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* ''Film/CatWomenOfTheMoon''. A flaming meteor [[SpaceIsNoisy whistles through space]] and lodges in the tailfin of their RetroRocket, causing the heat to rise in the atomic chamber. [[HollywoodScience It's that kind of movie.]]
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* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Starscourge Radahn heralds his phase transition by turning ''himself'' into one, leaping into the sky and barreling into the player in a DynamicEntry that will most ''certainly'' be a OneHitKill if they don't dodge in time.
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* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has the recurring Meteor spell, which drops one or more flaming space rocks on the target for massive damage.
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* Notable for being aversions: In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' and ''VideoGame/LegendOfDragoon'', the meteor spells ''are'' actually [[DishingOutDirt earth-elemental]].
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** The original ''Warcraft'' had the Conjurer unit able to summon a multitude of fiery meteors with the "Rain of Fire" spell, though the Mage of ''Warcraft II'' and Archmage of ''Warcraft III'' switched to the icy "Blizzard" [=AoE=] spell instead, giving the Rain of Fire ability to the demonic Pit Lord. However, the Mage class in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' eventually gets the "Meteor" spell, which calls down a flaming rock that does large damage in the impact zone while leaving behind a lingering patch of fire. Some [=NPCs=] instead get the [[UpToEleven "Meteor Swarm"]] spell.
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** The original ''Warcraft'' had the Conjurer unit able to summon a multitude of fiery meteors with the "Rain of Fire" spell, though the Mage of ''Warcraft II'' and Archmage of ''Warcraft III'' switched to the icy "Blizzard" [=AoE=] spell instead, giving the Rain of Fire ability to the demonic Pit Lord. However, the Mage class in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' eventually gets the "Meteor" spell, which calls down a flaming rock that does large damage in the impact zone while leaving behind a lingering patch of fire. Some [=NPCs=] instead get the [[UpToEleven "Meteor Swarm"]] Swarm" spell.
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** [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Several hundred years later]] it's not only stable but hollowed out to serve as a maximum-security prison known as the Ministry of Truth. When Vivec's power finally does run out after his [[{{UncertainDoom}} disappearance/death]], Baar Dau picks up right where it left off, [[ColonyDrop and hits Vivec City with its full momentum]].
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** Several hundred years later by the time of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' it's not only stable but hollowed out to serve as a maximum-security prison known as the Ministry of Truth. When Vivec's power finally does run out after his [[{{UncertainDoom}} disappearance/death]], Baar Dau picks up right where it left off, [[ColonyDrop and hits Vivec City with its full momentum]].
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** [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Several hundred years later by the time of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' later]] it's not only stable but hollowed out to serve as a maximum-security prison known as the Ministry of Truth. When Vivec's power finally does run out after his [[{{UncertainDoom}} disappearance/death]], Baar Dau picks up right where it left off, [[ColonyDrop and hits Vivec City with its full momentum]].
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* Baar Dau ''was'' a flaming meteor in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'', with only the will of [[BarrierMaiden Vivec]] (the god) preventing it from crashing into [[{{Egopolis}} Vivec]] (the city). When his power wanes, it picks up its re-entry flames and moves closer before its momentum is finally arrested and it comes to a stop in its final resting position. It's original source is unknown, but rumour holds that it was thrown by [[MadGod Sheogorath]] and considering the cosmology of the Elder Scrolls this is not a baseless assumption.
** Several hundred years later by the time of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' it's not only stable but hollowed out to serve as a maximum-security prison known as the Ministry of Truth. When Vivec's power finally does run out after his [[{{UncertainDoom}} disappearance/death]], Baar Dau picks up right where it left off, [[ColonyDrop and hits Vivec City with its full momentum]].
** Several hundred years later by the time of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' it's not only stable but hollowed out to serve as a maximum-security prison known as the Ministry of Truth. When Vivec's power finally does run out after his [[{{UncertainDoom}} disappearance/death]], Baar Dau picks up right where it left off, [[ColonyDrop and hits Vivec City with its full momentum]].
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Because of this association with fire, if anyone has [[MeteorSummoningAttack the ability to call down meteors]], it's the person PlayingWithFire, sometimes as a LimitBreak. In these cases, they're often {{Slap On The Wrist Nuke}}s. Compare with the standard {{Fireballs}}, which are sometimes depicted as small rocks that are on fire. Piss off your GameMaster enough and [[RocksFallEveryoneDies it might be these particular rocks that fall]]. Contrast FrictionlessReentry; when objects travelling through space can get into the atmosphere without the atmosphere igniting.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'': The mage spell Meteor calls down a giant flaming meteor that deals massive damage to a target minion and splash damage to adjacent minions. With the ''Forged in the Barrens'' expansion, it's part of the Fire spell school.
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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': The 4[[superscript:th]] Edition spell "Comet of Casandora" [[ColonyDrop calls down]] a large comet onto the battlefield, dealing a huge amount of damage and igniting everything underneath.
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* The Ixalan block of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' added a card based on this trope called "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=star%20of%20extinction Star of Extinction]]," which destroys a land and deals 20 damage to everything that isn't a player, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin usually killing everything in play]]. It's depicted as a group of white-hot meteorites with flaming, smoking tails.
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Because of this association with fire, if anyone has the ability to [[MeteorSummoningAttack call down meteors]], it's the person PlayingWithFire, sometimes as a LimitBreak. In these cases, they're often {{Slap On The Wrist Nuke}}s. Compare with the standard {{Fireballs}}, which are sometimes depicted as small rocks that are on fire. Piss off your GameMaster enough and [[RocksFallEveryoneDies it might be these particular rocks that fall]]. Contrast FrictionlessReentry; when objects travelling through space can get into the atmosphere without the atmosphere igniting.
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Because of this association with fire, if anyone has the ability to [[MeteorSummoningAttack call down Meteors]], it's the person PlayingWithFire, sometimes as a LimitBreak. In these cases, they're often {{Slap On The Wrist Nuke}}s. Compare with the standard {{Fireballs}}, which are sometimes depicted as small rocks that are on fire. Piss off your GameMaster enough and [[RocksFallEveryoneDies it might be these particular rocks that fall]]. Contrast FrictionlessReentry; when objects travelling through space can get into the atmosphere without the atmosphere igniting.
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Whether because most writers only know of meteors from the dozens of videos of meteors igniting the atmosphere ([[RuleOfPerception making it look like the meteor itself is burning]]), or because [[IncendiaryExponent it looks cool]], meteors in media are depicted as literal burning, or red-hot, boulders that incinerate anything they [[ConvectionSchmonvection touch]]. If the object is burning even before the atmosphere is at all within range, then it's safe to assume that SpaceIsAir is in effect as well.
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* In the ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''City at World's End'', the moon of the planet Sarath is set into a descending orbit after it is struck by a meteor, with serious geological implications even before it strikes the planet; by the time the TARDIS arrives, there is just over a month before the moon will hit and destroy all life on Sarath.
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* Played with in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' by the Meteor Swarm spell, which conjures small "meteors" that deal bludgeoning damage on impact and then explode for fire damage.
* The Ixalan block of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' added a card based on this trope called "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=star%20of%20extinction Star of Extinction]]," which destroys a land and deals 20 damage to everything that isn't a player, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin usually killing everything in play]].
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' III. The "Meteor Shower" spell falls under the [[DishingOutDirt Earth magic]] school.
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* [[PlayingWithFire Ember]] from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' has an ability "Inferno", which causes flaming rocks to fall on enemies' heads-- even indoors-- engulfing any surviving enemy on fire.
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* ''Film/TheBlackHole''. A shower of glowing meteors start to pummel the ''Cygnus'' as it flies toward the eponymous black hole, smashing their way through the MileLongShip and inflicting fatal damage. One gigantic (and suspiciously-spherical) red-hot meteor comes rolling down the Cygnus's central shaft as the [[IndyEscape heroes rush across a small footbridge in its path]].
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': During the copious amount of space travel the background has frequent depictions of "shooting stars". In space, not in atmosphere.
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* At the end of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 86, as a side-effect of Wolffy's unlucky potion, Wolf Castle starts to burn. Then a meteor covered in flames swoops right through the castle, hits Wolffy, and goes back up into the air with him.
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