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{{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]]'''}}
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
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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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' does this once a season, usually via [[Time Travel]] or precognitive paintings.
* The season opener for ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|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."}}
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* In the finale of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' / ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'', the Rangers are zapped by the [[Big Bad]] to a barren world where he has taken control. Its precise nature wasn't exactly clear - we never saw much of it beyond a small cave - but it seemed to be less of an outright [[Alternate Dimension]] than a mere taste of what was coming.
** In ''Magiranger'', N. Ma claimed to be "devouring time", aging the entire planet except himself and the Rangers.
* A few [[The Seventies|1970s]] ''[[
** "Inferno" sends the Doctor into a [[Dystopia|Dystopic]] [[Mirror Universe]] where Project Inferno (ongoing in his reality) has progressed a few days faster and proceeds to destroy the world, thus giving him extra motivation to shut down his world's Project Inferno.
** "Day of the Daleks" has a future [[Alternate History]] where a [[Nuclear Holocaust]] happens and the Dalek take over. Hearing about the averted timeline gives additional incentives for various diplomats to get it right.
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[Terminator (Film)|Terminator]]: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' begins with a scene of a terminator killing John Connor, triggering [[The End of the World As We Know It]]. Fortunately, it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* The last story arc of the first season of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' began with this. Even though it had been less than a season, the [[Big Bad|Goa'uld]] might have already been looking a bit [[Harmless Villain|harmless]]. Their foot soldiers had apparently attended the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] and wore [[Armor Is Useless|Useless Armor]]. The SG-1 team was threatened inadvertently by [[Human Alien|Human Aliens]], [[Starfish Aliens]] and [[Negative Space Wedgie|Negative Space Wedgies]] as often as by the Goa'uld intentionally. But in the episode "There But For the Grace of God", Daniel visits an [[Alternate Reality]] and learns that if the Goa'uld ever made it to Earth ''in ships'' (at least, ships without saboteurs inside) Earth would be screwed. Apparently, the Goa'uld don't need good aim when they are bombarding Earth's cities from orbit.
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== 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 [
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