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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."''|[[The Bible
There's a group of people held up in a building or house somewhere partying, shopping, or just minding their own business, when all of a sudden, there's some random injured and bloody
A side note for authors to avoid a [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] situation, there are only two "r"s in harbinger. "Harbringer" is not a word.
Subtrope of [[Herald]]. Compare [[Vagueness Is Coming]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* In the "Zodd The Immortal" episode of ''[[Berserk]]'', a badly wounded Hawk Raider escapes the castle and only has enough time to choke out the name of the demon in question before dying, prompting Guts to enter the castle and take him on alone.
** In the manga
* In Nico Robin's backstory from ''[[One Piece]]'', she is finally reunited with her mother after a traumatic childhood raised by abusive relatives. However, her mother is on the run from the Marines for the dangerous knowledge she, and her entire civilization possesses. Guess who followed her...
* Kotaro's return in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
* In episode 19 of ''[[Heroman]]'', the government scientist who shows up just minutes ahead of the {{spoiler|tentacle monster}}.
== Comic Books ==
* This is the whole gimmick of Pariah, from [[DC Comics]].
== Comics ==▼
** Amusingly, the Monitor's assistant, Harbinger (also first appearing during the Crisis) ''wasn't'' one - at least, not in comparison with Pariah.
▲* Pariah from [[DC Comics]] whole gimmick is this. His main trick is popping up, stating "I'm Pariah and I'm doomed to go from world to world to see them get destroyed!", ad nauseum.
* This was also the [[Silver Surfer]]'s gig. Depending on which version, he'd either go around picking out likely worlds for Galactus to devour, or show up to alert said worlds that Galactus was on his way. Or both.
== Film ==
* In the remake of ''[[
* Vincenzo Natali's short film ''Elevated'' had a guy come into an elevator screaming about a monster that killed everyone on his floor, and tells them they need to get out of the building.
* ''[[Assault
* Played mostly straight in the film ''[[Feast]]'' when a man, soon followed by his wife, stumbles into a bar in the desert carrying the severed head of a monster they had hit with their car and informing the patrons that there are more of them outside. And proclaims "A storm of hell is coming down on this place any second..."When asked who he is he proclaims, "I'm the man who's gonna save your ass." {{spoiler|He is then promptly killed and yanked out a window by another of the monsters}}
* The film ''[[Tales
* Arguably, ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''. The last not-a-pod-person in a small town gets to the city going on about the invasion, trying to get people to act. He gets locked up right around the time that we hear about a truck with these great big pods that somebody found on the highway...
* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[The Killer]]'' had this as the prelude to the [[Bloodstained
* ''[[The Invisible Man (
* The plot of ''[[Legion]]'' appears to {{spoiler|put a spin on this with the archangel Michael arriving at a diner shortly before an army of angels from ''Heaven'' come to assault the survivors of the Apocalypse. Started by God.}}
** Although the above spoiler sounds stupid, the movie is much worse than that.
*** Oh, [[Narm Charm|but]] [[Ho Yay|delightfully]] [[So Bad
* ''[[
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* "There's something in ''[[The Mist]]'' and it took John Lee." The panicked man is too busy making a [[Title Drop]] to mind his profusely bleeding nose.
* In ''[[
* The western film, ''[[Pale Rider]]'' uses the page quote as part of its narration. A subplot of the movie is whether or not the pale rider is actually a live person or a walking dead man who has come to exact his vengeance.
* In ''[[
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'', the shot and badly wounded Captain Jacobi manages to stumble into Sam Spade's office and press the eponymous [[MacGuffin]] into Sam's hands before expiring on the office floor. Trouble quickly follows.
* Lampshaded in ''Far North'', by Marcel Theroux. A ragged, starved woman drags herself into the extremely isolated frontier town and dies in front of the grocery store. [[The Sheriff|Makepeace]] reflects that they should have known she wouldn't be the last.
* From ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'' introduced Door this way. Richard thinks, "Oh, a bleeding and wounded girl; I'd better help her." His [[Rich Bitch|girlfriend]] thinks, "I'm going to be late for my meeting and she's probably drunk."
== Video Games ==
* In the opening cinematic for the original ''Descent: [[Free Space]]'' game, the sole survivor of a patrol wing arrives outside a space station and starts screaming about 'death black' ships coming after him. Before he can calm down, the Shivans have already arrived. In the sequel, the sole survivor of Kappa wing, which disappeared [[Brick Joke|a dozen or so missions earlier]], shouts down the radio, warning to get out of the nebula. He's destroyed shortly thereafter, and the threat to which he refers is made plain some sorties later.
* In ''[[Prey]]'', a ''Coast to Coast AM'' listener calls Art Bell and frantically tries to explain the proof he collected about regular alien abductions since 1995. Before he can calm down, the aliens abduct him.
* This occurs twice in [[
▲== Web Comics ==
* In the slasher parody "KITTEN II" in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', a dying soldier staggers into a building and warns the people inside about the monsters after him. Not many seconds after that all but one of them have been slaughtered by a, uh, kitten.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227133240/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib070.html their watches all announce, and Mac arrives with news, that the town in under attack.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820082249/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib071.html Dara and Caspian lead the charge to find out what it is,] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025070218/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib072.html it's bad], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130608165730/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib073.html fortunately Dara can] [[You Are in Command Now|take command]].
== Western Animation ==
* More of a Heck's Comin' With Me: on ''[[
* This is pretty much the entire plot of the short film ''The Chubbchubbs''.
* This is the plot of ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'': Aidan of Iona shows up with the [[I
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