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* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' and combined with the fact that microbes are more likely to survive the next billion years than animals, planets, and especially humans, meaning that humans in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, and combined with the fact that the vast amount of time remaining is more than enough time for various mass extinction-level catastrophes to occur in the meantime, thus ensuring that no species of animal or planet ever makes it past a few million years ''at most'' (just 1 million years for mammals, 5 million years for reptiles, and 10 million years for insects), it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' and combined with the fact that microbes are more likely to survive the next billion years than animals, planets, and especially humans, meaning that humans by negatively impacting the Earth's climate and environment through their actions in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' meaning that humans in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' and combined with the fact that microbes are more likely to survive the next billion years than animals, planets, and especially humans, meaning that humans in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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--> [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin "The planet isn't going anywhere! We are!"]]
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* The planet Venus' history of why it became the Solar System's hottest planet due to a runaway greenhouse effect boiling away its oceans and sterilizing the planet's surface is often used by climate scientists as a demonstration of an extreme worst-case scenario of global warming considering the ongoing effects of manmade climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.
* ''Earth itself'' in various times in the planet's past due to it experiencing dramatic changes in climate and countless extinction events are often subjects of interests for paleoclimatologists due to their relevance to today's manmade climate change and extinction event- while those occurrences of changing climates and extinction events in the distant past were slow enough to allow animal life to adapt, today's example is occurring at a much faster rate, within ''a human lifespan'', making the potential consequences of human activity more devastating.
* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' meaning that humans in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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* The planet Venus' history of why it became the Solar System's hottest planet due to a runaway greenhouse effect boiling away its oceans and sterilizing the planet's surface is often used by climate scientists as a demonstration of an extreme worst-case scenario of global warming considering the ongoing effects of manmade climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.
* ''Earth itself'' in various times in the planet's past due to it experiencing dramatic changes in climate and countless extinction events are often subjects of interests for paleoclimatologists due to their relevance to today's manmade climate change and extinction event- while those occurrences of changing climates and extinction events in the distant past were slow enough to allow animal life to adapt, today's example is occurring at a much faster rate, within ''a human lifespan'', making the potential consequences of human activity more devastating.
* The Sun expanding into a red giant in about 5 billion years' time will likely first engulf the planets Mercury and Venus before finally engulfing Earth as well. It also suggests that the aging Sun will end life on Earth long before it finally becomes a red giant by ensuring that Earth ultimately suffers the exact same fate as Venus in the distant past, with the only hardy microbes that can tolerate the extreme heat being the only life forms that will survive up until then, and given the fact that a complete sterilization of Earth is still not expected for another 1 billion years, and that Earth still "only" has another 500 million years left before it finally becomes permanently uninhabitable to animals and plants as a result of the hotter Sun [[{{Irony}} eventually depleting the atmosphere of all carbon dioxide]], thus starving all plants to death, and then cooking and suffocating all remaining animals before it finally boils off the oceans, it's very likely that Earth will still persist in the distant future until that happens, ''even without humans,'' meaning that humans in the present are merely only threating their own survival in the longer run.
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** The origin story of minor ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' villain Mano features him using his disintegrating power to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it. Given that he's never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, it almost reads as an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax.
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** The ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Mano's origin story of minor ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' villain Mano features him using his disintegrating power to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it. Given that However, he's never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, it almost reads as an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax.appearances.
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** In "ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}" story "ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge", an eldritch abomination called Positive Man obliterates an unnamed inhabited world by merely passing through it on his way to Earth.
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*** The final arc of Creator/JohnByrne's run "The Supergirl Saga" involves Kryptonian villains from a "pocket reality" pocket dimension stripping its Earth bare of all life and even destroying its atmosphere as a show of power and then threatening to come to the "real" Earth and do the same.
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* The ''Literature/TimeOdyssey'' trilogy features two inhabited planets snuffed out by the [[AbusivePrecursors Firstborn]]. One is a planet orbiting Procyon, which was a variable star before the Firstborn interfered; as of the present day, the aquatic civilization there is a DyingRace with no answer to the ocean freezing over permanently instead of melting through every few days. The other is OnceGreenMars, barren since the Firstborn ripped the outer layer of its northern hemisphere away with a dark-energy missile. The same tactic is deployed against Earth in the third volume, [[spoiler:but the younger races manage to divert it against Mars, pushing the entirety of the smaller planet into a BubbleUniverse]].
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* The ''Literature/TimeOdyssey'' trilogy features two inhabited planets snuffed out by the [[AbusivePrecursors Firstborn]]. One is a planet orbiting Procyon, which was a variable star before the Firstborn interfered; as of the present day, the aquatic civilization there is a DyingRace with no answer to the ocean freezing over permanently instead of melting through every few days. The other is OnceGreenMars, barren since the Firstborn ripped the outer layer of its northern hemisphere away with a dark-energy missile. The same tactic is deployed against Earth in the third volume, [[spoiler:but the younger races manage to divert it against Mars, pushing the entirety of the smaller planet into a BubbleUniverse]].PocketDimension]].
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* The ''Literature/TimeOdyssey'' trilogy features two inhabited planets snuffed out by the [[AbusivePrecursors Firstborn]]. One is a planet orbiting Procyon, which was a variable star before the Firstborn interfered; as of the present day, the aquatic civilization there is a DyingRace with no answer to the ocean freezing over permanently instead of melting through every few days. The other is OnceGreenMars, barren since the Firstborn ripped the outer layer of its northern hemisphere away with a dark-energy missile. The same tactic is deployed against Earth in the third volume, [[spoiler:but the younger races manage to divert it against Mars, pushing the entirety of the smaller planet into a BubbleUniverse]].
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed in the second season by Space Marines from the Crimson Razors chapter. This is done in order to show off the might of the Imperium of Man as well as establish that the Imperium seeks to wage a war of total annihilation upon the unprepared CIS.
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** Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed in the second season by Space Marines from the Crimson Razors chapter. This is done in order to show off the might of the Imperium of Man as well as establish that the Imperium seeks to wage a war of total annihilation upon the unpreparedCIS.CIS.
** At the end of Season 2, the Crimson Razors invade [[spoiler:Utapau]] and RapePillageAndBurn their way across the entire planet, brutally slaughtering all of the native [[spoiler:Pau'ans and Utai.]] This is done to further build up the Crimson Razors as a threat by demonstrating just how barbaric they are even by Space Marine standards.
** Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed in the second season by Space Marines from the Crimson Razors chapter. This is done in order to show off the might of the Imperium of Man as well as establish that the Imperium seeks to wage a war of total annihilation upon the unprepared
** At the end of Season 2, the Crimson Razors invade [[spoiler:Utapau]] and RapePillageAndBurn their way across the entire planet, brutally slaughtering all of the native [[spoiler:Pau'ans and Utai.]] This is done to further build up the Crimson Razors as a threat by demonstrating just how barbaric they are even by Space Marine standards.
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* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
** The planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}} came to Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble.
** Galactus's opposite number Abraxas was introduced as having destroyed a number of parallel Earths before heading to the "main" one.
* Similarly, in the lead-up to ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' the Phoenix Force destroys all sentient life on several inhabited worlds while headed towards Earth.
* The origin story of minor ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' villain Mano features him using his disintegrator power to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it. Given that he was never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, it almost reads as an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax.
* The famed Creator/AlanMoore and Alan Davis run of ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' introduced the vastly powerful RealityWarper James Jaspers by having a weaker alternate counterpart so damage his home reality that it had to be destroyed to contain the threat. However, the character who makes this claim is an UnreliableExpositor at best and has ulterior motives for ordering the parallel reality's destruction.
* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'':
** The final arc of Creator/JohnByrne's run involves Kryptonian villains from a "pocket reality" stripping its Earth bare of all life and even destroying its atmosphere as a show of power and then threatening to come to the "real" Earth and do the same.
** A Pre-Crisis comic had an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in a ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' StoryArc from the 1970s, wherein the villain Nightmare manages to destroy the Earth at the beginning and the story is about trying to bring it back, or at least get Earth recreated anew.
* ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'':
** Earth-3 is destroyed in the opening pages to establish the threat, and [[SerialEscalation that's just the beginning; by the end, all but one of the infinite parallel universes has been wiped out.]]
** The various ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague'' "Crisis" team-ups with the Justice Society occasionally used Earth-2 as a Sacrificial Planet in much the same way; at least two of the crossovers involved the temporary destruction of Earth-2 by some cosmic menace. Luckily, though, StatusQuoIsGod and the ResetButton kicked in by the end.
** ''Comicbook/{{Countdown}}'' had Superboy Prime traveling to various alternate realities and destroying their Earths due to all of them not matching the perfect Earth he wished for.
* ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' had sacrificial galaxies being shown to have been destroyed by Imperiex.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'' was shown to invade and destroy many planets, including one similar to modern Earth, after defeating and killing its super-powered, cape wearing protector (who was [[CaptainErsatz definitely not]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''.
** The planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}} came to Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble.
** Galactus's opposite number Abraxas was introduced as having destroyed a number of parallel Earths before heading to the "main" one.
* Similarly, in the lead-up to ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' the Phoenix Force destroys all sentient life on several inhabited worlds while headed towards Earth.
* The origin story of minor ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' villain Mano features him using his disintegrator power to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it. Given that he was never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, it almost reads as an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax.
* The famed Creator/AlanMoore and Alan Davis run of ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' introduced the vastly powerful RealityWarper James Jaspers by having a weaker alternate counterpart so damage his home reality that it had to be destroyed to contain the threat. However, the character who makes this claim is an UnreliableExpositor at best and has ulterior motives for ordering the parallel reality's destruction.
* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'':
** The final arc of Creator/JohnByrne's run involves Kryptonian villains from a "pocket reality" stripping its Earth bare of all life and even destroying its atmosphere as a show of power and then threatening to come to the "real" Earth and do the same.
** A Pre-Crisis comic had an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in a ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' StoryArc from the 1970s, wherein the villain Nightmare manages to destroy the Earth at the beginning and the story is about trying to bring it back, or at least get Earth recreated anew.
* ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'':
** Earth-3 is destroyed in the opening pages to establish the threat, and [[SerialEscalation that's just the beginning; by the end, all but one of the infinite parallel universes has been wiped out.]]
** The various ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague'' "Crisis" team-ups with the Justice Society occasionally used Earth-2 as a Sacrificial Planet in much the same way; at least two of the crossovers involved the temporary destruction of Earth-2 by some cosmic menace. Luckily, though, StatusQuoIsGod and the ResetButton kicked in by the end.
** ''Comicbook/{{Countdown}}'' had Superboy Prime traveling to various alternate realities and destroying their Earths due to all of them not matching the perfect Earth he wished for.
* ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' had sacrificial galaxies being shown to have been destroyed by Imperiex.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'' was shown to invade and destroy many planets, including one similar to modern Earth, after defeating and killing its super-powered, cape wearing protector (who was [[CaptainErsatz definitely not]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''.
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* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'':
''Franchise/TheDCU'':
**The planet-eating ComicBook/{{Galactus}} came ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' has Superboy-Prime traveling to various alternate realities and destroying their Earths due to all of them not matching the perfect Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble.
he wished for.
**Galactus's opposite number Abraxas was introduced as having In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Earth-3 is destroyed a number in the opening pages to establish the threat, and [[SerialEscalation that's just the beginning; by the end, all but one of the infinite parallel Earths before heading to universes has been wiped out.]]
** The various ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' "Crisis" team-ups with the"main" one.
* Similarly, inComicBook/{{Justice Society|OfAmerica}} occasionally use Earth-2 as a Sacrificial Planet; at least two of the lead-up to ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' crossovers involve the Phoenix Force destroys all sentient life on several inhabited worlds while headed towards Earth.
*temporary destruction of Earth-2 by some cosmic menace. Luckily, though, StatusQuoIsGod, and the ResetButton kicks in by the end.
** The origin story of minor''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' villain Mano features him using his disintegrator disintegrating power to destroy his entire homeworld and everyone on it. Given that he was he's never even remotely that powerful in any of his actual appearances, it almost reads as an example of CutscenePowerToTheMax.
* ** ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' has sacrificial galaxies being shown to have been destroyed by Imperiex.
** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
*** A pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' comic has an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman, watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
*** Thefamed Creator/AlanMoore final arc of Creator/JohnByrne's run involves Kryptonian villains from a "pocket reality" stripping its Earth bare of all life and Alan Davis run even destroying its atmosphere as a show of ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' introduced power and then threatening to come to the "real" Earth and do the same.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** In the lead-up to ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', the Phoenix Force destroys all sentient life on several inhabited worlds while headed towards Earth.
** ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainACrookedWorld'' introduces the vastly powerful RealityWarper James Jaspers by having a weaker alternate counterpart so damage his home reality that ithad has to be destroyed to contain the threat. However, the character who makes this claim is an UnreliableExpositor at best and has ulterior motives for ordering the parallel reality's destruction.
* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'':
** The final arc of Creator/JohnByrne's run involves Kryptonian villains from a "pocket reality" stripping its Earth bare of all life and even destroying its atmosphere as a show of power and then threatening to come to the "real" Earth and do the same.
** A Pre-Crisis comic had an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]{{Subverted|Trope}} in a ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' StoryArc from the 1970s, wherein the villain Nightmare manages to destroy the Earth at the beginning and the story is about trying to bring it back, or at least get Earth recreated anew.
* ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'':
** Earth-3 ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
*** The planet-eating Galactus comes to Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble.
*** Galactus's opposite number Abraxas is introduced as having destroyedin the opening pages to establish the threat, and [[SerialEscalation that's just the beginning; by the end, all but one a number of the infinite parallel universes has been wiped out.]]
** The various ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague'' "Crisis" team-ups with the Justice Society occasionally used Earth-2 as a Sacrificial Planet in much the same way; at least two of the crossovers involved the temporary destruction of Earth-2 by some cosmic menace. Luckily, though, StatusQuoIsGod and the ResetButton kicked in by the end.
** ''Comicbook/{{Countdown}}'' had Superboy Prime traveling to various alternate realities and destroying theirEarths due before heading to all of them not matching the perfect Earth he wished for.
"main" one.
*''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'' had sacrificial galaxies being shown to have been destroyed by Imperiex.
*''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'': The ''ComicBook/{{Negation}}'' was Negation is shown to invade and destroy many planets, including one similar to modern Earth, after defeating and killing its super-powered, cape wearing cape-wearing protector (who was is [[CaptainErsatz definitely not]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''.ComicBook/{{Superman}}).
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** The various ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' "Crisis" team-ups with the
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** The origin story of minor
** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
*** A pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' comic has an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman, watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
*** The
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** In the lead-up to ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', the Phoenix Force destroys all sentient life on several inhabited worlds while headed towards Earth.
** ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainACrookedWorld'' introduces the vastly powerful RealityWarper James Jaspers by having a weaker alternate counterpart so damage his home reality that it
** A Pre-Crisis comic had an army of Bizarros heading towards Earth. Superman watching with his telescopic vision, sees them cleave an obstructing asteroid in half and notes that they could do the same to Earth.
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]
*** The planet-eating Galactus comes to Earth a few times to devour it after spending centuries feeding on other planets without much trouble.
*** Galactus's opposite number Abraxas is introduced as having destroyed
** The various ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague'' "Crisis" team-ups with the Justice Society occasionally used Earth-2 as a Sacrificial Planet in much the same way; at least two of the crossovers involved the temporary destruction of Earth-2 by some cosmic menace. Luckily, though, StatusQuoIsGod and the ResetButton kicked in by the end.
** ''Comicbook/{{Countdown}}'' had Superboy Prime traveling to various alternate realities and destroying their
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* The first episode of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoon displays an invasion of aliens coming to Earth. These aliens previously had taken Mars, leaving the Martian Manhunter as the sole survivor, who comes to Earth to warn the planet and help form the Justice League to fight them off.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' "Dial M for Monkey" shorts Rasslor, the universe's greatest wrestler goes searching for worthy opponents on inhabited planets. If no one can beat him he destroys the planet. The short is a spoof of ''Marvel Two-In-One Annual'' #7, where the Champion of the Universe makes the very same threat to Earth's heroes.
--> "And so my quest has brought me to this timid little planet you call Earth, so, terrestrial heroes, can one of you quench my thirst for the divine conflict, the supreme struggle? Or will your planet be doomed to the same fate, that has befallen so many."
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' One episode has the titular VillainProtagonist go up against a duo of [[StealthPun Planet Jackers]] who capture other planets as well as moons in giant transportation spheres and throw them into the dying sun that orbits their homeworld. Literally using these planets and moons as firewood in order to stave off their own destruction, [[TooDumbToLive even though they could've easily just moved to a different planet orbiting a more stable sun instead.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''. Mark, the Yugopotamian, is wished to Earth, and his parents take a ship to go look for him. Along the way, Mark's dad blows up every planet he sees in hopes that each one is Earth. Mark's mom objects.
-->You know, you wouldn't have to blow up all these planets if you just stopped and asked for directions.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' "Dial M for Monkey" shorts Rasslor, the universe's greatest wrestler goes searching for worthy opponents on inhabited planets. If no one can beat him he destroys the planet. The short is a spoof of ''Marvel Two-In-One Annual'' #7, where the Champion of the Universe makes the very same threat to Earth's heroes.
--> "And so my quest has brought me to this timid little planet you call Earth, so, terrestrial heroes, can one of you quench my thirst for the divine conflict, the supreme struggle? Or will your planet be doomed to the same fate, that has befallen so many."
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' One episode has the titular VillainProtagonist go up against a duo of [[StealthPun Planet Jackers]] who capture other planets as well as moons in giant transportation spheres and throw them into the dying sun that orbits their homeworld. Literally using these planets and moons as firewood in order to stave off their own destruction, [[TooDumbToLive even though they could've easily just moved to a different planet orbiting a more stable sun instead.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''. Mark, the Yugopotamian, is wished to Earth, and his parents take a ship to go look for him. Along the way, Mark's dad blows up every planet he sees in hopes that each one is Earth. Mark's mom objects.
-->You know, you wouldn't have to blow up all these planets if you just stopped and asked for directions.
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* The first episode arc of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E1To3SecretOrigins Secret Origins]]", displays an invasion of aliens coming to Earth. These aliens previously had taken Mars, leaving the Martian Manhunter as the sole survivor, who comes to Earth to warn the planet and help form the Justice League to fight them off.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' "Dial M for Monkey" shorts shorts, Rasslor, the universe's greatest wrestler wrestler, goes searching for worthy opponents on inhabited planets. If no one can beat him him, he destroys the planet. The short is a spoof of ''Marvel Two-In-One Annual'' ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne'' annual #7, where in which the Champion of the Universe makes the very same threat to Earth's heroes.
--> "And -->''"And so my quest has brought me to this timid little planet you call Earth, so, terrestrial heroes, can one of you quench my thirst for the divine conflict, the supreme struggle? Or will your planet be doomed to the same fate, that has befallen so many."
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*''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': One episode has the titular VillainProtagonist go up against a duo of [[StealthPun Planet Jackers]] who capture other planets as well as moons in giant transportation spheres and throw them into the dying sun that orbits their homeworld. Literally using these planets and moons as firewood in order to stave off their own destruction, [[TooDumbToLive even though they could've easily just moved to a different planet orbiting a more stable sun instead.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents''.''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Mark, the Yugopotamian, is wished to Earth, and his parents take a ship to go look for him. Along the way, Mark's dad blows up every planet he sees in hopes that each one is Earth. Mark's mom objects.
-->You -->''"You know, you wouldn't have to blow up all these planets if you just stopped and asked for directions."''
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* In the episode "The Humanoids" of ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'' Space, a ship able to destroy planets is tested on an [[EarthShatteringKaboom unfortunate]] (seemingly) Moon-like, barren, world.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, ''Visitors from Outer Space'', Stuvon demonstrates his planet atomiser by blowing up an asteroid outside.
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* In the episode "The Humanoids" of ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'' Space, ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Space'', a ship able to destroy planets is tested on an [[EarthShatteringKaboom unfortunate]] (seemingly) Moon-like, barren, world.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''episode, ''Visitors episode "Visitors from Outer Space'', Space", Stuvon demonstrates his planet atomiser by blowing up an asteroid outside.
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** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have the most overt example of this trope as their ultimate goal is to destroy ''1000'' planets (or, at least make them unhabitale) and Earth is that last one they need; across the series various survivors and refugees show up helping the Fiveman and other plot points part from a planet's destruction of a previous Zone conquest.
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** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have the most overt example of this trope as their ultimate goal is to destroy ''1000'' planets (or, at least make them unhabitale) unhabitable) and Earth is that last one they need; across the series various survivors and refugees show up helping the Fiveman and other plot points part from a planet's destruction of a previous Zone conquest.
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** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have the most overt example of this trope as their ultimate goal is to destroy ''1000'' planets (or, at least make them unhabitale) and Earth is that last one they need; across the series various survivors and refugees show up helping the Fiveman and other plot points part from a planet's destruction of a previous Zone conquest.
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* In ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'', after the Surfer inadvertently interrupts Richard and Sue's wedding and nearly causes a helicopter crash, Richard discovers energy signatures in the cosmos matching the Surfer that correlate to planets destroyed by [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} Gah Lak Tus]].
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* In ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'', after the Surfer inadvertently interrupts Richard Reed and Sue's wedding and nearly causes a helicopter crash, Richard Reed discovers energy signatures in the cosmos matching the Surfer that correlate to planets destroyed by [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} Gah Lak Tus]].
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* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has it frequently be the backdrop for a show's villain, with them having destroyed multiple worlds before trying their luck with Earth. Ocasionally we get survivors of these genocides show up and help the heroes in some way:
** ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'': Various worlds were ravaged by the Reconstructive Empire Mess, with the genetics of their inhabitants taken for the sake of helping Emperor Ra Deus evolve.
** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have the most overt example of this trope as their ultimate goal is to destroy ''1000'' planets and Earth is that last one they need; across the series various survivors and refugees show up helping the Fiveman and other plot points part from a planet's destruction of a previous Zone conquest.
** ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'': Various worlds were ravaged by the Reconstructive Empire Mess, with the genetics of their inhabitants taken for the sake of helping Emperor Ra Deus evolve.
** ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The Galactic Imperial Army Zone have the most overt example of this trope as their ultimate goal is to destroy ''1000'' planets and Earth is that last one they need; across the series various survivors and refugees show up helping the Fiveman and other plot points part from a planet's destruction of a previous Zone conquest.
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed in the second season by Space Marines from the Crimson Razors chapter. This is done in order to show off the might of the Imperium of Man as well as establish that the Imperium seeks to wage a war of total annihilation upon the unsuspecting CIS.
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed in the second season by Space Marines from the Crimson Razors chapter. This is done in order to show off the might of the Imperium of Man as well as establish that the Imperium seeks to wage a war of total annihilation upon the unsuspecting unprepared CIS.
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed by the Crimson Razors fairly early in the story in order to show the might of establish that the Imperium of Man and establish that the Imperials are is waging a war of total extermination upon the unprepared Confederacy.CIS, as well as show off the Imperium's military might.
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* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Raxus Secundus, the heavily-defended capital world of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, gets attacked and destroyed by the Crimson Razors fairly early in the story in order to show the might of the Imperium of Man and establish that the Imperials are waging a war of total extermination upon the unprepared Confederacy.
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