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== Film ==
* [[Star Wars]]: The day Emperor Palpatine takes over the Republic, beginning with the murder of all the Jedi, at the end of ''Revenge of the Sith''.
* The Frabjous Day in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
* Gozer's arrival on Earth in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' would almost certainly have been this. Judgment Day is even referred to by name and place in the Bible.
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* The Battle of the Black Gate near the end of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]],'' used to divert Sauron's attention so that Frodo can do his job.
* The Battle of Hogwarts, in ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]''.
* The poem ''[[
* The Dark Forest invasion in ''[[
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* [[Dollhouse]] is notable in that it's day of reckoning goes ahead despite ([[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|or possibly because of]]) the heroes intervention. Other than that, it plays this trope to a T.
* When [[Angel]] and his team finally attack the Circle of the Black Thorn and try to avert THE apocalypse.
* The new ''[[
* Any of the Apocalypses from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', we have the episodes ''All Hell Breaks Loose'' where the brothers finally take out Azazel, the demon that killed their parents... but are too late to stop him unleashing his demonic army into the world; ''No Rest For The Wicked'' where the brothers attempt to take out the demon's new leader, Lilith, before she can claim Dean's soul and drag him to hell... and they fail, with Dean suffering a particularly nasty death; ''Lucifer Rising'', where the brothers attempt to stop Lilith from freeing Lucifer... and it ends badly, with Sam accidentally freeing Lucifer himself. Then there's the big one, ''Swan Song'', where the brothers have to re-imprison Lucifer before he can fight Micheal, ending the world... they succeed! (Although Sam is sealed in Hell along with a very pissed-off Lucifer and Michael)...
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== Video Games ==
* The Final Day from ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The ''[[
** In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the climaxes of both ''Wrath of the Lich King'' and ''Cataclysm'' in the Icecrown Citadel and Dragon Soul raids respectively. It isn't so much that the villains are planning anything specific at that particular time, but with so many of the allied forces on the line, they'll be home free if the heroes fail.
* The ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series has one of these at the end of each game: in the first game, it is the defense of the Citadel and in the second, quite predictably, the Suicide Mission (see the opening quote). The entire third game is more or less an extended one of these, and the assault on Reaper-held Earth serves as an internal example within that.
* The Day of Lavos from ''[[
* This is practically Black Doom's catchphrase in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''.
* In ''[[God of War (
== Western Animation ==
* Trigon's invasion of Earth in ''[[Teen Titans (
* Sozin's Comet triggers this in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** Also the Day Of Black Sun, in a sense -- it was supposed to be the allies' day to strike at the Fire Nation, but Azula discovered their plan beforehand and they were resoundingly crushed (except in Omashu).
* In ''[[Transformers:
* The two-parter Second Season finale of ''[[
** The two-parter series finale "Ascension" probably also counts, as the titular heroes fight against and defeat their ultimate enemy Apocalypse, who had been prepping up for the last two seasons to turn all of humanity into mutants.
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