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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Hellstar Remina]]'' has a planet that is about to crash into Earth. Cue the cults, the panic, and an angry mob going after a girl who serves as the inspiration for the planet's name. That's not even going into the revelation of how bad the destruction is going to be.
* ''[[The World Is Overflowing with Monster, I’m Taking a Liking to This Life]]'' is set in a world devastated by monsters. There’s no access to electricity and other modern conveniences. People can use [[RPG Mechanics Verse|an RPG-like system]] that gives them skills, jobs, and increased stats but animals and monsters also utilize this system.
* ''[[JK Musou - Owaru Sekai no Sukuikata]]'' has monsters rampage globally, leading to societal decline. People called 'Players' can use skills and magic [[RPG Mechanics Verse|like in a role-playing game]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Batman: No Man's Land]]'' shows what happens if a great earthquake were to render Gotham City unlivable. Bruce Wayne tries his best to ask Congress for city repair funds because even ''he'' is not wealthy enough to save Gotham in that way. Congress instead decides, thanks to some backhand deals, to blow up the bridges connecting Gotham to the mainland after a window of evacuation. Most people ''can't'' leave because they can't afford it, and soon the city is divided among the villains as GCPD and Batman try to take back their home. It says something that Poison Ivy is the only one concerned about the children in her corner, taking them in and protecting them.
* The "Black as Night" arc in DC Comics shows what happens when previously dead heroes rise as zombies. While it brought back some beloved characters, it messed up others, like Jericho from ''[[Teen Titans]]'' who completed his [[Face Heel Turn]] when restored to life. In any case, the undead walk.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Wizards]]'': The Earth has been wrecekd by a nuclear war which caused raodiactive clouds to block out the sun for 2 million years. The humans that survived the apocalypse transformed into fairies, elves, dwarves, and mutants. Magic follows with this transformation through two twins but one is good and the other evil.
* The animated movie ''[[Nine]]'' shows that machines took over and wiped out humanity. Nine, a sentient robot ragdoll with no memory, finds out that the only way to stop the machine and save his new friends is to remove the core he accidentally added.
* ''[[Raya and the Last Dragon]]'': the Dragon Gem shattering led to the Droon overtaking the land where most of it has been transformed into a desert and can turn people into statues if they can’t find shelter or a body of water for protection.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[System Apocalypse]]'' causes various creatures such as monsters and aliens, to appear on Earth. This causes modern technology to stop functioning. However, the System helps by acting like an RPG for people. If preconditions are met, it also provides other services such as constructing buildings, providing food, water, electricity, etc.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The Last Guardian]]'' has villages regularly raided for children by flying beasts, to the point where even seeing one invites panic. We learn that's how the boy met Trico, as {{spoiler|while brainwashed, Trico swallowed him. It took a lightning bolt to his horn to snap Trico out of it, and bond with the boy}}.
* ''[[Undertale]]'' has this, only with a twist if you do the No Mercy route: instead of a strange monster plaguing a group of humans and disrupting society, it's a ''human'' traveling and disrupting society by killing monsters. Alphys evacuates any survivors, reluctantly leaving Undyne and Mettaton behind as they prepare to hold off the human.
* The backstory of the ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' series is predicated on this trope, when all technology ceased to function in the year 2000. Society eventually rebuilt afterward thanks to the emergence of [[Magitek|magic that became the basis of most technology in some form]], though some holdouts to the original old-world tech [[Start My Own|would form their own society]]. The games themselves explore the post-recovery world and fill in the blanks on how the world developed after the initial apocalypse.
* In the episode "The Console" from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', a [[Game Boy|Game Child]] temporarily turns the entire town into a [[JRPG]]. Gumball, Darwin, and Anais form a party to turn the city back to normal.
* In ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'', the Earth’s climate and geography have been drastically changed due to a meteor passing its orbit. This led to magic, savagery, and [[Weird Science]] appearing on Earth, resulting in chaos worldwide.
* ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' has this happen during Weirdmageddon. Bill Cipher {{spoiler|opens the rift to his dimension and brings all his friends, stopping time and sending Eye Bats to hunt down humans. After three days of this, society has completely broken down to the point where Wendy is shooting bats for meat and uses dollar bills to wipe the sweat off her brow}}.
* Similarly, ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'' shows the aftermath of {{spoiler|Andrias reclaiming the Calamity Box}} in season 3, and sending robot armies after the resistance in Wartwood, while rounding up citizens to put in labor camps. {{spoiler|Sasha hides the Wartwood citizens in the Plantars' underground bunker, which has enough space for several villages, and they have to go on regular raids to get enough food supplies}}.
* In the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode "Future Tense", Goliath ends up in a bad future where his clan has broken, along with society, while trying to return to Manhattan. Elisa and Angela are also with him, as they see that Xanatos in this timeline has successfully waged war against the Gargoyles while naming himself sovereign and has killed Hudson. {{spoiler|Turns out it was an illusion made by Puck, in an attempt to take back the Phoenix Gate and use it to bribe his way back into Oberon's good wishes. A wounded Goliath figures it out when Elisa demands the Phoenix Gate to fix the past and for Goliath to hand it to her, rather than taking it from the ground where it fell from his pouch; he knows Elisa is not that forceful. Goliath resists, the illusion breaks, and the ''real'' Elisa begs Goliath to wake up from his nightmare. He uses the Phoenix Gate's power to make sure it's lost in the timestream forever and tells Elisa that while what he saw was a nightmare, they need to make sure it never comes true in their Manhattan}}.
== Other Media ==
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