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.
- Apocalypse How
- Big Blackout
- Bungled Hypnotism
- Chekhov's Volcano
- Colony Drop
- Depopulation Bomb: A bomb that wipes out an entire population.
- Fantastic Nuke
- Deadly Gas
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
- Earthquakes Cause Fissures
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: A planet blows up.
- Fantastic Nuke
- Fog of Doom
- Gaia's Vengeance: Mother Nature punishes humanity for damaging the environment.
- Gendercide: Exterminating an entire gender.
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom
- 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 Flood
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche
- Hostile Weather
- The Night That Never Ends
- The Plague
- Ret-Gone: A character gets erased from existence alongside all memory and evidence of their existence.
- Snowed-In
- Sphere of Destruction
- The Stars Are Going Out
- Star Killing
- World-Wrecking Wave: A magical wave envelopes the world and causes everything to become deteriorated and corrupted.
