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* In ''[[Space Carrier Blue Noah]]'', the aliens rain down surveillance cameras disguised as meteors onto planet Earth, to scope out whether the planet is worth invading.

 

== Film ==

* The romantic comedy ''Wimbledon'' actually has this: Paul Bettany's character seems to take on l33t tennis skills only while a comet is in the sky. And yes, he wins Wimbledon, because everyone knows it will take the intervention of God for an Englishman to ever win that tournament again.

* In ''The Brainiac'', a comet carries a magician who escaped execution by transporting himself there and who then returns to earth 300 years later as a monster with forked tongue which he uses to suck peoples brains out.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Ditto the book ''Comet Dis'aster'', a book that incidentally has a lot of terror spread about it.

* As the page quote reveals, a comet appears in the sky after the assassination of [[Julius Caesar]], in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] play of the same name.

* In the [[Black Company]] books, a Comet shows up twice in the story and once in the backstory, each time to portend the [[The Chosen One|White]] [[Anti-Magic|Rose]] coming to battle the [[Evil Sorceror|forces of]] [[Implacable Man|the]] [[Big Bad|Dominator]].

 

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the Brakiri solar system contains only one comet with a period of 200 years. The comet is considered a death omen (and the focus of the season five episode "Day of the Dead"). As a result, the Brakiri don't even like comets to be ''mentioned''.

* In the television series ''[[Beauty and the Beast (TV series)|Beauty and The Beast]]'', a comet was blazing in the sky the night billionaire Elliot Burch is murdered by operatives of his rival, Gabriel. Father marks the occasion by speaking the page quote.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E03 Silver Nemesis|Silver Nemesis]]'' there is a comet with a period of 25 years that, according to the Doctor, really does bring misfortune: it's actually an alien superweapon that somehow (ahem) wound up in a solar orbit. He cites the the two World Wars and the assassination of JFK as the results of the last three times it came near Earth.

 

== Mythology & Religion ==

* In a rare example of a comet being a ''good'' omen, some scholars believe that the [[The Bible|Star of Bethlehem]] was one.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The presence of a twin-tailed comet is often seen as an omen to the people of [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|The Empire]], due to the legend that their founder Sigmar's birth was heralded by it's appearance. This is not always seen as a ''good'' omen, however, especially to the city of Mordhiem, which was ''hit'' by one.

* In the Alliances expansion for [[Magic: The Gathering]], General Varchild saw a comet which she believed meant that she was to conquer the barbarian tribes as a part of a manifest destiny for her people. So she took her army and began the slaughter.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', there is the Black Comet. Not an actual comet, however, but a meteoroid that serves as the vessel of [[Big Bad|Black Doom]] and his army. Black Doom uses the Chaos Emeralds to teleport it into the atmosphere and start sucking energy out of the planet. Fortunately, it turns out that the space colony A.R.K.'s [[Kill Sat|Eclipse Cannon]] was created to [[Sonic the Hedgehog/Awesome|blow the Black Comet to smithereens. After Shadow teleports it back out into space.]]

* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'', Guillo's strongest special attack, Aphelion Dustwake, showers enemies with the ice trail of a comet. It's quite overpowered.

 

== Western Animation ==

** In the backstory, the arrival of Sozin's Comet a hundred years ago and the power boost it provided for Fire Lord Sozin and his Firebenders heralded the near-extinction of the Airbenders.

* ''Comet in Moominland''s main plot.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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