You ca n’t really call yourself an evil genius unless you ’ve got a clever scheme for bust up our planet once and for all . And no , using atomic weapons does n’t really count as “ clever . ” Nukes are so 1950 . Here ’s a inclination of the 10 cool ways to crush Earth , or at least render it uninhabitable , without splitting any atoms .
barge in another major planet into Earth . In an episode of the Transformers cartoon , the villain Megatron tried to bring his home major planet , Cybertron , into Earth ’s aura . The Cybermen also brought their family planet Mondas close to Earth in Doctor Who , and assay to suck the aliveness - force out of our planet , which is sort of similar .
Freeze it to demise . In Kurt Vonnegut ’s novel Cat ’s Cradle , a meaning forebode ice - nine freezes all water on Earth , induce the experimental extinction of most beast , include humans , within a few day .
Poison it . In the James Bond authoritative Moonraker , Hugo Drax distill the poison from a rare orchidaceous plant and pose it inside globes , which he project to establish from a place station to points all over Earth . The resolution : total obliteration .
Cause the sunlight to go nova . Evil Star , a Green Lantern villain , want to plant a gimmick in the Earth ’s sun that would make it go nova , so he could junket on the prima energy . The NOVA bomb in Halo : First Strike would do the same thing .
materialise another major planet around it . In the MD Who level “ The Pirate Planet , ” a giant vacuous major planet materializes around smaller major planet and crushes the aliveness out of them , then strips them for all their mineral riches .
Bombard it with garbage . In the Futurama episode “ A Big Piece of Garbage , ” New York launches a jumbo ball of its chicken feed into quad in 2052 — only to have it crash back towards Earth , threatening destruction , years later .
rig up jumbo mirror in space . This aspiring mad scientisthas a plan to create a giant balloon in blank space , then cut it in half and cake each one-half with a reflective surface . If positioned the right way , they could reflect a gross ton of sunlight on a specific point on Earth .
Biological warfare . In the late time of year of Heroes , the Company create a nasty virus that would kill almost the intact human airstream . And that white Samurai guy was so mad that Hiro buss his GF that he decided to unleash it .
Killer robot United States Army . In the classic television game Robotron 2084 , a swarm of killer automaton succeeds in wipe out the intact human race . Only one humanoid mutant remains to fight back them off .
strike hard it off its rod . Doctor unsufferable plots to throw the Earth out of its orbit around the sun in Austin Grossman ’s novel before long I Will Be Invincible . “ As the Earth develop colder , my power becomes patent , and the nations reconcile , ” he allege . And the eponymic monstrosity in Zombies of the Stratosphere plot to send out the Earth off course so Mars can take its place .
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