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[[File:Superlaser 9831.png|frame|link=A New Hope|Bye-bye, Alderaan.]]
Because [[Earth-Shattering Kaboom]]s don't cause themselves. (Usually.)
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* From ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', there's Sailor Saturn, who can destroy an entire world with a swing of the Silence Glaive.
* In the [[Junji Ito]] miniseries ''[[Hellstar Remina]]'', the titular entity enters galaxies to eat planets. Earth happens to be next on its menu.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** In yet another flashback, we learn that Sailor Saturn vaporized a planet called Phaelon during Beryl's assault on the Silver Millennium.
** At the climax of the story, {{spoiler|the Beryl A.I.}} triggers its [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]], which is designed to take not only itself out but the entire Earth with it.
* Less than two months after they've been "partnered" in the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' fic ''[[Taylor Varga]]'', Taylor Hebert and The Varga have come up with at least a dozen ways their combined power and knowledge can be used to destroy a, or the, world -- including a couple that do so as a ''side effect'' of an even greater destruction.
** In a non-canonical [[Bonus Material|omake]], the Family makes a web series about different forms of planetary destruction, which they call ''WorldBusters''.
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* John Stith's novel ''[[Manhattan Transfer]]'' begins with aliens tossing a dome over and ripping out [[New York City|Manhattan Island]] without any obvious explanation, then stowing it inside their massive spacecraft... to save a sample of humanity from a soon-to-arrive Planet Killer.
* ''[[Lensman|Second Stage Lensmen]]'', as part of the prototypical [[Lensman Arms Race]], has the "nutcracker": two planets that are remotely piloted so that they both hit a third planet at the same time. This crushes the third planet between them.
* Mickey Finn from the ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]'' series is a walking, man-sized planet killer cyborg. Fortunately, in the very first ''Callahan's'' story, he figures out how to thwart his programming, and finds the perfect place to do it.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** The Vorlons have a [[The Swarm|swarm-based]] system that bombards a planet with an immense number of (relatively) small projectiles.
* In ''[[Lexx]]'', Lexx itself is a Planet Killer.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Alpha Strike (a doomsday device) in ''[[Iji]]''
* ''[[Wild ARMs 2]]'' has an entire living universe that eats worlds.
* In ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander III]]'', the humans had two planet killers, one of which is called Behemoth. The more reliable one was taken out by the Kilrathi.
* The System Killer in ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' is one of the Grand Menaces. It spawns at one end of the galaxy, draws a line to a point on the other side, and tries to visit all star systems within 6 lightyears of that line. If
* The Ultima Spell, cast by {{spoiler|Kuja}} in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', combines Planet Killer, [[Nuke'Em]], and [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Every single Drive-equipped ship in the web comic ''[[Drive (webcomic)|Drive]]'' can cause seismic events on a planet by pinching too close to it. In Real Life, a magnitude 14 earthquake would be sufficient to tear a planet apart, and a ship that is big enough in-universe can invoke that powerful an event.
* The original Exterminatus in ''[[Exterminatus Now]]''.{{context}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The Planet-Jackers from ''[[Invader Zim]]'' use a specially-designed spacecraft to capture planets and then drop them into their sun.
* ''[[Wander Over Yonder]]'' features Lord Dominator in Season Two, whose ship is able to drain planets using an internal excavator engine. {{spoiler|She succeeds in destroying most of the galaxy by the finale, but a flower that spread its spores over the wrecked planets slowly revives them}}.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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