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Water, in large amounts and at anything above a modest velocity, is very dangerous stuff. Storm surges and flash floods claim hundreds of lives and cause millions of dollars in damage every year, while major disasters such as dam collapses and tsunamis can cause widespread destruction. When someone steps out of their house and sees a 200-foot-high wall of the stuff stretching away to the horizon and moving at a deceptively patient pace toward them it usually results in an intense Oh, Crap! moment. Inversion of Soft Water — or an aversion, as even being buried by an avalanche of fluffy pillows would likely be quite lethal if there were a few million tons of them moving at 70 miles an hour. Can occur when a character who makes a splash really pushes himself to the limit. Perspective and point of view can play with this trope. If you are out on the open ocean, a wave only needs to be big enough to capsize your vessel to fully qualify. If you can haul your boat on a trailer behind the family automobile, a 10 foot / 3 meter wave can be a major problem. If you are on a cruise ship or an aircraft carrier, a wave big enough to qualify for this trope could wipe out entire small coastal villages once it hits land. As mentioned under the Real Life section of this page, while tsunamis in reality tend to resemble a tide that doesn't stop rising, there are a variety of scenarios where they do take on the classic 'great wave' shape, making this trope Truth in Television. For a slower, but just as dramatic, form of watery doom, see Rising Water, Rising Tension. |
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Aquaman (2018). In the first shot of their war with the surface, the Atlanteans send tsunami that throw ships up onto the coast along with all the garbage the surface dwellers have dumped into the ocean. Our first sign of this is when the protagonist is driving down a coastal road with his father and sees this giant wave bearing down on them. Arthur Curry steps on the gas but can't outrun it and it's only thanks to Mera's help that his father doesn't drown. | |
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In 2012, several waves are created that are kilometers high and cause additional damage to already destroyed places globally; one such tsunami manages to travel all the way across India and still retain enough height to flood out the Himalayas. It would require an 8 km high wave to cover the highest peaks, but in the movie the wave is stated to be around 1.5 km tall, and it's later shown that Mount Everest and many of the other tall mountains in the Himalayas are far above the water level. The reason it manages to overtop several shorter mountains is because the continental plate that the Himalayas rested on sank several thousand meters in the preceding earthquakes. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Themyscira's fall causes a huge tsunami. Diana is able to prevent it from reaching land but at the cost of most of the Lansanarian Disk's functions, most importantly it's ability to act as a dome shield for Themyscira. | |
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Destiny: Half the reason the Hive became what they are was to escape one of these that would have swept clean their entire homeworld. They lived on rocky continents floating in a gas giant, deep enough for the pressure to turn the gas into something like liquid. The gas giant had 52 moons. Imagine those moons aligning for a moment, their combined gravities pulling the ocean into a colossal bulge at a single point... and then imagine what happens to all that "water" when the moons pass and the bulge collapses. This is also how the Darkness attacked the moon of Titan during the Collapse, as detailed in the lore book The Last Days of Kraken Mare, from Destiny 2: Shadowkeep. The Darkness manipulated gravity, pulling the methane ocean of Titan into a teardrop shape, then released it. |
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Batman: Dark Tomorrow: If Batman defeats Ra's Al Ghul before disabling his weapon, the machine is activated and flood waves decimate the planet. | |
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A tsunami finishes off Númenor in The Silmarillion, based on a Real Life dream of Tolkien's. Later seen in a dream in The Lord of the Rings. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: In one UK edition of "World's Worst" where the subject was "Outtakes of a News Program", Colin Mochrie's one joke was a doomed reporter being caught in one. | |
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This is how the aptly named Tidal Wave spell looks in the 2D games of the Tales Series. | |
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One stage in Donkey Kong Country Returns has you taking shelter from these at regular intervals. Being exposed will kill you. | |
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Last Sentinel (2023) takes place on a tiny sea fort on a Flooded Future World that's swept by regular storms. In the Action Prologue a storm surge the same height as the fort hits it hard enough to knock it slightly off kilter. Given that the fort is already suffering from metal fatigue, this doesn't reassure the soldiers manning the fort as to their chances of survival. | |
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Twilight Of The Red Tsar: When the U.S. bombs Manchuria, one of their targets is the Fengman Dam. The groundburst completely annihilates the dam and unleashes a murky, almost black, radioactive flood into Jilin, adding thousands more casualties to the disaster. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Global Grilling", Shake's reactor powered grill breaks a hole in the ozone layer, causing a polar cap to melt and bringing a tidal wave to the city. | |
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Hawaii Five-0 New Series Season 1 Episode "Kai e'e". The Tsunami warning system is taken over and a false warning sent out. This is going to be used by the bad guys to facilitate their robbing the police headquarters. | |
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A story in the Tenchi Muyo! manga has Ryoko, Sasami, and Mihoshi try a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax to scare some developers from destroying a local beach. (Made real believable thanks to Ryoko's energy blasts) Seeing Tenchi approve of their actions, Ayeka decides to cause one of these to "help", because if a destructive monster is good, then a major disaster must be really good... | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, in the mission to rescue Allelujah, Ptolemaios II crashed into the sea creating a wall of water that caused quite substantial damage to the A-Laws base. | |
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Subverted in The Demented Cartoon Movie, where a so-called "tidal wave" turns out to only be of above-average size, and splashes harmlessly against a Blah. | |
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Bering Sea Gold: To a sub-25 foot pontoon boat suction dredge, 2 foot waves can be a problem. 5 foot waves can swamp you and a 10 foot wave can capsize or even sink your dredge. To the 100-plus foot bucket dredges, it takes slightly rougher seas to convince the captain to pull the plug and make the 2 mile run back to port. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion when Adam/Antarctica blew up during Second Impact, a "ripple" almost a quarter-mile (four-hundred meters) tall in places spreads outward, wiping out every coastal city in the southern hemisphere, and continues to wreak havoc in the northern. Pity we didn't get to see it. | |
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In the Whateley Universe, Riptide is a side character. But when Chaka gets hurt in "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" and Riptide gets really upset, and there's a lake handy, a bad guy in a getaway van finds out there's nowhere to run. | |
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Discworld, The Wee Free Men: While trying to escape from Fairyland with her little brother Wentworth and the Baron's son Roland, Tiffany and the Feegles end up in a dream of the seaside. The Queen of the Elves tries to get them by manipulating the dream to create an enormous tidal wave, and while Wentworth and the Feegles are stunned with shock, Tiffany barely escapes from the dream with Roland in tow. Fortunately, the Feegles and Wentworth show up, alive but slightly damp, in time for the final confrontation with the Queen. | |
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The Syfy Channel Original Movie Malibu Shark Attack uses the same device to trap some victims in a shark-besieged lifeguard shack. | |
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In Final Fantasy XII, one of Balthier's Quickenings is a tsunami. | |
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Happens twice in the World of Warcraft Cataclysm cinematic, at Booty Bay and Thousand Needles. | |
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Lord Monarch: In story mode of sega version there are couple of stages where lower levels of land will be flooded at certain day. | |
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The Transformers: In "Triple Changer Takeover" Astrotrain's Astro Force accidentally destroys a water line, causing a huge flood in the middle of a city that nearly drowns Spike. The Autobots get rid of the flood water by basically having Trailbreaker scream at it until it flows away. | |
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In War of the Monsters, throwing enough objects at the UFO in the Tsunopolis stage will trigger a tsunami that will engulf the map. The water can be avoided by flying on climbing on buildings. | |
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia: One of the bosses will produce some moai heads, then follow it up with a massive tidal wave. Make sure you don't destroy them. | |
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Scrapped Princess: When the High Council elected to use the Ginnungagap spell, they plunked it right in the center of the ocean, directly atop the SKID. The sheer immensity of its Area of Effect and the shockwave generated by it, resulted in a mega-tsunami that devastated the vast majority of the continental coast! | |
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In the Happy Science film The Rebirth of Buddha, the main villain Tousaku Arai takes over all of Japan's TV stations through NBK to predict an inescapable tsunami will engulf all of Japan and claim countless lives. Cue a gigantic tidal wave approaching Japanese coasts, driving all people mad and open to Demonic Possession as they try to survive such an event. However, when Sayako and co. arrive to Yamato TV on Mari Kimura's request, the latter reveals it's all fake; he's sending psychic waves to fool those who look at him. | |
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In the Hallmark version of Jason and the Argonauts the god Poseidon has a little fun with the crew by pretending to be an island and then standing up to create a tidal wave which destroys most of the ship. The only reason they survive is probably because Zeus blows them onto the Isle of Lemnos where they get repairs. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: A tsunami finishes off Númenor in The Silmarillion, based on a Real Life dream of Tolkien's. Later seen in a dream in The Lord of the Rings. A more positive example from The Lord of the Rings comes when Elrond and Gandalf summon a giant wall of water along the river to sweep away the Nazgul who are attacking Frodo. |
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Point Break has Swayze playing a surfer robs banks to fund his search for the largest wave ever. It turns out to be so large no other surfer goes near it. He does, as a way of committing suicide rather than be jailed for the robberies. | |
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In Deep Impact, this provides an Obi-Wan Moment for several main characters. | |
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At the end of Take Shelter the main character looks out towards the ocean and sees a large tsunami coming towards the Myrtle Beach beachhouse he and his family have rented. The fact that his wife can see the giant wave as well suggests its not another creation of his damaged mind, which may mean the other strange things he experienced earlier in the movie may have been real as well...or, perhaps the whole thing, including the wave and his wife's reaction, is another hallucination as well, signifying his final break with reality. Which is true is left for the viewer to decide, as this is the last scene in the movie. | |
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Kaiju Wars: Alphazaurus Prime's Tsunami ability, which lets it destroy an adjacent building and/or unit when starting its turn on an ocean tile, is depicted as the creature sweeping its arm through the water to "splash" the victim with a massive tidal wave. | |
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The Infinity Gauntlet: Fallout from the cosmic battles against Thanos causes one of these to destroy Atlantic City, NJ. | |
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Chrysalis (RinoZ): When the ants are besieged, one of the traps at their gate unleashes twenty million liters of acid, flooding the tunnels and threatening to completely wash their attackers away. And the ants have tanks set up underneath to collect the acid, so given time, they can pump it back up to reset the trap. | |
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The Impossible is entirely about this, namely the the tsunami that happened on December 26, 2004. | |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with the sheriff's eventual demise. | |
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The Last Wave that appears at the very end of the movie to wipe out one era and bring in another. Assuming it wasn't All Just a Dream of the protagonist. | |
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In Frank Schätzing's Der Schwarm/The Swarm (not to be confused with the film or trope of the same name), the Yrr cause one of these by triggering a huge underwater landslide in the North Sea and pretty much wrecking the whole of coastal northern Europe. | |
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Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: An early battle pits Kurogane and Fay against a powerful sorceress who conjures large quantities of liquid acid to hurl at them. Eventually, she summons a towering wave of acid. | |
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Deadliest Catch: Once per season per boat in red king crab season, once per episode per boat in opilio season. Special mention goes to the Aleutian Ballad, which got smacked by a 60-foot rogue wave in 2005 and nearly capsized. The Science Channel show Mysteries of the Missing episode "Ghost Ship of the Desert" spends the majority of the episode discussing rogue waves. The producers used Deadliest Catch footage and interview footage with Time Bandit's Captain Hillstrand to highlight the rogue wave's obvious hazards. |
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Metro: Last Light: This was the fate of Vladivostok during World War III. Rather than a direct strike, all the warheads aimed at the city detonated offshore, creating a monstrous tidal wave that wiped out the city. | |
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Early Dungeons & Dragons: The Spell Compendium has spells called "Tsunami" and "Wall of Water". Oriental Adventures had the shukenja and wu jen "Tsunami" spells, which caused a tidal wave at least 180 feet high. The Forgotten Realms had the Tidal Wave spell, which was 75 feet high. |
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The battle between the Hebrews and Elamites in Sodom and Gomorrah ends when the Hebrews voluntarily break the dam they have built across the River Jordan, sending millions of gallons of water pouring into the valley and washing away the Elamite cavalry. | |
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Entourage: A moment showing one of these about to hit a pier, dwarfing the hero as he runs toward it, is about all we get to see of the film version of Aquaman starring Vincent Chase. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, waterbenders can do small scale versions of this. The Avatar, being much more powerful, can conjure tsunamis. Aang once nailed Sokka with one by accident. | |
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At the end of the X2: X-Men United a dam bursts and threatens to wipe out the X-Men. Jean Grey makes a heroic sacrifice to save the others from it. | |
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A total solar eclipse triggers one at the end of the "Rite of Spring" segment of Fantasia. | |
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Happens fairly often on Whale Wars; one 30 foot rogue wave in particular struck the left side of the Brigitte Bardot and nearly snapped the trimaran's port-side pontoon clean off! | |
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The Forgotten Realms had the Tidal Wave spell, which was 75 feet high. | |
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They had this during a typhoon in Silent Ship, Silent Sea. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow has a 40 foot tall storm surge swamp Manhattan. | |
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Young Wizards: Used in an attempt to Murder the Hypotenuse in A Wizard of Mars, but Nita stops it in mid-air and threatens to send it back through a portal at the girl who just tried to kill her. And the city she's in. | |
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The war epic, The 14 Amazons pulls this off on purpose as part of a Big Dam Plot to wipe out an incoming platoon of enemy reinforcements. Naturally, the Boisterous Bruiser sergeant working for the good guys will need to stay behind and perform a Heroic Sacrifice to break open the dam. | |
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In Bait 3D, a tsunami strands the characters in a flooded Australian grocery store, along with a Threatening Shark that was swept into the market by the seawater. | |
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Phineas and Ferb subverts and then proceeds to lampshade this in the episode "The Belly of the Beast", in which the titular characters drop a giant mechanical shark into Danville Harbor, causing what appears to be a giant wave. It then miraculously manages to avoid everyone on the crowded boardwalk except Candace, who then proclaims, "OK, now how did that only hit me?" | |
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This is Weather Wizard's chosen method to destroy Central City in The Flash (2014). And it really was unstoppable; the only reason the city wasn't destroyed is that the Flash accidentally broke the time barrier and returned to the previous night when trying to create a wind shield against the tsunami by running faster than ever. | |
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Footfall shows the results of a giant asteroid intentionally dropping into the Indian Ocean, with pretty much all of the surrounding coasts completely scoured by the resultant wave. | |
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A more positive example from The Lord of the Rings comes when Elrond and Gandalf summon a giant wall of water along the river to sweep away the Nazgul who are attacking Frodo. | |
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Strago's "Clean Sweep" lore in Final Fantasy VI takes this form. As does the summon Bismark in the same game, and possibly some forms of Leviathan. Also the "El Nino" result of Mog's Water Rondo dance, which is the strongest water-based attack in the game. | |
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San Andreas features a giant wave inundating San Francisco after a 9.6 earthquake strikes it. Ray and Emma, plus a few hundred other people, figure out that in order to survive, they must travel over the wave in their boats before it crests. But then, there's a cargo ship looming over the wave to add to the difficulty. | |
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In Train to the End of the World, a massive tidal wave forms on the Agano river while the train is crossing it. The girls outrun the wave and reach high ground, but the track to their hometown is destroyed behind them. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Arwen makes the Bruinen river rise against the Black Riders with an incantation to splash them away; for added awesomeness, the waves are shaped into horses. The Black Riders have an Oh, Crap! and try to run away from it, to no avail. In this case it's actually a "Giant Wall of Watery Salvation" to the good guys, especially Frodo. | |
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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: Deadpool uses bombs to trigger three of those in a row in Ultimate Spidey's second level. You have to web-sling towards them across a floating obstacle course in order to reach high ground, all while Deadpool calls it like a horse race. | |
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The song "Wall of Water" by Mayhem from their fourth album Ordo Ad Chao describes this on an apocalyptic scale: | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "No Escape, Part II", Kaz, Torra and CB-23 have to outrun several of these in the Colossus's corridors as part of a plan to flush all of the stormtroopers still onboard the Colossus into the ocean. | |
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In Super Robot Wars Alpha 2, Yuu Brain and Hime Brain use their Chakara Shields to hold back a massive tidal wave long enough for ChouRyuJin to use Eraserhead to disperse it. | |
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Miller's planet in Interstellar is located close to a black hole. Given that the planet is not perfectly spherical, and is 'tidally locked' to the black hole, this causes huge tidal waves to circle the planet as they lag behind the planet's rotation. Waves so huge that the protagonists initially mistake them for mountains. | |
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One of the first season episodes of Sliders ended with the group reaching a San Francisco which is just about to get hit by a wave. | |
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One episode of CSI: Miami had Florida hit by a tsunami while some bank robbers took advantage of the confusion to swipe a fortune in gold bullion. | |
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The Abyss: At the climax in the director's cut, the undersea creatures create gigantic walls of water near major coastal cities as a warning to humans to stop warfare. | |
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One Piece: In the beginning of the Davy Back Fight Arc, a school of Sea Monkeys (in this series, "Sea Monkeys" are giant fish with monkey faces), stir up a giant wave that the Straw Hats need to escape. In Water 7, we learn that an annual tidal wave hits the island once a year, and submerges the outer districts in sea water. In the story, this particular wave is apparently so strong that the mere lapping damages the town. When the Straw Hats have to follow the CP9 to Enies Lobby for Robin, they have to brave this wave. Whitebeard's first action in the Paramount War is to generate two of these with his earthquake powers. Aokiji stops the waves by freezing them with his ice powers. As she chases the Straw Hats across the sea, Big Mom uses one of her Homies to create a massive tidal wave to attack them with. Jimbei saves the crew by steering the ship into the wave's green room, the space that forms inside the wave's curl. |
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In Atlantics, it's revealed at the end that while out at sea, the boys encounter what they think is a mountain. They rejoice, thinking they've reached Spain, but it was actually an enormous wave that destroys their boat, killing them all. | |
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In Pokémon, the moves Surf and Muddy Water both use this trope. | |
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Godzilla displaces so much water in Godzilla (2014) that he kills hundreds of people in a massive tsunami just from rising out of the ocean. | |
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The Big Wave is about the destruction of a seaside Japanese village by a tsunami. | |
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Old Kingdom: The primary danger of the Third Precinct of Death are the massive, powerful waves, which nothing, Dead or alive, can resist. The spells that allow passage to and from the precinct temporarily halt the waves, but there's a reason people crossing do so at a dead run. At the climax of Goldenhand, Chlorr's death causes the spell-net she created to hold back the Greenwash River to fail, causing one to come down on the Greenwash Bridge and the participants in the battle raging on the river banks and riverbed. The bridge's deck is washed out, and many of the combatants, largely members of the barbarian tribes, but also one of the Trained Bands from the Kingdom, drown. |
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For a long time, the Biblical Flood has been considered legend or myth and without evidence, but there are theories it was indeed based on an actual event. The leading hypothesis that the Flood was inspired by the flooding of the Black Sea at some point around 5600 BC, which presumably would have looked a lot like this to the people present. The Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean, if indeed it turns out to be a crater, is hypothesized to have caused waves up to four kilometers tall when the object that created it impacted, which would have hit most of the cradles of humanity at the time. |
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An example of a good Wall of Watery Doom comes from Legend of the Five Rings: during an invasion of Rokugan from the Shadowlands in the eighth century, a Crab Clan shugenja named Kuni Osaku summoned a giant wall of water sufficient to stop the Shadowlands army in its path. The effort of the spell eventually killed her, but before it did, the rest of the Crab Clan was able to build an actual wall to ward off the invasion. | |
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Final Fantasy: Strago's "Clean Sweep" lore in Final Fantasy VI takes this form. As does the summon Bismark in the same game, and possibly some forms of Leviathan. Also the "El Nino" result of Mog's Water Rondo dance, which is the strongest water-based attack in the game. In Final Fantasy XII, one of Balthier's Quickenings is a tsunami. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Queen Miriel has prophetic dreams in which a giant tsunami engulfs the kingdom island of Numenor under water. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has Tsunami, Living Tsunami, and Wall of Water. | |
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The climax of Pokémon Heroes has Latios and Latias stopping one of these from destroying Altomare. | |
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More than once in the Ultra Series, thanks to certain kaiju having Weather Manipulation powers: In Return of Ultraman, a mating pair of kaiju called Seamons and Seagoras have the ability to control the weather, and their mating results in a tidal wave threatening to destroy a fishing village. Ultraman Jack managed to split the wave using the Ultra tornado, but this drains his energy too much and leaves him helpless to a beating from both monsters. The pilot episode of Ultraman Leo, complete with people getting drowned and covered in debris as the wave levels buildings, thanks to the tidal-wave creating kaiju called the Gillas brothers. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: This is one of a few reasons not to hurt the Chao — Chaos will get angry and cause one of these. The ancient echidnas learned that the hard way. | |
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Invader Zim once flattened an entire city... with a water balloon containing all of the water on Earth that created a 200-story (660 m) high wall of water. | |
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The opening credits of Thundarr the Barbarian memorably depicts a city being destroyed by one of these. | |
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Aquarius in Fairy Tail has this as her main attack. Unfortunately for Lucy, it has pretty bad friendly fire so she tends to open the Gate of the Water Bearer as a last resort. | |
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Black Moon Chronicles: When the Black Moon leaves its orbit to crash into the world, the moon's gravitational pull starts to cause earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and massive tidal waves. The old naval Empire of Tharque is destroyed by the mother of all tsunamis. | |
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Power Rangers: Dino Thunder: One episode had the Monster of the Week summoning a colossal wave to destroy the city. | |
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In the Dramatic Audio version of Soul Harvest from the Left Behind book series, one of the Christians on board a cruise liner in the middle of the ocean barely has time to lead the people in a prayer of salvation before a giant wave of water caused from the impact of a giant mountain crashing into the seas (one of God's Trumpet Judgments) reaches the ship. | |
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Unsounded: Sette overloads the locks beneath the Deadly Nevergreen, before blowing the system and flooding the basement to flush the first silver based abomination out and into the river, forcing it to let go of the building it was winding through and stopping it from killing any more survivors. | |
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Anno 2070's Deep Ocean expansion pack introduces tsunamis as a natural disaster that occurs when a geothermic power plant collapses into its deep sea trench. The wave expands circularly from the late plant, destroys all ships at or near the coast and can reach quite far inland on any island it hits, demolishing any building that happens to be in its path. Affected areas can't be rebuilt until the water has receded, and the only real defense against these tsunamis consists of high mountains between the power plant's location and the surrounding settlements — which is something the player has very little influence on. | |
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Supervolcano early in the film, a precursor earthquake to the eruption causes a landslide that in turn causes a flood that kills nine people. | |
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In Vacation Story,a tsunami is the final challenge. It approaches suddenly and the only way to escape is by climbing to higher ground. | |
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Happens in Chrono Trigger, as a result of a floating chain of islands crashing into the sea. Results are about as catastrophic as you'd think. In Chrono Cross, you visit the Dead Sea, a city where time broke as it was being destroyed by these. Most of the time you'll be walking on top of the time-frozen waves. | |
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Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man: As their Evil Plan unfolds, Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus unleash one of these that threatens the entire East Coast of the US. Of course, our eponymous heroes stop it Just in Time — but come on, is that really a spoiler? | |
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Banner of the Stars 2 demonstrates a tidal wave launched by emergency takeoff of a starship from water surface nearby. With appropriately lethal consequences. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Maud Pie" has a humorous version when a rock tossed by Maud Pie lands so hard the results are like a nuke going off, the shock wave causing a tsunami in the swimming pond that thoroughly drenches everypony. | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: In the short story "The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone", Missy destroys Venice's flood barrier with bombs that phase away sections of it to create one so enough matter is sent through a temporal rift that she can use it to power up and repair her broken TARDIS. Fortunately, this allows for the Reset Button to be pressed so it never happened. | |
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The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island when the characters reach the island followed by an earth shake. | |
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At the beginning of Nation, a tsunami caused by a nearby volcanic explosion wipes out most of the island. | |
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One of these appears in Home on the Range and acts as both an action sequence and a Despair Event Horizon for the protagonists. | |
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During the Matthew Good song Last Parade, specifically the lyrics | |
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CSI: Spells doom for a Victim of the Week trapped in a storm drain during a flash flood in "Down the Drain". | |
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In the book Lucifer's Hammer a giant tidal wave created by the impact of the Hammer wipes out Los Angeles, and presumably other west coast cities that the reader doesn't see. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: In the Waking Dragons arc, Dartz's awakening of the Leviathan causes a large wave to approach a city. 4Kids would remove this scene. | |
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The 5th Wave: The 2nd Wave consisted of these. The Others dropped massive rods onto the Earth's fault lines, triggering massive earthquakes and tsunamis that wiped out the world's coastal cities and killed three billion people. | |
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The pilot episode of Ultraman Leo, complete with people getting drowned and covered in debris as the wave levels buildings, thanks to the tidal-wave creating kaiju called the Gillas brothers. | |
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The Rise of Phoenixes has an invoked and downplayed example when Ning Yi and Helian Zheng flood Puyuan to rescue Zhi Wei. The wave isn't incredibly tall, but it hits the city with enough force to sweep away everything in its path. And "everything" really does mean "everything", including buildings, bridges, and people. | |
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The War to End All Wars – The Movie: When the Belgians open the Yperlee Canal locks, the water level downstream begins to rise just slowly enough for the Germans to have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" before the rapidly moving water sweeps them away. | |
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Astra Lost in Space: On Arispade, an earthquake causes a tidal wave which threatens to drown the crew. Most of them manage to get to the ship in time, but Luca and Ulgar, having been further away, are caught by the wave, necessitating a dramatic rescue by Kanata. | |
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The Batman: Once The Riddler destroys the breakwaters with car bombs, the ocean starts to flood Gotham. | |
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Smite: He Bo's ultimate Crushing Wave literally turns him into the trope, heavily damaging anyone caught in his path and can kill a lot. | |
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League of Legends: Nami's ultimate, Tidal Wave, practically summons this trope. It won't kill, mostly... but will set up a lot of it. | |
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South Park: In "Pee", when there is all piss and no H20 in the water, not only do all the nooks and crannies spit out pee, but monumental tsunamis are created, drowning the waterpark and the patrons. | |
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Clash of the Titans (1981) depicts Poseidon unleashing the Kraken to cause one of these upon a coastal city that has angered Zeus. | |
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The Wave features a massive rockslide triggering an 80 meter (300 foot) wave headed straight for a Norwegian town named Geiranger, with the citizens having less than ten minutes to get the hell out. Truth in Television, as the rockslide will inevitably happen in real life. Scientists have estimated that the real wave will be even bigger. | |
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: In a Breather Episode, the Batchers have to help the inhabitants of an island community escape one of these when an earthquake triggers a tsunami. | |
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In the first level of Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, giant tidal waves repeatedly rear up in the background while you're jumping across a series of platforms. Although the waves don't actually affect Arthur directly, they will wash away large parts of the terrain, killing you instantly if you're not standing on a "safe" part. | |
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In Worlds Collide (1994), Reality Warper Rift casually tosses Paris Island from the Milestone Universe to the ocean towards Metropolis in the DC Universe. Both Superman and the Blood Syndicate try to figure out a way to stop the massive wave resulting from it from ravaging the already-ravaged Metropolis even worse. | |
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The Poseidon Adventure, and its remake Poseidon, feature a luxury liner getting struck by a massive rogue wave and capsizing. | |
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In Kubo and the Two Strings, Kubo's mother calms one in the prologue with her magic. Unfortunately there was another one right behind her which causes her head injury and almost kills her and baby Kubo. | |
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Stellaris: Aquatic empires with the Hydroascension perk get access to the Deluge Machine superweapon, which drops a humongous volume of water onto the offending planet in one go and turns it into an Ocean World no matter its former biome, leaving nothing but former mountaintops untouched by water. Needless to say, any pops who aren't themselves Aquatic are wiped out instantly by the giant tidal wave. | |
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: In The Dreamtime Duck of Never-Never, Scrooge runs away from a massive wave in the Australian desert. | |
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The Stargate Atlantis two-parter "The Storm"/"The Eye" deals with a massive tsunami that will hit the floating city and obliterate it. The main characters have to find a way to power the city shield to block the wave, while also dealing with Genii commandos that use the opportunity to raid them for supplies. | |
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In the sequel, such a wall destroys the bridge being used by the Nazis. From what we can see, most of the fleeing Nazis manage to get off in time, unlike the unfortunate General Zimmerman and his troops in the novel. | |
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In Tangled, Maximus destroys a dam, bringing down a flood that nearly drowns everyone who was in the cavern then, himself included. | |
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The climax of The Perfect Storm has the Andrea Gail encounter a monstrous rogue wave, flipping her end over end and sinking her. | |
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In The Mummy Returns, Imhotep controls the water in a canyon river, turning it into a giant water wall with his face on it, to chase down the protagonists in their dirigible. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, Goku created several of these, as well as earthquakes, around the world while powering up to SSJ3. Apparently he never thought about the consequences of his actions. | |
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Adrift: When they get caught in the storm, Richard and Tami are hit with a giant wave that flips the boat completely over. | |
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Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron: Jimmy uses Goddard's flycycle mode to evade one in a ravine after teleporting from Negatron's lab early on. | |
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Tsunamis are one of the earlier and constant threats in From Dust. | |
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This nearly happens to Arendelle at the climax of Frozen II after Anna destroys the dam to break a curse and address the damage the dam was doing after Anna's grandfather built it to weaken another nation and to subjugate them under his rule. Arendelle has been evacuated first, but the wave still poses a threat to the town structures. Fortunately, Elsa appears in the nick of time to freeze it before it hits land. | |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown features the titular meltdown. The movie is a Race Against the Clock while all the prehistoric animals rush to the end of the valley to hop on a boat made from the hollow remains of a giant tree, the only safe haven for when the Northern dam finally breaks. When it does, the water comes fast, destroying every location the protagonists had visited in seconds. | |
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In Return of Ultraman, a mating pair of kaiju called Seamons and Seagoras have the ability to control the weather, and their mating results in a tidal wave threatening to destroy a fishing village. Ultraman Jack managed to split the wave using the Ultra tornado, but this drains his energy too much and leaves him helpless to a beating from both monsters. | |
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