History Main / MeteorSummoningAttack

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Madara's Tengai Shinsei attack summons a huge meteor, which he can then direct to a specific impact location to cause devastation on a large scale. Notably, Madara himself considers this attack to be AwesomeButImpractical, since not even [[TheAce he]] can dodge or survive the impact shockwaves, at least until he becomes an undead Edo Tensei. [[spoiler:Once he's revived in full and becomes the Ten-Tails' Jinchuuriki, he can create multiple meteors via Chibaku Tensei and thanks to his new {{Flight}} abilities avoid the resulting impact shockwaves. He even describes them as "[[{{understatement}} slightly more solid and larger than raindrops]]".]]

* ''Literature/{{Overlord|2012}}'': In the Sealed Evil Tree CD Drama, Ainz kills Zy'tl Q'ae, [[WhenTreesAttack a giant, evil Treant]], by summoning a meteor [[TimeStop while in stopped time]]. He even adds a few [[HavingABlast Drifting Master Mines]] to make it look like a Christmas Tree (or [[{{pun}} Christ-It-Hurts Tree]]), Meteor Fall being an improvised star as the finishing touch before time flows again. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill The poor thing was reduced to burning splinters before it even knew what hit it]].

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Madara's Tengai Shinsei attack summons a huge meteor, which he can then direct to a specific impact location to cause devastation on a large scale. Notably, Madara himself considers this attack to be AwesomeButImpractical, since not even [[TheAce he]] can dodge or survive the impact shockwaves, at least until he becomes an undead Edo Tensei. [[spoiler:Once he's revived in full and becomes the Ten-Tails' Jinchuuriki, he can create multiple meteors and thanks to his new {{Flight}} abilities avoid the resulting impact shockwaves.]]

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Madara's Tengai Shinsei attack summons a huge meteor, which he can then direct to a specific impact location to cause devastation on a large scale. Notably, Madara himself considers this attack to be AwesomeButImpractical, since not even [[TheAce he]] can dodge or survive the impact shockwaves, at least until he becomes an undead Edo Tensei.

* In a seeming homage to ''This Island Earth,'' [[note]]The big-headed make-up job on the Rylans is likewise a seeming homage to ''This Island Earth.''[[/note]] ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' shows the evil Ko-Dan also using hurled meteorites as weapons.

-->--'''Rita Mordio''', ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''

* ''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]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/con/74/volcanic-fallout Volcanic Fallout]]), 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.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': A demon was killing leprechauns to steal good luck. They fought back by giving him so much bad luck that he was crushed by a meteor.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': The High Priest is able to seize control of the Arrowhead Comet and tries to destroy Academy City with it.
* ''LightNovel/DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody'': First {{conversed}}, then played straight. Satou is introduced as a video game developer who adds an ability to summon a meteorite storm three times per character as an AntiFrustrationFeature following beta testers complaining about the difficulty curve. After he unexpectedly wakes up from a nap in the game world, he triggers the ability in a blind panic when he's attacked by {{Draconic Humanoid}}s and accidentally wipes out their whole civilization.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': During the second 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 ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', the third phase of [[ThePrimaDonna Sally Stageplay's]] battle sees Sally transforming into a giant cardboard cutout of herself in an AffectionateParody of [=JRPGs=]. One of her attacks, "Meteor," summons a massive asteroid to hit Cuphead and Mugman...but since the whole thing is taking place in a theater, the "asteroid" is just a cheaply-made prop being carried by stagehands.

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'':

* In ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}'', the Mage's Meteor spell summons a single meteor to flatten an opponent, and it can be upgraded to set the ground ablaze for a few seconds after the meteor hits, damaging all nearby mobs or summon lightning before the meteor lands.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'': The 4-Mars-djinn summon is Meteor, which brings a giant meteor crashing down on the enemy. ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn''[='=]s summon sequence adds a constellation figure launching the meteor.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' gives the FinalBoss [[DarkMessiah Gill]] a LimitBreak that allows him to summon a hail of meteors, in his elements of [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]]. In his reappearance in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' he gains a V-Skill that summons a single meteor, which [[BonusBoss Omega Gill]] can beef up into the old Super Art.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': Late-game villains and the BonusBoss Culex have the attacks Meteor Swarm (which calls a swirling cloud of rainbow-colored stars across the screen) and Dark Star (which summons a gigantic five-pointed star that repeatedly bounces on one member of the party), both of which do massive damage. On the heroes' side, [[SquishyWizard Mallow's]] final Special Attack in the game is Star Rain; much like Dark Star, it conjures up a massive star -- this one the classic yellow of Invincibility Stars from earlier ''Mario'' games -- to pummel bad guys.

* ''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.

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In "[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02E12DuelOnTheDigimonMeadow 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.

-->''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.''
--->--'''Exodus 9:13-24'''

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The most powerful spell in the Lore of Heavens, the Comet of Cassandora, pulls a meteor from the heavens and drops it onto the battlefield, devastating any unit caught underneath it.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Orks usually lack the sophisticated orbital bombardment capacities of other factions, and so simply town asteroids from orbit and drop them on a planet. Even worse are roks, particularly huge ones that are fitted with engines and life support systems, hollowed out, filled with as many orks as they can fit, and dropped on the planet. If it holds together long enough to reach the planet, there's now a horde of alien killing machines on the ground, if not, there's a colossal explosion, which is just as entertaining.

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII'': Retribution, The orks' ultimate attack, is to drop a crapload of asteroids from orbit into the target area.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'': In the third/final battle against lava spider/scorpion Phantom, he utilizes an attack consisting of launching a meteor shower of fireballs from his back/tail onto Dante. The attack is so powerful it makes Phantom pass out for a few seconds, leaving him vulnerable.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': In an early issue, the [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] alien known as the [[EnfanteTerrible Enfant Terrible]] did this to the team, among various other antics. He wasn't really trying to be antagonistic, but rather just curious about the world around him and experimenting with his powers. Fortunately, the FF were able to dodge most of the rocks.

** Dire Miralis, debuting in ''3 Ultimate'', also summons meteorites to attack the players with and can also fire meteorites from its wing hole structures.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', Viviano Westwood's Stand, Planet Waves, summons a meteor shower towards him. He himself is not harmed by the meteors as they instantly disintegrate if they get too close to him.