You really stayed through all that?
NYC Disasters
Read the fine print before fleeing.
This is a sourced, expanding archive of fictional NYC threats, not a claim to have indexed all fiction. It now covers movies, live-action and animated TV, comics, video games, novels, and music. Source review: October 2, 2026. Spoilers throughout.
What qualifies: a depicted NYC disaster, dangerous outbreak, occupation, widespread supernatural attack, or credible mass-casualty threat centered on the city. A localized catastrophe can count for its affected area. This is a playful “reason to leave or shelter” total, not a count of official evacuation orders or guaranteed opportunities to escape. We exclude ordinary isolated crimes, real historical tragedies, and attacks on fictional cities such as Gotham or Metropolis unless NYC itself is implicated.
One crisis, one entry: continuous invasions, outbreaks, and crossovers count once within an adaptation, even across issues, seasons, tie-ins, and flashbacks. Separate remakes or adaptations count separately. We do not count every villain fight or every episode as an evacuation. For a work containing several threats, the current entry groups its connected main crisis.
Dates: movie/game release year, TV episode or crisis-arc debut year, book publication year, and song or music-video release year. Comics use the cited issue/event year; cover dates and on-sale dates sometimes differ. A multiyear event is placed at its beginning, with its span noted. These are not in-universe dates. Your move-in year is inclusive; the calculator imagines the listed stories arriving in publication order.
Scenario labels: “Occurred” means the harmful incident happens, even if heroes stop further damage. “Averted” means the central mass-casualty threat is prevented. “Alternate / future” flags a specifically alternate or future scenario. “Aftermath” means the work primarily presents an already-ruined or transformed city. Every story is fictional; “Occurred” does not mean real-world history. Remakes, alternate universes, and future New New York are clearly identified.
Borough estimates: “All of NYC” shows all qualifying records. Borough selections include citywide threats plus localized incidents assigned to that borough. These are editorial exposure estimates, not canonical impact maps. They may include credible threatened exposure, not just damage shown on screen. No match does not mean a borough is safe.
Each record has a story or plot source. Movie totals include feature-length television and streaming films; TV covers episodes, specials, and miniseries. Games count story crises, not individual player deaths; books count the novel, not each edition. Music counts a song or music-video crisis when its lyrics or video explicitly establish a threat to NYC. Generic end-of-the-world imagery and album art alone do not qualify. Covers and live performances of the same story do not add incidents. Listening links go to official audio or videos. Other chaos groups war, infrastructure, dystopia, machines, and reality crises. Names, incident summaries, and source links are research; survival tips are jokes.