History Main / NoEndorHolocaust

* Played straight for the most part in ''ComicBook/AstroCity''. The city is frequently attacked by hundred-foot-tall monsters or rampaging gods, but most collateral damage either occurs off-screen or with scenes showing heroes rescuing civilians. Most aftermath is limited to broken windows and litter in the streets, and the residents take this all in stride, praising the city's robust public works services. Generally averted in stories set in the late '70s/early '80s (Astro City's version of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks), though.

** Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} does her best to avoid and prevent collateral damage and civilian casualties, but being a younger and less experienced hero than her cousin, she sometimes fails. Every time it happens, she feels horribly guilty.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'', she was unable to stop a [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] minion from bringing a hospital down.
** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', two villains deliberately choose to fight her in a populated city at different times, knowing that she would hold back not to hurt people.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' includes an attack that results in a huge explosion. There is no damage afterwards.

** The [[Film/{{Transformers}} first movie]]. Very strange logic on the part of the army to take the Allspark into the middle of downtown Los Angeles when a horde of psychotic giant alien robots plus the good guys' jet fighter air support, was destined to converge on its location. The ensuing battle destroys a huge number of buildings and who knows how many innocent bystanders.

** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': the planet the show takes place on is prehistoric Earth, and in the series finale Megatron, while onboard a working spaceship, with a weapon that outright killed the near-god-like Tigerhawk, opens fire on a tribe of protohumans. It's outright shown at the end of the episode that all or most of them are alive and well, without so much as minor injuries.

* In the Franchise/StarTrek novel ''[[Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch Beneath the Raptor's Wing]]'', several starships carrying antimatter explode in orbit over Andoria. The planet is fine but characters do note that had the explosions been a certain degree more powerful, the atmosphere ''could'' have been stripped away.

** In "Enemy at the Gate", a larger-than-normal Wraith hive ship blows up in low Earth orbit. In fact, the nuclear blast appears to vaporize the ship. There is an incredibly bright flash, and then nothing. No consequences for Earth either. Then there's a giant Ancient city-ship crash-landing in the San Francisco Bay.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' in an example strikingly similar to the [[Film/ReturnoftheJedi the trope namer]], the planet Delmak in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S3E13TheDevilYouKnow The Devil You Know]]" is apparently unharmed after its moon explodes.

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** Taken to its logical conclusion in The ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', where the lack of victims in his rampages is used to show how NOT mindless his rampages must be, instead being highly, scarily calculated acts.

* In the climax of ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Xavier is mind controlled to first kill all mutants then kill all humans. While he's stopped each time, his attempts cause extremely painful seizures in those he's targeting and cause mutant powers to go out of control (Mystique can't control her shapeshifting, Cyclops fires his EyeBeams). Logically, millions should be dead from suffering seizures while driving, swimming, or even simply taking a bath. Instead, the whole thing is pretty much brushed off by everyone.

** ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'': One hopes Black Widow's safehouse is in an otherwise abandoned building, otherwise countless neighbors died from stray fire then her fellow Widows launched a SWAT-like operation against her; she also condemns a prison's worth of inmates and guards to death in breaking out her father; the Red Room might have crashed in an unpopulated area, but who knows how many {{Mooks}} (many of whom were implied to have been brainwashed) when Natashia and her family cut a path of destruction through it.

*** The aforementioned series is an exception, as it's a plot point that there was a ''real estate'' crisis as a result of the homes of those that had disappeared being resold to those that didn't.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'': The climax with [[HostileTerraforming Zod's ship]] pancakes a major section of Metropolis with thousands of people dead, while the World Engine takes out an untold number more when it lands in the Indian Ocean just off the coast of South-East Asia to serve as its counterpart. This is in addition to a smaller super-powered fight between Superman and Zod that undoubtedly killed even more people, and [[ActionInsuranceGag made insurance companies the world over scream in terror]]. The very last scene (taking place an unknown time later) has the Daily Planet running again, previously evacuated because of the world engine, and seemingly in okay condition and the whole scene is rather upbeat. This was one of the major complaints levied towards the movie -- [[WordOfGod although it was stated that this was intentional]], and the fact that the death and destruction that occurred is something [[MyGreatestFailure even Superman couldn't stop]] and will factor into later installments.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'': The climax with [[HostileTerraforming the world engine]] pancakes a major section of Metropolis with thousands of people dead. This is in addition to a smaller super-powered fight between Superman and Zod. The very last scene (taking place an unknown time later) has the Daily Planet running again, previously evacuated because of the world engine, and seemingly in okay condition and the whole scene is rather upbeat. This was one of the major complaints levied towards the movie -- [[WordOfGod although it was stated that this was intentional]], and the fact that the death and destruction that occurred is something [[MyGreatestFailure even Superman couldn't stop]] and will factor into later installments.

** When the robot [[spoiler:terrorizing the city is finally deactivated, it falls into a lake and [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explodes into oblivion]]. Needless to say, an explosion big enough to disintegrate a robot of that size and strength would have resulted in catastrophic damage and casualties]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': It seems like Megamind and Metro Man have an unwritten rule about damage, but when Titan/Tighten goes on a rampage -- even tossing an entire ''skyscraper'' at Megamind, the trope is subverted, as Megamind's Brain Bots are repairing the city after the day has been won.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', there is no mention of [[spoiler:anyone getting injured or killed in Ming's rampage through Toronto and her subsequent damaging of the [=SkyDome=], even though the incident apparently went down in infamy as "Pandapocalypse 2002"]].

* ''Film/GlassOnion'': Helen blows up the entire Glass Onion complex with [[MadeOfExplodium Klear]]. The destruction is absolute, everything is on fire, and Miles' [[CoolCar "Baby Blue" car]] even crashes down through the roof! Yet the Disruptors, Helen, Peg and Whiskey all conveniently survive without being maimed or killed.

* At the climax of the ''Film/VForVendetta'', [[spoiler:the Houses of Parliament are destroyed by a massive bomb on a tube train beneath them. An explosion of such size would devastate a wide area around it, but miraculously the thousands of be-masked V supporters watching the show from only a few metres away are completely unharmed, rather than being shredded by flying debris]]. ''Possibly'' justified, as there is a shot of the Army successfully holding back the crowd behind barricades in places, so it's unlikely those Vs would have been standing immediately adjacent to the structure. Also, they all knew it was going to explode, they probably stood well back.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' she casts a spell that accidentally destroys the town's dam, causing a massive flood. She runs through the town warning everyone and everyone is apparently able to make it to safety -- afterwards one character says "it's a miracle nobody was killed". Though in a touch of realism, Sabrina is still extremely upset about flooding the town. Also time rewinds itself so that the flooding never happens.

* In Episode 4 of ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'', when Uzi examines a dog-themed calendar in a destroyed laboratory, it's revealed that all of the planet's dogs were evacuated from the planet before something bad (in this case the core rupturing) happened, with a note explicitly stating that it's [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall canon]]. Also, thanks to the power of science, [[ExaggeratedTrope all dogs are now immortal]].

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': At the climax of "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S01E0133 33]]", Apollo and Starbuck are ordered to destroy one of the Fleet's own civilian ships, the ''Olympic Carrier'', based on the suspicion that the Cylons are using it to track the Fleet (realized after both it and the Cylons caught up with the fleet ''after'' the eponymous 33-minute interval) and the fact it's pinging the radiological alarms as it approaches. The original script called for the ''Olympic Carrier'' to be fully manned, [[ShootTheDog forcing them to knowingly kill their own people]], but [[ExecutiveMeddling the network vetoed this]] and the episode went to air with [[GhostShip the ship visibly empty]].[[note]]Though an attentive observer may notice a few [[FreezeFrameBonus very brief]] flickers in the light coming out from some of the windows, hinting that there are still people moving around inside.[[/note]] WordOfGod is still that there were definitely people onboard, however, as the showrunners say in their podcast commentary for the later episode [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S02E10Pegasus "Pegasus"]] over a scene where Tigh insists to Adama that they don't know there was anyone on the ship.[[invoked]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': At the climax of "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S01E0133 33]]", Lee and Starbuck are ordered to destroy one of the Fleet's own civilian ships, the ''Olympic Carrier'', based on the suspicion that the Cylons are using it to track the Fleet (realized after both it and the Cylons caught up with the fleet ''after'' the eponymous 33-minute interval) and the fact it's pinging the radiological alarms as it approaches. The original script called for the ''Olympic Carrier'' to be fully manned, [[ShootTheDog forcing them to knowingly kill their own people]], but [[ExecutiveMeddling the network vetoed this]] and the episode went to air with [[GhostShip the ship visibly empty]].[[note]]Though an attentive observer may notice a few [[FreezeFrameBonus very brief]] flickers in the light coming out from some of the windows, hinting that there are still people moving around inside.[[/note]] WordOfGod is still that there were definitely people onboard, however, as the showrunners say in their podcast commentary for the later episode [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S02E10Pegasus "Pegasus"]] over a scene where Tigh insists to Adama that they don't know there was anyone on the ship.[[invoked]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': At the climax of "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S01E0133 33]]", Lee and Starbuck are ordered to destroy one of the Fleet's own civilian ships, the ''Olympic Carrier'', based on the suspicion that the Cylons are using it to track the fleet (realized after both it and the Cylons caught up with the fleet ''after'' the eponymous 33-minute interval) and the fact it's pinging the radiological alarms as it approaches the Fleet. The original script called for the ''Olympic Carrier'' to be fully manned, [[ShootTheDog forcing them to knowingly kill their own people]], but [[ExecutiveMeddling the network vetoed this]] and the episode went to air with [[GhostShip the ship visibly empty]].[[note]]Though an attentive observer may notice a few [[FreezeFrameBonus very brief]] flickers in the light coming out from some of the windows, hinting that there are still people moving around inside.[[/note]] WordOfGod is still that there were definitely people onboard, however, as the showrunners say in their podcast commentary for the later episode [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S02E10Pegasus "Pegasus"]] over a scene where Tigh insists to Adama that they don't know there was anyone on the ship.[[invoked]]