History Main / NoEndorHolocaust

* It's worth noting that virtually every single episode of ''Anime/TheBigO'' simply ''begins'' with the eponymous robot exploding up from underground, taking streets, cars, skyscrapers, and one can only presume people along with it. And yet the chief of police is good friends with its pilot and never bitches him out for mass slaughter.

** Afterwards, it's noted that the League rebuilt the city (of course, it could've referred to that city in Russia, not [[BigApplesauce New York]]).

* {{Batman}} may have [[ThouShaltNotKill "one rule"]] in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' but he was [[CouldHaveBeenMessy tremendously lucky]] that there was no one ''in'' any of those cars he blew up (we even see two kids playing in a car ''one row over''), or that no shrapnel from the Batmobile's "intimidate" setting hit those vagrants, and that when he went barreling on a very large, fast, heavy motorbike-thing through a shopping centre all the people in his way were agile enough to leap out of it. What if they'd chanced to be disabled, or obese, or if they'd simply frozen in shock?

** Not to mention that plutonium itself is much less radioactive than its fission products, which would be produced by nuclear explosion.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the extended cut ending makes it clear that [[spoiler: the Normandy's crew survived their crash, the mass relays were repaired and therefore averted the stranding of millions of aliens on Earth, and that galactic civilization rebuilt itself, possibly with the help of the repurposed, Shepard-controlled Reapers. The original ending before the extended cut involved exploding mass relays, some of which were located in rather populated solar systems, including our earth's solar system. Add to that that an exploding relay would, according to the aforementioned Arrival DLC, destroy an entire solar system, and you might realise that humanity would have become a lot rarer. The extended cut, however, changed it into the relays simply falling apart, causing a LOT less damage. Compare ''RocksFallEveryoneDies'']].
** [[spoiler: averted by the "destroy" extended ending with low preparation and EMS, which can be basicly summed up as a galaxy wide extinction event for organic and synthetic life above microbes, whether involved in the war or not. There are bare few survivors and even the narrator doesn't express much hope for their future]]

* HowItShouldHaveEnded's take on ''StarWars: A New Hope'' involved Grand Moff Tarkin deciding to expedite victory and destroy the planet around which the rebel base was in orbit. [[RuleofFunny The base remains intact.]]

** In the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]], Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death.

* Averted in ''Film/TheAvengers'', but in a subtle way. While no bodies or civilian deaths are seen in the FinalBattle, a news report afterwards shows a bunch of grieving people in front of wall covered in memorials for innocents killed by [[spoiler: the Chitauri]].
** Leviathans are also shown crashing into buildings when killed, and [[spoiler:they shut down the portal to prevent the nuclear explosion from coming back to Earth]].

* In the second film in the series, the {{Franchise/Terminator}} promises not to kill anyone. A readout on his display confirms that his minigun antics at the Cyberdyne facility resulted in no casualties, but even without hitting anyone directly, he could have easily accidentally killed multiple people thanks to exploding cars, errant shards of glass etc. To explain this, he is shown taking his time aiming his weapon so that the police have time to run away, and being a robot does give you some precise aim.

* In ''ManofSteel'': The climatic battle practically destroys half of Metropolis with probably hundreds of thousands of people dead. Also there was a fight that began in an empty field, before Superman dragged the fight into Smallville. So averted, but no one seems in a hurry to suggest that maybe some of the deaths could have been averted if Superman decided not to keep fighting in populated areas he probably could have left.

** At the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]] this trope is justified… Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death. Then you realize Fugate is TheSociopath CosmicPlaything: Being a sociopath, he is not interested in harming any human being except Hill (who ruined his life) and Batman (because he can save Hill). The CosmicPlaything means that the [[{{Franchise/DCAU}} the Universe]] itself will not harm any human being because Fugate is not interested in them, he uses those antics as a distraction, so the Universe ensures no one is harmed by those distractions.

** At the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]] this trope is justified… Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death. Then you realize Fugate is TheSociopath CosmicPlaything: Being a sociopath, he is not interested in harming any human being except Hill (who ruined his life) and Batman (because he can save Hill). The CosmicPlaything means that the [[{{Franchise/DCAU}} the Universe]] itself will not harm any human being because Fugate is not interested in them, he uses those antics as a distraction.

** At the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]] this trope is justified… Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death. Then you realize Fugate is TheSociopath CosmicPlaything: Being a sociopath, he is not interested in harming any human being except Hill (who ruined his life) and Batman (because he can save Hill). The CosmicPlaything means that the [[Franchise/DCAU Universe itself]] will not harm any human being because Fugate is not interested in them, he uses those antics as a distraction.

** * At the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]] this trope is justified… Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death. Then you realize Fugate is TheSociopath CosmicPlaything: Being a sociopath, he is not interested in harming any human being except Hill (who ruined his life) and Batman (because he can save Hill). The CosmicPlaything means that the [[/Franchise/DCAU Universe itself]] will not harm any human being because Fugate is not interested in them, he uses those antics as a distraction.

** * At the BatmanTheAnimatedSeries [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing episode The Clock King]] this trope is justified… Temple Fugate, the ClockKing, tampers with traffic lights, gasses (nonlethaly) the employees of a bank and causes a deliberate subway crash only to make Mayor Hill look incompetent. It’s lampshaded that all those antics didn’t result in any death. Then you realize Fugate is TheSociopath CosmicPlaything: Being a sociopath, he is not interested in harming any human being except Hill (who ruined his life) and Batman (because he can save Hill). The CosmicPlaything means that the [[DCAU Universe itself]] will not harm any human being because Fugate is not interested in them, he uses those antics as a distraction.

* The last act of ''{{Xenoblade}}'' has players witness no less than [[spoiler: The Bionis and Mechonis, the HumongousMecha/continents the game's characters live on, '''coming to life and engaging in mortal combat.''' ''No one'' on either continent is concerned about this happening (besides the High Entia, who have [[BodyHorror other problems]] to deal with), and no one is shown dying or being injured, even though the simple act of the Bionis moving its leg should have ended at least 3 civilizations.]]

* Averted in two fifties era giant monster movies, ''TheBeastFrom20000Fathoms'' and ''TheGiantBehemoth''. In both of these films, disposing of the titular monster's corpse is a major concern for the heroes because of an extremely virulent germ contained in the blood of the former and the overwhelming radioactivity of the latter preclude destruction with more conventional weapons, which would scatter pieces of the monsters' corpses thus contaminating a large area.

* In the film Surrogates widespread use of robot avatars may justify a lack of casualties in a car pileup but [[spoiler: at the end every surrogate, which 98% of people use, is forcefully shut down. We are told this caused no casualties, which is incredibly implausible when you think of all the pilots, drivers, surgeons and others who would have been interrupted in the course of vital tasks.]]

** Dealt with 'realistically' as part of the plot in Neal Asher's Polity novel {{Gridlinked}}. The interplanetary transport system, called a runcible, is sabotaged causing a single person to arrive at a planet as pure energy. The ensuing explosion and resultant environmental impact kills off the entire planetary colony.
* Commented upon in a ''Battletech'' novel where a commander berates a subordinate about firing indiscriminately in a crowded city in order to get to him. So it was a simulator fight, but it was still reckless behavior. The novels nonetheless show plenty of instances of combat in an urban setting. The presumably resulting civilian casualties are rarely even mentioned in passing unless it's explicitly a plot point (like the Smoke Jaguars' orbital bombardment and resulting total destruction of Edo, which was in fact considered over the top by even their allies and a genuine war crime by most everybody else). The Jade Falcons repeat the orbital bombardment in the animated series, but it's explicitly stated that the city's population was evacuated prior to the bombardment. A sourcebook for the series goes into further detail, comparing the two incidents, and bringing up the question of what the Falcons did with the people afterwards.

* Mostly played straight in ''The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress''. The rocks are carefully guided to cause minimum casualties (in the hundreds or maybe thousands at most), and in fact many were aimed at completely unpopulated areas as a show of force. However, some were aimed near heavily populated areas and if they were intercepted they were knocked off their intended course and caused a lot more damage. In addition, the ones aimed at unpopulated areas? Some people decided to mock the aim of the Lunar residents and ''picnic'' in some of those places. A textbook example of TooDumbToLive.

* One between-levels cutscene in ''Afterburner Climax'' passes you orders to hunt down a nuke-bearing bomber, and explicitly tells you not to worry about the "sympathetic detonation" of the nuclear device.

* The second act of ''Warzone2100'''s singleplayer campaign appears to dodge this one at first, as it takes place in the ruins of a city that had a nuclear warhead dropped on it. Then comes a mission where you have to prevent the opposing faction flying a large number of civilians out of the area. The realisation that those half-wrecked apartment buildings (which some players had probably shot at just to see the rather cool collapse animation) might have had people inside them made this mission something of a WhamEpisode.

* Averted and played straight in Kingdom of Loathing. In a direct parody of the trope namer, a giant bone space-station is defeated above the ruins of Valhalla, reducing it to even more ruins. However, the update message reminds the players that a thousand years is as a day in Valhalla, so it'll be just fine when you get there.

* Yet another blunder from Redakai. "Kairu", the [[StarWars Life-energy of the universe]], is regularly made off with by the heroes. However, the presence of the energy generates prosperity with the surrounding wildlife. The heroes realize this in one episode when they find some of the energy on a farm where one of them grew up. They decide to leave the energy where it was in this case, ''but what happened to the places that they have taken the energy from before and since?!''

* Turned UpToEleven in the ''CutieHoney'' movie: Panther Claw have this giant drill-like tower underneath ''Tokyo Tower''. Meaning: If you work in the area (which is a CBD in RealLife), don't bother coming in. Then, Scarlet Claw blows up three buildings. They all remain largely intact, save for a giant hole in the middle. One of them, hilariously, is Cutie Honey's former office, and the only reaction this gets is a dazed "what the...?" from the boss. And finally, the tower ''explodes''. If you're in Tokyo when this kind of thing is happening, ''get out of the city''. The only things we see? A traffic jam and other people not caring.

* ManofSteel: The climatic battle practically destroys half of Metropolis with probably hundreds of thousands of people dead. Also there was the fight in Smallville where Superman actually drag the fight to instead of fighting in an open field.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', the ending has [[spoiler:Cocoon falling towards Pulse, only to be saved by Ragnarok forming a giant crystal pillar to stop the fall. Logically, a very large portion of Cocoon's population should be dead (if nothing else, because the l'Cie providing artificial gravity to the inside of the HollowWorld were gone, to the detriment of the people on the upper half of the inner surface who are now subjected to the ''planet'''s gravity,) but the ending implies that there was NoEndorHolocaust.]]

* Averted in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Near the end of the game, when your party defeats [[spoiler:Lavos]], the entire floating continent [[spoiler:Zeal]] which used him as a power source crashes down to earth, bringing significant climactic change and death along with it.

* ''[[FlashForward2009 Flash Forward]]'' averts it in the pilot. When [[spoiler:almost]] everybody on Earth falls asleep for two minutes, there aren't exactly exemptions for drivers, pilots, or train conductors. Then played straight in the [[strike:season]] series finale, however. [[spoiler:The good guys manage to figure out that the next black out will happen within a couple of minutes. Authorities and media are alerted, and then we get a montage of the black out in which everyone seems prepared and dramatic casualties appear to have been avoided. Except that '''two minutes''' are a rather shitty forewarning for such a global event. It's better than nothing but not much notice. Commercial planes have fly-by-wire. They can do the entire flight autonomously from taking off to landing without the need for human input. Air-line pilots right now are more observers then controllers.

* Played straight for the most part in ''AstroCity''. The city is frequently attacked by hundred-foot-tall monsters or rampaging gods, but most collateral damage either occurs off-screen or with scenes showing heroes rescuing civilians. Most aftermath is limited to broken windows and litter in the streets, and the residents take this all in stride, praising the city's robust public works services. To be fair, it is hinted that some heroes use their powers or cosmic gadgets to help repair damages after the battles.

** In "Adrift", a huge section of the city is taken out by an asteroid - Sheppard and Zelenka have to hop it in zero-g. No mention is never made of the missing chunk again, nor can it be seen in the EstablishingShots.

-->'''[[spoiler: Dr. Nick Rivera]]''': Goodbye, everybody!

* At the climax of the ''VForVendetta'', [[spoiler:the Houses of Parliament are destroyed by a massive bomb on a tube train beneath them. An explosion of such size would devastate a wide area around it, but miraculously the thousands of be-masked V supporters watching the show from only a few metres away are completely unharmed, rather than being shredded by flying debris.]]

* NeonGenesisEvangelion makes it abundantly clear that it intends to avert this from quite early on, not only showing how much damage is caused by Angel/ Eva scraps, but that people can and will get hurt or [[AnyoneCanDie killed]], the first case being [[spoiler: Touji's sister]], who is mentioned to have been hospitalised after a building collapsed on her. It carries this on to a greater extent in later episodes, as big chunks of Tokyo 3 get turned into craters, eventually culminating in [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the extended cut ending makes it clear that [[spoiler: the Normandy's crew survived their crash, the mass relays were repaired and therefore averted the stranding of millions of aliens on Earth, and that galactic civilization rebuilt itself, possibly with the help of the repurposed, Shepard-controlled Reapers. The original ending before the extended cut involved exploding mass relays, some of which were located in rather populated solar systems, including our earth's solar system. Add to that that an exploding relay would, according to the aforementioned Arrival DLC, destroy an entire solar system, and you might realise that humanity would have become a lot rarer. The extended cut, however, changed it into the relays simply falling apart, causing a LOT less damage. Compare ''RocksFallEveryoneDies'']].

* Many contemporary and not so contemporary sources have stated that the 1666 Great Fire of [[LondonTown London]], an infamous disaster so which leveled about all of the city and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain even managed to purge it from the last great plague epidemic]], killed no more than ''eight'' to ''twenty'' people, in ''total''. Some have attributed to things such as Renaissance London's above-average fire alert system, but even then this death toll seems to be an extraordinarily generous {{Understatement}} for a Rennaisance city of 80.000.

* Many contemporary and not so contemporary sources have stated that the 1666 Great Fire of [[LondonTown London]], an infamous disaster so which leveled about all of the city and [[ThanksForFixingItVillain even managed to purge it from the last great plague epidemic]], killed no more than ''eight'' to ''twenty'' people, in ''total''. Some have attributed to things such as Renaissance London's above-average fire alert system, but even then this death toll seems to be an extraordinarily generous {{Understatement}} for a Rennaisance city of 80.000.