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What do you mean [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]? What can we alter about the universe that would be a big deal [[Dissimile|without being a big deal]]? It's not like we can blow up a planet...
Wait! What about one of those planets floating around the edge of the solar system? That [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|insignificant]], dark, icy one with one giant and
Never mind. Let's blow it up!
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** [http://www.suburbansenshi.com Suburban Senshi] is an excellent example—the corollary chatroom even has "Pluto" filtered to its numerical designation.
** In another fanfic, Pluto finds out about her planet getting demoted and has a near royal fit only to be calmed down when Sailor Moon promises to promote her planet back to its original status in a thousand years when Crystal Tokyo is formed.
* In ''[[Getter Robo]] Armageddon'', when a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] gets formed in the final moments of the series, Pluto naturally gets sucked in.
** Of course, this is right after the Getters had just ''destroyed Jupiter and three of its moons with '''THE''' Getter Tomahawk''.
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* Horrifyingly subverted in ''[[Hellstar Remina]]'', as the titular [[Planet Eater]] [[Cosmic Horror]] may eat it first, but then proceeds in a few weeks to eat ''every other planet in turn'' (including Jupiter, [[Oh Crap|despite it being much larger than Remina]]), from outermost to innermost... [[It Got Worse|And then it gets to Earth...]]
* In ''[[Dragonaut: The Resonance|Dragonaut the Resonance]]'' Pluto is destroyed when the [[Eldritch Abomination]] Thanotos plows right through it on it's way to Earth.
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* During the climatic caper of ''[[Mission: Impossible]]: Ghost Protocol'', the team uses planets in the solar system as their callsigns. Benji, the local [[Butt Monkey]], ends up as Pluto.
* In ''[[Chicken Little]]'', if you look very closely at the aliens' map of the Solar System, Pluto appears to be the first to be crossed out. The movie was released just one year before Pluto's demotion.
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* Neil deGrasse Tyson actually appeared as himself in an episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', where Rodney McKay proceeded to make fun of him.
{{quote|'''McKay:''' Hey at least I didn't de-classify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry, Neil, that make you feel like a big man?}}
{{quote|'''Sheldon:''' I like Pluto, therefore, I don't like you.}}
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* [[Aesop Rock]]'s "Bring Back Pluto" uses this as its central inspiration.
* The song "I'm Your Moon" by [[Jonathan Coulton]] is about this trope in general (and the declassification specifically), from the viewpoint of Pluto's moon Charon. The idea is if Pluto can't be a planet, then Charon and Pluto can just be moons of each other forever... turning the whole thing into a sweet (if bizarre) [[Love Song]].
* The astronomers' decision not to consider Pluto a planet is [
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' gets in on the act [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=788 here.]
* In ''[[Fans]]'', the first sign of a very dangerous enemy is when it [http://www.faans.com/index.php?p=1254 eats Charon, Pluto's moon]{{Dead link}}.
* ''[[Punintended]]'' declares the French as having decided to ditch Pluto [http://punintended.thecomicseries.com/comics/28/ Plus Tôt.]
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** And more importantly ''[[Snap Back|it's never rebuilt]]''.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': Doofenshmirtz enters the science fair and ridicules a boy who is entering a model of Pluto (see the quote at the top of the page). The boy's older brother then gives Doofenshmirtz a shiner.
* ''[[The Fairly
{{quote|'''Cosmo''': "He said THE planet, he didn't say which one."
'''Timmy''': "Who cares? It's Pluto."
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== Web Animation ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723204322/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/onthemoon/On+The+Moon+ep.9/ This episode] of ''[[On The Moon]]''.
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** Inverted with Ceres however. It too was made a dwarf planet because it is the only spherical object in the Asteroid Belt, as with Haumea, Makemake, and Eris since they were all discovered after Pluto was recognized.
** Pluto's reclassification has been averted in Illinois and New Mexico (The home state of the man who discovered Pluto), where the state legislatures have passed laws reclassifying Pluto as a planet. However, this has yet to occur in Arizona, where the discovery was made.
** The arguments on the proper criteria of planethood continue to [https://phys.org/news/2018-09-pluto-reclassified-planet.html push back and forth], however.
* Many people and groups had delisted Pluto before the 2005 decision, most prominently the Hayden Planetarium when it reopened in a new building in 2000. Its director, [[wikipedia:Neil deGrasse Tyson|Neil DeGrasse Tyson]], has since become a public spokesman in favor of Pluto's non-planethood due to that initial controversy- somewhat ironically and unwillingly since he's an astrophysicist, more concerned with the universe at large.
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