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* ''WesternAnimation/AngelWars'': One of the demonic flagships of the demon Discord had this capability; when used, it had the effect of coating the angelic starships with lava that quickly hardened to obsidian, [[TakenForGranite encasing the crews and ships alike in stone]]. After this, Discord and his minions simply boarded the ships and commandeered them as his own.
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* ''North Forty'' has a localized World-Wrecking Wave on the town. However, this was only because one of the two (accidental) instigators of the event focused on containing the negative effects with a barrier so they wouldn't be able to leave.
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* ''North Forty'' ''ComicBook/North40'' has a localized World-Wrecking Wave on the town. However, this was only because one of the two (accidental) instigators of the event focused on containing the negative effects with a barrier so they wouldn't be able to leave.
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* ''Film/{{Rubikon}}''. The [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts protagonists watch]] as Earth is enveloped in a [[FogOfDoom cloud of fatal toxins.]]
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Natural disasters are scary enough, but what about ''super''natural or [[HumansAreBastards man-made]] disasters? One way to kick-start a story or motivate characters to pick up TheCall is to threaten the setting with a World-Wrecking Wave. The Wave can have any of a number of triggers; it may happen when the SealedEvilInACan is released, some [[GodOfEvil overwhelming evil force]] unleashes a powerful {{Curse}}, the CosmicKeystone is stolen or corrupted, a global [[UpsettingTheBalance balance is ruined]], or a scientific/technological device meant to better things [[GoneHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]] - or a MadScientist has figured out how to weaponize AppliedPhlebotinum. The wave can have any or all of the following effects: natural disasters will be triggered, [[{{Mutants}} mutations]] will affect animal, plant, and even human life, areas will enter the DarkWorld or become haunted and toxic, and millions of {{Mooks}} (monsters, undead or other things) will roam the land and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou attack all humans]]. Maybe all of the humans in radius of the wave are turned into something else, or the planet might be scoured of life.
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Natural disasters are scary enough, but what about ''super''natural or [[HumansAreBastards man-made]] disasters? One way to kick-start a story or motivate characters to pick up TheCall is to threaten the setting with a World-Wrecking Wave. The Wave can have any of a number of triggers; it may happen when the SealedEvilInACan is released, some [[GodOfEvil overwhelming evil force]] unleashes a powerful {{Curse}}, the CosmicKeystone is stolen or corrupted, a global [[UpsettingTheBalance balance is ruined]], or a scientific/technological device meant to better things [[GoneHorriblyWrong Goes Horribly Wrong]] - -- or a MadScientist has figured out how to weaponize AppliedPhlebotinum. The wave can have any or all of the following effects: natural disasters will be triggered, [[{{Mutants}} mutations]] will affect animal, plant, and even human life, areas will enter the DarkWorld or become haunted and toxic, [[WorldSundering landscapes may be blasted apart or destructively reshaped]], and millions of {{Mooks}} (monsters, undead or other things) will roam the land and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou attack all humans]]. Maybe all of the humans in radius of the wave are turned into something else, or the planet might be scoured of life.
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* Attempted in ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'', the [[MilestoneCelebration 30th anniversary season]] of ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. In a mirror to the famous WorldHealingWave from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', the villains plan to release a pulse of pure evil energy that will sweep the cosmos and wipe out the forces of good forever.
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* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': The titular ring-shaped superweapons, when all 7 of them are used together, [[ExaggeratedTrope ramp this up]] to a ''Galaxy''-Wrecking Wave, though that's just their highest setting; they can be turned down to only target a single planet. They target nervous systems, killing any sufficiently complex life-form in the blast radius (which includes anything sapient). They were only used at their full power once, as a last desperate move to destroy [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Flood]] before it consumed the galaxy, after all conventional means of fighting it had failed. The [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] felt so guilty about using it that they embraced their own extinction after taking measures to ensure the galaxy would be re-seeded with life that they had preserved at the Ark, which was located well outside the galaxy and beyond the Halo Array's blast radius.
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* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': In the ''World of Light'', Killing either Galeem or Dharkon in the final map allows the other one to unleash one of these to obliterate the fighters (and their rival) and conquer everything.
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* In ''ComicBook/EightBillionGenies'', someone makes a wish for an energy wave that scours the Earth and kills most life forms. The only survivors are people who were in reinforced bunkers or those living in wish-proofed enclaves.
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Expect a SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic to hammer home the scope of the threat. Compare FantasticNuke, which may set off a World-Wrecking Wave. Contrast a EarthShatteringKaboom - for the world ''doesn't'' survive the experience. For when the World-Wrecking Wave is used with the express purpose of changing the planet to one's preference, see HostileTerraforming.
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Expect a SpreadingDisasterMapGraphic to hammer home the scope of the threat. Compare FantasticNuke, which may set off a World-Wrecking Wave.Wave and UnholyNuke, when the wave is explicitly made of evil. Contrast a EarthShatteringKaboom - for the world ''doesn't'' survive the experience. For when the World-Wrecking Wave is used with the express purpose of changing the planet to one's preference, see HostileTerraforming.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'' does this in the ''Abra-Catastrophe'' TV movie. When Mr. Crocker becomes the ruler of the world, a montage is shown of one of these turning the world into an {{Egopolis}} where several major monuments are replaced with Crocker statues. In the same special, the characters at one point end up in an AlternateHistory where apes are the dominant lifeform on Earth, which causes a similar wave montage turning the monuments into monkey-related versions.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'' does this in the ''Abra-Catastrophe'' ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' TV movie. When Mr. Crocker becomes the ruler of the world, a montage is shown of one of these turning the world into an {{Egopolis}} where several major monuments are replaced with Crocker statues. In the same special, the characters at one point end up in an AlternateHistory where apes are the dominant lifeform on Earth, which causes a similar wave montage turning the monuments into monkey-related versions.
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* In ''Comicbook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', Comicbook/LexLuthor's weaponized satellite created a massive tsunami which threatened with flooding the whole US East Coast.
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* In ''Comicbook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', Comicbook/LexLuthor's weaponized satellite created a massive tsunami which threatened with flooding the whole US East Coast.Coast with flooding.
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* ''WebAnimation/DinosaursTheTrueStory'': The meteor impact is depicted as a tremendous shockwave, followed by a great fiery wave, that sweeps across the world in seconds.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Kid Buu destroys the Earth with a ball of energy that engulfs it. Goku and Vegeta [[OutrunTheFireball try to outrun it]] to reach Kibito Kai, who can teleport them to safety. They first intend to take Piccolo, Gohan, Goten and Trunks with them, but then Goku has a SadisticChoice to make and he decides to save Dende and Mr. Satan instead, since Dende can use Porunga's Dragon Balls to restore the Earth and everyone back to life.
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* In the second ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' game, it's said that one of these was triggered when the Sword of Zaramoth shattered the Shield of Azunai 1,000 years before the game's "present", with the entire southern half of the continent Aranna being burnt to a vast desert known afterwards as "The Plane of Tears" and the [[EndOfAnAge First Age being ended]].
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** UsefulNotes/TheMoon shows the effects of a World Wrecking Wave caused by the huge impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Imbrium Imbrium basin]] in the form of both radial grooves and secondary craters, and faults extending thousands of kilometers, caused respectively by projectiles, including the remains of the impactor, launched at different angles and the Moon's crust shattering under the impact's force[[note]]And other large whacks suffered by it as the one that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Orientale Mare Orientale]] have caused similar effects, albeit to a lesser scale and/or obscured by subsequent impact events[[/note]].
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** UsefulNotes/TheMoon shows the effects of a World Wrecking Wave caused by the huge impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Imbrium Imbrium basin]] in the form of both radial grooves and secondary craters, and craters plus faults extending thousands of kilometers, caused respectively by projectiles, including the remains of the impactor, launched at different angles and the Moon's crust shattering under the impact's force[[note]]And other large whacks suffered by it as the one that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Orientale Mare Orientale]] Orientale basin]] have caused similar effects, albeit to a lesser scale and/or obscured by subsequent impact events[[/note]].
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** UsefulNotes/TheMoon shows the effects of a World Wrecking Wave caused by the huge impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Imbrium Mare Imbrium]] in the form of radial grooves and faults extending thousands of kilometers, caused respectively by projectiles launched at low angles and the Moon's crust shattering under the impact's force[[note]]And other large whacks suffered by it as the one that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Orientale Mare Orientale]] are quite likely to have caused similar effects[[/note]].
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** UsefulNotes/TheMoon shows the effects of a World Wrecking Wave caused by the huge impact that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Imbrium Mare Imbrium]] Imbrium basin]] in the form of both radial grooves and secondary craters, and faults extending thousands of kilometers, caused respectively by projectiles projectiles, including the remains of the impactor, launched at low different angles and the Moon's crust shattering under the impact's force[[note]]And other large whacks suffered by it as the one that formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Orientale Mare Orientale]] are quite likely to have caused similar effects[[/note]].effects, albeit to a lesser scale and/or obscured by subsequent impact events[[/note]].
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** Oh, and you can take this one or two steps further thanks to some updates. ||If you take the "become the Crisis" ascension perk, you can do this to entire star systems with special "star-eater" units (which do exactly what it says on the tin and send one of these out into the system, wiping out everything, planets included), and your end goal ends up becoming the enactment of this on the galaxy, with you surfing the shockwave to safety in the Shroud.||
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** Oh, and you can take this one or two steps further thanks to some updates. ||If [[spoiler: If you take the "become the Crisis" ascension perk, you can do this to entire star systems with special "star-eater" units (which do exactly what it says on the tin and send one of these out into the system, wiping out everything, planets included), and your end goal ends up becoming the enactment of this on the galaxy, with you surfing the shockwave to safety in the Shroud.||]]
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** Oh, and you can take this one or two steps further thanks to some updates. ||If you take the "become the Crisis" ascension perk, you can do this to entire star systems with special "star-eater" units (which do exactly what it says on the tin and send one of these out into the system, wiping out everything, planets included), and your end goal ends up becoming the enactment of this on the galaxy, with you surfing the shockwave to safety in the Shroud.||
