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Tokyo is destroyed and rebuilt with monotonous regularity. This often happens because [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe]].
[[Truth in Television|History proves this trope true to a depressing degree.]] [[Japanese Architecture|Traditional Japanese construction techniques]] rely almost entirely on wood, bamboo, and paper; the country's history of typhoons and earthquakes tended to discourage people from building with materials they didn't want to have land on their heads. Combined with Edo/Tokyo's enormous density, this resulted in the entire city essentially burning down to the foundations every couple of generations. The last great
One more note for this trope: no matter ''how'' the destruction happens, it will rarely happen [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo|thanks to a nuclear bomb]].
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* ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'': As out of place as it may seem, the trope appears in {{spoiler|the last episode, when Tokyo is engulfed by Shonen Bat's rapidly growing form. It's rebuilt by the end of the episode, of course. And its implied the whole thing will happen over again, if that's not enough.}}
* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' is built following a massive earthquake that levels Tokyo, and there's recently been another strong earthquake {{spoiler|or possibly a giant robot got loose again}}.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' abuses Tokyo quite a bit. The first battle of the series takes place in Shinjuku, which starts out as a massacre of civilians until Zero and the terrorists get involved. The first season finale has a huge, decisive battle there, which massive collateral damage. There's another battle there late in the second season, which ends with {{spoiler|the utter annihilation of Tokyo using a quasi-nuke that literally vaporizes most of the city}}
This doesn't even get into the destruction and occupation of the city before the series proper even begins. During the majority of the series, Tokyo is actually split between the rich "Settlement/Concession", where the Britannians live, and the run-down ghettos that were never really rebuilt where the "Numbers" are forced to reside.
* ''[[RahXephon]]'' plays with this. At first, it seems to be [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] with the whole world ''besides'' Tokyo having been destroyed. However, it's quickly revealed that this isn't true, and that Tokyo has instead been sealed off from the outside world, with nobody being able to enter or leave, which is close enough to it having been destroyed from the perspective of the people living outside of it. The events of the series are kicked off when people from outside manage to break through, and take a person (and a [[Humongous Mecha]]) from inside back out with them.
* In the final arc of ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', a [[Mad Scientist]] attempts to vaporize most of Tokyo.
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== Video Games ==
* Much of [[Earth Defense Force 2017]] takes place in and around Tokyo during a massive and devistating alien invasion. You end up causing more collateral damage then the aliens, however.
* In ''[[Terranigma]]'', when the [[Big Bad]] pulls out his evil biological weapon, the only city that gets hit
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' has Tokyo destroyed by nuclear weapons, and then flooded by God. The [[MMORPG]] ''IMAGINE'' takes place after these events.
* ''[[Sin and Punishment]]'' decides that blowing up Tokyo is too blasé, and instead literally drowns it in blood.
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== Real Life ==
* During [[World War Two]], there was something akin to a real Tokyo Fireball. On
** The [[wikipedia:Great Kanto Earthquake|Great Kanto Earthquake]] of 1923 also burned down much of the city. It was the inspiration for the earthquake in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', above.
** There's also Little Boy itself, the Atomic Bomb that was detonated above Hiroshima August 6, 1945 which turned the city into rubble under a large mushroom cloud.
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