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Explosions are cool. So are giant objects. Therefore, giant objects exploding are extremely cool. But let's think about this for a moment. Halt the Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever in a major city by blowing it up. Or just kill it and let it fall over, for that matter. That's going to do some monstrous damage to the city. Yet any collateral damage or casualties are depicted as minimal. Either we cut to credits before we see any aftermath, or (more blatantly) we actually see that there was no collateral effect at all. If there are, they are just Conveniently Empty Buildings.

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  • Explosions are cool. So are giant objects. Therefore, giant objects exploding are extremely cool. But let's think about this for a moment. Halt the Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever in a major city by blowing it up. Or just kill it and let it fall over, for that matter. That's going to do some monstrous damage to the city. Yet any collateral damage or casualties are depicted as minimal. Either we cut to credits before we see any aftermath, or (more blatantly) we actually see that there was no collateral effect at all. If there are, they are just Conveniently Empty Buildings.
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  • Explosions are cool. So are giant objects. Therefore, giant objects exploding are extremely cool. But let's think about this for a moment. Halt the Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever in a major city by blowing it up. Or just kill it and let it fall over, for that matter. That's going to do some monstrous damage to the city. Yet any collateral damage or casualties are depicted as minimal. Either we cut to credits before we see any aftermath, or (more blatantly) we actually see that there was no collateral effect at all. If there are, they are just Conveniently Empty Buildings. Why? Well, you can't have the heroes take down the alien spacecraft For Great Justice and the American way, only to look sheepish when the flaming debris flattens the city. Not in any show on the idealism end of the scale, anyway. Maybe they have a brilliant plan to lure it somewhere uninhabited before they blow it to rubble, but surprisingly often, it's just not something the writers concern themselves with, leading viewers to notice the Inferred Holocaust. For a look at what happens in these instances in real life, one need look no further than the tragedy of 9/11/01, in which the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, "merely" two buildings, not only resulted in about 2900 deaths, but spread dust and debris across the entirety of lower Manhattan and caused significant damage to other nearby buildings, including 7 World Trade Center and the Bankers Trust building (which didn't collapse on its own, but had to be demolished later). If you're a hero, though, you needn't worry about this too much. Even if there is collateral damage, your Hero Insurance is probably going to cover it. If not, then Hilarity Sues. See Colony Drop for when a large man-made object is deliberately dropped on top of a planet in order to cause a massive impact. Compare There Are No Global Consequences. Examples of No Endor Holocaust include:
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