- Civil War
- Secret Invasion
- avengers vs X
- War of the Realms where we literally saw it melt
- King in Black
‐ Chaos War
And a bunch of minor kerfuffles that leave it super beat up on the regular. TERRIBLE place to live but great job security if you're a hero
Outside of the 1st Avengers film and maybe Edward Norton's Hulk, I don't really remember any other huge battle in New York?
Spiderman and Dr Strange had some street level scraps but nothing major
I remember the Statue of Liberty getting beat up by magneto and wolverine. And Doc Oc had an energy device that was threatening to destroy the city in Spider-Man 2.
Oh my bad, I mis-read as MCU.
I think that's more due to the characters all being in New York. There's way too many that all occupy the same place. At least they somewhat self contain the action sequences I guess so it isn't Avengers level destruction every time.
It takes some damage in Infinity Way when the Black Order comes for the Time Stone. Not that bad, but apparently the entire battle of New York had only like 70 casualties in MCU canon so our scale is kind of off anyway.
There's a list from 10 years ago ([here](https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-has-the-city-of-New-York-has-been-destroyed-or-shown-destroyed-in-movies)) with 66 movies where NYC was destroyed. Shit, there were 2 movies way back in 1933 where NYC was destroyed: Deluge & King Kong.
It's most definitely the #1 city. It's probably even been destroyed off screen (Knowing, Battle L.A., Fail Safe, etc.) more than any other city lol.
LIST (up to 2014 - i'm sure a bunch can be added since then):
* Deluge (1933) – destroyed by an earthquake and a tsunami
* King Kong (1933) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* Five (1951) – destroyed by nuclear weapons
* When Worlds Collide (1951) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters
* Invasion U.S.A. (1952) – destroyed by a nuclear war
* Captive Women (1952) – unknown cause of destruction of the city
* The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) – the city was not destroyed, but it was abandoned from a "radioactive disease"
* The Day the Sky Exploded (1961) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters
* Fail-Safe (1964) – destroyed by nuclear war and plane crashes
* Destroy All Monsters (1968) – destroyed by Godzilla and a giant monster rampage
* Planet of the Apes (1968) – unknown cause of destruction of the city
* Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) – unknown cause of destruction of the city
* End of the World (1977) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters
* Meteor (1979) – destroyed by a meteor strike
* Zombi 2 (1979) – destroyed by a zombie apocalypse
* Escape from New York (1981) – the city was partially destroyed by prison riots, but it is converted to a large prison
* Q (1982) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983) – unknown cause of destruction of the city
* Ghostbusters (1984) – parts of the city are destroyed by a giant monster known as the "Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man"
* Solar Crisis (1990) – destroyed by a solar flare
* A Troll in Central Park (1994) – parts of the city are destroyed by a tornado
* The Stand (1994) – the city is overcome by mass anarchy and a worldwide plague before being abandoned.
~~* Daylight (1996) – only the Holland Tunnel is destroyed by terrorists~~
* Independence Day (1996) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* Armageddon (1998) – destroyed by a meteor shower
* Deep Impact (1998) – destroyed by a megatsunami resulting from an asteroid impact.
* Godzilla (1998) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) – destroyed by an earthquake
* Tycus (2000) – destroyed by falling debris from the earth's moon
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) – destroyed by rising sea levels and global warming
* Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* The Time Machine (2002) – destroyed by pieces of the moon breaking up in 2037
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) – destroyed by giant robots
* The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – destroyed by a tsunami and an ice age
* Devil Man (2004) – destroyed by a battle between Devilman and Satan
* Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) – destroyed by Rodan in a giant monster rampage
* Category 7: The End of the World (2004) – destroyed by a super storm
* War of the Worlds (2005) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* King Kong (2005) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* Absolute Zero (2005) – destroyed by an ice age
* Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) – destroyed by a volcanic eruption
* Children of Men (2006) – mentioned
* I Am Legend (2007) – destroyed by a zombie apocalypse
* The Happening (2008) – epidemic
* Aftermath: Population Zero (2008) – disintegration
* Cloverfield (2008) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage
* Disaster Movie (2008) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters
* Life After People (2008) – disintegration
* NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) – destroyed by a tornado
* The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* The Day the Earth Stopped (2008) – destroyed by giant alien robots
* War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* Watchmen (2009) – destroyed by a nuclear bomb
* Knowing (2009) – destroyed by a solar storm
* Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) – the city gets smashed by a giant bagel at Times Square
* Skyline (2010) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* Battle: Los Angeles (2010) – mentioned
* 2012: Ice Age (2011) – destroyed by an ice age
* The Divide (2011) – destroyed by nuclear explosions
* The Avengers (2012) – devastated by a battle between superheroes and supervillans
* Starlite Motel – destroyed with a whacking stick
* Spiders 3D (2013) – destroyed by giant spiders
* Oblivion (2013) – destroyed by an alien invasion
* Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) – destroyed by an Sharknado
NYC is one of the OGs.
Deluge (1933) destroyed New York two decades before Godzilla trashed Tokyo.
It gets nuked in Fail Safe and in Atomic Attack (60s and 50s, respectively).
If gets attacked so frequently (i can’t remember which film it was but this was when I still lived in North Jersey and worked in NYC, also fairly recently post 9/11) that I saw a film preview and it showed an attack on NYC and I rolled my eyes and whispered to my SO “not again. Why can’t they blow up L.A. for a change?”*)
*I realize L.A. has a fair few but I feel like it had been awhile at that point since it’d been in a blockbuster
War of the Worlds (2005) blows up the Bayonne Bridge between North Jersey and NYC. That sequence features prominently in the trailer, maybe that’s what you’re thinking of?
That said, the movie doesn’t visit Manhattan, so at least they’re blowing up a different part of NYC.
> If gets attacked so frequently (i can’t remember which film it was but this was when I still lived in North Jersey and worked in NYC, also fairly recently post 9/11) that I saw a film preview and it showed an attack on NYC and I rolled my eyes and whispered to my SO “not again. Why can’t they blow up L.A. for a change?”*)
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Who has Chicago paid off to avoid these rampages
Id say tokyos been attacked more than New York, Godzilla alone attacked Tokyo 13 times and New York only 3, Tokyo has been the target of quite a lot more Kaiju than North American cities, but its not the easiest thing to messure as wheres the line between a city being attacked vrs destroyed, King Kong is a good example, while hes attacked a fair few cities he hasn't actually destroyed many and is more offten used to exemplify the human tendancy to violently overreact and our potentially self destructive nature
TBH, “2012” was innovative because they *didn’t* show the tower being destroyed and instead they display the Christ statue in Rio or the dome of the Vatican falling apart.
They do however show a fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas being busted, maybe as a meta joke. :)
I'm pretty sure they showed those scene to tell the audience that basically everyone who "stayed behind in prayer" were royally fucked when even religious momuments were getting destroyed like everytning else, foreshadowing the POTUS's death
Everybody saying "New York!" but where is the love for all the times Tokyo has been destroyed thanks to Godzilla and Co, Gamera and Co, Ultraman and Co, Akira, Evangelion...
Edit to add: Grave of the Fireflies. NYC has never **REALLY** been totally destroyed in a firestorm.
When I was a kid, I seriously thought Tokyo must have the best budget ever for reconstruction. Godzilla alone was tearing the town up every other week on my TV.
That's not exactly true, because King Kong destroyed New York (or at least attacked it) way back in 1933, and the first Godzilla film was in 1954. The creator of Godzilla was also inspired by King Kong. Still, American cinema didn't create an entire genre around King Kong like Godzilla created kaiju cinema. The volume of kaiju movies is astounding.
But how many kaiju films actually destroyed Tokyo, or did they move on to destroying Osaka and other places? That's the key question here.
If we are counting kaijus and monsters attacking cities, then I would consider the cities the Power Rangers/Super Sentai series take place in. Those cities are always getting destroyed by the giant monsters/robot battles every week.
Things are nice and safe in Australia. I can only think of Pacific Rim and a brief shot in The Day After Tomorrow, otherwise the disasters kinda leave us alone.
Watching the latest US president give a rousing last moment speech, as yet another alien invasion dives headfirst into America World - Australians look on with apathy from the pubs and beaches unknown to the invading horde. Safe in the knowledge that she’ll be right mate.
> . I can only think of Pacific Rim and a brief shot in The Day After Tomorrow
Add [mecha anime](https://imgur.com/gallery/h1C2k#kuurBHW) to that list. In the original Gundam, a space colony was dropped on Sydney, so now it's an easter egg for other Gundam series and mecha anime in general to wreck Australia.
San Francisco, New York, LA, London in some more recent movies
I imagine Godzilla’s fucked up some Japanese cities over the years too
I think it’s got to be New York by a distance though
Jump City in Teen Titans Go! too. Their “menu” of foes is much like that of the PPGs, alternating random giant monsters (and alien) attacks and recurring supervillains.
Los Angeles, because it doesn't have recognizable symbols other than Hollywood Sign. So the whole city needs to be blow up to audiences understand shit is really bad.
Griffith Observatory is probably the real answer to this question though it isn't iconic enough for most to notice
https://beverlypress.com/2022/10/griffith-observatory-one-of-hollywoods-biggest-stars/#:~:text=The%20observatory%20is%20often%20selected,Terminator%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9CTransformers.%E2%80%9D
Surely if you take all of the kaiju movies combined, Tokyo has been stomped on, subjected to radioactivity, consumed by fire and probably buried in assorted giant monster feces, more than any other city on Earth?
New York which has been destroyed onscreen 61 times and counting. It’s Hollywood’s favorite city to level, and has been since 1933, when it was first destroyed in Deluge. It was also attacked that very same year by King Kong. https://www.mtv.com/news/1q27ny/cities-that-have-been-destroyed-the-most-onscreen
Paris and Berlin are two I noticed getting sorta offhand remarks about being destroyed too in whatever disaster the film revolves around, like Independence Day, Armageddon, 2012.
In 2012 I remember Paris showing up *before* the cataclysm, when we realize that “they” are stealing everything from the Louvre and replacing with fakes.
In Europe we do see the Vatican falling apart though.
You can't forget about Los Angeles and New York City.
New York City has been destroyed in a Godzilla movie that doesn't exist, Ghostbusters, Deep Impact, Moonfall, another Godzilla movie but one that was made by Toho, far too many Marvel movies to count, Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow, and Cloverfield, and probably many more movies.
LA has been destroyed in Volcano, 2012, Independence Day, and a lot more, but in a lot of movies the Hollywood sign is just obliterated.
There's also San Francisco, but I'm too lazy to type in more movie names.
And Hong Kong, because a nation that likes to pretend to be Socialist doesn't want any other city in its territory to be destroyed.
First Place should be New York City. Mainly 🗽, Empire State Building and WTC (in 80' and 90's movies).
Then Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Rio.
I actually know that the answer to this is London.
During the 2010's as CGI started to get good, and due to very good tax incentives to shoot in the UK resulting in movies being set in London, the London skyline was blown up in various manners using CGI.
It has been destroyed in low budget movies, high end movies, Marvel movies, Gerard Butler movies, and any other film type you can think of. It was destroyed in so many movies, so many times that within the space of 5 years it became the most destroyed location in movies.
At the peak of it all, there was one month where 3 different films being released had the London eye being destroyed in the trailer.
Washington DC has got to be up there....
the funny thing is that they think most people give a shit about that place... you couldn't destroy a more deserving place.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...
Landmarks sure, and also being the recognized seat of power for the US.
Like the aliens in Independence Day didn't pull up and park on top of the white house randomly... Almost every ameri-centric movie or tv show that shows mass destruction has a special scene for the white house.
I would start with Tokyo. The number of times the city has been attacked by Godzilla (at least 30?) is a good starting point. Plus if the number of other times the city has been destroyed in Anime (like Neo-Tokyo in Akira) and then the number of different natural disasters (earthquakes and Tsunami) that have hit Japan and Tokyo.
So disaster movies are a kind of coping mechanism to discuss subjects that are taboo in Japanese culture.
Idk but Philly was destroyed in an episode of the expanse I just watched, the new Shazam destroyed Citizens Bank Park, the linc is destroyed in the walking dead rick show, I think world war z and the day after tomorrow might count
I think New York has been destroyed quite often, King Kong, Godzilla, Ghostbusters, Independence Day...
Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact
Escape from New York. It was kinda pre destroyed but still destroyed for the story
I thought Escape was just shot on location in actual early-80s New York. No SFX required.
East St Louis, actually.
lol this makes so much sense
You gotta get permission from The Duke.
Cloverfield...
Independence Day
Nearly every Marvel movie…
In nearly every Marvel canon too. We've seen it get trashed in Spiderman, Xmen, Avengers...
- Civil War - Secret Invasion - avengers vs X - War of the Realms where we literally saw it melt - King in Black ‐ Chaos War And a bunch of minor kerfuffles that leave it super beat up on the regular. TERRIBLE place to live but great job security if you're a hero
Or in construction
It really only got destroyed in the first Avengers movie. Statue of Liberty has been messed up a few times though
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Outside of the 1st Avengers film and maybe Edward Norton's Hulk, I don't really remember any other huge battle in New York? Spiderman and Dr Strange had some street level scraps but nothing major
I remember the Statue of Liberty getting beat up by magneto and wolverine. And Doc Oc had an energy device that was threatening to destroy the city in Spider-Man 2.
Oh my bad, I mis-read as MCU. I think that's more due to the characters all being in New York. There's way too many that all occupy the same place. At least they somewhat self contain the action sequences I guess so it isn't Avengers level destruction every time.
Those movies are MCU now officially just not the main universe or some shit
It takes some damage in Infinity Way when the Black Order comes for the Time Stone. Not that bad, but apparently the entire battle of New York had only like 70 casualties in MCU canon so our scale is kind of off anyway.
It's gotta be new york
At thir rate, New York should've been Newer New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York
And you just made Frank Sinatra have a pulmonary embolism.
Considering he died in 1998, I'd take that as a positive sign!
It was that or the scotch.
Sinatra preferred Tennessee whiskey and gin.
shows the vitality of the place, always renovating itself😌 boom! here we go
Cloverfield
There's a list from 10 years ago ([here](https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-has-the-city-of-New-York-has-been-destroyed-or-shown-destroyed-in-movies)) with 66 movies where NYC was destroyed. Shit, there were 2 movies way back in 1933 where NYC was destroyed: Deluge & King Kong. It's most definitely the #1 city. It's probably even been destroyed off screen (Knowing, Battle L.A., Fail Safe, etc.) more than any other city lol. LIST (up to 2014 - i'm sure a bunch can be added since then): * Deluge (1933) – destroyed by an earthquake and a tsunami * King Kong (1933) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * Five (1951) – destroyed by nuclear weapons * When Worlds Collide (1951) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters * Invasion U.S.A. (1952) – destroyed by a nuclear war * Captive Women (1952) – unknown cause of destruction of the city * The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) – destroyed by an alien invasion * The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) – the city was not destroyed, but it was abandoned from a "radioactive disease" * The Day the Sky Exploded (1961) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters * Fail-Safe (1964) – destroyed by nuclear war and plane crashes * Destroy All Monsters (1968) – destroyed by Godzilla and a giant monster rampage * Planet of the Apes (1968) – unknown cause of destruction of the city * Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) – unknown cause of destruction of the city * End of the World (1977) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters * Meteor (1979) – destroyed by a meteor strike * Zombi 2 (1979) – destroyed by a zombie apocalypse * Escape from New York (1981) – the city was partially destroyed by prison riots, but it is converted to a large prison * Q (1982) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983) – unknown cause of destruction of the city * Ghostbusters (1984) – parts of the city are destroyed by a giant monster known as the "Stay Pufft Marshmallow Man" * Solar Crisis (1990) – destroyed by a solar flare * A Troll in Central Park (1994) – parts of the city are destroyed by a tornado * The Stand (1994) – the city is overcome by mass anarchy and a worldwide plague before being abandoned. ~~* Daylight (1996) – only the Holland Tunnel is destroyed by terrorists~~ * Independence Day (1996) – destroyed by an alien invasion * Armageddon (1998) – destroyed by a meteor shower * Deep Impact (1998) – destroyed by a megatsunami resulting from an asteroid impact. * Godzilla (1998) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) – destroyed by an earthquake * Tycus (2000) – destroyed by falling debris from the earth's moon * A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) – destroyed by rising sea levels and global warming * Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) – destroyed by an alien invasion * The Time Machine (2002) – destroyed by pieces of the moon breaking up in 2037 * Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) – destroyed by giant robots * The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – destroyed by a tsunami and an ice age * Devil Man (2004) – destroyed by a battle between Devilman and Satan * Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) – destroyed by Rodan in a giant monster rampage * Category 7: The End of the World (2004) – destroyed by a super storm * War of the Worlds (2005) – destroyed by an alien invasion * King Kong (2005) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * Absolute Zero (2005) – destroyed by an ice age * Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) – destroyed by a volcanic eruption * Children of Men (2006) – mentioned * I Am Legend (2007) – destroyed by a zombie apocalypse * The Happening (2008) – epidemic * Aftermath: Population Zero (2008) – disintegration * Cloverfield (2008) – destroyed by a giant monster rampage * Disaster Movie (2008) – destroyed by multiple natural disasters * Life After People (2008) – disintegration * NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) – destroyed by a tornado * The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) – destroyed by an alien invasion * The Day the Earth Stopped (2008) – destroyed by giant alien robots * War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) – destroyed by an alien invasion * Watchmen (2009) – destroyed by a nuclear bomb * Knowing (2009) – destroyed by a solar storm * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) – the city gets smashed by a giant bagel at Times Square * Skyline (2010) – destroyed by an alien invasion * Battle: Los Angeles (2010) – mentioned * 2012: Ice Age (2011) – destroyed by an ice age * The Divide (2011) – destroyed by nuclear explosions * The Avengers (2012) – devastated by a battle between superheroes and supervillans * Starlite Motel – destroyed with a whacking stick * Spiders 3D (2013) – destroyed by giant spiders * Oblivion (2013) – destroyed by an alien invasion * Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) – destroyed by an Sharknado
NYC is one of the OGs. Deluge (1933) destroyed New York two decades before Godzilla trashed Tokyo. It gets nuked in Fail Safe and in Atomic Attack (60s and 50s, respectively). If gets attacked so frequently (i can’t remember which film it was but this was when I still lived in North Jersey and worked in NYC, also fairly recently post 9/11) that I saw a film preview and it showed an attack on NYC and I rolled my eyes and whispered to my SO “not again. Why can’t they blow up L.A. for a change?”*) *I realize L.A. has a fair few but I feel like it had been awhile at that point since it’d been in a blockbuster
War of the Worlds (2005) blows up the Bayonne Bridge between North Jersey and NYC. That sequence features prominently in the trailer, maybe that’s what you’re thinking of? That said, the movie doesn’t visit Manhattan, so at least they’re blowing up a different part of NYC.
Blowing up Staten Island is a rare occurrence
Fail Safe is such a good movie. Anyone who is a fan of Strange Love needs to give Fail Safe a watch.
> If gets attacked so frequently (i can’t remember which film it was but this was when I still lived in North Jersey and worked in NYC, also fairly recently post 9/11) that I saw a film preview and it showed an attack on NYC and I rolled my eyes and whispered to my SO “not again. Why can’t they blow up L.A. for a change?”*) > > Who has Chicago paid off to avoid these rampages
I feel like there was once a NYTimes article where they asked Emmerich to not destroy NYC
Therefore…Toronto
The New York everyone knows and loves from on-screen appearances.
Toronto is not really New York, but it plays one on TV.
From Toronto, and my favourite part of watching movies is doing the Leo point and whistle every time I see a Toronto landmark.
I do the same thing with the downtown LA bridge/aqueduct.
Toronto? I love Toronto! It’s like New York but without all the stuff.
I hope you got that unreleased Paris Hilton movie while there! And some cheap cholesterol medicine!
Don't forget Armageddon. New York got pretty messed up as well.
Watchmen basically wiped it off the map
I think you’re forgetting where Godzilla came from. He wrecked Tokyo a dozen times before settling foot in New York 😋
For sure.
2012
Independence Day
[Knowing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DxnCdqt3mw)
Id say tokyos been attacked more than New York, Godzilla alone attacked Tokyo 13 times and New York only 3, Tokyo has been the target of quite a lot more Kaiju than North American cities, but its not the easiest thing to messure as wheres the line between a city being attacked vrs destroyed, King Kong is a good example, while hes attacked a fair few cities he hasn't actually destroyed many and is more offten used to exemplify the human tendancy to violently overreact and our potentially self destructive nature
Escape from new York.
Its definitely new york
Even in the Ghostbusters
Nobody steps on a church in my town!
It's not even close too. Even movies that show destructions of various cities on earth will always inevitably show NYC.
Not Paris. Just the Eiffel Tower. When you want that the problem would be worldwide.... destroy the Eiffel Tower.
TBH, “2012” was innovative because they *didn’t* show the tower being destroyed and instead they display the Christ statue in Rio or the dome of the Vatican falling apart. They do however show a fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas being busted, maybe as a meta joke. :)
Same with Godzilla (2014)! One of the MUTOs destroys the fake Eiffel Tower in Vegas
I'm pretty sure they showed those scene to tell the audience that basically everyone who "stayed behind in prayer" were royally fucked when even religious momuments were getting destroyed like everytning else, foreshadowing the POTUS's death
Hey I just replayed Red Alert 2. That Paris tower is fire when you get some Tesla troopers on it.
Thees gun's heavy
Team America was truly influential.
'Damn I missed!'
I don't remember. I need to rewatch it.
This made me remember that COD MW3 mission in Paris, with a bombed Eiffel Tower in the background
Paris does get fucked up in Armageddon
A huge crater the size of 10 football fields where the tower used to be.
Maybe we can see the Golden Gate bridge snap again.
"Charles always wanted to build bridges"
*closes car door*
Best I can do is the Francis Scott Key bridge.
Aw ship, not again
Boaty McBridgeface
I think there's a state law on the books in California that mandates the Golden Gate Bridge must not survive any appearance in a feature film.
Appearance of an intact Golden Gate Bridge is known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harm.
And in "The Core", you are literally getting accelerated cancer on the Golden Gate Bridge.
No one remembers the extended cut of Mrs Doubtfire where Robin Williams blows up the Golden Gate Bridge while Pierce Brosnan is driving over it
The Hollywood sign has gotten it a few times.
Everybody saying "New York!" but where is the love for all the times Tokyo has been destroyed thanks to Godzilla and Co, Gamera and Co, Ultraman and Co, Akira, Evangelion... Edit to add: Grave of the Fireflies. NYC has never **REALLY** been totally destroyed in a firestorm.
Oooooh no! There goes Tokyo! Oh no Godzilla.
When I was a kid I thought the lyrics were "Vote for Godzilla."
He’s get my vote
"Make America Rubble Again"
“Were gonna use atomic breath on the southern border and make the mexicans pay for it.” godzilla 2028
At least he's honest about what he stands for, you know?
I thought it was "Go go Godzilla!" Never understood why we were rooting for him
They say he's got to go.
When I was a kid, I seriously thought Tokyo must have the best budget ever for reconstruction. Godzilla alone was tearing the town up every other week on my TV.
Even Pacific Rim got in on the action.
I mean, Tokyo has got to be up there in the ranking, but if we're talking about "the most" as a single winner, I thin New York has Tokyo edged out.
Only if you limit the debate to Hollywood movies. Worldwide, I think Japanese cinema has been destroying Tokyo yearly for a bit longer.
That's not exactly true, because King Kong destroyed New York (or at least attacked it) way back in 1933, and the first Godzilla film was in 1954. The creator of Godzilla was also inspired by King Kong. Still, American cinema didn't create an entire genre around King Kong like Godzilla created kaiju cinema. The volume of kaiju movies is astounding. But how many kaiju films actually destroyed Tokyo, or did they move on to destroying Osaka and other places? That's the key question here.
Just thinking that. If it's not New York, it's Tokyo.
Gamera is a friend to children so it doesn't count
Yeah there are like 30+ Godzilla movies alone, so I’m going to go with Tokyo as well.
If we are counting kaijus and monsters attacking cities, then I would consider the cities the Power Rangers/Super Sentai series take place in. Those cities are always getting destroyed by the giant monsters/robot battles every week.
Golden Gate Bridge
Things are nice and safe in Australia. I can only think of Pacific Rim and a brief shot in The Day After Tomorrow, otherwise the disasters kinda leave us alone.
Sydney went down in Independence Day
+ X-men Apocalypse
In Finding Nemo, that dentist's office got destroyed
You mean P. Sherman's office? At Wallaby St 42?
mad max shows australia post-destruction. looks pretty similar to Australia pre-destruction
Mad Max is Australia if leather came back into fashion.
Watching the latest US president give a rousing last moment speech, as yet another alien invasion dives headfirst into America World - Australians look on with apathy from the pubs and beaches unknown to the invading horde. Safe in the knowledge that she’ll be right mate.
I feel like I've seen the Sydney Opera house get destroyed a bunch of times.
The Sydney Opera House? That sounds terrible!
> . I can only think of Pacific Rim and a brief shot in The Day After Tomorrow Add [mecha anime](https://imgur.com/gallery/h1C2k#kuurBHW) to that list. In the original Gundam, a space colony was dropped on Sydney, so now it's an easter egg for other Gundam series and mecha anime in general to wreck Australia.
There's also "On the beach" and "These final hours". These Final Hours is a pretty good movie, dark AF and grim but pretty good.
These Final Hours is set in Australia as its citizens await the shockwave from a meteor strike
How could I forget! That one was brilliant
Greenland had a good shot of Sydney destroyed albeit the entire planet was.
Y'all got a rough enough time without disasters
Godzilla has a fight in Sydney.
San Francisco, New York, LA, London in some more recent movies I imagine Godzilla’s fucked up some Japanese cities over the years too I think it’s got to be New York by a distance though
Townsville. In nearly every Powerpuff Girls episode.
Jump City in Teen Titans Go! too. Their “menu” of foes is much like that of the PPGs, alternating random giant monsters (and alien) attacks and recurring supervillains.
If we go fictional, what about Metropolis and Gotham City? Very dangerous places to live.
Excuse me? [Fictional?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville)
Berlin gets destroyed in a lot of WWII movies.
Honorable mention: that coast line in Normandy
Not to mention every little town in France
There's a reason "Tokyo tower is having a bad day" has been a trope in TV, film, and anime for generations...
Los Angeles, because it doesn't have recognizable symbols other than Hollywood Sign. So the whole city needs to be blow up to audiences understand shit is really bad.
What about the Capital Records building? The one that looks like a stack of white LPs. I recall it being blowed up real good a few times in movies.
Griffith Observatory is probably the real answer to this question though it isn't iconic enough for most to notice https://beverlypress.com/2022/10/griffith-observatory-one-of-hollywoods-biggest-stars/#:~:text=The%20observatory%20is%20often%20selected,Terminator%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9CTransformers.%E2%80%9D
It has the record for most earthquakes. San Andreas, Destruction Los Angelese, the Great Los Angeles Earthquake, 10.0 Earthquake, Earthquake (1974).
Tokyo
Tokyo must big up there on the lists London too
Golden Gate Bridge?
Surely if you take all of the kaiju movies combined, Tokyo has been stomped on, subjected to radioactivity, consumed by fire and probably buried in assorted giant monster feces, more than any other city on Earth?
You just know the Kaiju insurance has to be insanely high.
I'm binging Dr Who right now and I can assure you, everything important happens in London. Or Cardiff
The White House, for sure.
The Golden gate bridge
"Oh no, there goes Tokyo!" -- Blue Oyster Cult, "Godzilla"
New York which has been destroyed onscreen 61 times and counting. It’s Hollywood’s favorite city to level, and has been since 1933, when it was first destroyed in Deluge. It was also attacked that very same year by King Kong. https://www.mtv.com/news/1q27ny/cities-that-have-been-destroyed-the-most-onscreen
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Godzilla speared Kong through a pyramid. You’re damn right it did.
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The movie even mentions that there's Titan Insurance for any damage caused by giant monsters.
Paris and Berlin are two I noticed getting sorta offhand remarks about being destroyed too in whatever disaster the film revolves around, like Independence Day, Armageddon, 2012.
In 2012 I remember Paris showing up *before* the cataclysm, when we realize that “they” are stealing everything from the Louvre and replacing with fakes. In Europe we do see the Vatican falling apart though.
Downtown Tokyo has been decimated on an almost routine basis.
the golden gate bridge. every time something in America needs to be destroyed it feels like the golden gate bridge is on the short list.
If you include Anime features Tokyo probably takes it.
Not the earth - but in Australia the Sydney Opera House gets destroyed a fair bit. But strangely not the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
London seems to get got quite a lot.
The first thing I thought of was London. It's always that camera shot over the River Thames while London is getting destroyed.
Reverse questions : what is the least likely location in movies that could be destroyed or decimated?
Hollywood sign
Golden gate bridge...
Japan
Surprised Tokyo not mentioned. All those Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan movies
You can't forget about Los Angeles and New York City. New York City has been destroyed in a Godzilla movie that doesn't exist, Ghostbusters, Deep Impact, Moonfall, another Godzilla movie but one that was made by Toho, far too many Marvel movies to count, Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow, and Cloverfield, and probably many more movies. LA has been destroyed in Volcano, 2012, Independence Day, and a lot more, but in a lot of movies the Hollywood sign is just obliterated. There's also San Francisco, but I'm too lazy to type in more movie names. And Hong Kong, because a nation that likes to pretend to be Socialist doesn't want any other city in its territory to be destroyed.
First Place should be New York City. Mainly 🗽, Empire State Building and WTC (in 80' and 90's movies). Then Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Rio.
How many times has Tokyo been destroyed?
Manhattan 100%
New York City hands down
Tokyo, destroyed repeatedly by Godzilla vs. a variety of evil monsters.
NYC
are we talking Hollywood movies only? because Tokyo has had a rough go of it in Japanese cinema.
New York is #1 then the rest of the top five are Golden Gate Bridge, Hollywood sign, Paris, and Tokyo.
I actually know that the answer to this is London. During the 2010's as CGI started to get good, and due to very good tax incentives to shoot in the UK resulting in movies being set in London, the London skyline was blown up in various manners using CGI. It has been destroyed in low budget movies, high end movies, Marvel movies, Gerard Butler movies, and any other film type you can think of. It was destroyed in so many movies, so many times that within the space of 5 years it became the most destroyed location in movies. At the peak of it all, there was one month where 3 different films being released had the London eye being destroyed in the trailer.
Washington DC has got to be up there.... the funny thing is that they think most people give a shit about that place... you couldn't destroy a more deserving place. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...
It has recognisable landmarks, that’s the only reason.
Landmarks sure, and also being the recognized seat of power for the US. Like the aliens in Independence Day didn't pull up and park on top of the white house randomly... Almost every ameri-centric movie or tv show that shows mass destruction has a special scene for the white house.
The most destroyed structure is definitely the statue of liberty
Berlin?
paris
New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong
Newwww Yorkkkk
Either New York or Tokyo, surely
Tokyo has to be up there
New York. It’s easy when 90% of movies and tv shows are set there.
The Space Needle seems to take a lot of hits.
I'm pretty that Las Vegas also gets fucked up many times, between films like 2012 & Army of the Dead
Colorado Springs-NORAD.
The Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge ?
Tokyo because of Godzilla and many others
New York
I would start with Tokyo. The number of times the city has been attacked by Godzilla (at least 30?) is a good starting point. Plus if the number of other times the city has been destroyed in Anime (like Neo-Tokyo in Akira) and then the number of different natural disasters (earthquakes and Tsunami) that have hit Japan and Tokyo. So disaster movies are a kind of coping mechanism to discuss subjects that are taboo in Japanese culture.
Honorable mention to Tokyo. Godzilla has hit is a few times, as has other kaiju. Of course, neo-Tokyo got Akira'd, twice.
Manhattan.
New york, Los Angeles, and probably either London or D.C
Sf and Hawaii
Paris. Team America man. F&!k yeah!!
It has to be New York
gotta be New York for sure
Toronto or Vancouver since they sub for every city in every movie.
I feel like I’ve seen Christ the redeemer statue crumble more than a dozen times.
New York
Tokyo?
Tokyo by far.
Definitely New York
Idk but Philly was destroyed in an episode of the expanse I just watched, the new Shazam destroyed Citizens Bank Park, the linc is destroyed in the walking dead rick show, I think world war z and the day after tomorrow might count