History Main / PlutoIsExpendable

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': A dark matter spill takes place at a penguin sanctuary in Pluto. Dealing with it is treated as the kind of thing only environmentalist hippies would do, and of course, Leela drags Fry and Bender into it. However, Bender warms to the penguins and comes to take a more active role in aiding their rehabilitation.

* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' inverts the trope, as Pluto serves as a WarpWhistle for easy transportation, becomes a mentor figure to Kel, and can be challenged to a fight at several points in the plot. Pluto was originally part of Space Boyfriend's back room decoration, and two of the Space Pirates are freaking out about his escape because Pluto is Space Boyfriend's favorite planet. When Space Boyfriend regains his senses and is later informed of the news, he doesn't dismiss Pluto and instead believes that Pluto was destined for greater things than mere decoration with the other planets.

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://www.xkcd.com/1551/ proposes an unorthodox solution]] by reclassifying it as "''dwarf Pluto''".
** And to make matters even more confusing, [[http://www.xkcd.com/1555/ it also suggests]] assigning the name "Pluto" to an actual ''planet'' located in a different solar system.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz enters the science fair and ridicules a boy who is entering a model of Pluto (see the quote at the top of the page). The boy's older brother then gives Doofenshmirtz a shiner.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': Michelangelo eats Pluto. Or the doughnut representing Pluto in Donatello's diagram, at least.
-->'''Mikey:''' ''[munching]'' What? It's Pluto. Who cares about Pluto?

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Comicbook/BlueBeetle fights the Planet Master, who uses various powers thematically linked to the planets of our Solar System, including the "[[AnIcePerson cold of Pluto]]". Blue Beetle protests that Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore. Planet Master's response?
--> "INSOLENCE!"
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' has the family playing a mini-golf course, where they must hit the ball past some obstacles, among them a rotating windmill of planets that block a hole. Mr. Daring puts his ball which gets deflected by one of the planets. Riley then tells him it was deflected by Pluto, to which he retorts that it is not even a real planet anymore.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' was actually about WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck becoming planet-sized and smashing Pluto to pieces because that's where his nephews (all pretending to be superheroes) are hiding. Also, a brief cameo of [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup the ''other'' Pluto]] for extra bonus points.

* This gets referenced in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' when Pickles is guest-starring on a game show and is asked which celestial body is no longer considered a planet. Pickles, being extremely drunk, guesses the earth instead.
* In "The Planet Name Game" on ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHatKnowsALotAboutThat'', the Cat, Nick and Sally travel into space and name the eight planets. Neither Pluto nor the controversy surrounding it is mentioned. Incidentally, this may be the first series of its type to touch the subject of naming the planets since the 2006 decision.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'', Bob Santino blows up Pluto in order to demonstrate the power of the Santino Laser Cannon. He then offers r to blow up Mars so the sound will reach Earth sooner but is stopped from doing so by Fenwick.

* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' didn't mention Pluto at all until an InUniverse moment of AnachronismStew happens during "A Trip to the Planetarium" in which Pluto is still listed as a planet in the planetarium show. The controversy surrounding Pluto does get touched upon briefly when Sydney points out that the film was made before Pluto's demotion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** In "The Void", Pluto is among the world's many mistakes, which the world sucks away into the Void.
** Pluto appears in "The Singing", singing [[MelancholyMusicalNumber a somber song]] about losing its status as a planet. One of the other planets tells her to quiet down. After she's done, she then joins a bikers' gang of asteroids.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': This is the B-plot of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", where Jerry's belief that Pluto is still a planet attracts the attention of a Plutonian politician, who recruits him to assure the masses that there is nothing wrong with Pluto by telling them it is still a planet. It turns out that said politician is doing this because, as a Plutonian scientist tells Morty, Pluto ''used'' to meet the qualifications to be a planet, but the mining of Plutonium from its core is slowly causing it to shrink, which will eventually lead to an EarthShatteringKaboom. Morty reveals this to Jerry, but his desire to be right and wanting people to like him outweighs doing the right thing; However, when the politician has the scientist arrested, who turns out to be his own son,Jerry decides to reveal the truth... which only causes public outrage and Jerry and Morty to be booted from the planet, leaving the fate of the Plutonians ambiguous.
* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': In an episode where the Romans are looking for gods to worship, they eventually settle on the Greek pantheon by the end and give them all new names (as per real life). Hades is less than happy with his new moniker.
-->'''Hades:''' ''Pluto?'' They wanna call me "Pluto?" What kind of name is that? [[MythologyGag I wouldn't call my]] ''dog'' "[[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]]!"
* ''WesternAnimation/ForkyAsksAQuestion'' has Bonnie's unicorn plush Buttercup getting aggravated with all of Forky's questions, so he takes the spork on a "speedrun" of sorts through knowledge; one of the facts he brings up is that there are eight planets in the solar system, "plus or minus Pluto".

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Pluto hasn't exactly had the most comfortable career as a Sailor; it gets lonely guarding the Gates of Time after a few centuries. Pluto's demotion as a planet [[HilariousInHindsight became a joke]] among the ''Sailor Moon'' fandom. Ironically, the original [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] had a Sailor Ceres among a group of asteroid-based Sailors. Like Pluto, Ceres is now considered a dwarf planet (see the Real Life section).

* In ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance'' Pluto is destroyed when the EldritchAbomination Thanotos plows right through it on its way to Earth.

* ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'' introduces the PLANETS system, with the hero's Core Gundam [[MechaExpansionPack able to switch between whole sets or parts of addon armor systems]], and as the name indicates, they are all named for planets of the solar system. By the end of season 1, we've seen Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter; by the series finale, they've added Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune. That's all.

* In ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'', many of the planets in the solar system have been converted into pleasant living spaces. Pluto, on the other hand, is a maximum-security asylum for the solar system's worst criminals, overseen by the 853rd century's version of Franchise/{{Batman}}.
* In the 2008 Virgin Comics revival of the classic 1950s British space hero ''Dan Dare'', written by Creator/GarthEnnis, Pluto is destroyed by a "tamed" black hole controlled by Dare's nemesis, the Mekon. Since the series takes place in the "present" of ComicStrip/DanDare's retroactive alternate history timeline, the destruction may have been a tongue-in-cheek spoof of Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006.

* Epically {{subverted|Trope}} in ''Saturn versus Earth'': Pluto is immensely rich in radium, and getting its hands on it would allow [[BigBad Rebo]] to become a GalacticConqueror, with his attack on Earth being motivated simply by the fact [[InsignificantBluePlanet our world is a convenient staging ground for a surprise attack against his real goal]]. After the Earthlings expose the truth to the Plutonians [[SmallRoleBigImpact the latters fade from the story but remain crucial to the plot]], as their radium is the only reason Earth can now fight the Saturnians on an even field.

* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2011/11/27 One of Jon's jokes about]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s weight is Garfield's stomach replacing Pluto as the ninth planet.

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* Subverted in ''Literature/RedDwarf''. Humanity decides to turn one of the nine planets into a gigantic rubbish dump, with a Series/EurovisionSongContest style contest deciding the loser. It comes down to a fight between Earth and Pluto. Earth loses and becomes a ''literal'' CrapsackWorld.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Luna Lovegood fights Death Eaters in a room containing models of several planets. She then uses a Reductor Curse to blow up the model of Pluto as a distraction.
* Turns out there's an alien prison inside Pluto in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/HaveSpaceSuitWillTravel''.
* In ''Literature/PerryRhodan'' universe Pluto got destroyed in 3438 as collateral damage in the final showdown of the series' The Cappins story arc. (One of the more classic examples -- when that issue was printed and sold, nobody had the slightest clue yet that Pluto's status as a planet would be called into question over thirty years later.)
* Averted in a young adult novel titled ''No Passengers Beyond This Point'' in which a little girl views Pluto's demotion as representative of things being unstable and shifting -- she's clearly psychologically bugged by it.
* In ''[[Literature/JudyMoody Stink: Solar System Superhero]]'', Stink fails a test about the planets when Judy teaches him the "My Very Educated Mother Just Ate Nine Pizzas" mnemonic to help him remember the name of the planets, blissfully unaware that Pluto has been reclassified. Despite getting all of the other planets right, he gets a big red X on his paper. Then he and a classmate start developing new mnemonics, like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing."
* In Creator/RosemaryWells's book and the AnimatedAdaptation of "Emily's First 100 Days Of School" which has 100 pages which has events related to the number. Was the 8th page, where Emily and the other students tell how many planets for the Solar System. Pluto is included in it, this was made years before Pluto was no longer a planet.
* The reason President Penguin attacks Squeakyville in the ninth ''Literature/RickyRicottasMightyRobot'' book is because their scientists no longer consider Pluto a planet.
* In Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, each planet in our solar system has their own [[UltimateLifeform Ultimate One]]. Which includes Pluto who appears in ''Literature/AngelNotes'' as the first of the Types to die when it tries to invade Earth, albeit this is at the cost of the Six Sisters and Type-Pluto's blood covering the skies.
* E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman universe has a variation on the theme, in which our hero is constructing an antimatter bomb of enormous size and is told he will need the mass of a small planet to do the job adequately. Instead of Pluto, he converts the entire mass of the Asteroid Belt instead (since it's already broken up into more easily manageable chunks).

* When Series/{{Jessie}} is carrying Emma's model of the solar system (her science fair project), she trips and Pluto falls off. During the judging of the science fair Emma wins, because the judges like that she remembered that Pluto is no longer a planet.

* Likewise, Dr. Tyson appears in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory.''
-->'''[=Sheldon=]:''' I like Pluto, therefore, I don't like you.
* On ''Series/{{Psych}}'', one of Burton "Gus" Guster's catchphrases is "Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up!"
* In the ''Series/DocMartin'' episode "Education, Education, Education", the student selected to be Pluto in an outdoors roleplaying of the Solar System ends up losing consciousness to Kawasaki Disease, sustained from an infection, and has to be rushed to hospital to save her life.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Zigzagged by the M.E. during the autopsy in "Yahrzeit." Sid finds 8 tattooed dots forming a square on the victim and shows them to Mac. As the two ponder what they could mean, Sid suggests they could represent the planets, but then adds, "'Course to me there'll always be nine; I'm kinda partial to Pluto."

* [[Music/NellieMcKay Nellie McKay]] sings "As far as I'm concerned, Pluto's still a planet" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JR7xeUE92w "Identity Theft"]], an ode to nonconformity, from the ''Obligatory Villagers'' CD.
* Music/AesopRock's "Bring Back Pluto" uses this as its central inspiration.
* The song "I'm Your Moon" by Music/JonathanCoulton is about this trope in general (and the declassification specifically), from the viewpoint of Pluto's moon Charon. The idea is if Pluto can't be a planet, then Charon and Pluto can just be moons of each other forever... turning the whole thing into a sweet (if bizarre) [[SillyLoveSongs love song]].
* The astronomers' decision not to consider Pluto a planet is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110321120246/http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Action=User&ID=504 one more reason]] to disregard Colin Matthews's irreverent appendix to Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''.

* In ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' we have the [[FaceHeelTurn Court of Darkness]] who was located on Pluto and was also the first (and so far only) court to be destroyed.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'', Pluto has become all but forgotten (foreshadowed in a scene in which [[Anime/MazingerZ Boss]] can't even remember its name), until it's revealed that the BigBad's base is there. To make matters worse, one of the penultimate boss' attacks features it skewering the victim so hard they go through the planet and out the other side.
* Though you can find our solar system in ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', Pluto isn't part of it.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', Pluto is classified as an asteroid, looks like an icy comet, and is referred to by its formal name (134340 Pluto). It shares the Kuiper Belt with dwarf planets Makemake, Haumea, and Varuna.

* In ''Super VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'', you get the "Astronomer" merit if you "decorate the sky with every planet in the solar system". Pluto does not count toward this.

* In ''VideoGame/{{TAGAP}}'''s third episode, Pluto's declassification from "planet" to "dwarf planet" [[FelonyMisdemeanor really angers its inhabitants]]. They are preparing [[DisproportionateRetribution an invasion]]. Did we mention that they are [[AscendedExtra Funky Green Penguins]]?

* In ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'', [[SmallNameBigEgo DJ Subatomic Supernova]] mockingly compares Bunk Bed Junction to the dwarf planet, describing them as small and insignificant, something that completely goes over [[IdiotHero Mayday]]'s head.

* In ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek'', an idiot tasks Nancy with finding out what planet each suspect most identifies with. Naturally, it's the SmugSnake who thinks himself far more brave and persecuted than he actually is that lists Pluto as his answer, despite Nancy telling him that Pluto isn't a planet.
* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'' inverts the trope, as Pluto serves as a WarpWhistle for easy transportation, becomes a mentor figure to Kel, and can be challenged to a fight at several points in the plot. Pluto was originally part of Space Boyfriend's back room decoration, and two of the Space Pirates are freaking out about his escape because Pluto is Space Boyfriend's favorite planet. When Space Boyfriend regains his senses and is later informed of the news, he doesn't dismiss Pluto and instead believes that Pluto was destined for greater things than mere decoration with the other planets.

* The ''WebAnimation/{{Storybots}}'' educational song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAqT4hXnMw We are the Planets]]" features the first eight planets with a verse... while Pluto is seen sulking in the background for a split second.

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* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' gets in on the act [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=788 here.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', the first sign of a very dangerous enemy is when it [[http://www.faans.com/index.php?p=1254 eats Charon, Pluto's moon]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Punintended}}'' declares the French as having decided to ditch Pluto [[http://punintended.thecomicseries.com/comics/28/ Plus Tôt.]]
* ''Webcomic/EvilInc'': Galactus stops for breakfast and the only thing on the menu is [[http://evil-inc.com/comic/board-meeting/ Pluto]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'': As the characters are the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of stars, planets, and dwarf planets, Pluto's status is pretty important and is debated by the characters themselves. [[spoiler:Pluto finally gives up on the Sun and planets and joins Black Hole, only to be deceived, absorbed, and ReforgedIntoAMinion by her.]]
* In ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'', while topping trees with Christmas stars the December after the reclassification, Lindesfarne also topped one tree with a sphere representing Pluto, saying that while she agreed with the demotion, she also felt sorry for it.

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWPW8yJtgM crossover video]] between Creator/FreddieWong and WebVideo/EpicMealTime, one of the things they add to the shot is some planets in the sky. When Pluto pops up, Freddie says "Pluto ain't a planet! Get that outta there!"

* Historically, astronomers were only looking for the solar system's ninth planet because they made a mistake when calculating Uranus and Neptune's masses when determining their orbits, and concluded that there was another large object affecting them[[note]][[HilariousInHindsight hilariously]], in the 2010s, scientists began suspecting there really is a massive, Neptune-sized planet beyond Neptune's orbit; however, it's thought to be located way too far away to have affected Uranus and Neptune, so rather, it, the so-called Planet Nine, is thought to be perturbing the far side of Kuiper Belt instead[[/note]]. When Voyager II allowed astronomers to get an accurate figure of their masses, it turns out that their orbits perfectly account for all of the known planets. So if it hadn't been for that mistake, Pluto likely wouldn't have been discovered until decades later, and there would have been a much smaller gap between Pluto's discovery and the rest of the Kuiper Belt. Ultimately, [[ForWantOfANail the only reason the general public, and even most astronomers, care about Pluto is because of a math error]].

* Averted in ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''. When the crew discovers an enemy base on Pluto, they consider using the WaveMotionGun on it, but the captain vetoes use of the superweapon because Pluto harbors primitive native organisms which the heroes have no right to destroy. Later in the series, the evil Comet Empire shows off its muscle by destroying the ''Moon''.

* Averted in ''Literature/RedDwarf''. Humanity decides to turn one of the nine planets into a gigantic rubbish dump, with a Series/EurovisionSongContest style contest deciding the loser. It comes down to a fight between Earth and Pluto. Earth loses and becomes a ''literal'' CrapsackWorld.

* Averted in Creator/HPLovecraft's works, as Pluto (also known as Yuggoth) is an outpost of the powerful and devious [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Mi]]-[[StarfishAliens Go]].

* Averted (staggeringly) in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Sun Makers", in which the last of humanity in a resource-strapped Solar System are relocated to Pluto, which now has six artificial suns. In the episode's defense, it was broadcast less than ten months before the discovery of Pluto's moon Charon, which revealed how ridiculously small Pluto really was. No excuse for the atrocious grasp of Newtonian mechanics, however.

* Averted in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. It turns out Pluto's moon was really a Mass Relay making Pluto the Sol's system's main space port and first line of defense. Also, as a side effect of defrosting Charon, Pluto's orbit was circularized - that wasn't enough to give Pluto back "planet" status, though.
* Guess what [[spoiler: goes kaboom at the end of]] ''{{VideoGame/Starsiege}}''?

* Averted in ''[[VideoGame/Battlezone1998 Battlezone 2]]''. The base you are flying to investigate, and where a third of the game takes place, is on Pluto.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/StarControlII''[[note]]Since the game was created in 1992, when Pluto was still considered a planet[[/note]], even if appears alone without Charon, almost devoid of mineral resources, and just with Fwiffo's ship down there.

* In the ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' DC Comics miniseries, ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} manages to take over Pluto, hollow it out, and turn it into a brand new Warworld. All without being noticed by the many and various interstellar agencies on Earth, Darkseid and his lieutenants on Apokolips (somehow relocated to the same solar system by Darkseid's badassery), or Imperiex and his many many miniaturized forms. It apparently stays that way until the 31st century, becoming a plot-point in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Although there's been a CrisisCrossover or four since then, and ''that'' version of the Legion isn't the main future anymore, so it's probably been [[CanonDiscontinuity quietly forgotten]].

* In the 2008 Virgin Comics revival of the classic 1950s British space hero ''Dan Dare'', written by Garth Ennis, Pluto is destroyed by a "tamed" black hole controlled by Dare's nemesis, the Mekon. Since the series takes place in the "present" of ComicStrip/DanDare's retroactive alternate history timeline, the destruction may have been a tongue-in-cheek spoof of Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006.

* Epically {{Subverted}} in ''Saturn versus Earth'': Pluto is immensely rich in radium, and getting its hands on it would allow [[BigBad Rebo]] to become a GalacticConqueror, with his attack on Earth being motivated simply by the fact [[InsignificantBluePlanet our world is a convenient staging ground for a surprise attack against his real goal]]. After the Earthlings expose the truth to the Plutonians [[SmallRoleBigImpact the latters fade from the story but remain crucial to the plot]], as their radium is the only reason Earth can now fight the Saturnians on an even field.

* [[http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci/text/plutolittletable.jpg This political cartoon]] shows Pluto being frustrated at having to sit at [[DreadedKidsTable the "little planets" table]].

* In Creator/RosemaryWells's book and the AnimatedAdaptation of [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17htoz_emilys-first-100-days-of-school_shortfilms "Emily's First 100 Days Of School"]] which has 100 pages which has events related to the number. Was the 8th page, where Emily and the other students tell how many planets for the Solar System. Pluto is included in it, this was made years before Pluto was no longer a planet.

* The astronomers' decision not to consider Pluto a planet is [[http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Action=User&ID=504 one more reason]] to disregard Colin Matthews's irreverent appendix to Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''.

* [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/onthemoon/On+The+Moon+ep.9/ This episode]] of ''WebAnimation/OnTheMoon''.

* [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]] blows up Pluto with nukes in an installment of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', just to get WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic to take him seriously. The Critic is unimpressed. (He got more reaction from blowing up Hollywood, Rome, and France.) This happened during a "Previously on Atop the Fourth Wall" segment, meaning that the above didn't really happen in the Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses universe. Also when he reviews ''Anime/SailorMoon'', he points out this trope and then proceeds to shoot poor Sailor Pluto.

** Pluto appears in "The Singing", singing a somber song about losing its status as a planet. One of the other planets tells her to quiet down. After she's done, she then joins a bikers' gang of asteroids.

* As noted in the intro, Pluto was delisted in 2006 by new standards (new in that before, there were ''no'' standards). In fact, in ancient times, the Sun and Moon were planets while the Earth was ''not'' a planet because the word "planet" came from the Greek word for "wanderer".[[note]]Remember, back then Earth was considered the center of the solar system, not the Sun.[[/note]] This was inverted with Ceres: It too was made a dwarf planet (an upgrade from simply being a "large asteroid") because it is the only spherical object in the Asteroid Belt, as with Haumea, Makemake, and Eris since they were all discovered after Pluto was recognized. Pluto's reclassification has been averted in Illinois and New Mexico (The home state of the man who discovered Pluto), where the state legislatures have passed laws reclassifying Pluto as a planet. In fact, after the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, [[http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3852044.shtml#.Vae2UPDdVKb the mayor of Alamogordo, New Mexico immediately declares that Pluto is a planet]]. [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11739763/Pluto-I-still-call-it-a-planet-says-head-of-Nasa.html Even the head of NASA says that Pluto is a planet for him]]. However, this has yet to occur in Arizona, where the discovery was made.

* On ''Series/{{Psych}}'', one of Burton "Gus" Guster's {{Catchphrase}}s is "Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up!"

[[caption-width-right:350:…and while [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse they]] [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} were]] arguing, the [[Literature/StarTrekDestiny Borg]] came and ate it.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:…and while [[Comicbook/{{Galactus}} they]] [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} were]] arguing, the [[Literature/StarTrekDestiny Borg]] came and ate it.]]

* ''Animation/KikoRiki'': In "Pluto's Hero", resident MadScientist Dokko goes on a hunger strike after learning of Pluto's demotion. Seeing this, the Plutonians cancel their plans to attack Earth in retaliation.

* In ''VideoGame/{{TAGAP}}'''s third episode, Pluto's declassification from "planet" to "dwarf planet" [[FelonyMisdemeanor really angers its inhabitants]]. They are preparing [[DisproportionateRetribution an invasion]]. Did we mention that they are [[WhatDoYoumeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Funky]] [[AscendedExtra Green]] [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]]?

* In VideoGame/{{TAGAP}}'s third episode, Pluto's declassification from "planet" to "dwarf planet" [[FelonyMisdemeanor really angers its inhabitants]]. They are preparing [[DisproportionateRetribution an invasion]]. Did we mention that they are [[WhatDoYoumeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Funky]] [[AscendedExtra Green]] [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]]?

* Whle Pluto is never destroyed in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', it is typically the first stop for anyone trying to invade the Solar System. In fact, the first battle of the Solar War (part of the Literature/HorusHeresy) took place on Pluto as it was attacked by the Alpha Legion - and it stuck with Chaos until the end of the Heresy. Although this is {{justified|Trope}} as Pluto is right on the edge of the solar system and thus is first stop for invaders.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNScgUPYdI 134340 Pluto]] by Music/TallyHall that's sung from the viewpoint of the titular planet, expressing confusion and frustration at its new classification.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2362 SCP--2362]] used to be Pluto... until [[SpaceWhale a moon-sized jellyfish]] hatched out of it. So they demoted it to make less people look in its direction.

* In an episode of ''Animation/KikoRiki'', resident MadScientist Dokko goes on a hunger strike after learning of Pluto's demotion. Seeing this, the Plutonians cancel their plans to attack Earth in retaliation.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'''s fandom takes the demotion in different ways: ignoring it entirely to keep with canon, having Usagi kick Pluto out (mostly from detractors), Usagi promising to restore Pluto to planetary status when she assumes Earth's throne, and Pluto willingly breaking away to lead a [[SailorEarth new team of senshi]] based on the Kuiper Belt (or dwarf planets in general, if Sailor Ceres decides to join Pluto).

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'''s fandom takes the demotion in different ways: ignoring it entirely to keep with canon, having Usagi kick Pluto out (mostly from detractors), Usagi promising to restore Pluto to planetary status when she assumes Earth's throne, and Pluto willingly breaking away to lead a [[SailorEarth new team of senshi]] based on the Kuiper Belt (or dwarf planets in general, if Sailor Ceres decides to join Pluto).

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': During the autopsy in "Yahrzeit," Sid finds 8 tatooed dots forming a square on the victim and shows them to Mac. As the two ponder what they could mean, Sid suggests they could represent the planets, but then adds, "'Course to me there'll always be nine; I'm kinda partial to Pluto."

* One of the storybooks in ''VideoGame/{{Puppeteer}}'' has Pluto lamenting it's not a planet anymore when the Sun Princess visits the furthest planets.
* Averted in ''[[VideoGame/{{Battlezone1998}} Battlezone 2]]''. The base you are flying to investigate, and where a third of the game takes place, is on Pluto.

See also ThrowawayCountry. Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Mickey's dog]]. [[KickTheDog We]] [[EatTheDog hope.]]

For the Roman God Pluto being a butt-monkey, that may be either DeathIsALoser or EverybodyHatesHades.