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** 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|sattelite cannon]] [[Fridge Logic|still work, after that?]]
** 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|sattelite cannon]] [[Fridge Logic|still work, after that?]]
** Doesn't help that [[Genesis of Aquarion|Aquarion's]] Mugen Punch keep slamming enemies into the moon and making more craters.
** 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 A Gundam (Anime)|Queen Dianna Soreil]] yelling at the Nirvash and Aquarion as they flee from a defaced moon.
*** The ''Super Robot Wars Z'' manga [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with a picture of [[Turn A Gundam|Queen Dianna Soreil]] yelling at the Nirvash and Aquarion as they flee from a defaced moon.
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', {{spoiler|after Knives activates Vash's Angel Arm, Vash directs it upward to avoid destroying the entire city, creating a giant crater in the moon}}. This, in turn, adds to the dark legend of "Vash the Stampede".
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', {{spoiler|after Knives activates Vash's Angel Arm, Vash directs it upward to avoid destroying the entire city, creating a giant crater in the moon}}. This, in turn, adds to the dark legend of "Vash the Stampede".
* In ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', the Mugen Punch involves punching a target into the moon and making a huge crater.
* In ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', the Mugen Punch involves punching a target into the moon and making a huge crater.
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* One of the planets in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is described as having a long monologue carved into its surface by batarian space pirates with energy weapons. It celebrates the superiority and achievements of one "Captain Zaysh", and goes on to say very rude things about the parents of every human in the galaxy.
* One of the planets in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is described as having a long monologue carved into its surface by batarian space pirates with energy weapons. It celebrates the superiority and achievements of one "Captain Zaysh", and goes on to say very rude things about the parents of every human in the galaxy.
** 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."
** 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 Trilogy|Marathon]] 2'', [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Durandal]] blasts rival uberintelligent AI Tycho's ship out of orbit. It crashes on Lh'owon's moon. Durandal then uses his [[Wave Motion Gun]] to carve a 300 meter-high epitaph into the moon's surface for Tycho.
* Near the end of ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]] 2'', [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Durandal]] blasts rival uberintelligent AI Tycho's ship out of orbit. It crashes on Lh'owon's moon. Durandal then uses his [[Wave Motion Gun]] to carve a 300 meter-high epitaph into the moon's surface for Tycho.
** This being [[Magnificent Bastard|Durandal]], of course, what he writes is "This is the fate of the stupid." In Latin.
** 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 [[Blaz Blue]], Makoto Nanaya, combines this with [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] to slug a fist imprint into the moon, then punch the enemy through it.
* The first [[Downloadable Content]] character in [[BlazBlue]], Makoto Nanaya, combines this with [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] to slug a fist imprint into the moon, then punch the enemy through it.
* 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]?) Their leader, Trade Prince Gallywix, also [http://www.wowction.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/new-cataclysm-zone-qa-azshara-5.jpg carves his own face] into the mountain plateau on which he builds his "Pleasure Palace".
* 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]?) Their leader, Trade Prince Gallywix, also [http://www.wowction.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/new-cataclysm-zone-qa-azshara-5.jpg carves his own face] into the mountain plateau on which he builds his "Pleasure Palace".
* 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 [[Earth Eternal]], Man's final war actually shattered the moon into a mass of fragments with a [[Sickly Green Glow]] coming from between them.
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