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** You'd think she'd be okay with it, {{spoiler|since it's 1,000 years in her future}}.
* {{spoiler|Leder}}'s incredibly long [[Info Dump]] in ''[[Mother 3]]'', which {{spoiler|storyboards both the previous apocalypse and the forthcoming extra bad apocalypse.}}
** The story of [[
* Alexandra Roivas receives a vision of the potential apocalypse in ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem'' caused by the Ancient {{spoiler|she has unleashed to defeat Pious's Ancient}}.
* [[Subverted Trope|Noticeably missing]] in ''[[Drakengard]]''. Everyone loves to [[Infallible Babble|talk about it]], but no one seems to know precisely what will happen. The hierarch Verdelet flip-flops from thinking the Seeds of Resurrection will cause [[The End of the World as We Know It|untold catastrophe]] to thinking it involves [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascending to a higher reality]]. And the [[Big Bad]] has more important things to worry about, [[Cloudcuckoolander|like dancing]].
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* In ''[[Star Craft 2]]: Wings of Liberty,'' an embittered Jim Raynor is dead-set on killing the zerg-infested Kerrigan. Then Zeratul appears and shows him a (playable) vision of what will happen if Kerrigan dies. It isn't pretty.
* In a trailer for the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' content patch: ''Rage of The Firelands'', Thrall is begging the elemental spirits for guidance... when one answers. [[Nature Spirit|Ragnaros]] rises from the Maelstrom and brings Thrall on a ride to the end of the world, culminating in [[Capital City|Ogrimmar]] being destroyed by a sea of fire, which is about to engulf Thrall himself. Thrall [[Big No|screams as loud as he can]] before being interrupted by Aggra, realizing that the events he witnessed were a vision of what is to come if Ragnaros is not stopped.
* The ending of ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'', true to its title, reveals the full scope of the plot of [[Precursors|Those Who Came Before]] to save the Earth from the second coming of the same catastrophe that destroyed their First Civilization. The scene where this is communicated has a FMV sequence showing in [[Scenery Gorn|lavish detail]] just exactly how that first catastrophe happened.
* The intro sequences of ''[[Fallout]]'' games.
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{{quote|'''Seanbaby''': Darkseid goes all out. A lot of villains tell everyone about their plan, but Darkseid filmed an elaborate dramatization of it. Look at those special effects. He didn't just have a computer rendered picture of what his battle station will look like, he got actors to run around on an airfield while planes were getting vaporized.}}
* A tongue-in-cheek Storyboarding appears in the first episode of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', "The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It", showing the fate of the world's frozen-food industry at stake due to a monstrous mutated TV dinner.
{{quote|'''Max:''' [[Tell Me Again|Tell me, Sam,]] ''why the heck are we doing this, again?!''
'''Sam:''' It's simple, Max. If this so-called "Thing" could somehow find its way into our world, devouring unsuspecting citizens who have no natural fear of frozen entrees, they would surely cause a nationwide mistrust of pre-manufactured foods of all kinds, forcing producers of salty, overcooked, man-sized portions to go bankrupt! To safeguard American businesses, Max! ''That's'' why the heck we're doing this! }}
* In the Rankin Bass production of ''[[The Return of the King (animation)|The Return of the King]]'', Samwise becomes the bearer of the One Ring, which tries to corrupt him with a vision of a world in which he has become all powerful. Of course, it being Samwise, this vision involves innocuous things like turning all of the orcs into cute animals and the entire world into a flower garden. Samwise realizes how silly the idea of him being an Evil Overlord would be and is able to resist the allure of the Ring.
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* When the kids on ''Ben 10: Alien Force'' first meet Paradox (from their P.O.V. anyway), he shows them what the future will be like if a time-distorting entity isn't stopped. He does this by taking them to the Moon of the future and letting them look at the long-dead Earth from there ... and then warning them that it's their ''best'' possible future. Brief, but an effective demo.
* After the [[Time Police]] capture the Warden, the Judge of Time Court shows him the consequences of his plans to make [[Superjail]] a franchise. The phrase "property of me" is used by Overlord!Warden. Present!Warden thinks the nightmare scenario he's presented with is a movie.
* The ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Rapture's Delight" includes Stan and Francine being shown a videotape intended to explain the Rapture to children, which includes graphic, ''[[Warhammer
* During the series finale of ''[[Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legend]]'', {{spoiler|the Shadoen fleet}} plans to blow up earth's moon. Before actually carrying through with their plan they play footage of large chunks of said moon raining down all across the planet and estimating what the death toll with be.
* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ZIM slapped alien video goggles onto everyone to show them the horrors that would befall the earth [[Disproportionate Retribution|if they didn't buy candy bars from him]]. The scene was only aired in full once, shortly before 9/11, and was subsequently edited to no longer show [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|New York City in ruins]].
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