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{{quote|'''Shepard:''' I'm surprised you'd mention [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|vandalism in that bunch]].<br />
'''Jack:''' That's what the hanar call it when you drop that space station I mentioned onto one of their moons. Heh. They ''really'' liked that moon.|''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
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Not to be confused with a "Galaxy Drop" from ''[[Planet Side]]'', where the dangerous payload is merely a platoon of armed troopers and vehicles dropped from a fleet of [[Drop Ship|Galaxy transports]].
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== Space Colony, Space Station, various assorted artificial Space Stuff ==
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* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] inverted this spectacularly in the [[X Wing Series]], in which a Super Star Destroyer {{spoiler|buried under the surface of Coruscant blasts its way out from under the city, causing '''massive''' destruction.}}
** It's then played straight during {{spoiler|the fall of Coruscant}} in ''[[New Jedi Order|Star by Star]]'', when the Yuuzhan Vong bombard {{spoiler|Coruscant}} with its own orbital defense stations.
* Used as a tactic by [[
* In Frank Herbert's 'Dune' starships called 'crushers', which are meant to be deliberately crashed onto a planetary surface to destroy a city/installation/military formation, are employed
* Allen Steele's '[[Coyote|Coyote Rising]]' has the colonists employing a Colony Drop {{spoiler|in the form of the deliberate de-orbiting of the starship Alabama onto the main base of the bad guys, destroying most of their forces in the process.}}
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* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' had the Space Colony ARK dropped. Dr. Eggman's grandfather, professor Gerald Robotnik, locked away and shunned by the public for his frightening expiriments, exacts revenge in spirit by programming the colony to crash into Earth. The presence of the gargantuan [[Eldritch Abomination|Biolizard]] makes matter ''far'' worse, as it tries to fuse with the colony and forcibly drag it down into the planet. After both Sonic and Shadow power up to their super forms, the duo ultimately slays Biolizard, but with the colony swiftly entering Earth's atmosphere, they have only seconds to stop an imminent doomsday. Sonic's solution to stopping this is to use [[Mass Teleportation|Chaos Control]] to send it back into orbit. {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|Shadow, on the other hand... does the unthinkable.]]}}
* ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'': Albedo attempts to drop the Proto Merkabah on Second Miltia, apparently primarily [[For the Evulz|for his own entertainment]]. Not even a hint of an [[Inferred Holocaust]] here.
* In ''[[Command and Conquer]]: [[Red Alert]] 3'', the Russians get a special power that dumps increasingly larger orbital satellites at an enemy location. The highest level ''drops the Mir space station''. It's [[Slap
** An ability also allows the same Soviet satellite to magnetically pick up vehicles and add them to the satellite barrage the next time one chooses to use it. Hilariously fun if you picked up aircraft carriers and battleships beforehand and chucked them at something.
** Even more hilarious once you find out the magnetic beam works on ''Tesla Troopers''. Supplementing the space station with [[Cherry Tapping|powered armored soldiers]] is [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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** Additionally, during the invasion of Shanxi the Turians dropped orbital debris from the space battle in order to break pockets of resistance on the colony's surface.
** In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Jack recounts her [[Backstory]], including a time where she crashed a space station upon the Hanar's favorite moon. The Hanar, having niceness as their [[Planet of Hats|racial hat]], refer to this as "Vandalism".
** In The Arrival DLC, Shepard is {{spoiler|[[Outrun the Fireball|forced to invoke this trope]] by crashing an asteroid research facility to slow down the Reaper invasion, not into a planet, but a ''mass relay'' which [[Sphere of Destruction|goes supernova]], destroying an entire solar system and killing over 300,000 batarians. S/he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|told]] afterwards that s/he will have to face trial and a war with the batarians is almost certainly guaranteed.}}
* In the first ''[[System Shock]]'', SHODAN tries to do this with Citadel Station after the Hacker stopped all of her plans (and backup plans).
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' did this in the first [[Expansion Pack]], with a [[Magitek]] dimensional fortress screwing up a small archipelago.
* Underrated Sega Saturn game ''[[Burning Rangers]]'' had this plan as their final chapter, in an [[Well
* In ''[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core]]'' for Answer a group of Mooks attempt this near game start. Later on the [[Well
* [[Cyberbots (Video Game)|Cyberbots]]: In Jin Saotome's story, {{spoiler|the final battle takes place on a satellite weapon as it is sent falling into Earth's atmosphere. Jin's mentor sacrifices himself to keep the satellite from hitting the planet.}}
* You can stick lots of explosives on a [[The Battlestar|Baseship]] in the ''[[Space Empires]]'' games and send it on a collision course with a planet. It sadly doesn't do quite as much damage as you'd expect.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[They Killed Kenny|Of course]], Kenny from [[South Park]] got squashed by a crashing satellite in the first-season Halloween special.
* In the ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' movie, it looked like Numbuh 1 was going to do a heroic version of this with the moon on the captured-by-evil Earth, but it instead just fired the sizable treehouse-ish moonbase, the KND's headquarters. {{spoiler|The villain shrugs it off too, but the [[Gambit Roulette|real plan]] was to bring the KND's [[Laser
* The fate of Star City in the ''[[Super Friends|Galactic Guardians]]'' episode "Escape From Space City", after Darkseid's failed attempt to turn it into a [[Kill Sat]].
* In the final episode of ''[[Justice League]]'', {{spoiler|Batman destroys the hypergate generator by ''piloting the Watchtower'' into it}}.
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* Precisely-aimed meteors were the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] of the "bugs" in the movie version of ''[[Starship Troopers (Film)|Starship Troopers]]''. Although it's ridiculously implausible that the bugs could hurl rocks over light years of distance on a sane timescale and with any sort of accuracy, an apparently disposable bit of background chatter suggests the rocks were coming from much closer to home. It may have been a natural disaster that the space Nazis used to justify a war against the bugs (or they could have been [[False Flag Operation|dropping the rocks themselves]]).
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', in which a living ([[Ultimate Evil|and evil]]) asteroid threatens to impact Earth.
* In the [[So Bad
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'' has the Advent starbase meteoroid control signature ability, which allows it to use the crew's [[Psychic Powers]] to rams asteroids onto hostile planets being orbited or dropping entire swarms of small asteroids onto enemy fleets.
* RyuKoOh's second attack in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|OriginalGeneration 2]]'' is the simple but brutal method of dropping a small mountain on the enemy. In ''Alpha 3'', it's [[Mid
* ''Fragile Allegiance'', a strategy game focused on mining asteroid fields for minerals, allows this tactic in two forms. The lesser involves building a device capable of launching lumps of minerals from one asteroid to another, the kicker being that any asteroid without a corresponding receiving device that a lump lands on gets wrecked. Far more interesting, however, is mounting engines on one asteroid and smashing it into another, obliterating both.
* ''[[Defender]]'' ([[The Remake]], not the original) had a mission like this at the end. {{spoiler|The Earth is found to have been offensively terraformed by the aliens, all the way through. Your mission is to defend the power plants on the moon that are running the gigantic engines pushing it towards the Earth.}}
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* The bad guys in ''[[Heavy Gear]] II'' try to do this, after simply dropping big bombs alone stopped working.
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' had the "Rains of Destruction", a deadly shower of [[Green Rocks]] from the Moons orbiting the world that wiped out almost all of civilisation and set humanity back from space-faring to just getting the hang of electricity again when the story begins.
** There's also the "Prophecy" special attack, [[Slap
* In ''[[Metroid]] Prime 3'', the Pirates and Dark Samus drop Leviathans -- sentient Phazon asteroids, each with a [[Big Bad]] inside -- on four planets, including their own. It's also implied that {{spoiler|the planet Phaaze}} was responsible for dropping two more on Tallon IV and Aether in the previous two games.
** The one on Elysia is particularly bad, as there is no way to get down into the planet's atmosphere to disarm the shield. {{spoiler|1=The solution? Spend a few hours converting sections of SkyTown into a gargantuan nuclear weapon and countering Dark Samus' [[Colony Drop]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|with one of your own!]]''}}
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]'' has this in the nebulous [[Backstory]], where the Crimson Moon (the guy) tried to drop the Moon onto the Earth only to be stopped by the then-young Zelretch. Zelretch pulled him to an alternate reality and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|dropped the moon on him instead.]]
** In [[Battle Moon Wars]], one of the attack Warcueid uses is also a moondrop. And yes, Arcueid can really do that in canon; she did something similar in ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]''.
*** And in the [[Beach Episode|Volleyball match]] in episode two of ''[[Carnival Phantasm (Anime)|Carnival Phantasm]]'', of course, there it was [[Crowning Moment of Funny|played for laughs.]]
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* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' pulls this one, as the planet of Expel is destroyed by crashing into Energy Nede, a planet made out of [[Pure Energy]] and populated by one of the most ancient and knowledgeable races in the series' existence. Makes sense that their artificial planet would be powerful enough to vaporize anything else it hit. Of course, they never intended to hit anything anyway, but that's what bad guys are for...
* The Tera Star spell in ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'' drops most of the solar system on the target.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' does this in the game's ending cinematic, wherein {{spoiler|the [[Floating Continent|floating planetoid]] of Cocoon is sent crashing down towards the lowerworld of Pulse after the game's [[Deus Est Machina|god-like machines]]: the fal'Cie [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|are defeated]] with the death of their [[The Chessmaster|leader]], Orphan.}}
** Inevitably, [[Story Boarding the Apocalypse|this becomes part of the main plot]] for ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]-2''. Three quarters through the game, we learn that {{spoiler|Caius Ballad is responsible for causing the potential [[Apocalypse How|world-ending paradoxes]] that ultimately end in Cocoon's collision with Gran Pulse. He doesn't seem to mind living in a [[Bad Future|cold, lifeless, crapsack of a future]], [[Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth|so long as he saves]] [[Apocalypse Maiden|Yeul]] from falling victim to her own visions. Meanwhile, Noel, living in the same dull, lifeless future, travels back in time and works with Serah to resolve these paradoxes. [[You Can't Fight Fate|Although the fall of Cocoon still manages to happen anyway]], they are able to give Hope enough time to construct a new Cocoon. And even then, Caius STILL tries to turn the launch into a disaster.}}
* This was the Great Fall disaster that the heroes of ''[[Tales of Eternia (Video Game)|Tales of Eternia]]'' are trying to avert.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|Done unintentionally]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030803.html here].
{{quote| '''Ennesby:''' They crashed a gas giant.<br />
'''Tagon:''' You mean they crashed ''into'' a gas giant?<br />
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' 6x08, "Believe", Thermoman accidently drops a village in Bavaria on another village, causing them to both catch fire and set alight to a third one. However, no-one actually gets hurt as Thermoman manages to rescue them all from his blunder, though they weren't overly grateful about it.
== [[Music Video]] ==
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* The destruction of Zeal in ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' results in the [[Floating Continent|floating kingdom]] falling from the sky. Between Lavos generally causing havoc and chunks of islands falling from near-orbit, the world is just about destroyed and flooded. [[Unexplained Recovery|It gets better, though]]. In fact, it's implied that the disaster is what ends the Ice Age, in the same way that Lavos's arrival started it... which qualifies for this trope as well.
* In ''[[Lufia II]]'' {{spoiler|Doom Fortress was used to attempt to destroy Parcelyte as a last ditch effort by Daos.}}
* In the [[Multiple Endings|standard ending]] of ''[[Cave Story (Video Game)|Cave Story]]'', the entire [[Floating Continent|floating island]] crashes to the ground [[Load
* [[Final Fantasy VII]]: In the double-decker city Midgar, one of the villains manages to drop a large section of the affluent layer of the city above onto the slums below, killing hundreds of people.
* The nation of Ankara uses this method to destroy its Shell 5 rival Janam in ''[[Septerra Core]]'', slamming the continent into the base of Shell 3.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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