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{{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 (Literature)|Revelation 6:7-8]]}}

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 guy/girl who [[Bring News Back|shows]] up giving [[Bearer of Bad News|an ominous message]] that someone/something's trying to kill them, and that it's following them. Sometimes the bloody stranger [[Almost Dead Guy|dies before they can be specific about the threat]]. Thus the group of friends/family starts to argue and debate among themselves about what he or she could have been running from. And of course, the threat eventually shows up...

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 guy/girl who [[Bring News Back|shows]] up giving [[Bearer of Bad News|an ominous message]] that someone/something's trying to kill them, and that it's following them. Sometimes the bloody stranger [[Almost-Dead Guy|dies before they can be specific about the threat]]. Thus the group of friends/family starts to argue and debate among themselves about what he or she could have been running from. And of course, the threat eventually shows up...

Can also involve when said threat doesn't even leave time for the heroes to debate what they are up against and attacks immediately resulting in a [[Surprisingly Sudden Death]].

Can also involve when said threat doesn't even leave time for the heroes to debate what they are up against and attacks immediately resulting in a [[Surprisingly-Sudden Death]].

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.

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* The film ''[[Tales From the Crypt]]: [[Demon Knight]]'' has a man being tracked by a demon making his way to a small inn a nowhere town. Hell is literally coming with him.

* 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 Glass Windows|big church shootout]] that would end the movie. {{spoiler|Sidney returns to the church with Ah Jong's money, and he's all bloody because he [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|got the living shit kicked out of him]] by Johnny and his men, who followed Sidney to the church following his escape, and when he gets shot, he has to ask Ah Jong to finish him because he didn't save his last bullet for himself and doesn't want to die like a dog. Then all hell breaks loose}}.

* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[The Killer]]'' had this as the prelude to the [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows|big church shootout]] that would end the movie. {{spoiler|Sidney returns to the church with Ah Jong's money, and he's all bloody because he [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|got the living shit kicked out of him]] by Johnny and his men, who followed Sidney to the church following his escape, and when he gets shot, he has to ask Ah Jong to finish him because he didn't save his last bullet for himself and doesn't want to die like a dog. Then all hell breaks loose}}.

* ''[[The Invisible Man (Film)|The Invisible Man]]'' has a disturbing moment where someone that Dr. Griffin has tried to utilize runs screaming into a small town: ''"The invisible man is coming!"''

* 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.}}

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