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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]] ==
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** 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.
* This trope appears in ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'', in the story ''Z comme Zorglub''. [[Mad Scientist]] Zorglub wants to prove he's a [[
* Inverted in the Garth Ennis comic ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', where Jesse Custer meets a man who was kicked out of NASA and devoted the rest of his life to blasting the words 'fuck you' into the Arizona desert in letters large enough to be seen from space.
* In ''[[Atomic Robo]]'', Robo arrives on Mars after six months of doing nothing, because Stephen Hawking told NASA he could go into "sleep mode" during the flight. He gets revenge by arranging rocks into words visible from Earth: "STEPHEN HAWKING IS A BASTARD".
* 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.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] short story ''Watch This Space'' (part of a series of short stories talking about a single moon journey) had astronauts releasing gases into the lunar environment to analyze their reactivity when unfiltered sunlight hit them. Somebody sabotaged the chemical release tube so that, instead of being released as an amorphous cloud, they formed the {{spoiler|Coca-Cola}} logo (he isn't explicit about whose logo it was, just that it {{spoiler|had some Cs and Os in it, as well as Ls and As}}). It didn't ruin the experiment (they analyzed the reactions anyway), but the guy was fired. He didn't care, though, because the company was so grateful for the advertising coup that he was pretty much set up for life.
** 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]
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjtg1K8gkQ Here's the video], for those interested.
* One of the planets in ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|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."
* Near the end of ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|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.
** This being [[Magnificent Bastard|Durandal]], of course, what he writes is "This is the fate of the stupid." In Latin.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one of the early ''Exploitation Now'' strips, cute teenage supergenius supervillainess (and slum landlord) Jordan Kennedy uses a gigantic [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser]] [[Death Ray]] to write "Hillary Clinton is a big fat hairy bulldyke!" on the Moon. (In the strip, the official response from Senator Clinton's office was "[[I Take Offense to That Last One|She is NOT fat!]]")
* [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 (Webcomic)|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.
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* 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: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Princess Celestia imprisoned her sister, Princess Luna, [[Sealed Evil in A Can|in the moon]] after she [[Face Heel Turn|turned evil]] and attempted to create [[The Night That Never Ends]]. As a sign of her imprisonment, a profile of the exiled princess appeared on the moon, and it disappears when she is freed in the first episode.
* Not caused by sentient forces, but the apocalypse in ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' is a comet going between the Earth and the Moon, [[Shattered World|slicing the latter in two]].
* Dr. Wily in the ''[[Mega Man (Animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon tries to "Pull za ''moon'', out of its or''bit''!" in one episode.
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