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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Because ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' centers around [[This Is a Drill|drills]], this naturally crops up. Mostly toward the end of the first arc, where Team Gurren, for example, traps the enemy battleship Dai-Gunzen in a huge pit. The resulting battle causes the nearby volcanos to ([[Chekhov's Volcano|predictably]]) explode.
* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', the MPU, a spy satellite [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|gone sentient]], uses [[Kill Sat]]s to re-carve the Nazca lines into the face of the [[Earth-That-Was|now ruined earth]]. And, at Ed's suggestion, a giant smiley face.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''
** Supplement ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia''. The Celtic pantheon section mentioned a deity named Dunatis who could instantaneously raise a mountain peak from a flat plain or flatten a giant mountain into a prairie.
** Supplement ''Netheril, Empire of Magic''. Spells available to Netherese spellcasters included ''Mavin's Create Volcano'' and ''Proctiv's Move Mountain''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This was one of Peter Molyneux's favorite aspects of the game that would become ''[[Populous]]'' and as such is an important part of all the games. In ''[[Populous: theThe Beginning]]'', there are no less than four spells based around the manipulation of terrain.
* Pretty much the whole point of ''[[From Dust]]''. The player carries around large amounts of dirt, lava or water in order to gradually create bridges or barriers against environmental hazards.
* The ''[[Sim CitySimCity]]'' games allow the player to modify the terrain as befits the needs of a growing city. However, doing so as a mayor is expensive (unless you cheat). Fortunately, each game since ''2000'' has had a mode wherein a player could sculpt the terrain for free before founding a city there. The controls have become increasingly precise and lifelike, and support for terrain imports became available, so as to recreate real-world locations. In ''4'', you can also make craters before or during city play by [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|dropping meteors or summoning volcanos]].
* In ''[[Spore]]'''s space stage, there are numerous tools to modify the shape of any planet you care to visit. However, these are entirely cosmetic and have no tactical or political effects. Also, colonies automatically flatten an area around them when placed.
* In ''[[Minecraft]]'', you can pretty much change everything you can immediately see, from creating a mountain, destroying it, then building it again.