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== [[Film]] ==
* Possibly the earliest example of a planar shockwave is the self destruction of the Nostromo in ''[[Alien]]'' (1979). From Ripley's POV, it first forms a horizontal multicolored line and then an orange sphere appears behind/inside it. A few seconds later a horizontal shockwave of material hits her ship.
* ''[[Star Trek VI:
* The Special Editions of the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy does this three times: once for each Death Star (vertical and horizontal rings, respectively) and once when Alderaan is destroyed. They weren't in the original versions.
** Partially justified with the Death Stars. The trench dividing the two hemispheres is weaker than the rest of the shell, which would cause a (if somewhat smaller) [[Planar Shockwave]]. However, the first Death Star exploded vertically, and the second Death Star wasn't completely built yet.
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** The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[Death Star]]'' explains the ring produced by Alderaan as the realspace shadow of a hyperspace ripple, produced as a side effect of the Death Star's superlaser being fully charged when fired. Presumably this is also the case when the Death Star itself explodes.
*** This can also be used to explain the ring produced by the Death Star II in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. According to EU materials, the second Death Star could recharge much faster than the original, so it was likely charged to full power when it blew up.
* ''[[Stargate (
** This might be acceptable given the shape of the ship. ''Might''.
*** Actually, a better explanation would be the fact that it was sitting on a platform, surrounded by a ring of the as-yet-unnamed material the Stargates were made of, something that was explicitly stated would enhance the blast.
* ''[[Independence Day]]'' features something similar as the Alien Mothership explodes: The explosion spreads horizontally on the screen, eventually engulfing the camera. Might have looked like a Praxis Shockwave from another angle.
* Used [[Egregious|egregiously]] in the ''[[Wing Commander (
** Also, during the ship-to-ship battle between the ''Tiger's Claw'' and the Kilrathi ships, an enemy capital ship is hit with two torpedoes and explodes, emitting a planar shockwave that proceeds to destroy another Kilrathi ship. Apparently, traveling close together, leaving no room to maneuver, is standard operating procedure for the kitties. No wonder a single human ship was able to deal so much damage to the more advanced Kilrathi.
* ''[[Armageddon]]'' has one when the nuclear ordnance exploded inside the asteroid.
** At least this one ''kind of'' made sense, since the asteroid wasn't blown up, but blown apart. The shockwave would have escaped from between the two halves. It still wouldn't have been perfectly planar, but still...
** The shockwave seems to be forming an hourglass shape if viewed from the front, so it does expand at least partially accurately. But this is Armageddon, which has as much basis in real physics as the [[Ghostbusters|Stay Puff Marshmallow Man]].
* An apparent example occurs when {{spoiler|Jupiter}} explodes in ''[[
* The orbital laser station (the ZEUS) in ''[[Final Fantasy The Spirits Withi]]''n explodes like this at the end of the movie.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Though averted in ''[[Stargate SG
** Not to mention EVERY exploding wraith ship. Bonus points for [[Old School Dogfighting|making nearby ships explode too]].
* In a ''[[Space Cases]]'' episode, the two-dimensional shockwave of two exploding Spung battlecruisers (due to double [[Deadly Dodging]]) destroys the third one.
* Narn energy mines in one of ''[[Babylon
* A spectacular one is seen at about 40 seconds into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koX5UJy4QiI the opening] for ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Heavy bombs and capital ship explosions in ''[[Free Space]]'' and its sequel. The "randomly oriented" part is only when 3D shockwaves are enabled in the updated FreeSpace 2 Open engine. In the original games they were always oriented so you saw the "ring" head-on. In the first game in the series, the shockwaves even looked spherical. The explosion effect, however, is spherical.
* In ''[[
* Tactical battles in ''Master of Orion 3'' use these for capital ships.
* ''Star Trek: Armada'', ''Starfleet Command'' and their respective sequels make frequent use of them. In ''Starfleet Command'', the same planar shockwave effect is used for every ship above the fighter class.
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* While most explosions in the ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' series will just be the usual yellow-orange-red atmospheric looking fireballs, the very most awesome ships and weapons exploding will make planer and ring shockwaves in pretty colors.
** Also seen on the splash screen of EV:Nova.
* Averted in ''[[Star Fox (
** ''[[San Francisco Rush]]'' series too, where [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] and [[Made of Explodium]], exploding violently with spherical fireballs in crashes.
** ''[[
* The Scrin mothership in ''[[Command and Conquer]] 3: Tiberium Wars'' does this, with an [[Independence Day]] beam that creates an expanding shockwave, and anything that gets caught in it also explodes, creating their own miniature shockwaves. This can rapidly spread out of control, destroying an entire base in one blow. That is, if the mothership ''lives''...
* In ''[[Serious Sam]]'', rockets, grenades, cannonballs and ''laser beams'' send [[Planar Shockwave|Planar Shockwaves]] of various sizes along the surface they explode on.
* ''[[[[Wing Commander (
* The Stinkowing in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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{{quote| "Tony's gonna be ''pissed''. He hated it when Lucas added those equatorial rings to the Death Star explosions."}}
* In ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', which loosely follows the plot of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, the shockwave bombs from [[Attack of the Clones]] make their [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0294.html appearance]. One player explains that they might work like that because of the inverse square law - by concentrating the force into a ring, more damage is done by the ring. In effect, Jango is sacrificing accuracy for power.
* Appears in an extreme long-distance panel in ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The shockwave ring from the first Death Star's destruction is carried over into the parody of the scene in ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]''.
* The Transwarp Wavefront in ''[[
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