Basic Trope: The local geography is changed by an outside force.
- Straight: Theta-Man unleashes an attack that levels an entire mountain.
- Exaggerated: Theta-Man's attack shatters the island of Great Britain into gravel.
- Downplayed: His attacks leave behind craters similar to an asteroid or nuke.
- Justified:
- His attacks unleash a lot of energy.
- He strikes areas that are already geologically unstable.
- Inverted: Theta-Man creates an island where there had been nothing but open water before.
- Subverted: It looks like the mountain is leveled, but it turns out to be an illusion and the actual mountain is fine.
- Double Subverted: ...But that illusion breaks and the actual fully destroyed mountain is shown.
- Parodied: Theta-Man's blinks are powerful enough to cause whole continents to spontaneously sink.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: No matter how many Frickin' Laser Beams he shoots, the geography stays the same.
- Lampshaded: "Not this again! We just finished redrawing the map!"
- Enforced: Theta-Man's attack on Mt. Wilsker during Season 3, Episode 21 and Season 4, Episode 1 was done specifically to explain the mountain's change in looks after the production company moved to California.
- Invoked: Theta-Man boasts about how he can easily level entire mountains or sink islands with his power.
- Exploited: Theta-Man threatens to blow up a mountain on an island, which will trigger a landslide and cause a tsunami that will wipe out every city on the coastlines across the sea.
- Defied: While his attacks might blast away the soil and vegetation, Theta-Man isn't strong enough to damage the bedrock, much less reshape the continent.
- Discussed: Theta-Man and Dr. Knightmare calculate how much energy Theta-Man can produce and compared it to the amount required to level a mountain or reshape a continent.
- Conversed: "You know, with all these attacks being thrown around in these shows, I wonder if you could see the destruction from space."
- Deconstructed:
- The loss of a mountain changes local wind and weather patterns, a sinking island will create enormous tsunamis, weakening the crust could cause an increase in seismic and volcanic activity, and all the resulting dust and debris will block out the sun.
- The release of all that energy needed to blow up an entire landmass is far more destructive than the resulting reshaping.
- Reconstructed: The attack is a Cosmic Retcon instead of a physical change, so no energy is actually released and the ecosystem is fine.
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