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* ''[[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.}}

* ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' has the infamous Break The World incident. After the previous episode was spent fighting a rogue faction of [[Omnicidal Maniac]] ZAFT soldiers, most of the cast gets a prime view of [[Colony Drop|the fragments of Junius 7 carpet-bombing Earth]] [[Impressive Pyrotechnics|with each impact producing a fireball visible from orbit]]. All the while Lacus is singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQgqicx8AA this] to calm down a group of children on the verge of panic from their underground shelter being shaken up by the impacts' seismic shockwaves. It's pretty obvious [[End of Evangelion|where]] the writers got the idea for this scene...

 

== Comic Books ==

* Lars Von Trier's ''[[Melancholia]]'' does it twice. At the start of the movie, the titular planet engulfs Earth while [[Soundtrack Dissonance|classical music plays.]] The movie also {{spoiler|ends this way, but now we see the collision on a human scale from the Earths' surface.}}

* The start of ''[[Superman Returns]]'' shows the destruction of Krypton.

 

== Literature ==

* The [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Caves of Ice'' ends with the detonation of a ''gigaton'' range Fuel Air Explosive. It completely obliterates the sole settlement on the planet, and the shockwaves are felt by ships in low orbit.

* The demolition of Vavatch [[Ringworld Planet|Orbital]] in ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' is so spectacularly done,<ref>A Culture starship slices the ring in several places, and the Orbital's own spin makes it fly apart. ''Then'' they bombard the chunks with antimatter until they're smashed to atoms. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Don't Fuck With The Culture.]]</ref> it almost qualifies as performance art.

* The aftermath of {{spoiler|Operation Oyster Bay}} in the [[Honor Harrington]] series is described in substantial detail, despite being "only" a set of class 0 events.

* In ''[[Cerberon]]'', the complete destruction of Loethess and everything around it is described in detail from multiple perspectives, from a mage in the center of the city paralyzed with [[Oh Crap]], to a family nearby hoping they'll survive, to a distant overview by a pair of people being carried away by a flying dragon.

 

* ''Battlestar Galactica'' starts with one in both [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original]] and [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|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.

* An alternate universe episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' shows the Xindi super weapon kabooming Earth.

* Shows up in the end of the pilot episode of [[Stargate Universe|SGU]], and again about halfway through the 19th episode.

 

== Radio ==

* Given, it doesn't last particularly long, but the sound of the Earth exploding in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' is absolutely perfect.

* The Halloween broadcast of ''The War of the Worlds'' should be mentioned. An hour long description of [[Humongous Mecha]] from another planet destroying everything in their path. Bonus points for making people actually believe it was happening.

 

== Video Games ==

* The ending cutscene (one of only two not rendered using the game's engine) in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' shows exactly how the First Civilization was destroyed. There's a [[Kick the Dog]] moment with a terrified mother clutching her child as an explosion slowly engulfs them. After this, the hologram simply mentions that out of two civilizations (humans and the First People), only about 10,000 individuals survived after only a few days of the catastrophe.

* In the [http://store.steampowered.com/video/201310?snr=1_5_9__400 opening cinematic] of ''[[X (video game)|X3]]: Albion Prelude'', Saya Kho blows up the [[Big Dumb Object|Torus Aeternal]], a giant space station around Earth's equator. In a minor case of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], the station disintegrates [[Space Is Noisy|in utter silence]].

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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