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* In the ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, there's one episode where a coastal city is [[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever|attacked by a giant Tentacruel]]. The place is flooded within seconds and several large buildings are destroyed, yet there's never any mention of injuries or deaths. That's to be expected, though, considering the show's place on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|Sliding Scale]].

* ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]'' has a huge UFO crash-landing in the middle of a bathhouse, still filled with visitors, with exactly one casualty - which is [[First-Episode Resurrection|instantly rectified]]. Somewhat later, a destructive fight between a crazy [[Catgirl]] [[Girl With Psycho Weapon|With Psycho Weapons]] and a [[Kamehame Hadoken]]-throwing space-princess leaves several large chasms blasted through the entirety of the cityscape. Neither the potentially-astronomical casualties, nor the damage to the city, is mentioned again. But the catgirl apologized, so it's cool...

* ''[[Slayers]]'', ~~often~~ avoids it, ~~but~~ it's played straight when Lina {{spoiler|uses a Dragon Slave to blow up an enormous rock that threatened to fall on Seyruun. The spell accidentally destroyed a sizable chunk of the city, and presumably killed hundreds of people.}} ~~However, people react more or less like they normally do when Lina Dragon Slaves stuff, as described above.~~

* ''[[Slayers]]'' usually avoids it - the very first episode ends up with Lina nuking a dragon and destroying most of the small town she "protected", which was commented by the happy employer's representative "Like hell it's 'all right'!" and got her chased out with [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. But it's played straight when Lina {{spoiler|uses a Dragon Slave to blow up an enormous rock that threatened to fall on Seyruun. The spell accidentally destroyed a sizable chunk of the city, and presumably killed hundreds of people.}}

** Mostly, things are already bad enough to grab what you can and run to the hills by the time someone decides to ''invite'' a master of Black Magic infamous for leaving craters anywhere she goes and fireballing people who address her with one of nicknames she disapprove. That world doesn't have [[Godzilla Threshold]], it have Lina Inverse threshold.

* It's worth noting that virtually every single episode of ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' simply ''begins'' with the eponymous robot exploding up from underground, taking streets, cars, skyscrapers, and one can only presume people along with it. And yet the chief of police is good friends with its pilot and never bitches him out for mass slaughter.

** {{spoiler|[[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] when the [[Gainax Ending]] reveals that the entire two seasons were some sort of simulation or theatrical piece on a massive sound stage. There are lots of such headscratchers in real fiction too.}}

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* The first ''[[El Hazard]]'' OVA features this. When an [[Attack Animal]] is awakened, one of the villains ''immediately'' orders her to destroy an ''entire city'', which she goes about efficiently and brutally. Fortunately this is an unimportant city, and throughout the continuity said villain never faces any consequences for ordering this destruction. The main cast even confronts him in the sequel OVA and nobody even brings up the subject. This also holds true for the living weapon herself, although she technically had no choice in the matter.

* The series finale of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has the entire cast fighting for the universe... in a robot large enough to use galaxies as weapons, which they do quite often. It's implied that the universe they fought in may have been created by their own warping power, and so nobody was actually in trouble.

* [[Ponyo On the Cliff By The Sea]] gives us a non-explosion version, where the main character causes sea levels to rise drastically, but no one ever points out that logically she could have killed millions of people.

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