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Sometimes the [[Villain]] is so bad that he scorches the earth beneath his feet (see also [[Walking Wasteland]]). Sometimes his evil diffuses around the world and literally sets the world on fire. Sometimes the world is set on fire by some mishap.
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* Trigon from ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', when he emerged on earth his presence caused the earth to look like a volcanic wasteland complete with people frozen as statues. They got better.
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* ''[[Reign of Fire]]'' has [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] emerging from the depths of the Earth and burning the world.
* ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'': "Earth is burning."
* In the season 1 finale of ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'', the Vok decide that "the project" has been contaminated by our stranded heroes and villains. [[Detonation Moon|Cue one of the two moons]] turning into a [[Self
* On of the planets in ''[[Homestuck]]'' was set entirely on fire. {{spoiler|The main character blew the fire out anyway}}
* In the film version of [[Irwin Allen (Creator)|Irwin Allen]]'s ''[[Film/Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea|Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea]]'', the major plot is that the Earth's Van Allen belts are on fire and slowly roasting the planet.
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* In the novel ''[[Nightfall]]'', people set their cities aflame when darkness comes (about every 2,000 years), since they panic (having never seen actual darkness).
* Happens in the ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' strip ''[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ Caveman Science Fiction]''
* The 1980s [[Scare
* On one [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Futurama]]'', the oxygen content of Earth's atmosphere is elevated by mutant Christmas trees. Then Bender lights a cigar...
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