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== Multiple Media ==
* Basically every [[Film of the Book]] (or radio version) as well as the book of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]''. The global scale of both the 1953 and 2005 films might raise it to a Class 1.
* [[Angel]], indicated in the {{spoiler|final episode's last scene}} and mostly shown in the comics. Los Angeles becomes a chaotic demon war zone, although it's undone in the end of "After the Fall".
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The shockwaves created by the {{spoiler|titular character}} in ''[[Akira]]''. One takes out the center of Tokyo. {{spoiler|Then it happens again. In the entire series, it happens 2.5 times.}}
* In the third arc of ''[[Bio
* In ''[[Earth Maiden Arjuna]]'', Japan's entire water supply is polluted by chemicals held in plastic containers dissolved by evil bacteria.
* In the manga version of ''Violence Jack'', the Kanto area of Japan was destroyed by an earthquake {{spoiler|that was caused by the battle between Satan and Devilman}} and had been separated from the mainland.
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* An issue of ''[[The Authority]]'' features a swarm of alien creatures that are launched at Earth. They can't fly, though, so their landing in Japan is "just blind luck".
* In Marvel Comics (mostly ''[[X-Men]]'' and other mutant-related titles) the island nation of Genosha was destroyed during a series of events following the ''Decimation'' storyline, and is, as of the 2020 ''Empyre'' limited series, dead as a nation, lying in ruins and populated only by squatters, mostly with villainous motives.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* In the early-1970's Japanese movie ''Nippon Chimbotsu'' (''Japan Sinks''), which was remade in 2006, the entire Japanese archipelago is destroyed, Atlantis-style, by a series of massive earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions triggered by shifts in the tectonic plates on which the islands rest. The survivors are evacuated literally worldwide.
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' has an unknown number of people zombified, but few enough the UK manages to get back up on its feet and uses the zombies as cheap labor in retail chains as well as unwitting participants in game and talk shows. Think zombies in '[[Wipeout 1988|Wipe Out]]'.
* The 2008 remake of ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' has Gort in the form of a grey goo take out roughly a third of the US. Klaatu stops it with a pulse, [[Inferred Holocaust|presumably wiping out at least tens of thousands more relying on electricity]]. If the pulse is permanent, then it may be a Class 2.
* The 1973 adventure film ''[[Sannikov Land]]'' is set on an island warmed by a volcano. When the volcano goes to sleep, the island becomes as frozen as the rest of the Arctic, and everyone on it will die.
* At the end of ''[[Cabin Fever (film)|Cabin Fever]]'', a Class 0 appears to have been narrowly averted, as the posse shows up to clean up after our intrepid heroes succumb to a flesh-eating virus. This lasts until we see the body of the first guy seen with the virus lying bleeding in a river, which is then harvested for bottled water, implying a true Class 0 or 1 somewhere down the line.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Third World War]]'' might be a Level 0, as Birmingham and Minsk are destroyed by nuclear weapons.
* The cometary impact at the end of ''Newton's Cannon'' did this to a major chunk of Europe.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In an alternate timeline in ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s "Turn Left" where the Doctor dies in the early 21st century, a nuclear storm drive ship called ''Titanic'' hits London, wiping out the entire city and locking out any immigration to and from the UK. The ship itself easily had the potential to be on the scale of Class 5 or 6, so it's assumed that the disaster was actually mostly averted. Later, over 50 million Americans are forcibly turned into creatures made of fat called Adipose, killing the humans they were made from.
* In two unrelated [[Bad Future|bad futures]] of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', a man with nuclear-based superpowers destroys an entire city (New York City and Costa Verde, California, respectively). Another future shows Tokyo being destroyed in a flash of light.
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== [[Music]] ==
* The song Aenima by [[Tool]] (as well as the Bill Hicks routine the song is based on) describes the entirety of California sinking into the Pacific Ocean, creating the Arizona Bay.
* The [[Billy Joel]] song "Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)" is about [[Noodle Incident|an unspecified disaster]] that wipes out New York City and the surrounding areas, but "life went on beyond the Palisades" and most people have moved to Florida, and [[The Mafia]] is thriving in Mexico.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Damien Richter's activities and a brief orbital bombardment with hypervelocity mass drivers destroyed much of the capital planet of Avalon in ''[[Tech Infantry]]''. And the first [[Bug War|Bug Invasion]] wipes out Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding area of Brazil two centuries before that.
* The main weapon batteries of any ''[[Warhammer
* Killing off darklords in the [[Ravenloft]] setting has been known to cause entire domains to disappear, their native populations included.
** In the 5th Edition version, both Darkon and Falkovnia are undergoing this, the former because its Darklord, Azalin, is missing, the latter due to a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] created by the darklord's foolish obsession. The guide book does suggest ways they might be saved.
* In the ''[[Greyhawk]]'' setting, this probably describes the Rain of Colorless Fire, a disaster that destroyed the Suel Empire millennia ago. Not many Oeridians currently alive know what happened, but most assume the Suel did it to themselves when attempting to do something ''very'' evil.
* In ''[[Eberron]]'', a similar magical disaster called the Day of Mourning destroyed the the nation of Cyre. Like much in the setting, the reason is left purposely unknown to suit whatever campaign the [[Game Master]] is running.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the [[Improbable Island]], [[The Verse|world]], the EMP war was an interesting cross-level. with the exeption of people with pacemakers, nobody died, yet technology was pretty much knocked back 50 years since nobody actually knew how to make silicon computers anymore.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', with the {{spoiler|destruction of Midgar at the end of the game}}. The [[Gainax Ending|ambiguous ending]] left some gamers thinking that a Level 3a scenario occurred, but ''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children'' [[Jossed|corrected this]].
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* In ''[[Freak Angels]]'' at first it's assumed that the flooding was global but is later revealed that {{spoiler|only Britain was affected}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the series ''[[Generator Rex]]'', millions die worldwide after The Nanite Event. And thanks to the nature of the nanites, it could escalate all the way up to a Class 4 - maybe even Class 6 - at any moment.
* One happened offscreen and in the past in the original ''[[My Little Pony]]''. The kingdom of Grundleland was wiped out the last time the Smooze was unleashed, leaving only a tiny handful of survivors.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
** Wasn't exactly regional though, as it spread around the world including ''the arctic.'' In addition to the death rate, the infection rate crippled communities.
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