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Set the World on Fire
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Sometimes the villain is so bad that he scorches the earth beneath his feet (see also Walking Wasteland). Sometimes his evil diffuses around the world and literally sets the world on fire. Sometimes the world is set on fire by some mishap. See also World-Wrecking Wave. |
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Reign of Fire has dragons emerging from the depths of the Earth and burning the world. This was apparently what did in the dinosaurs the first time around. | |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: In the film, the major plot is that the Earth's Van Allen belts are on fire and slowly roasting the planet. | |
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This is fully the intent of Brightly Burning's Lavan Firestorm, after enemy soldiers shoot his Companion, the one being who had any hope of holding back his Superpowered Evil Side. Fortunately for the world, he also wanted to die himself and allowed the flames to take him too, but before then he generated flame walls as tall as mountains and annihilated an army as well as the mountain pass they were crossing. | |
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Homeworld: In the third mission the Mothership jumps back home to Kharak, only to find that the Taiidan Empire has destroyed it with an atmospheric incinerator. | |
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Primal Rage has this in the backstory, and it's also indicated to happen when you play as Diablo and see his ending. | |
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The Simpsons: The Treehouse Of Horror XVII episode has Kang and Kodos invade Earth in the third segment The Day The Earth Looked Stupid. Jumping forward to three years later Springfield is in ruins and the aliens wonder why they were not greeted as liberators, as they planned the invasion to rid Earth of "weapons of mass disintegration" which they refer to as "Operation Enduring Occupation" (in a clear reference to the war on Iraq). The segment ends with the camera pulling away from the smoking ruins of what was once Springfield, as the song "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by the The Ink Spots plays. | |
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Spacetrawler: The ship of Eebs who lack brain clamps toast the entire surface of first one planet and then several more, as part of their whole Omnicidal Maniac schtick. | |
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"Nightfall (1941)", by Isaac Asimov: People set their cities aflame when darkness comes (about every 2,000 years), since being suddenly plunged into darkness and seeing the stars — something the people of the setting have no actual knowledge of — drives them insane with fear. | |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire involves the Earth being knocked out of orbit by nuclear weapons tests and heading towards the sun. The ending is ambiguous as to whether this trope happens or not. | |
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The page image comes from Halo: Reach were during the story campaign the Covenant begin bombarding Reach to turn the surface into glass. | |
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One of the planets in Homestuck was set entirely on fire. The main character blew the fire out anyway | |
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In ARK: Survival Evolved: Aberration, the Aberrant Ark's climate control system was broken in the backstory (the survivors tried to battle the Overseer with nukes). As a result, the surface is exposed to radiation that will instantly incinerate anything caught out in daytime, even with a hazard suit, and most life has adapted to the extensive, somewhat less irradiated, underground cave systems. | |
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Persona 4: Arena Ultimax: Shadow Yukiko literally says this to you after clearing a mode with her. | |
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Used as a metaphor in probably the most well-known line from The Dark Knight, although this particular incarnation of the Joker is the kind of guy who would literally act out this trope if he could manage it. | |
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In Peter's second epistle, he foretells that on the day of the Lord's coming the earth and the heavens will be burned up. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 sourcebook Elder Evils, one of the generic Signs of the End Times which can herald the awakening of an Elder Evil is the onset of hot, dry winds which gradually raise the global temperature, evaporate water, and prevent all forms of precipitation from falling. As the Elder Evil comes closer to waking, the winds get stronger and hotter, eventually becoming hot enough to ignite whatever they touch and kick off worldwide firestorms. | |
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Last Days of the Justice Society: The world, as well as the whole universe, burns in 1945 as Hitler has linked the fate of the world to that of the Norse gods' Ragnarok. | |
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Smallville: An old psychic has a heart attack and dies when she sees Lex Luthor's future: standing in the Oval Office as the world burns. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Attempted in the finale by Firelord Ozai. After an entire century of attempting and failing to conquer the Earth Kingdom, he attempts to use Sozin's Comet and the power boost it gives him to literally burn the entire kingdom down within a day. The Earth Kingdom, it should be noted, is by far the largest nation on the planet and occupies more than half the landmass. | |
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Happens in the Dresden Codak strip Caveman Science Fiction, when a caveman's invention of fire ends up setting the world ablaze in a parody of the Scale of Scientific Sins. | |
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Mass Effect 3: we see several worlds under attack by the Reapers, but none are hit harder than the homeworlds of humanity and the turians: Earth and Palaven. Entire chunks of the planets are aglow with orange flames visible all the way to their moons... and most of the rest is covered in smoke. | |
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Jesus himself says, in Luke 12:49, "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Whether this is metaphorical or not is uncertain. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: An old associate of Doctor Doofenshmirtz's was single-mindedly obsessed with setting fire to the Sun, despite the Sun already being a superheated sphere of incandescent plasma. | |
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Animorphs: According to Ax, if the Yeerks wanted to kill a lot of humans, they'd just use their Dracon beams to ignite the atmosphere from orbit. | |
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Ben 10: While not a planet per se, Ben's Heat Blast form comes from a species originating from a star, meaning that their home "planet" is constantly on fire. | |
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Futurama: In one Christmas Episode, the oxygen content of Earth's atmosphere is elevated by mutant Christmas trees. Then Bender lights a cigar... | |
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The Bible: In Peter's second epistle, he foretells that on the day of the Lord's coming the earth and the heavens will be burned up. Jesus himself says, in Luke 12:49, "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!" Whether this is metaphorical or not is uncertain. |
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Teen Titans: When Trigon emerges on Earth, his presence causes the world to look like a volcanic wasteland complete with people frozen as statues. They get better. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The end result of Exterminatus by virus bombs is this. The virus eats every organic thing on the planet and turns them into organic sludge, high in oxygen content. Then an orbital strike engulfs the world in a firestorm. The Modalis Atmospheric Missile, instead, directly destroys a planet's atmosphere and surface via extreme temperatures and chemical contamination. | |
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Doctor Who: An entire alternate Earth is destroyed by fire and lava in "Inferno". | |
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Beast Wars: In the season 1 finale, the Vok decide that "the project" has been contaminated by our stranded heroes and villains. Cue one of the two moons turning into a giant laser gun of fiery death. Hey! One moon! That means we're on Earth, after all! | |
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Artemis Fowl: In The Time Paradox, Mulch remarks that Opal Koboi seems like the kind of person who would set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Opal jots down a note about that and thanks him for his suggestion. | |
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Babylon 5: On the eve of defeat, President Clark programms the Earth's network of defense satellites to turn on his own planet. If he can't rule, no one can. | |
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In Seveneves this is how the destruction of the Moon (and the following "hard rain" sterilizes Earth's surface: the impacts themselves are pretty bad too, but the heating of the atmosphere caused by the bolides is the ultimate killer, roasting everything. | |
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In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the world burned for seven days when the God-Warriors were first unleashed. | |
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