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| 16 | [[quoteright:350:[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_lotr-board_isengard_265.jpg]]]] |
| 17 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[Literature/TheTwoTowers "To Isengard with DOOM we come."]]]] |
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| 19 | -> ''"Mammals, a day of reckoning is coming. That's right, the same plants and flowers that saw you crawl from the primordial soup will reclaim the planet. And there will be no one to protect you."'' |
| 20 | -->-- '''Poison Ivy''', ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' |
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| 24 | Oh great, now humanity has done it. [[HumansAreFlawed We aren't just jerks]], but we've gone and messed up the planet: environmental pollution, wars, negative karmic vibes, etc. Our development has become a GameBreaker in the whole "survival of the fittest" thing, so humans are now [[{{Humans Are Cthulhu}} alien]] to the planet that birthed us. (This also suggests that ''every'' other living species exists in some kind of HiveMind state, so everything they do for survival follows "the rules.") Unlike in a case of GaiasLament, where Gaia is sad and depressed at what's happened and wallowing in self-pity, we aren't getting off easy this time. In this case, she's mad as hell and isn't gonna take it anymore. [[NatureIsNotAToy Nature is definitely not a toy.]] |
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| 26 | This has resulted in a situation where Mother Earth has sicced her champions on us. This will result in either a bunch of [[FiveTokenBand ethnically diverse]] kids [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle learning how to recycle]] while a hero [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers beats up really idiotic and shallow villains]]... or {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that are programmed to wipe out the infection; i.e., humankind. |
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| 28 | Any metaphor for the destruction that environmental damage can cause will do, because really, what [[AnAesop aesop]] can't be delivered through the metaphor of [[SpaceWhaleAesop "If you do this, someone or something will beat the crap out of you?"]] In better series, this will be a logical effect of a certain action; in worse ones, this will just be a flat-out "ScienceIsBad!" |
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| 30 | If intelligent, Gaia's Vengeance can have contradictory assessments of humanity. [[NatureIsNotNice Predators and parasites who kill are simply following their nature]], but on the other hand, humans "should know better" yet shouldn't think themselves different from said animals. |
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| 32 | [[Administrivia/InternalSubtrope We can divide this trope threefold]]: |
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| 34 | * ''Gaia's Vengeance proper'' -- Nature is [[AnthropomorphicPersonification a sentient]], or, at least, [[GeniusLoci independent and real, being]] who can direct the efforts of an entire ecosystem, or even weather et al. and is willing to direct it against this annoying little sentient species that finally pissed it off. Considering species and even ecosystems are perfectly capable of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction-level_event dying out naturally,]] this approach is a lot more susceptible to FridgeLogic than the others. In reality, Mother Nature wipes out her own creations pretty regularly, so the idea of Nature as a sentient being who hates humans for doing the same is [[MoralMyopia inconsistent,]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology to say the least.]] On the other hand, it could be explained by nature [[BlueAndOrangeMorality lacking morals we can comprehend]], instead operating on [[NatureIsNotNice law of strongest]]-species adapt and grow in accordance to the world around them, and if they can't find a place in the ecosystem, they are gone. Problem is that humans are attempting to change the ecosystem and abnormally spread at the expense of everybody else. |
| 35 | * ''Gaia's Vengeance metaphorical'' -- "Was I hallucinating, or was Jerry really eaten by a [[NuclearMutant humongous shark]]?" This is the case when environmental neglect results in local or global tragedy. An example of the former would be a loose swarm of killer bees or an AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fed on a local toxic waste dump; an example of the latter would be global warming. As opposed to above, it does not actually need Nature to act anymore than you'd need a snow devil or whatnot to start an avalanche. |
| 36 | * ''Gaia's Avenger'' -- Here, Nature may or may not be sentient, but pollution is a problem. One person took it as a [[MissionFromGod personal quest]] to fight any real or perceived polluters, all in the name of Mother Earth. {{Knight Templar}}ship abounds, but there are [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers some]] who are right. The NatureSpirit, PlantPerson, BeastMan, {{Treant|s}} and generally anyone who can [[TheEmpath "Feel the Planet's pain!"]] are likely avengers. |
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| 38 | May be the reason for AbsentAliens; i.e., when they get too technologically advanced, they wipe themselves out, or their equivalent of Gaia does it. |
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| 40 | The "Gaia's Avenger" variant is a fairly common PoliceProcedural plot, particularly for shows trying to strike a balance between left-wing and right-wing villain politics. ''Series/LawAndOrder'', ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', and ''Series/CriminalMinds'' have all tackled eco-terrorist bombers who saw themselves this way. |
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| 42 | Compare TheScourgeOfGod, GreenAesop, GaiasLament, NatureSpirit, EcoTerrorist, UpsettingTheBalance, and GlobalWarming. Often a SpaceWhaleAesop. May be a time WhenTreesAttack. May be the motivation behind a {{Transflormation}}. ClockRoaches are this for Father Time. See also DivinePunishment, which involves a more personal deity. |
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| 44 | Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, for the destruction of a man-made structure by a natural organism is ''not'' the result of some God, and real life examples for Gaia's Avenger would be more suitable for EcoTerrorist. |
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| 46 | !!Examples: |
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| 50 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 51 | * Comedy example: New Zealand brewery Speights ran an ad campaign with the tagline "don't mess with mother nature" where a man learns not to throw his gum out the car window. Learns ''hard.'' |
| 52 | * Mocked in old Chiffon Margarine ads, where someone would declare the margarine tasted so much like butter it would fool Mother Nature. Cue lightning and thunder, and Mother Nature herself would appear and remind one and all, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." |
| 53 | * [[https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/film/keep_new_zealand_beautiful_dont_upset_mama_nature "Don't Upset Mama Nature!",]] a New Zealand anti-littering PSA. |
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| 56 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 57 | * ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': The Elders of Olympus seem to view themselves as this, having seen man's propensity for war in the aftermath of WorldWarIII, which left humanity and the world with it in utter ruination. Deciding that humanity must surrender its place on Earth to the Bioroids, the cloned race created with the absence of mankind's inherently flawed nature, the Elders conspire to render the human race infertile. Part of their plan involves convincing the city's primary A.I., Gaia, that humanity has forsaken its worthiness; in a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion of this trope, when Gaia concludes otherwise, the Elders choose to act alone. |
| 58 | * ''Anime/BlueGender'': "The Blue" was generated by Earth to answer the rampant pollution and overpopulation of humanity. The Blue slaughter humans who rise above the hunter-gatherer level and convert their bodies into incubation pods for trees. Whether or not Gaia/the Blue also blew up Second Earth, or if that was just [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans being dicks]], is unknown. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession4GatewayShuffle Gateway Shuffle]]" features a group of [[AnimalWrongsGroup environmental terrorists]] who believe that being Gaia's Vengeance is their purpose in life. They're obsessed with the Ganymede Sea Rat, an animal that's considered a delicacy and isn't portrayed as endangered in any sense of the word. The "Space Warriors", as they call themselves, break off from the more moderate environmental groups, gun down everyone where the rat is served (and celebrate the loss of human life at their hands), and are willing to release a retrovirus that will turn anything remotely human into a hooting ape over the rat's harvesting not being prohibited instead of limited. The episode ends with them trapped in hyperspace and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Their Own Petard]]. |
| 60 | -->''"[[SmallNameBigEgo Please do not associate us with common terrorists]]."'' |
| 61 | %%* ''Anime/EarthMaidenArjuna'': The Raajah. |
| 62 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': Has one that is different in two ways. It's not actually the planet but [[spoiler:a gigantic lifeform that covered Earth, forcing people to abandon it and move back to live on the new surface made from the lifeform without knowing it was earth]], and also that it was something the GovernmentConspiracy was intentionally invoking. They had a series of {{Kill Sat}}s attack specific points to slowly kill it. These attacks also caused huge uprisings of monstrous creatures that killed everyone very violently, and they then used the publicity of their ineffectual efforts to stop it to get public support. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'': Some adaptations (particularly the ones from the 80s and 90s) have this as motivation for the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Yokai of the week]]'s actions. Since in those decades (as every series is set in the decade it airs) civilization advances explosively, humanity begins to care less and less as long as their expansions are done. Naturally, this pisses the Yokai so much that they WILL get at humans no matter what. ''However'', there are two lines of thinking among Yokai, those who must retaliate violently (the aforementioned Yokai of the week) [[DisproportionateRetribution even with innocent proxy]], and those who try to stay amicable with humans (Kitaro and his family, among others). Cue the battles... |
| 64 | * ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}'': The aliens were apparently produced by the Universe itself to deal with the human infection. Considering that the creatures are the size of houses, use ships of astronomical scale and destroy stars to reproduce, it's a bit questionable which species actually makes more objective harm on the galactic scale. In order to defeat them, humanity [[spoiler:kills the galaxy itself with the Black Hole Bomb, showing that it wasn't necessarily incorrect to view humans as a threat even if attempting to suppress them is what pushed them to taking that step. In [[Anime/DieBuster the sequel]] humanity appears to be evolving to take on the role of galactic antibodies, ironically causing their own defense network to turn against them.]] |
| 65 | * ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': [[spoiler:Master Asia]] turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who wants to rid earth of humanity by using [[spoiler:Devil Gundam]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:the [[strike:Ultimate]] Devil Gundam]] was originally programmed to help restore the Earth after a couple centuries of war, pollution, and periodic GiantRobot brawls turned it into a practical hell hole. [[AIIsACrapshoot Guess how it's]] [[KillAllHumans decided to do that]]. However, this is only because it was severely damaged. |
| 66 | * ''Mugen Densetsu Takamagahara: Dream Saga'': The heroes go around Takamagahara calming the monsters that have sworn revenge on polluting humans. ''Then'' they find out that [[spoiler:the whole journey they were chosen to complete was meant to destroy the worlds, as Amaterasu thought them too far gone.]] They obviously don't take this too well and decide to SaveBothWorlds. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Legend claims this is the true reason [[spoiler:the Ten-Tails]] exists. [[spoiler:It was originally the WorldTree until a woman ate a Chakra-filled fruit so she could use its power to end war. The Tree was supposedly so enraged by the theft that it became a Beast and rampaged across the world in an attempt to take back Chakra from humanity. But Zetsu ultimately reveals this legend to be false, as the holy tree was completely indifferent to the theft. Its rampage was actually caused by Kaguya.]] One of the things it could do was a technique whose name roughly translates from Japanese into "Disaster Befalling Heaven and Earth", which is it basically manipulating nature energy to force ALL natural disasters to happen simultaneously in one area, from tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning, to earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and volcanic eruptions. |
| 68 | * ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': |
| 69 | ** Planets evolve into a summation of its lifeforms, called an Ultimate One. Earth features two major wills/powers: Gaia, the "will of the planet", and [[BigGood Alaya, the "will of humanity to survive"]], purely because humans are not necessarily conductive to Gaia's goal of becoming an Ultimate One but are nonetheless her creations. Because humanity is becoming too independent, Gaia seeks to kill them and destroy their progress however she can, and Alaya fights against her. Both Gaia and Alaya have access to a third existence, the Counter Force, that applies a balancing mechanism and will also destroy anything that starts moving down a path which would threaten the planet. In general, individual humans will have to die no matter which side acts. Notably, unlike most examples, Gaia is unambiguously the ''[[BigBad villain]]'' in this scenario. |
| 70 | ** Gaia also has access to a monster called Primate Murder which has absolute authority over killing humans, and made a deal with Crimson Moon, the Ultimate One of the Moon, to create [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} to control the spread of humanity]] in the past. Alaya tasks Counter-Guardians, empowered spirits of exceptional persons, to destroy any threat to humanity's survival, which can include recklessly endangering the environment. |
| 71 | ** Kinoko Nasu's older work, ''[[Literature/AngelNotes Notes]]'', deals with what happens in the apocalyptic future where Gaia finally dies. Humanity is left to fend on a dead planet that can't even support the basics of life as it was known for all of humanity's former existence, and the Ultimate Ones of the other planets come to mop up what's left of humanity because they had heard Gaia's death wail. Ultimate One of Venus also reveals that the reason Gaia tries to kill humans isn't because of the damage they caused. [[SkewedPriorities Gaia doesn't actually mind being killed. Humans outliving her is what terrifies her.]] |
| 72 | * ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'' has the Neo-Sapiens/Neoroids as androids designed to protect Earth's environment, [[AIIsACrapshoot inevitably deciding that the best way to accomplish this is to]] KillAllHumans. The live-action adaption, ''Film/{{Casshern}}'', reduces this to subtext [[spoiler:of the ShootTheShaggyDog ending]]. |
| 73 | * ''Anime/OriginSpiritsOfThePast'': Starts with an intelligent forest wiping out most of humanity, but they're genetically engineered so not really an example. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'': This is what the parasites are. Or think they are. It's involved, anyway. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'': The D lineage, beings who can communicate with animals and sense their suffering and death, will apparently not rest until humans are driven to extinction as revenge for the animals that ''they'' have driven to extinction. |
| 76 | ** [[spoiler:The D lineage]] also has a more ''personal'' issue against humanity: humans killed off [[spoiler:the rest of D's species]]. |
| 77 | ** The current Count tells Leo, as he's rescuing him, that ''if'' humanity obliterates the rest of life, ''that's'' when he'd take genocidal vengeance. Further, the previous Count wished [[spoiler:to be reincarnated as a human. Most importantly, D tells Leo that humanity has not ''yet'' earned the right to have a place on the fae ship, meaning that the D fae are still ambivalent regarding humanity (pretty close to the "efface" point, but not actually locked there).]] |
| 78 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': In ''[[Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns Mewtwo Returns]]'', Giovanni and Team Rocket build a factory in the mountaintop paradise that Mewtwo and the cloned pokemon from [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie the first movie]] have made their home. In response to the ensuing pollution, swarms of angry Bug-type pokemon from the surrounding forests attack the construction site and drive the villains out. |
| 79 | * ''Manga/ShamanKing'': [[BigBad The main villain]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist Hao]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Asakura]], is Gaia's Avenger. One of his primary reasons for wanting to wipe out humanity (along with [[FantasticRacism most shamans]] [[BurnTheWitch having suffered some sort of prosecution]] [[TorchesAndPitchforks at human hands]] and being driven mad by [[PowerIncontinence constantly]] [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead hearing thoughts and feeling emotions of everybody around him]]) is his belief that humans are either contributing to destruction of planet or at best doing nothing to prevent it. To drive point home, he is [[ElemenTalPowers master of all elements]] and his guardian spirit is the Spirit of Fire, [[ElementalEmbodiment oldest and most powerful of nature spirits]], described as prototype of all fire gods from every mythology, created by [[{{God}} The Great Spirits themselves.]] In the anime, Horohoro meets a young shaman who is using his powers to scare away humans to prevent ther destruction of the forest. When things result in violence, Horo shows him a better way. |
| 80 | * ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'': The Mews were born "Earth's chosen ones", but in a slight twist, [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic engineering]] (i.e. science) was ''required'' to complete the transformation into world-saving {{Magical Girl}}s. The Mew Aqua, which turns polluted areas into GhibliHills, is also a natural phenomenon. |
| 81 | * ''The World Is Mine'': A few people wonder if [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Hakumadon]], a giant {{bear|sAreBadNews}}-like creature, is an ancient Ainu spirit avenging the planet; other people think it's having a killing contest with a pair of {{Serial Killer}}s. |
| 82 | * ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'': The Dragons of Earth are a loose confederation of Gaia's Avengers -- seven human magic-users tasked with undoing the seven Kekkai seals hidden around Tokyo, which would trigger the Final Judgment, freeing the planet from humanity's domination. They are opposed by the seven Dragons of Heaven, guardians of the Kekkai and of humanity's continued existence. |
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| 85 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 86 | * ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'': Mega-City One is plagued by bio-terrorists known as biophiliaca, who think humans should be wiped out to protect the planet. Anderson tracks down a biophile who heads over to a plant shopping center to mutate all the flora. |
| 87 | * ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' #17-20 concerns a case of Gaia's Vengeance wherein Gaia is just an unwitting pawn in a large HostageForMacGuffin scheme by a depowered and imprisoned "renegade Doctor", who, having somehow convinced the Earth that humanity is killing it, will only convince it to calm down after he's given back his powers. |
| 88 | * Creator/DCComics: |
| 89 | ** In general, most plant-based heroes and villains (Poison Ivy, Swamp Thing, Black Orchid, the Floronic Man, etc.) are connected to the Green, the collected forces of plant-kind. There are also the Red (animals) and the Rot (decay). |
| 90 | ** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' |
| 91 | *** ComicBook/PoisonIvy's central motivation is to defend plant life against all of humanity. |
| 92 | *** ComicBook/RasAlGhul considers the Earth vastly overpopulated and defiled by humanity. He's not really into the whole Gaia thing, though. He just wants to kill a lot of people and rule the ones left over. |
| 93 | ** In ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #100, Mother Earth, fed up with humanity's warlike tendencies, decides to wipe humans out with a series of disasters, so The Elite[[note]]Joe Kelly's ComicBook/TheAuthority pastiche[[/note]] and the JLA hatch a plan to placate her by tricking humanity into uniting against a common foe -- The Elite, who put on a show of trying to take over the world's governments and defeating the JLA. |
| 94 | ** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': |
| 95 | *** The villain Terra-Man tried to defend Mother Nature against both humans and aliens. |
| 96 | *** In ''Superman: For Tomorrow'', a sorceress creates four {{Elemental Embodiment}}s, skyscraper-sized titans composed of [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], and [[MakingASplash water]]. They try to kill Superman, declaring that Supes is a foreigner, an intruder on Mother Earth. They say that to appease her anger, they will kill him, then kill everyone in Metropolis for harboring him. Superman demonstrates that they are not nearly powerful enough to kill him, then threatens to destroy Earth and move to another planet as revenge if they harm the people. The sorceress breaks down in tears and withdraws the titans. Superman later admits that he was bluffing, of course. |
| 97 | ** ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': Subverted in Alan Moore's run. Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man, declares that the Green has told him to make all the plants on Earth pump out the purest of oxygen, which would be fatal to every single mammal, bird, bug, fish, and amphibian on Earth, both because pure oxygen is toxic and because it is highly flammable, as is shown when a man lights a cigar in a neighborhood that Woodrue has decided to make an example of. The Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica just sits up in their satellite waiting for the end to come. Thankfully, Swamp Thing owns Woodrue by pointing out that [[spoiler:without animals and humans to release carbon dioxide, all the plants would end up dying]]. |
| 98 | ** ''Tales From The Dark Multiverse'' story depicts their ComicBook/WhatIf take on ComicBook/TheJudasContract if Terra were to survive the events of the aforementioned comic book. She renounced her 'Terra' moniker for [[MeaningfulName Gaia]] where she [[spoiler: killed Deathstroke and took his superhuman serum for her own ends, causing to use her upgraded powers by decimating the Teen Titans and Superman himself. By the end, she's a walking Gaia's Vengeance over the dark, broken world that is located in the Dark Multiverse.]] |
| 99 | * ''ComicBook/KnightsOfPendragon'': The first series consists of Dai Thomas investigating various murders of eco-criminals. And then it gets weird (but still beautiful and heart-rending). |
| 100 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelsVoices: Comunidades'': Anhangá, a spirit from Brazilian myth, wants to destroy humanity for the havoc they wreaked upon the environment. |
| 101 | -->'''Nina''': [Anhangá] is the Earth's wrath... and now she seeks vengeance. |
| 102 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'': Colonel Granite is finally defeated by a freak storm that takes out his regiment and blows them back through the dimensional gateway to Earth -- seemingly, the spirit of nature itself fights back against Granite and his plans to destroy the ecosystem. He's last seen being arrested for war crimes on the order of the Prime Minister, who had encountered Sonic. |
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| 105 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 106 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Subverted in a strip where the duo come upon an area of forest that's been felled for a new apartment complex. Calvin expresses outrage on behalf of the animals that have been displaced, and caustically wonders "how people would like it if animals demolished their homes and planted new trees". Cut to Hobbes sitting in a bulldozer, stating that unfortunately the construction workers didn't leave the keys. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/TheFansus'': The Fanged Bramble is the Engine's "official" opponent in the Mansus, beating back the attempts of the [[NightmarishFactory Factory Devouring]]'s efforts to eat the Wood. |
| 111 | * ''Fanfic/HeroesOfTheDeskRepercussions'': Lunara becomes a full-fledged Gaia's Avenger. She has to be told to tone it down, even though keeping watch over natural areas is her day job. |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'': Terra is an extremely twisted form of the "Mother Nature" archetype. Her role consists primarily of exterminating species so as to preserve Titan's "natural order". |
| 113 | * ''Fanfic/MedicinalLullaby'': Naruto becomes bound so closely to nature through his sage training that when he [[spoiler:unleashes masive devastation during his battle with Sasuke]], nature's fury at his "betrayal" makes him seriously ill. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/{{Pokedex}}'' has several examples. A lot of Pokémon have taken the role of Type 3s, with a touch of type 1 due to being animal equivalents themselves. Besides Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion (who act as they do in the video games) there are also Nidoking, who lead armies to attack human settlements for this reason as soon as they evolve, and Sudowoodo, who do not take kindly to anyone who destroys a forest that another Sudowoodo [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed its life]] to save. Also a type two in Dugtrio, which cause earthquakes if too many are caught; not intentionally, but when they are caught, the ground loses the support that they provided. |
| 115 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11916084/chapters/26927427 You Thought]]'': The Pokémon are rising up and fighting to reclaim and protect the Earth, [[AlienInvasion but not against humans...]] |
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| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 119 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ark}}'': In the aftermath of a war between the Cevean and Storrians over the ownership of the planet Alcyeon, with the Storrians emerging victorious and subsequently terraforming Alcyeon's once-lush surface with their war machines and turning half the planet into a wasteland due to rapid over-development, the planet Alcyeon eventually started becoming unstable, with its core ready to implode; much of the film is spent on seeking the titular Ark in order to save the planet. |
| 120 | %%* ''Anime/BagiTheMonsterOfMightyNature'', in a very heavy-handed way, acts as a warning against messing with nature.%%How? |
| 121 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheAnimalPlanet'' uses this as a major plot point. A distant green planet where animals have evolved into becoming human-like is invaded by a hostile alien race wanting the planet for themselves [[spoiler:(who later turn out to be humans from an adjacent world who have destroyed their own thanks to industrialization, over-development and pollution)]]. Doraemon then comes to the rescue by using a gadget that gives live to trees and plants, making the forest vegetation come to life and attack the invaders -- they drop heavy fruits capable of knocking out their targets, emit powerful pollen that seeps through the invaders' helmets and makes them sneeze uncontrollably, and trees extend their roots and vines to restrain their targets. It works until [[spoiler:the invaders bring out a [[TankGoodness tank]] equipped with what seems to be [[FIreBreathingWeapon a dozen flamethrowers]]]]. |
| 122 | %%* ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' is based on this Trope, complete with RedOniBlueOni. |
| 123 | * Creator/HayaoMiyazaki: Various beings, notably the Ohmu in ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', the animal spirits in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', and Fujimoto in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', serve as Avengers striking back at a despoiling humanity. The Ohmu are however found to be [[spoiler:Gaia's creation to help clean up the earth, not to destroy humanity. This is actually subverted in the manga: the whole new purifying ecosystem is revealed to have been created by human scientists before the collapse of civilization in order to eventually make the planet fit for a new human population.]] |
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| 126 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 127 | * ''Film/AfterEarth'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2qdvELqskc The trailer]] seems to imply that Gaia got hit by some sort of HatePlague because "everything on [the] planet has evolved to kill humans" and it's been "quarantined" for so long the hero has to tell his son/student [[EarthAllAlong where they are]]. It's still [[SceneryPorn really pretty]], though. Of course, he could have been speaking ''[[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane literally]]''. Without technology, weapons, or sufficient numbers with which to defend ourselves, Earth is essentially a DeathWorld populated with creatures who can quite ''easily'' kill us. |
| 128 | * ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': [[spoiler:The humans invoke the wrath of the deity of the Na'vi, Eywa, a neural network that covers the entire moon, during their final assault. The helicopters get destroyed by a huge flock of ikran while the marines get run down by hammerhead titanotheres and viperwolves.]] [[spoiler:Gaia apparantly died when Earth's atmosphere became only slightly less deadly than Pandora's (those oxygen masks are regular outerwear ''on Earth''). In an early draft, Eywa and her creatures are unambiguously fighting the humans from the beginning, and in the end, Jake bluffs the humans into leaving forever by claiming Eywa had created a killer plague.]] |
| 129 | * ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Although Dr. Pamela Isley works with this as a mindset, after becoming Poison Ivy, she considers herself a living embodiment of the phenomenon and goes to extreme lengths to perpetuate it. Also tinted with misandry, as she plays on men's affections using pheromone control and largely sees them either as disposable tools or as obstacles to overcome in pursuit of her goal. |
| 130 | * ''Film/TheBees'' ends with the titular bees [[spoiler:becoming sapient and delivering an ultimatum at the UN]]. |
| 131 | * ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'': Suggests this is why a number of birds have decided to start randomly attacking humans in San Fransisco (And turning into exploding Kamekaze bombers, spraying humans with acidic... fluid[[note]]the "movie" never tries to explain if the substance was supposed to be bird poo or vomit or if the birds could spit acid like a mutant cobra[[/note]]). Various theories involving bird flu, deforestation, and global warming are discussed, but given the writer/director's apparent (mis)understanding of the subject, one might as well say that God Is Pissed! |
| 132 | * ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' is a GreenAesop about the disastrous results of man-made global warming. |
| 133 | * ''Film/Gaia2021'': Definitely present, but precisely how is left ambiguous. Is there a "God" in the forest slowly building up to eradicate a humanity that's eradicating nature? Or is this just a particularly bizarre, but otherwise natural, fungal infection? Does humanity deserve [[spoiler:to be transformed into [[MushroomMan mushroom zombies]]?]] |
| 134 | * ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' has characters on occasion worrying that the titular turtle ''will'' fill this role if humanity takes too many liberties with the environment. In [[Film/Gamera3AwakeningOfIrys the third movie]], sinister MisterExposition Kurata Shinji describes the enemy monster Irys this way, but he's pretty much nuts to begin with. |
| 135 | * ''Film/{{Genocide|1968}}'': A lovely piece of 1968 Japanese sci-fi shlock where the insects of the world issue an ultimatum: if mankind detonates one more nuclear weapon, the killing starts. Guess how it ends! |
| 136 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': |
| 137 | ** Godzilla is generally portrayed as a ferocious defender of Earth's balance, whether against humans, aliens or other giant monsters. He's usually a Gaia's Avenger, but the first movie portrays him in the metaphorical sense -- rather than actively fighting for nature, he's a monstrous byproduct of radioactive pollution that humanity has created and now has to deal with. |
| 138 | ** Mothra evolved from a divinity caring only for her island's people to full Gaia Avenger. ''Film/MothraVsGodzilla'' also shows that she was first created because Battra was too enthusiastic in the job. |
| 139 | ** ''Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth'': Battra from was created by the Earth to destroy an {{Atlantis}}-esque civilization tens of thousands of years ago, and popped back up in the present day. |
| 140 | ** ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'': WesternTerrorists try actively invoking this trope by releasing monsters to destroy humanity. |
| 141 | ** ''Film/Godzilla2014'': |
| 142 | *** Creator/GarethEdwards stated that Godzilla is a "representation of the wrath of nature." |
| 143 | ---->'''Edwards:''' Godzilla is definitely a representation of the wrath of nature. The theme is man versus nature and Godzilla is certainly the nature side of it. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption You can't win that fight.]] Nature's always going to win and that's what the subtext of our movie is about. [[TheScourgeOfGod He's the punishment we deserve.]] |
| 144 | *** In-universe, Dr. Serizawa believes nature sent Godzilla to restore balance to the world by hunting the Mutos. |
| 145 | *** However, over the course of the film, Godzilla actually proves to be a more heroic champion of nature than his original incarnation, only attacking humans after they deliberately antagonize him, and even then he only retaliates against the military. |
| 146 | ** Kong serves a similar role in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' however rather than being a protector for the whole earth, which is Godzilla’s domain, the great ape is the typically benevolent ruler of Skull Island specifically, protecting the islands ecosystem and local human tribe from the Skull Crawlers, however he also brutally retaliates against Humanity (the military) when they start bombing the island and opens fire on him, in which case he becomes an Avenger. |
| 147 | *** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' reveals that the destruction Godzilla and the other Kaiju cause is allowing nature to heal from the damage humans have caused. During the end credits, we see that the Kaiju have caused lost rainforests to regrow, saved at least 14 endangered species from extinction, and even cooled the climate, [[WellIntentionedExtremist certainly a valiant thing to do, but it meant the destruction of many major human cities and millions of human deaths.]] |
| 148 | *** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' has Godzilla going full-on Avenger when the APEX company develops plans to create a robotic version of him. This time around, Godzilla doesn't hold back against humanity, and in fact, actively hunts down human settlements with APEX facilities in their vicinity. This doesn't last long, however, when APEX's plans [[GoneHorriblyWrong go]] [[GoneHorriblyRight awry]] and their creation turns on them, forcing Godzilla and King Kong to team up. |
| 149 | ** ''Film/ShinGodzilla'': Godzilla originated as a regular, if unknown, marine animal that was horrifically mutated by increasingly high concentrations of atomic waste, eventually emerging on shore as a particularly devastating variant of the metaphorical aspect of this trope. |
| 150 | %%** There's also ''[[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster]]''. |
| 151 | %%* ''Film/TheHappening'' centers around this trope. |
| 152 | * ''Film/IntoTheGrizzlyMaze'': This is what Douglass thinks the rogue grizzly is: that it is exacting its wrath due to the poaching and illegal logging rather than satisfying its hunger or establishing its territory. |
| 153 | * ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': Valentine describes global warming in terms of a human body trying to fight off a disease. It's the fever meant to kill the virus (humans). |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheLastWinter'': When Alaska's northern areas start to melt, spirits of extinct animals start to manifest from the oil. |
| 155 | * ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'': This is speculated by some characters to be the case for the epidemic. |
| 156 | * ''Film/LongWeekend'': A couple of {{Jerkass}} characters go camping and act like jerks to nature. Nature then proceeds to give them what they've got coming. |
| 157 | * ''Film/ManThing'': The film portrays the title creature as a Gaia's Avenger hellbent on some human murder for the actions of the local corrupted oil rig owner. |
| 158 | * ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'': Gaia is apparently suffering from depression, so she [[EarthShatteringKaboom shoots a planet at her head]]. |
| 159 | * ''Film/{{Noah}}'': A tricky example that doesn't wholly fit the trope but whose visuals carry much the same spirit. What's being avenged is not direct harm against the Earth itself, but rather the increasing wickedness of humanity, one manifestation of which is the development of industrial mines that strip the earth of resources. Nonetheless, the sight of giant waterspouts erupting from the ground and drowning everything in sight is pretty textbook for nature-based revenge. As much as can be interpreted from Noah's perspective, killing animals for food and even gathering unnecessary plants is also taboo, more offenses against the work of the Creator (i.e., God). |
| 160 | * ''Film/NoBladeOfGrass'': Although the book by John Christopher does not specify the root cause of the Chung-Li virus, the movie adaptation by Cornel Wilde strongly indicates that the Earth (or Gaia) was so fed up with the constant over-polluting by man, that she decided to create the crop-killing virus in revenge. |
| 161 | * ''Film/TheRookies'' involves a madman and terrorist leader who serves as Gaia's Avenger, intending to unleash a Green Virus which forcefully transforms human beings into plants. He succeeds in releasing the virus in New York, wiping out most of its population and turning them to plant life, and intends to do this to major cities all over the world. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 165 | * Toward the end of the golf course, Dave hits his ball into the woods and finds it in a patch of pretty yellow buttercups. Trying to get his ball back in play, he ends up thrashing just about every buttercup in the patch. All of a sudden, in a flash and puff of smoke, a little old woman appears. She says "I'm Mother Nature. Do you know how long it took me to make those buttercups? Just for doing what you have done, you won't have any butter for your popcorn for the rest of your life. Better still, you won't have any butter for your toast for the rest of your life. As a matter of fact, you'll never have any butter for anything the rest of your life!" Then POOF!... she's gone! After Dave recovers from the shock, he hollers for his friend "Fred, where are you?" Fred yells back, "I'm over here in the {{pu|n}}ssy willows." Dave shouts back, [[AllMenArePerverts "Don't swing, Fred! For the love of God, don't swing!"]] |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 169 | * In ''Literature/AngelNotes'', Gaia's death cry calls down the [[EldritchAbomination Aristoteles]], the {{Ultimate Life Form}}s of the other planets, to avenge her by annihilating the post-humans who live on her polluted corpse. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The latter don't intend to go down without a fight, though]]. |
| 170 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''[[Recap/AnimorphsTheMessage The Message]]'', when Visser Three is chasing the heroes, Cassie calls out to the whale she'd been communicating with earlier and two humpbacks and several sperm whales respond to fight him. Her narrations says that it seems like the sea itself is fighting back. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/{{Beast}}'': The squid is only attacking Bermuda because we wiped out its food supply. Whoops. Then again in [[TheEndOrIsIt the epilogue]], pointing out that more and more giant squids are now surviving to adulthood due to their predators being overfished. Oops again. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'': The "Meet Bigpaw" special features a prophecy about a monstrously huge bear named Bigpaw who would destroy Bear Country as penance for taking nature's bounty for granted and being too selfish and greedy around the holidays. From what we see in the special, with bears aggressively hoarding and protecting their crops and mostly looking forward to Thanksgiving to glut themselves at dinnertime, Bigpaw's arrival in the special is ''very'' well-timed and deserved. While Bigpaw turns out to be a well-meaning, easy-going guy who becomes a friendly resident of Bear Country, it's implied he is still nature's way of teaching the bears a lesson. |
| 173 | -->'''Mama:''' If the bears become selfish and greedy, and unkind to the needy; and insufficiently thankful for nature's great bounty, that monster of monsters, Bigpaw, would come, and gobble up Bear Country county by county. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy'': The planet where the story is set is revealed to be so constantly geologically active, leading to [[ApocalypseHow massive cataclysms]] every few hundred years, due to the Earth being sentient and wanting revenge for humans trying to take its magic to fuel their technology millennia ago, leading to the earth losing its moon. Avoiding the typical FridgeLogic for this trope, the earth doesn't care at all about preserving life or nature, and is perfectly happy to wipe out all life, because the planet itself will still be fine. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/DragonPearl'': The planet called the [[FourIsDeath Fourth Colony]] is uninhabitable due to this. The original colonists failed to sacrifice appropriately to the pox spirits, and now the planet is full of ghosts killed by the resulting plague. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/{{Earth}}'': The primary villain ''thinks'' she's doing this by creating gravity wave creatures that attack humans, but she's just AxCrazy. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/TheFireman'': John (the titular Fireman) suggests that the dragonspore is this: it stays locked in the polar ice caps until global warming releases it, at which point it neutralizes the threat and freezes again. |
| 178 | * ''Literature/GoodOmens'': This happens as the result of a RealityWarper child reading all the local GranolaGirl's magazines in one go, at which point the rainforest starts reclaiming South American shopping malls and [[KrakenAndLeviathan Leviathan]] awakes and sets his sights on Japanese whalers. On the other hand, the local nuclear power center stays running, at full capacity and without layoffs... it just no longer uses any ''fuel'' or produces pollution. |
| 179 | * ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': The series' villain is none other than Gaia. The only difference is that she's more angry at the ''Gods'' than humanity, though as she plans the desecration of the Gods and everything they stand for, ''which includes human society... '' humans aren't exactly getting off scot-free. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'': After one owner of castle Hurog killed a dragon, a landslide caused salty rocks to land on a field and deteriorate soil quality to the point that nothing can grow there. The land is magical and ''likes'' the dragons. |
| 181 | * ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': To fuel his growing war industry, Saruman begins to clear-cut the ancient Fangorn Forest. The devastation left behind by his logging teams is what motivates the [[{{Treants}} Ents]] to mobilize at last and tear his fortress apart stone by stone. [[ItsPersonal It's especially personal]] because Saruman is a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maia]] who knows well the history of the forest and the Ents and was even a friend to them before his turn to evil, and yet he ''still'' thought he could get away with destroying the forest. |
| 182 | -->'''Treebeard:''' A wizard should know better! |
| 183 | * ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'': Subverted. TheFairFolk assume that the natural world of Lancre will welcome them back because it hates humans and wants them suppressed. In fact, Lancre ''likes'' humans and needs them ([[Literature/WyrdSisters especially their king]]) to care about it, and doesn't do squat to help the AlwaysChaoticEvil elves' return. |
| 184 | %%* ''Literature/NoBladeOfGrass'', by Creator/JohnChristopher. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/RedDwarf'': In ''Better Than Life'', Earth has been turned into a giant garbage dump by humans and accidentally tossed into the depths of space. When Lister crashlands on the now-unrecognisable planet, it reacts violently, throwing acid rain, earthquakes, oil storms, and lightning at the last human in an attempt to get rid of him. It's only after the half-mad Lister offers to make things right that the crazy weather stops, to be replaced by ordinary rain. |
| 186 | * An unusual variation in ''Literature/TheRedTower'', in which the factory exists in defiance of the natural order of the surrounding landscape - not because it [[PollutedWasteland destroyed the wildlife]], because the wastes were empty long before the Tower emerged from them. To the contrary, it seems to be because the Tower is alive, and [[OrderVersusChaos keeps maliciously filling the wasteland with new and pointless life in defiance of entropic forces returning it to its natural state of purity]]. |
| 187 | * ''Literature/DerSchwarm'': It seems that the creatures of the sea have suddenly decided to exterminate mankind. It turns out that [[spoiler:an hitherto unknown [[StarfishAliens sentient species]] living in the ocean's depths is behind all this]]. |
| 188 | * ''Literature/SpinwardFringe'': Humanity has managed to terraform and colonise many planets, but only found one that could compare to Earth in the amount and variety of life that had already arisen on it. A MadScientist uploaded the brain of his terminally ill daughter to the AI tasked with looking after the human colonisation of Eden, who promptly decided that humans couldn't be allowed to mess the place up and told them to leave. When they refused and tried to deactivate her, this trope kicked in hard. At the time the books start, there are signs that her army of AIs may be gearing up to act as Gaia's Vengeance for the whole galaxy, but things quickly get rather more complicated. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/TheTomorrowCode'' has a concept of some genetic engineering lab unlocking a SealedEvilInACan within, apparently, the genome of all Earth life forms, that ends up releasing a plague of white creatures explicitly modeled on the human immune system that reproduce within a spreading white mist. Apparently they're the ''Earth's'' immune system, and they go around killing off humans in order to keep them from hurting the Earth anymore. |
| 190 | * ''Literature/TufVoyaging'': One story involves a small human colony provoking the wrath of a water world's life forms by [[spoiler:snacking down on the local sapients, a sessile psionic hive mind called "mud-pots". Unknown to the humans, all the mud-pots experience the pain of being boiled alive each time one of them is dropped into a cooking pot]]. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'': The counterdragons are created by the world to oppose true dragons -- a term which refers to anything that threatens the world. Two of the true dragons are the now-extinct Atlantean civilization and modern humanity. Notably, the counterdragons don't have to destroy their targets -- modern humanity was handled by creating a vampire with the ability to control humans and prevent them from destroying the world. However, the previous counterdragons, having defeated their corresponding true dragons, have become threats to humanity. [[spoiler:The main character is in fact one of the counterdragons.]] |
| 192 | * ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': The motivation of the bomber is to bring back the natural flow of the Colorado River by blowing up the dams that are holding it back. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/WhenTheStormCame'': Discussed. Some citizens of the mining town say that the incoming storm is nature's retribution for stealing the earth of her treasures. |
| 194 | * ''Literature/{{Zoo}}'' by Creator/JamesPatterson is about animals attacking humans and hunting them to the ends of the Earth. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 198 | * ''Series/AmericanGods2017'': In first season finale, Ostara of Dawn/Eostre (better known as Easter), a 12,000 year old goddess of spring, dawn and fertility, gets fed up with humans [[HijackedByJesus forgetting her holiday was hers]] and not celebrating Coming of Spring anymore (plus thanks to Wednesday's manipulations and New Gods threatening her life) and declares war on the New Gods by taking away spring -- ie, killing all vegetation in America. |
| 199 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight In the Forest of the Night]]". Forests have mysteriously covered the entire surface of the Earth overnight, on a day when Earth is threatened by a massive solar flare. The Doctor spends most of the episode believing that the trees have covered the Earth and somehow called down the solar flare, in order to wipe out humanity. It turns out that the solar flare is a chance event, and that the trees forsaw it and have covered the Earth in order to absorb its impact and '''protect''' humanity. |
| 200 | * ''Series/EdgeOfDarkness'': At the end, it's implied that the Earth's eco-system is deliberately acting to increase the greenhouse effect in order to rid itself of human civilisation. |
| 201 | %%* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'': |
| 202 | * ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': One episode features a mysterious child named Erutan ([[SdrawkcabName spell it backwards]]) who lives in the forest and uses nature-controlling powers to scare away litterbugs and vandals. Usually. The situation is reversed when [[BigBad Divatox]] releases a MonsterOfTheWeek that unleashes a wave of pollution on the forest too much for him to handle, requiring the Rangers to come to his rescue. |
| 203 | * The documentary series [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin named]] ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2163012/ Serial Killer Earth]]''. |
| 204 | * ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' |
| 205 | ** Most of the {{Kaiju}} in ''Series/UltramanMax'' are implied to be or explicitly this. Professor Yoshinaga even theorizes that they're humanity's natural predator, because humans have grown too powerful and numerous. |
| 206 | ** Many of the evil aliens in the franchise also fancy themselves as doing justice for Earth. The Ultras (or human characters) will occasionally teach them that the value of human life is as important as those of other living creatures in the end, but more often than not they pay for their arrogance and hatefulness with a FinishingMove to the chest. |
| 207 | ** The heavily environmental-themed ''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'' from Australia had done what ''Max'' did earlier and took it up a notch. In the finale, [[GeniusLoci the Earth itself]] gives birth to two kaiju to punish the entire human race and destroy Ultraman for protecting them. |
| 208 | ** ''Series/UltramanZ'': When the SAAG were preparing the [[WaveMotionGun D4 Ray]] and Ultroid Zero as their ultimate anti-kaiju weapons, hordes of monsters were awoken and attacked the test sites. It was suggested by Yuka Ohta that the planet itself wanted to stop the use of D4 due to its extreme danger. [[spoiler:Considering that D4 and Ultroid Zero were part of Celebro's Civilization Self-Destruction Game, Yuka was right on the money in her assessment.]] |
| 209 | ** The above gets repeated in ''Series/UltramanDecker'' with the Terraphaser. Once again, hordes of monsters attempted to stop Professor Yuichiro Asakage's robot from activating to assist Decker. [[spoiler:Once again, the robot was revealed to be an alien's machine to help destroy the Earth, as "Yuichiro Asakage" was actually Alien Bazdo Agams, who had sided with the Sphere to destroy Earth in the present, in exchange for sparing Planet Bazdo in the future.]] |
| 210 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': [[DiscussedTrope Suggested]] when Damon is mocking Stefan's [[VegetarianVampire eating habits]] and asks if he's not worried about wild animals banding together to take him down. |
| 211 | -->"Aren't you worried that one day all the forest animals are going to band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk." |
| 212 | * ''Series/{{Zoo}}'': The opening monologue for seasons one and two depicts its "animal uprising" as Nature's creatures turning against humans as payback for centuries of abuse. By the end of Season 2, it becomes clear that [[spoiler:it's actually the handiwork of a "Gaia's avenger" organization called the Shepherds]], and in Season 3 [[spoiler:even that group's agenda becomes muddied by more of an EvilutionaryBiologist stance]]. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 216 | * The Music/CreatureFeature song "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" is about this trope. At least according to the liner notes -- the lyrics are a little garbled by their standards. |
| 217 | * The song "Insect Nation" by Music/BillBailey. |
| 218 | * "Deine Welt" by Music/ENomine. |
| 219 | * Referenced in "Another Way To Die" by Music/{{Disturbed}}: "Mother Earth will show her darker side and take her toll." The vengeance is metaphorical: by ravaging the world, people bring devastation on themselves. |
| 220 | * Mago de Oz's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--UMloV1M9M La Venganza de Gaia]] |
| 221 | * Music/PinkFloyd's "Take It Back". The lyrics describe an abusive relationship in which a patient, loving woman is eventually driven beyond her breaking point, the narrator finally earning her fearsome anger in place of her love. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLieC3v8_m0 music video]] shows that it's meant to be an allegory for humans' relationship with Earth. |
| 222 | * "Watershed" by Music/ViennaTeng. |
| 223 | * Cerrone's disco hit ''Supernature''. |
| 224 | * "Nature's Way" by Spirit. |
| 225 | * Music/BlueOysterCult: "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man... Godzilla!" |
| 226 | * "Forest King" by 3 Inches of Blood: "Overtaking cities with branches they ensnare/Pushing the human race back a million years/The earth grows quiet all plant life will dominate again/When every structure falls you'll know the forest is king" |
| 227 | * Music/{{Tiamat}}'s "Gaia" starts off as GaiasLament and turns into this: |
| 228 | -->''A new serum eradicates the illness, an old man rises from his wheelchair\ |
| 229 | When suffering unknown attacks the painless and common animals are becoming rare\ |
| 230 | As water spins in circles twice, spiders, snakes and little mice\ |
| 231 | Get twisted round and tumble down -- when Nature calls, we all shall drown'' |
| 232 | * Amberian Dawn's "City of Destruction." |
| 233 | * Music/IronMaiden's "Total Eclipse." |
| 234 | * Sirena's "Maelstrom" |
| 235 | -->''For thy course now is wrought with despair\ |
| 236 | And thy crew killed for thy costly fair\ |
| 237 | Not a sail nor a soul did she spare\ |
| 238 | Maelstrom, churn!'' |
| 239 | * "Onyx" by Project Pitchfork: |
| 240 | -->''Hello mankind, you must understand\ |
| 241 | Here comes your final punishment\ |
| 242 | Mother Nature invoked a fatal child\ |
| 243 | Her name is Onyx, she won't be mild\ |
| 244 | She is coming from outer space\ |
| 245 | 'Cause the human race has fallen from grace\ |
| 246 | Brace yourself, you're next on her list\ |
| 247 | Her name is Onyx, she's really pissed'' |
| 248 | * "Hole in the Sea" by Music/{{Cormorant}} (with guest vocals by Aaron Gregory of Giant Squid) starts off with this, then is revealed to be a RestartTheWorld by the end. |
| 249 | * "Wasteland" by the German Gothic metal band Atargatis describes how, after having ruined Earth and reducing it to a dry wasteland, humans become wretched, naked, creatures of knotty limbs looking in vain for fertile land. The Gaia's Vengeance parts is how Mother Nature itself wants them to give up and leave Nature to heal itself. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 253 | * Literature/TheBible: God is implied to be Gaia's Avenger in the ''Literature/BookOfRevelation'', as Revelation 11:18 says in some translations that He will destroy those who destroy the earth. |
| 254 | * Various people throughout history have noticed that if you disrespect nature, particularly the sea or storms, then you will get hurt or killed. Sailors in particular were superstitious about the sea and how one should not curse at it. Whether or not there ''is'' an overall nature spirit or "hive mind" is up to discussion, metaphysics, and theology, and different people from all walks of life will have different beliefs regarding this, to the point where the Earth is a deity or otherwise a host to an "Earth spirit", to where the Earth isn't alive (other than life forms on it) and that no supernatural side of things exist. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 258 | * ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' aimed an unsubtle TakeThat to the NRA with their back cover of [[http://www.madcoversite.com/mad308.html issue #308]], with Nature's Revenge Association. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 262 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 263 | ** In most settings, it's part of druids' work to hand out Gaia's Vengeance in measured portions when there's demand. |
| 264 | ** Quite a few monsters are hostile to anyone who disrespects nature. Treants (who, not coincidentally, were based on Tolkien's ents) will punish or even kill anyone who maliciously despoils the forests they inhabit, unicorns will punish anyone who vandalizes a forest or torments its inhabitants, and dryads (in the 4th Edition especially) will do the same. Other fey beings are mentioned in various works, including the barkburr who will go so far as to curse the worst of offenders by turning them into trees as an ironic punishment for this sort of crime. |
| 265 | ** In 4E it's the basic premise of the whole Primal power source. The Primal Spirits are basically the natural world's counterpart to the [[ElementalEmbodiment Primordials]] and the [[PhysicalGod Deities]], and are just as powerful. While many individual ones (such as the spirit of a specific river or tree or animal) are weak, others are much stronger (the World Tree Spirit basically embodies the lifeforce of the entire physical world, while the Primal Beast is the embodiment of all animals), and all of them are concerned with one thing: making sure the natural world keeps on going. Should they ever bestir themselves, it falls under category 1, but this doesn't happen very often -- being so tightly bound to the world means that they have the potential to destroy it by accident if they get too involved. Instead, most operate through the Primal classes, which fall under category 3; the Barbarian (Striker), Druid (Controller), Seeker (Controller), Shaman (Leader), and Warden (Defender). |
| 266 | ** The game's version of [[http://www.lomion.de/cmm/jabberwo.php the Jabberwock]] (yes, [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland that Jabberwock]]) is believed to be a GeniusLoci manifested by old and ancient forests to ward off settlers, loggers, or others who would exploit or defile them. |
| 267 | ** Without a doubt, the most potent example of this trope in the game is the Nature Elemental from the ''AD&D'' days. Composed of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and also Life (believed by some to be the fifth element), this titanic elemental being is so powerful, it can only be summoned by a ''group'' of high-level druids working together. In combat it strikes with the strength of a titan, and its mere presence obliterates manmade structures, [[WorldHealingWave causing lush and healthy plant life to sprout over in its wake]]. A nature elemental is almost impossible to kill, since its HealingFactor allows it to regenerate back to full health at the start of every round -- this only stops if the elemental is somehow separated from all elemental material, such as by being forced into a vacuum or [[TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}} Wildspace]]. What's more, the text in its entry suggests that the creature is actually an avatar of the living world itself, meaning that, for all practical purposes, it ''is'' Gaia. |
| 268 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Dogs of the Unbroken Earth are dog-like gods who exist to protect the wilderness from the march of civilization. They do not tolerate attempts to tame or settle their homes, and will respond viciously and violently to attempts to cut back the wild to make way for roads and farms and towns. However, they generally have no issue with barbarian tribes, hermits, or other people who do not harm the wilderness living in their lands. |
| 269 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': |
| 270 | ** Forests and jungles threatened by deforestation or pollution can spontaneously spawn thorn elementals, which then seek to protect their homes at any cost and will kill interlopers without mercy or remorse. Polluted water can sometimes spawn water elementals to a similar purpose, which will attack people until the mess is cleaned. |
| 271 | ** Sapient trees often stand guard around the edges of forests, seeking to protect them against intruding animal life that might cause them or their unmoving kin harm. |
| 272 | * ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Jordi, the Archangel of Animals, is tasked with overseeing the welfare of the natural world, and humanity's long history of hunting species to extinction, stripping natural environments away to build farms and cities, and dumping their garbage every which way is a persistent sore subject for him. By default, his angels, whom he prefers to take animal over human form, are charged with watching over animal life and protecting it from the excess of humanity; depending on their specific role, this can range from missionaries of sorts trying to promote eco-awareness among humans to roaming packs of Malakim in animal guise performing ecoterrorist strikes on logging camps and construction sites. In some scenarios, he might decide outright that enough is enough and human civilization needs to go. |
| 273 | * ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' mixes both Gaia's Avenger and Gaia's Vengeance. The Druids of the Circle Orboros work to maintain the balance between civilization and nature, destroying cities with natural disasters and protecting the wilds. They do this because if too much of the natural world is destroyed the god of the wild the Devourer Wurm will awaken and destroy '''all''' life and civilization in the world so that nature may return. |
| 274 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': A fairly common motivation for {{Green|Thumb}} characters and factions, but specific examples include: |
| 275 | ** In the "Invasion" storyline, the Phyrexians, [[DemonicInvaders demonic machine-monsters]], invade the world of Dominaria seeking to kill all life to secure the planet for its resources, whereupon it's revealed that Gaea, Dominaria's living spirit and the only true god in the plane, had been preparing for this by "growing" the monstrous kavu -- gigantic reptilians resistant to the Phyrexians -- beneath her surface for thousands of years in advance. (Unfortunately for the humans, elves, and others holding back the Phyrexians, the kavu find machine-demons and mortals equally tasty...) |
| 276 | ** Zendikar has several lands that [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177545 get]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177520 up]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=171007 and]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177583 hit]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177560 people]]. Unlike their standard-set equivalents, where this represents soldiers or monkeys or what have you storming out, these are simply large and bad-tempered bits of scenery that can with little to no warning turn into large and bad-tempered bits of scenery that grab flyers out of the sky, grind opponents under"foot", or simply pop up under an unprepared planeswalker. It turns out this "vengeance" is the plane itself fighting the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]]. What's really scary is that Zendikar is ''losing''. |
| 277 | ** In general, one of green's specialties is the destruction of artifacts and enchantments, best shown with [[http://magiccards.info/dtk/en/193.html Naturalize]], symbolizing the destruction of encroaching civilization. |
| 278 | ** Specific cards fitting the Gaia's Avenger version of this trope include [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1054 Gaea's Avenger]], a Treefolk representing beings empowered by Gaea after the destruction of the forest of Argoth, and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205033 Gaea's Revenge]], an elemental. |
| 279 | ** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=397688 Primeval Titan]]'s card combines this with ToiletHumour: "When nature calls, ''run''." |
| 280 | ** The green/white Archenemy deck is based on this, with the title of "Trample Civilisation Underfoot". |
| 281 | ** Mirrodin featured elves fighting against the technology of the world for the sake of nature. Problem being, most the of the world was composed of ''metal'', so other characters [[https://scryfall.com/card/som/127/slice-in-twain are quite happy to point out their hypocrisy]]. |
| 282 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'': |
| 283 | ** Subverted by the ancient [[MeaningfulName Terrasaurs]], who seem only interested in targeting industrial complexes so as to [[ExtremeOmnivore consume the raw pollution they produce]]. Besides this, and their occasional desire for a human-sandwich, they are quite tolerant of humanity as a whole. |
| 284 | ** The Empire of the Apes is a different story, intentionally taking up the mantle of Gaea's Avenger. It may not be a full consensus among them, though; one gets the feeling the hierophants tried to dissuade Kondo from leaving their ancestral home precisely so he wouldn't be inspired to do this... |
| 285 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': ''Bestiary 6'', which features a large selection of nature-themed creatures, has several examples of powerful monsters that easily fill this role. |
| 286 | ** Three particular options are presented as evil, malicious forces attempting to utterly destroy civilization out of bitter hatred for anything not of the natural world; all are quite powerful and fully capable of presenting a serious threat to civilized cultures, [[EvilVersusEvil but are luckily prevented from teaming up by their equally profound hatred of each other]]. |
| 287 | *** Blights are frighteningly intelligent [[BlobMonster oozes]] created when ancient [[SnakePeople serpentfolk]] druids created a powerful slime creature to destroy their [[{{Atlantis}} Azlanti]] enemies. They succeeded a little too well -- the resulting slime hated civilization and intelligent life so much that [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters it immediately destroyed the druids]] before splitting into numerous smaller oozes, which then crawled off to hide in the hidden places of the world. Over time, they adapted to their various environments to form [[UndergroundMonkey many types specialized for specific habitats]] -- forest blights, tundra blights, cave blights, mountain blights, etc. -- all united by a pathological hatred of intelligent life and a repertoire of magical skills tuned for weaponizing nature against the civilization they hate so much. |
| 288 | *** Mosslords are LawfulEvil, four-armed {{Treant|s}}-like creatures with particular dominion over fungus and rot. They exist for the sole purpose of grinding civilization into mulch, are immensely powerful and damn near impossible to kill permanently -- even if utterly destroyed, they'll simply regenerate [[FromASingleCell from their own spores]] -- and are quite capable of posing existential threats to even large and powerful civilizations. |
| 289 | *** Whisperers are evil [[TheFairFolk fey]] that haunt primal wildernesses and turn them into bulwarks against the creeping spread of civilization. They have a substantial repertoire of powers to aid them in holding back the frontier: they can cast curses over their homes that cause anyone who spends too long in them to suffer acute hallucinations and nausea before keeling over dead, brainwash victims into becoming obsessed with their chosen wilderness, turn mist and fog into tangible weapons, and come BackFromTheDead as long as their chosen domain remains under the influence of their magic. |
| 290 | ** Green men are [[PlantPerson humanoid plant creatures]] and protectors of nature -- or more specifically of plant life; their concern over what happens to fauna, geology, hydrology and so on is limited to its impact over the local flora, although the more benevolent ones sometimes forge tentative alliances with neighboring settlements. They have substantial magical control over plants of all kinds, and their presence alone is enough to cause animals and people to start [[{{Transflormation}} transforming into plants]]. They're sometimes worshipped as gods by intelligent plants, druids and other wilderness residents, and they're powerful enough to grant divine magic to their worshippers. |
| 291 | ** Downplayed with the {{nuckelavee}}, as while they are sometimes considered a fitting retribution for those who so badly polluted the waters around them, they don't themselves care and just want to kill everyone. They even see people who try to clean their waters as a threat and prioritize them, as they are not pre-existing spirits corrupted or driven to rage by pollution but are born from it and can't survive without it. |
| 292 | * ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'': A very literal example happened in the history of the setting. The only Titan to side with the gods in the original war between them was Denev, Scarn's equivalent of Gaia; her fellow Titans had no respect for nature and were ruining it. She was thus the only Titan to be spared when the gods triumphed. |
| 293 | * ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' has Akash'Buta who might as well be Gaia herself despite not actually being the earth but just a very powerful void spirit who's gone a little crazy. Unlike most examples, she actually undergoes a HeelFaceTurn after being poisoned by a supervillain, embracing a more human scale and eventually making a HeroicSacrifice. This quote from the Argent Adept sums it up nicely. |
| 294 | -->Akash'bhuta isn't a force of nature. She's ''the'' force of nature. |
| 295 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': The world in the 2060s, after decades of rampant urban growth, commercial exploitation and reckless pollution, is one severely depleted of resources and wild land and thoroughly tainted with toxicity and contaminants of every material and spiritual sort. Consequently, nature and what defenders it still has have become… aggressive in their methods. |
| 296 | ** The most common form of Gaia's Vengeance comes in the form of [[AnimalWrongsGroup ecoterrorist groups]] like [=TerraFirst!=] and Greenwar, who routinely attack whoever they deem responsible for the state of the Earth, chiefly the {{MegaCorp}}s but also most scientific institutions, in violent retaliatory attacks. |
| 297 | ** Spirits of various sorts also tend to be highly proactive about protecting what wild land remains. Numerous powerful {{Nature Spirit}}s, for instance, came to the aid of the Yucatan rebels in response of the Azlanti troops' heavy use of slash-and-burn, defoliants and chemical warfare to destroy the jungles where the rebels were hiding. |
| 298 | ** Northernmost Spain has been covered by sylvan, magic forests inhabited by creatures of the folklore of those regions, such as as the "xana"[[note]]a sort of nymph[[/note]] and the "cuélebre"[[note]][[OurDragonsAreDifferent a winged snake]][[/note]], with little more than the city of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gijón Gijón]] resisting nature's onslaught. |
| 299 | ** The FeatheredSerpent Hualpa led essentially every intelligent and/or supernatural creature in the tattered remnants of the Amazon basin -- including the remaining native tribes, sympathetic metahumans, nature spirits, Awakened animals of numerous sorts and a host of lesser dragons -- in an outright invasion of Brazil, which, in a world still trying to understand what magic was, was woefully outmatched and fell in short order. Hualpa then established the nation of Amazonia, set strict anti-pollution laws, made it very clear that deforestation wasn't going to be a thing anymore and limited dense urban settlement to the preexisting coastal cities. Amazonia then went on to conquer most of northern South America, establishing the same laws there as well. |
| 300 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Wood Elves, who live InHarmonyWithNature in the enchanted forest of [[EnchantedForest Athel Loren]], are immensely protective of their home and will viciously avenge any harm done to it. Their tree spirit allies are even more zealous about this -- Wood Elves can, theoretically, be bargained with. Forest spirits can't. If your army is 2,000 pts or over (large enough to include a Treeman Ancient as your General), the entire thing can be composed of walking tree-things out to destroy anyone who dares to cut a shrub inside the boundaries of Athel Loren. |
| 301 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': This is why it's a bad idea to try and attack Eldar Exodite worlds. ''Literature/PathOfTheRenegade'' details a Dark Eldar raid on one of them; although the raid's primary objective[[note]][[spoiler:capturing a native Worldsinger, a sort of Exodite priestess]][[/note]] was successful, the raid was difficult and costly, as hordes of wild beasts beset the piratical raiders and inflicted heavy casualties on them. |
| 302 | * ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The tree spirits became their own faction in the Sylvaneth, personal servants of the Goddess of Life Alarielle with a grudge against the Chaos followers of Nurgle for having infected Ghyran, the Realm of Life, with his plagues and pollution, destroyed most of their forests and tried to kill their queen. |
| 303 | * ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'': |
| 304 | ** ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'': |
| 305 | *** In ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', the Devourers were the angels in charge of the wilds before the Fall. Many of them have taken the mantle of "Avengers of the Earth" on themselves now that they've gotten out of Hell. Subverted in that the ones that want to KillAllHumans as revenge for the despoiling of Earth are generally the crazy ones, and that the angels of the actual ''Earth'' (the Malefactors) are far less depressed about the current state of things. |
| 306 | *** ''TabletopGame/SirenTheDrowning'', a fanmade game line, has Furies, monsters born of polluted areas that attack humans. Sirens of the Styx Current also act as this, reasoning that nature can only flourish without humans. |
| 307 | *** ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'': The ''Changing Breeds'' supplement provides a look at several werecreatures who aren't [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Uratha]] and view themselves as stewards of the earth. The game gets a mixed reception from fans of the line, seeing as ''Werewolf'' has moved on from "Gaia's Vengeance" to "SpiritWorld border patrol." |
| 308 | ** ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': The Changing Breeds were each created to aid Gaia in some fashion. Werewolves are Gaia's warriors, werebears are Gaia's healers, wereravens are Gaia's spies, weresnakes are Gaia's judges, and so on and so forth. Nowadays many of them are massively pissed off by humanity's destruction of the natural world and (what they see as) general acts of evil, that ''will'' cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it is right there in the name of the game, after all]]), with some thinking that the biggest collective mistake made by shapeshifters was allowing humans to develop past the Stone Age. |
| 309 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Baboon,_Defender_of_the_Forest Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest.]] (And [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yellow_Baboon,_Archer_of_the_Forest this yellow version too,]] who seems to be related.) Of course, we only have his name to indicate that he acts this way, but [[FanficFuel fanfic writers often portray him as such.]] |
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| 313 | * Ride/UniversalStudios: In the former Universal Studios Florida attraction, ''Ride/{{Disaster}}'', the end of the ride had a fake trailer for a movie called "Mutha Nature", where this is the main plotline; with nature fighting back against "a world corrupted by greed". |
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| 317 | * ''VideoGame/{{Albion}}'' has a very direct example: metal is horrendously expensive because mining results in horrible monsters appearing to disembowel the offender, unless you perform a secret ritual which apparently appeases the local earth goddess. |
| 318 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': [[spoiler:The Gohma]] are revealed to be the will of the planet itself corrupted by hatred and rage. |
| 319 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' can be pretty {{Anvilicious}} about this trope. |
| 320 | ** If you decide to go to the Hydra Marshes to get a cure for a poisoned Kid, the native Dwarves will defend their soggy homeland against you interlopers while belittling humanity for cutting down trees (on an island covered in forests with only two small settlements). They ''do'' warn that the marshes will die without the hydra, but if you have the fairy Razzly with you, she'll find out that the monster was pregnant and give it a postmortem C-section so its offspring can survive and preserve its habitat. Yet even if you do this, the dwarves immediately go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge -- against the ''fairies'' of Water Dragon's Isle, using a smoke-belching {{Steampunk}} [[TankGoodness tank]] to commit genocide, ''[[BrokenAesop while they rant about humans not being able "to cherish nature like we do."]]'' And then the surviving fairies, whom you save from dwarven imperialism, will blame human greed for the whole fiasco. |
| 321 | ** [[OptionalBoss The Criosphinx]] jumps you "to preserve the peace of the planet", trapping you in [[RiddlingSphinx a game of riddles]] for trespassing in its lair. If you beat it with smarts, it lets you depart with your lives but gives you no other reward, while if you decide to just bash its face in, it gets pissed... but drops a pair of CoolShades that is one of the best attack-boosting accessories in the game. |
| 322 | ** In the endgame, [[spoiler:once [[AIIsACrapShoot FATE]] is defeated, the reunited Dragon God -- a biotechnological relic of a civilization from another timeline in which humans went extinct in prehistory -- allies with El Nido's demihumans and plans to [[ApocalypseHow wipe out mankind]]. They succeed in one of the endings, in which Harle expresses some remorse, while the other non-humans are as happy as a clam.]] |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has a benign example, in that the Entity theorized to be responsible for the Gates through time is speculated to be the spirit of the planet itself, defending itself against the interplanetary parasite Lavos. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': The Devouring Earth are animate plants, rocks, and fungi who were created by Hamidon Pasilima, an eco-terrorist MadScientist who turned himself into the Hamidon, a giant single-celled organism that's the toughest giant monster in the game. Ironically and hypocritically enough, heroes ([[EvilVersusEvil and villains]]) are fighting the Hamidon to keep it from devouring the entire planet. |
| 325 | * In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'', if an unwise player decides to re-enact ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' and expands too quickly and/or clears out too many alien nesting sites, then the planetary ecosystem goes into overdrive, producing hordes of hostile alien lifeforms which begin throwing themselves at their cities with the intent to wipe out "the invaders". Whatever you do, ''do not'' antagonise a Siege Worm; they're utterly gigantic and [[CurbStompBattle capable of destroying entire armies of early game units with ease]]. |
| 326 | * In ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', cutting down too many trees summons a [[WhenTreesAttack Treeguard]] monster. Fortunately, the Treeguard can be mollified by planting some trees, and will even help you fight monsters. There's also Krampus, a monster that shows up and [[BanditMook steals items from any chests you have lying around]] if you kill too many non-aggressive animals, but if you're able to chase him down and kill him you can take your stuff back. |
| 327 | * ''Videogame/DwarfFortress:'' A combination of overfishing and cutting down too many trees can cause the local wildlife to become Agitated and immediately target your dwarves in ever bigger herds. It's unlikely to happen in most biomes, but in Untamed Wilds and similarly savage locations it's almost more likely than not (and the wildlife is often giant, too). |
| 328 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' |
| 329 | ** Spriggans (a race of hostile [[WhenTreesAttack tree-like]] PlantPeople) are referred to and revered as "Nature's Guardians." They are associated with Kynareth, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Nine Divines]] and goddess of the heavens, winds, and elements. Spriggans tend to live in secluded wilderness areas and will violently attack intruders, often [[TheBeastmaster commanding nearby animals]] to aid them as well. They are [[ArchEnemy mortal enemies]] of the Hagravens, a flightless [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy]] MageSpecies, who are typically an EnemyToAllLivingThings. |
| 330 | ** Y'ffre is the Bosmeri god of nature. During the creation of Mundus, Y'ffre brought forth "the Green", essentially [[NatureSpirit bringing nature]] into existence. The [[OurElvesAreDifferent Bosmer (Wood Elves)]] are said to be Y'ffre's creation, and he bound them to the "Green Pact", a set of laws which prevent them from harming the plant life within their home forests of Valenwood. Among the Bosmer, failure to adhere to the Green Pact is said to result in being "consigned back into the Ooze". |
| 331 | * ''VideoGame/EndlessOcean 2'' features an [[TheCatfish enormous]] [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] named Thanatos who specializes in hunting humans. [[InformedAbility Nothing much comes of this in the plot proper]], but his character description wonders aloud if his emergence is Mother Nature's revenge for mankind's DisproportionateRetribution against shark attacks. |
| 332 | * ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'': This might be the nature of [[spoiler:the monsters, given some of Kala's downed quotes]], though for reality rather than Earth. |
| 333 | -->[[spoiler:''Kala:'' The boundary of stability is wrong! We are the universe righting itself!]]\ |
| 334 | [[spoiler:''Kala:'' We will nucleate a true vacuum! This abnormality will be erased!]] |
| 335 | * ''VideoGame/ExaPico'': The planet Ar Ciel [[GeniusLoci has a will of its own]] formed by the consensus of several high-level consciousnesses known as the Wills of Ar Ciel. The wills of Ar Ciel all fulfills specific functions in the maintenance and preservation of the life on Ar Ciel and were once worshipped as Gods that matched their function (for example Soma, the will that created balance through natural selection, was worshipped as the Goddess of violence and catastrophes), with new wills being created when the consensus deems one to be necessary. Two major catastrophes[[labelnote:*]]Seven Bloodstains Incident and Grathnode Inferia, both involving the titular Tower[[/labelnote]] that had occurred 700 years before the game proper due to the conflict between the nations of Sol Cluster and El Elemia had inflicted tremendous damage to Ar Ciel and shattered its core, causing the planet to be engulfed by the Sea of Death. Anyone and anything that approaches the deadly clouds for any reason would vanish without a trace, leaving only the titular towers as the only place where people may live. As if this wasn't enough, Ar Ciel's consensus had decided to reformat its biosphere and creates a new will called Ar Ru with the task of creating and commanding creatures called Antibodies who exist to eliminate all life from the surface of the planet. This becomes the central theme in the [[VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel third game]], as not all the Wills had agreed to their consensus, and eventually inhabits the body of the two Reyvateils in the party in their quest to revive the planet. |
| 336 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Factorio}}'', the planet is populated by [[BigCreepyCrawlies enormous insectoid aliens]] who are agitated by noise and air pollution, which is something practically all of your DieselPunk machines produce. Trees do absorb pollution, but placing a small factory hidden in a forest is rather inefficient, but then of course going full [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]] villain and harvesting everything you can reach in a relentless march towards industrialisation will result in you and your factory getting overwhelmed by masses of chittering mandibles in no time. It's up to you to find a healthy balance between production and pollution levels while also building all the necessary weapons and defensive structures to keep everything protected. |
| 337 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', it is eventually revealed that the BigBad, Exdeath, is a tree from the mystical Forest of Moore that was used as a dumping ground for evil spirits by the people of the second world. Although not a ''direct'' example in that he's not interested in avenging nature, conversations with scholars on the second world indicate that it used to be very like the first world before the toxic waste dump grew a brain. The second world has exactly five towns--three are fortified settlements while the other two are impossibly remote villages. Anything else was wiped out in Exdeath's first rampage. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has an entire squad of colossal monstrosities called [=WEAPON=]s which are stated to be the planet's self-defence mechanism. Once awakened, they seek out and eliminate any threat to the planet's well-being with extreme prejudice. So, who do they go after first? Not the [[OmnicidalManiac guy who summoned a giant magical meteor]] to [[GodhoodSeeker destroy the planet so he could become a god]] OR the [[EldritchAbomination alien organism whose very presence on the planet perverts nature]], no, they go straight for [[SkewedPriorities the humans who've all but destroyed the environment]]. |
| 339 | ** One of the later games puts a strange twist on the trope by implying the WEAPONS are a twisted effort to save humanity. If the LifeStream decides the planet is polluted beyond hope, it ejects itself into space to find another. The WEAPONS are sent to kill humans so their souls are re-absorbed rather than being left behind. Gaia's Tough Love? |
| 340 | ** Even the game's protagonists could qualify. It does, after all, begin with them blowing up a power plant that operates by [[PoweredByAForsakenChild draining the planet's life force.]] |
| 341 | * The very premise of ''VideoGame/GaiaSeedProjectTrap''. Humans destroys the surface of earth after a nuclear war, leading to surviving humans fleeing to space. Decades later, mankind tries returning to the world with the "Gaia Seed" project, meant to restore the world, only for Earth to reject humans by reactivating the remnants of technology on earth to attack humans on sight. [[spoiler:Earth even manifests as a powerful, ethereal being to fight you directly at the end]]. |
| 342 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' takes the term a bit more literally, as Gaia herself joins in the revolution against the Olympians (although this has more to do with avenging the Titans' defeat at the hands of the gods than avenging nature). |
| 343 | ** Like most ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' entries, it's worth noting Gaia was pretty much like this in Myth/GreekMythology as well. There wasn't any generation of deities that she didn't take issue with. If she wasn't providing assistance to their enemies, she was spawning monsters to kill them on her behalf. |
| 344 | ** In the [[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII third game]], Gaia [[spoiler:turns on Kratos partly because his rampage has nearly destroyed the world]]. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gyossait}}'' has a very creepy version of this. [[spoiler:The god Oyeatia creates mankind as a gift to the titular goddess of earth. But Gyossait sees mankind's treatment of her planet as an insult and unleashes a cataclysm that kills millions. This pisses off Oyeatia in turn, so he tears Gyossait to pieces and buries her essence inside a prison no god can reach. Not that it actually stops her...]] |
| 346 | * In ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'', this is the motive of Caleb Goldman for his bringing about a ZombieApocalypse. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': ComicBook/SwampThing pulls this in his Arcade Mode ending. Fed up with his allies' and enemies' dismissal of the environment, he uses the power of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}'s ship to engulf the world in green. |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon'', a relatively obscure video game created in part by Creator/StudioGhibli, starts out after Gaia's Vengeance took place. Humans are barely clinging to meager existence, but it's clear that total obliteration is only a matter of time. Then, it gets worse. |
| 349 | * In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', [[spoiler:when Hades fools the human nations into warring over the Wish Seed (which wasn't even ''real''), this proves too much for the Goddess of Nature, Viridi, who drops this trope on humankind, on a massive scale. She enters the conflict by dropping an organic ''bomb'' that wipes out humans and turns their cities into massive forests. For a fair number of chapters, the story focuses on stopping her from wiping out all of humanity for their wasteful and destructive ways.]] |
| 350 | * {{Orochi}} in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' is the offspring of Gaia ([[AllMythsAreTrue as in]], the Greek MotherGoddess) and sees itself as her servant (it even goes by the title of "Gaia's Will" in-series), carrying out her vengeful will against humans for the destruction they've wrought all over the planet. Of course, it's also [[GodOfEvil an evil world-destroying god]], and it's managed to forget that humans are as much children of Gaia as anything ''else'' in the world, [[KnightTemplar so...]] Following its [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat]] and [[SealedEvilInACan resealing]] in ''KOF '97'', Orochi decides to put its KillAllHumans agenda on hold for the time being in lieu of [[HumanityOnTrial observing mankind to see if they're indeed deserving of its judgment]]. The Psycho Soldiers ending in ''KOF 2003'' also seems to imply that Orochi's corruption isn't absolute, at least not compared to the leader of Those From the Past, Saiki; a further implication may be that Orochi fell under that guy's sway, and only ''then'' decided to resort to genocide. |
| 351 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': |
| 352 | ** [[WhenTreesAttack Maokai]] is the "monster created by environmental pollution" flavour. He's a nature spirit that was twisted by dark magic and bound to a tree. Dispising his situation, he takes revenge on anyone he deems responsible (anyone walking on two legs, really). |
| 353 | ** [[PlantPerson Zyra]] is a subversion. She's a sentient plant who took human form in order to escape her dying habitat. One of her abilities is even described as "the embodiment of nature's fury." However, she's mostly motivated by survival and hedonism. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/LumberwhackDefendTheWild'' is about animals taking revenge on lumberjacks who have captured them and are trying to cut down their forest, by outright attacking and killing said lumberjacks. You play as the side of the animals. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': Plan A for dealing with the Reaper destroyer on Tuchanka is a two-pronged attack by turian fighters and krogan armor. Plan B is summoning Kalros, "the mother of all thresher maws", [[spoiler:who flying-tackles the Reaper and drags it underground]]. Wrex outright calls her Tuchanka's temper. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'': Willo, Moji, and Grover are champions who fight to protect and avenge the forests ravaged by the war between the [[TheEmpire Magistrate]] and the [[LaResistance Paladins]]. Willo is a fairy, Moji is a rabbit sorceress, and Grover is an axe-wielding {{treant|s}}. |
| 357 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 358 | ** Trevenant, a Pokémon created when a human ghost possesses a tree, acts as a warden of nature and curses those who encroach on its forests or log its trees, trapping them within the woods so that they can never leave. |
| 359 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'': While the villain teams don't have a specific stated reason for attempting to dry out or flood the planet, ''Alpha Sapphire''[='=]s Team Aqua is much more specifically an organization of Gaia's Avengers. Their boss seeks Kyogre to flood Hoenn's civilizations, taking the land back for Pokemon, inner the reasoning that aquatic environments can host the most life. [[GoneHorriblyRight The flooding ends up being far worse than expected.]] |
| 360 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' has a rare benevolent example of this in [[spoiler:Hydreigon, who's not a true Pokémon but the form taken by the Voice of Life, a being who embodies the world's will to survive and acts as one of its sworn protectors, addressing any threats to its safety. His goal is to destroy the [[EldritchAbomination Bittercold]], but after becoming aware that neither he nor any Pokémon in the world was capable of doing so, called humans in to do the job. He eventually meets the player character and proceeds to guide them towards this aim, also acting as their guardian until circumstances force him to part ways. Once the world is saved, he ultimately decides to settle into a normal life in Post Town for the time being and helps his new friends/world saviors as a part of their team.]] |
| 361 | * ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun'': The protagonists spend the entire game fighting an enigmatic stone-like object that had effectively destroyed the planet. However, at the end of the game, it's revealed that the object was Earth itself all along, wiping mankind off the face of the planet to effectively "reboot" the human race, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters due to their extreme warlike tendencies]]. It's also implied that the events of the game [[ViciousCycle have happened before, many times]], and that it potentially won't be the last time they do. |
| 362 | * ''Savage: The Battle for Newerth'' plays this straight with [[MeaningfulName Ophelia Grimm]]. Ophelia had a [[FriendToAllLivingThings supernatural gift for communing with animals]], and believed the Legion of Man should cooperate with the newly-intelligent Beasts, rather than killing them on sight. After watching Legionnaires [[ShootTheDog kill a defenseless beast pup that was trying to give her a flower]], she began to believe that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans had no redeeming traits at all]], escaped into the wilderness, and [[OhCrap taught the beasts to fight back]], becoming a full-blown Gaia's Avenger. |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The Mana Fortress, a particularly evil KillSat, is fueled by the life-force of the planet. The champion of Earth ''du jour'' is the Mana Beast, a white dragon hell-bent on smashing the Fortress to pieces. In an odd twist, [[spoiler:the Beast, while good-natured, has gone mad with rage, and destroying the fortress would cause a catastrophic restructuring of the balance, so the heroes have to kill the Beast after killing the BigBad in charge of the Fortress]]. |
| 364 | * ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' features the [[HellGate Schwarzwelt]], a release of demonic antibodies for when some species (in this case, humanity) threatens to bring life on Earth to utter ruin. Or at least, that was Hammerschmidt's theory. The problem is that the forces behind it, especially the actual [[spoiler:''Mother and origin of all life on Earth'', Mem Aleph]], want to wipe out humanity's civilization ''specifically'' for its depravity and excess, so that "nature can flourish freely" once again... but the Schwarzwelt's [[AdvancingWallOfDoom expansion]] results in the absorption and reconstruction of every last bit of the planet it comes in contact with, including all non-human life, which sort of defeats the purpose. |
| 365 | * ''VideoGame/ShogoMobileArmorDivision'' has these as the possible BigBad, depending on the choices made by the player. |
| 366 | * ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': |
| 367 | ** Not Earth-based, but Planet has the Mind Worms, which respond to excessive pollution by making a beeline for the offending habitation and gruesomely killing everyone inside. So, either you keep your Planet rating high, or you'd better have some real strong defences. By the way, some of them can fly, and they're perfectly capable of penetrating airtight sea-based colonies too. |
| 368 | *** In the expansion, Planet ups the ante with artillery (spore launchers), submarines (sealurks), and entire organic factory/fortress deals known as fungal towers. This is on top of the battleship/transport isles of the deep, mind worm standard combat troops, and airborne locusts. Did we mention they completely ignore your technology? |
| 369 | *** There are technologies that are useful against them (Neural Amplifier, Trance Training, etc.) and you can even breed your own, domestic mindworms. |
| 370 | ** Playing as the ''Gaian'' faction, naturally enough, enables environmental empathy that allows the mindworms to be ''captured'' and then used as weapons against the other factions in the game. This can lead to some [[SuperweaponSurprise nasty times]] for anyone who fights the Gaians while relying on spamming undertrained units, and can turn a relatively backwards Gaian player into a world conqueror if they play their cards right. |
| 371 | ** The Cult of Planet view themselves as more or less Gaia's Avengers, with a, well, cult-like devotion to Planet and the environmental cause. As far as they're concerned, HumansAreBastards and have already blown it by ruining Earth; only Planet is worthy of deciding if they're worthy of living here, and it's implied that if Transcendence is not possible then they will wipe out every other human faction and then commit mass suicide to ensure that Planet is free of human interference. Yikes. |
| 372 | * ''VideoGame/SimEarth'' lets the player unleash the wrath of Gaia onto the planet they tend to, and oh -- poking Gaia in the eye does piss her off. |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'': The Keepers are artificial life-forms designed to defend Earth from those who would try to harm it; Isa explains that they are the Earth's "immune system". The Keepers spend a great majority of the game harassing Isa and Kachi, as if the Nebulox weren't enough of a threat. In Stage 7, [[spoiler:when it becomes clear that the Nebulox pose a major threat to the planet, the Keepers strike back against them, working alongside Isa and Kachi]]. |
| 374 | * ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'': [[spoiler:Baion]] believes himself to be Gaia's Avenger, wanting to wipe out the "imperfect" [[BeastMan Caninu and Felineko]] and restore the world to its natural state. After smacking him around a bit, Red tells him that Caninu and Felineko won't degenerate into fighting that tears the planet apart [[spoiler:like the humans did before]]. [[spoiler:Baion]] relents, and tells Red that, while they get a reprieve this time, he ''will'' be watching them. |
| 375 | * ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' had the Exterminators once you got to the moonbase. |
| 376 | * ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': The Wood Elves are generally themed around bringing the wrath of the forest against those who would harm nature, but a handful of subsections are notable even within them: |
| 377 | ** Drycha is so xenophobic and hateful of humanoid civilization that her faction, the Wargrove of Woe, outright refuses most elven units and instead relies on a unique selection of animals and malevolent forest spirits, such as wolves, bats, giant spiders, giant hawks and manticores. |
| 378 | ** One of the game's nomadic rogue armies, the Wrath of Nature, consists of the Wood Elves' nature spirit units -- dryads, tree kin, treemen, forest dragons and giant eagles -- roaming the land and brining destruction to despoilers of nature. |
| 379 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Wayward}}'', damaging the island's environment by cutting down trees, mining, or hunting causes your reputation to drop. Having negative reputation increases the amount of hostile creatures. |
| 380 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Freya -- a titan who seems to be Azeroth's closest equivalent to Gaia -- does not consider mercy to be an option towards the Lich King, the Scourge, or any cultists affiliated with either. Her avatar -- a scary-looking elemental in the shape of a female elf who towers about five-hundred-feet tall -- demands "sevenfold" retribution, and only trusts the player ''after'' he or she helps deliver part of it. (And she desires even ''more'' proof of trust later in the same questline. Clearly, she's not fond of mortals in general.) |
| 381 | * ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' has a more realistic, small-scale example in the hunting village Saejima finds himself in after breaking out of prison. The villagers survived traditionally by subsisting on the game living on the nearby mountain, but nine years ago they were seduced into making lots of money by selling furs and trophies as well. They over-hunted the mountain, depriving the bear population of small game. This caused the starving bears to stalk and kill humans for food. A hunter calling himself Okudera managed to save the village from bear attacks and got them to return to their traditional way of life, but a giant man-eater named Yama-oroshi proved too difficult to take down, and continued to threaten the village from that point on. |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 385 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': [[GuardianEntity CHEN]] will only awaken when the planet is in great danger. |
| 386 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Michael and Ashley are involking this by destroying any man-made structures to restore things to their natural state. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 390 | * ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' features a slew of different enemies that are spawned from some force of nature, either as revenge against humans or as a monster trying to take over the world. The first foe we see Saitama face is a monster calling himself "Vaccine-Man", who claims to have been "spawned by the continuous pollution of Earth caused by you filthy humans." [[CurbStompBattle Saitama takes him down in one hit]], establishing [[EstablishingSeriesMoment what kind of series this will be]]. |
| 391 | * In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', this is an offered explanation for ThePlague that caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The initial outbreak of ThePlague was followed by a TheMagicComesBack episode for the survivors and a few hints are dropped about the disease itself possibly having a magical factor to it, which contributes to the dominant Icelandic view that TheOldGods had something to do with it. |
| 392 | * In ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'', Malthus and his gang, the Light Demons, seek to cause the deaths of billions of people in order to ease the strain they put on the planet's ecosystems. |
| 393 | * ''Webcomics/{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'': In [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/02/02/ this]] strip, the whales hunt back the whalers. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 397 | * ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': HumansAreTheRealMonsters but Gaia is a "Crazy Bitch-Bastard" who'd kill herself to make a point according to [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-9-biggest-bastards-2011/ Biggest Bastards of 2011]]. |
| 398 | * In ''Website/OrionsArm'', the AI named GAIA was slowly given more responsibility for running Earth. After a very serious disaster, GAIA decided that humans were the root cause for most of Earth's problems and declared that all but a select few sapients had to leave. Those who didn't were slaughtered, though GAIA was kind enough to build a fleet of starships capable of transporting humanity off-world first. |
| 399 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1100 SCP-1100]] a.k.a. "Gaia's Blood" mutates living things in order to kill humans. It was thought to have been created by an AnimalWrongsGroup, but [[spoiler:it seems to be literally Gaia's blood and she's extremely pissed]]. |
| 400 | * ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'': The settlers in [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/shikuan-misiwe shikuan-misiwe]] are killed to stop them from destroying the island they lived on. |
| 401 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': "The Braeburn Report" suggests that this trope is happening right now. WordOfGod says the authors of that report may not be right. |
| 402 | %%* This. Just this. [[https://pics.me.me/yeah-fuck-you-earth-well-fuck-you-too-remember-this-27547168.png]] |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 406 | * In ''WebVideo/BackstrokeOfTheWest'', this is apparently how Darth Plagueis, now known as "Reaching the Man Cloth Space", actually died, having been killed by "his land". |
| 407 | * ''WebVideo/{{React}}'': Summed up [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes rather ominously by six-year-old Maksim]] in "Kids React to Golden Eagle Snatches Kid". |
| 408 | -->'''Maksim:''' [[LaserGuidedKarma People ruin nature, so that means nature can ruin people.]] |
| 409 | [[/folder]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 412 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 413 | ** The Gaang meets a spirit named Hei Bai, who is rampaging through a village because his forest was destroyed. After Aang reassures him that it will grow back, though, Hei Bai becomes an ally. |
| 414 | ** Zhao, while temporarily succeeding with the whole "killing the moon" thing, [[spoiler:suffers a KarmicDeath via a very vengeful Ocean Spirit. When Zhao shows up in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[AndIMustScream his punishment is revealed to be ''very'' brutal.]]]] |
| 415 | ** This is one of the jobs of the Avatar himself; the duty of ironing out misunderstandings of the spirit world and the human world means he sometimes needs to put humans back in their place if they get too violent toward nature. [[spoiler:When Aang defeats Fire Lord Ozai, his first act is to gently make the ocean rise just enough to extinguish the fires started by their battle, then push them back.]] |
| 416 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Technically, Gaia isn't after vengeance; she just wants humanity to clean up its mess. Her young champions, the Planeteers, are in charge of doing what they can nonviolently/[[MartialPacifist non-lethally]], lest she become mortal. Also, it's considered a shock when one of them ([[BewareTheNiceOnes Gi]], over the shooting of a friend of hers, in "gang violence" episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS4E22TeersInTheHood 'Teers in the Hood]]") attempts murder. That said, while it's a pretty mild vengeance, the eco-villains aren't happy about suddenly getting their illegal dealings wrecked by five elementally-powered youngsters and their superpowered guardians. |
| 417 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': In "[[Recap/DannyPhantomS3E6UrbanJungle Urban Jungle]]", Danny faces off against the evil plant ghost Undergrowth, who is bent on covering the planet in vegetation and enslaving humanity. |
| 418 | * ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': The second mini-series has a metaphoric example. Cobra dares to play God and control the weather, but destroying their weapon should stop the disasters so the heroes blow it to pieces but... OhCrap, ''now it's even worse!'' Gaia only relents when the good guys decide to reassemble the thing to undo what the villains did. |
| 419 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Morty begins dating a CaptainErsatz of Captain Planet named Planetina, and after killing her dirtbag equivalents of the Planeteers to secure her freedom she quickly goes off the deep end and becomes an EcoTerrorist, escalating from slashing tires to force people to walk to burning hundreds of coal miners to death. |
| 420 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'': "[[Recap/Robotomy07MeanGreen Mean Green]]": As the robots have purposefully stripped Insanus' natural life down to nothing, the Green Spirit wants to wipe them out in reveenge and spends most of the episode trying to obtain a special ball of super-fertilizer, which allows her to grow to colossal size and go on a destructive against robot-kind. |
| 421 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': "[[MusicalEpisode Zanzibar]]" ends with Ed Bighead polluting out of spite, only for [[LaserGuidedKarma a hole to open in the ozone layer above his house and give him a nasty sunburn]]. Captain Compost Heap summarizes the moral of the story as "If we're not nice to Mother Nature... she'll kick our butts!" |
| 422 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Played with in the episode "[[{{Recap/SouthParkS11E3LiceCapades}} Lice Capades]]". When Clyde's head is infested with head lice, the shots of him using delousing shampoo to get rid of them is interspersed with scenes from the lice's perspective, showing that, to them, the casual scalp washing is basically this. |
| 423 | -->'''Travis:''' "Look, the world is getting rid of us! Don't you get it?!" |
| 424 | -->'''Louse:''' "Getting rid of us? You-you mean like it knows what it's doing?" |
| 425 | -->'''Travis:''' "Yes! Because maybe we rolled the dice too many times!" |
| 426 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The fourth season introduces loth-wolves, Force-empowered giant wolves connected to the planet Lothal, who manifest in reaction to its environmental degradation by the Empire. They mostly act with the heroes due to the Empire being a common enemy but their allegiance is to Lothal above all and [[TheFairFolk they're ultimately wild creatures with their own rules]]. |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': The Earth formed around Unicron while he was sleeping. When he wakes up and notices all of that noisy organic life on him, he reacts in much the same way a human would react to waking up covered by roaches. |
| 428 | [[/folder]] |
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