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{{quote|'''Shepard:''' I'm surprised you'd mention [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|vandalism in that bunch]].

 

The Space Age equivalent of [[The Wizard of Oz|dropping a house on a witch]].

 

Not to be confused with a "Galaxy Drop" from ''[[PlanetSide]]'', where the dangerous payload is merely a platoon of armed troopers and vehicles dropped from a fleet of [[Drop Ship|Galaxy transports]].

 

== Space Colony, Space Station, various assorted artificial Space Stuff ==

 

* The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Gundam]]'': dropping large objects ranging from space colonies to asteroids to battlestations is a favorite tactic of the series, though usually unsuccessful. The only way they avoid an [[Inferred Holocaust]] is by making it ''explicit'', though rarely past class 0 on [[Apocalypse How|the scale]].

** In the original series, Zeon dropped one of Earth's space colonies during the [[Backstory]] in an attempt to destroy the [[The Federation|Earth Federation]]'s [[Elaborate Underground Base|nuke-proof headquarters]]. The colony breaks up before impact and misses its intended target, instead completely annihilating Sydney[["London, England" Syndrome|, Australia]] ([[You Fail Geography Forever|which in the picture looks suspiciously like New York]]) and generally making a mess of things. ''Gundam0083'' actually shows the crater left by the drop, making clear that the explosion was equal to about 60,000 MT, and the [[Sega Dreamcast]] game ''Rise from the Ashes'' drives the point home by featuring the continent of Australia (where the game takes place) on the title screen with what looks like a ''bite'' taken out of it where Sydney (as well as Canberra and a quarter of New South Wales) used to be.

== Asteroids ==

 

* [[Gall Force]]: Earth Chapter has the MARS civ using a device that hurls rocks on the baddies. Funny in that the baddies comment that the previous plan our heros wanted to use, nukes would not have hurt them as bad but now that they figured rocks from space can do almost more destruction w/o the danger of radiation.

* When ''[[Gundam]]'' isn't dropping space colonies on Earth, it's usually an asteroid of some sort, culminating in the attempted drop of the Asteroid fortress Axis in ''[[Chars Counterattack]]''.

* Non-Earth example: In ''[[Bionicle]]'', {{spoiler|Makuta Teridax is killed when the planet-sized robot he's inhabiting has one of the moons of Bara Magna smash into his head. He was trying to invoke this trope by slamming it into the planet in a destructive manner, whereas Mata Nui was trying to gently merge the planet and moons together.}}

 

* In [[Homestuck]], the [[Big Bad]] cuts the moon loose from Prospit, sending it crashing to Skaia below {{spoiler|and [[Tear Jerker|killing Dream Jade]].}}

 

== '''[[Insistent Terminology|The]]''' Moon ==

 

* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' has this in the nebulous [[Backstory]], where the Crimson Moon (the guy) tried to drop the Moon onto the Earth only to be stopped by the then-young Zelretch. Zelretch pulled him to an alternate reality and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|dropped the moon on him instead.]]

** In [[Battle Moon Wars]], one of the attack Warcueid uses is also a moondrop. And yes, Arcueid can really do that in canon; she did something similar in ''[[Melty Blood]]''.

== Planets ==

 

* ''[[Avenger]]'' deals with a dying colony on Mars that's about to be crashed into by one of the moons.

* ''[[Diebuster]]'' inverts this: the human race plans to deal with an extremely powerful (and extremely large) Space Monster by dropping '''Earth''' onto it. Fortunately Nono shows up and stop this plan before dealing with the Space Monster herself.

== Stars ==

 

* In the final arc of ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'', Romio attempts to send the Earth on a collision course with the sun.

 

== Terrestrial objects ==

 

* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]: {{spoiler|Yliaster's plan to destroy Neo Domino City and erase Momentum from history appears to involve dropping the [[Ominous Floating Castle|Ark Cradle, a floating fortress]] [[Temporal Paradox|made from the ruins of the future Neo Domino City]], on it.}}

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' {{spoiler|Vander Decken, the infamous pirate captain with the powers of the Mato Mato (target target) fruit decides to kill the Mermaid Princess (who rejected him) by throwing a giant Ark at her.}}