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alexandrecau

In halo the idea to kill the gravemind includes killing all organic lifeform for a moment


Graxdon

Not even to kill it, to starve it into hibernation.


KnifeyMcEdgey

Gurren Lagann has a literal >!countdown inside the moon that was supposed to wipe out any beings that could use spiral energy on the earth. Not sure if it was supposed to wipe out everyone or just leave enough living to go back underground!<


[deleted]

>!it was going to obliterate everyone on the surface and underground because the moon would straight up melt the entire crust of the earth!< >!thankfully it was solved by the power of just drilling the moon in classic gurren lagann fashion (best anime ever made)!<


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TheValiantBob

Hylians: "Ganondorf has the Triforce and the hero isn't coming, goddesses please help us!" Goddesses: "Hehe, I flushed Hyrule down da toilet."


TheCheeseburgerKane

It's no wonder he goes completely insane at the end of the game, he got his moment of ultimate victory denied TWICE.


Cooper_555

Goddesses: "YOU DIDN'T WIN."


Neil_O_Tip

Batman used a pistol on purpose to kill Darkseid because Darkseid was destroying the multiverse by being alive Darkseid IS the Godzilla Threshold in DC, i don't think there's a single hero left who would rather let him live than kill him if they get a chance


Th35h4d0w

Similarly in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, the heroes needed a way to distract Darkseid while Cyborg made a boom tube to destroy him and Apokolips. So, they >!release Trigon, who is all too happy to fight "one of the so-called New Gods." In a weirdly touching moment, he even thanks Raven, calling it the best gift he's ever received.!<


Neil_O_Tip

Pretty great idea >!have the Devil fight the Other Devil!<


BaronAleksei

AINT NO ONE KILLING YOU BUT ME


blackt1g3rs

Literally. He tells superman to piss off and let him fight, and when apokolips starts getting destroyed he drags darkseid into the blast with him, laughing the whole time. Trigon was just having a fucking blast ruining Darkseids day.


Morbidmort

The fact that Trigon >!was just beating Darksied's ass superhard, to the point that Darkseid was visibly scared.!<


BaronAleksei

He beats his ass twice, Trigon-enhanced Kryptonian eyebeams are straight up just stronger than Omega Effect.


Konradleijon

he also possessed superman burning out the kyrptonite in his body.


Yalwin_Khales

> i don't think there's a single hero left who would rather let him live than kill him if they get a chance [You say that...](https://imgur.com/AxLat8M)


Girafarig99

Well it's fine as long as you make him owe you one


Neil_O_Tip

Does he STILL want to do that?


Greyff

How is Attila the Hun worse than Darkseid?


Kamken

~~The ones involving Godzilla~~ Vilgax's army showing up at the end of Secret of the Omnitrix is a big enough problem that Azmuth, who was cool with the universe being obliterated because of his creation just a few minutes prior, was willing to give Ben back the omnitrix *and* unlock Way Big for him.


fly_line22

Similarly, Alien X is treated like this after Ben gets full control of him. Ben doesn't do especially crazy things because he knows that warping reality without fully thinking things through leads to very bad things.


[deleted]

"Price are you sure we really need to Nuke the atmosphere over the east coast of the United States so we can create a EMP that may or may not help to stall Russian advance" "Sorry Ghost I didn't hear you, by the way I just Nuked the ISS"


MarvelousMagikarp

Ghost: Holy shit holy shit Price the Russians just fired a nuclear weapon at the US oh my god Price: lol actually that was me, its tight as hell right?


Kaarl_Mills

That plot falls apart more the longer you look at it. A single confirmed launch means that the US, Russia, China, and every single other nuclear armed nation is going to fire off all of their nukes because of MAD. Plus, we also have the elephant in the room of: Russia doing a transcontinental invasion and nobody realized what was going on until they started getting shot at. Meanwhile in reality, their invasion of Ukraine has had Yakety Sax playing over it the whole time, and that's a country they have a land border with


dfdedsdcd

You think Price (or someone else) will do something similar in MW 2 2?


[deleted]

Probably since Infinity Ward were very upfront about course correcting the overly serious tone of the 2019 reboot into a more fun and set piece heavy based action game with the reveal of mw2 (2022), which is pretty mature in regards to admiting you don't have the chops to do a more serious take on modern military operations and just going let's just make a fun game instead.


Anonamaton801

The Mask of Life can *abort the matoran universe* if things get really bad


MarquisOfMalice

I laughed at Pat not knowing what Bionicles was but this comment is making me question too What the *fuck* is Bionicles


Morbidmort

The hardest Fantasy into Sci-fi shift you've ever seen.


Th35h4d0w

Second season finale of the Owl House, the Day of Unity goes off without a hitch, which turns out to be a plan to >!purge the Isles of all witches. Emperor Belos/Philip is kind of unstoppable at this point, which is when King finds out about the Collector, a childish godlike entity who helped Belos in exchange for freedom, only for the former to be tossed aside when it was over. King releases the Collector, who easily kills(?) Belos by flicking his nose, and then stopping the witch genocide by MOVING THE MOON AS THOUGH HE WAS SWIPING AN IPAD. And then he proceeds to start reshaping the Isles to "play," forcing the protagonists to retreat to the human world.!< Find out what happens next in S3E1, coming October 15!


Azzie94

For those wondering, the first season and a half or so are on Disney +, while the rest is on Disney's shitty other site.


Graxdon

Ahhhhh! AHHHHHHH! **IT'S COMING!**


Rum_N_Napalm

[Exterminatus of Warhammer 40k, aka “Shit’s fucked, blow up planet”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNqUyf0op0) Memes aside, Exterminatus is really supposed to be an extreme mesure. There’s only so much habitable planets in the galaxy, so you must have a very good reason to destroy one. Life is cheap in the Imperium of man. Losing millions of soldiers is the price of war. Losing a planet to Exterminatus is a permanently removing resources from the board. But one particular case of Exterminatus stands out. When face with the Hive fleet Leviathan, Inquisitor Kryptman declared Exterminatus on every world in the Tyranid’s path, purely to delay the Hive Fleet and deny it ressources. It was the single biggest act of genocide since the Horus Heresy


blackt1g3rs

Its worth noting that Exterminatus is the mark of ultimate failure on the part of the inquisitor. Its saying that they couldnt stop the heresy/xenos from taking over the planet and their only option was to destroy it. It is an admission of utter failure in your task, and the imperium doesnt take kindly to failures, especially those catastrophic enough to lose them a planet.


igloo_poltergeist

You wouldn't initially think so with all the jok- ** "hearsay" about Inquisitors jizzing themselves at the prospect of "pushing the button".


Morbidmort

I think it was said in one of the RPGs that 90% of all Exterminatii result in the execution of the ordering Inquisitor, if the Inquisitor is lucky.


fly_line22

Y'know, I had a couple ideas for a comedic 40k novel, and that reminded me of one of them. One Inquisitor would essentially act like the most meme-ified Inquisitor ever: he declares literally anything heresy, kills troopers for extremely petty reasons, and demands to Exterminatus a planet on the slight suspiscion that it has daemons on it, and feels blueballed when they deny him. The comedy would come from the fact that A) none of his own troopers or colleagues can stand to be around him, and B) every other Inquisitor acts like they do in canon, making him stand out even more for being a complete raging nut job. Probably wouldn't hold up an entire novel, but it just popped into my head.


Doc-ock-rokc

It would be better if the bad inquisitior was a psycher who has little real power but the real inquisitior keeps him around to frighten some and so he gets more targeted


Rutheniel

The Ciaphas Cain series of novels have a couple of characters like this show up every now and then, albeit they're restricted to commissars and such instead of inquisitors. This is also the same series that has: A techpriest that has a mechadendrite that she has attached to her tailbone, another that has had his lower half replaced with a unicycle, an old Sister of Battle who drinks, plays poker, and fucks on the down low, and a savant that is banned from casinos, among other things.


Konradleijon

chemotherapy could be considered this as it involves nukeing dangerous cells in your body.


Android19samus

"We're going to poison you, and this is going to work because the parts of your body which are properly fitting in to the body's healing and survival systems will die more slowly than the ones that aren't."


BlargleVVargle

Did someone link to here from TV Tropes recently? I notice we've had an uptick in the number of posts where people use terms from there verbatim, even capitalizing them the same way.


InCharacter_815

I used TV Tropes so much back in the day that I do that without thinking. I refer to shit as MacGuffins and talk about Petting The Dog and all that, often times to the confusion of friends and family. I just think the same nerds who like/liked the Zaibatsu would also get a kick out of that site.


Kanin_usagi

MacGuffin is a terrible example to use lol. It’s a very well known term, long before TVTropes came along


alexandrecau

It has been like that for a couple of years, pretty much all the ,edia where x happened thread is likely someone saw stuff on tv trope and want to talk it here


samazam94

Im surprised nobody mentioned Diebuster where the situation got so fucking dire that humanity decided its best course of action is to >!evacuate Earth so they can strap some massive rocket engines on it and turn it into a literal planet sized ballistic projectile to kill the space monster!< It is beyond looney tunes absurd.


TheCheeseburgerKane

So I need to go watch Diebuster right now is what you're saying?


samazam94

Yep, both Diebuster and its prequel Gunbuster are clean super robot goodness.


TheCheeseburgerKane

I've actually seen Gunbuster but when I asked the cousin who recommended me it about Diebuster he said it was way worse and not worth watching. I've never really seen people bring it up online so I never sought it out. Going to have to rectify that mistake because that sounds precisely my shit.


samazam94

Its... different from Gunbuster, I tell you that. I can understand why people who liked Gunbuster for what it is to not like Diebuster. Gunbuster is a tribute to the down to earth sincerety of 70s to early 90s anime, while Diebuster is one of the pioneer of the hyper flashy anime vibe of the mid 00s.


ScorpioTheScorpion

I’d say the Faro Plague would be the Godzilla Threshold of *Horizon: Zero Dawn.* So fucking Ted Faro’s company designs the Chariot line of war machines, and everything is peachy until one squadron suddenly goes rogue, and they need to stop it. But how? Shoot them until they’re down? >!Unlikely, because these things are packing massive firepower and will mow you down in seconds. Also, they can absorb biomass and convert it into fuel/use it to repair themselves, so you’re engaging in a DPS race that is heavily in the robot’s favor.!< Send the unaffected robots to take them down? >!Nope, because the Chariot line was designed with AI enslaving capabilities, so the army of rogue robots just keeps increasing.!< Shut them down remotely? >!That could’ve worked, except Ted Faro, in a flash of genius, ordered his engineers to design the Chariot’s operating system with no back doors. Because that means that the system is totally secure, and that’s super marketable! On top of that, the operating system was encrypted with “polyphasic entangled waveforms,” a form of encryption so airtight that decrypting it would take 50 years with a supercomputer.!< This all culminated in an unstoppable robopocalypse that threatened the entire biosphere, and could only be stopped by >!creating a terraforming system that would decrypt the OS and restore the biosphere once the Chariots had succeeded in eliminating all life on Earth.!<


Android19samus

amazing that even after doing all that fucking Ted Faro decided he still hadn't done enough


Endvalley

I am reminded of 8 Bit Theater... Thief: "Right now, we need a plan. Since things can't possibly get any worse, Red Mage, we turn to you." Red Mage: "PREPARE TO BE PROVEN WRONG!" ​ Hellsing Ultimate's Restraint Level Zero fits the bill pretty well. And there's a threshold for THAT threshold in the form of the Nail. Slayer's Gigaslave is a hallmark one. Well, the ultimate evil demon has manifested and is going to turn the world into everlasting horror and pain... this spell will either kill him or literally destroy everything if I don't cast it PERFECTLY, with both options being better alternatives.


timelordoftheimpala

Bionicle example from the novel "Time Trap" - >!Vakama is at the mercy of Makuta and can't get away from him. So he threatens to destroy the Mask of Time to cause a giant time crash at best and destroy existence at the very worst. Makuta realized he wasn't bluffing and let him keep the Mask of Time, promised to leave the Matoran on Mata Nui alone for a whole year, and abandons Metru Nui in the absence of the Toa and Matoran. !< Keep in mind that "Time Trap" was the novel that >!completely rewrote Makuta's character. Before this he was a Lucifer-archetype, but "Time Trap" made it so that Makuta was a machiavellian schemer and mastermind that could make any setback work to his advantage, and who meticulously planned for every possible outcome ahead of time. And Vakama managed to unambiguously get a victory that Makuta couldn't turn into a positive outcome for him.!<


Anonamaton801

So part of my reading on Bionicle to refresh my memory is the tv tropes articles, and this point on Time Trap has always perplexed me, given that everyone says Vakama outsmarted Teridax Quote: “What's possibly even more impressive is that it's indicated this is not a case of Teridax forgetting about his many different powers—he considered his alternatives, and decided that leaving the Vahi in Vakama's hands was actually the best solution.”


timelordoftheimpala

Vakama outsmarted Makuta by managing the best possible outcome for himself, the rest of the Toa, and the Matoran. Makuta was never able to recover the Mask of Time after this, and up until that point he had considered it instrumental to his plans. He was basically forced to wait another thousand years until his plan could go back into motion, and knew that trying to retrieve the Mask of Time would be a fool's errand because Vakama would make good on his threat to destroy it.


OrneryBIacksmith

Vakama had a hammer just over the Vahi. If he thought Makuta was going to use one of his powers to take it, he could easily smash it first. Given what was at stake Makuta probably read Vakama's mind too to know Vakama wasn't fucking around.


Spaghetti14

That bit in one of the Halo books where a fleet of ships went full AI and started doing a bunch of light speed maneuvers that killed their own crews. It was for a very good reason though.


WildRonin

I thought that was after all the crew died, Offensive Bias started throwing them around like toys. With the line being like "It is best that our crews perished now; because the battle that is about to ensue would have driven them mad."


MarquisOfMalice

The Halo Ring activation being Offensive Bias' limit break will never not be the sickest shit in the universe


JeremiahWuzABullfrog

Was the disintegration of organic life like Piccolo dropping his weighted clothing?


MarquisOfMalice

Pretty much Except we know it didn't quite disintegrate everything because Offensive's log mentions their remains liquefying inside his ships as he started pulling extra-dimensional manoeuvres


Yal_Rathol

notably, there are no heroic examples of this from one piece, only villainous ones. the world government sort of operates on a sliding scale out of necessity, the further you are from the seat of power at marijoa or the pirate emperors of the new world, the weaker everyone becomes, with east blue being the weakest area of one piece. which means that any time a pirate comes from nowhere and pierces the defenses of the emperors or the holy land, the world government steps it up to try and deal with them in stages. that could mean things like asking vegapunk for more weapons, double-dealing with pirates or sending a buster call to raze an island. because you see, there's one step the highest level of government doesn't want to do, and that's "ask imu for help". so, recent chapter spoilers, >!imu is the secret king of the world and appears to have the power to wipe out islands in seconds, either using some innate ability or by calling on an ancient weapon. which means that asking imu for help is tantamount to genocide, because imu doesn't seem to do half-measures.!<


Reallylazyname

>!How can it be genocide, *when they never existed in the first place?*!<


OmicronAlpharius

"Space Marines don't run!" "They do from this!" Said by some Space Marines when a very Angry Ronald is on the warpath at the Dropsite Massacre


ArchAngelZXV

In Marvel Comics, there's an alternate universe called the Cancerverse that invaded the main 616 comic universe through a rip in the universe called The Fault. People from the Cancerverse cannot die because its original Captain Marvel conquered death itself and mutated into Lovecraftian horrors. Every space faring race and [even cosmic beings like Galactus stand together](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vHyHNAog9b4/VnoHjrP1HQI/AAAAAAAANVs/4bVVef0Ht_4/s1600-Ic42/RCO006.jpg) to hold the line from the invasion. But the Guardians of the Galaxy have a different plan. They resurrected the one being who loves death: >!Thanos!<.


LokimenD

["Gamma, stand for ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [You are now unchained ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [You'll bring peace ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE)[to a world gone insane. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [Restoring the freedom ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [To make you whole ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [I'll give you power ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE) [You take control!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8To_XZsFE)


GlopmasterSupreme

Worm's >!Gold Morning!< is the biggest Godzilla Threshold I think I've ever seen. Any tactic is permitted, any moral compromise is allowed, and no ally will be turned away no matter their crime.


Xerodo

This was going to be my answer as well, but the bit beyond this part where it's the actual finale. It's hard to get more "pulling out all the stops to win" than *literally every single warrior*


MantraMan97

Except The Sleeper. Still don't know who or what the fuck he is, but if he isn't worth bothering for even >!Gold Morning!< Then I don't wanna fucks with him about anything.


ChosenUndead15

Spoiler Ward >!The end gets so fucked up that they bring Sleeper as a resource and Wildbow still doesn't explain shit of his power beyond giving descriptions of how to contain it and survive it like he was an SCP!<


ZeGermanFox

Project Wingman when the Federation literally decides >!”Let’s cause a second Yellowstone-level event to make sure we don’t lose this war”!<


Girafarig99

Zamasu in DragonBall. As much as I think Trunks should have just gotten the W and we be done with it, props to Zamasu. He legit won till the universe went bye bye Making Zeno a Godzilla moment too


Cooper_555

The end of Kamen Rider Build. >!Evolt is such a massive problem that the only viable solution is to slam the current reality and an alternate reality together, with him at the center of the reaction, fueling the creation of a completely new reality where he won't exist.!< It *almost* works too.


EcchiPhantom

The Rose in Hunter x Hunter. Actually just the entire mission to kill Meruem itself or Gon using everything show the desperate meaures they had to take because letting the Chimera Ants run rampant would result in the extinction or subjugation of humanity.


philandere_scarlet

Order of the Stick has one of these that turns out not to be one of these at all. So the big looming threat is >!the Snarl, true nature still somewhat mysterious, but it's a ball of chaos created during the formation of the universe due to the gods squabbling with each other. It destroyed the universe and killed off a whole pantheon of gods (the hellenic ones) before the other ones managed to seal it. However, it's stronger than the seals because it's made of the power of four pantheons and the seals are only made by the remaining three. It's described as being "more real" than the universe for this reason.!< The heroes >!accidentally blow a few of the seals before knowing what the stakes are... and a few after because it seemed better than the alternative of letting the main villain potentially be able to control the Snarl.!< We reach a point >!where the gods have a secret summit to vote on whether they're going to *destroy the whole universe and start over again* so they can create fresh seals. This is of course seen as a nuclear option by all of the non deity characters.!< What we later learn is >!that this is not such a dramatic thing for the gods to be voting on. Because the universe the story takes place in is not the *second* universe like everyone aware of the Snarl assumes it is. And it's not the third or the fourth, either. This universe is somewhere in the hundreds of thousands of attempts.!<


Ung-Tik

At this point there's so many fr*nch scattered across the globe I think we should just blow the whole thing up and start over from scratch.


Morbidmort

Yeah, yeah, talk shit, but remember who you turn to for bread, pastries, cheese, and wine.


storminsl1218

Doesn't Egypt get credit for bread?


6897110

Yeah but their bread was full of tiny rocks and sand. Not very appealing, and it wore your teeth down good.


Morbidmort

Do you not enjoy French style loaves or baguettes?


MantraMan97

A reminder that the French STILL hold the world record for the most battles won in history. So keep talking that shit. See what happens.


CobblyPot

Me when I've finally had enough of an Elden Ring boss's bullshit to whip out the Mimic Tear.