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* The Dakara Superweapon from ''Series/StargateSG1'', if combined with the Stargate Virus that dials every Stargate in the galaxy simultaneously has the possibility of pulling off a Soft X-3. Bye-bye to all life in the Milky Way. The irony of the thing is that the device was designed to ''create life'' by the original builders, but can be reversed to kill it as well. The immortal Goa'uld Anubis tries to use the Dakara Superweapon to start all over again with lifeforms that he can personally design to worship him as a god-being.

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* The Dakara Superweapon from ''Series/StargateSG1'', if combined with the Stargate Virus that dials every Stargate in the galaxy simultaneously has the possibility of pulling off a Soft X-3. Bye-bye to all life in the Milky Way. The irony of the thing is that the device was designed to ''create life'' by the original builders, but can be reversed to kill it as well. The immortal Goa'uld Anubis tries to use the Dakara Superweapon to start all over again with lifeforms that he can personally design to worship him as a god-being. The Heroes simply wanted to use it to permanently neutralize all the [[GreyGoo Replicators]] in the galaxy.
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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}: The Peacekeeper Wars'' -- At the climax of the show, John Crichton unleashes a wormhole weapon which will "eat the galaxy" unless the warring sides make nice. Having spent four years desperately warning people that it's not a good idea to have them he finally builds one and goes on to prove his point by creating a weapon that swallows a planet, two entire battlefleets and doubles in size every fifteen seconds or so, and will never, ever stop growing. Even MagnificentBastard, and sometimes OmnicidalManiac (towards the Scarrans at least) Scorpius admits that this weapon is madness.

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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}: The Peacekeeper Wars'' -- At the climax of the show, John Crichton unleashes a wormhole weapon which will "eat the galaxy" unless the warring sides make nice. Having spent four years desperately warning people that it's not a good idea to have them he finally builds one and goes on to prove his point by creating a weapon that swallows a planet, two entire battlefleets and doubles in size every fifteen seconds or so, and will never, ever stop growing. Even MagnificentBastard, and sometimes OmnicidalManiac (towards the Scarrans at least) Scorpius admits that this weapon is madness.madness, to which John retorts that this is ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what Scorpy wanted]]''.
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** This is a possible outcome when dealing with an entity known as "[[EldritchAbomination The End of the Cycle]]". When it offers to bring you into a covenant, accepting the offer (which the game advises ''against'' with a tooltip that reads "'''''[[SchmuckBait DO NOT DO THIS!]]'''''"), you gain a +100% buff to Resource Output and Navy Capacity for the next fifty years. Once those fifty years have passed, however, ''the Reckoning begins.'' [[spoiler:Every ship in your fleet is destroy, every megastructure scrapped, every planet depopulated and rendered uninhabitable, and every leader killed except for one IgnoredExpert who had the forethought to know this was a bad idea and escape with a handful of like-minded individuals to a small colony far away from your now-destroyed empire. Worse still, the souls of the citizens in your empire whom you damned by entering into the covenant form a massive fleet with a Military Power level in excess of ''one million'' that will proceed to spread throughout the galaxy and start expunging all life, [[ControllableHelplessness leaving your puny colony for last]] [[ForcedToWatch as you watch the galaxy die, knowing it's all your fault.]] Even in the unlikely event that this unholy fleet of destruction is routed and the galaxy is spared from total oblivion, you will be stuck with a permanent -1000 Opinion modifier debuff: any empires still left standing will, in all likelihood, want to take revenge on you.]]

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** This is a possible outcome when dealing with an entity known as "[[EldritchAbomination The End of the Cycle]]". When it offers to bring you into a covenant, accepting the offer (which the game advises ''against'' with a tooltip that reads "'''''[[SchmuckBait DO NOT DO THIS!]]'''''"), you gain a +100% buff to Resource Output and Navy Capacity for the next fifty years. Once those fifty years have passed, however, ''the Reckoning begins.'' [[spoiler:Every ship in your fleet is destroy, destroyed, every megastructure scrapped, every planet depopulated and rendered uninhabitable, and every leader killed except for one IgnoredExpert who had the forethought to know this was a bad idea and escape with a handful of like-minded individuals to a small colony far away from your now-destroyed empire. Worse still, the souls of the citizens in your empire whom you damned by entering into the covenant form a massive fleet with a Military Power level in excess of ''one million'' that will proceed to spread throughout the galaxy and start expunging all life, [[ControllableHelplessness leaving your puny colony for last]] [[ForcedToWatch as you watch the galaxy die, knowing it's all your fault.]] Even in the unlikely event that this unholy fleet of destruction is routed and the galaxy is spared from total oblivion, you will be stuck with a permanent -1000 Opinion modifier debuff: any empires still left standing will, in all likelihood, want to take revenge on you.]]
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* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'': the titular heroines have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.

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* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'': ''Literature/DirtyPair'': the titular heroines have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.
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* The LightNovel/DirtyPair have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their current record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.

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* The LightNovel/DirtyPair ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'': the titular heroines have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their current record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.



* In ''[[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} The Metabaron]]'', a violent collision of galaxies that results in both exploding, as opposed to the rather benign merger that happens in real life, is what signals to the titular character that the universe is coming to an abrupt end and he must find a way to fix it.
* [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Odin]] was able to destroy galaxies as a side-effect of his battles with Infinity and later on Seth.
* The [[Comicbook/XMen Dark Phoenix]] is capable of devouring stars and plunging entire solar systems into darkness. And was capable of far more; had she not [[HeroicSacrifice stopped herself]], she could have moved up to X-4. And in at least some ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' stories, did.

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* In ''[[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} ''ComicBook/MetabaronsUniverse'': The Metabaron]]'', Metabaron, a violent collision of galaxies that results in both exploding, as opposed to the rather benign merger that happens in real life, is what signals to the titular character that the universe is coming to an abrupt end and he must find a way to fix it.
* [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Odin]] ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Odin was able to destroy galaxies as a side-effect of his battles with Infinity and later on Seth.
* The [[Comicbook/XMen ''ComicBook/XMen'': Dark Phoenix]] Phoenix is capable of devouring stars and plunging entire solar systems into darkness. And was capable of far more; had she not [[HeroicSacrifice stopped herself]], herself]] in ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', she could have moved up to X-4.annihilated the universe. And in at least some ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' stories, did.
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** In the (far, far ancient) prehistory of ''Literature/KnownSpace'', the Slaver Wars are conjectured to have ended this way -- with one side or the other building a massive telepathic weapon that killed every sentient being in the galaxy.

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** In the (far, far ancient) prehistory of ''Literature/KnownSpace'', prehistory, the Slaver Wars are conjectured to have ended this way -- with one side or the other building a massive telepathic weapon that killed every sentient being creature in the galaxy.galaxy with a developed nervous system. The galaxy would eventually be reprobated by the descendants of the lifeforms too simple to have detectable minds, although it would take billions of years for food yeast to evolve into life complex enough to think its own thoughts again.

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** Even the Imperium can do this one. Some rare artifacts can apparently induce supernovae, and when the wrong people got their hands on the technology, trillions died. ''Trillions''. Wrap your head around that.** While the Tyranids don't ''physically'' destroy galaxies per se, they do consume ''every last morsel'' of biomass in them. And since they're coming straight at the Milky Way from all sides, the only question is whether they finish eating before one of the other factions blows up the galaxy first.

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** Even the Imperium can do this one. Some rare artifacts can apparently induce supernovae, and when the wrong people got their hands on the technology, trillions died. ''Trillions''. Wrap your head around that.that.
** While the Tyranids don't ''physically'' destroy galaxies per se, they do consume ''every last morsel'' of biomass in them. And since they're coming straight at the Milky Way from all sides, the only question is whether they finish eating before one of the other factions blows up the galaxy first.
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** ''Nemesis'' gives empires the ability to knowingly cause this with the ascension perk "Become the Crisis". The Crisis candidate creates a megastructure which allows them to breach the Shroud and allow their race to become god-like beings. Powering the megastructure requires detonating stars to harvest dark matter and actually activating it causes ''every remaining star in the galaxy'' to collapse into a black hole, wiping out everything and leaving nothing but a void in its place.

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** ''Nemesis'' gives empires the ability to knowingly cause this with the ascension perk "Become the Crisis". The Crisis candidate creates a megastructure (the Aetherophasic Engine) which allows them to breach the Shroud and allow their race to become god-like beings. Powering the megastructure requires detonating stars to harvest dark matter and actually activating it causes ''every remaining star in the galaxy'' to collapse into a black hole, wiping out everything and leaving nothing but a void in its place.

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* Majin Buu's rampage in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' millions of years ago, though it could easily reach X-4 if he was left unchecked.
** Going further, Vegito averted the destruction of the barriers between dimensions, which presumably would have destroyed all reality. But this would be an example of at least an X-5, maybe even Z.
** And in the most recent movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of the Gods]]'', [[PhysicalGod Beerus]] is stated to be able to destroy entire Galaxies as well.

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Majin Buu's rampage in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' millions of years ago, though it could easily reach X-4 if he was left unchecked.
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In the most recent movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of the Gods]]'', [[PhysicalGod Beerus]] is stated to be able to destroy entire Galaxies as well.Galaxies.



* In ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}, the Milky Way is destroyed, by the good guys no less, using a DoomsdayDevice called the Infinity Horn which calls upon energies from the 15th dimension to bombard the galaxy until it explodes. This was justified as giving the galaxy a quick death as opposed to a long and drawn out suffering caused by the genocidal Zygoteans.
* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} from the MarvelUniverse has this as his MO. He ''eats'' populated worlds.
* In [[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} The Metabaron]], a violent collision of galaxies that results in both exploding, as opposed to the rather benign merger that happens in real life, is what signals to the titular character that the universe is coming to an abrupt end and he must find a way to fix it.

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* In ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}, ''ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}'', the Milky Way is destroyed, by the good guys no less, using a DoomsdayDevice called the Infinity Horn which calls upon energies from the 15th dimension to bombard the galaxy until it explodes. This was justified as giving the galaxy a quick death as opposed to a long and drawn out suffering caused by the genocidal Zygoteans.
* ComicBook/{{Galactus}} from the MarvelUniverse has this as his MO. He ''eats'' populated worlds.
* In [[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} ''[[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} The Metabaron]], Metabaron]]'', a violent collision of galaxies that results in both exploding, as opposed to the rather benign merger that happens in real life, is what signals to the titular character that the universe is coming to an abrupt end and he must find a way to fix it.



* Likewise, Creator/GregEgan's ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'' features a galactic threat in the form of two black holes colliding, prompting the main characters to [[spoiler:escape the galaxy (and possibly the universe) by travelling into higher spatial dimensions.]]

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* Likewise, Creator/GregEgan's *Creator/GregEgan's ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'' features a galactic threat in the form of two black holes colliding, prompting the main characters to [[spoiler:escape the galaxy (and possibly the universe) by travelling into higher spatial dimensions.]]



*** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Moment]], a DoomsdayDevice which the War Doctor stole to ''end'' the Time War, is explicitly described as a "galaxy-eater".
*** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] implies that it was threatening to reach X-4.

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*** ** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Moment]], a DoomsdayDevice which the War Doctor stole to ''end'' the Time War, is explicitly described as a "galaxy-eater".
*** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] implies that it was threatening to reach X-4.
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*** If only it was that much of a challenge. According the the 5th edition rules, if the emperor dies then chaos will almost instantly turn the galaxy into hell. No space, no time, only Chaos. Yeah, it is that bad.



** Even the Imperium can do this one. Some rare artifacts can apparently induce supernovae, and when the wrong people got their hands on the technology, trillions died. ''Trillions''. Wrap your head around that.
*** For reference, the death of trillions is considered a ''Class 0 problem'' on most planets, as this setting has multiple single planets which host tens of trillions of inhabitants. The low estimate as to the total population of the Imperium is around 10 ''Quadrillion''; and it may be as fifty times that. The deaths of trillions are tragic, sure, but they're barely a dint in the total population of the Imperium, much less implying the total destruction of the whole galaxy.
** While the Tyranids don't ''physically'' destroy galaxies per se, they do consume ''every last morsel'' of biomass in them. And since they're coming straight at the Milky Way from all sides, the only question is whether they finish eating before one of the other factions blows up the galaxy first.

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** Even the Imperium can do this one. Some rare artifacts can apparently induce supernovae, and when the wrong people got their hands on the technology, trillions died. ''Trillions''. Wrap your head around that.
*** For reference, the death of trillions is considered a ''Class 0 problem'' on most planets, as this setting has multiple single planets which host tens of trillions of inhabitants. The low estimate as to the total population of the Imperium is around 10 ''Quadrillion''; and it may be as fifty times that. The deaths of trillions are tragic, sure, but they're barely a dint in the total population of the Imperium, much less implying the total destruction of the whole galaxy.
that.** While the Tyranids don't ''physically'' destroy galaxies per se, they do consume ''every last morsel'' of biomass in them. And since they're coming straight at the Milky Way from all sides, the only question is whether they finish eating before one of the other factions blows up the galaxy first.



* [[spoiler: The Reapers]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' cause Galaxy-Wide Class 3/4 Apocalypses that take ''tens of thousands of years'' to recover from [[spoiler:and, even then, only because the Reapers leave the necessary technology around so [[EternalRecurrence they can do it all over again]].]] Species that have [[spoiler:not obtained Mass Effect technology]] are exempted, however, [[spoiler:since the Reapers use activated Mass Relays to track potential targets.]]

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* While on the way to Earth, ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'''s Brainspawn wipe out (presumably countless) planets.

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* You probably didn't expect a Disney cartoon to show up here but Lord Dominator from [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder Wander Over Yonder]] [[spoiler:successfully managed to destroy the entire galaxy (save one small planet) before being defeated. However, the barren planets eventually start growing back in the aftermath of their destruction. Also, it should be noted that most of the galaxy's inhabitants either survived or fled said apocalypse.]]

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* You probably didn't expect a Disney cartoon to show up here but Lord Dominator from [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder Wander Over Yonder]] ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' [[spoiler:successfully managed to destroy the entire galaxy (save one small planet) before being defeated. However, the barren planets eventually start growing back in the aftermath of their destruction. Also, it should be noted that most of the galaxy's inhabitants either survived or fled said apocalypse.]]
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* Subverted with Galactic Collisions (like the one predicted to happen between the Milky Way and Andromeda in 3 billion years), though. Due to the sheer amount of empty space compared to actual stuff in galaxies, the likelyhood of any objects actually colliding are tiny.

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* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Ronan possessing the Power Stone gives him the ability to wipe out all life in the Galaxy, with The Collector showcasing a series of images of planets being destroyed by the Power Stone to illustrate this. In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' we learn that it is not quite so simple; the Power Stone is very dangerous, but by its destructive capabilities are actually pretty tame [[SoulJar compared]] [[{{Teleportation}} to]] [[TimeTravel the]] [[RealityWarper other]] [[MindControl stones]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': This seemingly happens in "[[Recap/WhatIfS1E8WhatIfUltronWon What If... Ultron Won?]]" when Ultron, during his and the Watcher's battle across multiple universes, uses the Infinity Stones to materialize his head at galaxy-size and physically ''chomp'' the galaxy where the Watcher is located in one universe.
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* Subverted with Galactic Collisions (like the one predicted to happen between the Milky Way and Andromeda in 3 billion years), though. Due to the shear amount of empty space compared to actual stuff in galaxies, the likelyhood of any objects actually colliding are tiny.

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* In [[ComicBook/{{MetabaronsUniverse}} The Metabaron]], a violent collision of galaxies that results in both exploding, as opposed to the rather benign merger that happens in real life, is what signals to the titular character that the universe is coming to an abrupt end and he must find a way to fix it.
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** ''Nemesis'' gives empires the ability to knowingly cause this with the ascension perk "Become the Crisis". The Crisis candidate creates a megastructure which allows them to breach the Shroud and allow their race to become god-like beings. Powering the megastructure requires detonating stars to harvest dark matter and actually activating it causes ''every remaining star in the galaxy'' to go nova, wiping out all life.

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* Strongly implied as a possibility in ''Manga/SailorMoon Stars'' (manga) both by Galaxia and Sailor Cosmos, the latter of who utilized all the Sailor Senshi Crystals in the Galaxy to create the Cosmos Crystal, and soon after destroyed the Galaxy Cauldron. And the reason Sailor Cosmos went back in time [[spoiler: was to get Sailor Moon to do that ''much'' sooner in an attempt to stop Chaos for good. Sailor Moon talked her out of it.]]



* Strongly implied as a possibility in ''Manga/SailorMoon Stars'' (manga) both by Galaxia and Sailor Cosmos, the latter of who utilized all the Sailor Senshi Crystals in the Galaxy to create the Cosmos Crystal, and soon after destroyed the Galaxy Cauldron. And the reason Sailor Cosmos went back in time [[spoiler: was to get Sailor Moon to do that ''much'' sooner in an attempt to stop Chaos for good. Sailor Moon talked her out of it.]]



* The LightNovel/DirtyPair have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their current record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.
* In ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}, the Milky Way is destroyed, by the good guys no less, using a DoomsdayDevice called the Infinity Horn which calls upon energies from the 15th dimension to bombard the galaxy until it explodes. This was justified as giving the galaxy a quick death as opposed to a long and drawn out suffering caused by the genocidal Zygoteans.



* The LightNovel/DirtyPair have managed to reach most of the levels in this list at one point or another -- only the universe and human civilization ''as a whole'' surviving keeps them from a clean sweep. Their current record was set in the comic ''Fatal, But Not Serious'', when an [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] of Yuri used their CoolShip's WaveMotionGun to cause a sun to go supernova, causing a chain reaction that would destroy other inhabited systems for light years around.
* In ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}, the Milky Way is destroyed, by the good guys no less, using a DoomsdayDevice called the Infinity Horn which calls upon energies from the 15th dimension to bombard the galaxy until it explodes. This was justified as giving the galaxy a quick death as opposed to a long and drawn out suffering caused by the genocidal Zygoteans.



* Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldSpace'' culminates in the hero trying the save the galaxy from being sterilized by a Gamma Ray Burst, as it has periodically many times before.

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* Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldSpace'' culminates The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' universe has the [=Final War=] between the Human Concordat and the Melconian Empire. The war devastated ''the entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_arm Orion Arm]]'' to the point survivors had troubles finding a planet that merely had its population massacred, instead of being scorched to bedrock/heavily irradiated/contaminated with some horrible bioweapon, thus qualifying as a soft X-3.
* The ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' novels by Simon R. Green includes a superweapon known as The Darkvoid Device. The one time it was activated, it ''extinguished a thousand suns in a heartbeat''. It created an area known, itself, as the Darkvoid, the home of aliens bent on the destruction of all civilization. [[spoiler:The Darkvoid Device is later revealed to be a massively powerful psychic -- and the infant child of one of the main characters, both of them kept in stasis for hundreds of years, both awakened
in the hero trying the save the galaxy from being sterilized current time by a Gamma Ray Burst, as it has periodically many times before.descendant.]]



* The Krikkit Wars from ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' rage for 2,000 years with casualties into the "grillions". If not stopped, the Krikkits would have [[OmnicidalManiac killed everything in the entire universe]].



* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' is about a power source which, if not stopped, will blow up the Sun... and start a chain reaction bringing the catastrophe to just below this ("Just below" because it is expected to blow up one of the arms).
* Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/IntoTheLookingGlass'' series features a horde of biological creatures planning to eat the Galaxy.



** In the (far, far ancient) prehistory of ''Literature/KnownSpace'', the Slaver Wars are conjectured to have ended this way--with one side or the other building a massive telepathic weapon that killed every sentient being in the galaxy.
* Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/IntoTheLookingGlass'' series features a horde of biological creatures planning to eat the Galaxy.
* The ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' novels by Simon R. Green includes a superweapon known as The Darkvoid Device. The one time it was activated, it ''extinguished a thousand suns in a heartbeat''. It created an area known, itself, as the Darkvoid, the home of aliens bent on the destruction of all civilization. [[spoiler:The Darkvoid Device is later revealed to be a massively powerful psychic - and the infant child of one of the main characters, both of them kept in stasis for hundreds of years, both awakened in the current time by a descendent.]]
* The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' universe has the [=Final War=] between the Human Concordat and the Melconian Empire. The war devastated ''the entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_arm Orion Arm]]'' to the point survivors had troubles finding a planet that merely had its population massacred, instead of being scorched to bedrock/heavily irradiated/contaminated with some horrible bioweapon, thus qualifying as a soft X-3.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' is about a power source which, if not stopped, will blow up the Sun... and start a chain reaction bringing the catastrophe to just below this ("Just below" because it is expected to blow up one of the arms).
* In the final book of Creator/EEDocSmith's ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'', nearly all of the stars in one galaxy are teleported into the same space as a star in another galaxy, one-to-one, to wipe out a particularly wide spread enemy. The planets with good guys are safely teleported to a third galaxy at the same time.

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** In the (far, far ancient) prehistory of ''Literature/KnownSpace'', the Slaver Wars are conjectured to have ended this way--with way -- with one side or the other building a massive telepathic weapon that killed every sentient being in the galaxy.
* Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/IntoTheLookingGlass'' series features a horde of biological creatures planning to eat the Galaxy.
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The ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' novels by Simon R. Green includes a superweapon known as The Darkvoid Device. The one time it was activated, it ''extinguished a thousand suns in a heartbeat''. It created an area known, itself, as the Darkvoid, the home of aliens bent on the destruction of all civilization. [[spoiler:The Darkvoid Device is later revealed to be a massively powerful psychic - and the infant child of one of the main characters, both of them kept in stasis Krikkit Wars from ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' rage for hundreds of years, both awakened in the current time by a descendent.]]
* The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' universe has the [=Final War=] between the Human Concordat and the Melconian Empire. The war devastated ''the entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_arm Orion Arm]]'' to the point survivors had troubles finding a planet that merely had its population massacred, instead of being scorched to bedrock/heavily irradiated/contaminated
2,000 years with some horrible bioweapon, thus qualifying as a soft X-3.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' is about a power source which, if
casualties into the "grillions". If not stopped, will blow up the Sun... and start a chain reaction bringing Krikkits would have [[OmnicidalManiac killed everything in the catastrophe to just below this ("Just below" because it is expected to blow up one of entire universe]].
* Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/ManifoldSpace'' culminates in
the arms).
* In
hero trying the final book of Creator/EEDocSmith's ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'', nearly all of save the stars in one galaxy are teleported into the same space from being sterilized by a Gamma Ray Burst, as a star in another galaxy, one-to-one, to wipe out a particularly wide spread enemy. The planets with good guys are safely teleported to a third galaxy at the same time.it has periodically many times before.



* In the final book of Creator/EEDocSmith's ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'', nearly all of the stars in one galaxy are teleported into the same space as a star in another galaxy, one-to-one, to wipe out a particularly wide spread enemy. The planets with good guys are safely teleported to a third galaxy at the same time.



** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]": In the year 100 trillion, an implicitly gradual one has already occurred as the universe is approaching its natural destruction by heat death — all the stars have burnt out and faded, leaving what survivors remain reliant on an atmospheric shell to avoid freezing to death.

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** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]": In the year 100 trillion, an implicitly gradual one has already occurred as the universe is approaching its natural destruction by heat death -- all the stars have burnt out and faded, leaving what survivors remain reliant on an atmospheric shell to avoid freezing to death.



* ''Series/{{Farscape}}: The Peacekeeper Wars'' - At the climax of the show, John Crichton unleashes a wormhole weapon which will "eat the galaxy" unless the warring sides make nice. Having spent four years desperately warning people that it's not a good idea to have them he finally builds one and goes on to prove his point by creating a weapon that swallows a planet, two entire battlefleets and doubles in size every fifteen seconds or so, and will never, ever stop growing. Even MagnificentBastard, and sometimes OmnicidalManiac (towards the Scarrans at least) Scorpius admits that this weapon is madness.

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* ''Series/{{Farscape}}: The Peacekeeper Wars'' - -- At the climax of the show, John Crichton unleashes a wormhole weapon which will "eat the galaxy" unless the warring sides make nice. Having spent four years desperately warning people that it's not a good idea to have them he finally builds one and goes on to prove his point by creating a weapon that swallows a planet, two entire battlefleets and doubles in size every fifteen seconds or so, and will never, ever stop growing. Even MagnificentBastard, and sometimes OmnicidalManiac (towards the Scarrans at least) Scorpius admits that this weapon is madness.



* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'':
** The fall of the Ancients at the hand of Grandfather left the local part of the galaxy "worse for wear", with several planets shattered, certain stars no longer there, and the wide-ranging Droyne civilization on course for extinction (only surviving on a few handfuls of planets). Fortunately this was only one section of a spiral arm.
** The Long Night and the Rebellion might not have been complete physical annihilation, but certainly caused massive diebacks across thousands of solar systems.



* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'':
** The fall of the Ancients at the hand of Grandfather left the local part of the galaxy "worse for wear", with several planets shattered, certain stars no longer there, and the wide-ranging Droyne civilization on course for extinction (only surviving on a few handfuls of planets). Fortunately this was only one section of a spiral arm.
** The Long Night and the Rebellion might not have been complete physical annihilation, but certainly caused massive diebacks across thousands of solar systems.



* ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' is set at the end of a war that's essentially a galaxy-wide Class 2, with examples of everything else on the scale. The ''Core Contingency'' ExpansionPack one-ups this with the Core faction's master plan of ''destroying the entire galaxy'' except for one Core Commander, who would then rebuild the Core civilisation. Then in ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'', two of the three factions are trying to use a superweapon capable of doing this on their opponents. The [[LaResistance Cybran]] plan (which is the canon ending, or the closest thing to it) is to just disrupt the Quantum Gate network so they'll be left alone, but this inadvertently unleashes an alien horde bent on carpet nuking everyone that's not them. Basically if you live in a game made by Chris Taylor, sooner or later you're gonna get exploded.
* [[spoiler: The Reapers]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' cause Galaxy-Wide Class 3/4 Apocalypses that take ''tens of thousands of years'' to recover from [[spoiler:and, even then, only because the Reapers leave the necessary technology around so [[EternalRecurrence they can do it all over again]].]] Species that have [[spoiler:not obtained Mass Effect technology]] are exempted, however, [[spoiler:since the Reapers use activated Mass Relays to track potential targets.]]
** And in the controversial endings of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Shepard unleashes Class 1 (if not Class 2) upon the galaxy with the destruction of the Mass Relay network, with the "Synthesis" ending essentially being a Class 3 of all fully-organic life in the galaxy in favor of something that's part-organic and part synthetic]]. And that's not even mentioning the ''worst'' endings of this saga.

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* ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' is set at ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand:'' The scavenged, sapient Precursor vessel known as the end Exodian Blade ends up causing one of these through a war that's essentially a galaxy-wide Class 2, SuicideAttack, plunging into the wormhole to whatever galaxy the AI (and the Blade's counterpart that controls it) truly resides in with examples of all their reinforcements and industrial might. The result can apparently be observed from all they way over in the Milky Way, and eliminated everything else within the same galactic region on the other side of that wormhole; it was strong enough just the tiny blowback that makes it back through the wormhole ''deletes'' both local AI homeworlds from the map.
-->'''Dr. Michael Davidson:''' Most of the normal instruments were useless, of course, but we have some specialized equipment for observing stellar transition phenomena and the like. This was on the upper end of even that
scale. The ''Core Contingency'' ExpansionPack one-ups this with the Core faction's master plan of ''destroying the entire galaxy'' except for one Core Commander, who would then rebuild the Core civilisation. Then in ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'', two of the three factions are trying to use a superweapon capable of doing this on their opponents. The [[LaResistance Cybran]] plan (which is the canon ending, or the closest thing to it) is to just disrupt the Quantum Gate network so they'll be left alone, but this inadvertently unleashes an alien horde bent on carpet nuking everyone that's not them. Basically if you live in a game made by Chris Taylor, sooner or later you're gonna get exploded.
* [[spoiler: The Reapers]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' cause Galaxy-Wide Class 3/4 Apocalypses that take ''tens of thousands of years'' to recover from [[spoiler:and, even then, only because the Reapers leave the necessary technology around so [[EternalRecurrence they can do it all over again]].]] Species that have [[spoiler:not obtained Mass Effect technology]] are exempted, however, [[spoiler:since the Reapers use activated Mass Relays to track potential targets.]]
** And in the controversial endings of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Shepard unleashes Class 1 (if not Class 2) upon the galaxy with the destruction of the Mass Relay network, with the "Synthesis" ending essentially being a Class 3 of all fully-organic life in the galaxy in favor of something that's part-organic and part synthetic]]. And that's not even mentioning the ''worst'' endings of this saga.



* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'':
** The Zerg kill or "infest" billions of other lifeforms throughout the Terran Dominion.
** Amon's eventual goal is, [[ShroudedInMyth so far as he's saying anything]], to kill every sentient being (possibly ''every living thing'') in an area not smaller than the Koprulu Sector but probably quite a lot larger, with the possibility of physically reshaping the affected areas to suit himself afterwards.



* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'': The coon and friends base has a Rubik's cube in a glass container. The Coon states that if you break it you will wipe out the entire Milky way galaxy. Should you choose to continue to mess with it, it eventually will fall out of the container and break, and you will discover that the cube was not just part of the superhero roleplay, and it actually does destroy the galaxy in a NonStandardGameOver.
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', in Act 3 of the Jedi Knight storyline, it transpires that [[spoiler: the Sith Emperor's]] ultimate goal is the ''complete annihilation of all life in the galaxy'' via an immense dark-side ritual. Needless to say, averting this becomes the Knight's priority for the remainder of their class quests.



* ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand:'' The scavenged, sapient Precursor vessel known as the Exodian Blade ends up causing one of these through a SuicideAttack, plunging into the wormhole to whatever galaxy the AI (and the Blade's counterpart that controls it) truly resides in with all their reinforcements and industrial might. The result can apparently be observed from all they way over in the Milky Way, and eliminated everything within the same galactic region on the other side of that wormhole; it was strong enough just the tiny blowback that makes it back through the wormhole ''deletes'' both local AI homeworlds from the map.
-->'''Dr. Michael Davidson:''' Most of the normal instruments were useless, of course, but we have some specialized equipment for observing stellar transition phenomena and the like. This was on the upper end of even that scale.

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* ''Videogame/AIWarFleetCommand:'' [[spoiler: The scavenged, sapient Precursor vessel known as Reapers]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' cause Galaxy-Wide Class 3/4 Apocalypses that take ''tens of thousands of years'' to recover from [[spoiler:and, even then, only because the Exodian Blade ends up causing one of these through a SuicideAttack, plunging into Reapers leave the wormhole necessary technology around so [[EternalRecurrence they can do it all over again]].]] Species that have [[spoiler:not obtained Mass Effect technology]] are exempted, however, [[spoiler:since the Reapers use activated Mass Relays to whatever track potential targets.]]
** And in the controversial endings of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Shepard unleashes Class 1 (if not Class 2) upon the
galaxy the AI (and the Blade's counterpart that controls it) truly resides in with the destruction of the Mass Relay network, with the "Synthesis" ending essentially being a Class 3 of all their reinforcements and industrial might. The result can apparently be observed from all they way over fully-organic life in the galaxy in favor of something that's part-organic and part synthetic]]. And that's not even mentioning the ''worst'' endings of this saga.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'': The coon and friends base has a Rubik's cube in a glass container. The Coon states that if you break it you will wipe out the entire
Milky Way, and eliminated everything within the same galactic region on the other side of that wormhole; way galaxy. Should you choose to continue to mess with it, it was strong enough just the tiny blowback that makes it back through the wormhole ''deletes'' both local AI homeworlds from the map.
-->'''Dr. Michael Davidson:''' Most
eventually will fall out of the normal instruments were useless, of course, but we have some specialized equipment for observing stellar transition phenomena container and the like. This was on the upper end of even break, and you will discover that scale. the cube was not just part of the superhero roleplay, and it actually does destroy the galaxy in a NonStandardGameOver.
* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'':
** The Zerg kill or "infest" billions of other lifeforms throughout the Terran Dominion.
** Amon's eventual goal is, [[ShroudedInMyth so far as he's saying anything]], to kill every sentient being (possibly ''every living thing'') in an area not smaller than the Koprulu Sector but probably quite a lot larger, with the possibility of physically reshaping the affected areas to suit himself afterwards.
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', in Act 3 of the Jedi Knight storyline, it transpires that [[spoiler: the Sith Emperor's]] ultimate goal is the ''complete annihilation of all life in the galaxy'' via an immense dark-side ritual. Needless to say, averting this becomes the Knight's priority for the remainder of their class quests.



* ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation'' is set at the end of a war that's essentially a galaxy-wide Class 2, with examples of everything else on the scale. The ''Core Contingency'' ExpansionPack one-ups this with the Core faction's master plan of ''destroying the entire galaxy'' except for one Core Commander, who would then rebuild the Core civilisation. Then in ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'', two of the three factions are trying to use a superweapon capable of doing this on their opponents. The [[LaResistance Cybran]] plan (which is the canon ending, or the closest thing to it) is to just disrupt the Quantum Gate network so they'll be left alone, but this inadvertently unleashes an alien horde bent on carpet nuking everyone that's not them. Basically if you live in a game made by Chris Taylor, sooner or later you're gonna get exploded.



* The race of Highbreed, knowing they're on the verge of sterility-induced extinction, intend to take ''every other form of life in the galaxy'' with them on ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.



* The race of Highbreed, knowing they're on the verge of sterility-induced extinction, intend to take ''every other form of life in the galaxy'' with them on ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.

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* The race In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' (no, really) we see a BadFuture [[spoiler: in which an akumatized Adrien is responsible for turning Paris into a wasteland (his akumatized ability is a super-enhanced and long-range version of Highbreed, knowing they're on his Cataclysm.) However, it gets worse: he eventually threatens to destroy everything, and we see him gathering energy, and the verge of sterility-induced extinction, intend sphere goes from visible from space, to take ''every other form of life in planet-sized, to galactic, to so large the galaxy'' with them on ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.galaxy is a fraction of its size. Future Alix warns Ladybug that he's going to end the world, but if he'd unleashed that power, the end of the whole galaxy is a ''very'' lowball estimate of what would probably have happened.]]



* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' (no, really) we see a BadFuture [[spoiler: in which an akumatized Adrien is responsible for turning Paris into a wasteland (his akumatized ability is a super-enhanced and long-range version of his Cataclysm.) However, it gets worse: he eventually threatens to destroy everything, and we see him gathering energy, and the sphere goes from visible from space, to planet-sized, to galactic, to so large the galaxy is a fraction of its size. Future Alix warns Ladybug that he's going to end the world, but if he'd unleashed that power, the end of the whole galaxy is a ''very'' lowball estimate of what would probably have happened.]]
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* In ''Literature/{{Starsnatcher}}'', the BigBad's AssimilationPlot threatens all civilizations across the Milky Way and possibly more. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, a MechanicalAbomination causes a femtobot plague that, had the protagonist not stopped it, would have physically destroyed the entire galaxy as we know it. However, there are still AbusivePrecursors remaining and the epilogue implies that they will eventually kill any life in the galaxy other than themselves.]]
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* In ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}, the Milky Way is destroyed, by the good guys no less, using a DoomsdayDevice called the Infinity Horn which calls upon energies from the 15th dimension to bombard the galaxy until it explodes. This was justified as giving the galaxy a quick death as opposed to a long and drawn out suffering caused by the genocidal Zygoteans.
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** Had Goku not defeated [[spoiler:Planet Moro]] in the ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'' manga [[spoiler:before his body completely broke down due to the angelic energy overloading him]], the entire galaxy would have been obliterated with Earth at the center of the explosion as stated by Whis.
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** If you manage to communicate with the Prethoryn Scourge, they will explain that they consume galaxies to escape something they call "The Hunters". If you learn this, it is possible to start a research project to examine the direction the Scourge came from... and there's nothing there. Just a void where the last galaxy they ate should be. The Scourge don't actually destroy stars, so that leaves two possibilities: there's either something absolutely ''massive'' blocking the view of that galaxy, or that galaxy was completely annihilated.

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