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* {{Warhammer 40000}} ''loves'' using these. Probably the most dramatic (which has been reprinted a few times) is the diagram of the Tyranid Hive Fleets' approaches on the galaxy, but there have also been maps depicting Ork Waaaaaghs, Chaos Incursions, Warp Anomaly spreads, or just good old fashioned campaign progress.
* {{Warhammer 40000}} ''loves'' using these. Probably the most dramatic (which has been reprinted a few times) is the diagram of the Tyranid Hive Fleets' approaches on the galaxy, but there have also been maps depicting Ork Waaaaaghs, Chaos Incursions, Warp Anomaly spreads, or just good old fashioned campaign progress.
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* In ''UNSquadron'', one of these serves as your stage select screen.
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* ''Film/BrokenArrow'' has one showing the casualties that would result from a nuclear explosion in a major city.
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "The Screwfly Solution", a mystery plague is causing men to become murderously violent towards women and inadvertently destroying humanity's ability to reproduce. The scientists analyzing the phenomenon graph the spread on a digital map and discover that is progressing north and south along the world's latitudes from the equator.
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* In ''CiaphasCain'', three characters are watching the advance of the Tyranid hive fleet towards the planet they're on via auspex screen. In this case, the AdvancingWallOfDoom isn't the actual hive fleet, it's the "Shadow in the Warp" it casts, which disrupts FTL travel and communication in a huge radius around it.
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* In ''CiaphasCain'', ''Literature/CiaphasCain'', three characters are watching the advance of the Tyranid hive fleet towards the planet they're on via auspex screen. In this case, the AdvancingWallOfDoom isn't the actual hive fleet, it's the "Shadow in the Warp" it casts, which disrupts FTL travel and communication in a huge radius around it.
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* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], this trope is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] when Bobby shows Dean an interstate map of the United States with no notes or marks and says this represents all demonic signs and omens in the last month. Dean and Bobby realize that the absence of any demonic activity, including low level activity like exorcisms, can not be a good sign and leaves them with no way to track Sam.
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* The abundantly silly ''[=Y2K=]'' straight-to-TV movie about the MilleniumBug showed a "cascade" effect of power being lost across the world, either because the bug was spreading or because each time zone was crossing midnight.
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* An early vector map of North America (think ''WarGames'' or Atari's ''{{VideoGame/BattleZone|1980}}'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
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* An early vector map of North America (think (like ''WarGames'' or Atari's ''{{VideoGame/BattleZone|1980}}'') below) calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
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* An early vector map of North America (think Atari's ''{{VideoGame/BattleZone|1980}}'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
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* An early vector map of North America (think ''WarGames'' or Atari's ''{{VideoGame/BattleZone|1980}}'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
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** The opening cinematic of the game also ends with the camera slowly zooming out of a map of Europe when suddenly a sword with the Hammer and Sickle on the hilt flies out of nowhere, strikes in the center of Germany, and red splotches begins to grow at various points on the European landmass. All this while "Hell March" plays the sounds of marching soldiers.
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** ''Film/{{Contagion}}'' does pretty much the same thing, but with global maps.
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* The movie ''Film/{{Outbreak}}'' has one scene that shows how quickly the United States would be utterly boned if the Motaba virus breaks quarantine and/or the CDC can't find a cure for it.
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* ''WarAgainstTheChtorr''. Jim [=McCarthy=] is shown an official government map of the alien infestation by his ColonelBadass girlfriend. She then uses her top secret classification to show him the ''real'' extent of the problem. There's hardly a place in Southern California that hasn't been infested.
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* During the CreativeClosingCredits of ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', a global map is displayed with lines reaching out from one city to another, illustrating how ThePlague will overwhelm human civilization between ''Rise'' and its upcoming sequel.
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* During the CreativeClosingCredits of ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', a global map is displayed with flight path lines reaching out from one city to another, illustrating how ThePlague will overwhelm human civilization between ''Rise'' and its upcoming sequel.
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* In the original ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'', some cinematics following defeat during an Allied mission will show the red of the Soviet Union submerging the entire European continent as parading soldiers can be heard in the background.
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Sometimes this is used to illustrate what's actually happening in-Verse, while other times it's done to show what ''will'' happen if the heroes don't avert a disaster in time. Ominous contour lines or color-coding to indicate the severity of damage are optional. Often displayed on TheBigBoard or OminousMultipleScreens in TheWarRoom / MissionControl.
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Sometimes this is used to illustrate what's actually happening in-Verse, while other times it's done to show what ''will'' happen if the heroes don't avert a disaster in time. Ominous contour lines or color-coding to indicate the severity of damage are optional. Often displayed on TheBigBoard or OminousMultipleScreens in TheWarRoom / MissionControl. \n See also SensorSuspense.
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* ''LiveActionTV/{{Fringe}}'' has a ShoutOut to ''Pandemic'' (see VideoGames below) where there is a map showing a deadly infectious disease having spread [[MemeticMutation everywhere but Madagascar]].
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* ''LiveActionTV/{{Fringe}}'' ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has a ShoutOut to ''Pandemic'' (see VideoGames below) where there is a map showing a deadly infectious disease having spread [[MemeticMutation everywhere but Madagascar]].
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "The Screwfly Solution", a mystery plague is causing men to become murderously violent towards women and inadvertently destroying humanity's ability to reproduce. The scientists analyzing the phenomenon graph the spread on a digital map and discover that is progressing north and south along the world's latitudes from the equator.
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* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' opens with a graphic showing the Nazi conquest of Europe, ending as the wave of advance gets to Stalingrad. Curiously, they show Nazi Germany [[ArtisticLicenseHistory starting out with its mid-war borders]] and invading their Allies (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) and several neutral countries (Switzerland, Spain, Turkey) as well.
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* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' opens with a graphic showing the Nazi conquest of Europe, ending as the wave of advance gets to Stalingrad. Curiously, they show Nazi Germany [[ArtisticLicenseHistory starting out with its mid-war borders]] and invading their Allies (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) Bulgaria[[note]]Those first two did happen historically later on, but that's not what they're showing[[/note]]) and several neutral countries (Switzerland, Spain, Turkey) as well.
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* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' opens with a graphic showing the Nazi conquest of Europe, ending as the wave of advance gets to Stalingrad. Curiously, they show Nazi Germany [[ArtisticLicenseHistory starting out with its mid-war borders]] and invading their Allies (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) and several neutral countries (Switzerland, Spain, Turkey) as well.
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** He also sends another climatologist a series of on-screen graphics of the three storms, building and building over Canada, Siberia and northern Europe until they cover half the globe.
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* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'', at the end of a game you can watch an animation of the rival empires spreading across the world map. Though if the player won, they probably don't count that as a disaster.
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* An early vector map of North America (think Atari's ''VideoGame/BattleZone'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
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* In the ending cutscene of ''MassEffect3'', depending on what ending you choose, there is an animation of [[spoiler:control, destruction, or synthesis]] spreading from mass relay to mass relay.
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** The ''Normandy's'' Galaxy Map shows systems that the Reapers have invaded. At the beginning, there are only a few, but as the game progresses, more and more Reaper icons appear as they spread through the galaxy.
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Pictures can be worth a thousand words, and graphics depicting the spread of a threat across the landscape can often convey its scope more effectively than StoryboardingTheApocalypse. Whether it's a ZombieApocalypse, ThePlague, an advancing natural or man-made catastrophe, a World Wreaking Wave or something more conventional like a military invasion, there's no quicker way to show one's audience that an entire region is being overwhelmed than to display a map with rapidly-growing colored blotches pr arrows (nearly always red) spreading across it.
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Pictures can be worth a thousand words, and graphics depicting the spread of a threat across the landscape can often convey its scope more effectively than StoryboardingTheApocalypse. Whether it's a ZombieApocalypse, ThePlague, an advancing natural or man-made catastrophe, a World Wreaking Wave or something more conventional like a military invasion, there's no quicker way to show one's audience that an entire region is being overwhelmed than to display a map with rapidly-growing colored blotches pr or arrows (nearly always red) spreading across it.
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* In ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', [[Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths the Monitor]] and Harbinger, on their satellite screens, see Arcane's psychic shockwave, which awakens latent homicidal impulses in people and animals, radiating out of Louisiana. In the second of these scenes, as the map graphic shows the shockwave overtaking all of North America and spreading southward, the Monitor fights his unprecedented urge to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness look away]].
* In ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', [[Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths the Monitor]] and Harbinger, on their satellite screens, see Arcane's psychic shockwave, which awakens latent homicidal impulses in people and animals, radiating out of Louisiana. In the second of these scenes, as the map graphic shows the shockwave overtaking all of North America and spreading southward, the Monitor fights his unprecedented urge to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness look away]].
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Pictures can be worth a thousand words, and graphics depicting the spread of a threat across the landscape can often convey its scope more effectively than StoryboardingTheApocalypse. Whether it's a ZombieApocalypse, ThePlague, an advancing natural or man-made catastrophe, a World Wreaking Wave or something more conventional like a military invasion, there's no quicker way to show one's audience that an entire region is being overwhelmed than to display a map with rapidly-growing colored blotches (nearly always red) spreading across it.
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Pictures can be worth a thousand words, and graphics depicting the spread of a threat across the landscape can often convey its scope more effectively than StoryboardingTheApocalypse. Whether it's a ZombieApocalypse, ThePlague, an advancing natural or man-made catastrophe, a World Wreaking Wave or something more conventional like a military invasion, there's no quicker way to show one's audience that an entire region is being overwhelmed than to display a map with rapidly-growing colored blotches pr arrows (nearly always red) spreading across it.
Sometimes this is used to illustrate what's actually happening in-Verse, while other times it's done to show what ''will'' happen if the heroes don't avert a disaster in time.Large, ominous arrows and/or Ominous contour lines indicating or color-coding to indicate the direction and severity of spread damage are optional. Often displayed on TheBigBoard or OminousMultipleScreens in TheWarRoom / MissionControl.
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Sometimes this is used to illustrate what's actually happening in-Verse, while other times it's done to show what ''will'' happen if the heroes don't avert a disaster in time. Large, ominous arrows and/or contour lines indicating the direction and severity of spread are optional. Often displayed on TheBigBoard or OminousMultipleScreens in TheWarRoom / MissionControl.
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* This trope is a staple of historical documentaries, which often showcase the spread of military forces with expanding blotches marked with the flag of the advancing power.
[[AC: Anime & Manga]]
* In the anime adaptation of ''[[Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead High School of the Dead]]'', a map of the globe is shown with red being the zombie infection spreading from Asia to Europe and the Americas at a fast pace.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': This is used to demonstrate the damages of a nuclear attack by the SovietUnion, when [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]] isn't there to prevent it.
-->'''Man:''' I'm running a program now, which assumes that we've knocked out the eastern bloc but that a percentage of their warheads were already en route... Any moment know we'll be able to give you an overview. Ahh... there we are. Britain down, Germany down...
-->'''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon:''' Hmm. Well, I've seen worse scenarios.
-->'''Henry Kissinger:''' Is that some heading for our east coast there? At this point in our contingency plans, where should we be?
-->'''Richard Nixon:''' Somewhere else, Henry.
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* An early vector map of North America (think Atari's ''VideoGame/BattleZone'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
* During the CreativeClosingCredits of ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', a global map is displayed with lines reaching out from one city to another, illustrating how ThePlague will overwhelm human civilization between ''Rise'' and its upcoming sequel.
* In ''Film/ReignOfFire'', the opening montage of how the dragons devastated Europe includes glimpses of maps with fiery lines spreading across them.
* In a low-tech variant, the climatologist-hero in ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' uses a map of the continental U.S. to convey the scope of the danger, drawing a horizontal line across it and proclaiming that everywhere ''below'' it must be evacuated south: there's no realistic hope of saving people north of that line.
* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' opens with a graphic showing the Nazi conquest of Europe, ending as the wave of advance gets to Stalingrad.
* A map is used to show [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse how]] the [[VivaLaEvolution highly-adaptive]] alien lifeforms of ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' will own the United States in [[OhCrap about a month from when they start to expand]] from the impact site in Glen Canyon.
* ''Film/TheRocketeer''. A Nazi propaganda film shows [[StupidJetpackHitler German troops]] equipped with {{Jet Pack}}s flying to the attack, with maps showing arrows representing them reaching out to conquer Europe and invade the U.S. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc here]].
* Near the end of ''[[Film/TwentyTwelve 2012]]'', on-screen graphics in the ark control room depict the massive waves closing in Asia and other continents.
* A standard feature of SyFy Channel Original Movies involving disasters or ExplosiveBreeder monsters.
* ''Lots'' of examples pop up on the screens at [=NORAD=] in ''Film/WarGames'', depicting the hundreds of strategies [=WOPR=] devises as it plans how to win a nuclear war. Swelling circles scattered across a global map indicate nuclear strikes to cities, military bases and missile silos. [[spoiler: All of them show ''every'' side getting eliminated completely, which turns out to be a very good thing.]]
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* In ''CiaphasCain'', three characters are watching the advance of the Tyranid hive fleet towards the planet they're on via auspex screen. In this case, the AdvancingWallOfDoom isn't the actual hive fleet, it's the "Shadow in the Warp" it casts, which disrupts FTL travel and communication in a huge radius around it.
* Creator/RobertHeinlein's ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters''. A map is used to show the extent of parasite infestation in the U.S., with areas controlled by the parasites glowing red, those under human control in green, and contested areas in amber. Several times the red areas of the map are described as expanding, showing a spread of the parasites.
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* On ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', when the team tracks down stolen smallpox, the potential scale of the threat if they can't find it is conveyed with graphics of red blotches on a global map.
* TheFilmOfTheBook miniseries of ''Literature/TheStand'' has one showing the spread of the superflu.
* ''LiveActionTV/{{Fringe}}'' has a ShoutOut to ''Pandemic'' (see VideoGames below) where there is a map showing a deadly infectious disease having spread [[MemeticMutation everywhere but Madagascar]].
* In the third season of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'', Captain Hudson shows a map of the aggressive Macronesian influence. He asks Lucas when his birthday is then asks the computer to predict its extent by that date. The map changes to show a much larger area.
-->"Better celebrate that birthday now."
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* As you progress through the main quests of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the PointAndClickMap you use to travel between individual locations is progressively shaded black, starting from the south, indicating the Darkspawn infestation. You can still travel into Darkspawn-controlled areas but doing so has a higher chance of RandomEncounters.
* ''Infectionator'' has a realtime display of the countries that you have managed to infect.
* ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftI StarCraft: Brood War]]'' has an InUniverse example, with an Earth Propaganda video showing the alien Zerg forces taking planet after planet, indicated by red arrows in space.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Pandemic}}'' you see a map of the world, with the areas [[ApocalypseHow the deadly disease killing off all of humanity has affected]]. [[NintendoHard Madagascar will usually not be among them no matter how hard you try]].
* In the game ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'', the parts of the map that are infected by a [[ThePlague deadly plague]] become more and more covered in tiny red dots until the entire country is red. This is the infection phase. When these countries face fatalities, the more people that die, the more the countries turn a bloody dark red. Furthermore, ships and planes that carry the infection leave a red trail rather than a white trail.
* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', this is a standard depiction of the kingdoms' conquests and territorial expansion during the pre-battle narrations; with the occasional VideoGame/{{Tetris}} T-block to represent a particular officer or ruler moving from one province to another. Also ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Green for Shu, Indigo for Wei, Red for Wu, Cyan for Jin.
* This is the nature of Tiberium in the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium'' series, and is illustrated during a briefing in the first game which shows a map of the earth with spreading green patches representing Tiberium growth.
* In ''VideoGame/AceCombatZero'', the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiK3axiMA78&list=HL1393961794 story tells]] how Belka's poor economy allowed the eastern portion of the country to secede and become independent nations, including Ustio. Belka's economic problems didn't end, and their borders continued to shrink, allowing those new nations to further expand, and allowing Osea to claim some of the country's western borders. Belka went to war started expanding outwards to reclaim their lost borders and acquire more resources. They even invaded the southern country of Sapin, who wasn't even involved.
** Later, the map shows about 50% of Belka surrender and let allied forces move in. This left the original Principality of Belka with only about 35% of the territory the country had before their economic problems and the war.
*In the ending cutscene of ''MassEffect3'', depending on what ending you choose, there is an animation of [[spoiler:control, destruction, or synthesis]] spreading from mass relay to mass relay.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': PlayedForLaughs on a TreehouseOfHorror sketch ("SendInTheClones"), showcasing how an invasion of clone Homers will devastate the United States. While everybody else has been struck with wide-eyed horror, [[IdiotHero Homer]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction is despairing]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because of the lack of snacks]] in TheWarRoom.
* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when Randy charts the spread of global warming on a map, and ends up drawing a penis.
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* Common practice for meteorologists' severe-weather reports.
* Epidemiologists use these a lot when tracking and predicting the spread of infectious diseases.
Sometimes this is used to illustrate what's actually happening in-Verse, while other times it's done to show what ''will'' happen if the heroes don't avert a disaster in time. Large, ominous arrows and/or contour lines indicating the direction and severity of spread are optional. Often displayed on TheBigBoard or OminousMultipleScreens in TheWarRoom / MissionControl.
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[[AC:General]]
* This trope is a staple of historical documentaries, which often showcase the spread of military forces with expanding blotches marked with the flag of the advancing power.
[[AC: Anime & Manga]]
* In the anime adaptation of ''[[Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead High School of the Dead]]'', a map of the globe is shown with red being the zombie infection spreading from Asia to Europe and the Americas at a fast pace.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': This is used to demonstrate the damages of a nuclear attack by the SovietUnion, when [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]] isn't there to prevent it.
-->'''Man:''' I'm running a program now, which assumes that we've knocked out the eastern bloc but that a percentage of their warheads were already en route... Any moment know we'll be able to give you an overview. Ahh... there we are. Britain down, Germany down...
-->'''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon:''' Hmm. Well, I've seen worse scenarios.
-->'''Henry Kissinger:''' Is that some heading for our east coast there? At this point in our contingency plans, where should we be?
-->'''Richard Nixon:''' Somewhere else, Henry.
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* An early vector map of North America (think Atari's ''VideoGame/BattleZone'') calculates the projected spread of the fatal contagion in ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. A death bloom appears around the Wildfire facility, with speckles nearby and tickling population clusters. As the projection continues, most of the United States is engulfed, as is southern Canada and northern Mexico. The computer then displays "601", an error code signifying too many dead bodies to count.
* During the CreativeClosingCredits of ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', a global map is displayed with lines reaching out from one city to another, illustrating how ThePlague will overwhelm human civilization between ''Rise'' and its upcoming sequel.
* In ''Film/ReignOfFire'', the opening montage of how the dragons devastated Europe includes glimpses of maps with fiery lines spreading across them.
* In a low-tech variant, the climatologist-hero in ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'' uses a map of the continental U.S. to convey the scope of the danger, drawing a horizontal line across it and proclaiming that everywhere ''below'' it must be evacuated south: there's no realistic hope of saving people north of that line.
* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' opens with a graphic showing the Nazi conquest of Europe, ending as the wave of advance gets to Stalingrad.
* A map is used to show [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse how]] the [[VivaLaEvolution highly-adaptive]] alien lifeforms of ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' will own the United States in [[OhCrap about a month from when they start to expand]] from the impact site in Glen Canyon.
* ''Film/TheRocketeer''. A Nazi propaganda film shows [[StupidJetpackHitler German troops]] equipped with {{Jet Pack}}s flying to the attack, with maps showing arrows representing them reaching out to conquer Europe and invade the U.S. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc here]].
* Near the end of ''[[Film/TwentyTwelve 2012]]'', on-screen graphics in the ark control room depict the massive waves closing in Asia and other continents.
* A standard feature of SyFy Channel Original Movies involving disasters or ExplosiveBreeder monsters.
* ''Lots'' of examples pop up on the screens at [=NORAD=] in ''Film/WarGames'', depicting the hundreds of strategies [=WOPR=] devises as it plans how to win a nuclear war. Swelling circles scattered across a global map indicate nuclear strikes to cities, military bases and missile silos. [[spoiler: All of them show ''every'' side getting eliminated completely, which turns out to be a very good thing.]]
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''CiaphasCain'', three characters are watching the advance of the Tyranid hive fleet towards the planet they're on via auspex screen. In this case, the AdvancingWallOfDoom isn't the actual hive fleet, it's the "Shadow in the Warp" it casts, which disrupts FTL travel and communication in a huge radius around it.
* Creator/RobertHeinlein's ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters''. A map is used to show the extent of parasite infestation in the U.S., with areas controlled by the parasites glowing red, those under human control in green, and contested areas in amber. Several times the red areas of the map are described as expanding, showing a spread of the parasites.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* On ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', when the team tracks down stolen smallpox, the potential scale of the threat if they can't find it is conveyed with graphics of red blotches on a global map.
* TheFilmOfTheBook miniseries of ''Literature/TheStand'' has one showing the spread of the superflu.
* ''LiveActionTV/{{Fringe}}'' has a ShoutOut to ''Pandemic'' (see VideoGames below) where there is a map showing a deadly infectious disease having spread [[MemeticMutation everywhere but Madagascar]].
* In the third season of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'', Captain Hudson shows a map of the aggressive Macronesian influence. He asks Lucas when his birthday is then asks the computer to predict its extent by that date. The map changes to show a much larger area.
-->"Better celebrate that birthday now."
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* As you progress through the main quests of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the PointAndClickMap you use to travel between individual locations is progressively shaded black, starting from the south, indicating the Darkspawn infestation. You can still travel into Darkspawn-controlled areas but doing so has a higher chance of RandomEncounters.
* ''Infectionator'' has a realtime display of the countries that you have managed to infect.
* ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftI StarCraft: Brood War]]'' has an InUniverse example, with an Earth Propaganda video showing the alien Zerg forces taking planet after planet, indicated by red arrows in space.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Pandemic}}'' you see a map of the world, with the areas [[ApocalypseHow the deadly disease killing off all of humanity has affected]]. [[NintendoHard Madagascar will usually not be among them no matter how hard you try]].
* In the game ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'', the parts of the map that are infected by a [[ThePlague deadly plague]] become more and more covered in tiny red dots until the entire country is red. This is the infection phase. When these countries face fatalities, the more people that die, the more the countries turn a bloody dark red. Furthermore, ships and planes that carry the infection leave a red trail rather than a white trail.
* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', this is a standard depiction of the kingdoms' conquests and territorial expansion during the pre-battle narrations; with the occasional VideoGame/{{Tetris}} T-block to represent a particular officer or ruler moving from one province to another. Also ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Green for Shu, Indigo for Wei, Red for Wu, Cyan for Jin.
* This is the nature of Tiberium in the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium'' series, and is illustrated during a briefing in the first game which shows a map of the earth with spreading green patches representing Tiberium growth.
* In ''VideoGame/AceCombatZero'', the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiK3axiMA78&list=HL1393961794 story tells]] how Belka's poor economy allowed the eastern portion of the country to secede and become independent nations, including Ustio. Belka's economic problems didn't end, and their borders continued to shrink, allowing those new nations to further expand, and allowing Osea to claim some of the country's western borders. Belka went to war started expanding outwards to reclaim their lost borders and acquire more resources. They even invaded the southern country of Sapin, who wasn't even involved.
** Later, the map shows about 50% of Belka surrender and let allied forces move in. This left the original Principality of Belka with only about 35% of the territory the country had before their economic problems and the war.
*In the ending cutscene of ''MassEffect3'', depending on what ending you choose, there is an animation of [[spoiler:control, destruction, or synthesis]] spreading from mass relay to mass relay.
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': PlayedForLaughs on a TreehouseOfHorror sketch ("SendInTheClones"), showcasing how an invasion of clone Homers will devastate the United States. While everybody else has been struck with wide-eyed horror, [[IdiotHero Homer]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction is despairing]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because of the lack of snacks]] in TheWarRoom.
* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when Randy charts the spread of global warming on a map, and ends up drawing a penis.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* Common practice for meteorologists' severe-weather reports.
* Epidemiologists use these a lot when tracking and predicting the spread of infectious diseases.
