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Big Blackout

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Big Blackout	comment	A sudden power outage cuts the electricity to an entire city, state, country, etc. This is usually caused by a machine that sucks way too much energy. Sometimes the power is adequate and the machine works, other times it begins a quest for the heroes to find something that is powerful enough. Alternately, it could be caused by an Electromagnetic Pulse, a Solar Flare Disaster, or perhaps an Alien Invasion. Often illustrated by a distance shot of an entire city at night â€“Â blackouts never seem to happen in the daytime on TV â€“ with large rectangular sections of the city seen going dark one-by-one about a second or two apart. If it's a really big one, there will most likely be a satellite view of a whole continent experiencing this. And then maybe the other continents. In Real Life, incidents such as these are usually caused by natural disasters or large-scale accidents. Household electrical systems (and even small commercial systems) simply do not have the ability to drain enough power from the utilities to cause a system-wide deficit. Assuming that safety features such as fuses and circuit breakers failed to work (or were bypassed), the excessive electrical current would still make the building's wiring catch fire long before the utility would see any measurable drop in voltage. See Cut the Juice for when this is done deliberately, and Power Outage Plot for how characters deal with blackouts. See also 30-Second Blackout for an unusually short-lived example of this trope. May involve Darkness Equals Death.
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Big Blackout / int_1054984c	comment	John Rain: In The Last Assassin, Rain arranges for his Friend on the Force to knock out the power so he can enter a nightclub in night vision goggles and kill his target without being seen. The hitch is, city regulations require an investigation if power goes out on an entire Tokyo city block for longer than two minutes, so that's all the time his friend can give him.
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Big Blackout / int_1360882c	comment	In the second book of Gone, the entire Domed Hometown setting undergoes a blackout due to the Coates students, manipulated by the Gaiaphage, messing with the local power plant.
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Big Blackout / int_16d191f7	comment	In Homefront, the opening cutscene shows a KPR satellite flying above the planet, intending to broadcast "a message of peace to the entire world". It's really an EMP satellite, and what we get to see is an image of all the lights going out in the continental United States.
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Big Blackout / int_1b4b2f5c	comment	Happens in Highschool of the Dead when a submarine fired an nuclear missile as a collaborated attempt to deal with the zombie problems. All of the other nukes got shot down, but the ship that was supposed to take out the last one was already zombified itself. The nuke detonated in the atmosphere, causing a massive EMP that knocked out all of Japan's electricity. Thankfully it happens in daylight whereby the protagonists have time to react and prepare themselves for night.
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Big Blackout / int_1bd07058	comment	Elephants wandering on airport runway in Wild Beasts causes a plane to crash on city's power supply, causing a blackout.
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Big Blackout / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: "The Blackout in the Blizzard" involved a blackout during a case. Booth and Brennan found themselves trapped in an elevator, where they ended up having a long-overdue discussion regarding their relationship.
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Big Blackout / int_234b21a7	comment	In The Day the Earth Stood Still, Klaatu demonstrates his power by causing a global blackout for exactly thirty minutes. He thoughtfully makes exceptions for such things as hospitals and airplanes in flight.
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Big Blackout / int_23b6a4e1	comment	Colony: The second season premiere shows that the Arrival started with a massive EMP used to shut down all human electronics, which softened the planet up for the Attack Drones to swoop in and finish the job.
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Big Blackout / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In the first-season episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home" the family members apply so many electric shocks at each other at Dr. Marvin Monroe's therapy that they take the power from the city. Blackouts have occurred several times in Springfield. In keeping with the show's exaggeratedly cynical take on human nature, citizens tend to riot the very second the power goes out. Including once when the mob smashes into a musical instrument store and come out playing a university fight song.
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Big Blackout / int_263d5756	comment	One is caused by the bad guys in Live Free or Die Hard.
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Big Blackout / int_28724fb2	comment	In Titanic (1997), the power fails right when the ship splits in half, just like in real life.
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Big Blackout / int_289bf65	comment	Zombieland Saga: Episode ten of Revenge ends with a Saga-wide blackout caused by catastrophic storms. Conveniently, Okoba was about to send his article that would expose Franchouchou as zombies right before it hit.
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Big Blackout / int_297aab77	comment	A daytime example occurs in The Day After, due to the EMP from the airburst.
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Big Blackout / int_2a77a546	comment	One of the cards for the Inside Out edition of The Game of Life says "A thunderstorm knocks out the power!" and requires the player to collect a Fear memory.
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Big Blackout / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Spencer's sculpture in the world record broadcast episode. Also the episode where a summer heatwave knocks out power to the whole city, and thanks to Spencer's invention, only he and Carly's apartment has power—and air conditioning!
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Big Blackout / int_2c96ae0e	comment	Hustle: Occasionally used, when they'll cut power to a single specific block or something.
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Big Blackout / int_2d311a08	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), the episode "The Big Ripoff," Shredder and Krang are suffering from a power failure in their fortress. There are always some minor technical problems with the Technodrome, but this time, they don't even have the energy for electric lighting, and if they can't get the Technodrome running again, it will fall into some hot lava. This inspires them to finally succeed at stealing a new energy source for the Technodrome.
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Big Blackout / int_2ec27115	comment	In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Caged Tiger", it's implied that a power outage in the tower caused the elevator to stop working as the lights go dim and Robin says he's getting no signal on his communicator.
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Big Blackout / int_2f1b5710	comment	Jekyll: The power sometimes starts to flicker when Dr. Jackman's personalities are fighting for control. At the beginning of his character arc, it's limited to whatever minor electronics are in the room; by the climax, the entire city of London is undergoing rolling blackouts.
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Big Blackout / int_30f3c938	comment	Volcano invokes the "sector-by-sector" city blackout after a major quake (a preamble to the titular volcano). For bonus effect, the skyscrapers in the city center are the last to go dark.
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Big Blackout / int_31d9b034	comment	Into the Forest is about two teenage sisters struggling to survive in a secluded forest during a mysterious nationwide blackout with no end in sight.
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Big Blackout / int_31e1eca3	comment	In PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, a blackout occurs in Sunyshore City and the player is unable to venture to said city until they beat the main game at Spear Pillar.
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Big Blackout / int_34de22dc	comment	Mr. Bean: He did this once in a Christmas skit, when he somehow unplugged the power to an entire department store while testing a string of Christmas lights.
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Big Blackout / int_34df8b64	comment	Godmothered: Gary the raccoon causes one by chewing through Mackenzie's Christmas lights. Her neighborhood and even skyscrapers in the distance lose power. Near the end of the film, Gary chews through another wire and causes another blackout.
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Big Blackout / int_3643cc24	comment	In Splinter Cell: Conviction, EMP technology features heavily in the gameplay and plot. Washington DC is hit and goes dark.
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Big Blackout / int_390a0da6	comment	Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor has one in the form of The Datacide, which was caused by a silicon eating microbe that destroyed all of the world's microprocessors, effectively resetting Earth's technology level to the 1940s.
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Big Blackout / int_39c30cc	comment	This is what kickstarts the climax in Franklin's Magic Christmas. A massive icestorm causes a blackout to Faraway Farm and the surrounding area, causing Franklin and Harriet's parents to leave and go check on the Collies. Grandpa Turtle slips and falls on the ice and with no way to call for help, Franklin decides to try to set off for Woodland on his own to get the help of Dr. Bear, with Harriet secretly playing the Tagalong Kid.
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Big Blackout / int_3adfb1ba	comment	An episode of House of Mouse was about Pete creating a power outage as an attempt to shut down the eponymous nightclub. He fails.
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Big Blackout / int_3e6269af	comment	Real Genius has this happen when Chris Knight turns on his laser beam pathway for the "Tanning Invitational". It's not known how widespread the blackout is — maybe only the Pacific Tech campus.
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Big Blackout / int_3f408546	comment	At the climax of Peace Talks, Ethniu unleashes a magical EMP that knocks out everything electrical in and around Chicago, as the opening move of her intended war against humanity.
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Big Blackout / int_3f7379db	comment	In Cold Snap, the villain's Magitek summoning device has power requirements that he satisfies by subverting the national grid. When he mentions this during his bout of Evil Gloating, the hero recalls a nation-wide blackout a few days earlier that had been officially attributed to too many people using electric devices to beat the summer heat.
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Big Blackout / int_41671603	comment	In the Batman: Hush storyline, Batman follows a lead on Poison Ivy's whereabouts to Metropolis, only to find that she's used her poisons to control Superman's mind. After initially getting away, Batman gets the drop on Superman and electrocutes him with a main power line. All of the lights in Metropolis (which is generally shown to be a highly modern, borderline Crystal Spires kind of city) momentarily go off. Superman was only stunned for a short time, but Batman was only buying time until he could break Ivy's control anyway. This is a Shout-Out to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, where Bats hooks into Gotham's power grid to stun Superman.
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Big Blackout / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Dead Beat, baddies do this to Chicago in order to create a panic, as it knocks out not only building power but all electronics in the area, although phones and cars still work sporadically for some reason. It's a jamming effect, but phones and cars have their own power source, so they're easier to work. After all, anything powered from the mains need everything down the power transmission to be working, a cellphone only needs the phone and the tower to be clear. At the climax of Peace Talks, Ethniu unleashes a magical EMP that knocks out everything electrical in and around Chicago, as the opening move of her intended war against humanity.
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Big Blackout / int_42c05590	comment	Weird variation in Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko, Heffer and Filbert made a potato light bulb that blacked out the town, then shot out a beam of light powerful enough to be seen from space.
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Big Blackout / int_430f1f6a	comment	Happens to entire Haddonfield in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, due to Michael throwing a city worker into the electrical system.
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Big Blackout / int_43636ee6	comment	Raising Dion: In episode 4, the first time Dion uses his powers to create a blackout, he intends to use it only on the BIONA facility, but ends up shorting out the entire city.
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Big Blackout / int_44fe781e	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion, all the power in Japan is needed to power up the Positron Rifle, causing a (planned) nation-wide blackout. Matariel also arrived conveniently in the middle of a daytime blackout. Since the power grid of NERV HQ had multiple backup systems, it HAD to be sabotage.
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Big Blackout / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: An old skit has Ernie and Bert engaging in Loud of War by turning on various appliances (TV, radio, blender, etc.), which results in a fuse blowing and the power going out in their apartment. A later skit, perhaps inspired by the 1977 New York blackout, has Ernie noticing that the whole street has lost power one night. He annoys Bert by suggesting they watch TV or listen to the radio or record player, though none of them will work without electricity.
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Big Blackout / int_47275c2a	comment	In the mid-season finale of Beware the Batman, Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins do this to Gotham City, a plan in the making since the fourth episode.
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Big Blackout / int_49340431	comment	Brooklyn Nine-Nine: "Lights Out" has the Nine-Nine dealing with a city wide blackout caused by a man crashing his car into a power station, which he did on purpose as a cover for a bank robbery.
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Big Blackout / int_499099fe	comment	Toward the end of Shortbus, the lights go out across New York City when therapist Sofia Lin fails again to reach orgasm. When she finally has an orgasm the lights come back on.
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Big Blackout / int_49a87cb3	comment	Towards the finale of Final Fantasy VII, the whole city of Midgard goes dark sector by sector as the power of the city's reactors is being redirected to a Super Weapon.
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Big Blackout / int_4a58fe0e	comment	The Peoria Plague, produced by Peoria, Illinois station WUHN in 1972, has the station's usual easy listening music format interrupted by breaking news reports about a mysterious, city-wide power outage that eventually snowballs into a combination of The Virus, Zombie Apocalypse and Alien Invasion.
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Big Blackout / int_4b790c79	comment	Interesting variation in the climax of Iron Man, which involves a power generator being overloaded and draining power from the surrounding area; however, unlike most of the 'plunge entire city into blackout' examples, it was clearly only a few blocks that were affected.
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Big Blackout / int_4c213722	comment	Happens a couple of times over the course of the Splinter Cell series. In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, a computer hacker takes control of power plants and knocks out the power to most of New England and all of Japan. In Splinter Cell: Conviction, EMP technology features heavily in the gameplay and plot. Washington DC is hit and goes dark.
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Big Blackout / int_4e2d3d00	comment	The Glades: In "A Perfect Storm", a hurricane knocks out the power in Palm Glade, including the hospital where Carlos in working. He has to find some way to secure a generator to keep vital equipment at the hospital functioning.
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Big Blackout / int_4e483062	comment	This happens on three separate occasions and is what causes Peter to tell his family the stories of the original Star Wars trilogy in Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball.
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Big Blackout / int_4f410616	comment	In The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, one of these hits the book's main city of Stonetown, along with a complete radio communications breakdown. It's all thanks to the Big Bad of the series, Mr. Curtain, who took back control of his tidal turbines and used his specially developed signal disruption technology to kill the radios. All of this was used as cover to seize the Whisperer, a terrible machine invented by Curtain, which can be used to both to erase people's memories and to implant thoughts in minds.
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Big Blackout / int_513f5832	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_513f5832	comment	The probe from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home causes these wherever it goes.
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Big Blackout / int_54291151	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_54291151	comment	Happens twice in Littlest Pet Shop (2012): In "Eight Arms to Hold You," Vinnie accidentally destroys a transformer attempting to sneak back into the Littlest Pet Shop, causing the entire metropolitan area to lose power. In "Littlest Pet Shop of Horrors," Dr. Sunilenstein channeling the electricity needed to awaken his monster causes a blackout in the surrounding village. The blackout (and not his monster) is what brings the angry mob over to Dr. Sunilenstein's castle.
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Big Blackout / int_5b18983b	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_5b18983b	comment	A Ghostwriter spin-off book features this as its plot catalyst. Matters quickly get out of hand when the team is scattered throughout the affected part of the city, Alex gets scammed for a cheap flashlight (with batteries not being included unless he coughs up more cash) and Gabby and Tina end up in a hostage situation.
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Big Blackout / int_60f95f8	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: "The Theft of Gloria's Greatcoat" tells the story of how Nick and Gloria met. He was burgling her apartment to steal the eponymous coat when she walked in on him unexpectedly. The date was Tuesday, November 9, 1965: the night of the northeast blackout of 1965 (see Real Life below). Nick ended up spending the entire in her apartment.
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Big Blackout / int_627507ac	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_627507ac	comment	Rio: Nigel the cockatoo flies straight into a electrical transformer resulting in a huge blackout, right as the soccer team is going for the final point during a major game.
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Rio	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_627507ac
Big Blackout / int_6505f7f3	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: A blackout happens in Qyah in the episode "The Worm Turns". Because of a spooky story Grandpa Nat told them, the kids think that giant ice worms ate the power lines.
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Big Blackout / int_6715932e	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, Ban bribes a Moon Tower employee with three million yen to cut the power to the entirety of Moon Tower, allowing him and the rest of the cast to sneak in and investigate the Killer Peach spirit.
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Big Blackout / int_67afc2e4	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_67afc2e4	comment	The Noddy Shop had this happen in the episode "Thunder and Lightning", in which a thunderstorm causes a blackout in the shop. The kids try to make their way through with candles and then flashlights, but then resort to just telling a Noddy story and hearing a song from the puppets. This is also the fear of Whiny and Whimper.
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Big Blackout / int_6b526751	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6b526751	comment	In Weird Science, creating the "Lisa" entity shorts out a lot of the power of the city they're in.
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Big Blackout / int_6bd0cf78	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6bd0cf78	comment	Happens in Monsters, Inc. as a result of Boo giggling too much.
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Monsters, Inc.	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_6bd0cf78
Big Blackout / int_6c548b23	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6c548b23	comment	A sudden blackout helps the lunatics escape in Alone in the Dark (1982), and go after their new doctor.
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Big Blackout / int_6c6852c4	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6c6852c4	comment	One early scene in Yakuza 0 has real estate broker Tachibana plunge the district of Kamurocho into darkness. The blackout doesn't last long, only staying dark for about 10 seconds, but it's more than enough to prove his point: he has the wealth and influence required to wrest control of Kamurocho from the Tojo Clan, the yakuza family that claims dominion over the area.
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Big Blackout / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Quantum Leap: The 1965 Northeast blackout is again referenced, supposedly caused by a hair dryer being plugged in at a house in Buffalo, New York.
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Quantum Leap	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_6ce0d19c
Big Blackout / int_6d27b424	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6d27b424	comment	In 2013, the British TV channel simply know as Channel 4 did a one off Mockumentary about the UK's national grid failing and the results of what a modern Britain not having power for an entire week would be like. It was simply called Blackout.
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Big Blackout / int_6e33f3df	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6e33f3df	comment	A more mundane instance: the venue at which The Beatles are performing at the end of the episode "Please Mr. Postman" has the lights go completely out—because the electricity bill payment was delinquent.
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The Beatles	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_6e33f3df
Big Blackout / int_6f801ab6	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_6f801ab6	comment	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, when Clark Griswold finally gets his Christmas lights working. We cut to a shot of his house like a beacon in the midst of his suburb, as all the lights around his house dim from the power drain he's causing to the suburb. Then we cut to a shot of the "Auxiliary Reactor" switch in a nearby nuclear power plant, which is turned on (implicitly) because of the amount of electricity he's using.
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Big Blackout / int_70266420	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_70266420	comment	Happens in the Facing the Future Series story, "Stolen Years" when Jack's newest ghost invention accidentally sucks up the power of half the city, much to the chagrin of Danny and the neighbors.
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FacingTheFutureSeries	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_70266420
Big Blackout / int_704d43b3	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_704d43b3	comment	As mentioned in Literature, in the Book of Exodus from The Bible, God caused a supernatural blackout to happen in ancient Egypt as one of the ten plagues, which prevented the Egyptians from seeing any form of light during the entire time of the plague.
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Big Blackout / int_70814599	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: One episode had a device that could render Earth intangible, at the cost of blacking out the entire United States.
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Big Blackout / int_73b1d3f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_73b1d3f	comment	Chicago Hope: A Halloween Episode involves the hospital losing power during a storm.
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Chicago Hope	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_73b1d3f
Big Blackout / int_73d7930f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Occurs in the episode "Homefront," seemingly because of Dominion sabotage, but the next episode reveals that it was part of a plot by an Insane Admiral to place Earth under a military dictatorship.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_73d7930f
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Big Blackout / int_746814ae	comment	Happens quite a bit on Arthur. In "Elwood City Turns 100", Muffy had an elaborate electronic sign made to advertise the upcoming school musical, but shortly after turning it on, the power goes out all over the city. A similar experience occurred in the cold open for "Brain Gets Hooked," when Arthur flashes back to when his father and their neighbor got in a competition for the most elaborate Christmas lights display; both of them powered on caused a total blackout across Elwood City. More realistic power failures also happened in two weather-related episodes: one about a blizzard ("The Blizzard"), another about a heatwave (the latter appropriately titled "The Blackout.") In an early episode, "Poor Muffy," a scene has Muffy using up so much electricity in Francine's apartment it causes the lights to flicker. She's got loads of extension cords plugged in as she's using tons of appliances and electronics; eventually everything darkens for a few seconds, and then the screen goes completely black as Muffy screams.
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Arthur	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_746814ae
Big Blackout / int_74bf2e1f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_74bf2e1f	comment	The Lotterys More or Less: Toronto ends up experiencing an ice storm that knocks out power and heat for a good portion of the city. It's not specifically stated to be the December 2013 North American Storm Complex, but no specific year is given.
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Big Blackout / int_75244bdb	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_75244bdb	comment	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping had Conner causing a nationwide blackout by having all of the appliances play his music.
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Big Blackout / int_764768c	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_764768c	comment	In chapter 3 of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, the group's gone over to Professor Russell's house to analyze the Black Orbment, a mysterious device meant for the protagonists' father. Uniquely, it lacks any form of identification, serial number, or slots to equip, so it's decided to detect its energy readings. When it's attempted, the thing sucks up as much orbal energy as it can and pushes the equipment to its limit. It's only after they see the lights going out in downtown Zeiss that they decide to call it quits. NPC dialogue the following morning shows that they nearly went into a city-wide panic. In the second game, a much, much worse example effectively caused by the same technology on a far wider scale suppresses all of the country's orbal power, including a sizable chunk of the neighboring empire.
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Big Blackout / int_7832b74c	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_7832b74c	comment	In the Steven Universe episode "Political Power", the Crystal Gems end up knocking out power to all of Beach City while testing a machine they built to disable Peridot's robonoids. Steven goes with Mayor Dewey to try and keep the townspeople calm, and the power is back on by the end of the episode.
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Big Blackout / int_78f6a3f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_78f6a3f	comment	One of these accompanies the appearance of the UFO craft at the start of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film's hero Roy Neary is a power company repairman.
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Big Blackout / int_7c038c18	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_7c038c18	comment	The Phineas and Ferb episode "Blackout" has one thanks to Doofenshmirtz's "Big-Sad-Eye-inator" using so much power and exploding
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Phineas and Ferb	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_7c038c18
Big Blackout / int_7c4c7803	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_7c4c7803	comment	In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, a computer hacker takes control of power plants and knocks out the power to most of New England and all of Japan.
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Big Blackout / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): When the Thinker begins the Enlightenment in the Season 4 finale, the process shuts down every piece of electricity-based technology in Central City. When its stopped, the power comes back on.
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The Flash (2014)	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_7cf5a07
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Big Blackout / int_8315ed3e	comment	In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Dr. Wily causes one that lasts for much of Episode 12.
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_8315ed3e
Big Blackout / int_83892b47	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_83892b47	comment	In Dead Beat, baddies do this to Chicago in order to create a panic, as it knocks out not only building power but all electronics in the area, although phones and cars still work sporadically for some reason. It's a jamming effect, but phones and cars have their own power source, so they're easier to work. After all, anything powered from the mains need everything down the power transmission to be working, a cellphone only needs the phone and the tower to be clear.
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Dead Beat	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_83892b47
Big Blackout / int_84d455d4	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_84d455d4	comment	Happens in The Big O when they try to jump-start Big Fau.
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The Big O	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_84d455d4
Big Blackout / int_85a246b3	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_85a246b3	comment	Titans (2018): The car Dick Grayson is driving goes dead the moment Trigon steps from his dimension into ours. Fortunately Dick and his companions are close enough to get the rest of the way on foot.
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Titans (2018)	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_85a246b3
Big Blackout / int_8667f7b0	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_8667f7b0	comment	A deliberate blackout is enforced in Dad's Army, given that Walmington-on-Sea was (obviously) on the seaside in Kent, a potential site of German invasion and on the flightpath of German bombers to London. Much comic potential is wrought out of the officious and unpleasant Air-Raid Warden Hodges who enforces the blackout regulations.
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Dad's Army	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_8667f7b0
Big Blackout / int_86b52b7b	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_86b52b7b	comment	I, Robot: Thanks to US Robotics' proliferation of their robot technology, the Big Bad is able to gain access to Chicago's power grid and cut power to everything except the USR building once its Zeroth Law Rebellion gets underway. The Big Bad's defeat is followed almost immediately by a panning shot out the window as power is restored to the city.
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Big Blackout / int_876cd173	comment	Watch_Dogs allows the player character to do this by unlocking a specific ability from the skill tree. It unleashes an electromagnetic pulse that causes all nearby electrical devices, including the traffic lights, to go haywire and succumb that part of the city into darkness. The game's story also tells about the 2003 blackout event in the United States, which here is attributed to T-Bone, the inventor of ctOS.
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Big Blackout / int_8ad918d7	comment	Bear in the Big Blue House had this happen during a thunderstorm in "Afraid Not".
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Big Blackout / int_8d7f29ec	comment	A variant in Glee affects the whole school, forcing New Directions into an impromptu lesson in acoustics. They rise to the challenge, both A Cappella and as an Trash-Can Band.
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Glee	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_8d7f29ec
Big Blackout / int_8d814070	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_8d814070	comment	MASH: Several blackouts plagued the 4077th, notably in Radar's final story-arc, when an aid-station stole the camp's generator.*
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Big Blackout / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: The seventh season episode "Power Down". Team Gibbs has to solve the case using old-school methods. Poor McGee was stuck with the duty of looking through the boxes of files. The idea then gets recycled on NCIS: New Orleans. A first-season episode culminated in the team attempting to foil a terrorist plot to black out most of North America, by bombing pylons serving just three main power nodes. This would supposedly have placed so much strain on the rest of the grid that the entire network would have failed. Makes one wonder just how true-to-life the concept is.
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Big Blackout / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Law & Order: The episode "Darkness" involves one of these.
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Law & Order	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_8dfbdff2
Big Blackout / int_90a3a7f4	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible first encounters SeÃ±or Senior Senior and Junior after tracing a Europe-wide blackout to their mansion. It wasn't something they were doing on purpose (they hadn't yet taken up villainy) — they'd overloaded the power grid with extravagances such as Junior's blimp-sized sunlamp.
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Kim Possible	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_90a3a7f4
Big Blackout / int_9776174	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_9776174	comment	Ex Machina: Mitchell's initial Power Incontinence shuts off power in most of New York. Zeller's arrival triggers the 2003 Northeast Blackout, knocking out all the power in the state of New York, and a little beyond that. The name of the arc where this takes place? Power Down. The Series also has flashbacks to the 1965 and 1977 blackouts.
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Big Blackout / int_99055407	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: Played for Laughs. One Christmas special has Steve and Carl trying to mount ornate Christmas lights and decorations, but Carl blows a fuse. The power goes out first at the Winslow household, then the whole city, and then the entire world.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_99055407
Big Blackout / int_9c608bbc	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_9c608bbc	comment	Bewitched: One episode has Aunt Clara inadvertently causing one of these. (The episode was inspired by, and first aired exactly one year after, the 1965 Northeast blackout mentioned in the Real Life section below.)
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Bewitched	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_9c608bbc
Big Blackout / int_9ca0210f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_9ca0210f	comment	The Warriors has one level where all of New York City is experiencing a blackout, which causes widespread looting and your objective is to join in and steal as much loot as you can. This was likely a reference to the actual New York City blackout in the late 1970s, which the game takes place in.
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The Warriors (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_9ca0210f
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Big Blackout / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon In PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, a blackout occurs in Sunyshore City and the player is unable to venture to said city until they beat the main game at Spear Pillar. In PokÃ©mon X and Y a big blackout has hit most of Lumiose City apart from the Southern Boulevard and Vernal Avenue. Like the above example the player cannot move beyond Southern Boulevard until they solve the situation at the Power Plant causing the blackout (which requires the layer to loop around the coastal part of Kalos). Also if the player plays at night the whole city is still brightly lit. In PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, Sophocles summons the Totem Pokemon with a machine that knocks out the power to the Observatory he works in.
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PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_9f89a5f0
Big Blackout / int_a0500a06	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_a0500a06	comment	Happened more than once in Rugrats with Stu's inventions. This sets off the plot of the live touring show Rugrats: A Live Adventure, where one of Stu's blackouts causes Tommy to make a flashlight come to life and comfort Chuckie, who got scared.
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Rugrats	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_a0500a06
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Big Blackout / int_a4274674	comment	Happens in Man of Steel apparently just to emphasize the televisions and other media that are still working and broadcasting General Zod's You Are Not Alone speech. When he's finished monologuing, all the power comes on again.
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Big Blackout / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: The episode "Archie and the KKK" begins during the 1977 NYC blackout, and includes discussion of the real-life looting and arson that took place. Another episode, "Mike and Gloria's House Guests", has Archie and Edith staying at Mike and Gloria's house after their furnace goes on the blink. This naturally leads to tension between the family members, until a power outage brings them together.
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Big Blackout / int_ad666b39	comment	The climax of Fly by Night begins when Crabble accidentally causes the 1965 Northeast Blackout by plugging in a light bulb.
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Big Blackout / int_b0028436	comment	In Part 4 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Red Hot Chili Pepper, in one last desperate act, drains all of the electricity from Morioh to use against Josuke, causing a blackout to the city until he is defeated. This is a rare case of a daytime blackout too.
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Big Blackout / int_b310c8f4	comment	Barney & Friends: A storm knocks out the classroom's power in "What's That Shadow" and the kids are left to deal with a fear of the dark, and other things like shadows.
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Big Blackout / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963), the Shocker once initiated a series of blackouts, one block at a time, in a pattern to spell out his name when viewed from above.
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Big Blackout / int_b63ec15c	comment	Old People: At the end of the prologue, as Mr. Reincke is shouting out the balcony after killing a woman, we see plumes of smoke rising off of some buildings, then all the power in the city goes out.
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Big Blackout / int_bbdf1b3b	comment	Mad About You: One episode had Paul inadvertently causing a citywide blackout in New York; as part of a "Blackout Thursday" crossover gimmick on NBC that week, several other set-in-NYC sitcoms on that same night (most notably Friends) featured blackout stories.
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Big Blackout / int_bcb32dc6	comment	A significant part of the metaplot for Shadowrun 6th Edition is a massive month-long blackout/power surge in many of the major UCAS cities after UCAS backs out of the Business Recognition Accords.
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Big Blackout / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Ghostbusters II has Ray accidentally knock out the power to seemingly the whole of Manhattan, if not the entirety of NYC.
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Ghostbusters II	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_bd9edbdd
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Big Blackout / int_be03a5ee	comment	A supernatural version of this occurs in the Left Behind books, as one of God's Bowl Judgments causes New Babylon to be so dark that, even though they still have power, none of Nicolae Carpathia's loyalists can see any form of light save for Nicolae's faint aura. The believers in Christ, on the other hand, can still see with the illumination level of a low-powered chandelier. The blackout lasts for a whole year until an angel of the Lord illuminated the city long enough to warn God's people to get out of New Babylon before it is destroyed. Even worse for Carpathia's loyalists is that, during the blackout, they also suffer pains and sores for which there is no relief. (There is also a brief blackout period before Jesus' return in Glorious Appearing which caused the Global Community Unity Army's weapons and lights to fail.) Also Biblical, as one of God's plagues upon Egypt was to plunge it into thick darkness.
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Left Behind	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_be03a5ee
Big Blackout / int_c03ad363	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_c03ad363	comment	Noah in The Last Mimzy accidentally causes a blackout that affects half of the state of Washington when two "toys" from the future fuse to create a powerful generator. While the power goes back on very quickly, it leads Noah and his family to be Mistaken For Terrorists by the FBI once they trace the source of the blackout.
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Big Blackout / int_c0d08d1c	comment	Nightfall: After the news reports on how the eclipse is supposed to occur, the television suddenly goes black. Eve and her boyfriend realize off-screen that the electricity has been cut to their area, although they don't know why.
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Big Blackout / int_c3bbb7f7	comment	In the French Sci-Fi novel Malevil, a blackout is the first effect that World War III has on the characters. The lights fail alongside an obnoxious blaring radio going silent. They have enough time to realize that the radio didn't break, the dial light works, but it's no longer receiving radio signals when the blastwave hits them.
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Big Blackout / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Bells of Saint John", the lights in all the houses around Clara and the Doctor are turned on, while all others in that part of London are turned off, leaving a giant bulls-eye for the hacked airliner that's diving towards them.
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_c43df4d8
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Big Blackout / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: While Agent Kay shows James Edwards around MIB headquarters, he takes him into a room full of unrevealed alien technology. James sees a ball in a stasis field, but ignores Kay's warning and touches it, accidentally setting it loose in the complex until Kay stops it, explaining that this was responsible for the 1977 NYC blackout.
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Men in Black	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_c487221e
Big Blackout / int_c62995ba	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: During the Bloody Hell arc of the sequel Ghosts of the Past, the Grey Court cut all power and communications networks in Manhattan in order to create enough chaos and confusion in order to enable them to swoop in and abduct Carol without anyone noticing or interfering.
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Big Blackout / int_c7d47d93	comment	In Central Park, Season 2 "Central Dark", a blackout occurs in New York City and parts of New Jersey and Birdie sings "Come Into the Darkness", which is about how people will take advantage of the blackout and bad things will happen. During the blackout, the several hotel owners that Bitsy pissed off try to steal her infrastructure plans while the Tillermans play a board game to pass the time but it gets out of hand.
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Big Blackout / int_c9777ec1	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_c9777ec1	comment	Night Gallery: The 1965 Northeast blackout figures in the plot of the "Eyes" segment from the Pilot Movie.
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Night Gallery	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_c9777ec1
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Big Blackout / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: "CSI Unplugged" has all of Las Vegas go dark, forcing the CSIs to process their case old-school.
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Big Blackout / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: The two-parter "Our Darkest Hour" and "The Longest Night".
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Criminal Minds	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_ccf875f7
Big Blackout / int_d2ca47ca	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d2ca47ca	comment	When the hillbillies invade the town in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, the first thing they do is take out the phone tower and sabotage the power plant.
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Big Blackout / int_d2d6de50	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d2d6de50	comment	In Ocean's Eleven, the main characters use an electromagnetic pulse to knock out power all over Las Vegas.
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Ocean's Eleven	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_d2d6de50
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Big Blackout / int_d4263e4c	comment	Happens offscreen in the Wild Cards series. It's mentioned a few times in passing, along with the giant ape that appeared in Central Park afterwards. It turns out that a shapechanging ace used all the power going to New York City to generate mass to turn into King Kong.
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Big Blackout / int_d46cc708	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d46cc708	comment	The Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Boom Boom Out Goes the Ed", the power to the cul-de-sac goes out. Ed quickly stirs up most of the kids into a frenzy with talk of evil mole people at work, while Rolf shanghais Kevin into operating a generator to get the power going again.
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Big Blackout / int_d4fdfff4	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d4fdfff4	comment	The ER episode "Power" featured a blackout affecting the city of Chicago, with the doctors forced to rely on their skills and wits in order to treat patients, now that they couldn't use the equipment. Another episode, appropriately titled "Blackout", had a similar story, except that it featured one of the characters (Abby), having an alcohol-induced blackout, resulting in an drunken one-night stand with her supervisor.
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ER	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_d4fdfff4
Big Blackout / int_d502170c	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d502170c	comment	In PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, Sophocles summons the Totem Pokemon with a machine that knocks out the power to the Observatory he works in.
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Big Blackout / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	In the PokÃ©mon episode "Sparks Fly for Magnemite", a blackout hits Gringey City, thanks to a group of Grimer and a Muk, which Ash captures at the end of the episode, and the heroes and a sick Pikachu visit the local power plant to solve the issue, where they are assisted by a group of Magnemite and Magneton to fight off the slimy PokÃ©mon.
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Big Blackout / int_d762d2bb	comment	Limitless Potential reveals that most of Abel City's electrical power has been cut off due to Spark Mandrill taking over the Power Plant.
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Big Blackout / int_d8d79afa	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d8d79afa	comment	At the end of Escape from L.A., Snake activates the Sword of Damocles on a global scale, and thus the EMP satellite network shuts down the entire planet.
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Escape from L.A.	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_d8d79afa
Big Blackout / int_d90f02aa	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_d90f02aa	comment	The Books of Ember: In The City of Ember, these happen more and more frequently because of problems with the Generator.
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Big Blackout / int_d9be958a	comment	Superman Returns: when Lex Luthor throws a shard of the Fortress of Solitude into a small pool of water, the resulting blackout interferes with a flight test of a space shuttle to be launched into space from its piggy-back mounting on an airliner, on which one of the passengers is Lois Lane. The plane goes for a takedown crashing dive, sending Lois bouncing off the cabin walls trying to get her oxygen mask. Then Superman arrives and manages to stop the plane from crashing onto a baseball stadium.
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Big Blackout / int_dc1bbe1d	comment	In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the lights in the Capitol go out after rebels in District 5 blow up the hydroelectric dam.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_dc1bbe1d
Big Blackout / int_dc217e32	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_dc217e32	comment	PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines features one in Chapter 23. A group of girls named Belladonna, Vedia, Aurora and Evanna infiltrate Gringy City's power plant to sabotage it and cut off the power of the whole city. They do this to kill Aurora's father, who is in life support at the hospital, as punishment for abandoning her.
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Big Blackout / int_dd3fe595	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_dd3fe595	comment	Atlas Shrugged ends with all the lights in New York City going out.
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Big Blackout / int_dd51115f	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_dd51115f	comment	In Forever Evil (2013), the Crime Syndicate disrupts and destroys most electronic and wireless based systems upon arrival in order to gain control of global communication.
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Big Blackout / int_dda7fe2b	comment	THAT, a one-off comic set in John Allison's Bobbinsverse, is a Shout-Out to classic Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever monster movies, but with giant vampire moths. Naturally, the moths start by attacking the small town's power lines.
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Big Blackout / int_dee37309	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_dee37309	comment	In the Heights has the power go out in Washington Heights.
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Big Blackout / int_df6d09aa	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_df6d09aa	comment	The GEOWeasel pilot episode centers around a blackout caused by a Weather-Control Machine, while Nar goes out in the heavy rains to get batteries for his handheld game.
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Big Blackout / int_e18af54e	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_e18af54e	comment	The Mary Tyler Moore Show: An episode has one of these ruining a dinner party Mary is hosting, at which Johnny Carson is the honored guest. (As a result, only Carson's voice is heard during the episode.)
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Big Blackout / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Dead Man's Party", Willow talks of blowing out the power for an entire city block when she first tried to communicate with the spirit world. In "New Moon Rising" the Scooby Gang arrange to cut the power to the college campus as part of their plan to break into The Initiative's HQ (which is underneath one of the frat houses) and rescue Oz. Dark Willow fuses out lights wherever she goes.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_e293455a
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Big Blackout / int_e4163696	comment	Werewolves Within: A blizzard ends up knocking over a pole with a power transformer on it, cutting off power to Beaverfield. This is exacerbated by all the power generators in town being damaged by what look like giant slash marks.
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Big Blackout / int_e553770b	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_e553770b	comment	The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Wind Breaker unintentionally caused one when he shot a capacitor during the battle in Blas Bridge, causing a chain reaction that destroyed the power station and cut power to the entire city of Canterlot.
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Big Blackout / int_e6488c2e	type	Big Blackout
Big Blackout / int_e6488c2e	comment	Yesterday's plot revolves around a 12-second worldwide power outage causing everyone in the world to forget that certain things existed, mainly The Beatles.
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Big Blackout / int_e8d05749	comment	The finale of Love at First Bite takes place during one of these, also in New York City.
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Big Blackout / int_ea1a62c1	comment	Revenge (2011): The second season's main plot revolves around the Americon Initiative's efforts to obtain a computer program Nolan wrote that can knock Manhattan off the power grid in less than a millisecond. The blackout finally comes to pass in the second season finale, albeit ironically the blackout itself is not actually their main objecetive, merely a cover for the initiative's real agenda, to blow up Grayson Global's Headquarters.
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Big Blackout / int_ec58a50e	comment	At the end of BÃ©bÃ©'s Kids, one of the kids unplugs a cord that turns off the entire Las Vegas Strip.
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Big Blackout / int_ee6c1abc	comment	Strong Bad Email The "extra plug" was about Strong Bad accidentally creating a power outage thanks to a pair of electric boots he ordered from the mail. A later email, "environment", revealed that every time Strong Bad hits the enter key on his Lappy, it causes the rest of the town to lose power.
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Big Blackout / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Janeway almost triggers one by accident in the episode "Workforce, Part I". It becomes a Chekhov's Gun when she deliberately causes one during the climax of Part II. In "Night", Voyager itself goes into blackout mode, though with life support and holodeck systems unaffected, as it suddenly drops out of warp in the middle of traveling through starless space.
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Big Blackout / int_f0d6862	comment	Green Acres: The 1965 Northeast blackout is supposedly caused by Oliver attempting to get electricity into the house.
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Big Blackout / int_f39c217d	comment	Aldnoah.Zero shows one happening across continental America after the Orbital Knights' landing pulverizes New Orleans and other places.
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Big Blackout / int_f5dc7ca	comment	Happened in Fantastic Four (2005). Don't ask how Reed managed to hook in the Baxter Building to the entire city's power grid.
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Big Blackout / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: One episode has Frasier trying to throw a happy birthday party for his father, only for the rest of the main cast to turn up angry with each other and arguing constantly. Just as everyone is ready to storm out, a city-wide blackout leaves them stranded together in Frasier's apartment.
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Big Blackout / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends first-season episode "TOW the Blackout" features Chandler getting trapped in a bank's ATM vestibule with a Victoria's Secret model, while the others tell stories by candlelight in Monica's apartment. This was a cross-promotion with other NBC Thursday night shows, like Mad About You (see below).
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Big Blackout / int_f6da9a18	comment	In one chapter of Sgt. Frog, a government-mandated power shutdown during a summer heat wave causes considerable discomfort for Fuyuki and Natsumi... until Koyuki and Dororo teach them how to keep cool without electricity.
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Big Blackout / int_f73f989a	comment	A small blackout strikes Hinamizawa when a storm strikes in Kyon: Big Damn Hero. It apparently happens a lot, hence most houses having a generator.
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_f73f989a
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Big Blackout / int_f858847a	comment	In PokÃ©mon X and Y a big blackout has hit most of Lumiose City apart from the Southern Boulevard and Vernal Avenue. Like the above example the player cannot move beyond Southern Boulevard until they solve the situation at the Power Plant causing the blackout (which requires the layer to loop around the coastal part of Kalos). Also if the player plays at night the whole city is still brightly lit.
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Big Blackout / int_fa74e016	comment	Mega Man (Archie Comics) has Ra Moon do this to the entire planet.
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Big Blackout / int_fb710c49	comment	In the third episode of Love Live! Sunshine!!, one happens in the middle of Chika, Riko and You's performance, caused by a thunderstorm.
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Big Blackout / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: The J. J. Abrams series has a world-wide blackout as its premise.
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Big Blackout / int_ff2165b	comment	The Cold Case episode "Blackout" revolves around the 1996 drowning of an elderly woman in her mansion during a blizzard-related power outage. The Victim of the Week's daughter had turned out the lights before killing her after she found out that her mom had attempted to seduce the victim's 13-year-old son.
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