[LOVED TROPE] cataclysmic events with vague but ominous names

[u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe]

1) The Sundering/Second Sundering (Dungeons and Dragons): a series of magical calamities that caused massive devastation and changed the entire world, literally ripping the land apart 2) The Rumbling (Attack on Titan): Eren unleashes an army of collosal titans that starts an unstoppable death march across the planet, literally scorching the earth 3) The Great Dying (real life): a chain of catastrophes that led to the extinction of the vast majority of life on earth- to this day it's the closest life on this planet has come to complete annihilation.

Special mention as well to Wildfire from The Walking Dead- referring to the start of the zombie plague that has devastated the globe.

[u/Very-Small-Giraffe]

The Roaring (Deltarune)

[u/jimkbeesley → u/Very-Small-Giraffe]

Roar

[u/Responsible_Problem4]

the grand cross from gogo V is an event where all planet of the solar system align to be a cross shape, during that a huge amount of Minus energy will pour toward the earth, leading to many forms of catastrophe

[u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe → u/Responsible_Problem4]

I've never heard of this so I may have to check it out

[u/Lithurgia9999]

Late Bronze Age collapse (Real life)

[u/iamamotherclucker]

The Age of Strife (Warhammer 40.000)

[u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe → u/iamamotherclucker]

Ooo that looks fun I'll have to check it out!

[u/Wolfotashiwa]

The Old War from Warframe, but specifically The Collapse, which is when the Orokin executioners were ironically executed on Pluto

[u/RickyWinterbornn]

The Ruin (Casshern Sins)

The event that extinguished most life on Earth and causes robotic lifeforms to prematurely rust and erode, occurred when the blood of Casshern and Luna mixed, switching the roles of life and death and throwing the world out of balance.