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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Rebuilding Earth ought to be a lot more fun than ruining it was.''
|''[[Doom]] 2'' ending}}
Destruction is cool. Construction requires time, effort, planning, lots of minute stages, coordination... and there are seldom enemies and villains to defeat. The only antagonist is ourselves, our own flaws and laziness and that's not something people like to confront. [[Violence Is the Only Option|A straight-up battle that ends with the destruction of evil is more entertaining and dramatic]], and less self-accusatory. However, some works manage to portray creation and construction and raising as activities deserving of awe and respect, and the hard work they involve is represented as dignifying rather than demeaning.
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There are various ways this can be shown, usually through;
* Architecture.
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* Geological formations.
* Industry, Labor, and Craftsmanship. More awesome if robots are involved. It's what they've been invented ''for''.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'', the Forest God and the kids magically grow a few seeds into a MASSIVE [[World Tree]]. In the morning, the tree is gone, but the seeds have germinated abnormally fast.
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