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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In "The Good, the Bad and the Digi", Starmon's signature attack, "Meteor Shower" summons a swarm of falling rocks. It completely overwhelms the team and knocks them unconscious.

* ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'': During [[OlympusMons Arceus]]'s rampage, [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Arceus_Judgment.png it fires a golden orb into the sky several times calling down pink meteors to destroy Michina Town]].
* During the second ''LightNovel/TheSlayers'' movie, the villain casts a spell to summon a meteor. Lina and Naga try to stop him, but are unable to. Then it gets subverted when instead of crashing into the ground and devastating the region, it streaks across the sky while he [[WishUponAShootingStar claps his hands together and says "Please let me win this fight. Please let me win this fight. Please let me]]... Oh no! I wasn't able to say it three times!"

* In ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'', VillainProtagonist Literature/HarryPotter uses [[ThePowerOfRock his guitar]] to summon a giant meteor from space and kill everyone at Hogwarts, for no reason at all. Then he rides his meteor into space and [[EarthShatteringKaboom kills Mercury with it]].

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* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': When the heroes come close to removing Thanos' source of power, he retaliates by blowing up a moon and pulling its remains into orbit as a hailstorm of meteors.

%%* In an early ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' issue, the [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] alien known as the [[EnfanteTerrible Enfant Terrible]] did this to the team, among various other antics.

* ''[[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans Destroy All Humans-2]]'': One of the attacks Crypto acquires is the ability to have meteorites strike a target, and can be upgraded to have a small planetoid smash onto the target area.

* The Wizard class in ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'' gains the Ice Comet spell at level 50. At the start of the game, it was the most powerful spell they had access to, but still remains one of the stronger direct damage spells at higher levels with proper spell upgrades.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', the [[BigBad Emperor's]] ultimate attack is Starfall, a precursor to the recurring Meteor spell.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', Comet and Meteor are available to the player, but not as standard spells. They are the special attacks of the [[SummonMagic esper]] Exodus, Meteor being his LimitBreak.
** Comet and Meteor are present as standard Black Magic spells in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', but there is also the ultimate Black Magic spell, Doomsday. Its animation shows multiple dark masses coalesce into a single giant meteorite that crashes into the battlefield and cause [[CastingAShadow dark-elemental]] damage to both the enemy and the player's party.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' has Astro Man's Astro Crush, calling down a storm of meteors while rendering Mega Man invincible during the animation.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'':
** The Meteor chips are available in the second game. They set a cane in front of [=MegaMan=]'s panel, which in turn causes up to 18 meteors to rain down on the enemies' field at random.
** The Meteors chip freezes time and makes 30 meteors fall in the enemies' area.
** The Asteroid and Dark Meteor chips, which are exclusive to the fifth game, make meteors fall on top of enemies or their surrounding panels, with the added benefit of also cracking any panels that are hit.

** Behemoth in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' can cast spells to summon a meteorite rain against hunters.

* In the first three ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' games, Meteor Swarm is the ultimate spell, found in a treasure chest in the final dungeon of the first game, and in a chest in the bonus dungeon in the second and third. Like its counterpart in the ''Tales'' series, it hits the entire battlefield with a swarm of meteors. In the third game, Sophia is implied to be using her unique [[RealityWarper Symbol of Connection]] to open the portal that the meteors fall through.

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** The druid/cleric only spell ''Cometfall'' conjures a huge ball of ice and rock and causes it to fall down on top of an opponent.

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** Comet and Meteor frequently appear as one of the game's most powerful Black Magic spells, calling down a bombardment of falling space rocks to deal massive non-elemental damage that's usually second only to Flare, Mega Flare, and Ultima. In some games it is even sealed away in-story because it's too powerful. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' ups the ante with the Twin Meteor spell, in which two casters work together to call down an even larger meteor storm for even greater devastation. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyDimensions'', Meteor, as well as the [=Comet2=] spell in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', deals multiple hits, making it the ideal spell for killing a single target, especially when doublecasted.

* In an early ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' issue, the [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] alien known as the [[EnfanteTerrible Enfant Terrible]] did this to the team, among various other antics.

** Comet and Meteor frequently appear as one of the game's most powerful Black Magic spells, calling down a bombardment of falling space rocks to deal massive non-elemental damage that's usually second only to Flare, Mega Flare, and Ultima. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' ups the ante with the Twin Meteor spell, in which two casters work together to call down an even larger meteor storm for even greater devastation.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': The traditional Comet and Meteor spells aren't in this game for use by an ordinary party member. However, Yuna can [[SummonMagic summon]] [[GuardianEntity Aeons]], and one of her summons, Ifrit, has a LimitBreak called "Meteorstrike" which acts as the substitute.

Not to be confused with SummonMagic, which is about summoning living creatures and/or mythological entities to fight instead. Also not to be confused with MeteorMove, which is about hitting foes directly from the sky to the ground.

Not to be confused with SummonMagic, which is about summoning living creatures and/or mythological entities to fight instead.

Meteor Summoning Attacks are, as the name says, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin attacks that summon meteors onto enemies]]. They usually come in the form of either abilities that characters can learn (often as spells or superpowers), usable items that get consumed on use, or are tied to powerful artifacts like a CosmicKeystone or a MacGuffin. Historically, spells used to summon meteors are seen as a stock RPG spell and are amongst the most powerful and damaging abilities available. You can thank ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' for setting that trend amongst tabletop [=RPG=]s and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' for setting the trend amongst digital [=RPG=]s. When a villain or non-player character has an ability like this, it is generally a sign they are incredibly powerful.

The amount of collateral damage these meteors can cause varies depending on the moral alignment of the characters who use them. For the heroes, [[SlapOnTheWristNuke they very rarely cause any significant damage to their surroundings]], often resulting in NoEndorHolocaust scenarios where only the foe being targeted by the attack is harmed (this is typically [[HandWave Hand Waved]] to avoid instances of WhatTheHellHero, NiceJobBreakingItHero and DesignatedHero). For the villains, however, their usage of the attack will almost always cause utter destruction of their surroundings to show that they mean business, and may result in scenarios such as DoomedHometown, SaltTheEarth, and even WorldWreckingWave at its most extreme.

'''Important Note''': To be an example, the meteors must be used as a deliberate attack against foes, either intentionally or unintentionally (for cases of reactionary, blind rage or panic mode attacks). Plain-old "accidentally perturbed the trajectory" scenarios, natural disasters, and passive stage hazards in the case of video games where no character is responsible for, do not count.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In "The Good, the Bad and the Digi", Starmon's signature attack, "Meteor Shower" summons a a swarm of falling rocks. It completely overwhelms the team and knocks them unconscious.

** During the Paramount War, Admiral Akainu used his lava based logia powers to launch what look like small balls of lava into the sky. This resulted in titanic fist shaped balls of lava descending upon Whitebeard's fleet.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a number of spells of this sort, which depict {{Flaming Meteor}}s either alone or in swarms and are always Red (the color of brute force, natural disasters and the fury of raw, untamed elements). In practice, they tend to either deal damage to a wide number of creatures at once, representing a hail of meteors scouring the battlefield ([[https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/411/comet-storm Comet Storm]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/cm2/114/meteor-blast Meteor Blast]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/me2/135/meteor-shower Meteor Shower]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/afr/155/meteor-swarm Meteor Swarm]]), deal a tremendous amount of damage to a single creature ([[https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/188/shivan-meteor Shivan Meteor]]), deal damage in exchange for destroying some of your own cards ([[https://scryfall.com/card/inv/256/meteor-storm Meteor Storm]]), or destroy one or multiple land cards ([[https://scryfall.com/card/mm3/103/molten-rain Molten Rain]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/9ed/221/stone-rain Stone Rain]]). In the context of the game, due to the player taking the role of a planeswalker summoning the creatures or casting the spells represented by the cards, all of these are intended to represent active spells cast against one's foes.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': When Zeus attacks Kane-Milohai with lightning, the Polynesian god laughs it off and hits back with a hail of roughly basketball sized meteors.

-->''You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go. Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now. Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every man and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die. The Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt; hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.''

* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has Meteor, a high level spell belonging to the Time Mage job class, which deals four large amounts of non-elemental damage to random targets.

* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' has Bolide which summons meteors to rain down on a targets. It also comes in high and grand variants that unleash more stronger meteors as well.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'': Meteor is a recurring spell present in several games; it's usually the most powerful type of fire magic available, and has considerable range as well. This power is offset by the scrolls used to cast it being rarer than other spells' and having less durability as well, limiting how much you can actually use it. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', the Battle of Belhalla finishes with a "fire rain" created via multiple simultaneous uses of the Meteor spell by [[spoiler:the court magicians under the orders of the antagonist, resulting in Sigurd's death and the near-total annihilation of his army]]. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', it's tweaked so that in addition to dealing heavy damage to the target it also deals moderate damage to everyone adjacent to them.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'': Maleficent has an attack during her first boss fight in which she summons large magical meteors on Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the Beast. Interestingly, they come not from above, but travel horizontally after emerging from a magic portal.

* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': A reoccurring magical arte is the aptly named "Meteor Storm", which results in several meteors to rain down on the current battle. As the battle take place in real time, there is a chance for the targets to dodge the attack.

* Present Alternate Mega Man and Bass in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' jury-rig a meteor drop on Bob, by [[https://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041127c combining three powers at once]]: Crystal Man's clairvoyance to find it, Gravity Man's power to attract it, and Stone Man's power to aim it. [[https://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041128c The comic treats this as a]] GodzillaThreshold, and all three of them acknowledge that this will kill everyone on the planet. So when Bob destroys it, his karma rises so much that he's dumped in Purgatory rather than Hell.

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats'': The main characters encounter TheVillain Doctor Strangemoon, whose EvilPlan is to launch a satellite that will attract fiery comets to Earth, raining havoc upon civilization. He launches the vehicle with three of [[YouMeddlingKids those meddling kids]] (Alexander, Alexandra and Melody) aboard. Fortunately, Alexandra pulls the capsule off course somehow, so the satellite never pulls a comet to Earth as intended.
* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'': The main characters square off against Optimatus, a villain who can teleport meteors to drop upon Acmetropolis. His first meteor did some damage, but didn't destroy the place completely. In fact, it gave the Loonatics their superpowers. Optimatus launches a second, much bigger PlanetDestroyer meteor that the Loonatics must destroy with explosive charges.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a number of spells of this sort, which depict {{Flaming Meteor}}s either alone or in swarms and are always Red (the color of brute force, natural disasters and the fury of raw, untamed elements). In practice, they tend to either deal damage to a wide number of creatures at once, representing a hail of meteors scouring the battlefield ([[https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/411/comet-storm Comet Storm]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/cm2/114/meteor-blast Meteor Blast]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/me2/135/meteor-shower Meteor Shower]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/afr/155/meteor-swarm Meteor Swarm]]), deal a tremendous amount of damage to a single creature ([[https://scryfall.com/card/tsr/188/shivan-meteor Shivan Meteor]]), or deal damage in exchange for destroying some of your own cards ([[https://scryfall.com/card/inv/256/meteor-storm Meteor Storm]]).

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