History Main / StarKilling

* A Changeling infiltrator posing as Bashir had planned on dropping a protomatter weapon into Bajor's star to wipe out a combined Klingon/Federation/Romulan taskforce (how useful that would have been in doing that is questionable, since the ships could easily go to warp, but it would wipe out Deep Space Nine and Bajor, and allow the Dominion to come out after the wake of the supernova and secure the Alpha Quadrant side of the wormhole)

* The titular "ironbombing" of New Moscow's star in ''[[TheEschatonSeries Iron Sunrise]]'' by CharlesStross. Not an "iron bomb" [[AirLaunchedWeapons in the USAF sense of the word]], the process involves sending a sizable portion of the target star's core into a PocketDimension [[YearInsideHourOutside with a vastly accelerated time flow]]. [[TimeAbyss As quadrillions of years pass in the pocket]], the superheated hydrogen decays [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything through quantum mechanics into a solid iron crystal]]. When it is returned to the real universe, the iron absorbs the energy from the star's core, essentially shutting off the fusion reactions that support its outer layers against gravity and causing them to collapse and rebound explosively. The entire process [[ShownTheirWork is a fair approximation of what actually occurs in a Type II supernova]] (apart from the pocket dimension, anyway).

* The titular "ironbombing" of New Moscow's star in ''[[TheEschatonSeries Iron Sunrise]]'' by CharlesStross. Not an "iron bomb" [[AirLaunchedWeapons in the USAF sense of the word]], the process involves sending a sizable portion of the target star's core into a PocketDimension [[YearInsideHourOutside with a vastly accelerated time flow]]. [[TimeAbyss As quadrillions of years pass in the pocket]], the superheated hydrogen decays through quantum mechanics into a solid iron crystal. When it is returned to our universe, the iron absorbs the energy from the star's core, essentially shutting off the fusion reactions that support its outer layers against gravity and causing them to collapse and rebound in a fair approximation of a supernova.

* There is the Hand Of Omega, from classic ''DoctorWho'' which is a remote stellar manipulator the Time Lords use to tinker with stars to make them do as they wish, in "Remembrance Of The Daleks" the Doctor uses it to [[spoiler: destroy the Skaro solar system]]. In New Who the Doctor burnt up a supernova just to talk to Rose the first time she got dumped into another dimension.

* ''StarFleetBattles''. A Sun Snake will approach and try to dive into a star. If it succeeds, the star will go nova.

* In the TV Series ''{{Andromeda}}'', Commonwealth warships had a complement of 40 NovaBombs - missiles designed to destroy a star by cancelling out any gravitational forces, literally, pulling it apart and causing it to explode. It can also be used to cancel out the gravitational pull of black holes or even cut off entire systems from the Slipstream.

* In the TV Series ''{{Andromeda}}'', Commonwealth warships had a compliment of 40 NovaBombs - missiles designed to destroy a star by cancelling out any gravitational forces, literally, pulling it apart and causing it to explode. It can also be used to cancel out the gravitational pull of black holes or even cut off entire systems from the Slipstream.

* ''StargateSG1''. "[[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun Remember that time when you blew up a sun?]]" An oft-referred-to incident where the team basically just dropped an open Stargate (connected to some far-off world orbiting a black hole) into a star, causing a fatal instability and immediate Supernova, in order to wipe out an incoming armada.

* The StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel trilogy ''The Q Continuum'' suggests the supernova that destroyed the homeworld of the Tkon Empire (as seen in the ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' episode "The Last Outpost") was caused by an omnipotent being that Q unleashed. This would answer the question of why a technologically advanced civilization with the power to move entire star systems could have been taken surprise by a supernova.

* The C'tan star gods in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are EnergyBeings that feed off elecromagnetic radiation released by stars. This apparently makes the star unstable, as it's implied that the deadly radition given off by the star of the Necrontyr homeworld was because of the C'tan living on it. However, if the star is eventually destroyed by the process, it takes a very long time (the Necrontyr lived with their deadly star for millenias), so it doesn't necessarily fully fit this trope.

So you've got a star. Main sequence type, more or less middle of its life-cycle, nothing special. Probably has an inhabited planet or two orbiting it. Of course, the Evil ([[InSpace Space!]]) [[EvilEmpire Empire]] wants the people on the planet(s) dead. They ''could'' just carpet bomb the planet or maybe [[EarthShatteringKaboom even blow it up]], but instead they decide to go for broke. When a faction or character goes StarKilling they go about ending a star's life in any of a variety of ways that dooms all life in the system to a Class X-2 ApocalypseHow.

* At the end of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', [[BigBad Bowser's]] sun actually explodes shortly after he is defeated by Mario. The sun then causes the universe to implode and later recreate the entire universe.

So you've got a star. Main sequence type, more or less middle of its life-cycle, nothing special. Probably has an inhabited planet or two orbiting it. Of course, the Evil ([[InSpace Space!]]) [[EvilEmpire Empire]] wants the people on the planet(s) dead. They ''could'' just carpet bomb the planet or maybe [[EarthShatteringKaboom even blow it up]], but instead they decide to go for broke. When a faction or character goes StarKilling they go about ending a star's life in any of a variety of ways that dooms all life in the system to a Class 6/X ApocalypseHow.

* An appendix to Iain M. Banks' ''TheCulture/ConsiderPhlebas'' summarises the vast interstellar war the novel was set in, with a casual mention that among the tally of thing destroyed were six stars. In a later book, we learn that one of them harboured an inhabited planet.

* The Ascendants in the StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch have a weapon capable of destroying stars, as seen in ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: The Dominion''.

* ''StargateSG1''. "Remember that time when you blew up a sun?" An oft-referred-to incident where the team basically just dropped an open Stargate (connected to some far-off world orbiting a black hole) into a star, causing a fatal instability and immediate Supernova, in order to wipe out an incoming armada.

Next up is poisoning the sun such that it ages several billion years, depleting it's hydrogen content and making it a cold brown dwarf; or making it impossible for it to conduct hydrogen fusion, resulting in an atypical supernova. Of course, the bad guys might somehow apply enough firepower to literally blow up the sun (or cause it to go nova). Lastly, they might somehow collapse it into a singularity (again, atypical for the mass of many suns).

* ''StarTrekGenerations'' revolves around stopping the man responsible for creating a missile capable of stopping all fusion in a star, causing a near instant nova, from using it.
* The "Star Harvester" from [[{{Film/Transformers}} ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''.]] [[BigBad The Fallen]] wants to use it so he can destroy the entire Solar System.

* There is the Hand Of Omega, from classic ''DoctorWho'' which is a remote stellar manipulator the Time Lords use to tinker with stars to make them do as they wish, in "Remembrance Of The Daleks the Doctor uses it to [[spoiler: destroy the Skaro solar system]]. In New DrWho the Doctor burnt up a supernova just to talk to Rose the first time she got dumped into another dimension.
* ''StarGateSG1''. "Remember that time when you blew up a sun?" An oft-referred-to incident where the team basically just dropped an open Stargate (connected to some far-off world orbiting a black hole) into a star, causing a fatal instability and immediate Supernova, in order to wipe out an incoming armada.

* The C'tan star gods in ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' are EnergyBeings that feed off elecromagnetic radiation released by stars. This apparently makes the star unstable, as it's implied that the deadly radition given off by the star of the Necrontyr homeworld was because of the C'tan living on it. However, if the star is eventually destroyed by the process, it takes a very long time (the Necrontyr lived with their deadly star for millenias), so it doesn't necessarily fully fit this trope.

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* A novel by Barrington J. Bailey included a weapon which worked by eliminating all of the electrons in a star, thereby rendering fusion impossible. A star hit by the weapon would lose 1/1400 of its mass and instantly go out.

* In ''AllStarSuperman:'' [[spoiler: Superman]] dies fixing the sun that had turned red/blue [[color:red:(Please confirm the color)]].

* In ''AllStarSuperman:'' [[spoiler: Superman]] dies fixing the sun that had turned red/blue [[color:red:(Please confirm the color)]].