Future Badass: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': In the Season 5 episode "The End," which is one giant homage to ''[[28 Days Later]]'' (though also a great episode in its own right), {{spoiler|Dean has become even ''more'' badass and left all of his [[Woobie]]-ness behind (and he's highly reminiscent of Major Henry West, [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s character in 28DL), and Sam is possessed by [[Big Bad|Lucifer]]}}. Slightly inverted in that Castiel {{spoiler|has become a relaxed, stoned hippie/love guru}}, but even that is {{spoiler|just a cover for his transformation into a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]}}.

* An interesting twist on this in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', the episode Moebius. Although it was really an alternate timeline, when the DifferentTimeline!SG-1 encounters RegularTimeline!Daniel, it's implied that they see him sort of as a [[Future Badass]], since in their world, SG-1 had never existed and Daniel was somewhat of a wimp. But for the audience, that's Daniel as we know him, so we're not surprised.

'''Original Daniel''': Why???? }}

* A less extreme example to be sure, but Sun, of [[Lost]], in the {{spoiler|flashforwards}} is shown to essentially perform a stock market based hostile takeover of her father's company before he can ''blink''.

* In [[Misfits]], Superhoodie, who has been helping out the heroes, is revealed to be {{spoiler|Simon}}.

* Inverted in the [[Distant Finale]] of [[Dollhouse]]. We follow [[Badass]] [[Action Survivor|Action Survivors]] Zone and Mag through two episodes of apocalyptic madness, during which they survive all kinds of crazy madness, only to finally decide to part ways after their side has finally won. The two of them, having until then been too busy surviving to dwell on the past, decide to tell each other what they where doing before the end.

'''Zone:''' [raises an eyebrow and swaggers off] ''People are such a mystery!'' }}

 

*** Although, like many of the examples on this page, [[Canon Discontinuity|it never comes to happen]] according to ''Alien Force''.

*** Actually, thanks to another step into the future, we find out from Professor Paradox that that was actually an ''alternate'' future, which still exists. It's just not the one Ultimate Alien Ben is going to become. Instead, the new future is looking to be ''incredibly'' Badass.

'''Ultimate Ben 10,000:''' "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|From the]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Outside.]]''" }}

* An episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' ended with a guardian who had just spared Jack's life looking into a time portal, seeing [http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g314/Elijah_Baley/SamuraiJack.jpg Jack's future self] and saying "Not yet Samurai. Not yet." Make note that Jack is already a Badass dwelling in the future. Alas the image never came to fruition, as the series was cancelled.

* Like the ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' example above, the Timeline-based ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' TV movie has several Future Badasses. The biggest is [[Psycho for Hire|Dark Danny]], who is now the most powerful ghost on the planet or as Sam puts it "...okay, you're ''really'' a [[Understatement|jerk]]." Well, that is certainly a mild way to put it-he becomes a rampaging [[Psycho for Hire|Sociopath]] who kills people and destroys things [[For the Evulz|apparently just for kicks]]. The episode in which Danny sees what he [[Bad Future|would become]] and is [[Future Me Scares Me|extremely horrified]] is one of the darkest, yet most highly acclaimed episodes of the series.

** ''[[Harmless Villain|The Box Ghost]]'', who can now generate powerful boxes of energy to throw at people.

* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', with Irwin being the leader of [[La Résistance]] after Mandy takes over the world and is a ripped mercenary, too. Hilariously, he still has his teetering-on-the-edge-of-puberty voice.

** The ''Bleedman'' fan-comic beautifully applies this trope to Mandy(not that she really needed to be anymore bad-ass).

* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', when Coop visits an alternate future he's become an evil overlord, lost his gut and become ripped, Kiva is his emotionless cybernetic [[The Dragon|lieutenant]], and Jamie is a [[Badass]] leader of [[La Résistance]].

* ''[[Superjail]]'' has an interesting varition of this trope. After being apprehended by the Time Police, the Warden is shown a Bad Future where the Earth becomes a barren, bloodsoaked wasteland that has been enslaved by a vicious, cold-blooded dictator. Who is this dictator? ''The Warden himself''. Present-Day Warden doesn't seem to mind, though.

* ''[[Kids Next Door|Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' featured future badass Numbuh 4 in a two-part episode that had a time traveling villainess succeed in committing wholesale [[Gendercide]] and [[Bad Future|conquering the world]]. The second half of the story picks up several decades later: former [[Boisterous Bruiser]] Numbuh 4 is now a grim, battle-hardened old man leading the [[La Résistance|Boys Next Door]], while using a custom mecha/wheelchair to get around.

* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Ninja Turtles]]' [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003 incarnation]] gets a [[Bad Future]] episode - "Same as it Never Was." Donatello is sent 30+ years into the future to find that without him, the Turtles fell apart as a team, Splinter was killed [[Taking the Bullet|saving his remaining sons]], and [[Evil Overlord|Shredder]] not only took over the world but is poised to [[Endofthe World As We Know It|take over the universe]].