History Main / GaiasVengeance

** The heavily environmental-themed ''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'' from Australia had done what ''Max'' did earlier and took it UpToEleven. In the finale, [[GeniusLoci the Earth itself]] gives birth to two kaiju to punish the entire human race and destroy Ultraman for protecting them.

* In ''Anime/BlueGender'', "The Blue" was generated by Earth to answer the rampant pollution and overpopulation of humanity. The Blue slaughter humans who rise above the hunter-gatherer level and convert their bodies into incubation pods for trees. Whether or not Gaia/the Blue also blew up Second Earth, or if that was just [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans being dicks]], is unknown.

* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' long story, ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheAnimalPlanet'' uses this as a major plot point; set in a distant green planet where animals have evolved into becoming human-like, when the planet was invaded by a hostile alien race wanting the planet for themselves [[spoiler: who later turns out to be humans from an adjacent world, whom have destroyed their own thanks to industrialization, over-development and pollution]] Doraemon then comes to the rescue by using a gadget that give lives to trees and plants, making the forest vegetation come to life and attack the invaders. Including dropping heavy fruits capable of knocking out their targets, powerful pollen powder that seeps through the invaders' helmets making them sneeze uncontrollably, and trees extending their roots and vines to restrain their targets. It works until [[spoiler: the invaders brought out a [[TankGoodness tank]] equipped with what seems to be [[FIreBreathingWeapon a dozen flamethrowers]].]]

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' has one that is different in two ways. It's not actually the planet but [[spoiler:a gigantic lifeform that covered Earth, forcing people to abandon it and move back to live on the new surface made from the lifeform without knowing it was earth]], and also that it was something the GovernmentConspiracy was intentionally invoking. They had a series of {{Kill Sat}}s attack specific points to slowly kill it. These attacks also caused huge uprisings of monstrous creatures that killed everyone very violently, and they then used the publicity of their ineffectual efforts to stop it to get public support.

* In ''Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara: Dream Saga'', the heroes go around Takamagahara calming the monsters that have sworn revenge on polluting humans. ''Then'' they find out that [[spoiler:the whole journey they were chosen to complete was meant to destroy the worlds, as Amaterasu thought them too far gone.]] They obviously don't take this too well and decide to SaveBothWorlds.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', legend claims this is the true reason [[spoiler:the Ten-Tails]] exists. [[spoiler:It was originally the WorldTree until a woman ate a Chakra-filled fruit so she could use its power to end war. The Tree was supposedly so enraged by the theft that it became a Beast and rampaged across the world in an attempt to take back Chakra from humanity. But Zetsu ultimately reveals this legend to be false, as the holy tree was completely indifferent to the theft. Its rampage was actually caused by Kaguya.]] One of the things it could do was a technique whose name roughly translates from Japanese into "Disaster Befalling Heaven and Earth", which is it basically manipulating nature energy to force ALL natural disasters to happen simultaneously in one area, from tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning, to earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and volcanic eruptions.

* ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'' has the Neo-Sapiens/Neoroids as androids designed to protect Earth's environment -- who [[AIIsACrapshoot inevitably decide that the best way to accomplish this is to]] KillAllHumans. The live-action adaption, ''Film/{{Casshern}}'', reduces this to subtext [[spoiler:of the ShootTheShaggyDog ending]].
* ''Anime/OriginSpiritsOfThePast'' starts with an intelligent forest wiping out most of humanity, but they're genetically engineered so not really an example.
* In ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'', this is what the parasites are. Or think they are. It's involved, anyway.

* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'', [[BigBad the main villain]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Hao]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Asakura]], is Gaia's Avenger. One of his primary reasons for wanting to wipe out humanity (along with [[FantasticRacism most shamans]] [[BurnTheWitch having suffered some sort of prosecution]] [[TorchesAndPitchforks at human hands]] and being driven mad by [[PowerIncontinence constantly]] [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead hearing thoughts and feeling emotions of everybody around him]]) is his belief that humans are either contributing to destruction of planet or at best doing nothing to prevent it. To drive point home, he is [[ElemenTalPowers master of all elements]] and his guardian spirit is the Spirit of Fire, [[ElementalEmbodiment oldest and most powerful of nature spirits]], described as prototype of all fire gods from every mythology, created by [[{{God}} The Great Spirits themselves.]] In the anime, Horohoro meets a young shaman who is using his powers to scare away humans to prevent ther destruction of the forest. When things result in violence, Horo shows him a better way.
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' were born "Earth's chosen ones", but in a slight twist, [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineering]] (i.e. science) was ''required'' to complete the transformation into world-saving {{Magical Girl}}s. The Mew Aqua, which turns polluted areas into GhibliHills, is also a natural phenomenon.
* ''Manga/TheWorldIsMine'': A few people wonder if [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Hakumadon]], a giant {{bear|sAreBadNews}}-like creature, is an ancient Ainu spirit avenging the planet; other people think it's having a killing contest with a pair of {{Serial Killer}}s.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Wood Elves, who live InHarmonyWithNature in the enchanted forest of [[TheLostWoods Athel Loren]], are immensely protective of their home and will viciously avenge any harm done to it. Their tree spirit allies are even more zealous about this -- Wood Elves can, theoretically, be bargained with. Forest spirits can't. If your army is 2,000 pts or over (large enough to include a Treeman Ancient as your General), the entire thing can be composed of walking tree-things out to destroy anyone who dares to cut a shrub inside the boundaries of Athel Loren.

* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': Planets evolve into a summation of its lifeforms, called an Ultimate One. Earth features two major wills/powers: [[OverarchingVillain Gaia]], the "will of the planet", and [[BigGood Alaya, the "will of humanity to survive"]], purely because humans are not necessarily conductive to Gaia's goal of becoming an Ultimate One but are nonetheless her creations. Because humanity is becoming too independent, Gaia seeks to kill them and destroy their progress however she can, and Alaya fights against her. Both Gaia and Alaya have access to a third existence, the Counter Force, that applies a balancing mechanism and will also destroy anything that starts moving down a path which would threaten the planet. In general, individual humans will have to die no matter which side acts. Notably, unlike most examples, Gaia is unambiguously the ''[[BigBad villain]]'' in this scenario.

* In Maoist China, one of the critters targeted by the "four pests" campaign was the sparrow, which was believed to eat too many grain seeds. Some of the birds were killed with guns and slingshots. Crowds of people would make noise to prevent the sparrows from landing, causing them to die of exhaustion. It worked and the birds became nearly extinct in China. Unfortunately, the sparrows also controlled the locust population, and millions of people were killed by the resulting famine. China ended up having to import sparrows from the Soviet Union.

* ''Film/{{Genocide}}'': A lovely piece of 1968 Japanese sci-fi shlock where the insects of the world issue an ultimatum: if mankind detonates one more nuclear weapon, the killing starts. Guess how it ends!

* ''The Bees'': Ends with the titular bees [[spoiler:becoming sapient and delivering an ultimatum at the UN]].

* ''Genocide'': A lovely piece of 1968 Japanese sci-fi shlock where the insects of the world issue an ultimatum: if mankind detonates one more nuclear weapon, the killing starts. Guess how it ends!

* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' has Akash'Buta who might as well be Gaia herself despite not actually being the earth but just a very powerful void spirit who's gone a little crazy. This quote from the Argent Adept sums it up nicely.
-->Akash'bhuta isn't a force of nature. She's the force of nature.

** Spriggans (a race of hostile [[WhenTreesAttack tree-like]] PlantPeople) are referred to and revered as "Nature's Guardians." They are associated with Kynareth, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Nine Divines]] and goddess of the heavens, winds, and elements. Spriggans tend to live in secluded wilderness areas and will violently attack intruders, often [[TheBeastmaster commanding nearby animals]] to aid them as well. They are [[ArchEnemy mortal enemies]] of the Hagravens, a flightless [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy]] WitchSpecies, who are typically an EnemyToAllLivingThings.

-->-- '''ComicBook/PoisonIvy''', ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''

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* ''Series/{{Zoo}}'': The opening monologue for seasons one and two depicts its "animal uprising" as Nature's creatures turning against humans as payback for centuries of abuse. By the end of season two, it becomes clear that [[spoiler:it's actually the handiwork of a "Gaia's avenger" organization called the Shepherds]], and in season three [[spoiler:even that group's agenda becomes muddied by more of an EvilutionaryBiologist stance]].

-->“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong — Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke.”

* ''Manga/X1999'': The Dragons of Earth are a loose confederation of Gaia's Avengers -- seven human magic-users tasked with undoing the seven Kekkai seals hidden around Tokyo, which would trigger the Final Judgment, freeing the planet from humanity's domination. They are opposed by the seven Dragons of Heaven, guardians of the Kekkai and of humanity's continued existence.

*** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' reveals that the destruction Godzilla and the other Kaiju cause is allowing nature to heal from the damage humans have caused. During the end credits, we see that the Kaiju have caused lost rainforests to regrow, saved at least 14 endangered species from extinction, and even cooled the climate. [[WellIntentionedExtremist certainly a valiant thing to do, but it meant the destruction of many major human cities and millions of human deaths.]] [[spoiler:But {{averted}} ''hard'' by King Ghidorah, who is actually an extraterrestrial alien who wants to perform HostileTerraforming on the planet to make it ''his'' ideal world, and as an Alpha Titan he has the ability to force the other Titans aside fellow Alphas like Mothra and Godzilla to cause indiscriminate harm to both man and nature alike.]]

*** '''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' has Godzilla going full-on Avenger when the APEX company develops plans to create a robotic version of him. This time around, Godzilla doesn't hold back against humanity, and in fact, actively hunts down human settlements with APEX facilities in their vicinity. This doesn't last long, however, when APEX's plans [[GoneHorriblyWrong go]] [[GoneHorriblyRight awry]] and their creation turns on them, forcing Godzilla and King Kong to team up.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': Godzilla is generally portrayed as a ferocious defender of Earth's balance, whether against humans, aliens or other giant monsters. He's usually a Gaia's Avenger, but the first movie portrays him in the metaphorical sense -- rather than actively fighting for nature, he's a monstrous byproduct of radioactive pollution that has humanity created and now has to deal with.

* A generally-cited argument for going green is all the natural disasters that people cite Climate Change as a cause of, such as massive fires in dry areas, increased sea levels, the melting of the polar ice caps, and so on.

* ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'': Features Gaia's Avengers releasing a plague that will kill all humans, including themselves, and return the earth to the care of animals.

* In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', [[spoiler:the humans invoke the wrath of the deity of the Na'vi, Eywa, a neural network that covers the entire moon, during their final assault. The helicopters get destroyed by a huge flock of ikran while the marines get run down by hammerhead titanotheres and viperwolves.]] [[spoiler:Gaia apparantly died when Earth's atmosphere became only slightly less deadly than Pandora's (those oxygen masks are regular outerwear ''on Earth''). In an early draft, Eywa and her creatures are unambiguously fighting the humans from the beginning, and in the end, Jake bluffs the humans into leaving forever by claiming Eywa had created a killer plague.]]
* ''The Bees'' ends with the titular bees [[spoiler:becoming sapient and delivering an ultimatum at the UN]].
* ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' suggests this is why a number of birds have decided to start randomly attacking humans in San Fransisco (And turning into exploding Kamekaze bombers, spraying humans with acidic... fluid[[note]]the "movie" never tries to explain if the substance was supposed to be bird poo or vomit or if the birds could spit acid like a mutant cobra[[/note]]). Various theories involving bird flu, deforestation, and global warming are discussed, but given the writer/director's apparent (mis)understanding of the subject, one might as well say that God Is Pissed!
* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' is a GreenAesop about the disastrous results of man-made global warming.
* ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' of the Heisei movies, has characters on occasion worrying that the titular turtle ''will'' fill this role if humanity takes too many liberties with the environment. In [[Film/Gamera3AwakeningOfIrys the third movie]], sinister MisterExposition Kurata Shinji describes the enemy monster Irys this way... but he's [[NietzscheWannabe pretty much nuts to begin with]].
* In 1968, Japan brought us ''Film//Genocide'', a lovely pice of sci-fi shlock where the insects of the world issue an ultimatum: if mankind detonates one more nuclear weapon, the killing starts. Guess how it ends!

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Valentine describes global warming in terms of a human body trying to fight off a disease. It's the fever meant to kill the virus (humans).

* ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' features Gaia's Avengers releasing a plague that will kill all humans, including themselves, and return the earth to the care of animals.
* ''Film/TheRookies'' involves a madman and terrorist leader who serves as Gaia's Avenger, intending to unleash a Green Virus which forcefully transforms human beings into plants. He succeeded in releasing the virus in New York and wiping out most of its population and turning them to plant life, and intends to do this to major cities all over the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Morty begins dating a CaptainErsatz of Captain Planet named Planetina, and after killing her dirtbag equivalents of the Planeteers to secure her freedom she quickly goes off the deep end and becomes an EcoTerrorist, escalating from slashing tires to force people to walk to burning hundreds of coal miners alive.

* ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' has characters on occasion worrying that the titular turtle ''will'' fill this role if humanity takes too many liberties with the environment. In [[Film/Gamera3AwakeningOfIrys the third movie]], sinister MisterExposition Kurata Shinji describes the enemy monster Irys this way... but he's [[NietzscheWannabe pretty much nuts to begin with]].

* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': ComicBook/SwampThing pulls this in his Arcade Mode ending. Fed up with his allies' and enemies' dismissal of the environment, he uses the power of Brainiac's ship to engulf the world in green.

-->-- '''Poison Ivy''', ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''