History Main / WorldHealingWave

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor]] WesternAnimation/OperationZERO'', thw world returns to it's bright and sunny state, the KND's Treehouse Bases are reverted back from being tapioca factories, and everyone reverts back from being Senior Citizombies after [[BigBad Grandfather]] has been [[LaserGuidedAmnesia decommissioned]] back into a normal old man.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor]] [[WesternAnimation/OperationZERO]]'', thw world returns to it's bright and sunny state, the KND's Treehouse Bases are reverted back from being tapioca factories, and everyone reverts back from being Senior Citizombies after [[BigBad Grandfather]] has been [[LaserGuidedAmnesia decommissioned]] back into a normal old man.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime,'' we get the Omega Lock. With the four keys in place, it can create one of these and revive Cybertron. However, Megatron wanted to direct it at Earth and "cyberform" it, overwriting what was already there with a new biosphere suitable for Transformers. Like the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise's Genesis device, the difference between a WorldHealingWave and a WorldWreckingWave can come down to whether or not that world had anything on it beforehand. Optimus was forced to [[spoiler: strike the Omega Lock with the Star Saber, possibly ending any chance of ever reviving Cybertron]]. In the season 3 finale, [[spoiler:a rebuilt but weaker Omega Lock is used to revitalize Cybertron's core. It's technically a world-healing wave, in that it brought the planet back to life, but it isn't powerful enough to fix all the surface damage. Better than nothing, though.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': At the end of 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.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime,'' we get the Omega Lock. With the four keys in place, it can create one of these and revive Cybertron. However, Megatron wanted to direct it at Earth and "cyberform" it, overwriting what was already there with a new biosphere suitable for Transformers. Like the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise's Genesis device, the difference between a WorldHealingWave and a WorldWreckingWave can come down to whether or not that world had anything on it beforehand. Optimus was forced to [[spoiler: strike the Omega Lock with the Star Saber, possibly ending any chance of ever reviving Cybertron]]. In the season 3 finale, [[spoiler:a rebuilt but weaker Omega Lock is used to revitalize Cybertron's core. It's technically a world-healing wave, in that it brought the planet back to life, but it isn't powerful enough to fix all the surface damage. Better than nothing, though.]]

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
** [[spoiler:Mata Nui does this to repair the fragmented world of Spherus Magna. Effects include {{Terraforming}}, [[GreenThumb growing large amounts of vegetation]], and curing the effects of some MutagenicGoo]].
** The Staff of Artakha does this to repair all damage caused by the Great Cataclysm except for Karda Nui.

** 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...]]

* ''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.]]

* Happens in an issue of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' after Earth is devastated from a gravity wave sent by Ego the Living Planet. An otherwise ordinary man with reality-warping powers unknown to him mistakes the FF's leaving to deal with the threat as them fleeing the planet, and his wish that things never happened winds things back as if the attack never occurred, burning out his powers permanently in the process.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Odin did this in one issue, although in this case it was more of a universe-healing wave.

* ''Fanfic/CheshireMiraculousLadybug'': While Adrien as Misterbug have the Miraculous Cure, Marinette as Cheshire have ''Catastrophe'', an equivalent ability activated when she purifies an Akuma with Cataclysm. But it have the catch that it ''must'' be released soon after Cataclysm, or it will strain Marinette's body.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26693095/chapters/83491480 Everything You Deserve]]'', Adrien Wishes for a world where he can misuse his Miraculous to his heart's content, as well as a world where Ladybug is his slavishly loyal girlfriend. This creates a new reality where he's an infamous ''villain'', with ''Chloe'' as his partner, using and abusing the Miraculous Cure to wipe away the damage done by their crime sprees. When Adrien orders her to ''stop'' restoring and repairing everything, she's [[EveryoneHasStandards deeply shaken]].

* 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 not that different from his father.
** The trope is also subverted in that Genesis doesn't discriminate in what it converts. Whether dead rock or populated planet, ''everything'' on the surface is getting culled for Genesis to do its thing. This becomes a big issue in the next few movies, because Genesis represented one of the deadliest weapons known to civilization: a weapon that could not only kill all life on a planet, but leave a perfectly healthy biosphere behind for whoever did the killing (or at least do the first part when they discovered how unreliable the creation part was). Perhaps even a biosphere ''more suitable'' to the user's needs than the existing one. This is why the Klingon Ambassador in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' described it as the "Genesis Weapon", and was paranoid that the Federation intended to use it to wipe out the Klingon Empire. Worse, it may actually work just fine. It was meant for use on ''dead planets,'' not what specks of matter it could pull together from a ''nebula.'' Apples and oranges, only more so. Though shortcuts were taken, (and for a casual fan, there's no knowing where the ExpandedUniverse stands on the matter) from what we got onscreen, a warning label on it that says "actual planet required" may be all that is necessary for the thing to go operational. It would be ''[[WorldWreckingWave very bad]]'' if misused.

* In the end of ''Literature/GoodOmens'', [[spoiler:Adam makes it so that the world will not remember the day that just passed and all that happened is undone: the Book shop did not burn, the Bentley is new again, and no one died]].

* The Shem Ha Mephorash in ''Literature/{{Unsong}}'', if spoken by a sufficiently intelligent and well intentioned being. It's an acronym of who God is. If you understand it, you understand God and his omnibenevolence and if you understand God's motivations, there's no reason not to give you omnipotence.

** Emma's good-bye kiss to Henry 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.

* ''Series/{{Photon}}'' has villains who want to turn every planet into a barren wasteland and heroes who want all planets to have life. Whenever the heroes charge a crystal with light energy on a barren world, it immediately become full of life.

** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' end with the returned Sabers restores the people of Mirinoi. Even less understandably it revives the dead Pink Ranger (the character died because the actor was ill, and the actor had recovered by the time of the finale).

** In fact, this is how life came to exist in the Milky Way. The Ancients came here from their own galaxy, and found a lifeless one. So they created the Dakara device to seed it with life, including the potential for humans (who are by design nearly identical to the Ancients).

** ''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.]]

* 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]].

* ''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/ShiningResonance'': It turns out that [[spoiler:[[WildCard Jinas]]]] has been seeking out one of these throughout the game [[TheAtoner to atone for past mistakes]]. [[spoiler:It's the Last Song, the original [[MagicMusic Rune Song]] that can only be played when all seven Armonics are gathered together, with which can heal all the damage the world has suffered from the [[ApocalypseHow Catastrophe]] and [[GreatOffscreenWar Ragnarok]] countless years ago. The reason it couldn't be cast earlier is because one of the Armonics was stolen during the ancient war and all seven with their current chosen bearers had never gathered back together until now.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Jane, having received a boost in power, color and insanity by a [[FantasticDrug giant magic sucker]], blasts off in search of her friends, creating an energy wave that turns half of her formerly dead planet into a blooming jungle.

* 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.

* ''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.

* ''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.]]
* ''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.]]

* Apparently happened in the ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'' when humanity gained magical abilities. Technically, this didn't so much heal the world as allow Sunset Shimmer to start healing the world herself, but given that it was doomed otherwise it qualifies.

* 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.]]

* ''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]].

[[caption-width-right:308:[-[[TheyCalledMeMad They said it was lunacy]], investing in {{Mordor}} real-estate. Well, who's rich now?!-] ]]

* Odin also did this in a ''ComicBook/{{Thor}}'' comic, although in this case it was more of a universe-healing wave.

* 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.

** [[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.]]

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

* 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"

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'': [[spoiler:After the pod blooms in full moonlight]].

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'' movies:

** After Gabriel is exposed as Hawkmoth, Adrien is honestly shocked to learn that his myriad charges include thousands of counts of murder due to all the people who were killed. (It's mentioned that Syren alone killed thousands when she drowned Paris, and other akumas have body counts as well.) He insists that none of them should ''count'' since they were all brought back. Gorilla [[DisappointedInYou regards him with silent disgust upon hearing this argument]].

** The wave of goodness caused by [[spoiler:Zordon's death]] at the end of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' which either killed or turned good all the villains from that point to the beginning of the franchise.

* 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]] [[InTheirOwnImage then recreate it according to his own design]]. Since Anubis himself was no longer truly alive, he would've survived the process.

* 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 Shem Ha Mephorash in ''Literature/Unsong'', if spoken by a sufficiently intelligent and well intentioned being. It's an acronym of who God is. If you understand it, you understand God and his omnibenevolence and if you understand God's motivations, there's no reason not to give you omnipotence.