History Main / DefaceOfTheMoon

* A Double Trope example is found in SuperDreadnoughtGirl4946, where the title character impales a {{Kaiju}} on the Moon with ''TokyoTower''. '

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', Antimony pokes the moon (after [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 Coyote steals it]] to demonstrate his power, showing it to her about the size of a ping pong ball) leaving a giant [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=503 fingerprint]] on it.

* In {{Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal}}, the Altarians do this with expected results. [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1671# comic 1671]]

** [[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y679eQn3S-MC&pg=PA543&lpg=PA543&dq=arthur+ c+ clarke+ %22Watch+ this+ Space%22&source=bl&ots=sKPsuZN00x&sig=gAxQMce_uDlWcMFvbUPuVyf4MWM&hl=en&ei=d9SmSsTINZCXlAfIo9CCBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5# v=onepage&q=&f=false External Link]]

* In the backstory to ''MyLittlePony: Friendship is Magic'', Princess Celestia imprisoned her sister, Princess Luna, [[SealedEvilInACan on the moon]] after she [[FaceHeelTurn turned evil]] and attempted to create TheNightThatNeverEnds. As a sign of her imprisonment, a profile of the exiled princess appeared on the moon, and it disappears when she is freed in the first episode.

* After the Sputnik debacle the US was desperately searching for ways to one-up the Soviets in the space race, and a proposal was made that an atomic bomb be detonated on the moon! [[strike: Un]]Fortunately they decided to send astronauts instead.

* In the TexAvery cartoon "Billy Boy", the titular [[ExtremeOmnivore billy goat]] ends up ''eating'' the entire moon.

* After the Sputnik debacle the US was desperately searching for ways to one-up the Soviets in the space race, and a proposal was made that an atomic bomb be detonated on the moon! Fortunately they decided to send astronauts instead.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7UGHkBikpY Here's the video]], for those interested.

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** Used to be 'Marlboro'.

* A Double Trope example is found in SuperDreadnoughtGirl4946, where the title character impales a {{Kaiju}} on the Moon with ''TokyoTower''.

* One proposal for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence involves looking for suspiciously artifical arrangements of celestial bodies. Such an arrangement would be advantageous because of their visiblity over vast distances and time spans.

* The 1903 (!) silent film ''FromTheEarthToTheMoon'' the cannon-fired capsule pokes the man in the moon in the eye.

* In RogerZelazny's ''Lord of Light'', one example of the weaponmaking ability of [[GadgeteerGenius Lord Yama]] is how the "fire wand" he made for Lord Agni scarred the faces of all three moons when Agni stood on the seashore and waved the thing.

* In the fourth book of Jack Vance's ''Demon Princes'', [[CompleteMonster Lens Larque's]] grand scheme is to [[spoiler: explosively imprint his hideous face in a moon over a planet of racist snobs]]. In something of a subversion, the hero [[spoiler: kills Larque before he can realize his triumph but then carries out the plan anyway, because the snobs really ''do'' have it coming.]]

* Former Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos had his face carved into the side of a mountain, just to remind everybody how powerful he was. After he was deposed, someone blew it up.

* Referenced by Frankie Boyle on MockTheWeek, upon discovering the pirce of the 2012 London Olympics, and the excuse that it will 'improve national morale", Frankie Boyle suggests that "For that money, we could have written 'Fuck off, Germany' on the moon."

** And the Martians sculpt the face of Candace on the planetary surface, but Doofenschmirtz accidentally redoes it so it looks "kind of like a Rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig".

* Near the end of ''{{Marathon}} 2'', [[AIIsACrapshoot Durandal]] blasts rival uberintelligent AI Tycho's ship out of oribt. It crashes on Lh'owon's moon. Durandal then uses his WaveMotionGun to carve a 300 meter-high epitaph into the moon's surface for Tycho.