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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[
** The Cybermen did the same thing again in ''Earthshock'' when they tried to crash a massive transport ship into future Earth to stop an anti-Cybermen conference. They succeeded. Sort of. Adric inadvertently saves the planet by fiddling with the controls so the thing goes back in time to the time of dinosaurs.
* An episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' has the accumulated space junk accidentally forming into this level of a threat. Not so much a colony drop, but space junk drop to make it implicit to only the title town.
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* ''Millenium 2.2'' had a lunar colony try to rebuild Earth after it was hit by a 2.2 trillion ton asteroid.
* In ''[[Dead Space (Video Game)|Dead Space]]'', on the last level {{spoiler|the marker activates, disabling gravity tethers holding a chunk of the planet in space with the Ishimura. This causes the chunk to crash down to the planet's surface, wiping out the [[Hive Mind]].}}
* ''[[Power Stone]] 2'' has meteors rain down from the sky and reduces all players' health so low that just tapping someone kills them. This happens when time runs out and initiates sudden death. In sudden death if the players take too long to kill each other, ''[[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|more meteors rain down and kill everyone]]'', resulting in a draw.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', during the Krogan Rebellions the krogan began dropping asteroids and space stations onto turian worlds when the turians intervened on the Citadel's behalf. This just pissed the turians off even more.
** Additionally, during the invasion of Shanxi the Turians dropped orbital debris from the space battle in order to break pockets of resistance on the colony's surface.
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* During the fight with Balder in ''[[Bayonetta]]'', after blasting at Bayonetta with a [[Kill Sat]], he decides to ''drop the satellite itself'' onto her. And at the very end of the game, {{spoiler|Jeanne and Bayonetta team up to destroy Jubileus's body before it crashes into the Earth and destroys it.}}
* The [[Backstory]] for ''[[Massive Assault]]'' mentions terrorists hijacking long-range shuttles and using them to crash into Earth cities.
* The games set in the [[X (Video Game)|X-Universe]] allow players to build [[Space Station|space stations]] basically wherever in a sector they wish. The game mechanic basically consists of [[Ridiculously
* This is how Igniz planned to end ''[[The King of Fighters]] 2001'', by driving the NESTS space station into Southtown. K' dealt with him before that was to happen, though.
* DLC for ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' shows {{spoiler|The Karma Fortress falling to earth at some point.}}
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** Then, in the conclusion of the ''Sinestro Corps War'', {{spoiler|John Stewart and Guy Gardner get the idea to take the newly recreated Warworld and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome Comics|throw it on top of the goddamn Anti-Monitor]].}}
* In ''The Rebels'' (of the [[Elf Quest]] universe), a rogue human military executes a very stealthy colony drop on the alien's home planet at the outer rim of the solar system. How stealthy? They've spent twenty years making slow course corrections on the asteroid, just to make sure it won't get detected by spaceship warning systems.
* In ''Sigil'' (of [[Cross Gen]]), there is a plot by the [[Big Bad]] (who by that time had been superceeded by a Bigger Bad, however) to ram an asteroid into the humans' capital planet, by equipping said asteroid with a gigantic [[Faster
* In ''[[All Fall Down (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'', a giant asteroid, Penumbra, threatens to collide with Earth. {{spoiler|It turns out to be an elaborate hoax.}}
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* The Japanese live-action movie ''Gorath'' involved a super-dense wandering planet with 4,000 times the mass of Earth; the only way to solve the problem, in the end, was to attach giant engines to Earth and move it out of the way.
** The threat of Gorath reappears in ''[[Godzilla]]: Final Wars'' ({{spoiler|faked by the alien invaders}}), as well as a smaller "weaponized" asteroid ({{spoiler|meant mostly as a means to transport Monster X/Ghidorah to Earth}}).
* Precisely-aimed meteors were the [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] of the "bugs" in the movie version of ''[[Starship Troopers (Film)|Starship Troopers]]''. Although it's ridiculously implausible that the bugs could hurl rocks over light years of distance on a sane timescale and with any sort of accuracy, an apparently disposable bit of background chatter suggests the rocks were coming from much closer to home. It may have been a natural disaster that the space Nazis used to justify a war against the bugs (or they could have been [[False
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', in which a living ([[Ultimate Evil|and evil]]) asteroid threatens to impact Earth.
* In the [[So Bad It's Good|classic]] sci-fi movie ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|This Island Earth]]'', the planet Metaluna is bombarded by thousands of meteorites, [[Space Does Not Work That Way|gradually turning it into a radioactive sun]].
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** See also ''Footfall''.
* The moon-based rebels in the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] book ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' blackmail Earth for independence with moon rocks catapulted from the moon to Earth. (Note that these are actually the ''good'' guys, waging war against an oppressive government). This sequence is referenced or repeated in many, many space operas.
** The above is also given a [[Shout
* In [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Empire From the Ashes|The Armageddon Inheritance]]'', alien invaders on a xenophobic/genocidal crusade try dropping a big rock on Earth. When that is stopped, they decide to go all the way to the top and launch one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, at Earth in the second attempt.
* In [[David Weber]] 's [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honorverse]], the hegemonic Solarian League has written the "Eridani Edict" into their constitution, forbidding any variety of mass destruction of civilian targets on pain of them wiping out your empire. Turns out they didn't much like having one of their planets get massacred by RKVs a few centuries back...
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** This is considered so heineous, that even the Vorlons issue a formal statement decrying the act. The Vorlons, mind you, whose entire foreign policy consists of "''We take no interest in the affairs of others.''"
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' falls back on this every so often. The first time, four [[Humongous Mecha]] pushed the asteroid far enough off-course to miss Earth. The other three times, it was blown up. And then, there was a literal colony drop: at the end of Lost Galaxy, the [[Big Bad]] reactivates the largest dome of the massive space colony and aims it at the settlement on the planet.
* The ''[[
* Heroic reversal in ''[[Captain Power and The Soldiers of The Future]]'': one half of Lord Dread's Project New Order involved capturing the human population with an orbital Digitizer, the space station ''[[Prophetic Name|Icarus]]''. Power and his team infiltrate the [[Big Bad]]'s base and hack into ''Icarus''' ground control, forcing it down from orbit and on a collision course with Dread's capital city, Volcania.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth in the Yucatan Peninsula. Not only did this asteroid wipe out all of the non-avian dinosaurs on Earth at this time, but it killed a good portion of life on Earth, including the pterosaurs, the sea reptiles (mosasaurs and plesiosaurs), the main reef builders, some of the crocodilians, a lot of the plants, etc. Mammals are thought to have barely gotten through the extinction with the skin of their teeth.
** Or the [
** Now that the Yucatan evidence has largely substantiated the K-T collision for dinosaurs' extinction, the notion that other extinction events or disruptions of climate could be a result of other, smaller-scale impacts has become somewhat more acceptable.
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== Moons ==
== Literature ==
* The Achuultani in ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' are big fans of this. [[Cool Starship|Dahak]] speculates that they were responsible for the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. In the second book, Achuultani scouts steal [
* Pug uses a moon to attack a ''single creature'' in ''[[The Riftwar Cycle]]'', by opening a wormhole-like rift connecting a point just in front of the moon's path to a point just above the creature in question. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. To be fair, the creature {{spoiler|had already destroyed two '''dimensions''', and Kelewan was doomed even before the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]}}.
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'s ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series, the new enemy, an extremely xenophobic machine-hating race called the Yuuzhan Vong, are introduced by using their ships' gravity controlling features to smash a planet apart with its own moon. Among those killed is {{spoiler|Chewbacca. They later duplicate it during their successful invasion of Coruscant, using the planet's orbital defense stations.}}
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== [[Board Games]] ==
* What's this? ''[
** [[War Games|How about a nice game of chess?]]
* In ''[[Net Runner]]'', normally the corporation can target the hackers with goons and hit squads, which deal two or three damage out of the hacker's five live points. A corp willing to [[Up to Eleven|go that extra mile]] can use the card "I Got A Rock", which drops an ''asteroid'' on the hacker for [[No Kill Like Overkill|a total of fifteen damage]].
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* The Tera Star spell in ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'' drops most of the solar system on the target.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' does this in the game's ending cinematic, wherein {{spoiler|the [[Floating Continent|floating planetoid]] of Cocoon is sent crashing down towards the lowerworld of Pulse after the game's [[Deus Est Machina|god-like machines]]: the fal'Cie [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|are defeated]] with the death of their [[The Chessmaster|leader]], Orphan.}}
** Inevitably, [[Story
* This was the Great Fall disaster that the heroes of ''[[Tales of Eternia (Video Game)|Tales of Eternia]]'' are trying to avert.
* In ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', mere moments after Zetta finishes restoring his netherworld after accidentally incinerating it, Salome immediately crashes her own world into his.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* This is done in the ''[[
* Used rather unexpectedly in the series finale of ''[[Smallville]]'', with {{spoiler|Apokolips}} being summoned next to Earth, nearly colliding with it. {{spoiler|It is stopped by Clark/Superman pushing it away with his bare hands.}}
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[Neopets]] story arc 'The Faeries' Ruin' had an ''epic'' [[Wham! Episode]] which revealed that not only was {{spoiler|Xandra}} the villain, she just crashed Faerieland- that is, a giant floating city-state- into Neopia.
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