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* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', "Five Years Gone," after New York was blown up, and Sylar takes over the country. And then ''again,'' with the Shanti virus having wiped out most of humanity. Season Three ''starts off'' apparently averting one Bad Future and creating a new one. Though the series seems to be moving toward that future ''anyway'' - [[Prophecy Twist|just by a different route]]. [[Super Registration Act]] - done. Nathan "betraying his kind" - done. Sylar posing as Nathan - done. And with Daphne dead and Hiro [[Brought Down to Normal]], nobody can [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] ''this'' time. {{spoiler|As of Season 4 the registration act is gone, Hiro is getting better (his powers are anyway), and it's getting more and more likely that Matt is going to change Sylar back.}}

* ''[[Double the Fist]]'' shows us one in the second to last episode where Steve has taken over the world and punishes people for being weak (which entails such things as reading and being comfortable) and uses Womp as the symbol of Weakness. Subverted in that this future apparently comes to be, and that within the context of the show, this is a good thing.

* The [[Flash Forward]]s on ''[[Lost]]'' are fairly dystopian, with characters hallucinating (maybe), trying to commit suicide, being killed, and going crazy. Unfortunately for them, all of the flashforwards have now happened in the present, making this Bad Future the canonical bad past in the show's current present time.

* While it isn't quite a traditional Bad Future ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth," the second appearance of the Daleks in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', has just about all of the standard features of one. It showed a 22nd century Earth ruled by Daleks. This has gotten enshrined in the [[Whoniverse]] as ''the'' future, but the later "Day of the Daleks" showed ''another'' 22nd century dominated by Daleks, which did get undone. (The "Day of the Daleks" future happened following a nuclear war in the 20th century.)

** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog CD]]'' uses a system of [[Time Travel]] that sends Sonic into the Past or Future. Bad Future (The [[Trope Namer]]) is the result of completing a level without fixing Robotnik's screwing with the past, which results in a dystopia with broken and rusted machinery everywhere. [[Inverted Trope|Good Future]] is a result of Sonic foiling Robotnik's plans and ends up with advances in technology and nature existing in harmony.

** The sequel to ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]'' may end up this way as well.

** In ''[[Sonic Rivals]] 2'', Silver travels back in time to stop the fiery monster Ifrit from destroying the world.

* ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Alpha Gaiden'' was almost entirely this: the heroes got sent to the far future where things were a bit messed up.

** ''Reversal,'' on the other hand, ''starts'' you in the Bad Future, then later takes the hero/heroine back to the past to change it.

* In ''[[Second Sight (video game)|Second Sight]]'', {{spoiler|1=John Vattic's adventures in the present are eventually revealed to be premonitions of a future where the mission to Dubrensk went horribly wrong; the Zener Children have been horribly murdered, Jayne Wilde has been committed to an asylum, Colonel Stark and the WinterICE team have been disgraced, and John's been confined to the Osiris Research facility. Plus, with the tissue samples taken from both the Children and John, many units of psychic soldiers are in production...}}

* [[Big Bad|Ultimecia]]'s [[Villain World|time period]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. Possibly. The [[Stable Time Loop]] means that the future Ultimecia comes from is guaranteed to happen - but just ''how'' bad a future it's going to be is the subject of some debate, since the player only sees Ultimecia's castle and its immediate surroundings, and [[Badass Army|SeeD]] is evidently right on her doorstep.

* [[Space Quest]] Twelve as depicted in ''[[Space Quest]] IV''. Vohaul's taken over Xenon's [[Master Computer]]. Killer droids patrol the abandoned streets. any living being is taken and [[And I Must Scream|given a lobotomy, then fitted with a contraption that permanently holds their eyelids open]]. Roger's [[Kid From the Future]] is a battle-hardened veteran of [[La Résistance]], and implies that Roger (and Beatrice) do not live to see him grow up. Worse, Roger is sent back to his own timeline, and can ''remember'' what he saw, [[Stable Time Loop|but has no way to prevent it.]] Um...[[Sierra]]? Was this ''supposed'' to be a comedy?

* The ''[[EverQuest]]: Seeds of Destruction'' expansion pack deals with this. The players are sent through the Plane of Time to a period where Norrath had been destroyed by the Legion of Mata Muram- creatures born of sheer chaos. The Gods have been killed, the moons of Luclin and Drinal both destroyed with Norrath, and the sun is about to go nova. The only remaining living creatures are a single tree and Zebuxoruk, the God of Knowledge. He explains that it's the adventurer's responsibility- and the future's only hope- to restore Norrath by traveling back to certain points in time to make sure that history does not deviate from how it originally played out.

* ''[[Futurama]]'' is generally a subversion, with some aspects being bad and some being good, much like the present. However, in an episode featuring a time machine that can only go forward, the characters visit a Bad Future in which robots are destroying all of humanity.

** Bender, however, thought it was an excellent future. Did you see the view from the [[Nothing but Skulls|mountain of skulls]]?

** There was also the tv movie Channel Chasers which featured one ruled by Vicky.

* ''[[Argai the Prophecy]]'' has Queen Dark ruling over 2075.