Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"They say the wave was 400 metres high when it hit the cities! Three billion dead, Gendo!"|Kozo Fuyutsuki|[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Kozo Fuyutsuki]].}}

* Happens in ''[[Saikano]]''.{{context}}

* Giant waves are part of the territory in [[Wa Ga Na Wa Umishi]].{{context}}

* ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'', and its remake ''[[Poseidon]]''.{{context}}

* ''[[The Perfect Storm]]''{{context}}

* What, no one saw ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' or ''[[2012]]''?{{context}}

* ''[[Wrath Ofof Thethe Ocean]]''{{context}}

* ''[[The Last Airbender]]'' features one of these.{{context}}

* ''[[The Last Wave]]'' of course.{{context}}

* ''[[Point Break]]'' (1991, director Kathryn Bigelow and stars Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey) has Reeves chasing bank robbers and Swayze playing a surfer who is planning on riding the largest wave ever. It turns out so large no other surfer goes near it. {{spoiler|He does, as a way of committing suicide rather than be jailed for the robberies.}}

* They had this during a typhoon in ''[[Silent Ship, Silent Sea]]''.

* In the book ''[[Lucifer's Hammer]].''{{context}}

{{quote| Like we're taking pictures of a tidal wave<br />

{{quote| The boys talk like they own the world<br />

The women keep their stupid diaries<br />

But suddenly there's a tidal wave<br />

**Later in the song the chorus is repeated: twice, back-to-back. Three seconds later the music abruptly stops. (No similarity to a [[Three Second Silence]].) Then--ifThen—if you happen to be listening to the two-fer CD ''The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees''--enjoy—enjoy four-and-a-half minutes of silence, followed by the songs on the ''Distant Plastic Trees'' LP. Perhaps (analogous with [[Hidden Track|"hidden tracks"]]), this qualifies as a HiddenAlbum?

** Was ''The Wayward Bus'' ever released, standalone, in ''any'' format?{{verify}} If not--andnot—and, let's say you're listening to ''The Wayward Bus''--then—then you can be certain ''Distant Plastic Trees'' will follow.

* Subverted in ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]!''.{{context}}

* ''[[Ice Age]]: The Meltdown''{{context}}

* The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by an earthquake on the seabed that released a titanic amount of energy, but an important interpretation of that release is in the amount of work it performed, that is, how much movement that energy generated in the matter around it [[Department of Redundancy Department|(the Indian Ocean)]]. This is important because a huge amount of the energy released in an atomic blast is spent blowing up clouds and birds and only what's directed at the ground actually performs work, whereas the earthquake achieved a much higher level of efficiency. Estimates put the total work done to be close to 4.0x10²² joules, equivalent to the work done by 9.5 gigatons of TNT -- thatTNT—that is, 550,000 [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure|Little Boy bombs]], or to put it in better perspective, '''165 Tsar Bombas'''. The resulting devastation was cataclysmic, and need not be further elaborated here.

* During the end of the last ice age, an immense ice dam in what is now Washington state collapsed under the weight of the water behind it, causing a series of devastating floods across the eastern part of the state -- thestate—the most powerful of these generated the equivalent of 4500 megatons of TNT.

* For a long time The Flood (yup, the one in [[The Bible]]) has been considered tall tale or myth at best, but there are indicesindicationss it indeed has been a real-life event. One candidate for it (there are several): The Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean is very young, and it is an impact crater caused by an asteroid. It would have caused an ''iminami'' ("megatsunami"), and it would have travelled around the world and caused horrible havoc all around the Indian Ocean. At narrow places such as Persian Gulf it might have attained height of ''up to 4000 m'' - yup, four klicks! The description that "water covered even the highest mountaintops" is not tall tale, but a realistic description on what would have had happened. The iminami would have been preceded by intense rain caused by seawater vaporized on the impact, and condensing into rain...