title: Cataclysm
text: # Cataclysm
  
  Cataclysm is derived from the Greek katá (κατά), 'down, against', and klyzō (κλύζω), 'wash over, surge'. It may refer to:
  
  ## Common meanings
  
  * Generally, any large-scale disaster
  * Deluge (mythology)
  * Doomsday event, see hypothetical risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth
  * A catastrophic natural event:
     * List of geological phenomena
     * earthquake, the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
     * volcanic eruption
  
  ## Video games
  
  * World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, an expansion pack of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft
  * Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, an open-source cross-platform roguelike video game
  * Homeworld: Cataclysm, a stand-alone expansion, of the Homeworld space-based RTS franchise
  
  ## Books and comics
  
  * Cataclysm (Dragonlance), a fictional event in the Dragonlance novels
  * Batman: Cataclysm, a DC Comics crossover story arc featuring Batman
  * Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand a 2013-2014 crossover storyline appearing in the Ultimate Marvel line of books
  * Godzilla: Cataclysm - see Godzilla (comics)#IDW Publishing
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * A special ability used by Cat Noir, a character in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
  * "Cataclysmic", a song by Joe Satriani from his album Shockwave Supernova
  