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[[File:John Martin - Sodom and Gomorrah.jpg|thumb|400px500px|[[Bolt of Divine Retribution|God]] doing some urban renewal.]]
 
A city or civilization that is destroyed after growing so [[We Have Become Complacent|complacent]], hubris-laden, and/or [[Wretched Hive|corrupt]] that it is [[It Is Beyond Saving|beyond redemption]]. Usually the agent of destruction is [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|divine retribution]] or [[The Scourge of God|a scourge of God]] but also can be the result of [[Call It Karma|Karmic justice]], [[Gaia's Vengeance|nature's revenge]], [[Knight Templar|Knights Templar]], or even [[Hanlon's Razor|human]] [[Finagle's Law|error]].