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* In ''[[Kurohime]],'' the end of the world is this plus [[Mind Screw]]. {{spoiler|The [[Hell Gate|Gateway to Hell]] opens and drowns almost the entire world under an ocean of corrosive blood. Skeletons and dead souls are running rampant [[I Am a Humanitarian|eating people,]] trees are dying and to cap it all off, the Head God is ''[[God Is Evil|eating the sun.]]'' }}
** The final chapter ups this by {{spoiler|having [[The Heroine]] slice the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|ENTIRE WORLD]] (and the [[Big Bad]]) in half using a [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One]] [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion]] [[Laser Blade]]}}.
* The final chapter of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' has ten or so pages dedicated to {{spoiler|Lucy initiating [[The End of the World as We Know It]] while simultaneously repairing Kouta's gunshot wound. ''[[Crazy Awesome|While singing]]''.}} For comparison, an entire two or so chapters are {{spoiler|the destruction of the research facility, ending with it being annihilated ''from below''.}} Why so short? Because that's how long it lasted.
* [[Go Nagai]]'s ''[[Violence Jack]]'', after the introduction of its title character, spends the first chapter of the manga destroying Japan via massive earthquake and mass volcanic eruption before introducing us to the [[Crapsack World]] that the Kanto region has become.
* In the final episode of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Madoka's wish causes one of these in the process of rewriting the universe multiple times - with Homura watching the whole thing}}.
* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' loves this trope.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'s'' Frieza Saga had Frieza blowing up Namek, only for it to have a five minute delay (and a much longer one episode-wise). It also should be noted that this is the only time that the destruction of a planet is not instantaneous in the series.
* ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'', a usually happy-go-lucky magical girl series, has one. When the true [[Big Bad]], Dune, arrives, he promptly curbstomps the heroines, kidnaps the lead's grandmother, regains his full power and turns Earth into a massive desert, the only survivors being the main heroines {{spoiler|and the people whom they purified from being monsters.}}
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* It should be no spoiler to note that this happens in the 1933 classic ''When Worlds Collide'', in the kind of spectacular fashion that you'd probably have guessed from the title. The 1951 film adaptation did the best it could with this, but the upcoming remake certainly should provide more of the disaster porn as described in the book, to say the least.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''The Songs of Distant Earth'' had its doomed planetbound inhabitants set up cameras to record images of the end of the Earth for the posterity of those stargoing vessels which just managed to escape its final destruction. Michael Oldfield's album ''The Songs of Distant Earth'' which is meant as an accompaniment to that novel has a music track that ''chronicles the Earth's destruction''.
** Clarke's early story (in fact, the first story he sold) "Rescue Party" also had the people of Earth set up cameras to beam images of Earth's end to the '''huge''' escape fleet in which they evacuated. It was following the line of those transmissions that led the alien rescue ship to the fleet.
* {{spoiler|The last remaining normal human}} broadcasts this at the end of ''Childhood's End''.
* [[The Bible]]: The [[Book of Revelation]] is one huge Apocalypse Wow: disasters unleashed on the world, the Four [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]], the rise of [[The Antichrist]], the final battle of Armageddon, the last judgment, a visual tour of New Jerusalem... Evidently, the [[Trope Namer]] and the [[Trope Codifier]].
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''Battlestar Galactica'' starts with one in both [[Battlestar Galactica Classic|the original]] and [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|the reimagining]]. ''Galactica 1980'' starts with a computer simulation of one, and goes downhill from there.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' deconstructs its premise to this conclusion: after a season of ridiculously, incredibly [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]], the Season One finale [[Something Completely Different|skipped forward]] [[Distant Finale|10 years]] and revealed that the Dollhouse's technology would literally destroy civilization if used just a little bit more creatively.
* The end of the final episode of ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]''.
* An alternate universe episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' shows the Xindi super weapon kabooming Earth.
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== Video Games ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1TNiJ6PjY As can be seen here,] ''[[Xenogears]]'' does this with {{spoiler|Weltall- Id fulfilling its programming and taking out main parts of the superstructure of Solaris. The resulting "reaction weapon" explosion leaves a significant hole in one of the nearby continents on the game map.}}
* The [[Death From Above|glassing]] of Taris near the beginning of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''.
** And keeping with tradition, [[The Old Republic]] has {{spoiler|[[Weapon of Mass Destruction|the Devastator's]] use on the formerly-fertile world of Uphora}}.
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* The [[PlayStation 2]] version of ''[[Deus Ex]]'' has its New Dark Age Ending cutscene showing the lab explosion being seen from space, and [[Big Blackout|the lit cities of Earth all going out]].
* [[Darksiders]] opens with the Biblical Apocalypse. Angels, Demons, the whole shebang. You get to run around and kill things (briefly).
* Losing to Lavos in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' will "treat" you to a scene where you see the world getting fried by Lavos's explosive fury. The most iconic scene is watching the viewscreen in the dome fill up with red dots that each represent a destroyed city, basically driving the point home that the world is now FUBAR.
** "{{smallcaps| '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oMXF9mzc38 BUT... THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE.]'''}}"
** The [[Colony Drop|Fall]] of [[Floating Continent|Zeal]] is also a pretty destructive scene in its own too.
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