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{{quote|''"We gotta go get the moon. It can't be there right now. It's in the wrong place, the wrong time. We'll replace it with something far more beautiful! ''My face''."|'''[http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com Sleep Talkin' Man]'''}}
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Not to be confused with [[Detonation Moon]], where the moon is actually destroyed.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* An old 7 Up commercial had [[Orlando Jones]] about to write "7 Up" on the surface of the Moon with a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|big laser]]. He fires it, and the Moon blows up with an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]], prompting him to angrily ask "Who's been messing with my laser?!"
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the ''[[
* The protagonists of ''[[
** Gets taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtaXu28O8bs&feature=related where the Nirvash Spec 3 has a dynamic kill animation doing this]. [[Inferred Holocaust|Note that there are people and important installations on the moon.]] [[Fridge Logic|How does the]] [[After War Gundam X
** Doesn't help that [[Genesis of Aquarion|Aquarion's]] Mugen Punch keep slamming enemies into the moon and making more craters.
*** The ''Super Robot Wars Z'' manga [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with a picture of [[Turn
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', the Mugen Punch involves punching a target into the moon and making a huge crater.
* ''[[
* The accidental destruction of a large chunk of the moon is a major part of the back story in ''[[
** Not to mention MPU trying to ''re-''draw the Nazca Lines, which were no longer visible, across the majority of South America using satellite lasers. Edward follows this up by drewing a smiley.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* The final battle in ''[[Anime/Kotetsushin Jeeg|Kotetsushin Jeeg]]'' leaves the moon with a debris ring orbiting it.
* ''[[Manga/The Spirit Of Wonder|The Spirit Of Wonder]]'': The protagonist writes a love letter on the moon.
* ''[[
** The sequel ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Silver Age]] [[
** ...while the whole Earth was covered in clouds (somehow). Quoth [[Superdickery.com]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160503130720/http://www.superdickery.com/do-good-to-others-by-defacing-the-moon/ “P.S.: Fuck you, non-English speakers, and fuck your moon.”]
** At the end of the fourth issue of ''All-Star Superman'', Jimmy (as acting head of P.R.O.J.E.C.T.) orders a "cosmetic, short-term alteration of the moon's surface". It's a note saying "I Love Lucy" - which he uses as a backdrop when he asks his girlfriend (Lucy Lane) on a date. You better ''believe'' she appreciated it.
* A variation was done by Marvel Villain Terminus, who used a giant energy beam to carve his name across North America.
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* In ''[[Baloon Vendor]]'', a 1970-era psychedelic underground comic, inventor Cecil Quill develops a high-powered laser which he uses to project [[Laurel and Hardy]] movies on the new moon.
* In ''[[Batman]]'' # 353, the Joker, using a stolen supercomputer and some strategically placed high explosives, tried to blast a mountain into the shape of his own face. During their battle, Batman subtly knocked one of the bombs out of alignment. Although the blast creates the Joker's face for a few moments, the entire edifice almost immediately crumbles. A year later, Joker would return for a three-part storyline (spanning two issues of ''Batman'' and an issue of ''Detective Comics'') in which he attempted to take over an entire [[Banana Republic]], which he planned to level and turn into Jokerworld, a country-sized [[Amusement Park of Doom]].
* Todd Ingram of ''[[
* In Don Rosa's [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|''Scrooge McDuck'' story]] ''Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints'' Rosa plays some amusing [[Biting the Hand Humor]] as the ducks accidentally deface the dark side of the Moon with three craters that produce a perfect [[Mickey Mouse]] silhouette, and worry if they're going to get sued for it.
* One ''[[Judge Dredd (
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Hancock]]'' put Ray's heart logo on the surface of the moon! No attempt is made to explain ''how'' he made it ''pink''. Or how it had not made world news yet.
* The 1903 (!) silent film ''[[A Trip to
* The 2002 Remake of ''[[The Time Machine]]'' {{spoiler|had a series of nuclear explosions partially disrupt the moon an d end civilization in 2037}}
* The film adaptation of the ''[[Coneheads]]'' when the Remulakians extract the Conehead family, their spaceship hit the moon chipping off a few pieces. You can see the chipped moon in the sky at the end of the film.
* Averted with ''[[
* In the feature-length version of [[Mike Jittlov]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'', Mike uses a powerful laser to project his short film on the moon after a Presidential speech pre-empts the TV show it was supposed to appear on.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Arthur C. Clarke
** The reason the image wasn't messed up by atmospheric turbulence is because there isn't any on the moon.
** [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y679eQn3S-MC&pg=PA543&lpg=PA543&dq=arthur+c+clarke+%22Watch+this+Space%22&source=bl&ots=sKPsuZN00x&sig=gAxQMce_uDlWcMFvbUPuVyf4MWM&hl=en&ei=d9SmSsTINZCXlAfIo9CCBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false External Link]
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Man Who Sold The Moon]]'', DD Harriman gets some of his financing for his moon trip by approaching rival soft drink companies and getting them to pay him ''not'' to paint their rival's logo on the face of the moon.
** And also by convincing another businessman, deeply opposed to Communism, that the Russians were planning to send up a mission to paint the Hammer and Sickle on the moon.
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''Buy Jupiter'' a race of aliens wish to purchase the atmosphere of Jupiter but negotiators for Earth refuse to sell it to them until they finally admit they want it to use as a billboard advertising their product for passing starships. Then Earth starts thinking about how much the competitors will pay for Saturn...
* When the Cyb come calling in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s ''[[Adiamante]]'', their first act is to demonstrate the destructive potential of their warships by using a particle beam to mirror-polish a large region of the moon.
* Charles Stross' ''[[The Laundry Series|The Atrocity Archives]]'' features an alternate Earth where the Nazis won the war with the aid of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] from another dimension, and proceeded to lord their triumph over the rest of the world by having their ally carve Hitler's face onto the surface of the ''moon'' with mystic runes.
* In the fourth book of Jack Vance's ''[[
** "Go out into your back garden. There's a great Darsh face hanging over your garden wall."
* Initially, this was the entire goal of the Baltimore Gun Club in ''[[Jules Verne|From the Earth to the Moon]]'': fire a huge cannonball into the moon, and prove their success by spotting it in a huge telescope.
* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Lord of Light]]'', one example of the weaponmaking ability of [[Gadgeteer Genius|Lord Yama]] is how the "fire wand" he made for Lord Agni scarred the faces of all three moons when Agni stood on the seashore and waved the thing.
* According to the Qu'ran, Mohammad performed a miracle in which he briefly split the moon in half.
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|The Han Solo Trilogy]]'' tells how one of Han's former classmates once tried to wipe an Imperial logo off a small moon's face. He underestimated the power of the resulting explosion and [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the whole moon went boom]].
* One of [[Larry Niven]]'s stories, ''[[Known Space|The Woman in Del Rey Crater]]'', has a variation not driven by any kind of vanity; highly radioactive waste is stored in a large moon crater, which has had a giant "verboten" sign blasted over it as a warning of the danger.
* The novelisation of ''[[
* In the backstory to ''[[Author Tract|The Probability Broach]]'', one of the superpowers intimidates its rival with a "humane demonstration" of its new weapon - which ''cracks the moon''.
* In Douglas Hirt's [[Cradleland Chronicles]], in the days of Noah, Lucifer had his minions carve his face into the moon, and he had work started on doing the same to Mars before the Flood put a stop to it.
* A giant stone face carved into the side of a tremendous mountain is an essential plot point in [[
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'', Drool Rockworm shows off his power by turning the moon red.
** Then in the third book Lord Foul turns the moon green, though it mostly isn't visible because of the clouds.
** The second trilogy ups the ante by having the ''sun'' be the target of coloring.
== [[Live
* Referenced by Frankie Boyle on ''[[Mock the Week]]'', upon discovering the price of the 2012 London Olympics, and the excuse that it will 'improve national morale", Frankie Boyle suggests that "For that money, we could have written 'Fuck off, Germany' onto the moon."
* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' has the [[Big Bad]] place a monstrous eye creature on the moon to spy on those resisting his rule; during the final battle he pulls the moon closer to Earth so he can absorb the creature and reach full power. So naturally, Kiva (in a moment of [[Eleventh
* Not for evil, the the opening for ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' showed Ralph's (Jackie Gleason's) face on a rising full moon.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
** Similar instances had him writing demeaning messages to his father in the snow, or writing "Hey Jet Pilots Do a Barrel Roll!" in the ground as well. A frightening attempt had him attempting it using GASOLINE. And we never even learned what he planned to write...
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', Dr. Eggman demonstrates the power of his orbital not-fully-powered-up Eclipse Cannon, which he is using to hold the world hostage, by blowing up a huge chunk of the moon. The moon appears perfectly fine in all later games, though (most notably ''[[Sonic Advance Trilogy|Sonic Advance]]'', in which the final level takes place there).
** Eggman apparently fixed the moon in ''[[Sonic X]]'', immediately after the Adventure 2 arc. Why the newly-formed metal half would have lights on it is another question...
* In the [[Doujinshi|Dojin-soft]] game ''[[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjtg1K8gkQ Here's the video], for those interested.
* One of the planets in ''[[
** In the sequel, Jack gives an [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] list of her accomplishments that includes "hijacking a space station and vandalism". If you ask why she included vandalism, she replies that she crashed the space station into a hanar shrine on a small moon. "The hanar ''really'' liked that moon."
* Near the end of ''[[Marathon
** This being [[Magnificent Bastard|Durandal]], of course, what he writes is "This is the fate of the stupid." In Latin.
* The first [[Downloadable Content]] character in ''[[
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Cataclysm'', the goblins terraform the zone of Azshara into a giant Horde symbol. (See that [http://www.wowpedia.org/images/d/d8/WorldMap-Kalimdor-cata.jpg C-shaped bay at the northeast]{{Dead link}}?) Their leader, Trade Prince Gallywix, also [
* In ''[[Earth Eternal]]'', Man's final war actually shattered the moon into a mass of fragments with a [[Sickly Green Glow]] coming from between them.
* In ''[[Disgaea 4:
* In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', Augus slices the moon deep enough in Episode 11 to make the sliced chunk rise high. {{spoiler|Evil Ryu punches the sliced chunk back into place in Lost Episode 1, and Oni not only does the same damage in Lost Episode 2 that Augus did, but Asura's fight with him ends up epically destroying the moon.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one of the early ''[[Exploitation Now]]'' strips, cute teenage
* [http://
* In ''[[
* On ''[[Bob and George]]'' an army of Robot Masters is swarming towards our heroes. They take the opportunity to use Ran's Cossack Busters to write words in Robot Master corpses.
* ''Bunny'': [http://www.
* Pitr does this in ''[[User Friendly]]'' with magnetic dust thrown from a hijacked rocket.
* In ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'', the Altarians ''[sic]'' do this with expected results. [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1671# comic 1671]
* ''[[Overcompensating]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511175158/http://overcompensating.com/posts/20060206.html 2006/06/02].
* ''[[
* A wallpaper available from ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The moon orbiting the world of Remnant in [[Rooster Teeth]]'s series ''[[RWBY]]'' is partially shattered. Viewers don't learn until early in Volume 6 ''why'' -- {{spoiler|the God of Darkness blew through it on his way off the planet after Salem pissed him and his brother the God of Light off}}.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Despicable Me]]'' involves stealing the moon!
* In her animated series, ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' attempted to paint her own likeness on the moon.
* In one ''[[
* In the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' episode "Lasers in the Night", Cobra Commander attempted to carve his likeness into the moon. One imagines (or at least hopes) he would actually be carving his hood, as opposed to his actual face. In that episode however, Destro is outraged that the Commander wasted his organization's resources for "cosmic graffiti."
* Chairface Chippendale in the animated and comic forms of ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' attempted to carve his name into the moon. He only gets as far as "CHA".
** Later, The Tick goes to the moon on a mission to carefully plant explosives so that the CHA will be removed...and botches it, of course. The resulting explosion causes everyone to believe he's dead, and only the C is
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' had MAD planting bombs on the moon to turn its surface into a giant MAD symbol.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
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* ''[[
** And the Martians sculpt the face of Candace on the planetary surface, but Doofenshmirtz accidentally redoes it so it looks "kind of like a Rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig".
** One episode has Dr. Doofenshmirtz planning to put his name on the Tri-State Area by spraying the ozone layer with chemical spray-cans.
* ''[[
* [[The Joker]] attempts to draw a giant smiley face on Gotham using an [[Kill Sat|orbital laser]] in ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]''. Not just an act of cartoonish evil, as amongst the landmarks to be destroyed in the smiley face would be a hospital where Terry's girlfriend is recuperating, Terry's house where his mom and brother are, and Wayne Manor.
* Sartana of the Dead uses her mystic guitar to carve her own likeness into the moon in ''[[El Tigre]]''
* In the [[Tex Avery]] cartoon "Billy Boy", the titular [[Extreme Omnivore|billy goat]] ends up ''eating'' the entire moon.
* In the backstory to ''[[My Little Pony:
* Not caused by sentient forces, but the apocalypse in ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' is a comet going between the Earth and the Moon, [[Shattered World|
* Dr. Wily in the ''[[Mega Man (
== [[Other Media]] ==
* Old joke: "President, the Communists have finished painting the moon red!" "OK, get some white paint and go paint 'COCA-COLA' on it."
** Used to be 'Marlboro'. The Soviets then painted the warning about smoking underneath.
* A concept design by WETA Workshop's Dr. Grordbort group, the [http://www.drgrordborts.com/products/goliathon-800-moonhater-deathray/ Goliathon 800 Moonhater Deathray], is a perfect example of this trope.
* One of the disturbingly-realistic videos from amateur SFX creator [[The Faking Hoaxer (Creator)|The Faking Hoaxer]] shows [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5JVzZlzZbU the moon with a chunk blown out of it], supposedly by an asteroid that would have otherwise been on a collision course with Earth.
== [[
* Former Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos had his face carved into the side of a mountain, just to remind everybody how powerful he was. After he was deposed, someone blew it up.
* One proposal for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence involves looking for suspiciously artificial arrangements of celestial bodies. Such an arrangement would be advantageous because of their visibility over vast distances and time spans.
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* After the Sputnik debacle the US was desperately searching for ways to one-up the Soviets in the space race, and a proposal was made that an atomic bomb be detonated on the moon! Fortunately they decided to send astronauts instead. As cracked.com puts it, "they realized the difference between legitimate science and cartoonish supervillainy".
** As Cracked also mentioned, this [[Memetic Badass|makes Neil Armstrong a suitable substitute for a nuke]].
* Coca Cola figured out that it was technically possible to use lasers to beam their logo onto the
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