Star-Killing: Difference between revisions

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Green Lantern]]'', the Sun-Eater was killing Earth's sun, Hal Jordan does a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that saves it and restores the damage. In the process, it shone green for a day.

* An early issue of Marvel's ''Epic Illustrated'' includes a story about an attempt to tap energy directly from the core of the Earth's sun. This goes horribly wrong, causing the sun to go nova.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' revolves around stopping the use of a missile capable of stopping all fusion in a star, causing a near instant nova.

* The original name for the Skywalkers in early drafts of ''[[Star Wars]]'' was "Starkiller". This has [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller popped up a few times in the expanded universe].

 

** Not only do they kill the star, but they {{spoiler|turn it into a [[Awesome but Impractical|huge Flamethrower]] }}

* A novel by Barrington J. Bayley included a weapon which worked by eliminating all of the electrons in a star, thereby rendering fusion impossible. A star hit by the weapon would lose 1/1400 of its mass and instantly go out.

* The Ascendants in the ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' have a weapon capable of destroying stars, as seen in ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: The Dominion''.

* An appendix to Iain M. Banks' ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' summarises the vast interstellar war the novel was set in, with a casual mention that among the tally of destruction was six stars. In a later book, we learn that one of them harboured an inhabited planet.

* The titular "iron-bombing" of Moscow's star in ''[[The Eschaton Series|Iron Sunrise]]'' by [[Charles Stross]]. Not an "iron bomb" [[Air-Launched Weapons|in the USAF sense of the word]], the process involves sending the target star's core into a [[Pocket Dimension]] [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|with a vastly accelerated time flow]]. [[Time Abyss|As quintillions of years pass in the mini-universe]], the superheated hydrogen cools and [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|eventually transmutes through quantum tunneling into a solid iron crystal]]. When the now-shrunken core is returned to the center of the star, the outer layers fall toward it, bounce off (iron doesn't like to be fused) and rebound explosively. The entire process [[Shown Their Work|is a fair approximation of what actually occurs in a Type II supernova]] (apart from the pocket dimension, anyway).

* The [[Satan|Lone Power]] of the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series can both cause a star to suddenly stop radiating light ([[A Wizard Did It|by presumably supernatural means]]), and also cause a star to go nova (by presumably more scientific means). This gives It one of Its [[I Have Many Names|many names]], "Star Snuffer".

* In ''Down The Bright Way'' by [[Robert Reed]], the [[Humans Are Bastards|UnFound]] are wiped out [[All the Myriad Ways|on each separate Earth]] via star killing. Since the UnFound inhabit every planet, and thousands upon thousands of asteroids and comets in each Earth's solar system, making the sun burn away most of its mass in a miniature supernova becomes the most effective way to kill the UnFound.

* The aliens that live inside stars described in [[Frederik Pohl]]'s novel ''The World at the End of Time'' have the nasty habit of attacking each other causing the stars where they live to go nova {{spoiler|without any regards to the people that could live in the planets orbiting them, as occurred with the humans on Earth}}. However, it does not totally qualify since the affected stars "heal" after some millennia.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'' it's implied {{spoiler|that the far future dying of our sun is caused by humanity's enemies.}}

* There is the Hand Of Omega, from classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'' which is a remote stellar manipulator the Time Lords use to tinker with stars to make them do as they wish, in "Remembrance Of The Daleks" the Doctor uses it to {{spoiler|destroy the Skaro solar system}}. In New Who the Doctor uses the energy of a supernova to talk to Rose the first time she got dumped into another dimension, although he doesn't actually say he ''caused'' it.

** SG-1 also once poisoned a sun ''accidentally'' when a wormhole's trajectory passed through it and dropped superheavy elements as it passed. They (or the Asgard; they never actually clear that up) manage to fix it by the end of the episode.

* In the TV Series ''[[Andromeda]]'', Commonwealth warships had a complement of 40 NovaBombs - missiles designed to destroy a star by cancelling out any gravitational forces, literally, pulling it apart and causing it to explode. In the pilot the Andromeda Ascendant uses up her entire complement canceling out a black hole's gravity.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] II'' allows you to build a (painfully slow) ship that can detonate a star, and turn all planets around t into asteroid fields. Of course, it's a great example of [[Awesome but Impractical]]

* In ''[[RPG Shooter Starwish]]'', Bamboo's sun was turned into a black hole {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|by accident]]}} before the game. {{spoiler|It happens again during the game, but the star killer just wants the star, and surrenders her power so the orbiting planet and its inhabitants may be saved.}}

* The [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Shivans]] of ''[[Free Space]]'' {{spoiler|wind up destroying the Capella system in a massive supernova at the end of the second game}}. Well over a decade after the games' release and the franchise's abandonment, there are still no clear answers as to why or how they accomplished this.

* In [[Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]] the Empire of the Seven Systems (the good guys FYI) used a [http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00012.html stellar lance] on the [[Absolute Xenophobe|Kvrk]]-[[Horde of Alien Locusts|chk]] as a deterrent.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|Destroying the Green Sun, a star twice the size of Earth's universe and the source of the powers of [[Physical God|First Guardians]] (and by extension [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]]), was [[Godzilla Threshold|one of the three means]] by which the kids intend to deal with how fucked up their Sburb session is; Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider travelled to the Sun with a bomb of sufficient power to destroy it with the intent of doing so. Subverted in spectacular fashion with the reveal that they were tricked into literally ''creating'' the Sun.}}

 

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