Topic on Talk:Planet Killer

As I type this, the trope candidate has 17 examples and four categories in addition to the default ones.

The description is sparse, but serviceable.

The image, though, is JAFAAC. I think it's iconic enough to work, but I know that I think differently from most other people...

Do we need a different image on this one, or can I request a vote? (Fair disclosure: I wrote the first draft of the trope candidate.)

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No, like you said, I think it's iconic and certainly well-known enough to serve.

Although we could always switch it out for Darph Nader destroying the peaceful planet Basketball in Hardware Wars, if you really want. <grin>

I don't know about this, wouldn't it be the same thing as Doomsday Device?

This is a supertorpe to Doomsday Device, in that a Planet Killer can be a natural event or a person. Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen, for example, is a Planet Killer but not a Doomsday Device.

Maybe add a second panel that shows Alderaan's destruction?

I'm thinking that an "Alderaan's destruction" image belongs on an Image Links subpage of Earth-Shattering Kaboom, not here. After all, the point to having this as a separate trope is to separate the cause and the effect.