Colony Drop: Difference between revisions

** The one on Elysia is particularly bad, as there is no way to get down into the planet's atmosphere to disarm the shield. {{spoiler|1=The solution? Spend a few hours converting sections of SkyTown into a gargantuan nuclear weapon and countering Dark Samus' [[Colony Drop]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|with one of your own!]]''}}

* In ''[[Advent Rising]]'', the Seekers (bad guys) destroy the hero's home world by dropping asteroids on it.

"Asteroids." }}

* In the the downloadable ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'' mission "Bring Down the Sky", [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] has to prevent a group of alien terrorists from dropping an asteroid on an Eden-like colony world. In this case it's also a literal colony drop, as the asteroid itself has a scientific research colony on it.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Played with in ''[[Freefall]]'', where [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00044.htm ice asteroids] are ''routinely'' dropped on the colonized planet as part of the [[Terraform|terraformation]] process. (Also done in [[Ken MacLeod]]'s ''The Stone Canal''). Two robots also mention digging a river with asteroids. And while they were at it, timing and sequencing the asteroids to produce a rhythm...

'''Sawtooth:''' It's not often you get to play an entire planet as a percussion instrument. }}

* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', [[The Battlestar|Battleplates]] were originally developed by the [[One World Order|UNS]] to prevent the natural impact of meteorites on human worlds. Of course, once the UNS realized that the Battleplate was also excellently able to deflect some other things that might threaten Earth, like the ''intentional'' impact of meteorites and other celestial bodies of a similar size and higher acceleration, and decided they'd better build a few dozens of them. You know, just in case. And as long as there's no pesky rocks that need to be swatted, well, there are many other uses you can put a several-kilometre long warship with grotesquely overpowered gravitics control to...

* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode "Out of this World", the class stops an asteroid from hitting their school. Ultimately, they make the bus planet-sized, draw the asteroid into an orbit, and then return to normal size at just the right moment to send the asteroid [[Hurl It Into the Sun|on a collision course with the sun]].

* In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', time-travelling villain Chronos punishes Chucko for his betrayal by sending him back to the moment where the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. Chucko's last words are "Oh, phooey."

'''Chronos:''' Well ''Chucko'' does!!}}

 

* In the recent film incarnation of Wells' ''[[The Time Machine]]'', the extinction of most of humanity, leading to the Eloi and Morlocks evolving, is caused by lunar colony construction causing the moon to break apart.

* In the '80s remake of ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'', Ming the Merciless is sending the moon spiraling down into the Earth. It doesn't get there, but it gets close enough that things must have been pretty messed up.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|Done unintentionally]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030803.html here].

'''Ennesby:''' They did that, too. They crashed one gas giant into another. }}

** So not only did they destroy their gas giant colony planet and the planet it crashed into, they destroyed at least one other planet that got caught in the ensuing catastrophe and totally screwed up the ecosystem of the one planet in the system that actually had one.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[Invader Zim]] discovers the planet Mars "looks unnatural, as if nature was not involved in its formation" and discovers it's a giant spaceship. He plans to roll it around on the surface of the Earth to squish the filthy Earthicans.

* A close call with a "runaway planet hurtling between the Earth and the Moon" kicked off the collapse of civilization in the backstory to ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]''. Neither Earth nor the Moon was struck, but the Moon cracked in half, while Earth suffered massive tsunami, quakes, etc.

* In ''[[The Tick]]'', evil boy-genius Charles randomly gets the idea to smash the Moon into the Earth using a tractor beam, simply to demonstrate how smart and/or evil he is. It either doesn't occur to him that he will ''still be on the Earth'' when the Moon smashes it, or he simply doesn't care, because it the most evil thing he can think of.