Tropes about natural and artificial disasters. If there is a Disaster Movie about it, it goes here.
Note that this is for specific disasters. For tropes about disastrousness in general, see the Apocalyptic Index.
Tropes:
- Big Blackout
- Big Disaster Plot
- Chekhov's Volcano
- Citywide Evacuation
- Colony Drop
- Crack in the Sky: When sky itself breaks, something really bad is about to happen.
- Depopulation Bomb: A bomb that wipes out an entire population.
- Deadly Gas
- Disaster Dominoes
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
- Earthquakes Cause Fissures
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: A planet blows up.
- The Famine: A severe food shortage results in many people starving to death.
- Fantastic Fallout: When the land is permanently damaged by the use of magic.
- Fantastic Nuke: A magical spell or weapon that resembles the destructive power of a nuclear bomb.
- Fog of Doom
- Gaia's Vengeance: Mother Nature punishes humanity for damaging the environment.
- Gendercide: Exterminating an entire gender.
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom
- Global Warming
- Gone Horribly Right: A solution works so well that it ends up becoming a new problem.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: A solution that fails spectacularly.
- Gray Goo
- The Great Fire
- The Great Flood
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche
- Hostile Weather
- Natural Disaster Cascade: Something is causing a chain of natural disasters at the same time or close to the same time.
- The Night That Never Ends
- The Plague: An outbreak of a deadly infectious disease that spreads until it reaches epidemic or pandemic levels.
- Synthetic Plague: A deadly bioweapon of artificial origins.
- The Virus: A disease or curse that transforms its infected victims into dangerous monsters, killing or turning other people into more of them.
- Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
- Snowed-In
- Solar Flare Disaster
- Sphere of Destruction
- The Stars Are Going Out
- Star Killing
- Upsetting the Balance: When a character causes a disaster by messing with a universal balance.
- World-Wrecking Wave: A magical wave envelopes the world and causes everything to become deteriorated and corrupted.
