Deus Ex Nukina: Difference between revisions

* In ''A Crack In The World'', [[Science Is Bad|Bad Science]] causes a giant crack to start propagating through Earth's crust, with dire effects. Scientists use a nuke to {{spoiler|blow a hole in the crust that's big enough to stop it}}.

* Featured in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Aliens]]'', with Ripley and the surviving [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] voting to nuke the facility from orbit. (It's the only way to be sure.) They don't, but thanks to accidentally [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|shooting up the thermal regulators]], the reactors go critical and it becomes a conveniently self-nuking facility.

** In the ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' TV series based on the feature film (1964-68), nuclear weapons were initially viewed realistically, i.e. "if things go that far, it's all over for the world." By the last season, nuclear weapons were going off at least every other episode- usually fired by Nelson at the Monster/Alien Invader/Other Miscellaneous Problem of the Week.

* The [[Syfy]] absolutely ''loves'' to use this as the solution to their [[Disaster Movie|natural-disaster-of-the-week films]], even if it makes absolutely no sense. The sun spewing deadly flares that will [[Critical Research Failure|ignite the Earth's atmosphere's supply of methane]] and burn up all the oxygen on the planet? Stop the burn with a nuke in the atmosphere. Planet-wide tempest surging out of control because some doofus unleashed an [[Sealed Evil in a Can|ancient Sumerian storm god]]? Nuke the skies and cut off its power supply. ''The moon breaking up like a bad jawbreaker in a cataclysmic shower of meteors that will destroy the Earth?'' Take an A-bomb to its core and seal the cracks.