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** Child's global rampage to end all life on Earth in ''Phantoms'' has shades of this, alongside some even less earthly phenomena. Apart from the massive flash flood her land-reshaping battle with Klarion causes, after she's briefly gotten rid of him, she promptly creates a new ''active'' volcano in the middle of Sydney, creates an underwater pillar of fire next to Atlantis which rapidly renders the ocean waters lethally toxic, causes Agra, India and everyone at the Taj Mahal to freeze seemingly instantly amidst a blizzard, creates a fire pillar in the middle of the Arctic to rapidly accelerate its melting, and finally causes it to rain fire at her final confrontation with Zatanna's team.
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** Child's global rampage to end all life on Earth in ''Phantoms'' has shades of this, alongside some even less earthly phenomena. Apart from the massive flash flood her land-reshaping battle with Klarion causes, after she's briefly gotten rid of him, she promptly creates a new ''active'' volcano in the middle of Sydney, creates an underwater pillar of fire next to Atlantis which rapidly renders the ocean waters lethally toxic, causes Agra, India and everyone at the Taj Mahal to freeze seemingly instantly amidst a blizzard, creates a fire pillar in the middle of the Arctic to rapidly accelerate its melting, and finally causes it to rain fire at her final confrontation with Zatanna's team.
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* ''[[VideoGame/PipeworksGodzillaTrilogy Godzilla Unleashed]]'': The radioactive {{Power Crystal}}s which rain down on Earth effectively cause this, creating natural disasters in the various worldwide cities they land in, including: earthquakes shattering San Francisco, a blizzard freezing Sydney, toxic chemical gas surrounding Osaka, and a storm and massive tsunamis submerging Tokyo, and Mt. Rainer in Seattle erupting and turning the city into a volcanic wasteland.
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* ''Prostokvashino'' by Eduard Uspensky: PlayedForLaughs. At one point, Sharik, hiding in a box, pretends he is a radio, and makes up a weather forecast for the next day, warning about "early frost leading to a flood" and "earthquake leading to a solar eclipse".
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* ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'': The Chicxulub asteroid's impact causes blinding light, an earthquake, deafening sound, a hellish smoky destruction wave, a rain of fire, and darkness from the dust thrown into the atmosphere. After the initial chaos, sunlight and heat are blocked for a thousand years, dropping down world temperatures, stopping plant photosynthesis and wrecking the food chains. Many animal groups go extinct, including non-avian dinosaurs, sea reptiles and pterosaurs.
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* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'': The apocalyptic week that wiped the people of Tartessos off the planet began with the destruction of the Tower of Babel, which rained lightning over the country, followed by fire storms and an all-encompassing flood that didn't even leave evidence of a ''country ever being there''. It's surprising that anyone was able to survive a catastrophe of such an enormous proportion.
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* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': Earthquakes, storms, volcanic activity and abnormal weather relating to the oceans are eventually revealed to be caused by [[spoiler: Shendu's mother, the Babylonian primordial goddess Tiamat, stirring in her sleep]]. It's also heavily implied by Shendu that [[spoiler:Tiamat has caused this kind of destruction to the world before with minimal effort, and he specifically states she was the engineer of every major extinction event in the planet's history]].
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* ''ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming'': Although the Allspark is largely destroyed before Megatron can use it to finish HostileTerraforming the Earth into a new Cybertron, it was too late to stop the Allspark's energy corrupting the Earth to its core. Part of the results is a variety of chaotic natural disasters (visible on monitors) whilst the Allspark's corruption and Earth's natural state war for equilibrium, threatening to kill the planet. Fortunately, the disaster is healed with the aid of Nucleon.
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* ''ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming'': Although the Allspark is largely destroyed before Megatron can use it to finish HostileTerraforming the Earth into a new Cybertron, it was too late to stop the Allspark's energy corrupting the Earth to its core. Part of the results result is a variety of chaotic natural disasters (visible on monitors) whilst the Allspark's corruption and Earth's natural state war for equilibrium, threatening to kill the planet. Fortunately, the disaster is healed with the aid of Nucleon.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS2E20Endgame Endgame]]", Black Beetle plants multiple [[WeatherControlMachine Magnetic Field Disruptors]] around the globe which degrade the Earth's magnetosphere as they build up power for an EarthShatteringKaboom; causing lightning storms, a tornado chain and an underwater geothermal fissure at the various MFDs' locations, plus the Watchtower's screens also show a megatsunami being triggered.
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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsShatteredEmpire'': Using their space-based climate disruption array, the Empire begins creating catastrophic storms on Naboo which cause fires and flooding all over the world, with the intention of rendering the planet uninhabitable. Fortunately, Leia Organa, Soruna and Shara Bay stopped the attack. It's worth noting, the Empire have also used the disruption array to attack other worlds in other ''Star Wars'' Disney-canon media.
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Note that the disaster chain doesn't have to be caused by GaiasVengeance (although that is one possible cause) -- on the contrary, the Natural Disaster Cascade can sometimes indicate the planet is sick or dying. The disaster chain can potentially be detrimental for just [[GreenAesop humanity]] or for all the planet's biosphere. Villains utilizing a WeatherControlMachine will probably unleash this on the world or at least threaten to do so in order to achieve their goals. Other potential causes are ClimateChange, WeatherManipulation on a grander scale than standard, another DoomsdayDevice, or {{Terraform}}ing gone wrong.
A common staple of {{Disaster Movie}}s. These are often treated as SignsOfTheEndTimes, and may very well be that in truth. If it progresses far enough, it can cause RegionalRedecoration that's often portrayed from space. This trope seems to be getting slightly more popular in recent years as concern about ClimateChange is increasing.
A common staple of {{Disaster Movie}}s. These are often treated as SignsOfTheEndTimes, and may very well be that in truth. If it progresses far enough, it can cause RegionalRedecoration that's often portrayed from space. This trope seems to be getting slightly more popular in recent years as concern about ClimateChange is increasing.
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Note that the disaster chain doesn't have to be caused by GaiasVengeance (although that is one possible cause) -- on the contrary, the Natural Disaster Cascade can sometimes indicate the planet is sick or dying. The disaster chain can potentially be detrimental for just [[GreenAesop humanity]] or for all the planet's biosphere. Villains utilizing a WeatherControlMachine will probably unleash this on the world or at least threaten to do so in order to achieve their goals. Other potential causes are ClimateChange, GlobalWarming, WeatherManipulation on a grander scale than standard, another DoomsdayDevice, or {{Terraform}}ing gone wrong.
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* ''Film/{{Aniara}}'': In the future, Earth has been ravaged by this, the implication being that manmade ClimateChange was responsible. Cloud cover including hurricanes seem to obscure most of the planet's landscape from space, and people horribly scarred by wildfire are a common and uninteresting sight on the titular spaceship.
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* ''Film/{{Aniara}}'': In the future, Earth has been ravaged by this, the implication being that manmade ClimateChange Climate Change was responsible. Cloud cover including hurricanes seem to obscure most of the planet's landscape from space, and people horribly scarred by wildfire are a common and uninteresting sight on the titular spaceship.
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* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes involving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as ClimateChange and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.
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* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes involving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as ClimateChange Climate Change and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.
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* ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'': Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.
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* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes invoving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as ClimateChange and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.
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* ''VideoGame/PajamaSam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening": when Pajama Sam trips on his cape and lands on a BigRedButton, the entire World Wide Weather facility malfunctions, resulting in snow in Saigon, hurricanes in Egypt, and more. While Thunder and Lightning do damage control, Sam is tasked to recover critical pieces to the Weather Machines and replace them.
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* ''ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming'': Although the Allspark is largely destroyed before Megatron can use it to complete HostileTerraforming the Earth into a new Cybertron, it was too late to stop the Allspark's energy corrupting the Earth to its core. Part of the results is a variety of chaotic natural disasters (visible on monitors) whilst the Allspark's corruption and Earth's natural state war for equilibrium, threatening to kill the planet. Fortunately, the disaster is healed with the aid of Nucleon.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': The MatterReplicator machine, once it malfunctions, begins causing a comedic variation, unleashing various entirely food-based forms of weather disasters (a spaghetti tornado, raining various giant foods, and forming a food-based hurricane).
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* ''Film/FlashGordon1980'' opens with Ming causing disasters around the world, all part of the Moon starting to move in closer to the Earth and crash with it. He later explains it's a SecretTestOfCharacter to see if the Earthlings would know if it was an attack, rather than being unexplainable.
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->''"More than sixty volcanoes are erupting worldwide, and downtown Honolulu is under six inches of snow. Scientists continue to devise theories connecting these unprecedented natural disasters with the planetary alignment which- ''[SMPTE color bars]''"''
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A megatsunami is surging through New York, lightning storms are striking Paris, tornadoes are ripping London to shreds, water spouts are on Lake Erie, earthquakes have knocked down half of Tokyo, Moscow is on fire, the ISS can't see Africa through the hurricanes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking it's snowing in Rio]].
In any case, a chain of various simultaneous or close-together natural disasters is suddenly wreaking havoc around the world, regardless of the cause or origin of the calamity. A montage of news footage often shows the different flavors of disaster around the world in short order while reporting on them.
Note that the disaster chain doesn't have to be caused by GaiasVengeance (although that is one possible cause) -- on the contrary, the Natural Disaster Cascade can sometimes indicate the planet is sick or dying. The disaster chain can potentially be detrimental for just [[GreenAesop humanity]] or for all the planet's biosphere. Villains utilizing a WeatherControlMachine will probably unleash this on the world or at least threaten to do so in order to achieve their goals. Other potential causes are ClimateChange, WeatherManipulation on a grander scale than standard, another DoomsdayDevice, or {{Terraform}}ing gone wrong.
A common staple of {{Disaster Movie}}s. These are often treated as SignsOfTheEndTimes, and may very well be that in truth. If it progresses far enough, it can cause RegionalRedecoration that's often portrayed from space. This trope seems to be getting slightly more popular in recent years as concern about ClimateChange is increasing.
This trope is rarely, if ever, a good thing for the heroes in a work, and it can be anywhere from a ApocalypseHow/Class0 to a ApocalypseHow/ClassX on the ApocalypseHow scale. The heroes' goal is almost always to remedy whatever is causing the natural disasters (if it's [[ApocalypseWow not already too]] [[AfterTheEnd late for that]]).
Compare HostileWeather, which is when harsh weather of one or more kinds that might be entirely normative drives the characters and/or plot.
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* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The main human characters' transportation to Digimon Island was preceded by freak climate shifts which caused the rainforest to dry out, murky waters to flood other areas, and normally-sweltering cities to experience freezing temperatures in the summer; and finally a massive blizzard striking the camp where the kids were staying (in the summer) before they were transported.
* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Using Tenpenchii, the Ten-Tails can create a simultaneous blast of natural disasters -- earthquakes, floods, storms and tornadoes -- within the area.
* ''Anime/Pokemon2000'': Lawrence III disrupting the balance of [[FireIceLightning Zapdos, Moltres and Arcticuno]] at the Orange Islands by disturbing the three Pokémon causes a gigantic underwater current to snake out from the islands and cause global freak weather disasters. For a hint about how bad it can get, Professor Oak and Ash's mother witness sunny weather abruptly give way to an ''eight-second'' rainstorm which immediately turns to a forty-second light snow, and an aurora briefly appears in the sky before the clouds clear again for the time -- and that was just the early onset. Professor Oak predicts that if the balance isn't restored, the calamity will ultimately [[TheGreatFlood flood the entire planet]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''[[ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris]]'': Western Europe has been suffering a series of weather disasters for some months, which Mortimer discovers are the work of villains utilizing a network of [[WeatherControlMachine Weather-Control Machines]]. The main phase of the EvilPlan is covering all of Western Europe in a WeatherOfWar fog for an invasion.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In #100, MotherEarth decides to create a series of disasters specifically to wipe humans out because of humans' warring.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsShatteredEmpire'': Using their space-based climate disruption array, the Empire begins creating catastrophic storms on Naboo which cause fires and flooding all over the world, with the intention of rendering the planet uninhabitable. Fortunately, Leia Organa, Soruna and Shara Bay stopped the attack. It's worth noting, the Empire have also used the disruption array to attack other worlds in other ''Star Wars'' Disney-canon media.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming'': Although the Allspark is largely destroyed before Megatron can use it to complete HostileTerraforming the Earth into a new Cybertron, it was too late to stop the Allspark's energy corrupting the Earth to its core. Part of the results is a variety of chaotic natural disasters (visible on monitors) whilst the Allspark's corruption and Earth's natural state war for equilibrium, threatening to kill the planet. Fortunately, the disaster is healed with the aid of Nucleon.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': Earthquakes, storms, volcanic activity and abnormal weather relating to the oceans are eventually revealed to be caused by [[spoiler: Shendu's mother, the Babylonian primordial goddess Tiamat, stirring in her sleep]]. It's also heavily implied by Shendu that [[spoiler:Tiamat has caused this kind of destruction to the world before with minimal effort, and he specifically states she was the engineer of every major extinction event in the planet's history]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': The MatterReplicator machine, once it malfunctions, begins causing a comedic variation, unleashing various entirely food-based forms of weather disasters (a spaghetti tornado, raining various giant foods, and forming a food-based hurricane).
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'': Heating of the Earth's core from the sun causes a global chain of truly apocalyptic natural disasters to rock the world in the lead-up to 21 December, 2012: all the Earth's tectonic plates destabilizing causes ReadingsAreOffTheScale level earthquakes to basically tear the Earth's crust apart at the boundaries, Yellowstone unleashes an all-destroying ash cloud, and for the grand finale, megatsunamis which literally rival ''the Himalayas'' in height flood the majority of the planet. At the film's end, we get treated to a shot of the planet's RegionalRedecoration from space.
* ''Film/{{Aniara}}'': In the future, Earth has been ravaged by this, the implication being that manmade ClimateChange was responsible. Cloud cover including hurricanes seem to obscure most of the planet's landscape from space, and people horribly scarred by wildfire are a common and uninteresting sight on the titular spaceship.
* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'': Sir August De Wynter threatens to use the stolen WeatherControlMachine to send natural disasters against countries that don't comply with his demands.
* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes invoving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as ClimateChange and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.
* ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'': Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': When [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] usurps Godzilla's position as the ruling alpha of Earth's Titans, he leads the Titans to inflict this all around the world, threatening to cause an extinction event. We don't see much of the global destruction beyond brief glimpses on video feeds and Ghidorah's spreading WeatherManipulation causing stormy weather around the world, but Admiral Stenz reports the Titans are causing "earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, and disasters we don't even have names for yet." The novelization goes into further detail, explicitly noting that if Ghidorah remains unopposed, the global destruction is liable to wipe out all multicellular life except the Titans.
* ''Film/OurManFlint'': The villainous organization uses a WeatherControlMachine to create earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and other natural disasters, using the threat of unleashing more to force the world's nations to give up weapons and nuclear energy.
* ''Film/WeatherWars'': The MadScientist antagonist uses a WeatherControlMachine to cause tornadoes and lightning strikes, then once the machine receives a power boost he uses it to create gigantic hailstorms and ice storms.
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[[folder: Literature]]
* ''Literature/Monument14Trilogy'': It opens with a volcanic eruption triggering a megatsunami that ravages the U.S. East Coast, which in turn causes a violent hailstorm in Monument, Colorado. It's shortly followed by an 8.2 earthquake which causes further disaster.
* ''Prostokvashino'' by Eduard Uspensky: PlayedForLaughs. At one point, Sharik, hiding in a box, pretends he is a radio, and makes up a weather forecast for the next day, warning about "early frost leading to a flood" and "earthquake leading to a solar eclipse".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E13StarOne Star One]]", the MasterComputer which controls the {{Weather Control Machine}}s going haywire begins inflicting this on ''multiple planets''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]", the Cybermen briefly take control of the Moonbase's WeatherControlMachine and attempt to use it to kill all life on Earth by playing havoc with the planet's weather.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]: During the climax, when the Earth is ''seconds'' away from being pulled into a spacetime distortion by the Eye of Harmony, we get treated to a montage of lightning storms plus a tornado wreaking havoc.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': When [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Mr. Smith]]]] forces [[spoiler:Luke]] to telekinetically pull the moon towards Earth on a collision course that will shatter the planet, the gravitational disturbance from the moon moving causes spontaneous freak natural disasters which begin tearing apart the planet. Sarah Jane states this will kill all human life on the planet long before the moon makes impact.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After Lucifer's rising instigates the Apocalypse -- albeit behind an unbroken {{Masquerade}} -- natural disasters including a spike in earthquake frequency and freak storm systems (plus North Korean nuclear tests) occur throughout the fifth season; although the characters don't really encounter the disasters and instead they're exclusively related via the news. These disasters are merely a prelude to Lucifer and the archangel Michael's final battle which will decimate the planet.
** In the penultimate episode, Lucifer sends [[GrimReaper Death]] to Chicago to wipe it off the map with a catastrophic storm which will in turn set off a "daisy chain" of more natural disasters. Fortunately for Chicago, Death likes the pizza.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E5SmallWorlds Small Worlds]]", Jasmine warns Torchwood that if the faeries (who have already demonstrated WeatherManipulation) don't get their Chosen One, they can use their powers to kill all life on the planet.
-->"''If they want to, they can make great storms, wild seas, [[GlacialApocalypse turn the world to ice]]. Kill every living thing!''"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Literature/TheBible makes mention of this. One of the Ten Plagues of Egypt inflicted as an instrument of God's wrath against the enslavement of the Israelites is thunder, hail and fire (possibly lightning) striking all of Egypt and devastating the Pharaoh's people, and even the Plague of Boils (which Moses inflicted by throwing ashes towards the heavens) could be interpreted as being caused by a natural disaster depending on how it's read. Revelation makes mention of lightning, thunder, great earthquakes (including an earthquake greater than man has seen and a quake which destroys a tenth of a city), and heavy hail.
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[[folder: Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'': The cast using a WeatherControlMachine to alter the weather to their benefit in certain areas goes awry by causing the weather to detrimentally change in other places, and their attempts to rectify the problem make it continuously worse.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Theme Parks]]
* Ride/UniversalStudios: In the former Florida attraction ''Disaster!'', the Earth itself begins inflicting GaiasVengeance against humanity by triggering every kind of natural disaster: earthquakes, thunder, and a city-destroying flood.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{Gormiti}}'': In the "Final Evolution" storyline, the Island of Gorm suffered this after the Eye of Life was launched into space. Without the Eye, Gorm experienced storms, volcanic eruptions (so severe that even the volcano tribes find them inhospitable), earthquakes, forest fires, and icy winds which froze the sea into glaciers. These detrimentally affect all the elemental tribes, at least until they're altered by the Eye's return to fit with the new conditions.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': The deaths of each of the gods unleashes a different natural disaster upon the world, often based on the god's element -- TheGreatFlood, storm-clouds which seemingly bring TheNightThatNeverEnds, all plant life withering and dying. By the game's end, after Kratos has killed most of the gods including [[TopGod Zeus]], [[spoiler:Greece is an unrecognizable, flooded, thunderstorm-skied and tornado-plagued waste, although it's indicated humanity will still survive]]. [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 The sequel implies]] the effects were limited to Greece.
*''VideoGame/IntoTheBreach'': Not only is the world flooded, but the surviving islands have a variety of extreme weather events happening, such as flash floods on Archive, cryo-nanites freezing whole cities on Pinnacle, and due to a terraforming mishap, whole sections of R.S.T. [[EarthquakesCauseFissures crumbling into vast chasms]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork2'': The WeatherControlMachine that's been suppressing unpleasant weather for years, when hacked, threatens to unleash earthquakes and storms upon the world.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'': Using the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos begins using this trope to destroy the Earth: causing multiple hurricanes to rapidly form (visible from Thanos' new base in space), earthquakes to spew lava in cities, rocks to rain on Egypt (don't ask how that one works), and tropical islands and the surrounding waters to literally freeze solid. He has the power to instantaneously wipe out stars with a hand-wave, but chooses to destroy Earth this way to make its death slow and painful.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': The [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Dominator]]'s different components can control water vapor and electromagnetism, in addition to the Lazer Core. Notably, Cobra attempts to use the Weather Dominator to manipulate the planet's weather, but when the Dominator explodes, its different weather-creating parts are scattered.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': The Pearl of Bahoudin affected Earth's weather and wrought this in the 14th century, leveling entire cities at the time before it was contained.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': In the first season's finale, [[spoiler:Unicron]] begins causing this to Earth [[spoiler:via PlanetaryCoreManipulation when his physical body (which comprises the Earth's inner core) begins awakening]]: causing a simultaneous chain of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions along the tectonic boundaries, followed by freak storms, global hurricanes, tornadoes, a blizzard in Hawaii, and a GiantWallOfWateryDoom. Fortunately, the disasters all [[NoOntologicalInertia immediately cease]] when [[spoiler:Unicron]]'s body is forcibly returned to hibernation.
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[[folder: Real Life]]
* Tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, and megatsunamis can result from landslides, volcanic eruptions and meteor impacts.
* Volcanic eruptions can also lead to large amounts of ash and sulfur dioxide entering the upper atmosphere that causes significant cooling and shifts in weather patterns. Volcanic winters have led to famines, disease outbreaks, revolutions, and [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/24/the-epic-volcano-eruption-that-led-to-the-year-without-a-summer the writing of]] ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
** Large meteor impacts can potentially cause even more severe impact winters, one of which killed the dinosaurs.
* Although this view isn't wholly accepted with scholarly circles, a widespread theory for the fall of the Roman Empire is that it collapsed under the stress of a large epidemic of the bubonic plague paired with an extended period of global cooling that in turn caused widespread food shortages and prompted a series of invasions from northern peoples.
* If rain follows a forest fire, then regionally it can cause further natural disasters including floods, mudflows and landslides.
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''
A megatsunami is surging through New York, lightning storms are striking Paris, tornadoes are ripping London to shreds, water spouts are on Lake Erie, earthquakes have knocked down half of Tokyo, Moscow is on fire, the ISS can't see Africa through the hurricanes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking it's snowing in Rio]].
In any case, a chain of various simultaneous or close-together natural disasters is suddenly wreaking havoc around the world, regardless of the cause or origin of the calamity. A montage of news footage often shows the different flavors of disaster around the world in short order while reporting on them.
Note that the disaster chain doesn't have to be caused by GaiasVengeance (although that is one possible cause) -- on the contrary, the Natural Disaster Cascade can sometimes indicate the planet is sick or dying. The disaster chain can potentially be detrimental for just [[GreenAesop humanity]] or for all the planet's biosphere. Villains utilizing a WeatherControlMachine will probably unleash this on the world or at least threaten to do so in order to achieve their goals. Other potential causes are ClimateChange, WeatherManipulation on a grander scale than standard, another DoomsdayDevice, or {{Terraform}}ing gone wrong.
A common staple of {{Disaster Movie}}s. These are often treated as SignsOfTheEndTimes, and may very well be that in truth. If it progresses far enough, it can cause RegionalRedecoration that's often portrayed from space. This trope seems to be getting slightly more popular in recent years as concern about ClimateChange is increasing.
This trope is rarely, if ever, a good thing for the heroes in a work, and it can be anywhere from a ApocalypseHow/Class0 to a ApocalypseHow/ClassX on the ApocalypseHow scale. The heroes' goal is almost always to remedy whatever is causing the natural disasters (if it's [[ApocalypseWow not already too]] [[AfterTheEnd late for that]]).
Compare HostileWeather, which is when harsh weather of one or more kinds that might be entirely normative drives the characters and/or plot.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The main human characters' transportation to Digimon Island was preceded by freak climate shifts which caused the rainforest to dry out, murky waters to flood other areas, and normally-sweltering cities to experience freezing temperatures in the summer; and finally a massive blizzard striking the camp where the kids were staying (in the summer) before they were transported.
* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Using Tenpenchii, the Ten-Tails can create a simultaneous blast of natural disasters -- earthquakes, floods, storms and tornadoes -- within the area.
* ''Anime/Pokemon2000'': Lawrence III disrupting the balance of [[FireIceLightning Zapdos, Moltres and Arcticuno]] at the Orange Islands by disturbing the three Pokémon causes a gigantic underwater current to snake out from the islands and cause global freak weather disasters. For a hint about how bad it can get, Professor Oak and Ash's mother witness sunny weather abruptly give way to an ''eight-second'' rainstorm which immediately turns to a forty-second light snow, and an aurora briefly appears in the sky before the clouds clear again for the time -- and that was just the early onset. Professor Oak predicts that if the balance isn't restored, the calamity will ultimately [[TheGreatFlood flood the entire planet]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''[[ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer S.O.S. Meteors: Mortimer in Paris]]'': Western Europe has been suffering a series of weather disasters for some months, which Mortimer discovers are the work of villains utilizing a network of [[WeatherControlMachine Weather-Control Machines]]. The main phase of the EvilPlan is covering all of Western Europe in a WeatherOfWar fog for an invasion.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In #100, MotherEarth decides to create a series of disasters specifically to wipe humans out because of humans' warring.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsShatteredEmpire'': Using their space-based climate disruption array, the Empire begins creating catastrophic storms on Naboo which cause fires and flooding all over the world, with the intention of rendering the planet uninhabitable. Fortunately, Leia Organa, Soruna and Shara Bay stopped the attack. It's worth noting, the Empire have also used the disruption array to attack other worlds in other ''Star Wars'' Disney-canon media.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming'': Although the Allspark is largely destroyed before Megatron can use it to complete HostileTerraforming the Earth into a new Cybertron, it was too late to stop the Allspark's energy corrupting the Earth to its core. Part of the results is a variety of chaotic natural disasters (visible on monitors) whilst the Allspark's corruption and Earth's natural state war for equilibrium, threatening to kill the planet. Fortunately, the disaster is healed with the aid of Nucleon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': Earthquakes, storms, volcanic activity and abnormal weather relating to the oceans are eventually revealed to be caused by [[spoiler: Shendu's mother, the Babylonian primordial goddess Tiamat, stirring in her sleep]]. It's also heavily implied by Shendu that [[spoiler:Tiamat has caused this kind of destruction to the world before with minimal effort, and he specifically states she was the engineer of every major extinction event in the planet's history]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': The MatterReplicator machine, once it malfunctions, begins causing a comedic variation, unleashing various entirely food-based forms of weather disasters (a spaghetti tornado, raining various giant foods, and forming a food-based hurricane).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'': Heating of the Earth's core from the sun causes a global chain of truly apocalyptic natural disasters to rock the world in the lead-up to 21 December, 2012: all the Earth's tectonic plates destabilizing causes ReadingsAreOffTheScale level earthquakes to basically tear the Earth's crust apart at the boundaries, Yellowstone unleashes an all-destroying ash cloud, and for the grand finale, megatsunamis which literally rival ''the Himalayas'' in height flood the majority of the planet. At the film's end, we get treated to a shot of the planet's RegionalRedecoration from space.
* ''Film/{{Aniara}}'': In the future, Earth has been ravaged by this, the implication being that manmade ClimateChange was responsible. Cloud cover including hurricanes seem to obscure most of the planet's landscape from space, and people horribly scarred by wildfire are a common and uninteresting sight on the titular spaceship.
* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'': Sir August De Wynter threatens to use the stolen WeatherControlMachine to send natural disasters against countries that don't comply with his demands.
* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'': The ice caps melting triggers this on a global scale due to increased freshwater levels disrupting the North Atlantic current. It causes snow in New Delhi, which escalates into some lovely DisasterMovie scenes invoving hail the size of snowballs breaking skulls, a chain of simultaneous tornadoes tearing apart Los Angeles, and a days-long downpour on New York triggering a GiantWallOfWateryDoom as well as offscreen record-breaking storms. Ultimately, this is the prelude to a GlacialApocalypse, culminating in [[spoiler:three super-cell blizzards blanketing and freezing the entire northern hemisphere, creating a new ice age before the storms disperse]]. This instance doubles as ClimateChange and GaiasVengeance, with the cataclysm's aftermath being a decrease in the atmosphere's [=CO2=] emissions and a RegionalRedecoration visible from the ISS.
* ''Film/{{Geostorm}}'': Earth's [[WeatherControlMachine weather-controlling satellites]] going haywire causes them to inflict ApocalypseWow level natural disasters around the world, including a GiantWallOfWateryDoom that rivals the Burj Khalifa in height and a heat wave that ignites gas pipelines. Worse yet, the malfunction threaten to create a [[TitleDrop massive geostorm]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:the weather satellites didn't malfunction but were programmed to behave as they did by an {{Eagleland}} villain]]. Also worthy of note, freak weather disasters were already occurring in the setting's backstory due to ClimateChange, before the satellites were built to stabilize the climate.
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': When [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]] usurps Godzilla's position as the ruling alpha of Earth's Titans, he leads the Titans to inflict this all around the world, threatening to cause an extinction event. We don't see much of the global destruction beyond brief glimpses on video feeds and Ghidorah's spreading WeatherManipulation causing stormy weather around the world, but Admiral Stenz reports the Titans are causing "earthquakes, wildfires, tsunamis, and disasters we don't even have names for yet." The novelization goes into further detail, explicitly noting that if Ghidorah remains unopposed, the global destruction is liable to wipe out all multicellular life except the Titans.
* ''Film/OurManFlint'': The villainous organization uses a WeatherControlMachine to create earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and other natural disasters, using the threat of unleashing more to force the world's nations to give up weapons and nuclear energy.
* ''Film/WeatherWars'': The MadScientist antagonist uses a WeatherControlMachine to cause tornadoes and lightning strikes, then once the machine receives a power boost he uses it to create gigantic hailstorms and ice storms.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Literature]]
* ''Literature/Monument14Trilogy'': It opens with a volcanic eruption triggering a megatsunami that ravages the U.S. East Coast, which in turn causes a violent hailstorm in Monument, Colorado. It's shortly followed by an 8.2 earthquake which causes further disaster.
* ''Prostokvashino'' by Eduard Uspensky: PlayedForLaughs. At one point, Sharik, hiding in a box, pretends he is a radio, and makes up a weather forecast for the next day, warning about "early frost leading to a flood" and "earthquake leading to a solar eclipse".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': In "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E13StarOne Star One]]", the MasterComputer which controls the {{Weather Control Machine}}s going haywire begins inflicting this on ''multiple planets''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]", the Cybermen briefly take control of the Moonbase's WeatherControlMachine and attempt to use it to kill all life on Earth by playing havoc with the planet's weather.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]: During the climax, when the Earth is ''seconds'' away from being pulled into a spacetime distortion by the Eye of Harmony, we get treated to a montage of lightning storms plus a tornado wreaking havoc.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': When [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong Mr. Smith]]]] forces [[spoiler:Luke]] to telekinetically pull the moon towards Earth on a collision course that will shatter the planet, the gravitational disturbance from the moon moving causes spontaneous freak natural disasters which begin tearing apart the planet. Sarah Jane states this will kill all human life on the planet long before the moon makes impact.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': After Lucifer's rising instigates the Apocalypse -- albeit behind an unbroken {{Masquerade}} -- natural disasters including a spike in earthquake frequency and freak storm systems (plus North Korean nuclear tests) occur throughout the fifth season; although the characters don't really encounter the disasters and instead they're exclusively related via the news. These disasters are merely a prelude to Lucifer and the archangel Michael's final battle which will decimate the planet.
** In the penultimate episode, Lucifer sends [[GrimReaper Death]] to Chicago to wipe it off the map with a catastrophic storm which will in turn set off a "daisy chain" of more natural disasters. Fortunately for Chicago, Death likes the pizza.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E5SmallWorlds Small Worlds]]", Jasmine warns Torchwood that if the faeries (who have already demonstrated WeatherManipulation) don't get their Chosen One, they can use their powers to kill all life on the planet.
-->"''If they want to, they can make great storms, wild seas, [[GlacialApocalypse turn the world to ice]]. Kill every living thing!''"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Literature/TheBible makes mention of this. One of the Ten Plagues of Egypt inflicted as an instrument of God's wrath against the enslavement of the Israelites is thunder, hail and fire (possibly lightning) striking all of Egypt and devastating the Pharaoh's people, and even the Plague of Boils (which Moses inflicted by throwing ashes towards the heavens) could be interpreted as being caused by a natural disaster depending on how it's read. Revelation makes mention of lightning, thunder, great earthquakes (including an earthquake greater than man has seen and a quake which destroys a tenth of a city), and heavy hail.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'': The cast using a WeatherControlMachine to alter the weather to their benefit in certain areas goes awry by causing the weather to detrimentally change in other places, and their attempts to rectify the problem make it continuously worse.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Theme Parks]]
* Ride/UniversalStudios: In the former Florida attraction ''Disaster!'', the Earth itself begins inflicting GaiasVengeance against humanity by triggering every kind of natural disaster: earthquakes, thunder, and a city-destroying flood.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Toys]]
* ''Toys/{{Gormiti}}'': In the "Final Evolution" storyline, the Island of Gorm suffered this after the Eye of Life was launched into space. Without the Eye, Gorm experienced storms, volcanic eruptions (so severe that even the volcano tribes find them inhospitable), earthquakes, forest fires, and icy winds which froze the sea into glaciers. These detrimentally affect all the elemental tribes, at least until they're altered by the Eye's return to fit with the new conditions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': The deaths of each of the gods unleashes a different natural disaster upon the world, often based on the god's element -- TheGreatFlood, storm-clouds which seemingly bring TheNightThatNeverEnds, all plant life withering and dying. By the game's end, after Kratos has killed most of the gods including [[TopGod Zeus]], [[spoiler:Greece is an unrecognizable, flooded, thunderstorm-skied and tornado-plagued waste, although it's indicated humanity will still survive]]. [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 The sequel implies]] the effects were limited to Greece.
*''VideoGame/IntoTheBreach'': Not only is the world flooded, but the surviving islands have a variety of extreme weather events happening, such as flash floods on Archive, cryo-nanites freezing whole cities on Pinnacle, and due to a terraforming mishap, whole sections of R.S.T. [[EarthquakesCauseFissures crumbling into vast chasms]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork2'': The WeatherControlMachine that's been suppressing unpleasant weather for years, when hacked, threatens to unleash earthquakes and storms upon the world.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'': Using the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos begins using this trope to destroy the Earth: causing multiple hurricanes to rapidly form (visible from Thanos' new base in space), earthquakes to spew lava in cities, rocks to rain on Egypt (don't ask how that one works), and tropical islands and the surrounding waters to literally freeze solid. He has the power to instantaneously wipe out stars with a hand-wave, but chooses to destroy Earth this way to make its death slow and painful.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': The [[WeatherControlMachine Weather Dominator]]'s different components can control water vapor and electromagnetism, in addition to the Lazer Core. Notably, Cobra attempts to use the Weather Dominator to manipulate the planet's weather, but when the Dominator explodes, its different weather-creating parts are scattered.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': The Pearl of Bahoudin affected Earth's weather and wrought this in the 14th century, leveling entire cities at the time before it was contained.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': In the first season's finale, [[spoiler:Unicron]] begins causing this to Earth [[spoiler:via PlanetaryCoreManipulation when his physical body (which comprises the Earth's inner core) begins awakening]]: causing a simultaneous chain of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions along the tectonic boundaries, followed by freak storms, global hurricanes, tornadoes, a blizzard in Hawaii, and a GiantWallOfWateryDoom. Fortunately, the disasters all [[NoOntologicalInertia immediately cease]] when [[spoiler:Unicron]]'s body is forcibly returned to hibernation.
[[/folder]]
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* Tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, and megatsunamis can result from landslides, volcanic eruptions and meteor impacts.
* Volcanic eruptions can also lead to large amounts of ash and sulfur dioxide entering the upper atmosphere that causes significant cooling and shifts in weather patterns. Volcanic winters have led to famines, disease outbreaks, revolutions, and [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/04/24/the-epic-volcano-eruption-that-led-to-the-year-without-a-summer the writing of]] ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
** Large meteor impacts can potentially cause even more severe impact winters, one of which killed the dinosaurs.
* Although this view isn't wholly accepted with scholarly circles, a widespread theory for the fall of the Roman Empire is that it collapsed under the stress of a large epidemic of the bubonic plague paired with an extended period of global cooling that in turn caused widespread food shortages and prompted a series of invasions from northern peoples.
* If rain follows a forest fire, then regionally it can cause further natural disasters including floods, mudflows and landslides.
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