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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 sequel, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
** ''Dawn'' opens with a similar visual, showing the spread of the virus in red, as the Earth rotates and a montage of sound bites play out the chaos caused by the virus and the subsequent collapse of civilization as a whole. By the time the rotation is complete and the American west coast comes back around, all the red representing the viral spread has receded because it ran its course and (almost) ''everybody is dead''.
** If you pay close enough attention to the globe, the vectors completely miss UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.
*** In real life, China always imports emergency food relief to North Korea, and given that all of China got infected with the Simian Flu, North Koreans should definitely have become diseased as well.
* In ''Film/ReignOfFire'', the opening montage of how the dragons devastated Europe includes glimpses of maps with fiery lines spreading across them.

* ''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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc here]].
* Near the end of ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', on-screen graphics in the ark control room depict the massive waves closing in Asia and other continents.
* A standard feature of Creator/{{Syfy}} [[Film/SyfyOriginalMovie 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.]]

** ''Film/{{Contagion}}'' does pretty much the same thing, but with global maps.

* ''Film/BrokenArrow1996'' has one showing the casualties that would result from a nuclear explosion in a major city.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': The park's MissionControl room has a large screen on one wall showing a map of Isla Nublar. Every scene in the control room includes a shot of the map as more and more areas go offline, containment methods fail, and dinosaurs are killed by the ''[[TheDreaded Indominus rex's]]'' rampage.
* In ''Film/{{After}}'', Freddy draws a map of the town with concentric rings of shading that depict how the supernatural fog will continue to close in as the night continues.
* In the 1953 version of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', a low-tech example is shown as military analysts add little black triangles to a large map of the world, showing areas that have been wiped out by the Martians.
* Long before computer graphics, the 1950 epidemic film ''Film/TheKillerThatStalkedNewYork'' used a map of Manhattan marked with black flag pins to track the smallpox infections. An ominous fantasy sequence depicted the flags appearing in greater and greater densities on the map, then faded to shots of a vacant city.
* Inverted in documentary film ''Film/MoscowStrikesBack''. The film shows a map of the positions at the end of November 1941, with the Germans knocking on the gates of Moscow. But as the documentary tells the story of the 1941-42 Soviet counteroffensive, the Spreading Disaster Graphic is shown actually moving back away from Moscow, as the Germans go into retreat.
* The first shot of Creator/KingVidor's 1956 adaptation of ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' shows a map of Europe and demonstrates the spreading blackness of [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Napoleon's France]] taking Western Europe over.
* The opening montage of ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' is intercut with shots of a line map of Europe, in which areas turn red where the Mimics are fighting humans, then pitch black where they've exterminated them. The red battle-zone's rim spreads outward from Germany to engulf nearly all of the continent.

** Spoofed again on ''Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing'' when Randy shows the "spread of New Jersey" across the United States and how South Park will soon be next to suffer being taken over by New Jersey guidos.

* Long before computer graphics, the 1950 epidemic film ''The Killer That Stalked New York'' used a map of Manhattan marked with black flag pins to track the smallpox infections. An ominous fantasy sequence depicted the flags appearing in greater and greater densities on the map, then faded to shots of a vacant city.

* In ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', in her OpeningMonologue Gramma Tala holds up a map and pours black ink on it to demonstrate the spreading of the darkness across the islands.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'': 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. This sequence also appears in several GameOver cinematics for the Allies.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haW_ruZ_Be8 video]] for Music/FranzFerdinand's "This Fire" (off their 2004 self-titled debut album) includes a couple of these, all done in the odd, [[UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties Constructivist-inspired]] aesthetic the band was following at the time.
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-->'''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...

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. See also SensorSuspense.

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* The animated map in the opening montage from ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' shows how the alien invasion spread across Europe.

* 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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* 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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* A rare comedic example in ''[[Series/DadsArmy Dad's Army]]'': the AnimatedCreditsOpening shows Swastika-emblazoned arrows sweeping over western Europe (including one that gets lost for a bit), while the lone Union Jack arrow retreats back to its start point, then sticks its tail out further and pulls back across the Channel. All set to a [[SoundtrackDissonance jaunty tune about how Britain's not beaten yet]].

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* 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 ''[[VideoGame/{{Area 88}} U.N. Squadron]]'', one of these serves as your stage select screen.

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* Used on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in "Cold Warriors", when Wernstrom shows Nixon how the common cold will spread outward from Manhattan if left unchecked.

* Used on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in "Cold Warriors", when Wurnstrom shows Nixon how the common cold will spread outward from Manhattan if left unchecked.

* 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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* ''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.

* 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.

* In ''[[Manga/{{Area 88}} U.N. Squadron]]'', one of these serves as your stage select screen.

* An early vector map of North America (like ''WarGames'' 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.