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== [[Anime]] and Manga ==
* Just before making his wish, Emperor Pilaf of ''[[
* ''[[X 1999]]'' (also known as "The Shoujo Armageddon") not only features a lengthy vision by [[Waif Prophet|dreamseer Hinoto-hime]] on how the apocalypse will proceed, it also flashes forward and flashes back to that dream sequence many times throughout the series.
* The Anti-Spiral in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' explains exactly how and why the Earth will be destroyed, complete with a helpful 3-D simulation. Simon realizes through instinct that it's the truth, going briefly into a [[Heroic BSOD]].
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie|Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie]]''. When it becomes clear that Metal Sonic intends to destroy the world, Knuckles explains to the skeptical president how exactly a single robot could accomplish this: by puncturing the lava veins that flow through the giant mountain/glaciar that holds the various [[Floating Continent|Floating Continents]] that make up the Land of the Sky together, the planet's own rotation will hurl them off into outer space (though this won't affect the Land of Darkness, which is the actual planet's surface). Unfortunately, Sonic overhears this conversation, and due to the [[Psychic Link]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Metal knows everything that Sonic knows...]]
* The major driving force of the ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'''s plot is a prophecy of the devastating war between espers and normal humans, completed with realistic visions that several characters has experienced.
* Done twice in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Pain}} had developed the design for a massively powerful weapon using the bijuu. His intent {{spoiler|was to use it in order to wipe out the current order, reducing humanity to a subsistence level. The weapon would be left intact, used by their descendants whenever hate overcame their fear, repeating the cycle and preventing a full-out war}}.
** {{spoiler|Madara}} intended to use the chakra of the bijuu for an incredibly powerful jutsu. {{spoiler|By reforming the bijuu into the Jubi and absorbing its chakra, he would gain enough power to cast an eternal genjutsu at the moon, which would then reflect to the earth. Every living being would be ensnared in his genjutsu and made into extensions of Madara}}.
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* In ''Saga of the [[Swamp Thing]]'', the resurrected Anton Arcane rants about how he's going to bring the worst of the damned back into the world, inciting chaos and a literal Apocalypse. Scenes of havoc wrought by those he's already unleashed provide a literal "storyboard" of the kinds of hell Arcane would've spread around the world, had he not underestimated <s> Holland</s> Swamp Thing.
* ''[[Hellboy]]'' did it on a number of occasions, most memorably in "The Right Hand of Doom". Hellboy wonders what might happen if he cuts off his [[Evil Hand]], and we see a splash page of a hooded man standing in a burning ruin, holding up the severed hand and chanting, "Anung un Rama..." (Hellboy's true name [[Screw Destiny|at the time]]).
* ''[[Justice League:
== [[Film]] ==
* In the [[James Bond]] movie ''[[
* ''[[Armageddon]]'' contains ''two'' examples of this. One is at the beginning of the film, as Charlton Heston's voiceover about what happened to the dinosaurs threatens the same consequence for Earth later on. Truman later makes it explicit:
{{quote| '''Truman:''' Damage? Ah, total, sir. If this asteroid hits, nothing would survive. Not even bacteria.<br />
'''Truman:''' So when the rogue comet hit the asteroid belt it sent all these pieces spinning off. Next fourteen days, the Earth's in a shooting gallery. Now, if it's a Pacific Basin impact, which we think it will be, it'll flash-boil millions of liters and set off earthquakes when it hits the ocean bedrock. Half the Earth's population will be incinerated by the heat blast and the other half will freeze to death in nuclear winter ... this is as real as it gets. It's coming. Right now, at about eighteen thousand miles an hour. Not a soul on Earth can hide from it. }}
* A possible parody of this occurs near the end of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', referring to the interstate bypass, and eerily foreshadowing the modern stripmall.
{{quote| '''Judge Doom:''' I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on, all day, all night! Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations; inexpensive motels; restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food; tire salons; automobile dealerships; and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see! My God, it'll be beautiful.}}
* ''[[Hellboy (
* The ''[[Terminator]]'' movie gave us a glimpse of the future where humanity is being hunted down by SkyNet.
** The second movie also showed us Sarah Connor's nightmare of a city being destroyed, just to remind us of the nuclear holocaust, quite disturbing for those who remember the [[Cold War]] days.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* The Knights of the Word in [[Terry Brooks]]'s overarching meta series have these occur to them every time they fall asleep.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* Although the hero of the ''[[Pendragon]]'' books is always trying to prevent whatever world he's in from falling apart, Bobby gets a good, long, disturbing look at what will happen if he fails in the third book {{spoiler|and the Nazis win World War II}}.
* Subversions abound in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], where such visions often lead to the [[Self Fulfilling Prophecies|very events they depict]]. Jacen Solo's are the most specifically apocalyptic; his visions of what the future will be like turn him to the Dark Side in order to prevent the galaxy from lapsing into unending war. Ironically they all involve him killing Luke Skywalker, but it never occurs to him to kill himself.
* An early ''[[
** Later on, an entire book is devoted to this, when Jake wakes up in a future where the Yeerks have won.
** There's also a Megamorphs based on the idea that they never walked through the construction site and got their powers (a deal that Jake agreed to in a moment of weakness). Suffice to say it doesn't end well.
* Parodied in ''Science of [[Discworld]] II: The Globe'', in which Ponder Stibbons has set up an elaborate presentation to show the danger to the Roundworld Project, only for Rincewind to sum things up in one sentence when he still has "a dozen slides and a flowchart" to go.
** A straighter example is from ''[[Discworld
{{quote| '''Lord Downey:''' Well, we can get along without magic for two years, can't we?<br />
'''Ponder:''' No. The sun will crash and burn. The seas will dry up and vanish. The turtles and the elephant might cease to exist altogether.<br />
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'''Ponder:''', No, all of that'll happen in the ''first ten minutes''. Magic isn't just coloured lights and balls; magic holds the world together. }}
** This is followed by a hypothetical illustration showing the Discworld [[After the End]], with the turtle and elephants reduced to skeletons and the disc itself turned [[Death World|reddish and dead]].
* [[
** Revelation itself was an example of apocalyptic literature, an entire genre of turn-of-the-common-era artwork in which this trope was the whole point. Going back even further in [[The Bible]], the Book of Daniel is another example.
* During Ragnarok, how many steps backward will Thor take after slaying Jormungand before keeling over from the poison? The Poetic Edda can tell you. {{spoiler|It's nine.}}
* In ''[[The General]]'' series by [[David Drake]] and ~S. M. Stirling~, the computer secretly advising Raj Whitehall can show him '''detailed''' audiovisual scenarios of the most likely results of various courses of action. Sometimes, just to rub in for us what a [[World Half Empty]] they're in, it'll show him situations he can't do anything about.
* The journal from ''[[The House
* Stoically averted in ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' does this once a season, usually via [[Time Travel]] or precognitive paintings.
* The season opener for ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|BattleStarGalactica]]'' 1980 gives us simulation what a Cylon invasion of Earth would look like. For some reason promotional material for the movie that was made from that opener seemed to draw almost exclusively from this attack.
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Xander''': "Hmm. Feeling the impact again."}}
** In the seventh season the First Slayer gives Buffy a vision of the inside of the Hellmouth. An entire army of the Ubervamps that are nearly impossible to kill.
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** In "Pyramids Of Mars", the Doctor takes the TARDIS to 1980 to show Sarah Jane the lifeless Earth that will result if Sutekh isn't stopped in 1911.
* ''[[Seven Days]]'' operate similarly to the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' examples above: show what happened, then use [[Time Travel]] to go back and fix things.
* ''[[Terminator (
* The last story arc of the first season of ''[[
* Although the deadliness of the Xindi threat was stated often in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''; the episode "''Twilight''" demonstrates EXACTLY what would happen if they made it to Earth.
* In the aptly named ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "The End", the angel Zachariah shows Dean a [[Bad Future]] where Sam is [[Demonic Possession|possessed by Lucifer]], the angels are all either fallen or missing, and Dean himself has become [[Darker and Edgier|harder and more cynical]] because of the ongoing [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* Sometimes happens on ''[[
* Burt on ''[[Tremors]]: The Series'' did this a few times, describing how failure to eliminate a Graboid or shrieker quickly will snowball into mass destruction if they breed and/or metamorphose.
* The series ''[[Life After People]]'' examines what would happen to our cities (and everything else) if all humans were to suddenly and simultaneously vanish.
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* A scene in ''[[Quest for Glory]] IV: Shadows of Darkness'' has the main character experiencing a hallucination and seeing the Dark One's rise to power. (Near the end, if the player loses the game, the Dark One does rise, mirroring the sequence exactly.)
* A convoluted example appears in ''[[Sin and Punishment]]''. In an effort to motivate the [[Action Girl]] to shoot her transformed-by-[[The Virus]] partner, the [[Mysterious Waif]] shows her a vision of a future in which he has become evil. This vision becomes a stage, complete with the chance to get a Game Over. Yet, despite her mowing down hundreds of enemies during the dream sequence without any noticeable effect, the final shot she makes against the corrupted hero somehow causes her to ''shoot him in the present as well''.
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
** The story of [[Earthbound]] involves alien invading the future as we see it in the title of the game. This sends Buzz-Buzz to the present day to find the 4 heroes who can stop [[Big Bad]] before that happens. The team never go to the future for an observation of the [[Bad Future]], {{spoiler|as [[Big Bad]] is actually in the past, controlling the world's destiny from there.}}
* 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
* Done in ''[[
* The Big Bad in ''Under a Killing Moon'' storyboards his planned apocalypse for the Earth, which is to be cleansed of all mutant contamination and prepared for the return of his "pure" people from his space station (under his leadership, of course).
* 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 ''[[
* The intro sequences of ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Done hilariously in ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ here].
* Done (in crayon format) by Redcloak in ''[[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* When Batman archvillain Ra's Al Ghul lays out his plan to destroy humanity in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
{{quote| '''Batman:''' But that will cost countless lives!<br />
'''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand! A most impressive plan, would you not agree?<br />
'''Batman:''' Yes... I can see it clearly now for the first time. You are completely out of your mind. }}
* At the end of the first episode of the 1994 ''[[Fantastic Four (
* In a fifth-season episode of ''[[
* ''[[Teen Titans (
{{quote| '''Slade''': Skies will burn. Flesh will turn to stone. The sun will set on your world, never to rise again!}}
* A similar, but longer and considerably more elaborate speech is delivered to Superman by {{spoiler|Darkseid}} in the final episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''.
{{quote| I hope you appreciate, Kal-El, everything that happens from this point is on your head. The skies will rain fire, the oceans will boil, the streets run red with the blood of billions. Only then, when your last ''pitiful'' hope has been vanquished, will I end your life. Let's go. }}
** In the second season finale, The Question has images of the end of the world projected directly into his mind as a form of interrogation.
** And in the ''[[Justice League (
* In an episode of ''[[
{{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?!''<br />
'''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 (
** [[Narm Charm|"BEHOLD THE GARDENS OF MY DELIGHT!"]]
* 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 [[
* The ''[[
* During the series finale of ''[[Roswell Conspiracies]]'', {{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 ''[[
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