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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".
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== 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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* 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.
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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.
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