Earth

Earth is the planet you're most likely on right now. It's the third planet from the Sun in our solar system and is the only known planet in the universe to harbor — not support — life. It's 4.5 billion years old, just a few ten million years younger than the solar system it's in. Earth is orbited by a singular natural satellite with the most creative name of any entity in the entire universe: the Moon. Yeah.



In fiction, Earth is the planet that the franchise most likely takes place on if not another planet. In both fiction and real life, humans live here on this ball of rock and water, normally ignoring the fact they live on the planet. Since it's usually the only planet that humans live on, whenever someone tries to Kill The World, someone else must step forth and stop them. In the science fiction genre, aliens seem to either hate Earth and want to destroy it or conquer it and enslave its weak, fleshy inhabitants.

Being a planet weighing 13 billion trillion tons and 7,917 miles across in diameter, Earth is an incredibly massive object in comparison to an individual around a human's size. That's why having a high place on the Epic Scale is necessary to destroy it in a single hit if doing so is part of a plan. If someone is able to reduce the Earth to a Ded Planet either using their own natural power or a device whose purpose is to wipe out a whole planet in one go, that's proof enough of their power and what they're capable of.

When not necessarily referring to the astronomical body itself, events like Armageddon and concepts like World Domination often bring Earth up. Although Armageddon doesn't really "end the world", it refers to the end of (almost) all civilization worldwide and might include the planet becoming temporarily or permanently inhospitable, normally only on the surface in dystopian stories so underground societies can exist and allow the story to happen. World Domination is what audiences typically consider an Eye Roll UnTrash as it's an overplayed and cheap scheme thought up by low-grade Villains who aren't able to come up with any better goals. It involves one body, the Bad Guys, ruling over a society in which all nations may be united under one name and where all people's lives are regulated by the unquestioned party. Since Good Always Prevails, World Domination is never really achieved at the end of stories and is an existing issue by the time they begin which serves as the Conflict the Good Guys must resolve by the story's end.