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| 13 | [[quoteright:315:[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sonic_moon_boom.png]]]] |
| 14 | [[caption-width-right:315:[[ThatsNoMoon That's not a moon]], '''that ''was'' a moon'''.]] |
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| 16 | ->'''General:''' Mr. President, are you suggesting we blow up the Moon?\ |
| 17 | '''The President:''' ...Would you miss it? |
| 18 | -->-- ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'' |
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| 20 | It's bad enough when some bad guy tries to [[DefaceOfTheMoon put his John Hancock]] on the Moon; things get really serious when it's destroyed. This happens in many continuities in many shows many times. Think of an EarthShatteringKaboom, only on the Moon. |
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| 22 | A sister trope to DefaceOfTheMoon. Compare with GraspTheSun for a symbolic use of celestial bodies. Expect there to be NoEndorHolocaust ([[MoonRabbit unless rabbits live there]]). If the destruction of the moon does result in serious damage to Earth or nearby planets it may overlap with ColonyDrop, especially if done on purpose. Complete destruction is optional: Sometimes it can turn the moon into a ShatteredWorld instead, or make it crescent-shaped. |
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| 24 | Something that is only occasionally referenced is that a satellite body does affect the surface of the parent object. Destroying or otherwise removing the Moon from its orbit would cause serious trouble even without debris impacts: no tides would massively disrupt coastal ecosystems, while the loss of the constant effect of water being pulled toward the equator would lead to flooding of temperate coasts, tropical reefs and lagoons left high and dry, and insufficient depth in ports near the equator. Further, moonlight is important to the life cycles of various nocturnal and crepuscular animals, and actually has a nontrivial effect on the thermal equilibrium, such that the loss of moonlight would make Earth slightly colder (though that might actually help by offsetting climate change). |
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| 26 | [[JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames The title is punning]] on the 1950 SF classic ''Film/DestinationMoon''. |
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| 29 | !!Examples: |
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| 33 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 34 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S4XEQd80pk A 7-Up commercial]] had the spokesman attempt to project the 7-Up logo onto the moon with a laser. Unfortunately, the laser was a little too powerful, and... well, [[EarthShatteringKaboom boom]]. |
| 35 | --> '''Orlando Jones''': OK! Who has been messing with my laser?! |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
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| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 40 | * In the manga of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', Tetsuo teleports to the moon and blasts a huge hole in it, then shapes the resulting debris into a ring around the moon. The damage alters the tides on Earth. |
| 41 | * The Moon in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is always a crescent, with the overly long horns nearly touching each other. It's as if someone's taken out a large chunk of it because it ''is''; Koro-sensei blew up 70% of the moon in the beginning, making it a permanent crescent. [[spoiler:Later, it's revealed that he didn't actually blow up the moon (it was a lab rat experiment gone wrong), [[SilentScapegoat but he decided to take the blame and appropriate it for himself anyway]] to hide the truth behind his origins.]] In the epilogue, the crescent Moon collapses due to gravity and becomes closer to Earth, eventually reforming into its regular size and shape prior to the explosion. |
| 42 | * ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' had this happen to the Earth in the middle of a war between Earth and Mars. A gate on the Moon that allowed travel to Mars (sparking a colonization effort that later declared independence with then led to war) exploded, destroying half the moon and sending large numbers of shards raining down on Earth, killing millions and drastically altering the landscape, as well as leaving a ring of asteroids in Earth's orbit. This event is known in the show as Heaven's Fall. |
| 43 | * In the background of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', [[http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/moon-is-junk.jpg the moon was massively damaged]] by a gate research accident occurred 75 years before the series started, killing the bulk of humanity and driving most of the rest to colonize the Solar System. Earth itself is largely a wasteland now: The initial shockwave devastated the portion of Earth facing the moon, and debris continues to rain down on the damaged landscape. Meteor showers are treated like a weather event by the survivors who live in underground cities. The surface can't even be mapped due to the constant creation of new impact craters. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' sees the moon sliced in half during the final battle. After everything's settled, the halves are made into individual moons by God. |
| 45 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 46 | ** Master Roshi blows up the moon in ''Manga/DragonBall'' to stop Great Ape Goku's rampage since the Great Ape form is powered by the moon. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets yelled at afterwards]], but Kami restores it some years later on the condition that Goku has his tail (which causes him to transform into a Great Ape when he looks at the full moon) removed. |
| 47 | ** Likewise, Piccolo destroys the moon in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' to stop Gohan rampaging as a Great Ape. However, it's shown to have been restored once more in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. |
| 48 | *** ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' parodies Piccolo's moon destruction via a news report detailing [[DeconstructedTrope an estimated death toll of over 100 million due to the lack of moon to regulate the tides]], not to mention all [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender waterbenders]] losing their power and Anime/SailorMoon being in horrible agony. |
| 49 | * This happens sometimes in ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', it being a gag manga with no realism at all. Usually it's Arale who destroys the Moon with her SuperStrength, by chucking boulders at it. Afterwards we see the Moon all patched up, like a broken vase. |
| 50 | * In ''Manga/FairyTail'', a village asks the heroes to destroy the moon, which has turned purple and started turning the villagers into demons at night. Subverted, as [[spoiler:they only had to remove the aftermath of a ritual that took place on the island, which made the moon look purple and messed with the memories of the villagers, who really were demons to begin with.]] |
| 51 | * Happens in ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'' when Sekai uses an attack so powerful that it straight up splits the moon in half... even if he used it on Earth. Of course, the moon in this case is a virtual moon generated by the system used for Gunpla battles, it still serves to highlight Sekai's potential as a Gunpla fighter. |
| 52 | * In the final episodes of ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'', one of Jewel Land's two moons is partially destroyed by [[spoiler:Jewelina under the Dark Magic's influence]]. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/MedakaBox'': Medaka does this to prevent the moon from crashing into the Earth, by herself. How she manages to do it is never explained. Unless "[[GodModeSue she's Medaka]]" is considered sufficient explanation. She promises to fix it and, sure enough, the epilogue chapters reveal that as an adult, she's working on a project to create an artificial moon to take its place. |
| 54 | * In ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', the final battle takes place on the surface of the moon, which is falling slowly towards Earth (and most of the film took place inside it, as it's a HollowWorld). During the battle, Naruto's opponent Toneri unleashes the power of his Tenseigan, ''cutting the moon in half.'' It's mostly subverted, though, as rather than shattering or falling apart, the moon somehow manages to hold together. Which actually makes sense; simply cutting the moon in half without doing any other damage would leave the two halves' mass unchanged and thus gravity would pull them back together. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/OriginSpiritsOfThePast'' uses this trope, though instead of the moon being completely destroyed it's just split into [[{{Pun}} tree]]. |
| 56 | * In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', this is shown going on inside Tamaki's head in Episode 23 as a metaphor for his BerserkButton of Haruhi being pursued by another guy, the unsuspecting Kasanoda. |
| 57 | * A test of the Von Braun's Tandem Mirror engine in ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'' reduced a significant area of the Moon into dust. Judging from the artwork, the damage covered a region larger than the state of California. |
| 58 | * The ''Anime/SonicX'' adaptation of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' also shows the moon getting blown up, though while the games never explain how the moon presumably gets fixed, in ''Sonic X'' Eggman fixes it himself, dubbing it the [[PunnyName "Eggmoon"]]. [[spoiler:He then uses the repaired moon to try and block out the sun.]] |
| 59 | * In ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', the Comet Empire, after defeating Earth's space navy, puts the cherry on its sundae of conquest by destroying the moon. |
| 60 | * In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'', Fine attempts to destroy the moon with an enormous cannon, but it is deflected and only knocks off a chunk. The heroes then blow up the chunk, giving the moon a ring for the rest of the series. |
| 61 | * Z does this in ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', after he destroyed half the earth, for no other purpose than getting Tenchi's attention. Like the majority of the events in the third OVA, this is subjected to a ResetButton. |
| 62 | * In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Anti-Spiral uses the moon to attempt to destroy the earth, causing the Gurren Brigade to attempt to destroy the moon. Notable in that the otherwise VERY soft sci-fi makes it abundantly clear that the approach of the moon and its removal would have a negative effect on the planet ([[spoiler:In the end, the descent can be stopped and [[ThatsNoMoon the moon is revealed to be a giant spacecraft named "Cathedral Terra"]]. The spacecraft is repossessed by the heroes and the real moon is pulled out of a PocketDimension to avoid damage to the Earth]]). |
| 63 | * In ''Anime/YattermanNight'', Dokurobei manages to blow up the moon during an attack on Dekkaido. A ring of debris from the detonation is all that remains of it now, save the [[DefaceOfTheMoon giant ominous skull]]. |
| 64 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Yugi has one of his monsters ''stab'' the moon to destroy it. Yes, it was a moon generated by another card and not the actual moon, but it still has the tide-changing effects...[[ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot and it wasn't a monster card so he shouldn't have been able to attack it.]][[note]]At the time, the real-life TabletopGame/YuGiOh card game hadn't been invented yet, and the creators hadn't bothered to establish a coherent set of rules for the fictional version. For the next story arc, at which point the real card game ''had'' been established, they began using a modified version of the real-life rules.[[/note]] |
| 65 | ** There is now [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_the_Moon! a real-life card]] that references this scene - and allows a player to ''reenact'' it in the right circumstances. |
| 66 | * In ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'', the moon was destroyed 108 years before the start of the story, causing chunks of it to fall towards Earth frequently. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 70 | * ''Animation/LingLongIncarnation'': In the backstory, a sudden shift of the moons alignment caused a ripple effect that devastated the world just as a massive evacuation was underway, destroying civilization and preventing the exodus to the stars. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 74 | * The ''Series/DoctorWho'' comic strip "The Love Invasion" featured an alien who intended to improve the lives of the human race and his (in the long run) with the first item on his agenda being "destroy the Moon". He nearly goes through with it. |
| 75 | * The ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' storyline ''ComicBook/ReckoningWar'' kicks off with the Moon being destroyed. The heroes believe that the invading Badoon is the cause of this. [[spoiler:The FF end up discovering this wasn't the case, that it was the Reckoners who attacked the Moon, trying to stop Uatu from warning his race of their arrival.]] |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}:'' The first issue has the Professor getting the main trio to hide a {{BFG}} he's built, since the night before he accidentally blew up one of Jupiter's many, many, ''many'' moons with it, and he wants to hide the evidence before the cops show up. Bender, unsurprisingly, isn't too concerned. |
| 77 | -->'''Bender:''' Eh, that planet had too many moons to begin with.\ |
| 78 | '''Professor:''' Damn straight! |
| 79 | * The moon gets destroyed in the "Five Years Later" period of ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. This was due to the events of ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' where Franchise/{{Superman}} got stranded in this era. He and the Legion are able to stop the initial countdown, but the BigBad of the storyline realizes this is the only way to send Superman back to his original time and resumes the countdown. In this case there ''is'' an Endor Holocaust, with lunar fragments being a serious threat to Earth for some time afterwards (until Earth got destroyed as well). |
| 80 | * The moon of the planet Sakaar (from ComicBook/PlanetHulk) is broken into pieces. [[spoiler:By the end of the storyline, the same thing happens to Sakaar.]] |
| 81 | * ''ComicBook/TimeRunsOut:'' In the final issue of ''Avengers'', Iron Man takes out a huge chunk of the Moon blowing up an alien fleet. Fortunately, the universe is destroyed and rebooted a few hours later, before anyone misses it. |
| 82 | * In a ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story about the Avengers' enemy Korvac, Korvac and the Stranger become involved in a shoving match, with the moon itself as the object being shoved. The moon, behaving at least somewhat according to the laws of physics, gets ripped to shreds by tidal forces and forms a debris ring around the Earth. There is NoEndorHolocaust, but it doesn't matter because [[spoiler:Korvac ends the universe with the Ultimate Nullifier]]. |
| 83 | * In ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'', Gert kills the sentient moon narrator by shooting him with a cannon. She then kills the stars to avoid any witnesses. |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/{{Conquest}}'': During the battle between the Imperial and Federation fleets over Earth, the Eclipse-class super star destroyer "Obliterator" uses its [[WaveMotionGun spinal superlaser]] to destroy the Moon along with its several hundred million inhabitants. |
| 88 | * In a supplementary blog for ''The Empress Returns'' (sequel to ''FanFic/TheGodEmpressOfPonykind''), the Blood Angels and their allies loaded a moon full of doomsday weaponry before ramming it into Hive Fleet Leviathan, destroying the Tyranid synapse ships and saving Baal from being consumed. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'': In the final arc, [[spoiler:Kaworu blows up a chunk of the Moon in order to try to destroy an EldritchAbomination.]] Many people wonder whether humankind is definitely and inescapably screwed or it is not as bad as it looks. Fortunately it looks like the debris is floating away from Earth. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 93 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', one of Cybertron's moons is blown up while Unicron is eating it, in an attempt to kill him. This attempt does not work. |
| 94 | -->'''Spike:''' It [[NoSell isn't even dented]]! [[OhCrap Oh]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]'' what are we gonna do now? |
| 95 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', the moon is shattered by continent-sized shrapnel from the EarthShatteringKaboom that kickstarts the plot. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 99 | * The Moon inexplicably combusts in ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'', with a small piece [[SpecialEffectsFailure continuing to dangle from a wire]], after the first astronauts to visit it incur the wrath of the Amazons living there. |
| 100 | * ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'': Strongly implied it happened since the protagonists claim that there's no Moon in the sky [[spoiler:and the planet [[EarthAllAlong turns out to be Earth]]]]. Later expanded material would depict how it happened during WorldWarIII. |
| 101 | * ''Film/FlashGordon1980'': Ming pokes the moon out of orbit so it is sent on a collision course with Earth. |
| 102 | * ''Film/JMenForever''. The Lightning Bug has his supervillain lair on the Moon, and destroys it when he [[ThePowerOfRock cranks his stereo up too loud]]. |
| 103 | * ''Film/ManOfSteel'': In one of the scenery shots of Krypton, you can see its moon partially blown up. |
| 104 | ** This is a ContinuityNod to the Silver Age comics' justification for Krypton having forbidden rocketry. Krypton's principal moon, Wegthor, had their first space colony -- until scientist Jax-Ur's nuclear missile missed the meteor he was aiming at. |
| 105 | * In ''Film/Oblivion2013'': The alien invaders have severely crippled humanity and the Earth's climate by shattering the Moon, which gave our post-apocalyptic world an admittedly [[ApocalypseWow beautiful]] AlienSky with the destroyed Moon casting long shades with its debris. |
| 106 | * In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', one of the moons of the Klingon homeworld (Praxis) has apparently blown up; interestingly, in this timeline, this seems to have happened 30 years ''before'' the event in the Prime universe, where it was a major plot point in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' and was the event that paved the way for the end of formal hostilities between the Federation and the Klingon Empire in the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]-era. |
| 107 | ** One could infer this was due to the Klingon's having studied the ''Narada'' from [[Film/StarTrek2009 the previous film]] during the 25 years they held Nero and his crew prisoner. Presumably, by studying the technology of the mining ship, the Klingons inadvertently accelerated the accident that lead to the destruction of the moon in the Prime-verse, which was caused by over-mining. |
| 108 | ** A tie-in comic shows that the BigBad of the movie was responsible. [[spoiler:While being a brainwashed operative of Section 31, he came up with the plan of placing a bomb on the moon to destroy it, thus weakening the Klingon empire.]] |
| 109 | * ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'' features a sub-plot about colonizing the moon in the 2030s which goes horribly wrong and ends up with the moon being blown to pieces. Some genius decided that using nuclear weapons to dig caverns beneath the surface was a good idea. It causes a bit of an [[ApocalypseHow armageddon]]. The moon's still there but much [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/timemachine/images/3/32/Timemachine02_moonboom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111007233838 closer to earth and totally fractured]]. Bits and pieces have settled into orbit or hit the Earth. When the time traveler later emerges in 802701, the smaller chunks of the moon have been pulled apart and stretched into a mini-asteroid belt. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'', Professor Sherman Klump dreams that he [[TooDumbToLive accidentally planted a nuclear weapon on the Moon]] instead of [[Film/Armageddon1998 on an asteroid heading for Earth.]] |
| 111 | -->'''Sherman:''' Oh no! I done blowed up the wrong one! |
| 112 | * In TV-movie catastrophic flick ''Impact'', a [[HollywoodScience piece of brown dwarf]] hits the Moon and gets stuck in it. The main characters then make a flight to the Moon in order to polarize it so it ''expulses'' the piece of dwarf. [[spoiler:Doing so they break the Moon into two pieces, though [[ArtisticLicenseSpace it becomes somehow stable in its orbit and doesn't have any negative effects on our planet]].]] |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 116 | * In Creator/ArthurCClarke's companion novel to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', the rings of Saturn were formed when one of its moons was destroyed around 3 million years ago [[spoiler:to create the "Star Crate", a giant monolith mirroring the one found on Earth's moon.]] |
| 117 | * In one of Creator/StephenBaxter's more nonsensical stories, the US government executes "Operation Sunday Punch" to use an oversized nuclear bomb to blow a huge chunk out of the moon, in order to intimidate the other nations of the world. [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 It doesn't]] [[DidntThinkThisThrough end well]]. |
| 118 | * The novel ''Die dunkle Seite des Mondes'' (''The Dark Side of the Moon'') of the ''Charity'' series by Creator/WolfgangHohlbein ends with the Moon being shattered by a massive hyperspace wave, as a result of something that was done in one of the previous novels in the series. Considering the wave was about to do the same to Earth, the destruction of the Moon is considerably more preferable. One of the characters mentions that humans will have to learn to live without the tides, while another character points out that the tides will still be there, as the main mass of the moon is still in orbit. |
| 119 | * The Franchise/CthulhuMythos short story "Remnants" by Fred Chappell has the Old Ones destroying and re-engineering the Moon into a giant five-pointed star for their own arcane purposes. |
| 120 | * ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'': Technically happens over 50,000 years before the beginning of the main plot, as standard Fourth Imperium military practice was to [[ThatsNoMoon disguise]] their {{Planet Spaceship}}s as appropriately-sized moons when in systems they didn't control. As a result, [[SapientShip Dahak]] has spent all that time disguised as ''the'' Moon. The first book ends with the disguise being dropped, but a gravity generator is left behind at Earth so the planet still has tides. |
| 121 | * ''Literature/TheExpanse'': |
| 122 | ** In ''Leviathan Wakes'' the UN Navy blows up Deimos at the start of the siege of Mars, the debris poses a long-lasting navigation hazard and rains down on some of the domed cities. Later, a Martian ship nukes Protomolecule-infested Phoebe into rubble and sends the rubble on a course into Saturn. |
| 123 | ** In ''Persepolis Rising'', one of the strongholds the ''Heart of the Tempest'' destroys while single-handedly conquering Sol is the asteroid Pallas, the third-largest in the Asteroid Belt, and home to thousands of Belters. |
| 124 | * In the Hugo-award winning series, ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy'' by N.K. Jemisin, the fate of the moon is a prominent plot point. |
| 125 | * In ''Literature/{{Incarceron}},'' it's mentioned that the [[AfterTheEnd Years of Rage]] have taken their toll on the Moon. It still ''appears'' to be in orbit, but its innards have been hollowed and its face is pockmarked, effectively killing the tides. |
| 126 | * In the novel ''Moonfall'' by Creator/JackMcDevitt the moon is smashed into itty-bitty bits by a mysterious giant comet just days after a commercial moonbase has been built there. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'': In the BadFuture seen in the first book, the moon is ''gone''. When he time-travels to said BadFuture in ''Sharper'', John witnesses the Nightside's demise in transit, including how it shatters and rains down over the already-devastated city. |
| 128 | * Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Seveneves}}'' begins with the sentence "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." The remainder of the book is about dealing with the disasters that result. |
| 129 | * The Army of Mars nuked the moon in Kurt Vonnegut's ''Literature/TheSirensOfTitan''. |
| 130 | * ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'': In ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}'' and ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'', it is stated that when, on the WorldHalfEmpty Moon, the people's wickedness is complete, it will be shattered. |
| 131 | * In ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', Romulan admiral Mendak tries to sabotage the free Reman settlement on Klorgat IV by blowing up one of the planet's moons. |
| 132 | * In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', at one point a prototype Death Star aims at the planet Kessel, ''misses'', and blows up its moon instead. Mako Spince was expelled from the Imperial Military Academy when he attempted to blow the Imperial seal off one of Carida's moons as a joke but used too much antimatter. |
| 133 | * This was [[StarterVillain Dr. Diaper]]'s plan in the very first ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants''; the Captain, George, and Harold destroy his laser device before he can go through with it. [[spoiler:The BadFuture in book 9 is the result of Diaper being able to make it happen and the other subsequent villains completing their plans, as Mr. Krupp never got brainwashed into believing he was Captain Underpants.]] |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 137 | * In the cartoon segments of ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'', the moon blows up after the Aquabats succeed at rescuing Jimmy from a collapsing underwater city beneath the moon's surface. |
| 138 | * In one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', the guys are bouncing a laser off the moon to see if it's viewable from Earth and Penny's dim-witted date is worried the moon will blow up. Leonard reassures him that they set the laser to stun. |
| 139 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' discusses this extensively in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon Kill the Moon]]". Strange happenings on the Moon (fault lines enlarging, a sudden but inexplicable increase in mass, and resulting disastrous effects on Earth tides) causes humanity to launch a mission to blow up the Moon with a bunch of nukes. By the end of the episode, they [[spoiler:discover that the Moon is actually an egg that's about to hatch, and they subvert the trope by stopping the countdown [[AlwaysClose at the last second]]. Then played with even further -- the newborn... [[SingleSpecimenSpecies thing]]... ''immediately'' [[BornAsAnAdult lays a new Moon-egg]], which explains why we still have a moon in episodes that take place further into the future.]] |
| 140 | * ''Series/TheExpanse'' portrays the destruction of Phoebe as a last-minute attempt to keep Earth from getting the Protomolecule, as both Mars and Earth have marines en route when the missiles are launched. Deimos is destroyed shortly afterwards as reprisal. |
| 141 | * From ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'', a description of the songs of the rock group [[FakeBand Disaster Area]]: |
| 142 | -->"[They] are, on the whole, very simple and usually follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon which then explodes for no [[StuffBlowingUp adequately explored reason]]." |
| 143 | * In ''Series/MrShow'', America inexplicably decides to blow up the moon and is met with huge approval, with people writing patriotic country songs and throwing parties in honor of the event. When Galileo, the monkey assigned to push the launch button, asks (via sign language) why they're doing it, America erupts into outrage, until Galileo is fired and replaced with Mr. Wiggles, a monkey that doesn't know sign language. NASA goes ahead with the destruction of the moon, and they do it during a full moon so they know they got it all. |
| 144 | -->'''NASA Engineer:''' We have the technology. The time is now. Science can wait no longer. Children are our future. America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon! |
| 145 | * Inverted in ''Series/Space1999'', in which the Moon gets blasted into space but survives more or less intact, but the Earth suffers devastating effects from the loss of their tide-control device. In a later episode, it's revealed that the Earth survived, but humanity screwed the environment anyway. |
| 146 | * The ABC Family dramedy, ''Three Moons Over Milford'', in which the moon was shattered into three pieces by an asteroid, leaving people uncertain about the future of life on Earth. |
| 147 | * In ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', the primary event that destroys the Earth at the end of Season One is [[spoiler:when Vanya destroys the moon during her solo concert]]. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 151 | * Gunpowder Tim, Master-at-Arms of Music/TheMechanisms, was found by the crew floating in the midst of the shattered remains of the Moon, his eyes burned out by the blaze of the explosion. As revealed in ''Gunpowder Tim vs the Moon Kaiser'', he was entirely responsible. |
| 152 | * The song [[https://youtu.be/-VbrL65_RBo 1969]] by Australian hip-hop artist Seth Sentry is set in a timeline where rather than simply visiting the moon, America instead blows it up. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 156 | * ''[[VideoGame/ProPinballFantasticJourney Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey]]'' begins with General Yagov threatening to destroy the Moon unless his demands are met. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 160 | * ''Radio/QuietPlease1947'': The scientist in "If I Should Wake Before I Die", who is a very ForScience kind of guy, shoots a nuclear bomb at the moon as an experiment. He winds up accidentally destroying the moon. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
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| 163 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 164 | * In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' Deimos was accidentally eaten by [=MarsCo=]'s orbital construction Geomats, the computers had labelled it "flotsam" and no one caught it until it was too late. They constructed a [=BlueSky=] station in memoriam of the small moon in the wake of the PR disaster, but many still wonder if it was really an accident. Earth's moon, on the other hand, was the site of an observation base keeping an eye on the new ecosystem developing on the planet that had been nuked to sterilization a few centuries earlier, then one of the expeditions brought something back and the entire rock is covered with what looks like crystallized blood. |
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| 167 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 168 | * In Lost Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', [[spoiler:Oni Punches Mantra Asura so hard the moon splits in half, and they start blowing up more of it as they start fighting more.]] |
| 169 | * In ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', Makoto Nanaya's Astral Finish ends with her uppercutting her opponent into the sky. The force of the punch makes him hit the moon and ''shatter it''. |
| 170 | * Deserves special mention in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', cause while most examples on the video-game list are just creative licensing to show power, in City of Heroes BigBad Lord Recluse actually does it. [[spoiler:No-name villain Darrin Wade kills BigGood Statesman]] then flies to the moon to become a god, Lord Recluse's retort: He launches one of his nuclear warheads at the moon then takes a rocket up there to finish the job himself. Scary part is he has more of those warheads and nothing left to lose... |
| 171 | * Part of the backstory of how the Skirineen got punched out of their galatic dominance in the ''VideoGame/{{Deadlock}}'' series is that they attempted to frighten the Humans into submission by blowing up part of the moon and leaving Earth with a new ring system. This backfired horribly for them as it instead [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant infuriated Humans into a berserker frenzy]] and led to a fierce counterattack, turning the tide of the war against them alongside the other known space-capable species and ultimately pushing them back. |
| 172 | * [[VideoGame/MakaiKingdom Zetta's]] [[EyeBeams Zetta Beeeam Neo]] attack in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'' causes the Netherworld's moon and the asteroid belt near it to detonate in a glorious screen-filling explosion with every use. |
| 173 | ** The poor moon can't catch a break in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', either, where the number of moon-destroying attacks has increased drastically. Even some of the less impressive units like the Rabbit and Eryngya blow it to smithereens with their final attack. |
| 174 | * The fourth installment of the ''VideoGame/DontEscape'' series, ''4 Days to Survive'', takes place in a world where a lunar drilling project gone wrong has caused the Moon to explode. This had understandably devastating effects on the planet, from magnetic fields going haywire to extreme weather to all of Earth becoming a wasteland. As the title implies, you have four days before what remains of the Moon falls down and wipes out all remaining life on Earth. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'' has the Sophons; a species of [[BunglingInventor bungling scientists]] who have [[NoodleIncident somehow managed]] to blow up their moon in their quest for new discoveries. |
| 176 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2''. [[spoiler:Bakunawa has a mining laser designed to shatter stellar bodies, absorbing energy from the debris to power the ship for lengthy space travel. Both Merga and Brevon's forces take turns declaring their intention to use this on the moon, bringing ruin to Avalice below as they flee to the stars. Merga even fires it several times, but never close enough to work. Stopping Bakunawa from blowing the moon up, thereby making this a DefiedTrope, is thus the focus of the final act.]] |
| 177 | * In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Young Link's]] Focus Spirit attack (while using the Fierce Deity Mask) has Skull Kid summon the [[BadMoonRising Moon from Termina]] and Link using a huge beam from his BFS to cut it in half... along with any enemies that are between him and the moon. |
| 178 | * The end of ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' sees the pink guy fly after [[spoiler:Nightmare]], eventually ending up on the moon's surface. Before the battle, the moon is whole; after the battle, it becomes permanently crescent, which is [[ContinuityNod retained for every subsequent game in the series]]. |
| 179 | * In ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' Black Ops 3 map Der Eisendrach Easter Egg mission [[spoiler:ends with Origins gang detonating the Moon with Element 115 missles to destory Griffon Station, the moon base for Group 935.]] |
| 180 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'', the moon in the sky appears to have been blown apart. It turns out to be a Moon goddess, Io, and some force of darkness shattered the moon long before the games' events take place. Io being the embodiment of the moon affected her in some manner (one of [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/paladins_gamepedia/images/a/a4/Card_Lunar_Connection.png her pieces of card art]] has her clutching her head in pain). |
| 181 | * In ''VideoGame/RogueTrip'' you can use a teleporter on the flying saucer level to warp to the moon. If you placed a remote bomb at the crashed saucer and blew it up from the moon, the ''earth'' would explode, shortly followed by a hail of flaming rocks that destroys the moon and kills you. And all that for a cheap vacation. |
| 182 | * In ''VideoGame/ShatteredHorizon'', a mining accident on the moon has caused billions of tons of rocky debris and mining equipment to be thrown out in orbit around earth, essentially leaving a huge hole in the moon, as well as a ring of rocks and debris around the earth. |
| 183 | * In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', the six Moons bombarding the planet with meteors plays an important role in the game's backstory. More ridiculously, there's a LimitBreak that allows you to smash one of them into the enemy... naturally, this is ignored once the battle's over. |
| 184 | * In ''{{VideoGame/Stellaris}}'', one [[VestigialEmpire Fallen Empire]]'s homeworld is orbited by [[http://imgur.com/6ujIYVU a moon with a chunk blown out of it,]] which they call [[NoodleIncident "The Mistake."]] |
| 185 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 186 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Eggman blows up half of the moon with the [[KillSat Eclipse Cannon]] to show the world he's not messing around when he announces he's conquering the world. The laser blows off part of the moon, revealing a molten core and apparently having no influence on the planet's oceans. Despite this, the moon appears perfectly fine in every subsequent game (including one where the final battle happens on the surface). WordOfGod claims that the Moon is still broken; it's just always facing the other way when we see it (the moon's rotation doesn't work like that in real life, but [[GiganticMoon this was a pretty big moon]], so maybe this one does). |
| 187 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', [[spoiler:Super Sonic and Sage team up to defeat [[BigBad The End]], which takes the form of a giant purple moon. WordOfGod is that its AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder, and the purple moon is merely what [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou we, the player, perceive it as]], while Sonic and Sage each perceive it as something else entirely. While Sonic is able to damage it significantly, it takes an HeroicSacrifice from Sage to completely destroy it.]] |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/SuzukiBakuhatsu'': This is what happens if you fail to separate the moon from the bomb in the "Moon Bomb" stage, with an aftermath that depicts Earth becoming a Saturn-like planet one year later. |
| 189 | * While it doesn't happen in-game in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', Saxton Hale accidentally blows up the moon in the [[http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/comic/ non-canon Mac update comic.]] Using an Apple product called [=iBlewUpTheMoon=]. |
| 190 | * A version of this happens in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' after destroying the final boss, although it technically isn't a moon, [[spoiler:It's the unborn god of destruction.]] First it's shown collapsing in on itself into nothingness, followed by a [[{{Delayed Explosion}} brief pause]], followed by a [[{{Earth Shattering Kaboom}} massive explosion that engulfs the tree that literally created life.]] Did we mention how big the tree was? |
| 191 | * In ''VideoGame/TouhouSoccer'', one of Youmu Konpaku's better shots has her completely ignore the ball, fly up into the air, and to one side of the moon. She then slices the Japanese characters for her shot into the moon, and then SLICE IT IN HALF. Explosion and everything. She then apparently remembers the ball and comes down and whacks the ball with her sword. The soccer ball, to its credit, handles a slash that cleaved the moon in two very well, as it may well be MadeOfIndestructium. |
| 192 | * Happens with ''every casting'' of Fei's Big Bang spell in ''VideoGame/XenoGears''. Also an example of SlapOnTheWristNuke. |
| 193 | * According to the [[{{VideoGame/Destiny}} Books of Sorrow]], Xivu Arath once achieved a MutualKill against her brother Oryx by blowing up the [[PlanetSpaceship war moon]] they both were on [[TakingYouWithMe after he killed her.]] They got better, as Hive gods do, and the experience taught Oryx a valuable lesson about how to protect himself from {{Earth Shattering Kaboom}}s in general, which later helped him destroy the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Ecumene]] (which did a lot of that trying to kill him). |
| 194 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonMarkedForDeath'', [[spoiler:the bad ending has the [[CameBackStrong newly-revived]] Astral Dragon Atruum nuking the Alabaster Moon into chunks with his BreathWeapon, killing or at least heavily crippling his rival Primatus and his Deva agents, and thus removing the last obstacle between himself and devouring all the souls of mankind.]] |
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| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 198 | * In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] launches Franchise/WonderWoman all the way to the moon, then throws Mjolnir after her. Wonder Woman tanks the impact with her bracelets, and the resulting shockwave ''blows the moon to pieces.'' |
| 199 | * In ''WebAnimation/HololiveHoloNoGraffiti'', the episode "[[https://youtu.be/ExRYtdoeUrY Fly Me to the Moon]]" starts off with Botan Shishiron throwing Watame Tsunomaki through the office window and onto the street, with Watame sailing for 88m. Next up is Noel Shirogane, who throws Marine Houshou through the wall into the next building, but only scoring 80m. The last contestants are Aname Kanata spinning Haachama with enough force to throw her through the ceiling, through the stratosphere, into the moon, and out the other side, with Haachama no worse for wear. The final distance is 384,400 km. |
| 200 | * ''WebAnimation/PortByTheSea'': The opening illustrations depict a shattered moon that would come about if the titan Tiamat should ever escape his imprisonment. [[spoiler:And indeed, the moon is eventually revealed to be shattered, with Port and Umi on a quest to repair it.]] |
| 201 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostEpicStoryEverToldInAllOfHumanHistory'': [[BigBad Ridiculously Epic]] destroys the moon as part of his epic rampage at the end of the trailer. |
| 202 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant's moon is mysteriously half-shattered, leaking a dense field of debris. Oddly, most of the debris seems to stay in the same relative position, with the moon looking like it was just shattered for thousands of years. The moon also rotates, resulting in periods where the debris field faces away from Remnant and making the moon seem whole. |
| 203 | ** One of humanity's theories is a fairy tale called ''[[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant The Gift of the Moon]]'' that claims it's really the sun, which humanity accidentally broke. After building a new fake sun made of glass, the weakened original sun was relegated to lighting the night sky as the moon. |
| 204 | ** [[spoiler:In truth, long ago ancient humanity was destroyed when [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Salem]] rebelled against the gods. Abandoning Remnant and [[CompleteImmortality Salem]], the God of Darkness smashed the moon as a warning against disrespecting gods while the God of Light resurrected Salem's dead lover, [[ResurrectiveImmortality Ozma]], to guide a reborn humanity to redemption. Salem's [[NeverMyFault refusal to acknowledge]] the moon's warning and Ozma's [[GuiltComplex inability to ignore it]] has locked them into a ForeverWar for the fate of humanity.]] |
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| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 208 | * In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', Naboo's moon is destroyed in order to interfere with the Gungans' battle tactics. |
| 209 | * In the distant past of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' the wars between the elves managed to [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6101 damage]] [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=8252 one of the nine moons]] resulting in a large piece impacting the surface and creating the Underworld where the elves eventually fled once they had wrecked the surface too much to survive. |
| 210 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 211 | ** Jack Noir does this to [[spoiler:Prospit's [[MoralEventHorizon (inhabited)]] moon]]. Technically, he only [[spoiler:broke the chain connecting it to Prospit and crashed it into Skaia, but the idea is the same.]] |
| 212 | ** Later on, B2 Jack and Her Imperious Condescension play this straight on the moons of B2!Prospit and B2!Derse, with a BreathWeapon and EyeBeams respectively. Their reasons are different, but they somehow pull this off at the same time. |
| 213 | * Richard managed this in ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' while trying to extinguish a burning village. He wanted a high five afterward. |
| 214 | * ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' questions if NASA [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-2317 only wanted pictures when crashing things into the moon.]] |
| 215 | * Another example of a different moon, the UNS of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-02-29 accidentally broke Io while strip mining it.]] The nickel-iron core [[GoneHorriblyRight popped out]] and [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-01 crashed into Jupiter]], hence the saying "not for all the nickels in Jupiter". |
| 216 | * [[http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=533 Suggested]] by ''Webcomic/ASofterWorld'' as a solution for TeenPregnancy. Among other things. |
| 217 | -->Many problems. One solution. |
| 218 | * Not our moon, but in ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'' the test firing of the Zorp cannon destroyed Deimos. |
| 219 | * [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1522#comic This]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' has a scientist pretends he wants to explode Mars to get some funding. |
| 220 | * ''Webcomic/SoulSymphony'': The moon in Olivia's Soul World appears to be permanently crescent because a majority of it actually ''exploded.'' |
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| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 224 | * The now-defunct [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080416072758/http://stu.wccnet.org/~bwells/gdt200/cabum1.html Citizens' Association to Blow Up the Moon.]] [[spoiler:CABUM]] |
| 225 | * In ''[[VideoGame/ColourMySeries Colour My Dreams]]'', [[spoiler:you need to do this after solving a puzzle to get past the endless hallway]]. |
| 226 | * Frank J. Fleming of the blog IMAO, advocates the United States [[http://www.imao.us/index.php/a-realistic-plan-for-world-peaceakanuke-the-moon/ Nuking the Moon]] to convince other countries that the U.S. is crazy and not to be messed with. |
| 227 | * ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'' has the Moon blown up in order to have the broken pieces rain down upon the Earth and make it uninhabitable. |
| 228 | * In the WebVideo/RealTimeFandub of VideoGame/SonicAdventure2, Eggman blows up the moon, just like in the original game. The difference is, there are two versions of this scene; in the Dark Story version, it's immediately preceded by a drunken tirade against Shadow the Hedgehog, seen below. |
| 229 | -->'''Eggman:''' I've come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog's a bitch-ass motherfucker. He pissed on my fucking wife. That's right, he took his hedgehog-fuckin' quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was "THIS BIG," and I said "that's disgusting," so I'm making a callout post on my Twitter.com: Shadow the Hedgehog, you've got a small dick. It's the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my dong looks like! ''BWSHHH!!'' That's right, baby. All points, no quills, no pillows -- look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong. He fucked my wife, so guess what, I'm gonna fuck the Earth. That's right, this is what you get: MY SUPER LASER PISS!! Except I'm not gonna piss on the Earth, I'm gonna go higher! I'M PISSING ON THE '''''MOON'''''! How do you like that, Obama?! ''I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!'' You have twenty-three hours before the piss [[TrillingRs DRRRRROPLLLLLETS]] hit the fucking Earth! Now get out of my fucking sight before I piss on you too! |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': During the [[GrandFinale Grand Finale]], [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Core]] intends to use Amphibia's moon to [[ColonyDrop crash into the planet's surface and wipe out all life on it]], to prevent this, Anne Boonchuy [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] by absorbing the powers of the [[ArtifactOfPower Calamity Gems]] to become all-powerful and destroying Amphibia's moon, ending The Core in the process.]] |
| 234 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': A pink, unshaven man appears out of nowhere (like most anything on the show) and asks the Aqua Teens to help him blow up the Moon. As it quickly turns out, he’s actually a [[Franchise/StarWars Wookie]] [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-beast]], and needed the Moon gone so he couldn’t transform. It happens anyway, but that’s because the Mooninites blew up Yoda for kicks. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In the first season finale, Zhao kidnaps and then {{kill|the god}}s [[CosmicKeystone the moon spirit]] to rob [[MakingASplash the waterbenders]] of their power. It's not clear if the moon was ''physically'' destroyed/wiped from existence, but at the very least he got it to stop reflecting light. Somewhat averts NoEndorHolocaust in that they make it clear the moon's death would be disastrous to the whole world. As it stands, however, [[spoiler:all it did was force a HeroicSacrifice to fix the moon and create one ''very'' pissed off ocean spirit kaiju.]] |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': The planet that the Maximals and Predacons land on has two moons. At the end of season 1, [[spoiler:one of them turns out to be an alien KillSat, which Optimus Primal ends up destroying by HeroicSacrifice]]. |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': "Wirewolf" Booster and Mira flew Star Cruiser 42 into the moon, blowing it up so as to revert Wirewolf back to Ty Parsec. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Lazlo, Raj, and Clam mistake Lumpus' giant telescope for a canon and think he wants to blow up the moon. They throw a protest against this and try to convince him not to. |
| 239 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Aliens destroy the moon and repair it with their armpit cheese. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' features a song that repeatedly demands the listener blow up the moon, though it never actually happens. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/HaredevilHare", Marvin the Martian attempts to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] from the Moon, but ends up blowing the Moon in half instead, leaving only a crumbling crescent. |
| 242 | * Creator/TexAvery: Non-explosive version: in "Billy Boy", the titular [[ExtremeOmnivore billy goat]] ends up ''eating'' the entire moon. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021:'' Right from the first episode, it's shown there are multiple moons in the sky, one of which has been shattered. It eventually turns out [[spoiler:King Grayskull]] caused it after being corrupted by the power of Havok. |
| 244 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Coop once blew up part of the moon "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop", which caused major climate change (a subversion of NoEndorHolocaust). When asked if he was concerned about this, he replied, [[BystanderSyndrome "What does that have to do with bubblegum ice cream?"]] Kiva made him fix it in the credits. The episode basically told you from the start [[BrickJoke what was going to happen]]: in Kiva's time, the moon has a lot less mass. |
| 245 | * ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'': The GrandFinale opens with a shot of the [[spoiler:Shadoen fleet]] blowing up the moon and uses the EiffelTowerEffect several times over to demonstrate in minute detail exactly how much destruction blowing up the moon actually causes. The whole thing is soon revealed to be a simulation, though they still plan on blowing up the moon. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': |
| 247 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E05CupidsErrantArrow Cupid's Errant Arrow]]": The ''Cerritos'' and ''Vancouver'' are assigned to deliberately implode an unstable moon that is going to crash into its parent planet and kill everyone on it. |
| 248 | ** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E01StrangeEnergies Strange Energies]]": After gaining godlike powers, Ransom zaps the Apergosian moon out of existence. |
| 249 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In "Starfire the Terrible", Starfire [[ItMakesSenseInContext dedicates her life to killing Robin to make him feel better.]] After she got the hang of villainy, she decides to step up her game by rigging the moon to explode. Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy, still unconvinced that Starfire is even capable of evil, laugh at her seemingly ridiculous claim. Cut to the surface of the moon where sticks of dynamite are embedded everywhere and all connected to a countdown device that looks suspiciously like a toaster. Once the timer reaches zero...it pops out toast...[[DoubleSubversion then blows up the moon]]. |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'': In the OpeningNarration a rogue planet passes between the Earth and the Moon, and its gravitational field cracks the latter in half, like a walnut. This doesn't affect its orbit in the slightest, but it [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt does end human civilization]]. The shattered remnants of the moon can be occasionally seen in the night sky during episodes. |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'': In "[[Recap/TUFFPuppyS1E5ToastOfTUFFShareALair Toast of T.U.F.F.]]", Verminious Snaptrap plans to blow up the moon because [[CheesyMoon he thinks it's made of cheese]], which he can't eat due to having a severe cheese allergy ([[IronicAllergy which is ironic because he is a rat]]). Ollie tries to talk him out of it, saying that the Moon is not in fact, made of cheese, but Snaptrap says that [[BlatantLies he's really blowing up the moon to get rid of the werewolves]]. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 255 | * [[https://www.popsci.com/what-would-happen-if-moon-suddenly-disappeared#page-3 Here's]] an article on what might happen if the moon were destroyed. Bottom line: the problem of falling debris wouldn't be nearly as bad as getting hit by an object from deep space, but long-term effects on the environment from the loss of tides and the loss of moonlight could be pretty terrible. Also, we might get rings. |
| 256 | * The rings orbiting the planets Saturn and Uranus may have formed when a moon orbiting it broke up either by straying too close to its parent planet or was destroyed in a collision with another moon. |
| 257 | * Uranus' moon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(moon) Miranda]] has bizarre terrain and it was once thought that long ago it was completely shattered and has since reformed. [[ScienceMarchesOn This theory is no longer considered credible]]. Current thinking is that Miranda once had a subsurface ocean like Europa and Enceladus are thought to, but the whole thing froze and warped the surface. |
| 258 | * Some planets may eventually lose their moons billions of years from now. Because it is orbiting the Red Planet faster than that planet can spin, the Martian moon Phobos may eventually collide with Mars, and it is widely believed that it will not be the first moon Mars has lost this way; and even though the Moon is actually moving away from the Earth until it slows down so much that it is literally stuck above one side of our planet permanently,[[note]]Actually not; this process is expected not to happen until much before the Sun had gone red giant and died[[/note]] the dying and expanding Sun will eventually cause the Moon to spiral back toward Earth, causing it to shatter and collide with our own planet[[note]]Actually the Moon will be disrupted by Earth's tidal forces, forming a short-lived ring system before the Sun destroys our planet[[/note]] (ironically, this was also how our Moon was born). |
| 259 | ** Triton, [[RhymesOnADime Neptune's largest moon]], is spiraling towards its host planet, and will eventually enter the planet's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_Limit Roche Limit]] in about 3.6 '''billion''' years. Once this happens, Triton will actually ''disintegrate'' because of Neptune's tidal forces; Triton will become a '''''huge''''' set of visible rings around Neptune (Triton out-masses Saturn's rings several hundred times over). |
| 260 | ** Two of Uranus's irregular moons, Cupid and Belinda, are expected to collide with each other between one thousand and one million years from now. No one is entirely sure what the collision's results will be, but one hypothesis is that one or both moons will shatter and create a new ring system. |
| 261 | * The impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole-Aitken_basin South Pole-Aitken basin]], the largest confirmed lunar crater and one of the largest known in the Solar System, is thought to have been one of a body moving at a very oblique angle and relatively low velocity. Had it hit at a higher speed and angle, it's thought it could [[http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/July98/spa.html have shattered]] the Moon. |
| 262 | * For a very small example: When NASA demonstrated asteroid deflection by running the DART spacecraft into Dimorphos, the moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos, there was concern that the impact might shatter the moon. The mission design was checked to make sure that that could not happen and Dimorphos was shoved along in its orbit. But the impact still generated a cloud of debris that took months to disperse. |
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