "Planet Killer". Looking much like a soccer ball, it's more than enough to destroy the LandfillBeyondTheStars planet the protagonists escape from.
** [[WildMassGuessing It's possible the aliens' attack on Earth gives humanity a reason to produce such a weapon.]]
* It is slightly hinted that ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' parodies ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' as well. [[spoiler:When [[BigBad President Skroob]], Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz crash-land on the Planet of the Apes, an ape says "''Oh shit, there goes the planet.''" The scene changes after that, and never switches back to the planet, making it seem more of a WhatHappenedToTheMouse, but if you've seen ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'', you can assume what happens next]].

* At the end of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', [[spoiler:Cybertron collapses in on itself when the Autobots destroy Sentinel's Space Bridge.]]

** It seems Mars can't catch a break in the Cupids [[TheVerse 'verse]], as the very next story revealed that (in an alternate universe) the Director had destroyed Mars to avert [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds a human/Martian war]].

** The AbsoluteXenophobe Achuultani have this as one of their favourite tactics (via ColonyDrop), especially against more technologically advanced worlds. The former fifth planet of the Solar System was destroyed this way during the First Incursion, roughly 70 million years ago. An interlude in the second book shows a nameless planet subjected to this, and during the Siege of Earth, they [[spoiler:eventually yank [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn Iapetus]] out of its orbit and try to hurl it at Earth. They get very close to succeeding before the BigDamnHeroes arrive.]]
** In the third book, the BigBad [[spoiler:has a planet-busting bomb built as part of a plan to kill everyone in the Imperial government higher-ranking than him so that he can become Emperor and blame the destruction of Birhat on terrorists that he secretly controls. Fortunately, the good guys manage to destroy the bomb's power using low-tech conventional explosives before that can happen.]]

* In Creator/GregBear's ''Literature/TheForgeOfGod'', [[spoiler:Earth was blown up after (a) being shot with one giant neutronium bullet and one giant anti-neutronium bullet that met and exploded '''and''' (b) having vast quantities of hydrogen extracted from the oceans and turned into hydrogen bombs.]]

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy''

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

* ''{{Literature/Ra}}'': [[spoiler:The Abstract War starts with about 60 thousand hollow Earth replicas being destroyed.]]

** In ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'', [[spoiler:Gallius Rax attempts to destroy Jakku with a bomb, thereby destroying most of the New Republic and Imperial forces as well, but is stopped by [[EnemyMine Norra Wexley and Rae Sloane]].]]

** In the epilogue of the expanded edition of that novel, it is noted that [[spoiler:the Martians eventually do decide to destroy the earth; by then, however, ''humanity'' has colonized space, a lot.]]

** Incidentally, [[spoiler:there is a literal Earth-shattering kaboom in the series' final episode. Nova Bombs are not to blame but rather something called Radical Isotopes: stuff with negative mass from another dimension.]]

** This is played straight in ''Doctor Who'' too many times to count. Not always with ''Earth'', but with ''a'' planet inhabited by humanoids. Gallifrey, for instance, goes boom in the new series [[spoiler: or rather, appears to]], and in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime "The Invasion of Time"]], the [[spoiler:Sontarans threaten to blow it up.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]]: [[spoiler:The titular planet is blown up by the Daleks at the end of the episode.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]]: The soldiers stationed on [[AmusementParkOfDoom Hedgewick's World]] have a planet-buster bomb, which the orders are to use in case of Cybermen. Clara confiscates the detonator for the bomb, [[spoiler:and then, after the Cyber-army has turned up, the Cyber-Planner calling itself "Mr. Clever" destroys the detonator. Also, Captain Ferrin, who could voice-activate the bomb, was killed by a Cyberman earlier. Fortunately, there's still a way for the bomb to be activated — dwarf Porridge is [[KingIncognito actually the Emperor]], and he can activate the bomb. Everyone still alive on the planet is transmatted to the Emperor's ship before the planet blows, which it does spectacularly.]]

** 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 BadFuture prevented in the third season involved turning ''everyone'' into evolved humans, this would have increased his power exponentially.

* ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' featured the destruction of many planets over the course of the series (some deliberately, some accidentally), culminating in the last episode, when [[spoiler:the Lexx is tricked into blowing up the Earth!]]

* In the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Little Girl Lost", a military scientist has delusions that his dead daughter is alive. A wounded pilot becomes his bodyguard and must act as if he is interacting with the daughter. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that [[spoiler:the scientist has subconsciously realised that his daughter is dead and has found a way to be reunited with her and get revenge on who killed her. And it turns out he has been working on nuclear fission. Oops.]]

* While not actually ever used for its intended purpose, missiles with the power to blow up a planet are known to exist in Franchise/PowerRangers. In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' it took one of them to take out the DimensionLord BigBad ManBehindTheMan. He was stabbed in the back with it by TheStarscream. Being hit with said missile ''didn't kill him''. It took Darkonda hitting him with a ''second'' Planet Killer to destroy him for good, and he still survived long enough to [[TakingYouWithMe take Darkonda with him]].

* [=McKay=] destroys one in ''Series/StargateAtlantis''. Accidentally. He would like to remind you that it was "only five-sixths of a solar system," and an uninhabited one. And then later there was the [[spoiler:Replicator homeworld...]]

*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast 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.]]

** At the end of the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Makuta Teridax]] decides he'll destroy all of Bara Magna with a concentrated gravity blast right at the core of the planet, not because he needs to but because it'll make for one hell of a grand finale for his triumph. It's only through distraction and quick thinking that Mata Nui is able force him to fire the gravity burst into the sky and draw the two moons back towards the planet instead ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard plus crushing Teridax's head on falling debris from one of said moons]]).]]

* Atrea, the world in which ''VideoGame/{{Aion}}'' takes place, is a hollow sphere whose inhabitants live on the ''inside'' rather than the outside. The Tower of Eternity is a large tower running through the inside of the planet which provided light to its inhibitants in lieu of a star, although the planet does still orbit a star. However, when the Tower of Eternity broke in two, the resulting explosion blew the planet into two pieces connected only by a magical field created through HeroicSacrifice.

** Another possible kaboom occurs right before it, if [[spoiler:Jubileus' soul hits one of the planets on it's path to the Sun. Should the planet in question be Earth, well...]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bioforge}}'': [[spoiler:The reactor explosion in a moonbase somehow manages to blow up the entire moon.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', [[spoiler: this happens ''multiple times'' during the final battle, destroying some of the thousands of paralell worlds linked by the BigBad's servant Airy. This almost drives the party beyond the DespairEventHorizon, but they recover when the worlds of the player's linked allies summon the HeroicResolve to resist the destruction and fortify the party with their prayers.]]

** Kuja fully succeeded in doings so, [[spoiler:fortunately, it was merely a long-dead planet hidden inside the regular world...somehow.]] Frankly, it didn't make much sense while they were explaining it in-game either.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'': You find out that the planet you're living on [[spoiler: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.]]

** Made [[TearJerker even more tragic]] by the [[OrchestralBombing music]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOJaXybK4_A playing]].

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' deals with the destruction of several worlds by TheHeartless, [[spoiler:which are reformed, just as they were before they were destroyed, at the end of the game.]]

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''. The final boss is the very first entry in ComicBooks, Galactus. As you fight, he's already siphoning off energy from the Earth, turning it more and more of a hideous red shade the longer you battle. If you lose, he then proceeds to crush what remains of the planet between his hands, sending shattered chunks hurtling toward your screen as it fades to white. [[ItsAWonderfulFailure You can see the aftermath of his attack]] [[NonstandardGameOver if you refuse to give it another go]].

** For those who don't care about having planets but don't want their opponent(s) to have ''any'' use of them, it's the ultimate "screw you, you RubberForeheadAlien bastard!". (AI players can research building planets, but are unable to use the fruit of that research.)

* Several ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' games love to blow up planets and have Samus [[AlwaysClose narrowly escape]] (more info at Samus' entry in NeverLiveItDown). Some examples are Zebes, Dark Aether, Phaaze, and [=SR388=] (Dark Aether was of the lesser variety, as it was a pocket dimension). Quiet Robe mentions that the Chozo once considered blowing up [=SR388=] to put an end to the metroids, but this never transpired, at least until Samus did just that in ''Metroid Fusion'', to stop the X Parasites. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Dread'', Planet ZDR is blown up, too.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/Persona2 Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'' [[spoiler:this is what happens at the [[DownerEnding end of the game]], where the protagonists can see the planet explode from space, completely unable to stop it.]] Fortunately, [[spoiler:[[BigGood Philemon]] manages to hit the ResetButton]]

* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment''[='=]s final stage pits you [[spoiler:and the Earth]] against a copy of the Earth, which you try to destroy by shooting the copy's projectiles to reflect them back. If you succeed, the copy suffers this fate. Fail by [[spoiler:allowing too many attacks to hit the Earth]], and [[spoiler:Earth itself blows up.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' had [[strike:at least one]] [[strike:two]] three planetary surfaces sterilized by the Protoss to stop the spread of the Zerg; Chau Sara, Mar Sara and Antiga Prime. By the time of ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' has become habitable again, just in time to fall to the Zerg.

* ''VideoGame/StarOcean''
** The villians of ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory The Second Story]]'' unleash the Symbol Of Annihilation, a magical incantation that when cast would cause the entire ''universe'' to stop expanding and collapse in on itself. The destruction of the cosmos is prevented only by the heroes' use of the Symbol of Divinity, which limits the Symbol of Annihilation to merely destroying the planet that they were on.

* ''VideoGame/StarRuler'' allows players to bombard planets until they break up - usually by shooting giant railgun slugs the size of Cyprus at a sizable fraction of the speed of light.
** And then there's the DSM, or Directed Spatial Manipulator, a super-weapon so powerful it can only be fired manually, which can blow up planets and suns.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''

* In the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' match between [[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]] and ComicBook/{{Superman}}, [[spoiler:Goku and Superman destroy the Earth when Goku's Dragon Punch takes on Superman's Infinite Mass Punch. Superman wins.]]

* In ''Webcomic/FollyAndInnovation'' this trope is used with [[http://follyandinnovation.com/2010/10/going-out-with-a-bang/ hilarious effect]].

* In ''Literature/FineStructure'', [[spoiler:this is the ultimate fate of Earth during the FinalBattle. Luckily humanity from the [[AlternateUniverse next universe over]] jumps in to pick up survivors.]]

** In the episode "In Blackest Night", an errant Green Lantern beam accidentally hits a weak spot in a planet's crust and destroys it. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be an illusion]].

** The TropeNamer here is the Creator/ChuckJones character Marvin the Martian, who says the line after Bugs Bunny steals his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Mod-U-Lator in the short "WesternAnimation/HareWayToTheStars". His motive is that Earth is obstructing his view of Venus.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'': the Fmeks tried to do this to their enemies the Arqulians but thanks to Men In Black intervention, the [[LaserGuidedKarma plan backfires]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' featured this at the end of the episode "Ren's Brain". Originally in the Creator/JohnKricfalusi-written version, the mayhem would end after only North America explodes. But Nickelodeon Animation Studios produced the episode long after John K. was fired, and took it to the extreme: after several viewers' [[YourHeadASplode brains explode]], followed by several houses and then North America blowing up, we then cut to the Earth from space and see it dramatically blow up (complete with PreExplosionGlow), to which a narrator says "And thus endeth the Republican party as we know it!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Season 2 ends in a SuddenDownerEnding as Captain Freeman is accused of destroying Pakled Planet and is arrested for it. [[spoiler:The Season 3 opener ends with the revelation that the Pakleds themselves destroyed their own planet and framed Freeman in order to try to get a new, resource-rich planet]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E4UnfinishedBusiness "Unfinished Business"]], Separatist Admiral Trench tries to destroy the planet Anaxes with a bomb. His plan is foiled and the bomb disarmed, but [[spoiler:in the first season of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'', about fifteen years later InUniverse, the ''Ghost'' crew visits the shattered remains of the planet (in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E05OutOfDarkness "Out of Darkness"]] and [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E07GatheringForces "Gathering Forces"]]). The [[AllThereInTheManual Databank]] says it was the result of a "cataclysmic event", but you wonder...]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the Quintessons blow up their own planet to destroy the Autobot Matrix (they fail). Later, Rodimus Prime has the planet Paradron detonated to prevent its energon falling into Decepticon hands. The BigDamnMovie has the Autobots blowing up a moon to try and kill Unicron (which fails) and Rodimus using the Matrix of Leadership to actually destroy Unicron, who's basically a planet-sized Transformer. Then in ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', Scorponok succeeds in blowing up both Cybertron and Mars before the show is halfway through. Later, the ''Manga/TransformersZone'' {{OAV}} begins with the planet Feminia being destroyed.

* Whereas most of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'''s [[CardCarryingVillain professional baddies]] are out to [[TakeOverTheWorld dominate the galaxy]], season 2 introduced [[KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator]], who goes around in a drill-shaped ship destroying planets by puncturing their crusts and draining their volcanic cores, leaving them in pieces. She does this [[ForTheLulz for the kicks]] and her endgame is [[spoiler:to keep going until she's destroyed every planet in the galaxy]]. Lesser villains, such as Lord Hater and Emperor Awesome, are not above destroying a few planets for fun or to make a point, but they want to keep the galaxy intact so they'll have something to conquer.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborg]] Smoke has a [[FinishingMove Fatality]] in which bombs come spilling out of his chest panel. We then see a shot of Earth exploding from space.

* ''Literature/TheDraka'': The third book details Project Fenris, a secret Draka project to plant the Moon with explosives that, when detonated, will dislodge the celestial body from orbit and slam it into Earth at velocity. As the Draka believe they are a SuperiorSpecies to the rest of humanity, they believe that it's a crime that the world continues to exist without their civilization.

* In Creator/GregBear's ''The Forge of God'', [[spoiler:Earth was blown up after (a) being shot with one giant neutronium bullet and one giant anti-neutronium bullet that met and exploded '''and''' (b) having vast quantities of hydrogen extracted from the oceans and turned into hydrogen bombs.]]

* In the 1932 novel ''When Worlds Collide'' by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie, a Jupiter-sized rogue planet drifts into the Solar System on a direct course for Earth with a result one character compares to tossing a walnut in front of a cannon at the instant the cannon is fired.
* In ''The Log'' by Creator/CraigCharles and Russell Bell, a prototype weapon called the Proton Cannon of Nakasami is tested at the edge of the solar system, and according to the authorities, it was [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial entirely a coincidence]] that Pluto vanished on the same day. It's probably just as well that the cannon proved to be of no practical use, as its recoil was enough to blast it across the solar system, where it embedded itself in Titan.

* In Michael Reaves' ''The Shattered World'' and ''The Burning Realm'', this had happened to a fantasy world a thousand years ago. The damage-control efforts of every wizard in the world allowed fragments of the broken planet to be saved, orbiting one another in a bubble of atmosphere. The Shattering was blamed on the power-mad Necromancer's final, spiteful spell, cast when the nations of the world refused to bow down to him. [[spoiler:He was actually a scapegoat for a collision between planets, and had really used his powers to keep the world's fragments from disintegrating into dust.]]
* 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 hammer blow 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), the inclination is 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.

* Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Temple'' has the Supernova - a nuke capable of vaporising one-third of the Earth's mass and knocking the rest out of its orbit around the Sun. [[spoiler:There's 3 of them.]]

* The eponymous device of Alastair Reynolds' short story, ''Merlin's Gun''.
* In the ''Literature/NightsDawnTrilogy'', the scientists studying the ruins near the habitat Tranquility crap themselves when they realize that the planet of this ancient alien civilization was ''actually destroyed'', as in reduced to large chunks of rock floating around space. This reaction is largely provoked by the fact that the ''best'' that their technological advances so far, which include light-speed warping, anti-matter bombs, living thinking Bitek space vessels and habitats (Tranquility is actually one of these), and techno-telepathy, have only made it as far as being able to [[DepopulationBomb completely screw with the surface of a planet and destroy its climate and ecology]]. It gets worse, because for reasons unknown, this ancient alien race apparently ''[[CyanidePill did it]] [[StartsWithASuicide to themselves.]]''

** In [=RayStorm=], this is what the Secelians plan to do as the finishing stroke to permanently replacing Earth as known space's new emperors. The giant battleship Hannibal is how they plan to do it. [[spoiler:In the end, it's ''Secelia'' that winds up suffering a version of this--Yggdrasil's destruction warped its orbit to make it plunge into a ''gas giant''. In [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteen-Ship Mode]], ''Earth'' suffers this too. Presumably because [[TemptingFate you sent EVERY R-Gray you had off-Earth]]--leaving no way to [[TooDumbToLive fend off replacements for Hannibal.]]]]

* Two from the ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' series. In ''The Gate to the Mind's Eye'', the sequence "River of Souls" shows some type of weapon destroying a world implied to be Earth. From ''Odyssey into the Mind's Eye'', the sequence "Volatile Planet" shows a much slower version of this as a small spacecraft is trying to escape.