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*** [[Fridge Logic|Then why are we still here?]]
*** [[Fridge Horror|They're not finished yet.]]
* In the ''Gray Lensman'' book of [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensmen]]'' series, two planets have their inertia dampened (i.e. forward momentum placed in stasis),{{verify|reason=That definition sounds like the exact opposite of inertia dampening.}} after which they are moved into place on opposite sides of a planet of villains. When their inertia or forward momentum is returned, they rush together to crush the planet between them. This is merely a coda to the use of an antimatter bomb of planetary size. Later in the series, this is deemed insufficient and even more powerful weapons are used, including planets from other universes with intrinsic velocities significantly above lightspeed.
* The [[Revelation Space]] universe features many Earthshattering Kabooms: First, the main antagonists destroy at least three planets during the main trilogy and an unknown but very large number more during the previous one billion years; second, defeating those antagonists releases a rogue terraforming agent, which, it is implied, destroys the whole ''universe'' in several billion years. From the very first novel a group of humans have a cache of 40 weapons, each capable of destroying a planet. And then finally, there are the Nestbuilder Weapons, of which little is seen but [[Take Our Word for It|much is said]].
** The eponymous device of Alastair Reynolds' short story, ''[[Merlin's Gun]]''.
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* In Greg Bear's ''The Forge of God'', {{spoiler|Earth was blown up after (a) being shot with one giant neutronium bullet and one giant anti-neutronium bullet that met and exploded '''and''' (b) having vast quantities of hydrogen extracted from the oceans and turned into hydrogen bombs. Talk about overkill!}}
** {{spoiler|Actually, not really overkill at all. Unlike many other examples here, this one involved just a little more boom than the gravitational binding energy of the Earth. The explosion took a realistic several minutes. To make something explode as fast as, say, [[Star Wars|Alderaan]] takes several orders of magnitude more energy.}}
* Possibly {{spoiler|1=Charlie McGee}} from [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Firestarter]]''. {{spoiler|''"Suppose there is a [[Person of Mass Destruction|little girl]] out there someplace this morning, who has within her... the power to crack the very planet in two like a china plate in a shooting gallery?"''}}
* ''[[Battlefield Earth|Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000]]'', in both the book and movie, Johnny "Goodboy" Tyler detonates {{spoiler|the Psychlo homeworld by teleporting a nuclear device to the planet}}.
** It should be noted that {{spoiler|the nuke}} is a plain old one (very old, actually). It's the way {{spoiler|nuclear radiation}} interacts with the {{spoiler|Psychlos' breath-gas}} that causes the big boom.
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== Web Original ==
* On [[Deviant ART]], there are "Power emoticons" that [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|take regular emoticons to the EXTREME]]. Many include a view of the Earth (or a part of it) being destroyed.
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** Don't forget "Zeeky Boogy Doog".{{context}}
*** Technically, one of the latter by itself wouldn't do the trick. A whole *bunch* of "Zeeky Boogy Doog"s (or one broadcast all over the world), however, would and did.
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' has an dinosaur-killer-sized asteroid dropped on earth in the backstory. After the Earth partially recovers and is just starting to be recolonized by rebels against the main human government, said government sends in a fleet that blows up the moon, first by firing several small black holes through it to weaken its structure, then ramming it with a miles-long starship moving at 90 percent of the speed of light. The shattered fragments of the moon rain down on the surface of the earth, melting the top few miles of crust into a continuous layer of molten lava, boiling off the oceans, and blasting the atmosphere away. A few decades later, some nasty aliens invade, and the invasion is only stopped by using Dooms Day Devices to send the suns of the main alien homeworlds into supernova.
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