History Main / WorldHealingWave

** Marinette, [[{{Foil}} by contrast]], is forced to make a difficult call during the FinalBattle with Hawkmoth, ordering a building to be destroyed so that Dark Owl's akumified object will be taken out before Viperion's five-minute time limit runs out. She does this knowing that there is no way to evacuate the building in time, reasoning that she can bring back any casualties with Miraculous Cure; however, [[DirtyBusiness having to do this]] still makes her sick to her stomach.
** After Gabriel is exposed as Hawkmoth, Adrien is honestly shocked to learn that his myriad charges include hundreds of counts of murder due to all the people who were killed, insisting that none of them should ''count'' since they were all brought back. Gorilla [[DisappointedInYou regards him with silent disgust upon hearing this argument]].

See also SolarCPR. This trope is the last resort of the SmallStepsHero.

* In the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series, it is customary for the battlefield to return to its ordinary state after the MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated and the bad guys [[VillainExitStageLeft escape]]. ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' is the only series where this doesn't happen all the time for reasons that were never explained. This exception to the rule is made more jarring as this is the first Precure series where the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are summoned exclusively to attack civilians rather than just to fight the eponymous [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Girl Warriors]] and, as such, the levels of mayhem and destruction are higher than the previous seasons.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', the Genesis Device is a World Healing Wave ''weapon''. When fired at a planet, it converts the matter on the surface into life-sustaining matter, in effect terraforming the entire planet in days instead of years. It is shown to have worked on a cave, and in the end it is detonated in a nebula, building an entire planet from scratch. ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', however, shows that it doesn't actually ''work''. Said planet goes through its entire lifecycle (from newly formed planet to catastrophic destruction) in what is implied to be a week or two at most. This because its lead creator, Captain Kirk's son David Marcus, used [[ToxicPhlebotinum unstable protomatter]] in order to basically cheat his way into completing the thing, showing he's NotSoDifferent from his father.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', [[spoiler:Canaletto reduces the lush Ōban to a completely barren planet, as part of his plan to [[OmnicidalManiac make the galaxy 'pure' and untainted by life]]. However, Jordan [[SpannerInTheWorks completely derails his plans]] by jumping into the sphere containing the [[PhysicalGod Avatar]]'s power atop the Pyramid of Power, becoming the new Avatar while restoring Ōban and [[KarmicDeath obliterating Canaletto]].

** When Six's previous mentor [[spoiler:dies, his body changes into some kind of energy]] and causes vegetation life to grow.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Or in this case, a World Healing Swarm. Every time a VillainOfTheWeek is defeated, Ladybug throws the summoned Lucky Charm used to defeat it into the air, causing a bunch of ladybugs to fly around the city and repair the damage done by the akumatized villain. There seems to be ''no'' limit on what it can reverse, up to and including moving the Earth, returning those displaced in time, and restoring all of France and the partially destroyed ''moon.'' Also, there's no statute of limitation on how long ago the damage was caused (such as when [[spoiler: a VillainOfTheWeek sealed away in ancient times returns. With its defeat, all of Master Fu's fellow Guardians and their temple are restored after at least a century!]]). The only known limitation on it is that each Lucky Charm is tailor-made for the villain it's facing, and if Ladybug is unable to make a Lucky Charm for a villain before the villain becomes inactive, nothing can be repaired.

* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': When the Forest Spirit's head is shot off, its body spews a goo that destroys everything in its path, as a classic WorldWreckingWave. After the heroes return it, the goo vanishes, and new plants sprout up from the ground, over Irontown... even the lepers are healed. But there's a price -- [[CharacterDeath the Forest Spirit is gone, now, and will never return.]]

* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn of the Dragon'', [[spoiler:Spyro uses his full power loose one to reverse the destruction of the world caused by the Destroyer. Though it seems to be a HeroicSacrifice at first, it turns out he and Cynder both survive.]]

** At the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Link [[spoiler:makes a wish on the Triforce and undoes all of Ganon's evil actions, including bringing Link's Uncle and the King back to life]].
** And in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', [[spoiler:Hyrule has been sealed away, and when you find it,]] [[DeliberatelyMonochrome everything is colorless]]. When you [[spoiler:draw the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Master Sword]] from it's pedestal]], color sweeps slowly across the area, also reviving a bunch of tough enemies to [[spoiler: test the Master Sword on]]. Interestingly, this is later revealed not to necessarily be a good thing. [[spoiler:Ganondorf explains that the Master Sword was serving as a seal on his power, and by removing it, Link not only restored that magic, but [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently advanced the Gerudo King's plot to control the Triforce.]] Granted, there really wasn't anything else Link ''could'' do in this situation--he needs the Master Sword to defeat Ganondorf, as there's no other way for that to happen, so pulling it was the only option]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', once [[spoiler:Vaati is defeated and Zelda wishes for everything to be back to normal, you see all the enemies vanishing from existence across Hyrule. Hyrule Castle is also repaired and returned to normal, and all the guards are turned back from being stone.]] It's even described as a miracle.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' has Link and Princess Zelda [[spoiler: using the Triforce to restore Lorule (Hyrule's counterpart) to its former glory before its own Triforce was destroyed to prevent its powers from being misused any further. Lorule even gets their Triforce back, which causes Princess Hilda to cry with tears of joy after she just had accepted the fate of her once doomed kingdom.]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', large parts of the world have had all life sucked from them and the main hero is gone, then this happens.

* In ''Anime/SDGundamForce'', when the Dark Axis launches a full-scale invasion of Neotopia, they unleash a swarm of Bagu Bagu that turns most of the city's organic creatures and vegetation [[TakeForGranite to stone.]] Captain Gundam, using his Soul Drive and powers granted by Zero and Bakunetsumaru, is able to reprogram the Bagu Bagu so that they reverse the effect, restoring Neotopia to its original splendor. In the final episode, the same thing is done to Lacroa, the last nation the Dark Axis conquered.
* The ending of ''Anime/GreenLegendRan'' anime results in this. For decades the Earth had been reduced to a wasteland due to an alien influence, and when the BigBad was finally defeated, Ran and his MagicalGirlfriend magically restored the Earth back to what it used to be.
* At the end of ''Anime/RahXephon'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that the instrumentalist can create a world according to their will. Ayato's choice creates a world where all the people he loves are happy, and the Mullian war never happened.]]
* The ending of the first season of the first ''Anime/SailorMoon'' ending, in which Moon releases the full power of her Silver Crystal and both defeats Metallia/Beryl, reverses the damage done by the Dark Kingdom ''and'' revives the dead Senshi, Mamoru/Endymion and [[TheHeroDies herself]] as her last wish on the Crystal, albeit [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia without memories]]. (For a while). It's also implied that Crystal Tokyo is heralded in when Neo Queen Serenity ascends and pulls one of these for the entire planet after some global freeze/disaster.
* The plot of almost every ''Manga/DragonBall'' story arc inevitably involves using the Dragon Balls to generate one of these. To the point where in later episodes, they hardly even worry about the damage they do fighting the BigBad because they know they can do this once they're done defeating the BigBad.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', there's a smaller version of this. [[spoiler: The Girl from the Illusionary World manages to use the Orbs of Light brought by Tomoya (as the Garbage Doll) to cause a RetCon; it saves Nagisa from her DeathByChildbirth and Ushio from her illness, while also healing Fuuko from her coma.]]

** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' features another one, [[spoiler: this time generated by Homura. If anything, the world it creates is even better than Madoka's - at the expense of it being explicitly under Homura's full control, and by this point she is pretty much an [[BrokenBird emotionally]]-[[LoveMakesYouEvil shattered]] WellIntentionedExtremist who believes UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans.]]
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', having the Musician play the piano in [[spoiler:Noah's Ark reversed the download which restored the setting as well as all the characters who hadn't been killed in battle.]]
* [[spoiler:Massively subverted]] in ''Manga/LegendOfHeavenlySphereShurato''. [[spoiler: The Goddess Vishnu releases one when she's restored to normal after having been TakenForGranite, repairing the Tenkuukai and reviving her fallen Hachibushu warriors. However, it has two drawbacks: she cannot revive Gai due to external influences... and when the one who intervened appears (Shiva, Goddess of Destruction), the Tenkuukai starts ''falling apart again''.]]
* The heroes of ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' save the world from evil, illness-spreading aliens with this trope -- in conjunction with FillItWithFlowers.
* At the end of the second arc of ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', [[spoiler:Yellow and Lugia unleash the energy generated from the badge amplifier onto mainland Kanto, turning areas devastated by pollution into green fields.]]
* In ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieNinjaClashInTheLandOfSnow,'' the [[MacGuffin hexagonal crystal]] that Princess Koyuki carries around is implanted in a device that causes the [[spoiler: never-ending winter in the Land of Snow to end and spring to arrive.]]
* Two of these take place in ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', as [[spoiler: the two wishes that Takiko makes to Genbu before dying]]:
** First, [[spoiler: the country of Hokkan (Genbu's land) is about to be consumed not just by the upcoming war with Kutou, but by [[KillItWithIce a glacial era]] that would be a MASSIVE disaster since Hokkan itself is made of steppes and plains. Takiko tells Genbu "Return spring to this land once more", Genbu accepts and the climate changes accordingly, saving the country from being covered in ice for what could be centuries.]]
** Second, [[spoiler: the wish that follows is basically one "for all the living things of this country to be restored to what they once were". Genbu fulfills it via a miraculous water that spreads through the country, healing wounded soldiers (which makes both sides of the Hokkan/Kutou war stop their fighting) and melting the snow away...]]
* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', this tends to happen whenever a fairy is recused, instantly fixing the problems its capture caused.
* In the ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' series, it is customary for the battlefield to return to its ordinary state after the MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated and the bad guys [[VillainExitStageLeft escape]]. ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' is the only series where this doesn't happen all the time for reasons that were never explained. This exception to the rule is made more jarring as this is the first Precure series where the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are summoned exclusively to attack civilians rather than just to fight the eponymous [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Girl Warriors]] and, as such, the levels of mayhem and destruction are higher than the previous seasons.

* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': When the Hunter stabs the Heart of Evil on the Plains of Death, it releases a massive, ball-shaped burst of energy that spreads out over the Plains, destroying all the undead massed there and triggering rain in clouds that had been sitting there for ten years. Later, Ringo notes that some old seeds in the ground have started to sprout.
* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' has The Gardens of Equestria. [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle's greatest creation, a megaspell powered by the Elements of Harmony able to cleanse all Equestria of all the radiation and taint created by the end of the war and return its ability to be a paradise again.]]

* At the end of the [[BadFuture Dark World]] storyline of the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', [[spoiler: Rarity's [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascension]] to being [[PhysicalGod Liberalis]], the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Concept]] of the [[DimensionLord Mortal World]], releases one of these that removes the last of Discord's tainted chaos from the world and restoring harmony.]]
** [[spoiler:The use of ''six'' sets of Elements of Harmony to defeat Nightmare Eclipse once and for all lets off a ''[[UpToEleven timeline healing wave]]'' that breaks the GroundhogDayLoop she turned the Dark World timeline into and fixes the damage she caused to it.]]

* Destroying the portal in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' triggers one of these, resetting the entire Kingdom to the state it was before the events of the story began. It also causes LaserGuidedAmnesia for those who did not survive the event; only those who survived remember what happened.
* ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': After the Elements of Harmony destroy [[spoiler: Demise]] once and for all at the end of Season 2, they then unleash one of these, which not only [[BackFromTheDead resurrects]] everyone killed during the Battle of the Crystal Empire, but also [[spoiler: destroys the curse of enslavement Demise long ago placed on the monster races, freeing them all.]]

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 11 of the third story, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', [[spoiler: Twilight is able to undo the damage done by Tirek, including restoring her school and library, via tapping Time's powers.]]

* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': When the Forest Spirit's head is shot off, its body spews a goo that destroys everything in its path, as a classic WorldWreckingWave. After the heroes return it, the goo vanishes, and new plants sprout up from the ground, over Irontown... even the lepers are healed. But there's a price -- [[CharacterDeath the Forest Spirit is gone, now, and will never return.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' has one at the end, with Stanley repairing Central Park after it was destroyed by Gnorga's WorldWreckingWave. But he takes it too far, covering all of New York City in flowers, [[FridgeLogic which would bring one of the most important cities in the world to a screeching halt and have a devastating effect on the ecosystem.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. As the Beatles sing "All You Need Is Love", all of the things destroyed and people frozen by the Blue Meanie attack are restored to wholeness/life.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': The end has Satan use one of these to restore the world (or at least North America), including bringing everyone back to life. Except Kenny, who has to go back to being dead but is sent to heaven.

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' movies:
** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', after [[spoiler:[[BigBad the Mouse King]]'s defeat]].
** [[spoiler:Calissa]] does one to the ocean after being released in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAMermaidTale''.
** In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposa'', when [[spoiler:Queen Marabella is healed and all the Flutterfield lights regenerate.]]
** The beginning of one is seen at the end of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePinkShoes'', showing [[spoiler:the return of flowers after the Snow Queen is defeated]].
** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposaAndTheFairyPrincess'' has the villain cause a WorldWreckingWave, which is [[spoiler:reversed by Mariposa and Catania]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', Malucia causes a WorldWreckingWave by [[spoiler:stealing all the magic]]. Alexa [[spoiler:returns the magic to the world and everyone who lost it]] in the end.

* In the original ''Film/{{Tron}}'', when the MCP is destroyed, all of the red lines in the landscape turn to blue (indicating the end of the MCP's influence) and all of the I/O towers light up, showing that programs can communicate with their Users again.
* At the end of ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', when Bastian starts making wishes Fantasia is recreated the same as it was before the Nothing destroyed it.

* The earthquake resulting from the restoration of the Earth's core to its normal spinning state in ''Film/TheCore'' is described by DJ Qualls's character as "one giant shock wave" in which "the Earth is healing itself!"

* In Disney's live-action remake of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', the end of the Enchantress's curse works this way. The castle has been bathed in eternal winter since the Beast was hexed, and as the spell is broken, sunlight sweeps over the building, repairing its broken parts and restoring all of the servants to their human forms. Since this version addresses the FridgeLogic of the original--how the heck did an entire town not notice a massive castle full of enchanted objects in their backyard?--by having the spell remove the villagers' memories of the estate and its inhabitants ever existing, it's presumed that the magical light does the same to their minds.

* Semi-example at the end of the ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'' trilogy, after [[spoiler: Sazed ascends to godhood]] all the damage that the Lord Ruler and Ruin did to the world is fixed, the ashmounts get sealed up, and there are flowers. It's only a semi-example because he hadn't figured out how to bring dead people back to life, so most of the original population is dead, but at least the survivors are safe and get a fresh start in a much better environment.
* A classic example from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': in ''The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'', when [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Aslan]] [[RightfulKingReturns returns]], his presence alone is enough to end the hundred years of winter created by the White Witch, first bringing Christmas, then making flowers bloom and melting the frozen rivers without flooding. Within a day or so it has become early summer, restoring the natural balance. Characters that had been turned to stone by the Witch are revived by Aslan as well, though that takes more direct intervention.

* In ''Literature/TheRadiantDawn'', when [[spoiler: Stacie surrenders and absorbs all the evil magic into the throne]], all the undead risen by said magic fall apart and crumple -- but nobody is resurrected and all the destruction they wrought remains.
* At the end of the final book in Gael Baudino's ''Dragon Sword'' trilogy, the first act of [[spoiler:Alouzon after her apotheosis is to heal the land of the ravages of unleashing the equivalent of the Vietnam War-era United States Armed Forces on it]].
* In ''Literature/{{Messenger}}'', this is brought about by [[spoiler: Matty sacrificing himself to heal the world]] -- the Village's residents become good again, Trademaster is exiled, and Forest becomes mostly benevolent once more.

* Emma's good-bye kiss to Henry in the season ender of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' not only [[DisneyDeath brings the kid back to life]], but breaks the curse on the entire town of Storybrooke. Of course, no sooner had it happened than Rumplestitskin decided to trigger a spell which inverts the trope, bringing magic to the mundane world within the town's borders.

* In ''Series/DenkouChoujinGridman'' and its English counterpart ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'', Gridman/Servo had a special ability (called the Fixer Beam in ''Gridman'') that repaired the damage done to computer systems once the MonsterOfTheWeek was destroyed. [[spoiler:This is also how Gridman defeats Alexis Kreib in ''Anime/SSSSGridman''.]]

* In Music/{{Nightwish}}'s song Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean, once the Devil is defeated, the angels declare that "We shall come to set the dolphins free/We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea/Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas/Eternity will begin once again in peace"

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''

* The GoldenEnding of ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' is in the form of this. Literal apocalypse was solved instantly.
* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'', healing one of the fertile grounds results in a wave that wipes out the corrupted ruins revealing... well, still ruins, but nice ruins overgrown with greenery.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': Using the Bloom power on a Guardian Sapling results in a wave of flowers that removes the curse from the area with a [[SceneryPorn visually heavy]] effect.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn of the Dragon'', [[spoiler:Spyro uses his full power loose one to reverse the destruction of the world caused by the Destroyer. Though it seems to be a HeroicSacrifice at first, it turns out he and Cynder both survive.]]
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIRedux'' (the AGD ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIII'' FanRemake): If you are able to get a certain item, then it will create this effect over the dragon-ravaged Daventry at the end.

* Somewhat cynically used in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3''. [[spoiler: The Imulsion was parasitic and the Lambent forces were merely an extension of that, most everything on the planet had some degree of contamination. Adam Fenix devised a pulse generating machine to neutralize the Lambent and in doing so it couldn't descriminate against the Imulsion in any living being, including Locust or Humans. Because the Locust had so much longer exposure to Imulsion they are virtually wiped out in the process. Humans who spent an inordinate amount of time with Imulsion were also killed, including Adam himself]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'', [[spoiler: this is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] but deconstructed in the Restoration ending. The Bastion ''completely'' resets the world, so the characters are replaced with their past selves, and there is nothing to stop events from [[GroundhogDayLoop repeating themselves]].]]

* On a somewhat smaller scale, in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' [[spoiler: you hack the alien bioweapon to instead spread a wave of the anti-virus through New York, instantly killing the aliens and seemingly curing the diseased humans.]]
* ''VideoGame/Prototype2'' does it's own unique varient. [[spoiler: After consuming Alex Mercer, Heller gets CutscenePowerToTheMax and unleashes a barrage of tentacles that wipes out the NYZ infection.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' has this happen on a smaller scale. At the end of Chapter 17 the previously destroyed Serenes Forest is restored using the Galdr of Rebirth. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQY5zkqXTzc Here's the scene in question. Warning, may contain spoilers.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', however, is a much larger scale. [[spoiler:After Ashera was defeated, her judgement on the continent that transformed its people into stone is undone. Yune, both the bird and the goddess, flies above the battlefield where the judgement first happened and soon, the rest of the continent was restored.]]
* One happens in a ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates's'' DLC stage, ''Hidden Truths''. [[spoiler: [[EnemyWithout Good Anankos]] recruits [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Owain, Severa and Inigo]] and promises to fulfill a wish as payment. They ask him to use one of these to heal the realm they come from, ravished by a GodOfEvil in their BadFuture, and [[DueToTheDead to properly bury their dead]]. Good Anankos agrees and uses [[GeoEffects his Dragon's Vein powers]], which are strong enough to terraform ''a whole continent'', to "heal" the Awakening world and bury the fallen ones; when he's done, the group hears the voices of the kids's parents and the dead Avatar from their world, thanking them and Good Anankos for their kindness.]]
* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. Although killing Kefka stops the gradual extinction of all life on the planet, and turns the sky and ocean blue again, the world is still in ruins. With the symbolism of flowers blossoming, doves flying, and a baby being born, it's at least strongly implied that the world will recover.
* Occurs in the first, second and last levels of ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}''. Particularly in the last level, you ''are'' the healing wave!
* Activating the Crucible in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' makes it do this to Earth, with Shepard's decisions changing the exact nature of the wave itself, but all of them result in the Reapers' systems being fundamentally changed forever. [[spoiler: Have a low enough Effective Military Strength, and it becomes a world-''killing'' wave [[NiceJobBreakingItHero as it fires indiscriminately]], wiping out ''[[ApocalypseHow all life on Earth]]''.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DisneyPrincessEnchantedJourney'', this happens after you beat the final boss, restoring Gentlehaven Castle and everything around it.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': All the Nazi Zombies revert back to life [[spoiler: after TheChosenOne uses the DangerousForbiddenTechnique and farts on Princess Kenny's balls]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It's...yeah...]]
* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' has one of these when the Spirit Tree is fully restored, [[spoiler:but results in a HeroicSacrifice... for Kuro, the villain.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', when it's discovered baby tears reverse transmutations (and other mutations) caused by [[AlienInvasion the Shroobs]], Professor E. Gadd synthesizes a chemically identical solution and builds a device that rains it over the entire Mushroom Kingdom, undoing most of the damage done by the Shroobs.
* Cities in ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'' have an EmpathicEnvironment that reflects their ruler's morality, so when an Evil city is taken over by a Good god, its desolate, {{Mordor}}-esque environment is overrun with a wave of wildflowers, butterflies, and sunlight.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' - the game's BigBad, Mordegon, [[spoiler:steals the heart of the world tree, Yggdrasil, setting the second half of the game AfterTheEnd and causing much of the world to end up as a charred wasteland. Once you defeat him, Yggdrasil is restored and emits one of these, restoring life and beauty to the land.]]
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' has one at the end, [[spoiler: when the heroes load Arianna’s backup files, restoring all the sites she erased, and curing all the Overtaken who were converging on the Firewall en masse]].
* ''VideoGame/SpiritsOfAnglerwoodForest'': What happens when you beat the final level. [[spoiler: A wave comes out of Ezra's tree and restores the Fenn farm and everyone [[BalefulPolymorph who was transformed]] back to normal]].
* In ''Labyrinths of the World 9: Lost Island'' when Dietrich is arrested for his crimes an energy wave restores all of the worlds he's ravaged.
* In the ending of ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' [[spoiler: Maotoleus' Silver Flame covers the entire world, purifying (most) Daemons and turning them back in their original form and providing a way for them to be purified in the future, which was thought to be impossible by every other character in the game.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'' has one of the most hilarious examples of this trope [[spoiler:with the SexyDiscretionShot animals.]]

* Parodied in ''[[Creator/NeilCicierega BRODYQUEST]]'', where Adrien Brody's interstellar guitar solo causes instantiations of himself to appear all over world history - including on the Egyptian Sphinx, at NASA headquarters, in historical paintings, and on the Pope's hat.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'':
** Return to The Past has this effect, reverting the world 24 hours prior after bathing everything in a PillarOfLight. However, this comes with strings attached, and cannot reverse death or permanent virtualization. [[spoiler: As the protagonists later learn, it also gives the BigBad a power boost every time it's used, forcing them to rely on it a lot less than they used to.]]
** The series finale has a digital one as [[spoiler: the XANA-killing program activates, not only eliminating all monsters from Lyoko, but also wiping all of the Lyoko Replikas and XANA from the internet itself.]]

* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'', after the [[BigBad Evil One]] is destroyed, the [[DeathWorld ground]] crumbles becoming Rainbow Land. In TheMovie, color and springtime are restored to Earth.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', the user restoring Mainframe has this effect.
* In the Season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' Raven uses one of these to return the world to normal after [[GodOfEvil Trigon]] [[RealityWarper turned all the people to stone, all the buildings into ruins, all the water into lava, and all the sky into a red haze]]. Since this happens the exact moment she defeats Trigon, it's unclear whether Raven personally created the wave of magical white light, or if banishing Trigon from the dimension [[NoOntologicalInertia automatically undid all the changes he made while there]].
** It's possible the world healing wave turned all petrified people back to normal, as opposed to just undoing what Trigon had done.[[spoiler: Terra was turned to stone before Trigon came to earth, and this spell could explain why she came back]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Lord of the Beans" ends with the hero creating one of these with a [[AppliedPhlebotinum magic bean]] thrown into a dry well.

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': At the end the first season, Wuya's return to physical form causes the surrounding region to decay. When she is imprisoned in a puzzle box again near the beginning of the second season, a WorldHealingWave occurs.

* When Scooby and the Gang in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' destroy the Nibiru entity, they restore the destroyed town to the peaceful, friendly place it was meant to be. The problem is that [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand mystery solvers have no place]] in a town with no mysteries to solve. Luckily, they realize that [[AdventureTowns there are plenty of places that have need]] of meddling kids and a dog and [[StealthSequel go on a road trip to find them]].
* Taken to its logical extreme in the Mortis trilogy of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', where the healing and wrecking wave are following each other in a constant circle, as part of the planet's [[BalanceOfGoodAndEvil Light and Dark in-balance]] symbolism: when night falls all plants die, and are reduced into ghastly glowing forms, and massive thunderstorms start. When dawn approaches all plant life is renewed.
* The titular ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' tended to act as a localized anthropomorphic version at the end of any given episode of the series that bears his name, cleaning up whatever pollution the villains had caused. This leads to a bit of FridgeLogic: why NOT pollute when a magical mullet man can clean it all up instantly?
* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', Alexa restoring magic to Zinnia brings the color and magic back to the entire land.
* In the episode "Mime for a Change", the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' restore Townsville with this after Mr. Mime removes all color and sound by singing the song "Love Makes the World Go 'Round".
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In the climax of "[=NegaDuck=]", the good [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] version of Darkwing undoes the damage done to the city by its evil counterpart by creating a heart-shaped balloon, which the evil one [[StupidEvil naturally]] pops, releasing magic sparks that repair everything.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Or in this case, a World Healing Swarm. Every time a VillainOfTheWeek is defeated, Ladybug throws the summoned Lucky Charm used to defeat it into the air, causing a bunch of ladybugs to fly around the city and repair the damage done by the akumatized villain. There seems to be ''no'' limit on what it can reverse, up to and including moving the Earth, returning those displaced in time, and restoring all of France and the partially destroyed ''moon.'' Also, there's no statute of limitation on how long ago the damage was caused (such as when [[spoiler: a VillainOfTheWeek sealed away in ancient times returns. With its defeat, all of Master Fu's fellow Guardians and their temple are restored after at least a century!]]). The only known limitation on it is that each Lucky Charm is tailor-made for the villain it's facing, and if Ladybug is unable to make a Lucky Charm for a villain before the villain becomes inactive, nothing can be repaired.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': After Bill Cipher is defeated, all the destruction wrought by him and his {{Mooks}} is repaired, including [[spoiler: the journals, including pages that had originally been destroyed.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': Part of the titular job after capturing the rogue glitch is to reset all collateral damage caused by the glitch and the fight with it. Combined with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wiping the memories of all witnesses]], this keeps up TheMasquerade.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In the finale, She-Ra [[spoiler:destroying the Heart and restoring Etheria's magic]] causes a wave of light, magic, and life to flow from the ruins, restoring it after [[spoiler:Horde Prime]] nearly destroyed the planet.

* The Dakara superweapon in ''Series/StargateSG1'' was originally designed to do this. Of course, given that it's called a "weapon"... It's more a tool that can be used as a weapon. When tied in with the Stargate network to vastly increase its range, the Dakara device can do almost anything the user desires, up to and including [[RealityWarper rewriting the entire galaxy on a molecular level]]. It unleashes one of these to demolish all the Replicators in the galaxy in "Reckoning, Part 2". Of course, it's a WorldWreckingWave if you happen to be a Replicator. And would've been for ''everything'' if [[BigBad Anubis]] had gotten his hands on it; his plan was to [[OmnicidalManiac erase all life in the Milky Way]] [[AGodAmI then recreate it according to his own design]]. Since Anubis himself was no longer truly alive, he would've survived the process.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''

* In ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'', there's a smaller version of this. [[spoiler: The Girl from the Illusionary World manages to use the Orbs of Light brought by Tomoya (as the Garbage Doll) to cause a RetCon; it saves Nagisa from her DeathByChildbirth and Ushio from her illness, while also healing Fuuko from her coma.]]
* Also used in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', when [[spoiler:the newly released Asuna uses her sword and [[RealityWarping Code of the Lifemaker]] to repair the damage done to [[MagicLand Mundus Magicus]] (which was gradually being erased) and [[BackFromTheDead bring back]] the people who have been erased before.]]

* At the climax of [[FanFic/RainboomsAndRoyalty The Dashverse]] story ''Hot Heads, Cold Hearts, and Nerves of Steel'', when the Elements of Harmony and the Crystal Heart are combined against Sombra, the released energy blast depowers him, cleanses the Crystal Empire of his taint, and [[SealedEvilInACan seals]] his Windigo servants in a crystal cage.

* ''FanFic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': After the Elements of Harmony destroy [[spoiler: Demise]] once and for all at the end of Season 2, they then unleash one of these, which not only [[BackFromTheDead resurrects]] everyone killed during the Battle of the Crystal Empire, but also [[spoiler: destroys the curse of enslavement Demise long ago placed on the monster races, freeing them all.]]

* ''Literature/LeftBehind''

* In [[Music/{{Nightwish}} Nightwish]]'s song Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean, once the Devil is defeated, the angels declare that "We shall come to set the dolphins free/We shall wash the darkened bloodred sea/Our songs will echo over the mountains and seas/Eternity will begin once again in peace"

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko:''

* The ending of the first season of the first ''Anime/SailorMoon'' ending, in which Moon releases the full power of her Silver Crystal and both defeats Metallia/Beryl, reverses the damage done by the Dark Kingdom ''and'' revives the dead Senshi, Mamoru/Endymion and [[TheHeroDies herself]] as her last wish on the Crystal, albeit [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia without memories]]. (For a while). It's also implied that Crystal Tokyo is herald in when Neo Queen Serenity ascends and pulls one of these for the entire planet after some global freeze/disaster.

* The ending of the first season of the first ''Anime/SailorMoon'' ending, in which Moon releases the full power of her Silver Crystal and both defeats Metallia/Beryl, reverses the damage done by the Dark Kingdom ''and'' revives the dead Senshi, Mamoru/Endymion and [[TheHerodies herself]] as her last wish on the Crystal, albeit [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia without memories]]. (For a while). It's also implied that Crystal Tokyo is herald in when Neo Queen Serenity ascends and pulls one of these for the entire planet after some global freeze/disaster.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko:'' "Return to the past, now!" However, this comes with strings attached, and cannot reverse death or permanent virtualization. [[spoiler: As the protagonists later learn, it also gives the BigBad a power boost every time it's used, forcing them to rely on it a lot less than they used to.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}'': Summer returns to Arendelle once [[FisherKing Queen Elsa finally gets a grip on her powers]] and thaws the eternal winter [[PowerIncontinence caused by her emotional distress]].

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E2TheCrystallingPart2 The Crystalling, Part 2]]", when the Crystal Heart is restored and revitalized, it sends out one of these to push the Frozen North's blizzard back beyond the Crystal Empire's borders while granting temporary Crystal Pony forms to the Mane Cast, including Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, who missed out on the first one that resulted in Sombra's demise in "The Crystal Empire".

** In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieMariposa'', when Queen Marabella is healed and all the Flutterfield lights regenerate.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Or in this case, a World Healing Swarm. Every time a VillainOfTheWeek is defeated, Ladybug throws the summoned Lucky Charm used to defeat it into the air, causing a bunch of ladybugs to fly around the city and repair the damage done by the akumatized villain. There seems to be ''no'' limit on what it can reverse, up to and including moving the Earth, returning those displaced in time, and restoring all of France and the partially destroyed ''moon.'' Also, there's no statute of limitation on how long ago the damage was caused (such as when [[spoiler: a VillainOfTheWeek sealed away in ancient times returns. With its defeat, all of Master Fu's fellow Guardians and their temple are restored after at least a century!]]).