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== [[Advertising]] ==
* An old 7 Up commercial had [[Orlando Jones]] about to write "7 Up" on the surface of the Moon with a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|big laser]]. He fires it, and the Moon blows up with an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]], prompting him to angrily ask "Who's been messing with my laser?!"
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[Gunbuster]]'' crosses this with [[Skyscraper Messages]] by using city lights on the night side of Earth to write out a message for Noriko and Kazumi in the final episode. [[Tear Jerker|Welcome Home]].
** The sequel ''[[Diebuster|Die Buster]]'' not only shows this trope from the opposite angle but the final battle also leaves a giant imprint of {{spoiler|Nono as the titular Diebuster mecha}} on the far side of the moon.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Batman]]'' # 353, the Joker, using a stolen supercomputer and some strategically placed high explosives, tried to blast a mountain into the shape of his own face. During their battle, Batman subtly knocked one of the bombs out of alignment. Although the blast creates the Joker's face for a few moments, the entire edifice almost immediately crumbles. A year later, Joker would return for a three-part storyline (spanning two issues of ''Batman'' and an issue of ''Detective Comics'') in which he attempted to take over an entire [[Banana Republic]], which he planned to level and turn into Jokerworld, a country-sized [[Amusement Park of Doom]].
* Todd Ingram of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' uses his amazing Vegan powers to punch a gigantic new crater into the moon for his then-girlfriend Ramona. He repeats this later with Envy Adams; apparently, it's the most flattering thing he can do. It comes back to bite him in the ass though, {{spoiler|as Envy puts two-and-two together and realizes it means he cheated on her with Ramona}}.
* In Don Rosa's [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|''Scrooge McDuck'' story]] ''Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints'' Rosa plays some amusing [[Biting the Hand Humor]] as the ducks accidentally deface the dark side of the Moon with three craters that produce a perfect [[Mickey Mouse]] silhouette, and worry if they're going to get sued for it.
* One ''[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'' story shows that the entire face of the Moon is used for ''advertising''.
== [[Film]] ==
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* The film adaptation of the ''[[Coneheads]]'' when the Remulakians extract the Conehead family, their spaceship hit the moon chipping off a few pieces. You can see the chipped moon in the sky at the end of the film.
* Averted with ''[[Moon]]'', a film set on a mining operation on the moon. The mining takes place on the dark side of the moon, as an example of [[Shown Their Work]], since defacing the side of the moon facing earth would have untold effects on local wildlife.
* In the feature-length version of [[Mike Jittlov]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]'', Mike uses a powerful laser to project his short film on the moon after a Presidential speech pre-empts the TV show it was supposed to appear on.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Arthur C. Clarke]] short story
** The reason the image wasn't messed up by atmospheric turbulence is because there isn't any on the moon.
** [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y679eQn3S-MC&pg=PA543&lpg=PA543&dq=arthur+c+clarke+%22Watch+this+Space%22&source=bl&ots=sKPsuZN00x&sig=gAxQMce_uDlWcMFvbUPuVyf4MWM&hl=en&ei=d9SmSsTINZCXlAfIo9CCBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false External Link]
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* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' has the [[Big Bad]] place a monstrous eye creature on the moon to spy on those resisting his rule; during the final battle he pulls the moon closer to Earth so he can absorb the creature and reach full power. So naturally, Kiva (in a moment of [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]) performs a [[Finishing Move|Rider Kick]] that propels him and the baddie into the moon, which creates a gigantic Kiva mark (as his Rider Kick always does). [[No Ontological Inertia|Of course, since the villain dies, the moon is returned to normal afterwards.]]
* Not for evil, the the opening for ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' showed Ralph's (Jackie Gleason's) face on a rising full moon.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin once fantasized about using the treads of a buggy to spell "Calvin is great" on the moon's surface in cursive.
** Similar instances had him writing demeaning messages to his father in the snow, or writing "Hey Jet Pilots Do a Barrel Roll!" in the ground as well. A frightening attempt had him attempting it using GASOLINE. And we never even learned what he planned to write...
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* One of the planets in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is described as having a long monologue carved into its surface by batarian space pirates with energy weapons. It celebrates the superiority and achievements of one "Captain Zaysh", and goes on to say very rude things about the parents of every human in the galaxy.
** In the sequel, Jack gives an [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] list of her accomplishments that includes "hijacking a space station and vandalism". If you ask why she included vandalism, she replies that she crashed the space station into a hanar shrine on a small moon. "The hanar ''really'' liked that moon."
* Near the end of ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon
** This being [[Magnificent Bastard|Durandal]], of course, what he writes is "This is the fate of the stupid." In Latin.
* The first [[Downloadable Content]] character in ''[[BlazBlue]]'', Makoto Nanaya, combines this with [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] to slug a fist imprint into the moon, then punch the enemy through it.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Cataclysm'', the goblins terraform the zone of Azshara into a giant Horde symbol. (See that [http://www.wowpedia.org/images/d/d8/WorldMap-Kalimdor-cata.jpg C-shaped bay at the northeast]{{Dead link}}?) Their leader, Trade Prince Gallywix, also [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313051153/http://wowction.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/new-cataclysm-zone-qa-azshara-5.jpg carves his own face] into the mountain plateau on which he builds his "Pleasure Palace".
* In ''[[Earth Eternal]]'', Man's final war actually shattered the moon into a mass of fragments with a [[Sickly Green Glow]] coming from between them.
* In ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'', HD Asagi uses this in her final skill, which knocks the enemies around her into orbit... right in the path of the Yoshitsuna's [[Wave Motion Gun]]. As they're being annihilated, she carves a signature into the face of the earth. [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|This isn't a joke - it really happens!]]
* In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', Augus slices the moon deep enough in Episode 11 to make the sliced chunk rise high. {{spoiler|Evil Ryu punches the sliced chunk back into place in Lost Episode 1, and Oni not only does the same damage in Lost Episode 2 that Augus did, but Asura's fight with him ends up epically destroying the moon.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one of the early ''[[Exploitation Now]]'' strips, cute teenage
* [http://pbfcomics.com/105/ This] ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' strip features the [[Jerkass]] aliens snickering to themselves as they've carved something on the moon. Then one of them actually looks in the book of "human terminology" and they realise it says "you guys sock".
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony pokes the moon (after [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=490 Coyote steals it] to demonstrate his power, showing it to her about the [[Perspective Magic|size of a ping pong ball]]) leaving a giant [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=501 fingerprint] on it. This fingerprint is still visible in later chapters and is considered a [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=919 genuine scientific mystery] in-universe.
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* A wallpaper available from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' shows Agatha using a large [[Death Ray]] to turn the moon into a jack-o'-lantern.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The moon orbiting the world of Remnant in [[Rooster Teeth]]'s series ''[[RWBY]]'' is partially shattered. Viewers don't learn until early in Volume 6 ''why'' -- {{spoiler|the God of Darkness blew through it on his way off the planet after Salem pissed him and his brother the God of Light off}}.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In one ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway, Ted Turner announces he colorized the moon, as a reference to when he colorized ''[[Casablanca]]'' and ''[[King Kong]]'', which is tantamount to vandalizing art (thinking putting a moustache on the Mona Lisa, it's like that to film buffs).
* In the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' episode "Lasers in the Night", Cobra Commander attempted to carve his likeness into the moon. One imagines (or at least hopes) he would actually be carving his hood, as opposed to his actual face. In that episode however, Destro is outraged that the Commander wasted his organization's resources for "cosmic graffiti."
* Chairface Chippendale in the animated and comic forms of ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' attempted to carve his name into the moon. He only gets as far as "CHA".
** Later, The Tick goes to the moon on a mission to carefully plant explosives so that the CHA will be removed...and botches it, of course. The resulting explosion causes everyone to believe he's dead, and only the C is removed—so the moon's lettering now reads "HA". Later that episode Omnipotus (a parody of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] Galactus) ''takes a bite out of'' the moon (after [[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]] gives him a [[Patrick Stewart Speech]] to protect Earth). The half-eaten, scarred moon is then seen regularly throughout the series.
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' had MAD planting bombs on the moon to turn its surface into a giant MAD symbol.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Mr. Burns uses lasers to project a picture of Lisa kissing Millhouse onto the moon.
{{quote|'''Millhouse:''' Yeah! Go moon Millhouse!}}
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' "Chez [[
** And the Martians sculpt the face of Candace on the planetary surface, but Doofenshmirtz accidentally redoes it so it looks "kind of like a Rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig".
** One episode has Dr. Doofenshmirtz planning to put his name on the Tri-State Area by spraying the ozone layer with chemical spray-cans.
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* Sartana of the Dead uses her mystic guitar to carve her own likeness into the moon in ''[[El Tigre]]''
* In the [[Tex Avery]] cartoon "Billy Boy", the titular [[Extreme Omnivore|billy goat]] ends up ''eating'' the entire moon.
* In the backstory to ''[[My Little Pony:
* Not caused by sentient forces, but the apocalypse in ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' is a comet going between the Earth and the Moon, [[Shattered World|
* Dr. Wily in the ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon tries to "Pull za ''moon'', out of its or''bit''!" in one episode.
== [[Other Media]] ==▼
▲== Other ==
* Old joke: "President, the Communists have finished painting the moon red!" "OK, get some white paint and go paint 'COCA-COLA' on it."
** Used to be 'Marlboro'. The Soviets then painted the warning about smoking underneath.
* A concept design by WETA Workshop's Dr. Grordbort group, the [http://www.drgrordborts.com/products/goliathon-800-moonhater-deathray/ Goliathon 800 Moonhater Deathray], is a perfect example of this trope.
* One of the disturbingly-realistic videos from amateur SFX creator [[The Faking Hoaxer (Creator)|The Faking Hoaxer]] shows [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5JVzZlzZbU the moon with a chunk blown out of it], supposedly by an asteroid that would have otherwise been on a collision course with Earth.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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