History Main / TheTunguskaEvent

* William Barton and Michael Capobianco wrote the 1995 SherlockHolmes short story "The Adventure of the Russian Grave" in which Professor Moriarty's only canonical mathematical paper, On The Dynamics Of An Asteroid, is a BatmanGambit designed to engage Holmes' love of mysteries. It is a trap designed to bring him and Watson to Tunguska on that day at that time. When Holmes realizes this, he and Watson run for their lives, barely making it out alive.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'''s UNS battleplates - the biggest, baddest, mobile space battle fortresses in the terrestrial fleet - were ostensibly designed to protect against asteroid impacts. They are named for places on Earth subjected to such impacts. The one that BigBad General Xinchub uses as a flagship for a while is named Tunguska, nicknamed "Gus" for purposes of interacting with the AI. It blew up ''good''.

* [[ChuckNorrisFacts Chuck Norris]] has farted twice. The first was [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs 65 million years ago]], the second was in Tunguska in 1908.

* ''SchlockMercenary'''s UNS battleplates - the biggest, baddest, mobile space battle fortresses in the terrestrial fleet - were ostensibly designed to protect against asteroid impacts. They are named for places on Earth subjected to such impacts. The one that BigBad General Xinchub uses as a flagship for a while is named Tunguska, nicknamed "Gus" for purposes of interacting with the AI. It blew up ''good''.

* Spider Robinson's ''[[{{ptitlebga5e439}} Callahan's Key]]'' proposed that Tesla's DeathRay caused the event.

* William Barton and Michael Capobianco wrote the 1995 SherlockHolmes short story "The Adventure of the Russian Grave" in which Professor Moriarty's only canonical mathematical paper, On The Dynamics Of An Asteroid, is a XanatosGambit designed to engage Holmes' love of mysteries. It is a trap designed to bring him and Watson to Tunguska on that day at that time. When Holmes realizes this, he and Watson run for their lives, barely making it out alive.

* In ''TeenTitans'', it was part of the origin of Red Star.

* In Kage Baker's ''Company'' series, a defective Immortal claims responsibility for the event, saying that he found that using time travel in a manner other than the series' standard StableTimeLoop method will punch holes in the fabric of reality. He also claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs. It isn't clear if this is the truth, though; he might've been lying, or just completely insane.

* Isaac Asimov wrote a short SherlockHolmes story in which Professor Moriarty's only canonical mathematical paper, On The Dynamics Of An Asteroid, is a XanatosGambit designed to engage Holmes' love of mysteries. It is a trap designed to bring him and Watson to Tunguska on that day at that time. When Holmes realizes this, he and Watson run for their lives, barely making it out alive.

* In [[Crysis]] duriing a spied on conversation between a scientist and a Korean General, pieces of alien artifacts are mentioned to have been found in Tunguska, in the sequel it is confirmed, that Jacob hargreave stole the Nanosuit technology from the Aliens (apparently a scouting troop) during or after the Tunguska evnt. The [[Macguffin missing pice]] in the Nanosuit 2's chemical processes is called the [[MeaningfulName Tunguska Iteration]].

* In the ''{{Doctor Who}}'' PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Wages of Sin'', the Third Doctor takes his companions Liz and Jo back in time to watch the Tunguska event; they become entangled in contemporary Russian politics, but there's nothing weird about the event itself, which is just a meteoroid -- as far as they know. In the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''Birthright'', featuring the Seventh Doctor, the event turns out to have been caused by a TARDIS exploding.

* ''DoctorWho'' - Henry van Statten, scavenger of alien tech, claims to have found the cure for the common cold in "the Russian crater".

* In GameMod RedAlert3Paradox, the event was a meteorite impacta and research on its material left granted the Soviets their magnetic weaponry.

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* In the ''{{Doctor Who}}'' [[DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''Wages of Sin'', the Third Doctor takes his companions Liz and Jo back in time to watch the Tunguska event; they become entangled in contemporary Russian politics, but there's nothing weird about the event itself, which is just a meteoroid -- as far as they know. In the [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] novel ''Birthright'', featuring the Seventh Doctor, the event turns out to have been caused by a TARDIS exploding.

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* In DCComics it was the origin of Fireball of the Young Allies, Mr Meteor of the Shadowpact (1908 version) and, as in the cartoon, Red Star of the Titans.
** Comic Red Star has this origin, cartoon Red Star is a super-soldier.

Compare RoswellThatEndsWell.

* The Chimera from the ''{{Resistance}}'' series crashed on Earth in the event, and dominated the isolated Russian Empire by the 1940s. ItGorWorse from there.

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* The Chimera from the ''{{Resistance}}'' series crashed on Earth in the event, and dominated the isolated USSR.

* The UltimateMarvel ''Ultimate Galactus'' miniseries revealed in the first mini (''Ultimate Nightmare'') that the Tunguska Incident was caused by the Vision crash-landing to Earth. He (she?) was quickly taken into Russian custody and dissected so hir OrganicTechnology could be used to kickstart a SuperSoldier project, which means no one learned about Gah Lak Tus until about a year before he was supposed to eat Earth.

* In the '{{Doctor Who}}' novel ''Birthright'', the event is caused by a TARDIS exploding.

** Expanded in the sequel, which The Truth segments confirm that it was really an insane Tesla's DeathRay that he used to blow up [[spoiler:Piece of Eden 34, the Staff,]] at the Assassin Order's request.

*Ebenezar [=McCoy=] (The Blackstaff) is implicated for this in one of ''TheDresdenFiles'' books. He probably used an actual asteroid, doing so is within his capacity.

* In Stanislaw Lem's ''The Star Diaries'', time-traveling scientists try to straighten the Earth's axial tilt to make the climate more even. However, they screw it up, the machine they use explodes, and a piece of debris causes the Tunguska Event.