Godzilla Threshold: Difference between revisions

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** The Imass came to a racial consensus that after the latest in a long string of Jaghut Tyrants, the Threshold had been crossed. They transformed themselves into nigh-immortal undead and proceeded to hunt down every Jaghut they could, killing or binding them.

** High King Kallor was so hated by a cabal of wizards that they chose to summon forth and bind a god to be used as a [[Fantastic Nuke]] against him. It destroyed an entire ''continent'', created the [[Big Bad|Crippled God]], and Kallor ''survived''.

* ''[[The Three-Body Problem (novel)]]'': Faced with the [[Impossible Task]] of securing the former oil tanker that [[Les Collaborateurs]] are using as a base in seconds before said traitors can delete critical data, the multinational coalition considers the use of neutron bombs and nerve gas, and rejects those as insufficient. The final plan involves using experimental [[Razo Floss|nanofilament]] to slice through the whole ship.

== Live-Action TV ==

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* ''[[Farscape]]'' {{spoiler|At the end of season 4 John does this with a home-made nuke in order to try to pull a fast one on the Scarrans and Peacekeepers. And he wasn't bluffing (mostly). Done again on a ''much'' bigger scale in ''Peacekeeper Wars'' John - sick and tired of trying to reason and figure things out with the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans - holds the entire ''galaxy'' to ransom with the wormhole weapon. This time, he ''really'' wasn't bluffing.}}

** Also played with in season 3 when {{spoiler|John gets stuck at the wormhole nexus centre and he finds out - courtesy of the ancient's pregenitors - that playing with wormholes isn't just fiddling around in space, it's ''fucking about with the entire fabric of reality''. He gets a little scared at this point, and the only reason he reenters the system is that he has no choice. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|He still messes up though]].}}

* ''[[Angel]]'': Series 4. The world is on the verge of an unexpected Apocalypse when the Beast blocks out the sun over LA to create a 24-hour demon playground. The only thing that can stop it is Angel's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], [[Complete Monster|Angelus]], the greatest mass ~~murder~~ in recorded history and one of the worst vampires ever heard of. The Godzilla Threshold is crossed when even Angel agrees it has to be done and Angelus is freed. On top of that, the only way to then stop Angelus is to break out of a women's correctional facility the unhinged, convicted murderer, Faith the Vampire Slayer, who has to use her [[Death Seeker]] nature to almost commit suicide because Angelus is ''that'' hard for even a slayer to defeat.

* ''[[Angel]]'': Series 4. The world is on the verge of an unexpected Apocalypse when the Beast blocks out the sun over LA to create a 24-hour demon playground. The only thing that can stop it is Angel's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], [[Complete Monster|Angelus]], the greatest mass murderer in recorded history and one of the worst vampires ever heard of. The Godzilla Threshold is crossed when even Angel agrees it has to be done and Angelus is freed. On top of that, the only way to then stop Angelus is to break out of a women's correctional facility the unhinged, convicted murderer, Faith the Vampire Slayer, who has to use her [[Death Seeker]] nature to almost commit suicide because Angelus is ''that'' hard for even a slayer to defeat.

* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "The Last Sontaran", despite the fact that Sarah Jane [[Doesn't Like Guns]] and distrusts the military, the presence of a Sontaran ship on Earth prompts her to immediately make plans to call in UNIT.

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe, the Godzilla Threshold is instantly crossed whenever a single omega particle is detected. Omega protocol authorizes the captain of the vessel to use any means (even breaking the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]]) to destroy it.

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** Keeping the mechanics of the game in mind, any situation where summoning Azathoth wouldn't make the situation significantly worse will almost certainly already have rendered all the player characters irretrievably insane.

* In ''Duel Terminal'', the background fluff behind the ''Hidden Arsenal'' series of [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)/Metaplot|cards]], the Ice Barrier tribe fought against the invading Worms and Fabled by progressively unlocking seals on a series of powerful Ice Barrier monsters. Eventually, they wound up pushed so far back against the wall that they released Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier.<ref>a [[Game Breaker]] in [[Real Life]]</ref> In its berserk rampage, Trishula [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|wiped out nearly everybody]], [[The End of the World as We Know It|friend and foe alike]], including the Ice Barrier tribe themselves. {{spoiler|Later expansions on the storyline imply that there ''were'' survivors, just not very many.}}

* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'':

** ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'': Changelings who think themselves in serious enough trouble can use a Goblin Contract called "[[The Wild Hunt|Call the Hunt]]" to summon [[The Fair Folk]] to their location. A critical failure lets the newcomers know who summoned them, while a critical success [[Gone Horribly Right|greatly speeds up the arrival]]. Unlike other Goblin Contracts, this has no inherent [[Necessary Drawback]], because a Changeling calling in its mortal enemies is enough drawback by itself.

** ''[[Demon: The Descent]]'':

*** An Unchained can sacrifice its Cover to "go loud" and assume the Demonic Form in which all damage is healed, its technomystical stats and stores are maxed out, and it gain access to all Embeds and Exploits available to its Incarnation. However, doing this draws the attention of the God-Machine - something Unchained usually don't want - with a host of hunting Angels soon to follow, so the situation has to be plenty dire first to be worth it.

*** For most Unchained, their ideal is to carve out a slice of Hell on Earth where they can live free of the constant fear of being destroyed or reclaimed by the God-Machine. This usually entails doing enough damage and counterpunching that the God-Machine considers further pursuit of such a Demon more wasteful or disruptive than just leaving it be, but not pushing things far enough that the GM considers the threshold crossed and it so dangerous as to become something to be destroyed no matter the cost or consequence.

== Video Games ==

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* Aside from allying with Stalin as noted above (which aside from logistics mainly involved fighting the same enemy independently at the same time), the Western Allies engaged in nearly unrestricted commerce raiding, dumping of [[Death From Above|tons and tons]], of [[More Dakka|dakka]], on military and civilian targets, sabotage, assassination, sponsoring of local civil wars, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|mocking Hitler's mustache.]] Not to mention building and setting off [[Sealed Evil in a Can|nuclear weapons]]. Almost anything was felt better than losing.

* Singapore's reserve funds are, proportionate to her market size, one of the world's largest, largely thanks to their usage being handled this way. The one time they have (publicly) been known to be used since independence was during the 2009 credit crunch, which is currently the worst recession since the Great Depression.

** Singapore has to get all of its drinkable water from Malaysia. If Malaysia ever cuts the water off, Singapore will, almost without a doubt, immediately declare war.

** Singapore has to get almost all of its drinkable water from Malaysia. If Malaysia ever cuts the water off, Singapore will, almost without a doubt, immediately declare war.

* This is seen (at least in terms of damage to property) when it comes to dealing with emergency situations. Factory burning and the only way to get access to one side is through a full car dealership parking lot? Bulldoze the brand new cars out of the way. Sea water bad in the long term for the precision materials and equipment inside the nuclear reactor and will undoubtedly make it unable to be used in the future? Fuck it, we need to cool it down ''now''.

* How bad is the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa? The King of Swaziland declared a ''five-year moratorium on sex''.