Deface of the Moon: Difference between revisions

Line 1:

{{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]'''}}

Line 23:

** 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.

*** 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 (Anime)|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 ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', the Mugen Punch involves punching a target into the moon and making a huge crater.

* ''[[Naruto]]'': {{spoiler|Madara's master plan involves turning the moon into, essentially, a giant hypnotic eyeball.}}

* The accidental destruction of a large chunk of the moon is a major part of the back story in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' , and in an aversion of [[No Endor Holocaust]], an ensuing shower of moon debris makes the Earth barely-habitable in the process.

** 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 ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'', the title character impales a [[Kaiju]] on the Moon with ''[[Tokyo Tower]]''. And later, during battle with Kirin, a beam attack from the title character ''chipped the moon''.

Line 46:

* 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 ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' uses his amazing Vegan powers to punch a gigantic new crater into the moon for his then-girlfriend Ramona. He repeats this later with Envy Adams; apparently, it's the most flattering thing he can do. It comes back to bite him in the ass though, {{spoiler|as Envy puts two-and-two together and realizes it means he cheated on her with Ramona}}.

* 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 (comics)|Judge Dredd]] story shows that the entire face of the Moon is used for ''advertising''.

Line 64:

** [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.

Line 71:

** "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]].

Line 93:

== [[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 ''[[Touhou]] Soccer'', one of Youmu's attacks has her ''engrave her technique's name on the moon with her [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|swords]]'', before ''cleaving'' it and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|using the momentum to hit the ball]].

Line 112:

* [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF105-The_Schlorbians_Strike_Again.jpg This] ''[[Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' strip features the Schlorbians (apparently an entire race of galaxy-travelling [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]) snickering to themselves as they've carved something on the moon. Then one of them actually looks in the book of "human terminology" and they realise it says "you guys sock".

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony pokes the moon (after [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 Coyote steals it] to demonstrate his power, showing it to her about the [[Perspective Magic|size of a ping pong ball]]) leaving a giant [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=503 fingerprint] on it. This fingerprint is still visible in later chapters and is considered a [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=921 genuine scientific mystery] in-universe.

* 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.

* [http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/strips/270804.jpg A sweeter version of this trope.]

* Pitr does this in ''[[User Friendly]]'' with magnetic dust thrown from a hijacked rocket.

Line 126:

* In one ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway, Ted Turner announces he colorized the moon, as a reference to when he colorized ''[[Casablanca]]'' and ''[[King Kong]]'', which is tantamount to vandalizing art (thinking putting a moustache on the Mona Lisa, it's like that to film buffs).

* 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]]'' attempted to carve his name into the moon. He only gets as far as CHA.

* Chairface Chippendale in the animated and comic forms of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' 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 removed--so the moon's lettering now reads "HA". Later that episode Omnipotus (a parody of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] Galactus) ''takes a bite out of'' the moon (after [[The Tick]] gives him a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] to protect Earth). The half-eaten, scarred moon is then seen regularly throughout the series.

** 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 removed--so the moon's lettering now reads "HA". Later that episode Omnipotus (a parody of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] Galactus) ''takes a bite out of'' the moon (after [[The Tick (animation)]] gives him a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] to protect Earth). The half-eaten, scarred moon is then seen regularly throughout the series.

* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' had MAD planting bombs on the moon to turn its surface into a giant MAD symbol.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Mr. Burns uses lasers to project a picture of Lisa kissing Millhouse onto the moon.

Line 134:

** 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.

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' started the episode "Queen's Lair" with this. Her Majesty arranged a little "demonstration" of her Super Weapon, blasting a chunk out of Earth's moon, and letting everyone else know that if Earth didn't feed 5000 humans to her [[Soul Jar]] machine, her next target would be Earth itself.

* [[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]]''