History Main / GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand

* Multicorp from "Brute Force". As {{Linkara}} put it [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2010/08/others-1-and-brute-force-1.html "they're either giving the world a hug or saying we've got the world, don't screw with us!"]]

* The cover for {{KMFDM}}'s single "Godlike."

* In StarShip, the logo of the [[spoiler: G.L.E.E. ]] resembles this, or a globe.

* The logo for corrupt company "Engulf & Devour" in ''SilentMovie''.

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* Kokage Kuga from {{Sketchbook}} tells at one point that terrestrial globe makes her think of this trope. It's so easy to grab, right?

* Saiou in YuGiOhGX has a shot of him doing this.
* [[DeathNote Light Yagami]], [[AGodAmI 'God]] of the [[VisionaryVillain New World']].

* The Tagruato logo in the ''{{Cloverfield}}'' universe is a pair of hands holding up a world. Probably a vestige of the company's older incarnation, 力の手 (''Chikara no Te'' or "Hands of Power" if you were wondering, because the ARG for whatever reason aggressively enforces this BiligualBonus).

* One picture of Friend from ''TwentiethCenturyBoys'' (the pic on that page, actually), has the world floating in front of his outstretched hands.

* A hand grabbing the Earth is shown in DeusEx as the symbol of Majestic Twelve. It features prominently in the introduction cinematic. In ''DeusExHumanRevolution'', a statue of this symbol is displayed in the [[spoiler: basement of the Picus building]], with one employee email saying that it looks like "something out of a Bond movie."

* A hand grabbing the Earth is shown in DeusEx as the symbol of Majestic Twelve. It features prominently in the introduction cinematic.

* The Logo for StarTrek:Nemesis featured [[http://www.vidiot.com/st-nem/images/nemesis_large.jpg a bird of prey clutching a pair of globes representing the planets Romulus and Remus]]

* On ''FallingSkies'', when Jimmy is being attacked by the Skitter in the school, he throws a globe at the Skitter's head. The Skitter catches it, in a semblance of this trope, examines it momentarily... then crushes it and tosses it aside.

* In ''AustinPowers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'', Dr. Evil picks up a giant globe and starts dribbling it like a basketball.

* On ''FallingSkies'', when Jimmy is being attacked by the Skitter in the school, he throws a globe at the Skitter's head. The Skitter catches it, examines it momentarily... then crushes it and tosses it aside.

* In ''AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', Dr. Evil picks up a giant globe and starts dribbling it like a basketball.

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Wondering how villainous a character is? Sometimes you have to wait for them to [[KickTheDog beat innocent puppies]], but sometimes [[ObviouslyEvil you can tell right off the bat]] when they stamp themselves with a logo that displays their contempt for humanity by either depicting the Earth (or any other beloved symbol of the free world) being [[SublimeRhyme squeezed, seized, stabbed, grabbed]] or suffering any other kind of torment.

At least they didn't decide to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow it up]].

See also EarthShatteringPoster.

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!!Examples:

[[AC: {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Kokage Kuga from {{Sketchbook}} tells at one point that terrestrial globe makes her think of this trope. It's so easy to grab, right?
* One picture of Friend from ''TwentiethCenturyBoys'' (the pic on that page, actually), has the world floating in front of his outstretched hands.
* Saiou in YuGiOhGX has a shot of him doing this.

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* One of the Silver Age Justice League/Justice Society team-ups had all of them trying to find the Seven Soldiers of Victory -- who had the know-how to stop a giant nebular hand from literally crushing Earth-Two.
* An ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' cover shows Apocalypse crushing a model of the Earth.
* The [[VillainTeamUp Superman Revenge Squad]]'s first appearance depicts stabbing knives into the Superman logo.
* Hyperion holding his arm up to shield his eyes from the sun as he viewed Earth after flying into orbit as a boy (and in so doing inadvertently "grasping" the earth in his hand) proved to be one of the major formative experiences of his childhood in ''Supreme Power''
* Monarch's flag in ''{{Countdown}}''.
* [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/pep-comics/27-1.jpg Pep Comics #27]] features a hand brandishing two rings, one with the Nazi Swastika and the other with the Japanese Sun Emblem punching a hole through the Bill Of Rights!
* CaptainAmerica Comics #1 shows us [[http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ca3.jpg The Red Skull crushing an American airplane with his bare hands!]]
* [[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2010/06/ten-of-kind-hes-got-whole-world-in-his.html This "Ten of A Kind" countdown.]]
* Multicorp from "Brute Force". As {{Linkara}} put it [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2010/08/others-1-and-brute-force-1.html "they're either giving the world a hug or saying we've got the world, don't screw with us!"]]

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* The United Underworld in ''BatmanTheMovie'' has a emblem of the Earth being [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/UUW_emblem.jpg squeezed to death by a giant octopus]].
* The soulless Insuricare company from TheIncredibles has a logo of a hand holding the world.
** Heck, Their slogan is "Your Life is in Our Hands".
* The Logo for StarTrek:Nemesis featured [[http://www.vidiot.com/st-nem/images/nemesis_large.jpg a bird of prey clutching a pair of globes representing the planets Romulus and Remus]]
** A less stylised version had been established as a Romulan symbol in ''The Next Generation''.
* The logo for corrupt company "Engulf & Devour" in ''SilentMovie''.
** It was a parody of the conglomerate Gulf and Western. Hey, it's a Mel Brooks movie!
*The aliens do this to Earth in the movie poster for the Spielberg remake of ''WarOfTheWorlds''.
* Subverted in ''{{Gremlins}} 2: The New Batch''. Part of the set up to make us think Daniel Clamp is a CorruptCorporateExecutive is that his corporate logo is a big "C" squeezing the globe like a vise. It turns out, however, that Clamp is really just TheWonka, while his assistant is really the bad one.
*The Tagruato logo in the ''{{Cloverfield}}'' universe is a pair of hands holding up a world. Probably a vestige of the company's older incarnation, 力の手 (''Chikara no Te'' or "Hands of Power" if you were wondering, because the ARG for whatever reason aggressively enforces this BiligualBonus).
* The HolyHandGrenade of Antioch from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail is actually a parody of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign%27s_Orb Sovereign's Orb of the United Kingdom]], one of the British Crown Jewels, which in turn is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger globus cruciger]]. European monarchs are traditionally depicted holding such a globe as a symbol of their dominion over the world.

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* The cover of the LRonHubbard book ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Mission-earth-1-the-invaders-plan.jpg The Invaders Plan]]''.
* A variation appears in ''ArtemisFowl: The Time Paradox'': The Extinctionists' logo features a big, muscular arm surrounding the globe rather than a hand.
* The cover of [[http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/supervillains.htm ''Supervillains and Philosophy.'']]

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* The Forrester Family Crest in ''{{MST3K}}'' depicts a hand squeezing the Earth
** In the intro to Season 8, Pearl is stuffing a foam Earth into her purse.
* The Crest for the Terran Empire in ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[MirrorUniverse Mirror]], [[EvilTwin Mirror]]" depicts a knife through the Earth.

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* The [[http://www.robbierocks.ch/LP%20Cov%20SM/1970/34.a%20question%20of%20balance.jpg cover]] of The Moody Blues' album "A Question of Balance" uses an unusual "hand through Earth" variant combined with DesignStudentsOrgasm.

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* The 3.5 edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Expanded Psionics Handbook'' shows the world in a Mind Flayer's mouth on page 222.
* The Cover to the MutantsAndMasterminds [[http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr2526.html Handbook]]
* [[GeneralFailure Abaddon the Despoiler]] does this in some ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer40k]]'' art.
** [[http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/World_Eaters The World Eaters]] have a similar logo with a world in metal jaws instead of a hand.

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* The best example of this ever is in WildArms, specifically, the 3rd game; the BigBad has an attack called "Nightmare" wherein [[spoiler: she]] is shown as this gigantic being that can literally palm the planet in one hand. Does this attack do massive damage? Cause all status effects? Lower your MP? No. It causes you to ''fall asleep''. Which you are probably immune to at this point in the game. Wonderful!
* A hand grabbing the Earth is shown in DeusEx as the symbol of Majestic Twelve. It features prominently in the introduction cinematic.
* In the first ''CommandAndConquer'' game, the 'barracks' of the Brotherhood of Nod was the 'Hand of Nod', a monumentally impractical building resembling a huge hand grasping the planet. In the sequels, they downgraded to something more... practical.
** In ''Tiberian Sun'' (the first sequel), the barracks instead resembled a hand grabbing the ground itself. It's back to being a hand holding a globe in ''Tiberium Wars''.
** In ''Renegade'', the symbol of the Black Hand, the elite corps of the Brotherhood, is a, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you guessed it]], black hand tightly grasping a red-tinted planet Earth.
* {{Star Control}} 2 had a poster with two different hands grasping Earth as if fighting over it.
* The Combine's insignia in {{Half Life}} 2 vaguely resembles an Alien claw clamped around the world.
* There's a piece of promotional art for {{Warcraft}} 3 featuring [[LegionsOfHell Legionlord]] [[BigBad Archimonde]] grasping a world in his hands. One of the Warcraft RPG books by {{Whitewolf}} has a picture of Sargeras (Archimonde's boss) doing the same.
* A nice example is MightAndMagic series, where it is a logo for the Kreegan... that does not, actually appear as their symbol in-game. It is also a RL logo of NWC.

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* ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[ChezRestaurant Chez]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypus Platypus]]": Dr. Doofenshmirtz pops an Earth-Patterned Balloon while on his "evil" date.
* ''TheSimpsons'': In one episode, Homer wears a shirt that depicts Uncle Sam holding the globe in both hands and taking a large bite out of it, with the motto, "Try and stop us."
* The opening to ''WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' shows our heroes picking up puzzle pieces left behind by the title thief; when put together, they form a 3D handheld model of a globe...which Carmen ends up holding in her hand during the opening's final scene.
* The logo for ''TransformersArmada's" "Unicron Battles" arc has the titular villain cradling Cybertron. Granted, it's less effective here because Unicron is slightly smaller than Cybertron, but still.

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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger globus cruciger]], a globe with a cross on its top to represent Christ's dominion over the world, is a traditional symbol of royalty in Europe since the Middle Ages. Christ, angels and monarchs are depicted holding the globe (ergo the world) in their hands as a symbol of authority. (See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger#Gallery the pictures in the other wiki]].)
* Sherwin Williams paint stores feature a globe being covered in (''red!'') paint and the slogan: "Cover the Earth!". Frickin creepy.
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