Doomy Dooms of Doom: Difference between revisions

 

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* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', the marching song of the Chaos Legion is the [[Star Wars|Imperial March]] with words. The words are all "doom".

* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|The Doom Satellite]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''.

 

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* Used frequently by Slartibartfast in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Life, the Universe and Everything]]'' when describing the Krikkiters. On one occasion, it was an entire sentence.

* Aunt Ada Doom in ''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]'' by Stella Gibbons, "There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm." [[The Parody]] of [[Gothic Horror]].

{{quote|And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.}}

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'': the Pit of Doom, underneath Shayol Ghul, a mountain. This is where the barrier that separates [[The Devil|The Dark One]] from the world is at its thinnest.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', repeated references are made to the Doom of Valyria. It's not clear what exactly this was, except that it was very hard on Valyria. Euron Crow's Eye claims to have "seen the Doom," so whatever-it-was may still be going on (although Euron shows every sign of being an inveterate liar). Given that Valyria seems to be the birthplace of the dragons, along with various references to smoke, fire, and poison, fans have speculated that the Doom was actually the eruption of one or more very large volcanoes.

* ''A Malady of Magicks'' and it two sequels have Hendreck, the heavy axeman wielding a Club Of Doom. Either because of this or simply as a predisposition to the word, he is constantly saying "DOOM", "Doomed", and "of Doom!" (And, memorable, "Doom doom de-doom doom.")

* The resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]] of ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' once gave the line "I hate to be a doomsayer, but, uh,... DOOM! Doom, doom, doom."

* Z'ha'dum, the planet of the bad guys (the shadows) in ''[[Babylon 5]]''. How is it pronounced? "Za-ha-DOOM", of course.

* The "of Death" variant, like so many tropes is [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Eureka]]'':

{{quote|'''[[Genre Savvy|Carter]]:''' It's a ''ray'' that causes immediate ''death''! Why can't you just call it a [[Death Ray]]?}}

** ''Munchkin Cthulhu'' has a card whose name is already the Sushi Knife of Doom. In a blender game, it could possibly become the Sushi Knife of Doom OF DOOM.

** Continuing with this trend, the [[Recycled in Space|in space]] version of this game has combinable gun cards, leading up to a "Bananafanafofaser Bobaser Dazer Maser Shmaser Raser... of DOOM", which actually would follow through with the 'of doom'ing as it would be insanely powerful.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' also features Doom a lot, even more so in the TCG version where "Death" tends to get replaced with "Doom".

* The ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series and extended universe give us the [[Big Badass Wolf|Doomwolves]], [[Artifact of Doom|Doomstones]], the Doomlands of Naaros in Southern Magnamund, and Book 4 is titled ''The Chasm of Doom'' (guest star: Barraka the Doomslayer).

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has a summonable demonic [[Cool Train]] called the Doomtrain.

** There is also a [[Useless Useful Spell]] common throughout the series called simply "Doom".

* For some reason "''Nintendo'' is always doomed!", even while it's having 60% market share of total video game sales...

* ''[[BlazBlue]]'' has the character Mu-12, whose [[Leitmotif]] is titled "Sword of Doom".

 

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