History Main / KillSat

* The first [[LimitBreak Support Character]] you earn in ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures: [[LongTitle On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness]]: [[ColonCancer Episode 2]]'' is a 14-year old girl. With a steampunk Kill Sat.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E8CrimesOfTheHot Crimes of the Hot]]" had an unintentional satellite of doom. In an effort to defeat global warming, Farnsworth's rival Wernstrom creates a giant mirror to reflect the sun's rays. When the giant mirror is knocked off course, it focuses [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass a beam of sunlight on the Earth that incinerates everything in its path]]. EpicFail. Later in the episode, when President of Earth, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon lured all the robots in the world to the Galapagos Islands to destroy them[[note]]The gases they spew being the cause of the greenhouse effect accelerating[[/note]] he had Wernstrom converted his mirror satellite into an EMP satellite to fire it at the Galapagos and permanently deactivate all the robots.

** In the episode "Maid of Honor", villain Comicbook/VandalSavage takes control of a [[ColonyDrop mass driver equipped]] Kill Sat owned by the kingdom of his intended bride...and is promptly crushed (but not killed, thanks to his regenerative powers) by a shot from the weapon after his plans are foiled.
** In ''Unlimited'', the second Watchtower had a more conventinal one of these, which caused the heroes no end of grief when it got hijacked for [[ComicBook/LexLuthor villainous purposes]]. Even before that, just the knowledge that they had it on top of being the single largest force of metahumans on the planet caused a lot of people to become very distrustful of the Justice League. They eventually decided it was [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower too much power for anyone to have]] and decommissioned the gun. It was called the "Binary Fusion Generator", which (while never spoken as such in the show) has a [[{{BFG}} convenient acronym]].

* In an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Galactic Guardians]]'', Darkseid tries to turn the peaceful Star City into a Kill Sat. When the heroes foil his plan, he is forced to settle for a ColonyDrop.
* In the 1981 ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends Spider-Man]]'' cartoon, Doctor Doom introduced us to a satellite-mounted laser -- the laser part of which was actually a holdover from [[StoryArc an earlier episode]] -- and used it to play with the Pacific Ring of Fire. As far as the "kill" part, [[spoiler:the satellite turns out to have a surprisingly localized effect when it gets knocked off course, burns a path to his castle and bodily [[HoistByHisOwnPetard vaporizes him]]]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Global Defense Agency]] uses one of these against [[BewareTheSuperman Omni-Man]]. [[NoSell Twice. They only manage to piss him off.]]
--->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Director Cecil]]:''' 400 billion dollars for the world's most expensive nosebleed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' Cobra uses a kill sat to blow up [[ThrowAwayCountry Moscow]]. Successfully, [[DarkerAndEdgier in the first ten minutes of the first episode]].

* UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' tried to kill Ayatollah Khomeini with the Franchise/StarWars satellite defense system. The first attempt failed and killed a random audience member instead, but the second attempt succeeded.

** The episode "Queen's Lair" revolved around the Rangers' efforts to take out one of these before [[BigBad The Queen of the Crown]] took out Earth with it. This actually made for one of the darker episodes of the series.
** It was also played for tragedy in "Ghost Station." The kill sat was from a lost alien civilization that presumably blew itself to bits. The [=AI=] running the station tried holography and other tricks to try and scare the heroes off, then [[HeroicSacrifice prematurely triggered its self destruct in order to save Earth]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Sons of Witches", the men in town have an annual witch week, during which one of them, Chip Duncan, uses a spell book to transform into a [[WitchClassic real witch]]. He proceeds to terrorise the town and kidnap children. This is resolved when the kids call their old fourth-grade teacher Mr. Garrison, who had the previous year been elected [[ItMakesSenseinContext President of the United States]]. Mr. Garrison flies to South Park in Air Force One, and tries to talk Chip down. When it fails because Chip claims to be more powerful then ever, Mr. Garrison replies "you wanna see what real power is?" and has a US military space laser incinerate Chip, leaving nothing but dust. The men cheer and then proceed to party with El Presidente.

* Dr. Evil's "Alan Parsons Project" in ''Film/AustinPowers: The Spy Who Shagged Me''. He cheated a little by putting it on the Moon, but that's still in orbit. [[FridgeBrilliance This is]] [[JustifiedTrope actually justified]] as the Moon is a '''natural satellite'''.

-->And now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Pretty soon they'll have damned space platforms so they can drop nuclear bombs on us, like rocks from a highway overpass.

* Dr. Evil's "Alan Parsons Project" in ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe''. He cheated a little by putting it on the Moon, but that's still in orbit. [[FridgeBrilliance This is]] [[JustifiedTrope actually justified]] as the Moon is a '''natural satellite'''.

* In ''Film/RealGenius'', the lead characters are duped by their college professor into building a laser which is intended as the main weapon for a Kill Sat. [[spoiler:They retaliate by sabotaging the test to have it destroy the duplicitous professor's home. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment With popcorn.]]]]

*** The little brother to "Rods from God" was "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles Brilliant Pebbles]]", a fleet of small satellites that would detect and then attack incoming Soviet ICBM's. Technical problems and the end of the ColdWar led to it's cancellation.

** In the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' Virtual Nightmare filler arc, Gozaboro Kaiba's former right-hand man [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Lecter]] (who takes the form of Jinzo) summons a monster called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Satellite Cannon]], which is quite a pain for Kaiba until he finally summons Blue-Eyes White Dragon and destroys it.
*** Lecter hints in the original version that Gozaburo was working on a ''real'' version of a Kill Sat before he was ousted from his position. It turns out that he succeeded and the weapon was in orbit ready to fire. [[spoiler:Noah uses it to destroy the mechanical fortress sustaining the virtual world; he changes his mind and tries to stop it, but Yami Marik destroyed the controls when he stepped away.]]

*** The [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Satellite_Cannon card itself]] is just as [[RuleOfCool Cool]]. It cannot be destroyed by battle with anything less than Level 8 (signifying the difficulties of attacking it), Gains 1000 attack per turn (charging for its attack), and sadly looses its attack after attacking (empty, reload). This has some [[FridgeHorror potential problems]] when you realize that [[ExactWords you do not have to attack with it to have it be in a battle (if it attacks, then and only then does it lose its attack)]]. Many cards [[CompellingVoice force your opponent to attack]] and some even allow you to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide control who your opponent attacks]]. You can even summon ''three'' of them at once using a Spell Card called Machine Duplication.
** Continuing with the trend, ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' has Number 9 DysonSphere, a weaponized space colony that's the 2nd largest monster in the game, falling just behind its [[SuperMode Chaos Number form]] Chaos Dyson Sphere.
** In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Shun Kurosaki has a card called Raid Raptors - Satellite Cannon Falcon, which is a Kill Sat combined with a giant cybernetic falcon. Combined with the HardLight technology of the setting, it has absolutely devastating results - he blew up the stadium, and in the following 20+ episodes it never gets fixed. He's also banned from dueling there again.

** The rebuilt orbital defense system shows up again in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm04ACallToArms A Call to Arms]]", and this time manages to fire their {{Wave Motion Gun}}s at the target, the Drakh fleet. The Drakh are ''obliterated''... but, sadly, not in time to stop them from infecting Earth with [[ThePlague their plague]].

*** The little brother to "Rods from God" was "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles Brilliant Pebbles]]" was a fleet of small satellites that would detect and then attack incoming Soviet ICBM's. Technical problerms and the end of the ColdWar led to it's cancellation.

*** The "Kinetic Bombardment System" (commonly nicknamed "Rods from God" and "Brilliant Pebbles") is meant to fire not missiles, but 20-meter-long tungsten rods. Their kinetic energy from their fall, plus the plasma sheth created by [[ReentryScare reentry into Earth's atmosphere]], would give the weapon the force of a nuclear explosion. It could even penetrate nuclear shelters through sheer momentum. But it wasn't radioactive, which meant ''(a)'' no fallout and ''(b)'' it's [[LoopholeAbuse not covered by the 1969 Outer Space Treaty]]. It's still on the drawing board, having survived SDI as a way of discreetly dealing with hardened terrorist bunkers.

A popular way to rain DeathFromAbove, and a subtrope of OrbitalBombardment. Compare WaveMotionGun, {{BFG}}, BigBulkyBomb, DoomsdayDevice, and ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill. Very often considered a {{Superweapon}} by the forces on the ground with no way of knowing when and where it will strike.

* The Damocles from ''Anime/CodeGeass''. Technically not a satellite but a floating fortress armed with a cannon that shoots [[SphereOfDestruction FLEIA warheads]], but since it was supposed to be flown out of the atmosphere and placed on a geosynchronous orbit, it fulfills all the criteria for a Kill Sat (it's in space, it rains doom on people).

** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' has the GENESIS.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' has the Requiem and the [[spoiler:Neo-GENESIS]].
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' has the Memento Mori.[[spoiler: Two of them.]]

* Wormhole Driver from ''LightNovel/TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye'' is an old (but still fully operational) Kill Sat capable of creating Black Holes on top of the targeted area (which means that depending on the power used in such attack it can most likely destroy anything up to the entire planet)

** In ''Armored Core: Silent Line'', a Kill Sat takes out anything that crosses the titular boundary. In ''Armored Core: For Answer'', its revealed that there are ''so goddamn many'' of these cannons in Earth Orbit that its become ''impossible to reach space''.

** "Endgame"; When Sheridan's forces arrive at Earth and easily overwhelm most of the remnants of [=EarthForce=] fleet, [[PresidentEvil President Clark]] kills himself, [[TakingYouWithMe after programming the planet's orbital defense system to take all of Earth with him]]. This means Sheridan's fleet must destroy the satellites before they fire.
** The rebuilt orbital defense system shows up again in "A Call to Arms", and this time manages to fire their {{Wave Motion Gun}}s at the target, the Drakh fleet. The Drakh are ''obliterated''... But, sadly, not in time to stop them from infecting Earth with [[ThePlague their plague]].

* The Season 2 finale of ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' reveals that using one of these is key to [[NebulousEvilOrganization Sandstorm's]] ultimate plan, based on the more realistic principle of a satellite (which Sandstorm put into orbit) launching a projectile from high orbit to impact the surface. This one has the added component of [[spoiler: being targeted for the GPS coordinates of some nuclear material that Sandstorm stole; the impact will cause it to disperse over most of the East Coast.]]

*** In the season 4 episode "Absolute Power", the Harsesis (a human child born with the racial memories of [[PuppeteerParasite The Goa'uld]]) gives [[TheIdealist Daniel]] a sample of that knowledge after warning him that "Evil is too strong". Daniel uses that knowledge to lead the construction of a network of kill sats intended to defend the Earth from The Goa'uld, but then takes sole control over it and destroys Moscow to prove his power and discourage retaliation. [[spoiler:The entire thing was a dream given to him instead in order to teach him that]] [[DrunkWithPower Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely]].
*** In "Ethon", the Ori supply one of these to the Rand Protectorate, one of two feuding governments on the world of Tegalus. [[spoiler:It ends up destroying Earth's first starship, the ''Prometheus''.]]
** The Asurans use a Kill Sat against Atlantis in the ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "First Strike". The Kill Sat itself is a big ship with a stargate embedded in it. The beam is fired on the Asuran homeworld through a stargate, and out the other onto Atlantis. The Expedition also uses one (though it's actually a space station, not a satellite) in order to destroy a Wraith hive ship while a fleet of Wraith is on its way to Atlantis in in the finale of the first season.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The Xindi weapon in season 3, which blasts a corridor of death from Florida to Venezuela in literal scorched earth campaign. And that was just the ''prototype''. The finished version was designed to create an EarthShatteringKaboom.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the season 6 finale "Tears of the Prophets", the combined Federation, Klingon, and Romulan fleets attempt to invade a Cardassian world protected by kill-sats. These satellites appear again when the allied fleet manage to reach Cardassia near the series finale.

* In ''Series/TheExpanse'', the UN has at least 5 large railgun-armed satellites orbiting Earth. They can target and take out any target within the inner Solar System. The MCR has stealth orbital nuclear platforms aimed at Earth as a MAD-type deterrent. [[spoiler:the UN uses the former to take out the latter, but one of the platforms manages to get off a missile before being destroyed. The MIRV gets a warhead through Earth's anti-missile defenses and nukes South America, killing 2 million people]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' the Artifice Siren, commanded by Mythra, is a HumongousMecha floating in space that wields a particle cannon. As part of Mythra's [[spoiler:and, in NewGamePlus as of patch version 1.3.0, Pneuma]] Level IV Blade Special, she calls on Siren to rain lasers from above onto the target (so long as there isn't a roof over the party's head). In the ''Torna - The Golden Country'' DLC campaign, its emerges that Malos, being an Aegis like Mythra, also commanded a Siren of his own, which he had used to attack the Titan Coeia. At the climax of the Aegis War, Mythra's Siren destroyed that of Malos, [[DoomedByCanon sinking Torna's Titan in the process]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' the Artifice Siren, commanded by Mythra, is a HumongousMech floating in space that wields a particle cannon. As part of Mythra's [[spoiler:and, in NewGamePlus as of patch version 1.3.0, Pneuma]] Level IV Blade Special, she calls on Siren to rain lasers from above onto the target (so long as there isn't a roof over the party's head). In the ''Torna - The Golden Country'' DLC campaign, its emerges that Malos, being an Aegis like Mythra, also commanded a Siren of his own, which he had used to attack the Titan Coeia. At the climax of the Aegis War, Mythra's Siren destroyed that of Malos, [[DoomedByCanon sinking Torna's Titan in the process]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' Mythra's Sacred Arrow special is an attack where Mythra commands a Mech floating in space to shoot down countless beams of light. Obviously, that special is blocked off from use at several points in the story because of the possibility of a roof collapsing on everyone while fighting inside.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', Shredder and Krang take control of a satellite armed with a super laser and used it to cut the Technodrome free from the Arctic ice trapping it. However, just as the they were finally, Bebop and Rockstead get into a scuffle over a comic book, resulting in Bebop falling back against the controls of the laser[[note]][[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane which may or may not have been caused by the Turtles using Wu Wi]][[/note]]. This not only shorted out the controls, preventing them from using the satellite any further, but it also caused the laser to create a hole in the ice in front of the Technodrome, resulting in it ending up at the bottom of the ocean.

* The 1978 ''Series/{{Quatermass}}'' series (aka ''Quatermass IV'' or ''The Quatermass Conclusion'') featured an alien device that lured people into small areas and then engulfed them in a column of light. True Believers assumed that the light was transporting them to a better planet. No such luck. It was actually a kind of nasty and insidious form of Kill Sat, only just to make things worse there wasn't an actual satellite that could be shot down. There was something that the Russians launched nuclear missiles at, but it didn't work.

* In ''Webcomic/DriveDaveKellet'', it is revealed the Tesskans used some kind of Kill Sat on Berlin, Beijing, and New York City.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the Mechanus Cannon is effectively a cross-planar kill sat. The spells Power Word Kill, Meteor Storm Bombardment, and ''Torment'' also have kill sat mechanics with some rather impresssive visuals.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' features the Etherion, a magical version of this. It takes about an hour for the Council to charge it up, and then it blasts down with the power of more than two billion, seven hundred million ideas of magical energy, which is about equivalent to the combined magical energies of all the wizards on the continent. According to one member of the Council, its destructive power is sufficient to wipe an entire country off the face of the planet. Naturally, the arc's villain [[JustAsPlanned manipulated the council into firing the weapon at his magic tower]] (which was secretly designed to ''absorb'' magical energy) so he can use the energy as a power battery for his spell to resurrect history's most infamous black wizard. [[spoiler:As the tower takes too much damage in the battle between him and the heroes, however, the energy starts to leak out and runs the risk of going out of control and exploding anyways. Only barely is the tower forced to fire the energy back into space to avoid a massive loss of life]].

** ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' also has a colony laser. The titular mobile suit itself is basically a Kill Sat in a mech; Garrod once used the Satellite System in this manner, using the system as if he was preparing to fire the Satellite Cannon, then getting out of the beam's way.

** In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Shun Kurosaki has a card called Raid Raptors - Satellite Cannon Falcon, which is a Kill Sat combined with a giant cybernetic falcon. Combined with the HardLight technology of the setting, it has absolutely devastating results - he literally blew up the stadium, and in the following 20+ episodes it never gets fixed. He's also pretty much banned from dueling there again.
** ''Manga/YuGiOhOCGStories'': In the backstory of the Sky Striker arc, the AI-run nation of Spectra used satellite weapons to render humanity extinct. The [=AIs=] of the nation Karma blew up all the satellites, filling the planet's orbit with so much debris that that it is pretty much impossible to launch anything into orbit again.

** Of course, Monkey Fist also had a more destructive [[ShockAndAwe lightning bolt attack]], and some readers [[FridgeLogic wonder why he didn't channel that through the satellites]].

* In ''Fanfic/ImaginarySeas'', Zoe Nightshade assists Percy through her constellation in the stars, raining arrows in the form of lasers upon foes in the general direction of Percy's sword swings through their mutual connection in Riptide. While these beams are normally a mere D-Rank Noble Phantasm, enough to injure but not kill a Servant, their power rises dramatically at night when the stars and moon are visible, easily delivering a BoomHeadshot death to the soldiers Lostbelt Chiron sends after Percy. At full power, they're strong enough to scour an entire island.

* This is how WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} actually kills [=MetroMan=]. [[spoiler: Except that it turns out that [=MetroMan's=] NotQuiteDead.]] In the straight-to-video ''Megamind: The Buttom of Doom'', the villain-turned-hero Megamind tries to sell off all his "evil" inventions at a garage sale, including the Kill Sat, which he markets as a barbeque starter. This is the only item he fails to sell. Of course, it turns out to be useful in the end [[spoiler:when he has to destroy a HumongousMecha he built a long time ago programmed to kill heroes, who he now happens to be]].

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': The ''Narada's'' drill. It seems to blast some kind of epic fire rather than an actual laser, but it can punch straight to the ''core of a planet''. [[spoiler:This turns out to be problematic for Vulcan, as it allows the Romulans to drop a ball of black-hole-creating matter to the core and literally make it implode.]] Something like that in the hands of angry and [[OmnicidalManiac "particularly troubled"]] Romulans? Oh sure, they get kinda [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds woobie]] with the backstory, but that still ain't a happy situation.
* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Soundwave's alt mode is that of a satellite. Instead of normal projectiles, however, he fires other Decepticons, notably his minion Ravage. And if his toy bio has any credence, he's hacked so many satellites that he could pretty much destroy human civilization if he got bored.

** By the third book of the Greg Mandel trilogy, the area of concern is a surprise attack by a SpacePlane armed with kinetic energy harpoons, so networks of high-orbit defense platforms have been organised on a regional basis rather than political alliances. Strictly defensive of course, but as there's a fear of them also having hidden kinetic energy harpoons, [[SpaceColdWar spy satellites are put up to keep an eye on them]]. The protagonists are investigating a possible FirstContact by an alien lifeform, and there's a lot of concern that the alien might be hostile. A Russian general who is a friend of Greg's tells him he has the means to access these defense satellites to [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill take direct action if needed]].

* Almost completely inverted with VALIS in ''Literature/RadioFreeAlbemuth''. In addition to healing serious injuries and curing cancer, it provides telepathic assistance to keep you from ''getting'' killed (including literally taking control of the protagonist when he is [[spoiler:framed as a Communist spy]]), advice (prophetic dreams, future knowledge, and at one point [[spoiler:an audience with God]]), and [[spoiler:immortality beyond death]]. The only thing it ''doesn't'' do is perform resurrections... at least not within the context of the story.

* An early ''Series/FirstWave'' episode has the protagonist investigate the death of a college student who is revealed to have been working on a government project to deploy a series of nuclear missile-armed satellites in Earth's orbit. While he initially assumes they're there to attack other nations, the fact that they're pointing ''away'' from Earth tips him off that the government is aware of (some sort of) an alien threat and are taking precautions. Unfortunately, the aliens find out about this and send their agent to set the satellites to self-destruct, showing Earth with radioactive material. Since [[TheChosenOne Cade]] foils this plot, the satellites are assumed to still be up there. Of course, none if this is ever mentioned again.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The Xindi weapon in season 3, which blasts a corridor of death from Florida to Venezuela in literal scorched earth campaign. And that was just the ''prototype''. The finished version was designed to ''literally'' create an EarthShatteringKaboom.

** Although He deals out punishment from Heaven several times throughout the Bible, special points go to the story of Elijah. The prophet is sitting on a hill when a captain leading fifty soldiers approaches and calls out, "Man of God, the king orders you to come down." Elijah responds, "If I am a man of God, may fire from heaven [[KillItWithFire consume you and you fifty men]]." A second captain leading fifty men suffers the same fate, and the third one appears begging for his life. An angel tells Elijah that this one is safe to go with.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Exterminatus is the command used by the Inquisition when demons or heresy spread too far across the planet to be contained by covert or even overt military action. All possible (or at least important) Imperial forces pull out, and the orbiting fleet blows the hell out of the planet in any of a wide variety of ways, ranging from glassing the surface with hundreds of multi-gigaton warheads and ship-based beam weapons, to bombs filled with viruses that turn all organic matter into sludge, and "cyclonic torpedoes" that ''[[AtmosphereAbuse light the atmosphere on fire]]'' in a rather ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''-esque way. All of these methods aim for one thing: rendering life on the planet impossible.

* In what is one of the (probably) few ''unintentional'' uses of a Kill Sat, the game ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}'' makes mention of a [[SingleBiomePlanet winter world]] attempting to use a vast array of orbital mirrors to gradually thaw out the world, or at least the settled parts of it. Evidently, someone didn't carry the one, because the in-game article basically states that it focused the refracted light into a single coherent beam and described the results as being akin to a superlaser bombardment on the colony.

** Just before TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, the North American Strategic Defense Agency also had access to satellites stuffed with thermonuclear missiles, which NEXUS, of course, used to nuke most of humanity all the way to the afterlife.

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' of all things added one in the second Expansion Pack with the Epic Spell "Greater Ruin" (though no mention is made of a "Ruin" spell) that includes a beam of earth-shaking golden light striking from above, then tracking across the ground onto target.

** [=SearchMan=].exe can summmon a small one as his most damaging attack in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series. Unfortunately for him, it's also the easiest of his attacks to avoid, as it'll only fire if [[CrosshairAware its targeting cursor]] touches you, and even if it does, it can still be sidestepped.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/JediStarfighter'', one of the protagonists gains access to a giant space laser (actually designed to be fired from the ground at orbiting capital ships, like the ion cannon on Hoth), which can be targeted to vaporize just about anything.

* In the anime-style fighting game ''VideoGame/EvilZone'', ''Series/MetalHeroes'' parody Danzaiver's LimitBreak has him calling upon a Kill Sat to strike at his enemy from orbit, complete with cutaway to the satellite itself. [[SlapOnTheWristNuke It's not as painful as it sounds.]] It should be noted, however, that this technique is actually a ''grappling maneuver'', which takes the concept to an unforeseen level of ridiculous.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', in a seemingly desperate attempt to fit possibly every trope ever into one game, gave you a Kill Sat to fight one giant boss, that came with an "L.T.D." (short for Laser Targeting Device), which was effectively an empty bazooka with a laser attached to it, a la ''Gears of War'''s Hammer of Dawn. It takes a while to lock on, so it's good to have a friend stun the orbs you aiming at (which, by the way, are the giant orbs of a humongous version of [[spoiler: the Uroboros]] you fought four chapters ago). Of course, the recharge time is ridiculous, and you can destroy the orbs you're aiming with bullets, but its great when you [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound hear the three quick beeps letting you know it stopped charging, and you can once again destroy whatever you lock on to.]]

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has the SOLG (Strategic Orbital Linear Gun), a satellite-based railgun capable of firing MIRV-type nuclear warheads and wiping out half the major cities in the game's two main countries, not to mention it's programmed to crash down into Earth if control from the surface is cut off. There's also the Arkbird, which is actually a huge spaceship rather than a satellite, but can still kick some ass down there when equipped with a laser system.

** The most destructive spell is called Mega-blast, in his basic form consist in one powerful beam of turning a building into scraps and in his most powerful form consist in many powerful beams capable of turning an entire village into scraps.

** The Blackstar UAV from the same game is functionally the same, except it's an upscaled Darkstar reconnaissance drone equipped with no less than three microwave lasers on its underbelly for shooting down enemy nuclear missiles before they reach orbit. Of course, nobody's stopping it from pointing these lasers at other things.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' has one which is used by the good guys to destroy an incoming Leviathan (basically a living, sentient, evil meteor) before impact.

* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'', being a combination of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', is ''named'' after the command that field agents of the Mobian Inquisition can use in times of imminent defeat or upon discovering a massive demon incursion to request a direct strike from an orbital weapons platform on their current position -- which means if they don't manage to get far away quickly enough, they too will go out with a bang. Note that this is a ''toned down'' version of the [=WH40K=] Exterminatus...

** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System Fractional Orbital Bombardment System]] (or "FOBS") was designed to deliver a nuclear warhead (or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle several]]) by mimicking a satellite's orbital path. The Soviet brass was not too enamored by it because it would have been ''too'' effective -- it would totally bypass any early-warning system and make for a very effective decapitation strike, thereby eliminating the prospect of MutuallyAssuredDestruction. And without mutually assured destruction, the Soviet Union's enemies would be more likely to throw a preemptive nuclear strike at the country, which would not be very good for the people who lived there. The fear around FOBS led to the SALT II treaty in 1979 specifically prohibiting development, testing, or deployment of any such technology.

* The Soviet Nuclear Attack Satellite in ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' counts as this, being a military satellite operated by Soviet Russia armed to the teeth with [=ICBM=]s. In the original Japanese film, the Satellite is accidentally activated after Godzilla damages the boat carrying the launch system. In the American dub, the Russian Colonel aboard the boat deliberately launches the missile.

* SOL in ''Manga/{{Akira}}''. Used to sucker punch a rampaging [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Tetsuo]], [[AnArmAndALeg incinerating his right arm in one shot]]. The reason it didn't get a second chance varies: in the anime, Tetsuo flies up and crushes it while the military is still recalibrating; in the manga, [[VillainExitStageLeft he just runs away and goes into hiding,]] [[spoiler:leaving the satellite available for the Colonel to use against him in the final battle.]]
** As nice as SOL was, it's hard to argue against "Floyd", the Kill Sat used by the US Military near the end of the manga, having it beaten hands-down. Able to fire multiple beams at once, move the beam ''while'' firing, widen the beam... [[GeneralRipper the American commander]] actually orders ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the entirety of Japan]]'' to be targeted at one point! [[spoiler:Not that any of these features kept Tetsuo from [[DeathFromAbove boarding the thing and crashing it on top of the US command carrier...]]]]
*** Although only Floyd makes an actual appearance, it is perhaps worth noting that it was introduced as "the only one currently in range of Neo-Tokyo"... [[FridgeHorror so, just how many ARE there...?]]

* The ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Jamming With Edward" featured a network of satellite-mounted lasers. They were built in an attempt to reduce the severity of meteor showers after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the moon was destroyed]] by the [[PhlebotinumBreakdown hyperspace gate explosion.]] During the story, an [[InstantAIJustAddWater A.I. which evolved in the network]] used them to carve graffiti on unoccupied areas of the planet surface to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines Nasca Lines.]] And then automated defense programs activated when Spike came to collect a bounty on it and tried to blast his fighter...

* In ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' -the sequel of ''Anime/MazingerZ''-, [[TheDragon Great Marshall of Hell]] fabricated a massive lens of ice orbited around Earth and worked like a Kill Sat by focusing sunrays in one single point and blasting it with a massive, hot-melting [[DeathFromAbove heat ray]]. It appeared only in one of the manga continuities, though.