History Main / GotTheWholeWorldInMyHand

* 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.

* Monarch's flag in ''{{Countdown}}''.

* In ''MegaManX 8,'' shortly after [[spoiler:Lumine]] is revealed to be TheManBehindTheMan to [[spoiler:Sigma]] and [[spoiler:his]] first form is defeated, [[spoiler:Lumine]], during [[spoiler:his]] MotiveRant, will [[spoiler:reach up to the Earth and then close his fist,]] implying that [[spoiler:he plans to grind the old world into dust]].

* 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.

* Subverted in ''Gremlins2TheNewBatch''. 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 company from ''TheLosers'' features a logo with the Earth being gripped by the ends of the letter "G".

* In an early example of this trope, Charlie Chaplin's Hinkel, ''TheGreatDictator'' (1940), dances with an inflatable globe. When Hinkel squeezes it too much... the globe explodes.

* ''SengokuBasara'''s second anime opening has a gigantic ToyotomiHideyoshi lifting Japan out of the sea with a single hand.

* In ''{{Persona 4}}'' and ''Persona4Arena'', Akihiko Sanada's Persona Caesar invokes this motif: it carries a broadsword in one hand and a model of the Earth in the other. Unlike most examples, though, Akihiko is never depicted as anything other than unambiguously heroic, if obsessed with becoming the best he can at what he does. "[[ToBeAMaster The Man who Lusts for Power]]," indeed.

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

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

* At one point in the Frieza Saga of Dragonball, when Vegeta's life flashes before his eyes while dying from Frieza's blast, one of the images has Frieza "holding" Planet Vegeta as if it were a beach ball while cackling.

** Heck, Their slogan is "Your Life is in Our Hands".

* The Cover to the MutantsAndMasterminds [[http://www.greenronin.com/store/product/grr2526.html Handbook]]

* 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.

* In Last Alert, the evil syndicate ruling over the world has an insignia of this sort.

* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' [[spoiler: Asura's Gigantic final form, Asura the Destructor, is said to be so big he can wrap his arms around the entire planet earth with ease.]]

* For his victory pose in ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', Dormammu created a small model of Earth from thin air, and then crushes it in his hand before laughing.

* The Combine's insignia in HalfLife 2 vaguely resembles an Alien claw clamped around the world.

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* A literal and heroic example appears in {{Homestuck}}: [[spoiler: Jade made a bargain with her denizen in which her side of the bargain was helping all the denizens escape the Scratch. She achieves this is the End of Act 5, where she uses her newfound Witch of Space powers to shrink all of the lands and the battlefield. While she doesn't physically hold them, she does have them floating around her.]]

The TropeNamer is a spiritual song called ''He's Got the Whole World in His Hands'', referring to {{God}}. As such this trope may be used as a subtrope of RuleOfSymbolism. What better way to show that [[AGodAmI you ARE God]] than to instantly grow to ginormous size and just grab the Earth like a marble out of a bag?

* In ''{{Persona 4}}'' and ''Persona4Arena'', Akihiko Sanada's Persona Caesar invokes this motif: it carries a broadsword in one hand and a model of the Earth in the other. Unlike most examples, though, Akihiko is never depicted as anything other than unambiguously heroic, though obsessed with becoming the best he can at what he does. "[[ToBeAMaster The Man who Lusts for Power]]," indeed.

* In ''Persona 4'' and ''Persona4Arena'', Akihiko Sanada's Persona Caesar invokes this motif: it carries a broadsword in one hand and a model of the Earth in the other. Unlike most examples, though, Akihiko is never depicted as anything other than unambiguously heroic, though obsessed with becoming the best he can at what he does. "[[ToBeAMaster The Man who Lusts for Power]]," indeed.

* In StarShip, the logo of the [[FunWithAcronyms Galactic League of Extraterrestrial Exploration]] resembles this, or a globe.

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, nabbed, grabbed]] or suffering any other kind of torment. Sometimes, the end up doing this literally (usually with a globe). If the latter, you can sometimes expect them to play with the planet/globe as if it were a toy in order to hint that the villainous character is a PsychopathicManchild.

* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfMassmouth'': In one of the endings, the protagonist, having gained immense power and ambitions of conquest, is shown grabbing the entire galaxy.

* One of the latest 'books' in [[http://choiceofgames.com/ Choice of Games']] [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure CYOA]] novels, [[ChoiceofGames The Fleet]], makes use of a giant scaled hand clutching a blue world.

* One of the latest 'books' in [[http://choiceofgames.com/ Choice of Games']] [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure CYOA]] novels, [[ChoiceofGames The Fleet]], makes use of a giant scaled hand clutching a blue world.

* The aliens do this to Earth in the movie poster for the Spielberg remake of ''WarOfTheWorlds''.
** They did it even earlier in the 80's WarOfTheWorlds TV series.

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. Sometimes, the end up doing this literally (usually with a globe). If the latter, you can sometimes expect them to play with the planet/globe as if it were a toy in order to hint that the villainous character is a PsychopathicManchild.

* In ''AsurasWrath'' [[spoiler: Asura's Gigantic final form, Asura the Destructor, is said to be so big he can wrap his arms around the entire planet earth with ease.]]

* One ''{{X-Men}}'' story arc involved a {{Yakuza}} group whose symbol, a disc surrounded and partly overlapped by four triangles, was said to represent the world held in the claws of a dragon.

* One of the latest 'books' in [[http://choiceofgames.com/ Choice of Games']] [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure CYOA]] novels, The Fleet, makes use of a giant scaled hand clutching a blue world.