asteroid impact theme
Life on a planet is threatened by an asteroid that is on a collision course with it.
22 total · 3 choice · 10 major · 9 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Armageddon (1998) | choice | The main novelty of the film is that a close-knit team of oil well drillers must stop a Texas-sized asteroid on a collision course with Earth by intercepting it in space and detonating a nuclear warhead deep under its surface. |
| movie: Meteor Apocalypse (2010) | choice | An attempt by the world powers to blow a comet out of a collision course with Earth backfired, resulting in myriad pieces of the comet raining down to Earth. This caused much destruction and contaminated the groundwater. |
| movie: Post Impact (2004) | choice | The title refers to the aftermath of a large cometary fragment impacting the Earth, western Russia specifically. A new geopolitical order was established within three years of the catastrophic impact, which had kick started the world into a new ice age. |
| ent1x06 | major | T'Pol discovered evidence that an asteroid impact triggered the civilization ending mass radiation poisoning on Terra Nova colony. |
| movie: Falling Fire (1997) | major | The eco-terrorist mastermind Lopez hatched a nefarious plot to crash a massive asteroid into Earth. This he characterized as "an act of purification". |
| movie: Meteor (1979) | major | After the asteroid Orpheus in the Asteroid Belt was hit by a meteor, dozens of asteroid fragments were sent on a collision course towards Earth, along with a five-mile fragment which stood cause an extinction-level event. |
| movie: Strange New World (1975) | major | Three astronauts returned to Earth a 180 years after it was hit by a civilization ending swarm of asteroids. |
| movie: The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) | major | A swarm of meteors is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. |
| movie: The End of the World (1931) | major | a comet is detected hurtling toward Earth on a collision course |
| movie: Warning (2021) | major | The film culminates with the Earth being destroyed by incoming asteroids. |