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** Coyote Starrk's spectral wolves are formed from his spiritual energy and explode with the force of a small nuke once they bite down on a target.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' there is the Revenge Death ball, powered by the hate of Baby's followers. Also [[FinalBoss Omega Shenron's]] negative energy ball, made from all the bad karma left over from all the sins on Earth.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' there's [[AGodAmI God]] [[ShockAndAwe Enel]] with his infamous, island-annihilating [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/8/8b/Enel_using_Raigo_to_destroy_Angel_Island.png/revision/latest?cb Raigou]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ulquiorra Cifer's Cero Oscuras is a jet black WaveMotionGun capable of disintegrating a significant portion of Las Noches's roof. His Lanza del Relampago is even worse. When he fails to hit his target with it, it sails off into the distance and creates an explosion that's roughly the same radius as las Noches and ''dwarfs'' it in height. To put both of those into perspective, Las Noches is the size of a city.
** [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Hollow Ichigo]]'s crimson Cero is even stronger than Ulquiorra's Cero Oscuras and overpowers it when the two clash, resulting in an enormous mushroom cloud.
** Coyote Starrk's spectral wolves are formed from his spiritual energy and explode with the force of a small nuke once they bite down on a target.
* The ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series has Diabolic Emission, a massive sphere of black energy that covers several city blocks and greatly harms targets caught within its blast radius. Its incantation is "In an ancient land, sink to the darkness."
** Notably, [[DarkIsNotEvil it's used by Hayate, one of the protagonists]].
* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has a few. Velgemon has Dark Obliteration and [=ShadowSeraphimon=] has Strike of the Seven Dark Stars (Seven Hells in the Japanese version). Lucemon provides a more unusual example with his Ultimate Sacrifice attack, which [[YinYangBomb uses light in addition to darkness]].
* ''Literature/Overlord2012'': Given [[VillainProtagonist who our]] [[OurLichesAreDifferent protagonist is]] and [[StoryBreakerPower what]] [[{{Necromancer}} he]] [[TheDarkArts can]] [[OneHitKO do]], the series naturally gives us a few examples.
** The Goal Of All Life Is Death is Ainz/Momonga's ultimate skill, which empowers [[OneHitKO instant death spells]] to ignore resistances [[CatastrophicCountdown but applies a delay of 12 seconds]]. The purpose of this spell in the game ''YGGDRASIL'' was to bypass heavy resistances to the normally AwesomeButImpractical death spells and allow them to hit normally [[NoSell invalid]] targets such as TheUndead or golems. [[TrappedInAnotherWorld In the New World]], it still does all this and more, when Ainz used it in combination with an area of effect death spell, it killed the entire target area so completely and utterly that the soil was turned to dead sand and the very air was rendered unbreathable.
** Iä Shub-Niggurath is a Super-tier spell described as summoning a black cyclone of death magic that attempts to OneHitKO everything in its (massive) area of effect, then summons a number of high-level {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that serve the caster, depending on the number of creatures killed by the initial effect. And yes, it can be enhanced by the above for further devastation. When used in the aptly-named [[CurbStompBattle Massacre at Katze Plains]], the initial effect killed 70,000 soldiers and raised five level 90-ish Dark Young that slaughtered about 100,000 more, making this spell easily qualify as both an Unholy Nuke '''and''' a FantasticNuke.
** There is also [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Grand Catastrophe]], the signature spell of the [[GlassCannon World Disaster]] class (played by the guild's resident [[{{Chuunibyou}} edgelord]] Ulbert Alain Odle), which [[CoolButInefficient takes a good chunk out of the user's mana]] but surpasses the power of Super-Tier spells. We see Ulbert use it once in a side story, and it wipes out a room full of high-level elementals and takes a huge chunk of health out of the boss of the dungeon. That's for the "nuke" part. As for the "unholy" part, the name of the spell, the name of the class it's exclusive to, and its lore description as a manifestation of the wrath and sorrow of countless destroyed worlds should be a tip-off.

* '' TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is full of these. Basically any time Chaos is involved, expect Unholy Nukes to be flying thick and fast.
** Virus bombs are Imperial superweapons used to clear a planet of ''all'' life, but leaving infrastructure intact. however, they've stopped using the ever since they found out using them strengthens Nurgle, the Chaos god of disease.

* The full extent of its effects is unknown, but the bomb as shown in the page image that ended the [[ApocalypseHow Great Mushroom War]] in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' almost certainly qualifies. It does not appear to cause an explosion of the magnitude of a conventional nuke, but [[spoiler: it exudes a greenish cloud of what appear to be tormented souls and creates a largish puddle of green toxic waste that mutates the first person exposed to it into an OmnicidalManiac [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]] powerful enough to serve as the series' BigBad]].

* ''TheChroniclesOfAmber'': Initiates of the Logrus possess the ability to summon elemental chaos, which effectively wipes anything they want out of existence, and if allowed to run wild can destroy a very large area before it runs out of energy. Merlin expressly compares it to a nuclear strike, and notes that it's so destructive there's almost no practical use for it.

See also LightIsNotGood, CastingAShadow, PersonOfMassDestruction. May or not be part of a YinYangBomb. Contrast HolyHandGrenade. See also FantasticNuke, where the emphasis is on the scale of the damage done regardless of whether the spell is specifically "unholy" or not.

* ''VideoGame/CopyKitty'': The "Vestige of the Lost", the most powerful BlackMagic spell in existence. Legend states that the spell works by opening a portal to Hell itself and allowing evil gods to briefly wreak havoc on the world. The spell is so deadly that its only known wielder (the game's BonusBoss) cannot channel the full power of the spell, and has to split it into three lesser spells. Boki, not knowing the dangers, copies all three components and uses the full spell against the BonusBoss. The result kills the previously invincible boss in one blow, crashes the training simulation, and knocks Boki out cold, terrifying her teacher, who hadn't believed she would be capable of copying that power.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'':

--->One who is darker than twilight\\

'''DRAGON SLAVE!'''

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'': given [[VillainProtagonist who our]] [[{{Lich}} protagonist is]] and [[StoryBreakerPower what]] [[{{Necromancer}} he]] [[TheDarkArts can]] [[OneHitKO do]], the series naturally gives us a few examples.

** There is also [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Grand Catastrophe]], the signature spell of the [[GlassCannon World Disaster]] class (played by the guild's resident [[{{Chuunibyou}} edgelord]] Ulbert Alain Odle), which [[CoolButInefficient takes a good chunk out of the user's mana]] but [[UpToEleven surpasses the power of Super-Tier spells]]. We see Ulbert use it once in a side story, and it wipes out a room full of high-level elementals and takes a huge chunk of health out of the boss of the dungeon. That's for the "nuke" part. As for the "unholy" part, the name of the spell, the name of the class it's exclusive to, and its lore description as a manifestation of the wrath and sorrow of countless destroyed worlds should be a tip-off.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/HellFire": Watching the expanding thermonuclear fireball in [[{{Overcrank}} extreme slow motion]], the audience realizes that the nuclear bomb is MadeOfEvil, and our viewpoint character decides FearIsTheAppropriateResponse.

However, what happens if it gets reversed?

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Eclipsa has two spells that qualify as this: the first is "the darkest spell" that [[spoiler: she taught to Moon so Moon could kill Toffee, being the only spell in existence to be able to permanently harm an immortal]], and the second is [[spoiler: Black Velvet Inferno, the spell she used against her own daughter, Meteora, to stop the latter's destructive rampage against Star and Mewni. The spell encloses the victim in an orb of dark magic, then emits a massive energy release inside the orb that fries the victim to a crisp]]. Eclipsa's mother Solaria was apparently [[spoiler: trying to come up with this type of spell called the Total Annihilation Spell in order to exterminate monsterkind once and for all. Fortunately she failed, but her chapter in the Book of Spells reveals she expected Eclipsa to successfully finish the spell in her place.]]

* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' has, like the ''HoMaM'' series, the Armageddon spell that is housed by Dark Magic school and deals damage to everything on map including your party. It can be cast only limited number of times per day and does not work in dungeons. The version from ''VII'' and ''VIII'' probably fits the bill better, as it explicitly deals dark magic damage (unlike in ''VI'' where it was just magic damage) but this difference aside, it's the same spell.

* The Ultimate Insult from ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' is one of the most powerful Voodoo artifacts around, though is not that lethal for the body, but annihilates the spirit.

** Iä Shub-Niggurath is a Super-tier spell described as summoning a black cyclone of death magic that attempts to OneHitKO everything in its (massive) area of effect, then summons a number of high-level {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that serve the caster, depending on the number of creatures killed by the initial effect. And yes, it can be enhanced by the above for further devastation. When used in the aptly-named [[CurbStompBattle Massacre at Katze Plains]], the initial effect killed 70,000 soldiers and raised five level 90-ish Dark Young that slaughtered about 100,000 more, making this spell easily qualify as both an UnholyNuke '''and''' a FantasticNuke.

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-->One who is darker than twilight
-->One who is redder than flowing blood
-->Buried in the flow of time
-->In thy great name,
-->I hereby pledge myself to darkness
-->Those who stand before us in our way
-->All those who have become fools
-->Merge your power and mine
-->To grant destruction equally to all!!
-->'''DRAGON SLAVE!'''

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** The Talisman of Ultimate Evil. In the hands of an Evil HighPriest it could be used to open a flaming crack at the feet of a Good priest and send him or her to the center of the planet. 5th edition buffed it to be usable by any evil creature (though it gives an extra bonus to an evil Cleric or Paladin when held) and on '''any''' Good creature instead of just a Cleric or Paladin.

* '' TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is full of these. Basically any time Chaos is involved, expect Unholy Nukes to be flying thick and fast.

*** More directly descended from Ligier are Malfeas's more...''extreme'' Green Sun Nimbus Flare expansions, and Demon Emperor Shintai. Both of which contain actual radiation sickness on hell steroids.

* In ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' Black Mage mentions that he gained his [[KamehameHadoken Hadoken spell]] (essentially an all-purpose nuke) through sacrificing children to his wanton gods of evil. [[ComedicSociopath This surprises no one]].
** It's also mentioned that it's powered by consuming love from the universe, and that the divorce rate rises slightly every time he uses it.

* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the "Familicide" spell is an extremely powerful necromantic spell that kills ''everyone related to its target, '''and everyone related to them'''''. There are dire consequences when [[spoiler:Spliced!V uses it against a Black Dragon to avert a CycleOfRevenge]], since [[spoiler: Girard [[MeaningfulName Draketooth]] and his entire clan, the guardians of one of the Gates, [[DraconicHumanoid were related to that dragon]].]]
* In ''WebComic/{{Heartcore}}'', this is combined with SuicideAttack and BloodMagic for Volaster's most powerful spell, Blast Bomb: by allowing himself to be injured to the point of bleeding his volatile salamander demon blood profusely, Volaster can set himself off as a living nuclear bomb. He uses this spell in the Beastman capital to destroy it and drive the Beastman race to the brink of extinction.

* There is also [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Grand Catastrophe]], the signature spell of the [[GlassCannon World Disaster]] class (played by the guild's resident [[{{Chuunibyou}} edgelord]] Ulbert Alain Odle), which [[CoolButInefficient takes a good chunk out of the user's mana]] but [[UpToEleven surpasses the power of Super-Tier spells]]. We see Ulbert use it once in a side story, and it wipes out a room full of high-level elementals and takes a huge chunk of health out of the boss of the dungeon. That's for the "nuke" part. As for the "unholy" part, the name of the spell, the name of the class it's exclusive to, and its lore description as a manifestation of the wrath and sorrow of countless destroyed worlds should be a tip-off.

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