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* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 sourcebook ''Elder Evils'', one of the generic SignsOfTheEndTimes which can herald the awakening of an [[EldritchAbomination Elder Evil]] is the onset of hot, dry winds which gradually raise the global temperature, evaporate water, and prevent all forms of precipitation from falling. As the Elder Evil comes closer to waking, the winds get stronger and hotter, eventually becoming hot enough to ignite whatever they touch and kick off worldwide firestorms.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 sourcebook ''Elder Evils'', one of the generic SignsOfTheEndTimes which can herald the awakening of an [[EldritchAbomination Elder Evil]] is the onset of hot, dry winds which gradually raise the global temperature, evaporate water, and prevent all forms of precipitation from falling. As the Elder Evil comes closer to waking, the winds get stronger and hotter, eventually becoming hot enough to ignite whatever they touch and kick off worldwide firestorms.
* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': Many Demon Princes have complex, subtle plans wrapped in layers of neurosis and deception. Not so much Belial, whose goals and motives start and end at "everything should be on fire all the time".
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* ''Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'': In the film, the major plot is that the Earth's Van Allen belts are on fire and slowly roasting the planet.

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* ''Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'': In the film, the major plot is that the Earth's [[HollywoodScience Van Allen belts are on fire fire]] and slowly roasting the planet.
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* This is fully the intent of [[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Brightly Burning]]'s Lavan Firestorm, after enemy soldiers shoot his [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Companion]], the one being who had any hope of holding back his SuperpoweredEvilSide. Fortunately for the world, he also wanted to die himself and allowed the flames to take him too, but before then he generated flame walls as tall as mountains and annihilated an army as well as the mountain pass they were crossing.

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* Happens in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' [[spoiler:[[FirstEpisodeTwist to]] [[DoomedHometown Kharak]]]].

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* Happens in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' [[spoiler:[[FirstEpisodeTwist to]] [[DoomedHometown Kharak]]]].''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'': In the third mission the Mothership jumps back home to Kharak, only to find that the Taiidan Empire has destroyed it with an atmospheric incinerator.
-->''No one's left. Everything's gone. Kharak is burning..."''
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* Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', although this particular incarnation of ComicBook/TheJoker is the kind of guy who would ''literally'' act out this trope if he could manage it.
--> '''Alfred''': "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

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* Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', although this particular incarnation of ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker is the kind of guy who would ''literally'' act out this trope if he could manage it.
--> '''Alfred''': "Some -->'''Alfred:''' Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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->''[[Music/TheInkSpots I just want to start a flame in your heart.]]''

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->''[[Music/TheInkSpots ->''[[Music/TheInkSpots ...I just want to start a flame in your heart.]]''
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''I just want to start a flame in your heart.''

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''I ->''[[Music/TheInkSpots I just want to start a flame in your heart.'']]''
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* In ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved: Aberration'', the Aberrant Ark's climate control system was broken in the backstory (the survivors tried to battle the Overseer with ''nukes''). As a result, the surface is exposed to radiation that will instantly incinerate ''anything'' caught out in daytime, even with a hazard suit, and most life has adapted to the extensive, somewhat less irradiated, underground cave systems.
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* ''Film/TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire'' involves the Earth being knocked out of orbit by nuclear weapons tests and heading towards the sun. [[AmbiguousEnding The ending is ambiguous]] as to whether this trope happens or not.
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** In Peter's second epistle, he foretells that on the day of the Lord's coming the earth and the heavens will be burned up.
-->But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2nd Peter 3:10-13)
** Jesus himself says, in Luke 12:49, "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Whether this is metaphorical or not is uncertain.

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** In [[Literature/EpistlesOfPeter Peter's second epistle, epistle]], he foretells that on the day of the Lord's coming the earth and the heavens will be burned up.
-->But --->But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2nd Peter 3:10-13)
** Jesus himself says, in [[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 12:49, 12:49]], "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Whether this is metaphorical or not is uncertain.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 sourcebook ''Elder Evils'', one of the generic SignsOfTheEndTimes which can herald the awakening of an [[EldritchAbomination Elder Evil]] is the onset of hot, dry winds which gradually raise the global temperature, evaporate water, and prevent all forms of precipitation from falling. As the Elder Evil comes closer to waking, the winds get stronger and hotter, eventually becoming hot enough to ignite whatever they touch and kick off worldwide firestorms.
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Sometimes the {{Villain}} is so bad that he scorches the earth beneath his feet (see also WalkingWasteland). Sometimes his evil diffuses around the world and literally sets the world on fire. Sometimes the world is set on fire by some mishap.

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Sometimes the {{Villain}} villain is so bad that he scorches the earth beneath his feet (see also WalkingWasteland). Sometimes his evil diffuses around the world and literally sets the world on fire. Sometimes the world is set on fire by some mishap.
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* Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', although this particular incarnation of ComicBooks/TheJoker is the kind of guy who would ''literally'' act out this trope if he could manage it.

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* Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', although this particular incarnation of ComicBooks/TheJoker ComicBook/TheJoker is the kind of guy who would ''literally'' act out this trope if he could manage it.
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* Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', although this particular incarnation of ComicBooks/TheJoker is the kind of guy who would ''literally'' act out this trope if he could manage it.
--> '''Alfred''': "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': While not a planet ''per se'', Ben's Heat Blast form comes from a species originating from a star, meaning that there home "planet" is constantly on fire.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': While not a planet ''per se'', Ben's Heat Blast form comes from a species originating from a star, meaning that there their home "planet" is constantly on fire.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': An entire alternate Earth is destroyed by fire and lava in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]''.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': An entire alternate Earth is destroyed by fire and lava in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]''.[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]].



* Happens in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' [[spoiler:[[FirstEpisodeSpoiler to]] [[DoomedHometown Kharak]]]].

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* Happens in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' [[spoiler:[[FirstEpisodeSpoiler [[spoiler:[[FirstEpisodeTwist to]] [[DoomedHometown Kharak]]]].



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%%* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': "Earth is burning."%%ZCE

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%%* * ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': "Earth we see several worlds under attack by the Reapers, but none are hit harder than the homeworlds of humanity and the turians: Earth and Palaven. Entire chunks of the planets are aglow with orange flames visible all the way to their moons... and most of the rest is burning."%%ZCEcovered in smoke.
-->'''Garrus''': See that bright orange spot right there? That's where I was born.



%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Attempted in the finale by Firelord Ozai.%%ZCE

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%%* * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Attempted in the finale by Firelord Ozai.%%ZCEOzai. After an entire century of attempting and failing to conquer the Earth Kingdom, he attempts to use Sozin's Comet and the power boost it gives him to literally burn the entire kingdom down within a day. The Earth Kingdom, it should be noted, is by far the largest nation on the planet and occupies more than half the landmass.

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