// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did annihilation say to its date? You're wiped out.

Annihilation, in physics, is an effect that occurs when a particle collides with an antiparticle.

Annihilation may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Annihilation (comics), a Marvel Comics 2006 event featuring several cosmic characters
  • Annihilation: Conquest, a 2007 series featuring similar themes and marketed as a sequel of the above comic book series

Literature

• Annihilation (Forgotten Realms novel), a 2004 novel by Philip Athans set in the Forgotten Realms universe
• Annihilation (VanderMeer novel), a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer and the first entry in the Southern Reach Trilogy
• Annihilation (Houellebecq novel), a 2022 novel by Michel Houellebecq

Films

• Annihilation (film), a 2018 film based on VanderMeer's novel
• Mortal Kombat Annihilation, the sequel to Mortal Kombat

Games

• Annihilation, a map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops

Music

• Annihilation (album), 2001 Rebaelliun album
• "Annihilate" (song), a 2023 song by Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne and Offset
• "Annihilation", a song from the album Dehumanization by Crucifix

Law

• Family annihilation, the act of killing everyone in a family.

Logic and mathematics

• Annihilation, an operation in classical logic
• Creation and annihilation operators, mathematical operators utilized in the field of quantum mechanics

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Annihilation
• All pages with titles containing Annihilation
• "Annihilated", an episode from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8)
• Annihilating element
• Annihilationism, a minority Christian doctrine that the unsaved cease to exist rather than suffering conscious eternal torment in Hell
• Annihilator (disambiguation)