History Main / NukeEm

* Shown in ''Fanfic/LeviathanThuktunFlishithy'', the remake of ''HailToTheKingThuktunFlishithy''. Nuclear weapons were used against Godzilla in the past, and Israfel is hit with an N2 mine.

* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'': In the pilot, the army plans to use a nuclear warhead to stop a chemical leak. In the end, Mac fixes it with chocolate.

** In "The Light Brigade" the titular human warship is hit by two nukes.
** In "Trial by Fire" the US president tries to nuke the aliens who have splashed down in Earth's oceans.

* Shown in ''Fanfic/{{Leviathan}}'', the remake of ''HailToTheKingThuktunFlishithy''. Nuclear weapons were used against Godzilla in the past, and Israfel is hit with an N2 mine.

* ''Fanfic/GodsAngelsAndKings'': Shamshel is hit with an N2 mine instead of Sachiel in this story. Franchise/{{Godzilla}} is also hit with one when he goes on his literal {{Roaring Rampage of Rescue}}. [[NoSell It doesn't even slow his stride]].
* Also shown in the remake of the above fic, ''Fanfic/{{Leviathan}}''. Nuclear weapons were used against Godzilla in the past, and Israfel is hit with an N2 mine.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has several references to "onsite nukes" being ready on certain sites in case of any notable containment breach, and some stories feature them actually being detonated (such as in the alternate universe featured in SCP-2935, O, Death).

* Many popular addons for ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', such as [=GBombs=] 5, add nukes to the game, such as the Fat Man, Tsar Bomba, and the Cluster-[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]]-Nuke. The explosion of one of these bombs is enough to kill players over and over again, and probably crash the game if multiple explode at once.
** The [=M9K=] Weapons pack includes the Davy Crockett, which is a rocket launcher which can fire nukes.

* Many popular addons for ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', such as [=GBombs=] 5, add nukes to the game, such as the Fat Man, Tsar Bomba, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and the]] Cluster-[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]]-Nuke. The explosion of one of these bombs is enough to kill players over and over again, and probably crash the game if multiple explode at once.

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* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', TNT is used ''very'' copiously to cause huge amounts of damage. Most notably, L'Manburg gets subjected to this ''[[RuleOfThree three times]]'':

* In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', someone suggested Nuking the Hulk and his Warbound. Maria Hill pointed out that this would just make him ''stronger'' and ever more pissed than he already was.

* In ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', someone suggested Nuking the Hulk and his Warbound. Maria Hill pointed out that this would just make him stronger.

* Music/RandyNewman's "Political Science" ([[RefrainFromAssuming incorrectly known]] as "Let's Drop the Big One Now") deconstructs and mocks this trope by suggesting the flimsiest, most frivolous excuses for nuking everyone and everything (except Australia).

* In ''Machinima/GamingAllStars'', [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the Guardian Units of Nations]] resorts to this after [[spoiler: the flood of villains in S3 E7 becomes too out of control for them to shoot down normally, forcing them to drop a hydrogen bomb on the city the monsters were invading]]. Tragically, it not only obliterates the whole city’s infrastructure, [[spoiler: but it results in all of the heroes at the scene being mass-trophified, only being revived when [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Marcus Fenix]] arrives shortly after the events of the nuking]].

* ''Fanfic/AdventureTimeFrozenHearts'': Reaching the peak of his VillainousBreakdown, Barton eventually decides to fire a nuclear missile right onto Candy Kingdom out of spite. Fortunately, Simon and Betty managed to stop the nuke before that can happen.

* In ''Manga/SevenSeeds'', the Fuji Ship during the Minor Heat arc is basically an armoury stacked to the roof with guns, rifles, revolvers, anything that shoots bullets. Like the other Fuji shelters, it was built to sustain over time and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the meteor impact]], housing a big number of people to keep them safe. The ship did have another purpose, though, which was this Trope! [[spoiler:If the people on the ship thought that things were absolutely hopeless and there was no chance of recovery, they were to activate the rockets on the ship. These rockets, which included one nuclear warhead, were to be shot out and rain all over Japan, [[KillEmAll killing everyone]]. This sequence would also start the self-destruct sequence of the ship, sealing all exits and exploding after the rockets were launched with a 24 Hour span of time after the activation of this sequence.]] Needless to say, the plot of the Minor Heat arc is to prevent this from happening.

** Depicted most tragically in Fou-lu's storyline.[[note]]Peasant girl meets dragon-god. Peasant girl falls in love with dragon-god. Peasant girl is taken prisoner by empire dragon-god founded 600 years ago, tortured horribly, and ultimately used as Tactical Thermonuclear Peasant in attempt to kill dragon-god. Dragon-god survives (barely) and [[KillEmAll goes completely bugfuck nuts]] when he realises ''who'' was used as the ammo.[[/note]] Suffice it to say that it does ''not'' end well for the EvilEmpire.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has Tall Oaks nuked to prevent the spread of the C-Virus, though the protagonists note that the BigBad, [[spoiler:Derek Simmons]], is more interested in destroying the evidence than preventing the spread.

* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', because of the "Thirteen Day War" that occurred centuries before the canon timeline, which nearly exterminated the human race, nuclear weapons on planets were considered a taboo. [[spoiler:Still doesn't mean none are willing nuke their ''own'' planets just because.]]

** The Doomsday War takes all of this UpToEleven. [[spoiler:While L'Manburg is fighting Technoblade, Philza takes them by surprise by launching ''fifteen withers'' into the air, completely decimating most of the nation. And just as they are starting to overcome the withers, it turns out that it was just meant to buy time for the real attack -- Dream's obsidian TNT launchers, which rain enough DeathFromAbove to turn what was once a nation into a gaping hole to ''bedrock''.]]

** Depicted most tragically in Fou-lu's storyline.[[note]]Peasant girl meets dragon-god. Peasant girl falls in love with dragon-god. Peasant girl is taken prisoner by empire dragon-god founded 600 years ago, tortured horribly, and ultimately used as Tactical Thermonuclear Peasant in attempt to kill dragon-god. Dragon-god survives (barely) and
[[KillEmAll goes completely bugfuck nuts]] when he realises ''who'' was used as the ammo.[[/note]] Suffice it to say that it does ''not'' end well for the EvilEmpire.

** Depicted most tragically in Fou-lu's storyline.[[note]]Peasant girl meets dragon-god. Peasant girl falls in love with dragon-god. Peasant girl is taken prisoner by empire dragon-god founded 600 years ago, tortured horribly, and ultimately used as Tactical Thermonuclear Peasant in attempt to kill dragon-god. Dragon-god survives (barely) and [[KillEmAll goes completely bugfuck nuts]] when he realises ''who'' was used as the ammo.[[/note]] Suffice it to say that it does ''not'' end well for the EvilEmpire.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' [[spoiler:canonically ends with Hope County being nuked. It is later revealed in ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' and it's ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' DLC pack that these nukes had been purchased by Pagan Min and that, as a result, whomever fired them was the person who had gained control of Kyrat.]]

* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', when air-to-air missiles fail to harm Doomsday, the military immediately suggests that they nuke it once Supes has moved the fight into the upper atmosphere. The President agrees over the objections of the [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure secretary of defense]]. Well that escalated quickly. [[spoiler:Goes about as well as you'd [[WhatAnIdiot expect.]]]]

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' [[spoiler:Mereum, the main villain of the Chimera Ant Arc, was so powerful he literally was unbeatable. The strongest man in the world at the time could not even put a scratch on him, let alone defeat him. So he set off a nuke stored ''inside'' his body, in an attempt to kill Mereum... Except he ''survives'' and only dies hours later because of radiation poisoning.]]

* The iconic Black Mesa Research Facility is destroyed by a nuclear blast at the end of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1: Opposing Force''. Curiously you spend a large chunk of the game trying to avert this, but a few minutes after succeeding you see the G-Man reactivating the bomb from afar. Obviously you survive, as do a number of other characters who go on to appear in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''.

* Despite actor Bruce Boxleitner's self-penned nickname to his series character on ''Series/BabylonFive'', John [[FanNickname "Nuke 'Em"]] Sheridan, who uses nuclear weapons no less than four times against seemingly unbeatable opponents and winning all four times, is an '''aversion''' to this trope, as he used nuclear weapons in [[NuclearOption important strategic methods under his authority]]. Boxleitner's use of the nickname in the commentary track for 'Thirdspace' makes the nickname all but official.