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** The Talisman of Ultimate Evil. In the hands of an Evil HighPriest it could be used to open a flaming crack at the feet of a Good priest and send him or her to the center of the planet.

** Armageddon from the third game probably qualifies too. It's a tier 4 spell that rains fire from the skies, dealing heavy damage to all units on the battlefield. [[AwesomeButImpractical Including the caster's]], making the spell difficult to use unless one's army consists heavily of units immune to fire or immune to magic at least up to tier 4. ** On a related note, the Armageddon's Blade, capable according to the lore of "setting the world on fire" and created by a Kreegan (this game's equivalent of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], although they're actually more like [[AliensAreBastards evil aliens]]) qualifies especially. In gameplay, the Blade provides a not insignificant boost to a hero's stats and gives the user the ability to cast, at Expert level, an Armageddon spell that deals no damage to allies. Finding the sword in a non-campaign map gives the following ominous message:

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Eclipsa has two spells that qualify as this: the first is "the darkest spell" that [[spoiler: she taught to Moon so Moon could kill Toffee, being the only spell in existence to be able to permanently harm an immortal]], and the second is [[spoiler: Black Velvet Inferno, the spell she used against her own daughter, Meteora, to stop the latter's destructive rampage against Star and Mewni. The spell encloses the victim in an orb of dark magic, then emits a massive energy release inside the orb that fries the victim to a crisp]]. Eclipsa's mother Solaria was apparently [[spoiler: trying to come up with this type of spell called the Total Annihilation Spell in order to exterminate monsterkind once and for all. Fortunately she failed, but her chapter in the Book of Spells reveals she expected Eclipsa to successfully finish the spell in her place.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[FromBadToWorse As if regular nuke wasn't scary enough!]]]]

* The full extent of its effects is unknown, but the bomb that ended the [[ApocalypseHow Great Mushroom War]] in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' almost certainly qualifies. It does not appear to cause an explosion of the magnitude of a conventional nuke, but [[spoiler: it exudes a greenish cloud of what appear to be tormented souls and creates a largish puddle of green toxic waste that mutates the first person exposed to it into an OmnicidalManiac [[OurLichesAreDifferent Lich]] powerful enough to serve as the series' BigBad]].

[[caption-width-right:350: FromBadToWorse As if regular nuke wasn't scary enough!]]

* Several black cards in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' work like this. The most straightforward is probably Damnation, which simply kills every creature on the field and stops them from being regenerated, and is the [[EvilCounterpart black mana equivalent]] to the [[LightIsNotGood otherwise identical]] Wrath of God. Others include Plague Wind, which does the same thing as Damnation but doesn't kill your own creatures and costs a lot more.

* The spell "Flare" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' can be this, as its counterpart is the "Holy" spell from the White Mage. Also in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' Flare takes the form of a dark nuclear blast and some powerful evil enemies can cast it.

* ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' had the [[UnholyNuke unholy nukes]] dark force and evil gate.

* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the "Familicide" spell is an extremely powerful necromantic spell that kills ''everyone related to its target'', no matter how distant the blood connection. There are dire consequences when [[spoiler:Spliced!V uses it against a Black Dragon to avert a CycleOfRevenge]], since [[spoiler:Girard Draketooth and his entire clan, the guardians of one of the Gates, were related to that dragon.]]

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* The backstory of ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' establishes that Empress Jadis of Charn used a sinister FantasticNuke (complete with forbidden rituals involving a "Deplorable Word") to {{depopulat|ionBomb}}e her world so her sister wouldn't depose her. Can't be overthrown if you're the only being left alive.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'' Jellal's magic Altairis consist in an extremely devastating orb. In the anime it sucks [[CastingAShadow all the shadows in the room towards it]] and makes Natsu sick just by standing near it. Later, Brain [[spoiler: / Zero]]'s spell "Genesis Zero" is pretty much this, only with a ''tsunami'' of black shadows shaped in the form of screaming spirits.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Barraggan's Respira , Ulquiorra's Cero Oscuras and Lanza del Relampago, and Hollow Ichigo's horned Cero.

* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', there's an unnamed dark magic spell that calls down ''Entropy's'' power into a gigantic WaveMotionGun. However, as [[DarkIsNotEvil Entropy herself is not evil]], nor is the spell itself, but it is ''dangerous'' and more or less drains all of the user's power, with potentially crippling side effects. ''Something'' bad also happens if its miscast but is not elaborated on. Sweetie Belle learned it from [[EvilMentor Chrysalis]], but is actually smart enough to use it as a GodzillaThreshold. The one time she's ever actually used it, it [[spoiler:was a OneHitKill on Nyarlathotrot's immensely powerful Dark Storm avatar and blew a massive hole straight through it.]]

* While the series typically features demons armed with BlackMagic curses versus angels equipped with [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Hand Grenades]], the first NexusWar game made an exception for Breath of the Dead Child, a nuke powered by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the breaths of dying children]] harvested from [[NightmareFuel haunted pediatric wards]]. The sequel's version is powered by [[FromBadToWorse dying breaths everywhere]] and is no longer age-specific.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' there's [[AGodAmI God]] [[ShockAndAwe Enel]] with his infamous, island-annihilating [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/8/8b/Enel_using_Raigo_to_destroy_Angel_Island.png/revision/latest Raigou]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' there's [[AGodAmI God]] [[ShockAndAwe Eneru]] with his infamous, island-annihilating [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070318112235/onepiece/images/4/40/Eneruattack.png Raigou]].

* In ''Film/{{Willow}}'' the main villain Bavmorda wants to use a ritual whose end is to ''wipe the victim away from existence''.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'' Jellal's magic Altairis consist in an extremely devastating orb. In the anime it sucks [[CastingAShadow all the shadows in the room towards it]] and makes Natsu sick just by standing near it. Later, Brain [[spoiler: / Zero]]'s spell "Genesis Zero" is pretty much this, only with a ''tsunami'' of black shadows.

** Hades's Grimiore Law. Later, in the same saga, [[spoiler: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Acknologia]]'s BreathWeapon]].

* ''{{Spellforce}}'': The BlackMagic sub-branch of Death has the quickest damage output in the game.

* In ''{{Suikoden}}'', pretty much all of the Soul Eater's spells are considered this.

* The TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness featured the [[MageTheAscension Technocracy's]] "Code Ragnorok," a literal nuke, albeit a fairly small scale one, that detonates in the spirit world as well as the physical, destroying [[WraithTheOblivion ghosts,]] spiritual beings and the souls of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast. To their credit they only used it once, against a potentially world-ending threat.