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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''[[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.''~~\|'''[[Seanbaby]]'''}}~~ \|'''[[Seanbaby]]'''}} Sometimes, it's enough to just say "[[The World Is Always Doomed\|The World Is In Danger]]!" and hope the hero (and the audience) may understand the urgency and risk and answer [[The Call]]. Sometimes, though, a little more is in order. ~~'''Story-Boarding~~[[Storyboarding the Apocalypse~~'''~~]] is a disturbingly detailed narrated account of the impending [[Gotterdammerung]] and rise of the ultimate evil, accompanied by a montage to give plenty of [[Nightmare Fuel]] inducing visions of the end to all parties involved. ~~'''Story-Boarding~~[[Storyboarding the Apocalypse~~'''~~]] is used on a few different occasions: The hero might [[Refusal of the Call\|refuse the call]], forcing his [[Mentor]] to show him how the [[Big Bad]] can hurt him, by turning his [[Hidden Elf Village\|secluded hometown]] into a [[Doomed Hometown]]. Or the [[Big Bad]] might give a [[Motive Rant]] and expound at length on how they'll turn the world into [[Mordor]], or bring about a new Eden via utter destruction because [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]. Especially detail oriented villains will have prepared dioramas, movies, and even commission an [[Earth-Shattering Poster]] or two to help hammer it in. Or they might just [[Exposition Beam\|beam it into the hero's skull with a laser.]] Occasionally this is given as a warning by less direct conventional methods; [[Cassandra Truth]] can deliver it, or via [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]], or [[Time Travel]] in the hope of driving the point home to the hero and the audience. Compare [[Just Between You and Me]], [[Villain World]] and [[Bad Future]], which can be the Storyboarded Apocalypse given form. See also [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]. Contrast [[Apocalypse Wow]], which is also a narrative depiction of the apocalypse, only used for very different dramatic goals. {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼ ▲== [[Anime]] and Manga == * Just before making his wish, Emperor Pilaf of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' takes a moment to visualize himself as emperor of the world, and we get a sequence showing him as emperor. (He spends the entire fantasy standing on a podium doing nothing but laugh while a crowd hails him.) Oolong uses this time to ruin the whole thing by wishing for panties. * ''[[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. Line 19: {{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}}. == [[Comic Books]] == Line 31 ⟶ 30: * ''[[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: The New Frontier]]'' features a particularly creepy example, where the [[Big Bad]]'s genocidal plans for Earth are communicated via the writings of a children's author—specifically, a Dr. Seuss [[Expy]]. == [[Film]] == Line 48 ⟶ 46: '''Zimsky:''' Static discharges in the atmosphere will create superstorms with hundreds of lightning strikes per square mile. '''Keyes:''' After that, [[It Got Worse\|it gets bad.]] }} * Galadriel in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Fellowship of the Ring'' shows Frodo a vision of The Shire as an industrial work camp. In the book it turns out she was bang on; in the movie Saruman gets shanked and that side of the conflict ends. * In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', Finch describes the upcoming revolution with shots spliced in of an overeager enforcer killing a kid with a Fawkes mask and then getting lynched by the angry neighbors: {{quote\|'''Dominic:''' So do you know what's gonna happen? Line 56 ⟶ 54: '''Finch:''' What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns. }} * In ''[[Superman Returns]]'' Lex Luthor shows Lois Lane a series of maps detailing exactly how his plan will destroy pretty much the entire Western Hemisphere. == [[Literature]] == Line 67 ⟶ 64: 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. * ''[[Discworld]]'' Parodied in ''[[The 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/The Last Hero\|~~The Last Hero]]''. Ponder Stibbons has said that unless an explosion at the Hub is prevented, the magical field will collapse for up to two years. {{quote\|'''Lord Downey:''' Well, we can get along without magic for two years, can't we? '''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. Line 81 ⟶ 79: * Stoically averted in ''[[Good Omens]]'': while a good bulk of the book revolves around the prophecies of Agnes Nutter, who predicted the apocalypse down to the slightest detail, and one of the protagonists knows all of them ''by heart'', nothing is ''ever'' revealed in the text before it actually happens. == [[Live -Action TV]] ==▼ ▲== [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[24]]'' will often feature a Presidential adviser or a CTU analyst using a [[Power Point]] presentation to literally storyboard what will occur if the terrorists' plot succeeds. A memorable second season episode shows [[Our Presidents Are Different\|President]] [[Bald Black Leader Guy\|David]] [[Benevolent Boss\|Palmer]] staring in shocked silence at a computer projection of the death toll if the nuclear bomb goes off in LA. * ''[[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]]'' ~~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 ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Doomed", after Giles reveals that the [[Monster of the Week]] wants to open the Hellmouth and end the world, everyone groans "Again?" and Xander comments that it's lost its impact. At which point Giles proceeds to remind them exactly what that means. In detail. {{quote\|'''Xander''': "Hmm. Feeling the impact again."}} Line 105 ⟶ 102: * The series ''[[Life After People]]'' examines what would happen to our cities (and everything else) if all humans were to suddenly and simultaneously vanish. == [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼ * The 3.5 ''[[~~Tabletopg Game/Dungeons And Dragons\|~~Dungeons ~~And~~& Dragons]]'' supplement ''[[Cosmic Horror Story\|Elder Evils]]'' is basically a How To guide for ending your group's campaign world in a spectacularly apocalyptic manner via [[Eldritch Abomination]]. Naturally, it gives detailed scenarios of such, including things from the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] to the magical equivalent of [[wikipedia:Runaway greenhouse effect\|the runaway greenhouse effect]].▼ ▲== Tabletop Games == ▲* The 3.5 ''[[Tabletopg Game/Dungeons And Dragons\|Dungeons And Dragons]]'' supplement ''[[Cosmic Horror Story\|Elder Evils]]'' is basically a How To guide for ending your group's campaign world in a spectacularly apocalyptic manner via [[Eldritch Abomination]]. Naturally, it gives detailed scenarios of such, including things from the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] to the magical equivalent of [[wikipedia:Runaway greenhouse effect\|the runaway greenhouse effect]]. == [[Video Games]] == Line 130 ⟶ 125: * Done (in crayon format) by Redcloak in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'''s prequel, ''Start of Darkness''. Rather than destruction, however, he expects his plan to use a god-killing abomination to blackmail the deities of his world to result in a modern-style utopia for his people. == [[Web ~~Originals~~Original]] ==▼ ▲== [[Web Originals]] == * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEeApYlVXzE This] [[Chairman Nuke]] video. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110923030707/http://mooninmyeyes.deviantart.com/#/d40i5am This] thing on deviantart. With giant suicidal sea serpents. Also, the author apparently reads TV Tropes. == [[Western Animation]] == Line 161 ⟶ 154: * 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]]. == Real Life == Line 167 ⟶ 159: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Storyboarding the Apocalypse~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Apocalyptic Index]]