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What happens when [[God]] (or [[Our Gods Are Different|the gods]]) decides to [[Kill It Withwith Water]]. [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|All of it]].
 
[[Older Than Dirt|Older than the book itself]], this is the one element that seems nearly ubiquitous in mythology, and with good reason: it may have had a basis in reality (a hypothesized late Pleistocene/Early Holocene flooding event, possibly from a [[Colony Drop|small asteroid impact]] or earthquake off the coast of Madagascar causing a tsunami), but as a kind of cultural memory it forms the backbone of many origin mythologies, from the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime to the biblical Book of Genesis. Usually the moral of the story is "don't piss off the gods," but sometimes the flooding is part of the process of (re)creating a world.
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== Mythology and Religion ==
* ''[[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]'', obviously. {{spoiler|[[It Was His Sled|Noah lives.]]}}
** Averted in the Qu'ran, in which the flood is merely local and destroys only one civilization.
* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'': The earliest recorded example.
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* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': the god Poseidon, wishing to wash away the filth of mankind, raises the oceans to destroy all of civilization. In the anime, this is compounded by the [[Barrier Maiden|priestess]] Hilda praying to [[Crossover Cosmology|Odin]] to preserve the ice in the [[Grim Up North]] eternally frozen; her absence causes it to melt and contribute to the flooding. Confusingly, this (and the first major story arc) is all part of a [[Xanatos Roulette]] that started long before the start of the series.
* ''[[Dragon Knights]]'': the demon fish Varawoo sunk the world before it was sealed away.
* [[Now and Then Here Andand There]] : Don't piss off Lala Ru.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* This was the end result in ''[[Two Thousand Twelve2012]]''. The earthquakes and volcanic eruptions were merely a prelude.
* The "Rite of Spring" segment of ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]]'' actually ends with the entire Earth being flooded by a massive tidal wave caused by a solar eclipse.
* In [[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire]] the Biblical flood was caused by the Atlantis' weapons research and the city was sunk to ''save'' it from destruction.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Flood]]'', by [[Stephen Baxter]], is a hard sci-fi depiction of a global flood in modern times.
* One of the two founding myths of [[Discworld|Ankh-Morpork]] involves a boat that was built to withstand a great flood, containing two of every animal. The accumulated waste products of all the animals was tipped over the side, and they called it Ankh-Morpork.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', one of the things that worries the Slightly Reverend Mightily Oats about Omnian dogma is that ''every'' Discly culture has a flood myth, similar but different to the one in the Book of Om.
* According to [[Word of God]], the past of the ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' universe featured one, causing Syren Island to sink beneath the sea.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Perfect Chaos from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] Adventure''.
* One of these apparently happened sometime between ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'' and ''[[MegamanMega Man Legends|Legends]]''.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Wind Waker]]'' takes place in a world where the Flood waters have yet to recede. [[Ocean Punk|Everybody lives on mountaintops]].
* In ''[[Final Fantasy III (Video Game)|Final Fantasy III]]'', destroying the balance between Light and Darkness plunges the world into the latter, [[Time Stands Still|freezing the surface in time]] and then flooding it so only a temple and a priestess remain above water.
* The goal of Team Aqua in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'' and Emerald.
* Killing Poseidon unleashes a great flood in [[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]] 3. And he's merely the ''first'' God to die in that game.
* Konami's ''[[Noahs Ark (Video Game)|Noahs Ark]]'' actually takes place ''during the flood'' where the water slowly raises during gameplay.
* [[Fire Emblem]]: {{spoiler|Radiant Dawn explains that before years began to be counted, Ashunera expressed great grief over the warring of the Beorc and Laguz, and caused the entire world to be flooded due to her grief overlapping with her power unintentionally. She then split into Ashera and Yune, causing a war of dominance to take place.}}
 
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