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The Tokyo Fireball

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The Tokyo Fireball	comment	A catastrophic event destroys a major city, which then gets rebuilt — and then the cycle repeats itself with monotonous regularity. In anime and other Eastern works, this often happens as a direct effect of Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe. In American / Western works, this trope almost never happens to the Big Applesauce (the nearest equivalent trope), and if it does, it rarely limits itself to that one location. History proves this trope true to a depressing degree. Traditional Japanese construction techniques rely almost entirely on wood, bamboo, and paper; the country's history of typhoons and earthquakes tended to discourage people from building with materials they didn't want to have land on their heads. Combined with Edo/Tokyo's enormous population density, this resulted in the entire city essentially burning down to the foundations every couple of generations. The last great firestorms — the result of incendiary-bombing during World War II — helped usher in modern construction techniques (which made Tokyo much more resistant to this). One more note for this trope: no matter how the destruction happens, it will rarely happen thanks to a nuclear bomb. Can be an example of Negative Continuity, depending on how the destruction-reconstruction cycle is treated in-universe.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_127f3d8	comment	Demon City Shinjuku starts with a major precinct of Tokyo collapsing and being cut off from the rest of the city because of an earthquake caused by demons.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Megas XLR: New Jersey gets blown up in almost every episode, with the only exception being the episodes that are set in another location (like another planet).
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, this trope applies to Brockton Bay, which is damaged in Leviathan's attack to the extent that the government considers abandoning it, but is then rebuilt, partly due to the possible uses of its new portal to another universe. Later, it is destroyed along with the rest of the world when Scion attacks, but the portal is used to get some people to (relative) safety. Interestingly, the trope does not apply to Tokyo itself, as the whole nation of Japan has been essentially destroyed by Endbringer attacks in backstory.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_1a7918e3	comment	In Terranigma, when the Big Bad pulls out his evil biological weapon, the only city that gets hit is — you guessed it — "Neotokio."
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_1da37105	comment	Sin and Punishment decides that blowing up Tokyo is too biased, and instead literally drowns it in blood.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_24931627	comment	In the back-story of Ghost in the Shell, Tokyo was destroyed by a nuclear blast during World War III and a replacement city, New Tokyo, was built near the ruins of the old one. Oddly enough, the reason why Old Tokyo hasn't been rebuilt isn't due to lingering radiation (Japan has exclusive access to radiation-scrubbing Nanomachines), but because the explosion sunk most of the city below sea level and flooded it with sea water. However, it appears that the national government is still in Fukuoka, where it was relocated after the destruction of Tokyo (and about as far away from it as it gets).
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_27f90c49	comment	All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: Nuku-Nuku and Eimi demolish most of Nerima Ward during their first spat.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_2865e3cd	comment	Hakaiou: King of Crusher have you playing as a kaiju. The first few stages are inevitably set in Tokyo, with predictable results. The game ends with you turning New York into a wasteland.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_2c773285	comment	Subverted in Dai-Guard: Monsters known as Heterodynes (Not those Heterodynes) constantly attack parts of Tokyo; its most famous case being a large scale attack twelve years prior. However, the attack site had never been rebuilt. Many other sites in Tokyo still aren't finished being rebuilt even by the end of the series.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei has Tokyo destroyed by nuclear weapons, and then flooded by YHVH. The MMORPG IMAGINE takes place after these events. In the Law route of Shin Megami Tensei II, YHVH then uses a Kill Sat to destroy all life remaining on Earth, including demons, so he can replace them with humans who will worship him.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_35cb0be6	comment	Violence Jack is set After the End of a massive earthquake that demolished Tokyo and most of Japan, which isolated it from the rest of the world.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_37b7264c	comment	There's even a song used in Initial D with this trope. The song "No One Sleeps in Tokyo" by Edo Boys. No one sleeps in Tokyo, because Tokyo is on fire!
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_37cfcb80	comment	Paranoia Agent: As out of place as it may seem, the trope appears in the last episode, when Tokyo is engulfed by Shonen Bat's rapidly growing form. It's rebuilt by the end of the episode, of course. And it's implied the whole thing will happen over again, if that's not enough.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_3a44e6f	comment	Angel Sanctuary: Tokyo is destroyed in the third episode of the anime, and rather early on in the manga.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_400469e	comment	Spoofed in Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin builds a small city in his sandbox and calls it "downtown Tokyo". Then he stomps the whole thing flat.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Tokyo is destroyed at least once before the series starts, multiple attacks by giant monsters that devastate the city and require frequent rebuilding, a pseudo-nuclear assault that utterly eradicates the city before the U.N. invasion of NERV's headquarters can begin, and finally the virtual destruction of Earth (and thus, anything that is left of Tokyo). Not to mention Rei's self-sacrifice that destroys the 16th Angel — and turns a large section of Tokyo-3 into a brand-new crater lake. And guess what happens in End of Evangelion when SEELE remembers that they have N2 mines left over from the Angels. There's nothing left after they finish: its just a massive, perfectly circular hole in the ground. Everything that even remotely resembled a city is completely vaporised. Interestingly, they don't rebuild in the same location — "Old Tokyo" is abandoned as a nuclear wasteland, Tokyo-2 is in Nagano Prefecture, and Tokyo-3 is built on the site of present-day Hakone. In Rebuild of Evangelion, Tokyo-3 and NERV Headquarters below it are destroyed by the 10th Angel Zeruel during its fight with Shinji and the subsequent failed Third Impact.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_469771d2	comment	In The Powerpuff Girls, Townsville gets a regular dose of kaiju-like monster attacks every other day. Many of these monsters cause massive damage to the city, which is completely rebuilt by the next episode. No where is this destruction more apparent than in "Uh Oh Dynamo", when the girls use a Humongous Mecha to defeat a monster, but it causes such severe collateral damage, the entire city is destroyed by the end of the fight. Of course, by the next episode, Townsville is in perfect condition.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_47ef1aa1	comment	In the final arc of The Daughter of Twenty Faces, a Mad Scientist attempts to vaporize most of Tokyo.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_49a88442	comment	The backstory of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (which is also the end of the game's original 1.0 version) combines a Colony Drop with a Fantastic Nuke-spewing dragon primal: due to the machinations of the Garlean Empire, the lesser moon of Dalamud is pulled towards Eorzea, releasing Bahamut, who proceeds to raze the major city-states of Eorzea. ARR kicks off five years after, with Eorzean civilization back on its feet, for the most part.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_4d8e5ec	comment	Lampshaded by Jon Stewart in Earth (The Book), where he tells his future alien readers that Tokyo will be prepared for their visit, having been destroyed by aliens multiple times.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_4fe8fd1e	comment	The Tsunopolis level of War of the Monsters, complete with a triggerable Giant Wall of Watery Doom. The rest of the game's maps are able to be reset back to normal, which means they can get destroyed and rebuilt again and again within the same sitting.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_656e8d31	comment	RahXephon plays with this. At first, it seems to be inverted with the whole world besides Tokyo having been destroyed. However, it's quickly revealed that this isn't true, and that Tokyo has instead been sealed off from the outside world, with nobody being able to enter or leave, which is close enough to it having been destroyed from the perspective of the people living outside of it. The events of the series are kicked off when people from outside manage to break through, and take a person (and a Humongous Mecha) from inside back out with them.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_67179e26	comment	Much of Earth Defense Force 2017 takes place in and around Tokyo during a massive and devistating alien invasion. You end up causing more collateral damage then the aliens, however.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim: Tokyo is one of the cities destroyed by the Kaiju, with Mako being "the Tokyo Survivor". The sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising shows that it was soon rebuilt. The sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising, provides an explanation as to why the Kaiju (in the Pacific Rim 'verse, not as a broad explanation for the trope) go for Tokyo: Kaiju blood is highly reactive when exposed to rare Earth elements, and so Mt. Fuji, an active volcano loaded with such elements, is the Kaiju's destination. If even one falls into the rim, the resulting explosion would cause an eruption of poisonous gases, ending all life and leaving it ripe for the Precursors to harvest. Of course, why the Kaiju attacked other places instead of just Tokyo is another matter entirely.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_6c5e0560	comment	Fushigi Yuugi has the characters and gods in the Universe of the Four Gods leave the book and continue their fight in Tokyo. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_6f20b4e	comment	EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: When the Dark Force army goes from covert activities on Earth to official invasion, they begin by filling the sky with space ships and striking major Earth cities with the Dark Strike Cannons. Tokyo, where the player characters were headed, becomes completely destroyed and is reduced to ruins and craters. When Washington D.C. and urban areas in Europe are visited, they don't appear to be any worse for wear.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_791f9a4a	comment	Both versions of Bubblegum Crisis level Tokyo with an earthquake before the action even begins. The 2040 TV series then ruins it again with runaway technology. Interestingly in the 2040 series, the Earthquake that happened before the series was a man-made event meant as an attempt to prevent said runaway technology from running amok in the first place.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_7cea4fb2	comment	The American film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) gives us a very nice Boston Fireball at the end, as Godzilla, bursting at the seams with radioactive energy after getting supercharged with a nuclear blast, unleashes a massive burst of radiation that has the side effect of vaporizing King Ghidorah and everything else in a mile-wide radius.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_83968f3f	comment	James Clavell's Asian Saga has a couple of examples: In Shogun an earthquake causes a massive fire that destroys most of Osaka. Blackthorne's companions explain that this happens to their cities every few generations. When it does, they just rebuild. A great fire destroys most of Yokohama as part of the climax of Gai-Jin, and this is also part of recorded history.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_841dfd9b	comment	Generally averted in the original Gamera series. Though, when Gamera first appears he ends up leveling Tokyo. Barugon wrecks Osaka (No, not that Osaka) and Kobe. Gyaos attacks Nagoya. Gamera once again (via stock footage) flattens Tokyo in Gamera vs. Viras. Jiger smashes up Osaka (again) in Gamera vs. Jiger. Only the next-to-last film, Gamera vs. Zigra, features Tokyo getting flattened, but it's predominately offscreen. Of course, by that point there aren't many Japanese cities left besides Tokyo to destroy, so, yeah...
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O: While not Tokyo, Paradigm City regularly has large chunks of itself destroyed by fights amongst Humongous Mecha. And no one seems to care about the irreplaceable losses whenever another 5 square blocks get razed in what is apparently the last remaining city in the world. This culminates in episode 25, when most of the city is reduced to rubble and only restored by an apparent "End of the World" Special.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_84e1f890	comment	The original 1954 film Gojira has the titular monster destroying Tokyo and setting the entire city on fire. Unlike most examples after, the consequences of said destruction on the people are explored with major detail.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black calls a scenario like this "the Tokyo Explosion," and groups attempting to cause or prevent it are behind most of the first season's plot. In the end it does happen, but then it... un-happens. It's complicated. A lot of the city got destroyed or rendered unlivable with the appearance of Hell's Gate, as well.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_98ea005e	comment	In one of the segments of Short Peace, Combustible, the events leading up to the start of a great fire are shown to happen to an Edo era town, presumably Edo, Tokyo as it was named back then.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla. The series makes fine work of leveling Tokyo. The original 1954 film Gojira has the titular monster destroying Tokyo and setting the entire city on fire. Unlike most examples after, the consequences of said destruction on the people are explored with major detail. Lampshaded when they move the capital to Osaka due to said leveling in the Millennium series. At the end of Godzilla 2000, the little girl of the hero scientist asks why Godzilla always comes to humanity's aid. This is immediately followed by a scene of Godzilla spinning around in a circle, using his nuclear breath to wipe out anything left standing after his fight with Orga. Shin Godzilla shows Godzilla reacting to being hit by Massive Ordinace Penetrator Bombs by vomiting up a massive fireball that sets fire to much of Tokyo. After stopping to shoot purple laser beams out of its mouth and dorsal spines to shoot down aircraft (which also cut through many buildings in the city like a chainsaw through butter), it returns to burning down Tokyo. One of the most iconic shots of the entire film shows Godzilla walking towards the camera as he is cooling down, the background being completely engulfed in flames. The American film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) gives us a very nice Boston Fireball at the end, as Godzilla, bursting at the seams with radioactive energy after getting supercharged with a nuclear blast, unleashes a massive burst of radiation that has the side effect of vaporizing King Ghidorah and everything else in a mile-wide radius.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_a183d57f	comment	Perhaps because it's presented as both comedic and in time dilation but the first episode of Futurama shows this happening to New York several times.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day gives us the American version of this trope in the form of the New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Fireballs. (The BBC's Radio Drama spinoff also has London getting blown up.) The sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, reveals that a total of 108 cities were destroyed, (including Tokyo), and in keeping with this trope, the post-war reconstruction went very quickly... just in time for the aliens to come back. The only city that wasn't rebuilt was Las Vegas, which got crushed under a destroyed alien spaceship; the ruins were left as a memorial to those who died in the war.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass abuses Tokyo quite a bit. The first battle of the series takes place in Shinjuku, which starts out as a massacre of civilians until Zero and the terrorists get involved. The first season finale has a huge, decisive battle there, with massive collateral damage. There's another battle there late in the second season, which ends with the utter annihilation of Tokyo using a quasi-nuke that literally vaporizes most of the city. This doesn't even get into the destruction and occupation of the city before the series proper even begins. During the majority of the series, Tokyo is actually split between the rich "Settlement/Concession", where the Britannians live, and the run-down ghettos that were never really rebuilt where the "Numbers" are forced to reside.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_a8e835c0	comment	From Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts" (1981): Her Name Was Rodan, and she lived in the ocean off Japan.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_c17ac72a	comment	Shin Godzilla shows Godzilla reacting to being hit by Massive Ordinace Penetrator Bombs by vomiting up a massive fireball that sets fire to much of Tokyo. After stopping to shoot purple laser beams out of its mouth and dorsal spines to shoot down aircraft (which also cut through many buildings in the city like a chainsaw through butter), it returns to burning down Tokyo. One of the most iconic shots of the entire film shows Godzilla walking towards the camera as he is cooling down, the background being completely engulfed in flames.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_d794a2a2	comment	The Marvel "What-The" parody series had "Ahearya!"note As everybody went deaf from the incessant shouting.. Being a parody of AKIRA, the trope couldn't be left out.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_de8fbc8e	comment	At the end of Godzilla 2000, the little girl of the hero scientist asks why Godzilla always comes to humanity's aid. This is immediately followed by a scene of Godzilla spinning around in a circle, using his nuclear breath to wipe out anything left standing after his fight with Orga.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_e1575a9d	comment	Parodied in MegaTokyo, where the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division schedules such events to ensure that day-to-day life isn't overly disrupted.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_e548c08a	comment	Happens sometimes in tokusatsu series involving giant things duking out, e.g. Ultra Series and Super Sentai (and by extension, Power Rangers). The most honorable mention goes to Samurai Sentai Shinkenger's/Power Rangers Samurai's Grand Finale: the Shinkengers/Samurai Rangers impales the Big Bad so hard he goes kaboom, result in the city having a large chunk of it wiped off. It is still implied that the city gets rebuilt eventually.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_e8622384	comment	Shangri-La's backstory consists of Tokyo having been mostly flooded and turned into a tropical jungle by global warming. A few landmarks are visible beneath all the plants and vines.
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The Tokyo Fireball / int_ef28c988	comment	The sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising, provides an explanation as to why the Kaiju (in the Pacific Rim 'verse, not as a broad explanation for the trope) go for Tokyo: Kaiju blood is highly reactive when exposed to rare Earth elements, and so Mt. Fuji, an active volcano loaded with such elements, is the Kaiju's destination. If even one falls into the rim, the resulting explosion would cause an eruption of poisonous gases, ending all life and leaving it ripe for the Precursors to harvest. Of course, why the Kaiju attacked other places instead of just Tokyo is another matter entirely.
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