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{{quote|"[[Where's the Kaboom?]] There was supposed to be an [[Trope Namer|Earth-shattering Kaboom!]]"|'''Marvin the Martian''', ''[[Looney Tunes]]''}}
Sometimes, [[The End of the World as We Know It]] just isn't enough. If you really want to end the world, why not destroy the whole planet -- tear the very ground from under everyone's feet?
[[Science Fiction]] writers have devised many methods of demolishing a planet: you can [[Wave Motion Gun|blast it with a laser]], you can [[Colony Drop|hit it with a really big object]], you can feed it to self-replicating all-consuming [[Nanomachines]], or use [[Apocalypse How|other, even more imaginative ways]].
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This is understandably worse than just conquering a world or wiping out the present civilization. Mankind can always rebuild after that. There's usually no [[After the End|"After"]] for ''this'' End. Destroying a planet is usually reserved for the most "[[HSQ|Holy crap]]" moments in a Sci-Fi or even Fantasy series. Blowing up an entire, inhabited planet is one of the fastest ways to really [[Kill'Em All|ratchet up the body count]] and cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
Some series prefer to have this as the final goal of the [[Big Bad]], with the heroes racing to stop him. In other series, there's no way to stop the Earth Shattering Kaboom, and the subsequent storylines focus on the actions of the few survivors as they try to carry on, seek revenge or simply live with the fact that their home has been completely obliterated.
A slightly less devastating variation of this is to simply blast the surface of the planet until the air hums with radioactivity and nothing can live on it, for example, the "glassing" of planets in the ''[[Halo]]'' verse. This is [[Colony Drop]] and [[Kill Sat]] taken to the extreme. Compare the [[Planet Eater]].
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Think of it as a [[The Tokyo Fireball|Tokyo Fireball]] on a planetary scale. The full-on Earth Shattering Kaboom is a Class X on the [[Apocalypse How]] scale, often represented with an [[Earth-Shattering Poster]]. Of course, some villains one up this by going [[Star-Killing]].
The villain archetype who wants to cause this is called the [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. Alternatively, if he does it by accident (or just doesn't know ''why'' he'd do it), he's the [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]].
Oh, and if somehow if some part of planet still remains, and someone settles on that, then it becomes [[Shattered World]]. See also [[Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth]].
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* ''[[Gunbuster]]'' goes past mere planetary destruction with the Black Hole Bomb, a weapon capable of destroying the core of the galaxy. One of the weapon's components? The planet Jupiter. (Quick! Blow up Jupiter!)
** I think a certain pair of moronic monarchs from ''[[Heroic Age]]'' could help you out with that one.
** It should also be noted that in the images of the final battle, entire planets and moons are shown being destroyed as ''collateral damage''.
* The Jabberwock from ''[[Project ARMS]]''. {{spoiler|After it absorbes a nuclear missile}} it is capable of generating ''two fists'' of {{spoiler|antimatter}}.
** Also should be noted that {{spoiler|it was super-sized at the time, so those 'fists' were probably car-sized or bigger.}}
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* Angol Mois from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' is from a whole tribe of [[Humanoid Aliens]] with the power to destroy planets.
* Subverted in the Clow Card arc of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. With the Clow Cards free, Kero warns of a catastrophe that will befall the world if they're not captured, only to later reveal that the catastrophe ''isn't'' this trope. In fact, it's actually worse... kinda'.
* [[Tsutomu Nihei]], the author of ''[[Blame]]'', stated that Killy's [[Weapon of Mass Destruction|GravitonBeamEmitter]] would cause a substantial environmental change when fired on Earth.It doesn't take a genius to figure out what would happen if it's fired ''at'' Earth.
* ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' has two such cases.
** {{spoiler|Nazca, Mu’s new home, gets completely destroyed by Megido}} and even the combined efforts of Blue, Jomy and the Nazca children aren't enough to prevent this.
** {{spoiler|The Earth}} almost gets shattered into a million pieces, when the Grandmother decides it's time to get rid of the Mu for good.
* ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' has {{spoiler|planets being ''thrown'' at the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann.}} And that's ''nothing'' compared to the [[Final Battle]]: {{spoiler|'''GALAXIES THEMSELVES BECOME WEAPONS!'''}}
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* [http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/bombs.gif This strip] by [[Quino]].
* In ''[[Starslayer]]'', Torin mac Quillon comes into possession of a weapon that can implode a sun into a black hole. He ends up using it.
* Possibly the oldest comic book example is in [[The Monster Society of Evil|TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil]], where it nearly happens a couple of times, Mister Mind tries firing giant shells at America and Russia from a ten-mile Big Bertha, then in another chapter he tries to blow the Earth in half using explosives set up by tiny Americans living underground in case the war went badly for America.
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* In ''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'', [[Mad Bomber|Burchenal]] triggers a [[World-Wrecking Wave|Surface Kaboom]] by [[Playing with Fire|dropping a torch]] on ''[[Chemistry Can Do Anything|oxygened-algae]]'' and ''[[Kill It with Fire|oxygened-bugs]]''.
* In ''Beneath the [[Planet of the Apes]]'' (the first sequel), a group of mutants (who captured Taylor, his girl and the guy who came to rescue him) [[Cargo Cult|worships a powerful nuke]], that when detonated would destroy Earth. Then the apes attack, and while Taylor is falling dead, he triggers the bomb... one hell of a [[Downer Ending]], specially due to the [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] speech that follows.
** Parodied in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' in Season 8. The Satellite of Love was orbiting a Planet of the Apes-like Earth...when Mike Nelson gives advice that starts the bomb that a cult worships. Predictable results...and Mike was [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|only beginning]].
** It is slightly hinted that ''[[Spaceballs]]'' parodies this as well. {{spoiler|When [[Big Bad|President Skroob]], Dark Helmet, and Colonel Sandurz crashland on the Planet of the Apes, an ape says "''Oh shit, there goes the planet.''" The scene changes after that, and never switches back to the planet, making it seem more of a [[What Happened to the Mouse?]], but if you've seen ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'', [[Genre Savvy|we can assume what happens next]].}}
* In ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'', the [[Big Bad]] has a weapon called a Stellar Converter that, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|converts planets into stars]].
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* A Q-Bomb is used to crack Planet OM-1 in ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers 3: Marauder]]'', though the sight wasn't enough to distract General Dix Hauzer from snogging Captain Lola Beck (seeing as we're talking about [[Ms. Fanservice|Jolene Blalock's]] luscious lips I can't blame him).
* In ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'', an alien comes to Earth to explain that, since [[Humans Are Bastards]], they will not stop at atom bombs and hydrogen bombs, and will soon produce the solaronite bomb, which, by exploding sunlight and everything it touches, will create a chain reaction destroying the universe.
* The [[John Carpenter]]'s ultra low budget film ''[[Dark Star]]'' featured a starship crew whose job was to traverse the Galaxy, using "Exponential Thermostellar Bombs" to destroy planets that might someday threaten human colonies. For twenty years. On the ragged edge of terminal boredom.
* In ''[[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah]]'', it's revealed that Godzilla's heart is basically a nuclear reactor. When Birth Island erupts and exposes Godzilla to a bed of radioactive materials, he absorbs too much and begins to undergo meltdown. Unfortunately, his self-destruction will also take most of the planet with him, sending scientists and the military scrambling for a way to prevent it. Things get more complicated when Destoroyah arrives on the scene, making Godzilla's meltdown occur faster and become more powerful due to his rage at Destoroyah's actions.
* The [[Warhammer 40000]] fanfilm ''[[Damnatus]]'' {{spoiler|ends with Inquisitor Lessus ordering an Exterminatus on the planet of Sancta Heroica in a [[Downer Ending]] after the heroes [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|fuck up their mission]] and [[Kill'Em All|die trying to escape]]. Given this is the [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Verse]] of 40K, this is pretty much par for the course}}.
* The beginning of ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] II'' shows Sarleena destroying planets she passed by.
* In the end of ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'', {{spoiler|Cybertron collapses in on itself when the Autobots destroy Sentinel's Space Bridge.}}
* Lars von Trier's ''[[Melancholia]]'' revolves around the destruction of Earth by collision with an immense rogue planet (though there's not a lot of suspense about it, as the world's fate is revealed up front in the opening sequence).
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* The Douglas Adams book ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' starts with the Earth being demolished to make way for a hyperspace expressway.
** And then ratchets it up at the end of the series by {{spoiler|destroying every Earth in every alternate dimension ever.}}
*** [[Fridge Logic|Then why are we still here?]]
*** [[Fridge Horror|They're not finished yet.]]
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* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series features a couple of these, starting with the basic mechanism used for [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] -- immensely strong artificial gravity fields that can theoretically demolish large chunks of a planetary body if brought too close. Needless to say, doing this is considered a horrific crime, and would almost certainly be suicidal to boot. More literally, the novel ''The End of the Matter'' features a search for a [[Lost Superweapon]] that creates anticollapsars, or white holes, made out of antimatter. The [[Precursors|long gone race]] that created the weapon did so in order to counter rogue black holes, but also threatened to use it on the planets of their contemporary rivals. (The resulting arms race destroyed both species.)
* [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''Temple'' has the Supernova - a nuke capable of vaporising one third of the Earth's mass and knocking the rest out of it's orbit around the sun. {{spoiler|There's 3 of them}}
* C J Cherry wrote about one method in her [[Chanur Novels]]. The main character speculates how the bad guys might hijack loose interplanetary debris and accelerate same, followed by aiming said debris at the main character's homeworld.
* In Michael Reaves' ''The Shattered World'' and ''The Burning Realm'', this had happened to a fantasy world a thousand years ago. The damage-control efforts of every wizard in the world allowed fragments of the broken planet to be saved, orbiting one another in a bubble of atmosphere. The Shattering was blamed on the power-mad Necromancer's final, spiteful spell, cast when the nations of the world refused to bow down to him. {{spoiler|He was actually a scapegoat for a collision between planets, and had really used his powers to keep the world's fragments from disintegrating into dust.}}
* The oldest and still canonical example of this in the ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' universe is the Arkon bomb, a reasonably portable device capable of causing a runaway nuclear chain reaction that will destroy the planet it is planted on over the course of only a few days. The arguably most destructive weapon ever built by Terrans, the Hyperinmestron, was used only three times in the series and only once for actual military purposes -- it's capable of blowing up a star, and that first use resulted in side effects that caused supernovae and other general chaos and devastation throughout the center of the Andromeda galaxy.
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** Thallon in ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'', by virtue of the Great Bird of the Galaxy, which has been gestating inside its core for millennia. Now ready to "hatch", it destroys the planet from within.
** Several planets in the Taurus Reach during the 2260s, due to the use of Shedai technology by Federation and Klingon researchers. Some planets were destroyed accidentally as a result of inept use of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Shedai]] artifacts, others were [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|destroyed deliberately by the Shedai Wanderer]] in her attempts to prevent her people's technology coming into the hands of other, younger races. Palgrenax was one such planet. See: ''[[Star Trek: Vanguard]]''.
** In ''[[Star Trek: Titan]]'', the Shalra homeworld was destroyed by a space-going creature, which fed on the remains. Also, Oghen - and possibly other worlds in the Neyel Hegemony - were destroyed by the effects of the Red King protouniverse.
** Erigol in ''[[Star Trek Destiny]]'', deliberately destroyed in order to maintain a stable time loop.
** Dokaal in ''[[Star Trek: A Time to...]]'', in a natural disaster.
* Vernor Vinge's ''[[Zones of Thought|A Fire Upon the Deep]]'', set in the part of his [[Zones of Thought]] verse that allows FTL and other ubertech, contains at least two types of planetcracker weapons: antimatter warheads (with sufficient yield to, at the very least, sterilize a planet's surface) and kinetic missiles accelerated to relativistic speeds. As typical warships carry thousands of the former as their standard armament, space conflicts can (and do) become fast and bloody...
* In the ''[[Sten]]'' series, the Empire has Anti-Matter Two weapons called planetbusters. The Eternal Emperor tries not to use them much, for the pragmatic reason that blowing up entire worlds tends to attract unwanted attention from other governments and is generally bad for business. {{spoiler|However, in ''Empire's End'', one is deployed against the Manabi homeworld.}}
* The old earth is destroyed in this fashion at the end of the [[Left Behind]] book ''Kingdom Come''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', The USS Enterprise can be assumed to have planet-killing abilities (of the lesser kind), unless Captain Kirk was bluffing when he mentioned General Order 24...
** The ISS Enterprise in the Mirror Universe clearly does have the capacity to destroy a planet or at least sterilize its surface.
** In "A Piece of The Action", the Enterprise is able to knock out the entire population of Sigma Iotia with the main phasers on "stun", the lowest setting.
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* Subversion: Earth is destroyed on-screen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of the World", but [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|nobody in that era makes a big deal out of it]]... because it's five billion years from now, Earth's destruction was long overdue anyway, and humanity has abandoned it long before.
** In the season finale episode "Journey's End," {{spoiler|the Daleks}} prevent {{spoiler|Martha Jones}} from using {{spoiler|the Osterhagen Key doomsday device}}. Just as well.
** This is played straight in ''Doctor Who'' too many times to count. Not always with ''Earth,'' mind, but with ''a'' planet inhabited by humanoids. Gallifrey, for instance, goes boom in the new series, and in ''The Invasion of Time'', the {{spoiler|Sontarans threaten to blow it up.}}
** And in ''The Pirate Planet'', the eponymous planet destroys other worlds by materialising around them, stripping them of their resources and shrinking them down to the size of a basketball, after which they are displayed in the captain's trophy room.
** It's the plan in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E1 The Dominators|The Dominators]]''.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' destroyed at least two dozen planets in its fourth season, when the Vorlons and the Shadows both went, "Oh, now it's ''on'', bitch!", culminating in the entire Earth solar system getting blown up a million years in the future. But it didn't end there, either, as yet more planets were destroyed in the sequel movie, ''A Call to Arms''. Strangely enough, the Earth has come to the brink of planetary destruction three different times, and averted it each time. Lucky, much?
** Maybe not. Under normal circumstances, the solar system will continue to exist pretty much as-is for billions of more years (the Sun is about halfway through its life-cycle.) The [[J. Michael Straczynski|show's creator]] has claimed that he knew this when making the episode, thus, the destruction happening a "mere" million years in the future is possibly an indication of deliberate destruction by.. someone.
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** "Lexx, use every last bit of juice you've got to {{spoiler|blow up that ugly blue planet!}}". {{spoiler|790}} had to have loved saying that.
* The Showtime series ''[[Odyssey 5]]'' started with the world blowing up, and had five astronauts, who had survived because they were on the titular Odyssey space craft at the time, getting sent five years into the past to prevent it.
* Probably named for Heinlein, the series ''[[Andromeda]]'' had Nova Bombs. How powerful were they? Well, the Andromeda carrying 40 of them was enough to send resident badass and proud warrior race guy Tyr into a fit because it was enough firepower to conquer an empire. The bombs cause stars to go super-nova, and can be volley-fired into black holes to turn them into white holes.
** Incidentally, {{spoiler|there is a literal Earth-shattering kaboom in the series' final episode. Nova Bombs are not to blame but rather something called Radical Isotopes: stuff with negative mass from another dimension.}}
** Harper also designs an even more destructive variant of the Nova bomb, and it's used to destroy an artificial sun.
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' gives us a number of ways to kill a planet, from the appropriately named [[Cool Starship]] ''Planet Killer'', to fleets of Space Monsters that can literally ''eat'' a planet down to the rock. Like ''[[Star Wars]]'', they also have a planet-killing order, called "Exterminatus." Exterminatus is usually used on planets where there is no possible way of ever using the planet again, say because soldiers deployed to it invariably defect to Chaos.
** Most of these methods usually leave a dead ball of rock, however. Except the Planet Killer; that really ''does'' blow up planets. And then we get to the Blackstone Fortresses...
*** There are many methods of Exterminatus, and while it is true that most of them just leave a dead rock, Two-Stage Cyclonic torpedoes indeed cause a [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Planet-Shattering Kaboom]]
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* The Alphatians of ''[[Mystara]]'' came to that planet after destroying their own in an academic dispute between rival factions of wizards.
* ''[[Exalted]]'': [[The Trope Without a Title|She Who Lives In Her Name]] invoked a Creation-shattering KABOOM that destroyed ''90% of the the world she helped create''. [[If I Can't Have You|Apparently one of the creators of the universe decided that if she can't rule it, she would rather have it destroyed]]. The fact that her very name is deeply intertwined with the sub-structure of the universe make it very easy for her to do so.
** Fans and Authors argue about the Three Sphere Cataclysm. Some feel that making it too cosmic runs the risk of causing the pre-cataclysm era to be fundamentally unrelateable as a storytelling medium. Others feel that letting her destroy 90% of just raw land mass isn't grand enough for a newly-minted cosmic horror. The deepest fan-theories hold that she annihilated Creation's Dynamic Link Library (its card catalog), thus making it impossible for anyone in the world to feel like the world as a whole makes sense... which, granted, is the one thing she would've coveted over the purely physical parts of reality.
** Note that Creation isn't actually a planet, but it's close enough in that it's a bubble of stability in an infinite ocean of chaos. To [[The Fair Folk]] who lives outside Creation, even the glorious First Age was but a tiny spark of what Creation used to be in the age of the Primordials.
** Then there's the giant dragon, what was his name, Kukla-something? Anyway, he's a 1,200 foot long gently slumbering beast guarded by twelve high-level war gods, whose job it is to kill anyone who tries to summon or otherwise disturb Kukla's sleep. Why? Because when he wakes up, he'll blow up Creation through liberal application of insane quantities of the five elements, and then go on to blow up the Wyld. Then, seven scales will fall down from his body and form the continents of a new world... Yeah.
*** That's The Kukla. He's given as one example of a mid-power Greater Elemental Dragon. This isn't even touching the Five Elemental Dragons, who are the apexes of the Elements.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Starcraft]]'' had <s>at least one</s> <s>two</s> three planetary surfaces sterilized by the Protoss to stop the spread of the Zerg; Chau Sara, Mar Sara and Antiga Prime.
* The Covenant in ''[[Halo]]'' "glass" planets - they blast them from orbit until the surface has melted into a glasslike substance.
** The UNSC NOVA bomb. To elaborate, it is a cluster of nine nukes, each surrounded by a shell that, when the bomb goes off, [[Techno Babble|briefly compresses each of the nine explosions to neutron-star density]], giving each blast a 100x boost. One is {{spoiler|accidentally set off on an Elite loyalist vessel in orbit around a loyalist world: the planet is wiped clean of life, its moon ''is shattered'', and nearly the entire fleet massed nearby is annihilated.}}
* The ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' series of games had ''two'' of these in ''Wing Commander III'' - a Cool Ship (the ''Behemoth'') basically a slimmed down Death Star (read as: one honkin' big cannon with a ship wrapped around it) is used to destroy a world, and is later destroyed itself since the ship conveniently wasn't finished before being rushed off to destroy the [[Big Bad]]'s homeworld. The job is later finished by a "Temblor Bomb" dropped into a faultline by a solo space fighter ([[It's Up to You|the player, of course]]), resulting in the [[Big Bad]]'s home being utterly blown apart through the resulting earthquakes, magically stopping the war.
** In the first game of the series, fighter missiles are armed with an explosive mineral referred to in the (necessary for the copy protect scheme) manual as Illudium Q36. Missile explosive power was measured by their "ESK" rating. Three guesses what "ESK" stood for.
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* In ''[[Spore]]'', the most powerful weapon in the Space stage is the Planet Buster. It does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] and gets nearby empires mad with you, even if they were not the target.
** Destroying Earth is actually ''required'' for [[Hundred-Percent Completion]].
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mario and his friends are on a quest to assemble the Pure Hearts in order to stop the destruction of all worlds. They don't achieve this goal in time for some.
** ALL worlds. Each of the game's levels are actually separate universes, meaning that Count Bleck is literally destroying everything. Everything as in EVERYTHING everything - including Heaven (the Overthere), Purgatory (the Underwhere), and Hell. In fact, the only universe left would be the one created by Dementio, which was created specifically for that.
*** Actually, the Big Bad emphasizes that he is not destroying worlds, but actually erasing them, so that the worlds would have never existed, if that makes sense.
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* In ''[[Eve Online]]'' the storyline that heralded the Apocrypha expansion and the formation of wormholes, sympathetic reactions from the explosion of a [[Lost Technology]] device caused several distant stars in the galaxy to flare and space-time to rupture; the kaboom from one of the star flares burnt the inhabited mining world of Seylin I to a cinder.
* In ''[[Darius]] Gaiden'''s Zone Z ending, {{spoiler|Darius}} explodes.
* In ''[[Might and Magic]] VI'' if you don't {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|release a previous villain, Archibald]] so he can give you a seriously powerful scroll that encloses an area in its own pocket dimension. Without it when you blow up the reactor in the Kreegan Hive ship, or if you die afterwards thus preventing you from using it}} not only does the world explode but the moon inexplicably blows up afterwards.
* ''[[Ray Force]]'' ends with the explosion of the Con-Human-transformed Earth.
* ''[[Star Ocean]]''
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* In ''[[Evolva]]'', the Parasite tries this in the final level.
* In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', Asura does this to Wyzen, after wyzen beccomes as big as the earth, with his bare fists. It's also hinted that Gohma Vlitra {{spoiler|even before going one winged angel}} could do this, and Augus stabs through the planet with ''[[Rule of Cool|a sword]]'' at the end of your fight with him.
* ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'' features two planet killers: one the ''Moon Dagger'', that must be taken out ''before it cores the Earth'' (actual in-game text), and the other the asteroid ([[Science Marches On|now minor planet]]) Ceres that has been sent on a collision course with Earth.
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* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' ended 2008 with not just an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]], but with a ''[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2166.html universe]''[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2166.html -shattering kaboom]. {{spoiler|(or lack of a "kaboom", per se...)}}
** It was actually the ''entire MULTIVERSE''.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when this happens to the planet of Gritania during the GOFOTRON arc.
** The GOFOTRON arc ends with a universe-shattering kaboom, in fact. But it's only a tiny universe.
* In ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'', the Racconan Empire of the Seven Systems owns a small fleet of Stellar Lances. One of which was used to destroy a Kvrk-Chk solar system. [[Word of God]] is that the Lance operates by firing a planet-sized beam of "antigravitons" through the heart of the system's star, causing it to hemorrhage from either side, spraying the surrounding planets with white-hot stellar matter (picture a water balloon with a pinhole on either side spinning on a string).... the lawn sprinkler from Hell. If conditions are just right, it goes downhill from there, into a stellar collapse and supernova...
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** Don't forget "Zeeky Boogy Doog".
*** 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.
* Parodied in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged]] [[The Movie|Movie]]'': when Anubis announced his intention to destroy the world, Yami asks him what he could possibly gain from that. As revealed on his LiveJournal, the creator included this because he considered Anubis to be a terrible movie villain with, in his own words, '[[Card-Carrying Villain|generic motives]]'.
** Also in the Abridged Series, a running series called "Zorc and Pals" features [[Big Bad]] Zorc Necrophades and Yami Bakura discussing Zorc's plans to destroy the world. The clip from "Zorc and Pals: The Movie" in the Abridged Movie details what Zorc is going to do after he destroys the world... [[I'm Going to Disney World|He's going to Disney World.]] And then he's going to destroy it. However, he found it much too fun, so he destroyed Euro Disney instead.
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